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The BsITIIII Press commenced publishing isms:day mss• ing at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1824. The French journals of Tuesday contain a proclamation of Sir Thomas Maitland's, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles, in perfect accordance with the spirit with which he has for years administered his government in thew islands. This proclamation is dated from Corfu, on the 20th of last December, and will be found in our columns. It states that, on the 10th and 12th of that month, one of the most flagrant violations had taken place of the territory of Santa-Mauna and Ithaca, by some armed Greek vessels, under the conduct of a man called the Prince lfavrocordato, in opposition to every recognised principle of neutrality and the rights of nations. In consequence, the High Commissioner, with strong expressions of his most high displeasure, orders these two islands to undergo a penalty of quarantine, and to be shut out from all comma_ nication with the other islands for no less a period than thirty days; and the Inspector-General of thc Department of Health is ordered to transmit imme diately the necessary orders to that effect. His Excel lency then declares the expressive grief be feels for the inconvenience and injury that will be sustained by the two islands from this arbitrary measure, and gravely talks of the independence of the lonian islands, placed under the protection of his British Majesty, being compromised by men who profess to combat for their liberty, and would render his government—if it passed by " the man called Maurocordato's" touching on the shores of barren Ithaca, in silence—an accomplice in those frightful massacres and horrible atrocities that on this occasion (the High Commis sioner asserts) and on many others, have marked the con duct of the parties engaged in this contest. The Cos• stitutionncl has an indignant paragraph on this arbitrary proclamation. It dwells markedly on Sir Thomas Mait land's designation of the Greek Prince as an individual called Prince Maurocordato. The latter, the French Pa per remarks, possessed that title among the Greeks, 44 Fanar, when the) were subject to the Turkish yoke; but since his countrymen shook off that detested bondage, and he attached himself to their standard, the Prince be came a simple citizen, and resigned every appendage that could recall the former slavery of his country. Sir Thos. Maitland (the Paris paper states) complains bitterly of a people engaged in the combat for liberty, violating the rights attached to freedom in another. We recognise (the Ccnst it utionnel adds) as strongly as the British Governor, the difference between free principles and a tyrannical Government. But this paper cuttingly asks, " hit on the coasts of Epirus, in the face of Parga, and in the neigh bourhood of Italy, that an English Governor can thus ex press himself before all Europe ? We do not yet know what mighty infringement of the lonian independence Prince Maurocordato committed, when on his way to Western Greece to relieve Missolonghi : he might have touched at Santa. Maura, or Ithaca, and its inhabitants, with the feelings that must animate them in the same cause, might have supplied his little 'squadron with provisions or ammunition ; and for this they are condemned to a quarantine of thirty days, under the name of British protection !—for the sovereignty of those Islands is not vest ed in the Crown of Great Britain: we are only their pro tectors. But it is of a piece with the whole conduct of Sir Thomas Maitland since he assumed the government. It is for this statues have been raised to him ; and such a pro clamation he calls neutrality between the hapless Greeks and their ruffian oppressors ! ll'ho can wonder if the people of Santa -Maury and Ithaca, or of Cephalonia, Zante, or Corfu, had manifested their zeal for the success of that great cause, which, if triumphant, rescues their country men from the bondage of centuries, and gives their com mon country again a glorious existence and a name? And this is guilt in the eyes of Sir Thomas Maitland, and calla for the arbitrary proclamation and measures he has adopt ed! If this be British protection, what is Turkish oppres sion? for we can see little difference, as the High Commis sioner interprets the former. But in despite of his pro clamations and quarantines, Greece will be free; and she is acquiring new strength every day. The following letter from Bayonne reached us last night. It states the death of Casa Irujo, which had been hourly expected : his dissolution frees the deceased Minister, who is said to have been "an honest, worthy man," from a world of cares; but his decease will make no change in the Government while Ferdinand reigns supreme. The report of the cession of the Balearic !ales to Russia is again renewed in this letter ; and the arrival of a Russian contin gent in Spain, to keep down the provinces, is talked of con fidently. We do not credit this report. Muis nous verreme. BAYOX XE, J eY U ARY 22. We have letters from Madrid of the 10th. The death of Cass frujo, the Prime Minister, though matter of regret, as lie was an honest, worthy man, makes but little sensation, considering him merely as Minister. The King continues to issue decrees, some of which relate to the finances, which are the weak part of his ad. ministraticn. It is affirmed that he has also created a Prevotal Court, the secret powers of which will be almost unlimited, and which will have to proceed with th.: utmost rigour against whateve r has the appearance of being Constitutional. We learn from Segovia, that assistance has been called for in all haste against a mutiny of the artillery of Ciudad Rodrigo, prisoners at Alpinac, who sing the Tragula, and cry, " Death to the King, and the t'onstitution for MET!" The poor militiamen continue to be harassed. At Cuenca they cannot venture to leave their dire!. Printed for C. and J. Rivini Mall and CO.: J. M3WMall • She-raw:l and Ca. ; O. anti ; an.l Simpkin art! ind ?siatic, r.dinburgh. lingo, except on thmdays and holidays to go to Mass. They are forbidden to meet mere than three together, and as soon as the drum beats to quarters they must go to their homes; those persons whO shall detain them ' , hall be liable to the severest punishment. Discharged mothers daily pass through Madrid, wbo joyfully re turn to France. There is little news in circulation at Madrid, where people do not talk politics. Every body is uneasy about the': future. People here talk of a considerable corps of Russians which is coming, they say, to join our troops in the occupatiott of Spain, and that on this condition Ferdinand definitively cedes the Balearic Islands. If there is any one public appointment in which it is ' of more importance than in another, that the influence of personal or of party favouritism should be excluded, it is that of a Judge. It is on this ground that we feel it our duty to draw the public attention to the appointment of ALEXANDER to the arduous and responsible situation of Lord Chief Baron, who, independently of his advanced age, must be wholly unqualified, bl his previous situation and studies, for fitly discharging the duties of it. It is no reproach to any man—far from it, that he has passed his grand climacteric; but in his seventieth sear an individual is not exactly in epared to enter on a new walk of life, and least of all, to take his place, for the first time, on the judgment-seat. Such an exercise of patronage is dis creditable. It is an act of ,injustice towards the public, who have a right to expect that such an important station should be filled as it ought to be tilled, and not made to furnish an example of improper and unworthy influence. The decision of revenue cases requires a mind long habi tuated to that line of professional study with which such cases are connected: to such decisions Mr. ALEXANDER must of necessity bring a mind wholly unprepared. On the circuit, too, the important duty will devolve upon Lim of deciding in cases of life and death : what previous pro fessional education has this Master in Chancery had, that could in any manner fit him for the due discharge of a duty at once so awful and so arduous? This appointment, we know, has excited the attention of the Bar, and with it no slight accompaniment of censure and sarcasm. For Mr. Alexander, personally, we have no feeling but of esteem and respect. In private life no man bears a higher cha racter for every amiable quality which can excite appro bation and regard: but his elevation to the rank of Chief Baron of the Exchequer is, to say the least of it, most indecent and unauthorized, and betrays a disregard of public opinion, the display of which is neither wise nor prudent. Though we were in possession of the proceedings at the commemoration dinner, on Thursday, to celebrate the memory of Paine, we thought it better not to give them a place. Paine's memory is not celebrated in America, though it was the land of his adoption, and the country to whose independence his animated writings, in her day of trial, ro strongly contributed. His melancholy closing career, and his sceptical principles, have destroyed the respect that would but for them have attended on his name. But let the tide of prejudice roll however high,' Paine, though a man of strong prejudices and passions, possessed uncommon talents ; his mind was original, discriminating, and daring ; his pen bold and elo quent ; and his judgment, when unobscured by per sonal or religious feeling, of the very first order. When elected, in 179 t, a Deputy to the French Convention, with the philosophic Priestley, he had the courage to oppose the death of the King; and his speech against the murder was read from the tribune on the me morable night that closed the " a ped nomenel." On that occasion the ferocious Ararat, who spoke immediately after, said, the address could not possibly speak the sand- Went* of Paine; and when it was made clear that such were the opinions of the American Republican—" At any late," said the appalling wretith, whose hollow accents were full of death, "it can matter little, for Paine is a Quaker." The faction of Robespierre was triumphant over the Brissotines, with whom Paine was connected, in this terrible sitting; but the independence and humanity of his sentiments were alike honourable to his head and heart. Paine was soon after flung into one of the prisons, then glutted with the victims of terror. The Mountain party were dominant, and his life hung upon a thread. He had retired, with the fall of Ilrissot, Vergniaud, Guadet, and Roland, with whom he was intimately connected, and lived in a sequestered house in an obscure faubourg of Paris; but his seclusion could not protect him. It is an extraordinary, but yet an incontrovertible fact, that his Age of Reason was written in the prison of La Force, when each (lay that rose upon him through his prison bars might have been his last. He sent it forth to France as hisdying sentiments on the Christian religion. The work was coarse; it was blasphemous and ineffective ; there was no power, no argument, or conviction about it ; it could not make proselytes but among the most ignorant and be sotted ;—but it came from Paine as his last sentiments, with all the fervour of conviction. lie was ant an atheist, for he had the sublimest opinions of the existence and at tributes of one great Deity ; but he denied the truths and inspiration of the Bible, and Christianity possessed in him a vituperant and most inveterate antagonist. The death of the atrocious tyrant (who reigned supreme in the Convention and Committees, and, with his associates in the bloody triumvirate, Couthon and St. Just, almost de cimated France, and carried mourning into innumerable families) again burst the prison doors of Paine, and saved him from that scaffold, where the Deputies of the Gironde bad perished ; hut it made no change in his religious antipathies. The well-known Redhead Yorke saw him at Paris near tett years after, in lon : be was then living in a wretched apartment, with one old female as his attendant ; and though half his hours were buried in intoxication, his faculties were yet powerful and clear. He recurred, almost instantly, to his situation in 1794, and to his favourite religious opinions, and declaimed against Christianity and the Inspired Writings in the most violent terms. But his description of what he conceived the Deity to be—an almighty, omniscient, and pre-existent Being, before all time and matter—was given in the most sublime and glowing language. Such is the account given by a man who was in every ray a zealot on the other side,' and whose record of Paine and his sentiments may there fore be received with something like confidence. liThen, therefore, the Conricr (a wretched authority in any ease) talks of a knot of " atheists" assembling to celebrate Paine's memory, it is utter falsehood and nonsense; Paine never was an alltrimt ; he was one of the heads of the sect of Theophilanthropists in France—men who denied the Trinity, but acknowledged one dod. Paine was, in fact, what the Unitarian, now are ; and they are protected by sta tute. The only difrerence is, that they dissemble their true opinions, while Paine blasphemously and fearlessly avowed his. Time Courier is too ignorant to know this; but it is' of a piece with all this mountebank journal ever writes. Little consequence can be attached to any thing tl:e party, who assembled in Paine's name, can either say or do, or we should, ourselves, have given a place to their revels. It was not, their poverty nor their obscurity that prevented us ; fer among time humbler orders of this country, may be found many of sterling honesty and in- dependence. But to record the endless orations of Gale Jones, and that crew of talkers,—a set whom neither time, nor poverty. nor experience, can amend; to sees being, the picture of Famine, with despair and misery in every featilte—a living personification of the Apothecary ofl of Shaksreate, to " the world was no friend, or the world's law," meunt a table to declaim on patriotism, I and belch forth a few drunken sentences of abuse, on the exih d Patriots of Spain, and the llrhigs of England; this was a poisoned dose that no stomach could support ; amid yet the (lay was, when the Courier was an in flamthatory advo:ate of this very party ; but its managers • changed their coat, while the unfortunate Gale Jones wears his uniform but threadbare, and that is the only difference now between them. The talent; and acquirements of Paine were of an order far above those of his mendicant Worshippers; had he devoted those precious gifts to the cause of either truth or morality, in place of outraging both, his memory might now be celebrated by those whom the Courier could not defame. But he is long since gone to his account ; and be might sleep in peace, were not his grave and his memory alike disturbed by those who pro fess to be his follow2rs. Ile who tore his remains from their resting-place was absent from the unhallowed festival, and it would have been well if others had imitated his example. It was, we trust, the closing commemoration, and will not be repeated again. Ilia Majesty will not be able to open the Parliament in I person on Tuesday next. We regret to add, which we do upon good authority, that his late attack of the gout was one of the most severe that his Majesty has expert encial for a long time. It has, indeed, considerably abated, and the accounts on Thursday were extremely favourable ; but it bait left his Majesty's health in a state which renders it quite impossible for him to attempt the fatigue of a jour ney, and afterwards to go through the ceremony of open ing Parliament in person. A Council will, therefore, be held at Brighton to-day, when the Ministers will submit the Speech which the Royal Commissioners will have to deliver for his Mitinty's approbation. This day the King will hold a Privy Council at his Palace at Brighton, to prick the Sheriffs for the present year. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the fifth Cabinet Council this week was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers, except the Duke of %Veiling ton. The Council sat in deliberation till about half-past four o'clock. In addition to the French and Russian Ambassadors who were at the grand party given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday evening, were the Earl and Countess of Liverpool, Mr. Mrs. and Miss Canning, Mr. Wilmot, Mr. Huskisson, Lord Howard de Walden, Mr. G. Villiers, Mr. Plata, &c. The Doke of Devonshire intends to return to England in the Spring, when his Grace will resume those splendid parties, which, daring the last year, were so much distin guished for their good taste and admirable arrangement. The Duchess does not, we believe, return to England this season. Iler Grace is most worthily and charitably em ployed in Italy, where her good taste has already led to the discovery of some valuable antiques; and her bounty has contributed to the relief of the indigent artisan. The Marquis of Cholmondeley had i dinner party yes terday, at Cholmondeley House, Piccadilly. The F.arl and Countess of Plymouth have arrived at Melton Mowbray, from their seat, Hewel, Worcester shire. Gifford, Esq. the translator of Arend, editor of Ben ..hassan's Works, the Quarterly Review, Ste. &e. is very seriously indisposed at his house in James-street, Westminster. . . ....... Sir George Smart has been presented with a handsome gold sunff-box, for his exertions at the late Musical Fes tival, i• Liverpool, accompanied by a very complimentary letter from the Chairman of the Committee, our present excellent Chief Magistrate. The following inscription is engraved on the box:—" Presented to Sir George Smart, by the Acting Committee of the Liverpool Musical Fes tival in acknowledgment of his talent and exertion as Con ductor. 1823." There was a meeting of the Bank Directors on Wed nesday, when it was proposed that the rate of discount chouhl be lowered to three per cent. This proposition was negatived by a small majority. In the subscription list to the fund for the purchase of plate intended to be presented to Mr. Gladstone, we per ceive that the West India Association has 'subscribed 501., the Brazil and South American Association 501., and the Corporation Water-works Company 801.—Liverpool Cou rier. _ _ Letters of the 15th from Madrid mention that the Com rnissioners. fOr the liquidation of British claims were about to take the ir d ep arture for London ; but they say nothing of an Am bassador coming over. It would seem that in Cordova and other places, cries of " Long live Charles the Fifth," meaning Ferdinand's brother, had been openly heard. I t seems, however, by private letters from Madrid, ' that the rumours about the depcsition of Ferdinand VII. are unfounded. The population of the Prussian monarchy continues to increase. By the census of 1822 it was 11,194,173 souls. In 1819 it was but 10,799,951. Thus, in three years the increase has been 649,219 souls. The Princess of IVales, direct from Carthagena, has arrived at Cowes ; the letters are expected in town to-day. The news brought by this vessel is anxiously looked for by the holders of South American securities, as she sailed several days later than any vessel which has arrived here from that quarter. It is probable that the letters contain not only interesting news from Colombia, but also from Chili and Peru. The Illackett, from Jamaica, it is feared, has been lost or driven out of its course. We understand, that the officers of Excise discovered, on Wednesday, a large private soap-manufactory, in a yard, near the Canal, in this town. There was a considerable quantity of boilers, vats, and other =veils, in full work, and upwards of one ton of soap, in a finished state, with the same quantity in operation. Two men were appre hended on the premix.as. —Liverpool Paper. The Comet was visible in the northern hemisphere on Thursday evening last, about seven o'clock, a little to the westward of the tail of Ursa Major. We had not an op portunity of seeing it again, the weather having been un favourable, until last night, when it appeared to have made considerable progress towards the ten i th.—Lirerpool Paper. A atMONIACAL GAB tx Ata.—Professor Silliman has ob served, that when a large jar of this gas is opened in the air bent ath a burning candle, it is so combustible, that, as it mixes with the air, it burns with a voluminous flame, forming a beautiful experiment. A small jar-full, so opened, does not bum, being either not mixed sufficiently with the air, or dissipated, or cooled, by the vessel. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Salisbury left Ilia seat, Ibufield, on Tliursday morning, fog Lancashire; the Marchioness has arrived at her house in Park-place, waiting his Lordship's return s which is expected in a few days. The :tlarquis and 3larchioness of Lanadown and family arrived yesterday, at Langalown House, Berkley -aquare, trom their ant, Boland Park, Wilts. . . . . Lord and Lady Grantham and family arrived rsterday, at their house in St. Jamcs's-square, from their seat, Newby Hall, York shire. Lord and Lady King and family are expected in town on Tues day nest, from their seat, Ockham, Surrey. Lord Hirers has arrived at his house in Grosvenor-place, from hisseat.ilare Park, Newmarket. . . Sir John Eitif,'ljart. arrived on Thursday, at his brother's, George Byng, Fsq M.P. in St. James'a.aquare, from his seat, Csunpsmount, Vorlobire. Arrivals at the British Hotel, Jenryn.strert Gathin, Esq. from his seat, Derbyshire. Departures :—Captain Davy, R.N. for Norfolk ; the Rev. 1). Williams, for Winchester. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St- James-street, Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, from a tour, and John Cooper, Esq. from Scotland. The Earl and Countess Cowper and family are expected in town on Mondsy, from their nest, Pansanger, Herts. Sir Wm. and Lady ltumbold have seHred at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Stanningtrce. Mr. and Lady Harriet Ha ring left ditto on a tour. °amend Hall has left Long's Hotel, Bond -street, for South ampton. Captain Reeves has left town for Melton Mowblay, Leicester. shire. Lord Eardley has arrived at his haute in Lower Grosvenor-street, from his gent, liclvidere, Kent. Captain and Mrs. Rowley hare left towr. for Brighton. FRENCH PAPERS. The French Papers of Tuesday and AVednestlay have reached us by express. The following are extracts : Irma the Courrkr Franeais.] CONITANTINOPLZ, Dec. 2S. Every thing in the Ottoman empire wears a hostile aspect. The attempt upon Missolonghi has failed. Patras, closely invested by the Greeks, must shortly surrender. Many mil repots* succeeding each other rapidly have spread uneasiness amongst the people of Constantinople; and couriers, the bearers of news still mere die witrowl, have spread a general consternation. Who would ima. gine that the insurgents would hire the audacity to show them selves at the very gates of the capital, even to attack the se. coed city of the empire, and to renew their efforts against the unfortunate Island of Scio--still bathed in blood and co. vexed with ruins? Such are. however, the statements brought by the couriers. Smyrna is seriously threatened: the attack, it is believed, had already taken place. And in the meantime the other expedition is acting against Scio, and all the island has been sub dued, except the castle in which the Turks gm shut up. The Divan holds its sittings day and night ; the Sultan has changed his Minister; the Reis Effendi has been deposed, and succeeded by Said Effendi t the Aga of the Janissaries has been sent to take the command of the castles upon the Black Sea. In the dtflng of the Divan of last Tuesday, the Grand Seignor evinced the t indignation against the rebels, and gave ord ers to t he rait 2R an Melia to sail immediately with the greatest desyucli f and carry all the disposable forces to the assistance of Smyrna: Unfortunately the Porte is under such financial embarrassments, as to render all its military efforts extremely difficult to be executed. Since the last courier set off, an unexpected rnt. niaterial change has taken place, which will undoubtedly have a great effect in the present circumstances. The moderate party has gained the ascendancy in the Divan, and there is more reason than ever to hope that the old amicable relations will be established with the European powers. The Grand Vizier, Ali, has been deposed and exiled to Gallipoli. Galib Effendi, com manding upon the Bosphorus, is his successor, and he has been re. placed by the Aga of the Janissaries. The Reis Effendt has been also deposed, but has been since appointed lON* Bey, which is equivalent to the situation of Minister of the Interior ' and Said Effendi,who held this titration, has been made .Minister of Foreign Affairs. The happiest results are expected at Pent, from these changes. A 1.7051W11011, JAN.2I. The Russian Envoy. M. de Minxiaky. has arrived at Bucharest. It is also said, but the news wants conhroorion, that the Packet' of Silistria and Widdin, commanding the Ottoman troops, upon the Danube, awaited only the arrival of the Russian diplomatist to pmpose to the Grand Seignne the evacuation of these two princi. polities. This proceeding would without doubt contribute much to diminish the differences between Russia and the Ottoman, Porte. _ _ [From the Restaurador.) 31ALAGA, JAN. 7. This day the gene/Ide was beaten, and a number of volunteers and royalists crowded to their posts. This affair caused a great terror amongst the Constßutiorusliats, who closed their doon. It turned out to be a false alarm, which had no result,. Caicuas mx Tncro, JAW. 10. The Police use every effort to discover persons named Uria and 31enentles, warm partisans of the Constitutional system. They have not as yet succeeded, but since the appearance of these is. dividuals, much agitation has chewed itself among s t the perms of their faction. Travellers from ('adiz my, that movements are visible amongst the Constitutionalists; they circulate seditious news; they avert that 3,000 men will be armed at Carthageria, under the orders of Generals Velasco, Utiles, and others who have figured under the revolutionary regime. SEGOVIA, JAR. 7. The Authorities of the city of Espinar send by express to de. mend assistance of the Royalists of this city, Miring that the cannoniers, coming from Ciudad Rodrigo, had mutinied, and cried " A has Ie Roi"—" live la Constitution," and had sung the Tragala, our new Commandant, Don Isidore Lopez de Ara, having . heard that an assemblage of suspected persons was to t a k e place In a house in the city. bad it searched at night by forty Royalists, and seven persons who were found armed were con. veyed to prison. PARIS, JAN. r 7. After the rest rise of the English funds, it is a sourceof astonish. meet upon the Exchange of Paris to find that those of France have not risen in the same proportion. Upon consideration we think we can trace the cause to the state of the Government of Madrid. We are assured that the capital of Spain is the theatre of numerous intrigues, and the conduct of the Spanish Minister inclining to the Constitutional party, is far from being satisfactory to the Absolutes ; one party, it is said, wishes to oppose the infant Don Carlos to Ferdi nand, and it is to put an end to these movements that the latter has instituted the courts martial, determined to take severe measures against the a gitators, no mattes to what political party they may belong. It is said upon the Exchange, that the Minister, aware of this situation of things, has felt the necessity of increasing the army of occupation which remains in Spain ; but not wishing that this measure should be known, upon the eve of the elections, two division' will be marched into Spain, without any notice being taken of these military movements. Our correspondence from the South state, that similar reports are in circulation at Ilayoune. It was at the close of a council where this new measure was decided upon, that M. Marcella set off for Madrid. This intelligence, repeated and commented upon . In a thousand different manners, has prevented the funds from rising they would have done, in consequence of the rise d the English funds. • he Spanish prisoners who have been sent to Alengon from Marseilles, arrived there in a state of actual destitution. One of them, to give same assistance to his companions, sold his epau lettes; but the money gained was but a wretched assistance indeed. The sight of so much misfortune has attracted the lively com miseration of the people of Alengon. Many of them have, how ever' been checked by the fear of compromising themselves, and; lest they should be taxed with evil opinions, they dare not yield to the humanity of their feelings. We hope such apprehensions are chimerical, and that in France pity will never be • crime. The ludieutrur of Ifounleaux, of the 20th January, says that it is reported that from fifteen to twenty thousand men are p.wing into Spain. Some riots caused by a party spirit, have taken place at bogrono and Vergers., and some persons have been killed and many wounded. The greatest vigilance is used at Behobia to prevent the anima into Dunce of Spaniards. who wish to seek refuge there, without being authorised by the French Magistracy. Sonic of them, it is said, have succeeded in introducing themselves in female apparel. affirming that they . would rather be committed to prison In France than return to Spain. We read in the Brussels Oracle that when General Cana died 'at Alagdeburgh, where he had chosen to reside, he left after him some most valuable documents respecting the French Revolu tins, from the year 1701 to the second overwhelming of the Imperisl Government as the battle of Waterloo. These papers cannot he published in France under existing circumstassa t they will see the light at London ; and an English bookseller has, it is said, purchased the manuscript. From the Journal der Drba ts. 1 lONIAN ISLANDS. Coarn, l/w. 27. Sir Thomas Maitland, the Lodi High Commissioner, has c wind here from 111..tlus, in 15 days 3 during his voyage he touched at tie islands of %ante and Cephalonia. Ile has this day published the following proclamation : " Inasmuch as, upon the 10th or 12th of the month, one of the most flagrant violations of territoryhas taken place in the Islands of Santa :Haunt and Ithaca, upon the part of certain armed Greek vessels, under the command of a person nyled Prince 31aurocco dato ; and this has been done in opposition to every acknowledged principle of neutrality and the law of nations. His Excellency, the Lord High Commissioner of his Majesty, Kies himself most unwillin,„•ly compelled, by a sense of duty, to order that the above-named two Islands be immediately placed, with mama to the other lonian Islands, in a state of quarandas for thirty days. The Inspector-General of the Department of Health of Corfu is charged to issue the necessary orders forthwith. " His Excellency feels real sorrow for the inconvenience and losses that must result from this measure. What renders the mat ter still more afflicting, is that he never expected to see the govern ment of the lonian Islands placed exclusively under the protection of his MajFsty, attempted to be insulted by men who declare they are combating for their own liberty, and to render that Government (if the affair was passed over in silence) an accomplice in these abominable massacres and odious atrocities, which, upon this a aision, and upon several others, have distinguished the conduct of the panics engaged in this wa rfare. Palace of Corfu, December 20." PERPIGNAN, lax. 19. The people, in the vicinity of Barcelona, are not satisfied with the conduct of the troops of Baron d'Eroles : the take all and pay for nothing. The in . .:abitants of Sonia have, in particular, ex perienced the greatest annoyance; they, however, hope that the presence of the Baron will cause some improvement, and that the greater part of the lopulation will not be put out of the protection of the law. Upon the night of the 15th, some soldiers and the Lient.-C,oloal of the regiment of Leon, cantoned at St. Feliu de Guixols, after the capitulation of llostalrich, were murdered in the streets of that cite. Toe Colonel received many wounds, and he was plundered dem, thing he had. The inhabitants hastened to give assistance to the unfortunates, and they would have taken the assassins, if night hail not favoured their escape. Upon the same night, at Mame, a Frei.cll soldier was murdered by two of the Spanish Royalists. (From the Conatitstrioont.A Pants. The reports circulated in the English journals, that naval steak . menu' are preparing in the French ports, arc not entirely void et foundation. The Ministerial Journals admit that 1,000 inn have sailed Imm Brest, in frigates and other vessels of war. It is be lieved that further preparations are making at Toulon and Roche fort ; and some tegiments stationed at the Isle of Rile are to be etc. barked. Other regiments are, it is said, to he embarked at flees. Arc these troops destined for our Colonies, like those who have s• ready sailed ? They cannot, in our opinion, have any other ime- Siete destination ? But do our garrisons abroad require it ch reinforcements ? We think not. We do not suppose that our b•+ veminent has any hostile intentions against any nation of the earth- The South Americans alone, or the Mexicans, can occur to Ili; but we are tens n that there is no idea of waging war against the , ' people. What din can be the object cf sending such a niihite of traps to the Antilles? In our judgment, negociatioss will b opened between the King and the new Republics of Smith rice; anti these troops, placed In the neighbourhood of the Arno - - can continent, are merely destined to facilitate these sae the object of which is to obtain from the old colonists of spar , r cuniary concessions to a greater or less extent, and also woe 'P r : menial advantages. There is also a report of the cession of • to France, but it does not apoear well.fOunderl. mm oft of Oni pul by run sin% sha pla ten state the Si to the 12111 T td a saw the and is r ver!l •chic all t has pert! tacic bccoi tions than gaml mans Fo Sit: *ace, news, Great