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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. The Paris Journals of Wednesday reached us yesterday by express. The following are extracts : ( From the Journal are Debatsj emus, Fes. 4. Yesterday. slier mass, his Majesty transacted business with Came de allele, President of the Council. In the evening there was a Council of Ministers held at the house of the Keeper of the Seals. Private letters from Barcelona of the 24th nit. say, that great discontent prevails in Catalonia, and that the Army of the Faith are now as much the enemies of the invaders of the Peninsula as they were a short time ago their friends. Private letters from Spain state. as a curious fact, that in consequence of orders received from Madrid, the Officer in Estremadura, entrusted with the organisation of the new army, in • placard which he posted on the walls of lia dqjra, stated, that as his Majesty could no longer trust to the exist. ing army, he was induced to invite his faithful subjects to enlist in the new corps about to be formed. As soon as the contents of these placards were known to the French Commander, be ordered one of kis officers to pull them all down. The letter add, that there is a Bonilla party of 100 men in the province of Extremadura, who Weir entered LOIN a rich town, of shoot 1,000 inhabitants, where they levied a contribution, and remained for several days. Rio JANEIRO, Nov. 13. . There is arrived herr the French frigate Circe, commanded by H. fhiplessia Farman, Captain. This ship left Rochefort in the beginning of last September, convoying a sail of trading vessels. She will sail again, it is raid, in the direction of the Isle of Bourbon. STOOIIIOI./1. JAN. 20. The death of Field Marshal Count de Wrede, who had attained his sixty-third year, has carded with it the regrets of the King, the nation, and the army. At the time of the war in 171111, he com manded a detachment at Paretic; in 1804 sad 1007, he was at the head of a division against the French, and in 11109 he had the com mand of the army of the North against the Russiana. In 11110 he was seat Ambassador to Paris. Ile was there intormed of the propositions which were at that tii-e sent to the reigning King by the States General assembled at Crebeo, and he was the find in conveying to the Diet the result of throe propositions. His Ala jesty had gives orders for the funeral suitably to the rank of the deceased, when on reading his will it was learnt that flee Marshal bad desired that his mortal remains should he OM. veyed without any pomp to his country house, and carried to the grave by his peasants. Be has left two sons, one of whom is Aid-decamp to the King, and the oilier has just been nominated an officer of the Ordnat.ce. DAR lIISTADT, JAW. 29. in its sittings of the 21st, the Second Chamber has adopted, by a majority of 3.ii to 2. the proposition of the First chamber, desiring and authorising the Government to obtain a loan at a less rate of interest, for paying off those for which they was then paying a higher rate. NAPLES, JAN. 15. On the 12th instant the birth-day of the King was celebrated with enthusiasm. The illumination was general, and the King honoured the Theatre of San Carlos with his presence. The Clic. valier de Medici, Councillor and Minister of State for Finance, &c. gave a diplomatic dinner of forty-two covers. The Prime of Bitten, and the Prince lrustarus, son of the Ex-Kirg of Sweden, NM present. BAYONNt. JAN. 27. The Spanish prisoners of war in France are about to return to their flovernment ; they will rim through Bayonne next month, in difKrent detachments ; the one consisting of the militia, and the other of the soldiers of the line. BAYONNE NEWS. Yestenlay we received, the following intelligence from Madrid, eia Bayonne : _ pAYONNE, JAN. 29. The accounts from Madrid are of the 2fith. On the 21st of this month, at ten o'clock in the evening. a part of the inhabitants of Villalcaner rose against the armed force sent by the Intendant of the Province. The Akalde took all the mea sures in his power to preserve tranquillity, but his efforts were in vain, and in the end the whole COITIMUM rose, and put the Com mandant and some soldiers in prison; the remainder of the troops escaped. The Commissioner of Police took energetic measures, such as ordering the Officers of Justice, with the atd of the peace able citizens, to bring the rioters to trial, to publish the laws against tumultuous proceedings, and in case there should not be a sufficient force, he would send for the Royal Volunteers front the neighbour ing Communes. Meantime, information of this affair has been sent to the Oovemment. The question of the l.aw of Amnesty is again agitated, and it is affirmed that it will shortly be published. Hut little credit is given to this assertion ; though it must be allowed, that, without the adoption of some measure of the kind, it will be impossible to or ganise the army ; for the Constitutional system was so generally adopted, that almost everybody is implicated, especially the young men fit for service. . . . . . It is also affirmed that ail the capitulations will be punctually carried into effect. This would be a very happy circumstance; tOr it may be truly said, that, with the exception of a few fanatics, all the ,ipaniards of every party desire to see an end to the permed tions which afflict their unhappy countrymen, and desolate the country. (In the =I a man was hung who had cried, ' Death to the Leg, and the Constitution for ever !" He remained firm to the last moment ; he told his judges that they were ignorant, and ere. cotioners, and that he was happy to die for the Constitution. Not withstanding the rigorous laws that have been promulgated. the robberies continue, because custom is a second nature, and because the distress daily increases. The thieves put on embmidered clothes, to prevent suspicion, when they aim at committing robberies of some importance. The strews and the houses are the theatre of these depredations, which have drawn the attention of the King to the best means of putting an end to these disorders. Ills Majesty has, in ceanseqwence, creed that those malefactors shall be brought before the Executive and Permanent Military Commisuion, established br a Royal Or-i donnance of the WM of this month, and that they shall be subject , to the lawn, which pronounce the penalty of death on every person, of whatever class or condition, without any exception, who shall have committed or attempted to commit a robbery, of whatever kird and in whatever manner it may be. It Lents that the house of Al. Rothschild will make here the payments for the Army of Occupation. The return of all the Spa. rash prisoners to their own country is generally spoken of. It is reported that two French divisiots are going to enter Spain. BRUSSELS PAPERS. Yesterday we received the Brussels Papers of the 3d inst. It appears, by an article from Wareaw, that the President of the Police has published an Imperial decree, by virtue of which the Jews in that city are to leave their habitations in the principal streets, and to remove to the le fre quented quarters, by the 14th of October next. Thst such intolerance should mark the conduct of mny Govern ment is a foul blot on this enlightened age. The following are the only other articles worth quoting from the Brussels Papers:— Bansse cs, Fes. 2. Several Jourealv have announced that M. Flack was to succeed the Acubvtatior of the Netherlands at London. W learn by a private letter from the Hague, that this Dells iv still UI3OOIIIITMCCI ; and we thLrefore hope to rttain that enlightened Minister in the eminent pqvt nt the head of the Public Instruction, Arta, antkbci aces, of which he is the worthy 3lectonas. FItaNITCIIIT. JAN. 29. M. Fellurhanl, who was arrested at Ilanau, as we have already mentioned. by oreer of the Ile..inn Ili:eminent, has been tc_ moved, with a strung escort of Hessian gendarmes, to Cassel, where his is covfined in th.: citadel. It is affirmed that rigorous measures have been adopted towards him ; and that he is not only pribilited front writing and receiving letters, but that even the use of books is denied :Mo. ScHArritAusrw, JAw. 21. AD the Cantons interested in the tepitidations of the Swi-s regi ments in the service of the NetherLinds have now ratiCe.l the Con reation relative to the 314 regiment, relit-mint which there have hem such lung negotiations with Count Littler e, Minister of the N.:therLtads to the Swiss Coofedgation. BARBA - DOE& Despatches were received yesterday morning at the Co- Ilnialoflice, from Barbadoes, to the Ist ult. It appears by the following intellig e n ce , which we extract from the Bar &Zan of the Slat of December, that the spirit of insuh lardination has extended itself to the French colony of nitwit Towns 3 l. r, the mall boot Eleanor, Captain Mnfratt. width left Meru' que i ta Monday afternoon, and arrived here lard night, we are informed of that island having been thrown into a serious state of alarm. tetvreen .0 and 36 free coloured people, all wealthy and respect able. have been arrested and sent from St. Pierre to Fort Royal. on one of the frigates, where they are in close confinement. N.lnt seditimin correnpoodence has been discovered, which had been ram!' on by the inal-contects with Europe, the English islands, and ht. Domingo. Indiscriminate massacre of the white inhabitants ale setting the town of St. !'lure on fire, were the diabolical means "7 which met intended to overthrow the Governinent. The vigi -1,3l1: of a French police, under the superintending hand of Provi walr hos frustrated this horrible conspiracy. A letter, it in said, on , tumid, containing • reply front Boyer. the Chief at St. "a -tt7lin:o. to an application ma& by one of the conwpiraton fir the !"'O , lllCt of Athol'. The news of troops having mired here to pm in awe disarmed fellows, and the opportune arrival of troops France at Martinique, stag ;rent their resolution, and appears to lure induced them to have put of the consummation of their re "thallotiary scheme f rom t h e 17:11 December, the day mvioally tied on, until Christmas Eve. But in the mean time the activity eareutive, and the extreme watchfulness of the police, made oco discoveries as completely arrested their career. Several co itti men had arrived there lately from France, who had been ,_ *et " 11,9 ting hanol. pemphiets, anti, it is said. that about 60 of ) 7_ coloured militia had been disarmed. We understand that "minim is under martial law. 1 t 11141 h; feather-bed maker, were matched on 11 ,? h r 4 ay,uin o tight kw 1001. la Al weeks. Turuer, id. ticn y r ed for, I g t decided'' , the favourite. tHEATARS. DRURY LANE. Massinger's fine play, A New Way to Pa Old Debts, was brought out in full strength at this splendid theatre last night, for the first time this season ; and the curtain rose to a crowded and most fashionable house. Messinger was one of the great band of dramatists, who, with Jolson, Ford, Shirley, I)ecker, and others, followed on the im mortal Shakspeare, and poured the brilliancy of day around the comparative tlarktexis of that early period of our history. The sun of Shakspeare rose on that age without one intervening ray of twilight to obscure its brightness, and has continued through successive ages since to reign unrivalled lord of the ascendant. In energy and originality, Messinger approaches, perhaps, more nearly to the great bard than any other writer. Ile has not the tenderness of Ford, nor the passages of uncommon beauty that prevail through the writings of Beaumont and Fletcher; but his style is marked by all that vigour and strength of cone .ption and expression that distinguished this romantic age of hazardous daring. All the dramas i of this period arc interspersed with pawges of pruriency I and grossness ; but they are like the weeds that shoot up beneath a burning sun on the rich In dian soil, amid a thousand flowers and shrubs, and take little from the merit of these great productions. Three , of 'Massinger's dramas have latterly held possession of the stage, and have been distinguished by the splendid efforts of the great actor who now stands unrivalled in this country. The Duke of Milan; Riches ; and the fine play of last night, A Neu , Way to l'ay Old Debts, have successively been revived with all the powers of Mr. Kcan. Nothing could be finer than his acting last night. It was perhaps the most perfect and impressive effort of histrionic genius ever witnessed. His energy in some scenes was overpoweringly terrific ; his eye—his action---his voice, produced an effect we have not words to describe. His early scenes with ,Thirritll, and the developement of his. plans of family aggrandizement, were finely given. Nothing could be more descriptive than the detail of his am bitious views for his daughter Margaret, and his reply to Mereall— " She must part with That humble title, and write Honourable, Right Ilur.ourable, :Harrell. my Right Honourable daughter, If all I have, or e'er shall get will do u, I will have her well attended ; there are ladies Of errant knights decayed, and brought so low That fur east clothes, and meat, will gladly serve her, And therefore nut have a chambermaid, That ties her shires or any meaner office Rut such whose fathers were Right Worshipful. The transition almost immediately to sudden contempt and ra,.e, on the appearance of the destitute Wrllhorn was the citing of a great actor. His voice was choked with passion in the exclamation, • Avoid my sight thy breath's infectious, rogue t I shun thee as the leprosy or the plague. Come hither, 'Haman, this is the time to work ni." His subsequent interview with his daughter, and the way in which he unmasked his designs, and poured the leprotis distillment of his villany into her ears, was finely given; his searching look at once of penetration and con tempt on the departure of Greedy, and his address to his timid daughter, " Arid s. I said, Meg, when this gull disturbed us, This Honourable . bred, this I t•ould have thy husband," were the perfectien of his great art. His address after wards, after urging her in the grossest language to coin- pliance with Lord Lovell, and her reply, that when she had given up her honour he must anti would forsake her, •` How, forsake thee ! - Do I wear a sword for fashion, or is this ann Shrank up or withered ? Does there live a man Of that large list I have encountered with, (an truly u:y I e'er give inch of ground Not purchased with his blood, that did oppose me?" was delivered with appalling energy. The last scene of disappointment of all his views, when he finds his deed a blank, and then attempts to wheedle Morrill!, and the subsequent discovery of his daughter's marriage with .-11/worth, was the finest acting we ever witnessed. Hitt sudden exclamation, and the look that accompanied his de nunciationof vengeance, were terrific. " Village rumen Ile.•en"e their wrongs with curses ; A svilable net waste, but thus I take the life Winch, wretch, I gave thee!" Mr. Kttan's whole performance of this arduous ehoraeter would • give immortality to any actor ; it was enthusias tically received by a most crowded house. 'Meer ell was admirably played by \tundra. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and, we believe, the Princess Sophia, were in the house, and on being recognised were greeted with the most flattering testimonies of applause. The play was in terrupted, and the national anthem of God acre the King loudly called for, and sung by Miss Porde, Miss Povcy, and Mr. Horn, at the close of the play. The present sea son at Drury-lane has hitherto been most successful, and deservedly so, from the continued attraction. Kean is in himself a host. To compare any actor of the present day with him is ridiculous ; he stands in talent and originality completely alone. His Skah,e/• on last Saturday night, and his performance of last night, are two of the finest repre s:ntations ever witnessed on the English stage. COVENT-GARDEN. After the pathetic and admirably played Opera o 7 Chief, we were last night presesind with a new farce, entitled The Punehcrs. Were we to be guided by the applause which,with one or two exceptions, was lavishly bestowed up on this piece, we should be compelled to speak of its merits highly. Preferring, however, the exercise of our own judgment, we are bound to ray that it appears tc be quite destitute of that degree of talent necessary to rescue it from the ignoble fate of being ultimately sheljiii. The plot, as far As we could understand it, turns upon the ad ventures of a young lady of rank, sister to a Gentian Count (to whom, however, she does not seem very well known), who having become enasnoured of a gentleman dwelling in the family of her brother as an equerry, hits upon the following obvious method of getting introduced to, and learning something further of, the object of her at tachment :—A peasant upon the Count's estate having been convicted of the crime of poaching, incurs the con sequent penalties ; and our heroine, presenting herself to the culprit, disguised as a man, :woposes to intercede for' him with the Count, in the assumed character of Griselle, his wife. The peasant accedes, and accompanies the transformed lady to the palace, where a series of Targets takes place, some of which, though not very ingenious in their nature, told well enough, from the circumstance' of the lady's double disguise. T; e Count and his Equerry both fall rattly in love with the beautiful and elegant Grisette,the latter,indeed,c,ineeieing s serious and eternal at tachment for her in the am axis iglyshort apace of a few mi nu t es. Ile even proposes to the poacher to purchase his wife of him ; and to this the other agrees, thinking the /24 a ges-! !lemon, and that the equerry would be marvelisalsly well gulled. An erlaireissensent ensues ; and the equerry, who turns out somehow or other to be himself a " llar'n bold," obtains the hand of the young Countess, as well as pardon for the poacher. We arc aware that it is too much to ex pect the motives which influence ordinary men to operate upon the Orarriutis perionit of a farce; still some portion of verisimilitude ought to be maintained, and utter absurdity' cannot fail to offend. The author is greatly indebted to the exertions of the actors. Cooper, who is a very pleasant comic performer, was lively and active in the Count, and Blanchard and Jones topped their respective parts of the poacher and the equerry. Mrs. Chatterley too, in the cha racter of the a/ills-loving Countess, excited, as usual, our warm approbation. MIB3 MACAULEY.-11"c understand Miss Macauley shortly intends again commencing her readir gs and re citations. We have before given our opinion oldie talents of this lady; her 1.1:e course at the Saville Rooms obtain ed the wannest approbation and deserved patronage of the auditors, and we have no doubt she will continue to merit both. I ler present object, we believe, is more immediate- ly directed to readings on moral Aid religious subjNls ; and they will be, as heretofore, interspersed with serious, music, vocal and instrumental. The Lad has been some time studying a Poem written on the subject of Lord By ron's Cubs, and setting forth the pernicious tendency of such productions. She means to devote several evenings to lecturing on Elocution, and will give examples from the best English Authors. We most heartily wish her success; in the first place because she deserves it, and, in the next, because her recitations are calculated to improve in a very neglected, but not the less important, branch of education ; and we believe there ate few, if any, capable of more sue- c.ssful exertions. THE WESD INDIA QUESTION. The following excellent and judicious remarks were ' made by the Eroniiner paper, in its number of Sunday last, on this important question. We recommend them strongly to the attention of our readers; With few excep tions they are most excellent. Without cant or prejudice ' on either aisle, the Examiner takes a very just and im partial view of this great subject, and places it in its proper • light. This paper, which writes sensibly on almost every subject, views this important one of Negro Emancipation most justly, and argues it accordingly with equal temper and discrimination : " The West Indian Proprietors dispute the claim of the English Parliament to interfere in their local affairs; and certainly it is • delicate matter, and one too which, after the example of North Avnerica, the British Legislature should be very cautious in meddling with. It may be true, that it is no pleasant thing for the Government and people of England to contemplate the perpetuity of negro slavery in colonies belonging to them, while the conse quent odium must attach generally to the British name; and this eonsideratio renders only laudable an anxiety to fix a period foe the termination of the disgraceful evil. But on the other hand, I the grievance is a very old one, very difficult to remove, and de -1 mending the moat gentle and quiet remedies possible. Again, the English themselves were the original sinners. The present slave ' proprietors have inherited property from their predecessoca, in a shape which it was neither their choice to have, nor in their power to alter ; and these proprietors have a right to insist, that the English shall not tashly endanger this property. Our Govern ment, besides, derives a considerable revenue from the enormous duties on West India produce,--another reason for being very careful not to put in jeopardy the titles and possessions of the co lonists. And after all, is the ease so very argent as certain sainly pseudo-philanthropists would have us believe? Ate sot the neves' well fed, well bussed, mixlevately worked, and grandly well taken care of? We cannot, it is notorious, say the same of the Irish peasants—nay, not or the British labourers or manufacturers. true, there are, theoretically, civil rights belonging to the tenant of an Irish log-bowie but honestly, does he know a sylbible about ' them 7 Or, if he did, could be practically derive the smallest be nefit from diem ? Would he be a jot less at the mercy of the landlord and the magistrate? No: if an eolith:al truth be car • thin, it is—that to a massofpse* ii end dependence the utast liberal theory a cavil4this were mockery they caw, in fact, have little (tinny) better security for decent treatment than the black shires have—gamely, their task-muter't sense of their own interest. • Are the Colonists altogather right then in the dispute with the mother country ? Not so; fir in most of their speeches and rein. lutions they treat all proposals for the gradual abolition of slavery as • visionary' and • impracticable.' This position is false, an d dispaceful to them. The examples of Hayti, of the United States of America, and above all, of Colombia, prove that the expects.' lion of a final abolition is founded on experience and true policy. Public opinion, the voice of Jostle* and Humanity, will operate incessantly to this good end. The complaints of the Colonists are strong—their retorts sufficiently cutting. They allege— " I. That very scandalous falsehoods have been published in England, respecting their treatment of the slaves. This we sin. cerely believe. Cases of rare occurrence have bEen represented as common practices, and anecdotes of superlative cruelty related as Im:faeces instead of e.reept:oru—a too frequent mode of exaggerat ing horrors. We must subscribe to the justice of a remark mode in one of the Jamaica resolothins—• That it is as unfair to judge of the morality of the people of this island, from extracts taken out of our Gazettes, as it would be to judge of that of the English from the OGerrer newspaper, though, should that be the cue, we should evidently possens agrest advantage " 2. That the English Parliament has no right to make laws affecting their property, sines that right can only exist in the Colonial Assemblies, composed of their representatives. A ticklish question, which the British Government would do well to pause upun. -" 3. That if the British Philanthropists want scope tor their humane experiments, they might find plenty nearer itottie upon, which they should at least first try their hawk it _ t say the Jamaica planters, • have been mare eougtistent,yiti? eitadenti and justice, had the British House of Continent tlVit tried, effect of abolishing their press-gang, the whip in•fhlitt , navy, and of exemption of wpm= from punishment . ; themselves, before they attempted to recommend a, /ram to ne. that would leave us destitute of all costrol over our neagrdai:' r. Wilberforce must answer that himself—we cannot lattlet for him. ..... " i Encore as coup ! That the British 111Infittetk; sVhite de-, riving large receipts and emoluments from the West Indian plapters, have acquiesced in tho propositions of the Serials, from britOugb, mongering motives, io order to preserve their Psrliltmeater, ma jority. A ton true account, we fear, of Ministerial tnothea r the, Saints give their votes to Ministers, in order to pass Libel Am,. Seditious Mania. Aces, Irish Insurrection AC'S, haealkiti Conibinatims Laws, Revenue Acts, and all sorts of Menem to grind the faces of their poor countrymen, and in recess demand the support of Ministers for their proposition to better the condi, tiun of human beings across the /Wan& What does this con. .radiction prove? A marvellous zerl for humanity, where it eels. nothing, and a wondrous leek of it, where its cornatent ezertise would deprive its professors of sundry good Wags •goatzed out of the unratural toil of the oppraiwadosapla. •" To conclude—we should hylpsliamed of e a, if we could Mlle to cherish the hops qiil4eaftaie garb= slaver in our colonies ;we rejoice in Me asitm_pletif nano capidty disp layed by Hayti; we admire, more than all hi other liberal detts, the eet of the f elornbian Republic which has enfranchisedlbe future children of *Lives, and given abundant facilities for the manumission of their parents; but we contemn these pretended zealots for hums : nity, who can overlook the flagrant wrongs and squalid misery of millions under their own immediate care, and try to cam a Ppudous reputation by searching out objects of sympathy , three thousand notes ull Every plan for abolition should be of the most cautious and gradual kind. The feelings and justice of mankind cannot tail to operate in some degree upon the slive.pmprietors, and they will doubtless be still more influenced to a co-operation in some plan by their constant danger from their degraded labourers. It has been proposed to compeisote the Blom owners; in other words, to purchase their freedom fur the slaves, as a national messur ._ a mode which would reconcile all interests, and be truly worthy of a country priding itself on its free notions, and anxious to wipe dut a foul stain front its character. . . In what we have said, we have not spoken of the natural rights of the poor slaves themselves. It answers no practical purpose, alas ! to talk of them ; yet if there were to be a general insur rection to-morrow, and every white were to be driven from the West India islands, who could gainsay the right of the victorious ncgrocs ? This is a point which all parties should constantly bear in mind, and which should stimulate them all its the devising and execution of a gradual abolition. " The Colonists are doing themselves no credit by their persecu. tion of the 3lethodists. At the moment they arc crying out for protection for thrir own civil rights, it ill become* them to trample on the religious rights of others. Heaven know*, we say this from no affection to Methodist doctrines; we think it melancholy enough that the poor negro should have added to his fear of the cart-whip a dread of eternal fire but the that of all principles in these matters is perfect religious freedom. The 3lissionanes are as laudable in regard to the motives of their labours, as their right to make converts by argument and persuasion is inherent and in disputable." J.4AfAICA. The following additional particulars of the meditated insurrection in Jamaica, have been received at Glasgow and Liverpool. plot, it is said, was discovered only thirty hours before the time fixed to carry it into effect. ULASI.OW, FEH. 3. We are extremely sorry to say, that letters to the 21ti lkcember were received in Glasgow yesterday, from Jamaica, stating that a diabolical spirit had sliewit itself among the Negroes in the pariah of et. Mary's, and that their object was the destruction of the white population. Fortunately the plot was discovered before carried into execution. The Militia turned out, and seitml the ring leaders, right of whom were hanged. So much were they alarmed for the general rising aiming the Negroes in the IsLeal of Jamaica, that his Grace the Governor ins in Order, commanding that a Captain's Guard should be mounted, In each parish, during the holidays, hum 24th Ikcerober until the !th of January. EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED TIII%_IIORXING., MONTEGO itA`' DEc..l9. My friend Mr. S. has just informed me, that he beard the ne. groes on (tnity !fell estate, in the pariah of St. James (he being behind a hut), enter into conventation respecting their intention of rebelling at frlhristmas, and they were only waiting for ten more e►tates to join them, when they would set lire to the trash-houses. overseers' houses, &c. and in the confusion murder the white people, u they were informed the King had made them free. (.'olonel Lawson has ordered a guard oil board the Hall at Great River. and the artillery at the fort conimentes this evening. POSTSCRIPT TO A LETTER DATED KINIISTON, The people are all on the alert—all in arms this morning, in consequence of the eaccutior of eight negroes for insurrection, and setting tire to a trash-house, in otder to entice the neighbouring rftsthite people to the place, as is usual ia eases of fire, and then to ' pot them to death.--Glesgow (*wirier. The following extract of a letter, dated St. Mary's. Jamaica, 20th 1/ecember, 18:0, received by a mpectable mercantile house in Liverpool, appears in the Liverpool Courier I ou will, of course, hear much by the packet of the intended insurrection of the slaves on the north side. As my residence ad- I joins Frontier Estate, :st. Mary's, the plantation that is supposed to I have taken the lead in the diabolical attempt in this paroh, and I buying all day yesterday attended the trials of three of the conspi tutors, who were found guilty and sentenced to be hung, what I relate are absolute facts taken from evidence. From the anxiety of, one of the party (who had a son living with a gentleman on Port Maria) to get his child out of the way of harm, he advised him, on . the full of the moon, to leave his roaster's house and hide, as the negroes wou ld rise that night and set tire to the trash-houses and works of Frontier, and, as the white people Caine out, i nane _ diately destroy them; that, upon the fire of Frontier being disco vered, the other estates were to Nlltur their example, and then pro ceed in a body, and spare no one. The boy, it is supposed, an:. ions for his master's life, begged him to go oa board ship to sleep that night, and take all his papers and money. So strange a re q u es t from the boy made his master question him more particularly, when he named seven of the above-named estate's negroes, as ring. leaders, which being corroborated by other evidence, th e y were,l before (lark on the 18th, taken and lodged in irons on board the ditferent ships in the harbour." SHIPPING INTELLIGAWCZ fiLE CASE OF MR. CHARLES! FLINT'. Copy of a resolution passed by the Magistrates at Staf• ford, on the conduct of Ale. Chetwynd, in Mr. Flint's aim " At a meeting of the Magistrates for the county ef Stafford, held at the Judge's house, in Stafford, on Wed. nesday, the itth inst.. the Right Hon. the Earl Talbot in the Chair, the following resolution was posed:— " "fhat the Earl Talbot be requat«l, on behalf of all the Magistrates present, to express to George Chetwynd,' Euj. Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of this county, their unanimous approhatitin of his upright and impartial conduct, relative to the prosecution and trial of Charles Flint and others ilk A misdeineanottr.' " TALBOT.' FRAS. TWEINLOW. " E Mo arc stow. "G. A. Theasse. " ST. VINCENT. " W. LEIGH. "J. C. Teestr. " eloweerow, jam g R. Cullen'''. " THOS. Twesteow. "J. WROTTESILEY. "T. L. FREER. " Titos. LISTER. " W. W. C " J. LANE. " R. LEVETT. CLARE. " S. (tepee. "W. Drove. "T. H. Lures." I FALMOUTH, FEB. 4.—Arrived the PISINISH Hill, Duck, from (From the Pottery Cazdte, Newcastle-ender-Lyme Express, and Loudon ; Comet, Moore, from Havre; and George, Davis, from • Stalbrdshise (.rerral Advertiser.) Plymouth for Lisbon. Jan. 31, 1824. I'LY MOUTH. FEB. 4.—No arrivals or tailings. TO SIR JOHN WROTTESLEY, BART. M.P. FOR THE Cowes, Fes. 4.—The Volithe Nicholls, arrived here from COUNTY OF STAFFORD. Amsterdam ; lost bet name from theater) in the Downs. ass v. CH AAAAA FLINT. PORTSMOUTH, FEM. s.—tio arrivals or sailing& Sea—Asa freeholder of the county of Stafford, and one u _htit e :e•e% res. he i t e . i Ll i te ic undrs i i n en a tiosted t 4 a f nchors were taken and s of your constituents, 1 beg to address you upon this case. iLlea Isere. Oat of opt. 3 qrs. 141 K, one abe t foreign It has already in some manure appeared before the public, and one about 6 cwt., ell three unatoeked, and one of 8 cwt. and is one in which the party defendant considers (no mat- 3qrs. 141 b., stocked. Also a cathead with a block on the outer ter whether rightly or not) that justice has not been dealt °WA out to him according to the laws anti constitution of his R i 'l s ,'• , ol l' l oe • h a—A ran, r i ve d . e s s - - !sued for the River, the hiaa country. His intention to bring it under the consideration Lewis , rom 11 ■ • e C r"' n S t i 5 10 e e f rom rra ne the River ft and he 1 an" of the Hoe. House of Commons had been fully and pub- with the outward-bound, the Comely, Gray, he Ma r seilles Pp , liely made known, and I feel assured you could n o t b e felled, Whited', fee Barbados ; Prentiss, Glove ' for Cadis iveld. ignorant thereof at the last General Quarter Sessions of the and the success , Perry ; and Harriet, Briggs, for L rpo Peace for the county of Stafford, whets you and other Ma- Aint. 0 atm! n ie 2s i t e. . ; .enived tae Older , bora 1= flistm4l6 theta Present suthirdoid the Earl Tallest to express I hate . : 7- Ww Hendrina, Move, from Roan Undoisaming, Ito George Ch etwynd, Fog. " your unanimous approbation . Block, from Bremen • Robert an Mary, Fox, from • mend I sad of his upright and impartial conduct relative to the prose- I Desire, (auto_, from dstend.--Sailed the Jane, Avery, far Feral • Highland Led, Vickenuan, for Bahia ; New Brumes, Cawley; cution and trial of Charles Flint and others for a misde for Gibraltar • Harmtin Walk f IC • Thomas and Mary, meanour." You bare thus prejudged a question which ' Him for Hem ' h „ gh L oodehi " R • uh ", ha r , f or ffsiborgb Sept, will hereafter come before you to decide upon judicially, in Hone, for Babice ; and Melly, Burrell, for Venice. your seat as a member of the British Senate. If this con- LIVER rooL. FEB. 4.—Arrived the Hope, Heron, hem Con duct be correct in you, Sir John, it would be equally, nay .isoaci peac t h di e lfr ; Cornwall, cierau, M w errison itian , i fq:L e Dem , co crar bb, a fe ;:i r ave ,.i arits ew more so, in every member of the House of Commons • and inquiry and investigation into supposed grievances, and a - 1 r; Brunsw:cskht January ; ane, "r m ge — wfou'nd i rnd ; St iis And ters, r°" ' new from plications for constitutional redress, would thereby Malaga; Margant,lll•Leller from Antigua ; and Kitty, Young, stifled in the very onset, and the party complaining de-1 Wan Africa. The Cornwall called off Barbados, and breaght leered from appealing to those whose duty it is to hear he- deapatchcs for Govern wu men w e ree T k h ed e off Sister A a nei. Dou gua_ thwait, h o rs . bif ,.. 4 . 0 A re they deride. It is not necessary for the purpose with Tars for time ' s '' , saved Balled the Klitgston May foe A ; Tyson, which address you, that I should contend that justice for V irg i n s; and Ep . ,'r !..Legheat. frica was not duly administered in this ease. It is su ffi cient to Hoiareaue FEB. 4. u T h e ° Llizseeta Ciewithees, front say, that the defendant considers it was not, and that he Cardiff for Livemool, was driven o n s h ore y es t e rday evening intends to make a constitutional appeal for redries to the ,at Porthwen Creek, in Carmarthen Bay, and soon bilged. Crew House of Commons: lie is entitled so to do, and to receive saved.. upon that appeal the unbiassed judgment of every member rosin. .—A few small boards, apparently pa rt of the caein furniture FE B . of a sloop, have been ieked ee; the m ou th thereof. He has • right to expect that they come to the of the harbour ; a mast with some riggir l i ' ir has In seen amour decision of the question uninfluenced by party or prejudice the breakers near Getten Island, a little to the north of St. Ann's on the one hand, or by personal favour or affection on the Held. to m BORDEAUX, sf J:lt. d r.--The th Eleanor, Lamb e , o f t mT e Newesses other; and if such be his claims upon the other members of that Hon. House, they are equally so, nay greater, upon spruog p a mt ' leak e g r et . tt ea 337l7l:s l e tre rom mendous Yal e 236 you. You, Sir John, are member for the county where and, being in a sinking state, was abandoned by the aew, who at.. he resides, and it is not too much to say. that he has a rived here to-day in the Harmonic, Haring, from Nor s a . en The right to make his appeal through you, and by your means dbeon ente a, bi li i sh : 7 4 , ,theta f re ro i n e t ed H h av en re t , hie for day w , ho wn safety ieua eons to obtain a fair and impartial inquiry into his case. How 11 : during is it, then, that he finds you have already decided upon it? mela NASSAU (N. P.), Dec. 31.—The schooner Rio from Philadet. .—that instead of promoting inquiry you have prejudged the phia to Havanuah, is wrecked near the Berry Island. The Re question, and joined in a vote or resolution, which could mittanee, dieter. from New York to flavannah, and the Catbsetne Rogcrs, Griffiths, from New York t o M o bil e , are wrac k e d en only be intended to aiffe and defeat it ? Can this be satis factory to your constituents, or can they aft e r thi s l oo k u p Ahscs • Aer tore, DEC. 23.—Ths Sisters, Dowthwaite, from DOOM. to you u the guardian or promot er of their interests and Tim to London, having lost her fatalism few days sass leaving welfare? Of this they wil l and I shall be greatly the former place, bore up for this Island, ran on a reef of rods mistaken if they do not think with me, that they bad a on the south aide and bilged. Nearly halt' the cargo has has Tight to expect better things at your hands. saved. These observations apply solely to you, as a Memb e r of the ttse of Commons, having joined in a resolution of this nature. I hare a few others to make upon yourself, in common with the other Magistrates whose names ap peer thereto, having passed it in their magisterial capacity. "No one will contend that it iv not entitled to some weight And consideration, from the very honourable and I-tepee-t -attle signatures which appear thereto; but we must eat be /al away by the opinion of any man or set of men, however honourable and respectable they may be. It is the privies loge of Englishmen to judge and act for themselves, and they will do so upon the 'grunt occasion. At all events, before they can be expected to adopt or attach much weight to the opinion and resolutions of yourself and brother Ma gistrates, they will naturally ask upon what evidence or facts it was founded. This is an ;aquiry I beg to make of you, Sir John, and expect, in common with your consti tuents at large, that you will answer it freely and fully. I am the more induced to make it, from the fact of neither yoarseynor a , one if the Magistrates whose Names appear to that resolution (with the exception of the Rev. John Clare), haring been present at the trio! of the traverse in this case. Upon what pounds, then. it will be asked, did you form your opinion of Mr. Chetwyni's "upright and impartial conduct?"' %Vas it front his own repre.r2ntation, or that of the Rev. J. Clare ; or was it from the report of the trial, as it has already appeared before the public? If the former, and such statement was at variance with the report, which hitherto stands uncontradicted and unim peached, it will be considered that the information upon which you acted wan derived from the parties interested, and that, according to all ordinary notions of justice, it might have been expected that you would have heard the other side before you finally decided thereon. But if your )pinion and resolution was founded solely upon the report of the trial, then the public will be enabled fully to ai pre ciate the weight and importance that is justly attached thereto, and will be as capable of forming a correct opinion upon Mr. ('hetwynd's "upright and impartial conduct" as yourself or the other Magistrates who have already decided upon it. It is also fair to inquire whether the Magistrates in ge neral are anyways, and if so, how far connected with the matter in question, and whether it is not possible that they may have come forward upon the present occasion to serve a personal friend end brother Magistrate; and whether the opinion of an intelligi nt man, totally indifferent to all parties) is not entitled to as much or greater weight than that of a Magistrate whose name appears to the resolution in eptestion under the eircumeant•es mentioned? There are many other inquiries which might very pro perly be made upon the present occasion. It might be asked, where was the necessity of the Magistrates recog nizing the upright and impartial conduct of Mr. Chet wynd, and why it was deemed necessary to blazon it forth to the public? It might be asked, whether it would not have been better for the Magistrates to have directed and instituted an inquiry, rather than pursue the course adopted? whether it would not have been store satis factory to the public to have denied any statement which had appeared, if untrue; and to have controverted, and replied to, any conclusions deduced therefrom, if not war ranted by the facts upon which they were founded ? and whether a person holding a high judicial situation in the country ought not, at all times, rather to court inquiry into the manner in which he discharged the duties of lna office, than clothe himself with the opinion and approbation of a few individuals, and those, too, with whom he is in the constant habit of acting? I would not be misunderstood in the observation I have now made. I distinctly disavow all intention of here charging the Gentleman, upon whose conduct the resolu tion of yourself and brother Magistrates was pass.ll, with improperly administering the justice of the country, or with having acted unworthily in the present case ; much less would I wish to be understood as imputing improper tnotives to yourself, for the other high and honourable characters who have thought it right publicly to express their opinion upon that Gentleman's conduct. it is not here, but elsewhere, that our views upon that part of the case are to be stated, and we trust they will be so in a proper constitutional form. We have hitherto abstained from making a single comment upon this case, and are no further concented in any thing which has appeared upon the subject thereof than in having caused the most accurate report of the trial, which we could possibly procure, to be laid before the public ; and we are only induced to deviate from the course we have hitherto pursued by this case hav ing been, as we think, improperly prejudged. As the resolution of yourself and brother Magistrates has been laid before the public, 1 trust I shall stand ex cused for publicly addressit r' e• you upon the present oc ac sion.—l have the honour to be, Sir, with great respect, Your most obedient and humble Servant, L'ttoteter, Feb. 4, 11324. ABRAM FLINT. CUSTOM-HOUSE, Frs. C. • ratrnin Ix Betsey, Osik (T. Marshall, broker), from Tobago. (hcos, Ford (Walker, broker), front Salim & CZedonia, Maims (Venue, broker). from Avulse. Ilarriett, Taylor ( omen, broker), from 5. 3(ithaersi Robert and Mary, Fox (Coe, broker), from (kind. Heasta Elisabeth. Wk.( (HSU, broker), from Rotterdam. Flora, Poortreloet (Ditto, (tom Ditto. Wed. Verwagting, Shoring (Simon, broker), from Antwerp. (eertruida, Ouwehand (Hofman, broker), from Rotterdam. Hoop, Poye We Hie, broker), from Antwerp. Triton, Decker (Ditto), from Ostend. Trois Amer, &but (Simon, broker), from Antwerp. Johannes Wilhelouna, Mooyekind (Baker, broker), from Rot , edam. Joige Hendrick, (hoot (Hall, bmker), from Rotterdam. Jonge Gerrit, Plokker Baum, broker), from Ditto. Jeanette Matreetta..Reckman (Bremer, broker), tram Antwerp, Vigilantie, V. ukop (Haman, Woken, from Rotterdam. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. The Solon, from Oporto, arrived at Pernambuco, and was taw posatenion of. The Comets, from Pernambuco to Mang was madly wrecked near Macao ; part of the cargo saved nt a damaged state. The Whim, Mason, was dnven tan thore at Riga daring a gale 11th ult. Cargo discharging. The Jonge Blida, Becket, from Rotterdam to Newry, put beet ZO,n ult., leaky, having be e n run f ou l of °tithe North Foreland, by the Pactolus, P.dford, from Hamburgh. The James, ireemars,arrtved in ties RiverlYom St. Jdttn,N.s., fell is with, abt.ut itith ult., a brig of about 2410 teas, from New. foundland to Oporto, with her decks swept of bulwarks, boats, anchors, &e., blowing a gale; could net anstrrain her tune. AlaivED—At Demerara, the Halyards, _y from the Clyde; Orion, White, from Liverpool ; Cato,Sadler, from Cott ; Leona, born ; and London, Somereall, from London. At Cushaven, Britannia. Edmonds, from London ; and Germania, Hanson, from the Havannali. At Trieste, Albion, —, from Rio Janeiro. At Malta, Ocean, Kidd, front Rio Janeiro. At Mogadore, Union, Navarro, from Gibraltar. At Genoa, Genoa packet, Patterson, from London. At Gibraltar, Pallas, Emmett, from Penzance. At Bilboa, Dove, Rooms; Brothers, Kingstone; and Fairy Queen, Seaton, from London ; Superb, Beck, from Bristol • Dickens, Procter, from laverpool ; and Pall as' Le Gras, from 'Newfound land. At Nantes, Juliana, M u ll er , from London • and Amphi trite, —, from Bou r b on . A t Pernambuco' Norval, Leslie, from Liverpool. At Havre, Africnne, Jall ant . from Buenos Ayres; Clarissa Ann, Rogers, front Charleston; Hannibal, from Guade loupe; Seneca, tiardin front Newcastle; Bonn e Ilenriette, ; mid Matilda, Collins, from London. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—COPASit, from Liverpool for Charles ton 17th ult., lat. 33. long. 52. X and 3d inn. dr Holyhead, passed a vessel of about 100 eons, supposed to be a sloop, dismast ed, steering to the Eastward by the Cornwall, Morrison, arrived at Liverpool. It is rumoured in certain quarters that the Marquis iVellesley will shortly retire from the Lord Lieuteticitcy of Ireland ; and the Duke of Buckingham is spoken of as his successor.—fri%li Times. The Marquis ef Tl:elitield, we are happy to beer, is quite recovered from late severe indisposition. It is said that 1)r. Bethel, the Dean of Chichester, who was tutor of the Duke of Northumberland, is to be the new English Bishop. Mr. Curtels, M.P. is collecting information, preparatory to asking some relief from Parliament for the distressed hop-planters. The office of Receiver-General in the different Revenue Departments in Inland is to be dispensed with, and all remittances made to the Bank of Ireland. There is a curious report in circulation relative to one of our exceedingly well-managed departments. A certain clerk, whose name, " for obvious reasons," we omit, had a salary of 1301. a year—and he has contrived to walk off, to the enjoyment of his "otiwn," with 130,0001. So uys rumour. At any rate there has been a wondertid, a never-heard-of saving of honest earnings in this case, and it occurred in the office that exceeded all others in efficiency, economy, regularity, &e. &c. &c.—Dablia Paper. The following gentlemen were yesterday called to te.,e. Degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn:— Melmoth Walters, Esq., W. Mervin= Bytbewood, Esq., Tbo. mas Flower Ellis, Esq., John Hunter Homey, Esq., Alex. Mac duff Baster, Esq., James Bunce Curling, Esq., and Henry Han. dell. E. Sia FREDERICE FLOOD, BART.—We lament to state. that this distinguished character is no more. At six o'clock on Sunday evening, the Ist instant, terminates' the long and useful life of this worthy Baronet, not more knownknown than lamented. Bir Frederick Flood was Cust , ..t nob/- foram of the county of Wexford, which county he repre sented in the Imperial Parliament, as long as h. found it convenient, at his advanced period of life, to engage in tie,' arduous duties of a Statesman. He also sat in the Irish House of t'ommons during three successive Parliamem,. In each House he maintained that dignity and itillcp,n,f enc.. of character which he was so remarkable for in every station Errant"; /11•D•mr l'Avaxarei.—Serious disappointment has lout occasioned by the sudden indisposition of Madame ('ets lani, which prevented her from fulfilling her engagement at the Concert last night (Tuesday 3d inst.). Many re-. apectable families drove into town from the surrounding neighbourhood, it being impossible for Mr. Wilson, not withstanding his utmost exertions, to inform them in suf ficient time to prevent the inconvenience thus occasioned. It is hoped that a few days will recover Madame Catalani from the effects of a violent cold under which she at pre sent labours, when she will be enabled to fulfil her enga f e... here as well as in London. IVe are authorised to state, that the conductors of the King's Theatre have offered Madame ('aulaiii a clear half of the receipts of the house for every night of her performance during the --- These conditions Madame Catalani has just accept has been erroneously stated in the pipets, that 3/ ton had offered Madame Catalani two thousand Misty nisfhls ; the proposals made by that gem a thousand guineas fur six performances.—Liverpool of Tuesday last. 1 'I a }~ l; 1 r I the eeasvi. accepted. It at Mr. guincaspr itletnan were, rerpool raper