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Mr. Hattie: &Tip, Mr. Rraford : tJeureinint Nut Mr. Horn • Torn Tacit. Mr. Knlnbt ; Jack Ready. Mr. Harley. Lux*. Miss Pure/ ; Mrs. T.. Mr*. Orrvr. ,„ Det Frelatbutz. and My Uncle SabrieL TMEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. WlZ , *Bin& MONDAY. Dee.l3. will be performed KING JOHN. Wad John. Mr. Voutdt: Fatib , dibridar. Mr. C. Kemple; Hubert. Mr. ashen. Constance. Mrs. Bartley. after wider., THE ►OIITY TIIIEVZS. Raba. Mr. Plarsebard • Mustayha. Mr. Meadows; Heharite. Mr. T. I'. I duke. Coda Baba, Mtn Lows: Marllana. Mrs-Vining. re-morrow. A WWII= Never Vest. and The Barber of Se, Ult. 'A ftt SIITI/111 ra till commenced publishing on Saturday nursing • - • •1 five o*.clock. LONDON, MONDAY. Damns* 13, 1814. Last night we received the Paris Papers of Friday. The French troops arc beginning to move towards the frontiers u: Spain, and simultaneously the violence of the furious Royalists begins to break forth in fresh acts of outrage on :he defenceless supporters of the Constitution. Lists of proscri,otitin are forming, and it is expected that when the French are withdrawn, the kingdom will be "purified" by a general massacre of the 'ley ; ros. One expedient of the Council of Canine to Pinkish supplies for the Royal Treasury deserves to be noticed. It is proposed to con fiscate the property of all those who, to ensure their per sonal safety, have latch emigrated from Spain, unless they return and deliver dictum:lees up to their persecutors, who would immediately condemn them to death without even the formality of a hearing. The nmstitutionnel, at the conclusion of an article on the late Royal Order, respecting the French army, remarks that " the dismissal of a third of the present number of Csenerals, one half of those of the army previous to the restoration, is, whatever the advocates of the measure may say of it, an act too extraordinary in its nature not to con ceal some political after-thought. The coincidence of this measure with the project for indemnifying the emigrants, r.arks no design friendly to France, or favourable to Royal: y." In the Private Correspondence of the Juttrnal des betas there is given, front Lisbon, a sl►tch of the intended orga citation of the Portagnese Cortes. We know not what credit is doe to this article. We hope none; for we are sore that so empty a sbailow of Representative Government eon satisfy no clams of people whatever. If the subjects of JOIEN VI. arc not to enjoy any of the benefits resulting from the spirit and knowledge of the age, let them ■t /east have the undiminished advantages of their an c•ent institutions. It may be true that there arc not many risotto in Portugal qualified fur the duties of legislation- The reason is, that they have never been called upon to exercise them, and, until their disability is removed by re presentative institutions, the same reason nay be urged for rya to deny them a free government. The Portuguese Monarchy is already sufficiently weakened by its political veers. It must fall, like the Spanish, under them, if the °sample of FERDINAND VII. Is to he preferred to that of Louts XVIII. The Dutch and German Papers are filled with accounts of the calamities produced by the late dreadful storms and floods. Throughout the North of Europe the mischief is immense and incalculable. The city of St. Petersburgh has been visaed by the united violence of wind and water, 1.1 its most appalling form. While the sheet-iron on the roofs of the houses was rolled up like leaves of paper, the flood rose to the height of nine and ten feet in the open wefts. Vessels were wrecked in the centre of the city, which was strewed in every part with fragments of ruin. Even the neighbouring villages were swept away, and their entire population destroyed ; the public distress is., of comae, extreme. No business was done on the Ex change, and the pour were famishing for want of bread. All these horrors, insupportable in themselves, were aggra vated by the commencement of winter, amidst the general destitution of all classes of the cititena. At Stockholm the alarm, though nut equally violent, was productive of co t-naive mischief. The haws sustained in other places will nut, we apprehend, be lies severe than at these cities; but from the obscurity of the sufferers, and their consequent debility to make known their situation, we shall probably h left iu comparative ignorance of the depth of misery to which they have been suddenly precipitated. We trust that their more fortunate .:ountrymen will be shamed by itritish genero►ity into ample contributions fur the relief cf these numerous and molt fitting objects of public cum passion. Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York. Ye: terday the Princes.; Fv.slort. attended divine s.•rrice at the [Oval German Chapel, and heard a eennott by the r.sr. Dr. "Kuper. On Friday night. after the breaking up of the Cabinet C.n.tririh a king's Mt saleter %VI II sent off from the Foreiioa (Ace, with despatches for St. Petersburgh. On Thursday Mr. Crotch. the King's ►lessenger, arrived &Li town from Paris. air Charles Bagot, our Ambassador at the Court of the. :Netherlands, arrived at 11m:relit on the Gth instant. The Governor and the Deputy Governor of the Bank of liagland, the Chairman of the West India Dock Com piny. and the Chairman of th.• East India Company, had tragamt interviews with the E irl of Liverpool during the J•aw week, at his house in Whitehall. The renunciation of the pretensions set up against the Netherlands by the Dry of A Igirrs • and hiscow:ent to ratify Ards the peace• concluded in 11416, has been of an- Doomed at lituAsels. _ The Austrian Authorities at llernsanstailt have %natl. I.rown to the I;nvernment that the ravages of the plague in Wallachia diminish in a sensible manner. 'the King of Swaim has recently made • considerable promotion in his army. it is asserted, that in the city of Turin, during the last see years, there has never been a dwelling-hoax, or any tuber building, destroyed by tire ! There arc no insurance o$ :es in that capital. 'OCRS ON SATURDAY. locig Ana. '23 21 . . Souti *ea Stock 160•3116 Sea Old Annuities South Sea New Annuities Et.Bills,l4. LAMM S 3 port DOWN SAIL 63 pm ISitto, Small 53 pm Ditto. lid. LOOM SS S 4 pea Ditto. Mt. IA SS pm Ditto. Small 41 WS pm batte►y Tickets 221. 19a.: PR ENCII PAPERS. I From the Ettrik, dated Saturday, Pee. 11.1 Mahal!), Nov. 29. Everything is reparing in Spain for the general movement of the French troops to cross the frontiers. It is certain, as bar been al ready stated, that only two SWIM regitnents will remain here. and that the garrison will be commanded by Major-General Count Lalnjere. Isieutenanr.fleneral Count fliolin will command in Cadiz, the Farman of which is composed nt the 9th, light infantry. and the 13th, 20th, 17th, 34th, and 15th of the line. The lids and 9th of the line will be in garrison at Pampeluns, and the :hi light intan. try at St. Sebastian. The necessary artillery will also rruuin at Cadiz. It is not certain who in to command iu Pampcluna, but it is thought it will he the Prince de Broglie. The Council of Camille, whose attention has been particularly at. traettd by the immense entigrati 111 l r to foreign cout.tries, w iles takes place from all parts of the Peninsula, and the vast capitals of which it has deprived us, has just addressed a memorial to His Majesty, representing the incalettlahla evils that may he brought upon the kingdom by the continuance of such a star.: of things, and professes that those persons who have einigrnted shall be ordered to return nn !sun of the confiscation of their property. Count !Pigeon left Madrid on the Ist December, to bare an au dience of leave of Air Illsjesty. PARIS, DEC. 10. . . This morning. at seven o'clock. a tire broke out in die ' in one of the rooms next to the aparanents of the First Gentleman of the King's Itedchamber. The persons in waiting exerted them selves to extinguish it, in which they succeeded by eight o'clock. The Duke de ltoudeeuville. Minister of the King's Household, repaired to the spot as anon as he was informed of the accident. M. Dirdet, the eminent painter, died yesterday evening at ten o'elnek. He underwent, m. Monday, a most painful operation which was perfotnied by N. Larrey, with all the coolness that friendship allowed him to retain. M. Girodet bore it with great courage, sod the operation succeeded, but there was still reason to fear the consequencea : it was the removal of • tumour in the bladder. M. Alannai, Bishop of Rennes, died in that city on the 6th instnnt, at the age of 79. M. Jean Baptiste Duchillon, Archbishop of Tours, the senior of the French Bishops, has just terminated his career, at • very ad% anced age. He was born on the 7th October 1735, and was, thetefore, in the 90th year of his age. Faerteit FUNDS—P.anas, 10--Five per Cents. opened at Me.; closest at 1021. Me. ; Spamsli Stock. 1,920 f.; Neapoloan 5 r Cents llalconet's certificate) 571 f.; Royal Spanish Loan, SIIf. Exchange on London—One Month, 25f. ; Three ditto, 2411. Bk.—tours ifttehottque, Dee. 10. (From the Jorreal des Debate of Friday.) Lissom, N0v.21. The moment approaches when our ,Innarch will perform his promise of ri storing to pristine vigour the Constitution of the legi timate Curter, by three orders or estalfZlNfri of the kingdom. This promise, which, in fact, acknowledges only an Impeescriptible duty of royalty, ha', during the last six months, tranquillized the spirit of party which had unsettled our country. All classes of the citi• lens look with respect and confidence to the establishment of their ancient rights, and hope to find, in a wise system of liberty, in the public discussion of the mature of the nation, and " in a happy concurrence of well-balanced powers in the formation of the legis la:hre acts." the true and tranquil guaranteeing of public order. One taction only is still restless, and this is naturally to be expect ed, because it Its. nothing to hope under the dominion of the laws; it is opposed even to the best-secured monarchical system, sod will no more agree to aristocratical than to democratital insti tutions. The violent efforts of this facetn to overthrow the pre sent Ministry, appears to leave no doubt that the Royal Ordi nance of Reformation was conceived in the spirit of out greatest anti wises, Monarchs, the Airflow** and the Monism We have seen an extract of the plan of this Decree, which has been circulated in the diplomatic and political circles. In scene respects it does nut answer the general expectation:— ORGANIZATION or THE THREE ISTATRII Or TILL LING- 1)0W or PORTUGAL. i. The clergy, the nobility, anti the deputies from the towns and the cities, shill unite (each class separately) to deliberate with closed doors on the objects that the flovemment sh dl lay before them for discussion. They shall not have any portion of legisla tive power, and shall only bare the privilege of being consulted or heard by the King. 11. The Chamber of the Clergy will be composed of the dio cesan bishops, the priors of the three religious and military orders, the rector of the University, and two or three dignitaries of the monastic orders, in all about twenty on t wenty-hve Individuals. No one, however, can take his seal until he has received a letter of conrocaiion from the King. 111. The order of the nobility will consist of thirty members, chosen from all classes of the nobles, by nine electors, who will lie appointed by the King. The thirty who are elected must be con firmed or appointed by his Majesty. IV. The third order will be composed of deputies chosen in each curnlrra, or jurisdiction, train amongst the deputies elected by the cities and towns, who, for that purpose shall assemble in the chief place in each comarca. The number of those meetings shall not exceed from twelve to twenty persons, who shall choose one from among them to sir in the estate. The number of the deputies of the third estate will be consequently equal to the num ber of the n mums of the kingdom, and the ail;arent islands, that is to sly nearly forty ; and besides seven deputies will be named by the King to represent the colonies of Africa and Asia. Brasil iv not mentioned, but his Majesty is said to reserve his determine. tion, as it regards the Tenet...entities of this kingdom, until a re cor.ethation..llAN have taken place. V:T'he three estates will l;e:s:Vinbled when the King thinks At to tall thew together, and dissolved in the same manner. (From die Coartiteditnirrel of Friday.] ITTORIA, Dic. 2. - . . . . Lists are circulated here, containing the nameitif persons residing in this city and the envinms, short it is iutenatd, as soon as the French are gone, to knock on the head. 'Yesterday a detachment of Royalist volunteers from Ilaro came here to look after some prisone , s. They entered the city singing songs that snake one quake with horror, and of which the hurihen was Lung. :ive Me absolute Kine--aput sorrwMilog muse. The latter 'suds allude to the re.establisl •nt of the Inquisition. Front the Courrie Francais of Friday. bianatu, Nov. 29. --• • -- • - The King is still suffering • ith the gout in his arms ; but his blajnty's illness is not so severe as to confine him in his bed. Prince Maximilian of Saxony, and the Princess his daughter, are constantly at the Escurial. All the Royal Family will quit that Palace on the 4th or 6th of next month, and return to the capital. We learn to-day, that it was by the advice of the Council of Castille, that the King was induced to withdraw the con. sent which lie had given to the Infant Don Francis, for his journey to France. The day before yesterday the King sent an oiler to this Prince, and his young wife, for their return to the Escurial, which they will instantly obey. %% learn today that this Princess is seriously Ind:spinet!. and the physician Cas tello, has been ordered to the Royal residence, with all possible speed. We flattered ourselves that the arrival of the father of our Queen would in sonic degree allevivte the fury of party spirit ; bitt it is feared that our weak hopes will not he raslised. The familiars of our new Inquisition redouble their rigour in their orrvrillanre, and their teal in their denunciations. Their Chief. Don Ridino (ion. roles, return' that power will escape him if he allow the least return of moderation, labours effectually to make the Government dread the spirit of the provinces of Amish's:a. He hopes that in tern. tying the Court his own services will be regarded an intlispensilile: it was to preserve his authority that lie cirenlivell, some days since, by means of his confidants, a report that the Spanish refugees at Tangiers •ere making preparations there for a new attempt on the COMM of Andalusia. Already, in consequence of his reports, an order has been luucd by the Al inistrr of War, Gtr the officers who had unlimited leave of absence, and who had established themselves in the maritime cities of this province, to return into the cities in the interior ; those who were born in those maritime cities only are excepted. Ile pretends also to have received an injunction to deliver no more passports 1.• those persons who have served in the Constitutional widen, and who wish to go in various directions. ‘V belief it be true or pre tended, this order is ri ;mouldy observed. M. Vincenti, Director of the Sinking Fund, arrived yestenlav at the Escurial, where he hal been ordered by the King. It is be lieved that this journey relates to some great operation which has for its -bject to ameliorate the pitiable condition of our finances. The greater number of the ensploy.es of Government are reduced to the greatest misery, none of thetu having received any portion of their balance Gtr many months. Innitt Caliznani's He:sower of Friday. Madanie Letitia llonsparte is serisit.sly indisposed at Rome. The apprehensions which Inc some time has been entertained for the security ci the large saloon at the lintel of the British Embassy, in which divine service has hitherto been perfornied. has induces' his Excellency to close at entirely, and the g tllery on the opposite side of the garden has consespicntly been opened for several Sim. days. It appears. however, from the architect's staament, who has surveyed at. that it is in a state no less dangerous than the other. and eq u ally prudent to i.e avoided. The order far the Mi. mediate repair of the hotel has lien issued by the Board of Work., and the workmen are to be employed without delay. Much inconvenience must necessarily arias to lord Granville front these circumstances, ~ his ITerptii , 3l of the public authorities, as well as of his pri..ste mends, must for some time he deferred. It being impossible to finish the enthellishinents of the Chamber of I/emotes in time for the opening of the Session, preparations foe the Royal Sitting are making at the Louvre. It is stated, in letters from Sweden. that a general be lief prevails that the King. Charles John. has the ink ration of resigning in favour of his eldest son, Prince Oscar. The motive that is assibmerl for this determination is the fear entertained by the l ifonarch of the intrigues of the Holy Alliance for the reinstatement of the family of the deposed Gustavus, and a belief that a part of the enmity towards the m w d) nasty may be removed when it has assumed, by the lineal succession of the new King, the air of legitistraey. Bernadette has hitherto managed tnatters with great skill. He is the only one of the Generals of the French Revo lution who has preserved a sovereign power. lie was one of the first, too, who attained eminence ; he was Minister at war nada the Lireetory. THE BRITISH PRESS. PORTUGUESE P.I PE BS. litasow, Nov. 25. The Lisbon Gazette of this date lima the following article War Office. Nov. 17. 1224. " It having been reprewnted to me that the Captains Joao Jose de o ,.facinto Jacinto V ermiirin de Sienese+, Antonio Slaitheus De murs Itti'voso, Francisco Antonio da the Lieutenant Ma nuel dos Santos, and the Ensign Ales. Jose no telho. all of the re giment of cavalry No. 9, neglectirg the /sacred duties of faithful subjects, and the probity inseparable from the noble profession of arms, in which they had the honour to serve my Royal person and the State, sometimes by regular disciansis, sometimes by uttering unconnected phrases, have shown, in the dillicult circumstances that have occurred an entire disaffeetion to toy government. and to the integrity of the alienable rights of my sovereignty, endeavouring by this most pernicious example to compromise and to disgrace the noble corps lit the officers of that regitneut, destroying by all means the confidence indispensable in IirTMICIII on whose honour the deft nee and preservat ion of the State must depend ; and desiring, as is proper, to make an example of tint which may 'may our loyal übjerth, and serve as a warning to those who may venture to depart from the sate path which loyalty avid duty point nut, I think pct - per In disniiss the abovenientioned (names renewed). The Council ' of War will attend to the order, and take the necessary atcps to execute it. (Signed by Lia Majesty.) " Palace of liernposta, Nov. 13, 1824." (Another resolution, of nearly tenor., dismisses Jcoe Joa quin' Ferriera, Major of the Veterans of the province of Traama. 31onies). The Gazette of the 22d contains a long extract trots. a Royal Peen o relative to the management of the Royal Forests, the dew noration and decay of which are highly prejudicial t the navy. The only news front Brasil in the /.irlwa GitzeUe coti,ists of ar. ticks extracted from the Mario Fkotinese+e of Rio de Janeiro to the beginning of August. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. Barssrrs, Drc. 3. In the sitting of the second Chamber yesterday. a decree of the King was transmitted to the Chamber, by which M. de Steppers, Inspector of Forests at Philippevill-, is deprived of his office, on account of his writings rcholvs to the cession of the domains, to the Anonymous Society of Brussels, which contain expressions offen sive to the States General. A report was mule on the petition presorted by M. Steppers, calling on the Chamber to solicit the King that the cession o f th e domains to the Anonymous Society he declared null and void. The Reporter proposed to proceed to the (infer of the Day. A long de bate arose on the question whether the Chamber ehould proceed to the Order of the Day, or the petitions orderNi to he on the table. At four o'clock the Chamber adjourned the debate till to-day (the 3d). After a protracted dciate. the Chamber decided by a majority or 64 to 26, in favour of .he order of the day. l'he mem bers in favour of the latter all, on, that the petition of M. Step pers wu useless, as the measure which he desired to have re-con.. sidered was irrevocably decided, and the Chamber had no power to alter it ; that besides, the paper tool: waa drawn up in terms dis respectful and oNnsive to the Chamber, destructive to social order, and unworthy of the honour of ben., laid on the table. M. Watin propsed, that in Milt-non of the standing orders of the English Parliament, and of the French Chamber of Deputies, no Member should be allowed to speak more than twice on the same subject, excepting the right of reply, never refused to the mover of a question. Of course it a not mean , said tbc mower, to restrict any filember from replying to a personal appeal, or to make a motion of ureter. _ . The motion was ordered to be ?rioted, and referred to the Sections. Arosarnott, Nov. 3111. It is genenlly believed that the Ear will heroic in the spring the theatre of great events. A new tute in spoken of, which the Russian Cabinet, in concert with Ausria, will c:iiite to be de livered tn the Ottoman Porte. It will tot he an ultimatum, but a kind of summons to the Porte to evacuite the principalities within • certain time. Thin note might be suptorted by a display of mi litary force on the side of Ites.arahic It is already reported that there is goitg to let a great meeting*, Clenerals at St. Petemburgh ; among them are the names of the General-M-Chicf, Count Osten Stirlen ; Count Wittgenstein. Lientenatit-lieneral Sabaiiietf, and Omit Roupe, tit:neva of Artillery. On the othe- haml the Porte has given orders fora speedy le►y of new troop. both in Bulgaria and the oljoiniog provinces. The pael l as are enjoined to hasten these levi■ as much as possible they are to Include all !II ussulmens wettout exception, and to be trade at the expense or the Parham, by tie Sultan's expreoi order. It is observed that the future destinatioo of these new levies is nut mentioned. The letters from Moldavia and M'allaclia are rare, on account of the apprehensions entertained of the plague. The Sertokitr Der. Irish Pacha urgently driies reinforcement. Besides the enormous losses which he has sustained in his unfortunate campaign in Li. 'Wig, several thousand soldiers, wearied out by so many reverses, have deserted their cusps, and roomed to their homes. 'ibis Pa. chit has been informed by his uFroto that the/;reeks were making serious preparations to invade liessi ' dy.—Brassr - is Papers, Ike. 7. • STOCK tout.)', NOV. 19. On the 13th and 14th, the barometer wns lower than ever re. membered here. The licst day the sky was clouded, and the weather extremely variable; but in the night of the 111th, we had a hurri cane of unparalleled riolelice, which tore die ships in the harbour from their moorings, and dashed them against each other; houses ware entirely unroofed, and travellers who left this city to-day, have been obliged to be preceded by labourer, with sari to clear away through the trees that have been blown down and blocked tip the roads. We have similar accontra of the same hurricane of the 111th from Neuenburg, Viboy, in Jutland, &c. Ilamsuacw, DEc. 3. It ia said that the Russian Tull' will be changed in many par. titulars in the spring. EXCIIA NOP,. flassnv Rau. DEC. S.—Loudon 36 1 ; tiro months 35 10. A samisiutis, DEC. 7.— Loudon 39 7; two months 3 i o 4 INUNDATION AT sr. PETERSBURGIL ST. P /UPON, Nov. I. ItITRACT OT • COMMERCIAL LETTFR.) The sufferings which for some months past have afflicted many countries, in consequence of extraordinary inundations, have not spared our city, and there has not been, in the memory of man, any example of such a flood as we have just experienced. The follow. ing are some of the particulars : This morning, about nine o'clock, the water in the canals, which are supplied from the Neva, began to rise rapidly, and continued to do so for some hours, so that at two o'clock the water was In feet deep in the lialecrenho...mrcet, which is by no means the lowest hart of the city, and thus the whole city was inundated. The in. abitants of the low houses. of which we hare a number, fled with their wives sod children to the top of the roofs. Other families, ir resolute In leaving their houses, unhappily perished in them, the water rising so rapidly that it was impossible to save them. To increase the horrors of this dreadful scene a furious storm raged, winch rolled up the sdicet-iton, with which many roots Were Co. vcred like paper, tore open doors and windows, and, united with tile force of the current, carried away many of the slight•bullt houses. At three o'sloik the water began to fail rapidly, and now (nine in the evening) we can again go irto the streets, the water having fallen to the usual high-water mark. The frightful dark ness of the night, and the continuance of the storm, hinder us from learning all the particulars of this terrible vsitation. All the store. houses. magazines of wine, and by far the greatest quantity of goods, are in cellars or ground-floors. The greatest magazine of raw sugars. Am is dos? to tit- Custom-house, which is the lowest part of the city, and thus millions to value must be washed away or spoiled. tiumil.houses. bridges, plunks, a vast quantity of fire-wood, timber, household furniture, he. covered the surface of the water in the Streets, and terrible were the struggles of numbers of cattle which having been washed out of the stabl.s, and unable to find a footing, perished. Nov. 20. bloat afflicting is the sight of this dreadfil devastrion,;iiichlas ruined many thousand people, and even the most opulent families; all the goods in the shops are destroyed. herring magazines, with more than 50.0011 barrels of herrings. are overthrown, and even the poles on which the buildings rested are swept away. The streets are covered with wood. dead horse., roofs and fragments of houses that hare been washed away, and of stranded ships. Some of the neighbouring villages are entirely swept away, and not • living creature left. Today ne bread is lobe bad at the bakers'; in short, the distress is infinite, and we must look with anaimy to the approaching winter. Commerce is at a stand ; nobody ittioloi of payment, every one looking with gricf at the wreck of his former prosperity ; and who can avoid being deeply afHicted at the sight of such terrible distress.—Airesterdom t'oarant. I)rc. 7. The following account of the mune calamity is froui the Ilan. burgh horse,' Mill Lies of Dec. 2 'file storm a the 18th and 19th November, which raged in S.cden, estcnilcil to St. Pctimiburgli. arAt did terrible damage, as appears from the following extract thmi A commercial letter of the thith November:— Our tilt yesterday Rllffered a dreadful inundation, which has done infinite damage, and ruined litany I.:mines. Early in the morning the wind watt eettemtly high • and even became a perfect hurricane. the tort of V.:llk II increasA every moment. Unhappily it blew directly from the northoweat, egainst the current of our river, %filch drove the water over the banks• so that in a few hours it was three arsheens deep (about nine feet) in the streets, and the inhabitants of the lower nitwit.. saved little or nothing. The storm continued till two in the afternoon • when the wind reeved to the north. so that the water ceased to rise, and by ten at uight had run at main. The damages which tee inhabitants of all classes have suffered is Incalculable, and to-day we are able to see the general confusion. Entire 'eine*, barges, boats. fragments of houses, are lying in the middle of the streets. In the Cesium house everything is in confusion; sugars in particle! .r are da tnaged, which !lowed half melted thnnegh the streets, and two. thirds were supposed . to be lost. According to other letters, the Imperial Salt Magaz ine was entirely sunder water, and thonsauls of persons have butt their lives. (God grant this latter circum stance may prove incorrect.) Of course no business was dame on Change, and no course cars be stated." Letters received Rom Zante, listed October 95, concur in stating that the most sanguine expectations are entertained that the Turks will be driven out of the Morea during the ensuing year. POE TIC Y. The following beautiful stanzas have been attributed to Loan Bram.. They are extracted, however, horn a vo lume of "Poems by lln AHD BARTON." They are dis tinguished by a high tone of feeling, and an originality and vigour (.1 expression that would not have disgraced the pen of that povt:— TO THE GALLIC EAGLE. " Fame's favourite minion The theme of her story ; quailed is thy pinion, flow sullied its glory. Where blood flowed like water, Exulting it bore thee! Destruction and slaughter Behind and before thee. Where glory was blushing, Thy flight was the fleetest; Where death's sleep was hushing, Thy slumber was sweetest. When broadswords were clashing, Thy cry was the loutleiit When deep they were gashing, Thy plume was the proudest. Bet triuml b is over ; No longer victunous, No more shalt thou hover, 'instructively glorious ! Far from the battle's shock, Fate path fast bound thee ; Chained to the rugged rock, Waves warring mend thee. Instead of the trumpet's sound, Sea-birds are sh....king; Hoarse on thy rampart's bound, Billows are breaking. The standards which led thee Are trampled sus torn now ; The flatteries which fed thi Arc turned into scorn now. For ensigns unfurling, Like sun-beams in brightness, Are crested waves curling. Like snow-wreaths in whiteness. No sycophants mock thee, With dreams of dominion ; But rude tempests rock thee, And rulle thy pinion. Thy last flight is taken, Hope haves thee (or ever; And victory shall •.iken Thy proud spirit never." PASIIIO.VAIILE INTELLIGENCE. The Dowager Duchess of Rutland has arrived at Lord rorester's seat, Park. front a tour. ..... _ Lard mid Lady Nugent have arrived on a visit to Lord and Lady Grenville, at their seat. 1/roploore bulge, Irmo Bucks. The Marchioness Westmeath arrivi‘l yeeeitlay at St. James's Palace, trout l'homas Hope, lours seat, 1k pilaw, near Dorking, surrey. John Milbank, Esq. has left town. for Brighton. Arrivals at Jordan's Hotel, at. James's-street:—Colonel and Mrs. Austin, from their seat in Kent. Ikparttires Need. on a tour; Ilenerul and Sirs. liortin aistl family, for their seat, Eau tisinbtead ; 31n. Gooch and Mrs. Pzuhert, fur their seat iu Es•ex. Andres, Esq. has left the St. Janieis Hotel, Jermyn. street, for the Continent; also J. Nichol. Es n. on a tour. Colonel Campbell has left Aliller's !hotel, Jertuyn•stret, for the Continent. Arrivals at Kirkham*, Hotel, Lower Brook-street:—Lady Sarah and Miss Bailey, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Chantberlyn, from a tour. Darartures —Edwant Norris, Esq., for Brighto.i ; J. l'untming, Esq., for his seat. Treat Park, Essex ; Genrgc Esq., far Suffolk : Mr. and Mrs. de Crespigny, on a tour; (*harks Freeman, Esq., for 011uird ; S.Bataaa, Lsq.. mad ALthony Writa, EsR., for ditto. uvedale Prier, EN. has arrived at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermya street. from Oxford. Arrivals at the Brunswick !louse Hotel, Haaovsr•syatae:—The Rev. Wm. and Mrs. Yates, trout Lancashire; the Mines Corbett, twin a tour. Departures from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place :—Coh net Dsltyin pie, for his seat in Kent ; Captain Hyde Parker oil a Arrivals at Nivart•s Hotel, Lower Braol.meet :—Mrs. St. Geo. Caulfield and the Misses Cvultield and lamilv. trow Itngloon ; it. Geo.4.7aullield, Esq.. from Oxford. Ileparto rev : _llO ..curable Captain Cadogan and Mrs. (Wow and fasnaly tot Sughtun. The Christmas festivities at Chatsworth arc expected to be must magnificent. His Grace the Duke of I/emir:Were will by that time have nearly completed the improvements of his princely mansion. Amongst the late Bath arrivals are, the Countess of Malinesbury, Lord Graves, Hon. G. Villiers, Sir W. Almlv, Sir B. Graham, Sir It. Vaughan, Lady E. Carnegie. Lady Middleton, Lady Muncaster, General Maya, &c. &c. The Liverpool Mercury of Friday says--" The para graph respecting Miss Paton's marriage originated at our office; and, as an Oxford journalist has questioned the ac curacy of our information, and as we have some regard for editorial character, we shall state the grounds upon which we pledged ourselves to the fact, ea poseout, that we deem our authority on this occasion as good, at least, as that of the Orfiard fleece& Mr. Webbe, the composer, whose pu pil Alias Paton was for several years, received the informa tion of her marriage, as stated in the Mercury of Oct. S, from the lady herself. It was communicated by letter to Mr. Egorton Smith by his own sister, Mrs. Webbe. This is as direct and authentic a channel of information as can be well imagined ; and whether the nuptials were actually celebrated in Oxford or in its neighbourhood, we are bound to believe the main fact of the marriage itself ; as we have too good an opinion of the lady principally inter. ested to believe her capable of deceiving Mr. Webbe or any one else." It is said to be in contemplation to commence a subscrip tion for the purpose of erecting a handsome statue of his present Nisjesty in Leeds. The celebrated traveller Le Valliant, who recently died at Sazanne, was born at Saramaibo, in Dutch Guyana. His taste for Natural History displayed itself early in life and induced him to undertake two voyages to the ('ape oi Good Hope. The &knees are also indebted to him for useful and valuable discoveries in the interior of Africa and Amerien. The Cabinet of Natural History at Paris pos sesses his canerleopanl, and his rich collection of stuffed parrots and birds of Paradise. Ile has left in literature his two voyages to the Cape of Goal Hope, and the Na tural History of African and American birds, birds of Pa radise and parrots. CI.EANING or ENGRAVINC9.—Put the engraving on a smooth board, cover it thinly with common salt finely pomaded ; pour, or squeeze lemon juice upon the salt, so as to dissolve a considerable portion of it • elevate one end of the hoard, so that it may form an angle of about forty-five or fifty degreas with the horizon. Pour on the engraving boiling water from a tea-kettle, until the salt and lemon juice be all washed off; the engraving will then he per fectly clean, and free from stains. It must be dried on the board, or on some smooth surface gradually. If dried by the tire or the sun, it will be tinged with a yellow colour. Any one may satisfy himself of the perfect efficacy of this method, by trying it on an engraving of small value.—.llr. lomks We understand that the young Englishman, named John Moore, whose suicide we noticed yesterday, was the son of Mr. Francis Moore, one of the brothels of the Ge neral of that mime, who tell at Corunna. The only con solation we can now offer to the family (who du nut reside in France) and to the friends of this unfortunate young Mail is, that his funeral has been attended to with all be coming decorum, and that the proprietor of the Hotel de Montmorency has performed his last voluntary promise, in having his remains deposited in the cemetery of Pere la chaiw.__Cmirrier Francois. Officers of Infantry are in future to *ear, for undress, blue frock coats, with two epaulettes, cocked hat and plume ; the hat to be worn oa all occasions. c.reept the parade, when the eherro is to he worn. Nearly so,ooo/. is subscribed on account of the Stour Navigation Bud Sandwich harbour Company. Propords are at present in circulation fur establishing a Joint Stock Dairy Company in Edinburgh, with a capital of 23,000/. On Tuesday, in the criminal courts at Paris, two Roman Catholic priests were convicted of swindling. M. Monnet, a priest of the church of Bonne Nouvelle, was condemned to twn years' imprisoutnent, and M. Pourcy, of the Mo nastery of La Trappe, to one year's iniprisomnent. Herrings are abundant at Southampton, and the French fishermen begin to show themselves. The pries to them is reduced to 3s. a bushel ; each bushel containing from 400 to 460 fi►h. 1 . 11 1:11.41'Ultle. TRAVELS IN THE REPUBLIC OF COLO/111A THE YEARS 11r4 ANL Itta. ql DT D. MOLLIES. TRANSLATED TROY TUE llAss ci. C. Knight. The Spanish provinces on the other sid e o f the Atlast. are rapidly consolidating their emlependonce, and rh, enn sources of commercial up, culati on w hi ch the OpQ: wen of thcr long-closed ports will furnish to Europ ean dustry and capital, and, above all, to Great Brit a i n, they b, come emancipated from the paralysing doeniniost4 which they have been so fat a lly su bj ected, snakes ern e publication valuable which increases a stock of local loop ledge which may he tumid to such useful accoast, th e result of M. Alai. n's r. searches, while travelling in t' 4 Republic of Columbia, into the customs, manners 1 ;4 character of the various inhabitants of this inimena lot of South American pspulation, are litre faithfully and great pra ;re is due to the translator for the justice d m ; to the original volume. The following account of the origin of the lty st i,i power in South Ann rice will be read with int(n vt , i x :, that that power is on the ewe of its extinction. ni l singular calamities have been entailed in the interval spy these provinces is but too true ; but that eventually 4,, internal and external condition will be advanced in am; refinement and civilization to an extent far beyond irk without passing through the fiery trial, they woulj env have attained, is, we think, squally certain. W e h,,, here, therefore, as elsewhere, the same marks of tits'. tis neticent dispensation of Providence which bring; G 0 04 ,4 of evil : " When America was first discovered, savages o f na . querahle ferocity and courage inhabited the beautiful eara of Cumana and Caracas, as well as those watered he !Le Apure and Oronooko ; continually wandering in these i t , preriable retreats, a few fruits, or the produce of thr clurt, constituted their only food; the earth in summer, or an shelter of the trees in the rainy season, iorrsd then for bed and habitation: they were almost naked; the rul e paintings with which they covered their bodies, the Into or teeth of animals with which they loaded their rut, std the rings of gold which they appended from their noienh were the most refitied ornaments they had invented: de feathers of births was the usual covering of the 614, 15 t the owns of wild beasts, of the body. Ambition, !win d slumbered not amidst all this wretchedness; the wilts; command was the object of their most ardent vows; it irs the recompense of the most painful ; the km prescient of complaint was pueisheil by exclusion. 11' 41 need bad these barbarians of a Chief% what daf term were to he decided? what spoils. what conquests war m be shared? the dead bodies of their enemies; fur !te4 greater part of them, when the ehace failed, fed upon 6 e limbs of their prisoners; there were but few tribes ilL s disliked these horrible repasts. In the mountains, on the contrary, the mannerism ameliorated. The rich province of An tioquis alone Cal se addicted to blood ; while in the plain in which Santa-Fr was afterwards built, the nation of the Moses; already pop seated some laws. The communications between ddfore villages were safe and frequent. Apieulture began to fie regarded, property to be respected, the towns had haLite nuns tolerably commodious, and the people wise drensi with decency. Without being surrounded by all that spler dor to be found in the Courts of Tenochtitlan and Can, that of the Chi.f of CUNDIN•M•kCii, to wham the Spa. nianls gave the title of Kula, was magnificent. possessed its temphx, altars and priests. Of all the Indians who inhabited these vast regions, the Motets alone ro t ieted the offering to their Gods,—their sun and neon,—:o birds which they had previously taught to pre/mina ram W I rds their language, in order that the cheated divini ties oaght take them for Amman victims. Ererywbere else notlitna but human victims were offered, and young pm sons of both sexes brought up to be butchered in the horrid sacrifices, were sold at a most enormous price. Upon hearing of the discovery of a new world. the LiTp inhabitants of which wore collars and bracelets of gold, the Spanish soldiers, weary of European warfare, which nor gargled them but a pour booty, and the Moors amt J,, impatient of the yoke to which they had recently brrn-d -jected, bid adieu to Europe, and set tiff to visit tlere new lands, and to find another country. But along tie rind coast of South America, which is washed by the sea ol ls Antilles, they were repulsed by the Indians, and fu::: all their flattering hopes defeated. These misfortusi caused so general a despondency, that the Spanish Giotto meat found itself obliged to offer the conquest of Vise zuates to the highest bidder. "It was undertaken by some German merchants 3 1528, who executed it with all the cruelty imaginable. " They succeeded in gaining possession of the coast, sad had already erected habitations at sonic distance in the so terior ; these were, however, continually reduced to lino by the savages, who had taken refuge in the wooda, and the terrified Colonists scarcely dared to quit their fortresses. " Religion now undertook to put a stop to these mese% and to snake a conquest which the sword haul been ete able to effect. Missionaries penetrated into the wild !area of the fugitive Indians. The greater number of these raw fel conquerors became the victims of their zeal. Those who had the good fortune to escape, obtained viu.tory liter victory • and as they advanc,d, founded churches ot t!:etzh and rushes ; at length they arrived on the backs d due Oronooko, after having opened a safe comuct:nicatiol tweet) diet river and Venezuela, by means of the .Anlunutu inviolable even for the savages, which they haul crec:ci at intervals. In the mean time, the soldiers, jealous of the g'.. 1 1 Pizarro and Cortes, scaled the Cordillera under ti.. ecilE• mend of Quesada, and subdued empires. In tact this Chief, stimulated l.y the seductive accounts of i;ltrit wow; her of Indians, who, pointing to the south, had assured him that lie would find in that direction a rich and power ful empire, set off from St. Martha in the month of April 1536, at the head of six hundred and tut my infantry. aled eighty-five cavalry. It was with infinite difficulty that ha slight and ill-constructed boats could ascend the Magdeira. but the obstacles opposed to lout by this river, instead of arresting his progress, only inflamed his courage. A re number of his heave companions perished either with fs• ti4ue or want. Nothing, however, could daunt him: to attacked the Indians inhabiting the canton, where Vein has since been built, g a i ne d an my conquest, traverses' their territory, and victoriously desc e nded into the lvautt ful plains of lbate and Bogota. Ilia valour had net ' rice abused by idle tales. Th e provi n ce of Cluxlinateses, since called Santa-E% was very rich. Powerful Pris m, called Zipas, at th e head o f a f e udal Government. the country, anti protected an industry which had Amu!! begun to develops itself ; their temples, and piss" act straw curtained no inconsiderable treasure. " Thus a few hold and enterprising men, ix fie ne se 41 , 1 - one year, effected the conquest of those countries to the name of the Viceroyalty of N ew Grenada has silo been given, but which form only one portion of it. Tbe proofs of a movement towards civilization was esrnw" observable among the Indians. The avarice of the SFr Maeda, increased by this eireunistati‘v, sought only after new conquests. Neither the badness of the roan', 1 14 want of provisions, the oppressive intensity of the beet, net the poisoned arrows of the natives, could damp their est." prising courage. Some ads rnturers, collecting a fe soldiers in the ports of the sea of the Antilles, and flu' nished with ammunition, proceeded to conquer Lingelor` " Not less brave than Pizarro, Benalcaaar, at tines but Lieutenant, became his rival in glory. Quito, paste, payan, and the valley of Cauca, acknowledged his at1: 0 ; rity. Then, passing the Qaindiu and the Nlig;ilalena.c . ' arriving in the plain of Bogota, at the moment when 1./.;" sada had completed its conquest, he became one ed t r founders of the capital of these rich possessions. " Upon hearing the recital of so many famous at the sight of the fields of battle, and the iniprgmb. places where the Spaniards fought, it is difficult to t how they obtained such rapid anti astonishing success. or' cially if credit be given to the accounts of the first hie• roans, of the considerable number of inhabitants who " le found there. But, already mistress of the CO3CU of Afro. Spain only sbantioned them for those of Ainerio, cause the population of the latter were found to be le" numerous and warlike. Besides, being assisted by the testine quarrels among the Indians, the Spanish CaeteEl; everywhere found traitors to be gamedover ; date o f Contidet during tht agent of nu %Me of th is stated to l'aeha, sum Trout lila t pose that li lake, and s the son of itoru Mace iristit. of his bite Yacha co , ' brought a, of thiq tow 'of spinnit, wachines a atul felt greatly the exp!atA in rather a by Mr. WI by a Greek in the caps subtilty to the wee distingni,h several huh our fair tea liberty wi:l wheni corn! by which t we nuderst an Armen' funning co cotton, of the wurid. the crop ii bales; and duci:ig this tatt.—.lf -------.. • g uides, . +while eon) ' '' It. en! is island hey were tincnt. T ?toyed in i once that t against int ' • • The dr he extent twectt d Mn Of t ,ange in cc, and I hat rrirlrrt •tical cowl esistance mass wit These I hey throw ew Colin tation. •110Cla. 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