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, `l' '771 PARIS PAPERS. "it c • HAMDVRGH MAIL. novenae of every pistol sit, and obliged to become sold ion, or servants; iv thieves, for a subsistence. I' In America, the rapid increase of inhabitants takes awry that fear of rivalship, and artisans wil lingly receive apprentices from the hone of profit by their labour during the remainder of the time stipu lated, after they shall be instratted. Hence it is easy fie peer families to get their children instructed; for the animas are so desirous of apprentices, that many of them will evenitive money to the parents to hove boys from tee to efteen years of age binurd apprentices to them till the age of twentymoe ; and asay poor parent* hive, hr that wrens, on their arrival in she conntry. raiser miiiiry edough to buy land sufficient to evtablish and to sub sist the rest al their Goody by agliciltore. • .• a • " The almost jeutral usedioerit3r-ef fortune that peeve& in America, obliging its peeple to follow some bovines. for sebelitence, them vices that arise usually from idles's, err, in a great measure, pre vented. Industry awd constant employment are great preservatives of the morals mad virtue of a na tion. Hence had examples to youth are more rare in America, which most be a comfortable conside ration to parents. To this May be added, that serious religion, under its various denominstione. is not only tolerated, but respected and practised. Atheism is unknown there, infidelity rare and se cret, insomuch that persons may live to a great age iu that country without Itaillig their piety shucked by meeting with either an atheist or an infidel. And the Divine Being seems to have manifested his .approlmtion of the mutual forbearance and kindness with which the different sects treat each other, by the remarkable prosperity with which he has been pleased to favour the whole country." FOREIGN INTELLIGh ACE. PARIS. OCTOBER 25. The restore►ion tinder ineentori of the artillery of Valenciennes, and of every thing that had been left in depot to the Allies,.itras effected on the 18th by two Engli•b officers appointed by his Grace the Date of Wellington,' in the hands of MM. Morin and C■prite, officers of art►llery, charged with this duly by the Minister of War. The retaking possession of the fortrespes of Valeticienue9. Combroy, Lantlrocies, Le Questioy, Maabeuge. tootl Cootie, will be performed with the realest solemnity; different regiment* of the Royal 'Moira, and several legions orgrmised in Picardy and Champsgile, are already appointed to form part of these garrisons. The national guards of the oc cupied towns will be newly organized, and will do duty with the trim's' of the line until the army shall be comple►ed according to the royal ordinance*. It is impossible to express the joy and satii.faction that prevail in all that part of *ranee. The King is blessed there, for there is no our who is nut per suaded that to his virtues alone we oar our deliver. mice. An article dated Valenciennes, October 21, says— " The Russian corps, commanded by Lieutenant lieneral Count ‘Voronzow, is controlled in our envi rons; and the Danish troops under the Canon of 'Linehan]; the Hanoverian and Saxon contingents are concentrated. The English are at Aspire and its environs. AII these troops form a total of near 33,000 men of all arms, whose condition is superb. Among these troops of all nations, is re marked a beautiful regiment of cossacks, which is di•tinguislisd by its excellent discipline. " Alter the grand review of departure, and the mainativres which will follow it, the Allied troops forming the right wing of the Army of Occupation, will put itself in motion to return homewards. All the baggage of the English army will be embarked on the Scheldt, on board vessels there assembled, which will transport it to Antwerp. I' The resuming possession of all the fortresses occupied by the Allied troops will take plaice sue cruively, so that it shall be terionated by the 15111 of November. The King lies already named the emends and superior Officers who are to occupy them 81111 have the command of them. It is thought that Valenciennes will be one of the la,' evacuated." The Deportment of the Moselle—For the fourth nomination there was a ballot between M. d e Thor met, Mayor of Metz, and Lieutenant-General Gre. Dien General Grenier has been appointed. Upper Saowe—MM. de Grammont and Martin de Gray, former deputies, hare beau re-elected. These deputations are complete. LETTER !ROM MUNICH, OCTOSEE 13. We live here in perfect tranquillity, sod know no thing of the supposed warlike preparations which seem to disturb our neighbours, and are even said to have given occasion to active conoter measures.— Our troops remain quiet in their garrisons, and we hope that tl►e misunderstandings which have arisen will be peaceably and amicably arranged. Prince Charles, who was sent to Frankfort to meet the Emperor or Russia, has brought back the agreeable intelligence. that his Majesty, after the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle is over, will pay a visit to our Court. CONSTANTINOPLE. SEPTEMBER 9. A few days ago, while the Sultan was following his favourite amusement of archery, news was sud denly brought of a fire having broken out near his summer residence, Beshictirsh: he immediately mounted a horse and hastened to the spot, but the violent biotin prevented speedy 41:3191111/Ces stud in THE BRITI SH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, °mule 29. Isle. THE QUEEN. Both the Doctors were in attendance upon her MAJESTY at Kew Palace o►► Tuesday night, and we have the pleasure to say, were enabled to issue the following favourable Bulletin alter their visit early yesterday morning : " Kew Palace, October 28, 18118. " The Qoeen is more comfortable this morning, in tense. quence of several hours sleep in the night; but the romp. toms of her Majesty's malady are not changed. " F. MILMAN, " H. HALFORD.° A more detailed and particular account was sent to the PRINCE REGENT, the Duke of Yogic, &c. in London. Ifer MAJESTY continued in the same comfortable state during the day, so as to render it unnecessary to send any other communication to the Royal Family. Yesterday the Patrice REGENT went to dine with the Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess AUGUSTA, at Kew Palace, and continued his at tendance there till a late hour. The Paltocsins walked iu Kew Gardens, as usual. The proposed Reduction in the Army is before our readers, and is probably such as had been ge. *lenity anticipated. Retrenchment in every mode of expense, and particularly in our military esta blishment. is too congenial to our wishes not to meet with our approbation ; but we trust we shall nut be deemed unnecemearily captious in offering a few reminks upon the time and manner in which the reduction now proposed is to be carried into effect. The country is not only entitled to every re trenchment consistent with propriety, but it has a right to expect that every such measure will be ac complished in such a manner that the good may be obtained without incurring the probable chance of evil. The sudden disbanding of 31,000 men, none of whom are likely to be distinguished by much industry or prudence, must be attended with some inconvenience. This would be best obviated by causing the measure to take place in those particu lar seasons when the agriculture of the country would give immediate employment to many of them, and thus afford time for their gradual union with the mass of society. The approach of winter offers but a dreary prospect to the greater part of them; we, therefore, cannot avoid thinking that the time for carrying the reduction into effect is but ill chosen, end that less inconvenience would be felt by Abe individuals themselves, MAI Ly the nation generally, were the reductiou postponed for threetuoistlis. We object also to the plan of reduction. and think that entire regiments. amounting to 1 , 2,600 men, ought to have been reduced, rather than have all the remaining regiments (exclusive of those serving in India) diminished by fifteen men to a company, or lin to a regiment. This mode of reduction debilitates the entire military system, by destroying the efficiency of every psrticular ment. Should a sudden emergency arise. re quiring the immediate expedition of an army, it will be found, after a few years of the peace eats. blislinient, very difficult to select corps in a per fectly efficient state. The muster-roll will he bur dened with old and sick, mid men unfit for any other service than a parade; and military men are well aware, that such persons bear, on home ser vice, a large proportion to the nominal strength of the regiment. Nor is it in this country a very easy matter to fill up the ranks of an army no a sudden. Recruiting corps must he forivhd, depots established, recruits trained, and, on the average, six months will have flewd before efficient Pol. die,, can be thus created. It is no argument against those plain facts to urge the advantage of vupporting the staffs and skeletons of regiments. Staffs and skeletons can be formed much more easily than soldiers, and it is absolutely absurd to keep up the sheer of regiments that are not tit for 'foreign o r elviei at • week's notice. We have only spoken of the infantry, but the same reasoning ap plies with much givater force to the cavalry, as it requires much more labour to form it. Nearly 3,000 dragoons are reduced, at the rate of ten men a troop. It were preferable, as it spars to us, that tour regiments were reduced, than that the efficiency of existing regiments should, by this species of reduction, he endangered. We have received the Pdris Papers of Sunday last. with the exception of the Gazelle de France. We hope that this Journal may not have commit ted one of those " ►ins of presumption" which occasionally attract the notice of the Minister of Police. The present, moment is critical, mid the sentiments of the several Journals in France will no dunk be scrupulously rxuuioed. The evacuation of the several cautionary fortresses will he so nit !atmd that this measure shall be completed before the 13th of November. The Five per Cents. continue to look downwards. They are now 75 1.--. Bank Stock is 1,63 ii i. We have received Beaton Papers to the 49th ult. one day later than opr last, but they contain no news. Hamburgh Papers have arrived. They contain a statement, derived, it is said, from an authentic source, of the objects intended to be pursued by the French exiles who recently established them selves on the Trinity River, in the province of Tens. They were in the course of this year. un der General LALLESIAND, to unite with a party of Mexicans, who will, with their assistance, endea vour to overthrow the Spanish authority in that province. The French party is said to amount in cavalry. artillery, and infantry, to 4,000 men.— They are well officered, and, with the powerful in centives of avarice and ambition, added to their well-tried valour and experience, will probably de cide ►he fate of Mexico. This statement of their purposes coincides with the speculations con t a i ne d in an American Paper, which we noticed some days since. The enemies of Spain are increasing, and about to increase rapidly in South America. while the blind and besotted Government can achieve tin en terprise to retard the final extinction ails power in the New World. We have greedy hinted at the success with which the cause of South American independence has been advocated in this country•. 11 is uo longer a secret, that not less than 1,500 gallant young men have volunteered in Great Bri tain and Ireland to join the Independent standard, under the guidance of an Officer who has distin guished himself very highly in South America. They will sail iu a few days from the Thames, but their destination is not known with certainty. New Grenada is mentioned, but we have been assured that the leader of this expedition has as yet formed no determination upon this point, but is resolved to be influenced in a great degree by the circum stances of the war. Some vessel'', it is said, have proceeded to Greenock and the north of Ireland, for the purpose of taking out more volunteers. Yesterday Baron HUMBOLDT. the Prnsaisn Am hassador, had a long audience of the Paimca RIPEN? at Carlton-House. The Duke of YORK visited the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. Yesterday • Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain C. 0. MAUL was sworn into the command of the Ship Atlas, consigned to Bengal and Chins. Oar letter from Dover, dated October 27 (Tues day), says:—'s We have daily many arrivals of transports and hired vessels from Calais, with regi mental baggage, detachments of troops, horses, and many military O ffi cers. Lieutenant-General Lord Elm., with his personal Staff, horses and carriages, arrived lost night, and a division of cavalry are ex peeled to-moriow at Calais." - _s., • the space of five hours SO houses were .reiluced to ashes. The Palace. however, was not injured. LlT'Calt PROM DRUSSELS, OCT. 16. One of the causes of the suppres►ion of the Jour nal of East and West Flandrr►, which appeared lat terly under the name of the Belgic Lion, was the groundless accusation made in it against the offi cers of a neighbouring garrison. that they had cele brated the 15th August in honour of Napoleon. ST. PETERSBURG'. OCT. 3. The great works which have here commenced for the improvement of this city are carrying on with great activity. The broad pavement for the con venience of foot passengers, made of granite, are a particular ornament. The great bridge of cast iron over the Moika is nearly completed ; 30,000 pood of iron, at 40 lb. per pood, have been employed iu it. The•expense will amount to 400,000 roubles. Count Boruansow, the Chancellor of the Em pire, has this year made a present of 1,000 roubles to the Botanic Garden of Sitnpheropool, in the Crimea. The director of the garden has destined this tutu to the purchase of fig and olive trees in the Genoese territory, to plant them in the Botanic Garden. The weather is still cold. and we ain't an early winter. BRIMEN. OCTOBER 22. We•have received from au authentic source the following remarkable account of the true plan of the new French colon,. : " SAY Of GALVIESTOW. JIINS 18. "The Junta of the Mexican Insurgents, who have been long dissatisfied with Itlina, who enrages the inhabitants by the ravages which he commits, have concluded ao agreement with Geaeral Charles Lullceland, according so which we are to juin them season u the great heat is over. We areabout 4,006 strung, infantry, artillery, and cavalry. The cavalry is emoMmuiled by Culla Rigaucl, and the artillery by the brusher of the Commandrr.in.Chief, who was distinguished as General of Artillery tinder Napoleon, and will arrive here to.morrow, with artillery horses from New Orleans. The soldiers erre 'slimmed with splendid hoptit.-and think to pay on occasion a visit to the mines of l'otosi."--( lisusbursh Papers, Ott . 23.) HAMBURG'''. OCTOBER 23. We have certain intelligence that the Swedish Government has repeated its orders to the Govern• meat of St. Barthelemy, not to allow any 'privateer of unrecognized Governments to sell its prizes in that island. It is even said that the above Go vernor has received a severe reprimand on the sub ject, and orders to justify his conduct.—(Bout burgh Corresponded, Oet. U.) 6e c,14N..'1 4 „iN t , . v•-•:.'l.'y, -Z-!..k. / Az 'I7Y C.:_.',.._ ---2_,.--(-- of - ~.....-:-. „ ••.. - i ... 5........... . - ..,... _ - .4 POETRY. TO SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, On his Mission to Congress with his Painting-Room. Cannot you room for Sir Thomas make, You folks at Aix.la.Chopelle ? Why then tois own Room will Sir Thomas take, Which will du every whit as well. What a change ! once Ant from Italy, Our artiste were souk in gloom ; But now, if abroad or at home they be, They may 8 . 101 thanAelves iu Rome And in polities pettier stills the change ; Since Sir Thomas. in his skill ; Of Monarchs and Ministers the whole range May place and turn at his will. No Emperor will look on one side, If he bid him look on euther ; No King will stir whom he agks to hide, Till he net him in peace by anutlier. Diplomatists, intriguing and sly, Beneath his magic command, Most consent on one thing to fix their eye, And to one thing put their hand. All sweetly, composed, the mighty here Will pryer quarrel a bit; Nor standirg armies need we to filar, When every General moat sit. Henceforth, then, parchment bonds be vain— (They never yet ,ere true) That treatira more Natio: may remain, Let's try what canvass can do. Then prosper thee, Sir Thorns., I pray, lii thy doings at Aix-la-Chapelle : Oh! make Europe's Arbiter.: look all one way—. And every way look well. ILL:FATF.I3 PASSION. Prowl of her charms, some high and courtly dame Spurns, with insulting worn, bur lover's flame; But when she sees the last sail honours paid, Too late laments the havoc she ban made With her warm tears bedews his earthy bed, And whom she hated living—loves when dead? So my fond Muse, who late in rapture gag'il Where anger thundri'd, and where fury bleed, Bade her fierce !milts in fiery vengeance fly, Death ill her step, and lightning in her eye! Forth like the torrent of the mountain broke, And with rude tongue, as passiun prompted, spoke; Soon as she saw thee writhe beneath her &i t, And heard the painful thruhhings of thy heart, Wept o'er thy fall-..impatient ran to save— And felt herself the very wound she gave! E'en Mars, stern power, as nutrient putts tell, Would, 'midst the din of arm., the battleawell— Sheath his bright blade, and cheek his blood-staked car, With tears of pity quench the flames of war— To Paphos bowers, on wings of whirlwinds fly, If Yews, wept—if Venus tweed the sigh! Shall I relentless then refuse to spare Thee, thou Love's Queen, ten thousand times more fair? When *cif(' in woe my Stella's form I see Stern and unshaken—kt sae cease to lie. Let then ►hy bosom far entreaties more, Whine only crime was that of too much love Will one so fair indulge in cruelty No!—Stella—no—it must not—cannot he! Accept the tribute by repentance paid—. Let Friendship heal the wound that Friendship made ; Blessing and blest—for ever breathe and live, Nu more to weep and suffer, but--forgive. HENRY. The Emrl of LtvEnPuot. arrived yesterday at Fife House, from Waliner Castle. Lord ELLENBOROUGII, we are sorry to learn, was not so well yesterday as be had been for several preceding days. The Cuoidevs of LIVERPOOL, we are concerned to state, is indisposed at ‘Valiner Castle. Earl BATimaire arrived on Tuesday at his house in Manstield.street, from a visit to the Earl and Counte►s of LarearooL, at their seat, IV:diner Castle. The lion. JOHN COVENTRY left the Prince of Si xe-Cuburg Hotel yesterday, fur his seat, Bi shops Gate, Surrey. Mr. WEST, the venerable President of the Royal Academy, is envirged in completing some siniinished pictures in the QUEEN'S Library, at the Palace in St. James's Park. On Monday se'finight a dinner was given by the Chamber of Bath to the Most Noble the Marquis CAMDEN, as Recorder of the City ; at which the Marquisses of BATH and THoMOND, the Represen tative* for the City. Sir EDW. KNATCHBI3.I., Bart. Sir BoDERT Bayne, Bart. the Members of the Corporation, the Clergy, &c. were present.—The entertainment was considerably enlivened by the talents of eminent professional vocalists of that city. The Members of the Profile flormonic Society dined together at the George bin. Fromeom Tues day se' gilt. GEO. SHErTA RD, EN. tool: the Chair, and Major OLivig officiated as Vice-Presi dent. Sixteen stew Members were elected, includ ing the Earl of CORK, Lord DuNGARVoN, A. Dutn.ow, Esq. of He 3 "rood. and 1). Jox LONG, Esq. of Farleigh. The new street is making rapid strides to its completion, almost the whole of the ground on the intruded line of it beiug now let. The part of it which forms a square. in front of Carlton-house, is called " Waterloo-place;" from thence to Picca dilly, is called " Waterloo-street ;" and from Pic cadilly the *tree, which will form a grand approach to the Regent's Park, is to be called " The Re geut's-pturd e." GRIND DIVING P,IIITY. Lady HARDY'S late descent in the at Plymouth, appears to have inspirit(' other Ladies 'in high life with i similar curiosity. There is now a large party on a viii;t to the Honout able the Bishop of W ATRRFORD, at his Palace in ilia city, includ ing the Right flonourahle the Earl and (Awnless of MAYO, Miss MARY FITZCLAREIICE, the Lord Bishop of Osimittr. the Honourable the Dean of OssoßY, and others. 'flit Dublin Papers state, that " un Saturday the party visited Dunmore. when Miss Furzer.Ans.x cc and Miss lowi.eit went down iii the ttivto:4-!Jell, and remained under one hundred and twenty feet wan r for the space of twenty-Ave minutes, accompanied liy two young Gentlemen, and when below, they snug God save the King, in the most elegant style." The party that descended in the bell is not here accurately de scribed. From a private letter from a Gentleman. who was on the spot, we learn, that it co, ►fisted of the Hon. the Dean of Ossoay, with his niece, Miss BOURKE, Miss M AltY Fit ZCLAIIENCE. Mr. BOURKE, Mr. Fowl.Ea,and the person who had the charge of the bell. IVhether the party, when below, sang God twee the King, or whether their audience. the fishes, we presume, applauded, and reported that it was exe cuted in an elegant style, our Correspondent does not state; hut it is certain that Nils' FITZCI.ARENCE wrote a note front below to the Bishop of Ossuar, who witiseswd the descent from the neighbouring Pier, and remained there during the immersion. anxiously awaiting the return of the diving-hell to the surface. 'lbis experiment shews, that female fortitude and female delicacy are perfectly consis tent. How far the presence of the Clergy may have encouraged these adventurous young Ladies, we cannot say, but it seems they were resolved to Isere the benefit of Clergy. MARGATE, OCT. 25. The typhus fever has lately been raging here to an alarming extent. From delicacy to the peculiar situation of the inhabitants, I have been induced to forego naming it; but in the vicinity of the church (winch it the hottest part of the town), not less than seven out of ten houses, and within u stone's throw, all have been subject to its distressing effects. The sharp cold winds of Thursday, Friday, and yester day, it is hoped, will continue; the approach of winter, and proper diet, may remove the dreadful evil. To Mr. Waddington, the surgeon, great praise is due, for his constant and skilful exertions. A cotnpany of Gentlemen talk of erec:in7. Crescent on the New-road. to be corned after the Regent; it is to face the Great Nut thern Sea ; au Y some steps have already been taken, such as ntea•ttr. Mg the ground, &c. Some such improvement wanted, for we are lamentably deficient in good houses. The herring fishery has almost totally failed hi therto. The fishermen ascribe this to the want of windy weather. " A boisterous sea," say they. " always produces a wind-fall of one kind or at - other." The creditors of Drury-lane Theatre were h.. vited to meet yesterday, to receive a propositwo from their Committee, for the payment of iii it debts. It has been proposed by the Sub-Coo , mittee of Management to pay los. in the pound, and the Committee of the creditors was appionte,l to take this proposition into consideration. The latter, however, have not been able to come to an unanimous decision on the subject, a mil ority con. tendio.g that the Theatre should be held liable to pay the remaining ►en shillinga when its finance+ should enable it to do so. Mist' BOOTH'S benefit, on Thursday evening, was a bumper. Her performance of Letitia /lardy was chaste and judicious. She touched off the inno cence, the cunning, the artifice and melancholv of the part, to the life; and in the masquerade scene. moved with such a charming elasticity, as " though she disdained the earth on which she trod." She gave the celebrated song of " Where are you going. my pretty Maid," in excellent style. On the lull of the curtain she was greeted with three rounds of applause. A ludicrous circumstance took place a little before the termination of the evening's enter tainments: the gas-lights went suddenly out, and instantly " darkness was visible" throughout the house. This was owing to the valve, which con veys the gas to the theatre, being put down by the people at the works, under a supposition that the performances had beets concluded. Candles were immediately placed in different parts of the house. and the afterpiece wu then finished.—(CAate► Paper. / Madame ELIZA GAR/SERIN still remains con fined to her bed. at Aix-Is-Chapelle, in consequence of the contusions she received in her late attempts to ascend in her balloon. She has experienced an accession of fever, notwithstangling all the asaisiance which bus beets rendered her by the Physician of the King of Pausal*. The Physician attended by order of Ills Maailsxtr. One of the thing• which affect Mademoiselle GARIERIN most is, that site has as yet heard nothing of her balloon. " Good Masters wake good Serneets."—This it; very old, and, we think, a very true saying. A striking instance is to be found in the following facts, which we record with the highest satisfaction: M . . CAD3t•N and DA&NTON, of Leeds, te bacco-manufacturers, had very recently its thew employ eight servants, who had faithfully fulfilled their respective trusts for an united peliod of 44/1 years. CVRIOUS DECISION.-A person lately appeared before the Magistrates at Ilrninster, Somersetshire. to answer u charge for bastardy. Au older had been made twenty-See years ago, and the bastard man, not bring able to earn a livelihood, applied to the !wish. The putative father contended, that the child, having long since passed the age er emancipation, he was not bound to pity; but the officers stating that no time is limited by.l.w lii the maintenance of bastards by their parent'. ' t was so decided by the Alagistrates. Tuns it posmble for is man eighty years of age to he s un ' : molted for the maintenance of his 111tAkitintateeu spring, born silty years ego. ml Pre • 4i , . ior Mito • ti MIC . 1 ' tin