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h to the Positive orders of the Gorcvnosena, ha v e lately been seised on the frontiers. These pa pers are sent to Madrid. Increased vigilance is ex trteii at all the custom-houses, to prevent the in troduction of newspapers. Many Spanish works, printed in London, have also been seized. " P.S. Since yesterday two coursers have passed through, going to Paris and London. The most extraordinary and alarming reports are circulated." -(Hague Courant, December 25.) 11A311VCRGH PAPERS. 114NoVER, DEcEmititit 18. The Agsembly of the Stateit of the Kingdom has decided in one of its first Sittings, that the tor ture shall be abolished, and it has also been pro posed that exculpatory oath in criminal eitathina lions shall be abolished, as wholly useless; the introduction of the trial by Jury has also been spoken of. stOcKHoLIS, DECEMBER it. Sweden's iron mines are inexhaustible,und accord ing to the researches ordered by the Government Last year, they increase in number and productive. nese the nearer we approach the Polar regions. But a mine has now been discovered in the government of Stockholm, on the estate of Westerlima, belong ing to the family of Rudeck, which, 'recording to the analyse made by the Board of Mines, contain. Vs per et. of iron ; proposals to work it are circu lated. The clefts of the mountains show the in creasing richness and excellence of the vein. The effects of the late Queen are now on sale by auction. TANGISRS, NOVESIZEI 12. The plague proceeds daily incressiug in its fatil career, mud will soon have attained its greatest height here and in the neighbourhood. The - her or ilenthi amounted here in these latter days, to shove 30 ; in the worst times it never amounted to above 40 ;err diem. In the city there died in Augu►t 16n. in September 467, in October 479. In some villages the whole population is ►wept away the cows and other cattle roam about with out an owner, till the Governor thinks fit to collect them for ate use of the Sultan. In the northern cities of the kingdom, Tetuan, 111equinez, and Fez, the di*nriler rages under the name of a fever, for nobody dare publicly to call it the plague. One of the Consuls, who lately sent to Fez to ()titans certain intelligence, received through his agent, • Jew, it certificate of the perfect healthiness of the ci►c, though the messenger verbally uffirnted that he had himself seen several persons brought out who bad died of the plague. The Emperor is still at Fez, hut will shortly go to the city of Morocco. This change of residence will be the signal of desolation for the southern putts of the empire. BERLIN, DECEMBER _l9. Baron Von Schilden, who was sent to Weruar with a letter from his Majesty to the Empress Dow. tiger of Russia, renewing the invitation to her Majesty to take Berlin on her return home, has brought back the ]•leasing intelligence that her Imperial Nl4jesty thinks to lee at Potsdam on the fad, rind on the '2sth at Berlin. NUREMBERG, DECEMBER 15. His Majesty the Emperor of Russia met at Mergenilitim his Royal Highness the Duke of Leuchteliburg (Prince Eugene). end had • con ference of several hours with him alone. The Emperor received this generally reTeeted Prince with true cordiality, and afforded th.reby a fresh proof of 11.1 unaltered great esteem fur distinguish ed qualities and merit. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOVEMBER i 6. The Perbiuu Ambassador Nile.' Abdul Hassan Clan, had an audience of the Sultan last week, and delivered the presents, consisting of horses, shawl% and rich stuffs. He takes i•imilar presents to the Emperor of Austria, the King of Fru*ler, and the Pi ii.ce lt,gent or England. His stay here is draw. ing to a clot , r, after which he will proceed to Vicuna, Pari*, null London. Sixty-lour iron cannon have lately been proved at Tophana, winch the Porte has purchased abroad. Its agents are commissioned to purchase more cau tion and ammunition. ♦I.TUNA, DECEMBER 20. The regiment of rulmen, and the 2tl battalion of Jutland, were conveyed over the Elbe from ilaiburg, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, nut without difficulty and danger, but happily without accident. The fir,.t has left us, and the latter, command ed b) Prince William of Hesse Cas..el, will con tinue its march to-morrow. The other troops of the contingent will probably Ike obliged to go round through the Duchy of Lauenberg, the iu crea►e of ice on the Ellie rendering the passage over more and more difficult. Priuce Frederick of Hesse, Commander-in- Chief of our contingents, issued before hr left us au order of the day to the troops, expressing his approbation of the conduct of the officers and me,' during the three years they have been under his command—his regret at parting from them, and 184 wishes tor their future welfare. lIIECILLNSURG. DECEMBER IR. In the night of the ht instant, M. Von Mews), land-owner at Nepersdorf, Was murdered in his bed in a cruel manlier. Ile was found at thiy. itreAk weltering in his 61041(1, the skull fractured, the Wain, scattered on the floor, one eye out, the brrast and arms pierced with many wound., mina mitly i dieted with knives and pitchforks. Nut. withstanding these dreadful wounds, he did not die till the third day. As there was no appearance of any robbery having been committed, it is sopposed that hatred and revenge, excited by the harsh treat• meta exercised by the deceased to his vassals, were the motives of the crime. One of the domestics has been arrested. This crime has excited the greater sensation, as it is happily almost unheard of among us in Mecklenburg, and we are very impa tient to have more particulars. Our peasants must be driven to the last extremity, if they proceed to execute vengeance themselves. It is hoped the cri minals will not escape their due punishment. May this event serve as a warning to those who think they have a right to torment the peasants in all possible ways !—(Hansbargh Papers, Dee. 22.) Exchange on London, December 22-32. 7.: 32. 11. THE BRIT' S t PRES S. LONDON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2g, MS. The Paris P,,pers of the 25Th (Friday) arrived last night. The Moxiteur contains a Royal Ordi nance for the regulation of the British Colleges founded in Prance for the education of Eng lish, Scotch, and Irish Catholics. These regulations appear to have been chiefly adopted upon a prin ciple of economy, rendered necessary by the di minution of their original funds. Oil the return of his Highness the Duke of Bot:anow from a hunting party near Chantilly, on the evening of the 2.lth, his carriage was broken to pieces close to his castle. His Highness had his collar-bone broken, but it is a simple fracture, awl does not threaten any danger. The Duchess of BERRY had been indisposed for several days, but she is now perfectly recovered, anti dined with the KING on the 24th. The Paris Papers announced that Friday, Christ. inns 134 y, having been observed as a strict holiday, there would be no Papers prepared for publication on Saturday. The five per Cent. Consols onaned on Thursday at 63y fr. and left off ut 63. Bank Action• 1,495 1. Extracts from liamburgh Papers to the 234, which arrived last night, are given in our preceding columns, lu the numerous improvements lately made in the ci►•il mid political state of Hanove►, it will excite sonic surprise that the torsitre still exists in that kingdom. The Ai.seinlsfy of the States, however, has decided upon its abolition. The Trial by Jury is also stroke►► of. The intelligence brought since one last publica tion, by the arrival of Dutch ar.d Flanders Mails, is extremely interesting. It relates to the state of Spain, and skews the very formidable extent to which the association of banditti, or deserters from the expeditionary army at Cadiz, is carried in the interior of that miserable and distracted country. Fears seem to be entertained even for the safety of the capitid, and several regiments in garrison in the provinces of Navarre, Diway, and Arragon, have received order* to march to the environs of Madrid. The troops now assembled at Cadig are represented as being in a state little short of mutiny, and that they desert in troops from their staudards, and join the banditti or guerillas, who crowd the Sierra Mo. rens, and extend their ravages around all the neigh bouring provinces. The amount of these for midable bands must daily increase, for in the preterit circumstances of the Spanish Monarchy, enfeebled and hated u the Government is, every thing contributes to enlarge their numbers, while there exists no power in the State to check or control their progress. It is reported that these bands are all favourable to liberal principles, and that several political malcontents have fled to the Sierra Morena. Should it be true that politics and the state of the country became an object of so licitude to these powerful !iambi, it is impossible not to foresee an approaching revolution. The Dutch Papers 'peak of a very &rise fog that enveloped mammy parts of the Low Countries on the 22ti. It is remarkable that it commenced about the same time, and continued during the same hours that the thick fog lasted which on the same day enveloped London and the environs of the Me. tropolis. In Ilaarlein awl Leyden sam e persons were drowned, in cousequence of the extreme dark. OVA. We have received Washington Papers to the 28th, and Baltimore to the 90th last ; the former contoining the proceedings of Congress on the and the annual Treasury Report, dated the elst. They do not fully suptain the flattering account of the state of the country given in the PRkAIDENT'S Speech. In the Rouse of Representatives, the Members are free in their remarks on the Bank. They say, " The Rink bubble" was commenced for party purposes, that persons high in the country should benefit by speculation, mild that it had only been of benefit to individual* thus situated. A Resolution was finally earried—u That a Committee h e appointed to inspect the hooks, and examine into the proceedings of the B.,uk of the United States, and to report whether the provisions of its Charlet have been violated or not ; and partic - dlarly to report whether the instalments of the capital stock of the said Bank have brew p a id in gold and silver coin, and in the funded debt of the United States ; and whether they were in any instance, and to what amount, paid by the proceeds of the notes of stock holtlers, discounted for the purpose; and also to report the names of those persons who now own, or who have owned, ■ny part of the capital stock of said Bank, and the amount of discounts, if any, to such persons respectively, and when made." The annual Treasury Repoli states, that the Revenue of 1818 was estimated at twenty-eight millions of dollars; the expenditure at twenty-six millions. The estimate of 1819 is nearly the same. The sale of Public Lands amount to a million and a half, and Mr. CRAWFORD, in the Report, men tions, that the Customs and Public Lands would, for the following year, be estimated at a higher rate, "if the most serious difficulty in making payments was not known to exi►t." He then proceeds to observe, that the difficulties under which the Coiled States at present labour is on account of the short supply of specie from South America, the large payments of the Bank, and the extensive trade carried on to the East IndieA. The latter con,ist. almost entirely in specie, taken from America, the Iliii:ed States having no article of produce or manufacture to give in exchange fur East India produce. These Papers confirm the report of the arrival of Lord COCHRANE at \la►garetta, and that he had taken the command of the Veiwznelatt squadron, vie: Admiral BRION, who had proceeded to head quarters. IVe are taught to believe by some persona pos sessed of good sources of intelligence, that so strong an apprtherisiou of the independent feeling of the new House ol• Common; prevails in the Cabinet, the Mmisters have resolved to introduce into the PatNee Rs:Gs:ivy's Speech, at the opening of the Session, a general aissaranre of economy and re trenchment, together with a direction to Parliament to ascertain h o w far an immedi.ite reduction in the public bordello *maid he possible, consistent with the service of the country a n d the faith pledged to the public creditor. We have no doubt that this task will he gladly undertaken by the Commons, to whom alone the people now look for even a partial and limited relief from the severe pressure of taxes. It will be a delightful task to consider at what point the work of alleviation should commence, to ascer tain by reference to general principles and actual experience what tax is most pernicious in its opera tion, and what therefore ought first to he repealed. The Leather Tax, the Salt Duties, the Tux on Agricultural Horses, the Tax upon air, light, and health, emiommily called the Winslow or Typhus Tax, and the Malt Duties, KW, we believe, the most pernicious brooches of nor Revenue Code, for they press most reverely, either directly or indirectly, upon those least able to hear the burden. We should, however, recommend to those IMen►hers of Parliament who may be foremost in this task of alleviating the public pressure, not to confine themselves to the repeal of a tingle tax, and ilwre by exhaust Cu one branch all that can lse spared from the exigencies of the State, but to choose out some four or live most oppressive taxes, mud by reducing. the amount of all, without totally repeal - log ally, extend more generally, and therefore more bciir ficimlly, the atiV , llitagti of the reduction. Instead, therefore, of taking away the Salt Duties, 01 the Leather 1)11.1111 , , Of ally other, we conceive it would hr more desirable to diminish the amount of all in a fair proportion. It might thus happen too, that while individuals obtained relief to a considerable a m o u n t, consumption would he so much increased, that the Revenue would be comperisord fur the nominal reduction, by an increased number of coil trihutors, and the taxes, without being rigorously oppressive, would p►erhapa eventually be little less productive. The diniiiiwion of the taxes we have noticed would operate a tisilile relief to every chute in the State, but perhaps more directly to the agricultural body than to ally other. Should taxes iw remitted in this manner to the amount of from two to three Indiums a year, of which the landed 'invests must derive a large propatiiim of ilie Iwnefit, we may in dulge a hope that tot only would the impolt:lc Petition to Parliament, which certain agticultoriots are now endeavouring to promote throughout the country, be rejected, hot that the Corn LIW4 would Lc so fur lifted as to render sixty-five or seventy shillings a quarter the average price at which the porta might be opened for the introduc tion of foreign grain. If, by such mewls, our gene nil system of internal policy were corrected, and brought back Iron) its artificial condition to u state re approaching to nature, no apprehensions nerd be entertained of evils undefined perhaps and ima ginary, but such as are actually dreaded on the return to cash payments by the Bank of England. It cannot he doulottl but that some inconvenience IA likely to iw felt on the sudden change of the cir culating medium, but too measure is so well calen laled to obviate at as that ;shout to lie adopted by the rime,: Alinisteis—of reducing the taxes of the country. The Frroch limos of the premoellt year Amount to tiveot)-two millions. 1;y the fall of the Freud foods steer those lost,. were made, !up , ' Cwittructorit will tiu.tatti a loss el four million,. O- e ) • 4 et t . - 44 t . ((4; i) 1.;,A • vr> 043.7a•;"` ' l-9 4" FASHIONABLE MOrrmENts. ARRIVALS. Lord and Illarburtun, at abtir bowie in Albemarle. garret, Isom Wustitinz. The Earl and Countess of March, at Malcolm, Sua>ez, If Station!Aire. Maj.), Andreas, at tune* Flulrt , Buud•street, foam awl- The Marquis of Salisbury, ■t Hatfield, from Aldburougb, Suffolk. Captains Martin soul Forbrs, at the St. Prter►burgb Hold, from a tour on 11w Cow ot. Sir John and Ladv llutray, at their house in Wimp's's street, from Southold. DEPARTURES. Lord •ud Lady De la Zoucbe, from Stratford-plare, for Parham Park, Prtworth, susses. Ms. stud Mrs. Forbe► stud family, from the St. Petenburgh Hotel, fur their scat iu Deru•shire. BRIGHTIM, DECEMBER 28. PAVILION INTELLIGENCE. On Christmas Div am) yesterday Divine Ser vice in the presence of the PK; si t REGENT, suite, and household, a lierforszatd at the Palace, by the Bishop of EXF:TER. Nod the ltev. F. W. BLOMBERG. corim-tieing each day at two o'clock. On t h e former day, and since, the dinner party at the Palace has consisted of the suite of Royalty, without any timitatits whatever. His Royal High nt.'s's health is remarkably good, and Ins spirits are much improved within the few last days. His Royal Diglisie , s generally takes exercise on horse back before dinner, in the Riding-school. The Commanderde-Chief, the Duke of Yottit, the Duke of WELLINuToN. Lord CASTLEREAGH, and other illustrious and distinguislwd personages, it is said, will shortly add to the dignity and worth of our population. 'flee last splendid arrival list includes Lord NOR. HANBY. bird SAT-AND-SELF. Lady F. limas loan, Sir W. CONTNGHAM, HOG. Mr.. SLOANE, Mr. SINGLETON. &C. Mr. Wens, the liish Melodist, has been de servedly applsuded at the theatre several evening.. CURIOUS ANECDO7F.—Some years since, the late Lord GAGE met COURTOIS, the wealthy hair dresser, recently deceased, at the Court-room of the East India House, on an election business. " Ali, Con* rot.," said his Lordship, " what hrinv you here ?"—.." To give my votes, my Lord," was the answer.—" What ! are you a Pro prietor?"—" Most certainly."—" And more votes than one ?"—" Yrs, my Lord, I have row'!" 46 Aye, indeed! Why, then, before you take She book, pray he kind enough to pin up sosy curls !" with which modest request the Proprietor of /bur votes, equal to ten thousand pounds, immediately complied ! From the large prices which have been given for e d i t ions of 4,1,1 b o oks, it is said there is a person now engaged in printing these cnriosities for the war. Were of accommodating literary antiquarians. Tile person I has engaged is said to be remarkably happy in imitating the bad printing, and the mistakes of the early editions, in which the amateurs delight so much. 'rite trade of old pictures is now likely to have a forundside rival. Though the site of that once elegant promenade has hero built ors, RANELAGH has lately afforded the public conui!erahie amusement ! M►. HaoutaitAts. it 1' amid, is preparing to move a Bill Ili the eu•ving Parliament, on the subject of the siiiiii.irau, *buses that have been practised on die subject of the Public Charity Schools.— 'llw Loather Family moot look with some trepi dation to the recount of St. Bees ! certainly never took a more un wise psit than in etidesvostiiug to render null and void the iiirptiiy into the abuses of charitable do natio;:s, becense it was it fair nod hottest iiminty iota inatters that hail no •ern with politico. What 11`3., the public rotertain whets it comes nut twirl the Committee, that the Amp of I.tNt:ot.st presents a person to a living of 6110/. a year, on giving up a wardenship, said to produce .11. which lie gives to Ills SON the ,produce of wit fell is Hoar excestive, from the abuse of its ori4iitsl intention ? The public i s unquestionably indebted to NI:. llttoucHANl for the intelligence he has furnished uu tines subjects. A Geo!!canto who was inquiring what was the real nieitimig of erangelical. was told by h tsf""" l " t hat It was a inure Ist.htiiiiltle tires• for those who did tint think a tub and a lank head ,!1* hair became thew." 1, 8 0 wvek a competition for premiums, given by Lark' tiessmoaE, thy non. Miss ALLEN, nod Ails. itEDITII. of 11011e14-strut, 1)411)1141, took place in Ilie lit-v. RICHARD WuII.SELEY . 9 blooming school, Graf I:in-court. The Milaitry Carriage of BoNAPARTF having returned to the Landoll Mo.eit l'iecAthliy. the Juvenile World see reminded. flint during the present Chi:shim , nololap.. Tickets of Admission 1,. either of the nis) lie obtained by uttrclissinz Books to the ~,,, iit of ten sbilliogs l at II ti JU ENI LE ! I. lIRAICI'. n brie will be found nil •he Nrw a la. I •••t ut utitrr Concentra of &mks in eve' y vain ty of binding. PA KACKI.6I;9.—We the other day observed, cursorily turning over some pages of his Nopreme 411/gateries qf Nature, a scarce Mile kink, gives to the skin of a King-fi.her a luviiig I,nncut,le we never before heard of, anil coot:ennu i : by the bye, we must own, we ore sworn hat tweptiod ; but its truth or fallacy may he easily proved. lie rats in Ills introduction to other matte's, that— " Some creatures do retain the .lime virtue lifter they are (lend, as 1 prove by the lord caned Kin g . wlmbe skull Leung taken off front 1111(i being dried sod hanged ulion a nail, null cast fratheis, many year,, and rate ones will grow again—Had that not only fur one or toy year*, but many year., one after another." BAT!! MUSICALS. [FATILACT OP • LETTER.] The concerts here commenced, as Christmas.eret with u Chiral Select n , un l r ti e direction of Alr. Asnr. Pei-Imps there is no plac e " ou this side the Alps" where judgment and in the divine science of harmony, is more iii!•e ; cot wet, and discrintinating, than among the reiailmite and customary visitors of BLADUWE royal city ; and it is not a mere asornild.i:, of scrapers. of toga! imil screamers of ballads which. can allure fi tt :•:a: that, from their rank in society. and that} course of elegant education. could not be ainsibei' with less than superior talents. The selection was from HANDEL and HAY DE the first act front The Messiah end Ike Creation. Mrs. DICKONS opened The Illesiiak with such mi. pressive piety, aid in tones solemn, vet melodious. that every ear seemed to catch the inspiration. and became" rapt in Elcsium." tier unequallee skill and execution have bet'u long acknowledged ; and her late trip to the Continent has taught tier how to chasten a voice naturally power fol. and of great compass, into the most fascinating ~v , e ntess. —The recitative of 6' There were Shepherds." and 4 , 1 know that my liedeemer lieeth," wrrr given in the same tiiiislied style of melodious devotion. If ethereal spirits ate capable of par ticipating in earthly enjoyments, nue could sup pose the disembodied HANDEL hovering over euchantment of the evening. If his music could " raise a mortal to the skies," hers " could bi Mg, au urgel down." Why do the nations" was beautifully stin t ; by Mr. LEon! LEE, a young gentleman of great pro_ mite, sod likely to become nue of the tir.t or ri melds in his profession. Mrs. Asne displayed a chaste and elegant fancy in " He was despii'd," much surpassing the usual style of ormusic The second act, which was chiefly from The Creation, afforded these performers flew opportn.. nity fur new beanties ; hut the great magnet of the evening was, " frith verdure clad," by Mr.. DrcKoNs, at the close of winch there was a l ong suspensive silence, as if delight gasped, and was overcome with rupture ; it was a pause of astonish ment, which rendered the thunder of applause that followed alinott with-serving of notice. If Mr. AsHE ((infinite, to give such onicerts, Bulb will stand Balk, Dece in het 26. I 8 Mr. HISTORY OF MUSIC. Mr. joiws, in his iiigury of the Rise and Pm ip Mosie, after statisig, that in cal ly when Princes and great men *rot from home, ti:e.„ always considered the honour of their wires seeti r , when under the protection of a Bard, and brie /Egystlitir could not triumph over the v.ritie of Clytemnestra till lie had removed the bard who was the guardian of her morals, abserves—'. ft is, however, remarkable, that in the space of 29 tears, the favourite bards or musicians of three Qiieetis belonging to this Wand, fell sacrifices for departing, from the ancient character:—Mark Stneaton, Mii aiciati and Groom of the Chamber to Anne Boleyn, was accused of being too great a favourite of the Queen, for which he was executed, May 12, 1536 ; Thomas Abel, Nlusical Preceptor and Grammarian to Queen Catherine, wife to Henry VIII. was hang ed and quartered, July 30, 1540, for having writ ten a treatise against the divorce ; and David Rizzi°, Secretary to Mary, Queen of Scotts, on suspicion of an improper correspondence with her, war murdered in her presence, March 9, 1565." A sepulchral monument to the memory of HAN. 11113.%1. has been discovered at Melte. The En! of LAUDERDALE arrived on Friday evening at Warren'• New Hotel. New-street, front the Continent. Sunday his Lordship left town for Ottlands, on a vic:t to the Duke and Duchess of YoaK, for a few days. Thr Countess of Lau- DEng/ALE and the Ladies MAITLAND, intend re maining in Paris till the spring, when they are ex pected borne. The Captain of the Spanith Patriot, recently ar rived in town from Cad , z, contradicts the ►eport that the Spanish Expedition for South America will never tail. fie soya it will sail in May next !! ! There is comfort for the advocates of despotism. Lord HOLLAND has given s signal proof of the stable friendship that existed between hun and the Late Sir SAMUEL ROMILLT. His Lordship has taken the three youngest son. of his deceased friend under his protection, whom his Lordship Intends educating and bringing tip with the sswe care and affection as if they were his own. The Doke of BuccLeuott intends leaving Ditton Park, on Monday next, for the Continent. We are sorry to state, that his Grace's bad state of health is the sole re4soie of his leaving his native country, his illness unfortunately continuing to increase since the death of the Duchess. His Grace will not make any stay at Paris, but will immediately proceed to Totslou-e. The younger branches of his Grace's family will reside during his absence, with Lard sod Lady 51ONTAGUE, at Ditton Park. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—Ois Ch►istmas etc. tl e *lie of M►. S•UNDERS, shoe-maker, No. I, Bull's Head -court, Snow-hill, was delivered of twins; she is in the 59th year of her age, and had 110 children for 35 years before. Many complaints are received from Norway 4:art. c.•rnuig the deswations committed by the prtie ea ter/Whir. in the forests of that kingdom. In hi• dr mat k Mere :ire large tracts of forests entirely ki11.4.. In the south of Sweden, where tins insect found, the damage done by it has never Inch so considerable as to excite attention. COEUSIN G.—The greyhound (vetch, betwixt tie Gentlemen of the Mid Lothian and those of tie Lanurkshire and Itenfieweliire Coursing Club, %tie; run on Sir JOtIN MAXWELL'S grounds, at NBA. Tue•dxy the 16tli instant, and decided in favour of the !otter. lo • lately published by the Rev. P. , - hetalary DENNIS, of Exeter, it is stated, dee, " a• Tate as the t•utouter of last year, the PRINCE ilLosst avowed to the Clerk of the Closet, and authorized him to mike known, determittattoo to rtfose Royal A•setit, even should both Houties of l'Atli , 4- tiselit !POP a Bill in favour of the Roman CathoLc slalom," ii•ocs.)