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The BRITISH Passe comalence!lpu!)lishing yest.rday morning at five o'efock. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN U A IllY 22, 1624. Monday's Paris Papers reached our office last night: they continue to give, even under their existing control, a most melancholy account of distracted Spain ; that wretched country, throughout her provinces, is now a prey to the most dreadful anarchy. Plunder and assassinations were everywhere prevalent, and still cpearasing. San guinary contests between the two pods % 6e Fanatics and followers of the Casetitution, wore daily taking place. At St. Jago, a deadly fray of this domed/aim had just occurred ; one individual was killed on the spot, and several wounded. The ripens were everywhere crowded with victims, and neither amnesty or orders of any sort had been issued for their release: Letters from Corunna, dated the Ist of January, state the arrival of the royalist Contreras, the new Captain-General of Galicia, in that town. The prosecutions against the Constitutionalists were inveterately continued there. Several hail been ar rested recently, and confined as secret, charged with being concerned in the soyade of sixty-one Royalists, while Vigo was Governor. Madrid, at the last 'menu, was a gloomy scene of distrait and terror ; not a night passed without new murders. The crowd of churchmen, archbishops and bishops, collected in that capital, had been peremptorily ordered to their dioceses; and were gradually quitting for that purpose. They were looked upon as the most determined opponents of any liberal measures, and their departure was hailed, in consequence, as the herald of the amnesty so long expected, and of other conciliatory measures, calculated to restore something like tranquillity to Spain. A plan is stated to have been discovered, framed by these Prelates, and the General of the Cordeliers, Al meida, who was at its head, to overturn Irujo's Ministry, and effect en important change in the Go vernruent, by calling Ferdinand's brother, Don Carlos, to the Throne. The statement rests, however, on no good authority. ..and is, probably, only one of ' the many rumours of the Spanish capital or Bayoane. Talent, the French Ambassador, is said to have receive important despatches by a courier extraordinary from his Court, and to have immediately addressed to the Madrid Cabinet a pressing note, urging the promulgation of the amnesty, and the immediate execution of the other measures promised several months since. It was subsequent to this note the order was given to the Spanish prelates and priests to quit Madrid. Barra, Colonel of a Royalist regiment, bad also been ordered to leave that capital with his sol diers, having declared that he would not answer for the fidelity of his followers if the amnesty was promulgated. The Madrid populace was daily becoming snore hostile to the French garrison, and several of the latter had been assassinated in the streets. Fresh troops were ordered up in support, rand the Spanish soldiers were all sent away. The Memorial Bordelais states the arrival of the traitor Morillo at Rochefort ; after remaining there some days, he hail gone to Tours. Merited disgrace and reprobation have followed on this arch-renegade. France is intriguing busily among the Greeks: we mentioned before that her ?gents were in the Mores, and through the Islands. The arrival of French Commissioners, of the Order of Malta, at firdra, to treat for the cession of an island in the Archipe- Isgo, is said to have created an alarming sensation at Constantinople. It is affirmed that peace between the Porte and Persia is not secure. Russia, in all probability, has been busy with the latter power, and is working her own ultimate designs in this way. Letters from Aleppo had announced a movement of the Persian army ; nor was the treaty of peace of some months standing yet ratifi al at, Ispahan. The Turkish garrison of Corinth had been landed at Stryrna, and 11,000 piastres paid for its trans portation, to the Hydriotes. The Greek squadron, which, under Maurocordato, had assisted to raise the siege of MissOlonglii, had gone to cruise before Patras. The 'Turkish Commandant of this fortress, as soon as he learned the fate of things at the former place, sent off several Mussulmea of rank on their way to Prevesa ; but the vessel on board which they were fell into the hands of the vigilant Greeks. No resolution, it is stated, would be come to by the lairan, respecting the evacuation of the principalities, until after the arrival of Alerziacki, the Russian Representative. The meetings of the Hivan still continued, and the Ca7itan Paella asalsted at the con ferences. No effort this barbarous power can make will menu arrest the freedom of Greece, the fall of which humanity and religion would equally weep over. ie. NCH FCNIM—PAatS, JAN. 19.—Five per ('entti. opened et 94. 3rtc. ; closed at 91F. 9:tc. Neapolitan Five per Cents. WV' Rentes, •2. - 1. Exchange on London-1 month, 2bi. 4.5 f.; 3 iii.ciths, 2JI. 3;tc. The free press of Northern America, acting through every part of that vast Union, and speaking the feelings of its people uncontrolled, has echoed its President's - Speech from end to cud, until the collected sound at length has swelhal into the voice of thunder, proclaiming unmeasured defiance and hostility to the tyrants of Europe, who have been menacing with their armed hordes the infant liberties of the New World. !low just, after all, are the dispensa. thins of Providence ! While Europe has Leen Ltrieken by the heavy hand of tyranny, and millions arc encircle! by the bondage of its despots, the sun of freedom in the iVestern 11'orld has gradually risen over the entire of that vast continent, mail its light has become etror.g and clear; and through its wide extent, frein the Falls of Niagara to the River of the A,: axons, the darkness of ages has disap peared, and everywhere man is free. " Gett and my lUrlit" is said to be the motto of Kings: " Cod and `• Liberty !•' exclaimed Voltaire, in all the entlimiasin of feeling, when first be beheld the philosmilic Franklin, the represt illative of free America. " Where liberty is," re joined the latter, " there is my eountry"—a fine rind ex pressive answer. A few exiles from these shores, who Red :from kingly and ecclesiastical tyranny, first peopled the, 1 , woods and savannahs of North America. ►'hat historian of the days of the First and Second Charles could antisi pate the present power and prosperity of that immense and rising continent? With au existing population of ten mil lions difthsed through its vast Union, that population will, in another twenty years, be more titan doubled. Its nu merous ports arc now swarming with the commerce of every sea ; its people are active, energetic, and industrious; the axe of the settler is ever y any thinning the forests of Indiana and Illinois, and the busy habitations of man are rising amid the hitherto silent wilderness. The vast Pacific will at length be the only boundary of the United States; while, in the Southern Continent, liberty, though with less power, is daily gaining strength, and the feeble sceptre of Spain and Portugal is broken in their hands for ever. Ilere is a counterpoise for despotism in the old world—ft country ' where the oppressed of every nation may end a refuge— a power every day increasing, that will yet shake tyranny in Eurepe to its very base, and strike, with an arm that will be resistless, across the vast Atlantic. Already the menace of her first Magistrate has paralysed the secret plans of France and Russia ; America is too powerful for either of them, at sea. The decision of her Councils will pre serve the Southern Continent, and avert the horrid scenes of civil fury and massacre that would otherwise desolate these shores. America is right : no half language in existing circumstances would be effectual; the array of her cannon, and her starred flag, was the best diplomacy she could use. The threat has been sufilcient. The se cret concert of France and Spain, the preparations of Vil lelc and Nesselrode, are no more: no expedition will sail, in the face of an American squadron, under the flag of France. Colombia, Mexico, Chili, and Peru, will have leisure to mature their institutions and freedom, and the independence of the New iVorld will be assured. In adopting such a resolution, America was guided by no chivalrous or romantic feeling ; her councils have all been those of deliberate policy ; her safety was (*minima with that of the Southern Continent. Let the armed thousands of Russia and France be once thing on the shores of Mexico, and where is the safety of the United States? Florida and Louisiana are exposed to iminediate invasion, and from these provinces a road is open to the very heart of ber territory. The freedom of Atnerietis as hostile as that of England to the tyrants that enslave Eu rope ; they can never forget that the revolution of the former was the precursor of the' mighty storm that burst over France, and shook their thrones. If once the berries of Russia, or the Croats and Pandours of the Bohemian, were joined with the battalions of France, and landed in the New World, America would have to fight, with her militia :lid backwoods men, for actual existence. To us, the peace of South America and its independence are a matter of the deepest Interest: our commerce with these countries is now im mense. They present a vast and increasing mart for our manufactures and industry ; a trade that has sprung out of their freedom and the destruction of the tyrannic monopoly that fettered their resources for ages. On this trade, and these resources, France had the deepest de signs: she looked to it as the remuneration of her im- Janne expenditure in Spain ; but no hostile demonstra will be made against the league of Great Britain and America ; it would be the death-blow to the marine and commerce of the former power. The confederated allies may assemble in Congress, and, from Vienna or Paris, re cord in protocols and manifestoes their hostility to freedom in the land of Montezuma and Atabaliba ; but, shielded by' the protecting arm of America and England, the Mexicans and Peruvians will laugh at their decrees, and the fulmi nations of their wrath will be nothing more than "a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal,"—a scroll that will fall powerless and ineffective at their feet. We entreat the attention of our readers to the Reaohi tions, to be found in another column of our Piper, passed at a public meeting held at Sydney, for the island of Cape Breton. "L7liit c'est met"—" lam the State," was an observation of Louis XIV. lii the mouth of Loan BAyituusy the assertion, as it respected the colonial department, would seem equally just : he has certainly carried his pretensions to their fullest extent. How is it that Parliament can have acquieseed so readily in his pre sumptuous claims? It surely must be that the colonial office is a branch of the monarchy : it is Impossible to account for it on any other principle. The system of government which regulates our distant dependencies is certainly not very flattering to the principles of British legislation ; for unless the practice is correspondent, the principles, whether in government or in religion, are of little worth. Our Constitution, no doubt, is in approved good health : the root is sound, the branches vigorous, the foliage fair; but the fruit —that must depend upon where you taste it. It tastes very bitter, we should apprehend, in Ireland ; and the colonies appear to have no relish for it. To them it is the apple of Sodom— - " Bitter ashes, which the offended taste "With spattering noise rejected." For ourstives we cannot decide: we must leave to the worthies of emetic renown to settle the question. When Sir Robert Wilson left Cadiz, he proceeded to Tetuan and Tangiers, with the object of securing an asylum for the Spaniards, the promise of which he ob tained from the Governor of those Provinces. We now understand he has just received a letter from the Empe ror of Mot occo, to whom he had sent some arms and gun.. powder, confirming the protection pledged, and giving solemn assurance that the Spaniards may repose in safety under the shadow of the Moorish standard, imperial orders having been given to that effect. Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated Jan. 9 :—" We informed you in our last, that the King gave a positive order to quit the capital to a number of Bishops and Archbishops, who remained in it ; scene under the pre text of congratulating the King, and others with private views. This measure is looked upon by the moderate party as a triumph ; for it is not doubted that the machi nations of these individuals have caused the delay of the, publication of the amnesty, and obstructed other dispoH silions, which would have a powerful effect in causing the tranquillity of Spain. There is a report these two days past, of a project formed by those Bishops, and directed by the General of the Cordeliers, Father Almeida, the o:ject of which was to cause an important change in the Covermneut by a voluntary resignation. This report appears to us absurd. Some persons, who have opportunities of knowing it, affirm that his Majesty, intonned of some conventicle, which were held at the house of a certain great personage, had him summoned btfure him, and ordered him to confine himself to his house. The crowd, which never reasons, informed of this circumstance, and seeing it coincide with the order for the departure of the Bishops and Archbishops, concluded that the proposed change of which we spoke was certain. Sen sible and impartial men foresaw that the scandalous con duet of the absolute faction would force his Majesty to I prompt and decisive measures ; and certainly the' most I I sagacious seems to have been to send to his diocese every Bishop who ought to reside there. It is to the vexation and chagrin caused by these intrigues that we are to rttribute the dangerous and increasing indisposition of M. Casa !nil°. the 31inister of Foreign Althirs: his distemper threatens to end in a pzialysis." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. Last night we mein(' the Paris Journals of Montlay, with the Flak of Tuesday's date. The folk •ing arc extracts I From tbeEtoite of Tuesday,i The King heard rnag% in his apartments. The King did not go out. The Itentes got up to 94f. IHic., owing to a report of a pm ject in agitation to get up the Rates to par, to reduce the interest to four t,r three per coif. Xingu", Jas. 8. (ritivvry conitEmeownvxcE.) Nothing new has taken plate in this capital since my last. The priests have come to a detemilnation to return to their dioceses. The correspondence between our Cabinet and that of the Turneries ix very active; and they *peek of a very energetic note which has been sent to our Government by the Martini, Talent. It is thought here by every one, that things cannot remain long in the yreserit state between France o.ird Spam. The comMunicationa of our Ca binet with that of St. Petenthurgh are also very active. TOLOSA, JAx. 11. A great calamity menaces O Ala uipuecos and va it is generally known that the iron mines which these provinces abound with, and the produce of which were shipped to different.; parts of our South American possessions, furnished employment to a great part of the population, but owing to the emancipation of our Colonies, the masters of these works have given notice to the numerous persons employed in them, that carewmatances require they should be discharged. They write from Pampeluns, that the French troops who are there in garrison are obliged to be continually nit their guard, since, several days past, a number of military have been assassinated by the Spaniards. ( Ellin the Joann:lees Delats, cf 3londay.l . An English snarl, coining from Buenos Ayres, which arrived at [Gibraltar about the end of pacember, has brought the import lent news that the remnant of the Independent troops, under the 'orders of Santa Crus, had beet entirely destroyed on the I9th of l August, by Brigadier Lou Pedro, in the kingdom of PeTu..— (Fudge !) FRANI:I'OIIT, JAN. 12. Private letters state that theti still exists in several parts of Ger many secret and political societies. • [From the Afnattette.j •• . Pairs, JAN. 19. At one o'clock yesterday tbe 'king received the Ministers, the Chancellor, Prince Talleyrand the Marshals of France, and the Ambits:ethos of Spain and Naples. (ht the 11th inst. the fang gave a private audience to 31.1 e Baron Roussin,'Rear-Admiral, who has returned front cruising on the coast of Brun, and in the Pacific. The squadron under the command cf this officer was composed of the frigate Amazon. carrying his flag, the frigate Clorinde, and the cutter Pumone. These three vessels, commanded by able of ficers, were admired by all the foreigners who visited them. The officers were remarked for theirprofftsional knowledge, for the ex cellent dep_ortment of their staff, and the perfect discipline of their crews. They rendered important Rena* to the French trade along the 'Western coasts of South America, anti even foreigners have had more than once to congratalatethemseives on the security which they derived from the presence of the French flag, during the suc cessive convulsions which have beer experienced by the new Bo vecrnents of Chiii and Peru. _ _ The rumours of an approachingwar between torn,from ' Europe , it was impossible reduce to their real value, had ren dered difficult the position of the French vessels in their seas; but they were aeon set at ease by the fizm and prudent measure of Rear-Admiral Housain, win's, after having provided for this fitat ' interest, act out for France by the Atlantic. On arriving at Brazil, he was informed of the prodigies of valour exhibited in Spain by the French armies, anti, after a short slay at Rio Janeiro, set sail for Brest, where he anchored on the 24 Dctxsnbcr, with his three 1 ships. [From the Constilatiowiell (tress* Nov 22. —. . _ _ . _ _ __ The hat news horn Constantinople, of 13th December, state, that M. De Minziaki is expected there with the greatest anxiety. It is also said that the question respecting the evacuation of the principalities required by Russia will not be discussed until after his arrival. It is, however, our opinion that M. De 51inziaki has been sent to Constantinople menly foe the purpose of inspecting the mercantile relations. The Capitan ?ache has apefated at the extraordinary sittings of the Divan, upon the state of the affairs of the Atoreat. The reported arrival at Hydra of French Commissioners, of the Order of .Malta, to treat with the Greeks fcr the cession of an island in the Archipelago, has caused a great sensation at Con stantinople. The Perot has se/sewed Its mot d reirteltt to trod Strworfeed. The entire diplomatk body has been trusted with great considers tion since letters from Aleppo have announced new movements on the part of the Persians. The reports in circulation respecting the relations between the Porte and Pers!tt are extremely centrailktery. it is, however, clear that the former fins some uneasiness, because Persia has 'nut as yet ratified the treaty of peace, concluded some months ago. _ _ TRIT 9T E, JAW. 3. A vessel from Smyrna states that the Turkish garrison of Cori.ith had been landed at Smyrna, and the expenses of the voyage, 11,000 piastres, have been paid to the Ilydruna. Another vessel from Lante announces that, after the raistag of the siege of 3lissclonghi, the Orrcian iimadron which centiockd Maurocordato to the oasis,- ance of this city went to cruise before Palma When the Turkish commandant at the latter place was apprised of what happened at Missolonghi, he endeavoured to send many Mussulmeo of a dis tinguished rank to Prevesa t but the Greeks from %ante affirm t h at the brig in which they had embarked had fallen into the possession of their fellow-patriots. BAYONNE. JAN 13. Two or three extraordinary couriers have passed from Madrid through our city. We know nothing of the intelligence of which they are the bearers. The army courier has not yet arrived. Leiters from Corunna of the Ist current announce the arrival of the new Captain, lien. Contreras. The prosecution against the individnals accused of being concerned in the• drowning of 41 Royalists is carried on with ac. tivity. Those arrested are placed in solitary imprisonment at St. Jaques. The quarrels between the ]loyalists and Constitution alists have caused the death of one individual ; some others have been wounded. More of the Constitutional party, arrested in the neighbonring provinces, tee still detained in prison, and the retied of their enlargement is not known. PARIP, JAN. 18. _ _ _ The Oryintente boasts already of tictory in the elec — tions. This is the banner which has iong been waved amidst the dangers of the country, and the Minister will r.o doubt unfurl it again upon the clay of the great battle, upon the gaining of which its exist ence depends. The WA. rirlc asserts, "We hare upon our side justice, honour, and address." If this journal niears to speak of the Minister of Justice, we do nut deny it, but the ellipsis arms to Its too bold. Honour may be expressed with more propriety in the plural than in Cie singular number. As to the address, it is an acknowledgment to which we make no objection; stratagem and bad ftiih wish to be accounted address; knavery also pre tends to resemble it ; and M. l'ottite. the first of modern jugglers, may justly pretend to he a man of address. The King gave audiences hi his chamber to the Ambassador of Naples, Talleyrand, Peers of France, Marshals, and general officers. - The last news from Spain give reason to fear that tranquillity will not be soon restored in that unfortunate country. 3loilerate men can with dihindty make their voices be heard by those who would wish to have the entire country penished for measures taken by the constitinionalisoi, who are fortunately escaped from dantrer. The new .Minister has given utterance to some more liberal ideas than his predecessor; he is not allowed to carry them into execution ; and he is each moment ex;xised to the danger of dismissal. The letter, ordering the departure of the Prelates from 3ladrid, ha. produced a certain eilixt here. Colonel Bartel has been also ordered tq quit Madrid in twenty-four boors, with the Prince's regiment, for declaring that he would not 'answer for his regiment if the amnesty were published. The tnith is, that the populace of Madrid is much irritated egainst the French, because the latter will not allow them to commit those nets of vengeance to which certain individuals wish to excite them. Some of the soldiers of the army of occultation have been the victims of this feeling. One Swiss soldier Rhailleetlillitutrfer aria th!i example, added to other incidents, has admonished the French to be on their guard. It is certain that the gerrison of Madrid will be increased; and the error of not having echeloned a corps from Cadiz to Ma drid, and front Madrid to Bayonne, is iierceived. The Memoriql Boordeltis announces the arrival at Rochefort of the Count of Carthagena (Morino). It adds, that after a stay of a fortnight in that city, the Count, who is accompanied by his wife and &lid, aged lli months, will repair to Toney, thence to Pont , levoi. where he has a brot her-in-law, and finally to Paris. lie is permitted, by the Spanish Covenintent, to remain a year in France for the re: wery of his health. A new silver medal has (teen granted to M. Carel, of Toulouse, as a proof of the zeal with which he continues to disseminate the vaccine matter. r From the Jour the! Detats.] Vtrxva. We hear the agreeable noes that Prince Metternich is restored to his health. rftANEVnRT, Jaw. 12. During the butt sitting of the Germanic Diet, it was recommended to the Governments of the second and third ontor, constituting a art of the • Onfederation, to order the censors of the journals pith. (bile(' in licrtonny, to use the greatest precaution in granting their imprimatur to articles respecting the Diet. It was peculiarly int. pressed upon them to take care that nothing transpired that took place in the contidonial sittings and Al. Baron de Munch has more than once am:plainest of the audacity of the Grimm, jour. nudists, v, to miblislicrl those protocols which were intended merely for the use of the members of the Diet, and for the cabinets of the Sovenigns. The contspouilcnts of the journals are also severely crostini! ; but the 'inventive measures appearing to.day insuf ficier.t. the diet, in a conlidential sitting. has resolved in future nut to shot o the tierinan juurnals to publish anything concerning the deliberations or decrees, mud toe article shall be first published in the German Gazette of Frankfort. PRICES OF BRITISH 6 Wink Stork 2374 7 3 per Cent Reduced, 1494 3 per Cent. 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South Sta Ohl Annuities South Sea Nos .Innuities Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 53 14 55 pr. Dkso, ma Ditto, Small, 55 56 pr. Lottery Tickets, 191. I9s. (Front the Comrrier Francais.] PAP Ili. The Moil, of this evening makes a vehement appeal to the Elec tors of tts party ; hot this very vehemence betrays a sort of anxiety and uneaaincas of which the Ministerial Journal cannot divest it self. It would appear that all the itutneruvres, the surcharges in tasation, the certificate. where eh- flames are mutilated. the threat ening statemcs.:3 used by the Prefects, actl all the other loyal de. vices put in practice to insure the triumph of Bs* good and moral cause, are not a bufficient source of encourage:avant to the friends of the Alinirter ; and they are tar from inspiring him with the im proving confidence of the Jourool der Debate, which ventured a few days since to fix the number of Deputies to be gained by the Opposition at about ten. The words of the Eloik evince the un easiness which it appears to feel. They are even leas measured than usual. In complaining of the efforts made by the Constitutionalists at the approach of the elections, it adds, with • kind of regre and disapproving surprise. " They live still !" We will not stop to examine how much philanthropy there may be in thin ex res /don ; but we ask the Eloile, if, after succeeding in spreading a larm amongst the citizens, by imprudent threats of the restorations of the :Books, of the corporations, of thq right of primogeniture. 'of the temporal authority of ecclesiastics., we ask it if it imagines it can repair the effect I,f these injudicious addresses—by in sinuating to the friend,' of the charter that their very existence is in danger. Whatever may he the efforts of the small mull bee of 'sensible men in the Spaninli Cabinet--whatever may be the influence of the foreign Ambassadors the Peninsula ap pears fated to undergo a complete reaction, and to bear anew the yoke of the Jesuits, sad perhaps of the Holy Inquisition. The following extract from the Memorial Ltordelois leaves no doubt on our mines of what the nation is threatened with : " As the Inquisition," it says, " is the bugbear of our Re volutionists, some of them afflict themselvn by pretending that this tribunal will be established at the desire of our Prelates: others are delighted, because the decree of his Majesty, order ing the property of the loquisition to be administered by an ecclesiastic, is a suf fi cient proof that this establishment is not to be feared. As to the remainder (adds this Journal), we can state positively, that his Majesty will take measures to strengthen the restoration. Should the world wish to know what is the prin ciple of these efficient measures, here it is—the public educatien of youth will be entrusted to the care of the children of Loyola." An article, extracted from an opposition journal of the 11th of December, inserted in the ladicolear of the 16th, caused it to be seized, in consequence of which the responsible editor appeared before the Tribunal of the First Instance of Bounleaux. The Advocate of the accused protested against the suit, because the 11th article of the law was not complied with, which required that the ordiniutee deliberated upon by the Chamber should be signified to the accused. The public Minister acknowledged this principle, and the Tribunal knowing that the transgressions of the Press are not subject to the common law, but are under a special legisla tive enactment, and perceiving that the 11th article had not been complied with in regard to the responsible Editor, declares that the suit cannot to proceeded in at present. DUTCH MAIL. Dutch and Ilansburgh Journals, the former to the 17th, and the latter to the 1 tth inst. arrived yesterday. The following are extracts:— SCHAFFHAUSEN JAS. 1. The new Spanish Charge d'Aflkires, M. de ➢lan, is not yet at• rived in Switzerland. We hear that the first proposal to raise a corps of near 3,0U0 Swiss* kr the service of Spain, was made to Gen. Wimptin, who declared that no application could be made to the Cantons on the subject, till suitable measures were taken to pay the arrears still due. That General is said also to have signified to the Spanish Government that it must .secure to the Swiss, who might enter its aervice, higher pay than in France, because in that country they have the advantage of being able to go and spend six months on furlough in their own country, which they cannot do when they are in the Spanish service. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 10. The State Gazelle of to.day announces a severe hiss which the public has sustained by the death of the Minister of Stite, Niels Hoseukrantr. This distinguished Statesman, after having been .linbassador during a long series of years at Warsaw, Petershurgh, Berlin, Paris, and other Courts, was appointed In 1810 to the lie. pertinent of Foreign Atikini, which he tilled till his death, and was invested with numerous Orders of Knighthood. He was born 174, and - married 1780 Princess Barbara Wiasemska. Ile was of our of the most ancient noble families of Denmark, which has produced many great statesmen and men of learning. His Majesty has confiacti the department of ' Foreign Affltirs, ad interim; to the Minister of State, Count SchiMmelmann. STOCKHOLM ' JAW. 2. The Norwegian Storthing commences its Session neat month; but it it thought that his Majesty will not set out for Norway h e ., fore the beginning of the spring. There are at present 117 Laneesterian schools in Sweden, of which 22 have been established since the beginning of last year; 13 of them are in the capital. NVARSAW, DEC. 28. We hope that the price of wheat will rise. because the harvest in Spain and Portugal has totally failed this year. !AC H A NOES. A MeTEIDANI, JAN. 16.— Condor, 3911; two months, 39 & ifseassesarisi JAN. i3.—Ezehange or Loretto, ons warrth, 36 7 ; two months, 36 lA. ST. PETIERSIII'M GIL, Dee. 30.—London, 9 ?9•64; Paris, 1001 t. JAN. 10.— London, three months, 7 21. LE.rssle, JAN. a—hoodoo, two months, 6 Xti. SERIOUS TUMULT AT ALICANT. Letters from Alicant, of the 30th December, relate a moat ne furious attempt by the (inventor, .11calde, and Military Officers of that place, to interrupt public tranquillity, by insults to the lower orders, with the view of representing afterwarda to the tio yertimect at Madrid, that the town was in a state of rebellion, and of diluting the merit of having wuppreised it. The following account of this affmy is communicated in a private letter from the ripsnish capital:— " MADRID, J AN. 6. 1 _ _ . " In Alicant there has Leen a serious disturbance on the .Nth. Some boys were playing with money, and some soldiers passing, either in jest or earnest, laid hold of the pieces, and cried out, " Viva el Rep .11.oluto !" The Imp, in playful opposition, cried out, " lc Comitirucion !" L ;ion this the soldiers began to beat them violently ; their parents, hearing the noise, came out of their houses,. and remonstrated with the soldiers; words ensued, and they cut on both sides with their knives. The Governor was made acquainted with it; he ordercd the gsrrison under arms and the gates to be shut; it was tin n about four o'clock. lie then ordered the troops to take up every body they found in the streets, which they did, wresting above two hundred, who were conveyed to the dungeons of the prison. The people returning from their walk, surprised at being shut out, did not bear it quietly. The (lover nor then ordered them to be let in one by one, inquiring who they were, and of these about 3011 were marched Ono prison. Mr. Athy, an Englishman, was one of the number ; the Consul went to reclaim him, but was not listened to. When he returned home, a shot was fired at his window. The next day, the Governor request ed of some clergymen and friars to give an account of the prisoners. who ;hey were, their conduct, Ike and they gave favourable an swers ; hut four Aleahles esserted quite the contrary ; and. at the end of 1111 hours, only 13 persons had been released, and those of the lowest stamp, friend , of the .I.lcaldes. We wait the publica tion of the Governor's story (which will, no doubt, be figured into a grand plot of the Negros), or for the private letters by next pat." The Marquis Alfieri. the Ambassador of Sardinia, pre sented to the King of France, in a private audience, a letter from his Sovereign, announcing the death of Victor Enitna nuel, late King of Sardinia. The Bishop of Lichfield, we hear, is dangerously ill, and, front the nature of the disorder, as well as his Lordship's advanced ,time of life, his recovery is considered almost hopeless. Died at Bath, on Monday last, in his l'eth year, Thomas King, Esq. For ihe two last years the state of his health, owing to an attack of apoplexy, had occasioned him to re tire from the Metropolis. ana to reside at Bath. Ile was an Elder Brother of the Trinity-house, and whatever func tions he had to perform, either in that or in any other capa city, derived always an advantage from his manner of per forming them. lie exerted himself with extraordinary activity and public spirit, in promoting the establishment of the London Docks, of which he was a Director. He was always among the most earnest to promote the in terests of every vauable public institution; on such oc casions, the suggestions of his intelFgent and well-informed mind, were always useful, and his beneficent exertions were never withheld froM carrying them into effict. It, may be truly said of him, that his death closed a most excellent anti exemplary life. SA NI/WIC/I, Jnx. 20.—Yesterday being appointed for the funeral obsequies of the late Joseph Marryatt, Esq. M.P. the inhabitants of the town of Sandwich, actuated merely by a simultaneous feeling of respect for the memory of thei7 depart.. d representative, evinced their sense of duty on the mournful occasion, by closing the windows of their houses, shops, &c. The most decorous and respect ful silence seemed to pervade the dwellings of far the greater part of the inhabitants, both freemen and others, for even those who possessed no direct interest in the representation of the ancient borough, very properly united in testifying their esteem, for integrity, merit, and departed excellence. Galietee. We have heard that a very numerous and respectable portion of the electors of the port of Sandwich h ave ten tcrcd to Mr. Marryatt the scat in the House of Commons so long tided by his regretted father. That gentleman, under the pressure of Lis finnily affliction, has, we under stand, felt it his duty, with the deepest sense of such an expression of rtspect for hi 3 deceased parent, to reuse an Mier etinally creditable to both parties. A number of can didates have been invntioped. Sir John Sewell, doubtless on the notoriety of his services to the Bridge -street Asso ciation, has hinted his pretensions; but we believe a wet blanket has been thrown upon claims hacked by such a :•ecounnentlation. Alderman Atkins has been also feeling his way ; but, like his Mayoralty experiments, it is sus pected the etrort will end in smoke without fire. Mr. Bonham, on the independent interest, was expected at Sandwich yesterday. Sir B. T. rarquhar's name has been mentioned, but upon what grounds we have not heard.— Evertiv Papa.. POST-IIORSE AND OTHER DUTIES. A general meeting of the Postmasters of the metrop o li s was terday held at the Freertrisora"Pavern, for the pnrpo ae o r rs , ing the Report of a Committee appointed to cnntir with flute 's : meat respecting the new regulations fur fixing the duti es on hones, and all horses let for hire. Poe. The SECRETAKY then read the Report. It stated, that in their conferences with Government the Committee had made aemia. exertions to obtain an exemption of %retitle-horses from the p s , - mentor duty, but without success. 31iich dissatisfa c ti on h ad b a g manifested at this circumstance ; but when the p u bli c ronsiderej that the only power which the Committee had to exert was rawm or persuasion, they would be surprized that so much had be en gaia 7, in the new Act, in clear regulations and fair duties (applause). 31r. WHITE, the Chairman, said, as he had been artiveiy eT Gaged in the intercourse with Governtuent on (Ms marine, 1., could 'whims state more distinctly the concessions than Lad y en made to postmasters throughout the kingdom. In the tine ph; it was not now necessary to have the name and number affixed ro any carriage except post-chaises. or those which travelled be eye mile or stage; therefore they might let a gig for the day, ate a Ca ,. riage to a family, without its being requisite to proclaim that i; s t y not their own by any invidious or galling stamp. Via l to saddle horses, it bad been warmly contended Ly the solieiri e the Stamp Office, that those who role hired horses shemd be oh, liged to take and chew a ticket of the duty at the turnpike-eta It was objected to this measure that it would subject evcri man who rode a horse in the kingdom to be challenged as the ti r of a hired nag, and insulted by the toll-collectors. '!'hose wh om -, hired horses, and especially those in the metmpons, wire ve., anxious to preserve appearances ; then why should they be cumpad to make a galling disclosure producing a ticket at every tampts. gate ? These reasons prevailed with the Government, and the had withdrawn the obnoxious measure which would have tendsk, destroy altogether the extensive business of letting 'addl.: harm (applause). But above all, inucad of twelve acts, each of eb,th was more obscure than the erher, and which were the delights( lawyers, for they could explain them any way, the trade had rev the rare felicity of being regulated bv one Act, which was so c k, simple that any man of common capacity amongst them en* tend it. 'Phis indeed was a great fitivaotage gained. tie would tend to do away with those vexatious actions which wa s often brought by sosr.e of the farmers of the duties, who tel vantage of the obscurity of the laws, nail the ignu.-ance of ;ho e who were under them, for the purpose of plundering and opres,i. c them. lie had in his hand a document, or rather a volume, sho. 3 had been given him as a curiosity. A postmaster was clung d she having transgressed some one of the regulations of the twit, : ma . trary acts, and an action was brought against him with a is t t am , non of t,200 folio.. There was so much repetition, anther.. were so many points interwoven, that the defendant's atteney could not undentand it. and the consequence was, that the defendant, for fear there might be something from al:6 might be hit in this mass of pleading, compromised r is enormous expense (hear). All such work as this was now do te away with. The farmers of the duties would rot be allowed whor l such actions as they pleased, hut must first submit the casts tett; Stamp Office, and none but proper eases would be sutfertd to be taken into Court.—(Applause.)—There was one word in the bey Act which excited much alarm, and was supixried to affect note entity the trade and the public ; and opinions of Counsel had been taken on the subject. In the course et the Act the word occurred in conjunction with " let." 31any opulent past.tise ess were in the habit of lending their hones or vehicles to their trinsis or branches of their families, gratuitously, for short jaunts, urine and thee. a pleasure party. The Counsel to whom it was pre. (erred had declared that this word " used" rendered the boric; used on such an occasion liable to the payment of d:;); and one of the Counsel had gore an far as to say, that a gentler= who lent his carriage and horses to a friend for six weeks must par duty tbr them dunng that time (hear, hear). But lie begged to:; no one would be alarmed at this word or the construction put con it by CounseL It was all mere special pleading. Ile was sure the point could not stand in a Court of Justice; and that the Commis. scones of Stamps could not allow any farmer of taxes to benign action upon it. So confident was be of this, that the gentian might be tried. Government having determined upon exerting the duties, had shown an enlightened desire to have them collect!, and the trade put under regulations of the most easy and mm. factory nature (applause). A long discussion teas then entered into as to the minute deal and regulations of the duties with the farmers, when ultimately the Report was agreed to, and ordered to be published. Thanks were th en voted to the Chairman and the Committee. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Ee,t India Blouse, when John Pearson, Esq. took the usual oath on being appointed the Cetnpany's .Advocate-General in Bengal. Mr. r i'arren, it is said, has been engagferby Mr. Merit for neat season, at the Thews IWO, Alairligi• An elopement has recently taken place Paris; the parties are Mrs. the grand-dsughter of the al , Lady A—, and Lord ll—, which has occasionol s great deal of gossip and scandal in that gay city. Lily A— is highly incensed at the imprudence of her gram, daughter, and is reported to have destroyed a codicil to ha will, by which the fair fugitive, in the event of the 6 2 Lady's death, would obtain twenty-five thousand pound; and her valuable diamonds. BsiTrau PE E. RA a E.—There is an investigation going forward, proving a claim to a title suppo se d tea extinct in the Berkeley family. The claimant is DOI Berkeley, Esq. great-grandson of Pr. Hurry Berkeley (formerly of Ardustan, in the county of Cagow, and at that period one of the Masters of his Majesty's High Cour of Chancery, in Ireland, being appoints d to that situation by his near relation, the first Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the reign of ('harks the 2d), by his first wife Catherine, dau7liter of Essex Rigby, then Bishop of Dromore, and sister to the thea Bishop of Elphin, and which Essex I)igby was the son of I Sir lt. Rigby, and Lettice Lady Opbaly, the daughter and then sole heir to Gerald, Earl of Kildare, the ancestors of the prssent Lord Digby. This claimant's grandfather, also a Digby Berkeley, succeeded his father in the toms in the county of Carlow, who married an Elizabeth Pretty man, the daughter and sole heir to the then Sir William Prettyman, of Loddingbon, in Leicestershire, Bart. From the recent discovery of certain documents, and the succor which has hitherto attended the necessary searches, link doubt is entertained of the ultimate establishment of his claim. A case is now pending, to be laid before the LT officers of the Crown in England ; and if they should girt their opinion in the claimant's favour, a question of cote• derable moment will take place en an ejectment about to be brought for the recovery of the whole of the property in the county of Carlow, where the only difficulty that can ma will be, whether Itwth of adverse possession, connectel with the grossest fraud, can bar the right of remainder• men. Yesterday being the anniversary of the decapitation of Louis XVI., the sante was observed at the French Catholic Chapel in London. A solemn high mass WAS read, st which all the Priests belonging to the Chapel, dressed in splendid vestments, assisted. The Chapel was hung with black cloth, and brilliantly illuminates with lamps soil wax candles. The Chapel was crowded to (ACM is parts, and many distinguished characters, both Catholin and Protestants, were prisent during the ceremony. A despotic act of the French government is moat tailed of at Paris. A short time ago, a kind of convivial club : consisting of nearly too members, the rester pet of them merchants, was held in the Rue des Menar.s, but their lease being expired, apartments were hired at;-' splendidly fitted up by the managers, in the Rue Si. Nian Feydeau. Just as they were on the point of taking possis rdou, however, the landlord of the house received 11 01 . 1 from the police that the meeting would not be pertnimd the managers of the club, who had expended Arm' thousand franca in peeparations, immediately applio! the NI inieter of the Interior, to be informed of the gronob on which the meeting of the club was forbidden, as thcr' was nothing political in the Institution. After mu. ll shuffling it was CollreF , 4eil by the :Minister, that tl:c o S uY ground of offence was the Mimber of Liberals in the !'"• ciety, and amongst others, he nientioaed NI. dotty, es: proprietor of the Diablr Th.itritr, and one of the editors et the Constitutioaad. It seems, however, that upon a trial, in which a M. de la Marr, the brother-in-law of ti. Minister of the Interior, was defendant. some informate - : was given which the Minister wished to keep out of journals; and a meeting took place between hint and liberal editors, in which it was a!zreed that on condition e. their silence, permission should. be granted for the clob to assemble. The Liberals have kept their word, but the Minister has not yet kept his, and the Members are potting inpatient. Accounts from Madrid of the 6th instant state, that ew Royal Schools of Artillery and Engineers arc going toile re-established on a religious and inotor-chical plan. Tb same principles will he app'ted to the I7nieersitics. Tb: education of voath is to be entrusted to a hatted bay (the Jesuits) . which, noi withstanding the imligioln principles,its esc;lhnt sarc:lstl: s w hir r r sll it has 1 drawn itself i m u n Y : ortalirrd the . ago of Louis Nil". B:iterroNA, JAN. 1 , 1.-011 the 3:11 inst. at noon.ris u •, the promenade o f the , Was crowded ta Targaeonne was insolted on the public walk ; he T O:rot Ibv the rue des E. cudillers and the rue Large ; a ste;:e 'struck his head the Colonel took rt•fuge at the French pust wbiigt was within his reach. The thwerP- r ;of the fi:rtrels ropaired thither, and called a str i :ecr: dress his weunds. • Tht Du t o low% , o f an: a w y flxi e n 0011t1 t he Coli ~ 1 , kr n ett to . , Its .., "tent, c i of the ter kurtl , ich ougl . . eagves r otnt \ the rval ~ • the ..., the pion . fr ..-, t n ' . ich are unit*. 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