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The press of lama unwind.. ably compels us to postpone it. The DRITION rn cu commenced publishing on SatuMsy morn ing Native o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, Novsmsza 99, Inc The principal article of interest in the Paris Papers of Friday, is the account of the Public Sitting of the French Academy, for the reception of two new members, in the pertons of the Archbishop of PARIS and M. Sou se rr. The Archbishop, in pronouncing the eulogy of (.•ar direal Ilsau WILT, took an opportunity of panegyrising M. CH•TEAI/RRIAND, in no very measured terms. The Noble Chevalier, as he is styled by his admirers, was pre sent, and all eyes were of course turned on him. The pir,al des De.kals infers Tether hastily, we suspect, that the Ministry must fall, and that " M. DE CIIATEAV• ORIAND will be avenged." We believe that no sensible friend to the repose of Europe or public liberty, wishes to ate the revenge of the " Noble Chevalier" glutted by his restoration to power. His principles of Government are quite as objectionable as those of M. or VILLE LE, and he is leas impressed with the value and importance of peace. On Wednesday the Ki ea visited the Exchange, where his bust was lately inaugurated with so flattering an inscrip tion. The particulars are thus stated : " The Prefet presented the Members of the Chamber of Commerce to his MAJ Errs% The President of the Cham ber, while aildreming his MAJESTY, in their name, and ramming the sentiments of respect kid , .love which a• imated them towards a Prince, the generous protector of t;umtnerce, explained to his MAJESTY, that the Chamber a►sembld five times a week. Ills MAJESTY desired to know bow many Members composed the Chamber, adding, that he believed their services were gratuitous. The Pre sdent answered that they were gratuitous, and that they pro duced annually to the revenue, from 7 to soo,ooo Claims." The leiude of Saturday states, that the Paella of Acre is a bout to visit the Viceroy of Egypt—prohably to con cert measures for their mutual aupport against the Sr crA N. The French Government is intro rfering on behalf of Professor COUSIN, wlw is treated with the utmost attention. The revolutionary intrigues are said to have spread them s !Ives widely among the Prussian military. We distrust e'l these statements, which appear too much like pretences shackling public intercourse. FsßDlNallo proceeds in his infatuated career in Spain. ':'hr infants Don CARLOS and Don Fes,s uteri, are both about to leave the country. It is highly probable that the I\l NO will be soon obliged to follow them. In the true spirit of his Sovereign's Government, the Minister of War has given milers that no petitions, whether proper or I.l.r:l;pm, shall be received from the odic, rs who have been at •at:issccl. The Spanish monarchy tiitiA sink under the weight of its own vices. No power can long uphold so monstrous and wiresionable a state of things. It is worse tI sn chaos itself. Fak:Ncii Ft; KIIS.--PAN IS, Nov.:A.—rive per rrnot. timed a; WIC Mk., clottnt at WIC (0.. ; Bank Stock, 19701. ; NCA. p a:ton Rents, CortificAr Fakonet de d. ; :'Neapolitan I.•;nds, Itothrhild'a Loan. 92 ; Rentes Wl:Warne, I lli ; Royal Spauitit Loan, 1103, Dli.—Exchange on L0nd0n....-1 hie month, 2:.1 lk. ; throe months, 2.1 f. 65c.—Onus Atte. Nov. 211. lii the Brussels Papers of Satunlay, which we received last night, we have, frotn the Orientai Spectator, the Turkish paper publishoil at Smyrna, soim: accounts of the Ottoman fleet, from which it would seem, if we were dis posed tobelicre the writer, that the ;reek seamen arc the utast cowardly in the world, as they always, as represented by hit., sail away from their enemies. Unhappily for the Turkish champion's credit, we know that these timorous 4:reeks have totally destroyed the noble squadron which he describes au !Hurtfully. The 7'.2' ships of war no longer Beat under the Crescent ; they are Either destroyed or the prizes of the sictoriims I lellimists. The character of this Journal renders m; somewhat doubtful as to the e,rrectritss of the details • it gives rispeeting the pro ceedings of Commodore Nell/A.l. at Napoli. If the Erglish autlior:ti:l had not aetyil v. ith energy, the dispute with the tired: tl,:verninent would, perhaps, have been 'oolong,. I till it hail assumed a cham p! of unehamrable hostility. It veal impossible for the Cog:isli Coy, ruinelit to overlook the danger to which the national flag was exposed lay tile 1aw1..;, outrages of the Creek cruisers. Their condi:et was not surprising. The qel'AL:oll they had n'tViVell Iron th!• naturally lel them to diaeriril all rights tint protected by immediate Nicer, and, tin r Tore, it b.:calite mei ssary to teach them s t low • that Bitty twit sillier: to the 111 l iverscly recur nised riTubisions of public law with respect to their treatment of vesaels suspected of favouring their enemies. No ,utely will ltr AINto-11 (plough to C3:lt, lid, t 112: Iteciot. the Greeks are strurglis6r, in a jnit estux a;•aiti , t the Turks, they ought to he permitted to violate all principles of justice towards the commerce of neutrala in the Le.rant• If the f urkish iltwernment had unlawfully detained one vowel under the English flag, we should have remonstrated ostaady with the Divan, and if there had been occasion, we should have enforced our rights by force of arms. What we should have done against one of our oldest allies, equil justice required us to do against the Greeks, without any reference to the nature or consequences of the contest between the belligerents. The Catholic Priests in Ireland, in order to show some reason for opposing the dissemination of the Scriptures I among their flocks, have now turned round upon those %bona they call the Biblemen, and commenced an attack upon the character of the Sacred Volume itself. We some weeks ago noticed with surprise the strange epithet be stowed on the Protestants, by which an attempt was made to stigmatise them for their reverence for the Bible. We were then ignorant of the sense in which the Catholics meant to point the phrase against their adversaries. Nu doubt, however, can now remain as to the design of the imputation. We see before us the extraordinary and almost incredible spectacle of Christian Ministers borrow ing the larquage of Paine and Carlile, in order to scan dalise and vilify the Divine Revelation, on the authen ticity of which alone the truth of the Christian religion depends. The very language, which has most justly, with the consent and at the earnest and importunate re quest of all the different sects holding the Christian faith, been prosecuted in our Courts of Justice, and condemned as blasphemous, is—we turn again to the Irish Papers to assure ourselves of the fact, too monstrous to be believed on slight evidenee—republishexl from the lips of men who profess to be ordained to preach the truths of the Gospel, and inculcate its sacred doctrines among the people under their charge. The lkist and the Infidel have at this moment, as cosdjutors in their labours, the Catholic Clergy of Ireland. Under these circumstances it is quite appro priate that he who raised Paine's bones from their uncon secrated grave, in order that be might parade them through this Christian land in solemn mockery of its religious feel ings,—a project by-the-bye which be never dared to attempt to carry into execution,—it is right we say, that those who adept Pain's sentiments should have their cause advo cated by Paine 's champion. But what must even the re fleeting part of the Catholics themselves think as to these proceedings ; if, indeed, it be permitted to a Catholic lay man to exercise any faculty of his mind with regard to spi rituel matters? They hear their Priests describing the Bible as a book obscure, dangerous, unfit to be put into the hands of youth ! Is not such a representation directly calculated to destroy all reverence for the Scriptures? The object is manifestly to excite smong the ignorant and deluded fol lowers of the Catholic Clergy a fanatical abhorrence of the Sacred Volume, to which all Christians who dare to judge for themselves look with pious hope and confidence for their salvation. So far have these ortrages been carried, that at a cont-oversial meeting lately held at Castkbar, a Priest actually selected particular passages of the Old Testament, of which he spoke with all the obscene licentiousness of a practised freethinker. At other places texts have been tortured, to show bow easily the essential doctrines of Christianity may be quibbled away, and the wonls of our SAVIOUR rendered the language of faction and disorder. Never were ridicule, invective, and abuse, more copiously showered on all that the Christian world relies upon for present consolation and future happiness. The argument, that if the Bible be given to all, some will not rightly comprehend the whole of its contents, is abso lutely unworthy of serious refutation. What knowledge is nut liable to be misunderstood or tuisapplied ? Let us then at once extinguish all seicnce and learning, and re sign ourselves for ever to these reverend guardians of eternal ignorance. The influence of the Daily Press has at length become the great engine of power in society, rad, according u it is directed, may either be made infinitely serviceable to all the b(st interests of the community, or it may be turned against those inter( sts, and become the deadliest weapon that can threaten the security of civil life. The progress of knowledge amongst the great body and mass of the people, and the consequent interest which they take, and are capable of taking, in all that passes before them, brings a deep responsibility on those in whose Lands this exten sive and dangerous power is placed. Buss u, in his Thoughts on French Affhirs , published in 1791, has sonic striking observations, which serve to show the alarm with which his prophetic spirit contemplated the increasing as cendancy of the daily journals over the popular mind, and the state of things to which it was likely to lead. " What direction," says he, " the spirit of proselytism is likely to take, and in what order it is likely to prevail in the se veral parts of Europe, it is not easy to determine. The seeds arc sown almost everywhere, chiefly by N Kw . eirrulatilns, infinitely more efficacious and extensive than ever they were. They are a more important instrument than generally is imagined. They arc a part of the read ing of all ; they are the whole of the reading of the far ;;nester number." And, speaking of the writers of these papers, he says, " they are like a battery, on which the stroke of any one ball products no great effect, but the amount of continual repetition is decisive." We have no intentior, at present, of remarking on the abuse of the day press, as applied to the conduct of Mi nisters, or to the affairs of Government. This wet of mis representation may always be met by matter of fact : and there is, besides, little fear, generally speaking, but that Government will always he prepared to defend itself, with a force equal, at least, to any which may be brought against it. Neither do we purpose, at present, to dwell on the evil that may be occasioned by the dissemination of false and pernicious principles in politics or in morals ; because, where the press is free, such principles may always be en countered by truth and reason, and so opposed they can never long keep the field. Only give the comtnon reuse of mankind fair play, and you may break all the weapons of controversy, whither political or religious, that ever were sharpened for the combat. Rut the perversion of the dnilri press, Which see would mark out to the public as most to b e dreaded, is that which bargains, for a sum to be agreed upon, to give the aid of its influence and circulation to de stroy the character of any individual in private life, by ad mitting into its columns any charges, however flagrant and however false, which it suits the secret purposes of the party to fabricate ! The conduct of the Times, in the case of the unfortunate Mr. Fat' 24 Tl.r OY, is not likely to be soon uhliterated from the public memory Mew.; Masan, STRACIII, and CIZAiIAIs.I, artfully sought to suppress all further inquiry as to whether they were the authors of the base and diabolical aspersions which were inserted in that newspaper, against that unhappy man whose heart is this moment aching with agony, and who, to-morrow, will bid farewell to this world for ever, by de, daring, under the paraded attestation of their three signa tures, that they never inserted, or caused to be inserted, either directly or indirectly, any paragraph in a public newspaper, except two, to which they had signed their names. Rut when we stripped this their equivocal asser tion, and exposed the evasion that lurked under it—when THE BRITISH PRESS. we put their artiflt-e in plain terms before them, that though they had here denied inserting, they did not deny that they had wall. TEN, or that they had furnished the bl AT LIU ALS out of which those midi and scandalous libels against Mr. FAUNTLEILOT were fabricated—if they were not the authors of those fabrications, and if they did not pay a suns of money to Me Times for preserving such a dead silence as to the party from whom it received them, — why did they not immsliattly deny the fact ? They must know, Oat by Not denying it they plainly told the public they could not Jeny it. Who can contemplate this pro ceeding without instantly perceiving that if the daily press is thus prostituted, it becomes an engine of guilt and mischief, that leaves no man's character safe? There is no parallel in the periodical press of this country, of such sanguinary and atrocious attacks on the character of any individual under accusation, and about to be tried for his life, as appeared in the Times newspaper, between the period of his apprehension anal his being put to Me bar. This awful period, during which even the malignant suffer their enmity to sleep, was the period during which the Times pursued him with the foulest imputations, and strove to excite the worst possible impressions in the public mind against him !!! When the proprietors of a public Journal betray such an avidity fur gain, as to lend themselves to a proceeding like this, the only security which the public have it in the notoriety of the fact ; when the venal cha racter of such a Journal is once thoroughly known, it soon comes tobe appreciated as it deserves, and in ceasing to be respected, it ceases to be mischievous. The Duke of York visited the King on Situplay. The Duke of York left town yesterday morning ,con after seven o'clock, for Cirencrstt r, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Bathurst for a short time. _ _ _ Yesterday morning the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Feodore attended Divine Service at the Royal German Chapel, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kuper. 'f he Duchess of Gloucester was a little better on Satur day, after an indifferent night's rest 011 Friday night. Ile r Royal Highness reedy-41 visits front the Dukes of York and Glou6ster, and the Princess Sophia. Her Royal High ness bad a better nicht on Saturday night, and was a little better yesterday. The !Mehl's* of Kent, the Princess Sophia, and the Princess Feodore, paid visits to time Royal Duchess, as did also Prince and Princess Polignac, and several other Ambassadors and Ministers. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor bad an audience of his Majesty. Mr. Latchford, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Foreign Mice on Friday morning, with despatches from Madrid. Though a great deal of business was sons in the ('onsol market during the course of Saturday, they still continued to decline, and after several fluctuations, they finally closed at about 93. No good reason has been assigned for this decline, but it seems to be generally believed that there will he a rise in the market before they are shut, or if not, that they will reopen with a great improvement. Though there has been no intelligence from South America, these securities keep their ground remarkably well, and the prin cipal holders anticipate a great rise on the confirmation of the news from Cardiagena, which we gave last week, and which they confidently expect as soon as the Jamaica packet shall arrive. Mr. B. C. Ferguson and Mr. E. C. Macnaghten, left Calcutta in March last, to proceed to the Persian Cull; and from thence over-land to England. It is true Sir Edward Puget has applied for leave to re turn to England, but that application was totally uncon nected with any circumstance or erect arising out of the Burmese war. The sole rause was, the desire of Sir Ed- ward to return, for the purpose of filling the office of Go vernor of the Royal Military College ; an appointment which has been held fur him, since the beginning of the present year, by Sir Alexander Hope. As soon, therefore, as his successor has been named, Sir EiNard Paget will leave India.—Courirr. On Friday, his . Aim v P yacht.the Herald, Capt. Henry J. Lcekc, sailed from Portsmouth for the Nest with the following passenwes :—The Lord Bishop of Jamaica, (the Rev. Clitistophtt Lipscomb, D.D.), Mrs. Christopher Lipscomb, the lion. Mrs. Coventry (her mother), the Itev. Archdeacon Pope, Rev. W. Past-non, , Rev. C. M. Bolton, lies. S. Goddanl, and Henry Lipscomb, Esq. Secretary to the Lord Pisbop, for Jamaica ; the Rev. Archdeacon Parry, for An: ; Rev. J. G. Adams, and the We. S. Lewis, for Barbadoes. The Herald will till at Plymouth, to embark the Lord Bishop of Barhadoes (the Ike. W. Hart Coleridge, 11.1).) and his Secretary. On Saturday last Michael Ilowley Fitzpatrtek, Esq. was called to the degree of Barrister at Law, by the lion. Society of the Middle Temple. Id•aatetos: IN HIGH LIFL—On Saturday was married, at St. James's Church, by the Rev. Lord henry Fitzroy, the Hon. George Rice Trevor, son of Lord Dynevor, to the Him. Miss Fitzroy, daughter of Lord Charles Fitzroy. After the ceremony, the happy pair set off in an elegant chariot and four horses, for ikon:ham Hall , Iktifottlshire, where they intend passing the honey-moon. We are requested by Col. Collier to contradict the state ment of Mr. Mathew Fitzpatrick, who was brought up to Bow-street last 'Thursday. Mr. F. represented himself as the Colonel's friend, but the gallant officer has not the least knowledge of any such person. Ti, Ili 81. E.---It is a rather singular coincidence, that while the Pope, and the human Catholic Clergy are making such great exertions to suppress the Bible, the Grand Signior should issue a Finnan for the same purpose from which the following is an extract :, " Know that it is ascertained, that books have been printed in Europe, viz. Bibles, Psalters, tioapels, with the History of the Apostles at the end, two or three thousand of each sort, with a tract in Persian ; and there have come to my capital two or three hundred of each sort, with four or live of the Persian tracts. And as it is my ditty to prevent entirels such things, when they happen in toy kingdom, during my reign, let these books be returned so Europe; mud if hereafter ally of theist arrive at the Costonotouses, let carefid search be resole, and advice sent to my capital, in tester that noise may be sold or bought. Likewise let no Turk whatever take any of these false hocks, and whenever any of them are found, let them be taken and cast into the lire, that they nay be burnt, and let then, not be bought or sold in any country." The trial of Papavoine, for the murder of the two children in the wood of Vincennes. will shortly take place. The greatest anxietyth exists ha the public hid with respect to this mysterious crime. FASIIIONAIMP: IWTELLICEYCE. Melhourn entertained the Earl and Countem Cowper, the Right Hon. Wm. and Mrs. Hosiiiinion, and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house, The Es;luf Mahoisbury loss lift town for his seat, Horn Court, Hants. _ _ _ lAed llynevor left town yesterday for his scat, Barrington Park, tlifordshire._ Countess Ile Grty left her house in St. James's-square, on Sa turday., for her teat in Surrey. llon. Win. Burrell has lett Paris, foe Rorer. The 3larquis of lAnhian has arrive.' at Warren's lintel, Regent street, front the Marquis of Salishgry's seat. Ilatfieltl. The Ifiike of Norfolk has left his seat Farnham, Suffolk, for Worksop Manors,Notts. Lord Ind Lady :Grantham have left Wrest 'louse, Bedfordshire, for their seat in Vork•thire. Captain 11E4 Irs. Brugge hare 10.1 Jordan** Hotel, St. James's. strut, for Leamington. %Varwicitsliire. Ile. Excellency I...cotenant-I /encral Sir James Kempf, Bart. has arrivedat Illake's Hotel, Jennin. street, from the l'ontinent. :lir. and Mrs. Er‘kine have left the London Hotel, Albemarle street, ti.r their seat in Kew. The lion. Mrs. Strange and family have left the ll'aterloo Hotel, Jenuyn.strftt, for Henry Drummond, Esq.'s scat, Albury l'at k, Illuikliurd, Surrey. Alm Pierre, E'aptain Pierre, and the Misses Murray, have ar rived at the Pultet.ey Hotel, .I,lbeniarle.street, from ; the l'inintesa Rot.,cs aril the Ladies I..mlie have left ditto, for their seat, near l)o king. Arrivals at Thimutes late) Ikvktlev-squarer—Velrinel (lore Langton and Mrs. laington and family. ?rem a tam; I 'ohmic' anti the Misses Bromley, fmni it'orrester.hire . • David Lyon, Esq., from Itrighton. Itepartures :—Volonel and Mrs. Campbell, tor Suffolk ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, and the lion. Hubert Fitzroy, fur their seat, in Ilerkshire. _ _ _ Arrival, at the Royal Ilotel. St. Jantes'a-street:—..f. J. Guest, Rao., trorn AValeo; the Hon. A. Foster, Anthasmador front Co. Departures Print'crow. Esti., M.P.. for Brighter; J. Ewer, Esq., for ditto ; and the Her. Mr. Suryd, for Vl'iodsor. PARIS. traosi ova coaarsroyouT.] PAWS, Nov. 21 By an ordonnance of the Klee:, the meeting of the Chambers (as you will have seen from the Manitette), is convoked for Wedneeday, the e2d of Decembi r, and the Ministers stick firmly to their seats. The public have !Ale cerbively adjourned the appointed period of their fall, but they have hitherto reeovered from every shock; and arc, no duubt, as touch astonished at their own stability, as the nation is indignant. The Court departed two days ago for Fontainebleau, but since the journey to Compeigne, very little importance is attached to these excursions; it is considered that they will end in a 'girlie de ehaese, an inter change of compliments, and some good dinners. On finding the Ministers thus maintain their power, destitute u they are of every quality which should fit them for it, we are almost tempted to regret that the Censure has been abo lished ; for if it still existed, we should at least have the feeble consolation of fancying, that the truth was not at all known, and the judgment of the nation had not been in formed, that the evil acts of our rulers had been celled frotn observation, and that they owed their continuance in office to their successful concealment of the conduct that would have displaced them. But the Journals are free ; and facts which should overwhelm the Minister: with dis grace, are daily revealed to the public, and are on their part neither denied nor defended. They have been proved to be perjured to their oaths—violators of the Charie—op pressors of their fellow-citizens—persecutors of virtue and talent—holding all popular rights in contempt—and carry ing corruption to its worst excesses. All this has been proved by incontestible facts, and nevertheless the powers of government are still in the same hands ! 1%114 becomes of the pretended sovereignty of public opinion, if this ani-disant Heine do 31161,th• is thus successfully set at nought by three or four men without hieing—without character — in a word, without one single feature in their authority which can expiate the disgrace of submitting to it. It is difficult to express how complete was the disenchantment that succeeded to the brilliant hopes which the commence ment of the new reign bad inspired. The French people had flattered themselves, that the Government would have taken a national character, instead of which we see the re appearance of all those measures, which show that France is again brought unit( r the vassalage of the Ilrly Alliance, as she was during the life of Loots XVIII. The same outcry is hearth against the liberty of the press, and of pub lic worship—against a representative government—in fact, against whatever is necessary to the security of freedom, or to the prosperity of France ; and all thin under a set of :Ministers, who appear to be the mere delegates of the Inquisitorial Commission at Mayence. The popularity which the new rein at fast acquired, has disappeared—its days were so o n 111.1111x:rtil ; not that any one doubts, but that CHARLES X. is animated by the very best intentions, and that he enjoys personally the deserved affection of his people ; but were a Titus or Marcus Aurelius to revisit the earth, and re-assume the reins of empire, they could do nothing for the happiness of their people, if under the counsels of such Ministers as Cu. Leer, ('0551555, and Pt ynoeser. It appears that M. ne has succeeded in per suading the KING that he would do well to wait till the Deputies from the departtmnts shall have arrived in Paris. before he makes any change in the Ministry ; that then it will be easy to sound them, and to ascertain their real sentiments; that this precaution is indispensable, to avoid forming an administration that might not be agreeable to the majority of the Deputies, and who, from the com mencetnent of the Session would lint be able to prm.ced amicably with the Chambers. This combination of M. DE VI I. LEL/ is adroitly managed, for so long as the resent liiu,niiioft bold the reins of power, tiny preserve the means of acting upon the Deputies, by means of gifts, and promises, and places, and ribands, and pensions, and promotions, and whatever else may enable damn to brave the battering storm. If, by virtue of all these means of influence and seduction, they succeed in ensuring a triumphant majority, then M. DE VI tr.r.rE will tell the KING, that the present Ministers Mit exactly with the wishes of the Chamber, that the Chamber desires no others, and that consequently any change would be equally dangerous and uncalied for. This combination may be somewhat counteracted by M.M. DE ell AT EAU -511.5 ND and 1..)!:ffl'Itl/ONNAYE ; unf trtunately, however, they have at this moment It:idler appointment to promise nor places to give away, and in these days, e'est hi le , ;•rand Lericr which moves the world. The Minister has contradicted, in rather a vague man lier, in the Ctiseticr of the Nth, the reports of a con spittle), against the Kist:. The particulars I gave you some time ago, relative to the arrest of a Captain Nor 1., nen• exactly true. The French Joutnals spoke of the atl:eir as taken frum an English Paler; yet the Ministerial Journals have preserved a cautious silence, which seems to indicate that the Minister has not renommed his inten tion to make use of this ennsidention de jid,rioe. Hellas mitt:lAA hints 1I with a v: ~ tut. denial of the fart in the C.:urriet: Ernuenis, as that denial, be knows, does not com promise him in the least, and he has it always in his power to disavow it. The beeper of the Seals presided, on Saturday last, over all the Sections of the Cour de Cassation, which were united together. as was announced by the Journals. This sitting was marked by a particular circumstance, which has not yet transpired. Among the questions which that Court had to decide, was one relative to an old Norman right, upon which the Royal Court of Caen had given a judgment, which judgment hail been referral to the Su preme ('oust. Previous to the opening of the sitting, M. ne Pt vaox say entered into a long discourse with the Counsellors composing the circle which surrounded him, and expressed himself decidedly of opinion that the Royal ('curt of Caen bad pronounced a proper judgment, and that its decree ought to be supptvted. While giving this opinion be looked successively on the Counsel, and in a manner which not may seemed to bespeak their appro bation, but to entreat their concurrence. AVllen the ques tion, however, had been pleaded in public, the Court ad journed into the ('hombre de set IVile•raiLms, where Ill? Judges, after consultation, being called upon respectively for their opinion, every one, from first to last, decided against the decree of the Court of Caen, and voted that it °mitt to be annulled. The Keeper of the Seals could not, at tirst, conceal his chagrin, on finding that the Judges had unanimously pronounced against the opinion which be hail so significantly expressed hefore the Sitting ; however, recovering his sane4eoid, it still remaining with him to give his judgment upon the point, he expressed his regret that he should stand alone in the opinion he had formed, and in which he should continue to persist. " est rnalheu raiz pour m'.i, Messieurs," said he, with an affected smile, " de wenn/per sea/ de MIR avis , ft:UßlthillS ;31 perSitta." Phis circumstance, however, though he endeavou re d 4 carry it elf lightly, evidently tatted him, and on qu i tting flit Jo:lgts, he said to them, " A lieu, Messieurs, Jr reromnrende d mire hurt st , useni,." These words have indeed the Judges to ntriptet that he feels a presentiment of his approaching disgrace, and that he believes he Ins presided fur the last time in the Court of Cassatiom i t would be a subject of rejoicing among the Magict reey, over which M. Pt. PEYRONNET presides, if they bad reasao to expect that the vacancy he might create would be L e o n till' d; hut Al. DE VIL Lc LE, who manifesto' no disinclina tion to sacrifice M. DE PEY/tONNET, will find it more painful to detach himself from M. DE Coanieur, airy whom it it: likely the Seals will be deposited, when tai from the custody of their presoit worthy keeper ; t uu what an indelible dishonour to France, that M r Cbtonici:s should record the names of COREIEK c and PEY Ito SLTI4 successively occupying the seat which bad been filled by g L'IIOBPITai., a D'Anuls , 4l.ar, and a 111ALaanEaats.!1 ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OP 110.VAPAIITE LY 1814 AT FONTAINEBLEAU. In the new work published at Paris by MM. Annuls, Jay, and Jouy, on contemporaneous biography, the lif e o f Napoleon Bonaparte is given. Several otiginal antedates are comprised in this narrative, amongst which perhaps th e most interesting is the account of his attempted suicide at Fontainebleau, on his abdication iu IHI4. Hitherto this fact has been doubted, but it now seems to be fully est,. blished. The circumstances are related, we arc informed, on the authority of an eye-witness. As Caulaincourt eas the only party privy to them, we suppose the 'nth( e 3 the contemporaneous biography have obtained the p art ,. culars from him : " Uu the nth April, 1814, Napoleon spent the evening with the Duke of Vicenza, and withdrew at eleven o'clock, " The Palace of Fontainebleau was buried in the iron profound silence; perhaps noone was actually sleeping. bet yet this immense edifice appeared to be resigned to ail state of repose which generally follows great agitation( Within, there was not the slightest noiac; without, war that of the French sentinels, who were guarding the capeit of Europe. In the distance, nothing could be heard keg the repeated and irregular buzzing of the qui ripe of the foreign troops, whose monotonous challenges in the serem dialects of Europe and Asia, ran uninterruptedly through the French camp. In the midst of this awful silence, in that Palace which had been at one time disturbed by the sal.guinary vengeance of a Northern Queen, and frequently by the magnificent fetes of many of our late noverei;ns— Napaleon, at one o'clock in the morning, sent fur the Duke of Vicenza. " IVben this Minister entered, Napoleon threw an empty cup on the table. The Emperor told him to take with him into the Cabinet the portfolio, which contained th e p or trait and letters of the Empress. "Fake care of Mein, ssd Napoleon to hint. He then informed him the rest of his wishes, and presented him with his portrait one canna. While he was yet speaking he was seized suddenly in a manner which alarmed the Duke of Vicenza; a dimness came over his eyes, which seemed to threaten the u-mits. lion of an agony as dreadful to the sufferer as it was fright. ful to the witness. lie presently became so drowsy as if he would never again awake ; afterwards he fell into a cold sweat, and was seized with such violent convulsions and voiniti”gs, that all his limbs trembled. He kept fast bold of the Duke of Vicenza, in order that be might not get away, telling him that if he was his friend he would not prevent the termination of his existence. and that he did not desire to have any other witness of his sufferings. "This struggle between life and death lasted for three quarters of' au hour, when the romitings having ceased, Napoleon exclainteel—' It's of no use, death yin net relieve me. lie then allowed the Duke to call a vklet, whom he sent for a surgeon. M. Yvan came, and Napoleon insisted, with earnestness, nay, even with authority, that he should give him a dose of poison. Thunderstruck at this sour request, M. Yvan fled precipitately, jumped on his ism, am, quitted Fontainebleau. The Duke of Vicenza sena* Bertrand, the Grand Marshal, and Count Turenne, eta Groom of the Stole, who shortly arrived. " Two days be lure , Napolemi had desired his attendant to bring I ' some charcoal, intending to sunbcate himself his bath ; but, as they hail not oheerel him, he had per his pistols. Ills ntameluke and the valets de chem. brehtad however drawn the charge. _ _ ._„_. " The efh•ct of the convulsions was so violent, that Na poleon could not rise before 1 I o'clock to send a despatch to Marshal Macdonald. lie had vainly endeavoured toget up soon( r, but his hp refused to support him ; his coun tenance was changed, and his eyes were quite sunk in the socket ; his complexion was livid, his limbs shaking, jet his extraordinary constitution triumphed over death, alit his mind and charade r, notwithstanding his misfortunes, recovered their wonted sup riority. " The poison that Napo:ton had taken was invented Cabanis during the hot rors of the Revolution, that Ls friends and himself might escape the punisbments inflicted in the reign of terror. Napoleon, after his Moscow, kept it constantly about him, fearing to fall elite into the hands of the Emperor of Russia. Little dill be then think that he should seek aid front the fatal "visa when a prisoner in his own palace of Fontainebleau. after having thrice refusal a pace from him against wl:oin he hatl travelled sou leagues from his own capital to male war. Fate would not stiffer the poison of the fugiMe of Moscow to avenge the defeat of the prisoner of Fontain Wean." C. LV.4 DA. Qv rare. OCT. 14. Information from England renders it highly probatle that the British Military intend to make :In attempt, at lb: next Session of Parliament, to obtain the passage of the Union Bill ; and that the terms of the proposed t Mon sal be unjust towards Lower Canada. In this Province as well as in Upper Canada, it is h?- lieved that persons of all parties permanently cotin-cted with the Colonies, who are in a situation to view the els k ground without bias of passion or interest, have felt an in ward satisfa:tion and a confident hope, that this measo: would not be resumed by his Majesty's t;mmintur nt. lithe information which is now given he correct. if the atnentled Bill is to be carried through Parliament. eithist the Colonits having time to become scquainvil with iu ..-ontents, or having accredited Agents in England aihur.l them to support their interests, it is lint very likely to re— establish that confidence in the British Government, tOtith has produced so natty good effects during the Irt ft:tY years, and which ree..ived its first severe shock fro) the prnecedings already had in relation to this in e aFure. A having for its oltieets to destroy the cstahll,:lied eonAac - Canal weight and influence of the on:;jotitv of the free holders of the provinces, and give it to a minority, is intro duced in the House of ('ominous with the ifinction of Ministers, on partial roprLs. , ntations,wiiliont the kis,elethy of those interested, and all but passel. It k, suspended, in a way to show, that there t. is to int vi:o1 . . on their part to take the provinces by surprise. Seven' t-nths of the freeholders of both provinces petition against the measure, and not one-tenth in its fteour. _. . . It is indeul, even Dots, almost imporsihleto believe the British tiovernment has serionslY thou tlit of goveramr: three-fourths of a million of Briralr subj.c3 in North . America. otherwise than by the eollidenee and Alection 01 the people, which can alone be acquire,' and preservvil main tainin7, tliPiti in their rstahlished r;oh:s with etli:Jl . iimtieo to ail, without any distinction what:o-I . er. Sltoof' l the contrary, however, be the case, or his Miksty's vernment be inectpiderately engaged is measures of trary nature, the ditfictilties of the l'aisadas will titca lute commenced.—Q,ebee lEx;ract of a 1,1:• r from Pernambuco. dated On. /•:1 , 1 (L:tolwr, " 13; igatlier Lima still continues at head of the ci%il awl military governitn•at in the town ( 1 Pei nantlnteo. The l'atriot General male r,',"l hiw retreat from Olim:a with an o n troops of the hue, with bum the artillery anti ammunition which were thr , ... Ile has arrir.',l Lemoeira, about is leagues fret:' town of Pernambuco. An Imperial tvrce, mulcr the cnl: 'nand of Latnenha, marched to attack hint, but is stauJ bare been defeated."