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THE KING. PRICIS OF BRITISH Dank Bonk 2401 30 II pr Cent. Reduced, +92181212 0t 3 pw Cent. Cons.9lll 31 pa Cont. 101 100 t MI 1001 4pa Cent. 1021 1 Bar 4 pa Cents. 1061 i e Long Annuities, 9-11 Imperial 3 per Cents. 911 Bank for Ac aunt Cass. for Acct. 911 3 t 901 91 PRICES OF FORRION Austrian Scrip, b 4 a a pr. Ditto Bonds, DiDi ilton B Act. onds, 78 74 tto for 77 Moms. Bonds, Da. for Account. V 'Neapolitan Bonds, Prussian Bonds, 11a 1 Ditto for Account, Ditto Boluis (1892), 891 1 Russian Bonds. 11 9 i 90 Ditto for Acct. 90 Ditto AleftsUic Stock Portuguese Bonds, 87 Mex. 91 pr. 1 V L ; TOCKS TERDA Y. India Stock, 273 274 ' India Eands.B4 86 India for Account, 214 South Sea Stock, 1031 South Sea Old Annuuies South Sea New Annuities Ex. 8i115.1,111/11. 53 58 51 pr. Ditto, 5081. 63 58 64 pr. Ditto, Small, 53 56 54 pr. Lottery Tickets, 191. 19s. STOCKS YESTERDAY. Spanish b per Cent. Coos. 25 j 4j Ditto j for Acct. 25 41 Ditto 170 & 255 Bonds, 24,1 Ditto 85 ditto 24j Ditto 5 per Cu. (18Z) 17 I 17 164 i Ditui for the Account Spanish Bonds (1820), Fr. Renter, 981. SOc. Do. Ex. 25f. SOc. Do. Scrip, 7 pr. I Danish Bond's Ditto Marks Banco, Mex. Scrip, 41 4j pr. MAILS. Annivtu—l Flanders. Dvt-2 Hottenburgh, I Hantburgh, and I Holland. Attie liritiolt WOO. The BRIT lin Pais, commenced publishing yesterday mom. ing at half.psat five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1824. Monday's Paris Papers, and the Etoik of Tuesday, reached our office last night. The Maniteur is barren of all intelligence. The Etoile has an article vindicating Ferdinand's wretched government, worthy of the bigots from whom it has proceeded. According to this paper, The spirit of malevolence daily ascribes to the Govern " ment projects which it does not entertain." It then userts that the reported decree which condemned, by one sweeping denunciation, all the Alcaldes under the Consti l i - tutional system to the galleys for ten years, " was put into circulation by the enemies of the throne. In the same " way," the Elate adds, " it was said the militia were menaced with perpetual imprisonment, and new mea " sures of rigour were preparing against all those who had manifested attachment to the ancient system. The Go " vernment has now no need of these new acts of severity: " it is consolidating itself daily, and acquires strength." This is a bold assertion on the part of even the Etoile. It would be hard to find where the strength of the miserable Ferdinand's government lies, except in the foreign bayonets that su►round him : were they to quit Spain, its " consoli " dation" would soon disappear. But the Eieile has disco vered—mirabile dicta!—that all the measures of the wretch ed tyrant are directed solely against the gi;oies in Spain. " At all times," this paper says, " Spain has been covered " with idle people and vagabonds, strangers from all parts . " of the world, principally gipsies or Americans, who " overloaded the population." The new dceree, according to the Etcile, is levelled solely against them, anal this journal praises highly the wisdom of the measure. It denounces, in tl.e same sentence, the secret societies of Spain. We fear the assertions of the Etode will find little credit. The tyranny that now outrages Spain is too pal pable in its principles and ends, and is covering that un happy country with misery and misfortunes. From one extremity to another its people groan in bondage; and no tking but the foreign force within the Pyrenees prevents open and general insurrection, which even now partially prevails, and is every day increasing. 'From the Monitenr of Monday, Jan. 211) The official part contai.is only some unimportant notices from the Depe:ation of the Minister or Justice relative to private individuals. Non-Official part.] I:fit:LW:SF:, JANUARY V). • • • The affair of the deserters, of whiel;;;i;;;; had se;;;;1 time. occasion to speak, and the preliminary investigation of which is now carrying on in this city, has just led to the presentation of a very extensive and important requisition of the Attorney-General, Baron Clary. This Magistrate read it on the 17th inst. in the Chamber of Accusation (analogous to the Grand Jury.) A company of miners, who fought at the Trocadero and is corn. mandad by (amain Rompleleur, arrived here on the 13th. Moat ci these brave men have the cross of the Legion of Honour. Ilrotr. the Etoile of Tuesday.) MADRID, JAN. 17. 11111 spirit of malevolence daily ascribes to the Government pro. jers which it does rot entertain. Thus a degree of the King has been spoken of nt Madrid, which is stated :o condemn all the old Alcaldes under the Constitutional system to the rlleys to: ten years. This news is put into circulation by the enemies of the Throne. It would lee too tedious to repeat all those that they scatter among the public. Thus they said the militia are menaced with perpetual imprisonment, and new measures of rigour are pre paring against all those who have manifested attachment to the ancient system. The Goverrinient has now no need of these new acts of severity ; it is consolidating itself daily, and acquires strength. At all times Spain has been covered with idle people and raga. berth ; strangers from all parts of the world, principally gipsies or Americana, who overloaded the population; the new Decree lays down measures respecting them, and when it is considered that the Revolution found among these people powerful and vile aueiliariee, we cannot but praise the views of the Government : lastly, this Decree interests the tranquillity . of the Peninsula, by the measures and the chastisement which it prescribes for all the members of ascret sock:lies" whatever they may he. The Decree alluded to is for the regulation of the military. It is composed of several chapters, each divided into a root many articles. The first orders the establishment of a general intend. art:y of the financial administration of the war department, which shall act under the orders of the Minister of Finance. Yesterday the following Bayonne letter reached us, containing the substance of Ferdinand's new decree, putting the whole of Spain under political " surreil !mitt." Cainbronero and Burgos (both Afrancesados) are said to be the atztht:rs of this decree. Its details will to read with considerable intertst. It talks of the re pored abdication of Ferdinand, and the French falling back to concentrate on the Ebro. " BAYONNE, JAN. 20. "We hart news emm Madrid of the 15th. There are still re ports in that capital, of the abdication of the King (but not vii!un tardy), an event whi.it would tecessarily produce great changer in out situation in the country. and they even speak of our troops fall. jog back on the Ebro. On the lltth an Extraordinary °suite ap. peered on the arganiration and attributes of the genera/ police of the kingdom, of which the following is the substance. The no tice will be under a superior 31agistrate, called Siipetintendent- Ueneral of the Police of the kingdom. In the provinces there will be bite:Want and Sub-tklegates of the Polite. Their attri butes shall be— _ _ " To keep exact accounts of 211 the inhabitants of thee:omoms, to deliver and emintersign peasports. to give cartes de verde per mission to sell in the streets and markets; to open inns, furnished hotels, ordinaries, collie-houses, ; to carry arms ; to open re g^ilers of all public carriages ; to watch over the furnished hotels, coffee-housni, Fuldie plats of diversion, he.; or servants out of place, mechanics without employment, and all persons whose games of subsistence are IA well known ; to take up beg gars and children, who am lost, abandoned, or exposed ; and gmsies without a settlement; to take earn that there be not tnhoduced over Vie frontiers, by sea or land, any work, in any largnage whatever. IlniCS.4 the bearer presents an express osier signed by his Majesty, or an order of the Council armed after the inspection a • copy, which shall have been pre e'mtisly delivered ; to seise ell books which shall have beat in tr-enced in contempt of these regulations, whether they be in pos session of a bookseller, printer, or private person, or cumniunitirs, isoinver they may be pnvileged ; and to deliver the copies into the Lands of the Magistrates; to hinder the importation, the cireula aoc, and the reading of periodimi publicat ices, satirical pamphlets, and other papers and prints, in which the per son or the prerogatives of his Alikieny arc attacked, or in o3 iet t the measures of the fineeroninnt are ridiculed g ensured ; it. arrest all individuals who shall utter obscere words •nd insults against the King, as well as all drunkards, professed gamblers, & c.; pursue robbsrs. both in the town and high-ways; to pre .es: riatollll poets and meetings which threaten the public traaguillity ; in pursue with the utmost rigour the secret societies, whether Cornniuneros, Freemasons, Carbonari, or any other dark tins which does or shall exist ; to take care, in tercets with the c:ustcrin frame officer, to prevent smuggling; also to provide fur the security and salabiity of the p ri .ona, liesphels, ainohnheatres, etaaa.foetories, slaughter-houses, (sr. ; to execute Articles 13 and 4, relative to secret societies and smuggling, and, till the law shall estahl'sh a military corps. charged with the protection of the ; lowa* sad rondo, the senael Felice may use its and ems of need calk en the seamy mammies and the armed Arcs under them.'• The remainder of the Decree relates to the mode of meeting the expenses which this Dew Police will occasion. This Decree, which is certainly formed on the French model, comsat be executed in Spain. Messrs. Cantbronero and Surges (Afroneesados) are said to be the authors of this Decree. At Valladolid (it is reported) persons are arrested every evening without any reason, and released again with as little reason the following day. It is said that the Marquis d'Almenara is going to set out on a secret mission. The armed bands increase dad). The Dublin Papers of Saturday and Monday contain the details of an application for a criminal information against Lord Farnham, a Magistrate of the county of Cavan, in Ireland, under circumstances as outrageous as ever yet came before any ('oust of Justice. This man is the Colonel Barry, who put himself forward as the nightly ,defender of Thorpe, toe Dublin Sheriff, and the Orange ( party, during the last Session ; and who, if he did not talk as well, was at least we loud us any member in the House. The King's Bench report which appeared in our paper of yesterday, presents a precious picture of this Orange advo cate, and humane Magistrate ; but flagellation, it is said, was not new to his Lordship. When Colonel of the Cavan Militia, , and during the horrible period of 1798, his ears were accustomed to the groans of the mangled victim, at the halberds, and to the cat soaked in human blood. From Mr. Wallace's statement in the Court of King's Bench in Dublin, on last Saturday, supported by affidavit, it appeared that a wretched little boy of twelve years of age, named Michael Lynch, charged with cutting down some branches from a tree on Lord Farnham's estate, was summoned by his wood-ranger to appear at a petty ses sions, on the 3tl of Siitember, to be held at the Dispensary (his Lordship's gate-house), at Farnham, in the county of Cavan. where the boy and his miserable father', accordingly attended—that at this place, called a Petty Sessions, there appeared no magistrates, but Lord Farnham and a Protestant clergyman of the name or Robinson— that the boy, on the mere assertion of the wood-ranger, unsupported by any oath, was charged with being caught in a tree, and cutting down the branches; and no other testimony whatever was offered or heard. But not con tent with this, Lord Farnham immediately declared aloud that the wretched boy should be whipped ; when his father supplicated for mercy, stating he was very poor, and often, with his family, went to bed supperless for want of fuel to boil his potatoes. The trembling boy also threw himself on his knees, and is tears implored his Lordship's mercy, but the humane Lord Farnham answered both by a sentence of torture, saying " it would not do, and he should be tucked up." Ile then ordered the unhappy boy into the custody of a barony constable named James M`Lean, and without any formal conviction or any legal evidence to warrant it, ordered Wilson, his wood-ranger, to immedi a'ely prepare a bundle of rods to flagellate the boy with. The Reverend Clergyman (Robinson), on seeing the bunch of rods preparing by his Lordship's whip-beggar, remon strated against its size, and the cruelty of mangling the boy with such an instrument of torture ; and some branches were in consequence taken from it. It further appears, that on the rods being really, Lord Farnham, in shove- sence of his clerical associate, ordered the barony constable to strip the agonised boy; which was done, and another of his familiars then took him on his back, while a third pro ceeded to mangle him—that after this torture had been in flicted for sonic time, Lord Farnham took the rods out of the hands of his executioner, and lacerated the poor boy himself. Mr. Wallace stated so much of this horrible time, when he was stopped by the Chief Justice, who immediately granted a conditional order for a criminal information against his Lordship. If such atrocious facts as these were not pnblicly recorded upon oath within the precincts of a Court of Justice, could we believe them ? Would it be credited that a Magistrate, a Peer of the land, could so far forget the high duties of his station, and the common feel ings of a man, as to subject a wretched little boy, for a trifling aggression on his property, to torture, and be himself the ruffian executioner? Every feeling rises up in arms against so inhuman an outrage ; yet this man is the Parlia mentary Hector of the Orange Party. He is toasted at their drunken revels, and was their leading advocate during the last Session. With facts such as these sworn against him upon oath, would he be suffered to sit within the Commons Ilouse again, though returned for a Borough in this country? If the charges made publicly against Lord Farnham iii the Court of King's Bench be true, we have no hesitation in saying they are sufficient to damn the cha racter of any man, and render hits unfitted for any re spectable association, either public or private. We shall see how he will meet the foul charge—whether it will be hushed by a gratuity to the wretched beings, the objects of his cruelty, or whether lie will venture to contradict the outrage upon his own oath and those of his executioners. Mr. Charles Flint's sentence has expired. We laid this case before the public, as containing an alarming anticipa tion of the consequences to be expected from the uncon trolled and uncontrollable abuse of the power vested by reecut Acts of Parliament in County Magistrates. We holdup the conduct of GEORGE C wy ND, Esq., he cause it places distinctly before the eyes of all, the extent to which oppression may be carried, smiler the forms of law, and the danger of placing the power of punishment in unwor thy hands. We shall now proceed, as we promised, to bring forward the case of Mr. Aaaam FLINT, a respect able attorney at Uttoxeter, and brother to the youth whose sentence and whose sufferings we have already de tailed. It is somewhat remarkable, that this memorable Magistrate, Mr. Cu Err/rms.—memorable, we mean, as having been the father and framer of the Vagrant .4ct, an act that will long embalm his memory in the r-coils of legislation,—it is somewhat remarkable, that his in exorable love of justice should have displayed itself so conspicuously in one .family—that his quick-sighted search should have discerned the necessary connection be tween their ruin and the claims of puhli:. justice? How j are we to account for it, that his judicial authority should chance to bring, at an interval of two years, two members of the same household, two brothers, within its merciless grasp ? This fact is not only calculated to call forth at tention, but to create surprise. It excited both, to a eon aiderable degree, in the county of Stafford, of which GEORGE CH ETWY N D, Esq., is the Representative. We shall, before we have done, connect the conduct of Gr:o. CHETWY ND, En., with the controverted question of title between Sir George Jerningham and Richard Stafford I Cooke, which involves property of incalculable amount, and which creates so powerful a division of parties in the county. We shall in so doing furnish a key to a course of proceed inp, which without it must appear inexplicable. The case with which we are at present concerned will be fcund re ported at great length, and with the utmost correctness, in the Lichfield Mercury. It was a charge of assault, the most paltry and contemptible charge, generally, that came l within the scope of our crimiial jurisprudence. If the pasty Lad brought his action, he might have obtained a compensation from the verdict, commensurate with the injury sustained, if any bad been sustained; but the de fendant might then have pleaded a justificatiors, and this would not have answered the purposes: the panics, would have failed, as they well knew, and they therefore thought it best to proceed by indictment, for a breach of Me King's peace. Out the day appointed for the trial of the traverse, it was called on by the proper officer, in the ordi nary course and practice cf the Court, and the Jury was in due form sworn. Bnt, behold, no ('ounsel was in structed on the part of the prosecution ! As no prosecutor appeared, the Court, of course, ought to have directed an acquittal. But in the present iastance, Mr. Brutton, the Governor of the County Gaol, volunteered to inform the Court that the prosecutor had not crinwled it to come on ! No very satisfactory apology this for an apparent contempt of Court, and still less valid as a reason for not directing an acquittal. But as the brow of offended Magistracy can oc casionally relax a little of its rigour, this was deemed a sufficient excuse, and the apology was received in full satisfaction. After some other business bad been disposed of, the traverse was again called on in due course, and the dory again sworn, and on being called on by the proper officer, returned a verdict of NOT GUILTY, roil WANT OF eviueNce; which reamer was about to be recorded, when Mr. CIIETWIND,—NO APPLICATION BEING MADE Fos THAT PURPOSE—and to this most extraordi nary circumstance we would chain the public at tention, and we therefore repeat it,—NO spriscsr lox being made for that purpose, directed the trial to stand over until Me next morning! ! ! A most unprecedented inter ference this !! ! What could possibly have called for this out rage on all the ordinary P roceedings and principles of private justice? We trust the Member for Stafford will be able, in his scat in Parliament, to justify it. He owes it to his station as a public Magistrate, to slsew on what warranty he thus acted. lie owes it to his professional character to refer to the rules of justice, and to the maxims of law which bear him out in this proceeding. He owes it to the high responsibility which attaches to him as a Mem ber of the British Senate, to vindicate himself to his constituents, and to the public, who have a right to call him to account. We come now 10 the issue. in this most frivolous and contemptuous :barge, fire witnesses, all of them servants and relatives, swore to the assault, and six most respect able and unbiasswi witnesses positively contradicted it. The Jury, however (we will say nothing here of the influence of purl"), returned a verdict of guilty of the assault, and the Chairman, Mr. CH rr WI-ND, forthwith, after exprm ingproforma " the pain he felt in passing- sentence on a gen tleman of his own profession, and the more so for his having been acquainted with the drjrndant . for several years, and having (luring that time several times met him on business," proceeded to pronounce the following sentence :—" That the defendant he confined to the common gaol of this coun ty for the space of SIX CALENDAS MONTHS, should pay a fine of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS to Me King, and be fit,- (her imprisoned until the . /Ine be paid"! ! !—the defendant. Mr. Flint, being all this time a most respectable member of the:profession, and the elder brother of Mr. Charle s Flint whose ease has already called forth the public sym ,psthy and indignation, wherever the facts of it have been wade known !! ! 4t is not for a Magistrate and a Member of Parliament teseek for a tellimph over a person, or a party, by tramp ling on the principles of the British Constitution. Mr. CalxvWYtrn, who discovers so much anxiety to cleanse the country of paupers and vagrants, would be far better em ployed In reforming the abuses of the trihnnitial power, l aud purging the Magistracy itself of corrupt and anwor thy members. The public can suffer but little by the vagrancy of the poor and &leading", whose misery forces them to wander afar for bread; but from proceedings which oppress the subject and dishonour the national justice, the public have an infinitely deeper interest in protecting themselves, and in being protected by the legislature. The Constitution is an empty form if its principles are dis regarded in practice ; the best laws are a dead letter, if they are not honestly and uprightly executed. It is the pro vince of Parliament to look to this. There is an excellent out line ofa speech of Mr. Bess E . S—Mr.Chet wynd, if he wishes to turn his eye to it, will find it in Vol. X. of his Posthumous Works--delivered on a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to ascertain the power of . ..furies in prosecution for libels. iVe trust, by the way, that a motion will be made next Session, with reference to the caae before us, to ascertain Me power of Magistrates, and to bring it again within the rale of the Constitution. Mr. Burke begins his speech thus—" I have always understood that a superintendence over the doctrines as well as the proceedings of the Courts of Justice was a principal +eel of Me constitution of this House; that you were to watch at once over Me lawyer and the law; that there should be an orthodox faith as well es proper works; and I have always looked with a degree of reverence and admiration on this mode of superintendence ; for, being totally disengaged from the detail of juridical practice, we come something, perhaps, the better qualified, and certainly much the better disposed, to assert the genuine principle of the laws, in which we can, as a body, have no other than an enlarged and a public interest. As our situation puts us in a proper condition, our power enables us to execute the trust. We may, when we ace cause of complaint, administer a remedy. We stand in a situation very ho nourable to ourselves, and very useful to the country, y . we do not ebuse or abandon the trust Mat is placed in us."— We trust that, in the present instance, those into whose hands the people hare entrusted the guardianship of jus tice and the laws, will not do either ; that they will neither abuse their trust, nor abandon it. An arbitrary Magistracy is suited neither to the English character nor to the English Government. The authority vested by late Acts of Par liament in Justices of the Peare, is such as to leave no au thority in the Constitation, of power to protect the subject. It is the duty of our Representatives to go fully into the subject, if they are either to ask or to deserve the confi dence of the country. We must not excite discontent by injustice, and then enact laws to put it down. Such :iudi eial procedure as this of the Member for Stafford can never be suffered to pass without public inquiry. The spirit of justice will rise up against i.. As Mr. Bunk I: well observes, in the very speech re have just adverted to, " The people remain quiet ; they sleep secure, when they ima gine that the vigilant eye of a censorial Magistrate watches over all the proceedings of judicature ; and that the sacred fire of an eternal Constitutional jealousy, which is the guardian of liberty, law, and justice, is alive night and day, and burning in this house. But when the Magistrate"—we wish Members of Parliament would pause over this passage, for it contains a most important and memorable truth—" but when the Magistrate gives up his office and his duty, the people u nitise it, and they inquire egHl much and too irreverently, be cause they think their Rep esentatives do ic.tinqnire at all." We have more, much more, to say to the Meml• cr Stafford, in his judicial character as Chairm an o f * t h e! Sessions ; but it would occupy more space than we can at present spare. iVe stall revert to the topic as soon as Par liament meets; when we trust that not only will his con duct be brought under inquiry, but some revision of these late Acts he made, which at present are a stain on the Statute Book, and which enable the local Magistracy to become at once the scandal and the scourge of the country. His Majesty, we are happy to announce, was yesterday 'considered in an improved state. To the inquiries of the Nobility and Gentry, which were as numerous as on the two preceding days, the following answer was continued to be given to a late hour:— •• Ili% Majesty has lud a more favourable night, and is better to day.—Tuniday, Jan. 27, 1824." Yesterday, at two o'clock, a ('abinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, which sat upwards of three hours, the Council not breaking up till past five o'clock. The lengthened deliberations pf the Cabinet were _apposed to be relative to the state of the West India Islands. _ _ Yesterday Mr. Wynn gave the annual great Cabinet dinner, so called, as, in addition to the Cabinet Ministers, the Great O ffi cers of State, and other (Acid Gentlemen, were invited, for the purpose of arranging the roll of Sherif& for England for the present year. This annual meeting and entertainment is generally given by the Lord President of the Council. The reason supposed why the Earl of Ilarrowby does not give the dinner upon this oc casion is, that the Noble Earl's family and household are , not arrived in London yet from his Lordship's country I seat. We learn that in the House of Peers the Address will he moved by Lord Somers, and seconded by Viscount Lortesi, brother of the Earl of Kingston. The subscribers to Lloyd's appear to be on the increase, there being thirty-three gentlemen to be balloted for on Wednesday next, as subscribers. In the Foreign Market yesterday, the Mexican New Loan attracted the most attention. The price advanced to 41. The Lord Mayor gave an elegant dinner at the Mansion house on Tuesday, to a party of about .50, consisting of moat of the Aldermen, the Sheriffs, Common Sergeant, Chamberlain, &c. It was reporutl in Paris, on Monday, that the Govern ment had receive-I news of great importance from Spain, but the nature of it had not transpired. RO3IE. JAN. i IL—Prince Gustavus, son of the Ex-King of Sweden, quited this capital on 'he morning of the Bth instant, with the persons of his suite. His Royal High nees repairs to Naples, whither a courier has been sent to the Russian Legation, to announce his approaching arrival. BERLIN, JAN. 15.-It is said there will be several changes in our diplomatic relations. Comte de Fleuviag will go to Lisbon and General de Valentini, a distinguished author, is destined for an embassy in the North. The following is from the /I.4 . zie Journal:—" If a rumour afloat in the northern province, particularly at Amsterdam, may be depended upon. it is in contemplation that Prince reilerick should go to Batavia, to reside there in quality of Viceroy over the Belgian Provinces in the East Indies." Rio JANEIRO, Nov. 19.—0 n the 13th inst. an embargo (which still continues) was laid titian all shipping, in con sequence of some disturbances among the troops, arising from the Emperor forcibly dissolving the Legiiative As sembly ; and to prevent unauttrnticated accounts from reaching the Provinces before the Manifest and other papers which have been published of this proceeding. The death of the rpanish Prime Minister M. de C'asa fruit, was arcelerattd, if not wholly occasioned, by a cala mity of a domestic nature—the loss of an only son, who was lately killed in a duel. The influence of this Minister was greatly counteracted by that of the Clergy, who re garded him as a person too much inclined to the doctrines of the Liberal School. This opposition, however, was not certainly of so violent and harassing a nature as to break the health of the Minister; but be sank under the afflic tion above mentioned. The Commission of three officers, viz. Sir James Smyth (King's Aide-dc-Camp), Sir John Oldfield, and Major Fanshawe, that left England in October, safely landed from the packet on the 26th Nevember last, at Barbadoes. On the 6th December they were about commencing their labours, by visiting Jamaica; they will go through the West-India Islands, and probably the Bahamas, and Ber muda, and return to this country in April. The object of the Commission is, to ascertain the state of the for tresses and barracks; but more particularly to -eport on the various annual estimates, recently laid before the Mu ter-General of the Ordnance, for repairs and additional barracks, for which enormous sums are yearly voted by Parliament. Extract from a letter, dated Antig ua , 7th Dec. ISO: " We have just received accountsfrom Demarara of the execution of the IL:v. Mr. Smith, a member of the London Missionary Society, who has been hanged, upon the fullest proof, for exciting the late rebellion in that colony. The poor deluded negroes, who have paid the forfeit of their lives upon this occasion, uniformly at the gallows declared with their last breath, that it was by his preaching and ex citement that they were led to revolt." . . Tr: N ERIFFE.—About the loth of November a French frigate arrived at Tenerife, with a Governor from Cadiz on board, to restore the old order of things in the Canary Islands, which occasioned much confusion and bustle among the inhabitants of Tenerife... . . Tirf: I)} CAN Patzz-sioxzy.—Upon inquiry we have ascertained, that there has been hit!ierto no distribution of the Deccan prize-money, and for the best of all passih:e reasons, because the money has not yet been brought for ward. On Tuesday forenoon, at half-past ten o'clock, the re mains of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry were re moved with great funeral potop, from his house at Rich mond, Surrey, for interment in the Deanery of Lichfield. The coffin was covered with rich silk purple velvet, and ele gantly studded with gilt furniture ; on the lid of the coffin was a handsome gilt plats, with the following inscription : —" The Right lion. James Earl of Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and Dean of Durham ; died '2oth of January, 1814, in the eighty-first year of his age." The body was conveyed in a hearse with six horses, and followed by three mourning coaches, with six horses each, the whole richly caparisoned with velvet covering, and rich plumes of ostrich feathers, with family escutcheons and ar niorial beatings, and preceded by a man on horseback, bearing the coronet on a velvet cushion, uncovered, and at tended by two pages, followed by fourteen men on horse back, with black cloaks and scarves. Next the mourning coaches, were his Lordship's carriage with six horses, which will proceed the whole of the way. Several private car riages followed, among which were those of the Marquis of Stafford, the Dowager Duchess of hichtnond, Viscount Sidmouth, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Winchester, Ac. The funeral 'reached St. Alban's on Tuesday, and will arrive at Lich field onThursday. _ It is understOod that Dr. Hall will succeed to the Deanery of Durham, which became vacant by the recent death of the.llon. James Cornwallis, D.C.L., Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. It is rot yet determined who is to be the successor to the Bishopric. . _ 0: - vont, Cone T.—The accession of Messrs. West, Puller, Pearson, and Winter, front the I txford Circuit, in so short a petits!, will open a wide field for the talents of younger Counsel. It is whispered that C. Phillips, Esq. the flowery Irish Iltrrister, will attend this Circuit.— G/ nicester Paper. • At the Theatre of San Carlo, in Naples, a squadron of ati horses manoeuvred with the greatest ease upon the stage, in I)uport's ballet of Cindy/ dia. They were rode by Ger mans, and charged at full speed. THE Maui c Minnons.—Beside the harmonic society, which met in the Wiwi of Mesmer, where, for his four louis, the subscriber was instructed in all the secrets of the scienv of animal inagnetism, and was an eye-witness of the predigies of somnambulism, there were secret at semblien in Paris, where the visitors were to be gratified with a vi , w, either in a mirror or in water, of the objects they were mist anxious to witness, such as the beloved re latives or friends they had lost, those who wire distant from thin. &e. The mirrors were purchased at a high price, and the composition of the marvellous water charged extravagantly dear. On their return home, the) ascer tained the nullity of their talismans, but took care to pre snve silence, anu left other dupes to be caught in the same trap. r•sv Taa NSlT.—When the celebrated Franklin was about to return to Philadelphia, as he emld not bear the motion of a carriage, it was planned that he should embark on the Seine, opposite his own house at l'asay, to pro ceed to Rouen ' and thence to Havre, where the vessel that was to convey hint to America was fittin. It might thus have been sa4l, that it was not necessary for him to take one single step in advance, on Isis route from Paris to Philadelphia. • , liaincitt meets; wben we trust that not only will his con- cced to Rouen, and thence to Ilavre, where the vest '-u*""" ""'"' """ "" '" 1 "`""' — """""s • """'"' '""'` i compensation from the verdict, commensurate with the • mo d ss iubwy or the pri-ons, hospi:cls, ainnhalseatvet.j, duct he hconght =Fr inquiry, but KOllle revision of was to convey him to Animira vras iittim!. It inigl ciaa;.rsetories, slaught:r-houses, (..c., to execute Articles 13 and injury sustamtd, any had been SUStalllt 11 ; but e these lata Acts be trade, which at present are a stain on have been said, that it was not necessary for him mative to secret societies and %snuggling, and, till tine "1 fenilant might then have pleaded a justification, and this !the Statute Book, ;Ind which enable the local Magistracy to one single step in advance, on his route from I', wisit estshlisit a rnslitsry corps, charged indt the protectson of the , worse and roots, the geuend Pubce may use its and it. woted not have answered the purpos es: th e partits n become at once th.: scandal and the scourge of the country, Philadelphia. , - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. Yesterday we received the Papers of Monday, with the Dude of 1 uesday's date : From the Elaik.l MADRID, JAX. 17. The King has appointed Brigadier-Gt.:nerd Don Juan I►onuie, second in command an Andalusia, in consideration of his lo u d services. 1). 1. de Freyles is appointed Governor of Ci ud ad Rodrigo. A decree has been issued, regulating the system of military accounts. The statement of a decree condemning Alesldes, under the Coe. stitution, to the galleys, i. incorrect. [Crum the Cow rice l'ranenis.l JAW. IS. Gen. Atif Der Maur, who first announced hi. imention of offering his services to the King of Spain, has changed his mind, and he now tenders his service% to the Ktng of Naples. It appears that the project of recruiting in Switzerland, for the latter putter. which has been already discountenanced by the Can. tons, will be again produced, with some modifications. We know that at the Congress of Verona it seas propose d to the high powers, that the Austrian troops w h o were to retire front Naples, should be replaced by Swiss regiments ; as the Swiss were in the pay of the country the odium attaching :n a foreign occupation would be avoidei At the close of the sitting of the Congress, the Minister of the King of the Two Sicilies accredited to the Confederation, an arrangement for:1,000 men, and hi s dem an d was strong7sZlefted by the Ministers of France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. It via not, however, assented to. The Cantons replied, tint the ave. ments already existing with France and the Low Countries took away a greater portion of the population than ought to be in the service of a foreign Power. After this peremptory refusal it was not imagined that any other proposition would be made; but since the arrival of the Duke de Cairene, son of the Prince of i'aatelei. cala, front Pans, and who is the bearer of urgent letters signed by eminent persons, in which the utility aid mutual advantag es of an agreement been Swit rer l ar J are insisted on, it is sup that ' the affair will be taken into coosideratioa. Th e Duke Ca' Ivens isonly charged to settle the preliminaries of the treaty, and when theee are arranged, a new negotiation will b e s i gne d in t h e name of the King of Naples, and the system of recruiting will ha cow. menced. Many persons, however, think that these effosts will not be attended with success. Foreign service is no longer popular in our territories : it is also not a little extraordinary that the Powers persevere in seeking amongst our mountaineers, and in the bosom of a republic, for guards to encircle the thrones of their Princes, whilst writers paid by the Ministers of these very Princes constantly represent us as Jacobins and revolutionist's, an our country as the certain factious asylum of all the traitors of Europe- _ P r AIITS. JAIN It was yesterday announced tti the Gardes du Corps, that the" companions quitted Madnd upon the 9d of February. Twitted& drtd Spanish Garde* du Corps newly raised and appo i nted, will dig the interior duty of the Palace of Madrid, together with two Swiss battalions of the Royal Guard of France. We read the following in the Belgian Journal published at Brussels : " If we can attach credit to a report circulating in the nordurd. provinces, esnetially at Amsterdam, where it seems to be believed. the Prince Frederic will repair to Batavia, where lie will reside in quality of Viceroy of the possessions of the Lo w C untr i es i n the I ndies." If this he true it cannot fail to make a great sensation in Rag. land. We know the bonds of fr:endship as well as of relationship which unite the two Sovereigns of Prussia and the Low Countries. Under existing circumstances, the departure of the Prince with the title and power of Viceroy would, without doubt, be regarded by the Cabinet of St. James's as an event of extreme importance. The Ministerial Papers heap culogiums upon the Miaistn for his conduct respecting San Miguel, the Spanish Ex..'Minister. The part' (say they) whom the French anns have enabled to triumph in Spain, dernarded the head of San Miguel, and, in the expects. tion of receiving it, they raised a scaffold ter him by the side of that of the unfortunate Riego, whose Chief of Efot Major he was during the famous excursion from Leon ; and, notwithstanding it tithe French Minister—that very Minister whom he had insulted is those diplomatic notes which have been circulated through Europe., and the object of which it is even less difficult to justify than the former;—it is this Minister who has rescued him from the fury of his enemies, and has saved him by claiming him as his prisoner. This is certainly carrying adulation very far, to present, under so imposing an appearance the simple observance of the laws of war, with respect to a prisoner wounded upon the field of battle. To bestow commendation upon such acts is an insult upon that national character, and the Minister' to whom such felicitations are addressed ought to feel but moderately flattered at them. These things , •erify the adage, that nothing is so dangerous as as injudicious friend ; a sagacious enemy Is preferable. Roam. JAIL it The Apostolic Nuncio at Vienna will be replaced by M. Serra Cassano. The Jesuits have been established in the possession of dye Universities. The Tribunal of Forli has condemned three atrocious robbers far murder: the first will be beheaded; the second only in effigy, as he has escaped ; and the third is sentenced to the sallies for life, The people say that these wretches were emissaries of the Car. bonari. PAIIIS. The American Theatres have given benefits for the Greeks. Subscriptions have been opened in various parts, and even in the colleges. That of the college of Yale, in Connecticut, amounts to 500 dollars. The population of the Prussian moniuthy continues to increase. By the census of DM, it was 11,494,173 souls. In 1819, it wag but 10,799,954. Thus, in three years, the increase has been 619,219 souls. Iltrom the Colutitntiosprell %awed, Dec. 17. Upon the 9th of December, the Grecian squadron passed our Ca. nal. directing itself upon Missolonghi„ under the command of Ad. miral 3lisoulis in person. After some advantages pined in the roads of Voles over the Turkish fleet, this Admiral, whose expe rience and skill fill the Greek sailors with confidence, continued his voyage with fifteen sail, in spite of the violence of the north-easterly wind. The fleet succeeded in its object, the raising of the blockade of Misaolor.ghi. The presence of Maurocordatos, who WAS on board, animated them highly. At his approach the Turkish squadron r.- treated Pith precipitation from the roads, and took refuge in the Gulf of Lepanto, where it remains blockaded. The Paths of Scodra is in full retreat upon Arta. Before rat.. ing the siege of .Miasolonglii, he embarked on board Austrian vessels the most precious of his edicts, but abandoned in the neighbourhood Ilia artillery and the greatest part of hi. ba;arage. --- [Prow the Allgonrine Zeitattg o. JIM. 20. BreIIAREsT, I DEC. 30. Al. Minziacky, whom we have an long and impatiently expected, has been received on his arrival here the night before last with great distinction. lie immediately paid a visit to the llcspodar, with whom he had a long conference. It is now univerml/y af firmed that the l'aehas of Silistria and Widdin. who comnutad along the Danube, had only waited fot the arrival of M. Alincisay, to propose to the Sultan the evacuation of the principalities, which would be a great step towards removing the differences with Russia. M. Al intiarkv proceeds on his journey to Constantinople the day after to-mormw. ...... FRENCH FUNDS.—PAIIIII, Jaw. 26.—Rentes 93f. 30e. • Bank Stock, 11,600 f. ; Neapolitan, bltf.; :Spanish, 241 f. Exam:Nit on London-1 month, 23f. 45e.; 3 ditto, 23f. 31c._Corr: Art/Kr fiver. CHARLESTON PAPERS. Charleston Papers to the 23d Dec:mber har•e been rz (Tired ; the following arc extracts:— _ _ CHARLESTON. DEC. it. By the schooner Sally, arrived from Jamaica and Ilmannah. we hare files of Kingston papers to the 18th November. The bill to repeal the Regency Act was brought into the House of Asembly on the 13th, and met with nearly unanimous sumswt. Gene. ral D'Evereux and his suite nailed fro.n Carthagena for Europe, on the 4th October, in the firi!ish sloop of war Scout. Commo dore Sir Edward Owen was about to return to England , from his command on theJar.otica station ; and public meetings were to be held to express the favourable opinion caterutized by We las bitants of his official conduct. Letters from Tampico of the 29th October, received at New Orleans*, vtate that the fever was raging with greater widow than ever known. MADAME Dl' CA YI. A.—A letter from Paris of a recent date contains the following paragraph :—" The brother of Madame Du Cayla is about to he raised to the peerage, and to marry into an ancient family of the high noblesse. This favourite of an illustrious personage has taken advantage of the high favour with which she has been honoured, both to raise her family snd to amass a large fortune. She had received as a present the chateau of St. Oven, the fitting up of which cost the civil list two millions of francs. She resoid it to the donor fcr 1.300,000 of francs; and this sum she shared with her brother. After this, the illustri ous donor conferred upon his favourite possession for life of the property which be first gave and afterwards repur chased. Happy the age which thus sees the restoration of legitimate monarchies, the power of the Jesuits, and the gallantries of the Court of Louis XV. !" QI'AR FRS AND JESUITS CONTRASTI.D.—The Quakers of North America and the Jesuits of Paraguay have et hibited a new spectacle to the world. The former soft ened the rugged manners of the savages bordering on Penn sylvania ; they won them to instruction by the mere force of example, without making any attempt upon their liberties, and procured them new conveniences of life, by bringing them acquainted with trade • the latter indeed made use of religion to deprive the inhabitants of Paragnay of their liberties ; but, on the other hand, they them, taught them to be industrious, and succeeded in governing a vast country in the same manner as a ern• vent is governed in Europe. l'pon inquiry it will be found that the Quakers acted the most justly, and the Jesuits the most politically. The former considered the attempt to reduce their neighbours under subjection in the light of a crime; the latter made a virtue of Nahanni savages by mildness and instruction. ue of subdtullS 4111