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(1823)19 j • Ditto for the Account Ditto 1061. ha. Bonds, Spanish Bonds (1820), Rentes, 96f. Do. Ex. 25f. 50c. Do. Scrip, 7 N 7! 7 pr. Danish Bonds, 96j j 6 Ditto Marks Banco, 91i f 9teLscrip,3ajdliillpr. Vie Sirtoo. The Batmen Paris eorinneheed publishing yesterday morn. ingot half-past five o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUALIT 27, 1824. The Paris Papers of Saturday, and the Matte of Sun day, reached our office late last night. Their columns are destitute of all intelligence of any moment, and taken up with lengthened articles of mere domestic interest, on the contemplated reduction of interest in the Rentes, and the revival of some ancient and unpopular monopolies in France, which existed previous to the Revolution. The following are the'voly articles of any interest in the Montle:dr and Etoile : _ _ _ [From the Malheur of Sataulky, Jan. 241 The official part contains only two Ordinances; the first orders that the Electoral College of the second Arrondissement of the Nieve shall meet at the town of La Clarks, and that of the third Arrondiuement of the Cote d'Or at Saturn? ; the second appoints M. Pages President of the Electoral College which is to meet at Rione, (Pay de Dame.) There is also a list of persons deceased at 3lontinigas. Fl•xcrorr, JAY. 17. We have been most surprised at seeing in various French Jour. nals an orticle dated Frankfort, stating that the Diet had resolved, in a confidential sitting, to forbid all the German Journals to pub. lish any article rebtive to its deliberations or decrees, before such article should have appeared in the German Journal called Ober Pori Amts Zeitmeg, or to the Joarssr! de Frankfurt. This asser tion is a direct falsehood : the protocols of the sittings of the Diet WO communicated to all the Journals published here, and each is at liberty to give them at length, or to extract what it thinks PoPe*. From the Doi& of January 15.1 _ PARIS, JAW. 24. We have received the Diorio di Rome of the 10th instant. No mention is made in it of the health of the Pope. This morning Lecouffe and her son were executed at the °Tire. It is perhaps the first time that a mother and a son have been ►rought to the scaffold as accomplices. The Revolution, it is true, made children perish with their parents: at that time, however, they did not die for their crimes, but their virtues. _ . FIZXCH FUNDS.—PAIIIII, JAN. 24.—Five per Cents. opened at 91f. 7k.; closed at 9U 70c. Bank Stack, 1,643 f. Neapolitan F n . per Cents. 7011'. ROOM d'E.m. 240. Exchange on Loc. don-1 month, 2a. ; 3 months, 25f. &ie.—Corr: Argth4n tl4Ne, ✓ut.2d. German Papers to the 18th of January arrived at our olfice yesterday. The Allgerneine Zeitung of that date contains the following article, on the refusal by Austria to recognise the title of the Duke of Bellow, from ita calling to mind a vietory obtained over her arms, and the conquest, by Napoleon, of Italy, which now unhappily forms a part of the dominions of this despotic power. EXTRACT OT • LETTIII TROY VIENNA OF SOTU DECENNZI. " Among the many ankles which have appeared in the Paris journals, since the appointment of the hue Minister of War, Marshal Victor, to the poet of French Ambassador et this Court, some on the backwardness, or the willingness, of the Bfarshal to accept the post in question, one of the latest, in the Comelier Franzais of the 17th inst. has especially excited attention here, because it mentions, and as far as we know for the first time, a difficulty which is said to stand in the way of the newly-ap pointed Ambassador, on account of the title of Duke of Milano, given to him by Napoleon at the same time as other tides were given to other Marshals, Ministers, &c. The tide, it is said, Austria will not recognise, as it calls to mind • victory obtained over its arms, and the conquest of a country which MOW makes a pert of its dominions. The author of the article in the Courrier Francais seems either not to know, or not to choose to know, that the Finch Government itself, soon after the restoration is the year 1814, formally acceded, in diplomatic documents, to the pr i nc i p l e , and repeatedl► recognised it in subsequent nego ciatior,s, that only those titles which were attached to a certain Flue, where the possessor of them had performed some distin guished military exploit, should be retained ; but that all others, which, without having such an origin, appeared to indicate a right of possession to lands, cities, or domains, which are situated out of the French territory, should be abolished. If the Allied Powers have not hitherto more peremptorily insisted on the actual carrying into effect of this principle, which, if we are not mistaken, was expressed by the French Government so early as in May 1814, it can be attributed at din most, if we may so express ourselves, to a delicacy on their side carried to the highest degree ; and the French Government will certainly be the less inclined to think, in contradiction to its own declarations, of maintaining titles, the aFolition of which it has itself recog nised as necessary, as woe of the Allied Sovereigns, in the course of those campaigns which twice brought about the overthrow of Napoleon, eves made use of the right confirmed by the public taw of Europe, and not disputed by France itself, of conferring on any of its (Amends • tide calling to mind a victory gained by them on French ground ; and in the same manner as there arc now Princes of Wage= and the Moskwa, or a Duke of Dant*, of creating, , 1 for instance, Dukes or Princes of Paris, Lyons, Ls Roddere, h may be reasonably expected that the French Government will rather «abeam this opportunity to fulfil the well-fuSsded expects tions of the rest of Europe, and do away with the impropriety of seeing French eithfrcte invested with the titles of duchies and entire provinces, all right to which was formally renounced by France in the treaties which reconciled it with the rest of Europe." By the lut letters from Lisbon, it would appear as if Portugal were resolved to co-operate, probably with Don PAro, the worthy son of the consistent Don John, and make another effort for the recovery of Brazil. Ten thou- sand troops, it is stated, were assembling, and about to be despatched against that country. The question is, where will Portugal find either a fleet or resources for such an expedition ? If so large a force could be got together in Lisbon to-morrow, it would need a powerful fleet for its protection against the Brazilian navy, and so enterprising an officer as Lord Cochrane. We arc persuaded no such expedition as that talked of will ever quit the Tagus, and that the present resources of Portugal are quite unequal to the attempt. Letters from Rio de Janeiro, to tilt tkth of November, state that the Emperor dissolved the Congress of Deputies, because they exceeded their powe►s, and threatened the welfare of Brazil. Another Congress was exiled, to which Don Pedro promised t 3 present a Consti tution, more liberal than that they were discussing. If so, %shy was that Cong-ess disaulved ? It could not hare been for any exaltation of opinion. The Deputies exiled are said to have bad pecuniary allowances made them, for themselves and their families : we shall see whether lavre or Africa is their destination ; the remaining mein- . 1 , 4 ben were allowed to return to their provinces, and their ex.', penses paid. The tranquillity of Rio remained undis. turbed, and business had returned to its former channel. Cuba, for the present. has submitted to the absolute Go vernment of the mother country ; letters from Ilavannah, by New York, to the lith December, state the circum stance. On the 9th of Decemb.r, it appears, a French frt:zate appeared in the harbour of Havannah, bear ing a flag of truce ; the Governor sent his boat on board, which returned with despatches from Cadiz, announc ing the restoration of Ferdinand to absolute power. I The previous conduct of the Governor Vices had paved the way for the annunciation, and the account brought by I the French frigate was received with partial rejoicings : on the morning of the 9th, the guns of all the fortifica tions at the Havannah were fired, bells rung, &c. ; the troops were turned out, and marched to the Cathedral after Ferdinand's decree from Port St. Mary's had been read; they were accompanied by Vices, the Governor, the Coun cil of Cuba, Fr end' Officers, and a crowd of Negros, by whom any joy on the occasion was principally exhibited. 1 1 In the evening the city was dimly lighted ; but the inha , bitanis seem to have met the change but coldly. The sud denness of the notification may have prevented any attempts at resistance : but we do not think the dependence of Cuba upon Spain will last long ; that fine Island will probably very soon declare its independence, and shake off its de grading connection with unhappy Spain. The sudden ar rival of the French frigate shews the anxiety of the Paris Cabinet to further their views in the western world ; these designs are not yet abandoned, and deep intrigue will, for a while, be substituted in place of open force : French agents will be scattered throughout South America. Cuba was looked to as a substitute for St. Domingo, and pro bably even ceded by Ferdinand and Sacz. The declaration of America, and the menaces of this country, will prevent any armament sailing for those shores; France will not be suffered to disturb the New World by invasion, ner to pos sess herself, by cession or otherwise, of so rich a prise as Cuba, without the prompt interference of this country and America—a coalition too powerful for France or the despots of the Continent. Letters from Demerara to the 29th of November state the termination of the proceedings of the Court Martial, for the trial of Smith, the Missionary, and that i%.e result was transmitted to the Commander-in-Chief. The finding , or sentence had not transpired ; but a later letter states, that the unhappy man was found guilty on the clearest evidence, and that a day for his execution had been named. The whole subsequent proceedings after his trial gave but too strong assurance of his fate. H. was removed, on the morning of the 27th of November, from the Colony House, where he had hitherto been confined, under a military guard, to the New Gaol, where the 21st Fusileers took the guard, in place of the Militia, in the evening. If this unfortunate individual has been found guilty, we trust his guilt was clearly established; prejudice, all through the island, has existed strongly against the Missionaries. and we fear with too just cause: if they did not, like Smith, excite the negroes to open in% eurrection, their fanaticism was productive of great min chief. The spiritual dominion and triumphs announced by them in the supremacy of grace, were confounded by the negroes with temporal enfranchisement and Authority; and deep and dangerous discontents followed. The general espulsiun of the Wesleyan and other Missionaries from among the negro.populationia, in our opi flier); indispensable to the peace of those- islands. • The stake Oki 'is too vast to be trifled - with. . • . • We have received • letter from Jolm William Trust, who was convicted some time since for selling blasphemous publications, and who was brought before the King's Bench for judgment on Saturday, complaining of his hav ing been represented u one of the unfortunate Carlile's sbopmen. He states he never knew any thing of Carlile, except from some correspondence with him; that his publications were sold at Trust's shop in the way of trade; but that Carlile bad no other property whatever in the concern. The deluded boy further states Ilia intention to give up all the anti-christian publications in his possession, and to abandon the dangerous trade in them for the future. Trust mentions, that previous to his embarking in the latter concern, he was Secretary to an Alderman in the City until his decease, and never person ally connected with Carlile. How far this statement may be well founded it is useless now to inquire : it matters 'little whether the boy sold these works on his own account or Carlile's ; what we deprecate is legal prosecution for religious opinions at all. If Christianity rated on no firmer basis than its being " part anti parcel of the law of England," mixed and confounded with antiquated and sanguinary statutes, we are afraid its existence would be very short. The great truths this sublime code contains were not originally propagated by temporal power or terror : on the contrary, the whole influence of, imperial Rome, in its day of greatest strength, was directed against the inno vation ; but ten tremendous persecti4itt, far from extin guishing its followers, only bound them more closely together, and attached them, amid tortures and death, irrevocably to that faith, their devotion to which was written in their blood. Carlde's sect would long since have been extinct, had not state prosecutions given it notoriety and permanence. The doctrines this infatu ated man circulated were too revolting to find any fol lowers, even amongst the most ignorant and deluded, had not the judgments of the King's Bench and the Old Bailey filled the prisons with martyrs ;—such they are now regarded by their own followers, and the circle hits increased. Cubic has at present many readers and supporters, who would have known nothing of him or his publications, but for the newspaper reports of the pro ceedings against him and his family, and thc curiosity ex cited to go further into those works, detached passages of which were read on the trials, and subsequently circu lated in print. These are facts that cannot be contradict- I ed ; and may we not in consequenie declare that these suc cessive prosecutions, far from doing good, have been pro ductive of deep and irreparable mischief ? But we take our station on a higher ground, and unhesitatingly assert, that every man has a right to have what religious belief lie pleases, and that no state 'prosecution shOuld be exer cised on that score. It never yet had any effect, but to bind the reties so persecuted mow strongly to their opi nions, and bring over. new proselytes to their side; and it never will answer any other end. If the monstrous Church Establishments of this country and Ireland can only be supported by the terrors of the law, the verdicts of special juries, and the heavy sentences of the Judges, and possess no other stay in public estimation or opinion, their existence must be short. We think the persecution the mistaken and unfortunate Carlile, his wife, and sister have undergone, has been cruel, impolitic, and unchris tian ; and his treatment within his prison a stain on the administration of justice in this country. Sufficient vic tims have already been flung into dungeons in the name of outraged justice and Christianity the spirit of the latter is mildness and Dot persecution, and can never sane- tion such harsh proceedings. How can we declaim against the re-establishment of the holy tribunal and the terrors of its dreadful halls in Spain, while we have such an inqui sition in the very heart of England? In Spain the Ca tholic religion is the only one acknowledged, but there is now no tribunal to impeach any other. Here, the Pro-1 ttstant Faith is the Established Religion of the State, and it is guarded by penal laws of the most proscrip tive nature, and all the terrors of legal prosecu tion. Can we then say that Protestant England is more liberal than Catholic Spain ? Would enlight. ened foreigners, such as Montesquieu or Itecearia, say I so? We hope to see the day when a solemn resolution of the Legislature will extinguish all persecution on a religious score. Such an act will wipe out a deep stain from the' ! statute-book and annals of the country. The wretched boy, Tnist, can be no subject for heavy judicial visitation; I a gaol can neither improve his morals nor his creed. We hope, therefore, when he is again brought up, the Court will discharge him to better pursuits, with the merciful admonition "to go and sin no more." His Majesty has had a slight return of gout, which pre vented him from attending Divine Service on Sunday, in the Palace Chapel at Brighton. IS'e learn, however, with much satisfaction, that his Majesty's medical attendants consider a few days will be quite sufficient to remove all the effects of this attack, and that his Majesty will be ena bled to fulfil his intention of opening Parliament in person this day se'nnight. WINDSOR, JAN. 2S.—This morning the Princess Au gusta, accompanied by the Dowager Countess of flarcourt, attended Divine Service at the parish church, where an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Gosset. Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, being the first since the general return of Ministers to London. The Council was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers. They continued in deliberation ;al about a quarter before five o'clock. On Friday night Mr. Dnifferi, the King's Messenger, left town with despatches to the Right lion. Sir Charles Begot, our Ambassador at St. i'etersburgh, in reply to those brought on the Tuesday previous by Mr. Munro the King ' s Messenger, who travelled from Russia in less than three weeks. . _ _ On Friday evening Mr. Ilill,the King's Messenger, left town with de etches for the Right Hon. H. Wellesley, our Ambassador at Vienua. Yesterday morning Lieut. White arrived at the Colo nial Office, with despatches from New South Wales. We have the pleasure to announce that M. Orlando and M. Luriottes, the Deputies from the Greek Government, arrived in London yesterday. The Marquis of Titchfield, we are happy to state, has nearly recovered from his late severe indisposition. This forenoon, the remains of the Right Honourable the Earl of Cornwallis, late Bishop of Lichfield and Co ventry, and Dean of Durham, will be removed from hie house, at Richmond, in Surrey, for interment in the Deanery of Lichfield. The bode on its arrival at Lichfield will lie in state in the Cathedral the whole interior of which will be hung with black cloth. The interment will take place on Saturday neat, with great pomp, when all the Clergy will attend on the occasion. His Lordship was in the Slat year of his age. The Pox Club held their first meeting for the year at Greillon's Hotel, in Albemarle-street, on Saturday. His Royal 'Higbee* tho Duke of Sussex, and the select per sonal friends of .14(r. Fox belonging to the Club now in Lonblou, were all prosant- Mr.• Alderman iDnaudity was on Thursday last unani mously elected to the office of Lord Mayor of York, for the year ensuing, in the room of Thomas Smith, Esq. Mr. Alderman Lumley served the above office in 1514. Yesterday sensight Mr. Wm. Blunt was elected Mayor tetersfield, Mr. Thomas Holland going out of office. ion the s a n e day the Rev.W. J. Jolliffe caused a liberal. donation of bread s mest,4lld coals, to be delivered to all the poor persons, art* At families, belonging to that borough. •. TA! CHURCH.-4f fiß=Lbelieved that Dr. Ryder, die s, e present Bishop • brother to the Earl of fiarrowby, will be transioted to t he vacant See of Lichfield sad Coventry. Other translations will probably take place in consequence. Who is to be the new Bishop is not yet, we understand, decided on ; but Dr. Blotnfiekl, rector of Botolph, Bish ' has been mentioned as likely to raised to the Ben opagats ch. We hear that Dr. Hall, the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, is likely to succeed the late Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in the valuable Deanery of Durban.—The learned Dr. Russel, of the Charter Rouse, is spoken of as likely to succeed to the Deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, in the event of a vacancy. MEETING or THE JOURNLEMEN Site WIL•VERII.-- On Saturday evening a meeting of the journeymen silk weavers was held, pursuant to adjournment, at the Red- Lion, Phoenix-street, Spitalfields, to receive from their Com mittee a final answer from their employers, as to the pre sent disputes relative to the prices of labour. The meet ing was very numerously attended, and Mr. Baker, the Se eretery to the Committee, detailed the result of the inter views which they had had with severl masters, and read three letters from di ff erent masters. A considerable dis cussion then took place,which ended in the adoption of a re solution, that the Committee should cease their functions, and that the journeymen shoukl assemble again on next Sit: turday night, to receive from the Committee an account's of the expenses incurred. As far as we understood the dis cussion, it appears that only one article, of not very great ' ) importance, now remains In dispute, between the masters and journeymen, and that as to this article they are likely to come to a tipetriv agreement. On Friday last Nit. IValthew ' the projector of artificial incubation by steam, had the honour of presenting the young Princess Vittoria with some poultry, hatched by his process, and reared wholly by artificial means. The cocks are very fine birds,- of the Spanish breed ; and the pullets have been ying near two months. They are so re markably tame that they will cat out of the hand, and suffer themselves to be handled. By the arrival of the brig Minerva, from Sydney, New South Wales, which place she left is February last, we learn that the Morley had arrived there on the 7th of that month, with a detachment pf the Buffs regiment, under the command of Lieutenant and Adjutant Mackay. She had previously touched at Hobart Town, Van Dienan's Land, where she landed 170 male convicts, two having died on the passage.--Ce/e4erafo! ereery. - - We have been favoured with the pirnsal of a letter from Jamaica, datai Nov. 22• the contents are of much importance:— " Kingston, Nov. 22. " The Amend:fly have passed aa Act, annulling the Registry Bill; it is of course mititipated that the Governors of the Island will not sanction this Bill, and of course it will remain a dead letter. In the mean dais comes the question of the payment of the ex pen ses of the Registry' Bill, which every three Tears amounts to 3,0004 . Depend upon it, this simply will be refused by the Assembly; in which are there will lie an open war between the Governor and the Legislative Authority of the Island." Glt.trl( SLAVlAT.—Official returns front the Turkish Custom-house at Selo, report 41,000 women and chiklrcn to have been sold aa slaves, and to have paid auction duties at that office, in the months of May and June, 1822. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Ben. Strata(ld Cqnning entertained Mr. Seeretary Canning and a dietinguished prey at dinner yesterday, at his house in Berkeley-square. The Duke of St. Al'astrt's and the Ladies Beaneltvk arrived yes terday at their house lu bt. James's-square. from their seat, Gat. ton, Surrey. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left town yesterday afternoon, for their sat. Hatfield.. . . Lord and Lady Carr lon sad family arrived yesterday at their house, WhitehalLyasd, town their seat, Wycomb Abbey, Bucks. 0 j Earl Vaal= solvedyesterday at his house in Grosvenor. square from his seat, .ambury, Herts. Lord Ellenborough has t his pest at Hoehampton, for BriFhton. Lord Henry Chain ey has arrived in town from the Earl of Aahburhham a scat in Some:. Lieutenant-General Baron de Hochpkd and family have left the Bath Hotel, Arlington -toner, for their seat in Sussex. The Earl and Countess Craven and family are expected in town on Tuesday waxt, from their seat, Coombe Abbey. Arrivals at Read's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street :—Colonel Samewell, fro:n his seat, Upton Hall, Northamptonshire; -- Hungerfurd, Esq. from Northamptonshire. Departures l--Capt. and :11Int. Bryan, for Bath. . Arrival at Blake's _ ! Hotel Jermyn-street s—T. W. Stewart, Esq. from his seat, liunningdals. Departure:—Captain Stewa r t, for Sidusouth, Dcvor.ahitc. PRENCII PAPERS. The Paris Papers of Saturday have reached us by ex press ; the following are extracts : VITTORIA, JAN.n. The fury of a certain portion of the people, displayed in the gr a . tikation of every excess, and which seeme d to have subsided, has broken out again within these three days with greater bitterness 1 than ever. Insults, and even blows, are inflicted upon the unfor -1 tunate ex-national volunteers of our city, who, not being sufficiently wealthy to remain in their houses, are obliged to go abroad to attend to their necessary axupations. Hitherto the assailants preserved something like moderation, and awaited for night to gratify at cn.ce their hatred and their vengeance. But at present it is m oper day and in the midst of the streets that the old volunteers are assaulted, without daring to defend themselves. Upon the other side the bands of partisans (though each of them weak in itself), seem to increase each day in the direction of Sar tander; and we are as sured that in that city, the audacity of the Constitutionalists goes even to the extent of singing the TragaLs in the hotels and coffee houses. It is also affirmed that the bands of Constitutionalists are increas ing in Esuemadura, which appears to be their rallying point; the persons composing them style themselves the Brave. The question respecting the acknowledgment of the loans of the Cortes, is again the subject of discussion. It appears that his Majesty has expressed upon this matter an opinion different froni that of his Ministers, and that in consequence of this disagreement the Ministers of Finance, of Grace and Justice, the Keeper of the Seals, and the Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Attain, think of resigning at the same time. BRUSSELS, Jag. 17. Before the last campaign made by the French armies in Spain, that country saved as an advantageous market for our linens, and principally for those of Courtesy. The Flemish houses established at Madrid did a great deal of business in this branch. The late events have diminished in a remarkable manner the sale of the Flemish linens in Spain; and what is still more melancholy, an English house is established at Madrid to obtain a market there for the linens of Scotland, and by these means to spread them through the entire Spanish monarcnv. This circumstance is still more injurious to Belgium, as the Scotch linens are of a lower price than ours, and their whiteness and lightness will, of necessity, insure them a preference in a warm climate, where these qualities are particularly sought for. The mercantile letter from which we take these details complains bitterly of the general stagnation of affairs. It concludes in these words :--`• Commerce is utterly ex tinguished throughout all Spain, and nothing short of a mfraela will raise it for a long that." PARIS, JAW. 23. It is said that the Marquis of Talaru gives up the embassy at Madrid, and that he wiU be succeeded by General Bourmont, who commands the Army of Occupation. It is also mentioned that M. Ilyde de Neuville will be recalled from Lisbon. Lters from Madrid of the 14th affirms, that M. Casa lrugo, the Prime Minister, is at the last gasp. The journal of Belgium states, the artillery and engineer corps of Spain will be established upon a religious and monarchical plan, as will also the tlniver thisa, and the education of youth will be entrusted to the Jesuits. [From the Courtier Francais." PARIS, J*w. 23. General Guilleminot has been indisposed these three days, sad is confined to his bed. This event will necessarily retard his de parture. An explosion which was heard on the evening of yesterday, upon the Place du t'atrousel, made all the military posts at the Tuileries run to their arms. Upon the next morning it was disco. vend that it was caused bye pistol shot which an unfortunate tailor had fired for the purpose of destroying himself. He did not suc ceed in the attempt, but he was arrested and conveyed to prison. THE WEST INDIES. Letters were yesterday received from Demerara of the 2d Decem ber. The interesting trial of Smith, the Missionary. had dosed, and the verdict of the Court had been returned to the Governor lieneral Murray. Contrary to general expectation, his Excellen ey bat transmitted the verdict to Englasiby this step removing ' all Tesponsibritly from his own shoulders. As the Members of the Court were sworn to secrecy, the nature of the verdict, &c. have net transpired. The galena opinion entertained in the colony was, that Smith had been found guilty. The following is an ex tract of a ktter " Emmons', Drc. 4,1843. " The Governor.Osnaral Mummy has, to the astonishment of the Ceool, referred the-verdict respecting Smith. the Missionary, to England ; be is in the meantime confined in the Worded gaol, under the guard of the King's troops." Extract of another letter from Demerara, dated Novem ber 28 : " The General C,ourt.Marthil, which assembled at the Colony House on the 13th ult., for the trial of John Smith, of the Lon don Missionary Scciety, closed its proceedings on 31onday last, when the ease were presented to his Excellency the Commander in -Chief. . The sentence has not transpired • but we should judge hue the tenour of the following general Order, that the guilt of the secured is hilly established : " 'GENERAL ORDER. " Adjutant-I nieral's Oath, Htheinarann, George Town, Nov. is, " "The members composing the General Court-Martial which assembled at the Colony House on the 13th Oct. last, for the trial of John Smith, of the London Missionary Society, sod which cos tinned by adjournment to the 24th November, sod whereof Lieut.- Colonel Goodman is President, will return to their duty, the nature of the peoceidinp being such as to reader it imperative on his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief to transmit them the his Majesty's consideration and ultimate decision.' " Mr Smith was removed from the Colony House, where be has hitherto been confined under a military guard, yesterday morning, to the gaol, where the 21st Fusileers took the guard, instead of the militia, in the evening. We understand there are still several pri soners for trial." PROCEEDINGS IN THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. _ — JAMAICA, TUYIDAY, Dzc. House in Committee on the Bill for the mule effectual punish. meat of sedition—Hr. Aikman in the Chair. There was a discus sion only on one clause, which appeared obscure, and put the power in a magistrate to convict persons at meetings, if they did not disperse within half an hour, and rendered them liable to seven years' transportation, which was amended; and it must be moved that the meeting was seditious..—Chair resumed; and the bill with amendments reported, and ordered to be engrossed. It is for one year. Mr. Cox moved a message to his Grace the Governor, to sc. quaint him that they had examined into the Slave Law, which they had found complete in all its parts; that the House was willing to meliorate the condition of the slaves, but conceive the present time unfavourable, owing to the late discussion in Parliament, as tend. ing to unsettle their minds, which are at present perfectly quiet and contented. __- --- --- Mr. RENNALLS wished it to remain over for • day or two, which was speed to. Chair resumed and the resolutions reported.—Adjourned. KINGSTON, Dec. 2. Several important matters came before the House this day. First, the committal of the abominable (lagging Bill, which must have been framed from some draft of his Catholic Majesty of Spain. We beg to call the attention of our Legislators to the Consolidated Slave Lew, and they will see that to speak seditiously among slaves is punishable with death. The law is quite strong enough. If this infamous law pass, the Attorney-General and Mr. Bullock are absolute. Then we will not hear the inhabitants of Trinidad and all the other Colonies say, " you who live in a land of liberty." We understand some most noxious and unnecessary clauses of the Alien Act will be repealed on its re.committal this day. The law is nearly useless. The report of Mr. Grigton, as to the most effectual means to be adopted to resist the innovations of the mother counter, and Mr. Barrett e s draft of a Memorial to the King, will also be taken up. Mar nODISSI—We do not advocate theproceedings of thellar- Wiens who tumultuously pulled down the Methodist Chapel but it were much to be visited that our Legislature would put an end Ito the cant of hypocrisy in this island. The spirit of Methodism is I so prevalent in this city, that we have Methodist prayer meetings, love meetings, political meetings, at all times (chkt y midnight) and its all places. We can prove the fact, that at a Malmo:Hai& meeting which took place in the Chapel at Spanish Town, about three years since, a Methodist parson (a very enlightened one too) commenced a tirade of abuse against the Executive, and concluded by "hoping that a certain exalted individual" (roaring out his name and title) "might at length raise himself from his filthy lusts before he went into the pit of eternal damnation." The Editor of this Paper heard this said in the presence of, and addressed to, nearly MO slaves. Tho Attorne7.oeneral, on Saturday, issued his warrant against Mr. Richard taeey (a person of colour), for sedition. He is said to have declared that he 'would be the first who would "plant the tree of liberty in the centre of Kingston Parade. This expression was certainly very foolish and puerile. Mr. Facey has given securities for his appearance to answer the charge. Warrants (under the Alien Act) have been Issued acainst other persons. The warrants not having been executed we suppress their names. . - Messrs. Leeesne and Escofferry, who were, by the judgment of the Supreme Court, declared British subjects, were ori Satur day taken up and sent on board the Scraps, for the purpose of purpose of being sent out of the island. The above-named individuals were yesterday morning trans. (erred from the Scrapis to the lielienn,which sailed immediately. It is understood that they are to be landed at St. Domingo. We are rather timid in giving our opinion on a particular sub ject ; but we hope no fears, well or ill founded, will induce the Assembly to render the Executive absolute. Extract of a letter from Itarbadoea, dated the 20th ult.:—" We have just heard, by an arrival from Demerara, that Smith, the Missionary, was found guilty on the clearest evidence, of having I been concerned in the rebellion in that island. Ile wan to have been executed the day after the vessel sailed." The letters from Colombia by the Leeward Island packet, received yepterday, do not come down to so late a date as we have previously given by way of New York. There is, of course, therefore, nothing new from that quarter. The La Guayra merchants were many of them busy in emigrating to Puerto Cabello, carrying with them great part of the contents of the La Guayra warehouses. WEST.VI-VSTER REVIEW, No. 1. Notwithstanding the Reviews, some of them of high reputation, which are already b e f ore t h e public, we are glad to find a new one enter the lists, and put forth, with a consciousness of desert, its c l a i m to pu b lic appm. bation. In this department of literature there is great space not yet pre-occupied, and which may be made, in every way, prolific in the hands of those who are corn. potent to cultivate it to advantage. A new work of this kind ret i uires net only to be prosecuted with all the aid of talent, and all the ardour of research, but to be pursued in the purest principles of impartiality and the soundest spiri t of independence. The • Irestniinster Review will, we trust, cot only • et starting, but throughout its progress, display both thes e requisites. A Reviewer, to discharge his task as he aught, should be of no party; he should wear an amulet against all systems, except that system which instructs him to look I to the advancement of moral truth, and the welfare of po. litical society. These should be the sole object of ail his I labours, and the sole end of all his exertions. In the new orderiof things, that appears to be arising, there is enough to awaken the attention of every friend to mankind, and to call for the exercise of his most steady and collected judgment. The Press, in every deparun t of it, has great power, and incurs great responsibility ; subjects are perpetually coming before it of high moment, and of great deliberation. The conductors of a Review, as they profess to canvass every subject in the spirit of philosophical invee , tigation, and to measure every thing by its true rule, make a demand upon the public confidence, which it behovre them not to disappoint ; from those who redeem the pledge thus virtually given, the greatest good may be ex pected. In the work before us, we have no reason to pre•! diet that our reliance will be misplaced. The moment this first number of the Westminster Re view reached us, we turned to the article ou Special Juries, not merely because it is at this moment a iubject of pe. culiar interest, but because it would enable us to make s tolerably correct estimate of the principl es , as well as to ' take a lair measure of the integrity, of its conductors. Not that our judgment should steer its course exclusively by this article, but that we might lay it before our readen as a sound sample of what they may expect. The manner in which the subject is treated bears the stamp of a mind which seeks truth for the sake of truth. We shall examine the articles carefully throughout. In the meantime we give the following extract, as justifying for the present our strong prejudice in its favour. From the importance of the subject, we found it impos sible to shorten the above extract. I t involves consequences connected with all that is valuable in the constitution— with all that is fundamental in the principles of freedom, and with all that is practical in their application. The Trial by Jury is the surety of all our privileges, and the safeguard of all our rights : the security of 11 that is dear to us in the compact of our liberties rests upon it. Our forefathers have been accustomed to reverence it with a homage approaching to idolatry. All that is said and stated above must therefore affect us nearly. Our space at present presses upon us, but we shall take the earliest opportunity of recurring both to this subject and to the Westminster Review. " Without going at large into the excellence or defects of the institution of trial by jury. but assuming that so long as jades are appointed and promoted by the government, such an ins& tutioo is necessary as • check to the natural bias of their interests and inclination, and that the requisites just enumerated we es. menial to the formation of such a check, let us now see what is the existing practice in the appointment and remuneration of juries. With a few exceptions, provided by statute, all persons who have freehold or embold property to the amount of 101. a-year, or leaseholds determinable en lives to the amount of 201. a-year, ate qualified to serve as jurors in England .° In London, householders who have property to the amount of 1001. are qualified ; and in other cities, boroughs, and towns, which have 'game jurisdictions, householders who hare property to the amount of 401.1- Lists of the persons qualified are obtaineitaa follows. The Midsummer courts of quarter sessions issue warrants to the high cemstables of each hundred, ward, Le. requiring such constables, to Moue precepts to the several tithing men, petty conuabl es, he. within their respective constablewicks, to prepare a list of persons within their respe:tive predocts qualified to save se ju rors.: The tithingmen having prepared such lists, with the pia of abode and addition of every person named therein, and having fixed them on the door of the church daring two Bugdg drily them on oath at a petty swims the week alter M . • the lists are then delivered to the high constables , who remelt them to the October quarter session'; the clerks of die peace Ore utter these lists on record, sod deliver duplicates of them to the sheriff of the county.§ Qualified persons omitted, and unqualified paeans Inserted in the lists, may appeal to the quarter sessions; sod unqualified persons may be challenged for want of qualification. 11 • Out of these lists the sheriff returns not less than 48, nee more than 72 names, for the service of each wise ; no person is to be returned who, in Middlesex, has served within two Onus or va cations next preceding,.--in other counties, within twojean, ex. cept in Yorkshire, where the interval between two returns of the same person must be four years ; in Rutland only one : the sheriff is bound to keep a register of such jurors as have served, and, up on application, to give certificates of service. ¶ The names returned by the sheriff to the assize* are directed to be written on distinct pieces of parchment or paper, of equal size, and delivered to the judge's marshal ; the marshal is directed to roll them up, each in the same manner, in • box provided for the purpose ; and when any cause comes on to be tried, some indiffer tut person is to draw out 12 of the parchments or papers ; and if any juror whose name is drawn does not appear or is challenged, the drawing is to be continued until twelve are obtained. at Jurors thus appointed are called common jurors; and the remu. aeration for their services is, in London, a shilling for each cause they try ; in the country, eight-pence. There are two modes by which the check proposed In the ben union of jury-trial may be done sway : first, by a select* of per sons for jurors whose opinions and interests are the same 'as those jof the udge; recondly, by making it the interest of the juror, whatever his own opinions may be, to ad upon the declared or sup. posed opinion of the judge. /Cow it is scarcely possible that either of these modes should be applied where a jury is cor.stituted in the way we have just described. With respect to the fi rst mode, the office of sheriff continuing only for • year, it is by no means cm airs that the sheriff for the time being would feel disposed to peek the gross list of 48 which he returns to the assizes ; but should sheriff be occasionally so disposed, the necessity he is under of re turning jurors by rotation, and not oftener than once in two years, must render it a matter of uncertainty whether he could find for his gross list 48 men, or a majority of that number, suited to his Pu aT e. respect to the second mode, the emolument attached* service being so small, and the service being so transient, it is im possible a man should have such an interest in the situation of juror as should induce him, from the fear of losing it, to give an unconscientious verdict. Juries thus constituted, being therefore but an intractable ma chine, it was contrived to attach to the office of juror an emolu ment so considerable and so permanent as to insure the juror's de. votion to any party whose displeasure might deprive bins of a eons petent livelihood. The machine thus rendered tractable and called a e ltial jury, appears to be of recent origin . So late as in the year l an men non is made of special juries in the books of practice. t in the 23d of Charles If. the Court of King's Bench eni. d (that '.s. opus. pingly legislated) " That upon affidavit that the canoe to be via at the bar is of very grcar onasequenee, the Court will, if they sew cause, make a rule for the Officer of the Court to Name Mires. holders.' At that time, then, special juries could only be had in trial at bar, and on consent of both parties. The rule 8 IV. 3., whereby it was ordered, that „ upon reference by the court to their officer to return any jury, or to return 48 statcrame persons to try any issue at bar, if the attorney on one side shall make default to attend at the time appointel, the officer shall name the jury," must apply to cases where the attorney made default after consent t fee in Baster term 10 Geo. I. it was found upon search that no special jury had been granted for 31) years then last past, without consent. (11 likes v. Eames, Antic. 62.) The usurpation which at this time was confined to trials at bar, must be extended to other cases in the reigns of Queen Anne and George L, and the emolument attached to the situation of special juror must have become considerable and permanent ; tor in the third year of George 11. the statute was passed which prohi bits juimaien from serving oftener than mice in two yeentO, stating, as the cause of its er.actment, " the evil practice used in Me tor. roping , firrtor ;" and in the 24th year of George 11. the statute which (after reciting :hat " complaints are frequently made et the great and extravagant fees paid to jurymen") bonus the fee of a special juryman to a guinea a cause. Here then, notwithstanding two statutory recognitions of the. mischief of attaching permanent profit to the situation of juror, the Legislature confirms the usurpation of the Court of King's Bench ? Why ? unless it foresaw that the enactment with respect to the rotation of jurors would be eluded::, and that jurors, per •l3 Ed. I. e. 3K 4&5 W. & Al. c. 25. s. IS 3 0. 4. c. 35. , 5. 111. t ..... 3 0.2. e. 26. 5.19. 23 11. 8. e. 13. 3G.2. e. 25. s. 20. +3 & 5 Ann. e. 18. s. 5. 3G. 2. C. 23. 17 and 8W.3. e. 32, a. 4. 30.2. e. 25, 1. 2. 3 and 4 W. and M. c. 25, s. 15. 3 G. 2. co. 25, s. 8. lb. a. 4. 4G. 2. c. taZ G. 2. c. 7. $. 2. 30. 2,c. 211, s. 3.. .._ •• 3 0,3: c. . 8. 4. 11. and 12 . t-t• By 40.2. c. 7. the rotation in Middlesex is ordered*, be not more frequent than once within two terms or vacations. In 1793, the Court of King's Bench held that the Act ems not apply t) rpstelal juries, where the Crown le a party. R. 1. Perry, bT. R. 44. And also, In 1731, Liil. Y. Rest. Franklin, ib. 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