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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. CSAutAN PAPERS. AUGSBURG, JULY 14 Our Overlie of to.day h.is the follewiuK article, as der the hold of Cail•rtilie :—" la the sitting of i'.e Second Chandier of the 30th Jane, M. Tuehreu. 1-11 the inojert of on Ordinance ..r tl , e S ivrrei4n, concerning the abolition of vie office of t h e b►illiage, and the transfer of their f,inct 'oils to other% The Government had, therefore, respect. curt the wishes of the Second Chom. tier, which had not vet began its discussion of the 'notion made on t!,e subject' by M. Toehrenbach. 'it is remarkable tl.at this Deputy has received • •.otter addressed to him, with the post-mark of Statgard, luth June, of tne following contents To the Depnty Tnehreatrich.—Man! thou who retest, aad tbinkett to live longer, listen! 11C--e (Kotzebue) iyolie against a whole nation. and he is dead; thou who i , oeskest against a single clue, cad seekest to plunge it i■ misery, think or the existence T. Other Deputies have received similar letters, as ti!so Mr. Broilhag, Counsellor of Archive', and Editor of the Messenger of the Chambers, who has printed in hit Journal this curious paper, with the consent- of Mr. Toebrenbach. M. Kern, deputy from Friburg, who made a motion for the •holition of the offices of the high foresters, is stated to have received • letter, conceived in very harsh terms, from a pyrson holding a high office in the adminis. tration of the forests. It is said that the officers of the Grand Onc.il Forest will complain in a body of the imputations of rapacity, neglect of duty, &c. • hich are alleged against them, in the motion in qiiestion. All the pipers of Protestor Oken, at Jens, were put wider seal on the £9th June, by Commissioners or the Police, who came from Weimar. SAXONY, JULY 8. It is said that the Princess (the third daughter of bride of the King of Spain, will set out fur Madrid in August, and the tnarriage of Mince Frederick with the Archduchess of Austria be solemnised in the month of September, at Schoenbrunn. VIENNA, JULY 9. Accounts from Pe►ugia, of 30th June, say, that t! . e health of the Archduchess Caroline improves it .1!y, so thus it is most likely no further change will r..ke place in his Majesty's determination to leave Perugia nu the sth, sleep at Avt zzo, stay there the C.!t, aril arrive at Florence nn the 7th. Lord Guildford, son of the celebrated Prime Nil:Aster Lord North, who has made several journies Greece, has pursed through this city on his any t.s Lowlon, fit in Athens and Corfu, to which I-land he went in the course of the winter, with Count Capu d'lstria.—(Frankfort Gazette, July it;.) and energetic, in causing Once the 7th instant) the papers of several atatkots I.rre to be seised Some attests have taken place ; stool others, • Doctor, who came from Jena, still applied to he Doctor I.egius its this University, is conAtietl. On one of the persons errestitlyeri copies of a revolutionary poem tort appeared some time ago. Since then several daggers have been futtud.—(Hatabargla Correspondent, July 16 !AIM PAIIIERN. PARIS, JULY 19. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr. Minister or War. is shout to quit the oaten of Nevis, which, it iv 'mid, have been very beneficial to his healih. Sir M. Constable M ixwell, of Scotch descent, died suddenly at Abbeville, on the 30th ult. After the funds, ceremony, which was performed with great pomp, according to the Catholic ritual, Miss Maxwell walked round her father's coffin, and kiss ed it several times. Since the Ist of January last, there have been killed in the department of the Gironde, 14 male, 6 she wolves, and 89 cubs. We have received intelligence from Soissons, that the collector of tuxes in the commune of Vissignieux has just put an end to his existence, after astiassi• listing two persons who were deputed to examine his account.. This collector, whose name was De Toussy, had been in urrear in his remittances. The receiver sent two of his clerks, the Sieur Berthemet, • Quarter-master on half-pay, and the Sieur Brin quant, ex.militoire, to look into Isis off►cial affairs. On their arrival at the residence of Dr. Toussy,• he invited them to breakfast with him; and leas , . ing them under pretext of going for his books, he returned witl► a double-barrelled fowling-piece. shot Berthemet dead on the spot, and mortally wounded Briliquant, who died some hours after vtards. The assassin then went into another room and shot himself. He had taken the precaution to send his wife to Soissons, and to remove his ser vant. The Sieur Berthemet, it is said, had no other property than his salary of 1,200 francs per annum, a►►d be has left destitute a wife and six children. Various rumours relative to this dreadful event are in circulation. Some, without attempting to deny this atrocious assassination, announce, that De Toussy suspected, that the persona who were sent to examine his accounts, were anxious to get appointed in his place ; and others blame the re ceiver. We have not details minute enough to in dime us to offer an opinion on this deplorable af-' fair; but doubtless very amide information wilt shortly demonstrate who ought to be lamented or censured.—( Le Conslitationel.) THE BRITI Sit PRESS'. FLANDERS AND HAMBURGH MAILS. BRUSSELS, JULY 18. It is affirmed that several Dignitaries of the Order of Malls are going to Carlsbad, in Bohemia. It is thought they will make fresh representations to the Ministers who are to assemble in that town, for the purpose hi obtaining the Sovereignty of an ',land in the letliterronean ; it is added, that they have some hopes of obtainiug the island of Elba. It would be curious to see the banners of the:OrdiT of St. John of Jerusalem hoisted in the very island to which Napoleon, the destroyer of the Order was 11.1111Alieil. Thirty-two pigeons, with the word Antwerp, marked too their wing', have been carried to Lan dfill, where they were let loose on the 11th of this month, at stern o'clock in the morning, after leieing had their wings countermarked with the ward London. The same day, towards noon, one of these f.pilliful animals arrived at home, and ob tained die hest prize; a quarter of an h•ur Liter a to!cond arrived, and obtained the second prise. The l'ext dAy 12 others returned, making 14 in all. The e ie..4, which are very considerable, will be dig ulappited to-morrow (Sunda)), at Antwerp. It is not with any intention of establishing a corm between London and Antwerp (as the I' uis Journ..ls 'pretend) that those pigeons were sent to Loudon. bat merely for the purpose of seeing Brent retuiu. BERLIN, JULY 13. thir lirvellapers or to-day contain the following nrlide : The measures which have been lately taken in several places, beth in Prussia end other countries. lin the further investigation of the secret drmocra tleal societies and intligues which have been disco twr 1, were occasioned by the receipt of must lin vent:int and complete proofs of their existence, and cf their revolutionary and even treasonable ten (*.Al. The i lan of Republican Constitutinis lose lirrn frequently discussed) intended fur (4erman3, has been seized. Hence it is evident ibkt the measures which have been determined upon a- x; not to be considered in the confined view of des. pontions 'adopted against students, or associations tiodents, as but few such are more or less lin. pilicatril, and hence affected by the measures in ques tion. It le plain that the public cannot yet be made isquointed nith the extensive and complicated re inAcatious i.f those demucratical intrigues, With: (int ,iujuring the important and beneficial of jrct 43 tett." • MAGDEBURG. JULY 13. mot at Schou'Loeb hair tilduerti 114 G.bereussait le adopt weasurti equally vitae , *e. LONDON. FRIDAY, JULY 23, Ism. It is very manifest, from the tone and temper with which the Ministerial Papers speak of the Meeting held on Wednesday, in Smithfield, that they were disappointed, and even somewhat dis pleased at the orderly and peaceable conduct of the people on that occasion. The language used was by half too tame, it wanted the high sea soning of sedition to satisfy their pal a t e s, an d as fur the people, they were provokingly well behaved, and afforded no opportunity of proving the admir able precautions that had been adopted to prevent riot ! If public Meetings continue to be held in the spirit which has animated those of Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, and Smithfield, and if the crowd will resolve upon dispersing in quiet to their aid to the patient pursuit of their ordinary avocations, the admirable utility of a standing army will cease to be felt ; and who can tell what per verse turn might be given to such an untoward cis• cuinstance in Parliament by those who profess ouch old.fashimied sentiments as once taught English men to look with jealeury upon a military force, cud to repose with confidence for safety in the civil power of the country it Should the House of Com mons once stumble upon the idea that the present standing army was wholly starless for preserving do• mystic tranquillity, while its existeoce aggravated the suffering* of the people, the consequences idglit be fatal to a Ministry who are altogether supported by patronage, and to obviate such a ca 'amity, every opportunity should be seized to prove the advantages which mu►t be derived from the exercise of military force. The scheme of arresting liAllalFON in the mid•t of 50,000 people. was calculated to presient a golden opportunity ; fur who could have imagined that so many people, with their minds in a stale of strong excite.. merit, would have suffered one of thcii leaders to be arrested at such a moment, and even the small number of the constables dispatched for that pu►- pose, ►eemed almost to court opf•osition. The for bearance of the people, however, defeated the ma •u ovre. A yeti:Hui posse of constables entered the crowd soon afterwards, but they could not succeed in creating is riot. We ore informed by on Evening Treasury Print, streaking on the subj. et wnli bet omit g indignation, that when the LORD MAYOII had counterriget4l 'the warrant for HARRISON'S ',lliadic:trim*, and had 'mud (mitts for Lit creat at SO critical a moment. . 1 1 Mr. Alderman edlered the room where I his Lordship was sitting, and reinonstikted with him on the danger of trying such an eiperintent ' upon the tioiliier of the people; but that the LORD MAYOR, " with becoming firmness." replied, that he cotiirdered it lite duty to Ode hie' aptarlienrion, he would not'Arink from the realam. sibilett of discharging that (hay. lie Was even so impolite as to inform the aforesaid Alderman, that I.e slid not sit there to be dictated to by him, and that if hr hidr nothing else'ter soy, Ai might /ears the room! Mr. IVAITHMAN repeated his protest, and the LORD MAYOR repeated kis permission for him to retire, which be accordingly did, muttering something which nobody heard." In what the " becoming &moose' of the LORD MAYOR con sisted, we really are at a loss to conjecture, for it will not be pretended that HARRISON might not have been watched during the continuance of the Meeting, and hate been arrested after the people had dispersed, with no less advantage to the cause of public justice. Some of the details of this story must surely be incorrect, for it is impossible to believe that the LORD MAYOR would offer a gross insult to v filspistiate, who certainly did not transgress the strict limits of duty, in offering pus advice on a circumstsi.ce which, without much appearance of improbability, wee likely to be attended with very serious coorequences to the peace and property of the capital, affecting, too, the lives of many per sons, and whose entice, in this instance, could have been dictated by no other motive than a sin cere desire to preserve the general tranquillity of the City. The LORD MAYOR probably ielied, with well-founded confidence, on his own strength, for preventing violence to the property and lives of the peaceful citizens; but he must acknowledge, that had the arrest of Hammon strongly excited the indignation of the multitude and driven them to nets of violence, attended with massacre and plun der, his responsibility" would have contributed but little towards redressing the evil, or affording compensation to the sufferers for the death of vela. fives or the destruction of property. It is curious to observe the mighty degree of importance which the friends of Ministers attribute to the steps that were taken during the last Session of Parliament to t to the ancient currency.— They look upon this solitary proceeding as a panacea for all the disorders of the State, as if the Report of the Bonk Committee could give food to the hungry or employment to the distressed. We are not disposed to take from the proceedings on this dif ficult and interesting question the importance which really belong to them, but we are not inclined to give much credit to Ministers for those proceed ings—to have delayed them any longer was impos sible. To make some advances towards a return to cash payments was a measure of such imperious necessity, us to be deliyed only by men blind to every consideration of policy and of duty. To say the truth, however, the Minister avoided the sub ject as long as it was possible to avoid it; it was only when it pressed on him at every side—when the public alarm was excited in the extreme—it was only in the fourth year of peace, when any further delay would have appeared ridiculous and indecent, that the Minister entertained the subject at all. Driven at length to a reception of the measure, he exaggerates its merit, he anticipates the success of a plan which has not been tried. He makes it the theme of the Speech from the Throne, as if the country expected nothing else from Ministers, as if this solitary proceeding could tend in any man ner to compose the discontents, or to relieve the dis tresses of the nation. That these distresses are considerable, that it is very difficult to remove or even to ameliorate them, we willingly allow. Unfortunately for this country, its affairs have been too long managed by the pre sent Ministers, and by those whose system they too faithfully follow, to admit of immediate amend. went, even if they had the dispo4ition to retrace their steps. Far, however, are such intentions from the pre sent Servants of the Crown. Consistent only in their indifference to reputation, and their love of place, they keep is the even tenonr of their way" —they preserve ancient abuses—they resist all ap. prowls to reformation—with au artifice familiar to confined minds, they attempt to impose on the plain sense of the country, but they only discover their want of capacity and of candour. Thus tiwy 'Affect io feel for the distresses of the people; and what mode of relief do they prupo•e ?—additional taxation ! thus they deplore the progress of discon tent, whilst they utterly neglect all means that might tend to remove it. During the entire Ses sion they heard of nothing but the complaints and murmurs of the people—they saw nothing but the evidence of the country's decline—still they re niaiued firm and insensible as the benches on which they sat. Depending on the rank majorities which have alike supported their hest measures and their worst, they have proceeded without remorse and without fear ire that di►astrous course which has brought the country to the very brink of ruin. Amidst the progress of misery and of discontent, they were, we believe, the only men in the natiou who strewed a total apathy—not even an attempt has been made by them to retrieve our declining affairs. Barren in every thing but in numbers, they looked on the storm aidh an indifference which brspoke their consciousness of safety. Aidtd by f r , . w. 11 Ni '*, N \ what Sir P. Iko abtrt eallesi lile Warta twin of office," their arrogance iwe'reilserl with; for it could not have exceeded, the calaiiitierof Oceanus. try. To such a height indeed did this spirit carry them, that they—thy who have ever been distils: gutihed fop all the vicissitudes of political life—they who re• makted unmoved in their places, after the Perlis ment.itielrhed voted them incapable's-4W' trig . men, eirctwo or three distinct occasions dnring•the• last Session, vauntingly &chafed, that their exist ence as Ministers depended upon the vote of the night. So they declared on Mr. TiEttNue's mo tion—so they repeated on the imposition of die new taxes. Would they have indelged in this empty and unmeaning declamation if they enter tained a doubt of support and success—if, in fact, questions of public policy had not been virtually decided before they were discussed ? To out minds a stronger proof of the want of any thing like independence' in the present Douse of Com. mons cannot be adduced. That House hie Pepini rated without performing one•act that could gain the public confidence. The Ministers, we pre sume, have retired to enjoy the delights of their beds of roses, whilst the country exhibits a scene that would alarm the stoutest heart. Discontent pre. vails from one extremity of the nation to the other, aggravated as it is by the keenest bitings of po verty, and the bitterest feelings of disgust and di*. appointment. Such is the situation to which England is at length reduced—England, whese former state of solid glory, of internal happiness, of genuine loy. ally, and constitutional freedom, appear perhaps the more truly great, whets contrasted with the state of wretchedness, of discontent, and humilia tion, to which she is now reduced. We have received Paris Papers of Monday last. Accounts from Lausanne give some notice of the affairs that occupy the Diet of Switzerland. A Concordat was 'proposed, permitting marriages to be contracted between persons professing different religions, which was acceded to by the Cantons of Zug and Geneva, but rejected by those of Uri, Schwitz, Underwald, Appenzel. and Vallais. A proposition proceeding' from Berne, that the off spring of marriages contracted between persons of different religions should, without any exception, be educated according to the faith of their fathers, was also rejected, as a matter belonging to the inter nal economy of each Canton. On the contrary, a de sire expressed by Zurich was adopted, that those Cantons in which such marriages ere prevented, should modify their penal laws, and no longer pu nish by banishment and loss of civil rights those who may contravene the existing ordinances. The Cantons of Zug, the Grimm', and Tessino, have ennounced their adhesion to the Concordat, which declares that change of religion shall no longer be punished by deprivation of civil rights. The French Government continuer from time to time to place on active service some of the retired officer■. The Gazette de Frame states, that four teen of these unemp'oyed officers hi the three de partments composing the I I tlo military division, have received orders to join different corps. Sir ROBERT WILSON has arrived in Paris. Accounts from Marseilles state, that 150 Cache mere goats have arrived there. The harvests pro- mise well in the South of France, but Marseilles is 1 , encumbered" with *heat sent from Odessa and Genoa. The tow price at which it is sold reduces the husbandman to despair. Flanders and Hamburgh Mails have arrived, bringing Brussels Papers to the 19th of July.— They notice an expectation which is said to be en tertained by the Dignitaries of the Order of Malta, that the Knights of Saint John will sac ceed in obtaining from the Sovereigns of Europe the absolute posse•Kion of the bland of Elba. Accounts from Berlin speak of the discovery of some secret societies in the Prussian territories of • revolutionary tendency, and stale that several arrests have in consequence been made. The votaries of literature in Germany have fur some time been con sidered the most dangerous enemies to the existing institutions, and oat every occasion when we are ap prised of conspiracies and cabals against the State, we are sure of finding students and professors of the universities accused of being deeply implicated its such transactions. Yesterday morning Mr. KROUSE, the extra fo reign meviienger, arrived in town with dispatches from Italy. . . Viscount SIDSIOUTH had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. An Evening Paper, %hick lately stated as a report that the plague hail broken out at Moga dore, has contradicted the rumour on the authority of advice. from the British Vice-Consul resident at that place, of the 6th of June, which make no mention of arty such event having taken place. Extract from a letter from Genoa, dated 10th instant :—" Several vessels have arrived here since the 3d instant, from different parts of the coast of Spain, but they do not seem to confirm the report which hiss been circulated of a rupture between the Algerities and Spain." The East India Company's outward•bound ship the Mar*, if Ely, which parted company with the Larkins oil the coast of Portugal, was, in le. 7. 54. N. bong. 21. 10. W. on the 43d May, 911 well. The Nellie Castle, alter parting company with the Lord Castlereagh, as mentioned in former accounts, fell in with the Alurvtis of Ely, end kept company with her until they strived off the island of Madeira. \ ' :sl%\s. ' l• — • t t, r . • ;il-• s ' kl 0 r'w ontbniji STAI\ZAS • ii Caiiiit *air& vue . oiicitese IMO, at mre;l4 . lllK itoOrr's NOP Are, nor Orleans, but front Caihtires plain Tlwu coned, to animate us on to strife Against the foes of Virtue's sacred nitro. And raise the fainting seal& to petite and life : Vice (like the Regent Redford *) 1,14,W0 ihe And, wondering, sees her votaries shrink with fear, Peepteed, araaa'd, the stands whoa /Imagers Encompass round, to stop her dread career— Thy conquest is ensor'd, fair Juan, then per Daughters of Britain, love thy modest g:11 , , Thy gentle mien, thy sympathising mind. Thine eyes isthackney'd in the dimming rays Of impudence and levity ennjoited— Foe in thy looks soft virtars are v1)61168.'41, They see and feel them like the noontide aro, To thee a worthy part has been assignA Urge forward in the essatchlrss woik begun— To thine is earth and Heater a crown may still be won ' Sqjvolk-street. H. CAMPBELL. + Commander of the English Forces in Franey 'dun it - Mond of Orleans ruse the avenging Angel of bre country. LINES EXTEM POR E TO LADY VANE STEWART, ATTIRSO AA DIANA WITH DART', AT THE RAGEIIIII WALL. Fair Dian, lay all darts aside, And recollect you're now a bride, Nor more uccasion pain! Nor torture wantonly our beasts-- Your purse hild ',glee ten 0101111111.1 earts, Tea thousand it has slain! Though if a purse you'd ue'rr possess 'd, Or aught but what is is your breast, Yet H bas there instilled— What had sot pitted ten thousand hearts Or cop'd with poor ten thousand dsrts-- A million it kia.l killed' Sttffulh•street, Friday. CAHOLAN. FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES. The Duke and Duchess of Roland, from their how., in Arlington-street, on Wednesday, for France. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tsvistuck and for their seat, Oakley Hoese, Bedfordshire. Viscuraut and Viscorintees Downe. from their Cheat...street, Berkeley.square, to their best, Curvii k ilal Siwalik Yorkshire. Lady Grantham and family, on Wednesday, fur their seal. Newby Hall, Yorkshire. Lady Smith, yesterday, o■ a visit to the Hon. Mrs. Mu yon, at her seat, Enclefield. near Reading, Berks. Lord sod Lady Ducie and family, fur their seat in Glom eestershire. Earl and Counten Shavers, fur their seat is Notting hamshire. Sir John and Lady Grey Egerton, for the Isle of Night. Laird and Lady Henniker sad family, fur Broads's 1(4 Frank Standish, EMI. from the Clareudun Hotel, Run& street, yesterday, for Worthing. Earl and Countess Furtescue ■nd family, fur their seat in Devonshire. Lord Padhierstuu, for big seat Broadlaud, war Rummy, Hunts. Yesterday the PRINCE RECENT, Prince LEO. poLD. &c. dined with the Duke mud Duchess of Youit, lit York-house. The Duke of YORK slid Duchess of GLOUcES. TER Irositrd the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. The Princess AUGUSTA arrived in town yesterdsy afternoon, shout fonr o'clock, at the Queen's Pi ker, Goo) NVindsor, attended by Miss Dissitowc. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the Duchess Of YORK yesterday. Yeaterdivy the Duchess of YORK took an siring in her curricle, Last night Prince LEOPOLD had a numerous party at Marlborough-house. Yesterday being the aooiversarc of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of GunicasTEn. their Royal Highnesses celebrated the happy retorts of the day by having a numerous party at dinner at Gloucester-house. The P • • oats AUGUSTA and SOPHIA ride out daily in Windsor Park. Lord HENLEY, as a member of the Di„l t e o r Youies Council, is iu attendance tin the liiNt; at WissOvor. • The Duchess of Rtcostotro and the ladies LEN nox will leave town to r few days for Ilriehton. Lord and Lady GRANARD nod family hate 11... rived at Fenton's Hotel, Sr. James's -stied, Iran their seat, Forbes Cagle, Ire laud. The Secretary of the Admiralty having fAilerl in his attempt to discoeer the mouth of doe Scheldt, it is said, hopes to redeem his character by a voyage of discovery to the North Pole. The Earl sod Countess of LON i DALE, and Lady MARY LOWTHER, arrived at Lowther Castle iiie Wednesday, aud at Wlntehaven Castle on Saturday evening. Lady MELVILLE arrived at Carlton Hall nn Sunday se 'ght, and the Right Hon. 'lntruxs WA LL ACE out Tuesday last. The 5101 in St. Jimmies Park •promises to reco ver seine of the fashion which it enjoyed shout 41 . ) years ago. Our &gauges, invited by the shelt.r of its trees, now make it part of their daily ride 4.r drive, *so their excursions through the Parks. The Duke of Wst.t.inorou and party CM horseback. Lord and Lady GitANVILLI, the Marchioness of Dowastitac. &c. in open carriages, honoured ►t yesterday with their presence. A Clergymen one Sabbath, in his sermon, had been supporting the doctrine, that " whatever is right," and, that " what Goo had made, was well made." One of the Overseers of the parish, who had a protuberant back, and was short .t.. 41 crooked, followed him out of the church, and in the porch thus addressed him:—" If all things', Sir, are well made, how came I not to be 'so ?" The Parson instantly ascertaining the mensuration of Iris figure, told him, that he considered him wtll made for a cripple. w is RI f.. Xi ill C Mt 11 tie al t