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F . f BRIGHTON CAFENDISH DINNER. lt was to be expected that Brighton, which stands among the foremost of the towns of Sussex, for independence of spirit, would at the present crisis hail with joy the opportunity of displaying its at• -techinret to those political principle* that • are at once allied to loyalty and patriotism—priiietples which eon alone resider the kingly office one of love and veneration, end bestow substantial soil itopartisl benefits on the country. Mr. Challes Compton Cavendish has, under the auspices of has Noble Hither, dined by invitation with Isrge hodurs of freeholders in the most populous towns of the roomy. Brighton took its turn on Thursday last. when 200 persons, chiefly inhabitants, sot down to an rseellent dinner. provided for the ta•cssion. at the Old Ship Teveru, in cosijusiction with the Royal York lintel. K. 11. HURRT, Esq. presided. On the removal of the cloth, and alter Non Noble Domino had been given by tome professional Gentlemen pre sent, the Chairman rose, •nd prefaced the first toast be was shoat to propose by allusions to the private acts of munificence which distinguished wir beloved Sovereign, mud its which the inhabitants of Brighton bad so largely participated ; he was, there fore, coirvinced that it would be received with emu tims of heartfelt gratitude. Mr. Hurst then gave, " King, and may Le never forget those principles eh;, h placed hM family on the throne." it was rapturously drunk with War times four." Ti. e n e s t mast was—" The Queen and Royal Family," will f..ur times four. . . heti followed —" The Navy and Army," with three times three. The CILIUM/1N role to propose the health or Car Mr. HURST observed, that lie could not sole (lovely describe the merits of the illustrious family to which the object of his toast had the honour and havpiriess to belong. The annals of our country k...re attestation of those merits; and, in referring to them, it was impossible that lie could be charged leith flattery. History informed him that the House cf . Cavendish had ever stood forward in the vindi cation of the rights of the people. At the period if _the Revolution the Earl of Devonshire was one of the moss active in bringing about the glorious cliange of system which had then become neces sary. At an earlier epoch, when the patriot, Rus .4% saffered, the House of Cavendish signalized itself by it. exertions in favour of liberty. Never clod it cease to oppose itself to despotism and op pression. Arid, up to the present moment, it has - observed the same honourable and consistent course. When, recently, the independence of this county was onward, it generously came forward in its Oefeirce. Aud though we had not the good .. fortune Its Oat. 'lr. Cavendish in the situation ai . our Representative in Parliament, yet we ' may most satisfactorily account for it on the r,. , t i s that the promises of many freeholders had beeri obtained in favour of our opponents, before Mr. Cavendish put forward his claims to their sup port. The worthy Chairman expressed his regret that the present crisis should be pregnant with ire stoners of political apostacy, several of which dis graced this county. The versatile might not, per . hip-, be pleased with the m tonous character of them poliiical dinners; but be thought that this war thew most honourable trait. Uniformity of semi merit respecting the Constitution almost necessarily presi•rilped one set form of language—and *sato logy, therefore, in such a case, ought to be a sub j.,. of exultation. The worthy Chairman con • elud..ll by proposing— .. The health of Mr. Csvendiab, the Candidate at the late El, cowls for this county," and which was drunk with three tom,. three. .Jr. CAVENDISH begged to return his sincere thanks for au honour, which he could not help i thinking was beyond what lie deserved. lie would, bui.uver, endeavour to ►ender himself worthy of the high opinion which his friends at Brighton so kindly entertained of his late conduct ; and would feel proud iii availing himself, the first opportunity that offe►ed, of their generous exertions to obtain O. object of his ambition. The CHAIRMAN robe to perform another most plea-ing duty. After adverting to the distressed tits" e of our agriculture, manufactures, and corn m.-rue, Mr. Hurst asked, whether those who had all along strenuously and unceasingly opposed the measures which produced this distressed state, were out pre-emineartly entitled to the thanks of the rummy ? Among the most prominent of this noble and enlightened baud of patriots (observed tie worthy Gentleman) is Lord George Cavendish. It was to their efforts, and to the example which thy inspired, that we way attribute the preserve thin of the liberties which► yet remain to us.— Their aim bad been pure and consi►tent—the sup port of the just prerogatives of the Crown, and tar maintenance of the rights of the people.—Al►. flirt here condemned the measures pursued by itie English Government at the eve of the French Revolution, measures to which, in a great degree, lie thought might be traced our present difticultie►. ii (Idr. H.) was not so wedded to prejudice as to he satisfied with nothing but a Vl'hig Admiuistra two. lie would sirprove of any Administrat►on that should adopt a line of policy calculated to restore the public prosperity, and to maintain the rank of Britain in the scale of uatious, tie concluded by proposing " The health of ass of the staunchest patriots in the country--tmrd George Ceveudieh," w h ic h was drunk u, the sti"st ruthusiustie manner, with three times titter. Lord GEORGE immediately rose, and thanked the company fur su marked a oestiosony in favour of the Trim-toles he deemed it his duty to espouse. He assured them that he would steadily follow the couri.e he had begun. While lie acknowledged the spirit, the zeal, the energy, which they had display. rd during the late strustgle, he could spot help ad ;erns% to the cause which had produced that strug gle. The coslitiou formed by Mr. ITurrell and Mt. Comers seas hostile tee the free exercise of their elective franchise, and had the wound effect of rousing every mind that valued freedom and bode. penitence. the lesson taught those Gentlemen would, he hoped, protect the county agaiu.t the re currence of such au evil. Should it. however, be ottempted. be felt touvinced that the spirit they all 14 ! ssee.ed would peevesit its success. The free holders. should ever find him ready. The sisclepeo - dencivsl the county would. probably, it uo very astiat 'veiled, be put to the test. lie die cot , • doubt lost that they wnuld persevere in the honour able path whirl, they had clumen. If they did per severe, he promised than siscress. " AU that I can sap (i•linerved his Lordship) is, that you shelf ever find use at my Imo, and that you may rely on tiny most awl most active co-operation." llis Lord.hip's address, which was tittered in the most deliberate and emphatic turtmer, Was succeeded by peals''' . applause. The Chairman, after an eutogium to the tratirreinlent talents of that immortal statesman, and holding forth his public tirtues as a guide to all modern aspires to senatorial fame and useful ness. iirn polled " To she Memory or Charles James Fox." 'horn forliowril " The Cause of Civil and Religious Liberty throughout the Wurld" Sir GoDFIEY WEBST/ta begged to !propose a toast. The Hon. Baronet said, that he was one of thrive who did themselves the honour, rod Mr. Cavendish the justice, of supporting his interests at the I , ste election contest, in a manner which they conceived to be the most effectual tie emoting success—it was by giving him plumliers. He would therefore propose " The 1,579 Plumper.," which wa■ drunk with the greatest applause. Major ALLEN, in proposing the health of Sir God Irry \Vebste►, spoke in just terms of coniters dation of the worthy Baronet's conduct while in Parliament. He described Sir Godfrey as having done Isis utmost in stemming the torrent of curruiN. lion, and upholding the liberties of the people. The remembrance of those exertions was deeply ma►- pressed upon the hearts of the freeholders of Sussex. Thegallaist Major then gave— " Sir Godfrey Webster," which was drunk with three times three, the hurras bring most tremendous. The Honourable Baronet returned thanks for the very frietully, warm, and affectionate manner in which his health had been drunk. In withdrawing from the late contest, Sir Godrey declared himself to have been actuated by motives rather of a public than a private nature. It gave him pain to relinquish an object of noble and laudable ambition; but he only relinquished it from a conviction that the prin ciples which he represented would, in the contest which threatened him, find a more able defender in the person of Mr. Cavendish. That prudence had Rome share in producing his determimeion to re. sign, he readily acknowledged ; for lie held it to be next to an impossibility fur a man who was not in dependent in his circumstances, while is. Parliaineot, long to maintain hi. political integrity. It was, therefore, a duty which he owed to the freeholders, as well as a duty which he owed to himself, to take the step he did. The worthy Baronet here, with a sensibility honourable to Isis nature, described the feelings of attachment be entertained for Brighton, it was connected with the earliest recollections of his infancy, and of that " happy period" (as Sir Graffiti expressed it) which passes between, and combines youth and manhood. At the last election the free holders of Brighton, by the most spontaneous amid disinterested exertions in his behalf, gave the lie to the declaration of Mr. Curties, that he no longer held the same place iii their esteem. The worthy Baronet informed the company of certain slander ous expressions which we understood him to im pute to one of the M.P.'s most conurcted with this comity—some of those exprervions were we follow— " that had Mr. Cavendish been elected it would have been by the fag-ends of certain towns, sorb as Brighton, IVorthing, Arundel, Horsham, Lewes, Rye, &c. and " that nobody in future would look on a purple and pink ribbon without thinking of the mob of Brighton." Sir Godfrey strongly animad verted on the conduct of the two county Mem bers in the affair of the Civil List. ," If," said the worthy Baronet " it were its my power to make Ali ;listen; conform to any three demands I choose to make of them, my first demand should be for economy, my second should be economy, and my third should be economy." The worthy Baronet saw no such' spirit in the present Administration. Its late conduct in opposing Lord Hamilton's motion on the subject of the fifth Baron of Exchequer in Scotland uniiihilated every hope of relief iii that way. He saw nu end to taxation—no haven into which the vessel of the State could be conduct ed by those now in possession of the helm. The merchant,' were rilpidly falling into bankruptcy, the farmers, sod manufacturers, were equally loud in their complaints, and the whole country was filled with discontent. It was no remedy to past flesh penal !awe ; to cramp Englishmen's limbs, or to stop their months. Lenient, conciliatory measures were such only as were suited to their condition, and which alone offered the slightest chance of effecting an amendment of their affairs. It was too much to designate theiit complainiugs, as the effectof "igno rant impatience," when every thing was taxed that entered the mouth, covered the back, or that the foot trod upon—light and mutton—the waters on the earth, sod the waters tinder the earth—the Val man's slice, and the ixior mast's salt—the erlititie on the Judge's rube, and the rope that hung the criminal—the brass oasts ou the coffins of the dead, and the ribbatide which adorned the bride—when almost every thing was taxed, which we could hear, see, taste, swell, or feel. This state of thisigs could not very long exist. It was necessary that the Crown should change its ad visers if it would preserve the love mid respect of the people. Anothkr subject the worthy Baronet wished 'to allude to—that of Reform— he had devoted considerable attention to it, and, in consequence of that attention, lie had disused his mind ; for before lie had consider ed it, he was a mortal enemy to it; whereas, since he had done so, he was a complete stickler in it. cause. There were many persons who availed themselves of the argument, that rictus! represen tation is as good as actual representiou. Now he would bring this argument to the test. He would suppose u party of gcutlemeu, that had been en gaged in the pleaburesof the chase, to meet at a cer ium place fixed on to dine. Oat entering the room, they unsold find a party of Radicals seated at the, table rating the victuals prepared for thesis, and their remosistisinces nanist suds an uourpatiou and rubbery should • be 'Metered its this linistragi;, Why, Gentlemen. tbis is a virtue/ d isaster, we use dining our you." Tlae •utild. IN a great measure, apply to the present state rewards taboo. He was, however, for moderate Reform ; lie would nut be and away by popular clamour, our imposed upon by the seducing theories of political visionaries. Universal suffrage, of society was con. stituted in tt►u country, covld not be carried into effect without dislocating its whole frame, and pro. ducing insarelly and bloodshed. Nor was he friend ly to Amish,' Parliaments; though lie certainly wished them shorter than they were et preterit, fur frequent Parliaments offer an effectual check to profligacy or cirtrroption on the past of the Minis ters.—(Lord appluerse.l The Ctl&t•atstr introduced, with • just eels. " The Doke of Norfolk• and the Illastrious House of Howard." I.rwil GEORGE CAVENDISH proposed-- " The health or the ialsabitauta, and proeperily to the town of Brighton." Alter which Ivere given— " The Ladies George awl Catherine Cavendish, sad all the Ladies.of that Illustrious Horse; and—The 1,887 Voters fur Mr. Cavendish at the late Election." These, as well as the former toasts, were drunk with three time. three. Major DALBIAC rose to propose • toast. He slid not think that what had been lately said respecting keg parses, was exactly in good taste. He recollect ed an anecdote of the great Athenian Orator, who, from being a mighty declaimer in favour of liberty, 'suddenly became iii consequence of having taken • bribe from the enemies of his country it was during en important debate that this orator was called upon, sod 'species' to speak in Isis wonted style; best he pointed to hi. neck (from which was suspended a gold chain), anstsand he was hoarse—upon which it was observed, by one in the secret, that he had become hoarse by swallowing gold and silver the night before.—The Major gave— " Whig principles without 7'4 , y practice." Sir (ioDPREY WEBSTER begged to draw • de duction from the anecdote related 'somewhat dif ferent, or rather, to make a comparison between the Athenian Orator and some of our orators wider similar circumstances. So far from snaking them dumb, it made them speak, and not only SPEAR, but belie their consciences and betray their comm. tuents.—(Applause.) The toasts that ensued were— Colonel Portia, sad our friends who dined together at Chichester we the Ist of May"--and " Major Dalbiae, and our friends who dined together at Lewes us the llth of May." Major DALBIAC returned thanks in a most mos terly speech. The Major strongly animadverted on the attacks made by the late coalition on the poli tical, moral, and religious character of Sir G. Web ster, whom to denounce as the abetter of treason nod blasphemy, for the opposition he offered to the late restrictive and unconstitutional measures of Ministers, was, in fact, to stigmatize in the same foul manner the whole body of the Whigs, who were equally obnoxious to the said measures. The Major.paid some handsome compliments to the iug Cavendishes, and, in the language of a free man, eulogised the virtues of their ancestors. He also took a brief but an enlightened review of the circumstances in which the country is at present placed—observing that lie was warranted by the quantum of misery which existed, in drawing the conclusion, that, in the administration of public affairs, there was a versful departure from the woad principles of legislation. The health. of Mr. Hurst (the Chairman) and Sir H. Blackman, were drunk, and these Gentle men severally returned thanks. Those of Lord Robert Spencer and Earl Fitz william were also given, and, as well as those which preceded, drunk with enthusiasm. The last-mentioned toast called up Major Allen, who, ass freeholder of the county of York, felt pride in doing justice to the character of Earl Fitzwilliam, whom he described as a loyal, upright, high-minded, and patriotic Nobleman. The gal lant Major concluded by giving as a toast—" the Ladies of Sasser." The health of Major Allen was drunk with three times three ; as well as the healths of the Gentle men who formed the Dinner Committee. The health. of " Lady Webster"—" The Ladies of Brigh ton"—" Mr. H. Blitekatao'‘ (whose uaavoidable absence was greatly lamentedj—and of " Mr. Crewel Pelham," were severally drunk with three times three. The last and parting toast was " The purity of Election, mud may it never be smiled by democratic violence on one band, nor by an overbeariun pristocracy on the other." Lord GBDROK CAVENDUM, Mr. CAVENDISH, and Mr. Hoare, left the loom about twelve.— Major DALBIAC then took the Choir, and. support.. ed by Sir GODFREY Winrranand Sir H. BLACK MAN, kept the company in high constitutional order up to nearly two in the morning. SPAIN AND FRANCE. PARIS, MAY _22. The Spanish Government on the let of May sent the following note to M. Laval Montmorency. the French Ambassador at Aladrid:-- "The retest law, which rii.establisbes I. Frames moires censorship over all periodical works, evidently places them entirely at the disposal of Government; yet, fur all that, several of them have not ceased to display • spirit no hostile to Spain than inconsistent with the sentiments of the age in which we live. " The Spanish Government, equally strong in the glorious adhesion of a people worthy of the liberty fur which they are indebted to their King, and in its conscious recillaillef the principles which direct it, despises, as they deserve %s he despised those produetioas, at mos short-lived and vial, of • faction which, affecting not to understand the admen. tars of the political system established in their ow. mew try, continues to feed itself with chimeras, sad, breathing , out impotent desires, incessantly prays for the resurrection of superannuated inalitutioas, incompatiLle with the is. telligence of the age. At the same time the Spanish . Goverment cannot omit to call the attention of the enlightened Cabinet of his Most Christian Majesty to the wielaacholy results of seek culpable conduct, because it sees clearly that the object is to spread every where disquietude, fear, and distrust, by inventing stories of insurrection and dis oration, and by thus alsemiug Europe with the impious echo of their mischievous predictions. No one is better able than your Excellency, by the rank which you so worthily occupy, to appreciate how much bad faith and imposture such writers combine with the erroneous maxims of their polities. Tour Excellency, who sees Spaiu present • great spectacle of pease and concord, without any oilier alterations or difficulties than such as mast necessarily be felt in • slight degree in a numerous family which changes its plan of managing its domestic affairs--your Excellency, who is • witness of the sublime uniformity with which the Spanish people deelared for the constitutional system, which promises them number less days of tranquillity and of happiness- 7 liter Excellency, who doubtless observes with a penetrating eye the NOW, tendency of our fundamental Saws, which, far from being the product Of vain t heories,are derived fur the must part from our ancient laws of Castile, consecrated by time snit esperiesoe, and which are equally separated from despotism and from the fury of a sad densocraer—your Excellency, iu short, who doubtlearadenires the greatness of soul and the KING CHARM U. Airman:l.—Hotslay at all the Public OERem - THE intrli Sit PRESS. LON DON, MONDAY, MAY eg, 1820. Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday last have arrived at our office. The High Court of Peers has detennisied the preliminary questions with regard to the trial of Looted, and of eighteen 'other persons, charged as being his accomplices. Of these, seven are dismissed, as there existed with respect to• them no trace of criminality ; six others am dismissed for want of sufficient proof; and the Whiter five are remitted to the discretion of the ArrolxeyGENEalL. as sufficient cause might be • found to proceed upshot them for other offences iu 'the inferior Courts, althoogh there was no ground fur prosecuting them before the High Court .of Peers. Louvet alone is put in a stale of atersatioa, sod the commencement of his trial. is fixed for Monday, the sth of June. This prisoner has since this decree undergone u new examination. The reading of essays on the law of elections still continues iu the Chamber of Deputies, and will probably be continued for some days larger. M. Cuing', as King's Commissioner, defended the project of law. In the course of his spied) be paid a pretty compliment to the British constitution. " Tire happy work," said he, " of time and for tune, the Euglish emanation is like Corinthian brass; crested by chance amidst s mighty cantle grmiots, sad which no human artwuld imitate." Sentence of death, by decapitation, was pro- ; •• nnuneed on Sandi, the morderrr or 'int/rive, o n the 18th inst. at Monbeim. He woe ordered fur execution on the 20th. The Gazette de France contains a paragraph under the date of Corfu, April it 6, which m a i m that ALE PACHA, of Albania. has finally remised to resist the power or the PORTE, s.d itt% actually assumed the title of Epirus. Is is added that be is on good terms with the Greek., and has yawed himself to be baptised. The 5 per Cents. are 74r. 55 c. ; Bank 1,510 f. Saturday morning the Carturtic, from Bengal, ani the Marquis Wellesley, from Madru., fris-t-d up Channel for the Downs. The por.ers, with (h.- pitches, and three passengers, !antic(' at Port.. mouth. The discussion on the State of the Nation, which took place on Friday night in the House of Lard., was, we think, more eminently distinguished by the tone of candour, moderation, rod practical wisdom it displayed, that, any former debate on the same sub ject in either [louse of Parliament. It was not a party contest, wherein the sentiments of the speakers were distorted to attaio some particular port.nte, o r their ridings imbittered by political aiiimosnie•. The speeches may be considered as the sincere re sult of a candid inquiry, in which it is bat justice to the distinguished Noblemen engaged to believe that the discovery of truth was their only object. The character of those speeches was necessarily ili termined by the relative situation of the leadiiii 4 speaker.. The Earl of LIVERPOOL having readc and immediate recourse to official documents o. direct his steps, proceeded upon grounds merele practical ; while the Marquis of LANSDOWN, sith a mind enriched by the splendid theories a 1 ., litical economy, considered it, the light of a great moral science, developed the guiding poi,. pies that ought to govern the conduct and pro mote the energies of a mighty countnetend empire. His were the enlarged views of a statesman moulding a system of government, of which, in his own admirable word.. " Freedom Ma.t, be the rule, and restriction the exception;" but the Earl of LIVERPOOL, cautiously limitilig his rot.- pect to the state of affairs as they now exist, cno sidered cosily how to preserve the milestone:au we enjoy, without seeking to remove the difficiilties and prejudices with which they are eticuinhered. No man, however, better understands the to larged principles of national intercourse and of foreign commerce, than does the Emil of heel:- POOL; but with ■ singular perversity, big Natalia lion of the theory does not extend to reducing it to practice. He trembles to touch an error, rivets while he condemns it; and he argues as if the error he condemns were eventually as profitable t•• a nation as the truth which he arms. toareneriee. He was satisfied to shew the House of Lords, that under the existing system so many advantages have been enjoyed, that it is now quite imuecessary ru alter it ; yet, in a few minutes after, he made that remarkable confession, which must hove forci bly struck our readers, that 4 4 Great Britain had risen to her present prosperity, not is conse9 (! i* the iseseantile principles under which we have hitherto lived, but is spite sf them." It is some what singular that when the Noble Lord, on hives tigating those principles of commerce in the-retire mein of his closet, arrived at this conclorion, and when, as the terms of the admission imply, lie must have felt that those principles, instead of formai; led to good, essentially retarded the advancement of our commercial prosperity, he did not iintneiltstelc suspect that the prosperity we actually enjoy to be attributed to certain circumstances hitherto peculiar to this country, but on which, as in loner.% of time they are likely to be exteruled to other countries, it would in future he unwise to irril!. From this would be derived, as a natural inference, that in proportion as those circumstasici a erase to operate to our exclusive adinintage, the errors of the system ought to be corrected. It r. t hate escaped the penetration of the Earl of. Lavaaeoot. that England owes her advancemetit in arts arid commerce beyond the other major,. of Europe in the earlier establishaseut of political and civil liberty. which encouraged individual industry by affording security to loroperty, and also to the protection afforded to, her people by lierhoppy insular situation, which has secured her domestic tranquillity from hostile violence. Unlike the cystitis' of the Continent, and especially her once great commercial rivals the States of the Nerfrei lauds, her iiidustly has not beet, iutersupted by invasions, or by being often made the seat of 10111. guinary and desolating oaf fare; but if civil liberty and the rights or property Ise secured among the nations of the Continent, and if peace contitiuts to extend her protecting arms over the seats of coin . 'nerve and the scenes of industry. rival tuitions then enjoy equal advantages with ourselses, and the fate of our ostonmeree will depend snit ulna' fortuitous circumstances, but upon the natural operation of unforced commercial principles. It is true that other nations hare adopted and put sue the erroneous notions of commercial into - - course which we have consecrated; but having taught them to retaliate our errors upon ourselves, we should uow begin to set them an example of liberality and wisdom, which will eventfully be resod war best policy. It aunt, buelesee. be elm" sitlered a singular spectacle to see lit great country • rare virtues displayed by p magasidnagns Sing, invalidly soiled wish his faithful Kopko's/ rejoitheit in sot Pes.ming any Miser power than such MS is sseestibry to govern is roves , sod to labour effectually far their glory sad le•PPiceffile" Execlltory yourself will be surprised at reading in certain public papers, and certain despicable journals of Frassecohat Spain is the prey of • handful of faclious uses, that she is now oppressed wader the yoke fresesitel Iltinagergwes, that rivers of blood must yet flow, and that Europe is me naced with the sudden contagion of these frightful evils: such things would stuffier your Excelleary, if any thing timid excite surprise on the part of men who have the direc tion such writings, and if isidigisation were not the only st•psi j 'Herd which they unight to excite. " the Spanish Government, rinsegiviiiiteil with the 0 h-r.re methods of tortuous diplomacy, sore of the noble and nuanimoss wish fur a fraternal union prunionaced by the Hsi ion, is very far from wishing to demand from any govern tattoo, laws of exception, laws of restraint, the extisiction of intelligence, or, in short, any thing not conformable to the principles which it glories in professing. It will content it self with pointing out to the French Cabinet that which its own good sense cannot fail to suggest—the ill arid, which might result among two nations funned to reciprocally esteem each other, to see that, under the rules of a censorship depend ant on ministerial sathisrityourb gross transonic' are commit ted against a neighbour sad a friend, whilst toilet's intcudrd to counteract them, to elucidate concealed truth, and to sup port the cause of reason and justice, air rejected. " His Catholic Majesty, who has received from his august sack so many proofs of temier affection, and who in return has answered his Most Christian Majesty with sentiments not less elevated—convinced that it ethanol escape the high wia. Jum of that Nlonarch, hew important it is that the most cor dial esteem and fs iredabip should reign between Ism nations which polemist sceptres govern tinder saalegoas institutions, and which possess a snultitiode of common interests, has no doubt hut that the French Goverament will adopt the most efficacious means of preventing the breaking of those ties, and of tearing up those pernicious seeds which imprudent or culpable hands are sowing, in nyder to reap their bitter fruits, In presenting these observations by order of the King, I take this opportunity eV rearming to your Excel. lcucy the assurance of my high Illessidrn t ion." DUTCH MAIL. PILTERSBURCH, MAT 2. In the ►oom of the two Directors of the Com mercial and Discount Bank who have gone out this year by rotation, Mr. Philip Blessig and Mr. K. Teach, Consul-General of the Netherlands, are sp. poioted Directors of that Bank. Count Schermet jen, who signalized his coming of •ge by such nu merous and ample contributions to various chari table institutions, has also sent tco thousand roubles to invalids. COPIIMMAGEM, MAY 16. On the 9th of this month there were publ►cly burnt 4,142,300 rix dollars in national bank notes, which have been received as part of the loan ; 8,514,000 rix dollars in notes of the bank of the kingdom ; 115,087 rix dollars in redeemed Holstein exchequer bills of 21 rix dollars; 76,668 rix dol. lays in bills of the Holstein loan bank of five rix dollars, and various smaller sums in the other paper currency. The quantity of notes to be burned was so great that it made four large waggon loads. arid the burning took up the time of 14 hours, from six o'clock in the moruiog till eight o'clock in the evening. The melancholy account has been received from the north coast of Jutland, that the fi,l►erme►i who were on their return from fishing were over. taken on the 27th of April by a violent storm, in which 50 of them lost their lives. ORENBURG. MARCH In. At the close of last year there arrived at the Cus tom-house of Scirotschikow, on the frontiers of Oren burg, a caravan with 570 camels, from the cities of Bucharia and Chiwa. The commander of this ca ravan was Ismail Schirow, who had 66 men with him. The goods consisted of 1,150 packages, of which 580, containing cotton yarn, cottons, morn ing gowns, &c. to the value of 150,000 roubles, were brought to the above-mentioned Custom house; the caravan went with the remainder to the Custom-house at Astrachan. The statement that the humane Monks on Mount St. Bernard, in Switzerland, on account of the cold ness and dampness of the abode, seldom attain the age of 35 years, but for the most part die between the age of SW and 30, has iiiduced M. Parrot, pro. feuor of natural philosophy at Dorpat (well know ing that there are easy methods of remedying these inconveniences), to propose a subscription, for the purpose of erecting a suitable dwelling for these ecclesiastics. and has sent a sum as his own sub scription to father Biselz, Prior of that philanthro pic establishment.—( Derck Papers, May 44.) •- ,~.-