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I. . r I ! !Vo 1 1 6 ' 'toearde tricolore, and they know very well that have a good chance of seeing both in us!, if tigstwe\ ture upon a war with Spain, with no tan. 1/56u1d1 than the rage hit the Inquisition, and no other pecu r.laryiesor - Ise of woakipoot osibausted—. ' the of qrtais 13 tiaji lady, ib. for Ow ,rt. You to the round. his 'hat whea l witness, whole rep,, 1— _ imprisonment oft.. . having sulehood•one of her hasband's friends, now in England, eleitapefrorn raison. The gentlemen of the house, Al, D--- r -s, was tried • oq the return of the Bourbons for the offence of 'searing tied. .clistributing the cocarde tpeeelpre, and seeteaced to *ree years' imprisonment. A young lady, of large fortune, fell in love with M. D —s, without. seeing, bite, merely. by perusing his defence. They were maqied. on the ilea day that lie went into prisop. Anotter'of.the Company was Capt. *he was with Nsiboy.scie in the Beßeropdon. for a, long time en einle, is there he has been employed the troops according to the , ertised a translation Londoti." You Ain ich take of our dig 1 the prospectus : iached for translating judgments, and re rord, the work is a moral England, written by one t' 4 10, . %PO • FRIFIVCff PAPERS. eel ' . ,—... 5 .—.-. , - . I 14 'Li., , PARIS, DECIthISIR 25. Os Meeibr light *a extraordinary courier from Madrid llgOved at the hotel of M. Pozzo di BO o, the Russian Am liapiaddt: Yesterday evening s his Excellency dispatched the e testier to St...Pcterlintrilb resterday evening the Duke de Iffeatooresey, Minister of treign Affairs, dispatched a courier fur Madrid Testerday the King received, In private audience, M. the Soros Portal, Minister of State, Peer of France. Yesterday his Excellency the Minister ef Marine trans 4ted business with the King and a ft erwards with Lis Royal Iffighhess the Duke of Angouleme, Grans Admiral of Presses' '.ls the afternoon his Excellency the President of the Cosies '6l of Ministers transacted business with the King. It is alarmed that General Quesada bad on Monday . an ihi bevies of three quarters of an hour with the Minster*, Foreign Attain.-eCessfitettionnel. n Monday an immediate change of Ministry was insalli Iked of, and it was slated that ell those who do not appal* Bided fbr war were to retire; But it Is probable that - 1140 that - 114o• originated with some fanatic ur stuck-jobber. Ws annul, however, conceive v. by, whilst it appear; positi from the moat Apparent indications, that the President oft Council of Missiles; is opposed to the war party, the lat Id cause to be seat into the departments gratis the Josg• which are for war. It appears to us somewhat extollers that the authority which has the Journals under 111 IL' ' Cul o ti f id 4 l i s o t i a l d rs m a li n a cleve l r y y i w n h c e m re ti c l i i r d c ic ulate • di Ati to his s)stem. 'Such a state of things does , impl v a perfect onion in the Council, nor is it ili•dadeedielee with that system of unity which is coeittintly recommended. . Thus it is not surprising that the public are in a shaboilf great incertitude, sad Bid it should be believed that deism use way or other will take place. The public Weds. /eater T day, fell nearly one per rent., and. as persons naturally lea for causes to all effects, it was circulated that very animated iiillunissiosi bad takes place in the Council, en the subject of Vie affairs of Spain i it was even added, that one of the Itlelnners of the Council, who it is thought Is opposed to 'ear, withdrew before any determlnatioa .was come to.— Hem. It is said that a deputation of the merchants of Bourricau a. was yesterday admitted to an interview with the Minister of Oa leterior. It is added, that his Excellency assured the deputation that the commercial interests should have timely information of toe resolutions which th e Government would deem it Its duty to itdript in regard le Spate.—L'Preile. Letters front Wafts', and Wane, of a recent date, have been received in Frankfurt. They announce that gnat movemeuts are shout to be made iii the Russian •armies of the south and west. The oorps d'arnsee which is in Besse. table will immediately be reinforced with four regiments of Infantry and several pulks oftossanis, and artillery in pro • portion. Advices from Bayonne, dated the lath inst. state—" The nonriers from Spain beghs to arrive regalarly. We had oar Jotters on Saturday last before nine o'cek, and it hes bee the same to-day. 'this seems to indicate that the partisans Si the Faith can no longer obstruct the intercoose. • " O'Donnel is expected this very day hi our town. 'l'llb Reputes is not yet osiabliabed; Its members ate not 01 am red."—Coastitsitimeri. • Merino akd Coebiflas have sumerrinsly recruited in thla prt4ine of At. Ander. Their forces are estimated it abed!, . iiine men, of which one third are mounted. They are, it la &Mewed, on their route to return into Castile. BAYONNE, DECEMBER 18. EXTRACT PROM A PRIVATE LETTER. "The news from Navarre is .good. General O'Donnel 'Maintains himself Kell; be recently offered battle to the Coe. irtitutionalists, who refused it, and be pursued them to the very gates of Pampclnna. His army is now 4,000 strong, and •If he could obtain a supply of arms and money, it would promptly amount to upwards of 40,000. Every day . (accord• log to what he writes to a poison in this town ) . he is obliged to refuse peasants who come and offer their ierrices, for want fag muskets to arm them. Finally, the Fpaniardit of the Army .ef the Faith, whom wo daily ace en our frontiers, protest, with much cnursge and confidence , that they should not need our support, if they could but be supplied with arms aud ammunition." ULM, DECEMBER 19. EXTIII•CT /VOX A 11.111YRYI LETTS*. " It is confirmed by several letters from Upper ItalyT, that, since the ueparture of the English Ambassador, Lord thealig .fird, Prince de Metternich has received very important dis patches relative to the affairs of Constantinople. It is ahem ical that the s e dispatches consist of the reports of M. d'Ot- Morels, Austrian Internuneio at the Porte. Nothing is yet known as to the contents of these dispetilies • it is oily if norm that they have occasioned several very 'thug confer.. ences, and that a courier has been dispatched . to Lord Strantsford, who had not then left Trieste. These dispatches ;Rust be relothe to new events, or at hist to overtures made since the change which bin taken place in the Ottoman Mi 'ilistry, for the change itself was known previously to the de portees of Lord Strangford. It is even known at Verona, that it was this Minister who first, and before M. de Metter nich, received advice of the fall of Haleb Effendi and his I prrl it was in dispatches from M. Cha f er (Counsellor of theßritish Legation, at Leedon, and provisionally tilling the fuoetions of English Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople) that the event was transmitted to him by au extraordinary sourMr, who travelled with incredible rapidity. Lord kitrangford, without delay, communicated the istelligence to the other Ministers. It appears that only two days after• vends the same news reached Prinee de Metternich. The mission that Lord Strangford received previously to his de. parture from Verona, was, therefore, siren to him at a um ment when the change in the Turki,li Ministry was already known. It results from this, that the new dispatches which • tome been sent lu Triable, relate to other erects which hare sabsequently transpired at Constantinople, and the know , ledge of *hick reached Prince de Metternich, by dispatches which he lastly received from M. de Sturmer. Here is a vast held rot ati sorts of conjectures !"—Censtinitiosaid. LP' om the thielithenne of Wednesday, December &] DECEMBER:9. Welch day new confirmations arrive of the daring enterprise of the (Week fire.,liiris against the Captten Pasha. Letters from Hydra announce that those who executed it set soil ou • tiba6th from 1.1,22ra fbr Tenedos.' The ceews, before they het out, had beard prayers and received the Sacrament. 'rise Turkish Admiral's ship was one of three decks and 120 guns. Wa have oh y 4 no piwitive and circumstantial details of the loss their Seel bascixperieneed. [From the Constitetiosine• Wednesday. December ts.] ITALY. TRIEBTI, DECIMBER 9. Seventeen Greek vessels have arrived froas Missolonglii at the Morea, • till some tbonsand soldiery: they Dave found Doer Turkish corvettes, which they have carried o and rehire only wait a favuuralile Wind to sem the Dardanelles and Upstate, and to hasten by sea the reduction olTortntb. The 'Wets as Me already been anneuetted; have been'ssoutpletely >ssirear gd i4t, au ak habeas° only have survived.—Gsutie d' Ault : r The section of Petitions of the Conti of Caseation has been LON DON, SATURDAY, Dzczysza 28, 1822. , e76 ,7 1:0. -a i':V :_____ The rreoch Papers of Wednesday contain no news of *ay importance. A courier appears to have passed through Paris to Petersburgh. The Emperor of RusslA, too, is stated to be directing great move nientskin his army; and in illustration of this state ment, there are reports of an important arrival at Verona from Constantinople, in consequence of which a courier was dispatched after Lord STRANOFORD, who had reached Trieste, on his return to his minis terial station. Such reports may be well founded, or they may be fictions, but the latter we think the more probable. The question of war with Spaio is now acknow ledged to be at an end. The Duke de MONTMORENCY is not probably well satisfied with this state of affairs, but he is not a person calculated to giie much alarm by his belligerent dispositions. The Duke is a person of high consideration in various respects; but he is too good a Catholic to exercise reason, judgment, re flection, and deliberation, where his wishes are strong and his zeal pious. There was a time when he was as much a Jacobin as our Poet Laureate, and when the livery of aristocracy or wealth was as odious in his sight as now the words— " Spanish Revolution"—" Constitution"—" Chartered liberty." Nor did he at once emerge from darkness to light. Long were the windings and intricate the mazes of error through which he wandered before he arrived at the comfortable perfection of an Ultra. Even COBBITT is no match to M. MONTMORENC Y in his travels in search of truth. Having made this com parison, we are obliged in candour to add, that the integrity of the illustrious Frenchman has never been questioned. His intellect is so formed by nature that it entirely acquiesces in every change of his feelings, inclinations, or conduct. In aid of this submissive intellect, he possesses that glowing fanaticism which ' illuminates every object within its reach with its own infallible light, and which supersedes all the petty frtrumpery of reason, experience, and facts. This is the French Minister for Foreign Affairs—a very good man, but, unfortunately for himself, born just four centuries too late. Our pari passe friend, alias (for such delinquents are familiar with an alias) the Courier, is driven at length to the lowest shifts of detected imposture. To such as take pleasure in the disasters of a char latan, the following faithful extract from him, who once would vaunt himself the organ of the Admini stration, must give pleasure : " But have we said one word in opposition to the language and councils of oar Ministers? have uc made use of ono argument, or oven dropped one hint that could make any Mall believe that they were no► desirous of peace ? On the con. Crary, wo thought We exposed ourselves rather to the charge of repetition, by stating over and (Wee agaid, that the most anxious effortivaud desires of our Ministers wore, that peace, of which all nations stood so much in need, should be pre. served, ifit. could be preserved between France and Spain— but that if unhappily that should bo found impracticable, they were still most resolutely determined that their own country should not be involved in war, but should preserve e strict and sincere neutrality.", It is really painful to our feelings to see a fellow being driven to this humiliating shift. Yet, as giving , due publicity and effect to the punishment of one may save a thousand ft om a similar fate, we conceive it to be a duty to expose this culprit in the garb of repent ance which he has been comizelled to wear. There is, moreover, a peculiar propriety and even utility in ex hibiting him on the pillory of his own choice, since, undoubtedly, his notoriety is considerable. It would be affectation to talk of respect or contempt for his real character, for no man who knows English can conceal from himself that the Courier is in every li terary and editorial view too contemptible for the , . • • ' - iblic ex slier of illrikelp. • ,on in nof Enilish Stself soft to ex .4ittle him fives respectable to piety, but k is further decisive evidence of his ignorance of the materials of, triob, of the• : _guards which truth requires ampli It is not uncommon to find a master of reason, or politics ; btlt it is quite impossible to find a correct thinker, a clear . reasoner, or a sound politician, who is incapable of expressing his ideas distinctly and perspicuously. What should we say of a sculptor who was ignorant of the mode of using the chisel, or a painter who kneit not the use of the pencil ? Would any man with patience hear him say, that he was an incomparable sculptor or a charming painter in his own mind, although he unfortunately knew not the ,use of the tools which were necessary to convey the excellence in his mind to the view of others? Our reason and our justification for calling attention to the unprecedented disgrace of the Courier, is the notoriety which it obtained, whether from official in fluence or dexterous imposture we stop not to inquire : it is not indeed material. There is a pert, lively manner displayed indeed, which may interest politi cians (if we must degrade the name to those), who think of nations with much the same comprehensive ideas as of pugilists . on a common. Dr. ADAM, late rector of the High School of Edinburgh, said, in allusion to a boy who was always booby in his class, but who exhibited infinitely more vivacity than his superiors : " The liveliest animal in its youth is a pig, but it is also the stupidest." Referring to the extract which we have given above, we ask if it be conceivable that a man in his senses, or at least having sense- enough to understand his own terms, could ask whether he had " spoken in opposition to the language of Ministers ;" and next ask whether he had " made use of arguments that could make any man believe that they were not de sirous of peace?" The language of Ministers—where is it ? The Courier speak in opposition to it—his boast has been that he was their organ of public speech. But to the next phrase. The using of no argument to per suade that Ministers were not desirous of peace, is evidence that the Courier was not anxiously endes i vouring to promote war ! The expressions, however, are not worthy of this consideration. The simplicity with which the exposure to a charge of repetition is mentioned seems sufficiently amusing. There were repetitions, we admit, frequent and vehement, but they began not their course until the offence bad been committed seven days, and conviction had become threatening and inevitable. So have we heard of certain persons in an awkward situation giving many repetitions of testimony to character, when offences quite unconnected with those repetitions were likely to be visited with conviction. The Courier " positively and boldly denies the charge" of having " anxiously endeavoured to pro mote war, and holding a language diametrically op posite to the words and the counsels of peace." The "positiveness" and " boldness " we dispute not; bu► the evidence in support of the positiveness we desiderate. The evidence offered is this : "We have invariably treated the subject, first, as it related to France, and secondly, as it related to this country. We do not suppose that any one will be stupid enough to assert that there was no difference between the two cases." This, then, is the evi dence, and we doubt whether the most cowardly monk in the ranks of the Faith could attempt any thing more evasive, unmeaning, Jesuitical, and unmanly to save himself from the death of a traitor. We shall shew the utter falsehood of the pretence set up by the very words of the Courier; but we shall first exhibit a fact which of itself decides the case. The Etoile quoted an article from the Courier in favour of war. This same article the Courier again quoted from the Etoile, as evidence of approaching war. Was this treating the sulject as it related to France, or ac cording to its general bearing? The original words were, that the " necessity of immediate action was forced upon the French Government." Here is the opinion of the Courier, such as it is, and not the opi nion of the French Government. As such an opinion the Etoile quoted it. The Courier quoted it back again, we presuMe to prove its correctness. But his language, as we formerly exposed it, is the most de ciiive which his skill could use : it is not only war like, but intemperately warlike. Let one sentence suffice for all : "It is idle to say that Spain has not given the French Government a right to interfere and support the Royalists, who demand a constitution that shall be in fact, not in form—in deeds, not in words, monarchical." After this it would be waste of argument to accumulate further instances of the intention, spirit, and acrimony with which the Courier endeavoured to instigate to war. Let him then be noted as be shuffles in his retreat, and "positively and boldly" denies his guilt while the proof is blaioned by himself. The fall of the Courier—for fallen, irretrievably fallen it is—affords a moat salutary moral lesson in this reading age. When speedy detection overtakes any popular or very common vice, it is a great Public benefit. The Goveniment Pipes, that is, all Papers who pretended to the patronage or enjoyed the favour of official men, lately became addicted, to a most scan- dalous degree, to that vice which SWIFT happily de scribes as "saving the thing that is not." Here then is speedy detection of a notorious performer in the art. Had a late Marquis been still in office, detection might have been evaded; but the Secretary being master of English, and superior to evasive cunning, the impostor who would pretend official authority is left to all the ignominy of detect ion. It is satisfactory, for the• sake of morality and the general interests of society, that the culprit feels shame if not remorse. When first seized, and, in fact, exposed, he remain- • ed prudently silent, in hopes that something might transpire to screen him, or at least that the DUke of WZI.LIIIO2OX, who cannot but allow that others, orubunt causal mdius, would supply him with some 4 " ,•-• • ‘4 • • - . . • , loose phrases. bet hopes havidg veisbeli the arrival of his Grace, here conies forwal'ilax Courier, twisting and writhing in the aies of utter shame and confusion. It is an edifying sight, and we hope the readers of the Courier will benefit by it. We trust the readers of newspapers . generally are beginning to examine more closely what is stated upon political affairs, and to distinguish sober truth from petulant pretension. German Papers arrived yesterday ; . the following are extracts:— AUGUR:IO, DRC. 17. The new Gazelle of 2urieh, after giving an account of the sail ing of the last expedition to Greece, which quitted Marseilles on the 22d November, adds--" The expedition bad to contend with many difficulties; not only were there among the persons engaged several individuals whom it was necessary to exclude on account of their bad characters, and who, angry at this, endeavoured to mislead others; not only did certain persons at Marseilles succeed in persuading some of the adventurers to join the. Spanish De fenders of the Faith, instead - of going to Greece.. but the repre sentations of Several Officers who hid retUrned from Greece ex cited despondency in many. If these Officers in the moment of ge neral alarm, when the Greeks, attacked on all sides, fled from the valleys to the mountains, Considered the cause of that unhappy people as desperate, and returned home—who will blame them if they painted the moral, the military, and economical state of Greece in gloomy colours ?—who will accuse them of faleelood, since we know that deiptitism every where, and consequently in Greece, tends to debasement But that some, of these Officers did their utmost and -used the basest means to turn aside the assistance; which it is to be hoped - will contribute to make the Greeks free, and consequently more moral, is Inhuman and un christian. All these difficulties were at length overcome by the good sense of the better disposed, and the indefatigable exertions of the Committee, consisting of Messrs. ILSPHALIAS,' Rime' t ma, llovvitsnx, Captain DITTMAR, and Dittscn. It is true only 150 men embarked out of the 200 that were intended; but, how ever, the wheat was thus separated from the chaff. To the great joy of the expedition it was joined by five of those who had re turned, and who are convinced that a corps, well provided with all necessaries and well organised in every part, may be of inS finite service in Greece. If preceding expeditions were not so well organised, it was not owing to a deficiency of good will or of judgment, but of money. However, the exertions of the Societies for the aid of the Greeks have been so successful in this respect, that at the beginning of next month Another ship will be dis patched for Greece, which will have some men on board, but be chiefly laden with arms and stores."—Alignmeitte Zeilusg, Dec. 18. Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted business at his Office in the Horse Guards. Yesterday morning the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER come to town from Blackheath, and trans acted business at the Treasury. Mr. LAMB. late British Minister to the Diet, who is gone to Vienna, and from thence to Verona, does not return here in the same character, but goes to London. He had furnished his residence in this city, at a very great expense, for the reception of the late Marquis of Lox DON DERRY, who was to pass through Frankfort on his way to the Coogreu. All the furni ture is now selling off.—Frankfort Journal. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing. for their respective destinations, viz.:— Captain Huai, Coen, Kent; Captain A sea Timm. ,General Kidd—for Bengal and China. Captain WILLtAn Hors Herefordshire; Captain SAIIVEL Snags, Inglis; Cap• lain Wsul Farqutsarsou—for Bombay and China ; and Captain .101111 PAULSSON, Repulse, for Si. He lena, Beneoolen, and China. Captain Davin R. NEWALL was sworn into the command of the ship Scaleby Castle, consigned to Bombay and China. Extract of a letter from Havannah, dated Nov. 6 : " You will, ere this reaches you, doubtless have heard of the fitting out and sailing of a flotilla from this' place against the pirates who have so long infested our neighbourhood. The accounts which we have re ceived of the progress of this flotilla is, up to the pre sent time, very unsatisfactory, as they spread about their intentions for such a length of time previous to sailing, that the pirates have taken pretty good care to get out of their way. However, this much is certain, that it is impossible for all the navies of Europe to prevent piracy, unless there should be a complete change in the government, character, and disposition of the Authorities of the Island. At present, as constituted, the Spanish Authorities unite weakness to venality, and their establishing Havannah as a port of deposit, when it is dangerous to attempt to enter the harbour with a valuable cargo on account of the piratical hordes, is an empty act, which will end in nothing until the safety of the pas sage to Cuba is fully obtained. You have heard, without doubt, the character of the pirates here, but none but an eye-witness can have any correct idea of their brutality and profligacy. Their prin cipal malice is levelled against the Americans, to the crews of which nation, when they have them in their power, they behave with the greatest in humanity. In fact, many of these desperate cha racters think it a meritorious act to rob and murder the men of that nation, as well as a profitable one, and they have been heard here publicly to boast and acknowledge that they have at different periods murdered near four hundred of them in the vicinity of Cape Romano, which is one of their principle places of rendezvous. An instance of their brutality to the Americans was visible in the capture of the Planter, of New York, the crew of which were very brutally treated, and the Captain hung several times until nearly dead, in consequence of one of his men having been tortured to confess that he (the Captain) had a very considerable sum of money on board, which was unfounded, and was only extorted from the man by the brutal violence evinced towards him, and which by this tale he hoped to put an end to." The General Bill of the Christenings aid Burials within the City of London and bills of mortalitty, for the year commencing the 11th of December 1821, and ending the 10th instant, presents the lollnwing gene ral results:— Christened. Buried. Ninety-seven Parishes within the Walls iotte Seventeen Parishes without the Walls 6015 Twenty-three Out Parishes of Middle sex and Surrey . 16,331 Ten Parishes in the City and Liberties of Westminster Christened I Males tun% Females 11,493 Total Buried ... M ifeui ale a s ies 9489 918$ Total 18,863 Whereof have died : Under Two Years of Fifty and Sixty Age Between Two and Five 9033 S. venty and Ei;l.ty Five and Ten 9 6 3 49 11 , t i i gh ne t ty 7 an an d d n untilred c" ... 66 10 0 4 Teo and Twenty Twenty and Thirty Thirty and Forty Forty and Fifty It appears from the foregoing account that the chris tenings exceed the burials by 4,408. A certain writer, whose mode of argument exceedingly re sembles that of Lord Peter, in the Tale of a Tab, will upset all this, by briefly dismissing the returns ai fal sification and imposture ; that great man having de cided with his usual infallibility, that England is not more populous than it was two or three centuries ago. .2 ''. +. • 41" r NVreir 's s , , ill -1.- Ile t• 4w , -: v 1 4i4z ,, i5g ittr_4l. 11111111 y treasury, and be proNce of a qrtain pious I ipeet the n4erwint ttiiiietiehre aioiguisbed Liberals, one of #OOl was a tat Wits of Colonel P—, impriappisLet Colmar, yipere, on account of the conso?acy of Belfort easmber that the' Ctolowl was marched plOcitof his detention with **lion collar rot eikend otherwise heavily diained ; but that Infigatised in front of i reginnet,called oat to lieftilsgrace, and profit by thsexample-L-the w gigot ,presented arms to has. Madame P— derelent art imprisonment oft, three months for - - Claptain who was for a, long jatveteintsl from Persia, token hell 4f ; the Krim to discipline the troops isinpean tniidet -.LA booksetter'hA i bis advertises 'Pierce Egrip's " Life in Lot sthlie of dia.-view which the French Ats by tht 'following extract from **/ am not afraid of !nip , . reproact this wort l have adopte d' his jul *feted his opinions., In a word, t 1111icription of the capital of Englai its inhabitants." 3 I , • ~► •.-, ,<< ~~ • Alkid ... ;IMO ehan l iaree hodlit ellir;TA-...1 l id .". Alight re it i it lay Monsieur Lariat' an ' . 4, " !, Adlist . T the PAR:AMIN •General hi 11 . ed tbat te Win novround for referring . " say, it has determined that M. Mangle shill not bei euted. The report was msdo by the Baron Dunoyer, at *Me neennineed at night. N. Mangin, Procureur-General to the Royal Court Poitiers, arrived at Paris some days since. •• - • [Frifulfil; 3ourfordes Debate ] THE LOW COUNTRIES. - • • • IX-TRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. It.lg " BRUSSELS, DECEMBER '2O. "flisglibileisce between the partisans of the French and those of &Flemish and Dutch languages, affects more serious w ilsterists thou thOse *hick strike common observers. I l i w The advocates, the editors of papers, the teaelsets in our pothem provinces, are attached to the French Rippler, as ieN froutaste u habit ; their complaints againit the exclu sive au of the national language, Dutch, are modest and respectful towards the King and Government " It is otherwise with a certain political party, who look to tyre intimate coosex leo with the Liberals of France, as a means , rendering the opposition more formidable, and perhaps of *Wog.' revolution which would separate Belgium from and. As to these gentlemen, the French language is only means of propagating revolutionary ideas. ,This is a fact II known by all the 'Belgians, friends to good order—this is via motive which has induced all the journals (non-revolu liOnary, such asthe Oracle, &c.) to abstain from taking part tor the maintenance of the French tongue. " But we have jest learned with astonishment,that reli giousoind even pious men, have thought proper to join the revolutionary party in deeryisg time intentions of Government, with respect to the Dutch language ; i letter, grossly insult ing to the Monsrcli of the Low Countriei, which has appeared in a Parisian Journal, endeavours to grove that the Catholic Belgian Choreb it injured by the re-union of the southern provinces, sad declaims with violence against tho introduc tion of the Flemish language at Brussels—thus, two opinions foreign to one another, and two interests necessarily opposed, seem to unite to keep up, as much as possible, as intimate connexion with France. The one seeks for allies against legitimacy, the other a support against Protestantism ; both. though natural enemies each of the other, unite to oppose dm views of Government, which wishes the amalgamation of the two great divisions of the kingdom. "This is a situation as new as difficult; the friends of order and tranquillity ought to appreciate the position of our Go vernment, and not let themselTes be hurried Into precipitate opinions." Limocwirs.--Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Houses., THE BRITISH PRESS. - T"'" • col. FASHIONABLE INTFLLIGENc,E. The Countess of Sandwich has left town for her seat, Hindi enbrook, Huntingdonshire. • The Earl of Burford has left town for his father's (the Duke of St. Alban) seat, Gallen, Surrey. Captain C. R. Fox WI town yesterday . on a visit to the Duke and• Duchess of. Bedford, at th eir era, Wuoburn Abbey.. R. W. Ward, Esq. M.P. left Warren's Hotel, Regent- street, yesterday, for his seat, Hyde House, Bucks; and James Salway, *Esq. for Brighton. . James Wm. Stuart, Esq. arrived yesterday at Blake% Hoick Jermyn-street, from his seat, Sunnin g HAI , B er k s. Chevalier Dubrieux and family have left town for Paris. Departures fronz the Pulteney Hotel, Piccadilly:—Joke Heath Esq. for Bath ; and Mr. and Mrs. Kicks for Asir seat in Bedfordshire. Charles Brownlow, Esq. M.P. left town yesterday for York House, Bath. • CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. The Duke of Buckingham is entertaining a select party of friends at his seat, Avington, Hants. The Earl of Co►entry is entertaoias a distinguished party of visitors at his seat, Crome, Worcestershire. The Earl of Sefton has a se!ect party of friends at his seat, Crosteth Hall, near Li►erpool. The Earl of Darnley has a• distinguished party of friends at his seat, Cobham Hall, Kent. Viscount Granville entertained a distinguished party on Christmas Day, at his seat, 1 1 . , !icrstead Lodge, Suffolk. The Earl of Ashlaurnham has taken an elegant hods. in Lower Grosvenor-street, having disposed of his late residence in Do►er•atreet. EAST LONDON THEATRE. Tx! On Thursday evening this elegant little theatre exhibited a very beautiful display of novelties for the Christmas holiday folks. The entertainments commenced with a magnificent serio-comic Oriental tale of enchantment, called Zadoc the Sorcerer,'or the Princes of Persia, one of Mr. AMHERST'S best productions. The scenery was of a most splendid description, and the dresses displayed great taste in the manager, the whole of which, we understand, is new. The last scene contains the coronation of Hornet and Almeida; it was very splendid, and re ceived great applause. A serious drama, called The London Apprentice, founded on George Barn well, followed, and received the applause it merited. A new comic ballet, called Dancing for a Christmas Box, was to follow, but owing to the illness of Mr. TURNER, the ballet master, the pretty little burletta of The Three Cripples, was substituted. The whole of the performances were so admirably conducted, as to afford the greatest amusement to a very crowded house. Letters were received in London on Christmas-day from Hanover, dated the 20th inst. They announce the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDOZ, the infant Prince and Princess, also the Princess AUGUSTA, to be in the enjoyment of excellent health. Tbe 'rbealre will open on the lath January, with ReSISINS'S Opera of /I Tencredi, ie which Madame Beano/two makes her first appearance in this country. The Opera has been already twice rehearsed. It was at first inteeded to commence the season with Mositrr's La Clemenza di Toy, but the Manager has, oo second consideration, thought it more expedient to give Madame BOILOONDIO the earliest op portunity of making her debut before a British public. We may take this opportunity of stating, among the improve ments made at the Theatre during the recess is that of • new stage. There is at present living at Theodosia, in the Crimea, an Armenian, whose am: is isu.years. He was born in Persia, and preserves a perfect reoollection of the celebrated Taos. Kegs isms, whom he frequently saw. His health is good, and he is surrounded by his deseeuthuns. His youngest daughter is now 35 years old. ACK POTlClL—Moose's Almanack for ion centaiss Mat =ring Ll singular predictiou, fur fullihnent in April N Weal struggles, abort this time. about men clinging to swir places, and ethers who fear they shall never get them. Thor Disjunction of Mercury and Mars, in Aries, seems to tell 'vim "HI get the ascendancy: a true lover of war, of middle stfitMe, a brisk sharp eye, and pimpled face: though me with an oral visage and tall figure, subject to bo frothy upon slight *cessions, fonder of fomenting disputes than of taking an antis° part in settliag them, will struggle hard to keep upper most." 'let's's' Ds Srtm..--This celebrated Lady, on visiting the samospnlis of Great Britain, had scarcely alighted from her govt. • vrhen she asked the waiter to show her "rues totals of loco vansos."—' 4 RICHARDSON ! RICHARDSON!" IllCHlt e the Ma'am: it capsot bt Ricsaassors, the tavern-keeper, in nt rden, for he is alive and bustling about his business; it nowt Is RICHARDSON Hicroxycs, and Co.—no doubt the elder part. ner has died, at:tidos lady has some claim upon his assets."' To Corrthill, therefore, our Sentimental traveller was directed.— pipta moment was lost. She drit ez off, alights from her hack ney-coach, pushed by the clerks in the front shop, and address ing a grave-looking swan in black, perched up in a kind of pQpivi asks with a faulteriag voice for - the tomb of RICHARD SON. --"The tomb of RICHARDSON, Madam! Mr. RICHARD SON was never in better health; he has at this moment set off for his country seat."---•• You misapprehend me; I mean the divine Ricautissonz"—" Oh ! a clergyman ! I know no per sist of the name."—"No, Sir, nut a clergyman, but the Rico AD ION of Clarissa."—•• Really we know so Gentleman of the s mith: who keeps a Lady." At length a reference to the boaseller on the other side of the street set the fair enthusiast right. She hur ries off to St. Clement Danes, in the Strand ; roused - a kindred sp. rit of enthusiasm in the *talon by a talismanic application of file ; follows his lantern (for it was now dark) with a palpi • ti▪ ting heart--seraped the mud and mould oeyears of a fiat moor, close to the parish pump ; reads the long-sought name—drops on her knees to kiss the hallowed marble, and on rising up acid sur veying her wet and dragg led garments, buds too late th at the tomb of ltinataoson is t e grave of sentinieut.--Nric Mont Sty Malaziao. GARRICX.—The following is a copy of a letter from this great actor to a Gentleman named STU RZ : `• I never liked Ditto, though it bears • good character upon the French stage. Thera are good lines, and some little - pathos. I AM spoiled by Kaasseaaas, and I hope you &revery wear spoiled too. Now, from yoor dissection of 'French actors, Madame Cpttairs has every thing that art and good understanding, with natural spirit, can give her- -brat the heart has nom of those in stantaneous feelings—that life-blood, that keen secsib'lity, thin electrical fire, which. bursts at once from genius, and shoots through the veins, manor, bones and all, of every spectator. She is so conscious of what she can do, that she never has the feelings of the instant come upon her unexpectedly; but I pro nounce that the greatest strokes of genius have been unknown to the actor himself; the circumstance, the warmth of the scene has sprung the mine as it w_ ,ere as much to his own surprise as to that of the audience. Thus I make a difference between great genius and a good actor; the first will realize the keno, of his character, and be transported beyond himself, while the other, with great powers and sense, gilts great pleasure, but he tiener— tus inaniter "omit Irritat, — ;rt, fafais terroribus implet. Your idea of the French character most exactly agrees with mine; their politesse has reduced their characters to such a same ness ' • their humours are so curbed by habit, that when you have seen half a doxes French men and women. you basemen the whole. In England every man is a distii,ct being, aid scrim a distinct study to investigate him; it is f ....t this great variety that our comedies are less uniform than the French, and our ellmieer ters more strong and dramatic. Since you left as 1 hats playe d the character tat a young (fie for shame!) jealini , &mousers, in the comedy of The Wonder, and it has been fol.owtql in the most es traurdinary mummer. Should you et er return to its before 1 drop my fool's coat, I will treat you with the best in my power, for have indeed shown you nothing." PRIOR, the smuggler, one of the men lately com mitted by the Excise for having contraband goods in Lis possession, was discharged from Chester gaol. having paid his fine of one hundred pounds, His less ! fortunate companion, Ford, is still in " durance vile. NEWSMAN EXTRAORDINARY.—One of the car riers of a New Yolk Paper, called the Advocate, hav ing become indisposed, his son took his place, but not knowing the subscribers he was to supply, he took for his guide a dog which had usually Attended his father. The animal trotted on a-head of the boy. and stopped at every door where the paper w•ns in use to be left, without 'Raking a single omiseioa er mistake. 7~