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• risen orders to take down mend of the 'houses on she hill, to plant guns sad make entrenchments op polite the bar. All the negroes were pressed to perform the above work, and in felling trees. The Portuguese soldiers were very disorderly, gallopping through the ' , nets with drawn swords, and cutting down the nerves in all directions, entering the merchants' houses. stud taking their black servants. Several large -Byte's* ships were loaded and ready for sea, but the Governor had given orders to detain them, and that They should disctarge their cargoes from 'betwe en deft., take in more gam, lay inside the bar, close to the-fort, and be ready at a moment's warning. A French 64 gun ship was at Bahia; the Captain Pied made the offer of his ship to the British met.- chants for their protection, whenever they might think proper to leave the town ; his boots would at tend six hours each day to receive such persons as were desirous of leasing Bahia. The British mer chants had called a meeting, and stated that they would accept the French Captain's offer in a few days. The shops and store-hoeses were all shot at noon, and every thing was in a state of confusion. The Prince left Rio with a squadron fur blockade, ten days previous to the sailing of the Christopher. FOREIGN INTALLIGENCL PARIS PAPERS. • PARIS, S. The Wheeling has been written from Poitiers On the 7th of September:-- W ism* the passattes which have produced the greatest ARV in the speech of Al. the Proeureur General, is that in which be alludes to the sentential of death pronounced by the Carboniri —it was knows in the town that M. Mangin ►ad received one of those arrests pronounced dans fa Haste Vent. /alto relerttla).—Sumo persons who have seen this placatd, emanating from the Plittawthropie Society of the Eartioneri, are assured t►at it bears all the mystical sips which are to be reined in the placards of Westphalia. Deaths beads and crossed poniards are the attributes of this Society; we And it also written—' 71re blood of those tekom you pursue will recoil upon you ; an invisible but always extended Aand is ready to strike Fos r If such measces were not odious they would appear ridiculous. The invisible but al ways pretest and ready hands were admirable cautions in those barbarous times, when each individual was supposed to be subject to his separate meed of jeatice, bet in our 'clays honest people entertain so such fear, and rebels only oppose themselves to the general law. They wish to weaken the energies of those who are the organs of the laws, because they fear every thing which is calculated to niairtain social order. The speech of the Procure's,. General proves that • Dente Dora Haute ;Poste does not intimidste bisC—(La Quotidiemee•) A letter from Bayoone, dated the 29th of Au gust. states as follows : " You have of coarse sees the &alleluia circulated by the Vie,*ls, snd which state that the Trappist has bees com pletely defeated. This account is totally blue, because we • have this moment received an O&Ml account of the entry of WOO Chief on the 45th, into °Await* at the bead of 1,800 men, for the purpose of concerting with the Provisional Jests of N , placed is this town, as to the ►est means of de stroying the Constitutional troops to be found in this • Province." General Eguya,. with his staff, is about to quit our town. His project, it is said, is to occupy with a division the frontiers of Navarre, in order to prevent ell communication between the Liberals.—(La Quotidievnte.) In the public sitting of the Society of Agricul ture, Commerce, Arts, and Sciences, which a to take place in the department of the Marne, in the month of August, 1823, a gold medal, value 300 fiance, is to be given to the writer of the best arti cle in answer to the following question :- 0 Does sot the society, in whose name a prosecution is in tltitt•ted, owe an Indemnity to the accused, when the law declines bin innocent ?" In case of an answer in the affirmative, let an in .qatry be made into the motirts which have cau.ed the maintenance of a contrary system in France, and let the means be pointed out by which this legis lation is to be modified, in conciliating the general interests of society with the interests of the accused. A letter from Madrid, dated the 29th ult., states that the Extraordina►y Cortes will be convoked on the 25th inst. It was on the morning of the 24th alt. that the King signed the Decree of Convoca tion, which has not yet, however, been made public. it was known that his Mojesty was averse from this measure; but the Ministers declined to him that they would quit their posts, and publish the motives of their conduct. The Minister of the Colonies arrived in Madrid on the 29• h ult. His colleagues, it is said, only waited for his co•operatiou to adopt energetic measures, especially against the Royalists who are in arms. The military command of Madrid has been taken from General Copan', who is succeeded by Gene rat O'Daly. The latter bad • command in the army under Riego when he declared the Revolution in MO. COURT OF ASSIZES-POITIERS. SITTING Of SEPTSSISSIL 7. Seems of the minor criminals were defended by MM. Bowen°. and Calnsiel, and Brecht's!, but dor proceedings were destitute of interest. • There are only two witnesses, said M. Som etime, against my client, Singe, who prove that he received an individual in his boast of the mime of Dubois, and that • boa marked with this name contained General Berton's unifo►m. Be rides my client has been divorced three times. Na doubt he law of divorce ought not to exist un der, the King; but Singe had only profited by it to gal rid of .• wife,.wbo had thrown herself into the arms of an apostate priest ; and while he had acted Coder the law, his manners, however bad, would net be a reason for condemning him when accused of a conspirecy. The Court is not sitting to pa nosh au offence against morality. I have seen • pietism of justice pursuing crime, bat she was pre ceded by. tooth ; . you, Gentlemen of the Jury, must search by the light of truth, before you authorise justice to burl her vengeful steel. COMITANTISOPLE, •UOVIT 10. The Greek Patiiareh died on - the Bth of this 066th after a long and polies! disease (the dropsy). His obsequies were performed today with much order and dignify; tunny thousands (Greek.) follow ed him to the tomb. According to ancient custom, the body hsd been previously exposed on the Pa triarchal throne in the cathedral ; and more than 8.800 persons have heen there to kiss the hands and lost of the chief of their church. On the evening et the name day the Grand Seignior permitted the choice of a inceelfor to he 'proceeded in. At the same time, six Greek Bishops were set' at liberty, who had been detained es hostages for some months in the Seraglio. The Porte has informed the Synod that, if its choice falls on any one of these Bishop►, it will be approved of without difficulty, provided the candidete possesses the five following quelities— rnperienee, prudence, skilfulness, learning, and fidelity to the Government. The names of sixty-three Bishops were after wards read in the Synod, of whom three were de. signed as candidates. uniting the necessary qualities. The Representatives of the Greeks at Constanti nople, amounting to GOO voters, proceeded then to the election, and their choice fell on one of the six Bishops, viz. the Bishop of Chalcedonic, who was formerly Bishop of Smyrna. The Synod confirm ed this election immediately, which it is hoped will meet the approbation of the Sultan, and that to morrow the new Patriarch will be clothed with the Ca/tux. Some days before his death, the Patriarch wrote an affecting letter to the Sultan, in which he re commended the Greeks to his favour. In particu lar he requested the abolition of a heavy tax, which the Greeks of the capital, as well as the Jews and Armenistis, are obliged to pay every month to the arsenal. The Grand Seignior received this letter very graciously, and even before the death of the Patriarch the tax was abolished by a &min. PETARIBURGH, AUGUST 20. Count Nesselrode, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, set out to-day for Vienna. Count Ferronsys, the French Ambassador, is also departed (he has arrived at lleilin.) During the vb•ence of Count Nesselrode the department fur Foreign Affairs is confided to 1111. Doff, Privy Counsellor and Senator. The news of the march of several Turkish corps across Theirsly and Lividia, against the Mores, is folly confirmed. Besides Chourschid Priebe, the Pachu of Salonica, who had nothing more to fear in Macedonia, has also advanced with an imposing force by Larissa and Thermopylae, on Livedis ; and probably it was he who &ward the corps which proceeded from Negropont against Thebes and Athens. But this is all we at present know of the mili tary operations in those quarters. Neither the strength of the opposing armies, the positions they occupy, • nor the issue of the combats which have taken place between them, is at all known. if there had been a great battle in the early part of July, it is almost impossible that the news should not hive arrived here, whoever might have had the advantage. But no one of the Embassies, sod no mercantile house of any eminence has received any news of thib kind. At present it is certain that the Turkish Beet. amounting to 120 vessels. having on board 40,000 troops, has not stopped et any one of the islands of the Archipelago, but has proceeded to the Mores, where it is to assist the operations of the army. Very decisive events must soon took place there. lent, lAA by in entirely tree concordat between such or the Cantons as should adopt it. In the 36th sitting on the filth August, the de bate oh the concordat fora partial introduction of import duties, was carried, and the tariff discussed. The various articles ►el,itive to produce and manu factures were adopted, some by 13. some by 14 votes, reserving the ratification of the Cantons which shall adhere to the concordat.—(Frankfort Papers, September 3.) GERMAN PAPERS. ♦IENNA, AUGUST 30. The Austrian Observer of yesterday has again news from Consiantinople of the 10th of August. They mention the death of the Greek Pdtriarch, and the choice of the Bishop of Chalcedonic as his successor. No news of any decisive battle in favour of either ►he Turks or the Greeks had been received, but the advance of the Turks through Thesaaly to the Mores was fully confirmed. ♦flour 26.—Metalliques elf ; Bank Shared 8891. Awcurr 29.—aletalluquea 89 3.16; Bask Shares 674 9.10. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 10. Perfect tranquillity shit prevails here. We have nothing new from the Mores. The Egyptian flotilla having joined the Turkish fleet, the latter sailed fur the Mores on the 23d July. Lord Strangford had s conference a week ago with the Reis Effendi, with a view to induce the forte Ist, To acquaint Russia by a Note with the no mination of the flospodsrs; 211, To send a ne. gociator to Kominiee, to treat, as Russia desired, with M. de Tatischeff. The Porte refused, and it is feared that it will not be brought to con sent. Yet some hope that fanaticism and pride will yield to a spirit of conciliation. MOO of the Genoese ►essels which were bound for the Black Sea, have, returned in ballast to the Mediterranean. Two of them having received their papers from Odessa, have hoisted the Russian flag. Genoese ships that come here with Russian papers will not meet with any difficulties. The number of rioters and mutineers who were executed, imprisoned, or banished during the dis turbances in July, is estimated at between four and five thousand. It was made known that if the five Oct., did not expel from among them the authors of these terrible disorders, the Sultan would make use of the power given him by the Sultan Soliman, and disband these regiment.. BERLIN, AUGUST V. Count de I■ Ferronsys, French Ainbemador to the Court of St. Petersburgh, has passed through here on his way to Vienna. The Chevalier Verstulk de Soelen, Mioister Plenipotentiary from the Nether land. to Russia, has also arrived here from St. Petersburgh. SWITZERLAND. ♦RENT Si. The Committee of Commerce has presented a new Report to the Diet. The majority adhered to their first Report, proposing the establishment of divers impo►t duties, the produce or manufactures of those countries whose Custom-house laws are in jurious to the productions of Switzerland. The Committee hies, however, made come modification. in the first project. The miuority have given two opinions. The one presented by M. Braun, who persists in advocating a system without restrictions ; and the other by M. Hirsel, who would limit the import duties to wine and corn. After the Diet had again deliberated, thirteen votes were io fa►our of the priociple adopted by the majority, most with the reser►e of the ratifica tion of their constituents. The Deputies of Zurich, 13.1 e, Geneva. Uri, Schweits. Underwald, Neuchatel, and Valais, ac cording to their instructions, took the matter ad referendum. It was also decided that the measure, in ques tion should he taken mat by virtue of a binding solution, to which the Diet would nut be color. THE BRIE SH PRESS, LONDON, FRIDAY, Strramess 13, 1842. By the Leeward Island Mail we hay.e received advice, from Caroms op to the end of July, from which there appears to be no doubt of the Presi dent BOLIVA a having subdued the whole of Quito, and he wss daily expected at Bogota, on his way to Caroms. His arrival will hasten the fall of Puerto Cavello, though, befo►e that event takes place, it is probable this last retreat of the Spaniards must yield to the Colombian arms, as it appears the In tendente of Caraccas had received an official com munication from General S•NTANDItiI, the Vice- President of Colombia, advising him of his having ordered two vessels of war, that had lately reached Carthagena, to proceed forthwith to aid in the ►eduction of Puerto Cavello. The Vice-Pie sident's communication is said to contain a very flattering compliment to Don Luis LoPEZ Mewnea, upon some recent services he has rendered to the Republic. So far from there being any ap prehension of Puerto Cavello holding out, it was considered certain that the arrival of the two ves sels in question would decide the fate of that place. The accounts which occasionally arrive from the south of France give us to understand that military preparations, on a very extensive scale, have been orderei by the Government, and that every military station in the south shews en extraordinary degree of bustle and activity. The cordon sanitaire, not withstanding the repeated remonstrances of the Spanish Government, has never been withdrawn from its position on the frontiers, sad to this force are now added several new corps, so that in point of numbers it has become a formidable army. The supplies of cannon and ammunition are said to be upon a scale that marks the expectation of an im mediate necessity for using 114 m, and stations are already occupied upon the frontiers as if it were in tended to skew an apprehension of invasion! The temper of the French Government towards that of Spain, ever since the late Revolution s has been far from conciliatory, and from the protection granted to the Spanish royalist refugees in France, and the encouragement now openly extended to the Bayonne Committee for promoting the wen k of rebellion in Spain, we cannot doubt the hostile feeling of the Cabinet of the Tuileries. The vicinity of the cordon sanitaire was felt by the Spanish Government to have exercised a most pernicious infloence upon the state of the frontier provinces; and this new manifesta tion of energy on the part of the French Govern ment, and the increase of the French army, cannot fail to offer a great encouragement to the rai disanre " Army of the Faith." The French papers insinuate that if, in the event of a defeat of the Spanish Royalists. the beaten party should take refuge within the territories of France, it if not im probable that the conquerors would pursue them. This would be a violation of the French territory which ought to be prevent..,l, and ii is presumed that this feeling on the part of the Government will account sufficiently for so considerable an increase of their military force on the frontiers. There is just enough of pretence in this observation to serve as an excuse for the underhand hostility of the Government; lint can any one doubt that these preparations are made with a view to encourage the rebels in Spain, or perhaps to be prepared with an overwhelming army to take such advantage of oc casional occurrences as would enable the BOUR.. sows of France to restore without much risk the former suiliority of the BOURBONS of Spain ? We noticed yesterday the legal difficulty in which the Court of Poitiers and the Attorney. General of that Court are placed by the circuits stance of General BRITON'S having no defender on his trial, and remarked, that by the terms of the , law of treason the present proceedings must, on account of this defect, be considered null and void. The Citiotidielme, however, has started a notable argument, to shew that in fact the provi sions of the law have been satisfied. It seems that M. DRAULT, the advocate who had been assigned by the Court to assist General BERTON in his de fence, was also intrusted with the defence of some other prisoner, and in the discharge of this duty found occasion to introduce the name of the Ge neral. Now it is argued that the observation of the Counsel was urged for the benefit of General BERTON ; and although the General disclaimed the Advocate, and the Advocate resolutely protested against being regarded as the defender of the ac cused, still, says the Quotidienne, the prisoner must be held to have beets legally defended, and conse quently the terms of the law have been sati►Bed.— We should like to know whether this perversion of common tense was dictated by authority to the -.•••116 NM Quotidienne, or frost spontaneously from the un aided stupidity or wickedness of that journal. Yet it mutt be admitted that the argument, as the writer perhaps would cull it, is in every respect as well founded in law and justice, as was the conduct of the Beech to which we referred yesterday. The spirit that breathes in the one is perfectly consistent with that which dictated the other, so that we should be much inclined to suspect that both own the same origin. The victory lately ascribed by the Austrian Cl server 10 CROURSCHID PAcHA, is by the same au thority withdrawn, and we are now told by this au thentic paper, that all its firmer assertions upon this important point were wholly devoid of founda tion. The cautious advance of the Pacus through the Straits of Thermopylae —tile fortunate disco very of one unfrequented defile—the partial skir• wishing, and the eventual shock that closed with the total defeat of the arms of Greece, had no other existence than the fanciful inventions of the Editor of the Austrian Observer. This writer now asserts that no battle whatever hal been fought be tween the Greeks and Turks, because •' no such intelligence has been received by the foreign Em bassikls, or the respectable commercial houses of Vienna." A pretty acknowledgment of its own falsehood ! The Austrian Observer manifestly fabricated this story of the victory of the Otto man army, to counteract the impression which was likely to be produced by the previous account, which gave the triumph to the Greeks. The ac knowledgment of the fabrication does not of course set up the truth of the other statement, but it must hare the effect of detracting very much from the boasted credit of this demi-official organ of the Ca binet of Vienna. The French Papers notice very sparingly the affairs of Spain, but we see enough to make us doubt every account coming through those channels of public intelligence. The position of the rebels, who call themselves the Army of the Faith, enables them to control in a great degree the correspondence of Spain with the rest of the Continent. These bri gands intercept the couriers, plunder the mails, and suffer such letters alone to pass as appear to give favourable representations of their prospects of suc cess. It is very evident that the rebels are not in want of money, which avowedly comes from foreign Governments, and it is equally manifest—indeed no disguise is attempted, that they have a Commit tee of Managemtnt in full activity at Bayonne, who receive every facility and assistance from the French authorities in preparing the means of disturbing the Government of Spain.— These are' the means which the Holy Alliance is obliged to udopt towards the Peninsula, from a conviction that the appearance of a foreign force in Spain would rouse the ardent patriotism of the people to punish the aggression. It is safer to bribe some of the rabble of the country to disturb the ge neral tranquillity, than to attempt by open war to interfere in the domestic economy of the State: Frankfort Papers to the 6th instant have arrived. They notice the number of the /lush-ion Obterver which elates, that no news of any decisive battle in favour of either the Turks or the Greeks, had been received at Cunstantinople up to the 10th of Au gust. Sir CHARLES LONG and Mr. Pant had audi ences of his MAJESTY yesterday. Mr. CANNING is arrived in town, and the Minis terial arrangements will, of course, be completed without further delay.—( keening Paper.) FERMANAGH ELECTION.The vacancy which has occurred in the Representation of the county of Fermanagh, by the promotion of Sir Lowav CoLa to a foreign appointment, will, of course, cause a new election, which will probably be contested. Two candidates have declared themselves, namely, Lord CORRY and Sir HENRY Baooas.—(Dahlia Morning Post.) Calcutta Papers to the 6th of March have sr. rived, but contain little news. According to ad vices from Lnckncw, it letter had been received there from Major•FamivuL's camp. stating that the fortified village of Bursgong, late in the pos session of QUARIM ALIE KHAN, bad been taken by the English troop., after a short conflict attend ed with some los.. It is added, that the proprietor of the village, rendered desperate by the oppression heaped on him by AGA MEER, and the appearance of a British force, had burnt 110 less than six or seven towns, previous to his being attacked. Lady HASTINGS had suffered from severe indisposition, but was recovered. The Governor-General was at Barrack pore. Extract of a letter from Odessa, dated 16:11 of August (N. S.)—" We had accounts yesterday that the remainder of the town of Jassy has been de stroyed by fire. A thousand Janissaries havii n returned to that city, with a view of plunder, were opposed by the Turks in the town; en attrir took place, in which the Janissaries overpowered the town guard, and burnt the town for the sake of the plunder, excepting, as it is said, only the palace of the Pacha. The wife of the new Hospodar of Mol davia, in returning from the country, applied to the Governor of Bessarabia for a passport, and was told :: 1 she could only have one as u private person, as thee) EMPEROR had given no orders as yet fur acknow ledging her husband as Hospodar of Moldavia. By this it would appear that things are not defini lively Settled, and we cannot leant that any new dispositions of the troops have been made by either the Turks or the Russians. This place continues full of Russian officers." Dr. BEATTIE, who was surgeon to lard NELSON when his Lordship received his mortal wound st Trafalgar, is said to he 'appointed Phyvician to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, rice Dr. ROOCRT WEIQUT, deceased. •-- , 0,0•Mlnr1:111u—. = .. m , r.Lem ...o .x-3.) Ea . . - • f — . V41 41 41 4 if i k 'Se ' ' ' s - ... r' , ; . 1 : $ '-'') Ib 4D tZ %i• .‘. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has left Lord mid Lady Poie.ter's seat, Willey Park, Salop, fur Leamington, War wickshire. The Marquis of Salisbury left town yealerday foe his seat, Hatfield. Earl and Countess Spencer have left the Ea►l of Eames seat, Cuhiobury Park, fur Aliborp, Northamptonshire. Earl Whitworth has arrived at his seal, Yamsle, teat, from a tour. The Earl and Chanters Maurer, arrived os Tersday at their house is Portman-square, from their seat In Notting. hausrhire; cod on Wednesday her Ladyship au sally vered of a deoghier. Viscount and Viscountess Cranborne have arrived at Hat field froth a tour. Lord and Lady Holland lei Holland House yesterday for Bo.ood Park, Wilts, on a visit to the Marquis cad Mar. chioners of Lansdown. Dr. Goodall arrived yesterday ■t Hatchet's Hotel, Dover street, horn Eton. Colonel and Mrs. Parker left Warren's Hotel, Regeot strret, yesterday, fur their seat in Cheshire. Arrivals at the Royal Hovel, St. Jamtvisestreet:—Lard Trimblestown from his seat in Ireland ; and Legge, Esq. from a tour. Departure:—J. B. %'.aldbury, Esq. lar America. Mr. and Mrs. Campion and family arrived yesterday at Jordan's Hotel. St. Jameshi.street, from their seat is Kent. Cspiais and Mrs. Burls left Blake's Hotel, Jeraiyamtreet, yesterday, fur Cheltenham. Departures front Hotlirson's Hotel, Dover•ttreet Oiway foe Brichton ; ITr..n 1 Mrs. Hervey fur their .eat Beek.; and Woo. Haworth, Eql for Pori... Hon. P Ashboenhatio hos left 'oleo (or his father's (dot Earl of Ashburobanis) seat its Sow*. NORTHUNMLAND HOUSE, +e. The repairs and improvements are all expected to be en*. pleted ere Christmas Day. The workmen have bees obhgerl to under.pin the whole of the edifice. The grand marble staircase is completed ; it, next to that of Chest es field Heuer, sill be the fittest Wag of the bend in Landon. The up holders are expected to complete the interior decoration by the 24th of March ; and in the month of May a grand feta is expected to be given. His Grace is also making great im provements at Alan kb Castle. Sen n is fiembed. . . - The Duke of Northumberland. bad it in eOntemplation to take the ground or the north side of Berkeley.squsre; bat Andiug the space in the rear ountd cramp any future emirs @ion, the idea was giver up. At this period It was proposed to en rt twenty houses, at VW. alesr, us the ground whereon Northumberland House now stands. WORTHING, SEPTEMBER 10. The town has experieircr-d a check ; the depar tures having exceedtd the arrivals, in consequence of which several I.rrge houses near the sea are be come vacant. Amoupt the last departures are Lord and Lady Oaulston sod family. The Right Hon. the Speaker has left us for Suffolk, on a shooting excurvion, but will again honour us with his pre fence in the cour►e of a fortnight: Arrivals— Dowager Countess of Clomnel, Lady Charlotte Pindar, Rev. D►. Busfield, Mr. and Mrs. FORK sod family, Mr. Darling, Mr. B►osdwood ► &c. The Prince of Leisure's, seconspenied by Cept. COPIIIOY. Mr. WAIRNEJI, Sad suite. landed at Dover on Toesday ofterooop from the Medan .team-pa. krt. His Serene Highness immediately set off for lismote. la joie her Royal Highness the Dochess of ga Count and Counters Inez!, entertained another distinguished party at dinner yesterday at the:r house in Harley -Meet. The Earl of Lissuatts, Lord Viscount Val/GNAW, and family, after in absence of six years in France, are arrived at Croeswood Park, Cardigans'ire. %here they purpose in future to reside. Their Lordships have directed their agents to reduce the rents 20 per rent.—( Hereford Journal ) A nnotqc the latest arrivals at ChOtenham are— The Marquis of Aileshury, Lord and Lady Cremorne, Lard Glenbervie, Hon. William Coventry, Hon. Si'. Lake, Hun. Mr. Leeson, Sir Alexander and Lady Byree, Sir Wm. and Lady Wraxsll, Sir John and Lady Sbrrbruoke, Sir Lofts, Oiwiy, Sir Charles Wigan and family, Se Hugh Barton, General Sir Henry White, Bari:flies* Ozencierov, General Bell, Judge Wingfield, SerleAnt Heywood, Culood Berkeley, Colonel Campbell, Colonel Pritchard, Lientensat- Colonel Austen, Litut.-Colonel Wtguelia, Licut..Culoatl Bagott, Cumberland Gate, the great northern entrance to Hyde Park, is shout to undergo a very great improvement, it is said at the solo expense of Mr. Hope, whose classical taste and princely munifi cence are so well known in the fashionable world. The present structure, wi'h ins single carriage-way, has always been extremely inconvenient, and even dangerous, whenever the di:ve happened to be thronged with equipages. Mr. HOPE has made an offer to Government to remove the old gate, and erect a new one with a double entrance, at his own sole cost and expense. This offer the Government has accepted : the workmen have ahead) , begun their operations. In consequence of the LORD CH ANCELT.OR'S de cision in favour of the Trustees of the British Mu seum, the latter are ping to build two wings in the garden behind, 315 fret long by 35 feet widr. The estimated expense is 200,000/.. which the Go vernment will advance by iustalments of 20,0004 • year, during ten years. The present house is not to be pulled down, but repaired and beautified, so as to coil...pond as stear as possible with the new work.• The library, the Townley collection of mar bles, and those things that are the heaviest, are to be removed into the new wings, so that only the light articles will be in the present house. THE RETORT, AN HISTORICAL FACT.—Wh^7t Miss AN N PITT, !leer to the great Wit-Lux 11 afterwards Eirl of CHATHAM, received a pew. • from Lord Burr, her brother wrote her a vti • angry note, Saving, " he never wished to live to bIC the name T and pension together." When the same Wthhiam NTT received • pension from the same Lord l3tsve of 3,0001. per annum, his sister seal him hark his own leper. At the dere of the lest Session of Parliament Mr. Wit.sioT moved ao Address to his MAJESTY. that he would he graciously pleased to scud out a Commission, to inqiiiie into the administration of the Criminal Law it) the Leeward Islands. liesaY Man Dock, of Lincoln's-Inn, and FORTUNATO DWARRIA, of the Middle Temple, Esqrs. are (it is said) to be the Corowssioners fur this highly im portant purpose. ri t U :, I: Mil M =II