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• blow Philipahal, Commandant of Caeta, was etrne'• by a splinter from a *ell thrown down by the ex- plosion of a bomb ; he remained on the spot as is deal He was then carried on board an English vessel, which immediately sailed for Palermo. We are assured that his wtosnds are so severe, that hi, life i, despaired of. Has Adlutalt, Colonel Hote, succeeded him hi the command of the place. PARIS, ♦eO. 8. According to one of our Journals of this day, many people are of opinion, that the peace with , England is Already signed, and that it will, if not wilier, he made public on the bitth.day of the Emperor, this day sc'nnight. The Jewish Assembly here has already answered arts of the questions proposed to it : these are as follow ;- 1. r Awful for the Jews to marry more than one wife? I b Divorce aqcweal by the Jewish religidn Is it lawful, althiiugh no ,entence respecting it he pronounced by the Tribunals, and in pursuance of the French Code? C. Ma, &Jewess marry a Christimi, and a Chrittlan feniale with &Jew ? or el•me the law require that inches solely malty among each other ? The rower contains principally, that the Jewish law, in the iciaest same, permits polygamy, thenrce, and milted mar sieges, but that these are limit.•,i by pradice and usage. To the que•ti•w which relates to the duties of French citiecns, the Assembly voluntarily, and without prenseditatiou,answeied in the fullest manner. FROM THE FRISCH PAPERS. PARIS, AUG 7. The Comte de Metternich arrived in Paris last • Stt:iday. It is long since the Diplomatic Corps was to complete as it is at this moment. (FROM THE ARGUS ) 't The present situation of Europe calls for a political sy stem totally different from that which. to its shame, the English Government has followed so long. The time is not far distant, when, even for its very interest, the Court of London will be very glad to acknowledge the rights common to all nations. It has hitherto made war upon principles winch it should already have disavowed. Doubt less we ought not to be surprised, that in the midst of a negociation which promises a happy result, it is still making formidable preparations. Franca discovers the wee attention to support the strength o• her armies, and the military spirit which animates her soldiers. These demonstrations only prove dse . clesire of each of these Powers to mike peace the more advantageous and solid. But what grieves us is. to see that England has not yet re n.,unced, in her expeditions, that system of disor ganisation and anarchy which is incompatible with , the existence of civilised society. The expedition of Miranda, to which it cannot be doubr:d that England has promised assistance ; the connatioas kept up with Dessalines, and the revolted in Sr, Domingo; in short, the nature of the aid given to King Ferdinand, and which has consisted in or pais ng revolt, pillage, and assassination in Cala bi is. are a true scandal in the eyes of all European Governments. The law of nations certainly per mits the defence of the states of an ally, but it must be by legi - imare means; for war also has its leg' e lotion, the objea of which is to diminish the calm snities which it brings in its ttain. It would pro mote the cause of humanity, were there never seen in camps any other than regular troops, or regularly organized. In a :evoked country, all the inhabit. ants become enemies. The cottage o' the labourer is no longer a respected asylum. The whole people are exposed to the horrors of war. It is full time that governments should cease to have recourse to this miserable resource. The Emperor of the French has disdained to employ it in this war. No revolted subjees have been seen under his triumphant colours. Let us hope that the example which he gives to the world will not be lost. and that his glorious reign shall be the epoch of a policy more stable and more advantageous for humanity." •U 011111111•, JULY 26. A great number of German libels, with which Suabia was inundated, have been seized in the pos session of the bookseller Stag. This bookseller re wired them from his Correspondent Stein, at Nu remberg, who obtained them from the booksellers Kupfer, of Vienna, and Enrich, of Lintz, cities in which these libels have been fabricated. The House of Austria employs a singular method of making her acknowledgements for the moderation and ge nerosity of the Emperor Napoleon, is exciting, by libels, the inhabitants of Swabia against his armies. What a melancholy resource! The Emperor of Austria, too faithful, is ignorant of these maneu vers; but the Ministers who dired his Cabinet, and who continue the enemies of their country, will end by drawing on its ruin. The booksellers Kupfer and Eurich may one day pay for this perfidious conduct. The Emperor has caused to be delivered up to a Military Commission the venders of these libels, as guilty nt having at tempted to raise the country against the army. Cer tainly, if the French army had wished to excite countries against their governments. it would have had se need of libels. lll____ "ROW LAS? NIGHT'S GAZETTE. MILITARY paumarioNs. IVar-fliftee, Atdoit 19 Itch Regiment of Light Dragoco—M ,jur Richard Diggens, 'nom the 34th Foot, to be l‘Ljo , , vice Browne, who earliartges. *lst Dirt„- - .Lieutenant James Alotander Fehrszen, from H Alf pay of the late 26th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, without PorchAsc. . . 34th Ditto—Major Thomas Browne, front thp 11th Light Dragoons, to oe Major, vide Pitmen:, who euchangie lid Dim... Captain Hi illim Thursby, to be Major, by For. chase, vice Erbk no. STAFF. Assistant Consinistary Frlwatti Ceuehe, to be a Deputy Corn missarv-Geuerat of Stores, Prom:ens, and Forage to the Forces Deputy•Conmissary of Stores John Bisset I. be Depuiy- Comm nemm 01 Aecorritta to thu Forces. James Dickens, Gent. to be an Asais;aut-Cominisaary of Ac counts to the Forces. BARRACKS. T. Hill, Fog. Captain 1111 Half P.iy, to be a Barrack-Master, in, Great-Britain, vice Sutherland. Ordislnre-Ogee, Angtat 16. Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel VPitliam Fyers, to be Colonel. Captain Ralph Henry Brumes to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Fy,rs. Captain Augustus Cte Butts to be Lieotenaiit.Coloi•el. THE BRITISH. PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Avatnr 10. Mr. PEGLII a, the Mereenger, arrived at sit o'clock yesterday morning, with dispatches from the Earl of LAUDIRDALe, at Paris.—He must have left that city before Mr. BASILICO had returned to f. About one o'clock the dispatches were submitted to a Privy Council, and a Messenger was sent cIF with the contents to His MAJasry at Windsor. The telegraph was busily at work communicating orders to Woolwich, Deal. Portsmouth. and Plymouth. The funds experienced a small rise ; but, we believe, it was not warranted by the contents .of the dis. patches. The telegraphic communications are stsp, posed to have been for the purpose of expediting, and not of slackening military movements and pre parations. The pew revolutionary schemes upon the Continent, announced by 800 AAAAA r., will not permit even the most sanguine to indulge a hope for a Peace, such as this country would or could accept. The report was repeated, last evening, with increased cottlidence. that the Earl of La ttna.. Dat.s may be daily expeaed from Paris. The whole of the Jamaica meet is hourly ex petted. We mentioned yesterday the arrival of one ship the flora, of Bristol. The Lay Coate, another of the saw fleet, arrived on Saturday morning, at Greenock. She parted on the 2d off the South- end of the Grand Bank of Newfoundlan J. They had fine weather through the Gulph of Florida. and were all well on the 2d. We lately cap d a belief, founded upon the course to the West, which /BIOME lioNAe•rtre's squadron was last seep steering, that he was going to the Havamsah, to join the two Spanish ships of the line, repossa4 to be at that place. A subsequent rumour has, however, assigned to him another des tinatioo..../t is toported, that Spain has surrendered the Island of Porto Rico to France, and that Ja- ROW is gone to take possession of it. The har. hour of St. Juan de Porto Rico, on the North side of the island, is a very capacious one.—Porto Rico, besides being a very valuable possession, would be of great importance to the French, with a view to any operations against St. Domingo.—We do not know what degree of credit is due to this report. The fourth attempt of t.ie Transports with the l'-oops, which embarked at Ramsgate, to sail from t- e Downs, has proved successful. They passed I kifer on Monday morning, and arrived in the even ing off Portsmouth. Off St. Helen's, they were joined by the Captain, Ganges, and KrnX s Fitilier with the Fie t under convoy, for the Mediterranean which had been so long waiting fur them at that place,and proceeded upon their voyage. Preparations are making at Portsmouth for the embarkation of more troops, not yet arrived there. The Ist and 93 battalions of the 40th regiment, the 18th re giment, and !Ist regiment of infantry, and tome other troops, :are mentioned in the number; re ports are various as to their destination. We stated on Monday, as the inference deducible from the various accounts in the Papers brought by the last Hamburgh Mail, that the reports of the march of the French armies from the Rhine into Germany, having been countermanded, in conse quence of the Russian treaty signed at Paris, were not intitled to credit, and that these military movemeats had for their object to overawe Aus tria, Russia and Prussia, in order to enable him to effect the demolition of the German Empire, at his pleasure, and found upon its ruins his new system of " the Confederacy of the Rhine." We have since received Hamburgh and Pat is Papers to the 10th, and Dutch to the 14th instant, which fully confirm our observations. French troops, in great numbers, are advancing to the fan, upon one sLle, and the frontiers of Saxony and Westphalia on the other; and, it is distinctly stated in an article from Frankfort, of the .sth, that " nothing but the ratification of the Treaty with Russia, and the consent of Austria , wh iche s is to have no share in the Confederation of the Princes of the Rhine, to the annihilation of the Germanic Consetution, can possibly pre vent a war upon the Continent." Whether bath, or either of these important events will take place, will be brought to a decision in the court of a very few days. The Russian ratification is etpelted at Paris by the end of the month, and the new Diet is to assemble at Frankfort early in September. Unless the mind of the Emperor ALEXANDIR has undergone a complete revolution, unless he has renounced for ever that course of glory, in which we have lately seen him shine with so Much lustre, unless this star of the North has empty left its orb and shot its fire, it is impossible that Russia can tamely look on, and see the centre and South of Europe disorganiaad and ledtteed into the vassalage of France. After the surrender of Ulm, BONAPASXII gave the captured Generals to understand, that the Austrian Ministry must, in future, be formed to his pleasures anA ikon 110 i?fluenp ought to pre vail ii bar ecluncils. He is now proceeding to realise this threat, and has began by laying his band upon the liberty oi the press. 'Hie circu lation of son,* German pamphlets, in Suabia and IV/aria, hat afforded a pretence for clamour agalcsi this hated foe of is despots. They are denobsinared lath in the small Paris Papers, in which they are made the subject of SOISO seri ous observations tsi on the conduCt of Austria The tendency of these writings was to excite the inhabitants of Suobia against the Frt..eah armies and it is suggested, " that the Ministers who (tired that Cabinet, and who continue the enemies of their toentry, will finish by drawing on its ruin." Prussia, at length, begins to shew symptoms of alarm, at the revolutionitry progress of the French in Germany. But her tardy policy will not avail her. She has lost the " glori ins golden oppot. tunity," of delivering Europe from anarchy and oppression. A report was current m Hanshurgh on the Bth instant, that the French had entered Saxony. It WAS considered as premature, but by no means im probable. Yesterilay morning His M ay, esest, the Duke of r aseetool, Princesses AtIGUaT A and Sorisi 4, the Earl Of Da er mourn, Lord Waisincn• as, and Lady Travails, Generals CA RTWILIGHT and Flee nor, sod Col .a:• Far Lout, rode on horseback in Wi idiot Great Park, and returned at twelve o'clock. Her MA.lssr v and Princess Etteastea took an airing in she Great Park and Frogmote. Mr. Fox has resolved on going tomorrow to St. Ann's Hill, for a few days, if his doily improving state of convalescence shall continue. The Right Hon. Secretary will, afterwards, go to spend a few weeks at Brighton.—He was better yesterday. The COMMIT( C, WEILTISISHSAD, from the South Sees, for London, is captured, and carried into A .nboyna. Lord Be/ire - serif, Governor of Barbadoes, is com ing home in the Severn. Sir WILLIAM Sestrea, of Tarry, the present Re presentative of Fifeshire, in Parliament, retiree. An evening Print of yesterday says, " Lan week the finishing blow was given to another of these ex pensive establishments, the General Hospital at Ply mouth. It was knocked up by Dr.FSROUSON, Deputy Inspe/lor of Hospitals ; the furniture was sold by ailetion, and the building is to be turned over to the Barrack Depa.trrent. This building, which it is said cost the public upwards of 80,0001. with a large Medical Evablishment, for some years never t c f o i n t r i ained twenty onis next sick drawn ra wn tosoldiersthe Generalat onetime Hos A pitala t- t Chelsea, called the Ynik Hi;pital, which many think can well be spared, and should likewise he knocked up. Hereafter their will be only one Ge neral Hospital in the kingdom " The following is said to be the Staff of the Army. going out to the Mediterranean : Major Grnerall . . W)l3Attl. Lord PA:et, Spencer. Q.,a.ter Master General Mater Ge 4 , 141 . lingadietGenersl . St ovist, of ti • Deputy Adjutants Go. 5 litsgatlier Gets. Ca sipbell, 61st, and neral . . .t Load Waldegtarz. ennimstaaries General Thompson and D snmolin. Deputy Inspettor of Dais , s ,, mmdk. Hospitals . Plimmans . . Onotms King 31111 Moseley. g u ar s urge ", earpue, Montagne, & Crump. Yussoyor . Stewart. The following is a Copy of an Address pub lished at Trinidad, by General MIRANDA : M• Famous Attu Coomecroan-o•The glorioas opper twiny new presents itself, of relie•ing from oppression and arbitrary governusent, a I.eople oho are worthy of a better fate, who ought to enjoy the blessings of the fined country in the universe, which bountiful Providince has given them, hut who are shackled by • despotism two cruel for human nature longer t r endure. Groannig tinder their pre-ent affliction., they hail, with extended arms, the noble cause of freedom sod indepeudence„ and call upol ynu to share with them in the god-like action of relieving yudr distressed fellow creatures. Hasten, then, to join the standard of one who has the hap. pintas to call himself tour countryman, and is ileterntiti- I to rescue his country, and totaled the Last drop of his Mood in pin• rooting its happiness; am ohjea, a which he has never lost ash', for • moment f his hr.. There will be made a liberal distribution of land, at the ex piration of a twelvemonth, according to rank; and privates, from the inStant of their earoladiot, will be twined to pro. visiosis and clothing, with • quatter dollar per day, of pay, not a ibis& to any dedirOlions. And von, brave Volunteers of the Islands, who have nobly come forward, to partake with us our honours, and to share with us our prosperity, hasten to follow these Officers under whose care you have already. been trained, and who are im patient to lead you on to viacity and weslth. The Gulph that Columbus first discovered, and honoured with his presence, will now witnesa the illuatriuus attiums our gallant eructs. A TIT COMPANION TO " HO' TO OPT NICM," " NOW TO CRT MARniZr." [Altar the Latin of theviore EY OLD NICK. Spurinna married, Monne wild. Recants he cluldiA set a child; Set out, one day, in ',lout rage. Good 01*11, ulna a pilgrimage. Full soon he reacted the Pyrenees. Art pgay'd Jacuhos • oe his kuees—a The snowy Alps he then ascended, And 'fore St Peter Suppliant tended.. The Adriatic next he tried, And to oar Lady t sigh'd and CHIA a Now to the Holy Land pmeeed•ng With suns, he creel the giR of byeetlite. Not yet content, a Camel's hemp Ho climbs, told gives the beast a thus)). And never steps to sop eedine Zitil he comes to Catlesine's j Shrine. • • His penance tees, sow neighbours ;atm What was this holy inan'a success. Complete! he found (for ,. ow lam) Three chopping boss on t toisio • St James, of Compostrits, t Our Lady of Lemuel j St. Catherine's chapel, ow Sinai. CHORUS OF REVIEWERS. .111111•1. To have our brains b,lown out is pretty No, Because an Author happens to have soar: sammweete WINDS ()R TREATRZ. The Grerian Daughter WAS performed Leif, M Monday night, for the benefit of Mrs. Powtti, an overflowing house. The audience cothisted tf the first Nobility and (lenity of Windsor and al environs. Mrs. Pow. Lc was greatly tipplaitdci ii the part oF Faphrerie, *NA e per or—ii- 1 se , tl her usual excellence, .blr. Risoiria was excellent in the part of Leander. At the end of the Play, MI% Maaceavar gave Crary Jane is charadei, which was well received. Aber the Play and Pam, Mr,, Powcia gave the the=lean Corps a farewell er• tertainment. It was a cold cullacion, pith cake, Scc, Mr. Cutitav is engaged tc follow Mrs. Powri and made his fir.t appearance, Lit night, in G;• vrrnor Hrart,ll, in his favourite Comedy of Dungbier 3 and Ziego, in 74 . .firctutic Si'. trial. - . . His Royal Highness the fluke of Cara4a IDOL it to honour the Windsor Theatre with hs !WOG ail patronage, some night in the" course of this week. Madan!! KIUMPI4OI.TS, the celebrated Hrei player, is arrived is York, and it is Lapel:lad trill perform there.. The Grrtctte of last night announces the appoiier ment of Mr. Rill to be a Master in Chancery —Tio RN:. we thought, had an inliericioce ha thh Court of Chancery, from time immemorial. ,Vsriudsor is crowded every day with visitor • 11 is a very bustling and brilliant senile, in tong. quenco of the Royal Residence being continual there. by De WlllTUll—front the Opera of ProJerfeine; the Seen. Dello Sesperk R6ffltit the Opera of Cieepere, by ' , Jas.'''. ; and ('se. iatir-7.4e Lowentalion of Andeowiehe i are the pieces with which Madame Grantor intends to delight the Liverpool audience. Mr. WINKIIILD, reeNtsO of she MAO to lit MAJItsTY, died, on Monday night. at his apart* menu, in John -street, St. J ames's square. It WA time for the Teoman of the MotelA to go, the K Koh hen, at St. James's, having been lately shtii• ished. The last arrivals at Cheltenham are— The ceinite.s 01 li. , lk.mis7 I , Lactic. Limns, Thames, aal Luey Taylor; Sir< H. Owsnil. T'horrney, g. {cry, and I Phenus ; Colonel and Mrs Erskine. I. reuterran t•Cr food Hurtle, Mol•rr Kely; Csptrins LO lO ll, Newton. D 'Or. KeL! and Thompson ;'Rev. Dr. IYMSts, Rev Mr M d 'kan. Arrivals at Gloucester House, Hotwslls, last week • COL O`Tot'o; Col. Tinsinps on r Mr and Mrs Pow I Messrs. H•rdls g, G. hrow.lrii,. 8 w . ; ,,. 11 ,1 Uteri& 'I homes, Rowe, Mrs Harri.uo, two Nl4tte.Flntittrt,ice. Arrivals at the Royal York Hotel, Clifton — Lady Donstly, Sir Robert Baker, Lady Mary Hu.. v, Baran Triopt, Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr. •od M. Cr.vershew a A tautly, Mr aryl Me.. da,c r oine, Mr and Mrs. Mach, W. Turarnm, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Hussey. Joitt Mao/sins, Esq. M. P. for Ilchester, and son of Lady Levis* Maripsas, was asartied, at 11:tlf past nine o'clock last night, by special licence, to the amiable and lovely Duchess of RIZILIGII. The ceremony was performed at her Grace's in Portman-square, by the lkev. Mr. Wm...tars. BE .I.llllDliti Koss, Esq. gave her Grace away. There were present, the Duke and Duchess of ST. ALBAN% Lady LOUISA MASININS, MISS MIAOW* and Mr. WLLIAAIII. The Duchess was dressed 10 white satin, her head dress a tiara of diamonds. On Tuesday, the 14th, and, on Saturday, the 16th, the Anniversaries of the Birth-days of the Prince of Waaas and puke of YoaN., the Royal Standard was hoisted upon Went Worth Castle, in Yorkshire. The Royal Ensign was seen flying Ist all the surrounding country, and the naighbouring Gentlemen attended at the Castle, where they pas' took of an hospitable and sumptuous repast. The health of each Member of the Royal Tam,ly was drank amidst loud huzzrs, and many anecdotes were told illustrative of the goodness of the !Hoodoos Personages. The entertainment, in honour t-f - the Prince of W•tas's Birth-day, on the ICth, t.fficht4' ed at three in the morning of the 13th, whLII the loyal and jovial party broke up, and proceeded 'r the Moors, from whence they returned on the t6th, loaded with game, to furnish an entertainment is honour of his Royal Brother. r. 061 1. e e: 0 ; 0 - • • : ,s , t9 if (I # r. SPURINNA AND HIS WirEi ea, now TO eitt CHILDREN. 7?' vic els be Ch thr in, el< lir 7( fo e , aI fJ t M II l~