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r r~ ~~ founded ; hut the present citation specifyiag No farts, the amused could cite no witnemees to prove the correctors. of their report. Where there is truth there ran he no l faith', and to &seri - lain Ilito truth, the proof of the facts ought to be • 'trimmed. He prayed the Court therefore to order that the Pohl' , Prosecutor should be obliged to specify the parts of the report of which lie complaised, that the offer of the *e roded to prove the troth of their reports should be put tan • the record, and they be admitted to prove them on any day ' the Court would indicate. •PEL De Btoe, Advocate-General, opposed this, and geld that the ohketion reposed on an error. The law by which the • serrated were brought up was special; and it provided, that its era* of atom towards either of the Chambers, it could erector the person to be brought sip to its bar, and would popish him with the penalties ordered by the law. 'rho same law authorises either Chamber to proceed is the same way wills leased to the reports given by the Jannis!. of they preserestiega. These ',colas in. a are equally applicable to the Reports of proceedings in Courts of Jurtice; and the Court may apply them oil the application of nay ore of its 11lentbers. It is said that the facts reported took place when the (3ueet was absent deliberating; but when the Judges sera obsess-she Pwblie Minister is still there to continue the alt. ling. He cunc'uded that the demand of M. Merillsou ought not to be grained. Afiesr there hours deliberation the Court ordered that, con sidering the 6th Article of the law of May 28, 1919, only ap plied so infractions whirl were expressly signified; and that the law of Meech 25, MI, hail nu dither rcgoilatioria as to protean's) than those contained in the 15th and 16th Articles f that law relative to the proceedings of tither Chamber, and en•semently that the Publ e Prosecutor is not obliged to make &sty specification of I he facts anterior to the •niiienct; coneidtriont Mao that the 15th and 16th Articles of the law of March 25, refer the matter to the reconvenes and cow science of the 'Magistrates to appreciate the reports com plained of, as well as the memos of offeuee.--the cause shall be immediately proceeded In. N. de Rrue —The law of March the 25111 has conferred on courts the imporirrot and salutaey power of judging and punishing the incorrectness sod bad faith, the injuries and oilmen which the Journals may be guilty of io reporting their proceeding.. This Court had, it, the course of the lung lend impottant t. i• 1 with which it was lately occupied, more tl, tit 011CP Occasion to remark that certain Journals give in correct accurints of 1114 proceedings; and OW one oceasiou the President reminded the Journals of their duty in this re. ape et. But the &spirit of party knows no laws. Its spite of this p.teinal admonition of the Court, false reports were continued from clay to day, till the matter cause to its height uu the last day of tho trial. The intention of thus frislfying the proceedings was evidently to weaken the charges against the amused. It will be nit fictent if I point out among many others, the incorrectness of the accounts given in the Cormtilutionuel of the sit t togs previous to the last, which will occupy us more particularly. The A drocate-Gentesl then read parte of the Numbers of the C'un sfileitionoel from the 22d of August to September 6, which he chaiacterised as all shewiag bad faith. All the articles mato rule to the sth September, eatitkd, " Affair of the Conspire t ion of Rucheilc"—" Affair of Itoctselle g —. Affair of the Cur Inroad," are full of incorrectness, will an intention of f ilsify, ing the ponces, ridiculing the accusation before it wan judged and deceiving the public in a matter of great importance. Tho totem two of the la's day's report was to tromforns the criminal', into heron and victims, the Jury into amossins, and the Judges • loco I *eclat tuners. After them general obsed Tattoos, the A deo. r-te Genelal descended to particulars, and accused the Con. itittetionuel °fosterling that at the moment when the Jury de livered their verdict, a cry of sorrow was heard arnuug the audience, which was not true, as shewn by the silence of the other journals oa the subject—that it described the audience as melancholy and dolefully silent during the absence of the Court to deliberate—that it spoke of the heroic indiffereuce of the accused, of the tranquillity of their soul', of these calm tiros and of their serenity—that it attributed to the condemned sentiments which compared the judgment passed on them to the bloody batch. rim of 1793. 4 And these things, the Advo este.General instilled. did not take place. Otte thing, he said, did take place. Some young advocates, defenders of thr ac tateed,lengetting the respect due to the weighty affair before the Court, to the Public Minister, the Jury, and the public forgetting also the dignity of the rube they wear, went so fa; • as to embrace one of the criminals pit Witty, or rather ligs used on the hick. The Courier aod the - Pilote were accused of the same violations, of 1111th. The Jeanie/ do Conanatreo, io addition to these aberrations, described the audience as groaning and weeping over the prisoners—it put expressious icto the mouths of some of the criminals, which pointed out therJary as condemning them against their own conscience, •Ld by as alto-ion compared the proceedings of the Court In some of those which took place under the revolutionary tr.bunals. ;le concluded by calling on the Court to reveoge violated tenth. Neither the Editor of the Cuasfifuflonnel nor hie Advo. eare were present, suet M. Courdier prayed that she tense might be postponed till to-morrow. The Presidestirepliert, that the honour of the Court could never be compro. tr.sed ; it kuows its duties, and will fulfil them. He then ord-rrd the proceedings to go on. Nu defence was feted, and offer deliberating, the Court condemned M. Guise, responsible Editor of the Consfifedionnef, and Feuelon, responsible Editor of the Journal du Commerce, each to be imprisoned use year and to pay a fine of 5,000 frames; Le Gracieux, reponsible Editor of the Courier Fran. cats, to six months imprisonment and to pay • Site of 3,000 traces; and Cassano, responsible Editor of the Pilote, to one munth's imprisonment unit to pay a Sue of 1.000 francs. I P The Constitutiounel end the Journal du Coarsen.* are Sobid to report judicial proceediop fur one year; and the Courier mud Pilote fur six months. The Court further ordered the suppression and destruction of all the number, of three Journals complained of; that the decree should be primed and published to the extent of 500 copies; and that the decree. with the motives fur ren dering it, and its dispositions, shall be inserted In eve", one • of the foot Journals in one month. Guise and Faucillun are earls of them condemned to pay a third of the expellers of the process, Le Gracieux to pay two st lobe, and Cressloo une.ninth.—(tinoffdlenot.) Fttancn,FunDl.—Five per Crass. fur the opening 29d of September. opened at 92 1. ; closed at 911. 35 c.—Nea. politick Fuse per Cents. 781 f.—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 45 c.• three ditto, 25 f. 35 c.—(Court When (floe, September 13 ) SOUTH AMERICA. A St. Thomas Paper, dated July 30, received by the lest packet, mentions, that according to the Lives, 'dykes from the seat of Goveritrnesst, Santa Is. there appeared no doubt of President Bolivar hvytng subdued the whole of Quito, and lie was daily expected in the capital un his way to Carucci's. His arrival, it was expected, would hostess the fall of Puerto Cavello, although it was possible that this 16-treoa might fall sooner, as the only deficiency hitherto experienced has been the wain of naval forces, and fortunately these had been considerably in-nosed by the arrival at Carthagena of two cor vettes, the one mounting e 8 and the other 14 guns. principally manned by European seamen, and hav ing on board a considerable supply of arms, clothing, ammunition, &c. This is the molt sea sonable reinfoteruirot that has hitherto reached the slimes of Colombia, and the Local Authorities had rapretwed the utmost gratitude at the very judi rictus and active manner in which they had been obtained. These vessels, as soots as they had landed their supplies, were ordered to join the blockading squadron. General 'Pais still invested Puerto Cavell. on the land side, and the blockade by sea had also been renewed, by the addition of Commodore Chit tie's beig, and another just arrived front the United Siete; 'of whit+ Commodore Jolie his the Coliseiodoie Dodds • wet soon isPecuid Asom North Mastics with a vessel et such itd's!' as Imola made the Colombians to compete with the I NI I I' F I ' t +!. 111.7 - - Spanish frigate Li;era, and their united squadron wotild their be eripsl to any naval forces their ene mies might he able to send against them. It is now clear that the Royalist General Morales surprised General Snublot* in she late action, sod the Indepessrlente thelneehres as knowledge that the latter lost 200 men. Being, however, afterwards joined by the British and irsvh troops in the service of the ft eptibli.t. under the command of Colonel Davy, who distinguished himself at the battle of Coroboho, Morales deemed it more prudent to act oil the defensive, and since lie has gone with his forces to take the command of Puerto Covello. Paez, in the meats time. had sent to the plants for 1,000 cavalry and lancers, to reinforce Soublette's Caraccas end every part of the interior is represented as bring perfectly tranquil. Colonel 11611, the independent editor of The Anglo-Colons bias newspaper, ha. been ordered to Santa Fe on military duty. The paper res., however, to be COB.. untied under the name of The Columbian. THE BRITI S 1 PRES S. I.ON DON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER fl, ises. Yesterday, at three o'cloCk, his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace in Pall-mall, which was at tei.dra by— Esti Bathurst, the Sari of Liverpool, the Earl of West morland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Treasurer of the Navy, Mr. W. Wynn, the Duke of Dorset, as Master of the Horse, and Lord Charles hemlock. Lord ST. HELENS and Sir HILLGROVE TURNER ware the Lord and Groom in Waiting. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which Mr. CANNING kissed hand*, and received the seals of office from bis &Warts' upon his being appoint ed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of the late Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Parliament was further prorogued from the Bth of October to the 26th of November. Mr. ASHTON SAUTE! was sworn in Lord Lieute nant of the County of Carmarthen. Earl BATtURST was President of the Council, in the absence of the Earl of fiszao4aY. Mr. BuLt.sa attended as Clerk of the Council. The Council broke up about four o'clock. Mr. CAMNINa had an audience of the KING be fore the Council, and the E,rl of LIVERPOOL lied an audience after the Council. The Mai, Papers up to Sunday have arrived. The Comstitaiiimeel of Saturday, under the dates of Corfu, August 11, and Zvnte, the 14th, gives what it calla authentic particulars of the general defeat of the Turks in the pass of Thermopylae on the 20111 July. The fallowing are extracts : SANTE, AUGUST 12. As soon as the Greek Government learned that • Turkish corps d'ormee had peuetrsted into the Pelo ponnesus, •ud that the Ottoman fleet was bound for this coast, • Proclamation was issued, calling all the inhabitants to arms, which load the effect of railing about 8,000 volunteers, which force marched to join the troops at Pitras. Four thousand Ma- Motes, tinder their Chief, 111.yrotnichale, arrived at Calamsta. The rest of the Peloponnesians having run to arms in every direction, the General. Colo cotroni and Mayromichale were enabled to match at the head of 16,000 men towards Argos. A second battle took place on the 6th and 7th of August between the Turks and Greeks io the plains of St. George, between Argos and Corinth, when, it is said, 3,000 Turk. were killed. There are no details as to the number of wounded and prisoners ; about 2,000 horses, 120 camels, and all the baggage 281 d ammunitiou fell, into the hands of the Greeks. The Turks retired upon Corinth, whither Colo. cot►oui followed them in vigorous pursuit. General BERTON and floe of his accomplices have been found guilty, and sentenced to suffer death. All the rest of the accused have been found guilty only of not revealing the plot. In the preceding sitting, the refusal of M. DLAUI.T to plead in defence of his client, one of the pri soners, was, on the motion of the President, re. corded by the Clerk of the Court. Our readers are aware the King's Advocate stated, in the pro gress of the trial, that this defect would vitiate the proceedings. Nothing furtherapprars respecting this point. The Aosise Court of Paris was occupied the whole of Thursday with the case of the four Edttora of newspapers, charged - with having published a malicious and unfaithful report of part of the pro ceedings in the trial of the Rochelle conspiracy. They were all sentenced to fine and imprisonment for different terms, with fines in proportion. The same disregard or the principles of justice that cha racterised the previous proceedings was manifested on the preterit occasion. The parties were not allowed to produce proof of their innocence; they were con victed on the mere assertion of the Officer of the Crown. From this subject we turn to a country in which the principles of justice are better understood. At a moment when no helping hand iu the Christian States of Europe is stretched out in aid of the op. pressed and persecuted Greeks, it is grateful to find that they have found a friend in America. The 4114esseise Zeiensig is quoted for a letter from Coo stauticiople, dated the t Rh, in which it is observed that the Government of the United States, having no mistiest with the Parte, and never Milieux whited with that Power, has formed some coo ns:ion with the Greek Senate. The American squad.). stationed is the Ideditensasso, sad which is authorised to save the Greek emigrants iti care of a ifeneral disaster, was received on tie 43d of July with great solemnity at Hydra. The squadron is also said to have landed a great quan tity of arms and ammunition at Hydra. Admiral TOMS ASAS, who attacked the Podia's ves►el, and oilier Greeks, were presented to the American Coro-' mender, who congratulated them on their courage. The letter adds, " Lord STRANGFORD appears to be jealous of this intercourse ; and it is said that be has sent agents to Tura, Syrs, and Milo, to per suade the inlarbitanta to prefer the protection of England to that of America." French Funds on Saturday, 91 f. t c. Ge►man Papers to the 7'h inst. have arrived. The Allgen►eine ZeitaNg of this date contains the fullowilig article : FROST THE FRONTIERS OF POLAND, AUGUST 26. By an order of his Imperial Highoess the Grand Duke Constantine, the Nobles in Podolia and the Ukraine are forbidden to go into foreign countries. Those to whom passports have already been deliver ed before the publieution of this order, must give them back again, and the prohibition even has a ►etro-active effect with regard to all passports issued in the month of July. Permission to visit foreign countries must be obtained from his Imperial High ness himself. Auslrisn Funds, September 2.—Metalliquea, 831 i Bank Shares 884. The Bank Meeting for Thursday, advertised yesterday in our Paper, excited great interest io the City, in consequence of the expectation of a bonus, and the reduction of the annual interest upon the stock. Our Paper of yesterday contained a full report of the Court Martial held on Colonel GORE. lo the afternoon of Sunday he received • letter from the Right HOU. JOHN BECHRTT, Judge-Advocate, congratulating him upon the decision of the Court, viz —a fall and honourable acquittal. The letter added, that the Court considered the charge wicked and malicious, and that a prosecution should be forthwith instituted against the accuser. The de cision of the Court was made known after a shorter interval Mau is usual on occasions of the kind. Considerable surprise was, however, expressed yes terday by those who read the report, that the Court did not decide upon the case immediately, so very clear does the innocence of that officer appear, and so palpable was the falsehood of the accusation. The Report of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the amount and appropriation of the sums levied on ac count of the poor Fn England and Wales, has just been printed and distnbutell„ The Committee begin their Report by observing, that the returns referred to them, containing state ments of the amount of sums levied by way of poor rote, and of the sums expended on the poor in the year ending March 25, 1821, are complete, with the very inconsiderable exceptions noted in the margin. —[These exceptions are Baildon and Mannitightun townships, in the West Riding of York.] Connecting these accounts with previous ones laid before the House, there are now "returns for nine successive years, composing three triennial pe riods, ending March, 1821. The ►exult of the comparison of these accounts is, that it exhibits • " continued reduction in the levies, from the year 1817.18, so that in the last year the amount was less by about 300,000/. than the year 1819.20, and less by 900,0001. than in 1817-18. It appears, however, that the amount of expenditure for other purposes than the send' of the poor his been increasing in the last three years, viz.— 1818-19 1919 20 1820-21 The Cominittre declare themselves unable to state po•itirely how this progressive increase has arisen. We think it may be interesting to learn the pro• portion in which the poor rates have diminished since the years 1817-18; premising, that the whole expenditure, as compared with what it was in 1812, has increased. In that year, fur example, theag gregate sum levied was 6,123,1781.; but the in crease has not been progressive year by year since 1817-18, nor is it slow progressive. Out the con trary, each or the three years of the third period has exhibited a diminution, as compared with the year preceding, viz.— In 1817 18 the amount was £7,890,148 In 1818-19 dine 7,531,650 In 1819-20 ditto 7,329,594 1n 1820.21 ditto 6,958,445 The Ruch►■ AMB•UADOB had en audience of the Kure yesterday. A violent shock of an earthquake was felt at Laybach shoot three o'clock in the morning of the Bth instant. Sir W. KNIGHTON has succeeded Sir B. BLOOM. YIELD sis Private Secretary and Keeper of the 'Privy Purse. Mr. Maintains still retains his place as Clerk of the Privy Purse, and Mr. W SON Assistant Private Secretary. The latter geu. tlecnau was many years with the Duke, of Cum- BERL& /ID. and has beeu • good deal abroad. The Red Hower, lately occupied by Sir B. BLOM(' 111111. D. is to he got i• readiness, it is stated, for the seceptioo of the family of Sir W. Kmaaroc— (Evosins Paper.) , FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. The Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Porehester, and the Lades Herbert, have arrived in town from his Lordship's teat, High Clere, neer Newbury, Berks. The Earl of Besburough has left town on a tour. The Earl and Countess Cowper have left tor* for their seat Pausaoger, Herts. Viscount mad Viscoustess Granville and family left town yesterday for their seat, Wbersiesd Lodge, Suffolk. Lord Hugest - has arrived in town from a tour. Lord W.. Headlock has arrived in town from kis brother's . (the Duke of Portland'►) seat, In Nulls. Lady Neale has left town for Paris. Lord George Bentinck left town on Saturday fur Doors• ter Races. Departures from Greillos's Holel, Albemarle-wen:— His Excellency Dos Juan Garcia del Rio; Duo J. Paruit sien ; and Mr. S. Hanle for Liverpool. Calomel Gontkorp has arrived at Fenton', Hoiel, St, James's street, from 'reload; mid Captain V. Jones from ditto. Sir William Parker, Ran. has left ditto for his seat in Suffolk. F. Fan Undermeulin and Lady have arrived at Jordin's Hotel, St. James's-street. from the Continent. Departures from ditto :—Mr. and MIMI Ewan for Yorkshire; Mr. and Miss Campion for Doncaster; Colonel nod Mrs. Attain for Rent; Miss Birley and Min Potpie fur Brighton; and Wm. Campion, Jan. Esq. for his seat, Henl►y.un•Thatnes. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. Janies's-strut :—B. Hay. wood, Esq. and family from Manchester; Major Tirkle from Ireland; and Mr. and Mrs. Elliot and family (ruin Ramsgate. Departures from ditto :—Lord Trimblestows for France; and Sir H. Vivian, Bart. fur his west is Hants. Arrival at Warren's Hotel, Regent-strret :—T. W. Beau mont, Esq. M.P. from Worthing. Departures:—Mrs. Sober and family for Malvern Wells; Colonel and Mrs. Malcaston fur Oxford. Arrival at Blake's Hotrl, Jerinyn.strret:—The Earl of Gosfort, yesterday ripening, from Ireland. Departurrs:— Baron and Baroness Dudon and family for Paris.. Mr. and Mn Peace mod family have'arrived at the Water loo Hotel, Jertaya-street, from Paris. Nugent, F.sq. has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from his seal in Sussex. Joha Westcombe, Esq. has left ditto for his seat in Notts. Departures from Hatehett's Hotel, Doveratreet :—Hou. Colonel Sirangeways for Sonieroeishire ; Lord Edeoursie for Southampton ; and Res. Dr. Goodall for Ewa Lodge. Wm. Berkford, Esq. bats left the Claremore Hotel, Bond street, fur Bath. Mr. Jobs Mister, of Iferlerotreet, for Dora, to embark for the Continent. HEREFORD GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The performance on Thursday morning at the Cathedral excited • considerable degree of in terest from the - circumstance of a new oratorio, called " The Crucifixion," to be performed for the first time, composed by Dr. Clarke Whitfield, organist of the Cathedral, and Pro fessor of Music at the University of Cam bridge. The result proved most highly flattering to the Doctor, wheat abiliiies as a composer are well known to the musical world and the public at large, of course no approbation is permitted in a place of worship. The overture had three movements ; the middle one was a most delightful fugue. The whole of the music was must scientifically and appropriately adapted to the word* of the divine event of the Crucifixion, the whole theme of which the Oratorio consists. The bolos and verse contain most admirable melodies, although upon such an awfully sublime, yet tragic event ; they were given with very fine effect by Miss Stephens, Miss D. Travis, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. W. linyveit, anal Mr. Bellamy ; particularly a solo by Mr. Vaughan, and • duet between him and Mr. Roy reit. The choruses were admirable, mid in the style of Handel; one of them in a novel man ner of expression. in imitation of the crowd calling on Pontine Pilate for the crucifixion of our The whole of it was not performed, but only suffi cient to constitute the first part of the pet formance. The second part consisted of a selection from Ike Creation, in which Mr. Bellamy's fine full-toned bass voice was heard to great advantage in the reci tative ; and Mrs. Salmon was, as usual, delightful in " With verdure clad." In the third part Mr. W. Knyvett's Coronado* Anthem was performed. The admired duet, " The Lord is a man of war," ai ls most admirably sung by Mr. Bellamy and Mr. Rolle. Miss Stephens gave the solo in the " Horse and his Bider," with most rapturous power of voice. The Cathedral was well filled. The Shire Hall was again filled in the evening. The performance throughout nos highly applauded. The billowing pieces were encored :—A scene from The Lay of the last Minstrel, "Is it the roar," sting by Miss D. Travis, Messrs.Vsughan, Kuyvett, Rolle, and Bellamy, composed by Dr. Clarke Whitfield—" Cease your funning," with variations by Roches, by Mrs. Salmon—" We're Noddin'," by MussStepliens. The piece most rapturously receiv ed was Mr. Lindley's concerto on the violoticello, in which he introduced, with the happiest effect and taste, " Corn rigr," and " Here's a health to nil good lasses." Mr. Willman played a fantasia with admirable 'fleet. Mr. Vaughan, in his usual style of excellence, gave • new cantata, com posed by Mr. R. Lindley, and accompanied by him obligate. on the violoncello. The concert concluded with " God sore the King," verse and chorus. There were balls after ouch concert in the Shire Hall, Inn it was so ex tremely crowded on Wednesday night that very lit tle dancing took place. On Sunday morning, at twelve o'clock, the Duke of Y ODE left tows for Su d horn Hall, the residence •f the Marquis of HERTFORD, on a shooting party. Viscount CHATEAUBBIAND arrived at Paris on the 14th tenitalit. The Lichfield Mercury states, that Miss STE PHENS, of vocal celebrity, wa• worried last week to Mr. THOILIS BROADWOOD. of the firm of BROADWOOD and Co. Musical Instrument soaker% The new Marriage Act, says • clergyman, should have been entitled, G. An Act fur the further pro. motion of Bastardy, and to tantalize and plague poor Parish Clerks, without remunerating them fo► their extra trouble :"—oot to spook of perjury, I thought oaths were too cheap before: bet now, oohs will be idly, and foolishly, and basely multi plied. A pair who are is haste to be married will readily swallow as many oaths a may be teodered, if considered 10411141111“111111 to their seheasem—es readily as if *lsmael CisagLiatatswit, Bolearairrw, or 111.1atoldslis • • ` M►OUVTS ssfrimui 12. The weather duriug this week has continued very atom. lied, with frequent shower■ and boisterous. It operates vary itijurioasly to the Sta. fishery, and has occationally pre. vented the drift boats from proceeding to sea. Tho pro., pectof fish in this Bay remains in a very gloomy slate, but a favourable change is hourly anticipated, by very immesoe shoals of pilchards baviug passed through St. Iveseley Tuesday last, coasting to the ivestiard. On that tiny, ratio in the morning, fish were discovered approscioistr the ohur;. " Heava"• was Instantly rounded, and the crowds of people running in difiereat directions, end ascending the highest si. tuatioss to witness the interesting setae, preitnted a very animated picture. The lab Grit appeased at law •ater, when the principal part of the scans were omformuoteio aground ; but one shut very docp to a sikoal of fish akito. caroled wit►tt emosidemble colour, but u•luirkily it toraotit The prospect of pilchards has not beet' its Paltering tore fur the last six years. The towns was full of itaxitty, and bastle all day, shoals of 6eh continued au sight. At night the drift boats caught from one to two and a half hogsheads each ; but yesterday there *as co appear. since of their auwiously expected visitors. • Dern is a word used by the fishermen, when kinds of lab are approaching the men goosed, and is tubsideird to be the Cornish appellation fur is►. ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENT. (From Th. Piped%a Telegnrph.J We last week noticed an invention by a Gialinen of Plymouth for conveying the electric fluid, by means of a cop. per conductor fixed in the masts, through the bottom of ships. Instead of being ascribed to Mr. T. Harris, join. as thee stated, it should have bees Mr. %V. S. Hants. The expenses' leas takes place in the harbour, and compktely succeeded, as will be seen from the following details. It is not necessary to quote the numerous inettmees of the lardy attentive bestowed upon many important results obtained from natural and experimental philosophy; bat it may now be sufficient to remark, that smut, years hare elapsed since Dr. Franklin demons t d the efficacy of metallic conductors is protecting buildings from the de ' @inactive effects of lightniug. Although the application of conductors o■ land is generally judicious, sad their advantages are admitted, yet on shipboard, where the effects of lightning me most to be dreaded, frost the is. flammability of the materials of which t►e ship and morn are usually composed, the introduction of electrical coo. doctors bas been lamentably neglected or injodicionely employed. This indeed may in some measure be traced to the difficulty of placing any fixed or continuous ens donor in a situatiou so liable to cbauge and motion as the mast and rigging of a ship ; and, consequently the oafs species of conductor that has beets adopted is a chain, vi long links of wire, one end of which is desigoed to be hoisted to the mast head, whilst the other pa over the side of the ship and comenuieates with the water; but hide• pendent of its defective construction, from its small e,. erelong, the incuaveisieace of being constantly hoisted and its consequent liability to be iajored, are very obvious This species of conductor is therefore usually kept packed it • case, mad only boasted use the approach of danger, whin it may then be too Isle fully to avert. To needy these rs coaveuieociea, Mr. Hants proposes to place in the back o the masts a slip of copper, winch is to be continued in thi intesior or bole of the cap of each mast; consequenife coming into contact wit► t►e mast abo►e, the cusitinuti) will be preserved, without preventing the upper men being lowered. The conductors of the lower masts an to be continued to the keel, and made to community, with one or more copper bolts is contact with 0* exterior copper or the water. it must be clear, therefore, that this arrangement preserves a permaueise conductor so lung as any part of the mast is continued, and as :be masts of a ship may be considered as mere points ethic contrasted with a thundercloud, thus aimed they are sh. telly pointed conductors. To those acquainted with in scion of ;smuts ou charged electric, it will be obvious, arc not too ninth to presume, that such masts will he highb efficacious in silently dela ieriiig • i bander clued of 164 sharer thereby giviag to ships a degree of security of very cuSsithr able importance. From these considerations Mr. Harris was iodueed to sub mit a model of a complete mast, famished with permeatet conductors, to the inspection of the Hos. Navy Bused, .1. expressed their decided approbation of the principle, sad ris guested Isica to exemplify its etEeteury by an experiment. which was carried lobo effect mi Holiday afternotio last, is board the Caledonia, in the presence of the Navy Board, Sir Alexander Cochrane, Commission. r Shield, sev.ral Captain. in the Navy, and she principal Officers in the Dock-yard, to the following manner The Lonfan cotter basin had a temporary mast and top mast fitted with • copper conductor, according to Mr. Hoe. min plan, was moored asters of the Caledonia, sod at toe distaace of 90 feet from the cutter • boat was statlooed with a small brass howitzer. Oa the idler bead of die Caledonia were placed the ilectrical machine and as electrical jar, with the outer coating of which • line was copeeted, haviag a metallic wire woven i• it: Ibis line being carried out of the starboard windows of the wardroom, terminated is an inn" lilted pointed wire is the immediate vicinity of the touch. hole of the howitzer; a similar line was pawl from the lar board window, which communicated with the maul-bead ul the cotter, and at the termination of the bolt through the keel • chain was attached, cuunected with soother insulated pointed wire in the boat, placed in the vicinity of the touch hole, the space between the immolated points being the only interval In • circuit of about 300 fees, from the positive to the atgative side of the jar. Some gunpowder being placed in costae with the conductor its the cutter and the prim* in the interval of the insulated points, the jar was charged, and the line tinselled to the masthead of the cutter being brought into contact with the positive or inside of the jir, a discharge of electric matter followed, which was passed by the tine to the masthead, sad by the conductor through the powder to the chain it. the water, by which it was coaveyol to the interrupted curim:Meat ism in the boat, where it passed in the form of a souk, and discbargiug the howitzer, imam ed to the negative or outside of the jar by the line leading into the starboard window, thereby dentoostrating that a quantity of electric mattes had been passed by the outedosctor through the powder (without igniting is) I. comet with the mast of the cutter, sufficient to discharge the howitzer. Mr. Harris thin detached the coniniumicadoo between the keeled the cutter and the positive wire in the boat, leaving that wire to rommueicate with the water only; but this imerreptom did not impede or divert the charge, as the discharge of the howitzer was effected with coral success as ia the first io. dance, the water forming the Only conductor from the Celle, to the boat. l• older to demonstrate stoat a triffing fracture or interruptiou in the conductor would sot bc importaat, it •as cut through with a saw, but this produced no material injury to 1111Colldlieling power. 'ri s me trials, carried on under the disadvantages of mar ', J umble weather, could nut fail of convincing all prestos ul it. efficacy, and called froth the decided approbationn of the Navy Board in particular, which was evinced by Sir T. S Mesita ergot-Mill Mr. Harris to superintend the tquipuirso of the masts of the Alinden,7l, and Jose frigate, loeparailiol 10 its general introduction tutu the navy. It can scarcely be necessary to expatiate cos the decree ri security the adoption of these conductors mast afford; orr. we trust the &implicit) of their application will o their introductrou into the metehaute service; nor Deed of combat the tibjr (-lieu, should it be urged, that these jejuna rarity occur, since it will be runic/tot to remember that many ships have been damaged; sad possibly some, whose fate has been unknown, may bare become the victims id Neglect of the principle of electrical conductors. It may sot, however, be misplactd to state, that a family io ibis tom■ was deprived some years since of a promishigyouog math 61 g the tlepozpoekederion, cu.( ato ship ej the by bii E n. e s sat airsick ladies, sicw partl y I t Irb y t a a a d i e vg with ;f dietword the more recto. instance of • Freud) sheroalap in Idol kleditereaseen having • plaid wader water displaced frosts thasame moose, and was only saved from shaking 6 1 keiag keeled over. We are glad to hear that Captain Owas, of the Bellereplacla hulk, who was stabbed by the cooviet Hartley, ta is a fair way of recovery. • ), . •-••• • - it e ; - .11111.,...11rj••••,„ • lOW I N7 ll , 4 4 . • " • . r.. 1 .) • - • -