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. • 1' 1 IT r' ' v i :: . r i , i's:. a~ . s ,~ ~~ 'GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, DICEIIII2 4. According to the latest accounts from Constantinople. of 9th and 11th November, important cbanges have taken place in the Ministry. Fur a considerable time past the complaints of the Janis-A ries have become more vehement and loud against Halet Ef fendi, who, it k well known, has for several years exercised the most decisive Influence in the affairs of the state, as Presi dent of the Council, and latterly as Keeper of the Seals. At the beginning of November the eldest of the corps as sembled to draw up a petition to the Sultan, is which, in re spect'el hut firm language, they pointed out that favourite as .me of the chief authors of the evils that had battles the Ottoman Empire, and requested that he might be removed from office. Abdanah Pacha, who enjoys high credit witty the Janissaries, and has several times succeeded in making them return to their obedience, took it upon him, at their re quest, to present their petition to the Sultan, ad accompanied ith an en:•rgetic memorial of his own. Sultan Mahnioud was resolved first of all to convince htn self with We own eyes of the truth of the statements. He Ira: versed the str.ets of Constantinople on the oth in the strictest incognito, as he now frequently does. the most profound 'tranquillity prevailed. He spoke with several persons who met him : the Information which he obtained on this occasion decided his purpose. In the same night the Grand V izier SalnliVacha and the Mufti, both-creatores of Halet Effendi, were deposed, and the Seals of the Empire given to the above-mentioned Abdallah Pacha, who latterly commanded the army stationed at Scutari. The vacant place of Mufti was given to Sidke Sadi, the member of. the body of Cletnas, who, as President of the Conferences, was present et all the negociations of Lord Strangford with the MAW% Ministry. It was easily to be foreseen that these measeres would be followed , by others. In fact !Islet Effendi himself re ceived orders on the 1091 in the afternoon to leave the capital, a Caphlgi Baschi accompaltiet him to Brussa, where he is to await his further destiny. 'alive same time, the bead barber and the chief of the coffee tenses, two of of Haters par ty In the interior of 11w Seraglio, were dismissed and banished to Asia. The fdll of that powerftil favourite will probably be followed by the removal of many others of his adherents. The reports lately circulated of disec.n'ents having broken out among the-Janissaries in the capital, are false ; tranquillity has not been a moment disturbed. The Government is vigilant to prserve it, and the Sultan endeavours to convince himself per sonally that his orders are executed. The same rigour is exer cised against the disturbers of public tranquillity at Smyrna, by the Pacha,.4 that city. The most perverse of the Janissa ries who had spread universal alarm by their acts of violence towards the aierchaats, and Rajas have been executed without mercy. ii;assif Hey, Govereor of the island of Scio, le in cessuunty ; employed in alleviating the fate of the unfortenatel iiirsabitsats;and the Government does every thing to collect the fugitives :lid send Them home. The Ottoman fleet, after parting from the Algerine and Egyptian squadrerrs, arrived at the Dardanelles in the begin ntrig Ofiforember. it was expected with the first south wind, id Oh harbour of the capital, to winter as usual. execution of Rajas of Philipponotes, which had lately taken place. in the capital, was caused by the discovery of a corri•rpostdence between them and the Greek insurgents. An amber; olio had employed himself in transhiting and circulating tbe,c,enatitntion published by ttte•Greek Sanato, has alas) been puyjohed irltli.deatli. The same fate has befailen , Coustantioe Yeieri, one of the Caimacans in Wallachia, during the absence of Bilk Prime, Who was ex - rented on the 9th. The accusation (rsloillti) Awed to his 'vend is literally as - foliage e " This is theintanoos. body of Constantine Negri, Cahaucan in Walla chia, on whom the penalty of death has been inflicted ; because ii•appesirce Wool his papers lately seized that he had carried on efamdestiste correspondence with his brother Thersloraki, cchh ief. of the rebels in the Mores, and had taken ea active pari in the rebellion." Stephen Vegoritles, formerly Caimacan in MoltlaVia, Who aria brought a few days ago from Silistria to Constant tinople, is for the present banished to Asia. The nook fold complaints received from both principalities of the op presston of which he was guilty seem to be the cause of this severity. The Aga Gabe Janissaries, who was deposed,on the Bth of November" has . beenTapcceeded by the Kul Kiaja, or Lieu tenant of 'the con bO The plague, according to the most ere dibWrotanis, seeatz to hate ceased in the capital and the eigiaras, and to be cnfmed to Bujukdere and Jenikoi. when trrinortaliq islcry 'eat.—(Arstrian Obserrer, Decem ber 2.) „•• • 7 sevtax, NON Ebl HER 28, P. Y. etetiatitins jape prriretN from Belgrade say, a messenger Non ~o~tQntinnple - I!'d azived there in six days (he must there fere have left that city on the 20th), with news that the discon _ lh broken out into save his and the Grand Ts to be scut to ten had been eat the statements of the least guano ' November, sad , sung iu all the eontaloed the most Himself. A copy f Belgrade. !severer* 213. ; one in seven, rte italreeisrtitt days. They both bring news that Maurocordato Mhitrii, and Normann, united, had totally defeated the Turks *ear kaissolunghi. on the 14th of November, and that only SOO cavalry rocatEtid. The occupation of Misselunghi by the Turks, sc‘ording toile reports. would therefore be unfounded. There r.et hardly be ay later news from that quart*. The - sow give great praise to the conduct of the ip in the lonian Island..—rAllyesneine Zei- T.) Circ • f _1449, , , 7. . BRITISH PRESS LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1822. We pre the discourse of M. VIILELE yesterday . . apos.the stairs of Spain, as it appedYed in the Joky- Ad des naafi. It is as sorry staff as a Bourboa Mi nister coald welt sseetioa, and remarkable only for rooted regret that Spain 'should have established an unassailable constitution. ,The generous bribe of giving n.liourboa Emperor to South America must' reflect honour on the Holy Alliance. The papers of Saturday contain noticing worthy of remark. The following are extracts : PARIS, 14. The departure of the Duke of Wellington appennrakbe de ferred fur some days. tits Grace will dine on flendlekastat with the Duke de Muntmoreney, litigeter fur Foreign Heirs, who gi Yes a grand dipl uountic dinner. tent of thi t lanlssarles and people had at length mileof rlilener ; that Milan Mahmoucl, to hid' caused Bidet • . 'the Chief Barber, I t Vivier, to Ge be •• :. the other Mintstei Alla. Another •- • all the Ministel to pieces by the J •s Ajhese are th travellers from Belt 'e; w h Tr: cannot in 0 tee. It is c • , uninia . ,on the 3th of'. ..„ , rical songs on ' " 1w 0 ... . publicly swaths o : ,•*: . , ... 4 std they cool violent abiplean. 3. .v ' il. e Sultan hi of :hove songs is I t . hanclv e Pacha of 1 TRIESTE, NI , Two.vessels hare jest arrived from Zoete ; o [l l 'rem the Comititit The 'nitrite/ ri s Ilrtuts, nnw that the p►esonation of _pelmet, lt Its opinion certain, addresses a long exhortation se /Spain tidally:Ay to the conduct it ought to pursue to lautu'e her her repolte, and the tranquillity of her neighbours. :'lotting can be better ; we prefer advice to mentces, and this mutual exchange of warnings amongst free Mints vista turn oat to their advantage. Such are the happyfadts of the liberty of - the press, fer which " there are no longer any Pyrenees." We were curious enough to know the species of modltleatioo the Jeer/eta des Debuts could propose to Spain, as it de ' dared bet the other day, that neither aristocracy nor theo cracy:nor the Charter of France, nor the Constitution of Eng lend, net the salient Cortes, could harmonic e with that country. We 'have been disappbinted ; it only puts forth some vague recontreendations ; it confines itself to exhorting Spain to moderation, to wisdom, and its attention is much more engaged with the present state of Spain than with what may be her future condition. For instance, after reproaching her with the spirit of persecution and political intolerance, which is increasing at every point, it adds : A downright rage for inquisiticea, condemnation, and proscription, seems to have taken possession of the Cortes since their re-establishment in NAO. Whoever does not agree in opinion with them upon every• subject, Is an enemy, a traitor. They scrutinize the past, and in every quarter they see only guilty persons to be brought to light and be punished. Out of ten or twelve little ministerial coteries who attempted to obtain power in the course of the six years, from 1514 to 1820, none appears in their eyes less culpable than another.— They proscribe these who had sent them to the galleys, and those who have enabled them to come out. The most wise, nay, even the most liberal opinions, if they diverge ever so little from the iitfallible system, immediately became political offences. The positions dictated by necessity are imputed as crimes- The Josephixos arc condemned, although friends to constitutional monarchy. The Pence are condemned as the partisans of despotism, *hough they only call for the old Cortes. No public man can obtain a reputation for patriotism. The Jovellanos, the Torreuos, the Martinez de la Rosa, are decried in succession, and their prudent advice rejected with horror ; the heroic Quiroga, and the dirtme Arguelles fall into disgrace. What do I say ? The very Ministers of the 7th of June, those pure Deseamisadoes, are now attacked by the party of the Fouet (the Zurriago) in the famous journal which bears that name. A Spaniard, a man of sense and merit, equally distinguished' by his character as by his position in society, who read that article, and who was questioned as to the effect It might pro duce in Spain, replied, that his compatriots certainly did not refuse advice, but that they would be very capable of giving it, in their turn, to those who were so liberal of it to them, and that they might well say, in theirt'nfeersal, " We are not, like yea, arrived at the end of our revolution ; and two years have scarcely elapsed since events, which all prudent men in Europe were able to foresee, have changed our political situation. We are enlightened by your experience and your faults; and if measures of exception have momentarily suspended whatever is liberal in our institutions, it is a civil war, it Is culpable re sistance which has reduced us to that deplorable necessity. " Yon are not menaced with foreign invasion or with 'eternal dissentions, and yet have you not, by your own avowal, a fa natical party which is every where exciting the spirit of per secution and iotoleraeoe? Has not a downright rage for de nunciation sod inquisition taken possession of It? Whoever does not agree le opinion with its leaders is an enemy, a sedi tious person, a conspirator; they scrutinize the past, and in every quarter they see only guilty persons to be brought to light and be punished. Out of ten or twelve small ministerial coteries who attempted to obtain power from 1814 to 1921, none appears less culpable in their eyes than another; they accuse both those who have proscribed and those who have exerted themselves the most against proscription. The sound. st opinions, even those which partake of a decidedly royalist character, If they diverge ever so little from their sys tem of unity or universal conscience, isumrdintely hemmr, in the eyes of their writers, political offences. The positions dictated by necessity are imputed as crimes. The men em kiloyed under the, Imperial Government are denounced, how lever friendly they may be to the representative government ; ih• Liberals are denounced as the partisans of Jacobinism, although they only vindicate institutions conformable to the 'Charter. No public teas cam preserve his repetition as a Royalist ; the Royer Collard, the Dessolies, the Jaseourt, the St. Cyr, are decried In succession ; the Honourable General !Malian 1i suspected, and the virtuous Camille Jordan has died te'disgraee. What do I say? even the Ministers of 1991, those pare Monarchists, are now attacked by the fanatical party, in a terrific journal written under its dictation." Would not this reply. &Mod the Spaniard, seem a little em thatrassing to the Journal des Debuts: and has it not acted like Le Sage, who wished to describe the manners of his coun try, and who placed amongst us the action of his Gil Bias. rants, neer rasa 14. French Funds.—Fire per Cents. opened at 99 f. 73c. ; closed at 90f. 90 c. ; Bank Stock, 1,637 f. 110 e.—Neopolitan Five per Cents. 78 f.—Exchange on London, one month, 23 f. 46e. ; throe months, 93 f. 30 c.—(Conrs Asthettlique, De ember 14.) We are, both from literary taste and religious principle, most anxious never to speak evil of DIGNITIES; it may be easily conceived that, from both considerations, we are doubly anxious not to speaVevil of " the Constitutional Associatiou"—for of that DIGNIFIED body purpose we now to speak. Their claims to our respect are great and manifold. The object of their disinterested labours would be sufficient to elevate into importance, and consecrate to eternal gratitude the obscurest individuals; for ' their object is no other thaw ►he preservation of the glorious CONSTITUTION of these realms from insult and injury. Their patriotic motto is, " Commit no nuisance here." But look again at the persons who have undertaken this DIGNIFIED task. There is Mr. Cu A RUES blVßlcwx, equally perfect in mind and body, and eulogized in Parliament by WILLIAM Wmasarciags, Esq. author of the Cop. porosity View of Christianity; there is Mr. Sti Nrt, careless to excess of his own affairs, but zealously devoted to the public purse—prodisitts sua, avarits publica peconice ; there is Mr. Alderman ArxlNs, the darling of the city, the most amiable of men, the paragon of patriots, the admiration of his country ; and there is, besides, every ancient matron and every resigned maiden whose proud seclusion from the of fairs of this wicked world qualifies them supremely for the protection, of our ideal Constitution. It is dif ficult to say whether the Association is more indebt ed to the object, or the object to the Association, for that dazzling DIGNITY which envelopes all their proceedings in glory indescribable. The Association lad a prosecution called on for trial oft Saturday last, the KING v. Kure, but the Special Jury not having appeared, they wisely declined to pray a tales. A similar act of intrepid wisdom 'they displayed in Lancaster ) whets they declined to go to trial against Rinow.se's witnesses.. No skil ful General will ever hazard a battle where success is desperate. The Association is not to be degraded to the level of litigants. They represent the " Con stitntion," and go into Court, not to contest, and submit to the result of a patient consideration of merits, but to receive a verdict and a sentence. In this view they are infinitely better guardians of the Constitution, and better chastisers of its revilers than the law officers of the Crown, fur they cannot be asked impertinent questions by Members of Parlia ment, and they feel no influence or fear to interrupt the even tenor of their conscientious course. Why ring not our streets with songs of triumph for the marvellous deliverance of our " Constitution" from devouring death by the mighty arm of the As sociation? The pululations of the Csautt-hydra it extinguished ; RIDGWAY, the Gorgon, immured ; and KING, that chimera dire, it has exposed to shame. Now is there, we put it to the consci ences of the slanderers of this unprecedented Insti tution—is there a living man who believes that the Constitution could have lived to this day, if the name less (ineffable, unutterable, indescribable) ruffians who served CARLILE, the artful, able, and renowned RIDGWAY, and the majestic KING, bad been allowed to wage war unopposed ? It is impossible. That we are not as France, and made like unto Spain, we owe to the Constitutional Association. But " the friends of sedition and the admirers of blasphemy," as the Courier beautifully states it, " are very angry with the Constitutional Association for having preferred an indictment against the publisher of that infamous poem in the Liberal, whose disgust ing impieties and coarse brutalities we," says the cou rageous Courier, " held up to public scorn and de rision." The same virtuously indignant Journal calls this poem " filthy trash," and " confidently asserts there is not an individual, whose literary taste and moral principles are not equally corrupted, who speaks of this poem without abhorrence." It moreover styles it " the loathsome thing." If the Constitutional As sociation had done nothing more than having called forth this sublime and DIGNIFIED paragraph from the Courier, its existence would be the pride—its labours the glory, of the nineteenth century. But they have done much more even in this case ; they have ob tained the passport of a GRAND J ay into a Court of Justice with Lord BYRON'S Vision. This is a va luable advantage. A GRAND JURY, necessarily in telligent and circumspect, have said that the Vision is fit to be prosecuted by the Association for Sedition. The Lancashire Grand Jury rejected at once the bills presented by Mr. HARMER for private individuals against the gallant yeomanry of Manchester. They refused admission to a fanciful charge, by obscure in dividuals, within the solemn precincts of justice. But the Grand Jury, in this case, saw at once the high re spectability and glorious title of the prosecutors, and ushered theta into the Court. If any irreverent coun sel should hereafter question their title, the impartial Judge will at once tell the Special Jury, that the Grand Jury have recognized their title, and left no room for such cavils. But the subject prosecuted will admit of no doubt as to the result, although the Courier, scrupulous good Christian! hesitates to say so,lest haply he might bias the future Special Jury. The subject is, the dis respectful terms in which GEORGE 111. is mentioned. We shall not stay to prove that Geoacie 111. is an everlasting part of our glorious " Constitution ;" and that therefore every disrespectful mention of him to the end of time must be sedition. It is enough to say that Dr. Sot/ritzy, the duly-constituted Laureate for such special services, has sung his late MAJESTY ►ato beatitude ; and that to treat lightly a King so beati fied, blind, too, and insane as he was, is raging sedi tion, if not flagrant treason. We are much mistaken if the mere parody, or even the idea of parody upon Dr.SOUTHEY'S hallowed hexameters, will not be found' sedition and blasphemy serpentinely entwined, by every Jury but those who acquitted Mr. HONE. Why slumbers the Vice-Society, for the prosecution of blasphemy belongs to them ? The Constitutional Association care only for sedition. Can the Vice- Society supinely suffer St. George—the St. George of SOUTILRY too—to be blasphemed with impunity It is matter of much joy to think that Mr. CA NNitis withholds not his countenance from the DIGNIFIED zeal of the Association, and the dignified censure of the Courier. Thus it becomes a parodist, when con verted, to strengthen the hands of the righteous, and to punish parodists. Every one must be sensible that this is the most unequivocal evidence of genuine conversion and true contrition. Happy revolution, which has allied Mr. CANNING with Mr. MURRAY aganist the parody of Lou! BYRON ! Yes, it must be so; for if be approved not, his spirit could never look quietly on while parody of this sort is prosecuted. The zeal of the official Courier for Christianity sur passes praise. "The vulgar audacity of that poor igno- rant creature Carlile, and his bold-faced knavery." o,' what a champion of religion is here ! That CA nLILE is " poor" we ourselves knew, from his inability to pay I his fine; that he was " creature" we presumed ; but " audacity" or " knavery" we could sot impute, be cause we could not look into his heart or divine his motives. His "besotted expectation," and his " pro fligate enterprise," though we potently believe, upon the authority of the Courier, we could never bare discovered. Here is the advantage of being a scholar as well as a Christian. A poor fool had found a piece of iron on the public road, at which helooked with much curiosity. " What is that you have got, Toss ?" asked a gentleman wbo was riding along: " I can not tell, Sir," said silly Tom. " You fool I" ex claimed our rider, " it is a horse-shoe."—" 0, what it is to be a scholar !" ejaculated Tom, " for I did not know whether it was a horse's shoe or a mare's shoe !" So must we say of the Courier, for we did not know whether Carlile was honest or profligate, firm or audacious, an enthusiast or a knave. " The exche quer of his whole gang would not cover a tithe of Car tile's lurch." This is mystery to us, but the Courier is a scholar. "He will beg in vain." This again is mystery, for our prayer is—" Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors."—But the Courier is a scholar. By private letters from Lima to the 12th of June we learn that from the Ist to the 10th of the ensuing month an expedition of from 3 to 4,000 picked men, der the command of Mora RADO, will sail from for Puerto, (probably Arica). Preparations tnaking with the greatest activity ; its destination i not generally known. The trans ports are gettin ady under the pretence of going to Choco, to convey the troops Bottva R has offered to the Governor of Peru. We remain about 1,500 cavalry ,and about 3,000 veteran infantry. This force is thought quite competent to defend the city, in case of CA NTARAeII advance upon it, which is thought ex tremely improbable; and there is no doubt, if he should obtain a knowledge of the destination of the expedition, he will retreat to the southward to cover Arequipa. The greatest harmony prevails between the Peruvian Government and that of Colombia. A letter from Hamburgh dated the 6th instant, and received by way of Holland, states the arrival of the very important information from Petersburgh, that au Ambassador had actually left that city for Constan tinople. On Wednesday Admiral Sir HENRY BLACKWOOD arrived at Portsmouth in the Leander, of 50 guns, having been relieved in the command iu the East In dies by Commodore GRANT. The following is an extract of a letter from the Bri tish Vice-Counsel at Tarragona, dated Nov. 28 :—" I have this day cleared out the English brig Phoenix, STRONG, master, belonging to Dartmouth, bound to Salon, to take a cargo of nuts to England. This ves sel has no Mediterranean pass, and as the public papers of Spain announce that an Algerine squadron is cruis ing in the Mediterranean, I deem it a duty incumbent on me to give this information for the government of the parties concerned." Sixteen counties have already determined to meet for the purpose of petitioning for a Reform in Parlia ment ; and, we understand, that a number of the opulent freeholders of the county of Durham, are about to sign a Requisition to the High Sheriff for the same purpose. Sir T. B. LETHBRIDGE, Bart. has at this time no less than 13 farms on his hands for want of tenants.— Very liberal abatements from former rents have been proposed, but, such is the state of agriculture at pre sent, that the amount to be abated isless a matter of consideration, thus, whether it is prudent to engage to pay any rent at all ! Several large farms in this county, which, a very short time ago, made a respec table figure on the rent-roll, are now pronounced by experienced farmers to be unavailable for profit at a pepper corn rent ; and an agriculturist, upon whose judgment and veracity we can rely, has assured us that an estate, a few miles from this town, which cost the present owner upwards of 25,0001. would be now dearly rented at 2001. per annum.—Tauntoa Coerier. Sir JAMBS GRAHAM, Bart. of Netherby, has re mitted all arrears of rent due throughout his estates, up to the current year; and has also granted a re duction of rent varying from five to thirty per cent. according to the circumstances of each cue, for two years certain : at the expiration of which time the rents are to be regulated according to the price of the principal articles of farm produce.—(Newcastle Chronicled The following fetter has been addressed by Carlile to Sir Charles Abbot, Knt., Chief Justice of England: Dorchester Gaol, Dec. 6, lOW. Sta,—lt la reported in the newspapers, that In the ease of Clu nk. r. Park us, you, as Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and as the presiding Judge in dot came, did state that It was the practice of the Judges of that Cowl serer to iliffct afire wa les, there was a prospect of the party fined being capable of paying it. Now,l feel it my duty to state, on my own behalf, and that of my sister, both prisoners in this gaol, under the sentence of that Court, at this time for fines only, that we have not the least prospect of being able to pay them, and that, unless they are re mitted, or paid by other persons, we see no prospect but imprison merit for life : it is therefore evident, if the report of the papers he true, that the Court must hare been misinformed as to the means of my sister, at the time of passing sentence. For myself, I can say, that I have suffered more by the seizure and detention of my stock in trade than I should have suffered if I had been fined 5,0001., and bad been left to make the best of the property I possessed to meet it with, at the expiration of my three years' imprisonment. I trust, therefore, that the influence which the Chief Justice of England must at all times possess, will be used in the ease of myself and sifter, to plate tut in that situation in which the Court would hare placed us, had it been better ac quainted with our means. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, kICHARD CARLILE. EXTENSITSFORGERY OW THICANDRIDGEBANIC.- F cal days In the last week of October, a man, calling himself James Lloyd, and a woman, calling herself Jane Ilewson, were most actively and too snecessfugy engaged in the circulation of forged notes of the Cambr.dge and Cambridgeshire bank, in the town itself where the parties (Messrs. Fnrresters) upon whom tie forgery was committed carried on their business. On Tuesday, the sth inst. the man and woman went to Saffron Walden, where they passed four similar notes of one pound each, which being de tected on the morning of Friday, the woman was apprehended and taken before Thos. Hall, Esq . . one of the resident Magistrates, who was so disgusted with her evident perjury, that he eventuare. fused to take any minutes of her declaraljon. andeoniniirted hr to the town goal. On Sunday sc'nnight the male accomplice was also taken into custody, and on 'marching him twolen-poond Bank of England notes ta o one-pound Provincial notes, and twenty-four pounds' worth of silver were found : he was committed for further examination, and on Hondo,' morning both parties were again brought up and itlentified as the persons who had played so profitable a game; the were thereun fully cmitted for trial at the Essex sex w int e r "MIMI. On po Tuesday m orning Lloyd was found dead in his cell, having inquisition was taken before Thomas Hall, F.sq., on view of the body of the unfortunate man, when, upon the deposition of the gaoler as to the behaviour of the deceased the preceding evening, the Jury 'returned a verdict of —lnsanity. It in supposed that these persons were the went" of the manufacturers of the notes, who is is suspected reside in the metropolis, and carry on their felonious trod& to a considerable extent. A large bundle of forged notes upon the Cambridge Bank (150 of 11 each) was fountfon Monday in Atidley-rnd-pa near Saffron Walden, which have hero handed over to the prose- cutors; the notes are well executed, hut the signature is engraved. Lloyd was only IS years of age, the prisoner Hewesa at she states that her father is a labourer in the employ of Mr. Nicholls. • farmer, residing at Kilburn. When she was informed of the death of her paramour, she asserted with mach prewvire of mind that she was his wife, and that she could not be hurt, as she had only acted under the influence of her husband. CAUTION TO CORN-DRALEll2.—Lately the Ma gistrates acting for Leath Ward, in Cumberland, con victed Joior SEXTON, of Low Mill, near Eamont Bridge, in the mitigated penalty of 40s. for not having made the declaration required by the Act of the first of his present Majesty, cap. 87 ; —and Witaassi LANCASTER., of Morland, in the like penalty of 405., for not having on the sth of November delivered into Mr. R. BoAx, the inspecto r of coca returns, t true end enact account of the prices of all the oorn bought b y hi m , within seven days then preceding, as required by the said 'Act.—Westniorckind Advertiser. • :s . 1 / 4 4, it ''' / 1 11/ .. • --- - '''' i • *-- 4•.." --, i, -:!-'• - ‘7 ‘ . t . •.... e . , .....••"" i - 4t f. 'r, \ . ', . " POETRY. SONNETS. We met in secret—in the depth of night, When there was none to watch us, not an eye, Save the lone dweller of the silent sky, To gaze upon our love and pure delight! And, in that hour's unbroken solitude, When the white moon bath robed her in its beam, I've thought some vision of a blessed dream, Or spirit of the air, before me stood, And held communion with me. In mine ear Her voice's sweet notes breathed not of the earth ; Her beauty seem'd not of a mortal birth, And in mine heart there was a mortal fear, A thrill, like some deep warning from above, That soothed its pinion to a spirit's love. She stood before me—the pure lamps of heaven Lit up her charms, and those soft eyes, which turn'd On me with dying fondneu.—My heart burn's!, As, tremblingly, with her's my vows were given ; Then softly 'gainat my bosom beat her heart— These loving arms around her form were thrown, Binding her heavenly beauty like a zone; While from her ruby, warm lips, just apart Like bursting roses, sighs of fragrance stole, And words of music whispering in mina ear Things pure and holy, none but mine should bear, For they were accents utter'd from her soul, For which no tongue her innocence reproved, And breathed for one, who loved ber—and was loved. She hung upon my bosom—and her sighs Fragrant and fast were warm upon my check, And they were all her suffering heart could speak, Save the soft language of her eloquent eyes, Which the night hid not, fur her soul was there, In starry brightness, temper'd by distress, And soften'd down with Love's own tenderness, And some wild tokens of btr heart's despair Were trembling o'er ber beauty. There was one Who would not have exchanged that sorrowing hour, For all that he had dream'd in Rapture's bower. In the wide world there was one heart alone, That blessed him with its love, and truth, and charms, And it was Beauty now within its arms ! FI SH 10 NA BLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis ofChandos has arrived at his father's. t Duke of Buokinglium's seat, Arington, Hants, from Wottt Bucks. Lord Morpeth has arrived at the Earl of Carlisle's mu. Castle Howard, Yorkshire, frogs atour... The Hon. T. 7 Wallace, M.P. and Lady Melville have Mir ed at their Imam in Seville-row, from their seat, Certain! Hall, Cumberland. . . . . . _ . Sit: Hoary and Lady Georgina Wellesley have left tow. I+ the Marquis of Salisbury's scat, Hatfield. Mr. and Lady Caroline Limb left town yesterday In their seat, Brac ket Hall. Sir George Nugent, Bert. has left town for his seat Bucks. Tire Earl of.sockaarap has left to for the Hon. Mr Lisle's seat, near Simplon. Departures from the London Hotel, Albemarle-stroat : Mr. and Mrs. Steuart for Beal); and Mr. mat Ara. sad ➢it Corkrine for their seat, Lour Ditto°. Viscount Ashbrook has loft loan for his seat, Beaaaat• Berks. The Ladies Aabburahaas have left town for Ude seat to Witabletun. Hon. Mr. Rioe, M.P. has left town for Dyncvor Castle. South Wales, Lord Saye-and-Sete has left town for Belvidere, Kent. Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith have left town for Ufa Carrington's seat, Wycoimbe Abbey, Rucks. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have lelt ills Coburg Hotel, Chaska street, Grosvenor-square, for their seat in Norfolk. Departures from Hodgson's Hotel, , Dover-street:—Mt and Mn. Laves for their seat in Berks ; and J. Madam . Esq. for Paris. Arrivals at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-strestr-I-Lord a Lady Huntingfield from • tonr ; Champion Hymoke, Mr , and Miss Hymnlike, from their seat in Lineriltialiire; T. 't Burney, Esq. from his seat in Norfolk ; Mr. Disney from h seat in Kent; Mr. and Mrs. Campion from their seat in key' Departures:—Sir Thomas and Lady Preston and Miss Pry ton for their seat in Norfolk. Sir Charles. and Lady Long left town yesterday for the seat, Bromley Hill, Kent. CURRAN Raid of Madame Ds STAR!, whose face was by means prepossessing, that she lad the power of talking hers • into a beauty. hi*TILOTTZ Or Ents.--T•he me or two lire eels. throw Ile into the fire; as they are twisting about on all sides, lay hold them with a towel in 'out head, end odrin them from Iteallso tea This method is the best, no it is the means of drawing out al the oil, which is unpalatable. Noyet—Several Gentlemen hum sr cured me of cruelty (astonishing!) for recoutioesding in my work that eels should be burnt alive. As my knowledge In cookery is entirely devoted to the gratification of their taste, and present tion of their health, I consider it no duty to attend to what is essential to both. The blue skin and the oil wbieh remain when they are skinned, are highly indigestible. If any Lady or Gentler man should make the trial of both, they will fled that the limn ones are much healthier; but it is, after all, left to Oak illkylice whether to burn or AM.—Vide the Frens l k Cook, by Levis APO tache Ude, ei-derad Cook is Louie r p. The Baron d'Esou.ss, in addition to his other sufferings duri his flight across the Pyrenees, hai lost as ear (rani the estreum cold. A person at Rochester, near Uttoseter, a few days ap. wt.o had oldained various credits of the public, died, and was buoisi A few days after reports were abroad of his ghost being Nee; e.:wl suspicions arose on-the subject of his decease, en which tie ear was taken up, and found to befitted with stows. The &fug . debtor is still at large. and suspected to be practising on tut. lisixpr in some other place. In the window of a tobacconist's shop, in the litigate, Stock port, is a printed paper orquest.ons and answer', on the subject, &risking theatres, tending to :bow that people who go Mese gays, leant every spimies of vice, and greatly offend the Buse by inispending theirtime. It. the other window _W omits shop are imposed to sale a number of Indecent snutbesirs. Maschcatr Geirdian. DRATH.—At Ivy bridge, in his 48th veer, GEo*pr O. Comity, M.D., senior Physician of St. 'Thomas's flos pa C nt. Dr. olman Wu esteemed and beloved by every or who know bite. lie was attaited on his way from Cornwt to London by an Scale pleuritic Infinnimntion, which cot pelted him to stay at Ivry-bridge, and terminated fatall though ho lost the smazine quantity of two hundred oune , of blood. What noshes hi, fate the more Isinentable, as excites sympathy for his widow, be bad been married ao Isle as the Isth ult. A duel was fought early yesterday morning e Golder's-green between Mr. F--ti and M . A--a, in which the latter was wounded in tl shoulder, but the ball did not lodge. Mr. A. wo conveyed in a post-chaise to Hampstead, where su. gical aid was at hand. The dispute which caused th meeting, it was said, related to money matters. Irat.v.—The clergy at Rome consists of cardinals, 27 bishops, 1,450 priests, 1,532 monks. 1,464 nuns, and 332 seminarists. The population of Rome, with the exception of the Jews. consisted in 1821, of 146,000 souls. The births during that year were 4,756 ; the deaths 5,415 ; and the matriag" 1,205. A boxing match will take place to-morrow hetwee . Granger, the navigator, and Matthews, the War minster man, for twenty sovereigns aside. It is t take place within ten miles of Maidenhead. Mar thews is the favourite. A person named John Porter was, on the 4t instant. convicted before the Alagistrates of Gates bend, in the penalty of 401. for cruelly and inhumanl dragging the tongue out of a horse at Dghton quaff rier; and not being able to pay the penalty, he w committed to hard labour in the house of correction z Duritam for a month. The conviction took pier under the late Act of Parliament for preventing ill cruel and improper treatment of cattle, and it is hope bill act as a warning to others.—Neu castle Chronicle .1 a f fi i iv i e r a sr al P 1. ,1