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":14 h , I A ,1 1 at Manreata, in orditir ; who did not concerd ha& the villainy to ey. against the existing' committed to prison, Gni pretence of conduct. :hey are to be trig& w leagues, when th • The reign of terrori however, from that which nuch as our terrorists die .olutionary tribnivala; they trouble to disguise their des. AU that they de blood. an informer, and, if ...: secret societies, the . and some of the members un detillie .:eeeete them. One of these cannibals lately prelposed to hi itesacre in the prisons; by assault, al) whberere in confinement for their polltidal opinions. The Inquisition, in its worst and most terrific era, ne ver skewed such a disregard for the tames do these modern inquititors. ' --- en- •.il, , 'The requisition for horses is - enforced with the greatest activity in the different provinces. Two hun dred have been collected in La Mancha. (mom emote.) . . • ' MADRID, DECEMBER 14. ' MM. Pltirro and Johann, both writers in the dis gusting Journal entitled the Zurriego, have just been sidled,' the former to the Isle of Ivies, and the latter so the Canaries. They ere both chiefs of the Comte mei* faction. The publication of as order for the wile of the-revoletionnry Apostle, Romero Alpuente, is every moment expected in Madrid, whom it has heed decided baisend from the capital. The " factious" have intercepted a courier dies !itched (min ltfideid - to 'Mit *Mails and Hubbard, at Paris, and took from liiiitiediapirtatus, because they contained some Joutelehr; 1 " - -'• ' ' . • •!`/".''.. - '. ' 7ll RATOBBIi, DECEMBER 12. Nothrtietifhiard bf at Bteyonne but war, and we are on the eyed great 'eeetits. ; Navarre is soon to be for the Army of the Faith what Catalonia- lately was, with this difference, that it affords more resources, and that aid can be obtained front the Basque Pro vinces, whose fidelity is invincible. Weexpect hers another Convoy, whirls, it hi said, it in the - offing. but cannot enter in consequence of the bad weather; It is now six weeks since any vessel could pass the bar. The horse artillery staff it under orders fd Toulouse; to recruit and remount. Several Cabinet and Commercial couriers passed through here yes 4 tirtfay. It is said that the Regency which was at Ure gei,itecoming hither to await an occasion of re-enter. ing • Spain. ' Every thing indihates that a serious engagement striH shortly take place between the Royalist and tonstitutonalist troops which occupy Navarre. The latter hare approached our frontier in several quer- Ind: It ioears to be their design to surround the. Army of the Faith, commanded by General O'Doneel, l *lnd to cutoff ail the passes into 'France. Fourteen, hundred men occupy the town of Bastan, and *beta yie same number are distribute , : at different poinheof communication. General Assure commands thit division. It is supported by the garrison of Pampe- Jana, which has lately left that fortress, and now SAkiupies the environs of Ronceveaux and Lumbiees: 'Ttheitoyalists appear to care little about these move ittelitili'l ft is affirmed that they aft pained' in'the m t favourable positions, and that their numbers are fu :Selig' td those of the enemy. O'Donnel is ilelyleorgadising his forces; it appears that his er a fitnriiitij , ppeiations will soon be terminated, and that the funds placed at his disposal in -furtherance of them are nearly exhausted. LISBON, DECEMBER 6. AVe take no illusory view of things. Portugal 'Mint entirely follow the chance of Spain. She must conquer with her, or bury herself in the same tomb. Consequently she is ready to unite armies, and to ,forma holy and sacred alliance, against which all efforts will fail. If the Treaty of Alliance between . Viese tWo Powers have not yet been signed;we must 41 eather consider it as owing to the incapacity of the Negociaturs, than a want of will on the pert of the 4 4overninenti. All is, however, terminated; and very l iieson thi two nations will be only one. The King. of, Europe will shortly learn, that the Spaniards and "'Portuguese have sworn to live and. die together.— Le Regitlateur. We (La Ruche crApeitaine) yesterday stated, that movements had been made by the Royalist troops in Navarre; the following is an official statement of the situation of the troops in that Spanish province : , The army of the Liberaux, commanded by General Torrijos, was, at the end of last month, at Vittoria. and General O'Donnel had his head-quarters at Lum biesrfive 'leagues from Paineetuna. On the 30th of NoveMber,Torrijos proceeded to the latter town, and postettliii troops in the neighbouring villages ; the ' Royalist General maintained his position, and prompt ly sentlgor a portion of his soldiers which he had sent, M two columns, to the five towns of Arragon, and to the villages of Rivera de la Navarre. These two di eisMns, wariest went to recruit, soon returned, after having fulfilled the object on which they were dig patched. At the same time Lieutenatt-Genetal O'Donnel or dered Colonel Don Juan Gonzal.iz to occupy Montreal with a battalion and twenty . horse to observe the ene my. In pursuance of these instructions, the Colonel _ . eaced tics advanced sentinels under the very wells of ramPeluna. • Torrijos left Pampeluna on the 3d, with all Ilia, coops, and tqpk. possession of Avis. Oa the, 6th. General O'Donnel quitted Lumbies, and precipitately, took the road to Vittoria. passing through Estava with %tires battalions of infantry, and one hundred sad twentyliorse, leaving three battalions and thirty des-, ,goons under the orders of Colonel Nunez Abreu, 'whom he directed to take up a position at len, one' league from Lumbies. Torrijos quitted Aviz on the &tune day, and entered Lumbies ; but he abandoned it ifir "th 1?' bY SAMIIIII49H MAILS, . .. , • - . copal/HAGEN, DEC Runt , On Saturday 'afternoon his Royal Frighniii . Crown Prince of Sweden arrived here, accompanied by an escort of cavalry, and took up the apartments pre pared for him in thg . Royal palace, which he occupied on his first viat. On Sutylay he visited their Majesties and dined at the Royal table. His Royal Highneis set out this morning for Elsinore, and erased the Sound to Helsinborg, where he will give an enter tainmeat this evening. On Saturday night an alarming fire broke oat in a distillery in the middle of the city, but' it was fortu nately extinguished in a few hours without having done much damage. sToettopt.w, IlippllßEß 10. The Crown Prince is expected to return to Sweden the 16th or 17th. The inhabitants of the province of Socania are making great preparations to receive him. ST. erreasauttott, NOV LUDES. 90. Colonel !Conjoin has been 'forhidden, as well as the Counsellor of State, Lubin, of the Academy of Arts, to' enter Moscow or St. Petersburgh. Several shop• and warehouses of manufactured goods in Moscow have been sealed up by Commissioners sent from St. Peters burgh,on suspicion of having prohibited goods conceal ed in them. The regiment's Of the Russian guards are now partly in barracks here, and'partlythitributed in battalions and squadrons in the Government of St. Petersburgh. nednosza. 4. Ott the .30tb November there was sa much drifting ice on the Newa that the oommunicatiou was wholly interrupted. Now the Nellie is quite five from ice, the bridges are replaced, and the thermometer is at 0. It is said that the Emperor, when he leaves Verona, will go to Stutgard and Brussels. ,The obsequies of the Duca de Serracapriola, Nea politan Mipister at this Court, were performed the day before yesterday in the Catholic 'Church. He has filled the office of Minister here 39 years, and enjoyed general esteem. His lady it a 'daughter of Print* Wasenisky; Treastirer of the Eritliire under Caroline 11. It is said the oaly son of the deceased will succeed him. •_7oo' BERI.III, DECEMBER 17. The conferences of the Deputies from the Rhenish Provinces On the formation of ProvAneitil - States, still continue under the direction of the Crow Prince, assisted by the three principal Commissioners, two or three times i week, and BM tow nearly concluded, as the Deputies return home next weiet. b ale ;•- • - • FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 14. 111,.Isimpprted mat after the close of the Congress at Veroneb ;the affairs of the German Confederation,' and especially the Diet, will be the subject of parti cular conferences between Prince Metternich ask co - nit Bernstorff. if . ' , lift I , There is a report here that Plenipoteattaties um" all the Great Powers are shortly to go to Madrid. M. Meier,. President of the Municipal Council sJ, Reinach, in . the Canton of Basle, has been condernn ed to deprivation °lbis Office, three years confine.; ment in chains, and all costs, for having taken money for issuing evidently false certificates for corn, which was forwarded by merchants of Berne. FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, NOVEMBER 30. The second army, under Wittgenstein, and that under the Grand Dake (which last include the Polish army), are still in their positions, well prepared for ac tion: no movements are yet observed among these, troops. It is hoped that the answer of the Porte to the proposals which Lord Strangford takes to Con stautinctple,will be such that his Majesty tbs Emperor Alexander will not be compelled to draw thirst/ord. We- have just learnt that the separate4orps of Count Woronzoff (to which a very fine division sars has been added) will not march back to Krentl nezeck, but remain in the Austrian frontiers till the Attult of the conferences at Verona is known. DAMBURGII, DECEMBER 17. • The frost, which has continued for some days, has filled the Elbe with drift ice, so that to-day no ships .have sailed. Some vessels lower down the river, bound to this city, have been stopped by the ice. The communication with Hamburgh is open.—(liant -60911 Papers, December 20.) Exchange on London-36 6 ; 36 Si. Sr. Seutatax—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, and East India and South Sea Must s. THE BRITISH PRESS. LOA DON, THURSDAY, Dactmaza 26, 1822. We have given in a preceding part of the Paper extracts from the extravagant Ultra Papers from Paris of Sunday and Monday last, for the special purpose of exhibiting fairly the inventions, misrepresentations, and calumnies which the wishes of the enemies of the Peninsular Revolution produce. In such papers news from Spain are invariably fictions. Their na tural or hired hostility to representative Government induces them to distort every event in a revolutionized country, and their maniac impressions respecting the French Revolution assimilates every thing in Spain to the ill-omened names of that disastrous period. FERDINAND IS of course Louis XVI., the Cortes is the Convention, and the Landaburian Society is the Jacobin Club. When a battle, an execution, or a procession takes place in Spain, the Ultra Redacteur looks for t h e .cunist7 id clip • N. r-*. Ob.. Ada ' 4TI 'Madness, fit tile hbust of th - sk - 'lleneitgen might be infected with the revolutionary cQata on, and there is the mere reason in the. fears of the Ultra insanes in France, because on the very site of their dwelling stood lately a furiously revolving windmill. tVe have seen an hottest fisherman who had long been in the habit of bolding the end of a fishing net while he stood in a small and perpetually undulating boat, and who, upon being employed on firm ground in bolding the end of a long pule, undulated precisely as if he were in his boat. So . exactly it is with the French commentators upon Spanish affairs, though the materials dare as different from those of France thirty years kg's - as terra firma from the sea, yet they undulate in the very same manner as when they held their net in the troubled waters of the French Revolution. We subjoin entrust from the papers of Monday. nen, DEMISES 23. Yesterday - the King transacted business with the Marshal Duke of BeUuno, Minister at War. In pursuance of the decree of the Court of Cassa tion, in the affair of the Journals, the Attorney- General to the Royal Court of Amiens has summoned the responsible Editors of the Conshtutionnel, the Courier Francais, and the Pilote, to appear on the 30th of this month before the Court of Assize of that city. • •• -v ‘ .6.a4 PERIIIOIIIIIIII, DECEMBER 15. I ' TB*TtECT OF A PRIVATE LETTERI Don Francis Sola, Canon of Tortosa, self a member of the Regency arid head of the Inqui sition, arrived yesterday from Cerdagne. General Soler* and several other officers, forming part of the corps which entered by the canton of Prats de Mollo, have also arrived. This 'morning General Grimarest, Colonel Martinez, and two officers of carabineers, set out for Toulouse. It was said they came from Marseilles for the purpose of entering Catalonia; but the Army of the Faith is no longer in existence there. •. h ,,. 1 r•lrt VICIIIMIL 17. The insurrection IF ceasing in all the neighbouring Prb Spain ; the band of the Cure Zabala is antrikilated;• nearly all the officers, superioF ,and in ferior, have taken refuge in France: . they Ax . with in out walla. The couriers from Madrid , and all quarters of the Peninsula also mire without expe riencing any delay. The term of the amnesty granted to the Navarrese by General Torrijos expires on the 20th ofahis month; we know that a great number of the soltirs who were with Charles O'Donnel have returned to their homes. O'Donnel, alarmed at this desertioni p ,extremely anxious to be removed. A General named , Laguna, whom we have seen here fur some days past, it is said, is about to replace O'Donnel. • MADRID, DECEMBER 14. (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE I.ETTER.I A 'new treaty of commerce between our Govern iOntitntt that of England is talked of more than • ever,. itp, injury which it will. do to the southern proviagstif,F,niuce cannot be disguised, as their re lations are supported in an especial degree by those with Spain bet if the policy of France is hostile to us, can we hesitate ititfitelt speguciation, and shall we, with reaaon, be reproacibi4 sua Account of the ad vantages which we should grant to a Power which refuses to join die enemies of our liberty and our independence ? The Spanish Administration has just entered into a fresh contract with a foreign house, for a prompt supply of ninety thousand muskets. Meantime the manufacture of arms in the Peninsula is proceeding with increased activity; the work goes on night and day. Several bankers of the most opulent houses in London have sent agents to Madrid, with fall powers to negotiate for the new loan of forty millions (reals) opened by the Spanish Government; Sir R. Cox is of the number. The national armies continue to triumph in all points. The civil war is nearly concluded. In the sitting of the Cortes on the Bth, the Minister of Marine proposed to apply a part of Abe extraor dinary funds assigned him to the building of ten ships of the line, twelve frigates, and thirty brigs. • This ' project has been referred to a special committee. The following decree has been issued : " Ferdinand by the grace of God and the Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, lice. The Extraordinary Cortes, after having observed all the formalities prescribed by the Constitution, bare decreed as follows : a. All convents and monasteries, either abandoned or situated in places whose population does not amount to more 'than 4.0 inhabitants, are from this moment suppressed. The Government will distribute the religieve of the suppressed convents among those which shall still be maintained, and will apply their revenues to the credit of the public, acoording to the regulations of fbrmer Decrees, with an understanding that the revenues shalt continue subject to the judicial charges, ci►il and ecclesiastical, which were before imposed upon them. The Monastery of St. Laurent de ('Escurial is ex cepted from this enactment, until the Cortes can direct their attention to the proper means of preserving that magnificent edifice, and to the purpose to which it should be applied for the interest of the nation. " I. Tho fourteen frontier places which aro about to be de• dared in estate of war, shall not be allowed to receive the religious of the suppressed convents, although their popula tion may amount to more than 4N inhabitants." (Signed with the King's hand the Ist of December.) It seems that in the Landaburian Society they are engaged in preparing the public mind for a general amnesty in favour of the infetior officers, non•com missiooed officers, and soldiers, who were drawn into the ranks of the rebels by ' some ambitious persons, and to limit the punishment to a small number of the Idr ord bar the • .‘ of It. . 0 0 1 that limiter aahurea of prohibited merchandise ha;e been made in other commercial places in Russia. - •• • 3. , The French Funds left off on Monday, for_money, at 88, being a decline from the_ prices of _Saturday. They had been lower than 88 in the course of the day ; and at four o'clock they were at 88f. 10c. for the account. • The crisis to which things have come in Ireland not only warrants, but.calls for particular attention to the general state of that country. In our Paper of yes terday we 'hewed that the triumphs of our glorious Revolution ought not to be celebrated in Ireland, since there the majority view those triumphs as memorials of defeat and conquest. We also endeavoured to prove that the conciliation proposed by the advocates of fair legislation in Ireland is, in fact, only a palliation of unparalleled aggressions, and not a generous boon from a powerful and liberal nation. The great ob jection to the full admission of Roman Catholics to the civil rights of Protestants is, that the Constitution requires the KING to be Protestant. Now we think that objection is completely met by the single peculi arity that the KING is necessarily owe HEREDITARY NAQISTRATE. The Members of the House of Corn -9104111 are elective. ; the Members of the House of Peers are in possession of titles and lands independ- ' ently of their legislative functions, and their number may be indefinitely increased ; therefore the qualifi cations of the Members of both Houses ought to vary according to the various classes of the community for whom they legislate. The KING, being one, ought to represent the majority : wherever there is a national assembly it ought, to represent the several parties in the nation. But the Roman Catholics may become Privy Counsellors, and influence the mind, if not con vert the conscience of the Monarch. The probability of such a result is to be first considered. We do not mean to argue it, we only suggest it for the calculating faculties of the enemies of Emancipation. Roman Ca tholics may be Privy Counsellors, but their ascendancy in the Council is the subject of consideration. Then suppose they get an ascendaney, are, persons in their rank and views in society indeed likely to .exercise their ascendancy in conferences to convert the Mo narch to Popery? But suppose him converted, he is no longer King of these realms. The danger appre hended by the *good old opponents of Catholic Eman cipation seems to be, that all the Protestant people would be converted, end both. Houses of Parliament would repeal the Act of Settlement. This, indeed, would be a fearful result; but we have not such an extravagant opinion of forcible demonstration orta tholic tenets, or of the persuasive address of the professors of that religion. But we do not mean to enter into this nnequaldis-1 cussion. Our object is to show, iu a intone limber.' that the Clergy of the Established Church in England' are specially, peculiarly, and strongly bound to sup port the Roman Catholic Claims. We mean this as no paradox or refinement, but as a plain exposition of undeniable truth. Peri Pas= has got a luminous article upon conti nental politics, in which he displays more than ordinary penetration, and 'rises to the sublimcst altitudes of a statesman. Here are his precious periods —no, it is but one apparent period : "We understand that the Continental Powers have fully determined not to recognize the present slate of affairs in Spain; as, indeed, how could they, unless they were prepared to have it inferred, that the policy they adopted with regard to Piedmont and Naples, was founded upon no diatinct and fundamental principle, conservative of legitimacy and of the rights of thrones—(rights as indubitable as those of subjects), but upon the accidental circumstance of the comparative fa cility with which revolution might be coerced in those countries." The intrinsic truth and the political importance of the above sententious observation must be obvious to all readers. We would therefore merely offer our tribute of admiration of the profound parenthesis-- " the rights of thrones as indubitable as those of sub jects !"—Thrones are timber, and subjects are flesh ' and blood. Is this the meaning of Puri Passe? No, that is not it, he means by thrones the sitters thereon, videlicet, Kings. The rights of Kings are as indu bitable as those of subjects. Most tftiquestiona- Vy they are, for houses grow out of the earth as indu bitably as fir trees. A King can have uo right with out subjects, that is, no regal right, for one's own King is not the King of Pari Passe; and therefore, ergal, no subject can have any right without a King. Can he, for instance, have a right to eat, drink, ride, walk, or speak ? indubitably not. But we are ashamed of having so far played with this idle fool. The rights of Kings are net allowed in this country to be divine, and one must therefore re gard them as certain fixed privileges, conferred upon Kings by their subjects for the purpose of enabling them to perform their high and important duties. The rights of subjects are the rights of man, divine and unalienable. These are truisms in the estimation of the very Tories of this country. It is only a poor frothy scribbler, who is so grossly ignorant of the Constitution and Administration of this country as to confound the former with the autocracy of Russia, and the latter with the Ultra Ministers of France, that cat) write such an expression as the one to which we have particularly adverted. The same Petri passu Journal says—" Let the know ledge of a decisive step creep out, before the step itself is taken, or, at least, before it is completely ready for adoption."—" But though the one fact is still left in comparative doubt, there is no lack of authentic matter from which a tolerably sound conculsiun may drawn as to what shape that fact will ultimately assume." Once again—" The current of human affairs is not so uncertain as ►he capricious nature of human motives might lead superficial observers to expect." This is the Government Paper of England, and " follows, pari passe," the style of a late cele brated Secretary ibr Foreign Affairs. We have learned on authority on which we can rely, that the Duke of WELLINGTON experienced great Of/0Y in prevailing on the Allied Sovereigns to abandon their determination to invade the liberties o The firm and dignified tone which he assum ed was worthy, we understand, of a free and magna intone people—worthy also of the Representative o a Monarch who rules over a generous and enlightener nation. England, he assured them, would not re. I main a passive spectator, if any foreign Power :haul( forcibly interfere in the concerns of Spain, or interim to dictate a form of government contrary to the wil of the Spanish nation. This is aii• it' should be—thi: makes us exult in the name of EngliShmen. Britain ever thus stand forward to protect the wealt,ti resist " the oppressor's wrong," and to speak defianc , to any confederacy that would crush the nascent liber ties of an unoffending and independent people We understand, likewise, dud the Ultras in Franc are highly indignant that their malignant design should be thus disappointed, and can hardly yet per suade themselves that war will not take place. TM is also as it ought to be. To fret at the rising supe riority of others is envy's guilt, and its sharpest pu nishment. The detachment of 4illicen of the Ordnance Departmet (under the direction of Major Tunas. Coutv, of the Royal Er gineers), employed in dm Trigoacanctmeal Survey in the Wes eva Islas of Scotland, have recently returned from thence t the Tower the scum not allow:rig them t eoutinue their lab< rious dudes in throe islands. L. t!.e spring they will return t thowuse part. Other .tietnebtnents in various places in l Britain will remain sad erttii.oc the survey as the wear!, will permit them. The stations are, Ayrshire, Northern Cow ties of North Wales, and the Esstern Counties of Eagland. :„ r. CA N N Iwo arrived at the Palace on Mon& and had the honour of dining with his MAJESTY.: The Marquis and Marchioness of BATH, the Earl an Countess of WARWICK, Lord JOHN TOWNSHEEI and Mr. GREEN WOOD. were also inc;Uded in the Roy; dinner party. The additional company in the evenin included the Earl of UXBRIDGE, Lord BINGHAI Colonel Cavity mitt, Colonel troon, Mr. Ih Roo and the Han. Mr. Erroit, of the Life Guards ; Lot W. TH TWEE, Lord W. PAULETT, and Colonel 9 EDWARD BLAIIINEY, of the Royal Fusileers ; LAC LOu'ISA MYERS:, Mrs. CAVENDISH, and General S EDWARD and Lady Kaaaisou. Mr. Canwitio toc leave, and returned to London yesterday (Tuesday).- Brighton Chronicle. When the Clergy of Durham —or rather some iodic (14 or indiiidit*Of thatbody- . —instructed theArror ily.Gari &ph, tie Palatinate to More fora Crina nal infonoation spinet us, they expected, we Iniagin either to extinguinh cis in a moment, or at least td i timidate na into concession and future silence iisTitc ing them and their concerns. How far the result k corresponded with their views, it is not for us tri ti but we may venture to observe, that the prOieciiion which they so heedlessly instituted, and which 'fie suspect they by this time sCrioubly lament they 619 began, has acquired a decree of importance on whif• they never calculated. The number of the Edinbur . 1104* just published, contains a long and It article on the subject of." Clerical Abuses," to'Whi , the attention of the Reviewer has been particiiiii;v mfrOtcd,hy ijsAhLrlef,of the Editor of this Paper, and the poSit efal . speech of Mr. BROUGHAM on that ac ptpicr - That their 'object was to harass and oppnesb AV PAM irtia . ,4luatif, ihennielves, there can be to ,dPitialloy,aiherwriie they would have 'one before a Grand Jury in their own county, with their comPlaii • instead ofWying to the Court of King's Benc .ttly'k that the, latter mode would be most expensive and Vosiblitioase to us--a stablest sad right worthy motive for the choice they made. 1F be sure there was also the, chaoC i etifit Grand Jowl throw ing out the bill had T hey Preferred' one --a 'aeons stance to be taken into' account. Though, .hovniver, they obtained a critninal information; though they have also got a verdict, such as it is; though they have subjected us to great loss and inconvenience and some anxiety of mind ; though the matter is still sus pended over us, and we may yet be consigned to dungeon for their gratification; they have not rms.!: reason to congratulate theniselve.s on the balance a their favour. They stand exposed to the world in their real colours ; and the notoriety they hive ac quired is not of the most enviable description.—Thir hone 'Chronicle. LYNN, DECEMBER 23.-0.1 . Saturday last a novel proceeding took place at Grirnsione, in Norfolk. • 'Fpr cible possession having been taken of a piece of land belonging to the Rev. 0, DAMP Es, as Rector of that parish, complaint, wee Made to Sir Wst. B. FoExts, a neighbouring Justice of the Peace, who, under au thority of the Act of Bth Hes ItT VI. cap. 9, Imbed his precept to the High Sheriff, for sunitudart jury, to meet at Grimstone, and inquire into thi fact, in pursuance of which the jury met, who being sworn, and a charge delivered to them by the Jtistice, heard the evidence produced on both sides, and aft(' • wards returned a verdict of the forcible entry. Whet, upon Sir WILLIAM, attended by the Sheriff's officer. and constables, proceeded to the spot, and reinstat ed Mr. BARNES in his land, and afterwards reqtdred the aggressors to find sureties for keeping the peace.— Bury Gazelle. An the year .1736, when two Aldermen and eight Comasoi Councilmen were appointed a Comaiiittee to . consider in what manner the Act of Parliateei.. " for the better enlightening the streets i.f Londor might be' put in execution, they presented a Report, of which the following is an'extract " There were 1481 houses under the rent of tot. per ammo. 4,341 or 101. and under sot.; 3,04501 . '10. and und..rgel.Mas of Mil. and orate( 401.; and 3,092 of 401. and upwards. L ~!I these were 14,014 houses inhabited and chargeable, whi were shout 400 less than the - Committee imagined. T number of lamps required was about 4,100, exclusive OW wanted fur public buildings and sold ',laws, tiled at Limit bee yards dedanee on each side of the say in the high Wee' and thirty-tire in lesser streets and lanes. The several War agreed fur lighting them at an &scrag° of sis. a-year p lamp, at which rate the expeeic amounted to so;tol. for t 4,200 lamps; the thing of the,se on posts, and ir.ns. avert& ' at 14s. ed. each, 3,001. ; total expense, 5,601. The rates supply which sum were as follow : houses under ten voltam, 3s. 6d. p. r annum; under twenty ;winds. ls. 6J.; Lade( thirty pounds, 81., under redly pounds, 9s, tal.; upwards . 1 f , rty pounds, its. Whatan astonishing change Rave sight , six years produced! Sir DAVID MONCRRITFE, Bart. has presented t: Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth wilts a' re handsome donation of two beautiful gOld coins •. ROBERT 11., two gold (St. Andrew's) of ROBERT 11 and six silver coins of RoBERT III; two of the tact • struck at Perth, and all in the finest preservatio They were turned up by the plough on the farm Balgony, in the parish of Abernethy, belonging to F. DAVlD.—Perth Courier. DREADFUL AEFRAT.—On Saturday night la (21st inst.), at a late hour, a party of keepers, on tl estate of Mr. WADDINOTON, of Catenham, encou tered in their rounds a gang of poachers, who i • staidly gave the word to fire, and discharged a Volt at the keepers, three of whom returned the fire, at closed upon the marauders. There were nine of tl poachers and ten of the keepers. 'A desperate co flier ensued, which terminated by six of the' form being secured and conveyed to our gaol. 'Stdfif Uwe injuries have been sustained on bath sides, big nous likely to lead to fatal resufts.— Dui; Vsuctie. . FRENCH PAPERS. .‘; • . PARIS, DRC13118E5. 4 23. The King heard mass in his apartment yesterday. Lirtttlre Ministers, the. PapaH`kuncio, Prince TalleTrend, the Marshals, many Peers, several Deputies, the Prefect of the Siene, and a great num - ;bete fli s tlirelcifta 'the - honour of paying their court • 'btiteirty yeitterdaj: . .' ' b. VOWED die Giese *ele• Noire of Monday" Zebtrolutionary party commit the most horrible • At Rtinidi; ***eh as at Manama, in order rcklet rid of respectable persons who did not concar witb-them.in their theories, they ha& the villainy to r that they were conspirators against the existing Msreirnment. They were committed to prison, and Jkitsrards withdrawn, upon the pretence of conduct- .rik them to the cities where they are to be tried. Sat/. cely had they proceeded a few leagues, when they trOf all inhumanly massacred. The reign of terror %its bkgsto here; k differs, however, from that which rralled - in France. inasmuch as our terrorists dis- persed even with the revolutionary tribunals; they 410'not ligirethemielves the trouble to disguise their auissinationt by legal formalities. All that they de- s - it:is to alley their thirst of blood. Every cetismanere is a spy, an informer, and, if "led' tie, 'an -ExVentioner. In the secret societibs, the vomiting are eyed *non, and some of the members un- dertake to' iteente them. One of these cannibals \ tengue nom 'marines. i orrijos (lumen /am on the or same day, and entered Lumbies ;but he abandoned am the rt , " h and was pursued as far as Panipeluna by p tkid i ty a a b li e s v t e tro ts op a s t; ex act recital of-the movements of ,•titre armies in Navarre up to the Bth inst. We . . tiently await the result of the operation of General with . ("Doane) against Vittoria. ~. , , ~, , 1 We r'gret to state that Major Itnamtotr, a gentle . - tleritan well known in this town, on Saturday last, met ~ B ' sit► a fatal accident at Kingston', in Saucy, by the 4 2;61u:sing of his gig. The Major was so severely _ injured, that he expired in a few hours.—Briglitis CAteuticie. or a procession takes place in Spain, the Ultra and to limit the punishment to a small number of the Redacteur looks for the circumstances and clta • leaders, in order to exhaust the source of conspiracies racier, not in authentic documents or probable in future. This sound policy is approved of by all information, but. in his own sensitive feelings and good men; we arc strong enough to be generous.— "I'Pa - craven recollections. This is a well known trick Constitutionnet. all insane ersons. A entleman of this order P gwrstc, DECEMBER H. , . being lately told that France was determined to make Commercial intelligence states that important war against Spain, answered with strong emphasis, seizures of prohibited merchandise have been y o—, they are quite right, for I could not be at made at Moscow, particularly of Indian cloths, peace in that house, which I quitted on account ci the of which immense quantities had been laid up in windmill, whine revolutions were iii'dtelts: and'all at the vrarehouses • in that • city. This proceeding has ,my door." No doubt there was some method in this spread great consternation in Moscow. It is presumed lI IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIMIIIINIIIMMIIImmm I - . - .a