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THE CHEROKEE CADMUS. The result was their perfect conviction of the truth and utility of the discovery: A great feast was held in honour of See-quah yah, who filled a cohspicuous station at it. How much do men resemble each other in every age ! So it was in Greece three thousand years before, when Pythagoras tliscbvered an important prin ciple of geometry. See-quah-yah became at once schoolmaster, professor, philosopher, and a chief. His countrymen were proud of his talents, and held him in reverence as one favoured by the Great Spirit. The inventions of early times were shrouded in repulsive mystery. See-quah-yah disdained it, and carried on his discoveries to numbers. He of course knew nothing of the Arabic digits, nor of the power of Roman letters in the science. The Cherokees had mental numerals to one hun dred, and had words for all numbers up to that, but they had no signs or characters to assist them in enumerating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing. He reflected upon this until he had created their elementary principle in his mind; but he was at first obliged to make words to express his meaning, and then signs to ex plain it. By this process he soon had a clear conception of numbers up to a million. His great difficulty was at the threshold, to fix the powers of his signs according to their places. When this was overcome, his next step was, in adding up his different numbers, to put down the fraction of the decimal and give the whole number to its next place ; but when I knew him he had overcome all these difficulties, and was quite a ready arithmetician in the fundamental rules. The following interesting account of a Chero kee Indian of great original and almost universal genius, is extracted from a series of Lectures on American Literature, delivered last winter at the city of Washington, by Samuel L. Knapp, Esq., and is the result of that gentleman's own obscr• vation In the winter of 1828, a deleg-ation of the Cherokees visited the c ity of Washington, in order to make a treaty with the United States, and among them was See-quah-yah, the inventor of a Cherokee alphabet. His English name w as George Guess ; he was a half-blood, but had never, from his own account ) spoken a single word of English up to the time of his invention, bor since. Prompted b:y my own curiosity, and urged by several literary friends, I applied to See quAlt--yab, throtogli the medium of two interpre ters—one a half-blood, Caph Roger, and the others tiall-blood chief, whose assumed English was John Maw—to relate to me as mi mutely as possible the mental operations and all the facts in this great discovery. He cheerfully complied with my request, and crave very delibe raten and satisfactory answers to every question, and was at the same time careful to know from the interpreter if I distinctly understood his an swers. No stoic could have been more grave in his demeanour than was See-quah-yah ; he pon dered, according to the Indian custom, for a con siderable time after each question was put, before he made his reply, and often took a whiff of his calumet while reflecting on an answer. The result of my inquiries w a s, th a t See . See quah-yah, who is now almost 65 years old, was in early life gay and talkative; and althOugh he never attempted to speak in council but once, yet he was often, from the strength of his me mory, his easy colloquial powers, and ready com- T.:And of his vernacular tongue, a story-teller of the convivial party. His reputation for talents of every kind, gave him some distinction when he was quite young, so long ago as St. Clair's defeat. In this campaign, or some one that soon followed it, aletter was found on the per son of a prisoner, who read it wrongly to the Indians. In some of their deliberations on this subject, the question arose whether this myste rious power o f " the t a lki ng leaf" was the , gift of the Great Spirit to the wite man, or a dis covery of the white man himself ? Most of them were of the former opinion ; but See quah.yah strenuously maintained the contrary. After this controversy had passed by, his mind was frequently occupied with the consideration of this subject, and of many other things which he knew, or had heard, that the white man could do ; but he never sat down seriously to reflect, 11.161 a swelling on his knee confined him to his cabin, and which, at length, made him a cripple for life, by shortening the diseased leg. De prived of the excitements of war and the plea sures of t'ie chase, in the long nights and days of his confinement his mind became deeply ab sorbed in his endeavour to solve the mystery of this power of speaking by letters, the very name of which was not to be found in his language. He reflected on the cries of wild beasts, and the rich notes of singing birds, especially the endless variety of the amusing imitations of that singu lar animal peculiar to America, the mocking bird. He compared these with the human voice, in the hope of finding some standard for the different sounds by which wishes and feelings are conveyed from one intelligent being to an other. At last the thought struck him to try to ascertain all the sounds in the Cherokee language. His own ear was not remarkably discriminating, and he called to his aid the more acute ears of his wife and children. I was highly gratified with my interview with this astonishing Indian ; and 1 can safely say that I have seldom met a man of more shrewd ness than See••quah-yah. He adhered to all the customs of his country, and when his associate chiefs on the mission assumed our costume, he still dressed in all respects like an Indian. See quah-yah is a man of diversified talents ; he passes from metaphysical and philosophical in vestigations to mechanical operations with the greatest ease. The only practical mechanists he had been acquainted with were a few bungling blacksmiths, who could make a rough tomahawk, or mend the lock of a rifle, yet he became a white and a silversmith without any instruction, and made spears and silver spoons with neatness and skill, to the great admiration of the Cherokee nation. See-quah-yah has also a great taste for paint ing. He mixes his colours with skill, taking all the art and science of his tribe upon the subject, he added to it many chemical experiments of his own, and some of them were very successful, and would be worth knowing to some of our own painters. For his drawings he had no model but wl'at nature furnished, and he often copied them with astonishing faithfulness. His resem blances of the human form, it is true, are coarse, but often spirited and correct, and he gave action and sometimes grace to his representations of animals. He had never seen a camel's-hair pen cil, but made use of the hair of wild animals for his brushes. Some of his productions display a considerable practical knowledge of perspective. The painters of the early ages were many years coming to a knowledge of this part of their art ; and even now they are more successful in the art than perfect in the rules of it. The manners of the American Cadmus arc most easy, and his habits those of the most as siduous scholar, and his disposition is more lively than that of any Indian I ever saw. He understood and felt the :idvantages the white man had long enjoyed, of leaving the accumula tions of every branch of knowledge, from gene ration to generation, by means of a written lan guage, while the red man could only commit his thoughts to uncertain tradition. He rea soned correctly when he urged this to his friends as the cause why the red man had made so few advances in knowledge in comparison with us, and to remedy this was one of his great aims, and one which he has accomplished beyond that of any other man living, or perhaps any other who ever existed in a rude state of nature. When he thought that he had distinguished all the different sounds in their language, he at tempted to use pictorial signs, images of birds and beasts, to convey these sounds to others or to mark them in his own mind. He soon drop ped this method, as difficult or impossible, and tried arbitrary signs, without any regard to ap pearances, except such as might assist him in recollecting them, and distinguishing them from each other. At first these signs were very nu merous; and when he got so far as to think his invention was nearly accomplished he had about two hundred Cherokee characters in his alpha bet. By the aid of his daughter, who seemed to enter into the genius of his labours, he reduced them at last to eighty-six, the number he now uses. He then set to work to make these cha racters more comely to the eye, and succeeded— as yet he had not the knowledge of the pen as an instrument of writing ; but made his cha racters on a piece of bark with a knife or nail. At this time he sent to the Indian agent, or some trader, for paper and pens. His ink was easily made from some of the bark of the forest trees, whose colouring properties he had previously known—and after seeing the construction of the pen, he soon learned to make one, but at first lie made it without a slit, until his ingenuity suggested the means of making it. His next difficulty was how to acquaint his countrymen with his invention. He had, for the FRENCH PAPERS. sake of following his studies, withdrawn himself (From the Journal des Debuts of Thursday.) so much from their society and usual pursuits, The composition of the new Ministry has struck that they viewed him with an eye of suspicion. France with terror, and the fears which are expe- His former companions passed his wigwam with- rier,ced therefore are unfortunately too well founded. It offers a cruel assemblage of the fury of the emi out entering it, and mentioned his name as one gration and of the vengeance of 1815. Truly we who was practising improper spells, for noto- should have great cause to despair, did not the very riety or mischievous purposes, and he seems to excess of our evils create a consoling idea,—namely, think that he should have been hardly dealt with that the Ministry is such as cannot last a year.— if his docile and unambitious disposition had Providence, who, if Charles V. is to be believed, not been so generally acknowledged by his tribe. has always governed our good country, will not for- At length he summoned some of the most dis- get us at the present moment. tinguished of his nation in order to make his See under what sad auspices these men, who hate (and we thank them for their hatred,) have c communication to them ; and after giving them In their hurry to reign, they the best explanation of his discovery th a t he us ‘ into power. have not taken time enough to unite together, and could, stripping it of all supernatural influence, plot the evil which they have got to perpetrate. — he proceeded to demonstrate to them in good Their telegraphs travel from Toulon to Fribourg, earnest, that he had made a discovery. His from Fribourg to Toulouse, to seek after colleagues, daughter, who was then his only pupil, was and to bring back perhaps nothing but refusals.— ordered to go out of hearing, while lie requested The Ministers declare that 20,000 faithful subjects his friends to name a word or sentiment which he of the King are ready to give them the aid of their wrote down, and then she was called in and read devotion and ability, and yet they cannot get even a it to them ; then the father retired and the Prefect of Police. Their monarchical pride is hum bleddaughter wrote ; the Indians were wonder-struck, before the popularity of M. de Belleyme. They ask for a month, a week, a day, to enrol among them but not entirely satisfied. See-quah-yah then selves a name beloved by France. The principles proposed that the tribes should select several which shall direct theM, they say, are those of all youths from amongst their brightest young men, Frenchmen who desire the security of the throne that he might communicate the mystery to them. and the happiness of the country. Yet they dare This was at length agreed to, although there was not declare what their principles are. The Moni but who does not in the whole business. it still some lurking suspicion of necromancy in tent cont i nu es its silence to-day; understand that is the silence of embarrassment Among the youths selected was John Maw, and fear? Every thing is an obstacle to them. — one of my interpreters with See-quah-vale. 'I he y know that in an y p lace where a thousand . For people shall be assembled, there a thousand voices several months, while they were under his tuition, shall be raised against them. They know this, and great anxiety prevailed among the Cherokees, they hesitate between force which would be turned and when the day of examination arrived, their ! back against themselves, and weakness which would curiosity was wrought up to the highest pitch. I disgrace them in t he e y es of their own p art y . Every precaution w a s ta k en to prevent them- I However, thanks to the fatigue of a long Session, selves from being "deceived. The youths were and to the absence of serious matters, they will be separated from their master, and from each able to drag on their existence for some months ; other,. and watched with great care. The tmin- and will so long have power . to harass and destroy, and togratify themselves with acts of petty injustice itiated directed what master and pupil should and write to each other, and these tests were minutely . when personal vengeance. be , examined with the utuigst severity a criticism. ; then, will be done? the Chambers must assembled. What, Dissolve the Chamber elected It may not be generally known that the Go vernment of the United States had a font of types cut for his alphabet, and that a newspaper printed partly in the Cherokee language, and partly in the English, has been established at New Echota, and is characterised by (lucency and good sense ; and thus many of the Chero kees are able to read both languages. After putting these remarks to paper, I had the pleasure of seeing the head Chief of the Cherokees, who confirmed the statements of See-quah-yah, and added that he was an Indian of the strictest veracity and sobriety. The western wilderness is not only to blossom like the rose, but there man has again started up and proved that he has not degenerated since the pri mitive days of Cecrops, and the romantic ages of wonderful effort and god-like renown. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In 15:27 P Convoke the electoral colleges, and appeal_ to the opinion of the country ? At the present day, fraud is not easy; the intervention of third parties is very troublesome, the surveillance of the Courts Royal are very formidable, and though they mielt be able, as in good old times, to suppress good votes and add false, yet it would be seen that they would not have 60 voices. They are not ignorant of this themselves : they will then be obliged to face the present Chamber. By what abuse of words, by what silly deception, do the organs of this Ministry fancy that they can create a belief that it will have a majority? What, those deputies who, actuated by a spirit of liberty not properly understood, have this year rejected the municipal law,—would they change the law of election, and establish the censorship ? Would the Chamber which has driven out M. de Villele support M. de Polignac? Who are the great orators among the new Mi nistry whose speeches are to work this wonderful metamorphosis ? Is M. de Polignac one ? He is very polished; but M. de Martignac, with as much politeness, possesses, perhaps, as much ability, and as much aptitude for business. M. Courvoisier ? There is advocate for advocate, and I prefer M. Dupin. M. de Month& ? He reads fluently enough a speech of M. de Villele; but perhaps M. de Se bastiani will improvisutize with greater facility. M. de Chabrol ? I confess that he is an active fighter ; what fire, what energy he possesses! With the ex ception of M M. Casimir Perier, Lafitte, and 100 others, 1 do not know where to find one to answer him. Lastly, is M. de la Bourdonnaye the eloquent orator ? He alone would prevent the Ministry having a majority, if it were possible for them tiuder other circumstances to have a majority. His petti- Lince and disgusting exaggeration are insupportable to the most moderate part of the Chamber. The right centre fears him, and will seize some cause to vote against him. M. de la Bourdonnaye has, be sides, never been successful but in an unsettled and capricious opposition. Three epigrams by M. Ben jamin Constant wonld upset and confound him. Really, I cannot see but one sort of discussion in which the new Ministry can engage with honour— namely, the penal military code, under the chapter of Desertion to the Enemy. There are some in the new Ministry who understand this _question marvellously well; but a look from General Gerard will be as effective as his eloquence. As it would be a dangerous folly for the Ministry to convoke a new Chamber, an absurdity to face the present one, some fear that these gentlemen wish to act without the aid of the Chambers at all ; that, tor turing the article 14, they will establish the censor ship by ordinance, make a new law of election by or dinance, and a budget by ordinance. In one's own room, in the midst of people of the same opinion with one's self, it is easy to say, " with thirty thousand men I will do all this." This language pleases cer tain persons : it is even encouraging. But though a Minister of War, and as warlike as you please, yet you will not be able to make one person march when it is known that to-morrow you will no longer be Minister. It was the balls cf the Rue St. Denis which destroyed Villele; they will rebound again on the Minister who shall employ them. No, we have no ground to dread this reign of blood and terror. The Royal wisdom has perhaps been deceived by lies cf the Court and interested declamations; but his goodness will not feel pain from our respectful resistance, and in our grief lie will only see a prayer. He wiil not destroy that charter which is his support and our happiness. By that the kingdom has become tranquil and glorious in his hands ; by that he will hand it, peaceful and flourishing, to his son. As for these gentlemen whose minds are filled with the chimera of Coblentz, who see revolution hi every thing, and who arm themselves against this phantom, we must, as I have said before, submit to them for a few months. They will profitably employ the time in doing evil to others, and much good to themselves. They will make their own fortune, put themselves in some secure situation, and find places for their bi others, and nephews, and cousins, to the twentieth degree. Then at the day of judgment,— at the day when they must appear before the Cham ber, they will quietly retire, weeping for the Mo narchy, which they . desire to save. We shall see, at last, that all will end with emigration : we shall applaud and forget every thing; for, after all, we are a good sort of people, though revolutionists at heart. the Directing Committee, and which will preserve France from factions. The future will prove, that far from wishing to give the constitutional opposition real ground for complaints, the Ministry only thinks of maintain ing constitutional order against the efforts of the conspiracy of the men of the empire and the con- vention. We are neither Russians nor English—we are French. As every effort is making to give a false direction to public opinion, and spread erroneous ideas, men cry out on the house-tops, " Take care, you are going to be taken in tow by Wellington and Metter nich." Our revolutiordsts care very little about being taken in tox, and if to-morrow the cable were attached to the fortune of some revolutionary power, or of some chief of insurgents, they would see with indifference France humbled and ruined. Did they not rival one another in their efforts to attach them selves to Mr. Canning, when they believed that that statesman was about to let loose the tempests, and lend his support to the evil-disposed of the two worlds ? As for the honour and interest of France, they would sell them cheap to any one who would second their projects for the overthrow of the old monarchies of Europe. The changes which have taken place are then, according to the Liberals, a re-action in favour of England against Russia. What does that mean ? Does it mean that under the old Ministry we were emfeoffed to Russia, and secretely the enemies of England. We were then taken in tow by St. Petersburgh, for the purpose of leading us into a policy hostile to Great Britain. Our Ministers ought, then, to have come to us from the north, in stead of being given to us by the wisdom of the Sovereign. France is not destined to play so subaltern a part, and those who wish to oblige it to follow in the steps of Russia. have no right to accuse the Royalists of re-action. This question must be considered in its real light. France is strong enough, powerful enough, to act independently of all exterior influ ence, and to exercise herself a great preponderance in European politics. She has interests which have been seriously compromised by a weak Ministry : those interests ought to become the object and the end of our foreign relations. They who will sup port them shall be our allies; they who thwart them shall be our enemies, whether they be English, Russian, Austrian, or Prussian. Our diplomacy shall not be conducted with the haughtiness and annoyance thatcharacterised it during the revolution, nor with that boasting and menacing tone employed sometimes at the tribune of the Chambers by the men on the left side. No, our diplomacy shall be worthy of the monarch it repre sents, and shall display the firmness which belongs to a nation determined to make itself respected. Our diplomacy, in fine, shall be neither Russian, nor English, or Austrian—it shall be French. It shall not be, and that, perhaps, is its principal fault, either revolutionary or liberal ; but it will respect in other states the customs, the laws, and the institutions. It will not be the author of troubles, but it will maintain the dignity of the Crown. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Journal des Debuts of Sunday.) PARIS, AUG. 15.—We had stated that M. de Rigny would refuse the post of Minister of Marine. This was a presumption only founded upon the no ble character of the conqueror of Navarin, who, having concurred by his valour and talents in the most memorable act of the liberation of Greece, could not possibly sit in the Cabinet with the same men, who, under the dictation of the Duke of Wel lington, signed the odious Protocol destructive of the independence for which the blood of our warriors has flowed, and the gold of France been lavished. To-day our presumption has been realised, and what we had conjectured is now happily certain. The following are the particulars of the generous re fusal of M. de Rigny, which are guaranteed as accu rate :—Admiral Rigny had stopped on family busi ness at the seat belonging to one of his brothers, four leagues from Moulines; there he learned his appointment from the ilfonileur, which was sent to him by the Prefect. He immediately set out for Paris, where he arrived yesterday evening, and this morning, at nine o'clock, had an hour's conference with M. de Chabrol.—He then set out for St. Cloud with M. de Polignac, where he respectfully expressed to the King his invariable resolution. After stopping a few days with his family, he set out to Toulon to resume his command. The Constitutionnel says, " Will M. de Rigny ac cept the Department of the Marine ? At first it seemed to be an insult to doubt, but his refusal is delayed, and people say that M. de Rigny has am bition. Very well; but that is not a reason for his acceptance." The Courrier Francais (quoted by the Gazette de France), after stating the arrival of the Emperor at Paris, and his departure for St. Cloud, with Prince Polignac, says, " We believe we can announce for certain, that M. de Rigny has refused the Porfeuille of the Marine, and will soon return to Toulon." (From the Messager des Chambres of Sunday. ) (From the Journal des Debuts of Friday.) PARIS, AUG. 13.—The organs of the new Ministry tell us that a re-action is goon to take place in the foreign policy of France. They might have spared themselves the trouble of this relation ; for they acquaint us with nothing more than what we knew five days ago,and which the Duke of Wellington knew two months before. We, good simple people, thought that in London the Turks, Greeks, and Russians divided the public attention. We lamented the fate of unhappy Greece, abandoned in such a cowardly manner to Mahmoud, and to the City," in the conferences of the Protocol. Indeed, we would have laid a wager that the instructions of the old Ministry would in London have been fulfilled in an opposite sense to their spirit and tenour; but who would have thought they would have treated France like Greece? France for a portefuille ! What a bargain ! For England, which is on the eve of being drawn into events which are preparing in spite of herself, it must be very convenient to see a Cabinet which might hare some weight in the balance of the destinies of Europe delivered up to her, bound hand and foot. With the emancipation of Ireland and the obedience of France, she may go a great way. Decidedly the Duke of 'Wellington is a great Minister ! and it is true that the Prince Polignac is a strange Ambassador. Half-past 10 p.m.—A citation from the Procu rear du Roi has just been served upon us, to appear before the Tribunal Premier Instance on Wednes day, the 19th inst. We are engaged in the citation as guilty, in the publication of the number of our journal of the 10th of August, 1829, and especially in the article commencing with the words "ilinsi le Voila," and ending with " MaMeureuse France!" " Malheureux Roi!" first, "of an offence against the person of the King ;" secondly, "of an attack on the Royal dignity and on the constitutional au. thGrity of the King—offences provided against by the law." Firm friends to the Monarch, we trembled on the 9th of August for the future: we said so, and we repeat it. It is reported, that on the refusal of M. de Rigny, M. de Conny will be Minister of the Marine. The Allgenteine Zeitung (also received by the express) states, under the head of Semlin, July 28, that the most alarming reports are in circulation at Belgrade ;respecting the s►tuation of the Turkish army, which is said to be near its dissolution; that the troops of Husseim Pacha have mutinied ; that there were also signs of mutiny among the garrison of Widdin, that the general levy proceeds slowly, the people refusing to take arms unless there are soldiers to compel them ; that fire arms begin to be scarce, and it has been necessary to give pikes to the militia at Sophia. Accounts front Odessa of the 27th July say, that the Russian army had entirely crossed the Balkan on the 24th; that the advanced posts of Gen. Diesbitsch were at Cape Ernin, near Burgos, and the head-quarters of Gen. Roth at Aidos. The Turks had lost thirty cannon in the different engagements. It was reported at Vienna on the Gth that Ghiurgevo had capitulated.' VIENNA, AUG, 7.—Metalliques, 99i; Bank 'Shares, 1135. VALUABLE INVENTION.—We understand that a method of propelling boats by steam, has been in vented by two of our townsmen, where all agitation of the water by paddles is avoided, so that inland navigation may be carried to any extent on canals, without in the least injuring the banks. This, we believe, is new in steam navigation, and the want of such an improvement has been the cause why this all-powerful agent has never been applied to the carrying of trade on the canals of this or any other country.— Glasgow Journal. (From the Gazette de France of Saturday%) TRIAL OF THE JOURNAL DES DEI3ATS. The prosecution of the Journal des Debals results from the position of the Ministry, and may serve to explain its policy. The Ministry is determined to follow, without deviation, a legal and Parliamentary course, and to have recourse against the licentiousness of the press to the tribunals and to the Chambers; yet it will not abandon, to the seductions of the papers of the Jaeobinical and Imperial conspiracy, weak and cre dulous men, whom these journals seek to deceive and to drive to sedition. What we have said elsewhere in regard to the harvest generally, may with equal propriety be applied to this county, where a great portion of the wheat crop has already been secured.—Harvest has also commenced on the Scilly Islands, where there is a general expectation of an abundant crop of all kinds of grain. The storms that have occasioned so much damage in England, we are happy to learn, have not extended their ravages to the Scilly Islands. Cornwall Gazette. On one side the Alinistry trust to the Tribunals and to the Chambers for the repression of the at tempts which may be made against legal and con stitutional order ; and it submits the licentiousness of the press to the judgment of the judicial autho rity ; and in the same spirit it will denounce the directing committee to the Deputies and to the Peers. On the other hand, it confides to the law-oilicers of the Crown the task of struggling ag a i nst th e Ja cohinical and imperialist faction. it is against this faction that it calls for the exertion of every effort. This conduct, both prudent and firm, will excite reflection amongst those whom it is soug h t to bli n d with regard to the intentions of the Mi n i sters. It will be seen that the Ministers are determined to support the :dynasty!, the charter, and to preserve France from revolution. France will now know that he r repose w ill no longer be troubled by the indecisi on of the Govern ment—that the existing order of things will no longer be disturbed, and that a Government will be established Paris, which will not be that of NUISANCE.—It was hoped, from the pro mised improvements in the police, that many nuisances would have been removed which are a disgrace to the Metropolis. The Strand still swarms every night with blasphemous and most d eprave d prost i tutes, an d t h e i r ma le companions, by whom the peaceable passengers arc co nstantly beset and in danger of being robbed, as these profligates issue from the neighbouring stews and brothels, which are open at all hours of the night for the reception of such infamous characters. The same nuisance exists in Cranbourne-street, Leicester-square, and Coventry-street, and is increasing nightly. The inhabitants of those places so infested, should apply to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to have this increasing evil removed, or at least abated ; for so long as it remains, it will be a reproach to his " improved police ;" as being a great public n uisance, and most injurious to those shopkeepers who live in the neighbourhood where such notorious and dangerous c haracters congregate. --Mornin g Paper. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Sank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ... ..... 88V4y, 3 t per Cent. Cons. 87N 81 ,4 1 per Cent. 9S% Dittn Red. :98% 8 t per Cent. '02%.),4 Ditto. 3P2ti Ditto &rip flank L Ann. India Stock Ditto Bonds —55 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds 57 Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds : Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds — Prussian, Old t oloinbian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1821 Danish GS% Spanish, 1821 Sh !i Greek Bonds — 1823 — Ditto, 1825 — French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —e. Guatimala — -- Exchange —t. —c. Mexican Bonds . — I— S per cent. —t. —c. Ditto, 1825 — l— Exchange —f. —c. PRICES OP SHAKES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOVE. Paid. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (igs. at 51. pm.) £2O Ditto National 7l' General Steam Navigation C 0..... l3 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 Arrived. MAILS. Due. I Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 0 Hamburgh 0 1 Brazil 0 0. Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 1 Dublin 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 France 0 0 Malta 0 1 Gottenburgh 0 0 Mexico 0 Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 i 1 Waterford HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Miming... ti minutes after 5. I Evening ...27 minutes after 6, THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE, STRAND. THIS EVENING (first time) a New ➢lusical Entertainment called THE SPRING LOCK. Lorenzo de Medici, Mr. Wood; Giulio, Mr. James Vining; Doctor Manente, Mr. Keeley; Doctor Flamingo, Mr. 0. Smith. Amarantha, Miss Cawse; Vergellina, Mrs. Keeley. After which HE LIES LIKE TRUTH, Sir Charles Manly, Mr. Baker; Mr. Trupenny, Mr. W. Bennett; Battler, Mr. Wrench ; Clincher, Mr. Benson HilL Harriet, Miss Gray; Priscilla, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with THE BOTTLE IMP. __ . .... . Albert, Mr. Wood; Willibald, Mr. Keeley ; Nicola, Mr. J. Vining; the Bottle ling, Mr. 0. Smith. Marcella, Miss Cause; Philippa, Miss H. Cawse. To-morrow, The Sister of Charity, with The Robber's Bride, and The Quartette; Thursday, Der Freischnetz, with The Mia dle Temple, and other Entertainments; Friday, The Witness, with Master's Rival, and other Entertainments; Saturday, The Witness, with Lying made Easy, Gretna Green, and The Wa terman. THE COLOSSEUM—REGENT'S PARK. The Proprietors of this Magnificent Exhibition invite the atten tion of the Public to the NEW ARRANGEMENT OF THE ADMISSIONS. s. rt. To view the Panorama alone 1 0 To:view the Panorama, with the original Ball, removed from St. Paul's Cahedral—the Prospect from the sum mit of the Building—and the Saloon for the Reception of Works of Art 3 0 To view the Conversatorics, Fountain, and Swiss Cottage 2 0 Open from Ten till Dusk. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 8714% Ex. Bills, .£1,030 2d. 70 72 pm. Ditto 500 2d. 10 72 pm. Ditto Small 2d. 70 '72 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm Bank for Account India for Account Cons, for Account 57:54 B!,i 4 y -44; 2 i, — zis 70{ LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1329. The French Journals are filled with the most violent attacks on the new Government. The Journal des Debats, however, consoles itself and its readers by the reflection, that " the Mi nistry is such as cannot last a year ;" moreover, that " they know, that in any place where a thou sand people shall be assembled, there a thousand voices shall be raised against them." This is pretty strong, it must be confessed, nevertheless, the measures of the new Administration yet re main to be ascertained ; till then, all must be speculation. At present, the French Liberal Press are almost all to a man against them. By au express from Paris, received this day, we learn that Admiral de RIGNY has actually refused the post of Minister of Marine ; and that it is probable M. de CONNY will be ap pointed to that high station instead. The Mes saaer des Chambres states that the Turkish army is reported to be near its dissolution ; that the troops of HUSSEIN PACIIA have mutinied; and that there were also signs of mutiny among the garrison of Widdin. The Hamburg Papers received this morning state, as a tolerably likely rumour, that the Paella of EGYPT is preparing another great naval expe dition, for the purpose, as is supposed, of car rying troops to aid the SULTAN. Meanwhile, it is added, the Russian squadron, under Admiral HEYDEN, is assembling at Poros, and " will immediately take such a course as to be able closely to watch the movements of the Egyptian Expedition, and, in case of need, to attack it." The same Papers announce the arrival of the Persian Prince CHosREw MIRzA at Moscow, on the 26th July, where he was received with almost regal honours. ANCONA, JULY 26.—According to all the accounts which we receive here from the Levant, the Paella of Egypt is preparing a great naval expedition, and is as sembling men-of-war, and transports to carry troops. It is not positively stated what is the destination of this expe dition, but it is generally believed that it is to carry troops to aid the Sultan. A few persons, probably not well-in formed, are of opinion that a landing in Gandhi is intended. It is certain, however, that the Russian squadron, under Admiral Heyden, is assembling at Biros, and will imme diately take such a course as to be able closely to watch the movements of the Egyptian expedition, and, in case of need, to attack it. The few commercial transactions that had been latterly engaged in at Alexandria suffer very much from these war like preparations, as every one hesitates at present to make consignments, and prefers waiting to see what turn things will take. VIENNA, AUG. s.—Prince Metternich set out this morning for his estate of Konigsworth, in Bohemia, and thinks to be absent three weeks. Count Lebezeltern, and the Aulic Counsellors Von Gens and Baron Kress, follow the Prince to-morrow. Letters from Greek houses at Odessa were shown on 'Change to-day, in which it is stated, that General Count Paskewitsch had taken Erzeroum in the middle of July, and had made 10,000 prisoners. One of our greatest stock jobbers, who always specu late a la baisse, is on the point of stopping payment. It is affirmed, that the embezzlements of which one of the clerks has been guilty, have chiefly contributed to bring him to this crisis. ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 7.—(By the steam-boat from St. Petersburg!' to Lubeck.) —Prince Chosrew lklirza ar rived at Moscow on the 26th July, and was received with great honours. His Majesty's Chamberlain, A. V. Bulgakow, went to Kolomenskoi to meet the Prince, who declared that he should never find words to express to the Shah and the Emperor his gratitude for the atten tion sbewn him in Russia. At MOSCOW the palace of the Countess of Rosamowsky was prep "red for his reception. At the gate of the hotel he was rt calved by the Comman dant of Moscow with a guard of honour. The Civil Governor received him at the head of the Magistrates, and the chief merchants of the city presented him with bread, salt, fruit, and flowers. The arrival of Prince Gallitzin being announced, he went to meet him, shook hands with him, and conversed a quarter of an hour standing, expressing his pleasure at the good understanding that prevailed be tween the two Sovereigns. The next day the Prince held .a grand levee, and there was afterwards a dinner for 100 poisons at the Military Governor's. The health of the Shah, of Prince Abbas Mirza, and the Royal Farnilt Persia, of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, 3 ad the imperial family, were drank to the sound of trumPett. Prince Chosrew Mirsa joined in every toast, drinking Mesa , Before rising from table he took the Prince and PO l ' o • cess Gallitzin by the hand, begging them t: stop a little that he might drink the health of the haste and mistress of the house. The Prince visited the or: moury, where Prince Jussapow showed him the sni i°l : dress that Peter I. wore while working a s a shiPwr i gl at Zaardam. He took it in his hand and looked a t Wit f admiration. One of the :mite laughing at the Ernper' r ed ° Prussia having worn such a coarse dress, the Princelo4, sternly at him, and said, If Peter had not worn 015 ere , s, Russia would have had no navy, and not be what . is." He afterwards visited the theatre, which was crow ,' ed, and surprised him by its size; he was partial/ ' pleat.rd with the ballet. The Prince is of middle erne at'b well in de, lie has tine eyes, and an agreeable smiler mile dignity in his deportment, and great vivacity in co . t ion. lie is extremely affable to all around him. STOCICIZOL3I, Aun. 4.—lt seems certain that tA" . „ Bjornstjerna, who arrived here on the 11th ult., and 00 ; after took his seat in the Chamber of the nobility , will li b % return to London as Ambassador, but it is uncertain tv will succeed him. We have received Madras Papers to the 23a March inclusive. The Insolvent Debtors' A c/ had been received at Madras, and went int ° operation on the Ist March. The Perseverance' from Liverpool to Calcutta, struck on NarsaPl Point on the 28th of the preceding month , Bli f had become a complete wreck ; crew and part ° her cargo saved. It was reported at Mil d° that the Commander-in-Chief ow that sation was to be succeeded by Sir EDWARD 005' We have Papers from Cadiz to the 29th Ult. Ten vessels arrived from America in that fr ee port during the month of June, of which n uolber six were from the Havannah, one from Limy* and one from Porto Cabello. Letters from Leghorn to the 31st July stl‘e that the crop of wheat in the interior of `re Duchy would be a middling one. The deP II consisted of 386,443 sacks of grain, of vvh ic 170,000 were wheat. At a public dinner given a few days since 1 Mr. O'CONNELL at Limerick, that Learnedee Hon. Gentleman, alluding to the recent cha r g h e delivered by Mr. Justice JEBB, at the Are lag h Assizes, stated his intention of bringing the su ' i ; ject before Parliament. " For my part," mid r ac t;e :i n t t ii , :ety a l niei willi make smt iteuetto o ar n st e ol e af x st an w , Mr. O'CONNELL, "my course is axed. I trea t the charge imputed to Judge JEBB as a calumny' but if it be true, I shall bring him before 1 9 ° 1;3 : them p it l 1 example shall e l one should labour for the oblivion of past feu u h ° ' the people." The charge that has called f 0 1i , 1 this threat is every way worthy of commen t ' 1 , , blaeoa execrations u t. n p ti v i is e ; h i : advocates the lawfulness of the Brunocic processions, while it declares that all COrre; sponding exhibitions on the part of the r Papists are illegal. It recommends the re gistracy to be tardy in any meas ures they 1134 think fit to adopt against the Orange processioss' wn but to be prompt and energetic in putting barge all Catholic reaction. Altogether it is a eghe which, delivered gravely and oracularly fr°ra t judgment seat, cannot fail to produce a vast 8/"' alive sation throughout the North, and kee p activity' and even fan into a more vita l those rancorous feelings of party spirit y i Oa which all wise and enlightened m en ° thi s wish to see utterly extinguished. But it i s " re' odious spirit, which is too deep-seated to be moved—too bigotted to be convinced -40 tr so ij; culent to be softened— that has been for years' le for years, we fear, will still continue t o b e , the n ° 3 0 great curse of Ireland. This it is that c heck the public feeling itt its growth, and s ullies 0 springs of action at their very fountain head' oar originates with the upper classes of the ill e , munity, whose interests are more ial , to diately concerned ; from them it descentio tin" l the next grade in the social circle very thence, it progresses downwards to the A dregs of the people, withering in its coUrse ; that comes within reach of its pestilential _, th e nce. But how must the mischi ef be encre' fool ed, when clothed in the garb of justice, this nla s rabid monster of party spirit lays down its dog og. as law, and stalks through the country, a ree . _ . nixed legitimate authority ! We can cones no curse so dreadful—no pestilence so wither 19 eol S as this loathsome moral visitation ! Other 0 attack the body ; this slays the mind it_ T ot canker in the constitution of the country, t ' f to be cured, must be cut out. Nothing 511°14 0 ;, r te such determined cautery can possibly reg en—A Ireland. ...—..,....—........—............. o f WHALE FISHING.--While the laten ess ...of the whale fishery for several years past does not an f" 0 to expect any arrivals or intelligence as to its surol the some time to come, it is a singular fact that not one , the continental Seal-fishers, from the ports of Flollana! al, Ellie, Weser, &c., have arrived, or been heard : n h, d though they have generally been home in there is reason .. so that there rs ._re: May, and never later than June, westwArd, and got P conclude they have fallen in to the set.—Aberdeen Chronicle. altogether nevi t° A zoological garden is not .._00 The celebrated liieb the neighbourhood of London. Et:2mm fot Inca one at Earl's Court, 11 _ ro mptons„, l l be was the receptacle of various foreign animals, iv?l'bi. kept for the purpose of furthering bis researches in r siology and comparative anatomy. de to the An application is likely to be ma 1, ii , Loan CHANCELLOR, by the Somciroa-Grra.n.acsyned consequence of a gentleman named Jour:sox, bal_ „ r o. upon him to retract an assertion which be bad ma SOD be l fessionally, in a case in which be WM engaged s ome 11 . 1°_'; be ago. He had forgotten all the circumstances, Dt.'_.., proved that he had only spoken from his ins tructr7; Under these circumstances, be refused to a pologize),_ B ! , 0 0 consequence Mr. JOHNSON addressed a letter to vii— , coe Friday, which contained these expressions :--" Ir° ,l " tittit i duct throughout sufficiently slows that you hoes $ _ad of the feelings of a gentleman and a m an of honour 9 'l . , I am now withheld, by the respect w hich is .(itie totrovisi, from inflicting upon you that personal chat ill't:hseedvnette sal, you so richly &serve." lie has since po_!_i t __ ee i d of the correspondence in the .111orning FOB s wyjia 1 1 Paper. Per Share. 61 62 1014