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native growth of liberal feeling and polished manners, but also the importation from abroad of those attributes of civilization. Have I said enough to convince you that the state of parties here does not admit of neutrality ? This account of the intensity of party feeling not at variance with my assertion, that wool is the ruling idea of the colony. Of course you do not und ers t an d th a t assertion quite literally. It is, however, almost literally true. " Cleaving" is the ruling idea of an American backwoods man, and yet he may be a violent partizan of Clay or Jackson. It is just because the Colo nists are too much occupied with questions of daily bread to have leisure for inquiry and reflec tion that they make such violent politicians. Were the leading inen of both parties as rich as tliey would be—supposing land dear, and labour cheap—they would have time and motive calmly to examine the great question that disturbs them. They would perceive on the one hand that this colony is not yet qualified to govern itself, even partially, by means of a Colonial Assembly ; and on the other hand, that its complete inde pendence is, sooner or later, inevitable. Having made these concessions to reason and truth, they would have a common object, that of securing every attainable good and cultivating the re sources, and, above all, the minds of their coun trymeu, with a view to that self-government which must come, but which would prove a grievous curse if it should come out of season, and without due preparation. It behoves me to satisfy you that we are not at present qualified to govern ourselves, and to state my reasons for presuming that our grand children will assert their independence. First, as to our incapacity for self-government. The population of the settlement may amount in round numbers to 45,000. Of these only 14,000, including women and children, have not been convicted of felony ; and two-thirds of the re• mainder, seven-eights being grown men, are galley-slaves, still in chains! Are you convinced ? Secondly, as to the probable epoch of our in dependence. This question may not be settled by a few figures. Indeed it involves so many, and such grave considerations, that I have done wrong, perhaps, to touch upon it in a familiar letter. I will not, however, discuss the whole eNestion ; as it is not from me that you have to learn why a people, governed from afar, and continually increasing their territory, must have a continually increasing tendency .to rebellion. I will therefore only point your attention to se veral circumstances, which, in this colony, are either peculiar or excessive, and which threaten to give an uncommonly rapid progress to the tendency just mentioned. 1. The very great distance between the Go vernment and the subjects, which far exceeds the space by which any former plantation having free scope for the increase of people, was separated from a Mother Country. 2d. In this Colony there are neither warlike natives, nor dense forests, nor extensive swamps, nor impracticable mountains, to prevent the people from spreading till they shall become as wild as Tartars, and as awkward to catch. Nor are there any great navigable rivers to compensate, by affording easy communication between distaet parts, for the want of savages, forests, swamps, and moun tains. 3d. Land is cheaper, and as soon as the present system of criminal slavery shall be at an end, labour will be dearer than in other new countries. I say that land is cheaper than else where, because the use of land can be obtained at a less price. The settler in North America though he should obtain a right to land for no thing, must pay largely for the use of that right. He mint drain and clear his grant before he can use it, at a great cost of money, or money's worth. Whereas, here there are hundreds of thousands of square miles of unappropriated land, already cleared and drained by the hand of nature. Land therefore may be said to be cheaper here than in America. Cheapness of land is another ex pression for scarcity of labourers ; and, as land here is extraordinarily cheap, we may expect that, when the supply of convicts shall cease ; labourers for hire will be excessively scarce. — Thus we shall have excessive dearness of labour, but this is not all, we shall suffer also from an excessive scarcity of dear labour. Dearness of labour alone would go far to prevent the accu mulation of wealth ; but a scarcity of dear labour will absolutely forbid it. Hence I judge that our e;randchildren will be a race of unmixed bar barians, more ungovernable than even the white savages of Kentucky. 4th. The democratic ,spirit which must exist, where every man pos sesses a little wealth and a little knowledge ; but no man which possesses much of either, will surely exist here. That this spirit cannot exist without hostility to England, the least demo cratic of free States, is proved by the history of Republican France, and of Independent Ame rica. Since the Americans opened roads over the chain of the Alleghanies, and thus obtained greater facilities for spreading, they are become .less civilized, more democratical, and, I believe, more hostile to England, than in the days of Franklin and Washington. Hence, and looking also at the hatred of authority which has been imported, and is constantly maintained, by cri minal immigration, I conclude that the Austra lians will hate their parent country more bitterly, and at an earlier period, than did the British Colonists in America, because they will have greater facilities for growing up poor, ignorant, and democratical. sth. And lastly—coming now to the question of power. It was not the lorests and swamps of America that enabled a handful of farmers and hucksters to defeat a powerful nation. If the American C olonists had accumulated wealth, and had been crowded together, though in the midst of forests and swamps, they might have been readily subdued. It was their poverty and their dispersion that constituted their strength. They h:td little to lose except their lives, and it was impossible to take their lives on a large scale, because they were never to be caught congregated in masses, They met the force of concentration, which is so useful in attack, by a successful defence, of which the essence was dispersion. The Partbians of old, the Cossacks of late, and now the South American Republics, whose fruitless endeavours to destroy each other promise to be perpetual, have established that Tartars, united in - will, and fighting on their own plains, are not to be con quered. Now, from the foregoing considerations, it appears to me that Australia is peculiarly adapted to become, at a very early period too, the abode of a Tartar people, I conclude, therefore, that our grandchildren will govern, or rather misgovern, themselves. (TO BE CONTIN UED. There are at present 14large distilleries in active operation in Campbelton. The whiskey is sold readily at 7s 6d. the old, or Its. the imperial gallon.:-- G lasgow Chronicle. The coath, which caused so much destruction amo ng the sheep last year, owing to the wetness of the iwa son, has again made its appearance in Somersetshile, espe cially at Crewkerne.—Cheltenham Chronicle, EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Constitutionnel.) BERLIN, AUG. 26.—0 n the 20th a-, Courier ar rived here from London, in consequence of which the funds fell one per cent. The following is the cause. Baron Btdow, the Prussian Ambassador at the. Court of London, having had an interview with the Duke of Wellington, delivered to him the de spatches from his Court, in which it was endea voured to lead him to a system of peace and concord. After some discussion, the Duke of Wellington be came.angry, and declared so positively in favour of the Porte, and against Russia, that the Prussian Ambassador, whose instructions are said to be posi tive, suddenly interrupted him, and said that in that case he desired his passports. His Grace was asto nished at this decisive step of the Ambassador, and endeavoured to give the conversation a more ami cable turn, but the Prussian Ambassador persisted in saying, that after what he had heard no alterna tive was left but to leave London immediately. At length he consented to remain in London till a Cou rier, to be sent by the Duke and himself, should bring back an answer to London. This Courier has arrived here, and the answer is preparing. The French Papers have spoken of an alliance between France and England ; it is believed here, and the de parture of the Duke of Cumberland and Prince George is supposed to be connected with it. How ever, it is probable that peace will not be inter rupted, and that some explanations will settle the affair at London. (From the Allyemeine Zeitung of the 29th August, also received by the Express. ) CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. B.—At length the Porte is obliged to adopt another system, and to listen to the suggestions of reason, which it has repelled for a series of years with incredible arrogance. The ad vance of Gen. Diebitsch towards Kirk-kilissa, where his van-guard arrived upon the Gth, and the landing of a Russian corps at Iniada, have made so deep an impression on the population of the capital and the Ottoman Ministry, that a dreadful crisis was to be apprehended if the Sultan had any longer refused to accept the proposals of the Foreign Amba'sadors, and sheaved himself willing to agree to a general ar rangement of the points in dispute. The Sultan seemed to be this time sensible of his situation, and to do every thing requisite for peace, and the satis faction of his people. He has accepted the Treaty of the 6th July, and the Protocol of 22d March changing the tribute, without any other clauses. He will grant to the Russian flag the free passage through the Bosphorus, and has engaged to nego ciate on the basis of the Convention at Akermaun, but has expressed a wish that the negociatiens may be carried on at Constantinople itself. The capital is now more tranquil. We know nothing of the Turkish array, which seems to be dissolved, as the troops ordered to Adrianople turned back after a day's march, and are now at Ejub, where there are about 15,000 men. SEMLIN, AUG. 18.—Letters from Sophia say, that the situation of the Grand Vizier at Shumla is ery critical, and that he has made to General Kras sowsky proposals of capitulation, which have not been accepted. VIENNA, AUG. 23.—0 n the receipt of the pacific intelligence from Constantinople yesterday, couriers were immediately sent to Petersburgh, Paris, and London. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, SEPT. 2.-Five per Cents, 109 f. 95c. 110 f. 109 f. 95c. 110 f. 109 f. 95c. 90c. ; Three per Cents, 80f. 95c. 75c.; Bank Stock, 1,830 f. 1,840 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 86f. 40c. 35c. 851. 95c, 861. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 71i; Rente perp. d'Esp., 47 : 14. Exchange on London—One month, 25f. 55c. ; Three months, 25f. 40c. DUTCH PAPERS. ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 19.—The Gazette de Commerce publishes some extracts from a work just published under the title of the " Foreign Trade of the Empire in 1828." The total exports were to the amount of Rub. 208,645,988 Imports 191,344,111 Excess of Exportation 17,301,877 In 1827 the excess ofexportation was 42,832,375 This diminution might lead to the conclusion that trade was not so advantageous in 1828, but it must be remembered that the exports from the sea of Azoff and the Euxine had been that year twenty six millions below those of 1827. This decrease is chiefly in corn, of which 1,770,8.50 chetwerts were exported from the ports of the two seas in 1827, and only 100,750 chetwerts in 1828. The receipt of the Customs in 1828 amounted to Rub. 62,124,151 ; in 1827 to 62,084,636, making an excess in 1828 of 39,515. Up to the 16th instant there had arrived at Cron statit 1,013 ships; sailed, 698. The Gazete of Tiflis contains a Proclamation ad dressed by Gen. Paskewitsch to his army, after the defeat of the Turkish army on the Ist and 2d of July ; it is dated the 7th, in the camp before Hassan Kale. The General speaks in the highest terms of praise of the indefatigable zeal and valour of the men. Speaking of the almost insuperable difficulties of the ground, he says " You begged of me to lead you this way, I declined because victory must have been purchased with the sacrifice of many among you, and every one of you is dear to me both for the sacrifices he makes for the country and on account of my personal attachment to you." Farther on, he says, " The trophies of these two memorable battles fought in the time of twenty-five hours, are evi dences of your invincible valour. You have anni hilated the enemy; all the roads are open to you that lead to the heart of the provinces of Asia, where the glorious recollection of the deeds of Rome still survives, after the lapse of 2,000 years. Pro ceed then joyfully, brave warriors; our latest poste rity will place your exploits by the side of the victo ries of Rome and Asia.—St. Petersburgh Papers, Aug. 19. BRUSSELS, AUG. 31.—1 t is believed that the mar riage of the Princess Marianne to Prince Albert of Prussia is finally determined, and that the journey of his Majesty the King of Prussia to this kingdom is for the purpose of being present at the ceremony of the betrothing of the royal pair. The marriage, it is said, will be solemnized at the Hague in March next year. Prince Albert, it is further reported, will be ap• pointed Governor of the fortress of Luxemburg by the German Confederation, and Governor of the Grand Duchy by his father-in-law, our Sovereign. The Prince of Hesse Homburg, at present Gover• nor of the fortress, has lately succeeded, on the death of his brother, to the Landgraviate of Hesse Homburg. THE HAGUE, AUG. 30.—0 n the 26th inst. a de plorable accident occurred in the coal-mine of L'Es perance, near Serany. At ten in the morning a dreadful explosion was. heard, caused, as it seems, by inflammable air. Of 56 or 60 workmen who went down into the pits in the morning, no less than 30 were killed, and the remainder have suffered more or less injury. The shock was so violent that four horses, in a subterranean stable at the distance of 1,000 ells, were killed. Akis7ghpAm, SEPT. I.—EXCHANGE ON LONDON.- 12 17-5 10-2 M. 12 10.—Dutch Papers, Sept. 2. The honourable fraternity of black-legs are all winging their flight towards Doncaster, many of them anxiously hoping to make up for the dullness of the recent London season. That Piince of Humbugs, the " wandering minstrel," was here a few days ago, levying contributions on the visitors. It was astonishing to see ladies of rank and title shaking him by the band, and bestowing on him silver and gold. —Brig /don Guardian. A Correspondent states, that a meeting of the performers connected with Covent-garden Theatre took place on Tuesday last, in the saloon of the Lyceum, at which tneeting a proposition was received from Mr. MAC READY to make arrangements to open the Theatre next season, which proposition is likely to be acceded to. The Meeting deemed it adeiseable to consult all the parties likely to be interested, for which purpose a general Meeting L as been convened. DAY AT OWE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Bed. 3 per Cent. Cons. ...... ...88 7 )4%14 3V, per Cent. Ditto Red per Cent. ' o 2li % Ditto, H 26 105% N Ditto Scrip Bank L Ann. 20 1-16 20 India Stock Ditto Bonds 62 61 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, .£ I,( 5 10 2 2d. d. Zi 67pm. 07 pm. Ditto Ditto Small 24. 68 67 pm. Ditto Commercial Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account —.89% 8%, 9 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 59 Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds ...... ... Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds ... — Colombian Bonds — Prussian, Old Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 15 1 . Russian Danish 69% Spanish, 1821 — Greek Bonds — 1823 Ditto, 1825 French Rentes, SP. c. —f. —c. Guatimala — '— Exchange —f. —c. Mexican Bonds — 3 per cent. —t. —c. Ditto, 1825 — Exchange —f. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bolanos Mining Co. £!4oo 200 210 Brazilian Imp. Alin. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2l) 74!,4 '75 Guardian Assurance Co lO 22 Protector Insurance Comp. £1"& PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 1. Bank Stock _ Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3;y per cent. 97Y e , National Ditto 25 Ditto, New 4 per Cent 102% . Hibernian Bank — Gov. Deb. 3}(, per cent.... 97-34 ,Provincial Ditto — loyal Canal Stock — Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock l—, Imperial Mine - City Deb. 4 per cent ...... f 36 ; Mining Co of Ireland — Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. --!Commercial Buildings — Arrived, Due. I Arrived. Due. O America 6 --- 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 1 Dublin 0 0 Leeward Island , ; ... 0 O Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 1 • 1 France . 0 0 Malta 0 O Gottenburgh 0 0 Mexico O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 2 minutes after 6. I Evening ...25 minutes after 6 THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE, STRAND. THIS EVENING the Grand Romantic Opera of DER VAMPYR. Baron Kassova, Mr. Thorne; Count Mavrocordo, Mr. H. Phillips ; Alexis Zeriny, Mr. Sapio ; Wenzel, Mr. J. Bland; Franz Boro, Mr. G. Penson ; Eblis, Mr. 0. Smith. lanthe, Miss Cawse; Henrika, Miss Betts; Liska, Miss H. Cawse; Susi Boro, Mrs. C. Jones. To conclude with 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. To-morrow, The Sister of Charity, with (first time!, Sold for a Song, and The Spring Lock. rly *MU. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1829. The accounts from Paris this morning are more favourable to the restoration of peace in he East than those previously received. The SULTAN seems now to be more sensibly alive :o his danger than at any former period. The advance of the Russians, coupled with the entreaties—we may add the remonstrances of the Allied Ambassadors, have opened his eyes to the folly of appearing to hold out, when there is in reality no chance of ultimate triumph. He has therefore consented to negociations—upon the basis of the Treaty of Ackerman—granting emancipation to the Greeks, and conceding the free passage of the Bosphorus to the Russians. All this is at present asserted by the accounts from Con stantinople, dated the eighth of August, but subsequent accounts, dated the 14th, only say the same thing, without giving us any hint that the advanced guard of the Russian army was at Kirk-kilissa on the sixth, which is stated .n the despatch of the Bth to have taken place. Now, a circumstance of such importance must surely have been known at Constantinople on the 14th, and yet there is no mention of it. There is a curious article in the Constitu- tionnel from Berlin, respecting an interview which the Prussian Ambassador is said to have had with the Duke of WELLINGTON in London touching the state of affairs in the East. The discussion became so warm, that the Prussian Ambassador went so far as to demand his pass- ports !—and the question is not vet settled. All this comes of trusting so long and so easily to Russian professions of moderation. What it will end in remains to be seen. We fore- warned the Duke of WELLINGTON of the con- sequences twelve months ago. The article in the French Papers, copied from the Allgemeine Zeitung, is the same as that received this morning by the Frankfort Papers, but the following seems to have been omitted. It is said, since the SULTAN has con- sented to negociations, the capital has been more tranquil, " but in the provinces, where there are numerous adherents of the Janissaries, a very dan- gerous spirit is said to exist, and it is feared that if Count DIEBITSCH prosecutes his operations, and appears before Constantinople, the fermen tation here will be revived, and the life of the SULTAN might be in danger. There is therefore no doubt that the PORTE will send Commissioners to the Russian head -quarters as soon as General DIEBITSCH wishes it, in order to obtain peace at whatever price. Should this be the case, the persons are already fixed upon who will carry on the negociations at the Russian head-quarters. Nothing is known of the Turkish army, and it appears to be no longer in existence, as the troops which were ordered to Adrianople, turned back at the distance of halfa day's march from Constantinople, and have been sent to the camp at Ejub, which is composed of about 15,000 men. The accounts from Asia are very gloomy. The entire population of that country refuses to march against the enemy, and the few recruits are brought hither on camels, b oun d . Th e PORTE is, therefore , i n a very bad situation, and it cannot expect its deliverance, except from a change of system. Peace is as good as con• eluded, if foreign interests do not prevent the PoRTE from agreeing to the demands of Russia.' FRANKFORT, Atm. 27.—His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine arrived here this evening. The Princess of Lowica is expected in a few days. EXCHANGE ON LoNnos.—Two months, 1492-. By advices from St. Petersburgh we learn that the Senate of Russia had ordered the establish ment, in the town of Kicheneff, of a fair to be held for a month, annually, on the 26th October. The object in view by the establishment of this mart was to open a point of rendezvous, and establish commercial relations between the Russian merchants of Bessarabia and those of Moldavia and Wallachia. It is stated as certain in a French Paper, that positive orders have been sent by the Ministers to Lyons to prevent General LAFAYETTE from receiving a public reception. We have letters from Odessa of the 10th of August. It was reported there that the plague was raging at Sizeboli, and the greatest alatm existed at Odessa, in consequence of this dread ful calamity being still prevalent there. A second Cordon Sanitare had been established to prevent still further its spreading. By accounts from Copenhagen, we learn that the Danish Government had fixed at two years' duration, the permission to import porcelain of foreign manufacture, at a duty of 30 per cent., reserving to itself the right of augmenting or di minishing this duty in 1831, according to the state of the manufacture of national porcelain at that period. Accounts from Copenhagen state that shocks of earthquakes have been felt there, which lasted several seconds. They write from Marseilles, that the skeletons of the twelve battalions have arrived at Mar seilles from the Morea, on board the ships Scipio, and frigates Syrene and Venus, to the number of 90 officers and 800 soldiers, where they are performing quarantine. We have received the following from our correspondent at Paris : PARIS, SEPT. 2, 1829. DEAR is believed in the best in formed circles that M. de Laval Montmorency is to be the successor of M. de Chateaubriand, in the embassy to Rome. In that case, M. Rayne val will probably go to Vienna in place of M. de Laval, and it is said that M. de Metternich has asked the London Embassy for M. de Caraman, the predecessor of M. de Laval at Vienna. The Ministry have added new fuel to public indignation, by:advising the King to refuse to M. de Chateaubriand the audience which he re quested, for the purpose of explaining the motives which had induced him to resign the Roman Embassy. On this occasion the Globe naturally takes the lead. The writers in this paper belong to what was called the romantic school, whose great Apollo is the author of Atala and the Natchez. Until lately they had devoted themselves to subjects purely literary, but the late change in the Ministry has called forth a burst of eloquent indignation against the new order of things, which I see has not been disregarded even on your side of the Channel. It is somewhat remarkable that the appointment of M. de Polignac as the Ambas sador at London was the act of M. de Chateau briand, when formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs. The appointment was opposed for several months by M. de Villele, but the point was car ried by M. de Chateaubriand, who declared that he would not countersign any other nomination It was this indeed which gave rise to the diffe ences which at a later period manifested them• selves between the President of the Council and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Under any circumstances, however, the refusal of an audi ence to a man of M. de Chateaubriand's rank, one of the first writers of his age, a peer of France, and an Ambassador, re flects no great credit on the Ministers who have advised it, and appears to afford an other sanction to the inference that Ministers themselves have no great confidence in the tenure by which their power is upheld. It is said that the Royal ear has been poisoned, on this occa sion, by an insinuation that the demand for an audience, on the part of the noble Viscount, was nothing less, under existing circumstances, than a personal insult to the Sovereign. When such scenes are passing in foreign Courts, it is matter of pride and mutual congratulation among Englishmen that, in their own country, the inte rests and passions of party are not permitted to compromise the personal character of the Sove reign, or to disturb the amenities of the Court. A letter dated the 26th of August has reached Paris this morning from Berlin, announcing a considerable fall in the Prussian Funds, in. con sequence of the arrival in that capital of a courier from M. de Bulow, the Prussian Ambassador, in London. It is said, that having had an in terview with the Duke of Wellington, to com municate certain despatches from his Court, he had sought to engage the Duke in a system which he represented to be necessary to the main tenance of peace and concord among the great states of Europe. After some discussion the Duke, who is represented to have been at first rather hasty, declared himself in a very decided man ner against Russia, and in favour of the Porte. On this the Prussian Ambassador, in obedience to his instructions, interrupting the Duke, at once demanded his passports. His Grace, it is said, seemed to he taken by surprise at so de cided a course, and expressed his desire to have the matter arranged ; but the Prussian Ambas sador declared that, after what he had beard, he could not consent to continue any longer at the Court of London, and was only persuaded to delay his departure until a courier could be sent to Berlin and bring back an answer. The courier is now arrived, and the answer is pre paring. The French Papers speak of an alli ance between France and England. At Berlin this is believed, and the continued absence from Germany of the Duke of Cumberland and Prince George is ascribed to it. Hopes, how ever, are entertained that peace will not be interrupted, and That the quarrel in London will be explained away or appeased. No change, you are aware, in the political horizon—and no event, however striking, in the domestic government of France, does more than divide the attention of the Parisians with the unremitting interest they take in the affairs of the theatre ; and a demand which has just been made by the Grand Duke of Hesse Cassel to have the person of the prima donna at the Italian Opera house delivered up to him as a chattel belonging to him, has within these few days excited no small sensation in Paris. The demand on the part of the Grand Duke has, of course, been re jected by the Government, and the fair songstress has explained the circumstarxes under which it arose in the following address to the public : " At the age of eighteen, and, of course, " while yet a minor, I was engaged for life as prima donna in the theatre of his Royal High " ness. This expression, for life, is used in " the treaties concluded with the Royal theatres, whenever the Prince deigns to assure to an " artist his livelihood for the rest of his days, but " neither Prince nor Sovereign has ever been " heard to compel a performer to profit by such " a favour against his will. " During the last year I felt that the climate " of Cassel was sensibly injurious to my health. " I thought that even the interest of my art im " posed on me the necessity of extending the " circle of my studies. I wrote to the Grand " Elector to offer him my resignation, and for answer I received a letter, ordering me to make " oath, within twenty-four hours, to remain all "my life in his Highness's service. I did not " think that I was bound to obey ; but the next " day the Grand Duke issued a written order to " the Intendant of the theatre to:put me in prison " if I did not take the oath. I was still a minor. " I yielded ; but not being able to consider a " compulsory oath as binding, I resolved to avail myself of the first opportunity to free myself " from a bondage not warranted by law. The " public, severe but just, will judge between the " Grand Elector and me. SABINA HEINEFETTER." We perceive by a Lincoln Paper that Colonel SIBTHORPR, one of those illustrious Senators of whom Great Britain is so justly proud, and who distinguished himself during the last Session by the very peculiar eloquence 'of his invectives against the Catholic Relief Bill, has been pouring his public afflictions into the sympathising bosoms of the Patrons of the Lincoln Agricultural Show. It must have been an affecting moment for these Gentlemen, when the Gallant Colonel, after stat ing that he " had seen enough of the gaieties and follies of life" (and no wonder, he belongs to that party among whom folly is, and has ever been, predominant), indirectly announced his in tention of retiring from the turmoil of politics. We can imagine the agitation that must have pervaded the assembly at the bare hint of such a retirement. We can imagine the eyes of the agriculturists—" albeit unused to the melting mood"—overflowing with tears, their counte nances oppressed with anguish, their hearts, their speeches—in fact, all but their wine in a state of absolute abeyance ! But, thank Heaven, the calamity has not yet taken place ! The Colonel is still alive, and in excellent wind, as his speech at the Lincoln Cattle Show abundantly, and somewhat tediously, testifies. He is still in a condition to amuse the House of Commons by the pathetic, and to dispose them to serious ness, by the facetious touches of his oratory. tor this let Great Britain be grateful ; she is naturally grave and saturnine, and stands much in need of some political Merry-Andrew to keep her in good humour. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS FOR RUM AND SUGAR.—This afternoon the Commissioners for Victual ling the Navy took contracts for 50,000 gallons of Wert India Rum, and 100 tons of Sugar, to be delivered into hi s Majesty's Victualling Stores, at Deptford, on or before the Ist of October next. The Rum was contracted for at Is. 9.1(1. per gallon, and the Sugar at 501. is. 6d. AUTUMN CIRCUITS.—The Autumn Cir cuits are about to commence, and the names of the prisoners, and the crimes for which they are to be tried, have been published. The calendars average about the usual number of culprits; they exhibit but few crimes of an atrocious nature, and contain no cases in which any important principle is likely to be involved.---Scotsman. A Country Member, Sir E. K , rose suddenly, one evening, in the House of Commons, and thus addressed the Chair :—" Mr. SPEAKER, I wish to call the attention of the House to a subject which person ally concerns myself, and almost every Member in it." There was a profound silence ; for it was immediately concluded the Hon. Baronet had an important question of privilege to submit. " I wish to give notice, Mr. SPEAKER, that on Tuesday next I shall move for a repeal of the Act, passed last Session, relating to rogues and va gabonds !" A roar of laughter followed this announcement. The Act alluded to was one relating to the Game Laws. Montkly Magazine. By a communication received to-day at this office, from our excellent Member, THOMAS sranio RICE, Esq., we have to announce thathe will be in Limerick in the course of eight or ten days.—Limerick Ev.xing Post. now become a scene se arcel o y f a in p d er u s s otnryl i obe seen o n i t . a n hn e ed r s and their famili es h ave all returned The Ross Island Mine at Killarney, which c w To a hm s ep s cl o eot r er e n c ci e h: n ha recently t he home. Cork Constitution. The i n fl u x of Irish labourers into England is are in every part of gorkeeactoeruntltirayn. ever was known —they T HE MOORS.—The first week of grouse shooting was omit favourable in Caithness, and, in pro portion to the number of sportsmen, the game bagged ex ceeded the quantity of any county in Scotland, but since scarcely a shot has been fired,—.,Scotsman, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, SEPT. 3.—Wind N.—Arrived the Gretep Stockman, from Nevis; Rovelle, Gordon, frog' Trinidad ; Comet, Ormston, from Madeira; and Mary Anne, Ormspear, from Dominica. Drafts of seamen from the Coast Blockade have proceeded to the Westward, this day, in one of his Majesty" steam-vessels. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 3.—Wind S.—Arrived frog► London the Providence, Foord, for Calcutta; and Ottawa, Douglas, for Quebec. Passed the Aug' tralia, Laws, for New South Wales; and Shepherd, —, for St. Kitt's. Sailed the Wellington, Evans, for Madras. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived the Pembroke, from Memel; master and one man wrecked. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—Wind N.—Arrived the Duke of Kent, Tremayne, from Antwerp—sailed for Cadiz. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Lydia, Jolam, from Barbadoes ; Richard, —, from Deme rara ; Gruton, Nemson, from St. Vincent's; Her mitage, Badger, from New Orleans; Martha, Sewell, and Mary Ann, Laidley, from Quebec; and Tancred, Wright, from Archangel. MILFORD, SEPT. 2.—The Industry, Postle, from Savanilla to Liverpool, has been got off Mashlich Beach, and is discharging her cargo in Halberstone Pill. The Ann, Alexander, from Jamaica, Las arrived off the Clyde. The Nancy, Logan, from Liverpool to Wick, was run on shore, near Stornaway, on the 27th ult., being in a sinking state, having struck on a rock. The Clara, Gilmer, from Belfast to Jersey, wag driven on shore on the 27th ult., in the Mull of Cantyre. The Commerce, of North Shields, for Pictou, has put in here to repair, having received damage in the late gales. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TwaLrm o' Czocri Consols, which left off yesterday at 89} for the account, opened this morning at 89k, but owing to a report that six sail of the line were going to the Mediterranean, they receded to 88i 89 for the accoutre and 88k for money. The well informed say that the Spartiale, Aria, and Ocean, whose time is out, the men having served three years, are coming borae to be paid off, consequently the ships now preparing for the Mediterranean are to relieve them; and the French having a first rate ship in their fleet we are going also to send one, according to agreement with the French Government, to be on an equal footing• Three per Cent. Cunsols, 884 4; Ditto, for Account, 884 9 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, shut; Three and half per Cent. shut; Four per Cent., 1024 Ditto, 1826, 1054 4 ; India Stock, 2234 44 ; Bank Stock , shut; India Bonds, 60 2; Exchequer Bills, 67 8. FORElGN.—Brazilian, 59 ; Buenos Ayres, 21 ; Chilian, 16 17 ; Colombian, 154 164; Danish, 694 1; Freach, Five per Cent. 1094 10 ; Greek, 134 14 ; Mexican, 174 184; Peruvian, 94104; Portuguese, 44 5 Russian, 99 k ; Spanish, 84 4. TWO 0' CL 0 CIC: Consols still remain heavy. In the early part of the morning they were done at 894 for the Account , since which they have been up to the present time 89, alternately buyers and sellers, with a good spin' kling of business. The reports of great preparations going forward in our dock yards, with drafts from the Preventive Service sailing to the westward in his Majesty's steamer, to man the ships on the eve of sailing, hese rather damped the market. Accounts have been received via France, from the city of Mexico of the 7th July, and from Vero Cruz of the 13th July, which state that the Spanish expedition had not at that period appeared oft the coast, but still great alarm was felt for its arrival, agd forced loans were going to be put into exeeutioa adopt measures for the defence of the Republic . Up to the present hour no:further information has been received from the theatre of war. We have a late arrival from Jamaica; but the Papers and Letters are not as yet received. The Foreign Market is inactive. Portuguese Stock has rather improved. Letters, are in town from Vera Cruz of the 1 4 th July ; the Government has sent reinforcements to the fortress of St. John d'Ulloa, also to Carnpeachy; all was quiet at the above date. HALF-PAST TWO' Consols for Account 89, sellers. We have reports of more failures of an extensive description. THREZ 0' CL 0 cir. Consols for Account, 89. INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTY OF I P. PERARY.—On Wednesday evening a meeting was held St the Ormonde Hotel, Clonmel, for the purpose of adoPt ittg t the most efficacious means of returing to Parliamen t ' the next election for the county Tipperary, two Metab e T willing and competent to assert the rights and redress t i' e wrongs of the people. MARTIN LANIGAN, Esq. s''3' er the chair. The speakers were—Counsellor Rosia o , Doctor RTAN, and Mr. LANIGAN. A series of reonui; tions were entered into. Mr. OTWAY CAVE expected to stand candidate for the county of ' TipPel . ""' next election.—Dublin Morning Register. It is the custom for the Commander of t he fleet in the Mediterranean to correspond directly Government as well as with the Admiralty • and it 1 , 1 1 3 ,: come out on this trial, that Mr. CaoLER , writing by o r ", -- of the Board, did obtain, soon after the battle of Navarin:' two secret papers, belonging to the Government, from S i ' d r EDWARD CODRINGTON, who never, as he said, c°u " obtain an Admiralty receipt for them. The rumour is 9 that the Government have offered Sir E. C o nsisc l° , l l ,, a pension of 8001. a year, which be has indig nant ',, spurned, and inquired for what it was intended. 134- with tha and since he has been superseded in his AfediterT nean command, Sir E. Corm - Ism-rot; has more ear nest ' desired an inquiry into his conduct, as connected withrin the circumstances of the "untoward" battle of N ao l but the Admiralty have invariably refused, on the go ull that they have never implicated him. The whole b oin7 s is still involved in mystery, although perhaps this trial ye' lead to some explosion between the parties. The death of MATT E! , the Archbishop of Malta, is matter of some a n xi e ty w i t h th e English G overn' ment, on account of th e i mpor t ance na turally attaching ° the choice of a s uccessor t o th a t hi g h dignity. Those flin t ; tions were fill e d, it is sa id, by th e late Archbishop full .' manner which gave entire satisfaction, and which , Justified his appointment, partly obtained by the instance, of our Ministry, who even especially solicited it of Ow Court of Rome, with whom, being a Catholic, the pointment is considered to lie. Some doubts are, we be o , lieve, entertained whether the new POPE will prove accessible to such influence as his pre decessor ; but Stie_ °1 mission is about to be undertaken by a gentleman , s ' h acquaintance with the island, as well as with the mantle., and habits of its population, are most extensive , and masse r l is well qualified in other respects for a negociation Of su peculiar delicacy. It is considered that on the charsettc. of the primate of the island, a nd his influence ever h. natives, their attachment to its Governors , and coos ; quently the tranquil administration of its affairs, TI VI rially depend. About nine o'clock last night, a resp ectab t dressed young couple entered Waterloo-bridge fro'm e r.)i ! Strand, and walked to and fro thereon for some m earnest conversation. After wishing each other a g°, ° , B night they parted, the gentleman returning towards .t' Strand, and the lady proceeding in a contrary directidoa, The female passed the watchman, to whom she wished good night, and about three minutes after a splas h "i heard, when it was ascertained that she had thrown here from the parapet of the bridge into the ri ver. From 11., time of night, it was impossible to ge t boats off innror/ diately to her assistance, and the body was not discover ( ' at half past eleven o'clock. I I