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- PARIS PAPERS. IFrorn the Journal 'des ilebaes.l PARIS, Suet. 17.—Yesterday a momentary Alepression was produced in the -public fbuds, by the circulation of news absolutely destitute of foundation :-- It was said, that 'the Cotteabad embarked the Nlug of gpain and the Royal -Family on board of an English frigate,ivhich had conveyed them to '‘-tirmiltar. The 'statement is It was said, that un American, squadron,' after passing through the blockading floet,,had 'entered Cadiz, .and re-victualled the .place. The state ment is 'false. It was said that 11 bomb 'vessels, sent against -Puittakis, had been driven back by the garrison of that port. The statement is false. It was said, that hostilities, which had ceased 'during three days, were . restimed oh the 6th. The fact is, that hostilities have 'never been sus pended. We have news of the 7th. It was said, that 13allasteros had notified to Geueral Molitor that he.. had again taken up arms. The statement is . It was said that Mina, made a sortie from Barcelona with 3,000 men, had,'after a. san guinary conabn't, repulsed . Marshal 40oncey. The statement is false. • -It was said, that Marshal Lauriston had sus tained a check before Plimpeluna: . The state ment is false. it,- It finally said, that the yellow fever was making great ravages at Port Passage. Even, L'Eloile of yesterday announced that an epi-' demic malady, .brought by a vessel from the Havannah, had broken out at Passag es. The following is the truth :---The ship in ques lion from the Havannali has been at Passage these two monthsi no symptom of yellow fever has been observed. Some persons in the town have been attacked with typhus, occasioned by the multitude of Spanish refugees from St. Sebas.. tian ; and during the last fortnight only two patients died. The military authority iinme• diately adopted every precaution neiessary c such a case. Foist ST. MARY, SEPT. 7.—(14 Express.) The negociations appear to be broken : .off, the Duke of Aogouleme having declared that he will MU listen to any arrangement unless the King and the Royal family be previously set free. The ring leaders, though much cast down, could not bring themselves to the resolution of letting go their prey. We must strike another blow to make them yield. It is said the attack will be made on the Bth or 12th. The truth is, that we are ignorant of the day, the moment, and the point of attack. These are the secrets of oar illustrious Generalissimo, who knew so well the time for carrying the Troca dero. Our fleet is reinforced by the vessels from Corunna., and artillery and amnuinition arriving from all quarters. It is impossible to describe 'the ardour of our soldiers. We have just learned that a division. of Molitor's army has entered Malaga. Ballasteros has - expelled from his troops all the Exaltados,has shut them up i n the fortress of Lorca, and ha s distribUted the rest of 'his army in the cantonments pointed out by General Molitor. The Mode gives, from the Madrid Gazette Extraordinary of the 10th September, a dispatch from Lieutenant-General Dou Juan Caro, dated Malaga, the 6th instant, giving an account of the operations which took place 'near that city,where Riego commanded a body of troopsoind which endetiin the following capitulation : " Art. I. The garrison arc prisoners of war: The officers to preserve their arras.atid effects, until fresh orders are issued. Ko Q. /‘.ll vessels of war, and all other vessels laden with money and military stores, are compriied in tide capitulation. " 3. All the forts, all the batteries, with their armaments and provisions of all kinds, and " 4. All Spanish soldiers who are In Malaga, are also in ducted in the capitulation." " Concluded at Malaga the 4th September, and sent to General Count Loverdo, tobe ratified by him. The ra. lifteation took place the same day. (From the Pilote. PROTEST of the REGENCY of SPAIN against the EKE . CUTION of the DECREE of ANDUJA R. TO 1115 EXCELLENCY CUE DUNE DE 11E0010. " Your Excellency-:-The - Regency of this • kingdom has been , °facial,' informed that last night three French officers pm-looted themselves at the city prison with several gen darmes, and" set at liberty twenty-two Spaniards detained under the authority of the' laws. The Regency has learn ed with surprise an event which attacks the sovereignty of the King, in Whose name it governs; and not being able to endure this encroachment upon its dignity, it protests, in the face of Europe, Whose assistance it implores, against the violence of this act. , 4 Upon hearing of this proceeding, the Regency of the king dons would have been glad if it had had the power to abandon the reins of Government; but reflecting on the situation of the Sovereign, the neceSsity of preserving union between the two nations, ar.d of maintaining public order in theinterior, it felt the duty of continuing its functions, in spite of the outrage oared to the authority with which it is invested. " The Regency of the kingdom orders me to address this protest to - yen. Excellency, in reply to the official cammunica tion Which it has received. 4, I hare the honuur to he, &c. " August: 15, 1.823." [From the Courier. Frangais.l SEr•r.' 3.—The Count Con falonieri, the Marquess Paravicini, the Advocates Cassiglia and IVionpiani, Col. Moreti, and three Students of this town have been condemned to death for political offences. It is Itope'd, how. e,ver, that his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, upon his approaching visit, will pardon the con. domned.—((orrespondemt of Nuremberg). A. New York Paper of the 21st ult. says -44 Letters from Caraccas communicate gence, that Mr. Twin, our Charge des Affaires at Bogota, has prevailed on the Government to modify the revenue laws, by abolishing the extra five per cent. hitherto paid on imports from the United Slates, more than was paid on irn ports from Europe." SPANISIT ROYALIST ARMY. ADDRESS of the ROYALIST ARMY of OLD CASTILE to the -REGENCY. " MOTiT StntAE Srn,—The Royal Division of Infahtry and Cavalry, organised in Old Castile, while they are with the most ardent and decided lOve for their Sovereign presenting theirbreasts before the walls of the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo; occupied by rebels ungrateful to their country, have been in-1 formed that the liberty of ,His Majesty, for which the combat, with equal enthusiasm and loyalty, will speedily be obtained. This very moment, however, a melancholy, though Unfounded, report is generally spreading among them that their King would be detained, and his will constrained, previous to per mitting him to take again possession of the Throne whence he has been ignominiously driven, which they cannot bring them- selvei to believe will be the case. But should there be the least appearance of it, this armed forte, in conjunction with the whole province, whose singular affection to their Monarch knows no bounds, ate determined not .to recognise any act of violence with Which an attempt might be made to force the will of his Majesty prior to his return to the Royal Palate'of Madrid, which restoration they solicit may be accompanied by all the prerogatives,,aovereignty, and dignity, which the whole nation proclaimed with Incredible enthusiasm In the year 11308. " These faithful Castilians would never refuse to agree to any innovation which the King our Lord might think proper to make, It emanating from himself, in the different branches of Administration and .Tuatice, which are under, the direction of the Government ottbe State, according ash may be advised by those respectable subjects and bodies, 'so distinguished for their loyilty, with whom he'they deliberate on matters or such importante, agreeably to the rules laid down by our ancient laws ; but, On the other hand‘, they will never sheathe their swords, of cease to light, Until 'ts Majesty shall have received his valuable absolute liberty. This they vow, Most Serene Sir, and will carry into effect under the direction of the worthy Gene ral who is at their head, and through whose agency they address to your Serene Highness this respectful manifestation of their pure-sentiments, which they propose to maintain with the dig nit befitting the nation to which th ey bel on g . " Head-quarters, Salamanda,August 25, 1823." ,Seventy-seven Signatures of Officers of all Grades.] iTo his EiCEI LENTO(' the SECRETARY of STATE for ~ the `VAR DEPARTMENT. " MOST EXCELLENT Sin—l transmit to your Excellency the inclosed' Memorial, addressed to the Regency of the King dom by the superior and subaltern Officers of this Royal divi sion of infantry and cavalry u nder mY command, who notify to then. Serene Highnesses their determinatio n not to lay detwn their arms until the King our Lord and his Royal Family shall have recovered their liberty, and u ntil his Majesty. shall have been restored to the Throne, with all the prerogatives, sovereignty, and dignity which the whole nation proclaimed in the year 1808. " I am proud to be the medium through the instrumentality of which such an unequivocal proof of loyalty to our Sovereign is presented. This glorious opportunity also affords me the honour of stating, to your Excellency, and of manifesting to the Regency of the kingdom, that my pure sentiments agree entire ly wit unanimous fatigues I have shared in the campaign of Navarre ; declaring, that at the head of such troops, and of so loyal a pro Vince as that under my command, I will never, any more than heretofore, submit to plena directed to the insi dious object of compelling his Majesty to adopt political hind , rations not originating in his own spontaneous will. I there fore request your Excellency to be pleased to inform their High nesses hereof when you deliver the above Memorial; and if your Excellency should find it deserving your support, I hope•that it will meet with the kind reception which I desire. " God preserve your Excellency , many years, " CAR IJOS O'DONELL. t‘ Head-titearters, Salamanca, Aug. 29,1823. SwiTrEaLANI).--OrsEvA, SEPT. 9.—A subscription has just been opened in the reformed parts of Switzerland, in be half of the Protestant inhabitants of the - vallles of Piedmont. The condition of this interesting population has been notorious ly wretched for many 'centuries. The , restoration; which in . 1814, placed the Piedmontese of the Pays du Vauds under the dominion of the King of Sardinia, without having produced all the disastrotts consequences which the' recollection of the past induced them to fear, has checked the progress of the atnellora tions which they owed to the preceding administration, and brought them back to a state cktrering little from that of the French Protestants at -the adession of Louis XVI. Excluded from all places in the Government, deprived of all hope of ad. Nanceßient in the artily, restrained in their industry in a thou. sand ways, they have no means of subsistence left beyond the productions of a barren soil, which the lows prohibit them from quitting. Although the exercise of their religion Is tole rated, the impossibility of procuring books for the use of-Pro testants renders this toleration nugatory, by paralysing the ser vice of the temples and the schools. Their Ministers are paid by the Piedmontese Government, but their salaries are barely sufficient to enable them to exist. At present, almost entirely deserted by Enkand, their ancient protectress, the Vaudois have succeeded in interesting the Courts of the Low Countries, and Prussia on many important occasions. The Swiss and French Protestants, who have always treated them as brothers, are combining their efforts to assist them in their most urgent necessities without losing sight of the prudence required by the delicate situation of these people, which an imprudent zeal on the part of their benefactors might easily compromise: The produce of the, actual subscription will be applied to the esta blishment or an hospital. ST. PETEttglltritGli, Auo. 28.—A few days titter the de. parturo of the Emperor, the Grand Duke Michael will likewise set out for Brest-Lothowsky.—M. Mansarowitsch, our Charge d'Affaires at the Persian Court, who has been for some time here on leave, is going to return to his post in a few days. The Persian Ambassador, 31irza ,Mahomet &alit, also leaves us this week to return home. Auo. 80.—His Majesty the Emperor set out for Zats'kojeselo the day before yesterday. He is accompanied by . Adjutant- General Tschernischew and Major-General Kleinnneltel, Com mander of the Military Colonies. Count Nesselrode is also going to make a journey, ,but it is net certain whither. Some think he will go to Odessa, and there wait for the Emperor; others, that he is going to 'Vienna, to meet his Countess. It is however, certain and official, that M. Von Oublel takes the porteftuilk of his department during his absence. The Ern. peror will be absent about two months.—The imperial demy of Sciences has chosen the celebrated English hydro. grapher, Horsburgh, one of its foreign honorary members. STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 2.—During the past half of the year, thirtylsix Swedish, and ninety-tour Nor*egian ships arrived at Copenhagen ; it is long since the Swedish trade with that capital has been so insignificant. Accounts from Finland say that trade has , as good as wholly ceased. Before 1809, seven or eight merchant ships were built every year at Brakestadt, and as many at Jacobstadt; but since that time only three hav'e been built at both places. It is said that a most important Royal communication will be made to the Diet,this week. I Alt ON ti E, SE PT. 11.0-We have no mail from Madrid to day, so that we can only speak of the siege of Painpeluua.— The fire of our batteries has rec ommenced, and on the,7th, 100 bombs were thrown into the town, which did sante damage and set fire to several houses, •but it was soon extinguished.— The greatest inconvenience that the town suffers at present and which may, perhaps, hasten its surrender, is the want of water, the French having made themselves masters of the well near Argo, from which the inhabitant usually derived their supply. Many persons, it is true, are accustomed to lay in a great stock at the time when thetiver is high, but it is to be presurned that it, must have been exhausted in the hot weather. We have not yet a detailed account of the l oss we have sustained. The-Idteut.-Col- and another officer of the 3d regiment of the line have died at Tolosa of their wounds. The Spanish troops are employed in the blockade on the side where the citadel stands. It is said that the Marquis Liturlston wishes to send them to Alfaro and Toddle, but that they chew some repugnance. For these two days past, the people have been speaking with much uneasiness of a disorder which has mani fested itself at Passages, since the arrival of a vessel which touched at llavannah, and has brought, if not the yellow fever, some,contagious disorder, which has already carrieid`off several persons. However, we do not perceive that the Authorities, who took such vigorous measures last year, to secure us from infection, have yet adopted any steps against the introduction of this disorder. A vessel belonging to a house in this. town, and which sailed a few days ago for Rouen, has been captured off 13elleisle by a Spanish privateer, which, it is said, has sent its prize to the Canaries. The loss caused by a tire, which broke out in a haY magazine on the glans of. this town, does not exceed 1,000 quintals, belonging to the governinent-con. tractors. It is now satisfactorily proved that this fire was wholly accidental, and that there is no ground for attributing it to design, as some persons at first supposed. `WEST INDIA. DOCKS. REPLY TO MR. MARRYAT'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEST INDIA DOCK CHARTER, &c. etc. (CONTINUED.) (No. V.) • O.—CLASSIFICATION OF . COMMODITIES. Under this head Mr. Marryat has again. attaekol thememo , rial of the Company ; he . says, " the meaning lies too deep for " comprehension, but . it is sometimes useful to puzzle where w e " cannot convince." The point which lies too deep for Mr. MistrYat's comprehension is this, that it Is stated to be one effect of the West India Dock system, that it tends to render the law more clear and certain in its application. To convince Mr. Marryat is probably impossible, hut` to explain the passage which has puzzled hint may not be difficult. The Law Merchant has of late excited much attention; custom is the foundation of that law, if that custom be universal and unvarying, if in the continual transfers and constructive deliveries of goods, one unto:eat course of business, of well understood force and effects be strictly adhered to, the law must be rendered more clear and certain in its application ; that this is peculiarly the case, as respects the West India Trade, can not be denied ; and that it would. be no longer the case if the trade was distributed throughout the port, is manifest, unless it can he supposed that all the Docks, and all the Wharfingers and Warehouse Keepers, were subjected to One code of regula tions for the conduct of their business, and'aU adhered to them with the same exactness. , But to - proceed with the .train point,, the classification of commodities, it will be best to give the passage commented upon entire ; it is as follows • " Your Memorialists perceive with the highest satisfaction, " the enlightened views with which the commerce of the country " and the;warehousing system are at this moment regarded by his " Majesty's, Government and by the Legislature ; that it is in " contemplation to establish a clear and certain code of Commer " cial Law and to extend the warehousing system to its utmost cc practicab l e limits. While objects of Bue vital importance are 44 in view, the classification, which so essentially characterizes " the establishment of this company cannot fail to appear as " Manifestly conducive to their attainment. Your Memorialists, " therefore, most particularly invite inquiry into the very bene " tidal eTects of this classification, and.feel warranted in assert " ing that it tends; more than any other circumstance possibly 44 can, to the security of the Revenue, and the facility and con " scquent economy with which it is collected ; and that it there: " fore admits with the greater safety of the Warehousing System " being so extended. They may also assert, with equal confi tkelence, that it has another important tendency :—viz. that of " rendering the law more clear and certain in its application ; " all that relates to our West India, Trade thus becoming in " sulated in its details. 'When your Lordships enter into the " examination, you will without doubt perceive the harmonious " system which has arisen from this classification, and feel the " danger of destroying it " It must be obvisus to every person, whose judgment is not warped by self interest, or preendice, that the classification here adverted, to is not the Mere arrangement of goods within the warehouses, which is heneficialto a certain extent, but the more important classification of the importations of the Port of London, which arises from separating one great branch of corn meree from the general mass, and placing it under a secure and well regulated system of management. Mr. Marryat does not question the general advantages ascribed to the system,. but thinks he has refuted the whole by adverting to evidence, shewing_ that cc Sugar, Coffee, and Cotton are landed at, other Doelts " and asserting " that the " same practical purposes .of c lassification are. answered by " keeping commodities separate in different warehouses, or in cc di apartments of w, .rehouse, same wrehouse, as by keeping " them in .different Docks This Mr. Marryat conceives he his completely made out in his Comments upon an opinion given by a most able and in, telligeet public officer, the late Insp.ectoreGeneral of Imports and Exports. The question put was this :,: " Would not that evstem of warehousing be best which keeps most separate and distinct merchandise of the greatest value, and subject to the highest duties ?" His reply is,— " lam of opinion that merchanclize e pf a similar nature and imported from particular countries Would be best secured in separate boats, or in apartments in Obese Pocks.” •"rtits answer (says Mr. illarryat) contains the whole molts " of the case ,• the plan of having a separate Dock for met " chandize of a similar nature imported from EACH parti " inetar country is too impracticable to be entertained for a " moment." Without noticing; the attempt to pervert the meaning of the passage quoted, it is only necessary to say, that the plan was deemed perfectly practicabk, was cutertained by the Legisla ture, and has been carried into the fullest effect for the last 21 years, as respects the W'cst India Trade, and that the arrange ment thus effected was precisely that which Mr. Irving intends ed to recommend in the opinion he gave. The following passage of the Memorial is an answer to the asse rtion that the Classification is imperfect, because certain commodities are deposited at other Docks :--- " The nature of . the cargoes brought into the West India " Docks must also be considered incontrast with those deposited cc in any other warehousing establishment ; the packages and " their contents, 'With Very few exceptions, requiring great la ' " hour and great care, and in all instances occasioning con ' " siderable expence. Muscovado sugar, from the form and " coarseness of the package in which it is imported, the moist " nature of the article, and the manner in Winch it is stowed on 1" ship board, requires the most expensive cooperage, and is " liable more than an y other article to be plundered, and 1" ought not to be commipared with Brazil sugars, which are of a ".dry quality, packed in boxes; and still less to dry goods " generally, which require no cooperage. Your Memorialists " have felt it right td offer these remarks upon the distinction " to be taken in regard to the goods the West India Dock an ,unfavourable impression might be comparison of articles of the same denotni -11 made Coin pabnyyar mere eceive, I nation, but tittering materially in their nature." , I The Honourable Committee, of which Mr. Marryat Was a member, differ from him so widely, that they speak through out of the " extreme perfection" of the institution ; alluding to the system generally, they " are disposed to give a ready concurrence to all the claims preferred by the Directors of " the Dock Company on this head. Both from the evidence they have received,.andfrom their personal observation,: they I" can venture to state, that no Establishment, of the kind can, 44 to th e i r op i n ion, :via:s, be these particulars, the Esta " blishment of the west India Docks :"—the following patsage of their Report, although it seems to.quelify the praise previously bestowed, lets out an important truth :—" Your Committee cannot but observe, that whatever degree of per cc fection, in regard to dispatch and regularity, may distinguish c c the West India Dock, great,lticility towards there objects is " incident to' he warehousing in that Dock being confined to " the cargoes of peculiar ships, and the articles of merchandise " to a comparatively confined number ; and to this circum " stance of strict limitation, in respect to goods and ships, it " must be ascribed, if exactly the same degree of perfection in " the conductof business, AND see THE cLAsetrICATION OF " atxttcliaxruzE, i 9 not to be found, NOR is, INDEED, AT " TAINABLE in a Dock of more extensive use, and More gene " ral resort:" " This (Mr.. Marryat might have''said) coutains the whole merits of the case ;" it confirms all the witnesses on the part of the West India ,Dock ; it confirms all that the Company advanced in Cin their Memor ial, shews the soundness of the principle for which they have contended, and the utter fallacy of the theory o pposed to it. The sanedegree of perfe c tion IS NOT TO BE FOUND, and IS NOT ATT AINABLE 471 a Dock of more general ,resort. Well might the D oc k C e mPanY' in the prayer of their Me modal, adverting to " - the peculiar benefits to die Revenue, " which result from the Classeficettion of so beeportant a portion " of the Imposts of the 'Country," e ntreat the Lord§ of Trade to consider the danger of putting to hazard all the advan tages of the estehlishmeitt by any innovation;" well might they say, 44 that, if a system, w h ic h 'laborious application and long " subverted, the utmost efforts " experience have brought as nearly as may be to perfection, " should; hi deference to speculative or. interested views, be of the Legislature would, pro " bably, be ineffectual to fts restoration, although every party, " even those who had contributed to its overthrow, Might bit " terly regret its loss." No. 10.—DISPATCH IN L A NDING CARGOES. In commenting upon this head, Mr. Marryat has admitted the superiority of the West India Doc ks, althou g h he endea vours to ascrib e i t t o an y fi l ing but sufficient to q uo t e hi s ow n words " the true cause ; it will be But no claim to superior " dispatch, tinder equal chcunestances, is made out by the West " India Dock Company, nor any proof eifered, that 11 7 cst India ca commodities would not be landed with the same dispatch in " any other Dock." If he will point Otit'how it is possible to adduce such proof it shall be offered ; Mr. Marryat can pro bably prove a negative. No. 11.—MOUE OF HOUSING AND SAMPLING SHGAIt• Mr. Marryat commences thus :—" The ancient and esta " Welled mode of !musing and sampling sugars, in the Port of " London, has been altered sir Tilt AVEST -INDIA &Ai- . " PANY ;" this, as Mr. Mariyat well knows, is contrary to the fact ; and it is one among the numerous instances of his man.. ner of stating a case The answer given to the , grocers, in Sept. 1808, was put in; and Mr. Hibbert being asked if it contains the reasons which he would adopt '0 his own,- says, " I thirili L l could hardly say " mare In answer'to the petition nresented‘io the Eiouse of ts„ " Commons two days ago"—(meaning the pe t ition of the gro cers). —That letter is, not only an answer to the complaint, but a marked instance of the particular attention paid to represen , • tations of inconvenience. It will also be seen that it rested with the parties themselves, and not with the Company, to procure the removal of the inconveniences of which they complained. Mr. Mullet could not omit noticing this document, and gives his readers a summary of its contents in these words A summary of it is, that the mode of taking samples of suggu. " for salt, after previous consicleratieM by the West India " Merchants, was submitted to and sanctioned by the Legit " lature; and that the Dock Company have no power to alter it. " That the mode of stowing sugars in the warehouses is that " which is used at the principal out-ports : and that in a great " and extensive establishment, formed for general purposes, " it is not practicable to vary and model their business, so as " to meet the wishes of Individuals, and even of particular " branches of the . trade with which they may be connected ; " and that an important body of Importers have refused their " assent to any variation in the mode of stowing complained of." This, his own extract, elms with what justice he makes this a subject of complaint as against the West India Dock Company ; the following passage of the Letter he did not deem it prudent to notice, viz.—" If, however, there is any thing " erroneous in the system, it can only be Varied by the audio " rity which first established it; and the Dock Company will " most readily submit to any variation which the Wes! India " Merchants, tinder the sanction of the Legislature., may deem " it prudent and just to adopt." N 0.12 -WEIGIIINGCOFFEE AFTER BEINOWAREIMUSED. Under this head; Mi. Marryat casts one of his unfounded imputations upon the Dock Company, in a matter which he well knew rested entirely with the Board of Excise • but if he Novo had not had recourse to this sort of attack , ho co uld he have got together the twenty heads, into which his shillbig Pamphlet attached, to his ten shilling Book is divided ? No. 13.—Maxmo COTTON MEACItANTABLE. Under this head, Mr. Marryat has committed himself to this, " That the system of the West India Dock Company, by " subjecting this commodity to very . high charges, and the " buyers of it to very great inconvenience, has contributed to " drive the consignments of West India cotton so completely " to the out-ports, that very few are new made to the'port of " London." To the mercantile world, who know the real circumstances which have directed the importations of cotton to the outports, this must appear an ingenious perversion of facts ; if the charges of the Port of London had any thing to do with it, they must have been the charges of that Dock in which Mr. Marryat is so deeply interested, viz. the London Dock, as it was there that all the cotton from the United States of America, the bulk of the importation to the port, was warehoused ; but the real cause was the contiguity of the manufacturing districts to the ports of Liverpool and Glasgow. No. 14.—Niransetoustsra Rum.- Under this head the Directors are charged with allowing the rum warehoused in their Docks, to be exposed to loss by eva poration for fifteen years, without providing a remedy , : this is an accusation hardly worth noticing, us every person acquainted with the Establishment must have observed, that a constant attention to improved accommodation for rum has been paid ; the present vaults, both in their extent and construction, must be admired by every-one who sees them—fifteen years had cer tainly elapsed before they were completed, hut, as stated in the evidence of Mr. Mitchell , the Company had " the same de " scription of cellars before, but they were found insufficient " for the amount of rum sent to this port, and therefore, in " addition, they built the vaults which are more particu larly " alluded to." The fact is, that the West India Dock Company laboured un der some difficulty in respect to vaults, inasmuch as they could not venture to introduce lamps; up to 1805 they lodged the rum iu the cellars of their sugar warehouses ; in 1806 warehouses specially appropriated to the article were opened, and every care taken to prevent evaporation; the loss of spirit was cer tainly greater than at present, but that was more attributable to the rum being gauged on the hot quay than to the warehouses; to remedy this, the shed over the quay was built, and when by the introduction of the glass lens illuminators, it was found that lightcould be obtained without the dreadful risk of fire°, the vaults were immediately constructed. This does not argue much neglect; the Company were be sides responsible for all loss beyond a certain quantity, and compensated the proprietors for the deficiency ; but supposing the Directors of the Dock Company unmindftil of their duty, they surely would have some regard to their own interests ? Are there not among them many much more considerable im porters of rum than the complainant? But Mr. Marryat hates the whole concern, because it has been more prosperous than that in which he is largely interested, and therefore, right or wrong, fault must be found with every thing. • We have heard that even wine has taken fire in the London Dock lit'tilts, but will not vouch for the truth of the story. [To be continued.] CORONERS' INQUESTS. An Inquest was.held on ThUrsday at the Nag's Head, in Wandsworth-road, before Wit. FRANI4, Esq., Deputy Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, on view of the body of Henry Long, a boy seven years of age. This case excited great sensation in the parish of Clapham, and rumours had been spread that the boy's death had been caused by a young man immersing him in a tub of water. In consequence of such a report, the parish officers directed that an inquiry should be instituted, they having previously ascer tained that the matter was attempted to be hushed up. The deceased was labouring under a malady that made him almost an idiot, and he was in consequence the ridicule of other boys in the neighbourhood. The inquiry lasted seven hours, during which the following evidence was adduced : Mary Hayman, aged thirteen, residing in Matrimony-place, Clapham, deposed, that on Monday, the Bth inst., about three o'clock in the afternoon, the deceased came into her father's house, and asked her how she did; after she had answered him, he went into the yard, and sat on a little stool. Joseph Stacey, aged about 20, and 2 other boys, named Terry (aged 14), and Crockford (aged 15), came along the alley ; Stacey asked the deceased to sing a song, but her efused ; he pressed him still to sing, and added that if he woulci not, he, Stacey, would dip hint into the tub of water. The deceased still refused ; upon which Stacey laid hold of-the deceased, and dipped him into the tub ; Stacey then took him out again, and the boys all ran off, .ex cept the deceased, who was very wet about the shoulders and all over his head. 'Witness told the deceased to hasten home and get his clothes changed, and he went away. All the boys had desired the deceased to sing. The tub wag a large one, with a little 'water in it. Witness could not say whether 'Terry or Crockford held the deceased in the tub as well as Stacey. The deceased looked very pale when he went away. This evidence was corroborated by another resident of Ma tehnony.place. The mother of the deceased deposed, that on Monday night he complained of his head and stomach, and that on the following . day he died in convulsions. TwO surgeons proved that the deceased had a tendency to hydrocephalus, and was subject to epilepsy. They were of opinion that th ei putting . his head in the tub was the exciting cause of his death liSr bringing on convulsions. After the Coroner had summed up the evidence, the Jury deliberated for a considerable time whether they should return a verdict against Stacey for manslaughter : they were unani mous in their reprobation of Stacey's con dtict,and expressed :some surprise that the deceased's mother did not betray much greater anxiety for her son than she had done. The Jury requested to know whether it was necessary that they should be unanimous in their verdict, as they could not agree. The Coroner said it was not necessary, and as they seemed divided he would take their opinions separately, when the fol. lowing verdict was recorded, there being rune Jurymen in favour of it, and six for manslaughter:.—" That the deceased died by a convulsive fit, which fit was occasioned by the wanton and improper conduct of Joseph Stacey." SuicinE.—An Inquisition was taken yesterday before Joule WRIGHT UNWIN, Esq., Coroner, at the tired). (late, Hack ney-road, on view of the body of Fanny Ilerring, a fine young woman, aged 23, who committed self-murder, in consequence of finding herself in a state of pregnancy.—The Jury were una nimously of opinion " That the deceased's death was produced :by her having administered to herself poison while in a state of temporary mental derangement," which verdict was recorded. 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We look for further accotints from Cadiz with the utmost impatience. The Duke of AliciouLtatx must have been placed in , a dilemma by the bold offer of the Constitution alists to permit the KING to visit him in his camp, provided the French bound themselves, ;UMW diately to withdraw from the Spanish territory. Will the Duke, by his rejection of that proposi , tion, openly acknowledge that the liberation of the Royal Family Is not the only object of his expedition ; and that he is resolved to remain in military occupation of Spain, until the form of its, Government shall have been cut and squared to hit liking, and forced upon the nation by the bay onets of his soldiers ? Enough has occurred to convince him that his notions of government are equally unpalatable to the Royalists and to the Constitutionalists, and that he can have ,no rational hope, therefore, of establishing any sys tem, whose permanency is not to depend upon the continued presence and support of a French army, —a continuance to which it cannot be supposed that the Spaniards would long submit, or which the French Government can imagine Great Britain would long tolerate. The neutrality hitherto observed by this coun try has been improperly ascribed to the dilapi dated state of her resources, and to her dread of encountering all the force of the great Continental Confederacy, instead of its neutrality having been assigned to the true motives, the divided state of the, Spaniards .themselves, and the. solemn assurances of France that she had no views of aggrandizement, or of acquiring a permanent controut over Spain, In undertaking the present impolitic, unnecessary, and unjust war.—The rea pealed declarations of the Earl of LIVERPOOL and of Mr. CANNING, and indeed the actual con dition of Great Britain, as is obvious to all Who are really acquainted with the present state of her resources and of her power, and with the principles by which they are developed and controuled, prove incontestably that this country is able to meet all the sacrifices of a war, if a war should really become necessary to ' the maintenance of her interests and honour ; and as to the efforts against it of a Continental Con federacy, they know little either of the political state of Europe, or of the history of past events, whoimagine that a confederacy could really wield its force against her with any very formidable or destructive effect, or that a Continental Con federacy against England could even for unf great length of time be held together. Notwithstanding the neutrality of Great Bti tam between France and Spain, she has never ceased to watch over the progress of the conflict with an earnest and sincere desire to interpOse her good offices on behalf of the latter Power, if a favourable opportunity of doing so w i t h e ffect should present itself. Should the contest, contrary to expectation, terminate in the overthrow of the Constitutional Government, in consequence chiefly of the dis union and defection of its own adherents, it Will be seen that England ,is not indifferent even as to the form of government which way be erected upon its ruins, and that her efforts 1