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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, JAN. 4..--Yesterday, after Mass, 'the •King transacteti business successively with M. the Count tie Peyronnet, -Keeper of the Seals ; M. the Viscount de Ghateaubriand, Minister of Foreign Affairs,.; and M. the Count de Villele, President of the Council of 'Ministers. Count Lieven, the Ambassador of Russia at London, set out this morning for the latter place. Prince Esterbazy, the Austrian Ambassador at London, sets out to-morrow for that capital. VIEW NA, Dm- 20.-111. Von Ruckmann, Imperial Russian Secretary of Legation, left this city the day before yesterday for Bucharest,' where it is said he is to 'he employed in the .Russian consulate. It Is inferred from this, that his Majesty - the Emperornf Russia has already appointed the Agents in the Principalities, of 'Moldavia and Wallachia, anti that thus the first step is taken towards a renewal of the friendly relations with the Porte. BERLIN, DEC. 18.-.:The situation of thehrarlites in the Prussian Monarchy, with re i spect to their atlmistibility to aca demical offices, has undergone an essential change. The last number of the'Collection, of the Laws contained a notice from the Ministry, " That his Majesty the King, by a Cabinet Order issued on the 18th of August this year, has revoked the disposition of the Edict of the 11th MarchilBl2, on account of the inexpediency (niinverhaltnisse ineozettunees) which had arisen in the execution of it." (By this ,revoked Edict, all Jews, who are to be considered as natives, were to be adtnissible to offices in schools and 4c:1.- 44.7111e5, if they possessed the necessary qualifications.) The conferences with the Deputiesof the States of the West. phalian and Rhenish Provinces being now terminated, the Deputies of the Grand Duchy of Posen will .be'summoncd hither for the same.purpose ; when, after the conclusion of this important matter, a statement of the result is .expected to. be published. A residence has been bespoken for the Minister.of State Von • Stein, who, it it said, will shortly come here on his private business.—(4llgcmeine Zeitung,.M.C. O.) Lisruucx, Dxe. 23.—His Majesty the Emperor of Russia will arrive hereon the 25th, coming by the way of Rossano, lirgtnt, and Brixen; on the 29th he will go to St. John, and on the •80th to Salzburg. Our Emperor - and Empress will arrive here on the 27th, stop two days, and reach Salzburg on the 31st.. ,Their Majesties have been plinsed to signify, that • t'iough they received with great pleasure the testimonies of 41f. faction offered by their faithful subjects on their preceding • visit, they wished this time, on acceunt•of the long stages itt tended to be made, which rendered it diffiettlt to fix the precise hour of their arrival in the different towns, and 'likewise on ac. • count of the settere .weather, that is now set in, their faithful subjects not to expose themselves to it, and therefore even the • Corps of Jagers shall not turn out. VIENNA, DEc. 25.—MetulliquQs 83i—Bank-Share 4, SPAIN. Aradrl4 Journals to Me 3014 On the 28th, the Quinta, or drawing for the :recruits which Madrid, according to the new law, :has to furnish to the army, took place, and the 'business . is . .stated to have been conducted with . ..„ the greatest order and tranquillity. The Espec lador.remarks, that the manner in which this measure, involving a sacrifice at „all times pain- Jul, has been carried into effect,' ‘i particularly in a place which the odious distinctions of des :potisto had hitherto exempted front it, is a proof of the spirit of liberty-whichprevails, and a com plete refutatiop 4) f the-Journalists of the Seine, ovhicirfepreseut-the capital of Spain as,a prey to 4111 the horrors of anarchy." A. dispatch received by the Government on the 29th, announces, that General Don Carlos Gon zalez de Batputa had returned, „with.the column of infantry and cavalry under his command, from ate expedition to Keinosa,. Santander, ,and, other Points of the coast ; throughout the whole of Which, perfect tranquillity, and a spirit highly favourable to the, Constittitional system, were iniind to prevail. The last accounts froeMinit's army are not so late as the intelligence through the French Papers ; but they sufficiently prove the complete triumph of the Constitutionalists. The' Govern meat, however, Continues to forward troops to the frontiers. It is mentioned in the latest Madrid Journals, that the Government had jest given orders for the active militia df Valladolid and Toledo,' and two squadrons of th© regiment of A Imatiza,*to march to the frontiers. Several ether corps of infantry•atid cavalry are on their Nvay lion) different points of the Peninsula, to re. inforeo Mina's army. The siege of the castle. of Alequineina, the only place of strength in addi. tion to the fort of. Urgel, occupied. by the rebels, was to commence on the ,24th-ult. Several corps are also drawing twat*, the capital. ..The entrance of the, active militia of nujalance, fl corps understood to be zealously attached to the Constitution, is very minutely described. Tl►ese troops arrived at Madrid on the 2fith, and defiled if) front of the Lapida of the Coi►ititulion, under the command of Colonel Carlos Litmus, one of the officers of the. Guards echo remained faithful to the national cause in July last. It is probable that the troops in the Uei4bbourbood of Madrid will also be sent to the frontiers. Alina,.who, when he toak the command of the seventh military district, 'had Only- the rank of a illajor-Generiti, is now promoted to the-rank of Lieutenant-General. A letter from Valencia gives an account of the apprehension of one of the insurgent leaders, a coadjutor of the famous Jaime, named El Barba do (Long-beard) in the church of Monforte. The only thing worthy of notice in the details i t that this Cory pheus of the Faith was concealed icy the Sacristan in the Virgin's dressing .closet (cn , el camarin del l'irgen). l'he latest intelligence received from Paris at Madrid was dated the 19th. The political article which appeared in the, Journal des Dbals of the 18th, is alluded to by the Espectudor of the 9,oth, and promised for the following day. `ln an article on the success of the military operations in Catalonia, the Universal has the following observations:— Wh — en. the materials for fomenting the civil wilt which tins distracted some provinces of Spain were in preparation, it is welt known that, the promoters of the rebellion made overtures to t owe of our officers of distinction, in the hope ilrat-they would lend their names .to give credit; to the enterprise. As it was necessary, however, to induce the acceptance of such offers, that they should be addressed to men who, besides being evil-dispoied or hostile to the new institutions, should also be absolute fools, it has happened , that in the whole Spanish army not more than two or three personi-V any 'degree of reputation have been seduced by the cajoling promises made to them. The failure of-this-attempt- at seduction ought surely to undeceive , those persons who labour to prove that the constitutional sys tem adopted in Spain is contrary to the generaLwish of the nation, and that the Most distinguished men of all classes are lorded over by a faction composed of the very dregs of the rubble. Any man of the most moderate under standing, who might be invited to put himself forward in the insurrection, must have foreseen that one of two things would be his fate—either to live abhorred, detested, and in continual ter ror in his country, if, which was next to impos sible, the enterprise should have a successful issue ; or to be condemned to perpetual exile, and live despised in a foreign land. Thus Eroles, and O'Donnell are to be classed not only as traitors, but. as blockheads. We speak of them only : the other leaders of the banditti have lost little, because they had little to lose." The decree of the Cortes for the provisional regulation of the police has received the Royal assent, and is published in the Madrid Gazette in the usual official form. MADRID, DEC. 16. Some days ago I mentioned that the country Palace at the Pardo was fitting up for the reception of some person. of distinction. Some supposed it was for the Km°, otherstor the Duke d'Angoulenic, who, it was surmised, was to coma here on an important mission. To-day the report that these preparations ate making for the reception of the Qacen of Portugal—a near relative; I think a neice, of Ferdinand. 'You are, no doubt, aware before this time, that her. Majesty has positively refused to adhere to the Portu, guess Constitution, that she has been banished to a Royal residence fifty leagues from Lisbon, and that she would have been sent forthwith out of the kindgdom, and • compelled to journey at once to her family here, but for the delicate state of her health, and the testimony of her physicians that tea. veiling in this cold ;season - of the year would be fatal to her existence. One of her nephews and his mother have been residents of the Royal Palace here for the last two months.— It appears that not long since a law-suit carried on in his name in the Spanish Courts was determined in Ills favour, but the Cortes decreed that he should not possess the Pro. perty.which was the subject of it, amounting to about two millions of reels a year, unless he resided in this country.-_ He found it expedient to comply with the condition, and he .and his mother occupy attics in the Palace. H e i s a ti ne ,' ingenuous youth, about eleven years' old, and speaks English with. a pretty accent. He speaks: very little Spanish. Ferdi. mind conferred on him the order of Charles 111. last week.— Sir John Miller Doyle is just arrived here on a mission of Imuch interest to the commerci a l men o f E ng l an d an d S pa in. -A company In London have resolved to establish a steam. .packet between Falmouth and Corunna, a speculation for which they have already obtained the sanction of the British Govern. ment. Sir J. M. Doyle lies been commissioned to lay the plan before thi Government here, and to invite them to participate in it, so far as to establish' a mail-coach between Corunna and Ma drid, providing for it, of course, an adequate military protection. Should the Spanish Government be indisposed to comply with this proposal, the company 0114 to establish the mail at their own charge, demanding only an ample military escort, to be relieved at the necessary intervals along the road. It is impos. Bible to suppose that ,the Ministers will not 'give every assist. ance in their power to such an enterprise. It is calculated that when this plan is carried into effect; which it is sup. posed will be about the beginning of April next,, letters will arrive in London from Madrid in seven days. At present they take fifteen and eighteen dais ; so 'that the difference will be material. The execution and prosperity of this enterprise will be among the most fortunate events for Spain which have occurred for centuries back. It will be the means of raising her up to a level, in point of cultivation with England, a hun dred years, at least, before the period she would have attained to it in the present,condition of her intercourse with that country. Her commerce will be increased a hundred fold ; nor will Eng land be without receiving reciprocal advantages. Tho Company would do well to consider whether they cotad not make Bilboa .the port of entrance instead of Corunna. The Immense swell in the Bay of Biscay certainly offers difficulties against steam navigation there; but if it could be effected, it would be preferable to Coming. In the .first place, Bilboa is nearer to Falmouth; and, in the next, it is nearer by thirty ileagues to Madrid than Corunna—the latter being. a hundred ,and twenty, and the former only 70 leagues from the capital. They have doubtless, also, considered whether, after landing the Spanish mail and passengers, the pack e t might not g o roun d Cap t eEiaieterre, and coast it down to Lisbon. .4'his they mi g h t easily. effect by having stores of coals at C orunna a nd Li s b on ; thus the intercourse between Spain, Portugal, and England would be placed on a footing eminently advantageous to the three countries. •The enterprise does honour to its promoters; so far as I have ,yet learned, it is mdst-corditilly approved of Were. If there • should be . a war, the Comp a ny must acce . aute their operations. -It they are not completed in time, it may be presumed that sailing packets would be established , without delay between Corunna and Falmouth, as they were during ,tho war. I forgot to obsirve, that it is a part of the Compaov's design to build inns along the .road from Corunna to Madrid. They will also have to repair, or rather indeed to make, many,,parts of:the road, which are In a wretched con dition. If the Spanish Government do not esta bli s h t h e d i. ligences the Company, as I have already said, will build them; 'thus the enterprise, considering all the circumstances, whit require in the beginning disbursements amounting to nearly two hundred thousand pounds. It offers every hu. man probability of success, and there is little doubt that the camper& will be amply repaid. At the head of it is Mr. Pal mer who is connected with sever a l s t age an d ma il- coac h esta blishments in England. Among. the partners are Si r J. M . Doyle, his uncle (the Major-G en .), Mr. Beaumont, a gentleman of considerable prop erty, and several others of wealth ,; and if this plan succeed , it is their intention to extend it in other parts of the Peninsula. The fare from Madrid to London, includ ing every expence of living, Rze. is estimate lat two thousand reals,. about twenty pounds sterling. Fift,WALTEa RAE.EIGJI observed that n ear th e Nile the land was so fertile as to yield in pro duce 300 fold from the seed. Such was wonder fully prolific, but the Cultivator had only one Harvest in the year. Nature will not be hurried in her operations, yet we find she may be im proved upon .by the means of , ingenious machi nery, for now any 'person who sows a little Mint seed 1 1 0-D4, may, ,hy the mere torn of a Wheel, reap a Capital harvest of Twenty Thousand Pounds T0../Iforrow; this may be proved in buy. ing one of the £20,000, or £lO,OOO Prizes, that form a Part of the 52 Capitals, which Must all be Drawn on Wednesday, 15th of This Month as the. Lottery then finishes. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAS.C. xrNa V. JOSEPH ;TAPLEY. This was an indictment against the defendant for a violent assault on a female. Before the opening of the case, he consent.. ed to a verdict of guilty, which was accordingly taken. The circumstances, therefore, which have, we believe, been already before the public, on the trial at the Sessions of one of the par ties charged with aiding in the assault, 'were not disclosed on the present occasion. r4uKr,R. Mr. — Ci3stYN stated, that this action was brought against an attorney by his client, for the amount of a debt which he had recovered and refused to pay over., The plaintiff, a poor Nyo. man, employed Mr: itutson to obtain a debt of 12/. 13a. duo to her friom a Lieutenant Joyce ; he obtained this money and the costs from that gentleman, and- had' since refused to pay this sum to his client. lie hail offered her six pounds by instal ments, and when she refused to take this, alleged, by way of defence, that he was not an attorney. Be had put the poor woman to the trouble and expence of proceeding to trial, but he did not now appear to defend the action. • The retainer of the defendant was proved by the plaintiff's nephew ; and the payment of the money by Lieutenant Joyce. No Counsel appeared for the defendanti The Jury imme. diately found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 12/. 13s. DAWES V. ItAPKIN AND WIFE. Mr. COMMON SEHJEANT opened this as a case of aggra vated assault, committed in Union -court, Borough, by the two defendants, in consequence of some dispute respecting the be. haviour of the children of the parties, tOr which he trusted the Jury would give fair and reasonable damages. The Lonn Cm EF JUSTICE adverted to the form of decla ration, to which he thought there was a fatal objection in point of law. The three first counts alleged the asaults to have been committed both by the husband and wife, which he thought erroneous ; and the last count stated that it was committed by " the said defendants," without particularizing which of them.' Mr. Scant:l:TT, for the defence, acre& to withdraw a Juror, to which the COIXION S E JI: A T acceded. A juror • was tic., cordingly withdrawn. FREE3IAN V. MONEY. C. F. Witt.faus stated, that this was an action, for causing the plaintiff to be imprisoned without any reasonable or probable mime. The COMatOX SERJEANT represented this as a case of serious injury. The plaintiff was a serv a nt i n th e f am ily o f the defendant, who is an attorney in the city; but on account of some disagreement was about to leave her place. On the evening of the filth of September one of the windows of the house was broken, and the defendant insisted the plaintiff must know by whom it was done. She denied all knowledge on the subject, when Mr. Money thought tit to charge her with felony, to send her to the Comptes, and to bring her, after two day's imprisonment, before the sitting Alderman. There he produced some parcels of ten and sugar, which were found open in the kitchen, and which,, therefore, he presumed the cook maid must have stolen': She was remanded till Tuesday, when she was discharged; after an attempt to fix upon her a ludicrouti charge of stealing two sheets of paper. • Fctr her character in jured, for imprisonment sustained, for anxiety endured, she now you ht such damages as the justice of the case demanded. .rohn Lacey Hawkins, one of the City Marshalmen; stated, that he remembereti Ann Freeman ;coming, in Septem. her, to Guildhall for a stfinmom In consequence of that ap plication he went to Money's house and saw his wife. He saw the plaintiff afterwards in custody before Mr. Alderman Cot, on Tuesdny, and Mr. Money was present. The Alderman told Mr. Money if' he could not swear to' the small parcels of tea anti stone-blue, he could nut send her for' trial. Mr. Money said he was very sorry to press it, but unless the Magistrate committed her, all his windows would go to rack. Ile turned to the girl and said, " If you'll tell me who broke my windows,' I will notprosetatte." Ile then turned to a young man, took front hint two sheets of paper, and said they were of the same water-mark as those in his counting-house, and had been found in the kitchen drawer. The Alderman said "Alter& might be cartloads of that:" upon which Money produced u little seal, and said it was found on the kitchen mantel-piece.— The Magistrate discharged her. Robert Hart Smith, one of the officers ibr the Ward of Crip plegate, stated, that the boxes of the ,plaintiff were searched,: but nothing found in them.. On Saturday evening, Money asked her who broke his windows: she said she did not know; he said he thought he should send her to the Compter ; but if she would tell him who broke the windows, he did not know whether he should not be more lenient. Mr. Money gave her in charge on suspicion of felony,. and she was taken to (lilt. spur-street Comptes. She was detained till Monday, when Nhe was taken before Alderman Cox, examined, and remanded at Mr. Money's wish. On Tuesday she: was again brought up, the Alderman said, as the .Grand Jnry were not sitting, he could not commit her, and she was sufibred to depart: On emu-examination, the witness said that the plaintiff was charged by Mr. Money with having admitted a young man into the house on the evening when the windows were broken, which she dill not deny. When the search was made ; some tea and coffee were found, which she said she had bought from a man down the street, but she said she did not know his name. The witness asked what quantity there was? She said she did not know. When the box was searched, a hand kerchief was shown by Mrs. Money with tea, coffee, and sugar; site was asked how she came by them; she said they were given her, one parcel by her last mistress. Young Mr. Money pro duced tea, and asked the witness to compare it with that found; they resembled each other. Before the: lagistrate, Mr. Money declined to swear to the articles, and the Magistrate said he could not commit the plaintiff to lie six or seven weeks in pri son, and Tiered the tea to be k e pt. Th e pl a i nt if admitted that she had been out nil the evening with a young man, whose name she did not kno*, and bad not parted with hint long be fore the windows were broken. On re-examination, the witness said the ten was about a quarter of a pound, and the coffee taken front an open He went to see if the person who had broken the windows was there. The release to Hawkins being produced, he was called back. and cross-examined. He denied that the letters produced were his hand-writing, or that he knew the plaintiff before he saw 'her at Guildhall. Ile took the case, because it made his blood boil 'with anger. ; . 'Mr. SCARLETT.-0 yes; he instructs Mr. COTEMOR Ser. jeans to say all these fine things.—(A laugh.) John Tomkin produced the articles found, which consisted of lump sugar anti brown sugar in four parcels, three parcels of tea, starch, and coffee; all except the moist sugar and coffee were found tied up in a handkerchief, Mr. ScitrtLETT addressed the Jury for the defendant. lie attributed all the indignation and all the eloquence of his Learned Friend to Mr. Hawkins, who took an romantic a fancy to ,Miss Freeman at first sight, and had so liberally espoused her cause. The Learned Comte' urged the grounds of suspicion, 'which the circumstances presented, and con.- tended that the justice of' Ate case would be satisfied by no. mina! damages. The Lc" CHIEF JUSTICE recapitulated the evidence and left the case to time Jury, with observations on theconduci of the plaintiff'. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages It/. ------- The following is an ext ract of a letter from a highly respectable character, received from Columbia by the last Jamaica packet ," BOGOTA, OCT. 17...41 must appear- strange in Europe, that the Spaniards, beaten as they were, and cooped within the' fortress of Puerto Cabello, should suddenly Make them selves masters of one of' the most important places on the' coast, and jeopardize the •tranquillity of the whole coun try. To account .for this, It is necessary to take into con.. aideration, that the Army of the Republic, necessarily small, was much weakened, after the action of Carubobo, by the expedition to Quito, while the part that remained was scattered along an . iinmense extent of coast, any point of which the.Spaniarda,hy having the command of the sea, could attack with a relative superiority, and shift the scene of their opera tions with little loss or hazard. Such, moreover, is the state of opinion in this country, that every partial success' is sure to procure them partizans among the natives, who are easily swayed, both by their own prejudices, and by the artifices of the Priests, who are very generally Royalists. Under these circumstances, a spark kindled in a distant province rapidly becomes a flame before the means can be procured to extin guish it, so that the final result of an enterprise is very often extremely disproportioned to its beginn rig. Energy, public spirit, and individual strength of character, are still lamentably deficient in all classes. The mass of the people is ignorant, timid, and superstitious, and their Chiefs but rarely form exceptionato the general rule. The capture of hfaraclybo is both directly and incidentally, a heavyl oss to the Gov e rnment—loss of immedi a t e revenue—loss in expenses necessary for recovering the place— loss of public confidence, consequent animation of the Royal ists, and loss of public tranquillity—loss of labour withdrawn from commerce and agriculture—loss of credit abroad. Con nected with the latter point is the inisflirtune of M. Zee's hum bug Loans, the whole delusion of which will, ere you receive this letter, have been opened to the public. Neither had he powers to raise Loans, unless lie forged them ; nor had the Government here any knowledge of the manner in which he was compro mising hl. Gum., the hlinister for Foreign Affairs, has I written a justificatory Memorial on the subject, which, finis- , 4ine, will reach England." IRELAND. The Dublin Papers are chiefly filled with reports of the judicial proceedings which have grown out of the atrocious - attack on the Marquis Wct.LEst..tv. We stated yesterday that the pr; .soners fad beetLadmitted,to bail, pending th new proceedings about to be instituted against them in the Court of king's Bench by ex officio 'hiformations. — The following are the Speech of the Attorney-General, and the Address of the 'Judge, on the application of the prisoner's Counsel for their discharge or adm'iFtion to bail, on the 3d intiftliii":l-the Attorney-deneral has abandoned the capital part of the charge :—. TheAr TOItNEY , GENETIAL —.My Lords, I shall trouble yoti with a few, and but a few, ehservations in reply. 1(1 have col lected rightly, Mr. Driscoll and Mr. Scriven have moved the Cetirt for 'the diScharge of the prisoners, flandwich and Gra bens ; Mr. Driscoll offered bail, if I have understood him, for flandwich and Graham ; I do not know Whether Mr. Scriven mentioned hail or not. Mr. Johnston and Mr. Blackburn moved for the discharge of Mr. Forbes. Mr. johnstone stated that Mr. FOrbes was ready to give sufficient bail, and Blackburn movedj for his absolute discharge. It has been said that the priioners were capitally committed, but that in dictments were sent up against them only for a misdemeanor. My friends, however, did me the justice to say that I had dis charged fairly what I considered to be my duty. It has been said that the course adopted by the legal Officers of the Crown had the effect of making punishment precede trial ; but whilst I am sheltered by my Learned Friends from the charge of wilful intention, I owe it to myself to shield my character from the imputatiens of less charitable persons. In the discharge of my duty, in investigating the circumstances of the present ease--:-and a painful and laboriotis duty it was— I was ,Usisted by persons of considerable Information, un doubted talents, and extensive knowledge. By and with the advice of those per Sons, and after a protracted and painful in vestigation, I felt it.to be my duty, as the King's Atterney- General, to prefee bills of indictment against Handwich, Ora liam;and Forbes, charging them with having entered into a conspiracy to mender hii Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.-- I did afteiwards hold .it to be my duty to have the bills of indictment preferred against those persons for a misde meanor only, and I will not now be betrayed into a disclosure of the causes which induced me to adopt this mitigated proceeding. As to the enormity of the guilt, I felt not the shadow of a doubt; as to that guilt Meriting the highest punishment the law awards, I felt no doubt; but' I felt it : wotild be much better that the public prosecutor should be charged with tameness and feebleness, than that he should be criticised for hisseverity. .1 hold myself respon sible :to the Court ,and to the country for not proceeding on thecapital indictments. It has been said by Counsel, on the part of Mr. Forbes, that if those persons are innocent, they have been punished by being imprisoned. Will any Gentle man say, that, if the bottle which had been thrown at the head of the Lord Lieutenant had struck his Excellency, a few hours' imprisonment would be adequate punishment for theoffendere ? Or if the instrument 'of wooti which struck his Excellency's bolt had strode his person, that the rioteri and conspirators Should not be detained in custody ? In such a case as that will it be said that the punishment of Mr. Forbes is more than commensurate to the crime charged ? The outrage has left a stain upon the country, sufficient to affix a charge of barba- Ham upon the people. Mr. Blackburn has said, that we can not conjecture on what grounds the Grand Jury ignored the hills. rwill Own, my Lords, that, for myself, lam utterly at a loss to conceive on what principles of law or justice. they could arrive at such a conclusiOn ; and I trust your Lordships are equally so. Some persons, -perhaps, may have a vague idea; they have, ' however, discharged their duty as public functionaries ; they have decided on their oaths, and, as I have before Said; T leave them to their consciences and their God. Bill. of indictment beingignored by a Grand Jury, does not, however, amount to an acquittal of the parties accused. The King's Attorney-general, by law., is empowered to stand in the place of a Grand Jury; and, in .case of a Grand Jury not finding bills on indictments, which the Law Officer of the Crown may deem sufficient, he has full privilege, by virtue of his authority, to supersede the functions of the Grand Jury altogether, and, .by filing ex.-officio informations, put the . parties accused on their immediate trial. I now declare it as my fixed deterMination, by, and with .the advice of those tit. lented and intelligent persons with whom I have acted, to bring those cases into the Court of King's Bench, by filing ex officio informations against all those persons. The Grand Jury have taken on themselves to ignore the Bills ; 1 n ow stand in their place, and I am here ready to proceed against 'those persons by ex-cfficio information. We are now, my Lords, in the vabatirin, and I ant bound to wait for tie com mencement .of Term. Mr. Blackburn asks the Court frog they are to know what the grounds are on Which the bills have been ignored by the Grand Jury ? This I did not expect Motu the acute mind - of Abe intelligent Gentleman. —The Court is empowered to look into the indictments, and use its diacretion as to bail for any persons therein charged. I require, that, in thepresent case, the several persons charged may enter into ritiffeinnt ball, to answer the criminal informations which I shall file against them in.the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Justice Motinu, said, that it had been the practice in England for the Judges to look into the indictment, for the Purpose of emoting their Charge to the Grand Jury word ing thereto. " I have," said his Lordship, " looked into those indictments, and .I will say, that evidence of so disgraceful an outrage, and so base a conspiracy, never yet tame before me. It appeared to me, that there was evidence in those indict ments of a conspiracy to riot, certainly sufficient to warrant the sending them for trial, if the Grand Jury believed the witnesses ; if they had any legal doubts, they thould have ap. plied to the Court for information. My astonishment at the de. ciston of' the Grand .Jury was such, that if there was no law Officer present at the ,tim e t h e y i gnore d t h e one indictment, and rendered the other in effect, abortive, I would have asked them on what groundsAhey had come to that decision, and re quested of them t o h ave re-cons ide red the cue laid before them' The Attorney:Gcneral was, however, present at the time, and the ;interference of the Court was of course unnecessary— When we consider of the bludgeons that were prepared--.the inflammatory printed liana-bill that were circulated through the House—the union of persons acting in concert, and sta tioned in different parts of the Theatre-:-and . that it was known beforehand that a riot would take place at the Theatre that night—l say, when e ll thi s i s cons id ere d , who is there that will say there was not evidence of a conspiracy ? Some persons were guilty of having entered into a conspiracy ; and it is due to the persons accused, if they be innocent, that the evidence against them should be made known. The public ought to be satisfied—which they are not. There is yot a good man in th e coun t r y w h o h as heard of this disgraceful and abominable outrage, but must be convinced that a con spiracy existed. I lament that the consciences of the Grand Jury could not reconcile it to themselves to find the bills on the evidence laid before them. I say I lament it. The iittor. ney-General has declared, however, his determination t o pro ceed by ex officio information, and the persons accused must of course enter into sufficient , bail to appear and answer to the chance. Mr. BLACKBURN, on the part of, Mr. Forbes, offered that he should enter into 1,0001. security himself, and two sureties. In 5001. each. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed himself satis fi ed at the security offe r ed on the part of Mr. Forbes, provided the Crown Solicitor was satisfied the surities were solvent. Counsel for Handwich and Graham then offered that they should enter into security, themselves in one hundred pounds each, and to give two sureties in the sum of one hundred pounds each. • This proposal was acceded to by the Attorney Genera l. who stated that 24 hours' notice of bail would be required ; and that the Crown Solicitor, on being satisfied of the solvency of the sureties required, would receive It. —The term commences on the 22d inst. PRICE 0: THIS DAY AT F STOCKS ONE. O'CLOCK. India Stock India Bonds 48.1. South Sea Stock Ohl Annuities Ex. Bills 8 la pt. Ditto sm a ll Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Acc0unt......... 130 i! Bank Stock' 3 per Cent. fled. 791 i 3 per Cent. C0n5....794 ex div. per Cent. el 4 pefiCent. { Old New 901 ex t h y. ,)er Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann.-20j 5-18th s Imp. 3 per Cents PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, JAN. 7, AT ONE O?CLOCK. Five per Cvnts. 00. (Six per Cents. 00. -••—• --- Russian' Fire per Cents. (Met a lli c ) 00. Ditto New 821,i. • . N eapolitan { Scrip, 771. Fire per Cent. Bonds, n eic i div. ' ~,: • . , Austrian - Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00."' ,' , Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. - ' ' Spanish' 1 New Ditto, 54 li. - - • - - Seri 12} disc. . ... p rus ,d an Fire per Cent. Bond s , 04 80. . 1 Ditto New, 84 83 ex dir. Danish Fire per Cent. Bonds, 01. Chili 7.1. French ' • (Old Bonds, 00. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 62,. (Ditto Scrip, 00. Peruvian New Loan, 78. Bank Shares 4'41 ss. , American Six per C:nt. 90.i r -90i. Fivo per Cent. 94i-951. Three per Cent. 89i. tt . PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, JAN. 4. Bank. Stock t'il A Grand Canal Lo.in, 4 p.ct. •-• Gov. Deb. 3A per cen t 931 Ditto I; per cent. ...t6 B l Stock, 3A per"ct 91g --DittoStock Gm Deb. 4 per cent...... Royal. Canal Stock 2o} Goy. Deb. 5 per cent Wide-street Cert. 6 per ct. -- -Stock, 4 per cent. 2 Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec.... •""' Treasury fills, 5 per cent Pipe Water Deb. S per et. City D'ebentures, S per Do. - cent.' 13allast Office Govt. Sec. Lying in Hospital 4 per rt. 5 per cent. ..... ........... h Exchange on London, Jan. 3, 111. I F. B v e R n I i n D II G , E 38 T B 0 1 i t I - 3 1 i I t e o s IL a R i 1 e O r 11 1 : HIGIIIVATER AT LO N DO] Morning. 58 minutes :titer 10. 1 TH F S UN. - SOLEM VILS .iuDrAr • . LONDON, ' • LUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1823. 0 [FROM A CORREsPON DENT.] S rock EXCHANG r, Ilalfpast Twelve o'Clocfr''': The above Alarket opened this morning at 801 i, but no express having come from Paris this meta' ing with the French Funds, and the warlike or pearance of Spain, Consols became heavy, and were done at 80i Z. The best informed in the Olt state, that Lord FITZSOMERSET is absolutely g °se to Spain to assist the Spaniards in the'r negocis' Lions with the French, and at the same time t° endeavour to persuade them not to break 011 the negociation, should any trifling difference take place between the two Powers.—Sonle hints have been thrown out this morning, 3t the New. Room, Capel Court, that the Colombian Charge d'Affairs' will have an interview on next Thursday with some of the parties concerned the - above Loan ; but whether or no it is to gm them hopes of the ratification of the said Loan i t at present a matter of conjecture, and the !wide° should be rather cautious how they act until 0 1 Colombian Charge d'Affairs' sentiments are po i : tively known on the subject. Consols up to tb hour are 80i I. is FOREIGN MARK cT.-L-Little is doing in t' ) Market this morning ; Colombia opened at 0 ' and went down to 61,, Our Foreign Intelligence, for this day's Pap e is not of any importance. The question of Pei tc4 or war between France and Spain seems to hale been abandoned by all parties until the Alec tin ' of the French Chambers, by Which it will " n t - finally decided. The Spanish Papers repro' the ConstitutionalistS as completely succe— over the adherents of the Faith: Troops, 10, ii ever, continue to b e marched to the frontier, 3na vigorous me a su res are carrying 'into executiot!l°l. ti placing the country in a state of defence. Nv rurscu FUNDS.--JAY. 4. in Five per Cents. Closed at B7 f. 93 c. Bank Stock 1690 f. —C• Vii . Neapolitan Five per Cents. Exchange on London--One Month 25 f. 30 c. i 1 t Three Months 25 1. 15 C. We reCi4ved this morning Bayoime Par r ; "r to the .9th ult., which contain the followiot Tin articles di] BAYOWEE, DEC. 29.—The discharge of the soldiers, wi ' r ` l'e , time of service is completed, and who belong to the tto°f °cl forming th e C or p s o f Ob servat i on, is to take plats the d a y 41/. -- grt to.rn orro sr. The number of those who quit the division of Count d'At tli ' " S champ, is estimated at 3000 men. This measure, added 50 th° tnt impossibility of undertaking a long expedition this winter, ca ll ' firms the accounts of peace. 4000 Conscripts are expected ij -43 replace the soldiers who arc to be discharged. „, to I A formal order , has been given to all t h e Sp a nish elnwl,:,,b tha at Bayonne and St. Esprit, to retire into the interior, wh i r, frustrates the hopes they had conceived of speedily returttit pr o their country by the aid of the French army. tha The exchange of couriers between Madrid and Paris io 3 11 very frequent. lep The Officers of the Staff of General d'Autichamp ate I ", tory persons in the military administration of the army, do MAO: - s to have given up th e h o p e o f go i ng to attac k the Span i'sr ' ' iiCa notwithstanding the news from Paris. The accounts f rom M a d r id o f the 22d say, t h at t h e acO uli t () from Paris of the 13 t h b e i ng o f a pac ifi c nature , had if ;11!1P contributed to calm the eff ervescence t h at h a d p re v a iled, th'* f,- the fanatics had not renounced all hope, and continued to tit'll°° itri r j the credulous with the probability of a war ; but the Oaer°.; tc t t merit knows very well what it has to depend upon, and does not desire a war as the Clubbists do, for it would pall 11'