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PARIS PAPERS. !From the Etoile.) Advice from Ferrol state, that the Themis English frigate, and El Vengador, Spanish brig of war, and two gun-boats ) have left that port to cruize off Corutma, and thus complete the blockade of that place by sea as effectually as by land. Since the flight of Quiroga, the Governor No vella, who succeeded him, has sent a flag of truce to General Bourck, proposing to sign the capitulation which had been offered to him some days previously. This proposal has been re jected, in consequence of the change of dream. stances, and the conduct of the besieged, who were base enough to fire upon the first flag of truce. General Novella, who was fearful of being Won by assault, was then reduced to the necessity of soliciting leave to send a Colonel to General Norillo to ask his advice. The answer of the Count of Carthagena not being doubtful, the immediate reduction of the fortress may be regarded as certain. Two positive details have been collected of a crime which finds no example in tire annals of the French revalution. Unworthy of the military rank, the rebel Quiroga, some hours previously to his departure, caused fifty-one prisoners, who were confined in the Castle of Saint Antoine de la Corunna, to emark hi a vessel from Seville, under pretext of conveying them to a more secure place ; but scarcely had these ill-fated persons reached the offing, when they were assas sinated and thrown overboard, conformably to the orders of the barbarous Quiroga. The first bodies picked up were those of an Officer and an Ecclesiastic, who were .bound back to back, and -had their throats cut with a sabre. Tire list of those 51 victims is published in the Gazelle of this day. Amongst them are the Brigadier of the Royal Armies, Don Salvador Escandon, and the three Lieutenant-Colonels Francisco Pereira, Theodore Gil, and Joseph Aragon. BLOCKADE OF ST. SEBASTIAN, AUG. 12.-08 Sunday we learnt the submission of General Bal. lasteros ; this news did not surprise us, as we ex pected it. We, however, view it as an important event towards the pacification of Spain. In re joicing for this news, our artillery fired 21 guns. In au instant, the ramparts of the town of St. Se bastian were thronged with the Constitutional garrison. Art officer of the 41st regiment was sent in with a flag of truce; he had a long inter riew with the otlicer who was appointed to re ceive him ; but nothing has transpired respecting the conference. To-day two cannon on the ramparts were fired upon the:l)osta of the 9.oth of the line; no one was hurt. (From the Journal des DAati of IlredneidaY4 FOURTH CORPS. VILLA FRANCA, KUCY. after hav ing concentrated the troops remaining to him at . Mont Blanc, has marched on :Cala. . Baron d'Eroles from Manresa, Got). Tromelin from igualada, and two battalions which were at ' , Viet), have marched in pursuit of the enemy, the intention of whose movement seems to bo to raise the blockade of ,the Sets d'Urgel. Two thousand men have just been marched hence on Igualada to relieve the corps of Gen. Tromelin. MAnnto, Ace. '24.—(nv tmeacss.)—lt is al dally known here, that the news of the capitu lation of Ballasteros had reached Cadiz the 9th inst. Nothing is said of the ,effect it has pro duced ; but great hopes are entertained from it, and ' , the arrival of the Duke of Angouleme at Port St. Mary must produce important events. The King is absolutely free in Cadiz: he has become the 'salvation even of those who oppress him ; he is treated with consideration, and respect has suc ceeded to insults. Every time lie goes out, the enthusiasm of the people is redoubled, and no thing any longer stops the Tepeuted cries of Live Me ging ! Letters from Seville and Port St. Mary all speak of the deliverance of the King as an event uetessari4 very near at hand. A voluminous correspondence has been taken iu a vessel .attempting to escape from Cadiz, in , which has been captured a famous Revcilationist, Cabrera y Navares,former Political Chief of Soria and Calatayud. [1 re the Courier Francois qffreiblesday.l STUrrGAAID, Ave. 15.—The uneasiness which The departure of the three Foreign Ambassadors from Stuttgart' caused some time ago has nearly ceased. The friendship of a great Sovereign of the North for our Monarch continues, and has not ceased for one moment. The firmness which our Sovereign stewed on this occasion has re doubled the love of .his subjects. Never was there a King more popular, or more deservedly SO. The menageries of his predecessor have been done away, to make room for more useful establishments. fie encourages agriculture and the'useful arts,—never goes a hunting, and never takes a walk without having some useful object in view. The Harass at Stuttgart! and %Yellen, And the = lnstitution for the encouragement of Agriculture at Hoheittheim, under the direction of M. Wertz, are the admiration of all strangers. Apoiccy . : (SAvoy), Aye, i3.----411ree new taxes have just been imposed, and one which is levied cm iron is so bbrdensome that it threatens to de stroy this branch of industry. It is said these tuxes are to pay a debt which the Government of Piedmont has contracted with a great Power. The Courier Pram:a:is gives the following cir; curnstance as one of the causes of the slight de pression of the Routes at Paris i—t‘ A s to c k broker (agent de Change) strongly suspected of playing on his own account, has received a visit from the syndicate of the company, who peroeiv. cad, from the inspection of his books, that the tillroidollS were not unfounded. The broker had been speculating for the rise since the ltentes were at 81. The mass of Itentes bought by him is enormous ; he is forced to conclude his oper ation, and the sales consequent on it must have added to the decline. It is asserted that the syndicate has required him to sell his employ.. mont. It would have been desirable that this example of severity bed been sooner made ; but better late than never." ( From the Coustitutionnel.) BAY ()NNE, AUG. 14.—The order issued by the French for setting at liberty the Constitutionalists who bad been thrown into prison, have not been obeyed either in Navarre or Guipuscoa. On the ' contrary the arrests continue, and even females are not spared. The capitulation of Ballasteros is regarded by all parties in Spain with considerable astonish ment. The absolute Royalists accuse him of cow ardice, but the Constitutiondßoya lists excuse him, conceiving the step he has taken calculated to put an end to the misfortunes of Spain, because they are persuaded that the apparent submission of this General to the Regency at Madrid is the result of arrangements concerted at Cadiz itself. ZANTE, JULY 14.—As soon as the Turkish fleet arrived in the Gulf of Patras, the Captain Pacha directed his vessels towards the anchorage of Yasilade, opposite Missolonglii, where several lonian, Italian, and Austrian vessels were at anchor. lie ordered them to be ; immediately seized, under the pretext that they ere there for the purpose of aiding - the Greeks. On oppos. ing some slight resistance to this seizure, several Christian sailors were killed. The Captain Pacha immediately ordered some of the Captains of these vessels to be bastinadoed, and carried the whole off to Patras. After the energetic re presentations of the English, he consented to libe rate the lonian vessels, but only them. Before allowing them to go away, however, he caused six Greeks that he found on board an lonian vessel to be hung up at the yard-arm. A small Greek squadron of four vessels, using both sails and oars, remained, however, in the neighbourhood, not being within reach of the large Turkish ships. By the skilful use of both their sails and oars, these vessels have captured a number of neutrals going to Patras. On June 2sth, they captured, under the eyes of the Cap tain Paella, the Minzio, a large Austrian mer chant brig, which, in spite of the Turks, was carried into Yasilade and confiscated. Her cargo, consisting of flour and rice, is valued at 110,000 francs. Some ammunition was' found concealed under the provision, and 5,000 tallaris, and the vessel was declared a good prize. Lately the Captain Pacha Itincled some men on the coast of Lepanto to occupy Corinth. They had hardly begun their march, when the Greeks attacked and defeated them. STurro Ann, Anti. l'2.—We have lately seen ii. great number of Greeks arrive here coming from Odessa. They are destitute almost of every thing. More are expected. As it is now impos sible for them' to proceed through Switzerland, ‘ihere there are at present a great number, they intend to go by way of England to Greece. PA is, AUG. W.—The Aini de la Chat* says, the displacing M. Blondeau, the head of the School of mutual Instruction, established at Cler mont, has excited a lively sensation in that. town. The Rector of the Academy has recalled the permission given to M. Blondeau, on October 18, in consequence of the resolution of the four Can tonal Committees united, who unanimously de manded the revocation of this permission, on ac. count of indignity. llEtnet.nraG, Au G. r2.—The Committee of the Great Council of Frankfurt have granted the requests addressed to it, and have refused per omission to a number of foreigners engaged in li terature anti politics, to reside in Frankfort. — Several of these foreigners have resided for some years at Frankfort. This airair has made consi derable noise. SIR ROBERT WILSON. LISBON, AVUUST 8. EXTRACT OF A LETTCR. FROM TUY, AUGUST 3. " I Inform you that Sir Robert Wilson arrived, on the 28th ult. at Vigo, having come from Corunna by sea. :Our .troops marched out of this city with some Portuguese and, in an action which they had with the Constitutionalists of' Vigo, they beat them completely, taking from them above thirty pri 'toners, some horses, and a great deal of baggage.. On our. side we had only one man wounded ; the Constitutionalists had some killed. On the 30th, 2,000 French joined Merino at l'ontcvedra, in consequence of which General Palarea, who was with some troops at Redondella, retreated to Puentearcas, from which point they are now dislodged, and the Vreneh in Vigo. • - " General Morillo and the French troops entered Vigo on the 4th' of this month, in consequence of which Sir Robert Wilson, who has acquired a mournful notoriety by his adven tures and intrigues in Galicia, and who has already been once obliged to quit the city of Oporto, has just arrived at this port, andls detained and strictly watched on board the schooner that brought him." • 'Mien the French entered Vigo, Sir Robert Wilson retired to the island of Minis, at the entrance of Vigo Bay. From this situation, in which he was in much distress for want of provisions, he, with some companions, was relieved by the English brig Nassau, which arrived here on the 7th. The Captain of this vessel reported himself from London, after 30 days' voyage, having touched at Corunna and Vigo, to be laden with hale goods, and bound to Gibraltar with pas sengers, Messrs. Wilson, Erskine, &c. The names of these gentlemen of course showing who they were, the Government placed it guard, that Sir Robert,might not have any communication-with the shore. It having been signified to Mr. .Ward, the British Charge d'Affaires. here, that Sir Robert wanted a surgeon to dress his wounds, which had been exposed for some days, he having so hastily left. Vigo, that all the necessaries were left behind, the surgeon of the Arabella packet was dispatehed to him.—(Lisbon Poxrs.) MmtvEr.r.o - us Esc.teu.—Last week a deaf and dumb lad, employed as a cutter at the Flint Glass Work, Greenock, met with a singular acci dent, to which he narrowly escaped falling a sacrifice. While at work, his apron or some other loose portion of his apparel having come in contact with one of the horizontal shafts of the drums, and by some means adhered to it, he was instantly drawn in, and twirled round the shaft longitudinally, exhibit ing precisely the position of a roast en a spit! The shaft working at a distance of scarce ly a foot from the ground, and there being not much more vacant space on either side of it, destruction seemed inevitable Yet the poor lad, after having made repeated re volutions, in the course of which he was divested of every article of his wearing apparel, excepting a fragment of his trowsers, WB5 at length flung behind the shaft, from which he emerged in a state of nudity, having sustained, in addition to the fright, only a few slight bruises, and having had his skin somewhat lace rated by the uttgentle operation of the machinery in derobing him. It is remarkable also, that even his neckerchief had attached itself to the shaft, the ends probably coiling round it, but luckily for the wearer ho was saved from strangulation by the neckerchief giving way behind. The whole was the work of so short a time that the mischief was over before lite machine was stopped. TIRE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. The following is a copy of the Third Report of his Majesty's Commissioners appointed by virtue of an Act of Parliament, passed in the 58th year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, c. 45, entituled, " An Act for build ing and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes." His Majesty's Commissioners, in their last Report, set forth, that ten new Churches and Chapels had been completed, at the several places therein mentioned, and that the same were ca. Fable of accommodating four thousand and eighty-one . persons in pews, and nine thousand nine hundred and forty-nine poor persons in• free seats ; and that six of such churches and chapels had been consecrated, and that divine service was performed therein; that thirty churches and chapels were then building; that plans had been.approved by his Majesty's Commissioners, for ten other churches and chapels; and that, as soon as tenders for the performance of the several works hould be received, and selections made therefrom, anti the usual contracts and bonds formed upon them, the construction of the buildings would begin. His Majesty's Commissioners also set forth, in the said Re .portilthat .plans for 23 other churches and chapels had been laid before then* for , tbeir consideration ; and that, „in addition to the number of churches.ant chapels whioh,they , proposed to build, according to their preceding Report, they deemed it ex pedient, owing to the Very peculiar circumstances attending the places, to build churches or chapels at Atterclife, in the county of York; Bishop Wearinouth, in the county of Dur. ham ; Greenwich, in the county of Kent; Highgate, in the county . of Middlesex; and in the parish of St. Andrew, Hol. born, in the city of London, and county of Middlesex ,• hoping that by the strictest attention to economy, and by the mea sures which they had adopted . for preventing any excess be yond the estimates, in the erection of the churches and chapel,: which were then building, they might be able to defray, out of the present Parliamentary arrant, the expence of affording church accommodation at those places where it was so much wanted. His Majesty's Commissioners have, since the last Report, proceeded in the execution of the important duties confided to them, with as much dispatch as the circumstances of the several cases would permit : during which time, churches or chapels have been consecrated at the following places : In the parish of St. Martin, in the town of Birmingham ; Walcot„ it the city of Bath • Christchurch, in the county of. Southamp ton ; Stepney, in the county of Middlesex ; Bordesley, in the parish of Aston, and county of Warwick; Barnsley, in the county of York ; Hawarden, in the county of Flint ; in the parish of St. Mary, Nottingham ; and at Portsea, in the county of Southampton ; in which divine :service is performed. The churches or chapels already built, afford". accommodation for seven thousand one hundred and sixteen persons in pews, and for fourteen thousand three hundred and ninety-nine poor per. sons in free seats, by which it would appear that the accom modation for the poor is full two-thirds of the entire number of sittings. His Majesty's Commissioners beg leaver further to report, that forty-tour churches or chapels are building at the follow. ing places: Aston under Lyne, in the county . of Lancaster; A ttercliffe, in the county of York ; Erdington, in the parish of Aston, and county of Warwick ; Bolton, in the county of Lan `e..dater ; in the parish of St. Augustine, in the city of Bristol; ChelSea, in the county of Middlesex ; Charley, in the county of Lancaster ; Putlsey, in the parish of Calverley; anti county of York ; Camberwell in the county of Surrey ; Helper, - in the parish . eif "Duffield, and county Of Derby ; Hackney, in the county of Middlesex ; Kidderminster, in the county of Worcester; at Norwood,. Brixton, Kenning ton, and in the Waterloo.road, in the pariAi of St. Mary, Lambeth, and minty of Surrey ; In Regent-etreet, in the arish' of St. George, Hanover-spare, and county of Middlesex; ' Greenwich, in the county of. Kent ; Leicester, in the county of Leicester; Tyldesley, in the parish of Leigh, and county of Lancaster ; at Quarry-hill,Wroodbouse, and in the Meadow lane, Leeds, in the county of York; Hoghton, in the parish of Leyland, and county of Lancaster ; tn. Wyndham-place, bangham-place,' and in Statibrd.street, in the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, and county of Middlesex; at Camp Field, and ' at Salford, in Manchester, in the county of LancasterNun eaten, in the tounty-e.warwidt; in Suffolk-street, and i n Beckforil-plate, in the parish of St. Mary, Newington, a nd county of surrey ; in the parish of at. Luke, Old.street, in the county of Middlesex ; at Stand, in the parish of Prestwith, and county of' Lancaster ; in Regcnt.square, and in Somers-town, St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex ; in the Fylde-road, Preston, in the county of Lancaster :itockport, is the county of Lancaster; near the infirmary, and in' Broad-lim e , Sheffield, in the county of York ;- West Drommvich, in the county of Stafihrd ; IV o rkington, in the county of Cumber land ; and at Stanley and Alverthorpe,. in .the parish of Wake field, and county of York. The mate of.the works in these churches and chapel is folly detailed in the Schedule annexed, marked (A.) His Majesty's Commissioners beg leave further to report, that they have approved of plans thr nine churches or chapels, to he built et Shipley : and at Wilsden, In the' parish of Brad ford, and county of 1 tick ; Bishop Weannouth, in the county' of Drtrham ; at Netherton, in the parish of fladley, and county of Worcester ; at 'hanging Ileaton and Dewsbury Moor, in the parish - of Dewsbury, and .county of York ; .at in the parish of . St. George, Hanover..square, and county of Middlesex; Gateshead, in the county of Durham ; and i in the Parks at Preston, n the county of Lancaster : And that, in respect to the churches or chapels to be built at Shipley' and Wilsden, in Bradford ; Netherton, in .Dudley ; at Pim lico, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square; and in the Parks at Preston ; tenders have been obtained, and selections, made therefrom, anti the contracts and bonds are preparing; that in respect to the churches or chapels afßishop Wear. mouth ; at Banging lleiton, and Dewsbury :Viw, in the pa rish of Dewsbury ; and at Gateshead; the architects are ob taining tenders for the Performance of the works. His Majesty's Commissioners further report, that they have received plans. which are under their consideration, for sixteen churches or chapels to be built,—at liermondsey,in•the county . of Surrey ; Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster ; in the parish of St. Philip, Birmingham, in the county of We:Wick . ; in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, in the county of ;Mid dlesex; at Farnworth; in the parish of Dean, anti county of Lancaster ; Earls Heaton, in the parish of Dewsbury, anti county of York; Edmonton, in the county of !Middlesex; Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster; in the Eastern division of the parish of St. Mary-le-bonne, in the county of Middle sex ; ui Travis-street, and at Hulthe, in,Mincliester,• in the county of .Lancaster; Oldham,- • in the county of Lancaster; Portsea, in the county of : Southampton ; in the Hoiton . and Ilaggerstone divisions ~of, the parish of St. Leonard, Shore. in the county • of, Mitkileaex ; .and at shetlield Moor, Sheffield, in the county of York. • That. plans, for the twelve churches or chapels proposed to be built, etlinal-green,. in the county of 'Middlesex ' • two at Blackburn, in the • county of Lancaster; at Birmingham, in the county of Warwick . ; ur the liana Town . .division of the parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, and in the parishes of Saint George in the East, and in Saint Ocorge, Itaneve...-square, in the county of Middlesex ; In the parish of St. Andrew, Hol-. born, in the City of London, and.ctiunty.of.Middlesex ; Bigh gate, in the parishes of *lslington, Homey, and St. Pancras, ant , . county of Middlesex;_ and parishes ofSt. Martin, in the Fields, and St.Luitaulthstreet, and at Kensington, in the County of Middlesex ; have not yet been received.. . In the last Report it was stated that a second new chapel was to be built at Blackburn, in the county of. Lancaster, to ac commodate two thousand persons ; • but owing to the number of townships within the parish of Blackburn, his Majesty's Com missioners have deemed it expedient 41ittt three •chapela should be built instead, to accommodate one thousand persons each, which they expect will be erected for less than the large church would have cost. his - ?Majesty's Commissioners have further to state, That they are taking measures for the purpose of Obtaining addi tional burial grounds,,-for the parish of Birstidi, in the county of York ; for the parish of Rochford, in the county of Essex ; Grantham, in the county 'of Lincoln ; in the parish of St. Mary, in the town of Shrewsbury'; a site for a new chapel, with a burial ground for the parish of IVhitWick, in the county of Leicester; a site for a new chapel and a parsonage at Wed more in the county of Somerset : They propose to advance by way of loan, to the town of Brighton, the sum of fifteen thou four. years, to the town of Walsall , sand pounds, for five years, withoutinterest, to enable the in habitants to erect a new church, the expellee of which will be borne by the parish ; they have also lent the sum of 2,0001. for for about one thousand poor.without interest, to enable the inhabitant* to defray the ex pence of rebuilding and enlarg. ing the parish church in w hich additional . accommodation provided. - persons, in free seats, has been His Majesty's Commissioners have assigned an ecclesiastical district to a chapel at Winlaton, in the parish of Ryton, and County of Durham ; and applications have been made to them for dividing the parish of IValcot, in the city of Bath, into three separate and distinct parishes; anti the parish of St. John, sioneraliave Hackney, in the county of .aliddleseX into three separate and distinct parishes 'Majesty's COIiIM The Exchequer Bills which have been issued to this day, amount to the sum of •257,4501. e observed hy this- Report, It - will b appr;olw,ehdiii application; his , that fifteen churches or chapels have been completed ; that forty-four arc in pro. Kress ; that plan s for nine churches or chap els have been ap proved, but the works have not been commenced ; that plans for sixteen churches or chapels are under consideration ; sad that plans for twelve churches or chapels have not yet been obtained ; but the several cases are more particularly specified anti set forth in the Schedules annexed, marked (A.) (11.) (C.) and (D.) His Majesty's Commissioners deem it necessary to annex to this, as they have.done to the two former reports, a Schedule marked (E.) containing a list of applications, which have been made to them from various places, for aid towards affording further church accommodation ; but which, owing to the en., gagements made on the Parliamentary Fund, his Majesty's Commissioners have been under the necessity of rejecting; and a great many other parishes havebeen deterred from making similar applications, being aware that, for the same mson, they must prove unsuccessful. C. CANTAUR, JOS. HOLDEN POTT, lIARROWBY, GEO. OWEN CAMBRIDGE, BEX LEY, B. C. STEPHENSON, STOWELL, JOSHUA WATSON. COLCHESTER. TREATMENT OF SIR . JOHN DOWNIE. The original of the following :Petition was sent to the Minister at War; 'On the 28th of June ; but up tsY the .Bth of July no notice had been taken of it, nor had it in all probability been laid before his MAJESTY 46 S IR E—Don John Downie, Field Marshal of the National Armies, Knight of the Orders of St. Ferdinand, Charles and Great Britain, and decorated with seven crosses for dis tinguished actions in the field, with sentiments of the most profound respect, appeals to the Consitutional Throne of your Majesty for justice, and complains of an act of personal op pression rarely occurring in the most uncivilized countries, and still more rarely among nations which boast of being free. " SIRE—Your petitioner was arrested by order of the Go vernment, together with seventeen other officers, at that time residing within your Majesty's Royal Palace. of Seville, at nine o'clock in the night of the 11th of the present month. These officers were there with the knowledge and approbation of the Governor of the Palace, Lieut.-General I)on Francisco Co. lions, and some of them were also there on the night of the Ist, when they volunteered to defend the person of your Majesty and the Royal Family against the attacks apprehended from a part of the Local Militia, who had already plundered, with the most alarming outcries, the houses of many of the more peaceable citizens. Those officers did not separate until twelve o'clock of the same night, when the above-named General ex pressed himself grateful for their services, and permitted them to retire after the City had recovered its tranquillity. Your pe titioner, Sire, might cite, in confirmation of these statements, the testimony of all the General Officers, and among others of the Commander himself, General Vigodet, with whom he was in conference during die greater part of the night, but as he is not now upon his defence, and does not even know what offences are imputed to him, lie proceeds to inform your Majesty of the treatment and conduct which have been observed towards him and his brother officers, since the night of their arrest. " On the morning of the 111th, they were taken from th© dungeons of the town, to the bank of the river, and there were exposed for two hours to the gaze of crowds of people, who did not cease to cover them with insults, and excited each other to assassinate them all. From Seville to San Lucar, the petitioner, together with his nephew, an officer who wfts'not present on the night of the I lth, and whose name wits not on the list of those arrested, was conducted in a boat, separate from the others, Under the guard of a party of Militia, commanded by Captain Don Epifanio Mancha, exposed to the gross and insulting lan guage of a few soldiers from Madrid, , without education, or the reelings of men. At St. Lucar, the prisoners were again united, and conducted, from that place to Cadiz, where they ar rived late on the Ibth,. and exposed, as before, on the public quiik; for eight hours, an object of curiosity to sonic of dis graceful and ferocioue Muse to 'others, and sometimes to acts which humanity can scarcely conceive, but of whieh,,nnhappily,' the history of these times furnishes too many examples. At length, Sire, we were brought to this Arsenali and on the 17th underwent an examination. Instead, however, of allowing us to communicate with each other, as the constitution prescribes, and as is the custom in every civilized nation, we were all con fined in the Four Towers without any communication, and your petitioner was, in addition, subjected to have a sentinel placed over him. _ " Stux—Throughout Europe the principle has always been feeognised that every prisoner is innocent until the .law has eondentned him.; but hete is a Spanish General descended from a nation truly free, of whose services in the war of independence,. in:which lie expended 200;000 dollars in the formation and equipment of the Estremene Legion, all Spain and his own wounds are ample witnesses, here is a General imprisoned in the same building with the vilest convicts, rigorously cut oft' from all communication, overlooked constantly by a sentinel, for the period' of eight days after an examination, and without having received a farthing of pay for more than three months. Europe, Sire, will not believe that Spaniards, so celebrated in other times for the nobleness of their character, could present an example so opposite when enjoying the blessings of a freer 'system. Your petitioner is not ignorant of the consideration which ought to he paid to that fervour of mind whidi belongs to periods of political convulsion, and that it ought to be re ceived as some excuse for the insults which he received in his progress to this place; bet your petitioner cannot excuse the treatment which he has experienced here, since he presumes it to have been with the knowledge and through the authorisation of the Constitutional Authorities, against whose conduct, he owes it to the country of his birth , to his rank, to his services and his reputation, until now without a stain, to protest in the face of the world as being illegal, barbarous and unjust. The conscience of your petitioner cannot find any other motive for their proceedings, .than the resolution, which he has never concealed from them, nor from others of perishing in defence of your Majesty and the Royal Family, sooner than allow a set of frantic men to fling upon the heroic Spanish nation the fearfid degradation which now menaces it. " Your Petitioner therefore beseeches your Majesty, that as long as the law has not declared him guilty, he may be treated with the distinction and respect due to his rank and his ser vices, and that the same consideration be shewn to the officers' who were arrested with him. He requests also that some assist ance should be sent to him, together with a month's pay ; and at the same time an order fin terminating the inquiry as soon as possible, so thathe and his fellow-sufferers may be restored to that freedom and honour which they value above a thousand lives. He . it.sks for justice, which he,deserves at the hands of your Majesty, whose life may Heaven long preserve for the happiness of the Monarchy. " From the Four Towers, in the Arsenal of Caracca, June 28, 1823. " Your Majesty's most obedient, devoted, &c. &c. " J. DOWNIE." The treatment which Mr. Cunwoon has ex perienced from his brethren on the Oxford Circuit has not cer tainly tended to raise them in the public estimation. In fact, in all quartets observations are made, which are every thing but ilatt6ing to the Gentlemen in question. People are shocked to find, that Members of a Profession, allowed by courtesy to be learned, and which ought to be liberal; as well as learned; should suffer themselves to be so far mastered by the desire of gain, es to lay aside all feelings of delicacy, and all regard for justice. If Mr. Cunwoon had attempted any thing new, the treatment he has experienced might have oc casioned less surprise, but he is borne out, it seems-, by the example of individuals high in the Profession, some of them on the Bench. No wonder that Mr. Baron Ilt:i.t.ncx evinced his disapprobation in so marked a manner at an ASsize Diener. 'We will venture to say there could not be found in this Metropolis a set of mechanics, stimulated by the cries of hungry children, who would allow their eagerness for employment so far to master their sense of pro priety. Even the horn-blowers, and the poor creatures who hawk newspapers at coach-office doors, generally contrive to observe something like fairness in their competition with each other. —We do not expect, noris it to be wished for, that education should extinguish in men the desire of advancing themselves in the world. But we are entitled to ex pect that it should, at all events, have an effect in preventing men from displaying that desire, in a way which must be generally ofiletsive. We should hope, there fore, that the Members of the Long Robe will see the advan. tage of discountenancing those displays of professional jealousy, which can only have the eflixt of exciting the disgust of by standers. The dogs in a Turkish town have their respective quarters, and shew no mercy to the luckless cur who ventures to pass his own frontiers. Front them the Learned Gentlemen of the Oxford Circuit would seem to have taken their prece dent.—( Morning Chronicle.) On Thursday last, the Lord Bishop of this Diocese, attend- ed by his Vicar-General, the Archdeacon of Totnevt, his Chap lain, Principal Registrar, and many of the Clergy, arrived at the delightful and improving town of Torquay, to conse crate the neat and convenient Chapel lately erected at that place, which has been endowed by the Rev. Roger Mallock, Patron of the Church of Tormoham, in which parish Torquay is situate. The service was read by by the Rev. John Sheepshanks, M.A. • and a most excellent and judicious sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. Tinney Belfield, jun., M.A. After the Consecration his Lord ship continued between one and two hundred young persons in the Chapel; and, with the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, who attended the,Consecration, accepted the invitation of the Rev. Mr. Sheepshanks to a very handsome collation, at which the kind attention and affability of that Rev. Gentleman were me ritoriously conspicuotts.—( Exctel flying Pact, Aug. 20.) ElutATust.--In the Paragraph yesterday, respecting 31r. BRANDON, for (1761) read (1768). PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DA V AT ONE o'cLock. India Stock lndialßonds 58s. South Sea Stock Old Annuities J. BiliM 23 33 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for ....... 1.1 Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 83 1 i 3 per Cent. Cons. 821 113 3A per Cent { .1 per Cent. Old 1 New -101 ii 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann. 21i 3.l6ths Imp. 3 per Cents. PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, Aua.23, AT ONE O'CLOCK. fren eh f Five per Cents. N. 1 Scrip, 2 pr. ( Six per Cents. 06. Russian - Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. L Ditto New 881. Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. Five percents. (Metallic) 00. { Five per Cen . t. Bonds, 1820, 00. Ditto 1821, 37i. Ditto 1822, 00. Prussian { Five per Cent. Bonds, 881. Ditto New, 81ii. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. Chili 71.. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 6 71 . Peruvian New Loan, 00. Bank Shares .1:21 15s. Seven per .Cent. 00. Six per C-nt. 83i—lot A. Five per Cent. 88-100. ,Three per Cent. 70. Neapolitan A u:, trian Spartiall American HIOIIIVATERA Morning s 34 Ininutl TLOSDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. es after 3. 1 Evening, 46 minutes after 3. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERk: FALSUM AUDEAT? LONDON, SiITURD AY, AUGUST 23, 1823. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. We have received by Express the Pilote of ,yesterday ,and the Etoile of Thursday.—There has been a battle between the Constitutionalists, under MIIANS and LLOTIEItA, and the French and Itoyalists commanded by General Tavenur and the Baron crEaoLes. It is evident enough from the French account that the brave and pa. triotic Catalonian force has been again victorious; for it isackuowlodged that the Spaniards defended themselves obstinately; and although thcy are, as' usual, alleged to have been thrown into disorder, rind to' have been obliged to retreat, yet it is admitted that they afterwards rallied, and it is not pretended that any prisoners were taken from them. The truth appears to be, that the Constitutional COmmanders were act ing on a combined plan for the execution of some important object,—that the French endeavoured to turn them from their purpose,—and that, hay ing come up with the Constitutionalists, the latter gave them battle, and having defeated the French and their allies, victoriously continued th e i r w at rec a k sa o fe f d tl i t s e t i a r nc d e isco if m t fi h t e e y d a m s a sa rc il l a i nt le s "i to ng follow the thought fit. Multiplied reports of an immediate negociation for peace continue to arrive from all quarters. Ail anxiety on this question will pro bably be terminated before the close of the next week. As the Duke d'ANcouLeste was posi tively to be at Port Saint Mary on the 16th (Saturday last), it is possible that the news of his arrival may he received in Lon don this day, by the aid of the Telegraph from Bayonne to Paris, and from Paris to Calais. On Monday, at any rate, we shall probably have to announce this event, to which, and to its immediate consequences, so much importance is justly attached. It is certain that at the moment of the Duke d'AxootiLtste's de parture from Madrid, it had been resolved, as we stated in several of our Papers of last week, to enter into an immediate negociation with the Constitutional Government. That wise and salutary intention was, however, abandoned, in consequence of the new hopes excite/1 by the defection of BALLASTEROS, and by the expectation that on the arrival of the Prince before Cadiz,that City and the person of the King of SPAIN would be delivered by treachery into his hands. But there are now many reasons for believing that the Duke has returned to his original intention cognize the va lidi t y of effectin g hi s o bj ec t by a t rea ty, w hich shall re- The Councils of the French, however, conti nue to of all the acts of the Corr be as much distinguished for vacillation and uncer tainty as they were on the grand question of commencing the war ; and there is no security that the resolution solemnly formed by them to-day, will not be changed by any veer ing of events before to-morrow. The silence of the French Papers, respecting the alleged fall of Corunna, seems to falsify the Lisbon report of that event received yesterday. The following are extracts:— (Franc the Pilate of Yesterday.) The follo w i ng are t h e reports - to-day on 'Change : According to reports every-thing was quiet on the ith at Cadiz, and nothing announces any new hostilities. On the sth the Cortes closed their Sessions, and named a permanent Commission , at the head of which is General Alava, whom the Journal des &bats said to h ave b ee n shot. At tho g -