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easarpation had been committed a s , , i the !art of tbe ATlStOettey in c9asequence of the Borougbs in question having, fallen to r decay. kle could wish to knew at whatperioti Old SaruM was any thing better than it was now ? The night Hon. Gentle .man to whom allusion had been made, who bad mentioned his (lend near bim, but mentioned him with honour on a late occa sion, had proved when Lord .J. Russell brought forward his motion on the subject of a Reform fte Parliament, that in .the Mit century the Earl of Essex not only nominated two Mem bers for the borough of Stafford, but wrote to the Sheriff to nominate Members for every borough in the County. It Was the same in the lairougii of Maiden ; and for some centuries tack, he found in various other instances the Co nst i tut i on had teen the sane in these respects as it was at this day. There was a 13(1'01110 in the Isle of Wight. called Newton, nd he found that in the first year of Queen Elizabeth, a Member of Parliament had been nominated for it by the Stewart of the Lord of the Barony of :Newton. The influence which was now exercised was not greater than had been common lit that time. Were the cries of disapprobation again drowned the voice of the Speaker.] • The it lOU Suram called oh the Meeting to give the Bon. 'Gentleman a hearing. Mr. S. Won Toter challenged his Hon. Friend to prove that - the Constitution of the country, with respect to the influences of the Aristrocracy, was different now from what it had been during the last 100 years. Such being the case, he would as if a number of important blessings had not grown out of the ac tual system ? Ile 'yielded to none in adnuration of the wisdom, moderation, and patience of those who brought abou t the Re. volution oflollB ; but that Revolution, he contended, would never have been effected in a Reformed Parliament, as that great work was completed against the general feelings of the -people. He did not mean to say that the Representatives of the people ought not generally to speak the sentiments of their Constituents, but this he contended was done on almost all great occasions in the House of Commons as at present • coustituted. The two great occasions whieh" had loaded us with debt were, the American war, and the late war with France. Both these, he maintained, had been exceedingly popular in their commencement: Of this lie gave several Do fs , and among others referred to a sp eech made b y Mr. Burke at Bristol, and to his subsequently• lootin g . his elec tion at that place through having opposed the American Wit: He admitted that it subsequently became unpopular, and would have terminated sooner than it did had the wishes,of the people been completely consulted. He thought the American war. unwise, but when once entered upon none could judge so Well as those engaged in the management'of it, when it could be advantageously or safely'terminated. In Parliament he had • expressed himself anxiously opposed to any thing that might unnenesearily plunge the country in a new war for foreig n ob . ieeta, and would pledge himself to continue to do so. He ea pressed strong abhorrence of the principles recently avowed and acted upon by the Continental Sovereigns. 'lle chewed that the late war with France bad been called fur by the people.— The House of Commons then ought not to bear all the blame far imposing those burdens of which the country now com plained. fled as the present systerii was said to be, he appealed to the Meeting, if the country had not risen under it to great. nest and glory, and if England had not been resounded through ell other nations as the nurse and cradle of liberty. The House of Commons afforded an arena in which all political questions might be contested, and in which all matters of importance were debated with the most distinguished ability. Some persons who called for Reform openly declared themselves friendly to the adoption of measures which he would resist to the last hohr ofhis life, and to the last drop of his blood. The measures he ;alluded to he would stamp, if he could with the opprobrium of public disgrace, as they called for nothing less than a national bankruptcy, and a breach of faith with the public creditor.— This he held to be in violation of common honesty— Here the Hon. Gentleman was again overpowered by the op. poeition he met with. Lord zi,T no entreated the meeting to hear his Honour able Friend and Colleague. Mr. S. Wasp t.z ir repeated some of his former arguments. —He could not vote for resolutions calling for a general Re form, but offering no specific plan. At the Same tame lie was far from saving the law with respect to the elections ought not tae intprovid. On account of a few defects that might exist, which he wished to be altered, he could not complain .of the House of Commons as at present constituted. he influence `cf the Crown he chewed to• have considerably diMinished, by eating off its direct.revenues, as well as by the increased cir culation end importance of newspapers. That which was most e,omplained of had been familiar to the Constitution through the btu 4to Yeats. klia former opinions on the subject were not ithelten, by any thing he had heard. He concluded, thanking the tweeting for the attention with,which, notwithstanding some ettatial interrupt;nns, he had been honoured. Lord MI ter on had implored the meeting to attend to his Hon Friend who had just apoken, as they had done to those who. bad preceded him, because the object of the meeting was to Ket t tin truth, which could only be obtained by hearing the argumenta on both sides of the question. He e for thie reason, thought they bad done right to give the Honourable Gentle. mon a hettetnin He (Lord Milton) had, for a long period, concurred with his Hon. Friend in oppoaing Parliamentary Refonn.. If there was any value in consistency, it was now his duty to state what had induced him to change his'opinion. He had been led to suspect, that the sentiments which he once peiterteined, were erroneous. Ile consulted those nearest to hint On this inhject, but his constituents were the last to Whom he thought it his duty to state the doubts which had oc etirred to him, and he had therefore, when last elected, gieren r i ft pledge on this Subject, as it' he made himself subserVient • to tai in it might be thought he would be subservient to others. He would now tell them that his conduct had been much in tuenced by the, proceedings of the Government in 1817, when the people had been excited to outrage by spies, to furnish a pretext for depriving than of their liberties. The imposition of Lew taxes to the amount of 3,000,0001., whenahe whole cm:try rang with calls for retrenchment, had strengthened his tattaPiolow.that the system was not what it ought to be. It wee further strengthened by the proceedings of the metnorable ltti:f; August in that year. The celebrated Six Acts con. atirmcd the opinion he Itad thus been led to adopt, as those Acts • went, in his judgment, to take away some of the most mate. rial pare) of the Constitution ; and the manner in which the case of the Queen was treated, when Mr. John Smith brought forward a motion for restoring her late Majesty's name to the Liturgy, convinced him that the people were not pro perly. represented in that House. Ile read Mr. Burke's deecriptton of what. a House of Commons ought to be, and ap pealed to -the Meeting if, in various instances to which he referred, the conduct of the existing House of Commons an. Ofertal to such deacription ? He felt that it did not, and there. • fore he considered the present to be a monstrous and unnatural :hoe of things. With this feeling, why ought he not to state that conviction which had come over his mind, and own that -prejudices which be had once cherished were no more. lie aieemed it his duty t 3 come forward as he had done—(Applause) —and he was persuaded that without waiting for the plan which it; I'f en. Friend desired to see produced, they ought to endeavour o impress on the House their feeling that the 'latent was defec tive. It hail been said - Vette Right Hon Gentlenan that the influence of the Crown was necessary in the House of Commons to counteract the voice of the people. When lie heard this etated, and by the brother ,of Lord Grantham, lie thought it high time to leek about him, to see in what respeet such coon. remotion could be necessary. Then his Hon. Friend spoke of the infhiencc of the press en aontrouling that of the Crown.— Vrty there wore two tides with the press. lie would ask the :fleeting if bad ever heard of a Paper called efoitti Bell. Isugli.)—Why should it not be assumed that the iniiu ence ttf the pr i m was as great on one side as it was said to be on the other, 'Having exisialted the circumstances which had induced him to join the friends of Parliamentary Refomi, and reolasked on some of the statements of his Hon. Friend, he' not detain them longer. • His Hon. Friend referred to ienen when, tint. Sheriff of .Staffordshire was written to by - the Patron of the Borough to nOlYiitiat4 Members t. serve in Pare lisMett, he (Mr. - Stuart ‘Vortley) ought to have, proved that the reign of Queen rlizebeth was one of 'great-liberty to make good bia argument. ,Jt was doubtless one of greet external ' ,tory, but it certainly was not distinguished for civil liberty. he cautioned them against violence, as tumult and anarchy in variably ended in tyeanny, this had been in the case of the Long Parliame.nts, succeeded as it had been by the dorninite tion of the Army, and the tyranny of Cromwell. It had been alto seen in our own times in a neighbouring country, and they might depend upon it that sitniliw disorders would always pro duce the same results. He therefore exhorted theta to ,temper their ardour with moderation. This he particularly retool. mended : but at the same time he wished them to mime the object in view, as he would do, with persevering resolution, and unceasing Mr. Wvvinr. contended that if, as the lion. Gentleman (Mr. A. Wortley) had told them, the BorougYaysteen had Ml tinued through four centuries, that wax no reason for uphold int; it still. Ho denied that Parliament, as at present cons& uned, spoke the sense of the people. This he thought had Won proved by the Noble Lord. The American war he con- sidered to have been produced by taxation without representa tion, and he did not Ficanate to say that the war against France in 1792 was merely undertaken to prevent the accomplishment of Parliamentary Reform. Mr. Br VEittair supported the Reaolutions, and commented with some severity on the arguments which had been applied to them. The Hen. Gentleman had said the Revolution would never have been brought about had a reformed Parliament than exieted. But be would ask if -the Parliament had been re fowled'? Coots those abuses which made the Revolution ne. cetetry ever have been known ? Ile insisted, that if the war With France - hati• been popular at its commencement, it would lover. intro beat 0011 , tintlell as it was, if the people had been fairlyteprefientea, as they would sooner have preferred a little 1 par:oniony and a little safety to all the chatter which they had heard about glory. The Hon. Member had spoken of the in crease of Newspapers, as counteracting the influence of the Crown. 'the Pekin Gazette was published every, ti .y; for the, edification of the 1itti1,(105,906 of Chinese subjects, but coald. a more rascally and vilianDtis system of tyranny exist than was established in China. It was said that all subjects were discussed in the Mourn Cornroo/18 with elstpience not to be surpassed ; but be knew of nothing very• extraottlinary in that way, and the best eloquence heard there, was but as a farthing candle to the -sun, compared with that of Ci,..cro anti Demosthenes. If grievances 'were with it was seen, as in the Manchester case, mat redress was not easily obtained in the Courts of law, and when a petition.-was presented to the house of Commons, if the language were strong, it was rejected as scandalous and ieditions, with a loud cry of— " Hear s hear, hear !"—lie knew of no remedy . fur the evils complained of, but that which would be found in a thorough anti Radical Reform. Mr. WoosEn./alled on the Meeting to come to an unani mous decision in favour of Parliamentary Reform.. The lion. Gentleman (Mr. S. Wortley) had declared that he would oppose the opinion which had been pro. - oulgisted by- some who called for R.eform to the last moment of his life, and to the last drop of his blood. He hoped the Hon. Oentlemati himself would regret having used these words, as it should seem be contetn plates the use of force and bloodshed to oppose the progress of opinions; and thus countenanced that violence himself which be was net slow to condemn in others. The Honourable Gen tleman had defended the abuses of which that Meeting com plained, because they had existed through the last four bun. tired years. If a Bill were brought into P.-.rlitontiit to' pro hibit murders and robberies on certain highways, the Ho. nourable (lentleinan might with equal reason contend that such a measure ought not to pass, as niorders and rob. belies had been committed on those spots four centuries ago.— He proceeded at considerable length to animadvert on the other arguments of the Honourable Gentleman, and strongly supported the. resolutions. They were not exactly couched in the terms which he would have preferred, but they embodied all for which he thought it necessary to contend, though he could have wished to call for the deeired Reform in stronger language. The real traitors to the State, he maintained., were those- who had involved both King anti People in one common chain to support the interests Of die existing Oligarchy. lie asserted the right of the people to be free; and to those who maintained a different opinion he would.ever give this answer, " When you can chew me. a man on whose brow God has stamped the name of slave, I will own it reasonable that that man should be so considered but till then I will not allow any Boroughmonger to place his tioven foot on the head of a free man and call him slave." , 7 • , Mr. S. 'Won't LEY in explanation said, he had declared he would oppose to the last hour of his life, and with the last drop of his blood, not opinions, but measures which went to pro duce a national bankruptcy, and to defraud the public creditor. Such measures, he repeated it, he ever would oppose, while lie was capable of resistance. The Resolutions were then severally put and carried almost unanimously, not more than five or six hands being held up against them. Sir FrtAxcis Lis LEY Woon read a Petition foundedon the Resolutions. He bad one observation to snake on what had fallen from his Hon. Friend Mr- S. Wortley (from whom he had never differed but in politics), in contending that the House of Commons ought to be suffered to remain corrupt because it had long been so, lie by proving too much had proved nothing.— He briefly enforced the right of the People to a Parliamen tary Reform, and was convinced that if • they persevered their efforts must -eventually be crowned with success. A quotation from Mr. Burke had been made; lie would give an other from that most eloquent of men, which he thought apli cable to the present occasion. Mr. Burke had said, " the will of the people of England, if not opposed to the eternal laws of reason and justice, which are above us anti about them, ought to be a law to the Houseof Commons.'-'• Lie only wished the will of the people to be a law to the House of Commons, when, as in the present instance, it was conformable to justice and reason. The British Constitution was not to he regarded as a picture which must he )sung tip to receive its finishing .touch from the mellowing hand of time • but rather as an edifice u-Inch ought occasionally to be improved and repaired for the benefit and accommodation of those to whom it belonged. Mr. G. ST RI C KLAND seconded the Petition, and advocated, at some length, the cause of Reform. Mr..BAY NES spoke from the Yard in praise of the indepen dent conduct of both their Representatives of the County that day. He was interrupted by calls from the crowd that he should ascend the hustings. Having done so, he repeated his eulogium on the Members, - but remarked, from the situation in which he had stood, he saw but one hand held up against the general feeling of the meeting, and that, unfortunately forthem,„ was the hand of one of their Representatives. The County of York had been invited to attend there, and as that ' lion. Gentleman had found himself thus unsupported, he hoped the circumstance would set him thinking,' and trusted that they should. soon have to boast of two Members converted to the cause of Reform. lie sincerely desired to see it supported by the noble-minded man who had that day sustained with such ! calmness the batterings ,of public indignation. Theie was no want of Tories in York, but if it should be asked .where the spirit of Toryism had been on the occasion of this meeting, the answer must of necessity be, non est inventus: lieltoped those he addressed would persevere, and if they did so, the day of Reform was not far distant. The question on the Petition was then put, and carried una nimously. Mr. ()Hot MRLY moved the appointment of &Committee to superintend the signing of the Petition ; itio Committee to consist of :he first 72 Gentlemen who signed the Requisition, with power to add to their numbers, -to form Sub-Commit tees, &c. Lord MILTON moved, that the thanks of the Meeting should be given to the High Sheriff. . Mr. S. WORTLEY seconded the motion. The motion being carried, the lIIFIf SHERIFF returned thanks for the honour he had received, and dissolved the Meeting. • OLD BAILEY, JAN. SENTENCES. The whole of the trials having been gone through, the CORDER proceeded this morning to pass sen tence on. the prisoners convicted during the Session. The following . twelve unfortunate individuals received sen tence of Death, viz : John Buckley, George Marshall, Thomas Beswiek, James Tlionibs, and John Robinson, for burglary.--Williatri Pearce, Neil Moran, Ann Williams, Mary Tickton, James Cross, Hannah Ford, and Elizabeth Ford, for stealing in a dwelling house. The RECORDER, previously to passing the awittl sentence of death on these unhappy convicts addressed them in a very' impressive manner, during which the wretched females and the lad Buckley wept bitterly. To be Transported for Life.—lienry Wheatley and William Smith. ___ For Fourteen &Watt and. William Bar. nard Colin. Years.—John Reed, John Connor., -John Barnes, George Seabrook, George Clay, John Smith, Thomas Moore, William Turlock, Mary Meredith, James Kemp, Richard' Humphreys, John Battle Maria Rix, Thomas Neviman, Martha Eales, Henry Smith, Thomas NVestent. Mark Noble, Martha; Williams, Elizabeth Price, Robert Beddoes, WilliaM Haines, James Cooper, Sarah Freeman, William Brown, John Siberi, 0. ' Lloyd, George Brown, William Adams, George Bartley, and two others. Jeremiah Harragan was sentenced to two years imprison 'trent in the House of Correction, and the REconnEß intnnated to the prisoner, who is a very old offender, that if, after that time, he was again convicted of felony, -he would receive sen tence, of death without benefit of clergy. ' The following were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction for one year : Thomas Allen, Abraham Veil, William Jones. (and to be publicly whipped); 'William Jones, alias oibl etto, Jane Moore, Timothy White, and Dennis , Haines. • ••-- William Adams was also adjudged to one year, but was im. madiately recalled by the ktECORDER, who observed, that in consequence of the enquiries which had been made respecting his character, the Court ordered him to pay a fine of one shl. ling, and then to be discharged. Seven were ordered to be imprisoned for six months, end se veral others to lesser terms of confinement. A number were directed to be publicly and privately whipped, and the judg ment on others was respited. The Court then adjourned, by proclamation, to Wednesday, the 19th Febrinery. STATE OF THE THERMOMETER.—On Wed riPS. day, at eight o clock, 25 deg. ; at one, 26 deg. ; at eleven at night, 22 deg. ; yesterday morning, at eight, 22 deg. ; at one, 24 deg. • A - Baronet, who must be nameless, proposed to visit Rome, and previously to learn the language ; hut by some strange mistake or imposition, en• gaged a German, who taught only his own lan guage, and proceeded in the study of it vigoronsly for three months before lie discovered his error. —(Brighton Gazette.) FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. VAR'S, 21. The most ;damning reports were circulated yesterday on . the Exchange. War was there re. garded asdecided;-nad France was represented as incapable of unde.rtaking it,,and supporting it alone. , la support of these Conjectures, many facts were quoted relative to the Army of Ob- servation and the Russian and Prussian troops. ence the fear of seeing foreigners for the third me occupy pass through our territory—hence .he eagerness to dispose of the ?Tides, the gra- &al fall of which appears now certain. For a long time past there has not been so much business done as yesterday. The misfortunes which an army of occupation brings in its train are so recent that no one can he surprised at the distrust which such a recollection excites. But be the reports in circulation well or ill founded, .be the ap prehensions to which they have given birth, more • or less reasonable, this is certain--that (b►ey are a consequence of the situation in which the system of the fanatics. has placed F rance, and that their immediate, effect is to injure public- credit. Private interest is a powerfUl teacher ; and, from the greatest capitalist to the smallest holder of stock, there is not one who, in the c . v. cumstances in which we now stand, has not made the calculation we are about to establish. In considering the actual mass_of rentes, a fall of one franc injures the State to an extent beyond 30 millions. The Government vial feel this set). sibly, ifthe war should render now negociations fur rentes necessary. In that case, and operat ing on ten millions of rentes only, every franc of depression would cause, a diminution of two millions to the treasury, on the produce of ,the capitalwhich it might raise by their sale. Thus, at 90, the 10 millions of rentes would produce, ISO millions, and at 80, only 160. It is plain that our wants remaining the' same, it would be necessary to augment the mass of the rentes, and consequently the annual budget, in a progression which would become frightful; for the more new rentes were created, the greater would be the depression, and yet it would still be necessary to. create more to raise the same capital.— (Courier Frangait.) L'Etbile announces that Count de LagardO is recalled, and that Ministerial Couriers have boen dispatched to all the Courts of Europe. It is presumed that they carry the resolution which the Cabinet of the Tuileries has adopted on this subject.—lbid. Yesterday, at noon, the King transacted bus' ness successively with the Viscount deChateau inland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Count de Villele, President of the Council. The Ministers assembled yesterday morning at the residence of M. the Viscount Chateaubriand, Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the faith of un evening journal, we yester day announced that WI. the Marquis de Vence, who commands a brigade of the Army of Obser vation, hadd, arrived in Paris the day before yes terday. The:motive assigned by that journal for his arrival—that of tidying an important report to make on. the Amy of Observation, which he had just left—is as false as the fact itself. -Not only has this Generalnot quitted his post, but no event has transpired which could necissitate such a step. The Whole Army of Observation is ani mated with the best spirit ; and we have this very in;tant learned that a hundred of the Spanish Constitutional soldiers having, for the third time, been audacious enough io enter the French terri tory, have been•disarmed by.our troops.----(Jour nal des Debats.) The Journal des PAats, in a note onAhe pa ragraph in the Universal, which we quoted yes terday from the Spanish Papers, (in substance that the friendship of England will console us for the hostility of Russia, &c.) says—" It is thus that the pride and imprudence of' revolu tions treat the Representative of an Empire which reckons on an army of 850,000 men; and the re presentative of a Prince the most moderate, and most friendly to the liberties of nations, that ever. existed (!)—( When France shall be able to speak,' says "the Spanish Journalists (who can read our papers and say that we.are dumb), 4 France will accuse the folly of the Govern ments which have forced Spain to draw close, more and more, the bonds which unite her to England. England has no need of the help of other Governments to draw closer her bonds with Spain—she knows bow to take her measures. She thought lately that she had somethhig to demand ; she did not stop sillily to consider whether the Spanish Government had or had not any longer her colonies—bad or had not finances ; whether Spain had been devastated or not by Buonaparte--whether she was anew devastated or not by civil war—whether she had or had 'not to fear a war 'With Europe ; Eng land, in a quite friendly way,, demanded 'her Money,and threatened to seize upon Spanish vessels if she was not paid immediately I But France, whose territory has. been thrice- violated under deplorable circumstances—France,, whose sub jects and soldiers they (happily io vain) attempt to corrupt or render faithless—France, whose Government and ,Monarch are incessantly in sulted—France. has neither the right to -make friendly representations, nor to have err Army :of Observation, as England has Fleets of Observa tion. However, she, asks no money, and she continues religiously to pay what she owes to Spain. Apparently, the Spaniards are angry at nothing but notes." The day before yesterday, and yesterday morning, two messengers from Madrid. arrived at the English Ambassador's. Yesterday couriers for the several Courts of Europe were dispatched froin the department of Foreign Affairs. The one who was expedited to Madrid is, it is said, the' bearer of an order to the Count de Lagarde, to quit that capital forth i th. Last night a courier with dispatches from Madrid arrived at the Hotel of Foreign ,Affairs. It is affirmed that the ambassadors of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, demanded their passports from San' Miguel on the 11th instant, which were sent to them on the following day, accompanied with a very unceremonious letter. Their Excel lencies quitted Madrid on the 13th inst. The most absurd rumours were yesterday cir ca culated on 'Change. We (Qaoiidienne) repeat them to show how furiously the enemies of order are endeavouring to alarm capitalists and the .• : , commercial interests : according to some, a levy of 300,000 men has been decreed, and the Mini ster of War had set off for the Pyrenees in the Suite of M. the Duke d'Angdulerne ; others affirm ed that M. the Marquis de Vence had arrived in Paris with disastrous intelligence respecting the Army of Observation, which it was said was attack . ;; ed by Mina. Others, finally, had formed a new ministry, the nomination of which was confidentally stated. All these reports, as may easily be be lieved, have no authentic foundation. The Duke d'Angouleme has not quitted Paris ; N. de Vence is still with the army of the Pyrenees ; and the latest advises from Catalonia announce, that Mina has recently retreated from the neighbour. hood of Barcelona. It was said that war was yesterday morning resolved in Council, and that in consequence of this resolution M. de Vill;ile tendered his-resig nation, not in his quality of Minister of Finance, but of President of the Council. It was oho said that his Royal Highness the Duke d'An gouleme will have the command in chief of the army of the Pyrenees ; that General Guillemi not would be chief of the Staff of this army, of which the Duke de Belluno will' command the right wing, and the Duke de Reggio the left.— Finally, Chat 300 Gardes-du-Corps were nomi nated under M. d'Oudenarde, to accompany his Royal 11 ighness. [From the Drapeau Manc.] The news is coufirmed that the Count tie La garde is recalled front Madrid. It has sadly confounded the revolutienists and les politiques: they behold in it the presage of immediate war; 'and, therefore, to produce a great fall in the public funds, they have circulated the most exaggerated ,and the most ridiculous reports : we shall not take the Arouble to contradict them. After the recal of NI, de Lagarde was deter mined on, couriers were dispatched from the Fo reign Office to the principal Courts of. Europe. In the different circles of the Tuileries, people were occupied yesterday evening exclusively with the rumour of M. de Villele's resignation, which he had tendered, it was. said, during the sitting of the Council on Saturday, after a dis cussion supported by M. de Chateaubriand, on the urgency of our repressive operations with re gard to Spain. Time will soon disclose the truth of these reports. With equal confidence, but with more diversity, the seditious disposition of the Belgians towards the Government of the Ne therlands is spoken of. Wedo not think it neces sary to pronounce a premature opinion upon this subject. It is not certain that the Flemings and the Liegeois ought to be assimilated with the Spanish Jacobins, and us we have always de clared our wishes in _favour of the unhappy Christians persecuted in the East, without now committing ourselves to the narrow circle of the politics of the day, we shall continue to repeat with courage and confidence, to legitimate Go vernments-4.‘. .fiatjustitia,./stut calurn ": CALAIS, JItN. 23:---The troops at St. Omer, and part of those at Calais, have orders to march towards the South. [Tuesday being the Anniversary of the Death of Louis XVI., no business was transacted on the French Exchange.] BRUSSELS, JAN. 19.—Letters from Cambray, dated the 17th in the evening, have the follow ing statement : -4 ' It is affirmed that 15 or 16,000 men, cou sisting of troops of every description, are going to be drawn .from the garrisons in the Northern frontier, which extends from Strasburg to Dun kirk, and that they are destined to reinforce the Army of Observation." The journals of both the Northern and Southern provinces of the Kingdom publish nu merous acts of charity during this inclement season.—A collection made at Amsterdam pro dtreed 15,000 florins. ROME, JAN. it—The health of his Holiness continues to be very good, and we hope that we shall long preserve this virtuous Pontiff. Part of die equipage of the King of Naples arrived yesterday. His Majesty is not expected in his own dominions till the end of next month, as he intends to visit several cities - in the Hereditary Dominions of Austria. We expect soon to see at Rome Monseigneur Giustiniani, who was Nuncio froth his Holiness to King Ferdinand of Spain. The C anon Villanueva is stilt at Gnoa, waiting for orders from those who sent him. What is certain - is, that he will not set his foot in Rome.. In consequenCe of informa tion which the Government has received from some towns in the three .Legations, respecting the - intrigues of certain individuals • who are proved to have had an understanding with emis saries whom a faction had sent to Italy towards the meeting of the Congress; rigorous measures have been.adopted against those individuals. It is affirmed that they will be removed to the castle of St. Angelo, till they can be brought to trial. The arrival yesterday of 'seven close carriages, under escort, has given reason to believe t h at the order for their removal has already been carried into effect. FRANKFORT, JAN.141.---A. letter from Trieste, of the 3d inst. says, " A vessel which arrived few days since at Piratic), reports,that Napoli di Romania surrendered on ale 3d December. A second vessel which arrived yesterday confirms this news. On the demand of the Janissaries most of the Asiatic troops were to he removed from the environs of Constantinopl e where Haleb Effendi bad kept them as a check on the Janis saries. It is not known whether they will return to Asia, or be employed against Greece. The first seems improbable, because the war with Persia is supposed to he terthinated. Nothing can be undertaken against Greece before spring. The Porte is said to have received very bad news from Thessnly and Macedonia. It is re markable, that since the fall of Haleb we hear of no new persecution of the Greeks."—(Bria.,els Paper, Jan. 21.) INDIA. MADRAS; Atm. .3.--B - v letters receivectfra Bencoolen, ive learn that a Pad rie war is expo shortly to take place.' The Pantries are a cetta sect of fanatic priests, natives of the interior. Padang, oh the west coast of Sumatra, who are m th e e e y t e l a: rt ly habit of propagating the tenets of tht sect by compulsory measures, and when thi cial intercourse ilresis b t e a t i ,v c e e en o t f h 'es'tionp ping t. a t n h d e t c h ° e cos: They are a very formidable tribe, and frequent require the interference,of the European Powers keep them down. The northern stations of Sa tal and Avher Banes; are at this time entire exposed to their attaekS, and it is stated that ti Dutch who have stiffered crtim their incursion have actually commenced hostilities against thee though not. within the success they expected. I a* late engagement with the )utch troor, the' military priests are stated to .have had recourse' a most brutal stratagem, that of placing their vti men and children in the front of their ranks I receive the first onset. _This:sloes not sPPI however, to have h a d th e e ff ec t intended, for t Dutch troops, instead'of pitying them, charg e ' and actually bayonetted the whole van-gn arl consisting of 211 women, each w i t h an inian who had been placed t o oppose theta With e: tended arms._ This barbarous act we bare t'' best_ authority for. believing correct. The Dutch it seems are deterinhed to sub llll . them, and if they are well supported, they " I no doubt succeed. They have however bee defeated lately,, but they asOilie their defeat 0 tirely to the treachery* of a Pedrie chieftain, Pedang Senow, who hid come over for the e; press purpose of deceiving them'. This ' 5 •, 1( Dutch account, and. poar Senow, whether or not, has suffered for it. lie was breagttl..yri in the presence of.the Chieftains end troopi, the first operation was to cut off his beard, ate 1f the applaus e o f t he p o p u l ace ; th e second ef', l l lion was to cut off his head : tool the thita.7_ to embalm the h ea d a n d sen d it down to as a 'warlike trophy, where it has been OP; for some time to the admiring multitude. war at present appears in favour of the CALCUTTA, AUG. I.—By a recent prodall a , i ., of the Government of Ceylon, we learn, t''''';tit to the general' ex p or t a t ion o f c i nna mon fro nt i t island, it is stip u l ate d t h at t h e paritel't ith article shall be made in ready moneY7, currency of the island, or i n s pecie race'''. the current exchange of the day at Coloin inconvenience of such a restriction, hoc cve :Je came so immediat e ly apparent, that wee u tot t stand it is already cont e mplated to sugges t t a u t Ceylon Government a mo difi ca ti o n Of th e t, terms. During the last t en . years that t' , titre India Company enjoyed .the cianamo" ",d on the island of Ceylon, th e y antandil 'opt 84,0001. Though that Government, io " w oo l , lag the trade, may to the general eY•t ent rive a corresponding advantage, still the Pi . rove sales must yield a handsome profit, a''' l „e r ag most propitious aid to the ilinited that By Colony. lette rafrom Fort Ma Hos°, we kO t t party appointed by the Madras G' - proceed to the west coast of Sum, purpose of taking the requisite o determine the length of the pen Equator, had left Bencoolen. The apparatus and instruments were in of efficiency as when they were di Madras. The vessel which conve, to the Equator,.and was to attend together with a guard,. materials, a/ build a pillar to which to affix tit, carpenters and provisions, had bee them by the Government, of Bette°, c' - We are informed that a .seve re 5"?.. 4 f aoti, earthquake wits felt in the district of ",..15 f different periods, and after slight inter.,,]::; the space . of five d ays . Thi s h a d t ' cc tie ftl somesonsiderable alarm to the inl)abits u district, althOugh no damignof Y portance had been the result of the The wind, during these shocks,' w',ls grin easterly, with good breezes. AMERICA vAii, e t ! A letter froth Washi ng t o n to the vo.; - , r vra il Frankiiig Gagette dated on die - 7thinst• just heard that Col: Bayne l'as been el:etc*. e re tt( United States for six years, fr . = the ' 4.h Of 3 10 , ".„; * (1 . Legislature of South Carolina. The Maj2ritY ' s , : lief be 1 7. Judge Smith was his Opponent, and the Ord Ord principally is friendly to Mr. Craw ford's' electir 0 , 4 t 1 rated aramst blm. Letters have * been received 11,7 Cumming and 1 1 41`Duffie have had another n 2 4 7- tight." fra° Nov. 28.—8 y the Leod we have reccive, respondent at-St. Thomas's, - paper4 of th3t 05 ,1 inst. inclusive, and Barbados's pap'e-g of the .Z.J.,6 01 ,\). To the politeness of Mr. Kerr - a -ia*s..gengcr till" /112;:,e4 indebted for it tile of the Giii;ra-tChr*Prfrie to Lie The United States' brig Spark; Cap , - St. Thomas's, an d sa iled on the 3d inst:- that there was much sickness On hoard the 5 ' 93 ,1 t ... 1t 5' 4 1 Walter Newc om b, one of her () fil t ers, died at the 4th ar Nova:lbex. an d , 1.6 rentuuliis ire's ceived SL Thomas's. 'hie " li d e tyi , morning with military honours. • Accounts iron, La Guira of the Attli Octo; 4 ip then gone down for ten days to dur-avi:s 1.100).'"v0t1..,,, of some Americans confined there ~ and r; l'* ; Guira, and to take a convoy there,, the ."°`-' touch at St. Thomas's. . - t Markets at St. Thomas's ar• very'?ltdfi g 1-"1 Flour 8A dollar;.— (411,:rourv:j • , lionFttb MuttuEit.--Oit Sund a ; inst.) at th e ear l y h ot i r o r eight - o' i ' ° u ' idr,„! of villians b ro k e i nto t h e house of 0 4 l ip within three miles of Mitchebitc''`',,'•ooill' •,0 Most brutal m anner m u r dered Oleo . 007 the poor old people to stir Iva t o :1 7 0 1/1 lives are despairetl of. A yoting t h ,? family, with a child iu bee a' n's) (1) 0 ,0 fortune to secret her'44, a nd thr' ll ' o f the I ,. s i saved both their lives—for the fatl ,cl , o le',d seemed to be directed against Ow it s Shortly after leaving, the house t!bei/i'll recd posed, recollecting the female, og" e 91 '1 P bat she fortunately talkieescli de her • 4! 6e : 1 herself a second time in an adjoi" 1 "700. , „1 deed 01 PO only cause assigned for this OOO AP suspicion entertained that. pl i '"0 1 1 given information against some ° 8 10 0 1 so numerous in that part of the ca u xt jay' td bad character was taken U l e. • ) lille cion, who h as s i n c e Iwo!' 111--wny la° of the part y.--(Cork Advertiser,/ teal" Dt ;OVer t/ " .- rti latril )I;serC iltj 4 to ad n1;10 t ilt e [l Ol4 (1 ,0 tile sail 64 ispatches yeti. the f h ' el theo ) : s n(i ros is to , rs of