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FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile, dated Monday, Aug. 23. ) PARIS, AUG. 2t.—We have this instant re ceived information, by way of Constantinople, :that the Greeks have attacked and re-entered Ipsara. Three or four thousand Musselmen pe rished, and the Greeks did not leave Ipsara till they received intelligence that the Captain Paella ssas coining back to attack them. This news has revived the courage and the hopes of the Greeks. The Egyptian expedition is the only thing which can be wholly fatal to them. After mass the King received the great Officers, the Ambassadors with the Pope's Nuncio at their head, the Ministers, Marshals, Peers, Deputies,. and a- great number of functionaries, civil and military. General Prince Joseph of Savoy Ca rignan had the honour of a private audience with the King, and to present his young son, who is going to Turin. A contract has just been made for the repair and Improvement Of the prisons of St. Lnzare and St. Pelage. These works, the expence of which is estimated at a million and a half of francs, con sist in various new buildings appropriated to the system of classification, which is adopted for the general amelioration of all the prisons of Paris. They will be commenced immediately, and finished, it is said, by the end of next year. The Moniteur of Sunday contains various Royal Ordiniiices ; the first suppresses the offices of in spector and Director of the Royal Printing-office, and decrees that that establishment shall be di lected for the Niue by one officer only, who shall be called Administrator of the Royal Print ing-office. The second directs that the disposi tions of the Ordinance of the '2d October, 18g2, shall lie applicable to the functionaries and clerks of the Royal Printing-office, who have been dis charged in consequence of the suppression of their emptir,yrnent. The third, divided into sixty ar aides under ten heads, relates to certain pensions to be granted to the chiefs, clerks, and workmen of the Royal Printing-office. THE FRENCH CENSORSHIP. 114. DE CIIATEABRIANTVIIIIS written a pamphlet, entitled--" La 'Censure pc l'on friers: d'etablir en vertu de Particle de la Lot du 17 Afars,'lo2l" In his preface, M. de Chateaubriand says—" The Censorship would not allow this brochure 14 be ,announced in the journals, although the title certainly contains nothing seditious. Is there any thing in it against the King or the law? Dots the title stute whether the author is for or against the censorship? What instinct in the censors ! What marvellous sagacity! Ihtt I shall say no more; my name Is printed in the title-page of the brochure.-.. 11 ft possible to believe that we arc under the Ministry of AI Corbiere and De Villele ?" In the preface to the stcond edition, M. de Chatcaubriand alludes to the tapittuale of the first, which, he says, war► sold less time than it Was written, notwithstanding the censors would not let it he advertised, and the Post refusal to tr,►nsinit copies in the ilepariments ay tinil. It hi said that 5,000 copies Odle firit edition even sold, within 3 bourn.. This pamphlet contains some information respecting the articles which the cantors; have expunged. Among those struck nut of the Jrnirll(4l (kg of Tuesday, the 17th, wan— let, A second article, taking a retrospective view of the beat. reeaenf the last Session of the Chtenber of Dermeee. ea, Th e r•ivertist•tuent of M. Cleiteaubrianti'a pamphlet. And, 3tity, Some lines on the sensibility of the Duke of ()deems,' on hearing that his won, the Duke de 'Chances, had obtained a preee I Against the Coli4 . litutionni3 tins censors were still more amere, and that Journal was even precluded from mentioning the Duke d'Angouleme :es engaged in a cause netch more honoureble to humanity than leading a French arm) , in Spain to restore leerdiaand VII. to his absolute authority. N. de ilhatettulniend says the thing seemed so improbable, that he could not believe it was suppressed until be saw the article. It me mutely 4 notice sent from the Duke crAngouleme, inviting the Members of the Royal Society for Prison Discipline to meet his Reeve) Highness at a sitting of the Society on Thursday.; accompanied by a few remarks of the'Editor, expressing a wish that all the abuses which exist in the prisons , and jeive so Irticht pain tothe true friends of humanity and religion. conid be made )snows to his hoyal Highness, that he might he well hi. formed on a subject en worthy of his beneficence and humanity. 111. de Chateaubriand asks whether there Is any thing in such art article as the last which iniehtheve been expected to provoke the wrath of the Censors, nr Rehrimirs de phrtuirs, its he styles them. "It is then," says he, "no longer permitted to speak inhumanity nor of religion ; and time the name of a Prince, the restorer of our army—et name that Europe respects, and Frence has inscribed among the great actions (faster) of her giory—is blotted out by some obscure Censors in a police-office. It is true that. the Prince, though a Christian, is suspected of being attached to the Charter. It is true that all parties in Spain hoe found their only shelter in his sword—that ho has Incal. cated awned in the midst of divisione—that be has repressed timse ram blinee of liberty, as well as the vagaries of arbitrary -power .—that he is opposed to reactions and vengeance—that he has not nufrered proscriptions to dishonour his anny—and that the piles of the Inquisition have given way to the altars rained to Isis eictories." The author alludes to 4 speech he made in the ( t.enber of Peers on the 13th Mach, Iti23, in which, in reply - eat( to a previous speaker, luesaid, " A noble Baton anticipates teat rratece will he invaded, and all our liberties destroyed 14 •Spein. As to the invasion of France, and the loss of our public liberties one thing retail console use—that these events shall ,never take place while land my colleagues are Ministere. The . Noble Baron, who possesses so roue)) talent, and such generous sentiments, will pardon this ressereion." These words, end the establiehment of the Censorship, M. de Chatea t teel e rel says, explain why he is no longer Meister, and the cause of the treatment be bas experienced front his colleagues; .but he says he will leave persons, and speak only of France. " I need not repeat," he says, " whet I have seid a hundred times its the tribune, and what i have printed a hundred times in my works, that there can be no representative government without the liberty of the prem. With the Censorship of the Journals, the Constitutional. Monarchy will become either more weak or more violent than Absolute Monarchy. It is a weak or ;wetly machine, which interrupts, by the " complexity of its wheels, or breaks by the force of its motion. The he...minister then proceeds to notice the fourths article in die law of thzt 17th March, 1822, which provides for the re- viva) of the Cs:wee:whip, and contends, that according to the spirit of th a t law, :so cvunt or eireitmetenee hail centered to just. tires Its revival. The article says, "If in the interval of the sessions of the Chanibere, serioue circurnstences should render ineffectual for time mernent, the measures of guarantee and "Pre4,lion eStithliShed, ale Censorship may be again put in force." " I demand," says M. de Chateauhriand, " if the ,case provided for by the law has occurred ? Are foreign armies at our gates? Is there any conspiracy in the interior? is the throne menaced ? Ilas one of our beloved Princes fallen under the iist.ts,lr of a new louvel ? No, happily not. What, then,: has !same:mai Why, the Minister hits committed same faults; he has lost a majority in the Chamber o f P eers ; he detested before the tribunals of shamefal negoriations in order m purchase opinione; he has dissipe red the advantageous results or the expedition in Spain ; that he has separated from the Itoyaliste—ese otes word, that he appears Meet-sable of his uMess- Theses are the serious erc Mese which compel us to Violate the fimilamental liberty 10 the wisdom of this King If of t ite:t ' itetions w — hich We owe nstenees are serious, he 11 " made Own '") 4 - 611 it t ' e g ( '` reu' i ' that he line 'eetablisdied Ceneerehip," Ik e a- 1 4 1 , 11 : s ,, t oe i „ m t me cxtc„,eoe o f • t fuer iretimetareese sal 11 eh have led to tits - 'Censor ship, ligainst wisielt M. de Chatestebriane, contends : he epeeist' with is ee:pi t of hi: '• V . ll - 1 n d e' Vill e l e, t h oug h not by nate. rl, t i, try fa endangered ley the mesn? • ,• el, he nays, " The remedy I s caly , . ttet: '4(3li iii dine: if it is sterna.. ed to g o no, it becomes , raisle. catmot de ve l o p e (woie in this little Tame!. .!t, the rapid work of few isult, . wtiith lie .p ": ll ; 4,ll i n a he:; y on account of the importance of • the subject. It is laird for that lam so far Advanced in toy m career, to re-engage in struggle's which have copeuteettyiifet =but a Peer of France and a Magietrate, I cannot sea /som e h e .hesty.perish. I could not see the tribunals attacked w i t h out Taising my voice—without giving my support, fe6la as it may be, to the Institutions that were endangered. That the throne of oar wise Monarch may remain unassaileble-etlest France may be free and happy, is my prayer; and as to my own des. ,tits, let it be as Clod pleases." `GREECE. EXTRAORDINARY .3A7ETTE. We have at this momentinitjreceived letters, which we hasten to publish4vit4ut delay, on ac count of the admirable news which they contain. —( The Editor of the Greek Chronicle.) " Ithastiaixamt, 4 (la), JULY. " The Primates of the isle of Spezzia to the venerable Execu. tive Goveinment : ``.Yesterday, afternoon arrived from Ipsara a vessel which left the port of that island the evening of Sunday. The Cap tain of this vessel hats consoled us by relating the following news: ' The fort of she isle and the town are now in the power of the Greeks. Only two batteries and a few fortifications of the isle were yet in the, power of the enemy; howeier on the Saturday two brave Ipsariot Captains rushed against the enemy With very few of, their companions, and massacred the Turks, in number about five hundred. Having thus delivered the immortal Ipsariots, their wives and children, they rushed forth in a crowd and repulsed the enemy as far as Sierra. Another picquet composed of 15 Ipsariots, under the command of Dem-Kalemeri, having previously taken refuge in a grotto, fought against the Turks on the side of the, sea, and then returning, with unexampled magnanimity killed a great number of Turks, and succeeded in taking a small vessel which approached too near the shore, after having killed forty Turks contained in the ship. - In a word, the courage of the Ipsariota was inconceivable ; since, at the moment when the swords of the men killed their enemies, the guns of the Ipsariot Amazons sent to the shades a great number of To rks. " We have just received the same news from the isle of Morro, by a letter addressed to the Ilydriots. All this affair .inflames marvellously our patriotic zeal, and that of our fly driot brethren, and we have resolved to run immediately to the deliverance of our dear Ipsariots. On this account fourteen vessels of war and six fire ships have left the port of hydra. We have others which are to be sent immediately . ; and a schooner to inform our vessels near Caxo, to direct them immediately towards Ipsara. dire have also fitted out according to our power, nine other Ipsariot vessels, and five fire ships, and all set out together to-day. We now busy ourselves in finding crews for other vessels, &c.—Spexaia, 25-7 Alm 1824. '• I have been waiting for positive details to write you con cerning the tragic and at the same time heroic affair of the 'pea riots. We have now by certain news learned as follows :—On the 21st June (old style) at sun-rise, the enemy disembarked on Ipsara with three hundred vessels anti more than twelve thousand troops. The landing was effected at different places, but the Turks could only penetrate on one point,, where there was a battery opposite to Selo and Mitylene, end where from the steepness of the coast a landing was not expected. But as the enemies were Gheghides and Albanians, they fell on with great rage and fury, and penetrated, 'after having made a great re sistance, and with great loss on both sides. They afterwards divided themselves into two columns, one of which marched on the other batteries; the others towar dsi the town ; the first met with a very warm resistance in a battery. The enemy threw themselves on it thrice with impetuosity, and were thrice re pulsed ; but the third time having redoubled their force to the number of 2,000, they rushed on with such desperation that they penetrated to the buttery, where they fought with time swore]. lt was then that a brave Ipsariote set fire to a powder-Magazine, and all were blown up ; 80 heroes and 2,000 enemies were buried. The second column arrived at the town, where the fight was kept up with unexampled desperation. There were there a great number of Ipsariots and other'Greeke, who rushed on like wild lions and killed the greatest possible number of the enemies. In this conjuncture you can well understand that the Greeks preserve the heroism . Which raised the Spar tans above all other nations. Several women, after having killed' ninny enemies, • died bYtheir own hands to escape those of the barbarians. Many fathers killed. their children and their wives, and threw themselves among the • enemy to. take vengeance in their blood. A Captain named Ratio, who had been appointed by the Areopagus as aide.de-camp to Colonel Vasio in Negropont, after having made an heroic resistance, and after having killed many enemies, went nut sword in hand, and saved many'ehiltiren in a smell fort. The enemy got pos. session of half the town s , hot the strongest part remained to pos. session of the Greeks.- The 22a of dime (0.5.), - a high wind ' , having driven Of to a antall_diautnett the veasela s and thii enemy Naring.that they were to be abandoned, many left the town, end immediately eke (creeks-threw themselves with impetuosity na tine rest, and killed more than 600, and saved all the women and children that had been taken, and all their effects. In the course of this fight, it is said that more than 5,000 enemies re mained dead; time number of Greeks killed is not yet known. Today we ate assured that the Ipsariot vessels sent to Caxo, after having saved that isle, where there was rut equally brave and heroic resistance on the part of the Caxints, returned to Ipsara, and began the combat, and yesterday the other vessels arrived, amounting to more e than HO, and weexpeet that to morrow we shall learn that the 12 or 10,090 enemies who are said to have landed, will have been all massacred,. since the Greek% defended themselves with .incredible heroism, an d a ll the veSsels of the other islands have gone to aid the Ipsariots. At this moment we learn that the enemy's fleet has been beaten, after having three vessels sunk. It has been put to flight, and we may judge from thence that the 'Perks who have remained in the town have been all Massacred.. No Greek vessel has been damaged, while three or four of the enelny's have been lost. Te Dcums , are now sung. " The islanders have shown great zeal and activity to aid their brethren, and have expended large coins, and made great efibrts to send out all their maritime force, and the Govern. nent has shown great activity.' The Ilydriots and ,Spezziotes lave prOpt:Aed to the Government to' viend the*, troops, since "roin sending e tway their mariners the towns remained defence- lean. The Executiv e Body has seen ut this moment, with great surprise, that lilYsses, who bad been commanded to go to the islands with his troops bas refused. Nicetaa, ohs the contrary, has ordered himself a written prayer to the Executive Body, and has gone to Spezzia with 100 men. One anecdote of Ipsara :--An Ipsariot Captain, called Kalimeri, with various others, to the number of 10 or I , took refuge otter the battle in a cave on the, sea side, where an enemy's vessel arrived, • • learing forty Turks . As soon as it appeared, those Ipsariots crawled out, rushed on the vessel, and took possession of it, tnal killed the men. The Greek Government has taken all possible care of the Women and children who took refuge in and Srizia, having kept them and sent hack the men, who wrote to the Government to take care of their farnilies, while they went to sacrifice thernseices for their country. Anton; them is the brave Canneries, who is det,Tmined yet to intro die Turkish fleet, or to perish. Illy friend, I cannot ex plain to you in detail, but 1 tell you Miefy, that ate boasted ikvils of the Spartans are little in comparison with the magnimity of the Ipsartots, their wives an d c hild ren , fi ir th e .deeds of these islanders have been related to - us by eye-witnesses, among whom is Nicolaides, who was last year Member of .the Executive Iledy, and who is nephew of bevitli.-1 announce this to you' that you may rejoice at this satisfactory news. Napoli di Itemania, June 28, O.S. - (July 8, N.S.), 1824." THE BAVARIAN GOVERNMENT AND CHURCH Mtj iccl, At; G, li.--Crest nttention has bear ' excited her. by a pastoral - le:ttcr, issued by the Archbishop, under the date of the 9th or June 'this year, against the . prevalent wrist Of Zeal in the exercise of religion, and the increasing licentiousness of morals the letter concludes with a notice, that se,cording to dixectioas which have already been sent t o a ll the French priests of the dioceses, those parishioners who shall b 3 guilty of illicit intercourse with the other sex, both the seducer aril the seduced, shall not only he held tun more frc fluent ure of the religious tneatis of salvation, according to a certain 1011(11'16m), but on' the first ofr:tice be reproved in pre sence of the parents; on the second, in that of some respect members of the congregation ; on the third, before the whole congregation; and on the fourtla, be, excluded for a time frOM the congregation. This pastoral letter has given occasion to a Royal Declaration, wlitelt , e after reer.,gnizing the salutary views that may have actuated the Archbishop, disap. proves the promuktation of this Letter without the Royal c to. sent, declares null and void the regulations threatening punish inent for repented misdemeanours. in the commerce of the sexes, Irate comeiderstion of the tutintrotts difficulties in the ex.ceation , the consetiucact;s that would ensue vDtiangering tile honour and tranquillity of families, tee; well as the respect due to the clergy themselves, and because they evidently exceed the jivoioi of the spiritual authority. The magistrates are directed in general to employ all proper and legal means in their juris diction, in order, with the active co-operation of the clergy, to cheek the progreSS of intmorality, and gradually to restore a better state of things; but at the SAIIIC time to keep strictly within the bounds of their cu 01011 , , Vigilant!) , to sec to the Maintenance of the rights of the'l oyal Supremacy, and pre serve the subject against any threatened infringement, since, ;h o ugh the church may be assured of the most powerful support from his lifitiesty in all its efrortite for the promotion of good morals, yet his Majesty never could tdlow objeetsln themselves the most laudable to be . pursued in violation of the legal forms, of the Mate, and the limits fixed to the spiritual' power la: in any Manner axcetsled. ,An edict hiss been issued for bidding the students of the kingdom of Bavaria to stmlyi in any University except that of ralangen,' his Majesty' having taken such measures, that Protestant Divines shall have all ne cessary instruction in that University. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, AuG. 24. To-d4y both Houses; of Parliament met, pursuant to their prorogation in July, for the purpose of hearing his Majesty's Commission. At about ten minutes past two o'clock the LORD T h ou CHANCELLOR took his seat before the Throne, assisted by the Lord Chairman of Committees on his right, and Lord St . Helens and the Lord Deputy Speaker on his left ; whereupon the Yeoman Usher of the Black Hod wu directed to require the attendance of the Commons in this [louse. Within five minutes the Officers of the other House, preceded by John Rickman, Esq. in company with the Yeoman Usher, came to their Lordships' bar; after which the Royal Com mission was read by Benjamin Curry, Ehq. bearing date the 14th inst. . ..... The loan Thou CitANcEr.Lon then declared that, by virtue of the Commission, just read, and in obedience to His Majesty's commands; this present Parliainent was further pro rogued till Tuesday the 4th day of November next, then, and here, " to be holden anti sit." CITY STREET IMPROVEMENTS. In the course of last week Mr. Alderman HEYOATE, Mr. 130175P1P3.1). and some others of the Inha bitants of Chatham-place, Blackfriars, presented to the Lone MAYOR, a complaint, that the Committee of the Commissioners of Sewers had directed the space before their houses to be raised ani Macadamised. .Thety complained strongly that this mea sure had been adopted without consoling them, or giving them notice on the subject, although their . property would, as they conceived, be seriously affected by it; and they begged that they might be heard with respect to the measure before it was carried into execution.—ln consequence of this complaint, or memorial, the Lord Mayor convened a Special Court of the Commitflionere of Sewers, which was held yesterday at eleven o'clock.—The Loan Maxon toot the Chair. The Surveyors' Report was presented, and a discussion took place upon it between Air. Alderman Wood, Mr. Deputy Tay lor, Mr. Deputy Rend), and several other Members, when it was unanimously agreed , that the plan would, if it were execut ed, be beneficial to the public; no injury was considered likely to arise from it to private individuals, and a resolution to the effect that it should be forthwith proceetted in was adopted. A little more than three quarters of an hour after the Court had commenced business. Mr. Alderman Ileygate came In, ac companied by Mr. Bonifield :anti Mr. Clark, inhabitants of Chatham-place. The Loop MAYOR stated to them, that although the Court, as they had not attended in proper time, bad resolved on the measure, yet it was willing to hear any thing that might be offered against the plan. Mr. Alderman HEYOATE, as a Member of that Court, and as one of the inhabitants, objected to the plan as highly inju rious. It is intended to raise the space before the houses. The, consequence of this would be, that the apparent elevation of their premiss would thereby be diminished, the view from them would be obstructed, anti their value would be conse quently lessened. They-objected to the new system, indepen dently of the increase in height. They were convinced that it would be productive of infinitely more dust and dirt than the present pavement was, and that it would prove A source of infi nite annoyance. lie (Mr. Alderman lleygato objected that the Commissioners of Sewers had no power under the Act to make such an extensive change. It only empowered them to repair the pavement, but not to raise it. The Lord Mayor, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Deputy Walter, de. '•livered their opinions at lenifh upon the subject. They were clearly of opinion that 131se friar* Bridge ought to be Mac adamised, and that the descent from it, which was at present highly dangerous should be lessened as much as possible. They did not consider the alterations proposed would have the effect on the premises anticipated by the inhabitants. They were willing, however, to do every thing in their power to ac commodate the latter, as far as was consistent with public be nefit. It was then moved, that the Select Committee, which is empowered to carry the work into execution, .should be in structed to confer with the inhabitants, and make any alters tious that they misht suggest, if they were found practicable. This liesolutiOn was cgtried - unanimously: Mr. Alderman litiroATE pressed his objection as to the power of the Committee to act ut such a case. The Act was read dad it appeared that the Commissioners were authorised to take up the pavement, and make such alter ;alone us they thought necessary. Mr. Alderman HEYCATE contended that the alteration wits not necessary. The inhabitants were content with the pave as it now was. Tile Lo n n MAY 0 n said, since the question had come to this— whether the new plan was or was not necessary, he gave his opi nion decidedly in the affirmative. He had lived near the spot all his lila, and knew the descent of the bridge to be highly dan gerous. The pavement with which the worthy Alderman was content, was at times as slippery as glass, and the accidents which took place upon it were incessant, both to carriages and to those who went over on horseback. It was not impossible that the plan, like every other improvement, might be diottl. vantageons to some individuals, though beneficial to the public at large, but he had little doubt that the inhabitants themselves would have reason to be pleased with it as soon as it was carried into execution. 'rite Romlotions mentioned were ordered to be carried Into execution forth With, when the meeting separated. TURN PIK ES. HIGHGATE ARCHWAY. . HATTON•GARDSM—Yustprday, Mr. Coulson, the Lessee of the Highgate Archway Toll, appeared to a sum mons to answer the complaint of a Mllr. Bingham. The prosecutor stated, that about a week ago he passed through the Highgate Archway in a glass coach, paid the ma unitary toll, and received a ticket which lie understood cleared him of the toll on his return to town ; but when he appeared at the gate on his way homewards, the Toll-collector would not permit him to pass until he paid again. This was the complaint against Mr. Coulson. The defendant stated, that by Act of Parliament (which he produced, and which bore out his assertion) the Trustees of the Highgate Archway were ,empowered to collect toll from every vehicle, &c. every time they passed through the Archway • but upon his taking his lease..about two y ears ag o, he thought it advantageous to his interest, with the permission of the Truss tees, to abate something of the rates permitted to be levied by law, in order to encourage passengers, &c. to pass through the Archway, instead of going round Highgate Hill. Ile has found this system to answer his purpose, and when a gen tleman -in his , own carriage or on horseback appears, he only charges the toil once for passing and repasstng, through the Archway ; but glass roaches, hackney coaches, post chaises, en i certain descriptions of carts, waggons, &c. he made them pa, every time they passed or repassed. The 111AGISTRATE5 inquired whether there .was any board up at the 'ell gates specifying the tolls actually to be received i%lr. Coulson answered That there was a board Up, specifying the tells to be paid by' Act of Parliament,. but not describing. the reduced rates. , _ The MAOIST RATES recommended, that as a matter of con venience such a board should be exhibited ; but decided that Mr. Coulson was justified in charging the double toll, and dis.. missed the case. BETIINA.L.OREENT. Wonsfrfp..STßEET......resterday the collector of the gate, Church-ktreet, lt , !thrial-green, appeared before TWY. FOrin In answer to a summons obtained against hint by Mr. Thomas Cope, flour-factor at Bow, who complained that he had been charged for hint Carts repassing on the same day on which he paid for their passing with flour. Mr. Cope then produced the General Turnpike Act, from the ft2d section of which there appeared an exemption on all carts, &e. "repassing" when toll was paid on their •o passing." Against this the Collector produced the Bethnal-green Local Act, which enacts That all carts, &c. &c. passing, shall he liable ;" malting no exemption whatever, nor taking any noticeof the words in th e G enera l A ct , " Repassing on the . same day." The Collector therefore contended, that under the Lo cal Act for Betlinal,green Trust, any cart, &e. &c. "passing," whether coming into town or going to .the country—whether passing or repassing—they were still "passing" him, and there fore liable to toll. his. TWY1011.1), after attentively consulting both Acts, ob served, that at fimt. he was led to put the same construction with respect to the exemption as that moter'ded for by Cope. But on referring to the Bethnal-green Local Act he was, as a Magistrate, obliged to relinquish that opinion, in order to give way to the .Act itself, under which he felt com. yelled to dismiss the complaint. Ile then remarked to Mr. Cope that, if he felt aggrieved, and was willing to try the ques tion. he had only to retuse payMg, and he wotild he summoned and brought before hint, when he would (under the Act) be obliged to convict him. Then against that conviction he had the right of appeal, when the question might be tried for a trifling expense, if he thought it worth while. Mr. Cope seemed thankful to the Magistrate, and left the office determined to try the right. PROGRESS OF TOWNS. In the case of country , towns, where a High land laird or a speculating society has pot inter fered, it is matter of analysis, for the fashionable science of political economy, to discover how one of them has grown, or by what Cement it is united. There is a church ; that is` the ordinary foundation. Where there is a church there must be a parson, a clerk, a sexton, and a midwife.— Thus we account for four houses. An inn is re quired on the road. This produces a smith►, a saddler, a butcher, and a brewer. The parson, the clerk, the sexton, the midwife, the butcher, the smith, the saddler, and the brewer, require a baker, a tailor, a shoemaker, and a carpenter. They soon learn to eat plum-pudding ; and a grocer follows. The grocer's wife and parson's wife con tend for superiority in dress, whence flows a milli ner, and, with the milliner, a mantua maker. A barber is introduced to curl the parson's wig and to shave the smith on Saturday nights ; and a stationer to furnish the ladies with paper for their sentimental correspondence ; an exciseman is sent to gunge the casks, and a schoolmaster discovers that the ladies cannot sisell. A hatter, u hosier, and a linen-draper, follow by degrees ; and as children are born they begin to cry out for rattles and gingerbread. The parson becomes idle and gouty, and gets a curate, and the curate gets twenty children and a wife ; and thus it be comes necessary to have more shoemakers and tailors and grocers. In the mean time a neighbour ing apothecary, hearing with indignation that there is a community living without physic, places three blue bottles in the window ; when, on a sudden, the parson, the butcher, the innkeeper, the grocer's w►fe, sad the parson's wife, become bilious and nervous, and their children get water in the head, teeth, and convulsions. They are bled and blis tered till a physician finds it convenient to settle : the inhabitants become worse and worse every day, and an undertaker is established. The butcher having called the tailor prick-louse over a pot of ale, Snip, to prove his manhood, knocks him down with the goose. Upon this plea an action for assault is brought at the next Sessions. The attorney sends his clerk over to take depo sitions and collect evidence: the clerk, finding a good opening, sets all the people by the ears, be comes a pettifogging attorney, and peace, flies the village for ever. But the village becomes a town, acquires a bank, and a coterie of old maids ; and should It have existed in happier days, might have gained a corporation, a mayor, a mace, a quarter sessions of its own, a county assembly, the assizes, and the gallows.—(Maccullock.) EXTRAORDINARY CRIME.—The Journal of Calvados of the 19th inst. furnishes one of the most frightful crimes of the present age. Friday last an individual of the name of SURMONT, after having been brought before the Court o(Assizes us a fraudulent bankrupt, appeared again before the same Court on a new charge the ttA hew N i c f l e , .e o P r ur su E i t t .., ‘ ; i r i ; l x l r.A t t h oc ree k a ' c o c u P o m E p a l s i , ces an : r MONT.', *One of the witnesses, Sieur ra m:we FnAstcFoaT, declared . that giving way to the entreaties of the wife of SI/lIMONT who told him that she had something of importance to communicate to him, he, repaired to her on the.. 31st of May last, when she induced him to go into a room, at the back of the house and at the • bottom of the court. No sooner were they met together than StitutoN'r's wife locked the door. Sieur FRANCIPOILT, who be gan to be alarmed, seized the key and opened the door : all at once, two persons, clothed as sailors, threw themselves upon him, saying, in an under tone, " Ali, scoundrel ! we have been' waiting for you these three or four days." At the same moment they threw a rape round his neck, beat him violently, held his arms, and tied his legs together, and stuffed his mouth with a hand kerchief ; and, kneeling upon his body, declare d that he must accept certain bills or forfeit his lif e . After more than an hour had expired, the Sieur FaANcroaT, being no longer able to endure his torment, consented to his own injury. SUR MONT and i l tprEr. then placed him on a chair bt forea small table, when they loosed his hands and compelled him to sign ninety cheques or WEN the greater part'not tilled up. They afterwards com pelled him to subscribe to a paper, by which he was made to acknowledge that these documents were given in compensation for an adulterous in. tercourse with Madame SURMONT. This frightful stole lasted from eight in the evening till one in the morning.. Soumowr was sentenced to 20 years hard. labour, PETTSL to 15 years, and Suit- MoNT's wife to five years. The prisoners have appealed against the sentence to the Court of Cam Lion .—( Paris Paper.) SEDUCTION AND SIIICIDE.—Extract of a letter from St. 'Thomas's, June Yesterday evening a inelan choly circumstance occurred here : A Danish gentleman named Gardiner, received i n fo r m a ti on th a t hi s w if e, a beautiful yoUng woman, of 20 years of age, bad formed an improper connexion with a young Englishman, or German, of good appearance and respectability, and he therefore • made arrangements for proceeding to Copenhagen, in order to place the lady in Charge of tier mother.. He was to sail on the 6th instant, and the lover had also taken his passage for Puerto Cabello. Every thing was settled, and nothing remarkable occurred till yesterday evening, when the wife of Gardiner took advantage of flis being occupied in dressing at four o'clock, left his house, and proceedtd to that of the young man, which adjoined h er husband's. O n en t er i ng , she locked the door, and immediate. ly afterwards two shots were heard. The people of the house forced open the door, and discovered the young lady a corpse on the bed, with a pistol wound in the "lower part of her face, and the pistol at - e considerable distance, whilst the young man was on the ground, likewise mortally wounded, having dis charged his pistol through his mouth. It is.presumed that he first destroyed her, and afterwards himself. It would seem also, from the position of the bodies, that she urged hini to the act, as well as from the circumstance of a letter having been previously written by her to her husband, confessing her infi. delity, commending him and desiring him to marry a wo man more worthy of him, and more capable of rewarding bis vii tues. This is the more probable, as the young man had mani fested -no previous disquietude, but conversed cheerfully with some filends in his warehouse, until within half an hour of the fatal m more especially as a predetermination t o di e on the part l to l f e tle woman is obvious from her letter."---(New York Adveriiscr, July 26.) TIIE CAMERA OnscunA.—A visitor linpm ne d to be examining, with great interest, the various lively and ever shifting figures which veerepourtrayed up on t h e white tablet of a Camera Obscure, during the exhibition, when he beheld with amazement the appearance of one man picking f t another'. ig,,e r i;o a c p k s e , t. un P n e e r e f e e s c s t ar ly y a t w o a a r a c d o , f t ti h m e t re i a i e l i u ty . :f i t al li m is e a d p i p ti e t : i r y . ance, lie opened the door, anti recognizing the culprit at a short di s tance, ran up and seized hint in the very act of depredation. - handed over to the police.—(Glasgon , Paper.) 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Anntvtu. Oottenburgh liamburgh . put. El 1011 WA TER A T LONDON BRIDGE TO-3101. !UM:: Morning. 19 rainutem after 8. Evening, 33 minute. Atte TUE SUN. SOLEN DICERS FALSUJI AUDEAT LONDON, TVEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1821. We have received the Paris Papers of Sunda'', and the Elate of Monday. The latter announces that intelligence has been received, via Constao.. tinople, of the Greeks having re-captured Ipsara and of their having afterwards evacuated it, lot they should be exposed to another attack from the CAPTAIN PACHA. They had, however, in• Meted signal vengeance on the Turkish gerri , cot whom they put to the sword to the number of three or four thousand men, being probal►lT every Mussulman who • bad been left upon the island. This news, which, from the manner in which it is given by the .toile, would app e ar to have been contained in official dispatches, ii said to have revived the confidence of the Greeks, who bad nothing serious to fear except from the Egyptian squadron. From other sonrces of intelligence, it Is still asserted that the Turkish fleet was vigorously attacked, after the disembarkation at Ipsara, by a combined squadron of Hydriots, Speziiots, and Ipsariots, by whom the CAPTAIN PaciiA was defeated, and ilia ships were dispersed. W' shall sincerely rejoice if this alleged achieve ment, which has now been reiterated from rail.. ous quarters, is hereafter verified. But we ca" rt)t disguise from ourselves the fact that tho reported defeat and dispersion of the Turkish fleet is somewhat inconsistent with the e l ' !edged motive for the evacuation of Ipsarat viz., the fear that that very fleet might ro' turn to Ipsara and again wrest it from the Greeks, by whom it had been so herei• tally re-conquered. The report made of thel e various affairs to the Supreme Government by the Primat e o f S pezz i a, is, after making every allowance fur the strain of exaggeration n" d hyperbole in which it is written, extremely teresting, and proves that the Ipsarioteh . in the d a y o f t h e i r d ire disaster, d e f e nded , themselves w ith a constancy and herei6l", worthy of th e G rec i an name, an d of tilt) sacred caus e in whi c h th ey were em barked. Letters from C or f u assert that the repor t e d d' fection of OMEN. PACIIA from the Ottoman "P re ; macy is well founded,--that he attacked 011`; routed the Tu r ki s h G enerals who h a d hee ient by the Di van aga i nst him,—t h at he t s boldly asserted his independence of the Ge l l ie meta of Co ns t ant i nop l e, and after p l ac ing fditresses of Arta, Prevesa and Joannitat complete st a t e o f defence and calling LIP"'" the Albanian Christi ans to j o i n hi s s t a ndar I ht's opened negotiations for an offensive and der elisi" alliance with. Greece. There seems to be little re reason to doubt t h e trut h o f t hi s i n telligen th : which is o f th e most favourable imi,o i lanc e Greek cause. r Our daily extracts from the Morning i ' '' i ' t, must have for some time past proved t° °t Readers th a t t h e popular delusion wh i c h exist ed on every thi ng re l at i ng to South America., si % a the pro gress o f which TtnE SUN alone niV sed ' at length rapidl y subsiding. Th e very Tourna ists by whom that delusion had been e cite and who tenaciously clung to the glittering tent unsubstantial fabric of South American to pendence and prosperity, which they had e " ct i , v( with so m uc h i ngenu i ty an d perseve rance., 11. participate in the panic ►with which 10 dubious aspect of affairs in that rem ° c . tr lg and unsettl e d quarter of the world has the those who have embarked their property (3" uncertain basis of th e s t a bility of the new states Every fresh piece of intelligence resP o ecti . Spanish and Portu guese A mer i ca is low 100/