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FRENCH PAPERS. (Front the Moils of Wednesday.] PARIS, JULY 14.--Yestertlay the King trans -acted business wish the Minister of Marine and the Director-General of the Posts. It may be recollected that when M. de Renil laaigedo was appointed to supersede the Duke de lien'earlos in the Embassy at the Court of France, the former, on arriving at BourdentiX, %pita wider the neCeSeity of suspending his jour in consequence of orders from Paris. The 110nciriai Bordelais (a 'Bordeaux Journal) in iorme us of a new measure taken by the French Authorities at Bayonne, with regard to another kiiplomatie agent of the Court of Madrid. " M.de Vallejo (gays this Journal), who was appointed - Minister of Spain at the Court of Naples, found, Jabis arrival at Bayonne, an interdiction to pro :ceed further, which interdiction was signified to , 'him by the French Police. This measure, adopted towards a man of high merit, and a zealous servant of the Bourbons, can only produce ;s bad effect. It has excited the more astonish •ment, inasmuch as M. de Vallejo was only to ,traverse France, having orders to proceed to his vost without delay." (Prom Galignani's Messenger of Wednesday.) I'ARI', JULY 14.—(Stock Exchange, July 13 live &CAA:kJ—The price of Stocks has fallen to-day without ?my assignable cause except sales. A rum en? prevails that a change of the Adminis tration cannot take place on account of confiden tial engagements with the 'Companies who have pledged themselves to conduct thu reimbursement, and which no other Minister 'can fulfil. The Five per Cents. for money clos'ed at war. 85c. :For thet-end of the month, the price at four o'clock, - when the Parquoi closet), was 901. 00c. thii hour it is 901. 50c. t iliV Royal Spanish •Loan improved. Other Foreign Securities aro un• , varied. The Duchess of Berry wilidine at the Tuil. leries to.day, after which her Royal Highness "trill honour the Opera Comique with her pre. •aence. ' To-morrow being the fke of the Duke of for deauxiiii dinner of 100 covers .will be given in the Pirk of St. Cloud upon the Monlagne du Madero. The dinner will be followed by a Yesterday the King took an airing to the wood of Cellos. The Chamber of Peers assemhlpd yesterday, titif no business of general interest was transacted. Since the death of Lord Byron, most of the 'English Officers have quitted the Greek army.— Amongst the number is COlonel Stanhope. Volta*, at noon, the thermometer of llcaumur watt at V 3 (log. 5. 10, or 05 Fahrenheit ; at one o'clock, 24 1-10, or 86 1.4 ; and at two o'clock, 25 deg. 2.10, or 81) Fahrenheit. [From Ilia Journal des Mbats.l TATA(' OF THE Attrs•FARQUE.--.The appeal made by the public prosecutor against the decision of the 6th Chamber, which acquittal the editor of the Ari:tarque, was brought before the Cour Royale on the 13th. The Advocate General, M. *op, Plll4 heard against the former derision, and „N. ilennequin in support of it. Ili% , pleading received at its close conhiderahle applutrte. After delityir,sting half an hour, thii.floort rejected the appeal, confirmed then tleeision of the lower, tribunal, and• ordered the'. restitution of the numbers of 'the Journal which had been Relied. There had only ap .pearsd two numbers of the Aristarlue when it was stopped. NI: dela Bourdonnaye, M. Lemoin Desmares, who were part proprietors of the Journal, as well is several other :Members of the Chamber of Deputks, were present at the trial, and the .anditoll was very nun - lei-mtg.—When the sentence was pro nounesti, there were loud shouts of Vive le Rol. [Prom the Etalk, dated Thuerday, July 15. j , . „.„ MAnlllu, J LY 8.--(Dy 4 r. gUa, a paper published by the I ii ,, nrgents,of Buenos Ayres, contains the following article : " A courier arrived yesterday from Oencrid Las Herm, Ple cipotoettary In the Spanish Authorities in Peru. lie has brOught on official dispatch, of which the following is en ex. tract ; , " 23.—0 n the 20th January General Olaneta Yeturried to POtob4 after having pursued the Patriot Lanza with Ida Atilt , division, composed of the hattitlions of the Union and of Chichas, two squadrons of dragoons, and some mountain artillery. He exacted froth Governor La !lent a contribution of 30,000 piastres; the latter °fro:ea 10,000, inotnising the re rualnder for the next day ; hitt Olaneta refum34 the trhole. " The Royalist Officers have treated the Constitutional QllT cerst with very great contempt. " General La !fere, fearing for his head, intrenched himself ,le the Mint, Olaneta soon attacked him there so briskly, that hi forced him to hold up a flag of truce. La liera' obtained aetteinounre than the assurance, that his life and that.af his intn be spared , Olaneta 'Offal tippointed to the office of G9vornor of Potosi an emigrant named Archando. . it Nitta , Jion of 400 men, which first followvd l,a Hera, aeon quitted WM to join the standard of the Royalist General. " General (Renato printed: at Potosi a Proclamation, ad &cowed to the inhabitants of Peru." • The Afadrld Gazelle opposes these authentic likss to the fables continually disseminated by tlie , Courier of. Loudon and the Consatutionnel of Paris. Thesa papers, it says, study, to deity or to dim aernble the heroic exploits of.Laserign, Camerae, Valdez, &c., and, while the Colombian army was dispelled before them like smoke, these revolt', tionary journalists dared to, any that they had not only declared in favour of independence, but had „also ignominiously submitted to the cowardly and sanguinary Bolivar. l'ho last paragraph of the Gazette of the Rai contains the following article, tinder the bead of New Spain : " A perm worthy of credit, who has trave,reed New Spain, el mu th a t the whole quarter of Tenantepee has declared for the King. All the south coast evinces the same disposition. These accounts agree with those received front the liavanna. Itlneon b a d .been s en t to i l ia= the province of Ojaca to recognise the Government onlexico; but ha was arrested, and told thatno such proposal. would ba listened to. The formation of the new Congress nt Xalapa, the,negociations commenced between the town - of . Vera Crux ant the Spanish Clovernor of St.Jtran d'Ulloa, and, tliu approaching arrival of lturbide, naturally excite an expectation of groat ovents." Her. 14.--,—The King heard Mass in iris itpftritnellts : at noon he • presided in a Council of Ministers, which sat tilt a quartet. past one o'clock. 114 Majesty did not go out. Not's, Jnr,y t4.—The Duke de la Chatre has just died at Mandon. - , FILE NOlt Pi/ N JtILY 14.-;-Five per Cents opened at va. 10. ; do%ett at vv. 15. ; 113nic Eck. 1,900. Nea. polibut Five per Centa., in ducats, ; itente4 ti'L'apigne, fipanitth Loan . , 61/...-gxcht}nle on l i onden, one month, 26, 16.; three ditto. 25. I0,—( Cow,: ,liithent3-ne, July ' 14.) • • • Thf tiockanent Ifni been publishlNl in Entor Rti..Totanitis'; snnotne.e' Ftle,linevs •1y+ 1 .4 oec Lgovi..4 4tithoitl. WAR IN INDIA. [Prom the Calcutta Government Gazette.] FORT NVILLIAM, INIpAY, MARCH 5, 1024. PROCLAMATION, BY THE RIGHT HON. THE GOVERNOR•GENEIIAL IN COUNCIL. " The conduct of the Burmese having compelled the British Government to have recourse to arms in support of its rights and honour, the Governor.. General in Council hereby notifies, that the Government of Ava is placed in the condition of a public enemy, and that all British subjects, whether European or native, are prohibited from holding any communication with the people of that State until the differences now unhappily existing► shall be terminated. " The Oovernor-General in Council deems it proper to take this opportunity of publicly declaring the causes that have led to hostilities, with a State, between which and the lion. East India Company a friendly Intercourse has long subsisted, to the great advantage of both parties, and with which the British Government has invariably sought to cultivate and maintain the relations of amity. . " During many years past, the Burmese officers governing :he country contiguous to our south-cast frontier, have from time to time been guilty of acts of encroachment a nd aggress sion, which the British Government would have been fully justified in repelling by force. "Solicitous, however, to preserve with all nations the rela tions of peace, the British Government lies considered it to be, In an especial manner, its duty to make large allowances for the peculiar circumstances and character of the Burmese Go vernment and 'people. The consciousness of its power to repel and punish aggressions has strengthened the motives of for bearance towards a nation removed, by their geographical situa don, from the immediate circle of our political relations, and with whom (as we have., no opposing interests) the Suprone Government sought only to maintain icommercial intercourse on terms of equality and freedom, conducive to the welfare and prosperity of both countries. ." So long, therefore, as the aggressions of which the British Government had to 'complain, could be treated as the unautho rized acts of the subordinate officers of the Burman Government, and could be tolerated consistently .with the national honour and the security of the British territories, the Supreme Govern ment sedulously endeavoured to preserve unimpaired the ex isting relations of peace and friendship, notwithstanding pro vocations which would have fully justified, and from a state More fOrmitlable in position And resources would have impe riously denianded, a resort to arms. "Trusting that the motives of its conciliatory demeanour could not have been misunderstood, the British Government persuaded itself that the Government of Ave, however extra vagant, in its pretensions, must have b ee n no l ess desirous man. ourselves to maintain a friendly intercourse so profitable to that country, and could not but be sensible, that as our moderation was founded on a consciousness of our strength, and on a gene ral desire to preserve the blessings of peace, so our forbearance would not be carried beyond the limits where it ceased to be entimatible with the safety of our subjects, the integrity of our dominions, and the honour of our country. " Unhappily, these expectations have been disappointed.-- The Burmese Government, actuated by an extravagant spirit of pride anti ambition, and elated by its conquests over the petty tribes by which it is surrounded, has ventured to violate the British territories, to attack and slay a party of British seimys, to seize and imprison British au bjects,to avow extensive schemes of mischievous aggression, and to make hostile preparations oh our frontier, that leave no doubt of its intention to execute its Insolent and unjustifiable threats. " In prosecution Of a groundless claim to the island of Sha. puree, the Burmese, Chiefs of Armoire, in a time of profound peace, and without an y p rev i ous attempt at negociatitm on the part of their °overtime:tit, attacked, under CUVer of night, a small guard of British. troops stationed on that, island fur pier. polies of police, and drove them from their post with the loss of several lives. No answer has been returned by the Court of Amerapoora to the demand of es:planation and atonenient which It was of course the dutrof the British Government instantly to prefer; but which was =dein the same spirit of concilia tion which had always characterized our communications with the Court of Ave. On the contrary, the Burmese lacel autho rities have distinctly declared the determination of their Sove reign to invade the British dominions, unless their groundless claim to Shapuree is unequivocally admitted. " Subsequently to the attack on the island or Shapuree, the commanding officer and several of the crew of the floneurable Company's schooner Sophia were insidiously enticed on shore, and carried into the interior by the order of Commissioners spe. daily deputed to Artacan by the Iltirmeme Cnurt, and although subsequently released, they have been sent back without any explanation or apology for the insulting outrage. The Burmese Generals on the north -cast have at the same moment advanced their troops into the country of Cachar, and occupied a post.within only five miles of the frontier of Sylhet, notwlthimincling that they were dietinctly warned.by the British autliorities in that quarter that the petty state of Caehar was under the protection of the British Government, and that the movement of their troops must be regerded as an act of hostility to be repelled by force. In both quarters the Burmese Chiefs have publicly declared their determinetion to enter the British territories in pursuit of alleged ofrenders against the GoVern ment of Ara, and have avowed. intentions of open hostility as the alternative of our refusing to comply with their unjust and utterly inadmisaible pretensions.. li t hilat occupying their threatinting. position on the British o fr f on j d y e n r t , ee t a h , e Burmese (4 another eldership situated I I eneralit planneil s n a i l iLr . e a t r lr w th .t e 3 C . !ati ac.,.. nes r t: In regard to the district of Sylhet, and which having formerly been restored by the British authorities to the family of, thee reigning Rajah, after a temporary convulsion, lied been more distinctly recognized as a dependency of Bengal. 'Try called on the ittylah to acknowledge submission and allegiance to the King of .Ava, and a demonstration was actually made to enter his territory, when the advance of the British troop* frustrated the execution of their hostile design. . ".The deliberate s il ence of the Court of Amerapoom, as well xi the combination and extent'of the operations undertaken by its officers, lesve it no l onger d oubtful that the acts and decla rations of the subordinate authorities are fully sanctioned by their Sovereign, and that that haughty and barbarous Court is not only determined to withhold all explanation and. atonement for past injuries, but meditates projects of the most extrava gant and unjustifiable aggression againit the British I.lOvern ment. "The Governor-General in Council, therefore, for the safety of the subjects, and the security of our districts, already seri ously alarmed and injured by the approach of the Burmese articles, has felt himself imperatively called on to anticipate the threatened invasion. The national honour no less obviously requires that atonernerft should be had for wrongs ro wantonly inflicted and so insolently maintained, and the national interests equally demand that weehould seek by an appeal to arms, that security against future insult .and aggression which the arm. gance and rasping. spirit or the Burmese Government have denied to friendly expoetillation and remonstrance. " With these views and purposes, the Governor-General in Council has deemed •it an act of indispensable duty to adopt such measures as are necessary to vindicate the honour of the British Government, to bring the Burmese to a just sense of its character and rights, to obtain an advantageous adjustnient of our eastern boundary, and to preclude the r ecurrence o f s i m i lar insult and ag greemion in future. " Still animated by a sincere desire for peace, and utterly averse from all purposes of aggrandizement, the Governor.. General in Council will rejoice if the object above-mentioned can be' accomplished without carrying the war to eitreinities. But to whatever length the Burmese Government may render it necessary to prosecute hostilities, his Lordship in Council relies with confidence on the justice of our cause, on the re. nources of the Go vernment, an d on tbe'approved valour of our troops, for the e ar ly an d successful tenni-oat* of the contest. " By donimand of the Bight: lion. the Governor-General in Council, QEORRCzI SWlN'rON, i sec, to Uovernmeot," 811.111: T latest reports from the troops in the field enable tat to add, that the 'Balinese Jost in killed and wounded' between four E,rad tire hukldred.rnen..in 'the attack an the st oc k n d e at Paoodottlee, and oak they evactia tett it a 're* days at ter, and 'were retreating :on AI - turnipOre. 'the Hill Chiefs, we onderatand, have given amattittneeioiliPiir ii pu~i~in,F td harass and annoy them in their flint. Lieutenant;' . 040)4;1 Innis, who arrived at Jottrapore ,on the "supping the ' 2 7.t 1 ; U.( 1 1 1 1)0., and took collini an& the titas to ptaieta ifiirktiff iiethe Ihirmeie on t h e 211tb. AMERICAN PA'ERS. The following are extract! from New York Papers to the 24th ult., incluive, received yes-, terday "NEW YORK, Jrl4E 18. • " Accounts front Laguayra to the Ist instant mention' the arrival there of a number of vessels,' prizes to El Vencidor, owned by Commodore Daniels ; captited off the coast of Spain, and valued'ut 250,000 dollari. - A tutch frigate had arrived there with a Commissioner. The torts had been opened for ' f3O days from May, for the admiseon, free of duly, of corn, rice; &c. Some symptoms of revolt having appeared among the negroes at Laguayra, the ringleaders had been apprehended, and measures taken to prevent a surprise. Since the contisca: tion of the church property by the Government, for national purposes, those who have thereby been deprived of their over grown wealth are represented ax extremely active in promot tlng insurrection among the coloured people. Previous to this act of the Executive, the. clergy had obtained possession of a great proportion of the real estate in the Republic, in conic. quence of their being able to advance Money on mortgage out of the treasures belonging to the church, which they had in concealment. This gave them such an ascendancy, that they hesitated not to avow their intention of restoring the former tyranny ; and it is more than probable, had they not been deprived of the means of doing this by the foresight of Bolivar, that they would have accomplished their purpose.— The recognition of the old loan, connected with the seizure of the church lands, and the contracting of a new loan which had , been effected in Europe, cannot fail to give new energies to the Colombian Government, and enable it to counteract the machi nations of the enemies of liberty throughout the whole of South America, _ _ _ ' 6 .ItriE 19..:..-(Cot.olunrAx IlErttni,tc.)—The report of a revolt at Laguira, against the Government of Colombia turns out to be a faibrication A miurrekno uncommon occurrence, bad taken place between the Mule-drivers and porters, which' called for the interference of the police. This, it is supposed, was mistaken for an insurrection by some one imperfectly ac quainted with the Spanish language. We rather think that the report originated in an anxious desire, which some have frequently evinced, of exaggerating every vague rumour th at relates to revers es susta i ne d by the Patriots. " Juxit 22.-13 y the arrival of the sloop Protector, we have been furnished with Kingston papers to the Ist instant. The Hussar frigate arrived at Port Royal on the 20th ult. with four pirates on board, and one on suspicion. " The boats of the Hussar. Icarus, and Speedwell, scoured the Isle of Pines, in quest of the murderers of Lieut. Layton, Midshipman Strode, and their party. Pepe, the Chief, was found deed in the bushes of the Isle of Pines : he appeared to have died from starvation. Sebastian, the second in command, and who had been active in the atrocities committed on Lieut. Layton and his unfortunate fellow-officers, was- killed by the Spaniards. Five more pirates were also kill e d by t h e S pan i ards sent out in pursuit by the Governor of the Isle of Pines, who had received orders from the Governo r -G enera l o f Cuba to co operate. " One man was killed by the pirates themselves, they fearing that he would give evidence against them. " Five more were c apt ure d by the British party, one of whom was, it is stated, present when Lieut. Layton was murdered ; another was found keeping sentry over a piratical vessel which had been hauled up'; another, named Bonet°, acknowledged he had fired on the boats of the Icarus ; and a fourth, nam e d Ste.. phena, had been fou n d in the but whence Pepe had escaped, us detailed in a former number of the Advertiser. A piratical felucca was found,' which had been sunk in Malpiase river ; she mounted three guns and a long nin e -pound er . A f e l ucca boat was also discovered, and destroyed. " The following is a semi-official return of piratical vessels burnt by the expedition : " Pepe's felucca, a new vessel, which bad been only on one cruise, armed with one nice:pounder, one six-pounder, and one two-pounder; schooner El Carmen, clinker-built schooner t felucca.rigged boat, one ithepounder ; 38-feet rowboat; and three large piratical canoes. "of the pirates, Thaye been shot and' 5 taken primmer", to be hung, if they prove to be what they are stated to be. " The Kingston (Jamaissi Public Advertiser of the 28th 04,, (which was received at this, office yesterday) contains accounts from Panama of the 27th A pril, relatiVe to the affairs of 'Peru, of a gratifying nature. A proclamation had been issued by Bolivar, on the Peruvians to be firm, and assuring them that 10,000 Colonibians were read to assist them in establishing their liberty, notwithstanding the plots of 'their enemies, no less than fi of which had been detected in the same number of months. The head-quarters of the Colombian-P er O v ia n arm y was at Truzillo on tha27th March, end the advanced part of the same army was at Pativilca on the 20th of March. The Patriots amounted to 'l,OOO effective. troops, and :1,000 more from Panama and Guayaquil, all veterans, with an extra supply of 4,000 muskets. were about to reinforce the Liberator. —The Royalists were 10,000 strong, of allclasses and nations, badly supplied with arms. " The primary cause of appointing Bolivar Dictator appears to have arisen from a suspicion attached to the lilarnuis Torre Tagle, President of the Congress of Peru, who had since justi fied this suspicion by' following the example of Riv a AtigerO, consequence of which th e Liberator bad proclaimed him a traitor. It'was this same' Marquis, it seems; who excited the black troops in Callao to result. With his usual promptitude, Bolivar had cautioned the Peruvians against confining so many prisoners, most!) , officers, at Callao, as he had mice lost Puerto Cattalo by a similar treason. By these accounts, all appre hensions as to the safety of the Patriot army in Peru are com ydetelY removed, and the most confident expeCtitions excited that their efforts will, ere lo ng , b e crowned with complete success. REMAINS OF JAMES IL • -,..;,,..... [PROM A PARIS PAPER. Or TUESDAYI Yesterday the workmen employed in making exca‘otions for the foundation or the steeple of the new church at St, Germuin.en-Laye, found at the bottom of an ancient chapel three leaden boxes, on one of which is the following kiwi!). tion " Herein a portion of the flesh and noble parts of the body of the most high, puissant, and illuxtrieue , , and roost excellent Prince James Stuart, second of the name, King of Great 11ri. twin, bOrn 23d October, 1633, deceased in France, at St. Ger main.en-Laye, September it;, 1701." . Below the inscription ure. the arms of:.that Prince. This box is 'partly mutilated ; it Con. tains, besides fragmftnts of bones, °Owr parts which ere nut yet consumed. The MaYouimmediutely assembled the. Mani. ripui Body, and in presence of the Governor of the Castle 'and the Vicar of the Parish, caned those precious remaiot o ;to lie transitited, and do. posited under the grand ,altar,of the Provision a l Church. The Registers deposited in the Recordltoomi of the place were then ,consulted, and Acts were found dated the 16th of Septemb er ,. 1701, re cording the decease of the Prince, and indicating that his body was taken to the English - Ilenedic. tinPs in Paris, his heart to the Ursulines at Chaillot, and part of his •entrails, his brains, and his lungs to the Church of St., Germain.en.Laye In preserve in that pl a ce the memory of so gr ea t and so religious a Prince." it is believed that one of the other boxes con. tains the remains of the Princess Louisa-Maria,of England, daughter to James 11., who also died at St. Germain.eis.Laye on the 17th of April, 1712. FASTUON.—Louii XIV., alluding to a change in the fashion of bead dresses, which was brought about by the appearance, of an English beauty at Paris, said, somewhat petulantly—" I am, I confess, piqued to see, that with all the au thority belonging to my station in this country, have exclaimed so long against high head di - esses, while no one had the complaisance to lower them fur me in the slightest degree. But now, when a mere strange English wench arrives %%WI head-dress, all the Princesse:, think fit ,to go at once from one extremity to lgolter.". The Late KING of the SANDWICH ISLES. The leaden coffin, containing the remains of his Majesty, was last night placed in the splendid cub e that has been furnished by Mr. JARVIS, in Long Acre. It is of immense width, and is lin ed with rich white satin, fluted very tastefully, and the outside is of crimson velvet, and.studded with brae nails and ornaments similar to that of the late - Queen. On the plate is the following inscription : KAMAIUAMEHA• 2ND ELII XO NAIIIXA-0. AWAXI MAKE I POI4KANI 20. malcAlicr tcAncu KE-MATIOIC MUA • I XEMAXAKAIXIC 1024 ALOICA INO-NO KOMAXOA ELII JOLAXI. And underneath is engraven— K.IMEHAMEHA 2n, KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, DIED JU LY 14, 1824. IN THE 28TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. HAY WE REMEMBER. OCR BELOVED KING JOLANI. The Governor Boltz (not PoKt), the Admiral KAIIIIIE, , Mtitime I3OKI (who is in a state of convalescence), the Secretary of Mr. Rives, and two others of the suite, are in constant attend ance, and bear their loss well—the natives are quite gay and chearful. A great number of ap. Orations had been made during the morning for admission, which had generally been com plied with. , The following is a copy of the dispatch to the' Prime Minister of the Sandwich Islands, an. flouncing the dem►se of his MAJ BST/, and which was forwarded to Falmouth:— " ORborniallotel, London, July 15, 1324. " DEAR FluExp—lt is very sorrowful news for you, but be ing the will of Heaven we must submit. I mentioned in my letter, dated July 9, the death of our good T EEN. The Iliac, having lost his con s ort, w a s muc h agitate by the fatal shock, and unable to - support the weight his manly bosom experi enced, be died, my dear Mend, and left us to lament the vir tues we so often admire in him. You well know my feelings, and the reason I have to deplore the loss of such true friend. ship. All the physicians could do, all we could say by way of consolation, availed nothing ; he told me, more than once, that all the support the English nation could give him was in vain. The fatal bargain, my dear fiiend, was made, and he sunk to rise no more. Their bodies will be removed to the Sandwich Islands, to give you and the whole of our nation satisfaction that every thing was done by the English Government' and pri vate Gentlemen to promote our comfort, and assist our un fortunate Monarch. Even the King of England sent his own physicians, and the Noble Duke of York his surgeon ; and every thing that England produced was at our command. You will much regret, with myself, that circumstances prevented his having an interview with the King of England, who kindly expressed his hope (through his physicians) that our Kin.v would console himself, and not sink under his affliction, and that his Most Gracious Majesty would give our King an inter view as soon as his health was restored. I hope you are well, and that we shall be able to continue the labour for your wel fare, is the wish of " Your's, truly, ".JOAN 13. RIVES." "To Mr. Pitt, Prime Minister at the Sandwich Islands, or Krimaku." MANNER OF MOURNING AMONGST THE NA. "VC AV Mr/ ' TIYES OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. When an old Chief dies, a number of people assemble, and seat themselves round a • square area, fronting the house in which the deceased lies ; whilst a man, in a red feathered cap, ad vances from an interior part of the house to the door, and putting out his head at almost every moment, utters, in a most lamentable howl, ac. companied with the Most singular grimaces and violent distortions of his face that can he con ceived. Afterwards, a large mat is spread upon the aien, aud the two men and thirteen women come out of the house and sit • upon it, in three equal rows, two men and three women being in the front. The necks and hands of the women are covered with feathered ruffs; and broad green leaves variously scalloped, spread over their shoulders. At, one corner of the area, near a small hut, appear six boys, bearing small white banners, &c. The dead bOdy k in the hut. .A man in a red cap opens the ceremony. The company, seated on a mat, begin to sing a melancholy tune, accompanied with a gentle and slow motion of the body and arms. They then raise themselves on their knees, and in a posture between kneeling and sitting, move their bodies 'and arms very rapidly, the tune keeping pace with their motions. After this has lusted an hour, with slower movements at intervals, more mats are sprelitl upon the area, and four or five old women--.one of whom is the wife of the deceased, advance slowly out of the house, and being seated in the front of the company, begin to cry and wail .rtiost bitterly ; the women behind them join. ing in these lamentations, and the two men in clining their heads over them in a very' pensive attitude. In this situation they continue till night, when the corpse is removed. Capt. King could not learn how they disposed of the body. Three women of rank informed him that the pre sence of strangers hindered them from perform. ing'some necessary ritea. Scarcely had Captain King gone out of sight, before he heard their cries and lamentations; and meeting them a few hours afterwards, he fontid that they had painted "he lower part of their faces perfectly black.— When asked whither the dead were gone, the. answer was, that the breath, which they seemed t o consider as the soul, or immortal part, was gone to the " Eatdoa," which they described as some particular place, which they suppoed to he the abode of 'the decetised.—( Kulp Voyage.) DERPERATE A vra.tY IN CASTLECOMERe---on Sunday night last, a number of men, women, and children, assembled to destroy the ounce! lately patispi near the-Turnpike of Castlecomer, by the Turnpike Board, for the purpose of augment ing their tolls. They-had succeeded in acorn plishing their-object, when they were overtaken by the Police and Militia Staff, quartered in Castlecomer, and an irregular combat immedi ately ensued, in which two policemen and eight of the country people were wounded by musket and pistol. bullets. There was nothing like party feeling or hostility in the proceeding, for it has been ascertained that some yeomen were assist ing the country people, one of whom, it is said, has been dangerously wounded. Weabstnin from noticing the:regulations which have led to this un fortunate affray, as we hope the Turnpike Board will have a statement of the particulars laid be. Tore the :public; .They may. be assured that no thing less thane•such a statement will satisfy the people.that their. late -imposts, however legal they.tmightbave been, are perfectly equitable.— (Carlow Morning Post, July 15.) •"' THE LATE STORM. lIRTHER TART icuiAns.] Wixnsoa, JULY 15.—During the whole of yfsterday, Windsor and its neighbourhood werd visited with one of the most tremendous storms of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, that has been known fur several years. Short ly after ten o'clock in the forenoon the tem pest commenced, and continued with scarcely any intermis.ion until two o'clock this morning• The lightning was uncommonly vivid and intense; several reports are in circulation of imdividuals having lost their lives, but we are happy to state, that up to the present moment, they have re ceived no confirmation. [Extract of a letter from . li.entford, near Newmarket, Nei Ju1y,•1824.] " At half:past 12 o'clock on Wednesday last this village tree visited by a most dreadful tempest of thunder, lightning, sad rain, which was followed with the most tremendous hail ever seen by the oldest inhabitant of the place. In five minutes the whole of the windows of Mr.. J. Weisman, a farmer, were broken to atoms, and in the garden the ax4plia4 and wall-frtrits were all destroyed. One • hailstone, after lying half an hour, was picked up, 'and it measured 5 inches and a quarter round, and thousands were seen in the garden ac large as hen eggs.— Tae surrounding cottages suffered severely, but we do rot hen, of any lives being lost. At 10 o'clock at night, another Ator.n arose, which, with the exception of hail, was equally dreadfol, and this continued until 5 o'clock in the morning;." DEVIZES, JULY 15.—We were visited yesterday morning with the most awful thunder and lightning ever witnessed, :4- companied with heavy showers of rain. The storm commenced about nine o'clock, and continued for upwards of an hour, during the whole of which time we believe there was not s minute's intermission between the different 'peals of thunder. It proceeded 'from the south, and at Romsey we understand a large thunderbolt fell on the tower, and made its way into the church, splintering some large beams, with which it came•in contact, into atoms. Three boys were struck senseless, but have since recovered. WEYMOUTH, JULY 15.—Vesterday morning one cf the most violent storms of rain, accompanied by a tremendous clap of thunder, took place that we ever remember to have witnessed; previous to which the sea appeared in an extraordinary con• vulsed state, and all of a sudden approached the Esplanade wall, a distance of thirty yards from the water's edge, and again rushed back. During the short period of this phenomenon, s small vessel approaching the harbour was s e en t o b e aground on the same spot as the Packet had a few minutes before passed over with a flowing sheet. During the thunder storm, attended with vivid flashes of lightning, a ball of fire passed through the roof of a cottage occupied by Mr. Wm. Stone, of Wyke Regis. Part of the tiling was demolished, and the lightning split a gun in three pieces, did numb injury to the interior, burnt the win , Clow curtains, and broke a quantity of china. Fortunately all the family were absent. The tide rose three feet in the short space of one minute, and refluxed in the same period of time. This convulsion is supposed to be the effect of an earthquake in some other quarter of the globe. DOUCHESTEH, JULY M.—Several heavy thunder storms fell at Dorchester in the course of yesterday ; a temporary check has thus been- given to the hay h a r vest , w hi c h for the three or four previous d.aytt had the advantage of the finest weather we have known during the season. A letter from Paris says--" The weather, notwithstanding heavy showers, has for the last three days been suffocatingly hot here, which proves the observation of a traveller to be true, that the Parisians ought to possess the qualities of a frog and salaniander." GOURLAY. Hotrst of Conn'EcTiosr, Cold Bath.fields, July 13, 1024. Sr R —Understanding from the Governor of this House that he cannot regularly lay before you a letter which I addressed ! to him yesterday, for that purpose, I shall now Annex a copy of it ; requesting you to read this, and it to the Grand Jury, I and earnestly entreating that the whole premises may be se. riously considered, as !loon as convenient. ........ _ I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient Servant, To the Chairman of th e Grand Jury GOURLAY. of the Middlesex sessions. house of Correction, July 12. Sin—l often write letters, not for the purpose of informing the person to whom they are addressed, but for registering my own thoughts, purposes, and principles • as well as to make him a witness of them. •In this way I have written to you twice, anal in the same way I write now, with an additional object. On Saturday you called me to ask if I had sent to the newspapers any complaint of the prison. I had sent out so article, but not of this kind. You are welcome to see it, as yon have seen one dispatched since. You advised me to employ 4 solicitoi, and to procure bail, as the Grand Jury mi g ht sit all this week, and then let my case stand over till next Session. , Now, Sir, this is a very important matter, and induces me to be quite determined as to my conduct. I will not now eta. ploy a Solicitor; neither will I trouble myself further about bail. 'rite moment that I got to the Public Office, Bow' street, on the day of my . arrest, I wrote for friends to Conte to me; and some came Instant!), to give evidence and bail; but Mr. Halls refused bail that night, and would not say on what terms he would grant it next day. I will not 00 fast and loose with any body,' and therefore made no further attempt to be bailed, t ill a f ter reading the Statute, untie . colour of which I am i mpr i soned, last Thursd s ee i n g that this clearly admitt e d o f b a il , I got friends toge ther for conaul• tation on the subject. My own resolution at first was to make no attempt; but it being suggested that it would b 4l in my favour, in the event of a trial, to go out, and show myself, and make arrangements, I wrote to the Sitting Ns gistrates here, who referred me to the Committee at How street. I then wrote to Mr. Halls, who said, that my friends should come to him next day (Friday), at Bowestreet ; and there he told them no bail could be granted till the Doctors reported it safe for me to be bailed. He said, if I chose, he would order the Doctors to visit me; but that it was scarcely worth while as the Sessions commenced on Monday ; and probably I would be discharged for want of a prosecutor on Tuesday. Mr. Halls promised that I should be accommodated here as a gentleniaM but before this promise he had not behaved like one; anal: therefore I put no trust in his word afterwards • • • * ". From reflections on these occurrences, I made no objections to sleep in the Infirmary, when you took me their. I not only think it vain to struggle with the arbitrary power of Government, but wise to submit cheerfully when difficulties cannot be.surmounted. I attached no blame to you ;up to this day I have pleasure in acknowledging your civilities, and sa y' ing that the gene ra l treatment of prisoners seems ju dicious and mild. One thing only is obitettonable, but that, of course' must be controulled by the Magistracy, not the Governor.- - . I mean the confinement of certain criminals in the sam e place with men. It is my opimion that certain crimes A so disgusting, th at men, however guilty otherwise, should t• not be subj ecte d even to the sight of the perpetrators 0 arch. In t h e I nf i rmary I was not unhappy because c'f a poor maniac being _en inmate; but after. I ; knew thing else, the very pleCe was loathsoMe ; and in tmi i." sent room, even the neighbourhood of the mime thing is eie::• 1 - 1 ing. Were Magistrates to think of it, I dmibt not but tiel would arrange for th e b etter — arranged so, that no eye Lb"' witness what ought, if possible, not even t J be thought of for a_ moment. By a simple and not a very costly alteration, th e gentlemen who occupy the staie-anartmen:s here could be Pr ° ' tected from the sight of a dozen criminals, who daily pace Melf rounds in the adjoining lug tae. This I should be glad point out to you, with it Aagistrate, at any time. May I now request of you to get this letter laid before the Grand Jury, which assemble to.day, as soon as possible, that)) may be known that I expect my case to be taken into consider. etion this Session, eo that I may either be tried immediately , or_ have the benefit of Gael Delivery, because of thert bein no prosecutor . I protest tot Only against the opinion c' the Doctors, upon which I am confined, but against the fig' titer insult of being subjected to their scrutiny. I w il l not g ° . to the expen ce o f a f arth i ng here—upon this principle. that I would be q uit e a b sur d for me to hold out by opposing ITV monied means to those of ttovernment. The liberty of a 130. fish subject should cost nothing; and I shall not leavepril before that•point is given up, by any submission of mule. shall not suff er i t t o b e truly alleged, from•any precedent in 01 case, that a poor m an must g i ve in, and be dependent either 0 the charity of friends or the aid o f solicitor. I have lived on the'gaol provision of food ; and in testimony of preparing tu. r „. the worst, shall, alon g w i t h this, hand unto you some clothell.t". be washed and men d e d, as I understand the customs and rill" of the prison admit of this. I am, Sec. ROB. GOUBLAY• To the Governor. -4 Morning' Herald.