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• ti! LITERARY NOTICE. f • OILS of QUARANTINE LAWS, and NON-EXIST . •llttliCE of PESTILENTIAL CONTAGION; deduced %hem the Phenomena of the Plague of the Levant, the , ilyellow Fever of Spain, and he Cholera Morbus of Asia.-- OW'Catanxica P4Act.CANi M. D. [Continued from Saturday's Simi ..:.Whilst the, efficiency of Quarantine Laws for , their proposed eads have been implicitly received ages, a few facts from the work, just Published by Dr. MACLEAN, not only disprove this assumed efaiiency, but distinctly demonstrate that they greatly aggravate the .sickness, misery, and 'nor.. lity . otherwise incidental to pestilence*. In seven days from the periods of imposing restrictions, the daily mortality in Burcelo.i ueti had increased precisely eighteen fold I---- :.(P. 1004 64 ' But the.most convincing proofs that can well 'be imagined, of the inefficiency of Sanitary Laws :for their professed objects, as well as their pesi jive pernicious consequences, have been afforded by the events of the fever of Tortosa. 'The Se taltary restrictions established at Tortosa, in 1641 were remarkable both for their rigour, and Or haring been imposed a considerable time, not only before their apprehension of. 'contagion was ollidelly proclaimed' by the Juntas of Barcelona, but before any suspected deaths or sickness had .taken place at Torten • itself s yet no place has *Yer been more afflicted than that unfortunate City. On this subject let the evidence of the military Governor, Don Miguel de llaro, in a 'letter to the Political Chief of Catalonia, dated the 26th of August speak 'for itself: 6 As soon as the first notices of the contagion were re. teleed, the Municipality and Municipal Board of flealth assembled in a joint body. They act with absolute independence of all other authority. In vain does the superior Junta of Health of the Province daily 'report the state and progress Of the disease; in vain is it asserted that the • Pity of Barcelona is free from contagion ; in Italia does your order of the 15th require the Com munication not to be cut oil, and that passengers shall not be detained who have regular passports; for thisJunte . , before that of any other town, cuts off all intercourse by land and water; establishes foul lazarettos, and lazarettos of observation; placing sentinel, ut the gates ; adopting an in& silty of measures, and ordering to the lalarettos, far an indefinite period, all travellers 'Coming from Barcelona. They. interrupt the entrance of vessels, and put a stop to the important coin. ,merce arising from the manufacture of 'oil. Fi nally, a sailor falls sick coming from the river (Ebro) who had not been in Barcelona, nor held any communication with • infected Vessels, and in consequence of the Doctors not being well tic:. 'polluted with his disease, they treated hint as pestiferous : and this man at length dying in the lazaretto l they conclude with alarming the people, by the measures they adopt for the interment of •the body. " By the conduct, of this Soma, they hovel let en exaMple of disobedience, higlrly to the state; and leave given undue imporlance tins malady in question, to the great prejudice of Barcelona and of the principality. They have .alarmed the whole nation, and particnlarly the klogdorn of Valencia; end have suspended the extensive and lucrative maritime commerce which existed with foreign countries-4i commerce which draws from that district rivers of nil, supplying it in return with rivers of gold," (P. 1(13.) it The epidemic now proceeded with u rept dity truly alarming. Ott the nth of September,. Governor de flare writes, that an Politica sur • goon bed died, and that the best physician was aping ; and that, in their consternation, three fourths.of the inhabitaota had left the place, and gone into the country,. lie solicits freshisnedieta aid. 64 It 'is also absolutely necessary,"add she, " that some one should come to take charge of 'the civil government--as, of the two A !cedes, the first'itas shut himself up in ks house, and will , s ot act ; and the second has gone away. • The I.4trtior litegitior has done the same, and the town is abandoned." (P. 105.) n We now come ti) the best commentary per tar open cerord, on the pernlciousneabots well asbbsurtiity, of Sanitary Laws, in, the case of the unfortunate inhabitants of Cusul ()Milli, in the Wand of Malta, in the year 1813. It scents to be one of the greatest and Most unaccountable delusions Incidental to the singular system of which ii is my lot to treat, that, whilst an epi drenie proceeda with lucreasing and even more than ordinary severity, much beyond the usual period of the termination of epidemics at the estate ,its cessation, when at length it does happen, from a change of season, should,• with itertinacity,•lt,e attributed to the very measures which had been the chief, cause of its aggrava.. tipn an d ,pthlongation.. A very, ,edifying. histori tho preerrtls of the . plague•of n"lsl:l,Malta, ,copiously : i n't'ermixed with opinion end 'belief, ;will be found in the second chapter of Mr. Telly.'s deacribirtg, with mathematical precision, leow that•l)estilence Watt " clandestinely disscmi 7 wing " lurking in every corner of the 4 f hidding d _eftance to every pre lions exertion," 46 when on a sudden that arm tune raised,• which, under Providence, was des tined to rusls'the desolating foe ully, p. 57.) 64 Nor was the conquest an easy one, clod ccClarnd beldly c o n testing, inch' by inch • every et 4 effort 0 . Wes made for the destruction of the " disease(frtilly, 57.)-- 16 The arrival of ‘‘ 1, 11 Bacellersey Sir Thomas Maitland , . in the " capacity 'of Gosernor of Malta, which took • " place °Oho Silt of October, 1813, formed, as tc ma tear'ti from the eVen Is that speediig followed, E ssod, as e t ., have just noticed a particular tern (he hiSt 630' of the • plague of Malta; for we fl ied (and it 't .c i tit he noticed with feelings of cc gnufilurle apt: cc t tf the di>tn e w il l a ts S: , i titution) that the progress 1 * where arrested by t he it decided bin ' ) 4.1)C r fe" 4 ilYstem adopted by his 4 ' Pacelkory,!...„...c • Y/P.A.)--" On thtsocea. , sioeiviejs,the woe' course of epidemics, the ells- . .fie contitiued", 'Jolter thio ug , wallops cm. meneed later) in one unfortunate village, called ,casal Curmi,? than in the other parts of the Island. It was imagined that the dis ease did not yield, because the precautions adopted were not sufficiently vigorous and they were redoubled. The immediate results of this increased activity and vigour were exceedingly curious. It. was discovered that 46 disease was , festered and kepi alive from the homely inter course with infected goods, on the part of many of the misguided inhabitants l"—Tully, (p. 58, 9.) We are not informed by what experiments or processes, besides the usual- process of assump tion, this discovery of the concealment of goods, and of the' concealed goods being contaminated, was made. Such, however, was the foundation of the measures which I am going to relate. " The, knowledge of the above circumstance " (surmise) compelled his Excellency to have re it course to the novel and extraordinary plan of " converting a populous country town into a species 16 of lazaretto, shutting the inhabitants within their " oton precincts, by the erection of double walls, " and by the establishment, without these walls, of 66 cordonover cordon !"—(Tully p. 29.) As might reasonably have been expected by persons not wholly blinded by the absurd superstition of pes tilential contagion, the effect of this vigorous blockade, which, in correctness of circumvalla lion, Mr. 'fully seems to think surpasses the feats of any of the greatest captains of ancient Greece, was, that, the epidemic, being duly provisioned by the season, and laughing at cordons, held out in full vigour until the month of December, and did not wholly capitulate until March, provisions and the, garrison being both almost expended. On the 4th of December, a proclamation was issued against the Curmians, who would thus ob. stinately maintain themselves in an infected state, declaring that the law, as it stood, had been found inadequate to prevent the stealing of in. feeler/ goods, and the secreting of infected articles ; and enacting, " 1. That all that part of Casa! Curmi, with. in the cordon of troops, in as far as relates to the plague, be put out of the King': peace, and be henceforth declared to be under martial law. 2. That a military commission be appointed to carry into effect the said martial law, us fur us relates to any case of the plague within the said district."—(p. 287, Appendix.)—By a third ar ticle these Commissioners are named. c• It does not appear that this measure had any better success in putting an end to the disease fully : for In January (Tully, p. 64), and even MI the beginning of March (Tully, p. 70), it had not finally ceased at Casal Curmi. There could not have been a more striking proof than this case affords of the pernicious consequences of Sanitary Laws. Compelling the inhabitants of Curmi to remain exposed to the cause of the disease, not only prevented its cessation, whilst the atmosphere remained in any degree pestilen tial, and absolutely consigned then► to certain death. (It is not stated how many perished, or how many survived.) When the qualities of the atMosphere. ameliorated to a certain degree, t he sanitary restrictions could not render the pesti lence permanent,' and therefore the disea4e ceased. But; to say that it ceased in consequence of these restriction., in. March, when they could produce i'no•diertlntitttsts'of NeVereber, October, or No t vonsbor, en WWl.' upon - the meanest under- standing. Sanitary Laws do not even seem to pro duce any effect in limiting au epidemic, at the commencement, the middle, Or any period of its progress. It is only at its natural termination, or when, in the course of the usual epidemic season, the atmosphere ceases to be pestilesitial, that the effect of this change is compounded with the supposed effect of the operation of the Said wry Laws. Hence the labours of Lieutenant- General Oakes, at the commencement, anti during the progress of the malady, although praised ha meritorious, are stated to have been unavailing : Sanitary Laws could do nothing in an atmosphere really pestilential, but to augment its injurious effects. But, on the arrival of General Maitland, at the termination of the pestilential.season, Su nitary Laws did wooders l and the fever ceased— in all places, where the qualities of the- atoms phere had already ceased to be noxious ; but, at Curmi, where it happened that these fIOXIOUS qualities (lid not cease so early, the sick ness and mortality were aggravated and prolong ed by the increased rigour of the Sanitary Laws. A t the however, as Sanitary Laws were sure toout "liti ast the pestilent stnte of the atmosphere, they were ready, whenever the disease did cease, to lay claim to the merit of subduing it. " The " annihilation of 'disease was reserved, under 66 Providence, for his Excellency ; and, under " similar eircumitances, the like suentoccurred at " Corfu."—(Tully, p. ta); and, under similar circumstances, I. presume to affirm that no differ- • ent event would ever happen. Here we have assumption upon assumption, and delusion on delusion, without end. in the whole circle of human error, can any system be found at once SO absurd and pernicious? " The inhabitants of Casal Curmi being cor doned round, 6 ' willed in,' and • even le'cked within their respective dwellings,'—(p. 11 6 4) what Mr. Tully culls 'hermetically sealing the 113),—the island was deemed safe from that source of contamination. Doubtless the inhabitanti of the island nt large were per fectly sale ; and they would have been equally safe had those of Casal Curmi beyond' the pre cincts of their own town shook hands with or embraced them ; but ouch person that died in consequence, of being imprisoned in that village, was murdered according to law ; whilst, if they had only been allowed to full .back to the walls, or to the stations occupied by the troops of the cordon, in proper time, they might all have escaped death, and the greatest number of them sickness. 66 It cannot be necessary to inform the intelli gent reader that, in these strictures, I am not censuring the conduct of Sir Thomas Maitland, ' but illustrating the pernicious operation of a system wholly founded in delusion. Sir Thomas, am persuaded, was, on the day of issuing his .proclamation against • the poor Curmians, as 'miserable in his mind as anyof the inhabitants of ,that infected town."*' * Maclean's " Evils of Quarantine Laws," p. 364. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. :ORDERED 'lO 11 1: PRINTED SY TUE ROUSE OF COHHONS•] Report of the Commissioners for exarniniog into the Duties,palaries, and Emoluments, of the Officers, Clerks, and Ministers, of the several Courts of Justice, in England. TO THE ICING'S MOST EXCELLENT' MAJESTY, IN HIS HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. His late Majesty, King George the Third, was pleased to issue certain Commissions, under the Great Seal, bearing date respectively the ninth day of February, in the fifty-fifth year of his reign, the third day of June in the fifty-sixth year of . his reign, and the first clay, of February, in the fitly-seventh year of his reign, and also to issue a warrant under his Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the thirty-first day of December, in the fifty-ninth year of his reign ; and your Majesty was pleased to issue a Commission under the Great Seal, bearing date the fourteenth day of March, in the first year of your Majesty's reign, and also to issue a Warrant, under your Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the twelfth day of December in the second year of your Majesty's reign. By virtue of these several Commissions and Warrants, three or more of the Live Connnissioners therein respectively named, were authorized anti _ appointed to make a diligent examina tion of the Duties, Salaries, and Emoluments, of the seve ral Officers, Clerks, anti Ministers of Justice (amongst ether Courts in the said Counnissions and Warrants particularly men tioned or referred to) of and within your Majesty's Courts of Admiralty and Prize Courts, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the do minion of Wales, and town of Berw ick-dpon-T weed ; and of all. Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice of and within all other your Majesty's Courts of Justice, in such part of the United Kingdom; and also to make a diligent examination what re gulations might be fit to be established respecting the Duties, Salaries, and Emoluments Of the said several Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice :—And we your Majesty's Commis sioners having, as to the High Court of Admiralty, in the va rious branches of its jurisdiction, the High Court of Delegates, and the High Court of , Appeals for Prizes (so far as we have been able), completed the examinations directed to be made, do, pursuant to the liberty given to us to certify our proceed ings, from time to time, unto your Majesty, In your Majesty's High Court of Chancery, humbly certify what we have found upon the examinations directed by the said Commissions and Warrants to be made, touching or concerning the duties, ma larks, and emoluments of the Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice of the said Court of Admiralty, Court of Delegates, and Court of Appeals for Prizes, and what regulations we think tit to be established respecting such duties, salaries, and emoluments. In our Reports as to the Court of Common Law held in iVestminster Hell, and as to the Ecclesiastical Courts held at Doctors Commons, we have compared the fees now received by the Officers of those Courts, with the fees contained in the presentments filmic by . Juries acting under the Royal Com missions for inquiring into Courts of Justice, Issued in and shortly after the year 1732. %Ire have followed the same course in this Report, so far as regards the fees of the Of. 'kers of the High Court of Admiralty, and of the High Court of Delegates. The Lords Commissioners acting under the Commissions last referred to (in exercise of the powers grant ed to them) caused Sub-commissions to be issued to dif. ferent persons; for the purporie of conducting the necessary investigations as to different Courts ; and Juries were ini pannelled and sworn before these Sub-commissioners, to make as to their fees. The presentments of the Juries were laid the requisite inquiries as to the Officers of each Court, and before the. Sub-cominissioners, and were submitted by them, with their observatio ns thereon, to the Lords Commissioners; but their LordShipsdid not make a Report to his Majesty as to any court, excepting the Court of Chancery. Copies of the Presentments 'of the Juries, and of the Reports of the Sub- CommissionerA, were laid before the House of Commons in the year 1757, and are now in the repositories of the House; hot whether tile original Presentments or Reports are to this time in existnrire we bay.. been otoiffie In ascertain. 11 7 rf merittoent of rim . ury sworn to engtore as to the Officers of the Court of Admiralty, was made on the 12th of March, 1734 (old In regard to the lligh Court of Delegates, two Pre sentments were made by different Juries ; one, on the 24th of March, 1734 (old stile) and the other, on the 19th of Nov e mb er , 1735. The Pecs mentioned in these two Presentments to be re ceived by the Officers, are the amine • but the Presentment of the later date contains various additional observations of the Jury, by whom that Presentment was made, founded chiefly on Rills of Costs of ancient date produced to them, which the Jury, first impannelled had been unable to obt a in. Th e Re ports of the Sub-Commissioners on the Court of Admiralty and the Court of Delegates, dated respectively on the 25th March and 29th November, 1735, contain their observations as well on those Courts, as on other Courts mentioned in their Commission. In our Report as to the Court of King's Bench, made on the sth of January 1819, we have entered at large into the forma tion of the Juries, and the mode of proceeding adopted by them in conducting their inquiries Into the different Courts.— We deem it sufficient to state. in this place, that where a fee now received appears to have been taken at the date of the presentment, and we had no reason to believe that such fee had not been uniformly taken from that time, we have gene rally considered such fee as proper to be allowed, and have, in some cases, recommended its allowance without note or comment. We have not, in general, referred formally to the opinions of the'Juries in favour of the legality or particular fees, and we have not, after the lapse of nearly a century, considered th e o bj ect i ons ma d e by th em t o ot h er fees (many of which were, at the date of the presentment, of considerable antiquity) as forming a sufficient ground, at the present time, for recommending the discontinuance or Life diminution of it. In regard to the allowance of Fees increased beyond those received at the date of the presentments, and of Fees on occa sions not mentioned in those documents, we have been guided by the same general principles as in regard to the allowance of Pees under similar circumstances in the Courts on which we have already reported. The principles are particularly stated in our First Report as to the Court of Chancery, dated on the 29th of April, 1816. The length o f t i me f or w hi c h a F ee h as been receivisl, though not traced to the date of the present ment, the reasonableness of its amount as compared with the dffiutcyo performed in and the general circumstances of the o which fo it is i ta t iten, hav e been carefully weighed by us in forming our recommendation as to each Fee, which the pre sentment does not contain. We have not recommended the allowance or, disallowance o f any F ee not ment i oned in the presentment'', without making some note or comment thereon. In regard to the High Court of Appeals for Prizes, no in. quiry appears to have been made under the Commissions issued in and shortly after the year 1732: This Court was not mentioned or referred t o i n t h e Sub-commissions issued under the authority of the Lords Commissioners, and consequently, no Presenthtettt or Report was made respecting it. In the part of our Report 'which relates to the different Officers of that Court, we havo stated th e ear li est ev i dence which we have been able to obtain of t h e rece i pt of the fees ; and this evidence, combined with con s id erat i ons of the reasonableness of the fees,' and the circumstances of the offi ce , h as been the ground of our recommendati ons as to the Fees to be taken in t h at Court for the futu re . - There are some Fees mentioned in the, presentments as claimed by particul ar off i cers of the Omits Of Admiralty and Delegates, Which Fees, in consequence of variations in th e practice of the Courts, or other circumstances, has ceased to those of fi cers. We have considered it unnece s . sary to enter I nto an- m y detailed statement respecting th e causes of f e m r t e le c i e t iv a e e d b ßestion of leto Fees in tier the Fees, or even to specify these obso- Report. Should 'Fables of Fees he r e a f ter b e constructed by com petent authority, we do not desire to pre clude the officers from establishing any title which they may have to such Fees, in case it should appear to the pe rsons by whom the tables may be constructed, that the officers may be regularly called upon to perform the duties to which those Fees were once annexed, in 'addition to the duties which they now execute, and that none of the Fees, recommended by us to be allowed are properly to be taken as rem unerat i ons fur such additional duties. We have stated all the Fees and Emoluments, which, from tire returns and examinations of the officers, or otherwise, have a_ppeared to its to b e i n f ac t r ece ived by th e different officers of the Courts treated of in this Report, or in their offices, at the present time. We have no reason to believe that any other Emoluments are received; and our recommendations have been founded upon the presumption, that all the Fees and Emolu. ments received by the officers, their deputies or clerks, have been disclosed to us. Should any Fees or Emoluments he in which ( a 4 n o t h av i ng be e n returned to us) are not icttak mentioned en in this Report, we are of opinion that they should not be-received in future. FRENCIT PAPERS. (Frans the BMW, dated Wednesday, July 241.) MADRID, JULY 21.---(ila Espress.)—The obstinacy of the revolutionary journals of Paris and London, in denying the success of the [Loyal 'armies in south America, obliges the Government to collect all the documents that can insure the triumph of the truth." [Here the Gazette quotes accounts from Buenos Ayres relating to the taking of Lima by the Royalists.] " All the vessels in the port of Callao were seized in the King's name. In the number were three large ships of war and 11 merchant-men, without reckoning foreign vessels. 66 Before this great revolution, Bolivar had fallen back on Truxillo*." The news is confirmed by the "Irgus, of Buenos Ayres, of the 24 and lOth April, which adds, that the insurgents have arrested and deli vered up to the Royal troops the rebel Generals Alvarado and Santa Cruz. It is even said that Tagle, formerly President of the Peruvian Con• grass, has met the same - fate. It may he recollected, that the Commissaries of the Cortes had concluded . a, treaty with the rebels of Buenos Ayres. The 'Cortes had en gaged to recognize their independence, and the, latter had promised in return to the rebels of Madrid a sum of- '2O millions of piastres (005 millions of francs), to resist the armies of Frunce. This was assuredly a great deal for people who can scarcely maintain a battalioo of 500 men , to check the Pampas Indians, who are continually at their gates. But scarcely had the worthy Viceroy La Serna received information of this treaty, when, listen ing only to a just indignation, thlogli deprived of all communication with his captive King, than he declared the infamous transaction of the agents of the Cortes to - bemull and void. According to authentic intelligence received directly by way of Rio Janeiro, it appears that as soon as the intrepid Viceroy La Serna shall have received the reinforcements which have been sent here from Cadiz, he will go to Chili, where the Royalist party loudly call for him. lie will he entirely at liberty to act. Bolivar is so weakened, and his situation so perilous, in the midst of a population which execrate him, that he will not content himself with flying from Guayaquil to Panama. He must make haste to return into the Colombian territory, and the time is not very distant when means will be found to overtake him there. ST. CLoun, JULY 7.—After mass the King transacted business with M. de leis, and with the Duke Dondeauville. It is expected his Ma jesty will return to the Tuileries on the 10th of August, after six weeks' absence. (From the Journal des _Mimi: of Tuesday.) PitTERSUURGH, JULY 9.—The Emperor has created his Charge d'Affaires at Lisbon, M. Borel, a Knight of the Order of St. \Vladimir of the Second Class, for the distinguished services he rendered to the Portuguese Monarchy during the late troubles. The Secretary of Legation, Ca mille Labinski, has received the Cross of the Fourth Class, on the same account. (From the Constitutiomol.) _ eller ) 44 The dismissal JULY Is.—(Extract Private f L 74,rA y rci,vaer a nd ha s h f i a a.r e 0 ,41114.:e t c. 6 : : 1 4 a t oa,uug. d ts : l o :nii f I 1 41. 4t; s, acedon, in o rder s s Minister, hi. odseo out rubift o r)oli r i t ae h itl)i e,;tv:whefirjsrloatcoslteter lett e r ar tunatrived, teri unfor eceer. from the Emperor into the hands of the Ming. There is some reason to hope, from what he says, that his influence will be as favourable to the oppressed party as that of his predecessor, M. Bulged, was injurious. M. Zea llerniude z, the new Mi nister, is expected with impailence, a nd if h e jo ins the Mini. eters of War and of Marine, they may yet check the system of rigour which his within a few days recommenced." ODE:iSA, JULY 3.—According to the letters from Stnyrna of the 17th of June, the troops from. Asia commit great excesses on their march, of which the European Consuls have found it neces. sary to make complaints to the Pacha. A frigate and three small Ottoman ships of war have ar rived here, to convoy the troops,, which will em bark from hence to join the expedition of the Capitan Pacha against one of the islands of the Archipelago. It is said t h at the order to evacuate Walachia is at length given and sent off, but that Moldavia, situated on the Russian frontier, will continue to be occupied. It is added that the Reis Effendi has communicated this measure by a note to the Diplomatic Corps, and that soon after M. Minziaky had announced to him the ap proaching arrival of a Russian Ambassador.— The Greek Senate issued a declaration on the t7th May (Bth June), by which it empowers all Greek Captain's to treat as enemies, and capture, all European vessels which shall be found abus ing their flag, for the purpose of conveying pro. visions, ammunition, or troops, to the Turks. It is added, that this Declaration has had the effect of preventing many Christian vessels, whiCh the Pacha of Egypt had freighted, from fulfilling their contracts, and that •the same thing had hap. petted at Constantinople. But it is thought that they will be compelled to fulfil their obligations. The Captain Pacha threatens the Isle of Ispara with an attack, which, in case of . necessity, will subject the inh a bit ants to the. same fate with those of the island of Chin. The inhabitants are prepared to resist, Oven the women bear arms. But the means of attack which the Pacha has assembled are terrible, according to the ac count given by an Austrian Captain arrived at Constantinople, and who had qUitted Mitylene eight days ago.---L'Ami des Lois, a • Journal published at Hydra, confirms the surrender .of Napolito Conduriotti, and the submission of Colocotroni, which Odysseus has guaranteed. TOULON, JULY 20.—A most deplorable event has spread for these few last days consternation in our city and plunged two families into grief. The Sieurs ArnottX and Bonvou*, the first Ad jutant-in-Chief, and the second Adjutant of the galley slaves in the arsenal of the Royal Navy, have been nabbed by a galley slave, who threw himself upon them, like a madman, whilst re turning in the evening from his labour. We are assured that this fearful attempt is the result of a resolution taken among some slaves condemned for life, and who have sworn the death of the per. placed over them for their guard. The misc. rable contriver of this assassination went to glut his It was on returning to resume the offensive that B o li var met the Royal a r m y a t Usquel, where he was completely de fested.--(Note of the Editor.) rage upon others employed over the gimes, when he was happily struck by a shot, and two other wounds which laid him on the ground, but did not kill him. Another galley slave was wolinde4 in the moment of the disorder, by a shot in the thigh, and ~died from the consequences of the amputation. The Sieur Arnoux expired alMoit upon the spot, and the Sieur Bonvoux some hours afterwards. They are both regretted by all the respectable part of the city, and they. merited it from the mildness of their character, their honesty, and devotion to the King. The, tinfor:. tunate Arnoux distinguished himself above all by his sentiments of justice and goodness toward* the slaves. We are also assured that the assassin himself has expressed his regret at his having fallen under' his blows. The two unfortunate reel whom he has sacrificed to his rage each leave a wife and three children. There is . reason to hope that the Government will come to the rellef of the two ruined families. Already seven Ad jutants or Sub adjutants of galleys have ejtPe rieneed the same fate in the space of two years, 'three only of whom survived their wounds . . One is lost in conjectures upon the cause of the fre quent -assassinations. All that can be . said lit that they did not take place when those coo derailed for , life, instead of being eniplOrd 1 - 4 they are now (with praiseworthy Vii.lVs no . l 'obi) at works us well within as w idiom t's:: port, were chained upon their benches, v. i 1 .1 11 ! 1 .. w power of leaving their coetiueno•io. 4 4 thought, in fact, that. the 'unfortettato• persD'l" who have no other view than that of hug their days iii hard labour, the just punish" ment of their crimes, endeavour to rid them. selves of existence by attempting, when they canl. the lives of their ke e p ers . It is desirable the.t this state of things, which cannot but excite solicitude of the Government, should make us recognise ut length the danger of keeling 60 great a number of men condemned for life in the maritime ports, and the necessity of di• recting them towards distant colonies, where those miserable persons may clear the lands for the benefit of the mother country. The doulde . advantage to the State w ou ld r e sult from it, clearing the ioirof France, and avoiding the Ger' utility of compromising the safety of our port!; and for the interesting class of workmen of ell, sorts,.who compose the greatest part of the pulation of these ports, would result the advise tages.of not having, in th e s l aves , r i va l s who take away their work, the g a i n o f w hi c h wou ld e nable these workmen to bring up their families, 0 11 4' afford, in future times, useful subjects in nolsi arsenals. TRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, JULY 27.—Five per Cents. opened at N., 4 ,2 ° 4 closed at 98f. 35c.—Bank S toc k, 18 4 7 , 50—Neapolitan s per Cents. in Ducats, 84—Mente d'Espagne, 18 ; Roy.' sit o Loan, 54.—Exchangeon Lond on , one month, 25f. 4c. t ditto, 24f. 90c.--( ('ours Aullientiqu e, July 27.) GEadIAN PAPERS. FRANKFORT, J ULY 9..1.—1ns Roya l WlOlllB O the brand Duke of Saxe Weimar arrived here on the 29th, or his return from the Netherlands. Ills Highness set out yesti" day evening for Darmstadt. Ilia Highness Prince Metternich arrived here to-day at three o'clock, and dined with his Excel . lency Baron Von Munch-Bellingliauson, President of the Die' Our papers contain various accounts of terrible ravages aorta by hail storms on the 111th. There was a great hail storm 0 Alenheim and in the neighbourhood, which did vast damage' both on land and on the river. The wind blowing a storai, from the north west, tore up the trees, drove many vessels ol the Nuker from their anchors, and dashed them with sow. rafts of timber against the bridge of boats, which gave, wed. and was partly driven on shore up the stream, but was got C. ' and made passable again by midnight . The only one lost is oat laden with salt. The rain, mixed with hail, poured down 1 D 10" rents ; the corn in the fields is all beaten down, and a great 9 11 °,,,.. t ty of fruit beaten from the trees. We exp ect m elancholy anti from the country. In some pl aces not a window has escaped. lengen and Wurtemberg was visited on the 15th by a farloua storm ; the hail of half an hour's duration : the stones sis' s i t a as hen's eggs, and many larger, entirely destroyed the._„,„ or. ing corn in seven or eight villages, and ravased in a greoTrh e leas degree . the fields of ten other villves in the circle. " damage is incalculable. The mischief' done by the bail w° completed by a dreadful storm, which threw down barns, orb' turned loaded waggons on the roads, and tore up trees by tu. roots. VIENNA, JULY 15.—Bis Imperial Highness Rudolph, Cardinal Archbishop of Olmutz, arrived a tild s -- ;, pedal Palace on the 13th in the evening, and was torir :— .,t to Baden. Baron Binder Rnighelhim, Austrian 31 11,0 — the Court of Portugal, has arrived here from Johnnisbt l C,' HEtrocio LAND, JuLY 9.—M the beginning of this 7 0 4 the astronomical and chronometrical observations ooze old l on our island, which were intended to connect the Datt i ls oin t, Hanoverian measurements of the Meridian with the Duo operation. Professor Schumaker will direct the K aron, - observations in an observatory erected here while Dr; 4 4,1 i.. will make his chronometrical observations at'Greenvrichr4ot the Archdu k e goland, Altona, &C. The Doctor came here in they_.... 4 steam-boat, fitted out for this expedition, on the rp ' , and sailed on the 3d for Norway to land Sir Humphrey on thif at Christiansand, who intends to make experiments we effect produced by the sea water on iron and copper. 0 1 nine poet the Comet back to-day. He has on hmrtt twe ;: 7 l ch ar e chronometers, made by the first English artists, w ;ow e placed in a large room, secured by a particular on, "'ides from being affected by the motion of the vessel- 81 1 0 to with coals are stationed in various arts of the Norm re cos' supply the Comet with f ue l ; nine bushels of coals a re ho sumed in an hour, and the ste am eng i ne of eign ower.—(Frankfort Papers, July 22.) 931316' VIENNA, JULY. n -- 13, 14, ANTI 15.Metalliquct,10. 93 5.6, 94 1.16 ; Bank Shares, 1111 1.9, 1112 24) "ib 3. —(Austrian Observer, July 14 to 16.) The following, explanation has been giv en ;f 7t l r i o e m celebratedElba,-Generallar:h B S I A a 5 , A ny of his ri ) °," - e for rem a i n i ng in Paris, when NAPOLEON Other /I'; Son in my pl ace would have fled to get Ou t f c h way of the cruelty of a tyrant, who bad asA ti ro thirst for blood as ambition for despotism. "1 4 1 the King went to Ghent I ought to have ron ° , - . c h his Majesty with the Royal Volunteers, of w° l oo , corps I . was a Lieutenant : hut what ." I ,,„ o rgt astonishment when General Latour-Mam l 7 t he the Commander of that corps, ordered me ' fi n tO King's na me , an d i n presence o f mo re 04- o , a t officers, to remain in Paris ! I stated to Ole' he if I remained Buonspart e would order me to in the morni ngt here tto t t 1:e shot. This was on th e 9.0 0, o f M a rch, et to my lodgings, Well, there shall 111:111: finish :' Ih j er t et ie l t in t eld l e vi r?: ( 11..r t 1: 1 ; most profound contempt. It was TIO IOW! a n d sible for m -e to escape. A swarm of Wi g° disguised gendarmes hovered round m y hous e * darting on hint a look 0- or visri T "' The Persi ans ' id ea o f P ara di se is 4 without heat, and coolness without cold." lagl ic t The consecration of the Bishops of t s' and Barhadoes took place on Sunda,' ' Lambeth Palace. .y