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FRENCH PAPERS. ( From the E toile, dated Saturday.) PA 1113, DEC. 24. The Chamber of 'Peers had to nominate the Members of the Bureau and the Commission for the Address. We understand that -there were 167 votes ; majority 84. The minority comprised, among others, MM. de Lally, Arch bishop of Paris, Viscount de Chateaubriand, Count Mole, and Baron Pasquier. The minority war from 50 to 81 votes. M. tie Cliateaubriand had 61 votes. The majority; howeve?, nerd" Dated the Duke Mathieu Montmorency, the - Duke de Brissac, Viscount Ronald, the Marquis de Pastoret, and the Duke de Calor,. These five members had the majority, which was from 91 to 107. The Duke de Montmorency had 103 votes. • The Second Cliamher g of the States General of the Netherlands was occupied, in its sittings of the 18th, with the discussion of a projei of law co►ttaiuing provisions for the more efficacious re• pre!;siott of the slave trade. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Th:c. 24.—Five per Cents. opened at 10If. 71c.; declined to 1011. 70c. ; and at half-paat three were 1011. 75e. for the end of the month.—Neapolitan, VW. —.Spanish Bond', no quotation. NAPLES, Nov. 80. FzILDINAND I. by the grace of God, King of the Two Sici lies, of Jerusalem, &c. Desiring to establish a due equilibrium between the receipt and expenditure of the Treasury of our do minions beyond the Strait, for the year 1825, without burden ing dur beloved subjects with new taxes, on the proposal of our Seeretoty of State, Minister of Finance,ly the advice of our Ccuncil of State, we have resolved to decree,.and decree-- 1. From the Ist January next the Exchequer of our domi nions. beyond the Strait shall retain 10 per cent. of the follow. ing payments :—On the salaries of the officers of the Royal flousehold, of the Councillors, Ministers, and' Secretaries of State, Officers of the Foreign Department i and of all officers of whatever order or rank they he ; on pensions, subsidies, alms, and, in short, on payments of every kind not below specified. 2. Besides the national consolidated debt which, by the sa credness of its institution, cannot be subject to an y t ax or de duction, and beside s th e onds in pounds sterling of the last loan, which have been assimilated with the public debt, the following are exempt from the operation of the Ist Article— the daily pay of the troops and of the seamen of our navy, the ftinds of the Caine d'Apioninement ; the annuities for credits on our treasury payments tbr articles furnished and for labour ; and those which result from contracts or agreements with or without Interest. 3. Our Treasurer shall keep 'a separate account of the sums proceeding from the said deductions, as well those which are ,directly retained by the Treasury itself on the disbursements mentioned in the Ist. Article, for which it is liable, as all the sums which shall be paid by the other Offices on the same account. 4. All our hlinisters Secretaries of State are charged with the .czectition of the present Decree. Naples, 6th Oct. 11324. (Signed) . De Medici, Minister of Finance. De Medici, President 0 the Council of Ministers. (From the Courier Francais.) FERDINAND. FRANKFORT, DEC. 20. The Advocates of this town have. prosented . a -petition to the Senat e , pray i ng that the-Jews may be excluded from their body, and for the future prevented from pleading for any but .themselv e s. The Senate has rejected this ral request, declaring that the profession of an _Advocate was open to any nue -who might choose -to embrace it ; but , the Senate adheres to. the ancient laws, which hinders the Jews from act. -ing AS Notaries or Proctors ; us those professions ere, it is said, brunches of the Sovereign malt°. tity. ( From Me Conaitutiounel of Saturday. ) M.tottin, DEC. 0. The expedition so long preparing fur the Pa . citic Ocean, quitted Ferrol on the 7th of this • month ; it consists of a frigate and two corvettes, having on board upwards of two thousand ti seen. In the present state of the Peninsula, -It is the greatest effort that can be expected. TRADE WITH THE Rio DE LA 'PLATA.--The last mail from Buenos Ayres has brought a copy -.of a Report, drawn up by a Committee of British Merchants, on the past and present state of the trade with the Rio de la Plata, which supplies some commercial information of a highly interest. lug nature. The improvement of the trade of Buenos Ayres, since its separation from Spain, ' has been very remarkable, and furnishes a strong proof of the advantages .gained by that country in establishing its Independence. .1n -the year ° 1700 , the exports from Cadiz to Buenos Ayres amounted to '2,800,000 dollars, and the Mi.. ports to Cadiz front Buenos Ayres to '6,000,000 dollars, -which, as -Spain possessed an entire monopoly, may he •stated 'as the whole • trade of that :Viceroyalty. In the year,lB2‘2, accord ing to the returns of the Custom house of Buenos Ayres, the imports are estiMated at 11,000,000 dollars, of which nearly one half were received from Great Britain direct. In the same year the exports from Buenos Ayres are estimated at N 7.00,000 dollars. This difference in the amount of the imports and exports. from that country is explained by the circutimtance, that the actual rquatktities have always exceeded these returns, us they have at all tiMes'been short manifested in order to save dutieti. In the amount of spe cie in particular said to be exported, no reliance is to be placed-on these returns, as the article his sometimes been :wholly prohibited, and was then smuggled off. .revenue of Buenos Ayres in • 1522 is stated at -1,900,000 dollars, and which is said to be raised on a scale of duties . comparatively moderate. The system of high duties was wisely abandoned by the Govern ment on account of the temptation it created' to smuggling. The increase in the trade of Buenos Ayres will appear far mare striking when it is stated, that under that name was returned to the Spanish GOvernment the whole trade with Paraguay and Upper ' Peru, which is now, from • political causes, wholly suspended. When those causes cease to operate, , which the progress of - 'st.vents appears to indicate will very shortly happen, • the returns must- inevitably become fur greater. It is estimated 'by -the Committee, that, while the colenial system,existed,all manufactured and other Kerniseanygoods. sold for three titnes.their presont prices., while 41se produce of the.conntry was givett oxchange: for fourth : ..part . of what is now paid fur it.. The : Trecediug appear to us th e ,most striking f acts ail general nature coin.- , prised h t this report ) of which our limits will not -,,pertilit us to. give a more extended notice ; but the whole of the details possess considerable in terest for persons engaged in commerce - with that pet of the rld.—(rimet.) Tlw CHURCH DEPP:NDED against the CALUMNIES of the " gToILE," FRENCH PAPER. It has always been a complaint on the part of Protestants, that theirtr 4 has been laid open to the, attacks of its enemies b bigotry which has been too often betrayed on tl pafbf its friends:7 Not only infidels, but even those who in4esii to bethristiaus, and are as blindly superstitious as any sect among us,—the Papists--venture to strike our Church through thFinperstition Or one of the sects the most predominant in this country, which, from the spirit of toleration, naturally exposes itself the morel() such: divisions. Because - the Methodists are bigots enough to resolve' every thing into mystery ; and from their ignorance are unable to explain texts which have long Ago shone with all the fulness of light to the learned in most countries, our country is to suffer tinder the degrading 'censure of L'Etolk, as the most superstitious and ignorant in matters of religion of any country in the world. " From the report of travellers" (says this I'aper) " who have gone over to England imbued with the prejudices of philosophism, we might imagine the English were a very religious people, but since the learned of all .na tions have visited that country, we find that the bulk of the people who arc in easy circumstances, and all the lbwer classes are in a most pitiable state with regard to religion." And to What does this Paper ascribe this wretched state of us Protestants ? Forsooth, to the opinions which we so fondly entertain, and which We trust will never be forsaken, that all our " religion is to be found in the Bible, which is got by heart in general by the common people, who yet cannot understand one single v.erse." To confirm which, a fact is quoted, which is said to have happened some years ago in Ireland, from the testimony of two or' duce Catholics who met some Protestants at the condemned room in which were some criminals sentenced to be executed the next day. A Methodist Minister, well known for his visits on these occasions, was haranguing one of the robbers upon the text where the promise is made to one of the malefactors on the Cross, which seemed to make a great pression upon the robber, and to inspire him with hope and confidence in the same promise, till at last he began to think of his creed, which says his Saviour descended into Hell, and asked the Minister how he could reconcile that descent with the promise that he should 'on that day be with him in Pa radise, as he was not to enter himself till after his Re surrection. Upon which, the Minister who had been brought up in the conceit that to read the Bible was enough, and had never examined Into its real sense, did not even attempt to answer him; but after thinking for some time, pronounced it to be one of the mysteries which were never meant to be understood. " Such," says this paper, "is the consequence of reading the Bible without a commentary." But hart the Etoile yet to learn from the wise and learned Mis sionaries whom it has sent to procure all the information possible about our Church, and to feel the religious pulse of the nation at large, that its members are in general very hostile to the dissemination of the Bible without a commentary; and is it possible even for Frenchmen who have not visited England, and who pretend to Some interest in its religious state to be igno rant of this fact, which has been so often and so Strongly urged against a leading sect among us, to which I have alluded, and to which this mystifying Minister is said to belong? The Church it not to he judged by the errors of the Sectarians, and much less to• be abused for that particular error which it has taken so much pains for several years to confute and to repress. As well might you take its sentiments from thegitithr who has lately shone through a glass darkly in our Courts of Justice, and listen to the • expounding of this transpar ent preacher, who says with a simplicity characteristic of his sect, and with a spirit so peculiar to these hraven-Goin Evan geficair, " I sometimes preaches to every benighted neighbour hood the gospel of our Lord, but I never preaches it but when I am not employed ,"—and this employment is in Mending glass windows. So brilliant is his career, and so useful in his gene:. ration, that when he is not engaged in furnishing the outward light he occupies himself with as freely imparting, as it is to him imparted, the inward light. .Froarsuelt lights as these, the critics of France judge of the whole English nation, by means of their learned emissaries, Whom they have sent to gather all the information possible, as to our religious state. Just as the noted PIGLET picked up his knowledge and vented forth his spleen in scandalous anec dotes of our cannibalism,' delight in Uxoricide, or in the daily murder of wives who were not already murdered by drinking brandy, when they retired from themen. If they had enquired a step further, and not been glad to seize idle stories and calum 'nious reports, —never too extravagant to be swallowed by a set of men who arc ready to helieveany thing against us as Protestants, and as Britons,—they would have learnt the real truth, that though there are unhappily to be found some few of these Evan gelicals and Alystifiers even in our Church, who may obtrude these tenets, as they delight to do on all occasions, upon strangers as well as natives, and are at the same time ever identifying them selves with the true Church, yet if they would not judge of the whole by these partial representations, or of the body by such excrescencies, I do not hesitate to affirm, what even they them selves, if they will throw away their Papistical spectacles, would hu ready to acknowledge, that they have been mistaken in The unqualified Censure which they have thrown upon that body, and that there is not (always save and except themselves) in Christendom any religious community which less. deserves animadversions of any kind. The more deeply its spirit is ex plored, the more sensible will they become that there is not body in the world which has emitted so much real light, whe ther from public or private character, from the pulpit or the press, •in theory or m practice, than the Reformed Church of England ever since the Rethrmation, and that the country it. self has enjoyed the benefit of that light in the same propor tion. Nor is it fair or reasonable to judge of its religious spirit, as the French Critics pretend, by an Evangelical Minister in Ireland, or any of the same stamp whom we may meet' with here, who, whatever they may profess, do not really belong to our Church ; and much less, by the miserable victims to a wild fanaticism, a set of Ranters, and Hearers, and Pilgrims, or the followers of Johanna Southcote, who st;11 believe in her prophesy, that she should never die though it has been so com pletely baffled by her .death. One of them declares he has I heard her voice, who came from heaven in Purpose to com mand them to wear their beards ; and therefore,. rim several weeks past they have remained .unshorn. According to his own statement, he had a colloquy with the Supreme Being, and had been commanded to allow his beard to grow in inn tation of the Apostles, and now on Sundays a flock of these fanatics, like so many he-goats, may be seen going to and from their place of worship ; and because there may pe some few such wretched Dotards and Long-beards to be found, who seem to wish to restore one part of the Jewish costume, they are forsooth to be presented to the French as accurate speci mens of the whole, nation— " Credat Judens APella" Non iniberbis A polio— who would ,pot: m g , o f t h e p i ety w hi c h Preva il s i n a Chris tian Community by a fanatical faction of toptbards, any more than of the whole Christian Body throughout the world by his Holiness's toe. At the sound of this so often saluted Member of Infallibi lity, 1 would offer in the curiou s in etymology an otf-liand by pothesis which perhaps may throw a light upon the subject with other us learned_and ingenious commentaries, the more it drivesit into the shade. To relieve a d u ll controversy whicil I may perhaps resume at somejuture opportunity, I . should be glad If these searchers after the truth can assign a better etymo. logy than the one which I propose. May not the great Primate of the world, old an d no w, trace his holy pedigree to a " shadowy footed people, the We podcs, in Libya", who arc said, to be provided by nature with feet of such circumference us tAll shade the rest of their persona and others around them, when in a recumbent p osture , from the heat of - the sun. as his Holines may h its salue said. to overshadow ail people.who. once hOnoures d with ta tion, may ever after repose in the shade of lib; authority— Zr pate Hercukni. FOR THE SUN. MISS FOOTE. Mn. Etirroa----The firm impartiality which , you manifest in all matters of a political nature, as well as the rigid regard to; decorum which characterizes your remarks on all subjects of 41 private amid personal desciiption, induce me to rely on your insertion of the present appeal to your justice and humanity. JOHN Bum, yester day, in commenting upon the subject of the re gent action tried is the Court of *King's Bench,' shews a degree of candour which not often ap pears in his columns. lie certainly does not discover any partiality towards Mr. lIAYNE or Colonel BEnxer.trit, hut, though in general he speaks with a liberal spirit of Miss FOOTR, yet, in some particulars, he seems to be rather severe in his comments on the conduct of that unfortu nate lady. say nothing of her original error respecting Colonel. BERKELEY. It is so common a circumstance for a young woman to fall a vic- . tim to her partiality for an alluring object, that it can excite no surprise, except among those .who are ignorant of human nature, and of the in hence of passions rendered essential to the con tinuance of mankind, and all other vital beings. JosiN livid. says, that " had Miss FooTe called Colonel BEnxeowbefore the tribunal of Justice to answer for his defection, all had been well." But, Sir, had net Miss FOOTE, from the moment when she fatally listened 'to his addresses, been flattered with .the expectation that he would marry her? Had she not, on numberless occa sions, endeavoured, by the most anxious entrea ties, to iuduce him to perform his solemn pro mise ? Her connexion with him had been of too long a continuance for her to resort to legal mea sures, particularly as that connexion was appa rently equally affectionate on both sides, and she might, therefore, never wholly have despaired of being at last made his wife. It may not unrea sonably be imagined that, after the first conse quence of the intercourse between them, she might be induced to listen again to his importu nities, not from frailty, but front a hope that, being a second time likely to be a parent, he might feel disposed not to suffer another offspring to enter the world in a state of illegitimacy. It is natural to conceive that, after such proofs of affection on her part, he still would have made an honourable reparation to her in the eyes of mankind. When all hopes, however, were an nihilated, and it was obvious that she could ' not expect to be the wife of Colonel BERKELEY, is it not probable that love would give place to indignation, and that she determined to put an end to the connexion. At this period Mr. HAyNE appeared, .avowedly with honourable proposals, and though she had not herself ap prized him of the .nature and consequences of her former connexi on , y e t i t was impossible for her not to suppose him acquainted with them, though not to the full extent of those come qnences. Here, then, came forward a oew lover, who, notwithstanding the reports against her, was disposed to enter into an honourable alliance. He must unavoidably have appeared in an amiable light to her, and, stung with resentment towards her former lover, with the prospect o f b e i ng re . stored to the world with credit and indepen dence, was it not probable that she might esteem, and even love, the man who appeared to be ready to make such a sacrifice in her favour? It is not because she is an actress that she must necessa rily have learned dissimulation ; the theatrical profession is a laborious one, and demands perpe tual study. With the female sex, if young and handsome, it is a profession peculiarly exposed to temptation and danger. Holding, as I do, that it was impossible that Mr. I L tYNE should not have known of all the circumstances attending her former connexion, and that Miss FOOTE must have believed that l►e did, antryet that he wade honourable proposals to her, it is by no means absurd to suppose that she sincerely transferred her affection from the man who. had absolutely declined to fulfil his promise, to one who had overlooked her errors, and was ready to give the most solemn proof of his affection before the eyes of mankind. Thus, Sir, 1 have endeavoured to obviate the objections of JOHN BULL, upon the only points in which he censures her conduct ; and if Miss Foova should be under the necessity of returning to the stage, such, I .venture to hope, will be the light in which she will appeal' to a considerate, humane and liberal public. United Service Club, Dec. 27, 1824. VINDEX. COLOIVEL BERKELEY. The following, relating to the above g e ntl e . 'man, is from a Sunday paper : " The late Earl Berkeley, his father, when quartered in Gloucester, one of the Regiments of the Gloucester Militia, of which he was Colonel, conceived a violent passion for Miss Mary Cole, the daughter of Mr. Cole, a butcher in that city. Some time after, Miss Cole disappeared from Gloucester, and Lord. ship. found living in London, under the protection of his iord. ship. Miss Cole was a line young woman of an active disposi tion and intelligent,mind. Devoted to pleasure, his Lordship had 'neglected his . affidra. Miss Cole soon aquired an influ— ence over him, undertook the arrangement of his house hold,. and improved himself and his estates. Dur ing all this time they cohabited, and the consequence was . a numerous progeny, all bred up as a legitimate. It is a standing rule or order of the House of Lords, for the purpose of preserving the purity of the Peerage, that the Mem bers shall, when required, prove their pedigree—via. make a true and correct return of the state of their issue. The order was enforced in the lifetime of the late Earl Berkeley, and he made a return of his children, including Colonel ll,keley, then called Viscount Dursley, as his eldest son, and heir to his titles. The accuracy of this return was impugned in the Committee of Privileges of the 'loose of Lords., The Earl, in its support, add uced a reinter o f a marriage at Berkeley, In Gl o ucestershire, onthe 30th of Alarch, 1 7 85 , previous to the birth of any o f hi s children, but after a long and a nxious discussion at t h e bar, hear i ng a variety of evidence, it was annulled, and a subsequent, marriage between the ..s Countess, at Saint Mary's, Lambeth, on the 16th of Earl and leis aunt 1796, was declared valid. By the de cision, the childr en b orn b efore the sa id marriage, c onsisting a' Berkeley is the eldest, were of four sons , of whom Colim declared illegitimate. In the year 1810, the late Earl d i ed, having made a will, ;-n which, to compensate his eldest son , w ont ' Berkeley, for his di sappointment, he bequeathed to bins the noble and ancient family p ea , Berkeley Castle, in Glouces. tershire, with hll the unsettled ~,t , t es, valued at 10, 0001 - a year ebleitilliis seat in ,ii Thomas Morton Fitzhartlinge Berkeley, the first issue of the t it h ia e r ti ri t a l g e : ie H owe o f bon's, a eircum. he has been fur spine Years of full age, he has never assumed I now bec,tune Earl Berkeley, but though autism which c.orroboraiti .the statement of the Attorney-Gen. that Colonel Berkeley enterta . n, i great hopes of the transfer . of the title to himself. There are several other legitimate children living, and so many Interests would he affected by the ° no ' ta t : accomplishnient of such 4 OM, we do not think it very feasi , ble, but if ever an exPeetation of the kind was entertained, die recent disclosure m ust, we apprehend, throw a must discourag ing damp upon it. . FOR THE SUN. EDITOII----If Cris (the candid, gentleman like, and liberal Correspondent of The Times) he patient yet a little, lie will have a better Opportunity of judging whether the proposed Quay will really be beneficial to the Navigation of the " Thames, an accommodation to the Public at " large, and tend eyually to the embellishment ee of the finest river in the World, and to the 46 health and recreation of the inhabitants of the " Metropolis." CI vls truly and accurately de scribes the only use's to which the majestic Thames is now applied, " To carry coal and " country barges —to afford mud banks for them 44 to rest upon,und to curry off the streams of the tc common sewers." Let Civis look at St. Peters burgh, at Paris, nay at Dublin, with its narrow LilFy, and blush for his own London. As to ex penditure and profit, a very short time will en able thus and the public in general to draw conclusions for themselves. I have the honour to be, Your obedient servant, A FRIEND TO IMPROVEMENTS. FOR. THE SUN. 111 n. Marron—Your disposition to give pub licity to any information that may tend to public benefit, induces me to beg insertion to the follow ing. So susceptible is the human mind to be led by novelty, that personal safety is often disre garded. I would remark, that those persons who pa tronize the PATENT STEAM WASHING COMPANY are not aware that th►+ Company are liable to re ceive linen infected by different diseases ; say malignant or putrid fever, scarlet fever, measles, small-pox, besides a very prevalent disease. Now, Sir, numerous are the cases on record of resuscitation of infection in linen, after it has gone through the process of washing, and that too after it has been rubbed by hand and boiled. In a recent case, brought by Dr. PArrisoN before the Magistrates, the Company's Agent stated, us a cause of detention, that the linen was so generally mixed, that it required much time to select the parcels belonging to the respected owners. As a medical man I think it my duty to ad vance this hint, anticipating your ready acqui esceuce In its seasonableness. I um, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. L. Parliament.strect, Dee. 24, 1024. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—As your junior readers are. re. turning from their studies to enjoy theconviviulity of the approaching festive season, perhaps the following game of forfeits may enliven the fire side. Yours, &c. Dec. 1824. QUIS. QUIS. An amorous Aunt angling for an antiquated Adonis. Two tired Tinkers trundling a trunk to Tregony ; An amorous &c. Three thrifty Tailors turning Toley Trenches' triangular trow sers ; Two tired Tinkers, &c. &c. Four fat Friars Writing by a tierce fire ; Three thrifty, &c. &c. &c. Five foggy Farmers frying fricassed figs over a flickering flaring farthing candle ; Four fat Friars, &c. &c. &c. Ic. Six sickly Straddle-brooks sucking sugar candy ; Five foggy Farmers, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. Seven sallow Salopians, solacing Suckey Sawney's sulky sim pleton ; Six sickly Straddle-brooks, &c. &c. Etc. &c. &c. &c. Eight Ethiopians eating eider down duck eggs emerged in ether; Seven sallow Salopians, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. Nine nuthook'd' nosed Nuncidians, nicking Nuncio Nick's nags ; Eight Ethiopians, &c. &c. &c. Ic. &c. Sec. Ten tumbling Trumpeters, trumping tram pling trembling through Transylvania; Nine nuthook' d, Ic • Ic. &c. Ic. &c. &c. &c. &c. E,leven edifying Elders, eating Elephant's ears, In essential es. :fence of eels ; Ten tumbling, 414 e. &C. &c. &C. &c. &e. &c. &c. &c. &c. - Twelve twarley Twaddlers, twaddling, turning, trotting to Tunbridge ; Eleven edifying Elders, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &„c. &c. &c. dtc. THE REFUGEES. AlANstoti-IlousE.—During the whole of yes terday considerable sums were transmitted to the Lord Mayorfor the relief of the Spanish and Italian refugees. The Com mittee have had an arduous task in directing the distribution of the public bounty in such a manner as to avoid wounding those nice pinions which are entertained by the refu gees s. ° he allowance directed to be made is 10s. eiwwe whose feelings ros swoer wives both ekfoe an d a re single, men, 15s. per week for married men, living with them, and 18s. per week to those married men who have brought over children. The number of refugees who have already partaken of the relief ex ceeds 700. Certificates are required of -the parties, and inqui. ries are made of the most respectable persons of either nation as to the truth of their statements. The principal references are, the Generals Mina, Miens ' and Quiroga, who, we believe, are made, in many instances, the distributors of the charity, it be ing the most agreeable to those unfortunate gentlemen who fought under the command of those leaders, to receive the don. atious at their hands. There are others of the refugees, however, who feel a great delicacy in receiving the money at the hands of their countrymen, and have expressed a preference to receive it directly from the Society. But this course is attended with many inconveniences, and there are many advantages which it is unnecessary to specify, attending the course adopted by the Committee. All the distributors selected are men of the highest respectability. Mr. Louis de la Vega will attend, we under stand; daily, at Newton's Hotel, near Leiceater-fields, fir the purpose of distributing the allowances to a certain number of the refugees.---Me LORD MAYort has received letters front various parts of the country on the subject of the subscription ; and the feeling . which is generally manifested is such as to in. duce hint to write to the Chief Magistrates of the principal Cor porate towns throughout the kingdom as to the propriety of joining in the exertions made in the metropolis in behalf of the strangers, and calling public meetings for that purpose. MOUNT RosA.—After long enjoying the ho nour of being the highest among the Alps, Mont Blanc had been, some time since, declared to be somewhat less elevated than its rival Alp, Mount Rosa. The recent trigonometrical admea surements of Austrian engineers acting under the direction of Baron Von WELnErt, huve restored Mont Blanc to its original superiority. The re lative height of these stupendous mountains they found to be as follows, in Pads feet : Mont Blanc Mont Rosa - .14,764 - 14,222 The prisoners on board the convict ship Lady East, 210 in number, lying in Falmouth but hour, formed the project last week of overpowering the crew ; 40 had sawed off their irons, when the attempt was fortunately discovered, and the ringleaders secured and severely flogged. Four prisoners received sentence of death at the Sussex Assizes ) but were afterwards re prieved. WEST INDIA DOCKS. STOCK ACCOUNT for the Week ending Friday, the 24th of December, 1824. Deli 'ered. I Home Con sumption Stock on Nand• 39,431 2,985 470 U 52 7,061 - 4,679 1,018 25.083 1,30 389 1,467 9,319 1,40 1,9V8 1.,,24) ,61i 1 Asticlos. Brazil Ilhds %Vest India {Trs Ills cigarßrazil . Chests IHavanah - BOXCII East India it } Bags Mauritius Molasses - .' Casks Rum - - I Plis I Hds f Pus ' handl ' - * Iti , Hollands . - { Pns Ms Arnica . - Casks Wine - - { Pipes lids Trs Coffee - - Ills • I Bags Cocoa - - { ( 14 ; t a t ser„k: i Casks Pinlon to - - t Bags Caiks Ginger - 1 Bags . j Casks Pepper • 1 Bar B Cotton - Bags .Aloes . Gourds Casks Arrow Root • f ' Boxes Boxes Bali ani Jars Casks Serons Bak . a Bdls Bags Cassia Fistula - Casks Closes - - { Casks Gi Coc luemm h p ineal .-.- 4 1 !:1 3 .7 7 0 ; e5 , 5 , Elephants' Teeth No. Tons Hides - - No. Horns - - No. Indigo - Serons I pecacuanhit . { C i pt s . . Jalap - - Bales Whale - Galls { tCC(C' (% a s aa sa ss k kkk s s: Oi l PC C o a alco s ni tor Nut .- Serons p P i c i ar le l A S l l i e , l i l e -. Casks Bice and Paddy { Casks Bags Sago . . Boxes Sarsaparilla - Bales Tallow - - Casks Tortoise Shell . { Casks Boxes Turtle - - - Casks WOOD. { Logs Mahogany Pieces Plks &Bds • Cedar African Timber 1 j gg sgs Pljueags& Plks Logs Santa Maria { pieces Ebony Tons L ig. Vitaso Wood - . TonsT o n s Box W Log Wood Tons Fustic - Tons Nicaragua Wctod Tons Cam Wood Tons Bar Wood Tons Brazilletto . Tons Saunders Wood Pieces Lancessood Spars No. Staves - - No. 2,214 176 ,)• Exporta tion. t 7 ait 1,772 11 1 3 674 3,123 1,126 210 8 2U 21* 5,6:9 2,891 277 212 2,01 2,0 1 i 2, 310 4 MASSACRE OF TIIE INNocEwrs.—Holiday at the lisnk, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Mouses. FOREIGN MAILS. ARnivzu. Guernsey and Jersey Uouenburgh llamburgh . Holland - France Flanders - America - Dug. 1 HIGH AVATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-Mon li(a. )lnrning,.`lB minutea after 7. 1 Eveniril, 4 minatet 14, N. - JuDE SOLE.M QUIN DIOERE -- LONDON. TUES'D/11 1 EVENING, 10,'G'. 28, 18'2I. -- . The remainder of the Paul''. J mlrnals of Friday and those of Saturday arrived i :St night. A 5 Y 44 the two Chambers have done nothiug but eil through the customary forms at the opening° the Sessions. The most important articles in 00° Papers are the following extracts relating to the affairs of Greece, which will be perused Mth considerable interest. The first is 0 pre; (lunation of the Lord High Corninissioner Q,. the lonian Islands, announcing blockade of Patras and Lepanto, according 1 the law of nations, by the Greek 0 nlaritio; forces, and commanding all vessels sailing nulls, the lonian flag to respect it. This, though' la' itself merely an act of ' strict neutrality, "AY likewise be regarded, in connection with the Iv telligence contained in the Augsburg article, u a public acknowledgment on the pait of Itie lonian Government, that the Greeks, 11 tiwir i c successes against their oppressors,. have P'l4ed t themselves in the condition of an indepen"j" nation. the regular (From the Constittitionuel.) " PROCLAMATION 'OF LORD Mall COMIIISS.. U r) I ; IN THE NAME OF T UE THE P RESIDENT AND A1E3 113 ., - ,, S iA lt TILE SENATE OF TILE UNITED STATE; OF Tllg tn " As the • individuals who are charged with the Go vern ,,, - of Greece have signified to his Excellency the Lerd Iltd missioner, that the ports of Patras and Lepanto were , 4 ; ll * ° ‘1 ably to the law of nations, placed in a state of blockade naval force, composed of vessels expressly destined to tha t pose, it is ordered by these present% that all Vessels and 52i 47 5,30 3 4 523 30 0,3 U 1,9 0 f 454 37 10 5 6,.11t; r. I'".. • thE. de di Pea of 4 ' ordi ful Can lit}pare Ore 1 Y r Cob 4ien itiop "T 1 25( 49t cer frig via l tio t coy sp e