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BRUSSELS PAPERS. = WARSAW, Die. G.—The Jewish Rabbis and ElderS . have met in, general assembly at Plats kow, and have' decided that the celebration! of the 'Sabbath shall be changed to the Sunday. On the Ist of January, 1824, will be publish ed, the First number of• a new Journal, to be called the Monitor of Warsaw. I,Eunoa,N, DEC. 28.—A traveller who has just arrived from Egypt, states, that on the 15th ,)f last month there was great rejoicings at Alex acaount of a victory gained by the troops of the Viceroy over the rebels of Shendy, at the same place where the son of his Highness oss_ assassinated last year. He adds,- that . the EgitNian Genera)" had taken 6,000 prisoners, among whom was the Molech of Shendy, with his - whole family. [EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.] 44 NUREMBERG, JAN. 7.—We have ,received the followine details direct from Corfo :—Colo- cotroni, who now acts a distinguishekt part in the •Government of Greece, has taken the chief command of the corps, of Mnreotes, which hits proceeded against Patras with the artillery. He will direct the operations of the attack on that fortress. The conferences for the surrender of -Coron and Modon have not led to any result, the Turkish garrisons of those places asking terms which the Greeks do not judge admis-ible, the latter having learnt that the Turks begin to be in want of provisions, and that they had many sick.— Prince Maurocordato, who saved Missolunghi last winter, by his judicous measures for its defence, has returned to that place, where he has caused himself to be acknowledged asCivilGovernorand Military Commandant in Western Greece. The Turkish men of war, which were cruising about Missolunghi have entirely vanished, since the appearance of a considerable Greek •fleet. The Greek Gevernment has enjoined Prince Mauro cordato to organise, -without delay, an expedi tion against the forts still held I the Turks, on the north side of the Gulph of Lepanto. All. the inhabitants along the Gulf of 01, have, again taken up arms, and cut to pieces several small corps of Turks which had marched against them in expectation of being able to overpower them." _ _ FRANKFORT. JAN. 10.—An tkaste of the "Em peror of Russia allows all Jews residing in the Russian Empire, who have enibraced the Catho lic Religion according to the rules of the Greek Church, to enter the ecclesiastical orders of that religion. The Prussian ..Cabinet has lately .de cid:cl that all Polish - - Jews, on arriving in the Prussian dominions, shall again be "liable to the tax called the Jews' toll. ERENCII FUND.% PARrs, JAN. 17.—Five per Cents. 94f. 55c.. ..Bank Stock, i5 6 40f• Neapolitan Five per ('ents. ODE. Rents d'Espagne opened at 25, closed at 254. EXCHANGE ON LONDON-1 Month, 25f. 3 Months, !Zef. Cours 214thentique, Jan. 17.) ERNIAN ROBBERS. WurcrsaunG 7 JAN. 9.—(Extract ri a private ie:ter from Erlangln, dated- December 29th.)—" On Novem ber 3d, a boy about 13 years of age, of a gocti family in the Upper Palatinate, was conducted by his mother, a widow, to the school of M. Liederskron,atEriangen. She described her son to . the master as modest and good, but volatile, and not much at ached tostudy. She added, that his manners were somewhat rude, but his heart pure and uncorrupted. A few days-afterwards this lad ran away from school. The master received himn back at the request of his mother, without punishing him. About a week after he ran away e. second time, and was brought back at t h e e nd of a fortnight. NI: Liederskron threatened him punishment, took away from him his money with ccrporal and watch, and shut him up in a room by himself, where he diaplayed alternately boldness and timidity, repentance and obstinacy, sometimes promising to reform, and at others de tiering he would not remain at the school. He pretended to be sick both in body and mind, which induced the Master to write to his mother to take him home. By the kind-- nese of his language, however, M. Liederskron drew front - him a confession of having committed a great ciime, before corning to his school, after which it was impossible for him 'to live among o virtuous people., and that terrible oaths, and donnections with the evil spirit, tied up his tongue. The pastor of the parish being sent for to interrogate him, could eittract nothing more from him than a similar confession eitially vague, indicating either neglected religious instruction, or very wicked dissimulation. At length the representations of the master, and a letter from his mother seemed to make an impression on him, which held out the promise of better con duct. He was permitted to joie the rest of the boys, but was closely watched. For some days he behaved wall, but on December ltith, in the evening, one of the scholars perceived that in the bed-chamber of the master, where there were five beds, the one nearest the door was on fire. He had presence of mind enough to set about extinguishing it, and succeeded with the aid of young N—, (the widow's son is thus designated in the letter) who then came into the room. "On the 19th at six in the morning, after prayers, it was perceived that N-1 had disappeared. One of the masters aoon pursued and overtook him. As they were returning together to Erlangen, he confessed that, seduced by a corporal, he hail incorporated and connected himself by the most ter rible oaths with a band of nearly CO robbers, composed, for the most part, of soldiers , scholars, hunters, &c. They held their meetings near the new din, between ulzbeelm end Am berg, and near a Ituasian's tomb ; and there he had taken the oath on a naked sword. Time meeting seldom consisted of more than ten or twelve members, and he knew the names of only five. The corporal bad engaged him to rob his mother, and to take with wax the impression of the prin cipal key of the house of one of his relations, to get one manufactured by a smith, who was a member of the band. At the request of the corporal, he had be en o bli ge d to keep watch last autumn while the other set tire to the house of a rope-maker. The same corporal had pressed him -to assassinate M. Liederskron, or to set fire to his house,. not wishing him to remain in that Instituti on . ee_ could not - execute the first of these crimes, but he had attempted the second on the 16th December by setting fire to a bed, think ing to escape in the tumult caused by the conflagration. N_ having failed, and the Corporal having sworn, that if he did not return on the lath he would set fire to the four corners of Liederakron'a house, the young man had written to the corporal that he would make all efforts to escape Qt! the 19th, but that if he was not that day at the meeting, the corporal should, with some other members of time baud, waylay M. de Liederskron, on his passage through the Forest to Nuremberg, on the Sun day, and 'force him to let N— go. He had thrown his letter from the window to a beggar whom he had induced to put it in the post by giving him a cravat. After having attempted again on Friday morning to set fire to a cupboard, he escaped in the dark through a window of the refectory on the ground floor. N— repeated the same account with the greatest sang froid to M. de lieiderskron, who thought it his duty to lay the whole affair before the proper authorities. He went imme diately to Nuremberg, and presented a written account of the whole matter to Lieutenant-General Baron de Lamotte. This led to the arrest of the parties concerned in the gang named by N., who have been conducted under a strong escort to Amberg. " From the last accounts we have received of the investiga tion,most of the desperadoes concerned in this gang are in the hands of justice, and it is hoped that the remainder of their_ will be gas dis :timed." INDYA. From the Madras Gazette of August 5.) MURDER OF MR. RAVENSCROFT. In our paper of the sth June, we published the substance of the depositions of two .51ussulmen witnesses, Deenah and Moasahib, which, ivith some discrepancies, tended to establish the fact of the murder and subsequent burial of Mr. Ravens croft. The subject was then involved in considerable uncer tainty, and up to the present date no information has been re ceived in Calcutta that entirely removes all doubt respecting the fatal result-of the melancholy and distressing occurrence in question. It is known that official proceedings for the arrest of Mr. Ravenscroft were instituted so long ago as August laston ac count of some defalcations whilst Collector of Cawnpore, and having sought shelter in the dominions of the King of Oude, his Majesty's aid was requested in the apprehension of the fugi tive. Various rumours for a long period baffled all attempts to ascertain his place of concealment, and at one time a report prevailed that he had proceeded to a Ghaut on the Gogra river in the vicinity of Tandah, where having embarked in a small boat he was drowned in his passage across the stream. This report however wa soon found to be erroneous. The depositions of Deena!: and Moosahib relate to themurder of this unfortunate wan on lay Cth, and the interment of the body on the following day. These depositions, and other infor mation to the Sarni point, were sufficient to excite the most lively 'concern- and anxiety. The murder of a British subject, in deed, could not fail to produce the strongest desire to investi gate all the circumstances of 64 case, and Gevernment, no doubt deeply impressed with the importance of ascertaining the facts beyond diayitte, ordered the strictest investigation to be made: The mat indisputable way, of establishing the fact of the death was certainly the inspection of the grave. This seemed to be necessary in every point of view, but especially as it regarded the punishment of the murderers whenever they might be discovered and apprehended. A Committee, was therefore, directed to assemble at Bingah, the place where the murder is said to have been committed, to inquire particularly into all the circumstances of th e out rage , and expressly to ex- amine the grave where the re ma i ns o f Mr. Ravenscroft are said to have been buried. A court of inquiry consisting of a Captain, President, as and two Subalterns was accordin g ly as sembled at Bingzh in Oude on the 11th of June, by order of Lieutenant-Colonel R. Patton, C.B. commanding at Secrora, and the substance of the evidence taken is as follows : Mahommud Alli, Bajdar, in the service of the Bingah Ra jah, declared that he frequently sacs the late Mr. Ravenscraft at Bing: z, was present whilst he was dying, and saw him dead. Peer Buksli. Bajdar, in the same service, declares that he saw the.late Mr. Itavenscroft dead, at about 11 o'clock a. m. on the Bth of May._ • Ensign JOhn Platt, a member of the Court of Inquiry, de clares that during the leave of absence he obtained from Col. Patton, from the 3d of May until the evening of the 14th of May,. he went into the Bingah district to enjoy the sport of Hawking. On'going into Bingah he fell in, with the late Mr. Ravenscroft, who was residing with his family in a small grass cottage, about one toss distant from the Fort of Bingeh. Ile with them on the evening of the 6th of May, and slept during part of that night in a very small Paul-tent, in the tope in Which the cottage stood. Between one and two in the morn ing he was awoke by a terrible noise, and immediately got up avid ran out of his tent towards the house from whence the noise proceeded, but on his way he was attacked by three men armed with spears, and wounded in four different.places. Having no means of defence he was obliged to run, and providentially es caped. <He then went to the entrance of the square court-yard formed by the Bungalow and out-houses, where hendiscovered about fifty villeins, who appeared to be using thcir spears. In a moment, however, several of them rushed after him, but he again escaped by running, and they returned to the cottage. He remained in the bush where he had secreted himself until he heard three shots fired, as lie afterwards found, by the Rajah's people, who on hearing the noise had come down from the r obbers having gone away) lying on a h e tope where he found th e l ate Mr. Ravenscroft (the Fort. Re then returned to t the Rajah' s p eop le, by the witness found r h o a a r ti p j a n e g e t o e n r r s b ' h b u h u l i n a a d b l b e e e t n placed oy ea k . b that he had been wounded, by spears apparently, in seventeen different places, and bleeding profusely from. -those in the arms and legs, and from a wound over the right ey e , all of which he *t9PPed by binding them up. Ti e had one wound about the liver which did not bleed, and, anoth er i n the gro i n . He lived in a state of 'insensibility until the for enoon of the Bth of May, when died in 'the presence of Ensign the witness, who at 6p. m. on that day interred the corpse in a grave in the tope where the cottage stood. There were, it is added, 18 men servants of the family wounded, and four men an d one boy murdered. The robbers outside and inside the cottage were suppose be one hundred in number. Emembuksh, in the service of Ensign Platt, states that he was asleep on the night of the 6th of M a y, in a hut near the cottage, when he was awakened by a noise, an d gett i ng up Per-' ceived a.strong. light above the choppers of the Bungalow, and out houses. He went towards the Bungalow where he met Mrs. Ravenscroft, infant, and attendant; he called out, who comes there, and lie was answered' that it was the la d y, w h o was running out of the Bungalow, and, came to the hut i n w hich he had slept. She then told them to remove her to the vi l lage of Lutehmunpore, which was done. The witness saw a num ber of men with spears, and afterwards heard them break ing open the boxes. He found Mr. Ravenacroft lying wounded under a tree in the tope where the Bungalow stood, unable to move. In a short time he was taken upon a Charpaee into the house. He saw him die, and was present when his master buried him. _ _ Deenah, Bearer, in the service of Ensign Platt, states that he was sleeping in the same Paul-tent as his master, on the night of the flth of May, when he was wakened by his master tread ing on him in running out of the tent. He followed until he was attacked, when he returned to the Paul and hid himself. The assailants then struck the tent from the outside with seve ral spears, but did not enter the tent. They then said, " there is no one here, let us go inside the Bungalow," and went away. While he heard them breaking; open the trunks, be saw Mr. ItavenscrOft standing close to the Paul. He then took his hand, Mr. Ravenscroft did not speak, but groaned. Witness was present when he died on the Bth of May, and saw his master bury him. The Court of Inquiry sat again on the next day, the 12th of June, and after visiting the grave, conceived, in consequence of the depositions of the several witnesses, and from the ap pearances of the grave over which a tomb was building, any further examination unnecessary. The Court then adjourned until the arrival of the President and Members at Secrora, where, on the 16th of June they proceeded to examine more witnesses. Gholant Nubbes, lihidmutgar, in the service of Mr. Ra venscroft, states that he was asleep on the night of the 6th of May, outside the entrance of Mr. llavenscroft's house, and was attacked by four armed men,with long spears, who wound ed him in five different places. Ile then ran to the hawker's hut. lie saw eighty cr ninety men as they were going off, having wounded all the servants and taken all the property which was in the Bungalow. He then went into the court yard, and laid down in one of the servant's outhouses, being unable to move about. Shortly the Rajah's people and villagers arrived, and not finding Mr. Ravenscroft in tile house, went to search for him, and found him under a tree in the tope se verely wounded. Mr. Ravenscroft slept outside the door of his bed room that night. The witness became so unwell that he recollects nothing more. Emandee, Svce, in the service of Mr. Raven croft, states that on the night of the attack, and on awakening he perceived at the entrance of the court-yard, a number of men with light, ed mushals (which they lighted at the door) and armed with long spears. With a great noise they rushed on his master, who was asleep on his couch opposite his bed-room door. lie saw him fall from his couch, area heard him say, " Emamdee, bring ;mir shield and sword ?" Witness was in the act of taking them to his master, when the thieves prevented him, and wounded him in eight different places. His master said, " Don't come near me, you will be killed." They then struck his master with their spears, and forced bins outside the en trance. Witness went into the godowns, where the indigo tools, &c. were, and then heard the robbers exclaim, " there is a murderer come front Secrora, and if any other European at tempts to settle here, he shall share the same fate ; its the Malta rajah's order." After the mbbers had quitted the place, witness went outside, and saw his master lying wounded under a tree, in the tope senseless, He saw bins after he was dead, lyince with a sheet over him, on a bed. The r Court here closed its proceedings, but, we understand, the Resident at Lucknow has directed a further investigation, and the Court to re-assemble without delay, at Dingell, for the purpose of ascertaining, by an examination of witnesses upon oath, the fact of Mr. Ravenscroft's murder, anti to trace the real nature of it, as far as can be done by a local inquiry. To ascertain also who were the real perpetrators of the act, •to in quire whether the whole or any part ofthe property of Mr. Rs , . venscroft was plundered, and. to examine the grave where the body is said to have been deposited. COCHIN CHINA. ( From the Calcutta Government Gazette.) CALCUTTA, Jour 24, 1823. GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENT. Political Department, July 4, 1823. The Public are hereby informed, that the GOVERNMENT or COCHIN CHINA has officially communicated to the Agent of the Governor-General, lately deputed to that country, its consent to the admission Of ALL BRITISH VESSELS into the Ports of Sal-gun, Han or Turan, Faifo, and Hue on the terms specified in the annexed translation of an official copy of the Cochin Chinese Tariffe, and Regulations of Trade, delivered to the Governor-General's Agent. Translation of the Cochin Chinese Tariffe. " These are the Regulations of Commerce for all Nations trading to the Kingdom of Cochin China. FOR HUE. 1 2 3 Vessels of Canton, Chu-chao, Nam-hong, Wai-Chao, 4 Suheng, To-Kein, Chi-Kang, and the ships of the European nations, pay as follows : Vessels measuring &am 14 to 25 cubits in the beam pay 84 Kwans per cubit. Vessels measuring from 11 to 13 cubits, 54 Kwans, from 9 to 10 cubits 42 Kwans, and from 7 to 8 cubits 20 Kwans a cubit. FOR SAIGUN. Vessels of Canton, Chu-Chao, Nam-hong, Wai-Chao, Su heng, To-Kein, Chi-Kong, (Te-he-Kian), and the ships of European nation!, pay as follows Vessels measuring from 14 to 25 cubits pay 140 Kwans per cubit ; from 11 to 13 cubits 90 Kwans ; from 9 to 10 cubits 70 Kwans ; and from 7 to 8 cubits 35 Kwans a cubit. FOR THE PORT OF HAN. Vessels of Canton, Chu-Chao, Nam-hong, Wai-Chao, Su heng, To-Kein, Chi-Kong, (Tehe-Kian) and the ships of European nations, „pay as l'ollows : Vessels measuring from 14 to 25 cubits in the beam pay 112 Kwans a cubit; from 11 to 13 cubits, 72 Kwans; from 9 to 10 cubits, 56 Kwans; and from 7 to 8 cubits, 23 Kwans. EXPORT DUTIES. Cardamums, pepper, cinnamon, ivory, rhinoreros' horns, esculent birds' nests, Sapan wood, ebony, and rosewood—pay a duty on every 100 Kwans, of 5 Kwans. Mrood for coffins or ship-building, pay a duty of 10 per cent. In passing the duties, Spanish dollars pre received at the rate of 1 Kwan 5 Mas, and the silver currency of.Coehin-China at the rate of 2 Kwans 8 Mas for each ingot. Payment of the duties, may he made in silver or in the zinc currency of the _country, or partly in each, at the option of the merchant. CONTRABAND ARTICLES. The exportation of the wood called Tet-lan (a fancy wood) and the wood nani (a perfumed wood, used by the rich in mak ing coffins) is prohibited. The exportation of the gold and silver ingots of the country is also prohibited, as also of the seed called suk, rice, salt, copper, zinc coin, agila-wood. The carrying off men and women from the country is also prohibited. ships or vessels paying the duties at one of the ports enu merated, are exempted during that voyage from the payment of duties a t an y Other, withthe exception of export-dutie s .— This applies if th e y s h ou ld stay a year on the coast of Cochin- China, provided that during that time they should not visit any other foreign country. [The Seal of the First Minister.l A true copy of a translation through the Malay. (Si gn ed) J. CRAWFURD. N.B.—A Cochin- Chinese cubit used in measuring the ships and vessels fbr the tonnage-duty, is equal to 16 inches English. By command of the Governor-General in Council. GEO. SWINTON, Secretary to the Government. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY MEETING. Last evening, at seven o'clock, a highly n um ,_ roue and respectable Meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, took place at the Chapel, Great Queen-street, Lin.. coin's Inn-fields, for the purpose of receiving the Annual R e _ port of the proceedings of the Home Branch of the Society. The Rev. Dr. CLARKE in the Chair, who enforced the neces sity of a co-operation, in order to promulgate the doctrines of Christianity throughout the universe ; remarking, in th e me morable words of the great Commander—" England expects every man to do his duty," in this great cause. , - - The Secretary then read the Annual Report of the proceed ings of the Hoine Branch of the Society, which presented very gratifying results from the unceasing exertions of the Mission aries,i in propagating the Scriptures : and it appeared that in this branch of the Society 164 missions had been established , and 175 schools for the religions instruction of about 11,564 scholars. The funds of the Society had increased considerably, and a balance was left in hand, but the Report recommended very forcibly the necessity of a larger supply, in order the more extensively to carry on the great undertaking. JOsEp il BuTTEnvronTlt, Esq., M. P., in a n el o quent • speech, recommended its adoption by the Meeting; which was accordingly done, after some observations on the opposition ex— perienced by the slissionaries in the Brest Indies. The Rev. Mr. BRloas proposed, " That this Meeting do :world." recognise the solemn obligation of evange li z i ng the whole The Climax(Am, in putting this Resolution to the Meeting, recommended every p er son to consider well before he acquiesced in the adoption of the Resolution, as ho did not wish to bind persons to any thing which he did not consider well. He fervent ly hoped that Jerusalem, that land, which was once the seat of Christianity, would be again rescued from the Infidels, and re stored to the rank it once held in the universe, he was the more anxious on this point, as it was the land where the Apostles revelations of Al m i g hty God.—(Cheers.)—Fl e t h en alluded first moved th e i r m i g hty efforts to p romu l gate rel i g i on, and the for cibly to the great struggle of Greece for its liberty against the basest oppression that ever disgraced the annals of Christianity. The Greeks he hoped would soon shake off the trammels of the Infidel tyranny, and be soon enabled to receive the sublime consolations of the Christian Religion, through the assistance of the Missions of this Society. The subject of the late insurrection in the Colonies was not entered into at this Meeting. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. RESIDENT at CHELTENHAM, to-morrow. rßier OF nocxs THIS DA Y AT ONE o'cfmcg. Bank Stock 2371 India Stock 80BAi4 India Bonds — 3 per Cent. Red. 3 percent. Cons. 88ii 8y 08i South Sea Stock 3i per Cent 99i 100 Old Annuities 4 per Cent. fOld . 101 i 102 i Ex. Bills 56 55 57 55 (New losia Ditto Small 4 per Cents. 17: . 77 Bank . LongAnn. 22i 7-16ths India for Con. A cet . Imp. .3 per Cents. I . Cons. for Act. 39 SR 89i 88i PRICE of FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, JAN. 20, AT ON E O'CLOCK. Five per Cents. 95. Scrip, 5i p m . Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Ditto New 881. Five per Cent. Bonds, 80. Scrip, 4/ prem. Five per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00. Ditto 1821, 241. Ditto 1823, 16g. Five per Cent. Bonds 91. Ditto New, 89. , Five per. ent. Bonds, 00. French Russian Neapolitan Austrian Spanish Prussian Danish Portuguese Peruvian Chili Colombian Poyais Mexican Mines New Loan, 00. 75. Six p:.!. Cent. Bonds, 621. f 00. l New, 44. 10. prem. ( Bank Shares £22 10s.—=. i Seven per Cent. 000. ISix per Cent. 00-00 e. Five per Cent. 001--000. Three per Cent. 71i. American PRICE OF IRISH STOCK , JAN. 17. Bank Stock ................ Grand Canal Loan, S p.ct. 60} Gov. Deb. 3i per cent ....... 961 Ditto 4 per cent . . .., Stock, 3k per ct ...............415i Ditto Stock — Gov. Deb. 4 per cent......, 1 Royal Canal Stock Gov. Deb. .5 per cent....... 'Wide-street Cert. 6 per et — .—Stock, 4 per cent....... li Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec .... lk, . 1 Pipe Water Deb. 5 per et. 1 Do. Ballast Office Govt. Sec. 5 per cent. (on, Jan. 16, 84. New ............... Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. City Debentures, 5 per ct. Lying in Hospital 4 per et.._ Exchange on Loni 111611 WATER AT LON DOI` Morning, 32 minutes after 5. 1 J BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 54 minutes after 15. Mit. PIERCE OF BRISTOL. A statement appeared in a Paper of yesterday respecting th e supposed discovery of this Gentle man, whi c h i s materially incorrect. Messrs. CLARK E , RICHARDS, and MEDCALE, Solicitors, of Chanc ery -l ane , g ive the following contra diction, in order to counteract any unauthorized anticipations which the friends of Mr. PIERcE ma y thencis have entertained. Hare's belief, that be had discovered Mr. Pierce, arose from the simple fact of the servant of the family residing at No. 18, Buckingham-street, having given him a pair of boots to clean, in which the name of the Maker, and his residence at Bristol, were pasted. The Gentl eman to whom th e y b e l onge d was stated to hare been a lodger in this house but a few days, and Hare immediately repaired to the office of the respectable Solicitors, tiorn whom we have received this statement, and by whom the reward of 1001. is made payable by the placards and advertisements. In consequence of this information a Gentleman in the office (to whom the person of Mr. Pierce was known, he being the son of his late partner), repaired to the lodging-house, for the purpo se o f ma ki ng f urt h er i nqu i r i es; not fully succeeding, however, in this object, one of the prin cipals and another gentleman to whom Mr. Pierc e was k nown , subsequently applied in Buckingham-street; they there learned that the owner of the boots was a Mr. Yates, of Bristol, and who had taken lodgings in the house' as a temporaryy conveni ence, until he could procure chambers. Mr. Yates, by a singu lar coincidence, bears a strong resemblance in general appear_ ante to Mr. Pierce ; Mr. Y. still resides in Buckingham-street, The report that Mr. Pierce had been seen walking with Mr. Palmer, jun., in Chcapside, was a day or two since brought to Messrs. C., It., and M., who, on inquiry of Mr. Palmer, ascertained that he had only been in company with a Gentle man of the name of Yates, of Bristol, who had just arrived in London from that city. We believe that Mr. Palmer, jun., and Mr. Yates, served their clerkships in the same office—that of a most respectable Solicitor at Bristol. Singular, therefore, as may be thought, the circumstance of hare's fixing on this same Gentleman (Mr. Yates), as Mr. Pierce, from his boots having in them. the name of a Bristol tradesmen, neither of the suspicions have any rational origin, and th e favourable ex pectations which this promulgation may have excited, it has been our unpleasant duty to disappoint. Thus, it unhappily appears, that no clue whatever has yet been discovered to ac count for the mysterious and distressing absence of Mr. Pierce, and the afflicted friends of that gentleman fear that the worst has befallen him. Although it seems to be the opinion, both of a great part of the Public, and of the majority of our brother Journalists, that there are no grounds for dreading, either that France seriously intends to make a hostile attack on South America, or that the new States of that Continent are really in any danger of being again subjected to the dominion of Spain, yet we confess that we are still sceptical as to the sincerity of French profes sions on the one hand, and somewhat apprehensive as to the incorruptibility of South American pa triotism and the stability of South American in dependence on the other. That the patriot forces are chiefly composed of men who have hazarded, and who are ready to continue tl►e hazard of their lives, in defence of that freedom which they have substantially purchased with their sufferings and their blood, and that many of their leaders and commanders, as well as many of the persons by whom the functions of the olif ferent Governments are exercised, are un doubtedly as incapable of being- basely purchased, as they are of being intimidated, into a surrender of the independence of their country, is true. It is not less true, that South America, with the elements of resistance which she pos sesses, and the energies that she is capable of exerting, might bid defiance not only to the combined power of France and Spain, but to all the efforts which the united strength of the Holy Alliance could direct against her. Those persons, however, who imagine that these considerations present a sufficiently solid and satisfactory guarantee for the secu rite and permanent emancipation of the South , Americans, have been but little instructed bf the history . of modern diplomacy, and by the fate which has cut short the career of modern revolt' lions. The events of the last year in Spaitraione furnish irresistible evidence- of the sudden ruin which may at once crush the best-founded hopes and overwhelm a political fabric apparently well and firmly established, and faithfully and strongly supported. No army could be more ardently at tached to tha Government and to the cause of its cquntry, than that of the Spanish Constite. tionalists, many thousands of whom are still immured in the prison's of their perfidious ene mies, into which they chose to be thrown, rather than basely unite themselves to the banners of those who had sworn to subvert the liberties of the Peninsula. No army could boast of better braver, or more experienced Generals that those which the Spaniards seemingly posses sed in their MINA, their BALLASTERO3, MO' rtur,o, and A BISRAL. No depository of a nation's power ever displayed -greater firm ness and patriotism than that inflexibl e Cortes which maintained the rights of Spain till she sunk under the united force of foreign violence and domestic treoson, and whose last act was to protest against a power that it was no longer able to combat, and which only separated in order that its Members might become fugitives and beggars in foreign lands, The Executive Government of Spain, with the personal exception of the KlNG himself (who, however, was powerless as an enemy to the nation), was as sincere in at tachment to the Constitution as the Cortes. --Yet, notwithstanding all these: element; of strength, and in' spite of the hiroic and persevering exertions of MINA, who alone, of the principal Commanders, did his duty to his country in her hour of peril, a campaign of sit months subdued and disarmed all Spain, and plunged her into the hopeless abyss of anar,i chy and wretchedness by which she is still overwhelmed. It would be needless to say that this ruin was produced by corruption rather than by the sword. The true causes of the triumph of Frauce, and of the bands of the Inquisition, are too well known, and too fresh in the recol lection of our Readers, to require re-capitulation- Amongst the Spaniards of South America there may be found Anrsnar.s and MoarrAos as well as amongst those of Europe. _ CITY, Twelve o'Ciock.—Con4ols opened thy morning at 88i to 89, with scarce any business doing. The great anxiety which prevailed on account of the Spanish and French armaments, supposed for the South American Colonies, has now subsided since the distressed state of Spain has become manifest. With respect to France, we are informed that she is determined to remain neutral, and professes a strict friendship for this country. There is no news in the City. FonEttarr MAnEET.--lip to eleven o'clock there was not a bargain done in any Foreign Securities in the above Market, which has not happened for a length of time ; and to the present hour scarce any thing has been done.—Spanish Bonds may be quoted to 211. We have been furnished with the follow ing gratifying intelligence from LLoYn's this morning : WEST INDIA DOCKS. DELIVERIES for the WEEK, and STOCK Or for the Week ending the 17th of January, 18; Adrti cies. {lads - - Sugar Tierces - - Puncheons - Rum / lads - - {Hlids and Tierces Coffee Barrels and Bags Bales and Bags Cotton Pockets and Sarong Butts and Pipes wine / lads and Casks (Casks - - Pimento -; (Bags - - Casks - - Ginger / Bags - Casks - - Cocoa Bags - Logwood Toni - - Fustic Tons - - Chests of sugar Casks of Molasses THE SUN. RUTS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1824. Delivered. Exporta tion. Home Con gumption, 2,421 HAND, IC Stock on Hand. 30,857 27,783 10,382 17,2:0 4,546,1 2,035 i BORDEAUX, JAN. 13, 1824. Snt—The following information has been communicated to us from the best authority, and may be relied on as official, viz.—That the French Government have decided upon indem nifying the Merchants for the losses that have been sustained by the Captures of the Spanish Privateers during the late War —not only the amounts insured in France, but also those in England, amounting together to eight millions of francs, of which five millions were insured in France and three in England. W e are, &c. (Signed) CUTLER and WILSON, Agents to Lloyd's. To John Bennett, Esq., Secretary to Lloyd's. Private accounts from Bayonnr , ,, of the 10th, state that it was currently reported there thattl:e head-quarters of the French Army of Oern:►n tion in Spain would be removed front Madrid to Tolosa. THE Pope.—lntelligonce from Rome of the Bth, gives fresh cause of uneasiness respecting the health of the Pont. In the course of the 6th and. 7th the state of his H o li ness vas very alarming. ILA Royal Highness MoNsiEutt gave a long private audience last Monday, at Paris, to Mr. RAE WILSON, on his travels over the Holy Land. Yesterday afternoon, at half -past two o'clock, the Duke of YoaK left his residence in the Stable-yard, St. James's, on a visit to the Duke of BEDFORD, at Woburn-abbey, Bedfordshire. On Saturday evening, at six o'clock, Prince LEOPOLD arrived at Claremont, from Strathfield say-house, Hampshire, the seat of the Duke of WELLINGTON. The new LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of Common Pleas, and the LORD CHIEF BAROI‹ of the Exchequer, were expected to receive their appointments yesterday from the kir7G . at Brighton, and to be sworn in Privy Coun cillors. 5,341 7,636 2,226 1,012 1,502 i a~