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FARIS PAPERS. IFrom the Doile.l Pikßl, DEC. 29.—The Duke de San Carlos had yesterday a private audience of the King, when he delivered to his Majesty the decorations which the King of Spain has conferred upon the General Officers of the French army. ROME, .DEC. 16.—Don Emmanuel Perez de la Vega, the learned and intrepid Spanish traveller, Las just . arrived here. He has traversed Asia, Atnerica, and Africa, and made many very cu rious observations. He has been ten years absent from his country, and only knows from report the recent evils of that kingdom, which he is about to.enrich with the tribute of his talents, and the, fruit of his-toils. Madame Recamier arrived here to-day from Florence. MADRID, Dm W.—Yesterday there was a Council of State at which his Majesty presided. To-day it assembles under the Presidency of his Royal Highness the Infant Don Carlos. To morrow it will meet under the Presidency of the Infant Don Francis Paulo. The object of these repeated meetings is the amnesty, which is on the point- of being settled. It will appear, it is -said, on the 30th. Nothing has been neglected to obtain precedents which may enlighten the Council in this important affair. The archives have been consulted to ascertain exactly what took place in the reign of the Emperor Charles . V., with regard to the Communeros, and under that of Philip V. with regard to the Spaniards • who were implicated in the party of the Arch duke of: Austria : some valuable documents, re- lilting to both those periods, have been obtained from the Archives of Serancas. What embar rasses the council in deciding upon the cases of certain persons compromised in the course of the revolution, are the capitulations granted by the -- Chief of the French army to the soldiers of the Corte-s. However, all difficulties are surmount ed, and we shall shortly know what has been de finitively determined upon. BAYONiiE, DEC. 23,—We are assured that a commercial-house of this city has received n e ws from Madrid, in which the return of Victor Saes to the Ministry is announced.—(lndicateur of Bordeaux.) TURIN, DEC. 22.=King Victor Emmanuel re covers daily. The state of his health no longer -.e . xiAtes uneasiness. [From the Constitutionnell BASLie, Dac. 22.-IVe hear that a Spanish Envoy Extraordinary is to be sent into Switzer land, and will arrive at Berne in a very short time. The -principal object of his mission is to engage the Cantons to adopt a proposition of the Spanish Government to conclude with it another 'Military Treaty, according to which, four new Swiss regiments will enter the service of the ,king of Spain. The system of Switzerland has • changed very much within a few years as to foreign service. The intellectual efforts made last year, and again in the course of this year, on the subject of a military treaty with Naples, are the best proof of the prevailing disposition on -this point. The restrictions which the liberty of the press labours under in Switzerland, and the extreme rigour of inspection which the various agents of Government exercise in this respect, have induced the Editors of several Journals and periodical writings togive up their undertakings. I:his resolution has been particularly acted on in Canton of Argovia, and no journal is at pre sent published there. It is said that the motive for this measure is, that the editors of periodical works did not wish to implicate the Government f the Canton and expose it to censure, and thererore for the present gave up every species of publication on political subjects. It is much regretted that M. San.Orlacoden, bookseller, at Aran, who has published several periodical works for a number of years, which have had a great run both in Germany and Switzerland, has also been placed in the same situation, and has sus pent,led for an indefinite period every publication of this kind. Ti-tfECJINTAL OF THE FIRST INSTANCE. PARff,ThEc. 22. THE STACKPOOLE CAUSE. M. IfEeTerEctterw this day finished his speech on behalf of Mt Drive: Cooper, the representative of Messrs. Marsh and Itoclie, the claimants against the Count Georges Stackpoole. The Learned Advocate observed, that a robber sometimes sue ecod ed in escaping from justice, het it eves only to dragon a miser abl eexistence seeking temporary asylums far front his own coun try. That, however, was not the case with Lord Stackpoole. HQ had, during a period of 24 years, possessed before the eyes of all England, the immense fortune of which he was the ad ministrator ; he had come into France, not for the purpose of concealment, but to obtain the advantage of enjoying the riches which he had possessed liimeelf of, and when he might die he w.iuld leave to his heirs the patrimony of his (M. flennequin's) clients. Such a sy . steei of fraud was the more dangerous to society, because it was practised with impunity, and attended with comfort and opulence , and the culprit was not even reduced to the necessity of conceal ing himself. Every European society, and indeed every so ca.:Ay in the world, formed an independent power. I-1 , 3 knew well that every republican or monarchical state had a right to Le master within he own territories ; that tie ofEcers of ju,:- I tire should obey only the voice of the sovereign cr of the / senate. He alga knew that decrees made 4:1 a foreign ecrentry must, before Ceey , could be executed in France, be laid before the Judges of his ioajesty the King ; but It was asked, should the ordinance of execution, the fermota of paoi.etei or arepatUr, which wag demanded in this case, be geanteet witheut an exarni- t ration of face; ? He would refer to the principles of the old French law to prove that it might. In article 21, of the celebrated ordinance of 101, the following absolute prirciel.e was laid down :—" No judgment given, ncr act peseed in foreign king doms, shall have power of execution in France, but shall be considered an simple promises." The ordinance aided, " Not withstanding the judgments delivered, our subjects may con test their rights as entire before the French judges." Ac cording to that passage, and to the authorities of the Ad vocate-General Sequier, and of many compilers of decrees, who havti-adopted these authorities, he contended that judg ments delivered in forei g n countries against a Frenchman could not be executed in France until after new trial; but a simple decree of exequatrir, after the manner of those rendered in cases of arbitration, was sufficient to give the power of exe cution to foreign judgments as betwdeu two foreigners. The Court of Cassatien, by a judgment pronoenced in 1806, had sanctioned that interpretation of 1629.. The cause in which that judgment was . ronounced had this peculiarity--that the parties were two French emigrants who had returned to then native country, but who were considered as having been stricken by civil death, and consequently as having been fo reigners at the period when judgment was pronounced between them by atribunal of Neufchatel in Switzerland. The Learned Advocate concluded by calling upon the tribunal to distinguish ifs its judgment the case of lieressrs. Marsh and Roche from that of William Stackpoole and-other heirs, who had separate interests. M. Dupin aftewards addressed the Good ore behalf of Wm. Stackpoole, and consented ithreself with adopting and further developing the arguments which had been adduced by the Coon sal who had preceded him. Tripier will commence his reply for Gourd Georges at the expiration a a week. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. TRINIDAD. At a General Meeting of Proprietors and others interested in the quarter ofTacarigna, held by special summons at the house of TM:Kum-Le Gendre, Esq., the Commandant, on Saturday, the 20th=day of September lust, the following re solutions were unanimously approved and passed : Resolved, That to deprive the master of the lower of inflict ing corporal punishment on any slave, whether male cr female, would, in the opinion of this meeting, subvert the discipline of every estate in the colony, without answering one single bele end. So long as slaves continue property, judicial punish ment can hardly ever take place ; and it is notorious that " flog ging" here is the general punishment resorted to for the pre vention of crimes, which, in England, would inevitably sub ject the offender to death. If this punishment is removed, n o check will remain to immorality, theft, disorder, and blood shed ; to which vices the women are generally prone as the men ; but, with respect to the exposureof the persons of women, in the mode of punishment, it is resolved, that where such ex posure may not have been abolished, it shall be henceforth dis- continued. Resolved, That the present meeting considers the abolition of Sunday markets as tending in no way to the promotion of religion ; a large proport;on of the thinly scattered population of this island must ever be distant from a place of divine wor ship,, and the market which ought never to continue after nine o'clock, is an additional inducement to lead the lower classes to the neighbourhood of the church. Innocent occupations, embracing practical utility, have ever been recognized by the British Legislature as no violation of the sanctity of the Sab bath ; and on this principle, milk, porter, and mackerel, are in England openly permitted to be sold on Sunday, the latter even during the hours of divine service. A large proportion of this meeting, consisting of individuals professing the Catholic faith, consider the institution of the Sunday market to be neither at variance with the strictest form of their religion, nor the scru ples of the tenderest conscience. Finally, as an invasion of an established usage, it would assuredly excite in the minds of the Negroes great discontent-•a sufficient reason, in these perilous times, with men who regard the welfare of the coun try, to defer the adoption of measures even of unquestion- able utility. Resolved, That as the evidence of slaves is already adrrOs sible in criminal cases, under the order of the King in Council, of the 16th day of September, 1822, and may avail when sup ported by two free witnesses, in the manner required by that law ; the present meeting is humbly of opinion that the facility called for is already obtained. Resolved, That an order for the encouragement of marriages among slaves, marriages which may prove binding as a religious tie, and not a mere form productive of expence, will, if they can be carried into effect, prove equally advantageous to th'e master as to the slaves. Resolved, That the present Meeting c an see no a d vantage to the " slave in any order for preventing the removal from the land to which . they are attached of slaves sold with estates," which in many instances would confine them to an ungrateful soil, where they could not be properly supported by their Master, and will prove an insuperable obstacle to the dis posal of the property of deceased persons according to the laws of this island. Resolved, That an order for " preventing the infliction of punishment until the day succeeding that on which the crime may be committed," could only be framed on a groundless as sumption that punishments are universally inflicted under the impulse of ungovernable passion. Such . cases, when they do occur, merit the severity of those laws which in this colony effectually protect the slaves against the injustice of the master; but the present Meeting protest against an enactment which would ailix the stigma of disgrace upon the whole community ; its operation would be to add the punishment of incarceration to that of corporal punishment ; to protect the mental distress of the offender, and consequently afford just matter of dis content to the whole slave population. To the master it would add the ptivation of the labour of the culprit and of those ap pointed to attend under him. Resolved, That the present Meeting sees no obje c tion .to an order providing for the record of all punishment lashes. beyond three Resolved, That an order requiring the attendance of a free witness at every punishment, would in some parts of the wide ly-extended coasts of this Colony be scarcely possible to be com plied with. But the Meeting contemplates with dismay an en actment to compel every ploprietor, whatever may be his rank or station, to witness a scene which a sense of duty alone may have compelled him to order ; and should that propri etor be a female, they hope that something will be found due to those feelings, " arising from a sense of shame, at once the prid e and ornament of their sex," which my Lord Bathurst is so anxious to implant in the mi.ids of black females. Resolved, That there can be no objection to the eatablish merit of Savings Banks ; but that for the protection of the nro pert), •of the master from plunder, for the purpose of being so deposited, it would be necessary to frame regulation s which would require a satisfactory account from the slave, in t h e pre sence of the master, of the mode of w hi c h h e acqu i red the sum intended to be placed in the Bank. Resolved, That as the present Meeting apprehends that the revenues of the Colony are not adequate to the expence of providing a sufficient number of Clergymen and Teachers for the religious instruction of the Negroes, they feel grateful to his Majesty's Government for the promise of applyin g to Parliament for such pecuniary grants as may be necessary, which disposition will be properly met by the inhabitants of this quarter. Resolved, That the present meeting is anxious to comply with the recommendation of his Excellency the Governor to adopt task-work on their estates, or any other measures likely to promote the happiness and comfort of the Negroes • and they earnestly entreat those planters, to whom his Excellency alludes, as having tried it with success, to favour the public with a detail of their plan. Resolved, That it is the unanimous desire of the inhabitants of the quarter cordially to assist in giving effect to the wishes of his Majesty's Government, but that they feel themselves justified in interpreting those wishes from the declaration of his Majesty's Ministers in Parliament, and the unanimous re soktions of the house of Commons,___ rather tha n f rom t h e communications transmitted to his Excellency the Governor by the Secretary of State; and they conscientiously declare, that their opposition to a part of those communications arises solely from a solemn and deliberate conviction, that their ope ration would not be " compatible with the well-being of the slaw themselves, with the safety of the colonie3, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private pro- P.'esolved,. That the unanimous thanks of the :fleeting be given to the Commandant, fi)r his independent conduct, and the great interest which he takes in the welfare of the quar ter 7; nder his charge. Itesolved, That the foregoing Resolutions be published.; which I certify to be a true copy. • TEIONAS °ENDRE, Commandant. JAMAICA. 'Ma following particulars viili show the progressive improve ment in the cultivation, population, and commerce of Jamaica for the last century and a halt':— In 1673 there were in the island 7,763 whites, and 2,1:64 slaves. The chief products were cocoa, indigo, and hides. Stiar had Aim then been begun to be cultivated. in 1722 tile island had produced Il,ooo , liugsheads of sugar. In 1734 there were 7,644 whites, 86,546 saves, and 76,011 head of cattle on the island. ra 1744, there were 9,840 whites, 112,428 slaves, and 88,336 head of cattle • and the island produced 35,000 hog s h ea d s o f sugar, and 10,000 puncheon f: cf rum. in 17(18, there were 17,030 whites, 186,914 slaves, and 135,773 head of cattle ; and 65,671 hogsheads of sugar, and 15,551 puncheons of rum, were produced. In 1774, the island produced only 654,7001 b. of coffee ; and in 1780, 1,782,7401 b. _ _ . At present there are in Jamaita about 3(10,000 slaves, 306,000 head of stock : and the annual average produce may be atiout 130,000 hogsheads of sugar, 00,000 puncheons of rum, and 18,000,000 pounds of coffee, &e. In return for its commodities, Jamaica receives from Great Britain an annual supply of alinc:it all her manufactures. The exclusive right which she claims of supplying this and the other islands with her products is one important source of her commercial and manufacturing prosperity. The annual amount of British manufactures imported into the island alone is upwards of two millions. The imports from other parts (of lumber, provisions, cattle, &c.) amount to nearly a million. The annual exports to Great Britain and Ireland may amount, one year with another to about five millions ; and those to other parts to about 400,0001. THE ARMY. OFFICIAL NOTICES. (Ctitcui.An.) War-ffice, Dec. 24, 1823. . Sin— I am directed by the Secretary at War, to annex far year information and guidance, a statement of the daily rates of allowance made to General and Staff Officers of ItlTirnents M Great Pritain and Ireland, in lieu of forage for their horses, for the ha!f-year ending the 24th inst. agreeably to which the charges for the forages of the horses of the proper charge has not been mad are to be corrected where the le in your :accounts, viz. RITAIN. GREAT B Counties. Rate of Allowance. I 5. d. Perks - - 2 0 Cornwall - 2 1 Devon - - 1 10 Dorset - - 1 9 Essex - 2 0 Hants , - - 2 0 Kent - - 2 0 Lancaster - .2 0 Middlesex - 2 0 Norfolk - 1 11 Northampton - 2 1 Northumberland 2 0 Nottingham - 110 Counties. Rate of Allowance s. d. Somerset - 1 10 Suffolk - - 2 Surrey - - 2 2 Sussex - - 2 2 Warwick - 2 0 York - - 1 11 North Britain - 1 11 Guernsey - 1 11 Jersey - - 2 1 The Counties in which there are 2 0 no Contracts IREI Counties. Rate of Allowance. .AND. s. d. Antrim Down Armagh - 1 7 Monaghan - 1 7 Cavan - 1 4 Fermanagh - 1 4 Londonderry - 1. 7 Dublin - - 1 9 Wicklow - 1 9 Kildare - 1 9 Kilkenny - 2 5 Carlow - 2 5 Queen's County 2 6 Louth - - 1 10 Meath Wexford Galway 2 4 2 4 Counties. Rate of Allowance. Paymaster of the 1 8 1 9 1 8 Sligo - - 1 Leitrim - - 1 6 Mayo - 1 7 Roscommon - 1 6 Westmeath - 1 6 Longford - - 1 6 King's County - 2 1 Cork - - 1 11 Waterford - 1 11 Kerry - - 110 Clare - - 1 8 Limerick - 1 8 Tipperary - 1 9 The Counties in) which there are,` 1 9 no Contracts ) I am, &c. (Signed) LA V. SULIVAN. (Cinctu.nrt.) War Office, Dec. 27,1823. SIR-I have the honour to signify to you the King's plea. sure, that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the Garrison un der your command, which in the ordinary course would be filled up by the Governor without requiring the sanction of his Majesty, through the commander in Chief, or otherwise, you will be pleased to apprise me thereof for his Majesty's informa tion, stating at the sardi time the nature of the duties which are attached to the appointment. —I have, &c. Governors of Garrisons. (Signed) PALMERSTON. War Offi Nov. 29, 123. SIR-J have to inform y ou t h a t from the ce, 26th of Dece B mber next, Officers commanding on the North American and other stations, and receiving command money, except in the cases provided for by my Circular of the 10th of January, 1812, will be considered in the same light, with regard to their regimental pay and allowances, as Officers holding Stafl'Appointments, and will be liable to a similar deduction on account thereof. I have. &c. (Signed) PALMERSTON. The General Officer commanding his Majesty's Forces. GEORGE R. Whereas it has been represented unto us, by the Colonels of our Cavalry Regiments in India, that a tropical climate is ex tremely injurious to all manufactured articles of leather and iron, and consequently that the wear and tear of saddlery, and other horse appointments is much greater in the East and West Indies than in Europe, and that the establi s h e d a ll owance of off-reckonings is wholly inadequate to meet -the increased ex_ pence caused by such extraordinary decay of those articles.— .And whereas, it has been found, that this additional expense to a Colonel amounts on the .average to about one pound, three shillings, and sevenpence halfpenny per annum, for each man on service in India : our will and pleasure therefore is, tnat, besides the present allowance of off-reckonings, a further an nual allowance of one pound, three shillings, and sevenpence ! halfpenny shall be granted to the Colonel s o f our Regiments of Cavalry, serving in the East or West Indies, for each Non- I commissioned. Officer, Trumpeter, and Private borne upon the ; regimental establishment, with the exception of the men belong ing to the recruiting troops, which are stationed in Europe. And whereas it • has also been represented unto us, that our Cavalry Regiments in the East Indi es formerly received from the Honourable. East India Company, a local allowance suffi cient to defray the expence in question, but which allowance I was discontinued from the-25th of June, 1815; we thinking it both just and expedient that the Colonels of our said Regi ments should be relieved from the lo ss occas i oned by the dis continuance of that allowance, are accordingly pleased to direct, that the allowance befo re men ti one d , o f one pound three shil lings, and seven-pence halfpenny, f or each man per annum., shell commence from the 25th of June, 1815, inclusiv e . And for so doing, this shall be, to a d persons whom it doth or may concern, a sufficient warrant, authority and direction. Given, &c: this 8:h day of December, 1823, in the fourth year of oo: reign. By his Majesty's command, (Countersigned) PALMERSTON. MILITARY OBITUARY. Masoit-GErsznans.—Favicett, East India Company's Ser vice; vice ; Cooke, ditto, En g land ; Atkins, ditto, Eas ' t ; Lang, ditto, ditto. • COLONELS.—Buckland, half-pay, 58th Foot Anderson, Late of Royal illarines. ; LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.— ROSS, half-pay 7th Foot ; Lynn, late of Royal Marines; Clark, ditto; Grant, Eas't India Company's Service, East Indies ; Wilford, ditto, ditto ; ; Elliott, ditto, E ast Keay, ditto, on passage to England Indies. Alasoas.—Guthrie, 44th Foot, Fort William Bengal ; McGibbon, half-pay, 62d Foot; R. Macpherson, East India Company's Service, East Indies; Agnew, ditto, on passage to England ; Dymock, ditto, East Indies. CAPTAINS.—O'ReiIIy, 44th Foot, Fort William, Bengal ; Cameron, half-pay, 95th Foot ; Stewart, late of 85th Foot ; Hitchcock, late 11th Veteran Battalion, Exeter ; Phillips, Royal Marines ; Judson, ditto'; Robertson,half-pay, Royal. Marines; Lawson, ditto ; Sandys, halt-pay, Royai Marines ; Welshman, ditto. LIEUTENANTS.—Knat:±buII, Ist Dragoons, France ' • Sar gent, 44th Foot, Fort William, Bengal ; Ri c h ar d son, 83d Foot; Henderson, late 6th Royal Veteran Battalion ; Ritchie, half pay, 14th Dragoons, Dumfries; .Dickens, half-pay, 2d Foot; Fernandez, half-pay, 4th Foot; Stanford,.half-pay, 6th Foot; Morris, half-pay, 7th Foot ; Biddulph, half-pay, 9th Foot ; Fairlie, half-pay, 37th Foot ; Glynn, half-pay, 40th Foot ; Baxter, half-pay, 53d Foot ; Hall, half-pay, 60th Foot ; Bridges, half-pay, 94th Foot ; Barges, half-pay, 83d Foot ; Fowkes, half-pay, 101st- Foot ; Thomas, hail-pay, 4th Irish Brigade; Cozens, Invalid Battalion, Roy a l Artillery • Ehr hart, half-pay, Royal Foreign Artillery; Leveridge, half-pay, Royal Marines ; Beevin, ditto ; Donne, ditt o ; S m i t h , di tto ; Jeffreys, ditto ; Mackay, ditto ; Justice, ditto. CPP.NETS,2I3 LATE VTE NA NTS, A ND E NSIG i f S—Speice,e4t4 Foot, Isle of Wight; B roo k e Y oung , 83d F oot ; Sirath, late 6th Royal Veteran Baualion ; Canino, half-pay, lath Dragoons ; Barker, half-pay, 20th Dragoons, Hague.; Blennerhassztt, Royal Marines, Ascension . ; Wood, ditto, Martindale, half-pay, Royal Marines; Menzies, ditto ; Cole, ditto ; D'Esterra, ditto ; Cooper, half-pay, 37th Foot ; Bereng3r, half-pay, 41st Foot; Fitzherbert, half-pay 98th Foot; Lyst3r, half-pay, Cape Rangers ; Sabine, half-pay, Waller's Corps. PAYMASTE R. Nicolis, half-pay, 4th Foot. So r.zolTOlt.—J . Wilkinson, Grenadier and Coldstream Foot Guards. MEDICAL. DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Inspector Morel, half pay ' - Staff Surgeon Dunn, h a lf-p a y ; S urgeon C arter, h a lf -pay, :kt Fcct. ; Surgeon Oliver ' Wes;: Norfolk Militia; Staff As mistant Surgeon Johnson, Honduras; 2d Assistant Surgeon G'Doud ; Hospital Mate Carter, half-pay. CaAn.Arlf.—Jones; half-pay, 92d Foot. The undementioned services due the 24th inst. viz.:—Retired Full and Half-pay, Military Pensions to Wounded Officers, Pay of Adjutants of Local Militia, Allowances to Reduced Adjutants and -Serjeant-Majors of Militia, Foreign Half-pay and Foreign Pensions, will be in course. el payment on the 15th of .January next. We understand that Captain Graigg, of this city, together with those officers of the Ist Royal Veteran Battalion who have been recently appointed to the 94th and 95th Regiments, which are immediately about to be raised, by order of Govern ment, have already selected upwards of 200 young men for the shove corps. The attention of Government wiil doubtless he directed to Captain Graigg, for his meritorious zeal and activity in procuring subjects for his Majesty's service. This Gentleman had at a former period raised upwards of 600 men for the second battalion 44th regiment in this city, within the short space of two years and nine months.—Lieut. Meyers of the 95th regiment, marched thi s morn i ng w i t h upwards of 150 fine recruits for the 95th, to Kilkenny. He returns to this station altetziving up his detachment.— (Cork Soutirrn Rep.) In a preceding column we have given extracts from the Paris Papers received since our last. They are, as was the case yesterday, extremely barren of political intelligence, with the excep tion of a Bayonne rumour of FERDINAND having re-instated SAia in the Ministry, and a Madrid article in which it is stated that the Council of State is occupied with the affair of the amnesty, which was expected to be promulgated on the 30th ultimo. The report from Bayonne is most probably, premature, thought the King of SPAIN has so often made precipitate changes of his Ministers, that no measure of that kind, however sudden or capricious it may be, can ex cite surprise. It is somewhat singular, that with regard to the Amnesty, the Council of State is represented as being chiefly embarrassed by the capitulations which had been granted to different corps of the Constitutional forces by several of the French Commanders. These capitulations generally stipulated that the lives and property of the Constitutionalists who were parties to them, I should be respected, and that the Officers should retain their military rank. If the Council.of State, therefore, had been constituted as a judicial tri bunal, and had been ordered to employ it self in the infliction of punishment upon every person who had in any way served the Con stitutional Government, .we can very well Con ceive how the existence of capitulations, which exempt great numbers of individuals from penal inflictions, should embarrass those whose office would be one of vengeance and no: of mercy. But how it happens that the Coun cil is embarrassed in the preparation of an amnesty, by the existence of capitulations by which the operation of an amnesty is merely, as respects certain persons, anticipated, is, we ac knowledge, entirely beyond our powers of un derstanding, unless, indeed, the term amnesty,as applied to the forthcoming proclamation, is a misnomer, under which there is to be fulminated a sentence of wide-sweeping proscription and vengeance ! By intelligence front Stockholm of the 9th ult., we learn that the King has communicated to the Diet in full assembly his answer to the proposed measure relative to the publication, of judicial proceedings. He states that he has consulted the Supreme Court of Justice and the Council of State upon the subject, and that he feels convinced the publication of such proceed ings would augment respect for the laws, by giv ing every citizen an opportunity of teeing how justice 'was administered ; but still as the question was one of such importance as to require much consideration, his Majesty rejects the proposi tion, leaving the existing practice to continue is force until such time as the new Code may be adopted. CITY, Twedve o'Clock.-"--Thi s being New Year's Day, the Bank is closed, but the Stock Exchange and Foreign Market remain open. Consols opened at S 7 to at which price they are steady. I do not hear of any Express having arrived from Paris. A report prevails that Com missions have arrived in London from the Houses of Assembly in Jamaica. FOREIGN NIAREET. - Owing to the report that SAEZ was again to take his seat amongst the Spanish Ministry, Spanish Bonds loWered yester day afternoon per Cent., but this morning they have recovered a little, and opened at 25i4i,9.0, at which price they remain steady. The chief business doing this morning in the above Market is in the New .Austrian Loan, which is greatly sought after. Owing to its being in the bandsof great Capitalists, very little of it is afloat at pre sent. In Colombian there is scarce any thing doing. In all other Foreign Securities the prices are almost nominal. The following letter, received yesterday, con firms the reportei victory of the Greeks over the Turkish fleet : " ANCONA DEC. 12.—L e tt ers f rom C or f u, Cephalonia, Trieste, and ealamata, confirm the defeat of the Turkish fleet. Out of 52 vessels, only 22 have made their escape with the Captain Pacha to the Dardanelles. Twelve have been taken, burned, or run ashore, and the rest rema i n bl oc k a d ed in the Gulf of Lela by th e reeks. I % l AvrtoconDATo is gone to the relief of illissolunghi with twelve ships. It is said that the be sieged have made three sorties and gloriously repulsed the enemy. It is even said that they have taken the traitor Bait- N.AotnoTt prisoner. The inhabitants of Scapala, Schiathe, and Schyro have put to the sword the troops which the Turkish fleet had landed to reduce them. —etters from Rio de Janeiro mention, that. be sides the titles of Nobility bestowed on Lord COCHRANE, as Admiral of Brazils, a great num. ber of Crosses had been distributed among his Officers. Captain CROSBY had been madea,Corre; modore. COCHRANE'S Correspondence relating to his operations in Maranham and Para had been published. In it he avows that he had no instructions to go to the two latter places; but, he adds, having followed the Portuguese fleet that evacuated Bahia to a very great dist7.nce, and being alone and without an adequate,,foice to attack them, he deemed it most expedierft to givia up the chase, and undertake an enterprite: whiefo he was convinced was conducive to the i4`eresti of the Brazils, trusting that his success would se cure the approbation of the Governmetit, ife gives a long account of the contributionOte bed levied, the manner in NvhicK he had orge4sedty new Government, and provided for itso4o'eo, and future adhesion to the Emperor. announces his intention of shortly returning 4,1 Rio, when he would bring with him the bannere he had taken. ILetters received with the late Papers frea k Calcutta, state that the Governor-General iri Council had, on the 11th of July, ordered foile additional Regiments to the Presidenc7. 'These, would, on the new plan, be equal to eight regi merits. The want of a sufficient number of mili tary to perform even the current duties of reliefs, escorts, &c., had been long felt ; and recourse NVP.S had to irregular and local corps, and even to new levies unattached to any regiment. It ap pears that the Siek Chief, RUN./ EET SING, 114;0 has lately so successfully invaded the country of the Afghans, and placed himself on the throne of the great SUBACTAGI 7 at Cabool, or Cabul, has now acquired such power, and with it the usual con comitant of usurpation—insolence, that in some late discussions he even hinted he had many Russians in his service, and that it would be easy for him to get more. There can be no doubt that the Indian Government will keep a watch.' ful eye upon the future projects of RUNJEET and the only poSsible cause for apprehension is, that one Chief should possess . the countries ori both sides of the Indus, as i s now the case with RUNJEST SING. The fluke of MONTROSE, we are happy hear, is quite recovered from his late severe attack of the gout. Lady SOPHIA HEATHCOTE, we are sorry to state, is indisposed, at her house in Grosveuor- -square. . . The Daltu of ST. ALBAN,'I, who has fo,. iorne time been confined with a severe fit of the gout, is now in a greatly improved state. PROSPECTIVE Drsconns.,--It is said that a want of harmony is likely to arise between the Argyll Rooms and the Italian Opera House, in consequence of the , projected performance of French,flays at the latter. It sew that the Fro prietors of the former have purchased the sane. of the Crown for performing French Plays, 8.. Masquerades, and Concerts, which were to take place under their direction ; but it appears that the LORD CHAMBERLAIN has positively refused . his licence to them, and forbidden the perform ance of French Plays. Of course it may be in ferred that his Veto must also be directed against a similar performance at the Italian Theatre, which do not possess the same purchased au thority. The, NEW COMET was observed by a gentleman in this town (Chelmsford) on Sunday morning, who has favoured us with the following particulars :--" It is situated in the left shty.ith:r cf Serpentarius, the nucleus forming nearly a right angled triangle with the star Ras Algetimi, (a Hercules) and Ras Althagas (a Serpentarius), about eight degrees south of the former, and having about seven degrees north chelination,' and 252 degrees right ascension. The nucleus is not well defined, and the tail, which extends about throe degrees, points toward s • the Zenith ; it is perfectly visible, though rot so large •or brilliant as some that have arnearcd within: the lest tc.n or twelve years. It rises a little before four o'clock, and may - be , well observed from five till day-break. The morning was very • clear, and Venus, the morning star, was uncommonly brilliant, • more southward, and below her the moon shone with great . splendour, the shadowed part of her disk was beautifullY de. fined, and it appeared as if surrounded by a faint ''.- •.‘ V,., ' ''' ....r.1-4 .,...„...,---.y., ... ' ."... fe : ..•& .... ~,. 4 7 „,. 04 ). 'or • '•-.1‘306, - ' '' -', ' "•',, ••vve ...- '4, iii '''''' .. -4')' ... 'ifkii•AW MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENGLAN!). Monday, Jan. 5, LONDON. Nos. 5, 10, 27,39, 89,218, 223, 240, "289. Quart. Meet. Boy's :school, at 7. COUNTRY. Nos. 20, 64, 72, 102, 148, 191, 202, 219, 267, 311, 368, 369, 372, 398, 423, 498, 502, 503, 509, 632, 638, 644. -6, LONDON. Nos. 9, 122, 281, 287, 381, 399. (COUNTRY. Nos. 21, 127, 167, 170, 180, 184, 196, 204, 385, 387, 476, 507, 512, 532, 544, 551, 557, 639. Wednesday, -7, LONDON. Nos. 35, 75, 220. COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 95, 124, 139, 146, 207, 229, 339, 465, 487, 491, 505, 513, 526, 529, 681, 585, 656, 711, 713, 25. Thursday, Jan. 8, LONDON. Nos. 6, 18, 25, 34, 79, 194, 271, 299, 301, 326, 338, 499. Quart. Court Fem. Bch. at 12. COUNTRY. Nos. 110, 111, 153, 172, 178, 269, 278, 364, 397, 531, 540, 591. -9, LONDON. No. 275. COUNTRY. Nos. 63, 282, 283, 709. -- 10, LONDON. * a * COUNTRY. No. 675. IRELAND. Monday, Jan. 5 CORK. No. 347. Tuesday, --6 , CORK. No. 95. Wednesday, -7, CoRK. Nos. 1, 41. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, NEW YEAR'S DAY.—Holiday at the Exchequer, Bank, Eas India and South Sea Houses. PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS Ix LONDON, JAN.I, Al` ONE O'CLOCK. French _f Five per Cents. 92i. I Scrip, 3i pm. ( Six per Cents. 00. Russian •i Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Ditto New 88i. Neapolitan Five per Cent. Bonds, 73i. Austrian Scrip, 5 prem. j Five per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00. Spanish Ditto 1821, 25i. ( Ditto 1823, 18. - Prussian 1 Five per C e nt. B on d s, 90g. ( Ditto New, 91A. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 97. Chili 71. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 49.t.j Peruvian New Loan, 00. Portuguese 87. Poyais f 00. I New, 4i. IBank Shares £22 103.—£23. Seven per Cent. 000. American i Six per Cent. 00-000. Five per Cent. 00-000. (Three per Cent. 71i. —,... HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 11( "ing, 5., minutes after 2. 1 Evening, .12 minutes after 3. THE SUN. SOLEM QUI3 DICEIZE FALSCT.4I AUDE,IT LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1824. s