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PA ILLS PAPERS. PARIS, APRIL 21.—Letters from Constanti nople, of March LO, say the important business of the Tariff is settled between Russia and the Porte. The Arms of Russia were to be replaced at the Consulate, which caused great satisfaction at Constantinople. it was hoped that, in conse quence of this succescful megociation, Wallachia and Moldavia would be wholly evacuated by the Turks, and the Russian Ambassador would return to. Constananople. ...letters from Trieste, of the Ist of April, state that the Porte has nominated several new Pashas in the frontier provinces, and given severe orders for• a levy of troops. It is said that the Pacha of Travnick will have the command of the Turkish -troops which are to enter Western Greece. In mitidle Albania, the most positive refusal to fur nikh troops for the use of the. Porte has been C./OeSsA, MaucH 27.—The news of hostilities by:::gpgland against the Regency of Algier : : has excited the displeasure' of. the Divan to such a dekfee; that they had come to the resolution of delisanding a categorical .explanation from Lira Strangford on that point, as well as the;l'part which Lord Byrowtook the Grecian Iva's., and 'that a very energetic note' from the Turkish Minister was delivered to his Lordship on the 14th of March by the IltragOnian of the note is said to contain a demand :that ail-hostilities against A lgerine vessels slinuld cease, On the ground that his Lordship had him self advised - the Porte, a short time after. the breaking out of the war, to employ those veSsels against the Insurgents, representing naval opera tions as the best means of reducing them. It theri•.complains of the presence of .Lord Byron and other Englislitnen.in the ranks of the Greets, and 'requires that prompt satisfaction should be given on both points. On the receipt of this communication Lord Strangford is reported to have diSpatched a Courier overland' to abk in itructions from his Government. (From/he Etofle dated Thiirthay. We 'yesterday -said a word or two upon the ztews from Sotith America contained in the Mai/- rid Gazette of the 15th, and received by the Spanish Government• from Porto Rico. These dispatches are dated February 5. From all the details transmitted from Terra Firma to the Co.• vernnient .of Forto Rico, it appears that the .people of those countries Charged- with the yoke of the Revolutionists, every where rise to throw it off. Cries of love and fidelity to the King are heard in all the public place , . The authorities establishkl at Santa Fe, Wanting money and resources, attempted to procure them from the northern provinces of Colombia, and eye,: wished to send troops against them to force the ° payment C-of the contributions which were in arrear. The troops,however, being themselves unpaid, refused to march. The simple results of these hostile dis positions is, that for three months duties have been paid on entries into the northern ports. Caraccas has been subjected to a contribution of 20 ; 000 piastres towards the payment of the troops. There are only 2,000 men under arms in Venezeula ; the rest have deserted. The fortresses of Pnerto Ca -hello, Maracaibo, and Cumana, are nearly out garrisons, and orders have been given to with draw all the materiel to the south of time Apure. These dkpositioys indicate clear!: an intention to fall hack upon :franca in case' of invasion by the Spanish Royalists. There have arrived at the island of - Coracoa several Colombian rune- f tionaries, who have fled f rom Santa F e i n d rea d of a re-action, and the Congress no longer dares I .to hold its sitting there. BAYONNE INTELLIGENCE. MYorsE 7 APRIL 13.—The la 4 accounts from 2,radrid spale with more confidenee of the return of General Bann ant to France, and mention the Duke of Ragusa as his successor. On Sunday, the 4th, some French 1; re as.iassinat- •ed by Spaniards : these sanguinary scenes are but too frequent. The King intending to be at Toledo on the 9th, the French wia accompany him, and the head-quarters will be there dur ing his stay. Already orders were given, as at Aranjuez, rot to suffer any person to enter the city without a permission from the liing. The return of the French garden-do-corps to France is still spoken of. • The Spanish gardes-du-corps, wino are to take their Place, amount already to two hundred ; among them, it is said, there hre, several French. Gonzre.:t.; have been Proposal by the Government fur the equipment of the Royal Guard, - but no of - K•rs have yet k)en made. A new ordinance has just been - published reiatiVe to the quartering soldiers at INladrid, with which the inhabitants are very dissatisfied,. because they will bc al most as much incommoded; notwithstanding the absence of.the troops. • . . _ groat.quantity of counterfeit Spanish gold coin is in circu lation ; it is said to come frotn-France. • - The first u-quirlo of Spanish prisoners, returning to their own country, arrived her.,; yest:'rday: it consists of 400 men: It is app . ; eherutrd they will be ill received in - :their own country ; have already been insulted: Though Baron d'Eroles has left Barcelona to repair to Ma drid, he still remains Captain-General of Catalonia. Imme diattly before 4:is depaTture he addressed the following order of the day to the troops'under his command : . " liis Majesty,having decided that I should repair to Ma drid, to attend the Committee for the organization of the Artay ; and that, during my absence, his Excellency Lieut.- 'General the Marquis of Camp() Sagrado, should be entrusted with the command of-the Array and Province': he will be ac cordingly recognized Captain-General from this day.—Sol diers, you ,have seen by the preceding notice with .what a mark of confidence hi s M a j es ty h onours me, by calling me to assist in the-organization of the Army. • I know that 1 ant partly indebted for this distinction to your services and your military virtues, .whiah are admired by all those who have - had an -op portunity of cbserving • them, I wish r could reward 'your merits ; accept in -.return ,for. them my good wishes, and my pionfise to recommend you - to the favour of the King, our Master. I exhortyou to persevere in your virtues under the worthy General who talqs my place. They will Ate appre ciated. by him, as they always have been by your COmmander and companion in arms. " BARON D'EROLES." • MAIL CoAcrr ACClD,ENT.—Considerable delay took - placb in the arrival at Boiton of the mail coach on Sun day la s t (th e 17 t h i nst .) , i n . consequence of serums accidents : on Saturday night the4 , ,uard (in the act of putting_on his great coat) was thrown out of his dicky, by a sudden jerk of th e coaoh, and'he was cat missed until the coacli had proceeded about six miles. When the mail arrived at Cambridge an addi tional disaster occurred. The- horse-keeper, by mistake, put the wrong cap-lialters on the fore horses ; and in the act of changing them, 'the horse which was sititheut one immediately started off. The. herse-Iteeper, in endeavouring to restrain th e orses, was knockJd clown, and the coach passing ove r hi s le gs , fractured them both. The (mei: was thy;: drawn a consider- :able distance, without coachman, guard,- or . passengers, and -was ultimately overthrown. The bags with letters, &c. from London, consequently did not arrive in Boston (forwarded by a post-chaise) till about twenty minutes past - two, instead of twelve o'clock. The coach. arrived at half-past live.—(Sta= ford Mercury.) IIELVETIUS. For this Philosopher the term galant homine ought to have been invented, if it had not been before in the French langnage. lie was its very prototype. Just, indulgent, with all ;the milk of, human kindness, daightfnl in social intercourse,: he owed the virtues which he possessed to the opinions which he had formed of human nature; it appeared to him as .unreasonable.to be angry with a bad man whom he might meet, as with a stone which we might fall in with on a road.:,— The habit he had contracted of abstraction, and of taking a comprehensive view of things, making him inditierent . sometimes_tO . good, had made him the, most pliant of men ; • but - his toleration was confined to the particular faults of society; for as . to the authors o f p u bli c evils, he hung or burnt them. without mercy. .In every instance he was a friend to strong remedies, and never admitted, any palliative. His father died first physician to the Queen, who was very fond of him, and protected his son till 'he published his Esprit, and was obliged to resign his office of Maitre d'llotel. At the Col lege of Louts XIV. he gave but little promise of future vigour, being ;object to frequent colds in the head, which gave him a stupid look ; he wa s , however, very successful and expert in bodily achievements, and shone a brilliant figure in the dance ; so passionately fond was he of this-exer cise, that he is said to have danced at the Opera in the room of a celebrated dancer. He was pro. moted When y oung to the office of Fa rmer -Gene - rat, which was common promotion to th e C ourt Physicians o f'hi s - :age. Endowed with every ex terior advantage, and with a noble fortune, he spent his yoUth in pleasures, and seemed destined to lead the easy vol , uptions life of an amiable man, and one of those rich men of Paris, who assembled a good circle around them, and entertain them with good cheer. He was particularly ge nerous, node, and beneficent. lie could not help making his fortune in his oaice, but lie made a liberal use of it, and without taking from his pleasures, he was continually giving away his substance, and in the noblest and most ingenuous manner. lie lived much with men of letters, and many of them lived upon him, and yet, a little while before* his death, he complained to the Baron d'Holbach that he had kept up but little connection, with his old friends with ou t an y f au l t o f hi s own . I replied, the Baron never did any thing for my friends, and I have lived always with them upon the best .of terms for these ;20 years. The ruling passion of if. was for women, to whose service .he devoted all his youth, and his graceful figure comniandett NUCCes. 11 is first campaign of chivalry was under the auspices of a dulciuea, who boasted or Atheism as others of Jansenism, &c. This Epi' Curtail in love could not conceive Platonic love; . or any other but. the love which is natural to Men uho have devoted the chief of their ;wen= I lion to Women of intrigue. Any other sort of women was to him a prodigy ; and .he could not for the life of him imagine, that any thing but stupid prejudice could ascribe such an infinite va riety of characters as there is variety in the organs. In the midst, however, of a life of a plvasurv, he was suddenly overtakeni with . a love of fame. '['he reputatiOu of three great men, AI AupEßTuls, VOLTAIRE, and AION'i'ESQUIEIi, roused him to emulate them in their brilliant career, am outing to the first, Geometry was then' al the vogue, even with the ladies. liet.vvmus ob served one day MATJPERTIUS, Who was fond of ccefitricitv, and courted notoriety by his oddity h dress at the Tuileries, surrounded and caressed by all the ladies of the court, notwithstanding his strange appearance, and from that moment H. resolved to study Geometry ; but his rage for that soon passed off like that of the fashion, and at the court of Russia, seeinz Vourm au triumph ant, he thought to triumph with him as a Poet ; he composed a poem upon happiness, which was highly praised by V. but was in itself a weak composition. All these essays were only proofs of •the un easiness which was preying upon his mind in the midst oral! his pleasures, but the great epoch in his life was the period when he published • his Esprit, which made more than one revolution in the minds of men. This work. he conceived from the E.spn't des Lois of MopuresQurEu, which . was published in 1749. In 1750, he devoted himself to study, and, resigning his office, he -married a lady of quality, of no fortune, but of elegant person and manners, and after• his marriage he retired to his estate, where he divided his time between literature and plea sures of . the chase, and the company of his wife, with occasional visits from a few •of his friends. He spent only a few of the winter months in Paris. I can impute his retirement to motives of : jealotlsy, but he most probably was influenced by a:higher principle, by the hope to raise a monument to himself by the side of MoN TESQUIEU, but here he failed. His Esprit ap peared 10 years after the Esprit des Lois. fie did not attract that fame with which he flattered himself, and owed all his reputation_ to the per secution which it brought upon him. At Court .he was •looked upon as the Son of Perdition, and the pious Queen lamented over his unfortunate mother for giving birth to Antichrist. The Jesuits were the first to sound the alarm, though he had always treated them with deference, and relied upon them _ . They ettaged him to sign a recantation of his work as most degrading to him, and when the Hon . _ once betrayed this weakness, every ass thought it a good. opportunity to give hirna. blow. The Jansenists joined with th e P r i ests in their ana themas against him : and the Parliament was brought with the greatest difficulty to burn the book without bringing the author before them. It is said that, this book is full of immoral doc- tri►►es but this Is said by them who do not un derstand the true mean►ng of the language in which it is written. Besides, it is not in the power of any book to corrupt morals, as it is not in the • power of a Philosopher, however eloquent, to bring them to perfection. They chiefly depend for their perfpction or corruption upon Governrne►nt and Legislation., in their action and re-action. Poor H. was astonished to see himself treated as a vender of ~poison having tried only to wander from the beaten road—with no other crime than the desire to pr e s en t t o th e pu bli c, i n a new point of viewi sfubjeCts limn which so many men, both of a ',superior and - moderate ability, have been so Jong engaged. He fell into para doxes, which gave no favou ra bl e s y mp t om o f t h u depth or accuracy ;of his reflection, and certainly not of any depravity of hear(. 11e only wanted genius, that tormenting demon, without which, hoWever,it is impossible to write for immortality. M. de Buffon used to say that H. ()tight to have made one more lease, and one book less—a severe reproof from the lips of a friend. Yet if the Esprit de Lois had changed his mode of life, the fate of his Esprit changed his charac ter entirely. Ite hoped to enter by it into the Academy.; but deriving from it only persecution, he became a cynic, but yet retained much of his good nature. The storm lasted six months, and then subsided, like many others, in a place of vicissitudes, like Ow French Court. But yet so Much was he. astonished at the sudden revo lution, that for a long time he could not be per suaded but that the Court, the Jesuits, and * the Jansenists, were" thinking of nothing but his book. He was ignorant of men and business ; and no one, who was not like him accustom e d t o abstraction, could imagine, on hearing him rea son, that he was any other than a- madman, speaking what came first into his head. He was neither brilliant nor agreeable in conversation:; but he was a gnod hasbatul,- father, and friend. He was very subject to the g o ut, and, if report speaks tru e , played tricks with a very robust constitution. lie was always passionately fond of the English, whom he visited, and was de lighted with. There' was ptiblished after his Esprit a postlititn-ous Work upon Man, &c., of the same extent with the other, the boldness of which would have compromised his character if it had appeared • in his:. lifetime, and certainly did not deserve the esteem in which his former !York was held,--.though in that Work he re duces the spirit of man to the brutes that perish —all the great and leading moral duties and wishes to mere self,interest—and his pre-emi nence in the creation to the use of hands. To shew his goodness and mercy, there is an anecdote recorded of him,----that though he used to be severe to poachers upon his estate, one day, when one of them was thrown into prison, and condemned to pay a .tine, he went privately to Lim, for fear of his Lady, who• was always con tending for making an example of such men, and on taking the man's word that he would not say any thing about it, gave him his release, and all his expellees back again. His good. Lady, too, repenting of her severity, said to his childrett . " I am the cause of your poor father's ruin. I return you the sum, with all the costs," which the countryman received, and carefully kept his promise to say not a word about On another occasion, in Paris, 11. being stopper' in his carriage by a cart, in a passion he calla- the carter a rascal. " - True," said the man, " am a rascal_ and. you 'a GentiPman ; for I am on foot and you in a carriage." Friend," said he, cc i ask your plrdon, and thank you for yourles son with sonwthing-more than thanks, with t h ese six francs." Notwithstandin.th e treatmen.t of th e J esu i ts, , and partic u l ar ly o f one .who had been most un= grateful to his bounty and his confidence,and had been the means of raising the storm aw - ainst him on account of his book; when he heard that be was languishing in th extremes of poverty, he told one of his - friends to carry 50 louis to the Father, but not to► tell frOm whence they came, because he would he offended and humbled to receive the succour fi.Om hirn, SAURIIV was Oiie among the numerous men of letters who • received 1,000 crowns a-year from his bounty ; but since his marriage they were not so intimate, though M. S. always be haved ver y w e ll to his benefactor, who, in re turn, never thought that • his benefactor would disturb the equality of friendship, and M. S. dared to dedicate a Play to his patron, even im mediately after the hue and cry_ which his book had raised against him. All his clients, how ever, were•• not so grateful. L'Abbe SABATTEII. n is E r e e t A S s pensioned him to cid tireatEtesr,z who p ainted -his • benefactor in th e most odious colours, i n hi s p o rtra i t (of the Ca lumny) . of Three Age n s. of our. Literature. IlmArTnis was fond -of literary disputes, not from a spirit of contradiction, but, as he says himself, because he, delighted to go out hunting for ideas. The above extracts, from my reading and ob servations, I take the liberty to send you for your Paper, which . is the general vehicle of use ful intelligence upon . all subjects, and may, per haps, become, in this instance, of practical utility to some of TIELVEi'IIIS'S profesSiOn, ,who kept his theory of self-interest -out of the line of his practice, and was free, generous, and unsuspect ing,.in spite of the . opinion which he held of the. slavery, meannes2,.and'intspicion of frail human nature. DAatria RonuEnoc.---A daring . robbery was yesterday committed,. bet Ween. one and two o'clock in the afternoon„in the house of the Right Honourable the Earl.ofcoirENTitY, in Piccadilly. The butler had just prepared the tray with lunch for 'the faMily,.on which were .tiVe silVer forks, five.dessert spoons, two table spoons, and a silver mustard pot ; he laid the .tray on a table in his pantry, close to the window of the area, and went into . an adjoining 'room for something he wanted, previous to taking it up stairs. The valet, passing along the passage towards the pan try, saw a man with a basket under his arm, who had 'the appearance of a hawker of fruit, with his other arm and body partly through the win dow of the pantry ; conceiving that he was on some business with the butler, he took no notice of him. Shortly after he .met the butler, and asked him what he had been doing with the man that was talking to him through, the area win dow ? The butler replied, that he had been talking with .no man, and hurried into the pantry, where he was alarmed at finding that the pro perty, as enumerated above, had been carried off. The most diligent search was instantly set on foot for the robber, but as yet no trace whatever has been discovered of him. TT! E ARMY. The following General Order is now - in circu lation to Colonels arid Commapding Officers of Rogiments. Upon reference to the old regula tions for the purchase, sate, and exchange of Regimental Corrunissions i we _find that the forms of application for the sale and purchase of com missions, which prescribed a certificate, signed by the parties, that no stun beyond that limited by his Majesty's regulations would be demanded or accepted, are cancelled, and that the follow- I ing pails are new : " Officers retiring upon the half-p ay an d rece i ving the dif ference, forfeit ail claim to further rank or employment, to the pension for their Widows, and to compassionate allowance for their children, unless they repay the difitrence upon being al lowed to come in again upon the same rank in which they retired, ' but they forfeit their progressive rank during the period of their retirement."' . The required form to be accompanied by written Certificates, signed by the Commanding Officer, viz. " Ist. That he has ascertained by reference, through the Regimental Agent, to the responsible persons, that in each case there is good and sufficient security that the purchase money will be forthcoming when called for. " 2d. That of the individuals so returned as purchasers, A.B.C. are in all respects deserving of promotion, and those whom he would not hesitate to recommend, whenever the va ; cancy shall offer, as fit for the duties of the higher and more responsible Commissions.* ' When the Regiment and Commanding -officer are abroad, the Commanding-officer is to state the security to which refer ence is made, and the Milit ar y Secretary will ascertain th t o•igh the agents whether that security be good and sufficient, it b'- ing understood that if the answer be not at once satisfactory, the individual will be struck out of the list of purchasers. " The quarterly return so certified, is. to be the only con - munication made on the subject of promotion by purchase ; and when a resignation is sent in, it will be considered uncon ditional and iv-evocable, and no successor is to be pointed net or recommended. In all cases, the individual selected for the purchase, or his sureties, will be called upon, to lodge the pur chase-Money with the agents. " If the senior who may have been returned as a purchaser, and whose money shall have been certified to be forthcoming, should decline the purchase when selected for it, or his sure 'ties should decline it for him, he or they will be called upon to-state the reason for so declining to the Military Secretary, for the Commander.in-Chiers information; and if the expla nation should ,not be considered satisfactory, his name will be struck out of all future lists of purchasers. " The candidates who may he selected from reference to the qUarterly returns, for the purchase of promotion •out' of their own corps, will be directed to lodge the purchase- money, with out being acquainted in what regiment they arc, to obtain -the promotion, nor will any application for the purchase of pro motion which points out the expected vacancy be admitted. " That they do not intend to sell out, or retire upon half pay, after effecting such exchange, but that it is their &mail* intention to join immediately, and to do duty with the corps to which they exchange, the leave of absence which may have been granted to either, or both, being cancelled by such ex change. " No officer of cavalry, who shall apply for permission to retire on half-pay, will be allowed to receive the difference be tween full pay of cavalry and full pay of infantry, but such ex change will be viewed as being, to all intents, an exchange to the half-pay of his branch of the service, receiving the dif ference between full-pay and half-pay, and subject to the re strictions applicable to such exchange. "In exchanges to half-pay, either with or without the dif ference' or from cavalry to infantry, the application must be general and • unconditional, and the officer upon full-pay wily not be alloWed to.poinf out his successor, who will be indiscri- Minately selected by the Commander-in-Chief without any previous notice to the parties. " Eviry Officer who, from wounds, ill health' infirmity, or age, shall become unfit. for Service, and who shall be desirous of retiring upon half-pay, will transmit his appliCation through his Colonel, or Commanding Officer, accompanied by a certi ficate from the Senior Medical Officer of the Regiment, ex pressing the 'cause of his becoming unfit for service, and which certificate 'must be countersigned by the Colonel-or Commanding Officer." " N.B. — The General Officer who makes the half yearly confidential reports is hereby directed to state in such reports his opinion of the correctness of this certificate." No Brevet, we understand, will take place at present. ROYAL NAVY. PORTSIIOUTIf, APRIL 23.—The Hart, tender. attached to the Dover, at Leith, arrived here last Monday; she will return .to Scotland the first fair wind. We understand that the revenue cruisers on the coast of Scotland have been placed under the controul of Capt. Knight, Inspector General of the preventive service in Scotland: The hart has since sailed on her return. - His Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk sailed on Tuesday to. the westward; also the Prince of Orange transport, ,Lieut. Wil liams, agent fo r C or k, w h ere , i t i s reported, she will embark troops to relieve detachments stationed at Jersey, Guernsey, and Plymouth. The Starling cutter has brought a smuggler into this pOrt. Admiral Sir G. Martin, gave a splendid dinner on Thursday at the George Inn, to the officers of the Victory, hiS flag ship. 'The Jasper has arrived , from Jersey, where she has been employed for some time in superintending the extensive British oyster fisheries in the neigbourhood of .that island. The long continued prevalence of easterly winds has prevent ed the arrival of many ships that are expected from abroad, and the change which has now taken place will most probably bring into port numerous merchantmen who have been wind bound in the chops of the Channel. The Forte is expected shortly from the West Indies, the Blossom from South America, and the Glasgow from Malta. • The Frinsbitry and Fanny transports, which have been de tained at . Spithead, owing to the strong easterly winds, since our last report, sailed on Thursday for the River. Ships at Spithead-.-Jasper and Terror. In Harbour—Vic tory, Queen Charlotte, Bulwark, Wellesley, Albion, Jupiter, Samarang, Medina, Cyrene, Arrow, Quail; Viper, and Linnet. A dreadful accident occurred a short time ago at Marjevols. The vicar of the parish, accompanied by more than eighty persons, went to the house of a, poor sick woman to administer the Sacrament. Upon entering the chamber, which was on the second story, the floor suddenly fell, and the whole party were precipitated to the first f100r,.. which likewise at the same instant "gave way, with a loud and tremendous crash. Two hours were occupied in taking the unfortunate persons out of the rubbish. A woman and her daughter were killed, and forty persons more or less wounded. .The Vi car. received some severe cOntusions.(Galignani's Messenger.) The widow of a public functionary of this city lost a favourite dog which died some weeks ago. She wished to it interred in the tomb of her husband, and accordingly offered the churchwardens 2,000 crowns for permission to do so. A demand so extraordinary was of course refused. She thea obtained, at a considerable expence, leave to bury her defunct friend in the garden of her neighbours. Before the funeral ceremonies were performed, she laid him out in a mahogany coffin, the head crowned with myr tle, and covered witit a robe of satin de corated with lace, to the admiration of the curious, to whom, as they approached ; she caused cake and wipe to be distributed. This strange occurrence collected such crowds .of people - , and the tumult became so great, that the in tervention of the police became necessary, who were obliged to have recourse to arms before they could restore quiet and peace. It is %.c.orthy of remark, that this said widow, whose conduct in every other respect is perfectly conformable to the rules of sound reason, still visits regularly the tomb of her husband, and has pot permitted a handkerchief, which is attached to the coffin, to be washed, being that which she used to wipe away the perspiration from the forehead of her husband during his last illness, and which she still uses in wiping away the tears which she sheds for him, though he has been dead a long time.—(Berlin Paper.) PRICE OF STObIcS THTS ll 1 V AT TWO O'CLOCK. 245 India Stock Bo n 6 'OW South- Sus Stc,ck Annvities 4 pt:r Cent. r N o . l d ew 1004 Ex. Dills • t 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Loop- A I nn. 234 3.l6th s India fcr : Cm Acct Imp. 3 per ' Cent3. 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THE SUN. SOLE)! QUIS DICERE FAISUIT AUDILIT LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1824. In a preceding column we have given some extracts from - the Foreign Journals, amongst . which will be found the article in the'Etoile, on the state of South America, and particulafly of Colombia, to which we alluded yesterday:— We are quite ready to admit that every thing on this deeply interesting subject coming through the medium of the Madrid or French Mi 1 .17-. .. sterial Journals, should be viewed with the utmost caution and distrust. Indeed, we are not ,less anxious than the warmest friends to ttre inde pendence of South America, to discredit - every: statement or rumour that is unfavourable to the cause of the Pariot s, or less eager to cling to those circumstances which afford well.foundod hopes of their success. Agreeing, however, as the pye.tent_ accounts do, with the private information :Which has reached otirielves through very different chan nels, it is impossible for us not to feel considerable uneasiness,as to the result of the South American contest. Th 4 ftieilds of Sp an i s h d espot i sm are, we know, sanguine in their expectations that both Mexico and Peru, at the least, will return under. the yoke of the Mother Country. The Journal des DAats of -Wednesday cone. tains another tale of wonder. from Constanti nople. The Porte, it appears, has peremptorily required of Lord STRA.NerFonn . that peace.shall be immediately made between this country and Algiers, because the - Sublime Porte is in want of an Algerine squadron to attack. the Greeki That the war which we now wage on the 'barbarians of Algiers, has operated, as ,we stated would be, the case at. its commencement, as a very powerful diversion in favour of Greece, is very true. ft is also very probably true, that the PoRTE is. greatly enraged at. this inconvenient procedure on the part of Great Britain. But the manner in .which it is said to have demanded the cessa tion of hostilities is much more likely to bring a , British squadron to Constantinople, than to have the effect of sending away that which is now ocCu pied in the blockade of A lgiers. Thesame account states that the Divan has further insisted on Lord B ynoN and other British subjects being compelled by our Government to withd raw from GrveCe! Lord , STRANGFORD is represented as being very much. embarrassed in his. negociations by these - point blank and unceremonious demands. This cte. can very well believe ; and as it is of Course im possible for his Lordship to give the Porte any satisfaction on the subjects of differencee .. . should. not .:be much surprised to hear of ! Lordship finding. it necessary to Tilt Constanti:. nople. CITY, Twelve o'clock.—Consoli openrd this morning at 96.1 for the Account, but went dd'wu to 96.1-1, with a heavy Market. In the early part of the morning a considerable sale was made. — Console are now, for Money, 968, and 961+ for the Account, with little doing. Ido not hear of any Express having arrived from Paris, nor have w•e any reports in the City. FOREIGN MARKET.--Little doing except in Colombian Scrip. A Jamaica Mail has arrived with Papers to the 6th of March. The Mail has brought no later news from South America than that pre viously received. The following, however, con firms some of the intelligence that preceded its arrival : [From the Royal Gazette of the 6th March.] • Bogota and Carthagena Gazettes have been received here, and from them we learn that they 1