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Tok 'LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the.horning Pupers, July 2. [THE Letters dated the sth of ay were received yesterday from the city of Mexico ; and from Alvarado, dated the 14th of the same month An express reached Mexico on the 3d, with in telligence of the arrival at Sacrificios and Alva rado, of 17 vessels, one of which was the Lion cutter, K ith the remittances on board for the Government. A conducto, or convoy with specie, had left Mexico the latter end of April, and had arrived :safely at Jalapa on its way to the coast. The escort consisted of 550 men. The specie under their charge amounted to 1,200,000 dol lars ; of which, part was destined for the payment of the troops under General Victoria, at Vera Cruz, anti the remainder for exportation on ac count of the merchants. In consequence of the recent troubles in Yucatan, Gen. Santana had been appointed Governor of that province,,and had set out for Campeachh with a consi derable body of troops. Yucatan bad previously united itself with the central Government at Mexico. Since the presentation of the report of the Committee of the Congress recommending the appointment of a Supreme Director, much greater vigour had manifested itself on the part of the Executive. Several of the chiefs of banditti who infested the interior had been brought to condign punishment ) and it was expected that a special commission would be appointed to investigate the affairs of the murder of Mr. Crawford, and if possible bring to justice the perpetrators of that crime. An Englistiman,named Wyllie, had been selected, it was said, as the he'ad of this commis sion. We have received with the letters two numbers of a Paper published at Mexico, called El Sol, of the dates of the 14th and 19th of April. The chief article in the former is the report of the extraordinary commission of Congress, op. pointed to examine the best means of securing the public tranquillity. This Commission, as was formerly mentioned, gave its opinion in fa. Your of the necessity of creating a Dictator, and the reasons for that opinion are stated at length in the report before us. These reasons are the great weakness or want of energy in the Government, the notorious vacillation of its pur poses, and the influence of its defects in encourag ing the influence of factions. To this list are added, conspiracies well combined, and headed by persons capable of giving them a dangerous ,direction, and plot against the form of the exist ing Government. It was enough to observe pre sent symptoms, and compare them with those which preceded former revolutions, to see the dangers of the State. These symptoms are stated to he, the tendency of certain prints published in various parts of the f e deration --- the extraordina r y means employed late them—the public character wilier'. ( l 'i'srtll7 " guishes some of their authors—the uniforipa and gradual development the ofOno which they propose—the progressive e order of their at tacks against the author!tis their criminal en deaeoure to excite suspicion against the most dis tinguished patriots —the art by which they have m i s l e d the opinion of the na tion, --and the partial conflagrations, which announce a go. neral explosion by which the eState must perish if means are not employed to ward off so great a danger. The commission then goes on to re. commend, as a remedy for the recited defects, and a preventive of the threatened dangers, the co ncentration of powers of Government in a single person, to be called the Supreme Director of the Mexican Republic, chosen from among the pre sent members of the Executive. The powers o this officer, and conditions of the termination o his office, are defined in the project with which the report concludes ; but it would be superflu. ous to enumerate them here. [NEW TIM ES. Yesterday afternoon a sudden decline took place in the Funds of about one half per cent. for which alteration there was a variety of reports in circulation. The most prominent was the rumour of nearly a total change in the French Cabinet; another report was, that a General Congress was about to assemble upon the sub ject of the South American States ; and a thirdtreport, that unfavourable intelligence had been received from Portugal. For any of these rumours there did not appear sufficient authority to entitle them to belief ; but they certainly produced much agitation in the Market. Con sols had been stationary at 96, until nearly the close of business ; they then declined to il6f, and after the close of the Market were OZ.. — The unfavourable influence extended to the Fo reign SPCIITiIieS ; and upon the authority of in formation from Mexico and other parts of the South American States, it was asserted that a counter-revolution had broken out in favour of Iturbide. Mexican Scrip declined from 11 to prem. ; and Columbian from 11 prem. to par.— Th e w h o le of the other Foreign Securities were lower in value in n less degree. [uomx Imo Pow.] The French Papers which reached us lust n i g ht, by Express, do not contain any intelli gence of importance. The agitation which had been represented us prevailing amongst the Mi nisters and their adherents had not been follow ed by any derisive results. It is, however, strongly asserted in several Papers, that Baron Pamas, the War Minister, had offered his resig. nation to the King, but nothing is said of its having been accepted. The Journal des Debals contains an nrticle, the style of which reveals its author. I t is a general attack on the systeth fol lowed by the present Mitti,try, written with all the talent of is ut of genius, and all the bitter ness of an !riptny who has once been a friend. To doubt after this that it proceeds from the pen of Viscount Chateauhriand would be to doubt the evidence of our senses. ft is certain ly calculated to injure his late colleagues, but it would do so more deeply had not the writer re. 'pained their colleague until they forcibly.thrust hint out from amongst them. For the more effec tually he exposes the misconduct of an Admini. stration of which he did not willingly cease to form a part, the more clearly does he chew that he preferred power to good policy and justice. Had not that been the case, he would have re tired rather than taken his share of the responsi bility of acts which he did not approve. By re maining as he did, without even protesting in the Cabinet, he became, an accomplice in what he now condemns, and proves himself entitled to a portion of the blame which he unsparingly lavishes on his former friends. [MORNING HERALD:] From a few circumstances that liave lately come to our knowledge, we have no doubt but that Iturbide, the late Emperor of Mexico, has sailed with the intention of again occupying the throne. It is highly probable, that after the Mexican Constitutionalists had got rid of him, and had banished him to Italy, under the pretence of paying him yearly a handsome sum of money, that they never paid him one farthing. This sup posed omission on their part is not, however, mat, ter for surprise, as it is more than probable that they had not the money wherewith to pay him, except they could have raised more loans in Eng land. We have heard it mentioned that those at the bottom of the scheme for the restoration of Itur bide are the Catholic Clergy of Mexico, who were beginning to be alarmed, lest the Consti , tutionalists, in imitation of other Constitutionalists, should get rid of them and of their temporalities, in order to a division of the spoil. Iturbide haS very likely promised the priesthood that if he succeed in his enterprise, he will preserve to them their religion and their temporal posses sessions. It will not be long, we think, before we hear that Iturbide has arrived, and that, like his modern prototype, Buonaparte, he has again seized the Emperorship. The next affair that his Imperial Majesty would turn his attention to would be a loan from this country ; and we rather suspect that,in the course of a few months, not only his Me x i can M a j esty, b ut his Brazilian Majesty, will be endeavouring, by the proffer of large interest and good bonusses, to coax the money out of Englishmen's pockets. Of course the Mexican and Braziliau revenues from mines and commerce, and its profits from tobacco, will be proposed to be mortgaged as a security ; and some parchment bonds, with a parcel of unintel ligibly-written foreign names attached to them, will be lodged, by the English contracto r s with ali due and for m theiran d i c i e o r t e a m ry o , ny h; n the iron chests of the Bank of Englantl in h i s tlt i t s s been asserted that Iturbide will be assi s ted schemes by the French Government, but this we lo not consider probable ; for that Government ' would rather secure such a territory to itself, if it could bring it about without exciting too much the jealousy of its neighbours. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Very late letters have been received from the Mexican Republic. Those from the capital are dated on the, sth and those from Alvarado on the 14th of May.:--The most perfect tranquillity continued to prevail throughout the Union. An express bad been received in the city of Mexico, announcing the arrival on the coast of Mr. O'Gorman, with the terms on which the Loan had been contracted in England, and the circum stance itself of British subjects lending their aid to this young Republic, had given additional stability to the Government. The acknowledg ment of its independence by the king of Eng. land would instantly consolidate the power of the Mexican G overnment, and it is detrimental to the true interests of British manufactures any longer to delay the acknowledgment of a fact, and the performance of an act of justice, in de. ference to the feelings of the Catholic King of Spain, whe is as beloved by his subjects us he is celebrated for his virtue and honesty in the Bri tish Empire. A convoy of one and a half million of dollars was on its way to Alvarado, to be shipped on board his Majesty's frigate the Forte, for England, in payment of British labour, con sumed by the inhabitants of this populous and wealthy state of America. The Loan by Eng land to the Mexican Government is insignificant when compared with the remittances which are almost monthly made by Mexican merchants to England, and yet this is the State which the Bri tish Government hesitates to acknowledge, and of which the friendship is hazarded, in deference to antiquated claims, which originated in lawless violence, in cruelty, and fraud. From Bogota a letter has been rec e i ve d, dated on the 29th April, at which time no late intelligence had been received from General Bolivar in Peru.— There was a report tirculuted in the capital of Colombia of the revolt of a black regiment at Callao, and as the same circumstance has been mentioned in the New York Papers, in letters from Guayquil, dated on the 19th February, there is reason to fear that it has some founda tion, although it it may be the same ru mour which has reached both New York and Bogota, Guyaquil being the place from which it had been originally transmitted. —lt is proper, however, to state that this mu tiny is represented to have broken out on the s`' h February, and there is a letter in London, ated in Lima on the 10th of that month, which sakes no mention of such an unfortunate occur 'ence. This is, however, no proof that it had not tappened. Six thousand Colombian troops had received orders to be ready for service, a part to be passed over the Isthmus to Panama, and then re-embarked for Peru, and the remainder to be shipped at Guayaquil. The result of the Peru. vian war is not doubtful, although circumstances may retard its speedy accomplishment. [BRIM!! PRESS. Some very imiiortant intelligence was received yesterday from Trinidad, respecting the proposed regulations fur the future treatment of the slaves in that colony. A general meeting of the ina. , bitants, most numerously and respectably at. tended, was Geld at Port Spain, on the 7th of May, at which a Petition to the Governor was caviled, praying his Excellency to suspend the promulgation of the late Order in Council.— A Committee was nominated for presenting this Petition, and it was signed by above two hundred persons before the meeting separated The Chair was filled by Mr, .Catlett, a highly respectable Colonist, who, previously to entering on the business of the day, made some sensible observations on the benevolent design with which his Majesty's Ministers had framed the Order in Council. The Chairman expressed his confidence that this consideration would induce the Colonists to adopt a becoming tone in the language they might use on an occasion so deeply interesting to them. This caution does not appear to have been given in vale. If we differ in some respects from the arguments of the Colonists we cannot too much applaud the temper with which they con ducted their proceedings. The principal speaker was the lion. Mr. Bursley, who, in an address of great force and ability, entered into the gene ral question of colonial slavery, and criticised with great severity the applicability of the Order in Council to the present condition of the popu lation for whose improvement it was drawn up. This gentleman's speech was remarkable for an entire abstinence from all personal reflections upon the " abolitionists." Under the trying cir cumstances in which the West Indians have lately been situated, and knowing how here! mixed bodies, possessing a common in terest, usually are, we consider these compl?- meuts not more honourable to those on whom they are bestowed, than to those by whom they are given. One fact connected with the abolition of the- slave trade was brought forward by Mr. Burnley, and commented upon with great effect. Common Justice to the colonists requires that it should be stated in his own language : " One circumstance attended this final act of abolition, which had much surprised him. Three months had been allowed to elapse after the pass ing the Bill in the House of Lords, during which time slave ships had been allowed to clear out from England to Africa, and the West Indies, without limitation as to number or tonnage ; the been a glut of slaves in consequence of this had this unhappy Colony, which none could credit but those who had witnessed it. Their numbers far exceeded the wants or the means of the inhabit ants to pay for. They were forced upon them by the slave dealers on any terms.—' Take them at 1, 2, 3 years' credit :—pay for them when you please, and how you please ;' and numbers of them had not been paid for to the present day, as Gentlemen present could testify. Thus had the British nation evaded her own act—and thus, by commercial finesse and immense capital, had the slave trade been virtually continued in the island of Trinidad even up to the present day; for it might safely be said of every African who yet remained unpaid for, that he never would have been dragged from his native shores, had that Act limited, as it ought to have done, the finnl supply to the actual demand ; which might easily have been effected by declaring the sale of every negro slave, for an extended term of credit, illegal." It is singular that this fact, which must obviously have pro duced consequehces so disastrous both to the slaves and their masters, should not have been noticed by any of the writers on the subject. MR. BOOTH, THE ACTOR. ( From a New York Paper of (FMK 7.) We regret to state that this gentleman, whose great improvement as a tragedian has of late be come so conspicuous, has been afflicted within these few days with mental derangement. It is said that this h as b een occas i one d by the sudden death of his w if e . It ha s b een f o und necessary to place him under restraint, t o p r event him from doing injury to himself or friends ; but it is hoped that by the kind attentions of the family under whose charge he now is, his recovery will be speedily effected. His benefit was to have taken place on Wednesday evening. ANOTHER AccouNT.---We regret to learn that this distinguished actor was seized with a violent fit of insanity on Saturday. On Friday night he played Othello, and in some passages is said to have been inimitably fine,• while in others it was thought by some he was turtling the character of the Moor into burlesque. In the dying scene he even excelled himself. But before the drop of the curtain, he turned over facing the audience, raised his head upon his hand, and said," There, what do you think of that !" These circum stances were looked upon as very strange at the moment ; but no further notice was taken of it at the time. About eleven o'clock on Saturday he was in the entrance of the theatre, conversing with #ilr.Woodhull, when suddenly, but with au air of calmness, he said to W-- " I must cut somebody's throat to-day, and whom shall I take ? Shall it be Wallack, or yourself, or who ?" Woodhull asked what he meant. "Why, I mean what I say," replied I3ooth. 'Woodhull then observed that he was grasping a dagger wbs s tsta t a by under his coat ; and at th e ver y moment W allack pas o s o e d d h a u l i o i ncga'lleid3oohtillinniaatdettale sane a le t h i re,it pass turning round, the blow missed its object. Wal lack then rushed into the street, and Booth alter him; and Woodhull after him, Booth gained upon Wallack, and just as h e was making a plunge at his back, Walinek providentially stumbled and fell, and Booth passed over him.— He was then seized, disarmed, and secured. In t he evening he was taken to the house of a friend, where he is treated with every kindness and at tention. He has become tranquil, and it is hoped that he will soon recover from this painful indis- iosition. [Miss Johnson, in Desde►nona, cer ainly ran a risk of being murdered by the ealous Moor in good earnest, and may felicitate ►erself upon her escape.] Letters from Malta, under date the sth of June, advise the arrival there of the merchant ship the Little Sag?' from London, hound to Greece, with specie for the account of the Chris tian population of that interesting part of the world. His Majesty's fri g at e , th e A ct i ve, h ad also arrived there from off Algiers. At the date of the Malta letter the Marquess of ILtsumos, the expatriated Patriot, was hourly expected to arrive to assume the Government of that island. - - - - - • I. A large packet Greek newspapers was're-i ceived by the Packet yesterday morning, the" postage upon which was charged 771.105. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 1. CORONER FOR SHROPSHIRE. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he had consulted with the Judges, and that he and they w ere unan i mous l y o f op i n i on that the ele ction could not stand, that a new writ must issue, directing the Sheriff to proceed to another election. EARL OF PORTMORE. Thomas Charles, Earl of Portmore, appeared on the bench, and took the oaths of allegiance with the usual forms. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 1. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE COUNTY FIRE, OFFICE. THE KING V. THOS. THUHTELL AND J. B. SNOWDEN. Mr. SCARLETT moved the judgment of the Court on the defendants, found guilty of conspiracy with John Thurtell, to defraud the County Fire-Office of 1,9131. by claiming a loss from the fire at Thurtell's premises, in Watling-street, which had not been sustained. The defendants appeared on the floor. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN said he was prepared to address the Court on behalf of Thomas Thurtell, anti move for a new trial, should their Lordships be disposed to hear him. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the Court would hear very patiently any thing the Learned Serjeant bad to offer, if lie really had any point upon which he could impeach the verdict. His Lordship then read his notes of the trial. The facts of the case are well known to the public. Serjeant VAUGHAN endeavoured to, sties there had been some misconception with respect to the evidence, but finding the Court not disposed to disturb the verdict, confined himself to matter of mitigation. He had affidavits to offer, by which it would appear that Thomas Thurtell had been coniii. , (l eight months. The Lout) CHIEF JUSTICE said, not on this charge. He has been confined for debt. Sergeant VAUGHAN admitted that the imprisonment had not been on this charge. The deponent had a wife and two chil dren reduced to the greatest wretchedness and misery. His health was bad, and upon the whole he was a pitiable object. --The Court in its mercy , would not forget the suffimings of the prisoner with respect to his late relation, and perhaps feel that strict % justice did not require them to crush a bruised reed. Affidavits were then read in corroboration of the above statement, and particularly one from a clergyman, which spoke in favourable terms of the defendant. Mr. GURNEY then put in the affidavit of Snowden, who de. Glared that he had no knowledge of the conspiracy on the part of the Thurtells. He had acted only as a broker employed to sell goods upon commission. Mr. Scan LETT, as Counsel for the prosecution, asked the Court, whether it was necessary to address them on the sub ject of a new trial ? The Lour) ()rims JUSTICE said there was no occasion fbr that. The Court did not sec any ground for a new trial. Mr. SCARLETT was then heard in aggravation. Thomas Thurtell took the dwelling-house. He executed the policy, and verified the loss by his own affidavit. This insurance was effected before a single order was given, or any goods purchased. Upon a close examination of the facts of the case, it would appear, that Snowden was deeply implicated in the transaction. Ile did not ask for a larger punishment, because John Thurtell was not alive, but he did ask the Court not to lessen the punish ment of the defendants on that account. It was a most gross and scandalous conspiracy to defraud the Fire Office. One of the defendants saw what goods were in the house a short time before the fire, and the other said that a grand explo sion would soon take place. From those circumstances it was quite clear they were both implicated. On the whole, it was one of the greatest frauds ever practised on the public. He expressed a hope that the Court would feel that Mr. - Beaumont had done his duty to the public, under circum. stances which might have deterred many other men. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, delivering judgment, said, it was his painffil duty to pass on the defendants the sentence which the Court felt called upon to pronounce, for the offence of which they had been found guilty. If the least doubt could have been entertained of the propriety of the verdict of the Jury, he should have listened with the greatest satisfaction to any thing calculated to remove that doubt, but he thought the evidence so clear against each of the defendants, that lie considered it utterly impossible for any prudent Jury to come to a dif ferent conclusion. He did not enter into the question whether this fire was accidental or not ; .his hope was that it was ac. cidental, as the defendant would have less to answer for hereafter ; but admitting it was accidental, that it was a foul attempt to rob this office by claiming for goods which were not on the premises, no man could doubt. Shortly after the tire, a claim was made by 'Phonies Thurtell. With great pro. priety that claim was investigated by the office. Inquiry en sued, and an affidavit was made of loss, amounting to a sum of nineteen hundred pounds. That did not satisfy the par ties. They required the invoices, and in the details respetThig those invoices, facts transpired which left no doubt on ins mind of the guilt of both prisoners. The fire took place on the 26th of January, and as early as the Bth of February there was as Tpplication on the part of Thomas Thurtell for th e w h o l e l oss. hat prisoner must have known at the time, what goods had been left on the premises, and that property of the value °NOOI. had been withdrawn from the premises before the tire. With knowledge that the goods had been taken from Watling -street to the house of one Margrave, and undersold by Snowden, the claim was made. On the part of Snowden, it was said be did not participate in the transaction, but was merely the dupe of the parties. But did that prisoner act like an honest man, when lie attended Mr. Beaumont, and was asked whether lie sup. plied any goods ? He should bare said lie supplied some, and sold others, e csot cese notrwerliaeilin suspicion. a l ia d d o Itte of n c o u ilihis removeduoti be aen inds supposed psi the o l co d s enulnptiiiirleaarc conspiracy anyc rto. defraud this office of their money . The Learned il . act l pt u opf t io l li g ien e dicie d eftn i r d aigau n idhi o d.t t the consider ge t s i stechittotleieutit lire fi i ew e rooe q utfn u ol question, es the tt o o fk n pei , rtes w mcpa l i i rr e soee stph property, r the defendants were implicated i r i Tt e yr l t :t li t e n tr i ew sl wa i i sa r s ie na n o t vsle r ir t gdi have the effect of deterring others. They could not help re gretting that in these cases the wives and children suffered, but the Court could not on th a t account w i t hh o ld punishment ap portioned to the crime. The - Court, taking into consideration all the circumstances, did order and adjudge that the prisoners should be severally imprisoned in his Majesty's gaol of Yew. gate two years. The defendants bowed, and were then taken out of Court. FATAL PUGILISM. TILE KING v. COItNELII WILLIAMSON. Mr. STARKEY moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus to bring up the body of Cornelius Williamson, committed on the Co roner's Inquest, on a person named Butterworth, to Lancaster gaol. The object was to bail the defendant. It appeared from the affidavits on which the application was made, that the deceased had a dispute on the 15th of June with two brothers, named Williamson. Cornelius Williamson, who is a shopkeeper at Ashton-under-Line, fought the deceas ed, and threw hint on the floor. The deceased died in the course of the conflict, having struck his head against the wall. The Jury found, by their verdict, that his death was occasion ed by a blow. he had copies of the depositions before rfaer'oanTiu)ahrynrrnadirdaitnhnitnegd the writ, and also a Certiorari to bring of 1 bony,flt 0 o e b i nlCorodin. The oad S ne on :n dot e A hur , made by the Surgeon, who opened the e d ta e hi a (al t l it had been occasioned a suffusion of which might have been caused by irritation tight round the neck. into Court the proceedings before the Coroner. GAMING HOUSES. The ATToatiE v-GEitzna.r. moved for a rule to shewcause why an Attorney of the Court should not restore 4801. to John Fielder and also why his name should not be struck off the rolls. He had taken the money from Fielder in consideration of not calling for judgment upon a conviction for keeping a gaining-house: Fielder was afterwards called up and received judgment. The Counr said lie might take a rule for striking his name off the rolls ; but Fielder being a particep, - there could be no reason for restoring the money. Rule granted to show cause why the attorney's name should not be struck off the rolls. LEWIS V. WALTER. This was an action against The rimer newspaper for an al. leged libel on the plaintiff; an attorney, who had been nOnsuited on the ground that an allegation in the declaration that the libel was of and concerning him in his character of attorney, was not proved in evidence. On a motion made for setting aside the nonsuit and granting a new trial, the Court took time to consider the case, and now held that the allegation in question wits divisible, and on the authority of the case of May v. Brown, decided the other day, they made the rule absolute. PAPAL JUBILEE.--The latest intelligence from Rome states, that on Thursday the 27th of May the Pope caused the general Jubilee for 1825 to be proclaimed in the portico of St. Peter's church, and by notices posted up in various parts of the city. It will commence on Christmas Eve this year, and continue twelve months. This event is of every twenty•fve years recurrence, but poli tical circumstances prevented its taking place in 1800. GREECE. The following extracts from the Telegrafo Greco, a weekly journal iu the Italian language, published at Missolonghi, as illustrative of the conduct and exertions of the lamented Lord BYRON, will be read with considerable inte rest : (From No. 2.) rt The bark which was sent t o Castelli di Morel; w lea, 27. th four Turks, as a compliment to Jussuf Pacha, from the lion. Lord Byron, has returned to Itlissolonghi, bringing merely a receipt from the Pacha. We wonder that the proud Jussuf did not condescend to reply to the polite and humane letter which his Lordship sent with this present; this can be ascribed only to ' the incorrigible barbarism and ignorance of the disciples of Mahomet ; but the Greeks, who are friends of their country and of humanity, and foreigners who desire the real welfare of Greece, will not fail, when an opportunity offers, to follow the generous example of the noble Lord. The following is Lord Byron's letter to Jussuf Pacha:— " To his Highness Jussuf Pacha, Governor of the Provinces of Aldin and Garechan, and Commander of the Ottoman Armies in the Forts, &c. Your Highness,—.A vessel, with some of my friends and domestics, was taken some days ago' to the forts by a Turkish frigate, and released by order of your Highness. " I give you thanks, not far having relealed a vessel which,. bearing a neutral flag, and long under English protection, you had no right to detain, but , for having treated my friends with the greatest courtesy while they were in your power: Hoping, to do something agreeable to your Highness, I have requested' the Greek Government here to place at my disposal four Turk...* ish prisoners, which hits been politely granted me. 1 therefore, send them free to your Highn ess , t o return your c i v ili ty as far as lies in my power. They are sent without any condition but if the atlau can tteserve a place in your memory, I will inertly request your Highness to be pleased to treat with hu- - manity any Greeks who may be now, or may hereafter fall` into the hands of Mussulmen; since the honors of war are suf ficient of themselves, without adding on either side greater' rigour in cold blood. I have the honour to be, &c. Missolonghi 23 (11) January, 1824." No. 3, of the 3 d of April, contains the Address of the Com mittee formed at Cambridge to undertake a subscription for the Greeks; also a letter from Lord Byron, dated from Cepha lonia, the 30th of November, last year, to the Greek Govern men; in which, alluding to the reports of dissensions among the Greeks, he expresses a hope that they ate false or exagger ated. He says he must frankly confess, that unless order and union are consolidated, all hopes of a loan, and of any succour which Greece might expect from foreigners, will be suspended and checked ; and what is snore, the great Powersrvf Europe, none of which was an enemy to Greece, and seemed inclined to favour the establishment of an independent power in Greece, will be persuaded that the Greeks are unfit to govern them selves, and will take some measures to put an end to your dis orders, which will destroy at once all your hopes. " Allow me to add," he says, " once for all, I desire the welfare of Greece, and nothing else. I w ill d o my utmost to secure it, but I will never consent that the public or individuals in England shall be deceived with respect to the real state of Greece." In a letter to Prince Mavrocordato, then returned to Idm, in consequence of these dissensions, he expresses his regret at them, and says—" Greece has now three ways to choose—to re conquer its liberty ; to become a dependent on the soverejgns of Europe; or to be again a Turkish province. There is no al ternative but between these three ; but civil wars seem to lead only to the last. if you envy the fate of Walachia or the Crimea, you may have it to-morrow ' • if that of It a ly, t h e d ay after to morrow; but if G reece will become free and independent, she must decide now, or it will b e t oo l ate. " No. 5, of April 17, contains a refutation of two articles in the Journal of Frankfort ; one stating that a poem by Lord Byron, called The Triumph if Hellas at Mitsolonghi, was circulated in the lonian Islands; the other, that public re joicings bad been made at Missolonglii on the death of Sir T. Maitland. To the first it says, "We know not of any such poem, in Greek, is circulated as a translation from Lord Byron; but we are authorized to affirm that Lord Byron never wrote any such poem, and that for more than nine months, that is since he left Genoa for Greece, the noble Lord has not written any poetical compositi on w h atever. With respect to the second article, so vile a sentiment never entered the minds of the Greeks. If they suffered by the conduct of the Lord High Commissioner at the beginning of their glorio us struggle, they acknowledge the di ffi cult an d delicate situati o n i n which he was placed ; and they confess that the policy of the British Cabinet having chan ge d in the last year, his conduct became much more favourable to the Greek cause. Since some persons are pleased, whether through ignorance or worse reasons, to de• claim against the government of the late Sir Thomas Maitland, we are authorized by a person of distinction, who went to the lonian Islands strongly prejudiced against him, to bear witness that these accusations were ill-founded; that under his auspices the lonian Islands were more flourishing than many other countries celebrated for their prosperity, and that perhaps that mode of government was one of the most suitable to the inha bitants .of those islands." THE 'FRENCH PRETENDER. [FROM THE TIMES.] We have rece i ve d f rom Portsmoutka letter, of which we g i ve a translation, on the inbj ect o f the new claimant of the French Crown, The letter is forwarded to us through a medium which removes all doubt of its authenticity : " MR. EnlToß—ln your Journal of the Sd of this month,. you inserted a protest, signed Charles X. King of France and Navarre,' which had been published on the 19th of May last, in the National Intelligences, printed at Washington, in the United States. The person idiotic signature appears to this act of insanity is my legitimate brother: and though It is painful to me to make known publicly the real state of his mind, I have determined to do it ; preferring that my brother should pass for what lie really is, than to suffer it to be believed that he is a vile and despicable impostor : there are, besides, in France cer tain journals in which the spirit of party predominates over all the sentiments of generos i ty, and often even of honesty, which will not fail t o p u bli s h th i s piece without any regard to the in conveniences and unfortunate family, which has already h a d it s a b un d ant share persecutions which it might draw do wn on my of both. I venture, therefore, to hope, Mr. Editor, from your honourable character, the insertion of my letter in your respectable journal. liere, then, are succinctly detailed the exact facts of the political and military life of my unhappy brother. Victor (which is his name by baptism) was born in 1790 at Ennezat, in the department of the P u y -d e- d ome , in the house of his father. He entered the service of his Ma jesty the Emperor Napoleon in 1807: after having served suc cessively in the 25th and 29th Chasseurs-a-chevhi, he entered the Imperial Guard. A ball which passed through his head— other wounds, as well as the frost from which he suffered much in the fatal retreat from Moecow—caused great derangement of mind. In 1816 he was put on half-pay, and returned to his family. Three years were sufficient for him to dissipate entirely a handsome patrimony left him by his legitimate father. In 1818, while out hunting, lie was accosted by a brigade of gen darmerie, who insolently bade him produce his licence (pert d'arnies), or give up his gun : he had not hi s licence, and still less any disp os i t i on to give up his gun: t h e gendarmes hid the audacity to attack hi m ; he fira., and one of them was severely wounded. He was, however, disarmed (there was no resisting superior force), and carried to prison, where he remained about three months : he was then brought to trial, and very fortu nately for him, as well as for my affiicwd family, a jury wag found miraculously composed of moderate and generous men : lie was unanimously acquitted. After this lamentable affair, he set off for the purpose of joining me among the Independent party in America, where I was then serving. It appears that he went to the Isle of Cuba, and that the barbarous treat:not which he there experienced from the Spanish Governor, ha% en tirely turned his brain ; otherwise, he was not of a disposition to renounce his family. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your respectful servant, SICE. PERSAT, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Ex-Captain of Cav a l r y, (F renc h Em i grant.) " Portsmouth. June 29, 1824.—N0. 89, Broad-street." BIRTHS. On Thursday, July 1, at Litton Park, the seat of Lord Mon tagu, the Lady . Isabella Gust, of a daughter. On July 1, in .lhemarle•street, the lady of Charles Phelips, Esq., of a son. On June 30, in Portman-square, the lady of Charles Kerner" Tynte, Esq., jun., of a son still-horn. MARRIED. Oa the 30th ult., at St. Pancras new church, Abner William Brown, Esq., of Lincoln's inn, to Miss Dangerfield, of Bur ton-crescent. On the Ist inst., Lieut. Buahnan, R.N., to Isabella, third daughter of Thos. Shakleton, Esq., late of Bush -hill, Enfield. DIED. On Monday last, Emma :iamb, only child of Air. John Bainbridge, Urnleot-place, Lambeth. Lately, in the West Indies, William Roberts, Esq. rinted and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sux. Or•elcs, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.