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Bacon , 6sod Y i~ ...< '' 4~:. . S ,rat, , 4s gd $ -Wits o 45164 N. 44s 0 4 I Os 04 I -11 e l L •••••-•$ el L . ....1 04 411 0 3411 0 ure. NUIVIIII;It 9812. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1824 PRICE SEVENPEN'OE. 'she! libel 'later ,arter steel i 4s 04 ' 16s 04 boll-- I Ss 041 Is Od , —s P" Bearit .1, sti C4N . DL ES 4s gli ticad• ,s 6d )s —Osto` Os 0 4 is 0 4, 79 01" Pitch Ta110?.7 Cand.'es Mineial Pitch a 3i. a 4 0 a;1 4 ! a 604 1 ,56* 49P 4 6 ' s 6# I 5° 40, foia e 40 Mille. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. CON7'I;dCTS FOR TAR, PITCH, TALLOII 7 , AND Nary-Office. Jan. 26, 1814. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS wid CO - isSIONERs of HIS .71.4JES7'1"S NAVY do her give Notice, That .en Thursday, the 51/i of February "e•rt, at One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may Le swilling to Contract for supplying His Afajeoty's several Dock Yards with all or any of the follow ing Articles, viz. • STOCKHOLM T.: R. STOCKHOLM, RC NGEL, or BR I TIS DE PITCH. -RUSS.II4I T.11,L017. r..4LL 0117 CANDLES. 41INEE..1L TAR. Ili eributions of the Articles, and Fornis -of the T e nders, /ns.V he seen at this Office. No Tender will he received "2fter One o'Clock, on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, *nice. the Party, or an Agent for him, attends. Beery Tender must be accompanied by a Letter ad. dressed to the Navy Board, and signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person ten ' 4 erke, in the Sums herettneler mentioned, for the due per. AI-mance of the respectipe Contracts : 'P•r the Contract for Stockholm Tar £2,000 P ICTUALLING-Ole FIVE, Jan. 30, 18.24. E COMMISSIONERS far VICTU4L -I,ING His .11,IJESTY's 6'Y, 4.e. do hereby 8.40 ,Notice,. that on Friday, the Bth of February, they will GQ "ad!, to receive separate Tenders in writing (sealed up), °7l ti treat for One Hundred Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM, ef the usual strength ; to be delivered into His Majesty's Y ictualling Stores at Deptford, one-half by the Ist Nara, and the remaindrr by the Ist of flpril. And for Eight Thousand One Hundred Gallons of WEST INDIA RUj, of the strength of not less than 35 per cent, over proof by Sies's Hydrometer; to b e delivered into his Majesty's Victuallin g Stores at Deptford, in the space of a fortnight from the day The w h a l e to b e pa i d for by Bill s, of Contract. pay a bl e , without Interest, sixty days after date. The Conditions of th e c ontracts may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in word( at length, and De delivered before One o'clock on the day appointed ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his 6 ehaU, must attend to answer when called for. IYALLER CLIFTON. VIC TIJALLA A G. OFF ICE, Jan. 29, 1824. THE COMMISSIONERS f or VICTUAL LING His .11.41JESTrS 4-r. do hereby give N otice, that on Tuesday, the 24th February next, they will be ready to receive separate Tenders in wri.'ing, (seated up), Q 'td treat fire thc follerving quantities. of BALTIC STAVES (either Dantzic, Menzel, or Stettin), vie.:— Pipe • . Brandy Hogshead. Barrel .. Long Heading 2'9 6e dcliverfd one-half by the 31st July, and the remainder Ij v ; 30 th Siptembrr, 1824, into the several Victualli 'ng• -I°F rgs and in the proportions under mentioned, viz.:— One -fourth part at Portsmouth, One-fourth part at Plymouth, And the Remainder at Deptford ; At n a to , u ePaid 'or . I Rills payable, without interest, sixty 4" ;, 4fie r date j .‘"-e Conditions of the Contract may he seen at this Office. tj a , ,t ch , -rehler must describe whether the Staves ffe2.ed are iff2aci at 1e ' 4,1 , or Stettin, and toast also specify the Price an t h e s -3 t olyth; and he delivered bt:l.ire One o'Clock "9 41 'P";dte5l, and the Person who makes the Ten s or sunte ') that ca l led er4o o on his Lehalf, must attend to a nswer ha% AI. CL IF 7'o N. .4 GENERAL MEETING of WEST INDIA tyrtiv,PLANTERs, MERCHANTS, ANNUITANTS, and L ONT.''''' interested in the BRITISH WEST INDIA CO itt li C. , , Sp will be held at the CITY of LCZNDON TAVERN, tit....4Pgate-stree, on TUESDAY, the 10th of February 4r,at One o'Clock precisely, on INIPORTANT BUSINEsS. N. n Wilil. HOLDEN, Secretary. gut st ••••^All Gentlemen who attend the lkleeting are re bn__ ed to leave their Names and Places of Residence at the ..ur before entering the Room. lEYTON, STOCK-BROKER, 2, CORN. th at HILL, b egs l eave to inform his Friends the Public, Tiiittne STAT E - LOTTERY commenc es Drawing the 19th of „c w ' MONTH (February) ; th ere are SEVEN PRIZES of fi e ° o , hesidts THIRTY-FIVE other CAPIT ALS. rles:cliets and Shares are Selling as above, where all and Foreign Funds is transacted with fide- I.IIEAST INDIA HOUSE, Jan. 14, 1824. 1 COURT of DIRECTORS of the 4,AutoUNITED .COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG- Zi otict, TRADING to th e EAST INDIES , d u h ereby give at any the COURT will be ready to receive PROPOSALS next, Iftirttt 6 1' before WEDNESDAY, the 4th of February 8U1L 641 Itt" Person or Persons as may be willing to the B •) for the Company, in the River Thames, a SHIP of tifyi n ur" . l " of about 1 300 Tons Builder's measurement, spe lt s g h t ii h : itate Per tun at which they will engage to build The Particulars of the Dimensions and Scantlings, and 1 :'l t, conditions lt, Coe formality to which th e Ship is t o b e toe had, and the draft of the Ship seen, upon 1 NC aptain Bould erson, the Company ' s Master At , 411stiinti elant, at this H ouse, on or after Finlay next, the 16th le Tenders, with the words " Tender to build a Ship" on Cui ers to be severally sealed up and left with the Se tUtt, ' ll l at th is Rause, at or before Twelve o'clock at Noon, ( In the Said 4th day of February next, beyond which hour nu Teaser %11 be .reerirect. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICE is hereby given, That the OFFI CIAL ABSTRACT of the DAILY VOTES and PROCEEDINGS of The HOUSE of COMMONS, and of t he BUSINESS appointed for the next Day, will be published at the rate of Four-pence per sheet, at No. 14, Great George street, Westminster ; or, will be delivered every Morning in Town, during the Session of Parliament ; or gent, Postage free, into the Country, for Thfee Guineas. The APPENDIX MATTER, consisting of Petitions, &c. and usually_ published on Monday Morning, is too uncertain in amount to be furnished otherwise than at the rate of Four- pence per Sheet. Apply personally, or by Letter post paid, to Mr. James Mitchell, 14, Great George-street, Westminter. This Day were published, price Qs. Ed. ONSIDERATIONS on the GAME LAWS, showing the Advantages of Declaring Game Property, and Possibility of doing so, notwithstanding the objection raised by reason of Inability to Identify it, &c. &c. Published by Ridgways, Piccadilly. This Day 'was poldished, price 4s. sewed. THE BRITISH REYIEW, and LONDON CRITICAL. JOURNAL. No. CONTEVTS. 1. Faber's Treatise on the Three Dispensations. 11. The Hindou Press. 111. The Athanasian Creed; Archdeacon Wrangbarn's Charge, and Letters in - IV: Cileig's Leiter on the Church Xissionary Society, and Bartlett's and Rickards' Replies. • V. Sermons and Extracts on the loss of Friends; The Ex cursions of aSpirit; Gishorne's'Essays; Booker's Euthanasia. VI. Wilherforce's Appeal ; Maitin's Counter Appeal ; Bridce's Voice from Jamaica. VII. American Epiceopacy. Published by L. B. Seely and Son, Fleet-street. THEODORE HOOK. The following article respecting this Gentle man appears in Blackwood's Magazine, with the signature of one of its favourite correpondents, TIMOTH Y TICIELS "Mr. lloox's chief confidential clerk, whose duty it was to make up the Treasury accounts of the Mauritius, made up those of Nov em b er 1 8 1 6, w i th an error of 9 , 0001. i n t h em ; notwithstanding which, they were audited, and had been passed corrected for two years. In the meantime he delivered over the Treasury to a new governor, and received a certifi cate, which is published in the parliamentry papers on the subject, from five principal officers of government, attesting his correctness, and giving him, under their hands, a dis. charge for the entire balance. Three months after this, the chief clerk who, two years before, had made the error, report ed it himself to government—the error having given, of course, opportunity in the interim, to any body who was aware of it, to have abstracted the amount in money, at the time of the transfer. An investigation of the affair was or dered ; and the second day of which, that confidential clerk destroyed himself, without giving any clue as to the fate of the money. He could not, in 'fact, stand the investigation.-- For this Mr. Hook is now in prison. Nay more, so far is his case from being fairly understood, that almost every body who thinks of it supposes that the sum for which he has been arrested is the amount of the deficiency in his chest—and yet it is no such thing. The sum for which he is a defendant at the suit of the Crown, is made up, besides the amount of the deficiency, of charges under different Acts of Parliam ent, on t h e groun d that he did not make t h e b est bar gains for Government in sale o f bill s , and that he was not suf ficiently careful in the issue of specie, which he made against paper, or local arrangements,—and other details which would not be interesting to you, or .votir readers, and with which I shall suppos e we shall be regaled in due time from his own peu. I allude to them, merely to show that he has been most stu ffmisrepresented, and most determinately misunderstood. 'Why, it may be asked, do I, living here, in this auld-warld nenk, give myself the trouble of defending a man whom I never saw, and whom, in all probability, I never shall see or what i s th ere i n his arrest, which ought to call forth our attention ? I shall just tell you. Ido not care a fig's end for Hook—but Ido care for the intense plucklessness of our party. It makes me perfectly indignant, at times, when I think of the courage with which the lii lids have at all times patronized their men, and the cowardice generally displayed by our Tory chieftains. I sh a ll not go back to Sir R. Walpole, for the management of his Whiggish sovereignty would be too gross and palpable for our times. They gave a place to Moore, their lampoon-man--to Hallam, their great Balaamite--they posted Sidney Smith, their jack-pudding parson—in fact, everybody who could write a libel for them, or who had ever wielded a pen in their cause, no matter how obtuse ailla nebless the tool might have been, was rewarded. On the contrary, it appears to be almost a fixed principle with us, that, whenever a man does any thing for the cause of Toryism, he is to be imme diately given up—he is looked upon as a sort of thing of course, and left to battle with his adversaries, not only without the countenance of the great Tory leaders, but under a studious withdrawing of their support. I must say, that they order these things better among the Whigs. " Let use not be so misunderstood for a moment as to be thought to be praying for patronage. I despise such a thought from the bottom of my soul. We know, North, how little of that kind of thing we, for instance, either looked for or receiv ed. Thank Heaven, the general strength of Toryism just now is so great, that we are independent of the smiles or the frowns of any knot of ministerial people, whom we puff or abuse as we please. But 1 must say that it is not fair, that because a man has been activ e or h as b een suspected of being ac tive in their behalf, he should be conciliated away—that he should suffer harder treatment than any body else, out of mere candour and official deference to opponents. Now here is a case, in which a gentleman, whom nobody at all accuses of dishonourable proceedings,—whose affairs admit of equita ble arrangement,—who is labouring under difficulties brought on by the negligence of people under' him and over him, is treated with a degree of rigour never exerted against one but the most marked criminal. Extents have been issued against his property, which has been twice seized and sold, and against his person, which has been thirteen or fourteen months in confine ment in one prison or other. All the little malice of an underling board has been exerted against him, instigated by political enemies, who hate him for his suspected support of Ministers; while people in authority calmly look on, and content them selves with saying, " A very hard case this of Hook's. IVe wish him out of it ; but, you know, it would not look well for us to interfere."—Why?—The answer is at hand. " Because we should be afraid that, if we did, it would be said, we did so on account of his supposed connection with John Bull ;"--and there is the plucklessness of which I complain, and which is the reason of my writing you this letter. This cowardice our Ministerial men carry into a thou sand departments. As I have often said, it is a sin nt:t visi ble among the Whigs. Had they a John Bull among them, they would boldly stand. by him for his writings.in their be half,—not affect to cut him in his difficulties. I wish we mull borrow this leaf out of their book; not that I wish for any undue support for our literary people, but that the mere, fact of thei r b e i ng f or us s h ou ld not deprive them of common. justice. I hope Hook's business will make its appearance; before Parliament this approaching session, and, when there, that it will be fairly met by ministers. Arnow , them there is ati least one man who ought to take the courage of speaking up, 1 mean George Canning. The Editor of the Anttjacobini ought not to look on it as a crime unpardonable to be accused (for it comes to that) of writing the John Bull." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Me iestoar-HotsE.—Yesterday a young man named Geo. Plummer was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged by his father, a respectable old man, with having committed a breach of the peace.—The father, who has been for many years established as a stay-maker, in Princes-street, Minories, stated that his son came on the previous morning at two o'clock, and began to raise the whole house by a violent knocking. He dis turbed the family and the lodgers by loud outcries, and it was found absolutely necessary to give him in custody. It was his practice to disturb the house at midnight in this manner, but to what cause such conduct was attributable neither father nor mother could conjecture. The son, wilen asked by the LORD MAYOR what he had to say in his defeneterwas-eo much agi tated that he burst into tears. Ile said it was extremely, pain ful for him to'be placed at a 'bar under a 'charge preferred by' his father, but it was ano th er i mputat i on o f an awful nature, no less than that of having murdered his brother, which had been cast upon him by his family, that had for a long time made his mind unhappy and worked him up to commit those breaches of the peace which he now lamented. The LORD Mayon. questioned the father upon this extra ordinary statement.—The father said, that he had never made such a charge against the unhappy young man at the bar, and never -would have mentioned the subject, had it not been thus publicly alluded to. The truth was, that he had another son named Robert, who some years since was set up in business at St. Alban's, where he succeeded in establishing himself as a stay-maker. It was on the 18th or 19th of November, seven years ago, that Robert, who had then been separated from his wife upwards of twelve months, was said to have observed her walking in a lonely part of the town of St. Alban's, with a man, of the nature of whose acquaintance with her he seemed to have no doubt. He disappeared from St. Alban's the next day, without common icating.with any of his acquaint ances, disposing of, or making any arrangements from which it could he supposed that lie contemplated an absence of any . length. The state of affliction to which his family were re duced upon hearing of this unaccountable departure and absence, was indescribable. A reward was offered for any information respecting him, but the only intelligence they could obtain w as mere l y con j ectura l , and described him as having been seen at Redfern, in Hertfordshire, on the d ay a f ter h e was missed from St. Alban's, get ting into a post-chaise, accompanied by a strange man. —The f am il y h a d written to all their acquaintances in different parts of the world, but not one word of consola tion had they ever received. Such was his consideration for his father and mother, that they were convinced he would not keep them l onger i n suspense , if h e h a d t h e power o f ma k ing them acquainted with his destiny. Airs. Plummer said, that the prisoner told her about a month after Robert was missed, that he was either dead or soon would he dead, and that she might be convinced of the truth of it. The dreadful fears occasioned by this communication w ere not alle viated by an assurance made soon afterwards by George, that Robert was dead—an assurance accompanied by the words, " I kno w w h ere h e is; 1 know where he lies." Freq uent ', since that p er i o d George had alluded to the dreadful subject, but never had he been accused of being a party to the disap pearance of his brother. There was a younger brother How at St. Alban's who had mention e d th a t G eorge h a d to ld hi m t h at Robert was dead; that he (George) knew of hi s d ea th, b ut would not snitch (tell tales). Both father and mother had, until this statement, been in doubt whether their child had gone abroad or been destroyed. . The prisoner here said lie was sorry to be obliged to contra dict his parents, for whom he had the utmost respect. He never had made any assertions to the effect stated; The LORD Maxon considered it necessary to remand the prisoner until th e younger brother can. be brought from St. Alban s.-_Th e prisoner was then remanded. BOW-STREtT.--GeOrge 4 urtin Low, who stated himself to be a Colonel in the Colombian service, was yesterday brought to this office from Covent tgarden watch-house, where he had remained from the Saturday night, u pon a charge of violating the to undergo an examination person of Emily White, a little girl not quite 13 years of terioue manner from the h o age, and who di sa pp eare d in a mys strand. use of M rs. Bliss, in Norfolk street, • Mr. Illesessa u et. was the presiding Magistrate, and from the peculiar nature of the in i Mrs. Bliss had been discharged, q u -TY,the felt it his duty to take the ex aminations in private. e t - " " - elVeareu that on aaturuay, after ver where the unfortunate girl, whose absence had excited so much alarm, was secreted and at length found that she was she used every effort to disco. in lodgings in Villiers-etreet She sent information of the cir cumstance to this office, and Blackburn, one of the patrol, went to the house p o i nte d out, where h e was met by Mrs. Bli ss an d Mrs. Whit e , t h e mot h er of the a c a t l l l e e n d g b u y l f h o e r r ee n d i o a t n h eernsthrae nrceef,u saeldigditrofl.o.oupnefdntith eeentering . h e t 1 ( 1 e Blackburn victima. s passage, e the girl shut her s elf i n t h e parlour, and although repeatedly f unmanly l us t sea ted oil the s o f a i n tears. She was immediately o taken before Mr. Minshull, and from the story she told, that gentleman issued a warrant against Colonel Low, who was apprehended , at eleven o'clock. From the girl's statement yesterday, it appeared that the Colonel had repeatedly taken liberties with her in Mrs. Bliss's house, and that on the Thursday evening he met her in the street, a nd took her to the Fountain, in Catharine-street, where he endeavoured to effect his object by force. It would seem, however, from the evidence of a surgeon subsequently examined, that there wax some doubt as to the completion of the offence charged. The girl added, that she remained at the Fountain the remainder of that night alone, and that the next day she was removed by the Colonel's directions to Villiers -street. She said also that the Colonel had promised to take her with him abroad. The Colonel, in his defence, asserted that the girl had ac tually forced herself upon him, and that all that had occurred was with her own consent. He denied having used any force whatever. In the end Mr. Mixsittmi, who expressed his indignation at the def ence o f t h e C o l one l , ordered hi m to give bail, two sureties in one hundred pounds each, and himself in two hun dred pounds. With this hail the Colonel • was provided, and was forthwith discharged.—The Colonel is about-45 years of age, and the object of his attack is an extremely interesting looking girl, unusually tall of her age. She left the office in the charge of her mother. Mrs. Bliss, whose name has been implicated in this unfortunate affair, does not seem to have been in any way privy to the designs of the defendant ; but, on the contrary, invariably advised the prosecutrix to avoid his presence, as well as that of the other male lodgers in the house. ROBBERY IN KEA' GARDENS.—The manager of an exten sive nursery ground was brought up in custody of Ruthven, one of the principal officers, charged on suspicion of feloniously receiving a number of exotic plants, the property of hi s Ma jesty, he well kno w i ng t h e same to have been stolen. A long examination of evidence took place, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial under a late Act of Parliament, which gives the power of prosecuting accessories after the fact far felony, although the principal shall not have been tried. This Act passed during the last Session of Parlia. ment, and was brought in by the present Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Previous to this an accessary could only be tried fur a misdemeanor, unless the principal had been first. convicted. Several gentlemen of the highest respectability bore testimony to the unimpeachable character of the prisoner, and bail to any amount was offered, but Sir It. Birnie felt it his duty to refuse it. QUEEN.SQUARE.—Yesterday information was given of the following robbery of the Earl of H arrow b y. On Sunday night the Noble Earl and family w ere on t h e i r return from their seat at Litchfield to their town residence in Grosvenor-square, when in Totenham-court-road a portmanteau containing plate and other property, was cut from the front of one of the carriages in which were some of the household. SuicinE.—On Saturday afternoon an Inquest was held at the Yorkshire Gray public-house, Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy -square, before TI omas STIRLING, Esq., Coroner for the County of Middlesex, on the body of . Mr. Joust Wars ; haberdasher andliosier, Hanway-strett, Oxford -street; who put a period to ..his existence by. 'cutting his throat with a penknife on Thursday night.. The jury returned'a*erdict that the deceased cut his throat in a state of menta3lterangement.--4 It appears that some family circumstances had greatly dis tressed the mind of the deceased., THE HOLY ALLIANCE and SWITZERLAND. AnAu, JAN. 9.o.—Never were nations who still possess any degree of freedom or inde pendence, more interested in watching the pro ceedings of foreign Powers, than in the age in which we live. Formerly the world beheld coa litions of kings to subjugate inoffensive nations, and to share them out among them like herds of cattle, but never till now did we see the principal Powers of a vast continent entering into conven tions for exercising over each other a mutual sur veillance in the interest of despotism, for extin guishing, or preventing from coming into exist ence, institutions favourable to their subjects, or to those of states over whom they domineer ; or, in a word, for arresting the human race in its progress towards civilization, or forcing it as far as in them lies to retrograde towards barbarism. The late Spanish invasion—one of the greatest political crimes which was ever committed—has disclosed by its results the views of ihe Holy Alliance. Inattentive minds, however, might still believe that this event was unconnected with a general system of oppression, and that it was intended to repress a military insurrection. It may be useful, therefore, to undeceive them, and to convince them, that even though the Con stitution of Spain had been the work oithe King and his Ministers, the war must nevertheless have taken place. The Holy Alliance respects the will of its separate members, or of governments beyond its pale, as long as that will ii conform able to the interests of arbitrary power; but it disallows or opposes their wishes as soon as they , appear to be favourable to the liberty and inde pendence of nations. I might support this state ment by reference to a great number of facts which have been exhibited in various eountries ; but I shall content myself at present with an ac count of what has of late years taken place in Switzerland. Switzerland is the least calculated of all countries in the world to inspire its neighbours with fear. Containing at most only a population of a million and a half, it is dividtel into 22 states, each of which enjoys a complete independence of the rest with respect to internal affairs. Not only has every State its own government and its own laws, but they are divided from each other by a difference of manners, of religion, of language, and extent of civilization. In the smaller cartons, and particularly in the centre of Switzerland, we find still the ignorance, the superstition, the corruption, and the prejudices of the middle ages; while in others we meet with a popul ttion at once enlightened, moral, and religious, without a tincture of fanaticism. In the vallies which are watered.by the Rhode, and the mountaine which discharge their streams into that river, the French language is alone understood ; in the valliea. and mountains which direct their waters to the Rhine, no.. thing while the Italian is th e me di um i s spoken but G erman ; of communication in the districts which incline towards Italy. R e ligion is a cause of division still more powerful, several cantons carrying to fanaticism their attachment to the Catho lic church, while others pr o f ess t he most r i g i d adherence to the r eformed faith. In addi t i on to this, Switzerland has no stand ing ar my. Th e s erv i ce required for internal security is per formed by the militia, or a small number of gendarmes. In no state does there exist an assembly whose sittings are pub.. lic ; and, with the exception of Geneva, there is not a canton which possesses a single writer engaged in political discussions or speculations. These different states are only united by a fe deral government, which has at its disposal neither treasures, nor armies, nor power, and whose members assemble only at distant intervals. such a country would appear to be little susceptible of revo lutions ; especially if we consider that in general fortunes are more equally distributed than elsewhere, that taxes scarcely exist, that the safety of no citizen is menaced, and that the men who cannot find the means of existence at home, are in the habit of expatriating themselves to serve in the armies of other States, or to become domestic servants to foreigners• Thus for ages Switzerland has enjoyed the most perfect tran quillity, and experienced no other shocks than those received from foreign Powers. Its most constant maxim has been not to meddle in the affairs of its neighbours, and never has it ex cited in them either fear or jealousy. To its inoffensive policy, as much as to its inaptitude for foreign enterprise, it has owed the security which it has enjoyed for several ages. To considerations derived from the internal state of Switzer land, we must add those which spring from its geographical position. This confederation has every thing to fear from Austria, from Prussia, from Sardinia, and from France, while it can expect no succours from other countries, or at least from those most likely to oppose the wishes of the Holy Alliance It is, therefore, impossible to ascribe to it any subversive views, or to imagine that it can ever entertain projects for disturbing the peace of its formidable neighbours. To execute such de- signs, the inhabitants of these peaceful cantons want both mo tive and the means. Notwithstanding this state of things, the .. - agents of the Holy Alliance have, during the last eight years, unceasingly tormented them, and pushed them to acts calcu lated to compromise them. They hare demanded from them every thing that could shock their ancient prejudices, or degrade them in their own estimation ; and the most remarkable circum- stance is, that this oppression has fallen most heavily on those who could feel it most poignantly. At all times Switzerland had been in the habit of giving an asylum to men whom political persecution had driven from their own country, without inquiring what opinions they enter tained, or what land gave them birth. At the beginning of the French revolution, the emigrants who hadfought for Royalty found a refuge in the country which had afforded an asylum to the judges of Charles I. ; and the gentilhomms why had drawn his sword for arbitrary power went to repose front his fatigues on the tomb which covered the ashes of Edmund Lud- low. Geneva, feeble as it was, refused to obey the French Convention, which ordered it to expel the emigrants to whom it had yilded an asylum, and its refusal was not then imputed a a crime. After the second restoration of the Bourbons in France, the persecutions'ibich were its consequences threw into_the Swiss territory a certain number of old men, destitute of influence even in their own country, and some officers who fled from the vengeance of a party whom they had often vanquished. 'These fugitives, separated from every friend, and cast on a strange land, where they were totally unknown, certainly could give Ea reasonable ground of alarm to the Holy Allkance.a However, z they no sooner reached Switzerland than they were surrounded with a multitude of spies. The French Government recmired the expulsion of all on whom it was pretended there was legal ground for inflicting punishment, and the delivery •of those who were supposed to, be liable td, be tried by French Courts. Many of these unfortunate men wanderedfoi a. long, time ie. the mountains without knowing where to 'seek an asylum. In the midst of this distress, one of the Swiss Governments had the weakness to arrest some of them, and deliver them up to the French police. The revolutions of Naples and Piedmont next introduced a still .greater number of refugees into Switzerland. .The,foreigre Ministers at first imperatively demanded-the expulsion of the greater part, and, as it belongs to the nature of despotism to be absurd, each of the members of the Holy Alliance at the same time refused to let any of these unfortunate exiles pass through its territory. However, it was not long that mere de mands for expulsion were adhered to. Austria ordered a cer. tain number of Milanese to be given up to her : and that her order might not be eluded, she required that they should be de livered into the hands of her secret agents in the cantons. As the execution of this order required the concurrence of several members of the Government, the secret was not easily kept.-- It reached the ears of those who were to be arrested, and they succeeded in escaping from Switzerland under borrowed names. In one of the principal cantons, the Government had the weak ness to place one of its own agents under the command of the Austrian spies, with orders to arrest and deliver up a man who was demanded ; and if the innkeeper with whom this person lodged had not afforded him means of escape, the shamefu l example would have been exhibited of a Power seizing, by its own agents, in an independent State, men whom it was wished' to sacrifice to political vengeance. These measures having acquired a certain degree of publicity, all men who had any thing to fear from the Holy Alliance took care to leave Switzerland. The only foreigners who remained were those who had been long resident in the country—those who had received authority for their stay from their own Go vernments, or those who were merely travelling for pleasure. — The Holy Alliance was scarcely assured of its triumph in Spain, when it began again to pay attention to Switzerland. Six of its Ministers assembled at Paris, in the form of a congress Each Minister produced a list of the men whose proscription he required, and the number was found to amount to 200. These lists, which were accompanied by notes of a nature most vio lent and insulting towards an independent State, were trans mitted to the Governments of the cantons. Passports were . ordered to be delivered to the exiles for two maritime towns in Germany, the Holy Alliance taking the charge of transporting them to America. But this plan has not been executed, and the reason will soon be seen. The reader will be curious to know who were these 209 men so dangerous - to the Continental Monarchies. They were of the following description :—Some had never been in Switnr land ; several had left it many years before; others had been settled for 20 or 25 years in the country, carrying on their busi ness or professions ; among them were infirm old men of 60 or' 70. At Geneva, for example, a man of nee, who had resided in that state during 25 years, and who earned a livelihood lsy teach ing Italian and music, was proscribed. A Savoyardofficer, who had served in the French army, against whom no charge of any kind existed; who was entirely devoted to agricOlture, and whose labours, in concert with those of his wife who taught the German language, supported a numerous family of child ren, was also proscribed. It was in vain that one of the most re.. spectable citizens of the State presented a petition in his fairour to the Government. Ile was obliged to obey the mandate of the Holy Alliance, and leave the country, with his numerous fa- Mily. One old man of neary 80 years of age, completely deaf and paralytic, and another nearly as old, and suffering under numerous infirmities, were • expelled from the canton of Vaud. An old village schoolmaster, who had been for 20 years em ployed in teaching children to read and write, was likewise thought worthy of the attention of the Holy Allies, and placed on the fatal list. Nothing could exceed the levity with which these lists were drawn up, as may be seen by the following S ib ner in which an i n di v id ua l i s re f erred to :__.c you will pro who lives near you ; and if you do not find him, you will proscribe -- : for we have some reason to believe that he is the same person, under a different name." A Paris advocate had retired to Geneva, as much from aversion to the system of the French Government as to es cape from prosecutions to which he was exposed. The Go vernment of Vaud offered him the Professorship of Legislation in the academy of that canton, which had just become vacant. The first thought of the Advocate was to refuse the offer; and it is said he was only induced to accept it by the urgent en treaties of his friends. In the mean time he was placed on the Holy Alliance list, and the Government of the Canton was ordered to banish the man they .had invited to their territory, and made a professor. Feeling that to obey such an order was to dishonour themselves, the Authorities of Vaud hesitated to submit, and expressed a wish to know the facts the charge on which the order was founded. The only answer they received was a have more positive order • and it is hard t o Nay w h at might occurred the l'aaeessor, on learning what was going on, asked permission of the Government to retire with his farm ly, which was of ceurse most readily granted. A respectable ecclesiastic established in the canton of Fri burg schools of mutual instruction, which excited the interest of all travellers in that part of Switzerhind. This mode of teaching obtained great success, and the most certain way of agitating the country was to attack these schools. In fact., serious troubles were the consequence of the first menaces di rected against them. Such was the state of things, that had not Father Girard voluntarily resigned, and exerted himself to tranquillize the people, the Holy Allies would. hare had a pretence for the invasion of Switzerland similar. to that by which they seek to justify their atrocious conduct towards Spain. No one in Switzerland has the least doubt of the pert taken by the agents of the Holy Alliance. The Government of the canton of Vaud had of its own accord established the liberty of the press, and surely no great harm could. happen to the Holy Alliance froru this measure ; for in that country no writer meddled - with politics, and the journals servilely copied from others published in different parts of the Continent. However, the re-establishment of the cen sorship was required. Government had to submit to the same yoke ; and a Journal of Legislation and Political Economy" was suppressed. In fine, the great Continental Powers have neglected nothing to dishonour Switzerland in the eyes of fo reign nations, and to degrade her in her own. But what are the motives, and what will be the result, of these. violent mea sures ? This question requires too long an answer to be re solved here, and must form the subject of another letter. I have stated that the Holy Alliance at first intended to transport to the Anicrican Continent the men proscribed by the Ministerial Lists, and that' this plan was not carried into exe cution. The failure may be thus accounted for.—When the Holy Alliance deliberates, the difkrent members act as one body, and the decisions express the wish of the majority, but when the tim e .f or execut i on C omes, ' the .individual members recover in some measure their independence, and are some times obstinate enough to act .1p conformity with their ow n particular views. Th us it Willlappene that those who were ire the. minority may counteract the resolutions carried' by the. 'majority. This has occured in the present•case. The Alliance had directed that no passports should be given except to th e places specified, hut some Governments overlOoked this regu lation, and granted them for various other points.