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HORRIBLE AFFAIR PARIS, JAN. 16.—A letter from Grenada contains tie following account of a most extraordinary and horrible event, which has taken place in the ancient capital of the Moors :—On the Bth of December last, the Feast of the Conception, the church appertaining to a convent of nun:. at Grenada was filled as usual with a crowd of the faithful at high mass. After the ceremony, the crowd dispersed and die only persons who lingered in the church were twc taialry bfeers. They were also in the act of returning ; When a nun, who had remained behind the rest of the sis terhood, made a sign to the officer who was following his comrade, that she wished to speak to him. He ac cordingly told his comrade to wait for him outside the church, and he returned to speak to the nun, when the following dialogue took place :—" You are a man of honour and discretion, I presume, sir ?" " Yes, sister, I lan both the one and the other." "Are you willing to render me an important service ?" " Yes, sister." " I will not conceal from you that the service I require at your hands requires not only discretion, but extraordinary in trepidity; knowing this, are you still willing to render me the service I require of you 9" " Yes, sister, lam deter mined." " Very well, when you hear the Convent bell strike half -past twelve, to-night, be at such a gate (par ticularizing the gate); I shall be at the other side to open it, on your knocking twice, and you shall then learn what it is I require of you. Will you be faithful to the rendezvous 9" " Yes; sister, I shall be ttere." " Well, I depend on you ; adieu !" They pe.-,ted, and the officer quitted the church. On rejoin;: ig his comrade, he told him what had taken place and asked him if he should keep the appointment . The other on being informed that the nun was abese jt thirty, and not ill-formed, advised him to keep the P :ppoi n t ment , and offered, for fear of accidents to aecore ea , ny him to the gate, at which the nun was to e. b Ace,'" rdingly, at the app o i n t e d h our , t h e two of fi cers f :re et the gate, which, on the concerted signal being gi';en, was opened by the nun.—The chosen officer entered, end the other remained close to the gate, to watch the conclusion of this extraordinary adventure. The nun said to the officer who had entered, " You are a man of courage and honour, and are entitled to my ut most gratitude." The night being very dark, and the pas sages through which they had to go obscure, the nun made him hold a corner of her robe, and in this manner con ducted him to her cell, where there was a lamp a-light. She made him sit down, and invited him to take a glass of liquor with her, at the same time producing two bottles. She filled him a glass out of one, and took a little herself out of the other. After he had emptied his glass, she told him to . go to one side of the bed, while she placed herself at the other. The officer obeyed. The nun then said, " are alone —my door is fastened—look !" and at the same moment she proceeded to pull down the bed clothes, and discovered, to his great horror and amaze- Meta, the dead body of a monk, who had been po enarded. The nun then continued—" You must take upon your shoulders this body, and carry it outside the convent I will light you to the gate of the first court. You must instantly obey, or you are a dead man;, for, the first motion you make, unless it be to take up the body, I shall shoot you through the head ;" and suiting the action to the word, she drew a pistol from her bosom, and pre sented it at him. " I know," added she, " that my own life will be the forfeit if you refuse; for, after shooting you, I have another pistol for myself." The officer, seeing no other ineans of escape, took up the body on his shoulders, and, accompanied by the nun, who carried a dark ',lantern, proceeded to the gate by which he had en tered, and on issuing from it, threw down his horrible bur den at the feet ofhis comrade, who was waiting to laugh with him, at, what he supposed was a pious love intrigue. After recounting to his friend the almost incredible adven tures in which- he-.had been engaged, they both resolved to repair instantly to the Corregidor, and informing him of the circumstances. They had proceeded scarcely a hun dred paces from the convent, when the officer who had brought out the body, suddenly complained of the most excruciating and burning pains in his stomach; he soon after fell upon the paveinent, and in a few moments ex pired. His friend, beside himself with terror, ran with the utmost speed to knock up the Corregidor, and inforM him of this tissue of horrors. Notwithstanding the exer tions of the magistrates and the police, no discovery has as yet been made of the female demon who perpetrated this double murder. PAUPER LUNATICS. The following is a statement of the Pauper Lunatics in the County of Middlesex, in the year 1825, from Returns made to the Clerk of the Peace : WEsrmissrEft DIVISION.—St. Margaret and St. John, 21 ; St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 34 ; St. George, Hanover-square, 52 ; St. James, SO ; St. Mary-le-Strand, 5 ; St. Clement Danes, 22 ; St. Paul, Covent-garden, 4 ; St. Anne, 9--Total, 177. HOLBORN DIVISION..--St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury, 52 ; St. Andrew and St. George the Martyr, 36 ; Saffron-hill and Rolls Liberty, 5 ; St. Pancras, 38 ; Hampstead, 10 ; St. Marylebone, 73 ; Paddington, 2—Total, 216. FINSBURY DIVISION.---.St. Sepulchre, 5 ; Clerkenwell, 16 ; Islington, 20 ; Stoke Newington, I ; Hornsey, 3 ; Finchley, 1 ; Barnet, I—Total, 47. TowER.• Drvlsrom.—Whitechapel, 32 ; Christ Church, 9 ; Shoreditch, 87 ; Hackney, 16 ; Bethnal Green, 15 ; Stratford, ; Bow, 1 ; Bromley, 2 ; Poplar, 7 ; Rateliff, 6 ; Limehouse, St. Catherine, 2 ; S m i t hfi e ld , 10; Shadwell, 8 ; Wapping,; 2—Total, 150. XENSINGTON I DIYISION.—Kensington, 4 ; Chelsea, 1A; Ham - mersmith, 4 ; Chiswick, 2 ; Ealinn, 1 ; Acton, 2—Total, 23. THE HUNDREDS.--Edmonton, 19 ; Gore, 9 ; Eltborne, 12 ; Spelthorne, 9 ; and Isleworth, 9—Total, 58. The weekly payments made by the Parishes to the Licetked Houses for their care and maintenance vary at Bs., Bs. 6d., 93., 10s., and 10s. 6d. a head, per week, exclusive of clothing and medicine, and those confined in parish workhouses are computed at 35. 6d., 4s. 6d., :is., 75., Is. 6d., per week each. This return not being made on oath the Committee appointed at the last. Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to inquire into the pre sent state and condition of the Pauper Lunatics, have determined to avail themselves of the Bth Section of the Act of the 55th Geo. 111. cap. 48—which empowers Justices at Petty Sessions to or der Overseers to return lists verified on oath of all Lunatics being paupers within their respective parishes, specifying their name, sex, and age, and whether dangerous or not, and for what time they have lest their senses, with,a certificate by a Medical Prac titioner as to their state and condition, and directed that warrants should he transmined by the Clerk of the Peace, to the District Magistrates, requesting them to compel returns. . A remarkable instance of sudden death occurred last week at Bishopton, near Stockton. A person named Pever eL'iitlilsg employed by the clerk of the parish to dig a gra ve , and, `,! gipped longer-than usual, his wife went to look after him, round hi , to standing in the grave in rather a leaning position quite dead.—gerth'• ick-Advertiser. On the2oth in • stant, as the nines coach was pass ing down Digis we w n evening, Mr. whiteho , near Welwyn, about six o'clock in the tin box fall on the grZde, jun. w h o was i n th e dickey, heard a the road for a a Ind on. looking behind him he per ceived_e considerable di s t ance strewed with parcels, behind til and a man hanging agcol 'irho was busily employedoach, in throwing out the Inge fro the alarm, the man - ran away -' th e "hoot. °ll Mr ' W. g iving passengers raised a hue-and cry, and pursued him ;,- buds succeeded in • • • . light . in which was an accomplice, an d they drove gaining a cart, laced ho veeff at a rapid rate.— The parcels were collected, and rep their former situation ; and on arriving atßedford all were found' right, i The pick t g t . was se cured with a lock, which the thief had Succeeded nt. n belongi n g A few days-ago, as some harriers to a gentleman near 'this city were passing over a pieee of fallow, that of the persons with them thought he observed the head aduck one d moving just.above ground ; on approaching the spot, he fond such.was - the fact, and he extrica t e d the poor animal from ~,: tou/b , ft to which no doubt Reyna rd had consi g n ed it , and, by: 4 . nlakiug "-assurance doubly sure," had pressed the ea r th- d ow n with Isis feet; -but the duck having got its head free, Reynard was dePrived!ef hisranticipated meal, for which, indeed, he seemed in no' hurry,_ A 4 4 o ,.d uc k b a d - been incarcerated at least forty-eight hours Worcester Journal. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EAST. The following letter is the production of the late Dr. MACLEAN, who was lost in the Red Sea towards the end of the last century ; we can vouch for its authenticity; having the original in our possession. We have been informed that Dr. BREWSTER, of Edinburgh, has been engaged in identifying a Dr. INiAcLEAN as the Author of Junius. This may, perhaps, give interest to the letter : SUEZ (EGYPT), APRIL 8, 1796. • MY DEAR MADAM—When parting I little expected to have the pleasure of addressing you from this ancient and remote country, and I dare say you as little expected a correspondent in the Land of Bondage. I need not in i form you that this place is at the bottom of that celebrated sea, which obediently retreated before the Chosen people of God. But as I can find no traces of those great events, 1 will only observe, that it is a most dangerous arm of the Indian Ocean, abounding with shoals and latent rocks, and that I have often wished for an extention of the pri vilege of the Children of Israel, who are said to have walked over it on dry land. To this place we were or dered from Colombo, to convey on their way home Lord Camelford, and two gentlemen, with Government de spatches, and Mr. Cleghorn, a Ministerial Envoy, who does me the honour to take charge of these letters. Co lombo is the Dutch capital in India', situated on the west side of the fine island of Ceylon. After the reduction of some of the inferior Dutch possessions this place became oar great . object, and an armament, consisting of a naval and military force, was sent against it, to which it surrendered on the 16th February last. The loss on our side con sisted in a few killed on shore, in a skirmish, and some wounded in this ship, which had unfortunately come too near a formidable battery of the enemy. The place con tains an astonishing quantity of public property—chiefly cinnamon, which is produced on this island, and from whence Europe is chiefly supplied. I expect at least 4001. prize-money, which you will easily believe will be quite acceptable. Since the first day of my landing in India I have not experienced the least interruption of health ; indeed I have been toe well employed to have leisure for sickness. I have wandered along the coasts of the Arabias and Persia, and now of Abyssinia. I assure you, however, I have not wandered in body more than in fancy, which has often placed me among my Coll friends. Instances of early attention and disinterested friendship, I hope, I am incapable of forgetting, and these I experienced from many individuals of your family, and I retain the most lively recollection of them. Long ere these lines dome to hand I hope you will be reconciled to a rural life. I own, that when in Coll, I thought it a great hardship that you and your amiable sisters should be sequestered from society and the more refined circles, after being brought up in habits of elegance; but, when I consider that 'happiness is more a mental attribute than a local at tendant, I own I feel easier on that head, and you know I always thought you philosophical. In this country, where you behold the gayest scenes of life and the greatest display. of grandeur, I do not find that people are more exempt from ills than even in the Highlands. Disappointed schemes of ambition, and the rancour of rival competitors, seldom fail to disquiet the minds of those who bustle for preferments. I must also mention another evil,—do you know, that in these distant regions, we have a greater dearth of Nymphs than - yo❑ have of Swains in Coll; our yearly importations (as we Call it) from England soon leave the market empty again; these fair adventurers are sometimes votaries of Hymen in a few weeks after their arrival, and the fragrant groves Of India become again musical with soft sighs. Could you not persuade a troop of our mutual friends to form themselves into a fair band, and come out to make one campaign, where so many matrimonial laurels are to be won. I am confident they would make great havoc amongst the Nabobs of the East ; they could not with- . stand the formidable weapons which health and nature have conferred—you would, I assure you, meet with more friends here than you are aware of. But in indulgingin.these levities, I must not forget more interesting subjects. In the first place, you are to consider, dear Madam, this letter as a petition for the pleasure of your correspondence, the little incidents of Coll would acquire with me an additional Value, when dressed in the garb of vivacity you can give them. I have lost all confidence in my other friends. I have never heard a syllable from any pf my relations since I left that country, which I think rather hard, as I never omit an opportunity of writing them. I beg you Ivill be so kind as to let me know any thing interesting re garding your brothers Captain Lachlan and John, and their respective families. To the latter I would have written did I know. where to address my letter. My address is as follow, - Surgeon, BombarEsta blishment, care of Chas. Forbes, Esq., Bombay. The letters must always be sent to London about the time of the sailing of a fleet or packet. I now conclude with the sincerest wishes, &c. &c. L. IPLEAN. _ . Miss Flora M‘Lean, of Cornaig, Isle of Coll, Argyleshire. Mr. Thomas Merchant, master mariner, of Whitby, (lied on the I.sth inst. He had gone with his wife to administer to her sister's will, the late Mrs. Dickenson, whose death was an nounced in this paper three weeks ago. When rising from his seat, in the house of the Rev. James Andrews, the surrogate, to sign some necessary documents, he was observed to stagger; and had not Mr. Andrews caught hold of him, he would have fallen On the floor, as he expired instantly.—Hull Advertiser. Villemain is writing a history of the Life and Pontificate of Gregory VII., which has been purchased by AI. Firman Didot for 10,000 francs for every thousand copies sold by subscription. We hope the public will, on this occasion, give 111. Villemain a mark of their esteem. For him a greater number of subscriptions would be a recompence for the sacrifice he has made to his conscience, and would he a proof that France knows how to defend the defender of her Jibe' ties.—CorWitutionnel. IRISH MURDERERS,—They had, during these worde, been, perhaps, speaking to each other at some little dis tance; for their whispers, now that Peggy supposed them to have come close together, were lost on her aching ear, though she still heard the hissing sounds in which the conversation was carried on. A considerable time elapsed while they thus stood motionless outside her don•; at length they moved, seemed about to part, and at parting a few more sentences became audible. " Go, then," said the woman, " an' let us lose no time : nothing else can be done ; poor Mnggy is to be saved from the treachery of the Lonnon sneak, if there was no one else concerned in the case ; speed, Phil ; make sure o' the horn hafted Lamprey that you'll find on the dresser : I'll meet you at his doer with a light and a vessel. Are you sure he sleeps sound enough ?" " There is only the one sleep more that can he sounder," replied Phil ; and Peggy heard them going off. In panting terror she listened for their steps again passing her door : nor had she to listen long.. Slowly and stealthily, and with heavy breathings, or a suppressed curse at the creaking boards, they separately came up. In a moment after, she heard 'them undo the fastenings of the inside room, and fascinated to the coming horror, as the bird is to the reptile's glanee, her eye was fixed to a chink, ere the light they carried afforded her a renewed view of the vic tim's chamber. The woman first entered, bearing the candle in one hand, and in the other a basin which held a cloth. bier face was now set in . the depth of the bad expression Peggy had seen it momentarily wear below stairs ; and she was paler than usual, though not shaking or trembling. The lad followed, taking long and silent strides across the floor, while his knife gleamed in his hand and his look was ghastly. They made signs to each other. The woman laid down the candle and the basin, and tucked up the sleeves of her gown beyond her elbows. She again took up the basin, laid the cloth on the floor, stole close to the straw couch, knelt by it, and held the vessel near the wretch's head. Her companion followed her, and knelt also. H e nu _ knotted and took off, with his left hand, the man's neckcloth. As it was finally snatched rather briskly away, the wearer growled and moved. He never uttered a sound more. Peggy kept her e” to the chink during the whole of this scene. She could n ot withdraw it. Even when the murder was done, she durst not remove her eye until the woman and lad had left the chamber; so that she was compelled to observe the revolting cir cumstance of washing the blankets and the floor, and other things ' which again must not be noticed.— Tales of the O'Hara Family. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Courier Francais of Saturday.) PARIS, J A N . 27.—We learn from Brest, that the just demands so long:refused by the Tribunal of Brest have been at length at tended to. The Tribunal of Appeal at Quimper has set at liberty. the persons detained for the business of the Tartufire, taking bail to the amount of 11,000 fiance, which was immediately sent to Quimper. M. de Kerauflec, the Procureur du Roi, has ac cordingly consented that the prisoner shall be immediately set a liberty. LIES OF THE DAY. (From the Etoile, dated Sunday, Jan. 28.) PARIS, JAN. 27.—THE CON STITUTIONNEL.-The Etoile has contradicted the fact advanced by another Journal, that a lady, whose title is derived from one of the actual possessions of the Emperor of Austria, had been announced under her French name to that Sovereign.—(Note—The Etoile has contradicted the reso lution attributed by the Pilots to the Diplomatic Body, to follow the example of the Austrian Ambassador.) TILE CONSTITUTIONNEL AGAIN.—It has been observed that the lfoniteur gives only a dry and insipid analysis of the discourses delivered in the Chamber of Peers against the Jesuits." THE JOURNAL nu COMMERCE.—M. Soumet, on the day when the Academy met, had received orders to go to Rambouillet, to which place he was called by his office as librarian. We think we shall soon have to add to the " Lies of the Day" another chapter, to record the new follies of the Journals; it would appear under the title of " Extravagaucies of the Day." . To-day it would contain the Petition of a respon sible Editor of the Aristarque, who petitions the Cham ber of Deputies to be authorised to prosecute the Keeper of the Seals, for having insulted the responsible Editors; the pe tition of M. Sarran, to the Chamber of Peers, calling for an Ad dress from that Chamber, for the purpose of obtaining from his Majesty the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies ; and a pe tition from the Electors of Lyons, desiring the impeachment of the Minister who is the author of the Project of Law on the Press. The Academy of Sciences at Lyons held on the 22d the Ex traordinary Sitting which it had specially summoned—not to discuss the principle on a petition to be addressed to the King, since that measure had been adopted in the preceding Sitting— but to vote on this petition. Twenty-one Members were present ; two others put in writing their votes in favour of it, and after a pretty long debate, it was resolved that these votes should he reckoned. The Members who opposed the principle in the pre ceding Sitting of course rejected the petition, which was a con sequence of it. The debate was continued till nine o'elock ; the result of this long discussion, in which, notwithstanding a warm opposition, the principle was debated, was fourteen votes in favour, and thir teen against the petition; and if the votes sent in writing had been rejected, the majority would have been against a pro ceeding which, in the preceding Sitting was opposed by only four Members. (From the Constitutionnel, January 27.) " Nothin g has been talked of for seve ra l d a y s , b u t a sovere i gn decision of Austria, which has deprived a certain number of Frenchmen of titles which the Emperor Napoleon had conferred on them. Thus the names de Reggio, de Tarcntum, de Dal matia, d'lstria, de Ragusi, have been placed in the index of M. de 3letternich. This little stroke of foreign policy was acted' on eight days ago in the Saloon of the Austrian Ambassador, A noble lady was the first to experience the rigour of his Excellency. Having presented herself with a title which referred to one of the present possessions of the Emperor of Germany, the introducer affected to announce her in her French name. It is impossible that this' decision of the Cabinet of Vienna should not have been communicated to the French Ministry. The illustrious indivi duals whom it concerns should not have been suffered to hear, from the mouth of a valet of a Foreign Minister, that which they had a right tp know from the President of the Council, or from the Minister for Foreign Affairs. ' Ministers feared, it is said, that the communication of the intelligence would lose them some votes, and they wished to defer it until after the discussion of their laws of justice and love.' Such a mode of acting would be, to brave minds, an outrage more revolting than the Austrian index. Noble warriors give their lives to their country ; but they will not surrender their consciences for vain titles. They will not forget that they acquired them at the price of the blood of their fellow-citizens; and let them be called Macdonald or Tarentum, Oudinot or Reggio, Mortier or Treviso, Le Brun or Piacenza, they will never give their.suffrages to all which can prejudice the rights and interests of France, for which they have so long fought, and which is the first cause and most noble source of their glory." (From the Pilote.) PARIS, JAN. 26.—Letters from Bayonne say, that, according to letters from Madrid, a eolumn of Constitutionalists, consisting of about 300 men, had landed on the coast of Malaga. The Go vernor of the Province and the Royalist Volunteers were stated to have gone in pursuit of them, and to have taken 33 men, who, it is added, were immediately shot. The Chamber of Commerce of Paris, in its sitting of yesterday, resolved to address to the King, through the Minister of the In terior, a respectful Protest against the project of Law relative to the Police of the Press. (From the Journal de Paris.) (PRIVATE LETTER.) VIENNA, JAN. 17.—1 t is affirmed that the important dispatches sent to Col. Marschall, the Austrian Minister at the Court of Rio de Janeiro, are partly relative to the wish said to have been expressed by the Archduchess Leopoldina, Empress of Brazil, to come in the spring to Europe, to pass some time with her father, our August. Sovereign. A Courier has just set out for St. Petersburgh. It is thought that he is the bearer of dispatches relative to the close of the Diet, whose long labours are nearly ter unipated. (From the Moniteur of Saturday.) The Journal of Marseilles of the 16th of January has the fol lowing letter:— " LAMAC A (CYPRUS), Nov. 9, 1826.—Y0u will soon see again in your country the Venerable Missionary the Abbe de Mo zure. I state this from the accounts received by Messrs. Reg nault, Consul of France at Leyde and Mechin, our Consul at Cyprus. He has not been able to enter the Holy Land, and has got no further than Jaffa. The Janissaries at Jerusalem are in a state of insurrection, and that place is closely blockaded. Tie.- vellers were in great danger. The Janissaries, indeed, sent the standards and badges to the Paella at the beginning of this month, protesting their obedience, but they will not give up the fortresses, so that their submission is illusory, and the blockade continues.— The orders of the Porte are expected. " FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JAN. 27.—Five per Cents., 99f. 75c. 85f. ; Three per Cents. 67f. 60c. 65c. ; Bank Stock, 1,980 f.; Rentes de Naples, 78f. 85. 90 ; Spanish Renter, 111; Spanish Loan, 511 52; Haitian Loan, 560 f. 570 f. The Moniteur of yesterday contained the discourse of 51. Laing at full length. Letters received yesterday morning from Cape Coast Castle, state that the Governor, Sir N. Campbell, had sent a special mes senger to the King of Ashantee, for the purpose of negotiating a peace. SMYRNA, DEC. W.—There has been a great disturbance at the island of Hydra. The sailors demanding money of the heads of the Government, which was refused to them, threatened to leave the island with the vessels in port, and plunder every ship that might come in their way. Two vessels actually put to sea. His Majesty's ship Talbot was anchored off the opposite shore, and the Captain, on receiving the information, placed his ship at the en trance of the harbour, threatening to sink the first vessels that left the island. Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, on receiving the advice here, immediately sailed for Hydra, in company with the Rose. The Elias, a fine frigate of 64 gun•, built at New York for the Greeks, and manned by 150 sailors, mostly Americans, arrived at Napoli di Romania on the 6th instant. It is reported that Lord Cochrane is to take the command of her. Srxrisrics.—The Statistical Table of the States of Europe, published annually the esteem of the l earned of all countr i es . Th at f or 1827 is by the Almanac of Gotha, has long enjoy e d drawn up with increased care and correctness. For instance, the revenue of Russia, which was estimated at only 268,000,000 francs, is now state] at 338,000,000, a sum exactly equal to the revenue of Austria. That of Prussia which was stated at ' 9 47,000,00 0 , is now estimated only at 193,000,000. The sum of the revenues of these three Powers make a total of 869,000,000, and that of France is 920,000,000. Thus we see that this kingdom is not only as r i c h as A ustr i a , Russia, and P russ i a toge ther, but that it has an overplus of 51,000,000, which is equal to the revenue of several powers of the second order, such as Por tugal, Sardinia, and Sweden. England, according to the same table, will raise this year a sum of 1,410,000,000, but the inte rest of its debt being 75 0,000,000, there will remain 660,000,000 for the public expences. For this reason the budget for every branch of the public service is smaller, with a few exceptions, than that which is allotted to the same branch by the French Cham bers. It appears that, on an average, the Frenchm an contr i butes 11 per cent. of his income to the public expenditure, while the Englishman contributes 25 per cent.—Etoile. ruimE POSTHUMOUS LETTER OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE LATE DUKE OF YORK. CLERC SMITH, Bookseller to the Royal Family, announces, that Tins DAY is published, the THIRD EDITION of the Royal Posthumous Letter, with observations establishing its au thoritative character; a step rendered necessary by the disavowal of Sir Herbert Taylor. To be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. 36, St. James's-street, Office of the Naval and Military Magazine. PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock 20 2 14 2 3 per Cent. Red 7114i 3 per Cent. Cons. :79 3Y per Cent.: Ditto:Red. 86 4 ) 4 4 per Cent. New J4•%14 Ditto, 1826 Bank Long Ann. India Stock Ditto Bonds 47 48prn. 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Due. 1 Guernsey& Jersey 0 0 Hamburgh 2 0 Holland O Jamaica 1 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 O Malta 1 Waterford 0 , • Zan t 4,01&t . - ( - 78 44. -t LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1827. We received last night the Paris Papers of Satur day, and the Etoile dated Sunday morning. They do not contain any fresh intelligence from Spain or Portugal, and are unusually barren of interesting matter. The French Funds underwent but little variation in price on Saturday, having closed at 99f. 85c. and 67f. 65c. Some extracts will be found in another column. We received last night, through the North and South American Coffee-house, the following copy of a letter, received via the United States, from Santos, under date of the 26th September, giving an account of important advantages obtained over the Brazilian troops near Monte Video by those of Buenos Ayres. " There has been a serious conflict between the Buenos Ayrean troops and the Brazilians, near Monte Video, in which the latter were defeated, with the loss, it is here currently reported, of 1,700 prisoners ; the number o f kill e d an d woun d e d not mentioned but, as the contest i s su pp ose d t o h ave b een a sanguinary one,the loss must have been excessive. e r l iny iten for o " General Al varez i s marc hi ng w ith a suffici ent Grande, a n d th e i mpress i on preva il s among seve ral te defences of th e t well-informediwell-informedl political m e n, i n ti ma t e ly connectedwith h d the Brazilians, th a t t h e country, and the disposable force under Ay reans without muc h province will b e a bandoned to the Buenos opposition. Should this event take place, find some difficulty about jerked beef, i n addition to their other trou bles, as it is at that place th e y o bt a i n their principal supply, an d the Buenos Ay reans h ave d e t erm i ned, of policy, to suspend the pr e p ara ti ons o f b ee f , and de vote their n tlTe t i t t e - l e n tire e nergies to the successful p rosecu ti on o f t h e war. i " There is no doubt that Admiral B rown , o f w h ose exploits I apprehend th a t our Brazilian friends will and unexampled bravery you must have heard previously, has taken the command of the Chilian squadron, and is daily, I might more properly say hourly, looked fin- on the coast. As this place li es so conveniently to the mouth of the La Plata, and affords a good habour and facilities for operations against the Brazilians, Admiral Brown will, in all probability, make his first demonstra tion here. Its possession is a matter of the first importance to Buenos Ayres, should her military views extend really to the oc cupation of Rio Grande, and its loss to Brazil could only be felt once, and that for ever. " Santos may be considered a point d'appui of much interest ; and, whether the Brazilians held this in estimation or not, I am uncertain ; but of one thing I feel pretty confident, that were it in the hands of Brown, its importance to the trade and military designs of Brazil would be moat strikingly exemplified." We received last night New York Papers to the 2d instant, which were brought to this country by the James ,Cropper, which arrived on Sunday at Liver pool. . They contain but little worth extracting. Mr. Was. BEACH LAWRENCE of New York, has been appointed Secretary of Legation to Great Britain, in the room of Mr. JOHN KING resigned. The fol- lowing are extracts :- 1 DEC. 20. Faost PARA.--By the schooner Aupenora, at New York, twenty-nine days from Para, we learn that the upper pro vinces of the Amazon bad declared war against the Brazilian Go vernment. Vessels were prevented from ascending the river. It appears from every account, that fresh disturbances are breaking out in every part of South America. Letters from Port an Prince, and Aux Cayes, to the latter part of Nov. state, that St. Domingo was quiet, and no disposition to create a revolution. (From the Norwich Courier, Deo. 20.) Extract of a letter to a gentleman in Norwich, dated Bahia, Sept. 1826 : An English brig put in here a few days since, bound from Rio de Janeiro to Liverpool, to land twenty-eight slaves, which were taken out of a Brazilian slave wreck, in long. 34 degrees west, lat. 19. 8. The English br io discovered something floating on the surface of the water , and as they approached it, they found it to be a wreck ; they lowered their heat, and went on board for the purpose of getting some spars, rigging, and sails. They atm ceeded in getting the articles, and on leaving the wreck the last time, they thought they heard a sound like a person groaning, which induced them to make further search. They cut a hole in the bow, which was ont of water, and took out 28 slaves, which were the only survivors out of 160 ! It is supposed the Captain and crew were lost when the vessel capsized. The survivors were delivered to the English Consul in this port, by whom the Captain was liberally rewarded for his humane exertions in their behalf. DEC. 12.—The Honduras Gazette, of Nov. 4, 1826, con tains the proclamation of the British Commander-in-Chief of all his Britannic Majesty's settlements and possessions in the Bay of Honduras, issued in obedience to Orders in Council, closing all the harbours and ports in the said bay against the ships and vessels of the United States, and forbidding their entry therein for any purpose of trade, after Dee. 1. COTTON.-(Extract from the New York Price Current of Dec. 30, IB26.)—The demand since our last has been animated, and the sales for the last three days have amounted to about 2,200 bales, principally Uplands, at 9i to 101 cents, half of which were from Mexican seed. A trifling parcel at 9f cents, and about 100 bales of New Orleans, to manufacturers at 11i to 13 cents. The weather having been unfavourable for landing, the cargo of the Henry Hill, from Mobile, has not been brought forward sufficiently to test the market for that description. Freights of Cotton to Liverpool, f to sterling ; Continent 1 to l f cents. PRICE OF STOCKS—DEC. 30. offered asked United States Sixes 1815 102 k a 1031 Canal Sixes New ll5l a 117 United States Bank l2O 120-i EXCHANGE. Bills on London, 60 days lli a 12 pm. France 5 25 Amsterdam 401 41 Notwithstanding the repeated assurances given by the French Government of their determination to pre vent their ships being engaged in the Slave Trade, every account which reaches us from the coast of Africa, shows that this horrid traffic is carried on in the most extensive, and, at the same time, brutal way, by vessels belonging to - France, manned with French men, and under French colours. . Protected by the white flag, the wretches who are engaged in this vile employ, carry it on with impunity under the very sides of our ships of war, stationed on the coast for the sup pression of it. Surely, if France is to continue the hor rors of the Slave Trade, and her ships are to be allowed to be the carriers of Slaves for the whole world, it is useless for us to keep a large squadron on the coast, at an enormous expence of money and life, for art object which it can never accomplish. The following extract of a letter from a Naval Officer on the coast, contains some facts which justify the foregoin g remarks, and confirm the opinion which we have often expressed, that France has never b e en sincere in her professions with regard to the abolition of the Slave Trade : " 11. M. S. off Old Calabar, Oct. 29. c 4 We have chased and boarded slavers, but all under French colours; and humanity shudders at the horrid sightl we have witnessed at the treatment the poor nnocent unoffending slaves meet with from these brutes, the French. After a long chase, a, few days ago, we came up with a French schooner (the Daniel) from Old Calabar, bound to Martinique with 200 slaves on board. They were literally packed, many of their children under ten years of age, and though we boarded her in a heavy tornado, the poor creatures were exposed to the inclemency of the weather—wind, rain, dreadful thunder and lightning—as had they put the hatches on, suffocation must have been the consequence; and as it was, upwards of thirty or forty boys and girls were in the boats, with out the smallest covering, there not being sufficient room below to stow them. Finding these poor people in the hands of French barbarity, we were under the sad necessity of letting her go.— England is not, cannot be, serious in the total abolition of the Slave Trade, or she never would suffer those infernal rascally Devils, the French, to be (as they really are) Slave Carriers for the world." The private accounts from Lisbon are by no . means of a satisfactory nature. Distrust and doubt of each other exist amongst the members of Government, and uncertainty of the future course of events prevailed in a greater degree than ever amongst all classes of people. The existing Government did not appear to have gained strength or popularity—its object of being em powered to raise a loan equal to about half a million sterling had been frustrated, the minds of the people were much divided, and indifference seemed daily to gain ground with those who had been the warmest amongst the advocates of the Constitution. The news of the defeat of the Marquis de Cr' A vEs's troops by Count VILLA FLOR, had made but little impression, as it appeared, even on the showing of the Government, to have been but an insignificant affair, although it had been followed by the retreat of the rebels. The assembling of a Spanish army on the frontiers had excited great uneasiness with one party, and had revived the hopes of the other, while the reports of the expected arrival in Portugal of DoN MIGUEL, and the renewed intrigues of the Q UEEN DOWAGER, tended to increase the effect which the knowledge of that fact had produced. The appoint ment of Lord BERESFORD had also increased the distraction of men's minds, which his subsequent de termination to return to England had not allayed. In the meantime Spain, by every account which had reached Portugal, steadily pursued her course in forming a numerous army on her frontiers. The avowed object of this army was said to be for the prevention of the spread of constitutional principles into Spain, and the defence of he►r territory from in vasion by the Portuguese; but its real object was not doubted to he for the support of the Royalists, and the overthrow of the Constitution in Portugal if a pre text could be found for advancing into that kingdom, or a favourable opportunity should occur for doing so with effect. By the presence of this army on the frontiers, the absolute party would be emboldened, while the Constitutionalists would be in the same de gree intimidated, and a pretext and an opportunity will soon be found for striking the blow which FERDI NAND has long aimed at the liberal institutions of his neighbour. What is to be done under such circumstances by Great Britain ? She has lent her aid to a limited ex - - tent for the support of the Constitution of Portugal at the earnest solicitation of the Government. Shall she be satisfied with the bare fulfilment of the letter of ancient treaties ? Or, shall she act upon the Spirit of them by lending her ally such powerful assistance as shall not • only ensure her territory from Spanish invasion, but enable her Government securely to perfect the Institu tions contemplated for the liberty and happiness of her subjects ? Great Britain cannot withdraw her troops with honour : their present numbers are not sufficient for