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indifference as to his brother's fate, nor anxiety about sav ing a petty sum; it was the rigid calculation of a pro fessed accountant, whose habits - of accuracy induce him to bri n g every loss to a distinct balance, however trivial the set-off may be. But although the Emperor's economy descended to minute trifles, we are not to suppose - het among such was its natural sphere. On she contrary, in the first year of the Consulate, he discovered and rectified an error in the statement of the revenue, to the amount of no less than two millions of Francs, to the prejudice of the state. In another instance, with the skill which only a natural taste for calculation, )nought to excellence by constant practice, could have at- !wined, he discovered an enormous overcharge of more than ixty thousand francs in the pay -accounts of the garrison )f Paris,. Two such discoveries, by the head magistrate, uu s t 'nave gone far to secure regularity in the departments n vribich they were made in future. Attending to this re w.rkable peculiarity throws much light on the character of Buonaparte. It was by dint of his rapid and powerful combinations that he succeeded as a General ; and the same laws of calculation can be traced through much of his public and private life." N OOLEON'S LOVE LETTER TO JOSEPHINE. " By what art is it you have been able to captivate all my faculties, and to concentrate in yourself my moral ex istence ? I t i s a mag i c, my sweet lov e , w hi ch will finish only with my lite., To live for Josephine there is the history of my life. •I am trying to reach you—l am dy is; to he near you. Fool that I am, Ido not perceive that increase the distance between us. What lands, what :ountriee separate us! What a time before you read these :Teak impressions of a troubled soul, in which you reign! Mil my adorable wife, I know not what fate awaits me, but if it keep me much longer from you, it will be insup portable,—my courage will not go so far. There was a time when I Was proud of my courage; and sometimes, when contonplating on the ills that man could do me, on the fat e witich destiny could reserve for me, I fixed my eyes stedfastly on the most unheard-of misfortunes without a frown—without alarm ; but now the idea that my Jo sephine may be unwell—the idea that she may be ill—and, alcove all, the cruel, the fatal thought, that she may love arne less, withers my soul, stops my blood, renders me sad, cast down, and leaves me not even the courage of fury and despair. Formerly I used to say to myself, man could not hurt him who could die without regret; but now, to d' A without being loved by thee, to die without that cert-,:mty, is the torment of hell—it is the lively and striki,4 image of absolute annihilation : I feel as if I were p;all e d. • My absolute companion, thou whom fate 1 . 4 0 4 destined to make al ong with me the painful journey of life, the day on which I shall cease to possess thy hit will be the day on which parched nature will be tome, withemt warmth and vegetation. I stop, my swee t l ove ; my soul is sad--my body is fatigued —my head is giddy--.r j en disgust me—l ought to hate them—they separate re:., fr6m my beloved. " I am at Port Ma'Arice,l near Oneille; to-morrow I shall be at Albenga ; the two armies are in motion. We are endeavouring tq. derive each other; victory to the most skilful ! lam "fretty well satisfied with Beaulieu. If he alarm ml .%ch) he is a better man than his predecessor. I shall beats buns I hope, in good style. Do not be uneasy --lov e rye as your eyes : but that is not enough—as your self) more than yourself, than your thought—your mind— Piur sight —your all.. Sweet love, forgive me,—l am *smit ing. Nature is weak for him who feels strongly, for him Wilma you love !" JOSEPHINE AND MARIA LOUISA. " As a domestic occurrence, nothing could more 'contribute to Buonaparte's happiness than his union with Maria Louisa. He was wont to compare her with J osephine, by giving the latter all the advantages (4 art and grace ; the former the charms of simple modesty and innocence. His former Empress used every art t o support or enhance her personal charms ; but with to much prUdence and mystery, ttiat the secret cares of her toilette could never be traced —her successor trusted for the power of pleasing to rJuth and nature. Josephine mismanaged her reven•;.e ; and incurred debt without kraple. • Maria Loui:sa lived within her income, or if she desired any indulgence beyond it, which was rarely the ease, she asked it, as a favour of Napoleon. Josephine, ac customed to political intrigue, loved to manage, to in fluence, and to guide her husband ; Maria Louisa desired Only to pl ea s e and to obey him. Both were excellent '''°n:en, of great sweetnesa of temper, and fondly attached to Napoleon. In the difference between these dis tinguished persons, we can easily discriminate the leading ' features of ,the Parisian, and of the simple German beauty ; but it is certainly singular that the ar tificial character should have belonged to the daugh ter of the West Indian -Planter ; that marked by `loure and simplicity, to a Princess of the proudest court in Europe. rtuonaparte, whose domestic conduct was ge nerally praiseworthy, behaved with the utmost kindness to his princely bride. He observed, however, the strictest etiquette, and required it from the Empress. If it hap pened, far example, as was often the case, that he was pre 'vented, from attending at the hour when dinner was placed ( H 1 the table, be was displeased if, in the interim of his ab **nee, which was often prolonged, she either took a book, 'Or had recourse to any female occupation—if, in short, he did hot find her in-the attitude of waiting for the signal to take her place at the table.'' NAPOLEON AS A CENSOR OF THE PRESS. " The press, at no time, and in no civilized country, was ever so completely enchained and fettered as at that 'Period it was in France. The public journals were pro hibited from inserting any article of public news which bad not first appeared in the Moniteur, the organ of govern ment ; and this, on all momentous occasions, Was per . aonally examined by Buonaparte himself. Nor were the inferior papers permitted to publish a word, whether in the way of explanation, criticism, or otherwise, which did not accurately correspond with the tone observed in the leading journal. They might, with the best graces of their eloquence, enhance the praise, or deepen the censure, which characterised the leading paragraph; but seizure of thei r Paper, confiscation, imprisonment, and sometimes exile, were the unfailing reward of any attempt to correct what was erroneous in point of fact, or sophistical in point of reasoning. The Moniteur, therefore, was the sole guide of public opinion ; and by his constant attention to its Contents, it is plain that Napoleon relied as much on its influ en ce to direct the general mind of the people of France, a s he did upon the power of his arms, military re- Putation, and extensive resources, to overawe the other nations of Europe." NAPOLEON'S SIMPLICITY OF DRESS. " Amid the gleam of embroidery, of orders, decorations, and* all that the etiquette of a court demands to render ceremonial at once accurate and splendid, the person of the Emperor was to be distinguished by his extreme simplicity of dress and deportment. A plain uniform, with a hat having no other ornament than a small three-coloured cockade, was the dress of him who bestowed all these gor 3eons decorations; and in honour of whom these costly robes of ceremonial had been exhibited. But his utmost efforts could not carry a similar spirit of economy among th e . female part of his imperial family ; and it may be a consolation to persons of less consequenc e to know, that in thi s r ppiptzt the Emperor of half the world was nearly as Powerk...; as they may feel themselves to be. Josephine, with all her amiable qualities, was profuse, after the gene ral custom of Creoles; and Pauline de Borghese was no less so. The efforts of Napoleon to limit their expences, sometimes gave rise to singular scenes. Upon one occa sion the Emperor found in company of Josephine a certain milliner of high reputation and equal expence, with whom he had charged his wife to have no dealings. Incensed at this breach of his ordeti, he directed the marehande des modes to be conducted to the Bicetre ; but the number of carriages which brought th e Wives of his principal cour tiers to consult her in captivity, convinced him Popularity of the milliner was t oo powerful even for his imperial authority; so he wisely dro pped that the Pped a contention which must have seemed ludicrous to the public • and the of P aris att was aher ct at own libe pleasure. rty, to charm and pill age th e gay world NAPOLEON AT BRIENNE. " Th e alert movements of Napoleon surpassed th e anti cipation o f Bl uc her. He was at table with his s t a ff in the chttgin. General Alsufieff, a Russiani occupied the town of Brienne, and General Sacken's corps was drawn up i n columns, on the road from Brienne to La Rothiere. At once a horrible tumult was heard. The Russian cavalry, 2 ,000 in number, were completely driven in .by those of Napoleon, and at the same moment Ney attacked the vil lage, while a body of French grenadiers, who, favoured by the wooded and broken character of the ground, had been enabled to get into the park, threatened to make prisoners all who w ere in the chateau. Blucher, with his officers, had barely tim e to reach a postern, where they were under the necessity of leading their horses down a stair, and in that way made their escape with difficulty. The bold re sistance of Alsufieff defended the town against Ney, and Sacken advanced to Alsufieff's assistance. The Cossacks also fell on the rear of the French in the park, and Bona pitrte'S own safety was compromised in the melee. Alen `fere killed by his side, and he was obliged to draw his ii %rd in his own defence. At the very moment of attack, hil ‘ eted 4utioti was engaged by the sight of a tree, which he reeo to be the same under which, during the hours of recreation. at Brienne, he used, when a ‘chool-boy, to peruse the 9erusalemd , elivered' of Tasso." NAPOLEON'S HUMANITY• Riding where the recently wounded had not been yet removed, he expressed, as indeed was his custom, for he could never view bodily pain without sympathy, a very considerable degree of sensibility. His wound is incur able, Sire,' said a surgeon, upon whom he was laying his orders to attend to one of these miserable objects. Try, however,' said Napoleon ; and added in a suppressed voice There willalways be one fewer of thern,"--meaning, doubtless, of the victims of his wars. Napoleon's is not the: only instance in which men have trembled or wept at looking upon the details of misery which have followed in consequence of some resolutions of their own." After the battle of Bautzen, " the whole day of the 22d of May was spent in attacks upon the rear of the allies, which were always repelled by their coolness and military conduct. The Emperor Napoleon placed himself in the very front of the pursuing column, and exposed his person to the heavy and well-aimed fire by which Miloradovitch covered his retreat. He urged his Generals .to the pur suit, making use of such expressions as expressed his im petuosity. You creep, scoundrel !' was one which he applied to a General Officer upon such an occasion. At the heights of Reichembach the Russian rear-guard made a halt, and while the cuirassiers of the guards disputed the pass with the Russian lancers, the French General Bruyers was struck down .by a bullet. He was a veteran of the army of Italy, and favoured by Buonaparte, as having been a companion of his early honours. But fortune had re ' served for that day a still more - severe trial of Napoleon's feelings. As he surveyed the last point on which the Rus sians continued to make a stand, a ball killed a trooper of his escort close by his side. Duroc,' he said, to his an cient and faithful follower and confidant, now the grand master of his palace, fortune has a spite at us to day.' It was not yet exhausted. Some time afterwards, as the Emperor with his suite rode along a hollow way, three cannon were fired. One ball shivered a tree dose to Napoleon, and, rebounding, killed General Kirchenner, and mortally wounded Duroc, whom the Emperor 1 /lad just spoken to. A halt was ordered, and for the rest of the day Napoleon remained in front of his teat surrounded by his guard, who pitied their Emperor, ax. if he had lost one of his children. Ile visited the dying man, whose entrails were torn by the shot, and expressed his affection and regret. On no other but that single occasion was he ever observed so much exhausted, or absorbed by grief, as to decline listening to military de tails, or giving military orders. ' Every thing to-mor row,' was his answer to those who ventured to ask his commands. He made more than one decree in favour of Duroc's family, and impledged the sum of two hundred Napoleons in the hands of the pastor, in whose house Duroc had expired, to raise a monument to his memory, for which he dictated a modest and affecting epitaph." • NAPOLEON AFTER HIS DOWNFALL. " At Montelimart, the exiled Emperor heard the last ex ptessions of regard and sympathy. He was now approach ing Provence, a region of which he had never possessed the affections, and was greeted with execrations and cries of.— ' Perish the Tyrant Down with the butcher of our children!' Matters looked worse as they. advanced. On Monday, the 25th of April, when Sir Neil Campbell, hav ing set out before Napoleon, arrived at Avignon, the officer upon guard anxiously inquired if the escort attending the Emperor was of strength sufficient to resist a popular dis turbance, which was already on foot at the news of his ar rival. The English Commissioner entreated him to pro tect the passage of Napoleon by everrmeans possible. It was agreed that the fresh horses should be posted at a dif ferent quarter of the town from that where it was natural to have expected the change. Yet the mob discovered and sur rounded them, and it was with difficulty that Napoleon was saved from popular fury. Similar dangers attended him else where, and, in order to avoid assassination, the ex-Emperor of France was obliged to disguise himself as a postilion, or a domestic, anxiously altering from time to time the mode of his dress ; ordering his servants to smoke in his presence : and inviting the commissioners, who travelled with him, to whistle-or sing, that the incensed people might not be . aware who was in the carriage. At Orgon, the mob brought before him his own effigy dabbled with blood, and stopped his carriage till they displayed it before his eyes ; and, in short, from Avignon to La Calade, he was grossly insulted in every town and village, and, but for the anxious interference of the commissioners, he would probably have been torn to pieces. The unkindness of the people seemed to make much impression on him. He even shed tears. He showed also more fear of assassination than seemed con-, sistent with his approved courage ; but it must be recol lected that the danger was of a new and peculiarly horrible ascription, and calculated to appal many to whom the terrors of a field of battle were familiar. The bravest sol dier might shudder at a death like alai of the De Witte,— At La Calade he was equally nervous, and exhibited, great fear of poison. When we reached Aix, precautions were taken by detachments of gene d'armes, as well as by parties of the allied troops, to ensure his personal safety. At a chateau called Bouillidou, he had an interview with' his sister Pauline. The curiosity of the lady of the house, and two or three females, made them also find their way to his presence. They saw a gentleman- in an. Austrian uni form. Whom do you wish to see, ladies ?'-4 The Em peror Napoleon.' lam Napoleon.'—' You jest, sir,' re plied the ladies. What ! I suppose you, expected to see me look more mischievous? Oh yes,--confess that since fortune is adverse to me, I must look like a rascal, a miscreant, a brigand. But do you know low all this has happened? Merely because I wished to place France above England.' While on board the Undaunted, Napoleon spoke with great freedom of the facility with which he had outwitted and defeated the allies dur►ng the last campaign. The Silesian army,' he said, ' had given him most trouble. The old devil, Blucher, was no sooner defeated than he was willing to fight again.' But he considered his victory over Schwartzenberg as certain, save for the defection of Marmont. Much more he said, with great apparent frankness, and seemed desirous to make himself in every respect agreeable to his companions on board. Even the seamen, who at first regarded him with wonder, mixed with suspicion, did not escape the charm of his affability, by which they were soon won over, all excepting the boatswain Hinton, a tar of the old school, who could never hear of the Emperor's praises without muttering the vulgar but expressive phrase, ' Humbug.' The honest boatswain, however, could understand and value what was solid in Napoleon's merits.. As he had to return thanks in the name of the ship's company for 200 lonia with which the Emperor presented them, he wished ' his honour good health, and better luck the next time.'' SPECIMEN OF HUMAN NATURE. " Paris, so late the capital in which his will was law, and where to have uttered a word in his disparagement would have been thought worse than blasphemy, was be come the scene of his rival's triumph and his own disgrace. The shouts which used to wait on the Emperor were now welcoming to the Tuilleries Monsieur, the brother of the restored King, who - came in character of Lieutenant-Ge neral of the Kingdom ;.—the presses, which had so long laboured in disseminating the praises of the Emperor, were now exerting all their art and malice in exposing his real faults, and imputing to him such as had no existence. He was in the condition of the huntsman who was devoured by his own hounds. It was yet more affecting to see cour tiers, dependants, and even domestics, who had lived in his smiles, dropping off, under different pretexts, to give in their adhesion to the Bourbons, and provide for their own fortune in the new world which had commenced at Paris. It is, perhaps, in such moments that human nature is s een in its very worst point of view; since the basest and most selfish points of the character, which, in the train of ordi snealrio, and bee life,m ayn o e m v e er th be e ar‘uvlainkgenerdininciptoles ex istence, show them in such revolutions.. Men are then i n th e condition of well-bred and decorous persons, transferred from an ordinary place of meeting to the whirlpool of a crowd, in whiCh they soon demean them selves with all the selfish deaire of their own safety or conve nience, and all the total disregard for that of others, which the conscious habits of politeness have suppressed, but not era dicated. Friends and retainers dropt from the unfortu nate Napoleon, like leaves from the fading tree; and those whom shame or commiseration yet detained near his per son, waited but some decent p retext s , like a rising of wind, to sweep them also awa y - The defection includ edthe Mame all ranks, from Berthier , who share d his bosombcroeuattlh cils,h d is o os side, tb s ap ar t men t, and acted as a body-guard. It would be a bsurd to cri ticise aßnudstsaenld,owmhwo absent se a n cr t os f g ro t m he tici se the conduct of the poor African, but the fact and mode of Berthier's departure must not escape notic e . He asked permission to go to Paris about some business, say ing he would return next day. 'He will not return,' said Napoleon, calmly, to the Duke of Bassano. 'What r said the minister, ' can these be the adieus of Berthier ?' I tell you, yes—h e w ill re t urn n o more.' The abdicated' sovereign attachment o f several faithful servants was on ly tried and had, however, the consolation of seeing that t he purified by adiersitY, as gold is by fire." NAPOLEON'S GOVERNMENT. " The faults of B com menced, were rather thos e . Ill3 naParte, we conclude as we corn than of the individual.' Wisely i s • say we have no sin we dece:vfe yit written that if we not in us. It was the inordinate theOufs f o o ev r l c ve e re: Ogf andsn a' ambition itdheP°tri uttivtchhich is made him the scourge of Europe ; it was his efforts to disguise that selfish principle, that made him combine fraud with force, and establish a regular system for deceiving those Whom he could not subdue. Had his natural disposition been coldly cruel, like that of Octavius, or had he given way to the warmth of his temper, like. other despots, his private'history, as well as that of his campaigns, must have been written in letters of blood. If, instead of asserting that he never committed a crime, lie had limited his self eulogy to asserting, that in attaining and wielding supreme power, be had resisted the tempt!ttion to commit many, he could not have been contradicted. And this is no small praise. His system of government was false in the ex treme. It comprehended the slavery of France, and aimed at the subjugation of the world. But to the former he did much to requite them for the jewel of which he robbed them,: He gave them a regular government, schools, in stitutions, courts of justice, and a code of laws. In Italy, his rule was equally splendid and beneficial." NAPOLEON'S WANT OF CANDOUR. " It is no less remarkable, that Napoleon, though himself a soldier and a distinguished one, could never allow a tri bute of candid praise to the troops and Generals by whom he was successively opposed. In mentioning his victories, he frequently bestows commendation upon the valour and conduct of the vanquished. This was an additional and more delicate mode of praising himself and his own troops, by whom these enemies were overthrown. But he never allows any merit to those by whom he was defeated in turn. Lie professes never to have seen the Prussian troops behave well save at Jena, or the Russians but at Austerlitz. Those armies of the same nations, which he both saw and felt in the campaigns 1812 and 1813, and before whom he made such disastrous retreats as those of Moscow and Leipsic, were, according to his expressions, mere canaille." NAPOLEON IN HIS LAST MOMENTS. " Durin g the 3d of May, it was seen that the life of Na poleon was drawing evidently to a close; and his followers, and particularly his physician, became desirous to call in more medical assistance ;.—that of Dr. Shortt, Physician to the Forces, and of Dr. Mitchell, Surgeon of the flag ship, was referred to. Dr. Shortt, however, thought it proper to assert the dignity belonging to his profession, and refused to give an opinion on a case of so much importance in itself, and attended with so much obscurity, unless he were permitted to see and examine the patient. The of ficers of Napoleon's household excused themselves, by pro fessing that the Emperor's strict commands had been laid on them, that no English Physician, Dr. Arnott excepted, should approach his dying bed. They said that even when he was speechless they would be unable to brook his eye, should he turn it' upon them in reproof for their dis obedience. . " About two o'clock of the same day the Priest Vignali administered the sacrament of extreme unction. Some days before Napoleon had explained to him the manner in which he desired his body should be laid out in state, in an apart ment lighted by torches, or what Catholics call sine chatn bre ardente. lam neither,' he said, in the same phrase which we have formerly quoted, a philosopher nor a physician. I believe ,in God, and am of the religion of my father. It is not every body wiho can be an Atheist. I,was born a Catholic, and will fulfil all the duties of the Catholic Church, and receive the assistance which it ad ministers.' He then turned to Dr. Antommarchi, whom he seems to have suspected of heterodoxy, which the Doc , tor, however, disowned. How can you carry it so far ?' he said. Can you not believe in God, whose existence every thing proclaims, and in whom the greatest minds hare believed?' " As if to mark a closing point of resemblance betwixt Cromwell and Napoleon, a dreadful tempest arose on the 4th of May, which preceded the day that was to close the mortal existence of this extraordinary man. A willow, which had been the exile's favourite, and under which he had often enjoyed the fresh breeze, was torn up:by the hurri cane; and almost all the trees about Longwood shared the same fate. " The sth of May came amid wind and rain. Napoleon's parting spirit was deliriously engaged in a strife more ter rible than that of the elements around. The words ' tete d'armee; the last which escaped his lips, intimated that his thoughts were watching the current of a heady fight. About eleven minutes before six in the evening, Napoleon, after a struggle, which indicated the original strength of his constitution, breathed his last." PRICES OF IRISH ;TUCKS, JUNE 27. Bank Stock . • 240% St. Patrick Incur. (per sh.) Consols, 3 per cent. - Royal Irish Ditto Gov. Stock; Si per cent.... - National Ditto Ditto, New - Patriotic Ditto 4 per Cent. 99% Hibernian Bank Gov. Deb. 3% per cent.... - Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock . - Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock - Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent 65 Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4.p. ct. -- Commercial Buildings twbr LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1827. Our readers will perceive that the debate of last night,'in the House of Commons, has cleared the character of Lord CHARLES. SOMERSET from those charges which have been cruelly suspended over his head forso long a time. Mr.BROUGHAM stated that in his professional capacity, he had ascertained the falsity of the principal charge against the Noble Lord; and it is strange to observe how 2,500 d. dwindled into 700 h, and how' a sentence pro= nounced on the 30th of 'May was said to have been affected by a transaction which took place in the following September.— Mr. BARING, " for his own part gave the Noble Lord an entire and unqualified acquittal, so far as re lated to those charges which affected his private cha racter as a gentleinan and - a man of honour," but the indefatigable Mr. HtimE wished to keep the matter open,—that the Honourable Members should amuse themselves with the perusal of the charges, during the vacation, and take up the question the first thing next SesSion. _ _ _ We do not, pretend to say that Lord CHARLES SOMERSET conducted the Government of the Cape with unerring wisdom, or that the Colony was an actual Utopia during his Administration; but, as to the system of terrorism which is talked of, we really do not, after the debate of last night, believe one single word of it. And we may add, that we have lately seen a gentleman who resided at the Cape for some time after Lord CHARLES left it, and that he never heard, either the Dutch or English, talk of his Lord ship in the way . that one would expect they would, after deliverance from, such a monstrous oppressor as ins Lordship was represented to have been, and when he was no longer present to suppress the nar ration of their grievances. His Majesty's packet, Cygnet, has arrived with a mail from Rio Janeiro, from which she sailed on the 25th April. She left Bahia, on the 7th May, and Pernambuco, on the 15th. By her, we have re ceived the Diario Fluminense to the 25th April. The Paper of the 24th, announces that the Chambers were shortly to assemble; and it appears that several members had been pillaged on their passage from the remote provinces. These Papers contain no news which we have not already received through other channels. They, indeed, give an official ac count of the battle which took place on the 20th February, the loss of which they attribute to the misconduct of a select division, but they make no mention of the great battle, fought on the 25th, in which the Brazilians suffered so immensely. The Government may endeavour to suppress the unwel come news from the people of B raz il , b ut i t canno t ho will ultimately prevent its circulation ab roa d, f rom w hi c h i t return with aggravated circumstances. We must defer the extracts till Monday, for want of room. The private letters received by th i s pa ck e t, also bri ng dates of the 24th of April, from Rio Janeiro. On p erusal of several which we have been favoured with, we learn that trade remained in the same deplorable and ruinous state, and, as they observe, must remain so, until a more Peaceable disposition is evinced by the EMPEROR. The Exchange continued at 35. In some of the letters very Banguine expectations are entertained that an immediate amicable adjustment of the ruinous war, to both countries, would and must take place, whilst others express a contrary opinion, and urge 'in proof, an order for 2,500 troops hav ing been sent as a reinforcement from the northern pro vinces, particularly Bahia, to the scene of notion in Rio Graude. It is also reported that the EMPEROR. has ap pointed Mr. Gonnon to act as a mediator between the two countries, bat even to thi s is attached doubtful cred i t. Th e difficulties of the Brazil Government continue increasing, and some consider peace will take place from necessity on the part of the EMPEROR, rather than from choice. The reports are numerous at Rio Janeiro on this subject, but every thing was kept as quiet as possible from the public ear, on the subject of peace or the continuance of war. The Paris Papers of Wednesday, and the Elate dated Thursday morning, reached us last night. The Moniteur publishes, in its non-official part, intelligence from Algiers to the 16th inst., which leaves no doubt of hostilities between that State and i France having commenced. It appears that satis faetion-for some insults which the French Consul had received (which we understand include.d a per sonal chastisement which he had suffered from the hands of his Highness the DEY) having been peremptoi ily refused to the Consul, a French schooner arrived before Algiers on the 11th June, with dis patches ordering his recall, and he and all other French subjects at Algiers instantly embarked. After the Consul had conferred with the Officer commanding the squadron before Algiers, as to the measures to be taken to obtain reparation, a note was drawn up demanding that a deputation, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Marine at its head, should come on board and make an apology to the Consul General for the conduct of the DEY towards him. The satisfaction demanded not having been given in 24 hours, the negotiations were broken off, and the port is blockaded—not bombarded as it was by our Fleet, and would be again, if such an insult as was inflicted on the French Consul had been offered to a British Functionary. We suspect it will be some time before the French squadron will be able to bring his Highness to make an apology, or to promise more courteous behaviour in future. A private letter from Corfu of the 26th May, leads us to hope that the accounts of the recent disasters of the Greeks in Attica have been greatly exaggerated, and that the difficulties under which REDSCHID PACHA is avowedly placed, ars likely to be greatly increased. There is no news in these Papers from the Peninsula. Extracts will be found in another column, and we subjoin the price of the Funds : FAWNCH Furms.—Five per Cents. 102 f. 30c. ; Three per Cents. 71f. 30c. Foßmarr Firxns.--Rentos Nap. Cert. Fal. 76f. 'Thc. 80c. ; Spanish Rentes, 9/ ; Royal Spanish Loan, 591 59 ; Interminable Span. Annuities, 431. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT-(THIS DAY). HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat this day on the Woolsack, 80011 after three o'clock, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. Sir A. Grant, and others from the Commons, brought up the Corn Averages Bill, the. Arrest on Mesne Process Bill, the Sites for Public Buildings' Bill, the Petty Ses sions (Ireland) Bill, and the Land Revenhe Bill (Ireland), the amendments to which had been agreed to by the Commons. The Land Tax bill was also brought up, read a first time and ordered to be printed. Their Lordships then adjourned to Monday. It is now understood that Parliament will not be pro rogued until Tuesday. The Lord Chancellor comes to the House of Lords at two o'clock on Monday, to give judgment in some appeal cases. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Clock. Consols opened this morning at 861 and were buyers and sellers alternately; they are now sellers, notvrithstand which the market is firm, and the Bulls appear confident in their predictions of a further rise. The rapid improvement of the Revenue has been given as the reason for these ex - pectations, and it is rumoured that if these favourable ac counts continue to be realised, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not require the amount in Exchequer Bills which have been placed at his disposal. _ _ . Three per Cent. Consols, shut ; Ditto for Account. 861 sellers; Three per Cent. Reduced, 85i ; India Bonds ; 87 9 pm.; Exchequer Bills, 53 5 pm. . _ . . - Two o' Clock. The, only'price of Comols is 86f, with little business: -2"i9r0w2...1.w C-L 0 A sale of 200,000 - 00118018, at - 436“0r account, canoed them to recede to S 6. An eminent Capitalist pur chased; ii at 86-E fof Account, for the put of more, giving the seller -the option .of doubling the amount of. the bargain on Monday; the market is now 1361 buyers, look ing well. FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols Danish Bonds 624 Do. for Ac. 86i Greek Do. 1825, 164 Brazilian Bonds Mexican Do. 1825 71 Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 921 Columbian, 1824, 31i Spanish Do. 11 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DX A JUNE 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Corn wall, Younghuaband; from India, and Triton, from ditto; Carolina, Stewart, from Palermo. Arrived from London the John, Munroe, for Berbice, and Elizabeth, Sewell; for Quebec. , FALMOUTH, JUNE 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived off the Port the Baroness Keith, Watt, from Gallipoli, 65 days; Cygnet packet, Gooding, from Rio,, sailed the 25th April; from Bahia the 7th May, and from Pernambuco the ,15th. PLYMOUTH, Juwa 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Champion, Voyrey, from Brest; Maria transport, Parker, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Montmorencie, Tras dale, from Quebec; and Mary Anne, Tody, from ditto. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 29.--Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Jane, Jamieson, from London, for Madras and Calcutta. Sailed the Recovery, Chapman, for Bombay, and Larkins, Campbell, for China.. GRAVESEND, JUNZ 29.—Sailed the Cam Brea Castle, for India, and the Mulgrave Castle, for the Cape of Good Hope. PENZANCE, JUNE 27.—The Tratshell, of Plymouth, Courtney, in coming out of Torquay, for this Port, struck on a rock, and carried away great part of her foremast.— She put into St. Michael's Mount yesterday leaky, and it is supposed will be obliged to discharge. The Speedwell, Godfrey, was got off the stones at the Mount Pier-bead, after discharging about half her cargo, and is alongside the Quay; her starboard bilge is very badly stoved. Ships spoken--The Pacific, Ellis, - from Gallipoli to Lisbon, the 10th inst., off Cape St. Vincent ; and the Jurrvin, Gasper, from Gibraltar, the 17th, in lat. 42. long. 29. THE MARKETS.-(THIS I)AY.) COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. There was a moderately good supply at this morning's mar ket, and th e trad e , gener a lly speaking, was tolerably brisk. Apples were dearer; Asparagus, Broad .Beans, Green Pease, New Potatoes, Cucumbers, and Cherries, considerably cheaper, than on this day se'nnight ; in prices of other things no mate rial alteration. There were still Old Potatoes in the market, but they appeared to attract little attention. s. d. s. d. Potatoes (per cwt.) 5 otol2 0 Ditto New (per lb) 0 1 0 3 Cabbages (12 heads) 1 0 2 0 Cauliflowers 2 6. 5 0 Cos Lettuces (score) 0 9 1 6 Horseßadish (bundle) 2 0 4 0 Turnip Radishes 0 9 1 6 Brocoli 1 0 1 6 Celery I 0 1 6 Rhubarb 0 6 0 9 Carrots (12 bunches) 6 0 12 0 Turnips 2 0 5 0 Coleworts or Greens 1 6 3 0 Young Onions 1 6 4 0 Leeks Radishes (12 hands) 0 9 1 6 Sweet Oranges (100) 6 0 11 0 Seville Ditto 8 0 15 0 Lemons 7 0 14 0 s. d. s. d. French Beans (100) 1 Oto 2 0 Asparagus (100) Spinage (half-sieve) 0 6 0 9 Green Pease 1 0 2 6 CabbageGßroo°ased Currantsb Beans er r L e w t uces 2111 0 6 242 2 696 6 Apples, Common 3 6 6 0 Ditto, Choice 7 0 12 0 English Walnuts 1 6 2 6 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 3 0 6 0 French ditto 2 6 5 0 French Walnuts 2 6 4 0 Spanish Hazlenuts Strawberries (pottle) 0 6 1 6 Raspberries 1 6 2 6 Cherries (121 b.) Cucumbers (brace) 0 3 0 9 • . HAY MAR KETS.--(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAIIIES'S. X. s. X. s Z. s. £. s. Lowland Mead. Hay 4 oto 5 0 Clover Hay ...... ..., 4 15 to 7 0 Upland Ditto 5lO 610 Oat Straw 1 18 2 2 Rye-grass Hay 5lO 610 Wheat Ditto 2 2 210 New Ditto.... ...... 410 51 0 A good supply, and a sluggis trade at Thursday's prices. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) SHERIFFS' COURT.-RED LION-SQUARE. CRIM. CON. BARON ROBICE V. LORD SUSSEX LENNOX. _ This was an inquiry before the Sheriffs and a Jury of the County of Middlesex, to assess the amount of damages which the plaintiff was entitled to recover from the defend ant for criminal conversation with the plaintiffs wife. MT. CHARLES PHILLIPS stated the case. It was, his duty, he said, to lay before the Jury, as miuutelyas he could, the circumstances of the case under which Baron Robeck came before them, to ask compensation for the most serious injury which one man could inflict upon another. It was no affectation in him (Mr. Phillips) to say, that he must feel deeply and bitterly the cir cumstances which involved the character of one of parties, with whose connexions he was well acquainted. He must regret deeply that any circumstances should occur, which, in the decline of his life, would give that pain which an action of this sort could not fail to im part, and he- was sure that he but reiterated the echo of the entire country in which Lord Cloncurry lived, when he expressed his regret that any thing should arise to wound the feelings of that exalted Nobleman. Baron Itobeck is a Swedish Nobleman, descended from an ancient family in Sweden, inheriting in the progress of events large estates in Ireland, as well as in this country, and though his name is foreign, he is himself English. In fact, this — country was deeply indebted to him for his military services ; he had served, and gallantly too, in that cam paign which characterized the concluding years of Sir John _ _ Moore, and had even closed his eyes. When that General was succeeded by the Duke of Wellington, Baron Robeck was found fighting under his banners. q'he defendant (Lord Sussex Lennox) was the son of the late, and brother of the present Duke of Richmond, Ise was also in the army. On Dec. 30, 1820, Baron Robeck, after having for some time paid his addresses to the Hon. Miss Lawless ; was married to her with the unanimous consent of her family. She was then about 17 years of age ;he about 27, so that there was no great disparity in point of years. His fOrtune was at that time, as indeed it was now, rather limited, but a great accession to it was expected on the death of the Dowager Baroness. He got with Miss Lawless a fortune of two thousand five hundred pounds, and in consideration, not of that sum, but of his affection, he settled on her 1,0001. a-year. It was impossible to ima gine a union formed under more favourable auspices : he gallant and honourable, without a stain on his reputation, which, up to this moment, was immaculate. All the re lations of Lord Cloncurry were present at the marriage. ,lt was now seven years since that event occurred. They had five children, fortunately—and he said it advisedly—two of them were dead ; two daughters and a son still remained to recollect the unfortunate incident of their mother's seduction. The Learned Gentleman would produce most respectable witnesses : also the family servants, to prove the happy terms on which the plaintiff and his wife lived ; one only trivial point of dif ference prevailed between them, which arose from the Baroness's dislike to reside in Ireland. He gladly concurred in . her wish to reside in. France, and upon this very occasion, when he was preparing for her residence abroad, Lord Sussex Lennox took the advantage which enabled him to seduce the wife from her husband and the mother from her children. In 1826, Baron Robeck went to Ireland to settle his affairs, leaving her behind him; and, as his absence was only to be for tseb or three months, it could not be imputed to him as a crime that he went there alone. He was, in fact, most anxious to take her, but that she had an infant' o! six weeks old, and was sent to Brighton by the order of a physician, for the benefit of her health. Before tin event, ho took a house for her there, and settled her under the eyes- of Mrs. Whalley, her near re lative. Whilst at Brighton, Lord Sussex Lennox re newed with her an acquaintance contraeted about thre , years before in Ireland. The Learned Gentleman couhi not say by what acts he, weaned her from her husband, but at the termination of .that season, there was au evident cool ness on her part in her letters to the Baron. He, of course, came over from Ireland to unravel the cause, and found that she whom he had so distractedly loved was severed from his affections. Not suspecting that she had yet been gui to the full extent, he thought that an absence in Frame might remove her partiality for the defendant. He . eammitted her therefore to a Mrs. Morgan, to proceed to Paris b) way Of Boulogne,whilst he remained to bring the childret, with him. On the 30th December the Baron arrived ni Paris, not suspecting that Lord Sussex Lennox was fol lowing close upon his footsteps. But so it was, and cri minal as was his purpose, it had but too well succeeded. On the SOth January the Baron and his wife wen asked to • dine out ; she feigned illness ; he went to the party ; and on his return found that the indisposition of his wife was the plea of vice ; she had departed, the Baron knew not where, with Lord Lennox ; search was made in every direction, the police wen employed to make discoveries, but all might have basal spared, for the defendant appeared in public, exhibiting it the open glare of that fashionable Metropolis the victim ie his guilt. A severance of the connexion between the Ba ron and his wife was now inevitable,and this action was the first step to a divorce which would prevent the children of Lord -Lennox from being affiliated upon him. He did not wish to speak st harshly of tbelady, he believed that she felt and deeply e tre t,......-,p....... a_ le.v crime, and that the memory of her home and the recollection of her children often occurred to her mind. When' a person was sent to France to serve a process on her under the Ecclesiastical Court. he was ushered into the room by Lord Lennox, who almost immediately left it. Whilst he had been present their con versation was general, but where was her fortitude whet. left alone • with the old domestic of that family, whoss happiness she had destroyed. " How are my 'children," .it she said, bursting into tears, " is the Baron kind to them ?" The Learned . Gentleman did not impute to the defendant that his present conduct was the cause of those tears : or the contrary he believed that the defendant behaved in tin niost affectionate manner, and if report spoke true, was about• to make the only reparation in his power, that of making her his wife. If, then, the defendant eve], now thought her worthy of having his fate linked with her's, did it not speak trumpet-tongued of the value of the loss which the plaintiff had sustained. The Learned Gen tleman concluded an . eloquent appeal, by calling the follow ing witnesses. The marriage of the patties was then proved. General Samuel Brown was then examined and deposed, that he was well acquainted with the Baron and Baroness Robeck, while they resided in Ireland in 1823, 1825, and 1826, and visited occasionally at their house. Witness could not imagine a more exemplary husband than the Barron, and they seemed to live very happily together. Mr. Easxistx, who appeared for the defendant, here said that there was no occasion for calling any witnesses to prove the terms on which the parties lived, as he did not mean to call them in question. Mr. PHILLIPS thanked his Learned Friend for his can dour ; and would, in consequence, only calla few wit nesses. Mr. George Morgan, second cousin of the Baroness, was then called, and deposed that he saw both the Baron and the Baroness after her return from Brighton, when they seemed to live on the most affectionate terms. In conse quence of his being so near a relation, witness accompanied the Bareness to Boulogne, in the latter end of 1826, and left her there in the care of her grandmother, Mrs. Morgan. Witness was told by the Baron that he went to Ireland to raise money to meet the extravagancies of his wife. Mr. Martin Tipper, a medical gentleman, stated that he had visited the Baroness in 1826, when her health, though not very ill, was not in a perfect state. He recommended to her to go to Brighton, but he forgot whether it was on her own account or on account of one of her children: She bad an infant then only about three or four months old. William Coffey lived three years in the Baron's service, and is still with him. In October 1826, he went with his' master to Ireland, and after remaining there for about five weeks, they: returned to 'London. After their return, witness went to Brighton with the Barons The Baroness returned soon after to London, leaving two- children at Brighton, the one five years old, and the other three. The Baron, witness, and a maid servant, went with these two children from Brighton to Paris, and lived there in the house of the Dowager Baroness of Robeck, mother of the Baron: The Baroness arrived along with Mrs. Morgan, about three or four days after. On the 13th of January the Baron dined out ; the Baroness feigned illness, and did not accompany him. Witness was sent out by her on a message, and on his return he found the Baron, after re turning from dinner in great agitation, in consequence 01 the Baroness having gone away in the interval with Lord Sussex Lennox. He applied at the different Police offices at Paris, in order to trace her out.— After the desertion of his ' wife, the Baron seemed very melancholy, and has not since frequented com pany so often 1. he used to do. Witness, after her escape, went to Vois, to see the Baroness. He Was intro duced into the room where she was by Lord Sussex Len nox. He then left the room, and the Baroness inquired eager ly after her • Children, and burst into tears. His Lordship having returned, there was not a wor d sa id a b ou t them in his preSence. Pierce Butler, a servant of Lord Cloncurry's, proved that in autumn 1826, when the Baroness was at Brighton with her three children, Lord Sussex visited frequently at her house ; some letters passed between them. The Hon. Mrs. Whalley; the aunt of the Baroness, lived within 200 yards from her house. A young lady who was governess in the family when at Brighton, corroborated the last witness's testimony, and saidAhat the Baroness was a very indulgent and affectionate Outlier. .111 r. Robert Taylor took the !wine for the Baroness at Brighton at the Baron's request ; witness and his lady lived there at the same time, in the house of Mrs. Whalley, and frequently visited the Baroness. Margaret Mernard, a' French lady, was examined through an- interpreter, and stated that she was employed by the Baron, in January 1827, as lady's maid for the Baroness. She remembered the Baron dining out on the 13th of January. After he had gone out, witness went with the Baroness to the Hotel of the Emperor Joseph, where they met Lord S. Lennox, with whom the Baroness remained, and did. not return home thereafter. Two days afterwards, they removed to the Hotel de Luxembourg, where the remained about a fortnight, and from thence they removed to a street called Rue de Barri. Cross-examined by Mr. ERSKINE—(She was the only witness cross-examined. )—Lord Sussex Lennox went under the name of Charles Jones while they lived at the Hotel de Luxembourg. Mr. ERSKINE then addressed the Jury for the defendant, and pressed on them the youth of the parties, the attractions of the lady, and stated, besides, that if large damages were given, it would defeat the object, as his client would be. unable to pay them. The Sheriff shortly summed t ip the evidence, and the Jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned into Court, and the Foreman stated that they bad assesOd the dama g es at 2,5001. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our Parliamentary Report of last night's pro ceedings in the House of Commons, contains the speeches of Lord Edward. Somerset, Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Wilmot Horton,—we can not say on the case of Lord Charles Somerset, for the merits of that case were kept pretty much out of sight, but—in reference rather to the pre sent situation of the ex-Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, who has remained accused, but still untried, for two years past or more. No man living can blame Lord Edward Somerset, or feel Any sentiment but one of respect towards his Lordship, for the anxious interest he has al ways displayed on • behalf of his less-respected brother; nor does the feeling-of good-will, mingled it is with sympathy for Lord Edward, suffer any abatement from the temperate and dignified man ner in which he has come forward, more than once, with the evidence of his own belief in fa vour of his brother's innocence. It is natural for him to indulge that belief, and becoming in a relative to express it ; but there every particle of consideration for Lord Edward Somerset is at an end. When his Lordship jumps to the most monstrous conclnsion, that because charges have been long hanging over Lord Charles Somerset without being prosecuted, he, the accused party, therefore stands acquitted, we have no language . strong enough to convey our con tempt for such an argument. Is there a man in England who believes Lord C. Somerset to be an innocent person ? Mr: Wilmot Horton, in deed, is reported to have countenanced, some where or other, yesterday, that impudent and insulting asseveration. But we do not conceive it possible for Mr. Wilmot Horton to have, said what is reported for him, as having been uttered last night in the House of Commons. We are unwilling to credit one word of that report, nor will we suffer oursehres to be misled by any au thority short of our own senses, into a persuasion that any subaltern officer of, Mr.. Canning's and Lord Lansdowne's Ministry could have been permitted by them to say what would oi-envhelni —not the speaker of the words, for he, in com parison would be a nobody, but—themselves, two great statesmen, with odium and with in famy, viz. that because the unfortunate Colo nists, with the terrors of Lord Bathurst and of Mr. Wilmot Horton before their eyes, did not choose to bring forward proofs of the facts which they charged against a highly favoured Governor, therefore those charges must be false. Did the Colonial Department, let us inquire, invite or encourage the Colonists to come forth with proofs ? Could any indiVidual, at his own expense, be insane enough to think of transporting witnesses to , England ? And were ot all accusers of Lord .Charles, without exeep ion, " snubbed," and.carped at, and sneered at, z...s calumniators ? Proofs! Why, Sir Rufane Donkin had his nose almost bitten off between Lord Bathurst and the Under-Secretary, for presuming to say that he could give information to Government which would cover Lord Charles with ruin: These plain words were twisted into a declaration that Sir Rufane' Donkin meant to come forward and prosecute, whereas his only wish was, that on his allegation the Government should undertake to inquire, and ascertain by the result of their researches whether there was ground for prosecution or not. Then it is said for Mr. Wilmot Horton (but we do not believe it), that he re-echoed the hurrah speech of Lord E. Somerset, and affinned.that.the charges ought not to hang any longer over the head of the ex- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope ! He is said (but we believe it not) to have gone much further—to have gone a length which, with rope enough, would • suffice to hang ..any culprit in Christendom—in reference to the report of the Commissioners of_South,Allican Inquiry. Thi case stands thus:—The. people who accuse Lon] Charles Somerset-are railed at for not neting on their accusations. But in the same breath the party cen. suring.them takes away the sting.from his own re. proach, for, by the appointment of a Commission he acknowledges that it was tha , t business of th( Colonial-office, not of the Colonists, to find mate. rials of proof against Lord Charles Somerset: What then, becomes of the materials so provided? Minis. ters cannot mean, to affront the people of Englanc by telling them, " We send at your expense a Corn. mission to the Cape, to search for evidence in du matters alleged against this public functionary, or the nature and amount of which evidence so ob tamed is to turn his prosecution-or his release fron the charge ; but all this shall be for our private sa tisfaction, not for yours, whether he be guilty or in withhold M d from inisters have amazing Parliament n ocent. You, the nation; shall take our words fo all the evidence we choose to give you." We re peat, that no Ministers, with the least pretension t honour or character, could act on such a syst em to wards the country. Yet , if the report of w ho Mr. Wilmot Horton said last night - be tr ue ( as w , are re insolence it to must be false) , hh wi facts recorded in the report's of these Commissioners am s Mr. Wilmot Horton is reported t o hav e declare( that he 't would do' no s u ch! thing as My those re ports upon the table, nor would hepledge•himself t( any precise course," as to l ay i ng any part of then on the table This beats what we have ever seer before. He is further reported (most falsely, we stil insist) to have declared that the. Ministers were pur suing this disgraceful course on their responsibility and were prepared to defend their conduct. A prett: bravado, truly hy, who is to attack the Minis 1 W ters for screening Lord Charles Somerset ? Ther are but two parties—themselves and the Opposi tion. They themselves, or their own retainers, wi not Call them to account, and who else is to do s but the Opposition ? And who are the Opposition Why the Beauforts ! How is this wretched countr bought and sold between them both !. It ought t be added,lhat the failure of one charge, alluded t b y M r . Brougham as having been brought forwar by a person of light character and of no veracity,an in its nature and incidents perfectly remote fror those which had been stated by -Sir Rama Donkit Mr. Greig, and a large body of the colonists, i their petitions, affords no shadow of ground ft baffling a strict inquiry into-other accusations, sprinE ing from a purer so urce.—Zetes. The case , of Lord Charles Somerset was agai before the House of Commons last night - . w are g l a d to learn that his Lordship' has resigner We are glad on many accounts. We , are.n( aware that acts of oppression or injustice wei