The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-22 00:00:00

ry his Majesty, was then exquisitely sung by the whole choir, while the coffin rested over the grave : " Hear my prayer, 0 God ! and hide not thy face from my pe tition. " Take heed unto me, and hear - me, how I mourn in my prayer, and am vexed. " My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death fallen upon me.. " Then I said, 0 that I had wings like a dove ; then would I flee away, and be at rest." This was followed by the choir singing— " Man that is born of a woman bath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continucth in one stay. " In the midst of life we are in death ; of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, 0 Lord, who for our sins are justly dis pleased? " Yet, 0 Lord God most holy, 0 Lord most mighty, 0 holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. " Thou . knowest, Lord, the secrets of our heart s ; s h u t no t thy merciful ears to our prayers ; bat spare us, Lord most holy, 0 God most 0 holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal;' suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death to fall from thee." At the conclusion of this part of the ceremony the coffin was, by the operation of the hidden machinery in the womb of the vault, I gradually loitered into the aperture, and as the earth was cast upon the body, the Dean proceeded to say. " Forasmuch as it bath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here de parted, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to I earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the 'resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the ttiighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself." The Dealt continued the service, which was partly read and partly sunk, and while the coffin was yet lowering, the whole choir struck up—, I "eard a voice from Heaven, saying unto me—Write ; from " n cef°'::n blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; even so "J l/. 4 - file spirit, for they rest from their labours." The collect being delivered, as the body was lowered .into the vault, the following part of Handy s Funeral Anthem, com posed for the funeral of Queen Caroline, was performed with suit able effect : • _ " When the ear heard him, then it blessed him ; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness of him. " He delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that had none to help_him. " Kindness, meekness, and comfort were in his tongue ; if there *as any virtue, and if there was any praise, he thought on those things. "! His body is buried in peace, but his name lived' evermore." The Dean here conchided with the grace, and Sir Geo. Nayler, 'Garter King at Arms, proclaimed the style and titles of the illus trious Prince in the following form : " Thug it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this tran sitory tf.! unto his Divine mercy, the late most High, Most Mietty, and Most Illustrious Prince Frederick, Prince of Brims v•iick Lunenburgh, Duke of Yoik and Albany, Earl of Ulster, Kni g ht of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath—Brother of the Most Il lustrious and Most Potent Monarch George IV., by the Grace of God King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faitb, King of Hanover, &c. &c." After this the Chief Mourner, and the other distinguished per ; sons of the procession, slowly retired. The ehoir being partially clear, the spectators within the chapel were admitted to a view of the coffin. It was very nigh the stir ' face of the descent, and was without any covering, excepting the coronet and baton, which were placed across it on cushions. It was dearly. 11 o'clock before the ceremony conclvled. The end of the funeral service was announced by the discharge of a ,reekti from the Castle-yard, after which the artillery in the Long began to fire, and discharged three rounds of 15 guns each, at half minute time. . . . The throng of carriages to take up . the several distinguished persons who formed part of the procession, in the funeral and at the chapel, was immense ; but by a little after 12 o'clock the whole had cleared off without any accident that we heard. It id hardly possible for any person not a spectator, to form a conception of the scene which Windsor presented, at, and for nearly three hours previous to, the entrance of the funeral proces sion. In the streets through which it was to pass, every apart ment of the houses, from the roof to the basements, was filled with lights and company ; and, in despite of the severity of the wea dter, many of the windows, early in the evening, were open, and filled with females, wrapped up as much as possible from the cold and damp, but still exposing themselves apparently to consider ] able hazard. The whole of the main avenues and more open spares of the town were lined thickly with foot soldiers ; most of them bearing torches, and standing " easily," (according to the military phrase), waiting until the funeral should arrive ; adding rather to the seeming disorder by their irregular appearance, which was not so much like that of troops upon parade, as of men just marched into a town, and halting to be distributed into quarters. All the place was thronged with people of the lower class on foot, nine in ten of them strangers, and a great proportion mechanics from London, who had walked in advance of the procession all the way, with very little chance (in Windsor) of obtaining either food' r lodging. Carriages too were pouring in, from six to eight o'clock in every direction ; some from the west, as far as from Maiden head and Reading, by the road from Salt-hill and Slough ; others who had outstripped the London cavalcade, by Frogmore and Datehet ; and great numbers, from town, who had gone round to Slough and Langley-marsh, to avoid the crowd, entering in the opposite direction, through Upstone and Eton. Every other moment almost, the streets being narrow, these vehicles were either stopping up the way entirely, or meeting and endangering each other ; and through the whole crush and press, the Life Guards on duty, and police constables were riding about, giving directions to the strangers, which were judicious enough probably in themselves, and intelligible to those who had originally de vised them ; but of which the persons to whom they were thus suddenly delivered, could not understand a point.—Nothing could exceed the confusion and dismay of a great num ber of individuals, who had come in carriages from Lon don and other places, on the speculation of seeing the funeral pass . from their vehicles, and having no ticket or credential to be present at the ceremony, or any domicile to retreat to in the tow n —th ese persons were driven to and fro al most at the discretion of the crowd, or of the guards who direct ed the clearing of the ground. The soldiers neither knew nor could tell any more than " that carriages could not stop in the streets ;" and those whe even attempted to s t o p, were so assailed by the cries of others who were bekind them (and whom they im peded), and by the importunities of constable, whose business it was to show them to the place of their destination, when they had any, that they lest all powers of judgment, and could give no " directions to the postilions or coachmen who drove them, but were anxious only to be out of the way. Some parties of fo reigners who had coma thus unprovided, were placed in a situa tion which would have been laughable if it had been less distress ing ; end the gentleman who acted as spokesmen to one, on being pressed by 2 dragoons at once, to say where he wanted to go to ? answered candidly, " that - he had not expected to be asked, and 'd not know." Several vehicles in this way were carried away by entering into lines of roaches which were going to places to which the Arst had no access ; and the only possible course was to " rnofs forward" incessantly ; for a tremendous line Will pressingis the rl r, and to halt or turn round was eptally, impracticabl e . Msnv persons so situated offered any terms for admission t o louses . ' which the funeral wou ld p ass, but without success ; " 4 the.graater part, being unable either to obtain accom modation or secs 'ls l i 4 ert ti , ked up in places from which they could • see nothing untirt these instances ‘ a s ony was over. As the evening advanced, th of e town; Fresh multitudes continued to throng into . t . own t and `crowd aid confusion consequently to become more unreansge4ol4util at length, • tas the head of thi cOhinin, pre&di-I,;•4l6* . ylk tat Jus visible in carriages the town, as it apprcarihLd frottt the became al rush of the people that direcilOn,,- ww sztward, the gem - wash of vehicles, an d the clamours of those who drove the e , them in order; the rapid fli ng i ng up anti; down lattices,attempted to keel! and Wwindowsashes; the flashing of the-lam' of thos e which were privileged to pass forward , as they darted the through hoarse carriages the dark streets to the places ' of their' destination ro ar of the general multitude; the trampling ne man y h or ses , t h e c onstantly tolling of bells ; the discharge of the half minute gun s in the park ; the c rowd of females at the w indows of the houses, seen d istinctl y as in da y -li g ht, by the li g hts within , and the blazing of the torches, reflected upon the arms an d breast.- plates of the horse soldiers, and rather assisted, than otherwise, b y an extremely dark and heavy character of night ; this scen e passing within the town, added to the appearance of a fresh body of carriages and cavalry, with their funeral trappings, plumes, escutcheons, and similar paraphernalia—and all with torches in the distance—formed a general display, not merely ex citing, but almost amounting to terrific. The frostiness of the night, which vras otherwise unfavourable to the exposed specta tors, and to the soldier s i who wore their full dress, without great *oats or cloaks, had tile: convenient effect of preventing the streets t from becoming so wet and muddy as, under other circumstances, :!. they must have done ; and about nine o'clock, the cortege, which ` . 7 had latterly proceeded at a very slow space, entered Windsor, and turning up Castle-street, proceeded in the direction of its journey's / end, the Chapel. In the earlier part of its progress, the proces sion had excited some disappointment in the minds of the people, who expected to have found it more gorgeous, attended by a stronger military guard ; but, from this point, passing across the • Castle-yard, and under the antique arches, to the Chapel gate, the " whole show—taken in combination with the ancient and beautiful ''' edifice to which it was proceeding, and the circumstances under = which it had assembled, formed a striking and an impressive coup ' d'ccil. As the cavalcade entered the Chapel, the deep tones of the ... organwere heard reverberating without the building—and the guards with their torches formed a lane—the bells still tolling, and the guns rapidly succeeding each other—through which ten yeomen carried the coffin from the hearse to the bier within the church. The burial service was therr read by the Dean of Windsor. The pall and or naments were taken off, and thelcoffin was lowered into the vault. The King at Arms proclaimed in a loud voice the style and titles of the deceased ; and a last peal from the organ, mixing with the roar of the artillery, announced, to those within of without the building, that the ceremony was complete. In a short time, the chapel was cleared, the soldiers were in their ranks and departing, the carriages were rattling hastily homewards, and the crowd of Windsor, with the exception of only a few stragglers, had disappeared. Within another hour, the streets were as silent as on an ordinary occasion : the lights were all extinguished, and a fall of snow had obliterated even the footsteps of the numbers who had crowded the town so lately before. The pageant, and the confusion attendant upon it, had passed away for ever; it Was but ac event now in men's recollections—like the existence of the noble and regretted individual in whose honour it had been or dained. The extraordinary beauty of the eight black horses (tile King's property) which drew the hearse excited general admiration.— They were driven hy his Majesty's principal coachman, six-in hand, with a postillion to the first pair. But it is a curious cir cumstance that the funeral horses (hired) employed on the occa sion, were .not at all equal in quality to many which are seen every day at private funerals, but some of them even of a poor and shabby description. Unless there existed some reason for this choice, it injured the effect of the procession ; and there seems to have been some other slight points in the arrangement which, by manage tnent, might have been improved. . At an early hour yesterday morning most of the strangers whom the melancholy ceremony bad brought together took their depar ture, the bustle of the preceding day had disappeared, and Windsor resumed its usual stillness and tranquillity. (From a Sunday Paper.) " WINDSOR, Saturday Droning. " The King continue@ in the enjoyment of good health. He suffers slightly from a pain in the legs, but is free from any serious 'illness whatever. His Majesty continues in the same retirement that he has observed since the death of the Duke of York. The only member of his household who may he said, indeed at all, to have any intercourse with him, is Sir Wm. Knighton. A large party, principally of the Royal establishment, dined yesterday at the Royal Lodge, but his Majesty did not appear. The party, which was invited for the purpose of attending the procession this evening, consisted of the Marquis of Anglesea, Lord Graves, Lord Mountcharles, Sir W. Keppel, Sir Edmund Nagle, Cel. Thorn ton, Sir W. Houston, Lord Strathaven, and Sir Andrew Bar nard ; they arrived at Windsor in the course of the day, to joie, the Royal cortege, consisting of three state-carriages, which were appointed to be in readiness this evening, at half-past six o'clock, to take up the Lords and Grooms of the Bedchamber, who ac company the funeral, from the Royal Lodge. All the King's servants appear this day in mourning. The stables at Cumber ' land-lodge, the rebuilding of which, on an improved construction, has been just completed, are quite deserted ; all the horses here, as well as at the King's Mews in London and Pimlico, having been called into requisition for the funeral procession. " An erroneous report obtained circulation that minute-guns would not be fired in the Great Park, from an apprehension of bringing painful recollections to the mind of his Majesty—it was even stated, that the King had given directions that they should not be fired. On this subject we can state, with a well-warranted degree of confidence, that his Majesty gave no directions, and that his orders were principally, and almost solely, confined to the direction that, as a mark of his affectionate attachment for the Duke of York, the funeral should be attended with all the respect and consideration to which he was entitled by his Royal rank and high military station. The firing of minute guns, therefore, as a part ' of that consideration and respect,' took place; it com menced at eight i❑ the morning, and was conducted by a party of artillery under the direction of Colonel Thornton. " The King takes his departure for Brighton on Tuesday. Some members of the Royal household have received orders to proceed thither to-morrow and Monday. It was the intention of his Majesty to go to Brighton in the week that terminated the fatal illness of his Royal brother; and that event alone postponed his departure. This immediate departure, at this moment, hat been advised with a view and 'hope that change of scene may be attended with a change and improvement of spirits, which the lite melancholy event has reduced to the lowest state of depression. " Mr. Canning and the Cabinet Ministers attended the funeral to Windsor. Mr. Canning proceeded immediately to Lord Ilar court's after the funeral. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. " CONDUCT OF THE POLICE. " The Speaker of the House of Commons arrived to-day, about three o'clock. At half-past three a barrier was placed at the en trance-gate of Windsor Castle, to prevent the admission of personP unprovided with tickets. Shortly after the barrier had been put up, the Speaker, who was not made acquainted with this circum stance by Mr. Mash, the servant of the Household, to whom tht ' conducting of the arrangements was entrusted, appeared at the harrier, and was refused admission. He told the police in attend ance who he was, but they persisted in rudely refusing either ti, admit him, or to attend, even with common decency and respect_ to his mild remonstrance with them. One of the police-officer , even threatened to take a gentleman into custody, who offered hi. assurance that the Speaker was the person whom he represented himself to be. After some rude observations from the police, which were in every way at variance with the order which tht Right Hon. Gentleman observes in another place, a gentleman offered a ticket, which he happened to possess, to the Speaker. This circumstance, and an expression of very vehement indigna tion on the part of the persons present, induced the police to desist from their most discourteous and haughty behaviour, and to admit the Speaker.•, THE ROYAL VAULT. The free-stone edifice adjoining the east end of St. George's Chapel, in which, in the ye ar 1810, his late Majesty c ause d th e Royal vault to be constructed, was originally built by King Henry VII. as a burial place for himself and his successors ; but that Prince afterwards altering his purpose, began the more noble structure in Westminster Abbey, and the edifice at Windsor wa, suffered to fall into decay, until Henry VIII. presented it to Car dinal Wolsey, who commenced its repairs upon.a magnificent plan, • and intended it to be his tomb. At the time of Wolsey'a disgrace the design had been so far executed, that 4,2501. had been paid to the statuary, and 380/. sterling to the gilder, for the work the,. in part done. In the year 1616, the statues and gilt figures of the t mib, which were of exquisite workmanship, were carried off as • plunder by Cromwell's soldiers. The same dilapidation was ex tended to the splendid monuments of Edward IV. and Henry VIII. near this spot. Henry the Sixth's also adjoins that of his rival Edward, and suggested Pope's plaintive lines— . " Let softest strains ill-fated Henry mourn, And palms eternal flourish round his urn. " Here, o'er the martyr King, the marble weeps, " And fast beside him once-fear'd Edward sleeps. " Whom not th' extended Albion could contain, " From old Belerium to the German main, A t The the beginningg b r l a e v n e d oeunites, of iMarch,e t h w , 1 oppressor le l r 7 e s e 9, ' vn a t as h nt e dbe great or fi pk n pfi d rl ee rest, And • - n ployed in preparing for a new pavement, th e y perceived 'wd.e' a 're em smail aperture in the side of the , vault, which curiosity soon rendered • sufficiently large to admit an easy entrance to the interior part. This was found to contain a leaden coffin seven feet long, with a perfect skeleton immersed in a glutinous liquid, with which the b o dy (Edward the Fourth's) was thought to have been embalmed, although some supposed that the liquid and sediment contained in the coffin were simply water and, earth, to which all • bodies resolve. This exhumation occurred 307 years after the inter ' ment, and the remains were exposed to the mutilation of the labourers and others who flocked to the chapel; the consequence of which was, that some carried off fragments of the hair, and others a tooth, a finger, &c., till the tomb was closed, and a re fusal given to explore the vault where Henry the Vlth had been interred. In April, 1813, while the workmen were employed in making a subt er r a neous passage from the middle of the choir to the new Royal mausoleum, they accidentally broke away a part of the vault of Henry the VIM!), but which was not then opened. The , precise spot of Henry's vault being thus ascertained, and as some historian s have given different accounts co ncernin g the p lace of interme n t of Charles the First, in particular Lord Clarendon, in timating in his History of the Rebellion, that on search being infidel by order of King Charles 11. after the restoration, the body could not be found, a strong desire prevailed to satisfy the doubts thus excited. His present Majesty (then Prince Regent) being at Windsor, on Thursday, April 1, the day after the funeral of the Duchess of Brunswick, was consulted about the mode of exploring these Royal remains, which he directed to be immediately done in his presence. Sir Henry Halford attended his Majesty to the vault; when the leaden coffin was cut open by the plumber, from the head to a :little below the chest, a body appeared co ivered over with cere-cloth ; on carefully stripping the head and 'face, the countenance of Charles 1. immediately appeared in fea tures apparently perfect as when he lived. The severed head had been carefully adjusted to the shoulders; and the most perfect re semblance to the portraits was remarked in the oval shape of the head, the pointed beard, &c. On lifting up the head, the fissure made by the axe was clearly discovered by Sir H. Halford ; and the flesh, though somewhat darkened, was found to be in a tolerably perfect state. In the same vault was also found a de cayed leaden coffin, containing the remains of Henry VIII., which consisted of nothing more than the skull, with some hair on the chin, and the principal limb bones in a perfect state. There were also found in this vault the coffins of Queen Jane Seymour, and of a still-born child of Queen Anne. The following extract from Wood's Athence Oxonienses, de scriptive of the funeral of Charles L, will, as connected with the subject before me, be found interesting " Mr. Herbert was in waiting, te, receive the body after the execution, and he and Bishop Juxon charged themselves with the interment, as the last sad office they enuld pay to their departed King. They applied to the Parliament for leave to bury it in King Henry the Seventh's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, but that was refused, because it would attract many spectators, as the times then were, was judged unsafe and inconvenient.' They ;hen resolved to inter it in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, laving obtained from the committee of Parliament permission so - o do. Several Kings had been interred there, as Henry VI., Edward IV., Henry VIII., &e. The corpse was accordingly !arried there on the ith of February in a hearse, attended by about a dozen gentlemen, who had been about the person of the King at Carisbrook Castle, arid other places. After some deli beration, Herbert pitched upon the vault where Edward IV. had been interred; but while the workmen were employed in remov ing the stones, some Noblemen came thither, namely, the Duke if Richmond, the Marquis of Hertford, the Earl of Lindsey, and with them Dr. Juxon, Bishop of London, who had licence from Parliament to attend the King's body to the grave. One of these Lords, beating gently on the pavement with his staff, perceived a hollow sound, and thereupon ordering the stones and earth to be removed, they discovered a descent into a vault, where two coffins were laid near one another, the one very large, of an antique .arm, the other very little. These they supposed to be the bodies if King Henry VIII. and Queen Jane Seymour, his third wife, is indeed they were. The velvet palls that covered their coffins seemed fresh, though they had lain there above 100 years. " The Lords agreeing that the King's body should be in the same vault interred, being about the middle of the choir, over tgainst the 11th stall upon the Sovereign's side, they gave order o have the King's name, and year he died, cut in lead ; and his girdle, or circumscription of capital letters of lead, put tbout the coffin of the King, had only these words—' King Charles, 161,8.' _ . . " The King's body was then brought from his bed-chamber town into St. George's Hall, whence, after a little stay, it was .vith a slow and solemn pace (much sorrow in most faces being hen discernible), carried by gentlemen of quality in mourning.— Fhe body being by the bearers set down near the place of burial, die Bishop of London stood ready with the service-book in his lands, to have performed his last duty to the King his master; 'nit it would not be suffered by Colonel Whitchot, the Governor if the Castle, by reason of the Directory, ' to which,' said he. he and others were to be conformable.' Thus went Charles to &is grave, in the 48th year of his age, and 22d year and 10th nonth of his reign." ROYAL POSTHUMOUS LETTER. THE Attempts to Suppress " THE POSTH HUMOUS LETTER OF HIS LATE ROYAL HIGH NESS THE DUKE OF YORK ;" by misleading one Class, if the Public; Journals, and bribing another, WILL FAIL. -No Document has appeared of late, of so important and inte esting a Character. I can fearlessly pledge myself to the Public, that no Protestant, lo Admirer of the Constitutional Principles which unite CHURCH and STATE," will rise from the perusal of this valuable Legacy of the Sentiments of the lamented Duke of YORK, as to the Accusation of Mr. Wardle—his Speech in Par iament—his Conduct as Commander-in-Chief—and his Claims ,pon Public Gratitude, without feelings of complete satisfaction. I invite, therefore, the Public, with confidence to decide for hemselves upon the Genuineness of the ROYAL VOSTHUM )US LETTER. The Public arc the best Judges, an not interested Writeri. CLERC SMITH, Bookseller to the Royal Family ;6, St. James's-street. PRICES OF STOCKS THI: lank Stock per Cent. Bed. - 79404 ; per Cent. Cons. :i per Cent. --- Ntto Refl. B57iA 6 ii t per Cent. 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Due. 0 Guernsey & Jersey 0 1 Hambargh 0 O Holland 1 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward islands O Lisboa 0 O Malta 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. iferning 4 minutes after 10. 1 Evening ....... 44 minutes after 10. tllit- , .-.. .4 . -4q , - -. • 0...- 7 ....„0„. _'4-. t nn ~.. , LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1827, At, a late hour this morning we received the Paris Papers of Friday, and the Etode dated Saturday. They do not in any way confirm the intelligence from Madrid, published in the preceding day's Moniteur, (of the authenticity of which we expressed strong doubts in our paper of Saturday,) but on the contrary they show by the state of the Funds in Paris on Fri day, that no credit was given to it. These Papers furnish intelligence from Lisbon to the 4th, by which it appears that the Constitutionalists have obtained some advantages over the rebel forces,' but the loss in killed and wounded seems to have been 'small en both sides. In an affair on the Dao, a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Militia of Vizeu was made prisoner. Some slight advantages have a l so b een gained on the Tamego. The Spanish Colonel PE RERRA had approached Raya Seca with the Guerilla force under his command, while some Spanish forces had advanced towards the frontier of the province of Tras-os-Mentes. The rebels were retiring from Vizeu.l The Ordinary Session of the Portuguese Cortes was opened on the 2d inst. in the name of the PRIN CESS REGENT, by the Minister of the Interior, the Bishop of VIZEU, who addressed the Assembly at considerable length. His language was that of hope land confidence ; and he bestowed the highest praise on the distinguished fidelity of the British Govern ment, and the creditable promptitude with which it afforded the required aid to Portugal. After the formal opening of the Session, the Ministers, the Peers, and i the Deputies, retired amidst the discharge of artillery. No news from Madrid is given of a later date than the Bth inst. The courier who was charged with the despatches to General SAARSFIELD, ordering him to repair to Madrid previously to his being placed in the command of the Army of Obserration, was at tacked on his way and robbed. It is now said, that the Army of Observation will not exceed 12,000 men, a number which an article from Madrid, in the Jour nal des Debrzts, observes, is more consistent with the state of the Spanish army, which would scarcely form a total of 35,000, the number at which the amount of the intended corps had been rated. The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordinance, by which the appointment of M. VIL MAINLE to the office of Master of Requests, is revoked. By another Or dinance, M. de LACRETELLE has been dismissed from the situation of Dramatic Censor. The Etoile of Saturday has a very long leading article on the late resolution of the French Academy, to petition the KING against the project of law relative to the Press; after quoting SOCRATES, ROUSSEAU, and MAC/HAVEL, it concludes as follows : " We will conclude these questions with the opinion of the founder of the Academy, Cardinal Richelieu, as expressed in one of the Statutes of the Academy,. " No matter relative to religion is to be discussed in its sit tings ; political and moral subjects may however be treated of, provided that nothing is done affecting the authority of the Prince, the state of the Government, and the laws of the kingdom. " All the English who are in Paris declare, that If the Royal Society of London should Thus interrupt its labours ° to discuss a profound law actually under discussion in Parliament, there would be no end to the clamour against such a proceeding." FRENCH FUNDS.--.-PARIS, JAN. 19.—Five per Cents., 99f. 30c. 33c. 30e. 25c. 30e. ; Three per Cents. 66f. 90c. SM. 67f. 66f. 90e. ; Bank Stock, 2,000 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 73f. 15c. 20c. 15e. 10c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 12 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 46-1 49.—Exchange on London, one month, /25f. 456., paper; 25f. 40c. money; three months, 25f. 30c. paper; 25f. 25c. money.— Cours Authentique. Hamburgh Papers to the 18th inst. reached town last night. Their contents do not possess much in terest. A dreadful storm was experienced on the Caspian Sea on the 14th, 15th, and 16th November, in which several vessels bound to the proince3 near Mount Caucasus were dashed to pieces, and others seriously damaged. The water rose higher than the, oldest people had before seen. A decision of the Senate in St. Petersburgh for punishing nine Hebrew criminals for having induced two women to apostatize from the Roman Catholic religion, had been confirmed by the ENIPBROR, under his own hand, in the following terms :—" Approved, but, if any of those Hebrews are under thirty years of age, they are to be sent as private soldiers to Georgia." The EMPEROR has also confirmed the sentence of a Court Martial on Major-General ScHIRROW, formerly Inspector of three Regiments of Marines, for em bezzlement. HAMBUROH, JAN. 15.—We have had very stormy weather for three days together, by which much damage has been done. EXCMANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURCH, JAN. 16.-36. 8. ; Two Months, 36. h. PETZELSEURGH. JAN. £.-9. lb-16. Lnrsic, JAN . . 11.—Thres Months, 6. 16i. BzaLtrz, JAN. 12.—Thres Months, 6. 27 Brussels Papers of the 20th inst., have been received this morning. 'We regret to observe that the dread ful storm which was so severely felt in the North of England extended its ravages to the coasts of Holland. The Dutch squadron which sailed with reinforcements, for Batavia encountered the violence of the gale. One ship of the line, the Wassencer, of 74 guns, having on board 1,050 men besides her own crew, was totally wrecked —her mainmast falling killed a number of men, and her long boat, with 100 men, foundered alongside in the tempestuous sea. It is said that out of the whole on board only two officers and 20 men escaped ! the Javan frigate was also supposed to be in danger : BRUSSRLS, JAN. 17. On the 14th there was a dreadful storm at Bruges, which con ' tinned through the day, the roofs of the houses were much da maged, and a great many trees blown down. A girl nine years of age was blown into the canal and drowned. A man who was also blown into the canal was saved, as well as $ child—the person who saved the latter is dangerously ill. A fine new ship, the Schelde, built at Antwerp, has strand ed on the shoal of Kaloot. It seems that it arrived at Flushing, to take troops on board for Batavia, but was driven from its an chorage by the tempest on Sunday, and carried as far as Terneu zen, where it stranded ; the troops had not got embarked. A British Cabinet Messenger passed through tkis city last night with dispatches from Frankfort to London. Four merchants' expresses have also arrived, all from Paris to Amsterdam. The Commander of hie Majesty's squadron in the Mediterra nean has taken the necessary measures to employ, as far as pos sible, those of the vessels under his command in convoying from Smyrna to Malta, and back, anch merchant ships of the Nether lands as may apply for such protection against the pirates. JAN. N.—Many houses at the Hague were damaged by the storm last Sunday. At Schweningen the sea was very stormy, but as it was Sunday the fishing-smacks were fortunately in port. Accounts received at Amsterdam on the 16th from Egmond, state that a man-of-war bad run a-ground in the morning ; papers found on b oa rd give reason to suppose that it is the Javan frigate. The safety boat has been sent in search of the crew. put t b o ac N k ieu to ptohrits, port. and having its sails Our letters from Ostend of the 15th, sa y , we have had for these 86 hours a furiou s tem p est from the Rest; it was scarcel y possi ' ble to walk in the streets. The Julia French bri g , which sailed on Friday night, could forced weree v at sea, and All our vesselsfish tioogrnto r them ; one of them totall y dismasted return ed the d a y be f o r e yes terday, witho ut havin g lost a man. Th e stor m be g ins to abate. si a se ad great apprehe ns i ons are en t er t a i ne d f or getn to only The Second Chamber of the States General is convoked for Wednesday, the 24th ; it is to be hoped there will be a sufficient , number of persons present to proceed to business. The Governor of South Holland has received the King's orders to inform those persons whom it may concern, that his Majesty has learned that some Catholic Priests, of the Dutch mission, give instructions in theology in their own houses to young men who, are designed for the ecclesiastical profession ; and that his Majesty desires that the peasants, and all those who are interested, shall be informed of the unpleasant consequences which may result from this proceeding, as is done by these presents. That these persons are greatly deceived if they imagine that young men who prosecute their theological studies in the private houses of ecclesiastics, and who thus seek to elude his Majesty's ,1 salutary decrees respecting the Philosophical College, can ever be ad mitted by his Majesty after theirordination to ecclesiastical functions. That they ought, therefore, for their own interest and that of their families, not to forget, that if they neg lect this p resent notice, athey can attribute only to their own imprudence the disagreeable consequences to which they can expose themselves, and that they should reflect that all the time employed in theological studies, without having first attended, according to the regulations, the lectures in the Philosophical College, or in the Universities, and at the Museums where they were given, will be wholly lost. The Governor-General of South Holland, VAN DER DUYN. Hague, Jan. 15. JAN. 19.—A melancholy report was spread here yesterday that the Wassencer, of 74 guns, having on board 1050 men, besides the crew, had experienced a terrible storm on the 13th, and was wrecked on the coast, in attempting to return to the Tiel. It was hoped in the evening that this report was ill founded, because the accounts from Rotterdam do not mention it; but it is unfor tunately confirmed by the following article, which we extract from the Constitutionnel des Pays Bas. ELEVEN e'CLocx r.m.—The following letter, which we this moment received, confirms the loss of the Wassencer, and gives reason to hope that the Javan frigate is safe. AmsTERnAm, JAN. 17, It was not without reason that the violent storm on Sunday excited serious alarms for the ships which sailed on the 12th for Batavia. The Gazette of this morning mentioned that a dis masted vessel had strauded.near Egmond, and that it was probably the Javan frigate. This was a mistake ; news has been received on Change that it is the Wassenaer. The first details are terrible and un happily authentic. The mainmast in its fall crushed a great number Of men. The long boat, in which 100 linen embarked, foundered in the open sea, and all on bolrd perirhed. Safety boats, which were immediately dispatched to relieve the sufferers, brought away Captain Spengler and about 100 men. The ship, which was new, will be entirely lost. We shall have further particulars to-morrow. There is reason to hope that the 'Vat erloo has been able to keep the sea and is safe." No journal of the Northern provinces announces the disaster, only the Rotterdam Journal of the ISth says, that the Waterloo and Wassencer, which sailed on the 13th, were met the next day, the 13th, off Egmond, by the Queen of the Netherlandgt for Batavia, which entered the Texel the same day. The Constilutionncl adds, that it is asserted, that only two officers and 20 men escaped. New York Papers have been received up to the Ist inst. inclusive, at the North and South American Coffee House, by the London line of Packet ship, Colombia, Captain DELANE, in 19 days passage, from which we make the following important extract :--- WASHINGTON, HEc, 26. The Senate have this day ratified the Convention made in London, by which the British Government have agreed to pay one million two hundred and four thousand dollars, i n fill o f a ll claims against them, for negroes taken daring the late war. It is understood that this sum will pay the whole principal, and leave A .urplus (of no great amount) towards interest. Mexican Papers to the 25th November mention that serious disorders have taken place in Guatemala, or the Republic of Central America. The Aguila of the 13th furnishes a long decree, and a very earnest address on the subject, dated 10th October, by the PRESIDENT of the Republic. He recites in the preamble to the decree :—That the State of Honduras was completely disorganized, being without Legisla tive Assembly, Representative Council, or Court of Justice ; that in the State of Nicaragua the Executive Department was at extreme variance with the Legis lature, and the citizens inflamed by an old spi r it of discord, arming against each other; that the Executive Government had conspired against the general Govern ment of the Republic, seized the federal revenue, levied forces and organized civil war, in aid of a criminal stranger, attacking the troops of the Republic, and committing various other flagrant acts of usurpation and revolt ; that the Federal Congress at the close of their Session of the present year was incomplete as to representation, and doubtful of the validity of its pro ceedings ; that on this account the delegations were de' ficient ; that the new Congress convoked for' the Ist October, could not then meet, and would not be a ble to assemble at all, for want of regular representation and har►nony ; that the Senate of the Republic w a s not in existence, practically, not having the constitutional number, and of course the Executive was deprived ol its constitutional council and aid ; that the publi( opinion called imperatively for remedial measures, b(i' these were beyond the legal faculties of the Executive alone. In consequence of all these evils, he convokes, b: his Decree, an Extraordinary National Congress, tl be fully empowered by the people for the restoratiol of constitutional order, and to meet in the city c Cojectipeque as soon as a proper number of Repre sentatives should be freely elected, at the rate of try' for every thirty thousand inhabitants. His solem: address to his fellow-citizens is in a corresponder strain of denunciation against the traitors and enemie of order, and pr om i ses t h e utmost energ y an d v i g il a ne on the part o f th e E xecut i ve i n su pport of th e F e der Constitution and laws, until he should have the con currence of the National Congress, and be able t submit to that body an account of his measures. The CORREO DE LA FEDERACION AMERICAN) SR. MICHELENA, one of the Mexican Deputies, ha tendered his resignation to the Executive, but it vo not accepted. The CORREO accuses the latter, i conse quence, of wasting the public money. ILS. PANAMA CONGRESS. The documents in possession of the Administration on the It proceedings of the Panama Congress, have been published in I National Intellipeneer. They disclose to us the business & droll , transacted by that body, wi.ich so far has not amounted to 0 1 thing extraordinary ; it appears that the fine speculative speech, the President Vidarre, whi en some mont h s ago appeare d 1 0 t' Papers, is disavowed by the other Members of Congress. Tht are only four Republics who proceed in the work of making Tr( ties, viz. Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Peru. The Deputies from Brazil and the United States were only be considered as taking part in the proceedings on public Is' and such general points as concerned the whole family of natioi The disturbances of Colombia had some effect upon the C,ongre and they looked to Bolivar as the restorer of peace. In Februl next they are expected to meet under happier auspices, and then' be shown what objects may be effected for the good of the who Our . ell Ministers t . raipelicy willt our ii l r ie be pen Cabinet ahine r t es per t m , and will itethe take n them todse.ch The e t s o ot : American Republics are far from being settled, and if the Cc grees of Panama or Tacubaya, when they adjourned, can ell any measure to accelerate a better state of things, it will not ht been instituted in vain. WEST INDIA TRADE. The number of letter writers in Washington, on the subject the West India trade, is increasing fast, bat we have never si such a variety of opinions expressed on a subject before. No dot there will be a great debate in the House when it shall be esti up. We look forward with a degree of anxiety for that rout From the Rio and the La Plata, the schooner Ella, Capt Sayward, arrived on the 17th Dee. from Rio de Janeiro, 1 brings advice, to the 2d Nov. The blockade of the River P 1 is strictly maintained, several American vessels have been sent i Monte Video by the blockading squadron ; and the brig Hottl from Buenos Ayres to Santos, was detained at the latter pli for having loaded a few months since at Rio de Janeiro, , violated the blockade. Letters from Buenos Ayres quote enorns prices for flour, &c. ; the currency there is 121 per cent. pm. dollars and doubloons, and 38 on paper. Ox Hides, 9 pisada of St Horse Hides, 12 reals ; and the curing of Junk Beef is prohiloi during the war. The vessels of war from Chili are said to I , been seen off the Falkland I4es. Admiral Brown left: Due Ayres for the Coast of Patagonia about the 10th August, itu