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FRENCH PAPERS. IFrom the litaniteur of Sunday.—Non-Official Part.l M A DRID, J AN• 11. Five hundred thousand reals, part of the loan of Guebhard, have arrived at I ,,,ladrid, and been deposited in the Royal 'Treasury. His Majesty, by a decree of the 7th instant, orders, that all officers not included in the organi •-/ation of the army, shall immediately receive a month's pay to return to their homes. The same tleeree recommends to the intendants of the pro -oinces the greatest punctuality in the payment of :he sums allowed to these officers. By another decree, his Majesty has restored to the town of Tariffa a considerable octrai (duty en goods entering the gates) to assist it in re y.:tring the losses which it snstained by the in yation of the Constitutionalists on the 3d of Au ?just last year. 13y a decree of the 18th December, his Ma )esty has confirmed the offices bestowed by the Viceroys of our American possessions till the day when the Constitution was published there. His Majesty also confirms the Military employments conferred since that time. - Messrs. Larrumbide, Villagomen, Marin, and Puig, Councillors of - Castile, who were excluded at the beginniug of last year, have already been replaced ; the three first had co-operated in drawing up the now plan of public instruction ; the last is one of the old est Magistrates of the nation. If. Bermudez; by the aid of M. Ugarte, daily obtains a more decided ascendancy over his col leagues. For some days past his Majesty has given no private audiences. Ile refers all the ap plications made to him to M. lea. Madame Erro, whose husband, Ex-Minister of Finance, is still in exile at Valladolid, has again applied to his Majesty to obtain permission to re tern hither. His Majesty replied, that this per mission would be soon granted, but that the time was not yet come. The Council of Castile is engaged with a plan • for changing the seat of some of the Courts of Justice in the kingdom, to afford the inhabitants of til• provinces in the resort of these tribunals -greater facilities in carrying on their suits at law. The Courts of Navarre, Cazeres, and Barcelona, are included in these changes ; they will be re aeaved to Olito, to Merida, and to Rena. (EXTRACT PROM A PRIVATE LETTER.) 1 The moderate party is on the point of wholly obtaining the stsperierity. It is certain, that the Government having engaged by two secret articles of the last treaty of occupation, to pub- Usti a new amnesty, and to recognize the capitulation between the French and Spanish Generals, and to include in the test the Afraneesados, the influence of the violent party must cease to be felt in our affairs. With respect to the places oc .cupied by the French, all persons confined for political opi nions or acts, before the entrance of the French army into Spain, been set at liberty; and in the rest of the Peninsula, ail persons confined for their opinions have also been discharged, sse, - ainst whom no representations have been made, either relative to their private acts or concerning their political conduct. There are in circulation here copies of the representation made to the Ring at the beginning of last year, by the Bishop of Alechoa cast. It is observed, that the persons signing this paper pro pose to his 3lajesty to follow the example of Louis X VIII., by granting a general and unrestricted amnesty. In the speech pronounced by the President of the Council of Cas tile at the commencement of the year, according to custom, it is remarked, that M. de Villela several times repeated the weeds " union" " oblivion," and '.pardon." This speech also gives credibility to the report of an approaching amnesty. It is affirmed that Prince Maximilian loses no opportunity to impress on his Majesty its necessity and advantages. His Royal Highness having visited every thing remarkable in our capital, goes almost every evening to the theatre with the King and stie Princesses; national plays and dances are always performed. (From the Journal des Debate of Sunday.) MADRID, JAN. 10. The'Ministers -of Foreign Powers continually .endeavour to obtain the publication of a new am nesty, and every thing leads to the belief that, definitively, their efforts will meet with success ; for I have it from persons who are very near the Abliuisters, that a report on that important subject is ready to be presented to his Majesty. Forty per sons only will be excepted in this amnesty. Those piers - sus employed before 1820, will be divided into two classes ; those of the first will retain for life two-thirds of their appointments, and itiose of the second one-third ; lastly, those who, during the war of independence, followed the party of J oseph, will be re-established in the en juimeut of their civil rights; they may be even nominated to municipal employments (emplios de republica); they cannot, however, aspire to be re-established in the honours and employments which they held in 1808. The question of the American expedition is always entertained in the frequent councils which the Ministers continue to hold. It seems that in the last it was decided float sixty artillery officers of the ex-constitu- Clonal army should be re.established without any previous purification, to set out fer America, and • that one party of them should embark forthwith to join the expedition which set out from Ferrol month ago. PARIS, JAN. 23. It is generally thought on the Exchange, that the measures to betaken by our Government, both wail regard to England and to Spain, will depend upon the answer which is expected from St. Pe tersburgh concerning the acknowledgment of the new States of South America. The days and the -weeks are counted which must elapse until the opening of the diScussions,on-the projects of indem nity to be granted• to the emigrants, and on the 3 p e r Cents. • It is thought that till then the business will not be very animated.—( Ministerial _Evening Journal.) {From the Eloile, dated Monday.) PARIS, JAN. 24. A-ide-cle:Camp of the The Prince Wo lkonsk y , Emperor of Russia, arrived on Thursday at Paris. A galvanic battery of a new construction has j ust been completed, and added to the apparatus of the Ports mouth Philosophical Society. It is the invention, and has been made under the superintendence, moat LANE, one of Ise curators of the institution, and is a powerful and ii genious instrument. Its novelty consists in the form of the plates, which are circular, and (instead of troughs) Ere immersed in glasses, similar to finger glasses with flat bottoms. There is ST ange of 30 of these, six only of which on an exper i mental trial f use d p l at i na w i re wi th the greatest ease. The zinc and * *Pe" Presen .. t,a surface of `25 square feet of metal. A new VLPw_r i ,t_u.sfsit i exhibiling the heat conducting powers of metal, is ilr' em :a erca ven te ted and added to the society's museum. It 1 test that has ever been applied. THE ARMY. Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, the Duke of Yon x held a Levee, as Commander-in• Chief, at his Office, in the Horse Guards, which was attended by between forty and fifty Mili tary Officers, among whom were Lieutenant-Generals Sir T. Hislop and Skinner—Major-Generals Sir Sidney Buckworth, Douglas, Darling;:and Montressor. The Levee lasted about an hour, there not being any of the Officers presented to his Royal Highness on any important business. Two divisions of the 31st Regiment of Foot, consisting of 800 men, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Fearon, passed through Maidstone on Thursday and Friday, on their route from Portsmouth to Chatham, from whence they will shortly embark for Ceylon in the East Indies. ( From Lost Night's GAZETTE.) War-Office, Jan. 24, 182 5 . 2d Regiment of Foot--Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Jas. Flo rence De Burgh to he Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Captain John Johnstone to be Major, vice De Burgh. To be Captains without purchase—Lieutenant ('has. Gird lesstone ; Lieutenant Edward Bennett Jackson ; Brevet Cap tain Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, from the 97th Foot, vice Johnstone. To he Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign Oliver Ro binson ; Ensign John Lewis King ' • Lieutenant John Small Robinson, from half-pay 28th Foot ; Lieutenant John Smith, from half-pay 27th Foot; Lieutenant George Mackenzie, front half-pay 14th Foot; Lieutenant William Hunt, from half-pay 85th Foot; Lieutenant Henry Duncan Keith, from the 89th Foot; Lieutenant James Robinson, front the 67th Foot ; Lieu tenant William Martin Lyster, from half-pay of the regiment ; Ensign William Redford, from the 94th Foot ; Ensign Forres ter Owen Leighton, from the 56th Foot ; Ensign Richard Car ruthers, front the 26th Foot, vice Girdlestone ; Ensign Thos. Knox, from the 20th Foot, vice Jackson. To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign S. Nuttall Fisher, from half-pay 49th Foot ; William Samuel Torrens, Gent.; William Ralph, Gent. vice Robinson; Lothian S. Dickson, Gent. vice King. 20th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Edward Grant Stokes, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Young, appointed to the 65th Foot ; Scrope Berdmore, Gent. to be En sign, without purchase, vice Knox, promoted in the 2d Foot. 26th Ditto—George Lord Ramsey to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Carruther, promoted in the 2d Foot. 31st. Ditto—Lieutenant Colonel James Cassidy, from half pay 6th West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Lieutenant John Hutton, to be Captain, without purchase. To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign anti Quarter- Master Henry Astier ; Ensigns Charles John Hayman; En sign George Ruxton ; Lieut. Henry Harding, from the 89th Foot ; Lieutenant Arthur O'Leary, front the half-pay 24th Foot; Lieutenant Holland Lecky M`Ghee, front the 2zl West India Regiment; Lieutenant William Booth, front the 65th Foot ; Lieutenant Thomas Lillie, front the 48th Foot ; Lieute nant Alexander Douglas, front the 59th Foot ; Lieutenant Ro nald Campbell, from the 54th Foot ; Lieutenant Frederic Jas. Ranie, from half-pay 513th Foot ; Second Lieutenant John O'Gorman, from the 60th Foot; Ensign Colin Alexander Campbell, from the 74th Foot, vice Hutton. To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign A saph Shaw, from the 2d Royal Veteran Battalion ; Ensign Charles Primrose, from the 73d Foot • Gentleman Cadet Henry Evans, from the Royal Military College, vice Ilaymon ; George Francis White, Gent. vice Ruxton. To be Quartermaster—Quartermaster-Serjeant John W. Waters, rice A stier, promoted. 37th Ditto—Cornet Montagu Harvey Grant, from half-pay 19th Ligh,. Dragoons, to be Ensign, without purchaSe, vice Gardiner, promoted in the 48th Foot. 48th Ditto—Ensign Richard Gardiner, from the 3.7 th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lillie, appointed to the 31st Foot. 49th Ditto—Richard Tyrrell Sparks, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Stakes, promoted in the 20th Foot. 54th Ditto—Ensign Henry Fothergill, from the 64th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vise Campbell, appointed to the 31st Foot. 56th Ditto—John Philip Hunt, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Leighton, promornoted in the 2d Foot. 60th Ditto—Ensign Richard Gibbons, front the 99th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, vice O'Gorman, promoted in the ilst Foot. 64th Ditto—James Bunbury Blake, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fothergill, promoted in the 54th Foot. 63th Ditto—Lieutenant John George Young, from the 20th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Booth, appointed in the 31st Foot. 73d Ditto—Adolphus Latimer Widdrington, Gent. to be En sign, without purchase, vice Primrose, appointed to the 31st Foot. 80th Ditto—John West, Gent, to he Ensign, without pur chase, vice Thomas, promoted in the 89th Foot. - 89th Ditto—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieute nant William Harloe Phibbs, from the 2.1 Royal Veteran Battalion, vice Keith, appointed to the 2d Foot; Ensign John Thomas, from the 80th Foot, vice Harding, appointed to the 3lst Foot. 94th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet John W. Randolph, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Belford, promoted in the 2d Foot. 97th Ditto—Ensign Robert Prior to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mitchell, promoted in the 2d Foot; J. M`Cas kell, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Prior. 99th Ditto.—James Murray, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gibbons, appointed to the 60th Foot. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign Peter Kettlewell to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice M`Ghee, appointed to the 31st Foot ; Gentleman Cadet Audley T. Grier, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Kettlewell. 2d Royal Veteran Battalion—Lieutenant John Harris Ar nold, from half-pay 3d Garrison Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Phibbs, appointed to the 89th Foot ; Ensign Thos. Gren ville Kearnes, front half pay 71st Foot, to- be Ensign, vice Shawe, appointed to 31st Foot. Commission in the Edinburgh Regiment of Militia. Captain William Macdonald to be Major, vice the Most Noble John William Robert, Marquis of Lothian, promoted. LIW INTELLIGENcT. COURT OF CHANCERY, J. 25. Nothing of public interest occurred during the whole of this day• VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 25. X X-PAUTE CL•Y, IN THE 3IAITER OF HIPPO'S', A DAN Mill PT. Mr. ROSE argued a petition against a commission of bank rupt, on the ground of the insufficiency of the petitioning cre ditor's debt. It appeared that at the time of issuing the com mission, Mr. Hinchlitf, the petitioning creditor, held bills of exchange, negotiated with him by the bankrupt, which were not then due, but of the payment of which there was not the most remote probability, and that he had a further claim under 1001. Upon the affidavit of the petitioning creditor that the bankrupt was indebted to him in the SUM of 1401., the amount of those bills, the commission was allowed to issue. The Commissioners permitted this debt to be proved. The bills had since become due, and remained unpaid ; but some doubts having arisen as to the validity of the debt upon which the commission was founded, which, if well entertained, would vi tiate the commission itself, the present petition was preferred for the purpose of obtaining the directions Of the Court on the point in question. Mr. IlonNE was heard shortly on the other side, when The VICE-CHAN CE Limn decided; that the debt, at the time of the issuing the commission, - was insufficient, and directed the commission, therefore, to be superseded. COURT OF KING'S :TENCH, JAX. 25. ELLISTON v. DOWTON. The ATTORgET-GENEIIAL, on behalf of Mr. Elliston,, moved for a rule calling on Mr. Dowton, the defendant in this action, to shew cause why he should not allow the plaintiff to inspect a letter written by Mr. Dunn, the agent of the plaintiff, to the defendant; and why, if it became necessary on the in spection, the declaration should not be amended. The action was for the breach of an engagemel., made by the defendant to perform at Drury-lane Theatre. The engagement was propos ed on certain terms, by a letter from Mr. Dunn , to which the defendant answered, accepting the terms offered ; so that this letter contained the stipulations of contract binding on the parties. Of this letter Mr. Elliston had no copy; and having been obliged to declare, he was now fearful lest the letter 'when produced at the trial should not correspond with the averments ; .and he therefore prayed for leave to inspect the letter, and, if necessary, to amend his pleadings.—The CounT granted a rule to shew cause. POLICE REPORTS.-DUNCAN V. TIIEND AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict given for the defendant in this case should not be set aside, and a new trial had. The action was brought to re cover compensation for two libels which appeared in the Morn ing Advertiser, reflecting grossly on the character of the plain, tiff, a solicitor of the Court of Chancery. The libels purported to be accounts of proceedings at Bow-street, before a police ma gistrate; hut there was no plea of justification put in, nor any evidence offered even to show that such proceedings ever took place : the defendants relied solely on the general issue. The publication was clearly proved; it was unquestionably libel. loos in its nature; yet the Jury, from soine circumstances which could only be conjectured, found a verdict for the defen dants, contrary to the very simple evidence given in the cause, and contrary, lie believed also, to the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice. The inuendoes were proved ;of the character of the articles there could be no doubt, and of their application to...the plaintiff as little. The Loup CHIET JUSTICE—Was not some point as to the identity raised at the trial ? The ATTORNIIY-GENERAL.—Yes, my Lord. The .first libel did not mention , the plaintiff by name, but described hint as a person residing in one of the Inns of Court. The second libel mentioned him by name, " Andrew Duncan," as the person to whom the first article applied. Mr. Brougham then contended that I ought to call some other witnesses to prove that the Andrew Duncan intended was Andrew Duncan the plainti47, inasmuch Wilt. appeared in evidence that the plain tiff's father of the same name was living. To this I replied, that it was evident from the libel itself that the party charged with the offence was the son, because it was mentioned that the father became one of the sureties; unless, therefore, a grand father was introduced, the libel must have reference to the plaintiff: Your Lordship, I think, said, " Probably you will think your verdict should he for the plaintiff; but the amount of the damages is entirely for your consideration." Now the articles, unjustified, were clearly libellous; no evidenCe was offered to show any circumstance which would excuse the pub lication ; and therefore I submit that the verdict was clearly wrong, and that the case ought to be investigated by a second j ury. The LORD CHIEF JusTrcE, referring to his notes, said, I think the case stood thus as to the identity of the parties. Mr. Brougham put it to me that the libels might relate to An drew Duncan the father ; die Attorney-General replied that this could not be, because one of the articles spoke of the fa ther as being one of the sureties; Mr. Brougham rejoined that Andrew Duncan, the father of the plaintiff might have a father living ; but I thought ns only two persons named Dun can were brought before the attention of the Jury, they must apply the case to them, and consider the surety as the father, and the plaintiff as the son. Mr. B ROL' G IIA think your Lordship said you would leave it to the Jury. The LouD CHIEF JusTICE.—If you wished to have it left to the Jury, you should not have put it to me, as you did very correctly, in order to force the Attorney-General, if my opi nion had been against him, to call another witness. Your object in so doing was very plain, but it was a very fair one, to compel the Attorney-General to call some one acquainted with the facts from whom you might, on cross-examination, extract something favourable to your clients.—(A laugh.) The ATTonNxr-Gnx E aar..—And my Learned Friend had the full benefit of your Lordship's decision against him ; for lie forcibly asked, " Why is my friend so shy of produc ing witnesses ? Why does he leave the case thus short, if there is not something he ears I may extract which he wishes to conceal ?" The LORD CrriEs• JUSTICE.-1 thought, and I believe I said, that it could hardly be questionable that the articles ap plied to the plaintiff: Mr. BRouoiram.—l think your Lords'aip left the jury to say whether the articles were libellous. The LORD Cult r J UST ICE.-011, there could be no doubt that they were libellous. I own I thought, adverting even to the speech of the Learned Counsel for the Defendants, that the Plaintiff' would obtain a verdict ; but I expected it would be for very small damages. The LOH D Cur EF rsncE, after consulting with the other Judges, said—There must be a rule to show cause, unless the case can be settled in some other way. This is not the case in which there is a plea raising the general question of police reporting ; that, I think, was an action of " Duncan v. Thwaites." The AT TORN ET-GT.NERAT..—It was, my Lord ; and I ra ther think that the jury considered themselves as a court of error for the occasion. The Lours JUSTICE.—I recollect Mr. Brougham took great pains in his speech to convince them that the deci sion of this Court in that case was wrong. I do not mean that he did so in any manner disrespectful to this Court, which no one can sunpose ; but that he argued the case with that view. I told the jury I thought the decision right, but that I derived satisfaction from knowing that it was so placed on the record as to be open to correction by a higher tribunal. In this case we are of opinion that there should be a rule to show cause. The AT TOY NEY-GENERA r. accordingly took die rule. BE N A 74 JON This was an action against the Marshal of the Ring's Bench prison, for allowing - Sophia Saunders, a prisoner in his custody, at the suit of the plaintiff', on mesne process for a debt of 1091., to escape. The Jury gave a verdict for the entire sum claimed as due. Mr. CAMPBELL now moved for a rule to show cause why there should not be a nonsuit on the ground of variance, or a new trial on the ground of excessive damages. Ile rested the first part of his motion on an averment, that the prisoner put in bail, previous to her render, before the Court, whereas it appear ed that the bail justified before a single Judge ; and the second argument, that as Airs. Saunders was re-taken and lodged in prison, the plaintiff had really sustained no injury, and, in stead of the whole debt, ought only to have recovered nominal damages.—The Cot: we granted a rule on both grounds. THE XING v. WAttNFFORD. This was a rule calling on a magistrate of the county of Wilts to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue, commanding him to insert in a conviction under the game-laws the evidence by which it was supported. As the conviction stood, the informer, who was stated to be also a magistrate, merely swore to the offence in the language of the statute. :11r. MER EWZTHER appeared to shew cause; but The Co t; UT were, clearly of opinion that the evidence ought to be more fully and particularly set forth, and made the rule absolute. THE WINO V. BAIRD. ' This was a rule obtained in last term by Mr. Alderson, call ing on Dr. Baird, a physician at Ipswich, to show cause why a criminal information should not be exhibited against him for conduct tending to provoke Dr. Beck, also practising as a phy sician in the same place, to commit a breach of the peace. 3lr. SCARLETT, who appeared for the defendant, said it was an application - by one physician against another, and he should be happy to terminate it without further discussion. Dr. Baird felt that the net complained of was the result of irri tated feeling, excited certainly by considerable apparent provo cation, but carried to an excess which he regretted. Ile was willing to make this apology, and to pay the costs. The LoaD Cum' , JusTice suggested that some gentleman should look into the affidavits, and determine the form and manner of an apology, which should be made and accepted. 31r. Brtoucttam, for Dr. Beck, said his client was not ac tuated by any desire to injure the defendant; and therefore he was ready to accept the terms proposed on his behalf; but he thought, as the offensive placard had been exhibited in a pub lic subscription-room, the apology ought to find its way to the same circle. Mr. ScaaLETT objected to a publication in the newspa pers ; but was willing - further to say, that if Dr. Baird had known what the affidavit of 1)r. Beck now disclosed, he would not have proceeded in the manner of which complaint was made. After some further discussion, it was agreed that Mr. Plat should look into the affidavits, and prescribe the form of an apology ; and that the rule should be enlarged, the defendant paying the costs. THE QUADRATURE OF THE CIRCLE. To the Editor of the Hampshire County Newspaper. Sin,—A paragraph having appeared in many of the public prints—" That the French Institute have determined that the quadrature of the circle is an impossible and vain research,"— permit me to state that I by no means assent to such an un qualified declaration, so derogatory to the author of the uni verse, from whom all truth emanates, -- and who surely has, in no instance, left any of his works so incomplete and unfinish ed as they have represented. Had they confined themselves to the method of acquiring it, I should have instantly agreed with them, for the attempt is certainly futile. Finding, in four distinct instances, a gross defectiveness in the approximation of Van Culen, it became evident that some other course of enquiry should be substituted. I therefore made the alteration, arid by so doing Succeeded in discovering, not only the geometrical rectification of the circle, but of all ellipses, and then their quadratures, thus securing what has been so long wanting to render geometry a connected science— the knowledge of the curve, from its first departure from a straight line, until it has ascended to the most perfect curve of the circle, with the varying quantity of superficies it em braces in its progress. Although public opinion may prevent those discoveries be ing immediately noticed, 1 am persuaded time will prove them so beneficial that the labour employed will not have been vainly bestowed. I am, &c. JAMES SAIBEN, Limit. of the Royal Navy. His MAJESTY has bestowed a second munifi cent donation to the charities of Windsor, in addition to his support by annual subscriptions, which were transmitted by Sir Wm. Knighton to the Mayor, in the following sums,:-501. to the National Schools • 251. to the Dispensary ; 251. to the Pro vident Institution ; aLI 251. to the Ladies Charity. FOR THE SUN. Ma. EDITOn—As a constant reader of your Paper, permit me to observe, that some of the articles fur nished by your correspondents of late have been incorrect, and in my view of them, at least, a little out of place. I shall sin gle out three, upon each of which I beg to offer a few remarks, trusting to your candour for their insertion. The fires to which I allude, is an article on " Church Discipline," which appear ed in your Journal of Dec. 20th. The writer of that article, in offering his gratuitous advice to the Governors of the Church, begins with suggesting, that " The modern system of per mitting Psalms and Hymns to be sung in the Established Churches, which are not allowed by law, are likely to be pro ductive of much mischief," &c. Now, I so far agree with him, as to think that the ancient Church Melodies are vastly superior to most modern compositions ; but I maintain that itl is no transgression of the law to introduce Psalms or Hymns of any kind to be sung in the Church, at the discretion of the Minister, provided they be sound in doctrine ; and I am of opinion that a Clergymen will, by a judicious selection of Psalms and Hymns from the best authors, consult the edifica tion of his congregation, and contribute much to the improve ment of Psalmody. As to the law of the case, there is in fact no positive law upon the subject, that lam aware of, for metrical singing was not contemplated by the compilers of our Liturgy ; and it is, I think, much to be lamented, that in those Churches which have the benefit of organs, a more pro per use is not made of them, by chaunting those parts of the ser vice which are appointed to be sung, and which might easily he done to plain chaunta, and omitting light airs and voluntaries. With regard to the Old and New Version of the Psalms, there is no positive law enjoining the use of them, but only permis sion given to use them ; and the same permission was given by Queen Elizabeth in her injunctions to the Clergy, for the singing of an Hymn, or such like song, to the praise of Al mighty God, before and after Divine Service, &c. As to the merits of the Old and New Versions, the Old is decidedly the best, according to the opinion of so good a judge as Bishop Beveridge, who wrote against the New, as soon as it came out, and recommended the Old to be continued in his diocese. 1 shall not trouble you with any further remarks upon this subject, but proceed to the second article to which I allude, which appeared in your Paper of the nth December, and is entitled, " The Church defended against the Calumnies of the • Etude' French paper." This writer launches out into abuse against the Methodists as bigots, ignorant, unable to explain texts, &c., and how is this proved ? Why, by a silly story, copied, it appears, from the French papers, of a Methodist Minister in Ireland, being unable to explain to a criminal whom he visited, the article in the Creed concerning our Sa viour's descending into hell : but whether this story be true or not there is no proof. Now, Sir, I hare no wish to defend Methodist Ministers; they may, if they think it worth while, defend themselves ; but I do not like to see any body of men professing religion, abused and treated with scurrility, instead of argument and reasoning ; and I am quite sure that the Church can never be defended by such methods. If your Cor respondent has any thing to say against the Methodists, or any others, the press is open to him to enter the lists with them in the way of argument, and this is a much more manly way of attacking them than by loading them - with allissive epithets, which the lowest occupant of Billingsgate may do as well as he. But I have another charge against him, and that is, his light, flippant, and profane allusions to Scripture ; as when he speaks of a glazier, who has lately shone " through a glass darkly ;" and the wit is as wretched as the allusion is impro per; for the words alluded to (1 Cor. 13, 11) do not signify seeing through a glass window, but (aa' g5 - 07 r7,0u ay asistwaxli,) through, or by means of, a mirror, ' in an enignsa, or enigmatical manner, a thing with which a glazier, as such, can have nothing to do. I might go on to notice a great deal more in the same strain as, " heaven born Evangelicals, inward light, Evangelicals, and mystifier,, even in our Church," &c. &c. but 1 trust, I have said enough to chew that this self-constituted defender of the Church is not using the best weapons in her defence; and 1 will add, that should a sensible foreigner who is liable to be misled by mis t representation respecting our Church, seriously read your cor respondents letter as a defence, it would be, in my opinion, at least, far more likely to confirm his prejudices than to remove them. In short, Sir, I believe no man who has proper views of the dignity of the Church would think the misrepresenta tions of the Etude worthy of a serious answer, but would be dis posed to allow a great deal to the imperfect means of informa tion which a foreigner might have, and the peculiar prejudice which a Roman Catholic would naturally entertain respecting a Protestant Church : an allowance, which I presume, cannot be made for the invectives which this self-appointed Defender of the Church has so liberally dealt out in his Apologia. The last thing I beg leave to notice, is an assertion made in your Paper in very few words, and without any reference to prove it, that " the Civil Law prohibits first cousins from inter marrying, but the Canon Law prohibits both :" that is, both first and second cousins. Surely, Sir, an assertion like this, which if believed, would raise scruples and create great uneasi ness in the minds of many conscientious persons, ought to be substantiated by clear and unequivocal testimony, or not to ap pear in print at all. But, Sir, the assertion is incorrect that there is no law, at least no existing law, if ever there was one at all, to prevent either first or second, or any cousins, from in termarrying may be easily proved by referring to the Table of forbidden marriages in the Prayer Book. In that Table, which is the rule of conduct for the solemnization of marriage, as re lating to degrees of consanguinity, there is no prohibition of cousins either first or second ; and there is certainly none what ever in the word of God. And I cannot but look upon such an assertion as that which I am now contradicting, as of vesirnis chievous tendency, for it goes upon the absurd, not to say hypo critical pretence, of greater sanctity in contracting marriage than the All wise, and All holy Creator has seen fit to enjoin' The law of prohibitions goes no farther than to the third degree of consanguinity; first cousins are in the fourth, second cou sins still farther removed, and therefore, both may rest assured that there is no bar to their intermarrying, if they be so dispos ed, either in the law of God, or of this realm. 1 shall now, Sir, conclude with a piece of advice to your Three Correspondents whose writings have drawn forth the above remarks, which, perhaps, they may do well to follow ; namely, not to write any more upon Ecclesiastical matters, at least, till they better un derstand them, but to remember that very useful proverb, " Ne sutor ultra crepidem." I am, Sir, your's, &c. FINAL CONT►tACT FOR LOTTER' CS.-Yester day the Gentlemen who usually bid for the State Lotteries waited on the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, agreeably to public notice, and engaged to take all the remaining Tickets at an advanced price : this Contract concludes the Na tional Lotteries, which have existed in this country as a branch of tl►e Public Revenue for One Hundred and Fifty Years. ifUST Arrived from Peru, the ALPACA, or CAMBIA'S PACO.—Two of these rare, curious, and surpassingly beautiful Animals, the only ones in England, not having been exhibited these fifteen years, are now to be seen at the Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change. Their extreme elegance of form and amazing; docility is the admiration of the numerous Visitors that daily throng this noble Exhibition they are caressed and fondled like a petted lap-dog. PltiCg OF STOCK'S rUN 4.k :!6tock 9 32 i 2:32 3 per Cent. Beth 3 per Cent. Cons. 93,i 4 31 4,', - 34 per ( :ent Ditto IZed lOl 101 I- 1 per Cent. lii a — 1 New 1054 1013 i Bank Long.-Inn. 23 3-16tlis A [inv. 3 per Cents. India Stock Ditto Bonds ... 09s. 100 s pm. South Sea Stock 105! 1)-1Y AT ONE O'CLOCK:. Old Annuities ....., New Ditto -- Ex. Bills 10001. 2d. 63 6- 1 Ditto lAd. Ditto 5OO/. N. - Ditto lAd. 65 8 3 Ditto Small 2d. Ditto lAd. ' 06 4 Ditto Cominercial - !lank for Act. - India tin. Acct. - Cons. for Feb.l2s 9-iiiii Nog, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan Scrip -- Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bmnds Prussian, 5 per ct. Ditto New I t ussim,, New, 5 per ct. Oil .`spanish 1821, 5 per c' gli 1823, ditto French 3? elites Exchange ... —f. —c• Scrip p-nrcr.s OF FOREIGN F . Arstri4lll3ol, s:per et. ... Brazilian Bits -- Scrip l 5i pill. BuenosAyres 13ds ......914 92 Bds, 6 per et Colonibiar lltis.tiperct. ..90A1 Do. do. 1824...90.} 891 50 DAnisli, 5 percent. Greek Bds .......... 31exican !Ids Neapolitan, 5 per prticEs OP SHAL:Es AT ONE O'CLOCK. . ........... ... ....,......_ ... „ .. _. .. __ _ Al?lanes Fire and Life Assurance Company .. . ... 1 8 3 Ditto, Marine I)eparttnent .... Anglo-Mexican Mining Company • 95 9 6 Anglo-Chilian Mining Company Bolanos Mining Company Brazilian Mining Company Chilian Mining Company Colombian Mining Company General Mining Association Hibernian Mining Company ' I I 10i Pasco Peruvian Mining Company l2 11 14 13 pw• Rio de la Plata Mining Company Tlalpuxahtta Mining Company United Mexican Mining Company British Gas Company al Continental Gas Company Provincial Portable Gas Company London and Bristol Railway Company London and Northern Railway Company Australian Company , 3O Bristol Ship Canal Company . lt Canada Company Great Westminster Dairy Company 2PI Pearl Fishery Company, Yellow Receipt Irish Provincial Bank Company 2i 2 ii pi'' FOREIGN MIMS. Guernsey and Jersey Gottenburgh liatabargla. - AlililvED. Dug• I (111 WA TER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-310 R Ro' 4 , r ; llorninr, 56 minutes after 6. Evening, 22 minutes after i• THE SUN. SaLBM CWIS DICERE FALSUM ,11/DXAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 26, 182=1, NVe have given, in another column, extract from tho Paris Journals of Sunday and the Dalt' dated Monday, which arrived last night. From the Allgenteine Zcitung of the lgth last' we extract the following article respecting *h recognition by this country of the South Auier►' can States : FRANKFORT, JAN. 14. The recognition of the Independence of Colombia and Me' l by the British Government, being an event of great impa r ance both in a political and commercial view, has excited gret' t sensation here. It seems at first as if England had deparg 4 from the grand system, to maintain which, it was not incle 6t united with the great Continental Powers by treaties, bnt ho 4 in fact recognised its wisdom. Whatever may have been tbc motives of the Cabinet of London to deviate so unexpeete o from the course it has hitherto pursued, the consistency it bs t always shewn dispels all apprehensions that it will now insula r itself, or risk its friendly relations with the Continental Poore of Europe, with which it has acted in unison to maintain 0 tranquillity and peace of the world. Frankfort Papers to the I9th instant arrive d this morning, and communicate His MAJEtTO gracious regulations for improving the Protestan t Livings in the Kingdom of Hanover : HANOVCR, JAN. 14. The information which has been collected within some fe es past, respecting the income of the Protestant livings in the kingdom, having proved that on the one hand the classificati o° of the Protestant livings according to their incomes, reel" almost exclusively on the original foundation, requires a rect 4. cation, because, in process of time, through the altered prit t4 of things, &c. it has undergone modifications which in marl cases do not correspond with the extent of the livings; and ths t ' on the other hand, not only the number of livings with 01 0 endowments is too large in proportion to thebetter ones, but the . are even some, on the present income of which no clergyn o can subsist without being much distressed in his circumstnnee lfr Now that these evils way be gradually remedied as far as 04 existing means will allow, his 'Majesty, our most gracUo i° King, has been pleased, by a general plan for the improveme nt of the Protestant livings sanctioned by him, to make the 0 1 ' lowing general regulations : All the Protestant livings in the kingdom shall be divide d according to their income into three principal classes, ear n class rising 300 dollars above that below it, and each class t ° be divided into three subdivisions, differing leo dollars fool each other, as far as the uncertainty of .the receipts deperidia on casual circumstances will permit. To this end, from Ist July, 1824, all Protestant riving' which were at that time under three hundred rix dollar s ' shall be raised to that value by a fixed increase, to be paid ou t of the public treasury, either for ever or at least till they can b e incorporated with other neighbouring parishes.—Frankj l)l4 German Paper.) lIANOVEII, JAN. 15. His Majesty, in order to ameliorate the condition o f th e evangelic parochial clergy, has ordered that they shall be ( livid' ed into 3 classes, each of which is to have 3 subdivision., id such a manner that the minimum of their income shall be fro o 300 to 400 crowns, and the maximum from 1,100 to I,# crowns.—( French Journal de Frankfort, Jan. 19.) Philadelphia, Balthnore, and New York Pa' pers (the latter dated Jan. 1), arrived last