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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. JAN. 31.---. The King yesterday held a C9uttcll'of Ministers. . The four sections of the first Electoral arron:- ~,d issement of Paris again assembled yesterday ; ,on.the second scrutiny, the votes were for Gene - "'rat Gerard, 641 ; M. de la Pauouse, 476. uvral Gerard was 'proclaimed a Deputy for the ?Department of the- Seine. •lit has been stated that the Greek Prince Can ....:.`tacuzena had arrived, some days since, at Lau sanue. • The Brussels Oracle states that he has beeu deputed by the Congress of Argos, 'to a : greet Northern power, to make known to it the atifual situation of the Peloponnesus and of Greece. ----C.lournal de Path.) We have received accounts from Barcelona of . the 19th instant. Since the arrival there of Rie go, every day has been marked, by banquets and ,Itejoicings. Several clubs had been opened, Which were addressed by this celebrated Patriot. There were still in the hospital three persons ill of the Yellow Fever.—(Gazette de France.) .According to a letter from Odessa, of the sth instant, they did not expect to be informed before the end•of the month, of the. definitive resolution of Russia on the question of war or peace with the.•PQrte. . They had no news .from Coustanti-1 uople, After upwards of five hours' deliberation, the Court of Cassation yesterday annulled the judg ment of the Cour Royale of Paris decreeing against the King tine payment of the purchase 't:nney to the Chevalier Desgraviers, for the estates of L'lsle Adam, purchased by his Majesty previous to his accession to the Throne. FRENCH FUNDS. Jan. 30, Five per Cents. p 37 f. 15 c. Bank Stock 1557 f. c. VIENNA, J.N. 20.—A great activity is re n-aarked at the present moment in the communi= cztions between our Cabinet and that of Peters burgh. The State Messengers are constantly on the road. A superior officer, who lately arrived here en courier, states that', two days before his departure "from St. Petersburgh, the Senate was assembled in Council of State, and the discussion, which was "opened at one in the afternoon, was prolonged without interruption till nine the next morning, no one having retired till the Senate had adopted a definitive resolution. The belief continues here of an approaching arrangement between Russia and the Porte. There is a general persuasion that peace will not be - interrupted. It, appears that Russia wishes as well as the Porte to avoid war, and it is cer tain that Austria, France, and England, are using all their efforts to maintain the alliance between the European Governments. STUTGARD, JAN. 24.--Prince Cantacuzena, whose arrival at Lausanne has been announced, lately passed through here. It is said that he is proceeding to Russia. NAPLES, JAN. 18.-The proceedings against lite conspirators of July, 18'20, are terminated ; the number of detours is 66, amongst whom are fiilvati and Morelli. Carascosa, General Pepe, Conciliis, Russo, and the Canon Minichini are Aeclared contumacious, together with 39 of the principals accused, making the whole number 110. SPAI N. MADRID, JA.S. —An express has arrived to fromSevilleovith news that on the 15th the pub lic tranquillity was again disturbed. It hating been known that an express had arrived from the capital, a part of the people collected before the door of the house of the Commandant General, Don Salvador Sebastian, desiring to know the contents of the dispatches. This officer, at the , same time that he satisfied the wishes of the cu• rions, admonished them that they ()vitt not to assemble in numbers to require the publication of Isis correspondence with the Government. This admonition was taken as an insult, and a report wits maliciously spread, that the Commandant had given orders to fire upon the people. On this ground the Municipality assembled Commis sioners from the regiments and from the people. :tad demanded that the Commandant should resign biN office to Major General D. Carlos Gonzalez de. I3arcena. This was done, and D.C. de Barcena the following day published an address to the citizens expressing his pleasure at the termina tion of the agitations which had so tang disturbed the Worthy people of Saville, by their constancy maintaining their iinprescriptible rights, and by the energy with which the Municipality had guarded them. In the Sitting of the Cortes,,the opinion of the Special Committee was discussed, which was c;arged to examine the Memorial of 1). Manuel Francisco Jauregui, dated the Ist of this month. The majority of the Committee thought that Don Jauregui could not be legally called to.accOunt, and proposed that this Memorial should be re lerre) to the Government. This was signed by ti-; fie Mewhers. Tike other ~two Members, Se pars Ramonet and Giraldo, who formed the mi noritl of the Committee, thought that the Me morial of 1). Jauregui wa's the result of his dis obedience to the orders of the Government, that Eis case was Hot different from that of the Com mandant General and Political Chief of Seville, against wham it was declared there were grounds to institute proceedings, for which reason . they. thought that the Cortes should declare there were grounds to require responsibility of D...Tau requi. The majority and minority had each re tained their opinions after the new Memorial of D. Jauregui on delivering up the command to D. Romarati. Senores Gauli, Conde de Torrend, Martinez de la Rosa, and some other Members, desired to speak against the opinion of the majo rity ; and SenoresGasco, Calatrava,Vadello, and Palana, in favour of it. - A. very long debate ensued, in which the ad vocates for the opinion of the majority dwelt on the well known. patriotism of Don Jauregui. The subject being declared sufficiently dis cussed, it was decided by 71 votes to 55, that there were no grounds to put to the vote the opinion of the.majority of the Committee. It Was .decided (by the appel nominal) that there were grodnds to put to the vote the opinion of the minority, Which declared there was reason to in stitute proceedings against Don iauregui ; and, finally, this opinion Iv as approved by 70 votes to 48. A communication . was made from the Govern ment, stating that . Don Fiancisco Paulo Escadero haying 'resigned the "office of Minister of Marine, his Majesty had been.. pleased . to appoint to that office Don Francisco de Paulo .osorio. In consequence of the favourable turn which affairs have taken for.some time past, both in the North and South of Spain, it seems that orders have been given to seven regiments of militia, which were ordered to be put under arms, to re turn to their homes. DEVON COUNTY MEETING, FEB. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. A County Meeting was held this day at the Castle of'Exeter, to consider the present state of the Agricultural Interest; Sir JOHN DAVIE, Bart. High Sheriff, in the Chair. Among those present-Were Earl Fortescue (Lord Lieutenant) Lord Clifford, Lord Rolle, Hon. Newton Fellowes, Sir T. D. /Wand, Bart. E. P. Bastard, Esq. M.P., S. W. Pole, Bart., Colonel Pell, S. F. Milford, Esq., E. P. Lyon, Esq. &c. &c. The limn bnEarrr having opened the busi ness, and the Requisition having been read, the following Letter from the Duke of Bedford was read by the Under Sheriff : " Woburn Abbey, Jan. 28, 1822. " Selt—l perceive by the Exeter Papers, that you have, in compliance with a requisition, numerously anti respectably signed, convened a Meetin g o f n County of DeVon on Friday, the Ist of February, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament on ;:se present alarming state of the agriculture of the country.' " Had I been in Devonshire, I should have felt it to be my duty to attend this meeting, but as it is impossible for me to be there, I must apologise to you for my absence ; and in doing this; I cannot refrain from expressing shortly my view of the momentous question about to be brotight under the considera tion of the county of Devon, I have endeavoured to divest my mind of all party feeling, as it is the duty of every man to do on Such an occasion, and on the most deliberate and unpar 'dal review I can take of the state of thlcountry, I shall ex press freely. the conviction of my mind as to the causes of tile difficulties under which we labour. " The accounts. I receive of the universal distress under which the extensive and once opulent county of Devon is now suffering, are indeed melancholy, and as the county is now about to meet for the pus-pose of petitioning Parliament, it is incumbent on us to , encleavtair to discover the real cause of that distress, and to find out an adequate remedy. " The main cause is, in my opinion, an oppressive and bur thensome taxation, pressing heavily on all the sources of our national industry, and paralising all our efforts to-struggle against this overwhelming evil : the remedy is equally obvious; a reduction of taxation, retrenchment of all useless expenditure, and a strict and rigid system of economy in every branch and department of the Government, and to this alone should our petitions to Parliament be confined. Without going into the various causes that have been assigned for the distress which now weighs so,heavily on agriculture, or the remedies that have been suggested, I cannot refrain from cautioning the county against that delusive mode of relief which has been so much in sisted upon—protecting dtiti2s—this is a project so utterly incon sistent with sound poli, y, that I cannot but rejoice to see that the more enlightened amo - igst our farmers are daily opening their eyes to the fallacy of it. The English farmer must be enabled to maintain a competition with the foreign grower of corn by other means than forcing high prices ; there is moreover something odious in the principle of levying a duty on the food of man, and thus raising by artificial means the price of such an article of the first necessity as bread corn. 6" faxation is the main cause that prevents the British culti vator from competing with the corn grower on the Continent, and the overwhelming weight and pressure of taxation which affects not only the farmer, but every class of the community, must be removed. Agriculture is the principal source of a nation's wealth and prosperity, and when that is crippled and depressed, the depression must extend through all parts of the population. " It would be entering into too wide a field of discussion to examine the various causes which have brought us into our present difficulties; it will suffice to say, that we must look chiefly to an improvident waste of our national resources—to an extravagant expenditure of the public money—to a lavish dis regard of every principle of economy ; grown into a system, long pursued by the Executive Government, and sanctioned by a confiding House of Commons. '" One thing alone can secure us against a recurrence of this mighty evil, and this is a timely and salutary reform of the Representation of the. People, iu the Commons House of Par liament. I have long thought this, and every day's expe rience confirms me more and more In the truth and soundness of the opinion. " May I request that you will have the goodness to commu nicate the contents of this letter to the meeting on Friday next. " I have the honour tp be, Sir, " Your very faithful and obedient Sersamt, (Signed) • " BEDFORD. " Sir John Davie, Bt. High Sheriff of the county of Devon." Earl FORTESCUE then carne forward and said, that although the contents of the Requisition were in unison with his own feelings, he had no:- thing whatever to do with its signature or pro mulgation ; at the same time he would not for bear expressing his satisfaction that such a meet ing had been called. The subject for which they were met he considered to be one of considerable difficulty, and he trusted it would riot be rendered still more intricate by the introduction of any irrelevant matter. He did not feel himself com petent from his habits and situation to' be able to enter at large into the various parts of .this most important subject. •He could not say to his own satisfaction which of the many remedies pro posed among the politicians of the day was the most effectual. Neither did he expect to find relief from this-meeting ; but when all were alike suffering, it was.not only proper that they should state their grievances, but it was incumbent upon then' to petition Parliament for relief ? and he hoped that the petition which he now had the - honour to .present to• them would be agreed to unanimously, as the circumstance of its being the unanimous vote of the county would certainly in sure its weight with the Legislature. The Noble Earl then proceeded to state to the meeting the state of the .expenditure of 1792; and after shelving how completely incompatible were high taxation and low, prices, he pointed out how fallacious the idea was, that any relief can, be given to the farmer by any Corzi Law whatever, while the debt and expences.of the Government take away Such an immense portion of the produce of the industrious part Of the community; that although he was not himself prepared to say some regula tion may not be made with regard to the impor tation of corn, still he thought such regulation must be. inefficient. He had heard of a plan to reduce the interest of the fuudholder, and if the meeting had not much sympathy with that part of the community, still to reduce those who had bought funded property previous to 1792 would be unjust ; he thought that a loss should not fall upon them; and to ,divide between the two, would be, in his opinion, extremely difficult. A few years - ago, if arty individual advanced the opinion that the Bank Of England paper was depreciated, he was treated as a visionary, and paper, said many individuals, is as good for all the purposes of life as gold. But then comes what is called the Bank Restriction Act, and all the gold disappeared ; the consequence was, that a still larger issue of paper was necessary, and as the extravagance of Government proceed ed, the issues of Bank paper were exactly in pro-. portion ; at last their depretiation Was so apparent that it was necessary to pass a..law to make Bank notes' a legal tender. The Bank thus usurped the power of the King ; he only has the power to coin money from gold and silver, but the Bank coined money from - paper!.! When then, the peace came in 1814, another law was made to prevent the Bank returning to cash payments, and although an. iss•ie of gold coin took, place, they were rarely to be tnet with, and very soon vanished altogether. In 1819 comes Mr. Peel's Bill, which obliges the Bank to pay all their notes in specie to May 1823, and until that time the produce of the country. would continue to de cline, and the only efficient plan in his opinion to give relief to their sufferings was to lessen the taxation. Ile then proposed the following Peti tion for the adoption of the Meeting : vv e desire humbly to call your attention to the overwhelm ing distress which has spread itself over every description of persons connected with the landed interest, and which, if not speedily arrested in its progress, threatens to involve the whole community in one general ruin. We do not presume to point to your wisdom the measures whiCh may best conduce to our relief,. but we venture to express our opinion that it is nat to be derived from any system of protecting or prohibifory duties, since the evils of which we complain' arise from. causes wholly different from those to which such remedies can apply. " Without entering upon any discussion of the causes which have produced the low prices of every article of agricultural produce, it remains only to adjust the Means of the agriculturist to the existing state of things, so as to en a bl e hi m t o b r i ng t h e produce of his-industry to market, with a reasonable profit to himself and with consequent advantage to the country. " We see no prospect of this object being effected, liut'by relieving him from the Imrthen of those taxes which bear most directly upon him, and thus in some degree assimilating his' condition with the Cultii'ator4 of the land in other countries, where the fiscal t danands of Government lie less heavily upon them. "So far from presuming- to suggest what . particular taxes might come within this scheme, we freely allow that oar local habits render 'us incompetent to take so comprehensive a view of the general interests of the country • we therefore humbly sub mit that subject to the wi s d om of those whom the Constitution has v.-sted with the legislation of the whole kingdom. " Having submitted to your consideration-the state of the ac tual cultivators of the land, we cannot overlook the condition of the Landholders, Clergy and other Titheholders, who are of necessity sharers in the same distress, and who with reduced means cannot possibly sustain the same weight of taxation which they have hitherto done. " To effect these purposes, that is, to affbrd protection to the most numerous, the most us e f u l; and most respectable portion of the community, which is the'only legitimate end of all taxa- . tion, it is in our view become necessary to have recourse to an extraordinary reduction of our public establishments, Naval, and Civil, and to apply the severest economy to the ad ministration of' those which may be suffered to remain, and fur thee to use an impartial and unsparing hand in paring down to the present level of relative value all those incomes, from those of the highest to the lowest individual. in the State, which arise out of the Public Expenditure.; to such measures alone we can look for any real and substantial redress, and we rely with the fullest confidence on the wisdom and power of Parliament for the accomplishment of . our expectations, by turning their im mediate attention to our well grounded claim on their interpo sition on our behalf." Lord ROLLE seconded the motion, and pledged himself as a Member of Parliament, to give the subject everyconsidera tion, and to support the prayer of the petition in the House of Lords. It. W. NEwarAN, Esq. M.P. for Exeter, then addressed the meeting. lie did not conic to the meeting with an inten tion of obtruding himself upon its notice, and therefore begged its indulgence while he addressed a few words to the meeting; at any rate lie would st a t e th a t if hi s address-was not eloquent it should at least be honest. The Meeting had heard from the Noble Mover of the Petition a clear state of the case, that ex cessive taxation is the cause of all our sufferings. But Ministers said they could not do without the immense establishments of all sorts which existed in the country, and these establishments could not be kept up without .this most extravagant amount of taxation. What, however, was their conduct as soon as Parlia ment refused some part :of the supplies—they reduce their ex penses directly, although - they had before stated that it was im possible to go on with a Jess establishment than the one which at that moment existed. He would tell Ministers to 'cut their expenses down to meet-the present currency—reduce your army and navy and lessen the Civil List. The army is four times as . large now its it *as in 1792, and the nhvy is moth too exten sive for the present means of the country. He would not enter into the subject of the currency—that he thought had been already satisfactorily done by the mover of the Petition, but would conclude by stating that the Petition had his most hearty concurrence. The Hon. NEWTON FELLOWES did not wish to disturb the harmony of the meeting, but could not help observing, that he thought that the petition did not go far enough. fie contended, that by objecting to the petition he should not go out of order; but he did not mean to do so ; h e on ly w i s h e d. that measures should be adopted to prevent a recurrence of those very des perate evils of which the country so loudly and•so feelingly coin plained unless this was done, the meeting would be nugatory. If the cause of the disease was left, what guarantee had they that the same thing would not occur again ? As the only way to prevent this, he begged leave to move, as a rider to the peti tion, the following resolution : •" That you will institute an inquiry into the state of the re presentation of the Commons' House of Parliament, and adopt a timely and salutary reform." Mr. A. G. C. Tv CKEII said that the expenditure of the Go vernment must be reduced ; he would allow Ministers one half more than they had in KW, and let one-third of the taxes be removed. He should beg leave to second the rider of the Hon. G en tlem an . i%lr. J. Rom) contended, that nothing could be done without reformed Parliament ; petitioning the present was of no use. The good old ship Britannia was among the breakers ; it was the duty of every one of the crew to endeavour to save her from being wrecked upon the sands of corriiption, which must inevit ably be the case if they did not do their duty. to themselves. Lord CLIFFORD said he thought it desirable that unanimity should if possible be obtained; when he signed the Requisition he did not expect that the subject which the rider embraced would have been introduced. He, seemed inclined to consider its introduction out of order. This produced a reply from the: Hon. N. FELLOWES, who said that the state of the Representation was one of the causes of the agricultural distress, and certainly it did come K ithin the object of the Requisition. Mr. C. fIAmr.YN, Colonel PELT., and the Rev. W. P. THOMAS, stated their opinion that Reform was the only effec tual remedy. Mr. BIRD proposed that the meeting sh mid give three times three, for J. Hume, Esq. which was given accordingly. He had also another move to make, that they should give three times three, for Reform. After a few words from Earl FoRTESCUE, accounting for the absence of Lord Ebrington, the Under Sheriff read the Peti tion, and it was proposed to the meeting, and adopted. The rider of the Hon. Newton Fellowes was then put, and those who favoured it were requested to hold up their hats, when it was detrared to have beerrca - rried in - the affirmative. Sir T. D. ACKLAND declared, that he would not undertake to support the prayer of the rider in Parliament; and Lord ROLLE protested against-it altogether. Mr. BASTARD supported the petition without any hesitation. Thanks were voted to the High Sheriff,• and the meeting se. parated. A statement was in circulation on Saturday, that intelligence of the surrender of Callao to SAN MARTIN had arrived. It rests on the au thority of letters received from Paris, which mention that a Santa Fe Gazette of October had reached the Deputy from Columbia, who has resided in that capital since the termivation of his mission to Madrid, which announces the-fall of the important fortress above mentioned. The account is sufficiently circumstantial, and it is said to have been communicated by the Secre tary of General SAN MARTIN in a dispatch to the Governor of Guayaquil; buy, on the exa mination of dates, we think it barely possible j that it should be true. Callao was in the pos session of the Royalists on the 13th of September, and, allowing them to stand a siege of only a few days longer, the account could scarcely reach Santa Fe, having first been conveyed by sea to Guayaquil, in October. On the other hand, we think it ought not wholly to be discre dited.—(llorning Parer.) FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEB. 2. CARLTON' HOUSE, JAN. 30, 1822. The King has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Sir Charles Paget to be Groom of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to his Ma. jesty, in the room of the 1-ion. Sir Edward Paget, icsigned. FOREIGN OFrICE, F. 1, 1822. The King has been pleased to approve of Mr. James Gibson Thomson, as Consul at Edinburgh and Leith fur his Majesty the King of Prussia. CuowNOFPICE, FEB. 2,_ 1822. Member returned t o s erve i n Parliament County.of Antrim.—The Pon. Richard Seymour Conway, commonly called Lord . Viscount Beauch a mp, m th e room o f Hugh Henry John Seymour, Esq. deceased. MILITARY. PROMOTIONS. ' WAIL OFFict, FEn. 1, 1822. ISt Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. A. C. Legge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Martin, p romo t e d i n the 93d Foot i Cornet and Sub-Lieut. Gore to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Legge; Lord F. L. Gower to be Cornet and Sub-Lieut., by purchase, vice Gore. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guardi—R. Bolton,gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice . Hunter, promoted.. • • 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Surgeon A. C. Colclough, from half-pay 22d Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice J. O'Connor, who retires upon half-pay. - • Ist Regiment of Foot--Ensign C. Campbell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice W.. wetherall, deceased; Ensign W. Church, from half-pay of the Regiment, to beEnsign, vice Campbell. • 2d ditto—CaPt. J. R. Kell, from. half-pay of the Regiment, to be Captain, vice C. Boyd, who exchanges, receiving the dif ference. 4th ditto—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel A. D. Faunce to be Lieuteriant-COlonel, without purchase, vice Piper, deceased ; Brevet Lient.-Colonel G. D. NVilson, to be Major, vice Faunce; Sergeant-Major R. Mullaly to be Quartermaster, vice Doran, deceased. 10th ditto—Lieutenant S. Broom, from the 67th Foot, to - be Lieutenant, vice 'lll‘Nair, who exchanges. 21st ditto—.-Secnnd Lieut. H. Haveloek, froni the Rifle Bri gade, to be First Lieutenant., by purchase, vice Bridgeman, pronfoted in the 28tir Foot. 30th ditto—Ensign J. Berridge to be Lieut., without pur chase, vice M`Dougall, deceased ; W. 0. Gunning, gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice.Berntige. 40th ditto—W. Stenhouse, gent. to be Ensign, by p urc h ase , vice Dawson, promot e d i n thei 9th Foot. 33d ditto—Brevet Major J. Wheatstone to be Major, with out purchase, vice J.. Giles, deceased • Lieutenant W. Booth to he Captain, vice Wheatstone; '4Theatstone, gent., to . be Ensip ; without purchase, vice Gray, promoted: i9th Ditto—Ensign C. S. Jones,. from • halt-pay 62d Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Barlow, promoted • Ser geant Major W. Ell a ry t o b e Q uartermaster, vice Franklin, deceased. 84th Ditto—Lieut. I. Hart to be Captain, without purchase, vice Ifoorhouse, deceased ; Ensign J. Mulkern,. vice Strange ways, deceased ; and Ensign A. O'Donnell, vice Hart, pro moted to be Lieutenants, without purchase. Ensign W. AM from half-pay 92 Foot, vice Mulkern; and Ensign W. Foley, late of the 45th Foot, vice O'Donnell, td be Ensigns, without purchase. 07th ditto—Lieut. R. M'Nair, from the 10th Foot, to be -Lieutenant, vice Broom, who exchanges. 69th ditto—Gentleman Cadet Hon. R.. Hare, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wetherall, promoted in the 42d Foot. 84th ditto—Lieut. H. - W. S. Stewart, from half-pay 63d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice G. C: Sinith, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference. 87th ditto—Ensign Shipp, vice Bowes, appointed Adju tant ; and Ensign 11. Spaight, vice Dunlevie, deceased, to be Lieutenants, without purchase.' Ensign It. Mends; from half pay Royal African Corps, vice Spaight, to be Ensign. 89th ditto—Ensign C. 0. King to be Lieutenant, without .purchase, vice Chambers, deceased; T. Prendergast, gent., to be Ensign, vice King. Rifle Brigade—H.C. Daniel, gentleman, to be Second Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Havelock, promoted en the 21st Foot. Ist Royal Veteran Battalion—Captain T. Carter, frinn' the late 2d Royal Veteran Battalion ; and Captain R. Mackrell, -from the late 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Captains; Ensign J. Mackay, from the late 3d Royal Veteran Battalion ; and Ensign W. Buchanan, from the late 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, to he Ensigns. 2tl Royal Veteran• Battalion—C a pt a i n T. M'Neill, from the late Bth'Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Captain. • 3d Royal Veteran Battalion—Xnsign G. Boreham, from the late 3d Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Ensign ; Quartermaster W. H. Yelion to be Adjutant. Hospital Staff—Purveyor's Clerk T. E. Pierce to be Deputy Purveyor to the Forces.- Nlemoranda—The appointment of Lord F. L. Gower to a Cornetty, by purchase, in the 10th Light Dragoons, as stated in the Gazette of 24th November last,hias not taken place. The promotion of Second Lieutenant Deare to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, and the appointment of Mr. 11. C. Daniel to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, in the 21st Foot, as stated in the Gazette of 24th November last, have - not taken place. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. • 0. Butcher, Burnham Westgate, Norfolk, farmer. BANKRUPTS. IV. H. Pyne, Nassau-street, Soho, publisher, to surrender Feb.l6, 23, and March 16, at one at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Air. A.Van Sandan, Nicholas-lane, Lombard -street. W. 0. Jackson and W. llardley, Great Surrey-street, Sur rey, linen drapers, Feb. 9; 16, and March 16, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Jones, Size-lane. C. Newman, Brighton, Sussex, dealer in coach lamps, Feb. 5, 12, and M arc h 16, a t t we l ve , at t h e C ourt o f Commissioners. 'Attorney, ?Ir. T. Bennett, Token House-yard. G. Dicker, Dawlish, Devonshire, builder, Feb. 2D, 21, and March 16, at eleven, at the Subser!ption Rooms, Exeter. At tornies, Mr. Brutton, Old. Broad-street, London ; and Mr. C. Brutton, Exeter. • _ W. K . . Coiling, Liverpool, tax collector, Feb. 27, 28, and March 18, at eleven, at the office of Mr. Mawdsley,Lord-street, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr. Mawdsley, Liverpool ; and Mr. Wheeler Castle-street, Holborn. R. Chinnock, From'c Selwood, Somersetshire, builder, Feb. 18, 19, and March 16, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn,.Woolver ttm, Somersetshire. Attornies, Mr. Jeyes, Chancery-lane; and Mr. G. 11. Seymour, Promo. I'. Jarvis, Adclerbury, Oxfordshire, fellmonger, Feb, 12, at three, 13, and March 10, at eleven, at the King's Arius Inn, Deddington, Oxfordshire. Attornies, Mr. Chilton, Chancery lane ; and Messrs. CL , rchill and Field, Deddington. T. Baker, Wolverhampton, Staflbrdshire, mercer, Feb. 15, at four, 16, and March 16, at eleven, at the Whiston Cross, Shropshire. Attornies, Sir. Wood, Wolverhampt o n ; an d Messrs. Williams and White, Old-buildings, Lincoln's Inn. T. Drowse, Axbridge, Somersetshire., surgeon, Feb. 14, 15, and March 16, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. At- Comics, Mr. 0. Edmunds, Exchequer-office of Pleas, Lincoln's Inn; and Mr. J. Russell, Bristol. .T. Hill, Regent-street, Piccadilly, tailor, Feb. 5, 12,, and, • Match 16, at twelve, at the Court of' Commissioners. Attor nies, Sir. H. Rice, Jennyn-street, Piccadilly. AV.- Gill, Skipton, Yorkshire, haberdasher; Feb. 12, 16, and March 'l6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.. Attornies, Messrs. Pownall and Fairthorne,- Old Jewry. Alderson, Liverpool, oil merchant, Feb. 13,• 14, and March 10, at one, at the George . Inn, Liverpool. Attornies, Messrs. Orred, Lowe, and Hurry,. Liverpool; and Messrs. Lowe and Bower, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. R. Jabet, Birmingham, printer, Feb. 21, 22, and March 16, at eleven, at the Woolpack Inn, Birmingham. Attornies, Messrs. Meyrick and Broderick, Red Lion-square ; and Mr. Short, Solihull. A. Roper, Gosport, Southampton, brewer, Feb. 13, at one, 23, and March 16, at twelve, at the Star Inn, Gosport. At tornies, Mr. ilewson, Gosport; and Yr. W. W. Dyne, Lin coln's Inn-fields. J. Bramwell, liaadcnhall-street, hatter, Feb. 5, 16, and illarch 16, at ton, at the Ciurt cf Commissioners. Attornics, Messrs. Shelton and Clark, Old Bailey. DIVIDENDS. March 9, W. Hailstone, Mildenliail, Suffolk, grocer—Feb. 2G, D. Thomas, Oreenwiet, chinaman—Feb. 9, J. Hooper, Tooley-street, Southwark, ehymist —Feb. 23, J. Wettoti, W. James, and T. Payne, jun.,lVood-street, riband manufacturers .—Feb. 5, G. M. Thurkle, New-street-square, Fetter-lane, wine merchant—Feb. 25, E. Massy, Eccicstcn, Lancashire, watchmaker—March 1, . Edwards, 'Warminster, Wiltshire, coal merchant—Feb. 23, J. BY5h, Foternoster-row, bookseller Feb. 23,' S. and . H. S. Crane, Stratford, Essex, merchants— :Feb. 23, W. Enfield an d J. Browne, Norwich, bombasin ma nitfacturersM arch 4, J. Hackett, 'Breedon-on-the-Hill,! Lei cfrtershire lime dealer—M arc h 4, W. H an dl e y, St re t ton - en- l e- Field, Derbyshire,l miller--Feb. 25, W. Bell, Horncastle, Lin colnshire—Feb. 26, J. South, Fulham, plumber—March 2, J. Slater, ill arke-street, Milbank- s t ree t, AVestminster, brewer— Feb. 23, S. T. Thompson, Cannon-street, bootmaker—Feb. 23, I. lie:, Strand, bootmaker—Feb. 27, T. H. Finley, Whittle hills, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer—Feb.23, M Essex, Co ventry, silk manufacturer—Feb. 23, J. D. Rayner, Bow, mast maker—Feb.23, J. Hanne, Bath, cabinetmaker—Feb. 27, W. Temp, Bath, banker--Veb. 20, J, Gorton ; Liverpool, me t ' chant. CERTIFICATES, FEE. 234 F. Lapage, St. Clement's-lane, drysalter--J. Chamberlin/ Bristol, merchant—J. Bates, Bishop's Stortford, Hertford' shire, draper—T. Fossett, and W. Fossett Mincing-lane, rile' chants—T. Atkinson and J. Spark, Newcastle-upon-Tre' linen drapers—T. Volker, Morton Green, Eccles, Lancashire/ manufacturer—M. Rowley, Bear-street, Leicester -s q uare 'dealer—B. Tuck, Th rapston, Northamptonshire, draper --J" M. Binckes, Minories, hay salesman IL Wheatley, Coventilt i silk dyer—G. Lawre nce , Evesham, Vorcestershire victualler —H. Coates, Bracefield, Essex, f a r mer —C. F. For;ter 314 r -. gate, Kent, coal merchant. , PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. • ' 4 . S. Price, W. Ball, and W. T un l ey , so f ar as regards t h e W. TunleyW. JefFerie.s and D. Docg, New Ranelagb-r 4 rd. lead refiners—A. Dawson and E. Rice, Regent Circus, is „v'' dealers—W. He a ld an d T. Pace, Chelmsford, maltster—R.' and H. Pritch a rd, b a k ers —J. Pearse a9d G.•Brauncl, Exete r ' linen drapers—lL Pullford and T. Chambers, Birmingham, linendrapers—J. Power arid E. J. Hopkins, Queen-squsr e l Westminster, man midwives—E. J. Glynn and A. Thomsou, Bodmin, Cornwall, bankers—G. and R. RiC'eants, BrieV rt ' carpenters—J. Choat, and J. Turner, jun., High Ilolborlf trunkmakersD. Bisp, L. Bowsher, and J.. Harris, lithographic printers—J. and C. Barroweliffe and H. C9. 0 ",F,' Bawtry, Yorkshire, timber merchants-;ll. Forster-and' C. Warner, Lime-street, Feneburch-street„ attar:les—G. Bartlt' and J. Packham, Thames Ditton, Surrey, carpenters-:-..L.P: gers and It. Shaw, N o tti ng h am, hosiers—T. • lieugh and Milne, Dean-street, Soho, coach builders—D. Lyon 0,0 - ''• Jones, Little Bolton, Lancashire, timber dealers—L. NortriO''' and A. C. and R. JGrant, London—T. Snepp and ll.Poir.: o ‘ , Cheltenha:n, win e merc h ants— T . and R. 'Hitt:hi:ark, Lav?;• • ham, Suffolk, brewers—A. and T. S. Potter, Manchester — , m Spirik - and T. Webster, Sheffield, joiners LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Frn. Sittings at Nisi Prius before the Loit.D . CltiZr .JusVc s ABBOTT, and a. Common Ju'ry. • MOROAN AND COMPANY V. 121D077T,. This was an action brought by the plaiptiffi, who are Surgeg" , in Soho, against the defendant, a letter -sorter in the foreign Office, to recover a sum o f 211 . f or Surgical attendance on, au;' 21.155. Gd. for medi c i nes f urn i s h e d to the father of the &fen', ant. •It appeared from the evidence of a Mr. Davis, who keel" a Lock-up Ho u s e i n D ean - street, Soho, that the father of defendant was taken in execution for :3 or 4001., and whilit i; custody, - had cut his throat, in two places, with a razor ; that he (Mr. D.) sent for Messrs. Morgans, who dressed t,"' wounds, and attend e d Mr. R. for a considerable time afterwaroP': Mr. Davis sent for the defendant, to communic a t e t o him wh , :; had happen e d ; - and he havin g arrived after th e fi rs t opera ti o n been performed, was told by Mr. D. that it would be necessa%' to procure som e p erson to sit up w i th his father that night ; ' which he repli e d, " L et my f at h er have every attention neecso-, ry, and I shall pay for it. • One , of the plaintiff's was preSebt at this conversation, and sat up with Mr. E. that night. IVV; - •D. relying on this promise, had furnished lr. U. with s evero' necessaries, which the defendant had subsequently paid for.' Mr. Morgan, a surgeon, the brother of one of the proved that he s aw th e woun d s, and that he thought. the proved entitled to five guineas if they lied done nothing . ilic than perform e d th e fi rst operat i on, and that the whole charq was exceedingly mod era t e , as 11:4' brother or th e o th er p/ a h'ti had visited Mr. Ridout three, four, and five times a day for d first fourtpen days. Dr. Stevenson proved that he saw the wounds, and c onsiderc.A the plaintiffs o ug ht t o get ten gu i neas for the first -operation, "r they had never after visited Mr.. ftidout• lie thonght: th t ' whole charge moderate. The .SOLICITOR-GENERAI., for the defendant, conteno that he was not bdund by the. words proved to pay for the•tin' t operation, and that the charge for that must be .deducted fralu the bill. He also submitted to the Jury that, coupling the words spoken by the defendant with Mr. Davis's statement; " that-it would be necessary to have some person to sit up t night" the defendant was not bound to pay for more than the night's attendance. The CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury, who immedisOf returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 211. F STOCKS WEIVE O'CLOCK. A per Cent. Navy Ann. 107ig Bank Long Ann.... 19 9-10t1i6 Excite+ Bills 5 t 3 pr. Cons. fqr Account 76i 774 it i; 3 IN BRIDGE TO-110R RQW- Evening, 30 minutes after 1• PRICE 0. THIS DAY AT T 1 3 per Cent. Red. 77;3 3 per Cent. Cons. 761 77 774 3 i } per Cent. . 88 4 per Cent Kit FRG H WATER AT LONDO Morning, 6 minutes after 1. s u IA • SOLI2JI (JETS DICERE FALSU3I 2 AUDE.IT • LONDON, ilto ND Al; FE BR UARY 4, 1822. We received yesterday the French Papers et Thursday, from which we give Extracts in a preCeding column. In the Chamber of Deputi° s 7 on Wednesday, the whole of the Sitting was 0 C copied in considering the 7th and Bth Articles of the Law for repressing Offences of the Press. -- The 7th Article subjects the Editors of Journals and periodical Writings, for inaccurate reports and wilful misrepresentations of the proceedings n the Legislative Chambers and Courts of La'i•, to a fine of from 1,000 to 6,000 francs for the first offence ; and for the second offence, or i" the event of the report being insulting to both or either of the Chambers, or to one of tie _Members of either Chamber, or abusive of th' Court, the Bench or one of the Magistrate s , Jury Men, or Witnesses, the offenders are, be sides paying the fine, to be condemned to an im prisonment of from one month t) three year-l• In the latter case, the Proprietors or Editors of the condemned .journal or periodical writint may also be interdicted fi•orn publishing the prn ceedings in the Chambers and Courts in feure• On this article the Committee proposed an amendment, that the interdict should be either for a limited time or perpetual, at the discretion of the Court. M. DAUNOU proposed an amend ment, importing that the parties concerned writing or inserting the obnoxious article' shovl4 be subject collectively to a fine of from 1,000 to 3,000 francs, and individually to imprisom-nents for periods of from one month to one year. After a long discussion, marked by the sarnc inteirar tions and personalities as the former debates on this law, and productive of little novelty in - nr: gument, this and several other ami.nciments were rejected, and the 7th Article, as amended by the Committee, was adopted. The Bth Article subjects to imprisonment from fifteen days to two years, and to a fine of frclo 100 to 4000 francs, 1. Seditious cries pubii:'lt uttered. 2. 'l'l►e removal or degradation of file public signs of the Royal Authority, dot.• in hatred or contempt of that authority. :3. T 1 4 ttir. Men t un R 1 11.14 11 11 C;