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HE Right Honourable the LORDS COM MISSIONERS for the AFFAIRS of CHELSEA HOS.. do h ere b y g i ve N ot i ce , that they will be ready to re tli'e re nders, which are to be delivered at the Secretary's w tli n ee on or before Thursday, the 7th Instant, and to treat Tu %Itch Persons as may be willing to contract for VIC- Articles LL lNG the PENSIONERS of the said Hospital during, 4 ar 1823, f or t h e f o ll ow i ng Articles of PROVISIONS, 4rii z ; B eef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Salt, Peas,, ti °4t 'lleal, at per head, per diem, for the whole Ra acc"ding to the established Allowances of the House. for Beer, at per Barrel, and Candles, at. per ttt 4enlbs ." - -Ftirther Particulars may be known by applying the Secretary's Otlice, or to the Seward of the• Hospital, Mo rning between the hours of Ten and Four. th:"„e Co mmissioners also give Notice, that they intend, at ( . t ) 44174 e time; to Contract for CLOTHING the INVALID v . LbiEl tS, &c. belonging to the Hospital, for Two Years, ty hole Mounting for tB.23—Half Mounting for 1 824 . th -4° Persons, therefore, who may be inclined to treat for " En e, are d es i re d t o a pply a t the Secretary's Office, any in g between the hours of Ten and Four, where further . t "teulars may be known, and Patterns seen, by applying iluothe Adjutant of the Hospital, and to send in their Pro wls in writi ng, sca l ed up, to t h e S ecre t ary ' s Office, on or ob ef tore T hursday, the 7th Instant. And it is further to be ri t _ e _ l ' v ed) that t h e C ontractors w ill b e requ i re d t o fi n d secu th7 t or the d ue performance of their several Contracts, an d t i: t n ° rend er w i ll b e rece i ve d a f ter t h e d ay a b ove men te.(l' 4 " any noticed unless the Party or an Agent attend or their behalf. BAST INDIA HOUSg, Oct: 9, . 3822 . - 1, 41, E COURT of -DIRCTORS of the 1. 411 'UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG te I) TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give j,: rila t The COURT will be ready to receive PROPOSALS i h Witi r l g, on or before EDNESDAY, the 6th November for the HIRE for a further Number of VOYAGES of such SHIPS of the Burthen of 1,200 Tons and upwards, tl N 4 9's Measurem ent , as have per f orme d t h e i r con t rac t e d 11 , r il i l l btr of Six Voyages in the Company's regular Service. t o e Tenders, with th e wor d s "Shi p T en d er " on th e C o ver, bet: sev erally sealed up and left with the Secretary, at or . t :TWelv e o'Clock at. Noon, on the said 6th November Teed 1170 ntl which hour the Court will nut receive any The PETER AUGER, A..ii,vant Secretary. the s h .r ar tiettlars of the Terms and Con d i tions under which had u 113 e Will b e engaged for the Company's Se rvice, may be raitt e °I Sh a PPlication at the Office of the Clerk to the Com iPping, on or after Monday next the 14th • t tr iti EAST INDIA HOUSE, Oct. 9, 182 2 . "V '4E COURT of DIRECTORS of the II NITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG - N oti LAN, TR ADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give $ ir:: tt the COURT w ill b e ready to receive PROPOSALS fr ol .ritl9 g, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 6th November an d th e, Owners of SHIPS of the Burthen of 1,200 Tons Pr uliwa tdss Builders Measurement , specifying the Rate of QV at which th ey ma y b e w illi n g to LET such SHIP for °YAGE to CHINA, in the Company's Service. t o he ' re nders, with the words "ship Tender" on the cover tever ally sealed up and left with the Secretary, or °re Twelve o'Clock at Noon, on the said 6th November after which hour no Tender will be received. PETER AUBER, Assistant Secretary.' the P a rticulars o f th e T erm s and Conditions upon which 1, 44 h iPs will be engaged for the Company's Service may be kit t 4 P 44 a pplication at the Office of the Cleik to the Com ' Shipping, on or after Monday next, the 14th inst. PUBLICATIONS. hl ' nay was published, price Ws. 6d. hoards, V INDICATION of the AUTIJENTI ;No i 9TY of th e NARRATIVES contained in the First UKE 4 •.,,l 4 Pters of the Gospels of ST. MATTHEW and ST. 1 ' 4 4 ;; being an Investigatian of Objections urged by the ~'4 11 1( , ,- : 4 11 Editors of the Improved Version of the New Tes qatii,"" with an endix cootaining Strictures on Va. -113 bet veep l e i F irst and Fourth Editions of that Work. ` 4 11' . " By A LAYMAN. 1 °4 rinte I F. C. ad J. irington, o. 6, all : St. :ieluirc P h-vard t • f and Ni.r 3, n Wate ß rloo-place, N Pall- 2 m ""*.......brt he Bo oksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, &c. BISHOP DEHON'S SERMONS. This Day were published, Stainiu.T%_vo 'Volumes, Bvo. price 11. 2s. in boards, Gr U . NS on the PUBLIC MEANS of dte Sri Y-E; the Fasts and Festivals of the Church addle C har a cters, various practical Subjects ; to which It y Two Sermons on Confirmation. ' e tor of e ,,'ale Right Rev. THEODORE DEHON. D .D. . t he p„M. Michael's Church, Charleston ; - and Bishop of viirro . - °L estaiit Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South .. ro ;la. 14 ( lh e t t dherwith some account of the Author ; and a Sermon 4rits on occasion of his death. Wat t i n Re-printed tnall, in London for F. C. and .1. Riving. Pall- and St. Paul's Church-yard. Th e s This Day was published, of eand Edition, corrected, price 11. 2s. it!hoards, ,I II: A'',,CLERICAL GUIDE, or ECCLES - ‘ C i t s t f,; 'CAL DIRECTORY, containing a complete Itegi- Otc o l, t ,''e Present Prelates and other Dignitaries of the 1.14 ,'.England • of the Heads of Houses, Professors, , &c. •i 1,," 1 . st Vbrersities, and other Colleges and Public Schools ; 6 41 s ail the Benefices and Chapelries in England and ti lu e t es , _ :rra riged Alphabetically in their several Counties, t ae / li , Are lideaconries, &c. The Names of their respec i li the s ett°ll3ents with the date of their Institution,—t . he r tg A f t he Pit' l'kti• n l / 4 )l 6 a betica ' l r i ° ' " ' " BLc. ' B An n d efi a c n es ppendix, contain. A which are in the il lici g ti i ::;f the Crown,istof those Benefices Deans, and Chapters, e4 - rititil ',Ohne Bodies.Urch. lar d ' o r P. C. and J. Rivington, No. 61, Saint Paul's and NV. 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. VETERINARY COLLEGE, MR. COLEMAN will begin his COURSE of LECTURES on the. ANATOMY, PHYSIO• LOGY, and PATHOLOGY of the HORSE, on MONDAY ) the I Ith of November, at Twelve o'Clock. RICH WHEEL. CARROLL begs to inform hisTriends and the Public that there was NO CAPITAL PRIZE above One Thousand Pounds Drawn the First Day; the Wheel therefore contains 114 CAPITALS, including all the Highest Prizes. as under—the s hole of which are Floating, and therefore may be Drawn NEXT TUESDAY, the Second Day. 3 •• • 10,000 119 5,000 19 , 3 'rickets and Shares, warranted Undrawn, are on Sale at CARROLL'S Old and Fortunate Offices, 19, CORNHILL, and 26, OXFORD-STREET, where he Sold, in recent Lot teries, FIVE of 230,000 and FIVE of £20,000 ! TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. SOTHEBY, at I;iSlitm se, WELLINGTON-STREET, WATERLOO BRIDGE, STRAND, on WEDNESDAY, November 6, and Four following Days (Sunday excepted), at Twelve o'Clock, THE LIBRARY of the late GENERAL D'AUBANT, removed from his Residence in Devon shire-place; containing a GOOD SELECTION of CLASSICS, VOYAGES, MATHEMATICS, and MILITARY WORKS. To be viewed, and Catalogues (price Is.) to be had at the Place of Sale. THE CRIMINAL CODE. Sir Joie N EIVIIO LT, the able and worthy Chair man of the Sessions for Hampshire, at the last Session, ex plained the alterations which had been made in the Criminal Levi of the Country in the course of the last Session of Par liament. He remarked, that as no man• could plead ignorance of the Law, to excuse the violation of its prohibitions, it , was but justice to the community to promulgate its enactments on every occasion that offered. The Chairman then lamented the manifestations which had been lately exhibited, both in this and a neighbouring county, of that mad and mischievous spirit which instigates men, from the mere love of destruction, to set fire to the barns and houses, which contained the fruits of the honest labour of their neighbours. He expressed his earnest hope that the perpetrators of such diabolical outrages would be discovered and brought to punishment ; but in the mean time he thought it ought to be publicly known, that by an Act passed early in the last sessions of Parliament, the sufferers by these acts had a summary means afforded them of recovering damages for the injuries, so recieved by them, ,where they did not exceed thirty pounds, instead of having recourse to the more circuitous and expensive mode of obtaining them by an action at law. The mode pointed out by the Act is, for the parties to give notice to the chief officer of the district where the loss is sustained, who is directed there upon to summons the local Magistrates to hold a Petty Sessions, they having a power given them to direct a compensation to the persons so complaining of the destruction of their property (within the sum specified), out of a fund to be raised in the manner re,. tivul"wly po;ntoct out by the Act. The next statute the Chairman drew the attention of the Grand Jury to, was the 40th of the King, which appeared, by the title, to be an Act that had f',>r its object to consolidate into one Act, and amend all the Vagrant Laws. The Chairman said, as those laws were very peculiarly connected with the Courts of Quarter Session, he should think it his duty to state the provisions of it some. what at length. He said, in the first place it appeared that the Legislature had by this Act abolished all former Laws relative to Vagrants, with the exception of those concerning Lunatic vagrants, and the removal of poor persons born in Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and Jersey. The Act, he said, then proceeded to enact, that all persons who threatened to run away and leave their wires and children chargeable' to any parish, and all persons who should be able to work, and should neglect so to do, by which fault their families should become chargeable to the parish ; and all persons who should return to a parish after an order of removal, and should there become chargeable, without producing a certificate owning them to be settled elsewhere; and all common prostitutes walking in the public streets, might, on conviction before any of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, be sent to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding 1 month. —The Act then designates certain offenders who were deemed rogues and vagabonds, if they should again commit any offence under this Act • and enacts, that all such persons, after they had been adjudged rogues and vagabonds, if they should again commit any offence under this Act, should be deemed incor rigible rogues. He said, the difference of punishment in the two classes of cases was, that the first were subjected to deten tion in the House of Correction, and there kept to hard labour for six months, while offenders of the latter class might be com mitted for any time not exceeding a year, or less than 6 months, and during that time, in the case of males, to be corrected by whipping. For the purpose of facilitating the execution of this Act, all houses kept for the reception of poor travellers, were liable to be searched, and suspected persons brought before a ' Magistrate, who had a power given them to bind persons by recognisance to prosecute vagrants at Sessions. He said there was also a penalty on constables, and on all persons who, being ordered by a .Justice to assist in the execution of this Act, should neglect so to do : on the other hand, the Justices could order a reward, not exceeding .ss. to the persons apprehending such offenders. The Chairman then observed, that all persons who were committed to 'prison under this Act, were to be kept to hard labour, as a consevence of such commitment. He said he had before occasion to observe to the Jury on the beneficial effects of employing prisoners during their con finement, which was also exemplified at the present Ses sions by the smallness of the calendar; and the Legis lature had, on this account, extended the right of the ' Sessions to commit to hard labour, as well in cases of misdemeanours as of felonies. He said there were two other important laws , _ relative to the criminal code, which he wished to notice to them ; the one related to the offence of re deiving stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen, anti the other to robberies committed by servants on their masters. With regard to the first, it was in their knowledge that the stealing bonds, notes, and that description of property, which was tech nically called a choscs in action, was made felony, and put on the same footing as a larceny'committed on any other goods and chattels ; but hitherto the receiving such property when stolen had not been an offence like the stealing other goods and chattels. To correct this anomaly in the law the 3d of the pre sent King had been passed, which extended the law against receivers of stolen goods to receivers of bonds and other secu rities for money : The last Statute the Chairman noticed was of the same Session, which, to prevent the serious detriment to which masters were subject by the depredations of their ser vants, a facility for committing which was afforded by the na ture of their connection, increased the punishment, to which they were now liable (where the case was not capital), by enact ing that it should be at the discretion of the Court before whom such offenders should be convicted, to adjudge them either to be transported for any teem not exceeding fourteen years, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceed ing three years. He noticed another most important provision in this Act, which enabled the Court to punish persons advis ing children or others to commit thefts, by transportation for seven years, or by imprisonment and hard labour for any term not exceeding three years. All accessories before the fact were also subjected by this Act to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years, and this, although the principal felons were not previously convicted of such felony. CAMPAIGNS IN THE CANADA.S. ( Continued from yesterday's. Sc st.) We have now to revert to the operations of the numerous force which the enemy had, early in October, concentrated at Socket's Harbour • but some notice of the few preceding events of the year in Lower Canada will first be necessary. The enemy, at the opening of 1013, commanded the waters of Lake Champlain, on which we had no naval force, nor did Sir George Prevost use the slighteSt exertion to create one.. A fortunate accident; however, threw into our hands two American sloops of 11 guns each, which, incautiously approaching too near to the Isle-aux-noix, were boarded and gallantly captured by a part of that garrison in boats. After this success, Colonel Murray, whose subsequent meritorious services we have de tailed, and who then commanded at the Isle-aux-noix, embark ed about 1,000 men in batteaux, - ander convoy of the sloops, to harrass the enemy's posts on the shores of the lake. General Himpton, who, with the numerous forte which had been under the orders of Dearborn on that frontier, in the preceding year, had remained inactive during the present summer, now quietly suffered Colonel 'Murray to land and burn the block-houses and extensive barracks at Plattsburg, a post which, in the fol lowing year, became unfortunately more famous. After other successful descents upon the enemy's the Colonel returned without loss to his station. In the autumn, the American usbinet projected a serious in vasion of Lower anada by a simultaneous attack from Sackett's Harbour and the shores of Lake Champlain. The plan was judiciously conceived, but it was most wretchedly marred in execution. It was proposed that General Wilkinson should assemble a force of ten thousand men at Sackett's 'Harbour, with a view either of attacking Kingston, if he found it prac ticable, or, if not, of deceiving the British into an opinion that he designed an attempt upon it. He was then suddenly to drop down the St. Lawrence with his whole force, in concert with General Hampton's advance from his frontier, to capture Montreal, to lock up the British in his rear to starve or surren ' der, or to oblige them to follow him without artillery, baggage, or provisions, and eventually to lay down their arms.' As General Hampton could, assemble 6,000 men, the whole Ame rican force to unite in this project would not be less than 16,000 regular troops. The arrival of two regiments from the Niagara at Kingston, and the intelligence possessed by the enemy that the remainder of General Vincent's force was di rected to retreat to that fortress, probably prevented any real attack upon it; but the latter circumstance induced the enemy to dispatch all their disposable force with confidence from Fort George to Sackett's Harbour, where, before the middle of Octo ber, 10,000 men of all arms, with 30 pieces of light artillery and a battering train, were assembled, together with upwards of three hundred large boats for the transport of the expedition. General 'Wilkinson being now completely prepared, instructions were issued to General Hampton to force his way immediately to the banks "of the St. Lawrence and unite with General. Wilkinson's army. We have already observed that the Isle aux-noix commands the only entrance into the lower province from bake Champlain by which heavy artillery and stores can advance. , The route by which Hampton was necessitated to invade the province was so difficult that his engineers were compelled to cut a road as they proceeded for his field-pieces, and Lieutenant-Colonel de Saluberry, who commanded our outposts, had increased the obstacles before the enemy by felling trees and constructing abattis on their line of march. Had the difficulties of the enterprize been less, however, neither Hamp ton nor his troops were of a character to surmount them. They crossed the boundary of the British possessions on the 21st of October, and on the 20th fell in with the pickets of the British advance, which were covering a working party of peasants em ployed at the abattis on the River Chateaugay. Here, behind these defences, Lieutenant-Colonel tie Saluberry collected three hundred Canadian fencibles and militia, and with this hand ful of men, without a regular soldier, resolutely maintained his post during the day against two brigades of the enemy, who attacked him on opposite banks of the river, under Hampton in person. The assailants were at least twenty to one, but Hampton mismanaged the attack most unaccountably, and his troops behaved with the greatest cowardice **. Towards night. fall they retreated precipitately, • and their two colums, in retir ing through the woods, commenced by mistake a destructin n. i upon vista, 1.• .V part of the night. On the following morning, Hampton con tinued his retreat, and made no halt until he regained the Ame rican territory. General Wilkinson, in the mean time, ignorant of the re. treat of his colleague, had commenced his advance into the British provinces. On the same day on which the skirmish was fought at Chateaugay, the fleet of boats containing his army quitted Sackett's Harbour and entered the St. Lawrence on their proposed descent to Montreal. Sir .James Yeo, who had returned to Kingston with the fleet early in October, distributed part of his crews into gun-boats to watch the enemy's movements, and hang on their rear. At the same time a corps of observation of about 800 men, under Lieut.- Colonel Morrison, a distinguished officer, was dispatched from Kingston with a similar view. The enemy continued to descend the river,' and during; the night of the 6th of Nov., having silently passed Fort Wellington with litttle loss from the few guns of that work, landed on the following day about 2,500 cavalry and infantry under Gen Brown, to march down the Canadian hank, and to clear it of our troops, though there was between Fort Willington and Coteau-du-lac no Bri tish force to oppose them except a few militia. Brown, there fore, advanced to the village of Cornwall, about 80 miles from Montreal and half that distance from Coteau-du-lac ; mean while Col. Morrison rapidly came up with the enemy's rear, which he was indefatigable in harrassing, at the same time that our gunboats ,frequently . cannonaded their flotilla,-though con voyed by a superior naval fore. Besides the advance under Brown, the enemy, in the evening of the 9th, landed an other body of about 2,500 men of the elite of their army, cavalry and infantry, with six field-pieces, under General Boyd, to cover the rear of the expedition from Colonel Morrisons s as saults, which soon became so troublesome, that Wilkinson, who was sick in his boat, sent orders to Boyd to counter march, attack Colonel Morrison, and take his artillery. As Boyd returned up the river for the purpose of executing these courageous instructions, Colonel Morrison retired before him until he gained a position, at a place called Chrystler's Farm, where lie had previously resolved to await the enemy's attack if they should turn upon him. Here about two o'clock on the afternoon of the 11th of November, the American corps of 2,500 men,__ with six guns, advanced in three columns to the attack of the British position, and, after an obstinate conflict of two hours, gave way at all points, with a loss of about 400 men in killed and wounded, and among the former a general officer, besides 100 prisoners and a six-pounder ; our loss did not amount to 200 men. Immediately after-the action, the enemy retired hastily down the river to Cornwall. There Wilkin son's whole force was again united, but he bad scarcely ar rived, before he received intelligence of the repulse of Hamp ton at Chateaugay. He needed not this pretext for aban doning the purpose of the expedition. He was alarmed at the issue of the affair at Chrystler's, and at the hostile disposition of the inhabitants of the country. Colonel Morrison was again hanging on ,his rear, while the militia assembling in force threatened his flank. His followers were equally terri fied with himself, and a council of war having determined that the enterprize should be suspended, the whole army, on the 12th of November, hastily retired to their own shore, and began to fortify themselves for protection against the small face opposed to them: If the Commander-in-Chief had then dis patched forward the troops assembled at Coteau-du-lac, to make a combined movement with Colonel Morrison against Wilkinson during his panic, a good account might have been given of his army ; but, as usual, he hesitated, and placed his troops in winter-quarters until the enemy had quietly withdrawn into the interior; then, and not until then, he Sent Colonel Morrison over ink ebruary to burn their boats, which were frozen up in the Salmon river opposite to Cornwall. In summing up the events of the campaign of 1813, one of the most striking facts is, that of all the conquests which the enemy are known to, have proposed, the destruction of our naval depot, so injudiciously laid open to their attack, at York, was the only part in which they were permanently successful ; and, instead of expelling us from the Niagara line, they had, on the last day of December, lost all their own posts on that river. They had however been most fortunate where they co u ld' l east hope for advantage; the imbecility of Sir George Prevost had enabled diem to regain the Michigan country, and to acquire both the naval ascendancy on Lake Erie, and the command of its shores ; ' but they -failed most disgracefully in, their com bined and simultaneous invasion of Canada and attempt upon Montreal. We do not mean to assert that the forces un- It may give some idea of American bombast to know that the editor of the ' Albany Register compliments tie brave Hampton and his Spartan band' for their feats at Chateaugay : and this too without meaning it in irony. der Lieutenant-Colonels Morrison and De Salubeiry were in themselves the sole cause of the repulse of Wiikinson and Hampton ; but it is both strictly true, and most ho nourable to our brave troops, that the whole strength of the two corps which sustained the assaults of 16,000 American soldiers, did not exceed 1,200 men. The conduct of Hampton and his troops was such as to baffle all military criticism ; and compared with them, Wilkinson and his followers were skilfid and resolute; but even the expedition from Sackett's Harbour was deplorably conducted. Such is the rapidity of the current of the St. Lawrence, that, assisted by the wind, the passage from Fort Wellington to Montreal (120 miles) is frequently ef fected in batteaux in sixteen hours ; yet, though Wilkinson had a favourable breeze after passing Fort Wellington, be lin gered for six days between that place and Cornwall, a distance of less than fifty miles, in landing, and embarking detachments, without the slightest necessity, at the critical period when every prospect of success depended upon the celerity of his move ments. If he had made no halts, Col. Morrison's corps could not have overtaken him : he would then have had only the force at Coteau-du-lac to contend with—but, if his troops could not rout one-third of their numbers at Chrystler's, it perhaps was of little moment what plan he pursued. (To be continued.) IRELAND. BY THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. A PROCLAMATION. JOHN SMITH FLEMING, Whereas the decoration of the statue of King William, in College-green, has been for some time past the occasion of dis sensions and animosities amongst the inhabitants of Dublin, and, in many instances, productive of violations of the public peace : And whereas it appears, by information upon oath, that, in con sequence of the decoration of the said statue on the 12th of July cast, a tumultious mob assembled in the early part of the night of the said day, and continued in a state of riot and disturbance of the public peace for some hours, during which period several of his Majesty's subjects received, in consequence thereof, se rious bodily injuries; and the,inhabitants of College-green and its vicinity were kept in a state of great personal apprehension and alarm : And whereas it further appears, by the said infor mations upon oath, that there is reason to believe that there will be a repetition of the like disturbances, if the said statue shall be decorated upon the approaching Anniversaries of the 4th and sth days of November next : Now, I, the said Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin, do hereby give this Public Notice, that, as Chief Magistrate of this City, I shall feel it my bounden duty to guard, as far as I possibly can, against the recurrence of similar disorders and infractions of the public peace ; and, for that purpose, to prevent, by all the legal means in my power, the decoration of' the said statue, or the affixing thereto any emblem, ornament, or device whatever, with a view to the said approaching Anniversaries, and to bring to public justice all offhnders in that respect. And Ido most con fidently hope that all the loyal, peaceable, and well disposed of my fellow citizens will concur in giving effect to this my Pro clamation. And Ido further hope that - in thus following the will and benignant instructions of his Majesty, and avoiding thii cause of irritation, we shall set an example, which, by uniting all classes in support of his Majesty's Government, may restore the public tranquility, redeem the character, and pro mote the prosperity of the country in general. Given at the Mansion-house, this 31st day of Oct. 1821 By order, A. TAI LOR, Secretery. CITY, MONDA EVENING. The Prevoyante, Antwerp ship, from Havan nail, was captured by pirates off the Collorados on the 14th July, was entirely plundered of her valuable cargo, and was burnt on the 14th of August. Mails have arrived at the Post-office this morning from Franc; Flanders, Holland, and Lisbon, but they do not communicate any politic l jq~g3li~o~~~Rfo j'AP.VOIWRA ewaveh Siv.rek;-.BL.Veta-; state, that a generous spirit of devotion to their country had arisen in the Morea ; and that all the Grecian male population had joined the military service, and thus done what in them lay to accomplish the liberation of their illustrious country. From Lis bon, on the contrary, private advises are not so favourable. The Kingdom of Portugal will not surrender her rights in the Bra zils, and another expedition of 1500 men was about to proceed to Bahia—.vain effort ! The communications from Verona are so far satisfactory, that the maintenance of peace for the present may be considered certain. The Holy Allied Despots cannot take one step against the liberties of mankind which will not produce results very different from their intentions ; and it is well known that the Emperor AranwiDEß will make the de liberations as short as possible. His return to St. Petersburgh on the 15th December at the latest, is calculated on. He feels deeply hurt at Austrian and English interference in his views on Turkey, and his ueople are equally . indignant at the high tone held by the Sublime Empire against the efforts of Russia in favour of the Grecian Christians in European Turkey.— His army on the Pruth is literally without clothing, and, at tlic present moment, cotton-shirting for the officers, at 6d. per yard, or about I Bd. a shirt, is shipping in London to supply the wants of Russian Gentlemen. What would the Dandies at the Horse- Guards say to tin 18d. shirt? From St. Petersburgh the letters are dated on the I4th ult. At that time the Exchange was 10 1-32 on London, and about 2,000 casks of tallow had been bought at 110 roubles. It is considered that this purchase completes the time bargains of an extensive importer, and will enable him to deliver, with little loss, all his contracts to the great speculators, without pay ing them any differences. This was a holiday at the Stock Exchange, but some time bargains were effected-on the Royal Exchange at rather higher prices. Consols opened at 82i for the November settlement, and closed at 82+ buyers. In Foreign Securities the business done has been unusually small. The Spanish have again de clined. The priests and smugglers are certainly more nume rous than was expected ; but still the friends of Spanish liberty will soon put them down, if the Holy Alliance does not take the part of their Pioneers of the Faith. The Colombian Bonds are also again lower. It would be well if those who put forth statements on the subject were to authenticate them by their names, that the public might know the authority to which they are entitled. The general prices this day are as follow :- -French * Five per Cents. Dividend from 22d Sept. 93 25. Spanish * Five per Cents. of 1820, Dividend from Ist Nov. 8113. Ditto Five per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from I•st Nov. 698 # Ditto Scrip, 3i prem. • Russian * Six per Cents. Dividend from Ist .July, 82. Ditto *Five per Cents. (metall.) Div. from Ist Sept. 83. Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept., 88. Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1818 (sterling) Dividend from ISt Oct., 881. Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 881 a . Austrian * Five per Cant. (metall.) Div. from I st Feb. 88. Neapolitan • Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from Ist July, 80i I. Ditto Scrip, 824. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist Julv, 91i 9. *Ditto Banco Marks, Dividend frcm Ist July, 8 Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist May, 821. 934 32i anion Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from lit Oct. 83i . . Peruvian Loan, 86. . Poyais, 79. Marked * are subject to the rate of Exchange. —( Morning Chronicle.) At a Meeting of the Commissioners of Taxes, acting for the Division of (Jilting East, held at Scorton, on the 25th tilt., four Collectors of Taxes were fined for not attending the Receiver-General on the day appointed by him for the pay ment of taxes due the lOth ult. ; ananti at a similar Meeting, held at Richmond on the 26th, several Collectors were fined for the same offence. Meetings of Landholders have been held in some of the Scotch counties, to consider of the present state of the Agricultural Interest, and Committees appointed, who are to . send Deputies to a General Committee in Edinburgh, to consult on the best means of obtaining relief from the pressure of the times. TYTHES There is no subject which has been more ex posed to the rancour of Party than that of isfT/lES ) and as we have never found it more satisfactorily explained, and its true foundation more ably defended, than by the Rev. Mr. CATte aELL, Rector of Wallasey, in Cheshire, in a late pamphlet written by that Gentleman, entitled " The Rights of the English Clergy asserted, &c. &c.," in answer to " Remarks on the Con sumption of Public Wealth, by the Clergy of every Christian Nation," we are persuaded that we shall highly gratify,not only our Ecclesiastical Readers, but all sound Protestants, in presenting to them the following extract from that interest- ing and valuable tract : • " In the first place," (says the Reverend writer, p. 4,) " think you have to shew what you mean by the consumption' of wealth by the Clergy. In common conversation, clergymen are talked of as a species of locust, filling their bellies with the fruit of the ground, like that great and strong people which the Prophet Joel describes, as desolating the fertile valleys of Ju dea, with the land as the garden of Eden before them, and be hind them a desolate wilderness;' and your use of the word con sumption conveys to my mind the same meaning. It seems to im ply, that the wealth enjoyed by the Clergy is destroyed by them, without communicating any benefit to the rest of the community.; for you say, the Clergy are not the producers of wealth, they are the consumers of that produced by others ;' a truism which would hardly havebeen worth mentioning, unless it had been meant to draw from it some conseqUences disparaging to the class of men of whom it was spoken. The Clergy certainly are not the producers of wealth, but how, in this respect, do. they differ from any of the unproductive classes—the physician, the lawyer, the gentleman, or the Peer ? And how, in this re: spect, could they be changed, unless it is wished to make them at once productive and unproductive labourers, like some Chris tian Ministers, who mends shoes and save souls at the same time? We never hear of the consumption of public wealth by the No bility and Gentry of the land ; on the contrary, they are cone sidered, especially if they reside upon their'estates, as-the dise Timers of opulence and comfort to all around them and in deed, it may fairly be said, that no wealth is consumed - in a bad sense, but such as is actually lost to the community by whose labour it is produced. The produce of the land and labour of every country is destined to replace capital or produce revenue. That which replaces capital is the most valuable, as it pays the wages of productive labour only ; that which . produces revenue, is uncertain in its value, inasmuch as it main: tains indifferently productive or unproductive labourers. But that which is squandered upon foreign artists, singers, and dancers at home, to be by them carried off and spent in their own countries ; or that which is disposed of by abe sentees abroad, is absolutely and totally lost, and the country derives no benefit from it whatever. For this reason, therefore, the wealth of the Clergy, which must generally, and ought always to be spent at home, and none of it lavished upon foreigners, is certainly as well, probably better, spent than that of the laity ; and the community profits equally, probably . more, from its distribution. " In the next place, I think you should shew by what logic you prove private property to be public wealth. The property of the Church is as much private property as that of any cor poration or any individual in the realm—certainly as much as that of the lay impropriators .1 and the condition upon which it is held, of performing certain ministerial duties, no more makes it public property than the condition ofperforming certain mill.. tary and civil services does that of the laity. Every man holds his property upon conditions : he is obliged to fill certain offices, and to perform military service by himself, or a deputy, if re quired : but his property does not thereby become a part of the public wealth, neither does ours." " I am no prophet" (continues the Author) " and therefore a nd ;h - reeahnity of the financial crisis which is there and funded prupeql . ,tu.g_ case, no doubt. the liOlders. of all real course, and doubtless will, cheerfully bear their part : but cir cumstanced as England is, and implicated as her church pro perty is by means of lay impropriationa with the strongest interests of the State, I do most joyfully disbelieve the extreme probability of its approaching sacrifice, and do most solemnly deny that such a sacrifice can everhonourably or justly be made. For, strange as it may appear to those who affirm that the property of our Ecclesiastical corporations is justly transferable at the caprice of the Legislature, I consider it to be as inalienae ble as that of any individuals in the State : that the income which we derive from it can no more be considered a burden upon the community than the rent of the landlord, and that it is as illogical to talk of the wealth expended upon the Clergy as it would be to talk of that expended upon the Nobility and Gentry of the land. The Clergy inherit their property by a title more ancient than that of the most ancient family in the king dom. They draw their tithe trom the land by the same right that the landlord draws his rent, and spend it as usefully, per haps more so ; and if you compel them to co tribute the pro ceeds oftheir freeholds singly to the exigencies of the State, you can do so by no law but that of the strongest. " More fully to comprehend the Violation of justice which would be committed by transferring to the people by a forced sale the freeholds of the Clergy, we have only to inquire whence the appropriation of those freeholds in most instances had its origin. Upon the first establishment of Christianity, the owners of lands built churches for themselves and their vassals, and the lord snaking use of that liberty .which he enjoyed previous to the settlement of parochial tithes in A.D. 1200, of granting his tithes or lands to any Ecclesiastical Body or per. son that he pleased, settled a certain portion of them for the maintenance of a Minister, whom he thus appointed superin tendent over the manor of which he was lord, and which was thereby constituted a parish ; so that the extent of a manor and a parish are ordinarily the same. The endowment being thus originally the gift of the landlord can never by any elle doW of justice be transferred to the people : the subsequent possessors of the property have the same indefeasible right, and every contract which has been made for the purchase of land since the first infeudation of tithes has been made subject to this invariable provision. Thus, in the parish of which your humble Correspondent is the unworthy minister, a certain William de Walley did some time before the year 1182 give to the Abbey of St. Werburgh, which furnished an incumbent, a mediety . of the church of 'Wallasey, cum omnibus pertie neqtibus in puram eleemosinam :' and perhaps about the same time gave to the priest thereof for ever certain fields, now my glebe. Now let me ask what possible right the land or fund holders of this realm can have to enjoy any part, however small, of this property, which was absolutely given away in puram eleemosinam above 600 years ago by 'William de MTalley ; which was secured nearly three centuries ago to my predeces sors as their sole property, under the most clear anti undeni able sanctions of the Legislature ; which has been recognized as theirs ever since, and employed by them in the same man ner, and perhaps to better purposes, than the other rents of the kingdom have been devoted to. The tenants of course can have no right, neither would they in any case lie freed from a tax, which formed an integral part of their contract with their landlords. The landlords can have no right to be freed from a tax, subject to which they either inherited their estates or bought them for a less price than they otherwise would have . given ; and certainly they who have no land at all, have no right whatever to seek relief from fbur millions of taxes by the spoliation of a neighbou4, merely because that neighbour hap pens to be a priest instead of a layman, and to)preac.h in church on a Sunday, instead of going to sleep in it. Nolman inherits, or has purchased, or holds land that was not antecedently ' subject to tithes. Therefore the Cleagy does not claim any thing that ever belonged to any present proprietor of land e of whatever kind his title may be.' Men of fortune,' says Bi shop Watson, grudge the Clergy their due by laws which ' were made long before they or their ancestors , possessed their estates : this grudging is as evidently founded in injustice, as if all the copyholders of the kingdom were to demand an ex ' emption from the payment of the lord's rents to which their ' estates have for many centuries been subject.' " This payment, however, is a burthen which, according to your doctrine, the community have a right to be freed from in these times ofi difficulty. But I ask why ? why of this More than rent, which is a burthen too ? and one of the same Sort ; for it is a gross misrepresentation to say that tithes are generally taken in kind ; they are more generally leased for a term of years, and therefore do not increase with the gross income.— They increase with the improvement of cultivation, and rents do the same ; they raise the price of produce, and rents do the same : they belong to one class of proprietop, and rents belong