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FOREIGN IN fELLIGENCE. PARIS, JAN. 9. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, JAN. 8. The Committee on the Budget is the only Committee that assembled this day. The Committee to which the examination of the proposed law on the periodical press is re ferred, has adjourned to Thursday next. The Fettileton, No. 26, contains a summary analysis of the petitions which are to be reported by MM. Coupigny and Bazin, in the first public Sitting after the loth. It is not probable that there will be any public Sitting before Friday. it is said that M. Chifflet is appointed Re , porter of the Committee on the offences of the press.—(3ionite,ur, Jan. 9.) We have received accounts from :Petersburgh of the It) h of December, from the best authority, which co. tra Pict the reports of war, with which :he Journals of Europe have entertained us for ;:arae time past.--(Gaz-ette de France.) FRENCH FUNDS. f. 95 c. ..1340 f. c. • Jan. 8, Five per Cents • Bank stock.... VIENNA, DEC. '29.—Since the arrival of the last courier from Constantinople, fresh hopes have been formed of the preservation of peace between Russia and the Porte. It is firmly be lieved that, according to the proposed arrange uwrlts, the Turks will evacuate Walachia and ivloldavia, and accede to the other conditions proposed by Russia. There are per:ions vho pretend that the Russian Ultimatum has been accepted with some modifications ; but the silence. of our journals induces us to await the confirmation of this news.—( Universal Gazette.) On the 12th, the ratifications of the treaty concerning the free navigation of the Rhine were exChatiged at Dresden, in the house. of Count de Palfy, our Envoy to the Court of Saxony. The execution of the treaty will commence from the Ist of March, 1822. OnEssA, Dec. 16..—We have received letters from Constantinople of the 9th of this month. They announce that the Ministers of the Porte, ;ter having received the memoir Of Lord Strang ford, who since its transmission had frequent conferences with the Reis Effendi, have suddenly changed their language, and manifested senti ments of a more conciliatory nature than those expressed by them at the close of November.— Lard Strangford has again acquired great in fluence with the Divan, and negociations have recommenced; yet it will be a difficult matter, in the opinion of many, to terminate this affair amicably. FRANKFORT, JAN. 4.—lt is asserted that the King of Wurtemburg is to repair immediately to Petersburgh.—[Here follows a blank, the con tents of which are suppressed by the Censorship.' —The Polish soldiers are full of ardour for the cAlise of the Greeks ; but nothing can equal the eri'.husiasm of the ladies of -Warsaw. They write front Vienna that the Paellas of Orsowa, Widdiri, and Belgrade, are actually in correspondence with the Austrian military autho rities, to whom they communicate the oflicial news which reaches them from Constantinople. it has been a matter of surprise that the Authian which plblishes all news favourable to Turks, should have been quite silent on the d'it;patJtcs received by Prince ,Nietternich on the c27th December from Baron Lebzeltern, the Aus trian Minister at Petersburgh. TRIESTF, DEC... 23.—A report from Corfu, which wants co n fi rma ti on , says that Sir Thomas 11 1 Gooder,. the Commandant of Tripolizza, has been poisoned and is dead. The poison was prepared by an enemy. NriREMBERG, JAN. 2.—We learn from the Frontiers of Italy that the whole of Northern lhania has revolted from the Turks and pro c.iaimed its independence. VENICE, DEC. 23.—The sentence returned in the thi - rd instance by the Senate of Lombardy, against 31 individuals, accused of having conspir ed. as Carbonari against the Government, is pub ished, the result or. which is as follows: Sobe:a, (Judge) at Lovera ; Forest', ditto, at Crispino ; Munari, Villa, Bachiega, l'Abbe For tin;, Count Oroboni, Marquis Canonici, Delfini, Cecchetti, Monti, and caravieri, have ail .been condemned to death for high treason. The nineteen others accused have been acquitted of the same accusation, but have been condemned to one, four, and six months' imprisonment, for a transgression against the police laws of the king 'dom.—On the 29th of October, the Emperor of Austria confirmed the sentence, but under the title of indulgence, commuted to several years of , imprisonment in irons the sentence of death against Bachiega, Fortin', Oroboni, Canonici, Del . fini, €linaldi, Cecchetti, Monti, and Caravieri. Thw,p who are foreigners are to be banished from the Austrian dominions after suffering their sea , tence.—As to the three others condemned to death, viz.—the two Judges Sobera and Foresti, and Munari, his Majesty, by a new decision, dated the 11th of December, has in like way commuted their sentence, under the. title of pardon,, to twenty-one_ years' imprisonment in irons, which they are to' endure'in the Castle of Spielberg, where the first mentioned individuals are to,:be confined 10 years each. Those con demned to the lesser punishment will be shut up in the,castle of Laybach. Tke commis4ion is at present occupied with the process against several other Italians, suspected ert`Carbonarisrn, -and who have been arrested at Milan and other cities. FRONTIERS OF ITALY, DEC. 27.—The'report is renewed that Patras has been taken by the 'l,lreeks by storm. It is certain that an English vessel has brought the news of the taking of ' Canea (in the district of the same name in the island of Candia) by the Creeks. The fall of the capital, which is also blockaded ou the sea side by'llydriot vessels, is inevitable. AMSTER DAM, JAN. 3.-A brig bearing the Fmaiish . flag stranded. yesterday morning near Kykditin,..tinder the jurisdiction of the Helder and Huisduinen. The crew is supposed to have perished. A boat has been driven on shore with the name " Heron" painted on it, and also a par cel of goods, consisting of bales of cotton, marked S. P.; some hales of cocoa and cinnamon, Marked with a square (or lozenge,) with a W. in the middle. The whole is put under the strictest quarantine. SPAIN. MADRID, DEc. 30. —The Provincial Deputa tion, the Magistrates, and the National Militia, have addressed the following Representation " TO THE CORTES. _ " The Provincial Deputation of Cadiz, which was lately under the disagreeable necessity of interrupting the labours of the National Con gress, to state the complaints and the fears of this province, and of all the Spanish people, now raises with the most lively joy its voice towards that same Congress to manifest sentiments of per sonal gratitude and, at the same time, of public gratitude, for the - decision of the 15th current. That determination has calmed the distrust of the friends of just liberty, has dissipated the ge neral disquietude, and fixed the fate of the coun try by assuring its safety. The nation was about to be plunged into the abyss of discord, when the august voice of the fathers of the country, pointing out to the Monarch the danger towards which he was conducted, spewed him the only means by which he could avoid the precipice, and preserve untouched the precious deposit of a power no less necessary for sustaining the dig nity of the Government, than for maintaining the order and obedience of subjects. " ' The present Ministry does not possess the necessary moral force.'—Such is the declaration of the supreme oracle of the nation. This is a sentence of reprobation, from which there is no appeal, stamped on the Ministers ; and it is also the justification of the grounds on which the province of Cadiz was alarmed, and the Autho rities were compelled to act. A Ministry which has lost the auxiliary force of opinion, is no longer capable of directing the State. It could not compel obedience, even if it pos sessed the physical force which it wants, for it is impossible to govern twelve millions of men by a perpetual constraint against their judgment and their desires. And what moral foree can men destitute of esteem, accused and rejected by the opinion even of those who have to obey their orders, possess ? If without this moral forCe the Ministry cannot, as has been declared by the Cortes, neither successfully direct the Govern ment of the nation, nor maintain and cause to be respected the dignity and prerogatives of the Throne, it is fit that such a Ministry should be displaced from the helm of the State, and its re moval is justly demanded. " Nevertheless, the first applications addressed to the Throne, the avenues to which were shut by Ministers, being disregarded—the represen tations addressed to the Permanent Deputation having had no effect, as no decision could be ob tained until the meeting of the next legislature —what resource remained for the people and the magistrates, w hen they could not address them selves to the Extraordinary CortesOliat assem bly being limited to the objects for which they were convoked ?—that alone which they finally adopted—doubtless a melancholy resource, but inevitable if the state was not to be abandoned to the perils which menaced it—namely, to sus pend obedience to orders %vhich appeared sus picious. " This opposition was the only means for de'- feating measures which might he fatal to public liberty, and for making the Ministers feel their weakness, whereby they might be induced to prevail on the Monarch to refer to the judgment of the Cortes, in which safety could alone be found. Without resistance—not to the Throne, but to the Ministers—even though the distrust of their intentions had not been well founded, it is at least certain that the conflict of passions, the division of parties, the inefficacy of the orders of authority, popular anarchy, and all the calamities it produces—calamities recognized by the determination of the Congress —would never have been stopped, or at least would have long continued. Such has been the only object of the Authorities in their decisions and ad dresses, and not the ambition of possessing an authority which they never could wish to main tain against the Government of the nation, nor the desire to show a spirit of disobedience to the King, whom they have sworn to defend, and whom the Constitution recognises. This object has happily been fulfilled; it will always justify the spirit which has animated `the Authorities of Cadiz, though they have had to depart from the legal path which the Ministry had closed to en trench themselves within it. " Placed between the people and the throne, how could the Authorities of the province stifle the fears and the clamours of those who were appointed to govern, without thereby forcing them to provide for their own security, and to seek themselves the remedy which their Magis trates had refused them ? Cadiz saved herself.— Cadiz has preserved order amidst agitations ; not a single drop of blood has been shed in Cadiz, because the Authorities listened to, and shared the wishes of the people—they acted in the place of the people, in order to preserve their re pose. The blood which has flowed in the provin ces where the Authorities have been silent, in the provinces from which the Chiefs most distin guished for their patriotism and courage have been removed, is a painful but incontestable tes timony that the Magistrates of Cadiz were not deceived as to the grounds of their complaints, and their resistance to the admission of Chiefs who would have exposed this province to the same disasters. " Cadiz wants nothing more than the Consti tution. Never will it disgrace the glory of hav ing been the cradle of liberty, and the safety , plank in the shipwreck of the country. If ene mies raise their heads in the other provinces -;-if they dare . to trample under foot the sacred com pact of our alliance and our prosperity, all the inhabitants of the province of Cadiz are ready to fly to its defence—to seal it with blood—to punish the aggressors, and to prove in the face of the whole world that their actions never have had, and never can have, any other object than the support and defence of the Constitution and the Monarchy. " Invoked by the people, and impelled by the opinion of the province, the authorities of Cadiz agreed on the 17th of November not to obey orders transmitted by the Ministry, when these orders should be of a nature calculated to com promise public tranquillity. This resolution, which was necessary for the preservation of the laws and of the Constitution itself, the empire of which was about to disappear a m id s t disorders, cannot be disapproved by the Congress, charged sovereignly with the maintenance of the laws. and the Constitution. The Ministry once re moved, and confidence restored, the province of Cadiz and its Magistrates will manifest, as they always have done, their obedience to the consti tuted Government, NV ithout any of the contra dictions or reserves which could alone be dic tated by the fear of once more beholding the de struction of the code of their liberty, the defence of which is the first duty which their oaths impose upon them. Cadiz, Dec. 21. (Signed) " Manuel Francisco Jauregui ; Jose Sanchez, Intendant ; Xavier Isturiz, Dzputy ; Pedro Juan de Zulucta, Depay ; Joa chim Abreu, Deputy ; Joachim .306 e Loran, Secretary." Letters from Seville of the 22d announce tha the new Political Chief Sebastian had arrived in that city, with the orders of the King. General Velasco assembled the Chiefs of the different corps, and told them he was ready to resign the command ; but the former Political Chief, Esco bedo, was of opinion, that he ought to wait for the answer to the last representation from the_town ; upon which Sr. Sebastian quitted the assembly, saying lie saw very clearly that they ware not disposed to give up the command to him, of which he would apprize the King. In fact, the command was not given up to him, and the for mer authorities continue in their situations. In the Sitting of the 28th the Cortes acknow ledged the presentation of the Address of the Constitutional Municipality of Cadiz (see above) ; also of another Address from the National Guard of Cadiz, and of a third representation from the Constitutional Municipality of Seville. The Political Chief of Valencia has published a proclamation on occasion of the late events in that capital, in which he advises loyal citizens not to take part with the small number of fac tious who are incessantly engaged in disturbing the public tranquillity. Letters from Valencia of the 24th affirm that the garrison did not sign the two representations transmitted during the days of anarchy ; but that its spirit is excellent, and that it will not lend itself in any way to the intrigues and private designs of the disaffected. The Serjeants, Corporals, and privates of the Regiment of the Princess, in garrison at Cadiz, have denounced to the King and the Commandant General at Cadiz an officer of their regiment who had tampered with them to slan der some individuals who enjoyed deservedly the good opinion of the public. The second battalion of the regiment of Espana marched into Cadiz on the night of the 20th.— The arrival of this regiment, whose spirit is ex cellent, has tranquillized many persons who were alarmed at the scandalous scene of the 16th, in which a small body of men dared to assume the name of the people, and to consider it as an in sult that the legitimacy of its representation should be doubted. Several reports on the - operations of the co lumns destined to pursue the Anti-constitution alists in Navarre and Aragon, have been pub lished. At Gerona, the garrison perform duty the same as in war. The regiment of Wimpsen arrived on the 20th ; and reconnoitring parties of cavalry go out every night to avoid all surprize. All the neighbouring districts have been disarmed. IKEJ AND. [FROM THE DUBLIN PATLIOT, JAN. B.] HIS EXCELLENCY THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY'S FIRST LEVEE. The first Levee of his Excellency the Marquis WELLESLEY was held yesterday. It was at tended by the largest assemblage of the Nobili ty and Gentry we ever remember at the Castle of Dublin, if we except the Levee held by his MAJESTY in August last. At half-past twelve O'clock the carriages began to arrive at the grand portal, and in less than half an hour the State rooms were literally crowded. Several Addresses were presented. his Excellency the Marquis WELLESLEY, attended by the Officers of State, and the principal Officers of his Excel lency's Household, entered the rooms exactly at half past one, dressed in a rich blue uniform, decorated with stars. His Excellency had ar rived from the Phssenix Park, where he at pre sent resides.—[A list of the names at the Levee is published in the above Paper. They amount to 515, and many others are said to have been also present.]—The Lord Mayor arrived in State in his splendid gilt civic carriage. The carriages of the Nobility and Gentry filled, for some hours, all the streets adjoining the Castle. [FROM THE DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT, JAN. 9.] OMAGII, J.N. 5.--- , Yesterday, a General Meet ing of the Magistrates of the County of Tyrone, consisting of the following highly respectable characters, namely, the Earl of Belmore, Sir John Stewart, Claudius Cole Hamilton, Esq. the Rev. Thomas Stack, Major Crawford, and se veral others, assembled at the Court-House, for the pur_pptof investigating the circumstances connected with the murder of Michael M'Brien, at Dromore, on the 26th of December.—The Earl of BELMORE presided; DANIEL WILSON, Esq. one of the Coroners of the County, and a Justice of Peace, thought it advisable that the mode of proceeding to be taken on this solemn inquiry, should be by Coroner's Inquest. Counsellor lirrtNAN was employed on the part of the friends of the deceased ; and being in formed, on his arrival in town, of the mode of proceeding intended to be pursued, he, by Mr. John Maguire, the Agent retained for the Pro secution, sent his respectful compliments to the Magistrates and the Coroner, then about to as semble, that he should find it his duty to object to the manner of proceeding by Coroner's In. que. - 4, on these grounds:—First, that the Coro ner had no authority to hold his inquest on the deceased, but " super• visam co7poris." And, secondly, that although, in point of Law, the Coroner were competent to proceed by inquest, yet, that to hold a public investigation now, of the way by which the deceased came by his death, by examination of witnesses, before a Jury, who were hereafter to be produced on the trial, on the part of the Crown, would be subversive of the principles of Justice, and might be the cause of d'•:urbing the peace of the country, by inflaming the passions of the friends and connections of the deceased. Shortly after the delivery of this mesage, the Magistrates assembled in the Grand Jury-room, and, after some time, requested Mr. Kernan's attendance, who immediately obeyed the sum mons ; and, on his coming into the room, the Earl of BELmostr, in an able and sensible speech, delivered his sentiments on the fatal outrage that had taken place, the causes that led to it, and the manner of its execution. He concluded by stating, that the investigation of the Magistrates should not be connected or confounded with such proceedings as the Coroner might think it his duty to pursue. The course of proceeding that they proposed to adopt was—first, to exa mine and take the informations of such witnesses as were prepared to give evidence against the persons concerned in the commission of the homi cide ; and, afterwards, to examine the witnesses on the part of the rersons now in confinement, and take their informations, if they had any to offer. Mr. Kernan thought the course of proceeding intended to be taken by his Lordship, was, in his humble judgment, not only the most legal, but decidedly the best, that under the circum stances of the case conld be devised ; and ac cordingly the witnesses were sent up in the manner prescribed. The entire of Friday, and a great part of this day, was tak e n u p by the investigation. A great number of witnesses were examined against the persons concerned in the outrage, all of whom concurred in this fact, that, previous to the wanton attack made by the Yeomen, no riot or disturbance of any kind whatsoever had existed, either within or without the house, where the man was killed. it appeared that Lieutenant Hamilton, the commander of the corps, had left the county a few days ago. He had been taken by a party of the friends of the deceased, and brought before certain Magistrates, to be dealt with according to Lai• ; but,on the solemn assurance of his father to these Magistrates, who is also a Magistrate himself, that " he would deliver his son to those Gentlemen on Friday, the day of the investiga tion," he obtained his liberty, and was thus suf fered to escape. (FROM THE CORK INTELLIGENCER OF THE Bth INST. TnALrE, JAN. s.—We understand that the ' house of Richard 0. Townshend, Esq., of Ard tully, near Kenmare, was attacked about a week since, by a numerous band of ruffians, who de manded Mr. Orpen's fire-arms.---Mr. Orpen re sisted them with the greatest intrepidity and suc cess, although he was quite unprepared for such an attack, having no ball cartridge in his house. Having, however, half a pound of powder, and there being five men in his house, they com menced a most formidable discharge of musketry. The ruffians, however, who are reported to have amounted to .200, retained their ground for some time, and fired several balls into the house ; some of these Mr. Orpen's party were able to pick up, and to return to their original proprietors, it is hoped with some effect. The cowardly ruffians dared not attempt entering the house ; and, as they saw no prospect of the arms being peaceably surrendered, they eventually judged it to he their wiser course to effect a retreat. It is ge nerally believed that these fellows were not in habitants of the barony of Glenerough, but had made an incursion of some miles to effect this attack. On Friday- night, abo'it a dozen ruffians, well armed, visited different houses at Butterfield, and swore several of the inhabitants; they deprived Jeremiah Connor of two guns and a sword, and Thomas Gloster, a constable, of his gun and bayonet. They also visited the house of Francis Murphy, of Slounmolune, a tithe-proctor, whom they deprived of a sword, and swore him to send his tithe-book to the new stage between Killar ney and Mill-street. East night a party of ruffians visited the house of the Rev. Philip Sullivan, Parish Priest of Aglish. After breaking his door and windows, they obliged him to deliver up a gun he possessed. They extracted from him also a promise, that he would refuse his dues. They also went to the house of the steward of Richard 0. Townsend, Esq., in that neighbourhood, from whom they took a gun,which had been left there bylVlr.Fenton. We are sorry to hear that some stacks of wheat, the property of Doctor Boyse, were ma liciously set on fire, and entirely consumed a few nights since, i❑ the neighbourhood of Killorglan., The wheat had been brought on the morning of the day on which it was burnt, and had been seized for non-payment of rent, to which cause is attributed this base outrage, which conspired, with the inclemency of the season, to heighten the miseries of the poor, and to accelerate the horrors of famine, now so broadly staring us in the face. An attempt was made, on Friday, to burn Om haggard of Mr. Fitzmaurice, of Springmount ; but the vigilance and activity of a detachment of the 40th Regiment, at Listowell, discovered and soon extinguished the fire. Mr. Fitzmaurice has lately made large abatements to many of his tenants in their rents. The Catholic Prelate presented an Address this day to the Lord Lieutenant. They were received in the Closet, habited in Canonicals, and were honoured with a most gracious answer. This was a mark of distinction, which his Excel lency said he had the special commands of the King to confer on their Lordships. His Excel lency was further pleased to convey to their Lordships :he strongest assurances of his Ma jesty's confidence in their devotion to the Throne and the interests of the Crown.—(Dublin Even ing L i c,rald, ~cm, 8.) ) STOCKS WF[,VE O'CLOCK. 5 per Cent. Navy Ann—. 108i1 Bank Long Ann. 19 7-16ths Ithlia Bonds 795. 80s. Eicher'. Bits 6 pr. Cons. fur Opening 77ig iN BRIDGE TO-MORROW- Evening, 59 minutes after 4. T' a E SUN• soLT.II QUI. DICERS FALSU.II 4LTDE.IT LONDON, SATURDAY; ,LINUARY Ic2, 1822. The Lord High Commissioner's Proclamation to the people of Zante, announcing a partial re vocation of the order for disarming all the inhabi tants, is hardly calculated, we should think, to secure any of the advantages expected either from the original measure, or from its present modification. Sir T. NIAITLAND congratulates himself upon the quiet and subordination on the part of the people, which followed the execution of the first decree, and which he ascribes to the judgment, zeal and decision of Sir Frtcnuatch= ADAM, to the good conduct of the British troops, and in part, also, " to a desire felt, as his E crel lency is disposed to believe, by the misled a nd misguided people themselves to retrace the un fortunate course" which first subjected them to the imposition of martial law. " his Exceliency 7 however, does not think that arms can be i n D O way intrusted to any part of the population." By this far from gracious acknowledgment he prefaces the proposed indulgence, that the Nobles shall immediately receive their arms again," under the observation of certain forms of a military regulation," to remain in force during the con tinuance of martial law ; and that a thousand stand shall be restored under the same regulaticn . to certain inhabitants (of whom a " precautionary choice" is to be made) " whose past good con duct and firm attachment to the Government have demonstrated that they can be safely entrusted with them." And the restoration will be gra : dually extended to the people in general, accord ing to their behaviour. Now to those inhabitants who, as the Procla mation admits, forfeited their arms without hav ing misconducted themselves, such a stern a nd uncourteous mariner of f permitting their resump tion is very far from conciliatory. A depriva tion of this kind, even it obviously necessary for the public good, is likely to produce some feel ings of impatience in the mildest and most dutiful citizen ; and it surely is not the part of a wise and politic governor to allow loyalty to cool, and a momentary displeasure to become confirmed ill-will, for want of a little reconciling conde scension, or even the superficial courtesy of a respectful phrase. Of those persons Who, at the time of the first Proclamation, were likely to be dangerous if they, retained their arms, it is not probable that many, after the short interval of nine days, (when the second order was pub lished), or at any early period, would have be come fit to be entrusted with them again, what ever allowance we may be disposed to make for the hasty and mercurial disposition of these islanders. While the neighbouring continent is still possessed by that ferment and agitation which have so exalted the susceptible minds of the Zantiotes, and while a great part of this po pulation is irritated by the general disartnin?:, additionally provoked, it may be supposed, by the cautious restoration of arms to a selected number, and certainly not soothed by the ex pressions of the High Commissioner, who accuses them of having " renounced every principle of prudence, every sentiment of propriety, every sense of gratitude, and even the semblance of obedience to their own Government;" it is not very likely, under these circumstances, that the suspected or openly obnoxious class of inhabitants will readily return to the sentiments which the Government wishes to inculcate; or, if they should assume the appearance of having done so, that they will take back their arms with any sincerely dutiful intention towards their Rulers, Whatever object may have been attained by the High Commissioner's order of the 6th of No vember, we think the popularity of his Admi• nistration will not he increased, nor any ,good disposition promoted, either in the inhabitants who regain their arms, or in those who remain deprived of them, by his Proclamation of the 16th. We are aware that in the present state of the lonian Islands it is peculiarly hazardous to pronounce opinions formed at a distance from the scene of events; but we are much deceived if the measures in question do not exhibit that mix ture of precipitate harshness and unptofitabl concession, which history • has shewn us in so many memorable instances to be the deadliest error of an unsteady Government. Much attention was excited yesterday by the suicide of Sultan MAnmoun, who, after cutting off the head of one DALI-MULCHI and sacrificing With hike own hand his three daughters and }.is pßicr. 01 THIS DAY AT TV Bank Stock 0 3f1 :; per Ocnt. Red. ifii 77 3 perCent.Cons....76 ; 713 76 3 1 , per Cent 4 per Cent. HIGH 'WATER AT LONDO Morninz, 25 minutes after 2.