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London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Be yLee.

Robert Weston and George Eastwood were indicted
for having, in the night of the 10th of November, in
the parish of Burwash, set fire to a barn, the property
of John Fleury.
The prosecutor resides upon a farm near the town
of Burwash. On this farm there was lately standing
a /barn, containing nearly all the hay and corn which
had been grown by Mr. Fleury in the present year. A
little before midnight, on Sunday, the 10th of No-
vember, it was discovered to be on fire, the flames
issuing from the top, and different parts of the sides.
The prosecutor, his servant, and a number of other
persons from the town were soon assembled on the
spot, and every possible exertion was made to extin-
guish the flames and save the property. Their en-
deavours were, however, ineffectual, except as to a
load of wheat sheaves, and afew implements of farm-
it g in some of the out-houses. The remainder of the
piorrty and premises were completely destroyed.
Among the persons assembled on that occasion, were
tl e two prisoners, w no assisted in putting out the fire,
and saving the property.
The prosecutor is one of the overseers of the parish
of Burwash, and in the habit of attending the select
vestries held there. The prisoners are paupers in the
parish, and receive relief. The Magistrates having
stronely recommended that the overseers of parishes
should not grant parochial relief to paupers, who had
grown up daughters at home, dressed in a manner
superior to their condition in life ; and the prisoners
being situated in that manner, the vestry frequently
refused to relieve them, until their daughters went into
the poorhouse. On Saturday, the 2d of November,
Weston applied for relief to the select vestry, and it
was refused to him on Lb* above grounds. The pri-
soner suspecting the prosecutor, Mr. Fleury, to be the
cause of the refusal, became greatly enraged against
him, and in a conversation which he had with a Mr.
Westover, the assistant overseer, in the ensuing week,
he used the most abusive language towards the charac-

their innocence.
The Learned Judge, having summed up the evi-
dence, remarked to the Jury, that in a case of this
description, before they could convict the prisoners
of the crimes alleged to have been committed
by them, there must be some positive evidence
of their guilt—some act performed by them from which
a decisive conclusion could be drawn. This was al
case in which, if the prisoners were found guilty, there
,could be no reason for shielding them from the ut-
most severity of the law, and their lives would un-
doubtedly be forfeited ; but in the evidence adduced,
there had only been a number of threats proved to
have been made by them. Although this was very
improper conduct, yet it did not warrant the Jury in
convictting theM. It might be suspicious, but did
not amount to 'certainty. The case was, however, in
their hands, and they were to Mit as their consciences
dictated them.
The Jury acquitted the Prisoner.
This being the last case, Mr. Justice BATLIT dis-
charged the Jury about half-past three o'clock.
pregame 24..
George Cori and George Sesith were indicted for
feloniously assaulting John Hawkins on the 17th of
October, and taking from his person two sovereigns
and other money, at Rothertield.
The prosecutor, a labouring 'man, was at a public-
house in Lewes on the evening of the 17th of October.
There he met the two prisoners, and after drinking to-
gether for some time, they asked him which way he
was going. He answered to Tunbridge Wells. They
said they were going to the same place,and they might
as well go in company together. The prosecutor ac-
cepted their offer, and they accordingly set out. When
they had arrived near Cuckfield, they met a man
named Bunker with a returned post chaise. One of
the prisoners proposed that they should ride. This
was agreed to, and they got into the chaise. They
had ridden three or four miles, when the two prisoners
desired the postilion to stop, as they wanted to go out
for a short time. Their desire was complied with.—
When they had been absent about two minutes they
returned to the chaise-door, and insisted upon hav-
ing the prosecutor's money. He replied, he had got
none. Smith saith, " If we du not have your money,
we will have your life ;" and immediately presented
a pistol to his breast. Hawkins finding it was useless
to resist, delivered all the money he had to them.—
Just as the prisoner was shutting the door, the prose-
cutor, finding himself thus left penniless, asked the
prisoners for some mo ley to carry him home. Smith
then gave him two shillings, and the chaise pro-
ceeded. The prosecutor gave information of his loss
to some police-officers in the next town, and a pursuit
was commenced. By information which they received
on the road, they were enabled to trace them to the
town of Hathfield. They found them drinking toge-
ther in 'a public-house. They were immediately
taken into custody and searched. In the pocket of
Smith they found a pistol loaded with powder onlyi
without any priming, and two lathing:, which were
amongst the money taken from the prosecutor. Os
Cord they found two pistol flints.
The prisoners, in their defence, merely stated that
they were innocent of the crime, and that the prose-
cutor had wished them to go and steal fowls, and he
would sell them, and allow them a certain sum for
themselves.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty—Death.
William Watson and John Piggott were indicted for
burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Lydia Geer, on the 6th of November, and
(stealing different articles of linen drapery, at Firle.
On the night of the sth of November the prosecu-
trix, who keeps a linen-draper's shop at Firle, retired
to bed about half-past twelve o'clock, leaving the
house perfectly safe. In the morning it was disco.
vered that a hole had been made through the wall of
the shop, and a great quantity of different articles re-
moved. Inquiries were immediately made in every
direction, and, after a considerable time had elapsed,
she was informed that the two prisoners had gone IS
a public-house, called the Royal Oak, in Kent-street,
Newington, on the 13th November, with two large
bags. Two police officers,' suspecting from their ap-
pearance that the property in the bags was stoles,
determined to watch them. They soon after took them
into custody, and on ezamiuing the bags discovered
several pieces of cotton, and other articles of that dr.
scription, in them. When they searched the prisoners,
they found a pair of gaiters in the hat of one, and
handkerchief in the pocket of the other. Mrs. Geer

pte-
When they had pet the horses into the stable, they
went into the house, and asked lot toma row
freshment. Mr. Brown, the keeper of the One.
having heyrd that those two men had come on horst!
back to the house, were rather suspicious that tit
had obtained the animals in an improper manner.
therefore asked them what brought them out on the
road at that early hour of the morning, as they esp.
tainly could not be riding for pleasure. Chandler
answered, that they were taking them to a person.
named White, near Lewes. Mr. Brown affected to
be satisfied with this account : but when they went to
take the horses from the stable, he accompanied them.
He then observed that the horses were very dirty, in is
strong perspiration, and apparently very much fa-
tigued. This confirmed his suspicions, and he told
the prisoners' he was very much afraid they had not
given a true account of themselves." Chandler an-
swered, " that he did not care for his saspicioos."
This conduct induced Mr. Brown to detain both this
prisoners, and accordingly a constable was sent for,
and they were taken into custody. Shortly afterwards
Mr. Snoad, hearing of this occurrence at Endes
Green, immediately proceeded to that place, and dis-
covered the gelding and the mare found in tha
soners' possession to be those he had lost from bit
own close. Further inquiries were made at Fruit.
and it appeared that the two prisoners had been seen
together, near the prosecutor's house, on the evening
of the 15th, the day before the robt)ery.
The prisoner Chandler, in his defence, said that's
gentleman had desired him to take the horses en
Lewes for him+ and he was proceeding to fulfil that
command when he was deteined at Fridge Green.
The other Prisoner said that he had met Chandida
on the road, and that the laitet had given him a lido
on one of the horses.
The Jury found both the Prisoners Gleiliy—Deac.

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PRIVATE CORR ESI•ONDENCE.


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rams, lIMCIABSA IS. 1
In my last letter I briefly mentioned the departing,
of the Duke of Wellington from Paris, and alluded.
to the rumour connected with it, viz.—that Mr. Can- 4'
rung had sent for him home in order to prevent the i
compromise of the English character. I cannot find, 1,
however, that there is any other foundation for this
report than the mere inference which the Dukes
general conduct has given rise to. It is quite /roe ..
•
that his Grace has protested against war between
France and Spain—quite true that he assured the
Spanish Ambassador of the intention of his Govern- •
ment not to encourage the views of the.war party in
the French Cabinet. It is also true that he strongly
dissuaded the King of France from listening to the ,
representations of the war party, and it is equally
true that in a hundred instances in public and in
private be expressed an opinion that there would be I
no war. But, on the other hand, it is true that the
Noble Duke, like the Apostle of old, being " all =.
things unto all men," expressed to a distinguished per-
sonage, .1
who has repeated the very words of the Duke.
that England was desirous of seeing the revolutionary
spirit crushed, and that in the event of a war between
France and Spain the latter country would look in
vain for assistance or encouragement from England,. ' ;
It will not be easily forgotten that when the Duchess 1
d'Angouleme reproached the Duke of Wellington at
Court with his participation in the new views of the
British Cabinet, he replied " qu'il es etoit idea".
These are the very words which one of the suite re-
peated to me. In some time past there has been e
coolness between the two Governments, which evert
Sir Charles Stuart, the fast friend, as he was called, of
the goal system, has partaken of, if his own assertions
verbally and by letter are to be credited; but when
did his Grace the Duke of Wellington up cold the
dignity of England at the risk of offending the august
Members of the Holy Alliance? The history of this ..
I Board for the prosecution of British claims in France,
IS
1 that Board which sat so long and to so little purpose,
would be a pretty good thermometer to mark the
• influence of the political atmosphere in which the
Duke lives and has his being. Every thing considered,
die absence of the Duke of Welling. on from the.
French capital must be considered a; rather service-
able thaq otherwise to the Spanish Patriots; for I
although he could not avoid acting up to the letter of i
his instructions, I declare without fear of refutation.
because I have my information from pure sources, that
the Ultras were by no means in despair when they
had access to the Duke, and understood his " Jaren
de pester."
At present we are in a calm, but the elements 011
discord are not destroyed ;—fresh intrigues, fresh
conspiracies against liberty are daily detected.--
Here, as well as in England, " a faction behind the 1
throne, greater than the throne itself," still talk of ..
war as certain, and boast of the large sums sub-
i scribed by individuals for its prosecution ; but there
I are moral and physicial causes against war, Some
• of the Ultras have purchased experience. They would
, willingly see the Deopeau Blanc floating upon every
tower in Spain, and the cocarde blonehe in mil
hat; but they dread the sight of the Drapers* i6OO

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'toearde tricolore, and they know very well that
have a good chance of seeing both in us!, if tigstwe\
ture upon a war with Spain, with no tan. 1/56u1d1
than the rage hit the Inquisition, and no other pecu-
r.laryiesor - Ise of woakipoot osibausted—.
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_ imprisonment oft.. . having
sulehood•one of her hasband's friends, now in England,
eleitapefrorn raison. The gentlemen of the house,
Al, D---r-s, was tried• oq the return of the Bourbons
for the offence of 'searing tied. .clistributing the cocarde
tpeeelpre, and seeteaced to *ree years' imprisonment.
A young lady, of large fortune, fell in love with M.
D—s, without. seeing, bite, merely. by perusing his
defence. They were maqied. on the ilea day that lie
went into prisop. Anotter'of.the Company was Capt.
*he was with Nsiboy.scie in the Beßeropdon.
for a, long time en einle, is
there he has been employed
the troops according to the
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judgments, and re-
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. %PO • FRIFIVCff PAPERS.
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, - . I 14 'Li., , PARIS, DECIthISIR 25.
Os Meeibr light *a extraordinary courier from Madrid
llgOved at the hotel of M. Pozzo di BO o, the Russian Am-
liapiaddt: Yesterday evening s his Excellency dispatched the
e testier to St...Pcterlintrilb
resterday evening the Duke de Iffeatooresey, Minister of
treign Affairs, dispatched a courier fur Madrid
Testerday the King received, In private audience, M. the
Soros Portal, Minister of State, Peer of France.
Yesterday his Excellency the Minister ef Marine trans-
4ted business with the King and afterwards with Lis Royal
Iffighhess the Duke of Angouleme, Grans Admiral of Presses'
'.ls the afternoon his Excellency the President of the Cosies
'6l of Ministers transacted business with the King.
It is alarmed that General Quesada bad on Monday. an ihi
bevies of three quarters of an hour with the Minster*,
Foreign Attain.-eCessfitettionnel.
n Monday an immediate change of Ministry was insalli
Iked of, and it was slated that ell those who do not appal*
Bided fbr war were to retire; But it Is probable that-1140
that-114o•
originated with some fanatic ur stuck-jobber. Ws
annul, however, conceive v. by, whilst it appear; positi
from the moat Apparent indications, that the President oft
Council of Missiles; is opposed to the war party, the lat
Id cause to be seat into the departments gratis the Josg•
which are for war. It appears to us somewhat extollers
that the authority which has the Journals under 111
IL' ' Cul otifid4l isotialdrsmalinaclevelryy iwnhcemreticliirdciculate•
diAti
to his s)stem. 'Such a state of things does
, impl v a perfect onion in the Council, nor is it
ili•dadeedielee with that system of unity which is coeittintly
recommended.
. Thus it is not surprising that the public are in a shaboilf
great incertitude, sad Bid it should be believed that deism
use way or other will take place. The public Weds. /eaterT
day, fell nearly one per rent., and. as persons naturally lea
for causes to all effects, it was circulated that very animated
iiillunissiosi bad takes place in the Council, en the subject of
Vie affairs of Spain i it was even added, that one of the
Itlelnners of the Council, who it is thought Is opposed to
'ear, withdrew before any determlnatioa .was come to.—
Hem.
It is said that a deputation of the merchants of Bourricau a.
was yesterday admitted to an interview with the Minister of
Oa leterior. It is added, that his Excellency assured the
deputation that the commercial interests should have timely
information of toe resolutions which the Government would
deem it Its duty to itdript in regard le Spate.—L'Preile.
Letters front Wafts', and Wane, of a recent date, have
been received in Frankfurt. They announce that gnat
movemeuts are shout to be made iii the Russian •armies of
the south and west. The oorps d'arnsee which is in Besse.
table will immediately be reinforced with four regiments of
Infantry and several pulks oftossanis, and artillery in pro •
portion.
Advices from Bayonne, dated the lath inst. state—" The
nonriers from Spain beghs to arrive regalarly. We had oar
Jotters on Saturday last before nine o'cek, and it hes bee
the same to-day. 'this seems to indicate that the partisans Si
the Faith can no longer obstruct the intercoose.
• " O'Donnel is expected this very day hi our town. 'l'llb
Reputes is not yet osiabliabed; Its members ate not 01
am red."—Coastitsitimeri.
• Merino akd Coebiflas have sumerrinsly recruited in thla
prt4ine of At. Ander. Their forces are estimated it abed!,
. iiine men, of which one third are mounted. They are, it la
&Mewed, on their route to return into Castile.
BAYONNE, DECEMBER 18.
EXTRACT PROM A PRIVATE LETTER.

"The news from Navarre is .good. General O'Donnel
'Maintains himself Kell; be recently offered battle to the Coe.
irtitutionalists, who refused it, and be pursued them to the
very gates of Pampclnna. His army is now 4,000 strong, and
•If he could obtain a supply of arms and money, it would
promptly amount to upwards of 40,000. Every day. (accord•
log to what he writes to a poison in this town ).he is obliged
to refuse peasants who come and offer their ierrices, for want
fag muskets to arm them. Finally, the Fpaniardit of the Army
.ef the Faith, whom wo daily ace en our frontiers, protest,
with much cnursge and confidence, that they should not need
our support, if they could but be supplied with arms aud-
ammunition."

ULM, DECEMBER 19.
EXTIII•CT /VOX A 11.111YRYI LETTS*.
" It is confirmed by several letters from Upper ItalyT, that,
since the ueparture of the English Ambassador, Lord thealig-
.fird, Prince de Metternich has received very important dis-
patches relative to the affairs of Constantinople. It is ahem-
ical that these dispatches consist of the reports of M. d'Ot-
Morels, Austrian Internuneio at the Porte. Nothing is yet
known as to the contents of these dispetilies • it is oilyif norm that they have occasioned several very 'thug confer..
ences, and that a courier has been dispatched. to Lord
Strantsford, who had not then left Trieste. These dispatches
;Rust be relothe to new events, or at hist to overtures made
since the change which bin taken place in the Ottoman Mi-
'ilistry, for the change itself was known previously to the de-
portees of Lord Strangford. It is even known at Verona,
that it was this Minister who first, and before M. de Metter-
nich, received advice of the fall of Haleb Effendi and his I
prrl it was in dispatches from M. Chafer (Counsellor of
theßritish Legation, at Leedon, and provisionally tilling the
fuoetions of English Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople)
that the event was transmitted to him by au extraordinary
sourMr, who travelled with incredible rapidity. Lord
kitrangford, without delay, communicated the istelligence to
the other Ministers. It appears that only two days after•
vends the same news reached Prinee de Metternich. The
mission that Lord Strangford received previously to his de.
parture from Verona, was, therefore, siren to him at a um-
ment when the change in the Turki,li Ministry was already
known. It results from this, that the new dispatches which
• tome been sent lu Triable, relate to other erects which hare
sabsequently transpired at Constantinople, and the know-
, ledge of *hick reached Prince de Metternich, by dispatches
which he lastly received from M. de Sturmer. Here is a vast
held rot ati sorts of conjectures !"—Censtinitiosaid.
LP' om the thielithenne of Wednesday, December &]
DECEMBER:9.
Welch day new confirmations arrive of the daring enterprise
of the (Week fire.,liiris against the Captten Pasha. Letters
from Hydra announce that those who executed it set soil ou
• tiba6th from 1.1,22ra fbr Tenedos.' The ceews, before they
het out, had beard prayers and received the Sacrament. 'rise
Turkish Admiral's ship was one of three decks and 120 guns.
Wa have oh y 4 no piwitive and circumstantial details of the
loss their Seel bascixperieneed.
[From the Constitetiosine• Wednesday. December ts.]
ITALY.

TRIEBTI, DECIMBER 9.
Seventeen Greek vessels have arrived froas Missolonglii at
the Morea, • till some tbonsand soldiery: they Dave found
Doer Turkish corvettes, which they have carried o and
rehire only wait a favuuralile Wind to sem the Dardanelles and
Upstate, and to hasten by sea the reduction olTortntb. The
'Wets as Me already been anneuetted; have been'ssoutpletely
>ssireargdi4t, auak habeas° only have survived.—Gsutie d' Ault:
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The section of Petitions of the Conti of Caseation has been

LON DON,
SATURDAY, Dzczysza 28, 1822.

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The rreoch Papers of Wednesday contain no news
of *ay importance. A courier appears to have passed
through Paris to Petersburgh. The Emperor of
RusslA, too, is stated to be directing great move-
nientskin his army; and in illustration of this state-
ment, there are reports of an important arrival at
Verona from Constantinople, in consequence of which
a courier was dispatched after Lord STRANOFORD,
who had reached Trieste, on his return to his minis-
terial station. Such reports may be well founded, or
they may be fictions, but the latter we think the more
probable.
The question of war with Spaio is now acknow-
ledged to be at an end. The Duke de MONTMORENCY
is not probably well satisfied with this state of affairs,
but he is not a person calculated to giie much alarm
by his belligerent dispositions. The Duke is a person
of high consideration in various respects; but he is
too good a Catholic to exercise reason, judgment, re-
flection, and deliberation, where his wishes are strong
and his zeal pious. There was a time when he
was as much a Jacobin as our Poet Laureate,
and when the livery of aristocracy or wealth
was as odious in his sight as now the words—
" Spanish Revolution"—" Constitution"—" Chartered
liberty." Nor did he at once emerge from darkness to
light. Long were the windings and intricate the mazes
of error through which he wandered before he arrived
at the comfortable perfection of an Ultra. Even
COBBITT is no match to M. MONTMORENC Y in his
travels in search of truth. Having made this com-
parison, we are obliged in candour to add, that the
integrity of the illustrious Frenchman has never been
questioned. His intellect is so formed by nature that
it entirely acquiesces in every change of his feelings,
inclinations, or conduct. In aid of this submissive
intellect, he possesses that glowing fanaticism which
' illuminates every object within its reach with its own
infallible light, and which supersedes all the petty
frtrumpery of reason, experience, and facts. This is
the French Minister for Foreign Affairs—a very good
man, but, unfortunately for himself, born just four
centuries too late.

Our pari passe friend, alias (for such delinquents
are familiar with an alias) the Courier, is driven at
length to the lowest shifts of detected imposture.
To such as take pleasure in the disasters of a char-
latan, the following faithful extract from him, who
once would vaunt himself the organ of the Admini-
stration, must give pleasure :

" But have we said one word in opposition to the language
and councils of oar Ministers? have uc made use of ono
argument, or oven dropped one hint that could make any Mall
believe that they were no► desirous of peace ? On the con.
Crary, wo thought We exposed ourselves rather to the charge
of repetition, by stating over and (Wee agaid, that the most
anxious effortivaud desires of our Ministers wore, that peace,
of which all nations stood so much in need, should be pre.
served, ifit. could be preserved between France and Spain—
but that if unhappily that should bo found impracticable,
they were still most resolutely determined that their own
country should not be involved in war, but should preserve e
strict and sincere neutrality.",

It is really painful to our feelings to see a fellow-
being driven to this humiliating shift. Yet, as giving,
due publicity and effect to the punishment of one may
save a thousand ft om a similar fate, we conceive it to
be a duty to expose this culprit in the garb of repent-
ance which he has been comizelled to wear. There is,
moreover, a peculiar propriety and even utility in ex-
hibiting him on the pillory of his own choice, since,
undoubtedly, his notoriety is considerable. It would
be affectation to talk of respect or contempt for his
real character, for no man who knows English can
conceal from himself that the Courier is in every li-
terary and editorial view too contemptible for the

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iblic ex slier of illrikelp.
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,on in nof Enilish Stself soft to ex-
.4ittle him fives respectable to piety, but k is further
decisive evidence of his ignorance of the materials
of, triob, of the•:_guards which truth requires
ampli It is not uncommon to find a master of

reason,
or politics ; btlt it is quite impossible to find a correct
thinker, a clear
.reasoner, or a sound politician,
who is incapable of expressing his ideas distinctly
and perspicuously. What should we say of a sculptor
who was ignorant of the mode of using the chisel, or
a painter who kneit not the use of the pencil ? Would
any man with patience hear him say, that he was an
incomparable sculptor or a charming painter in his
own mind, although he unfortunately knew not the
,use of the tools which were necessary to convey the
excellence in his mind to the view of others? Our
reason and our justification for calling attention to
the unprecedented disgrace of the Courier, is the
notoriety which it obtained, whether from official in-
fluence or dexterous imposture we stop not to inquire :
it is not indeed material. There is a pert, lively
manner displayed indeed, which may interest politi-
cians (if we must degrade the name to those), who
think of nations with much the same comprehensive
ideas as of pugilists.on a common. Dr. ADAM, late
rector of the High School of Edinburgh, said, in
allusion to a boy who was always booby in his class,
but who exhibited infinitely more vivacity than his
superiors : " The liveliest animal in its youth is a
pig, but it is also the stupidest."
Referring to the extract which we have given above,
we ask if it be conceivable that a man in his senses,
or at least having sense- enough to understand his
own terms, could ask whether he had " spoken in
opposition to the language of Ministers ;" and next
ask whether he had " made use of arguments that
could make any man believe that they were not de-
sirous of peace?" The language of Ministers—where
is it ? The Courier speak in opposition to it—his boast
has been that he was their organ of public speech. But
to the next phrase. The using of no argument to per-
suade that Ministers were not desirous of peace, is
evidence that the Courier was not anxiously endes-
i vouring to promote war ! The expressions, however,
are not worthy of this consideration. The simplicity
with which the exposure to a charge of repetition is

mentioned seems sufficiently amusing. There were
repetitions, we admit, frequent and vehement, but
they began not their course until the offence bad been
committed seven days, and conviction had become
threatening and inevitable. So have we heard of
certain persons in an awkward situation giving many
repetitions of testimony to character, when offences
quite unconnected with those repetitions were likely
to be visited with conviction.

The Courier " positively and boldly denies the

charge" of having " anxiously endeavoured to pro-
mote war, and holding a language diametrically op-
posite to the words and the counsels of peace." The
"positiveness" and " boldness " we dispute not;
bu► the evidence in support of the positiveness we
desiderate. The evidence offered is this : "We have
invariably treated the subject, first, as it related to
France, and secondly, as it related to this country.
We do not suppose that any one will be stupid
enough to assert that there was no difference
between the two cases." This, then, is the evi-
dence, and we doubt whether the most cowardly monk
in the ranks of the Faith could attempt any thing
more evasive, unmeaning, Jesuitical, and unmanly to
save himself from the death of a traitor. We shall
shew the utter falsehood of the pretence set up by the
very words of the Courier; but we shall first exhibit
a fact which of itself decides the case. The Etoile

quoted an article from the Courier in favour of war.
This same article the Courier again quoted from the
Etoile, as evidence of approaching war. Was this
treating the sulject as it related to France, or ac-
cording to its general bearing? The original words
were, that the " necessity of immediate action was
forced upon the French Government." Here is the
opinion of the Courier, such as it is, and not the opi-
nion of the French Government. As such an opinion
the Etoile quoted it. The Courier quoted it back
again, we presuMe to prove its correctness. But his
language, as we formerly exposed it, is the most de-
ciiive which his skill could use : it is not only war-
like, but intemperately warlike. Let one sentence
suffice for all : "It is idle to say that Spain has not
given the French Government a right to interfere and
support the Royalists, who demand a constitution
that shall be in fact, not in form—in deeds,
not in words, monarchical." After this it would be
waste of argument to accumulate further instances of
the intention, spirit, and acrimony with which the
Courier endeavoured to instigate to war. Let him
then be noted as be shuffles in his retreat, and
"positively and boldly" denies his guilt while the
proof is blaioned by himself.

The fall of the Courier—for fallen, irretrievably
fallen it is—affords a moat salutary moral lesson in
this reading age. When speedy detection overtakes
any popular or very common vice, it is a great Public
benefit. The Goveniment Pipes, that is, all Papers
who pretended to the patronage or enjoyed the favour of
official men, lately became addicted, to a most scan-

dalous degree, to that vice which SWIFT happily de-
scribes as "saving the thing that is not." Here then
is speedy detection of a notorious performer in the
art. Had a late Marquis been still in office, detection
might have been evaded; but the Secretary being
master of English, and superior to evasive cunning,
the impostor who would pretend official authority
is left to all the ignominy of detect ion. It is satisfactory,
for the• sake of morality and the general interests of

society, that the culprit feels shame if not remorse.
When first seized, and, in fact, exposed, he remain-

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ed prudently silent, in hopes that something might
transpire to screen him, or at least that the DUke of
WZI.LIIIO2OX, who cannot but allow that others,
orubunt causal mdius, would supply him with some

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loose phrases. bet hopes havidg veisbeli
the arrival of his Grace, here conies forwal'ilax
Courier, twisting and writhing in the aies
of utter shame and confusion. It is an edifying sight,
and we hope the readers of the Courier will benefit
by it. We trust the readers of newspapers.generally
are beginning to examine more closely what is stated
upon political affairs, and to distinguish sober truth
from petulant pretension.

German Papers arrived yesterday ; . the following
are extracts:—

AUGUR:IO, DRC. 17.
The new Gazelle of 2urieh, after giving an account of the sail-
ing of the last expedition to Greece, which quitted Marseilles on
the 22d November, adds--" The expedition bad to contend with
many difficulties; not only were there among the persons engaged
several individuals whom it was necessary to exclude on account
of their bad characters, and who, angry at this, endeavoured to
mislead others; not only did certain persons at Marseilles succeed
in persuading some of the adventurers to join the. Spanish De-
fenders of the Faith, instead- of going to Greece.. but the repre-
sentations of Several Officers who hid retUrned from Greece
ex-
cited despondency in many. If these Officers in the moment of ge-
neral alarm, when the Greeks, attacked on all sides, fled from the
valleys to the mountains, Considered the cause of that unhappy
people as desperate, and returned home—who will blame them if
they painted the moral, the military, and economical state
of Greece in gloomy colours ?—who will accuse them of faleelood,
since we know that deiptitism every where, and consequently in
Greece, tends to debasement But that some, of these Officers
did their utmost and -used the basest means to turn aside the
assistance; which it is to be hoped-will contribute to make the
Greeks free, and consequently more moral, is Inhuman and un-
christian. All these difficulties were at length overcome by the
good sense of the better disposed, and the indefatigable exertions
of the Committee, consisting of Messrs. ILSPHALIAS,' Rime' t ma,
llovvitsnx, Captain DITTMAR, and Dittscn. It is true only
150 men embarked out of the 200 that were intended; but, how-
ever, the wheat was thus separated from the chaff. To the great
joy of the expedition it was joined by five of those who had re-
turned, and who are convinced that a corps, well provided with
all necessaries and well organised in every part, may be of inS-
finite service in Greece. If preceding expeditions were not so
well organised, it was not owing to a deficiency of good will or of
judgment, but of money. However, the exertions of the Societies
for the aid of the Greeks have been so successful in this respect,
that at the beginning of next month Another ship will be dis-
patched for Greece, which will have some men on board, but be
chiefly laden with arms and stores."—Alignmeitte Zeilusg,
Dec. 18.

Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted business
at his Office in the Horse Guards.

Yesterday morning the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER come to town from Blackheath, and trans-
acted business at the Treasury.
Mr. LAMB. late British Minister to the Diet, who
is gone to Vienna, and from thence to Verona, does
not return here in the same character, but goes to
London. He had furnished his residence in this city,
at a very great expense, for the reception of the late
Marquis of Lox DON DERRY, who was to pass through
Frankfort on his way to the Coogreu. All the furni-
ture is now selling off.—Frankfort Journal.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the following Commanders took
leave of the Court previous to departing. for their
respective destinations, viz.:—
Captain Huai, Coen, Kent; Captain A sea Timm.
,General Kidd—for Bengal and China. Captain WILLtAn
Hors Herefordshire; Captain SAIIVEL Snags, Inglis; Cap•
lain Wsul Farqutsarsou—for Bombay and
China ; and Captain .101111 PAULSSON, Repulse, for Si. He-
lena, Beneoolen, and China.

Captain Davin R. NEWALL was sworn into the
command of the ship Scaleby Castle, consigned to
Bombay and China.
Extract of a letter from Havannah, dated Nov. 6 :
" You will, ere this reaches you, doubtless have heard
of the fitting out and sailing of a flotilla from this'
place against the pirates who have so long infested
our neighbourhood. The accounts which we have re-
ceived of the progress of this flotilla is, up to the pre-
sent time, very unsatisfactory, as they spread about
their intentions for such a length of time previous
to sailing, that the pirates have taken pretty good
care to get out of their way. However, this much
is certain, that it is impossible for all the navies of
Europe to prevent piracy, unless there should be a
complete change in the government, character,
and disposition of the Authorities of the Island.
At present, as constituted, the Spanish Authorities
unite weakness to venality, and their establishing
Havannah as a port of deposit, when it is dangerous
to attempt to enter the harbour with a valuable cargo
on account of the piratical hordes, is an empty act,
which will end in nothing until the safety of the pas-
sage to Cuba is fully obtained. You have heard,
without doubt, the character of the pirates here,
but none but an eye-witness can have any correct
idea of their brutality and profligacy. Their prin-
cipal malice is levelled against the Americans, to
the crews of which nation, when they have them
in their power, they behave with the greatest in-
humanity. In fact, many of these desperate cha-
racters think it a meritorious act to rob and murder
the men of that nation, as well as a profitable
one, and they have been heard here publicly to boast
and acknowledge that they have at different periods
murdered near four hundred of them in the vicinity of
Cape Romano, which is one of their principle places
of rendezvous. An instance of their brutality to the
Americans was visible in the capture of the Planter,
of New York, the crew of which were very brutally
treated, and the Captain hung several times until
nearly dead, in consequence of one of his men having
been tortured to confess that he (the Captain) had a
very considerable sum of money on board, which was
unfounded, and was only extorted from the man by
the brutal violence evinced towards him, and which
by this tale he hoped to put an end to."
The General Bill of the Christenings aid Burials
within the City of London and bills of mortalitty, for
the year commencing the 11th of December 1821, and
ending the 10th instant, presents the lollnwing gene-
ral results:—
Christened. Buried.
Ninety-seven Parishes within the Walls iotte
Seventeen Parishes without the Walls 6015
Twenty-three Out Parishes of Middle-
sex and Surrey . 16,331
Ten Parishes in the City and Liberties
of Westminster
Christened I Males tun%
Females 11,493
Total
Buried ... Mifeuialeasies 9489
918$
Total 18,863
Whereof have died :
Under Two Years of Fifty and Sixty
Age
Between Two and Five 9033 S. venty and Ei;l.ty
Five and Ten
9634911 , tiighnetty7 anandd nuntilredc" ... 661004
Teo and Twenty
Twenty and Thirty
Thirty and Forty
Forty and Fifty

It appears from the foregoing account that the chris-
tenings exceed the burials by 4,408. A certain
writer, whose mode of argument exceedingly re-
sembles that of Lord Peter, in the Tale of a Tab, will
upset all this, by briefly dismissing the returns ai fal-
sification and imposture ; that great man having de-
cided with his usual infallibility, that England is not
more populous than it was two or three centuries ago.

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treasury, and be proNce of a qrtain pious
I ipeet the n4erwint ttiiiietiehre
aioiguisbed Liberals, one of #OOl was a tat
Wits of Colonel P—, impriappisLet Colmar,
yipere, on account of the conso?acy of Belfort
easmber that the' Ctolowl was marched
plOcitof his detention with **lion collar rot
eikend otherwise heavily diained ; but that
Infigatised in front of i reginnet,called oat to
lieftilsgrace, and profit by thsexample-L-the w
gigot ,presented arms to has. Madame P—
derelent art imprisonment oft, three months for

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Claptain who was for a, long
jatveteintsl from Persia, token hell
4f ;the Krim to discipline the troops
isinpean tniidet
-.LA booksetter'hA ibis advertises
'Pierce Egrip's " Life in Lot
sthlie of dia.-view which the French
Ats by tht 'following extract from
**/ am not afraid of !nip,. reproact
this wortl have adopted' his jul
*feted his opinions., In a word, t
1111icription of the capital of Englai
its inhabitants."
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