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F.CSIIIONADLE IN'TELLIGENCE.

A Lisaces.—These elegant rooms on Wedaewlay evening were
nearly as briilantly attended as any preceding hall this season ;
there were present between four alai five hundred of the heat ton,
among whom were—
l'rissees—Leiningen, Gorteharoff, two Saugneyko, Reuss Epees.
&nit the Ambassador of the Netherlands, and Madame Fulck.
.:Askes—Sornerset,
Duchesses—Dowager Richmond. and Argyll.
Afarywises—tiraham, Downshire, and Londonderry.
hlarchionesses—Downshire, Emily Londonderry, and Wa-
terford.

Earl,—Harewood, Euston, Minto, Darnley, Ay!enfold, West-
morland, Bristol, Rosslyn, Portarlington, Clare. and Cowper.
Corn►rears—Darnley, Bathurst, Aylesford, D'Alemand, Guild-
ford, Jersey, Cowper, !Ansale, Harrowby, 11an►&eld, Clare,
and St. Antonio. _ _ _ _

Lords—Corny, Punwich, Anson, Stopfnrd, J. Russell, H.
Thynne, Apsley, Elcho, %Vrottesley, Russell, Ravensworth,
vaine, Bingham, Gwydyr, and Tullamone.
Ladies—G. Stuart, Chartres,de Clifford, G. Legge. (:.'Rowley,
G. and E. Bathurst, E. Bligh Wrattesley, Anson, and A.
Paget. M. Stopford, J. !Ratchford, Dowager Salipun, Alvanley,
S. North, C. Beauelerk, Ravensworth, Loraine, M. Ryder. G.
Fane, C. Murray, E. Murray, Langford, J. Rt. Clair, J. Fitz.
[ribbon, J. Fitzroy, C. Fitzroy, J. Beresford, Urrydyr, mad Tul.
Corms—De Grillo, fleradolf, and 31nItki.
be ('ante and La Curates* de Chatelleuz.
S•nith, R. Gunning. C. Greville, W. W. Wyraso, J.
Copley, H. Willoughby. and W. Elliott.
Coiotw/s--tiordan and Hon. De Boos.

Captains—F. PcHew, 31ildmay, and Canteen.
111 —Hon. H. Pane, Littleton, Morgan, J. W. Russell,
R. Wrottesiey, Illorton, Luttrell, Stanley, lion. H. De Roos,
Bowles, J. Buncombe, Blackwood, G. Russell, Lloyd, and Hots.
J. Lemon.
31es:dames—C. Beauclerk, \V. Horton, Mitchell. Lloyd, Orby
Hunter, Barrington, P. Lewis, Brougham. and Gordon.
Mines—G. Stuart. Calcraft, Paget, Bruce, Orby Hunter,
Wrottesley, Beauckrk, Anson, Mitchell, (hrriter, Henry, Hon.
Fraser, lion. Arden, Barrington, Copley, nom Rowley, AT.
buthnot, &e.

The Dowager Marchioness of Exeter gave • grand dinner on
Wednesday, at her house In Privy-gardens, to a distinguishe.i
party ; among whom were the Earl and Countess of Pembroke,
Earl Clare, Lord Loraine, Lord St. Helen's, Countess of Ash-
bumhatn, Baron Fagel, Lady Susan Perry, Colonel J. Wood-
ford, Miss Percy, Mr. P. Ashbumham, Mrs. Bennett, Re. In
the evening her Ladyship entertained an elegant circle of
fashionable*.
The Duke of Grafton had • grand dinner party yesterday, at his
house in Clarges-street.
The Duke of Beaufort entertained a large party at dinner yester-
da, at his house in Oromenor-aquass.
Sir James Lamb and Miss Burgess have issued cards of invita-
tion for an assembly ea the 13th July, at their house in Queen
Ann-street.
Henry Clive, Esq. had • dinner party yesterday, at his house In
Spring-gardens.
The Earl of Mansfield had a grand dinner party yesterday, at
his house in (irosvenor-square.
Sir Charles Conte, Bert. had a dinner party yesterday, at his
house in Connaught-place.
Montague Burgoyne, Esq. entertained a distinguished party of
friends at dinner yesterday, at his house in Gloiscester.plam.
The Duke of Norfolk arrived in town yesterday, than his seat,
Arundel Castles
The Earl and Countess of Surrey and family have left town for
thei seat Worksop .Manor, Notts.
Sir Robed Gunning, part. has arrived in town from his skit,
HortoniNorthaniptonshire.
Colonel Legh has left town for Warrington, Lancashire.
Arrival at the London Hotel Albemarle-street:—Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer Percival, from a tour. Departure:—Airs. 31assingberd
and family, for Brussels.
Arrivals at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street :--Sir Robert, Cap-
tain, and Miss Blair, from Gravesend; Wm. Tatman, Esq. and
Mrs. Toenail, from a tour; Thos. Hill, sen., Esq. and Mrs. Hill,
from Bkenarvan ; Rev. Mr. Browning, horn Norfolk; Captain
Bacon. and Thos. (Mune, Esq. from • tour. Departures -
- Smith, Esq. Mrs. and Miss Smith, on a tour ; Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Methuen and family, on • tour; Col. Vaughan, for Wales;
Charles Milner, Esq. for Oxford ; 1). and W. Mossenden, El' aqra.
for Cheltenham ; Silveri and Riddell, Esqrs. on a tour; Rev. Mr.
Mrs. and the Aliases Collett, for Deal.

In Queen Mary's days (says a prebendary of Ezon),
when the Pore solicited the Queen for a restoration of
church lands and dignities, it was first proposed to the
Cabinet Council, where the Lord of Bedford being present,
and knowing himself greatly concerned, fell into a great
passion, and, breaking his chaplet of beads from his gir-
dle, flung them into the fire, swearing dimply, " That he
valued his sweet abbey of IVooburn more than any fatherly
council or commands that could coma from Rome.' Where-
upon the Queen, considering of what temper others of the
Nobility might be, was discouraged from prosecuting that
design.
A PASSIONATE Maw.—Fletcher, of Saltown, is well
known to have possessed a most irritable temper. His
footman desired to be dismissed. "Why do you leave
me ?" said he—" Because, to speak the truth, 1 cannot
bear your temper."—" To he sure, I am passionate, hut
my passion is no sooner on than it is off."— Yes (replied
the servant), but it is no sooner off than it is on.
PVI.SATION AND THE Ft:NOS.—Dr. Chirac, a French
physician, was once called to see a lady, and while he was
in her bedchamber he heard that the price of stock had
considerably decreased. As he happened to be a large
holder of the Mississippi Bonds lie was alarmed at the
news ; and being seated near the patient, whose pulse he
was feeling, he said, with a deep sigh, " Alt, good God 1
they keep sinking I—sinking !—sinking !" The poor sick
lady hearing this, uttered a loud shriek; the people ran to
her immediately. "Ah !" said she, " I shall die ; M,
1)e Chirac has just said three times, as he felt my pulse,
" They keep sinking !" The doctor recovered himself'
soon, and said, " You dream ; your pulse is very healthy,
and you are very well. 1 was thinking of the Mis.
1 sissippi stocks' upon which I lose my money, because
! their price sinks." This explanation satisfied the sick lady.
The Bev. James Gardiner, against whom a verdict for
1601. damages was obtained at a late Armagh Assizes for
" Seduction," came up before the Commissioner of Insol-
vent's at Tailor's 11211, on Thursday, the 17th inst. to be
discharged, hut was remanded for 15 months from the time
of filing his petition.—Dshlin roper.
4 few days since, an infant at Bath, seven months old,
being neglected by its nurse, cried itself to death.—Taunton
Courier.

S. vend distressinginstances of hydrophobia have recently
occurred in various parts of Xiighlud; two, of deaths
from bites of cats.

rrswcitory Ace' prin.—Yesterday morning two
brothers, of the name of Grieve, went in to bathe a little west of
the harbour of Portobello, ooe of whom went beyond his depth.
His brother, on observing him drowning, Man so struck with
terror that he remained motionless, unable to afford the least kelp,
and before assistance arrived, the body had been under water three
quarters of an hour. It was carried to the baths, where Mr.
Henry Scott, manager of that establishment, used every effort to
restore animation, by putting the body in warm water, rubbing it
di over with Inaules. &c. and alto used the blow pipe to inflate
th• lungs. A surgeon soon after arrives, who opened a vein, but
all to r.o effect, the vital spark haying iletL--CakdJnian .41:reary-

ROUT!' AMERICA.

MESSAOg fit N y)cE.FREsIDENT OF COLOMMS
CHARGRD %VETO THE UOVERNSIENT, TO TOR
CONOREsS OF 1324

Fellow-Citizens of the &mak and of the Chamber of Rimmed.
illgiVOL—The present Congrdi meets under more favourable mole
pices than the former. Lag veer the enemy still occupied scot.
important posts in the Republic, from whence, spreading alarm to
the neighbouring departments, he redoubled the Ayres of his
power to gain a fortunate blown, to which the machinations of the
dieaffected, whom we generously tbierate in our territory might
contribute. Happily their enterpried were checked, and their pee.
jects have only served to consmidate the public opinion, and to
give additional lustre to the glory of Columbia. You coine
deliberate for the benefit of our conetituents, in the tranquil days,
which Providence has granted us, by the ednalasit secrificts of tbe
Colombian people and army. As uncertain as may be the conti-
nuation of the present calm, the Executive feels itself animated
with the most lively pleasure to present to you a Willful picture of
the Republic, and to offer you the ideas which expert:deltas fur-
nished; persuaded that you will never have a greater field titan la
this Session to employ with success your patriotism and talents.
The Government of his Catholic Majesty persists in its ancient I
scheme of disavowing the justice of our emancipation And the
power which has plated the Republic upon the level of indepoad-
ent States. The Codes of Cadiz, in its last gasp, denied the recce.
minion of the new American States, insisting upon the measure bf, ,
sending Commissioners out who might hear our petition. the
Executive had no knowledge of the Commission relative to Colom-
bia, and attributes it to the explicit declaration made to Congress
in the former Message, nut to hear or admit any negotiation on the
part of the Government of Spain, which should not have toe its
basis the firm acknowledgment of our national sovereignty. Not-
withstanding, the Executive has not let pass an occasion or favour.
able juncture to persuade the Sper.ish Government that we are
ready to forget our grievances, to put an end to the war, and to
promote the happiness and prosperity of both nations; but the
catastrophe which the present Regime in the Peninsula has just
suffered, reduces us to the extremity of not expecting anything
but by the force of arms. The King (Ferdinand) has been restored
to absolu:e power by the aid of a 1 tench army, to which the Spa-
niards themselves afforded assistance. His official acts, as far as
regard the new American S ate., show clearly that he intends to
renew the war—to subject us to the ancient odious servitude of
Seed]. If .the Executive does not doubt the views of the Cabinet
of Madrid, neither does it doubt that the forces which the Republic
will oppose to it will be of such a nature as, its the end, to save its
independence, its government, and its laws. Congress has a very
essential duty in completing our defence, by granting to the Exe-
cutive the means of preserving the externel and internal tranquillity
of the Republic; and I hope that your first labours will forward so
important an object; and for that purpose I refer to my communi-
cation of the 9th May last.
Our relations with the Government of America have taken
growth anti consistency. The military situation of Peru has car-
tied our warriors to that country, and the President,—the Liberator,
using the permission of Congress, has undertaken the task of lead-
ing them on to victory, The presence of the Liberator in Pell
has contributed strongly to save the State from the terrible calioni-
ties of civil ICC. The confidence which the Peruvian Government
and people have reposed in the Liberator is a happy presage of
their liberty, and there is no doubt if, on our part. we furnish other
auxiliaries, the war of Peru will terminate favourably, and the tate
of South America remain secured. The succour which the Re-
public has granted to Peru exceeds its obligation by the treaty of
alliance with the Executive, with your consent and approbation,
ratified ; but as the geographical position of that State identifies
itself with the lot of Colombia, prudence tells us, that in Peru
we are acting in our own defence. The Peruvian Congress has ra-
tified, without alteration, the treaty of alliance and amity with the
Republic, and the Chinon Congress ought to have retitled theirs
with the same modifications. The treaty entered into with the
Government of Buenos-Ayres will be presented for your examina-
tion and approval, along with that which has been made with the
Government of Mexico, if in proper time they arrive in the ca.
pitaL All these treaties have completed the American confede-
ration which the Government of Colombia undertook to form, to ,
give stability to theinelependence of the new world a and as such
an important project has commenced, to produce in Europe the
effects which we foresaw, the Executive wiU not rest until it sees
united the Congress of Plenipotentiaries of the new American
Government. —The political situation of Mexico is very didirrent
to what it was last year. The Mexican people and army, excited
against the administration of their Chief, Itorbide reestablished
the authority of the Congress—dethroned and banished that per.
Nonage to Europe. This event may have eradicated all the mo-
narchial principles which hail been proclaimed, and will serve as
the basis of a popular rzpretentative Government. The new Mexi-
can Government marches along this path with energy and firmness—
its measures to re-unite the Congress, prohibit trade with subject&
of the Spanish Government, blockade the fortress of San Juan de
Ulloa, and expel the disaffected from its territories, sufficiently de-
monstrate it. The provinces of the old Captain-Generalship of
liestiniala have organized an independent State, and for its first
act, it is known that it has adopted the popular representative sys-
tern. Some people of its juriedictian sought refuge in Colombia,
in the epoch of the agitation of the Imperial Government ; but as
the Executive ought not to countenance the disorganisation of the
other States, or to extend the territory of the Republic against its
fandamental law, I limited myself to interpose our good offices
with the Government of Mexico in their farmer, and I offeted art
inviolable seylum to persecuted patriots. This excision appears to
me favourable to declare that the Government of Colombia never
has adopted the pernicious doctrine of naafi:zing in the internal
affairs of other independent States.
The residence, in this capital, of the Minister Plenipotentiary. of
the I.7.iited States, ought to afforu us the means of strengthening
the relations of amity which exist between the two Governments,
and to favour the interests of the Republic. The .3lipister of
Colombia was received in Washington with the consideration
which his characte,r, and the identity of principles of both nations,
ought to exact. The President of the United States has signalized
his administration with an act eminently just, and worthy of the
classic land of liberty. In his lest message to Congress, he has
declared that he looks upon any
violate the destinies • f the in-
dependent governments of America, as a manifestation of hostile
dispositions towards the United States. That government considers
any attempt on the part of the Allied Powers to extend their
system to any portion of the American hemisphere, as dangerous
to the peace and security of the before.nientioneal State. A similar
policy of the human race might give to Colombia powerful alliance,
in case its independence and liberty welt threatened by the Allied
Powers. The executive cannot be indifferent to the turn which
the politics of the United States have taken, and is occupied efficaci-
ously in reducing the question to definitive and deemove points.
The Republic of Columbia cannot be accused with anything by the
Allied Powers: she and her gavernment have highly respected the
rights of Sovereigns and those of their subjects. Ready to open to
all nations the fountain of her national nights, she does not desire
any other obligation than that they respect her independence and
her institutions. But if an evil genius should raise up new
enemies, time will prove if the Government and the Colombians
have sufficient patriotism to make the most costly sacrifices for our
independence and liberty. In a mercantile view, I have managed
to clear off difficulties—our relations with the United States, and
the protection of our commerce, by means of the appointment of
Consols and Agents, and publishing end observing saupulously
our laws and statutes.
The Executive had extended its relations in Europe—with
Great Britain particularly, whose politics appear favourable to the
cause of South America, and whose commercial relations have been
more extensive and active. 'Clic sympathy of the opinion of the •
British public and its Government, inspire the Executive with the
most flattering hopes. I ant sorry that I carrot communicate to -
you what nosy be the ultimate resolution of the government of his
Britannic alajesty, with respect to the Republic. A Commis-
sioner from the English Government is now actually in this capital,
from whom we have received satisfactory proofs of the interest with
which our State inspires the mind of the magnanimous people of
Englard. The security
.which it low given us against the roomed
that France will assist in the war which Spain intends to begin I
anew, to reduce us to her obedience, places tis in a situation of not I
fearing such an occurrence. The Lxecutive, as well as the Re. I
public, have highly eat:mated their declarations, and 1 can assure
the Congress that ih the progress of the nqcuctation which may ;
tome on the carpet, I will nut lose sight of the dignity of the Gab
rernment. nor of the interests of the t'olombian people. if tlis
union of the physical and moral power of the independent States ,
of America, the order and regularity of our association, respect to
the law, uniformity of opinion, the progress of learning. and the
adherence of the Government to the path prescribed by our tends-
mental laws, ought to weigh in the political balance of nations, we
ought to hope, with entire confidence, that neither Great Britain
nor the other powers will disavow the power and moral force which .
the Republic of Columbia has acquired, to put herself upon a level
with them. I stn determined to take advantage of any favour- •
able opportunity to extend our relations with other Powers,
whose friendship can be of sufficient interest and utility to the
Republic.
Ths negotiations with the Apostolical Chair being_ still depend-
ing, the Executive continues to experience the difficulties which
I announced to Congress last Session ; and I have to beg you anew
some certain regulation to avoid the prejeidices which we suffer. It'
is probable that the Apostulical Chair may accede to the solicits-
tions
of tho Executive, fur the benefit of the spiritual necessities of
the Republic.
I feel the greatest satisfaction in informing Congress, that the 1
Republic is extended to all the territory which the fundamental
law fixed. In all its vast extension there does not remain even a
relict of the expeditionary. Spanish awny, and the Constitution and
the laws have fixed in it their empire. Only a few men of the
canton of Pasco have wished to live by disorder, and the Govern,
went has been obliged to resort, with pain, to employ arms to cnieh
this bud of disunion.
Public eiluescon has had an increase this yaw in the rdablish- 1
norm oh new schools and colleges. That this important branch of
common felicity may be extended, it is necessary to lease it to the I
work of time, for neither can the people support the annotint of con.'
tribution for education, having still to contribute towards the ski-
Misty of their iedepentlence, nor have we sufficient preceptors. If
I the Coquette author:see the Executive to appropriate a sum froin
the Public Treasury for the purpose, and sanctions the genetsl plan
of studies that I presented last Session, according to its wisdom it
may deem applicable to the circumstances, I believe that its pro-
gide will not be doubtful.
Few objects merit so much the attention of Congress as the admi-
Distention of justice. la this branch the people suffer much, as
much from the judicial distssos being very extensive, the superior
teammate being placed at great distances, as the complication and
eantewriety of Spanish legislation resent doubts, delays, and even
'Mpistice. I know well that the absoiate TOO= of civil and

nal legislation is not the work of aw Session t but am coned eof
' that this present Congress can begin this important reform, sena
rating it from the cognisance of the Intendants and Gm mains, time
contentious parties of Justice and State, multiplying the Caine
Justice as our actual situation points out, organiaing them on
more simple and economies' scale than those of the three judicial
districts, and approving of the penal cede, which Ws been prevenle4
with these alterations, which your wisdom and experience believe.
Woeful to the happiness of the Colenthiario
The administration of justice, public Onitif, Sri the weltered tines,
people, our constituents, esquire a coded Isamu In, although it Ls
only provisional, the territorial division of some department,' and
provinces, tense particularly in the south. Altholigh this mews
auppuecs exaet data, without which it would be difficult to semen.
plish a division beneficial to the people, it will rut lie.'sirejeslicial
that Congress mane an essay of what 1 point not.
The laws relative u this naturalisation of stranger', privilege's of
navigation, alienation of uncultivated lands, have hegun tr he ese.
cuted, and offer us fundamental hopes of contributing stroogiy tr
the prosperity of the Republic. Four hundred this:wood faiierradast
of uncultivated lands, in different provinces, liar, been alienated
in virtue of the law of the 7th of June. The Executive will most
to the Congress the applications for the privilege of steem-buats in
the laic of 31arstaibo, the Frith of Guayaquil, and coast of the Pa,
edit ; and, as I tin not doubt the geed success of them, we natty
tatter ourselves that it will be of infinite consideration to the
provernent the Republic will receive in its internal preelection* and
commercial relations.

The constitutional organisation has continued progresing with
!Polarity. All the suthori.iea have endeavoured to oh.erve •lia
Bill of Rights of the Colombian people ; and if the difficulties
which war, in a country so fatigued with its ravages, throw. in it.
way, has found me to use the extraordinary prerogatives which the
law grants me, 1 have never used it of my own accord, nor longer
than danger warranted it. The regularity of one political career
ought to be particularly satisfactory to us, and the respect that wc
profees to the Constitution Ise inspired civilised rations with a veer
favourable idea of the Republic ; and we have still to hops foe
events of greater importance to our security, dignity, and pose,.
The national rood will be forsoine time an object of ratios; me.
1 ditations, and unfruitful, and perhaps, prejudicial emelt, To
create a national fetal in a country impoverished by the political
'regimen of the old government and laws, wasted by a long and die.
gismos
war, cannot he Use work but of peace, of experience, and
the lapse of time. The Congress can infer from their principles.
and those they heard last Sodom, what have been the afflictiotes
I the Executive has experienced in Melaka, of the year melt° what
an extraordinary degree hare been the efforts employed to drive dm
enemy from our territoty, or to give solidity to the Republic. I ora-
fess, with the most lively pleasure• that without the mote patriotism of
I the Colombian people. and without the heroic suffkringe of oin war-
t non ,we shoulit too have come off ',tension s in tha et ruggle, A I. haslet
the resources which the lest Congress afforded have not yet been
realized, counting upon them, 1 have made bold to have recourse
to other means m facilitate the court' of administration. I trust
that the Cocgres will lend its authority, that the Executive mw
Midi its promises, and comply with the arduous and important
duties the Constitution imposes.
1 esteem it for the bettering of the national treasury to chirp
the system of administration and direction of the revenue. Ai Chan-
cellor of the C voliequtr's office. Iltitiolltil at the seat of govern-
-1 ment, will facilitate the Administration of finance, as well es au
establishment of departmental exchequers, where the acuounte are
to be preserted as early as possible for their revision, and to be
audited. This regolation cortemplates the abolition of the Ac-
comptant General. the same offices in the departmental treatturiat,
which saving will bs *efficient for the expense of the new officio.
The Congress will naive a separate plan, which will develops this
idea.

I return again to recommend to Congress rne maulicon of the
tobacco monopoly. This branch of revenue, receiving t support
which may be expected, is. in my opinion, to intros:. we payment
of the interest of the exterior national debt, at the same taro pro •
clueing an acknowledged benefit to the cultivators. The Executive
has issued orders to apply the product of this revenue to a cones.
doable part of the loan, decreed by Congress ; and it only remains
that the loan may be organized and its administration made uni.
form, leaving to the Executive sufficient authority to follow the in-
floence of circumstances, which may he variable during the recess
of the Legislature. The revenue of tithes, which, above providing
ter the clergy, affords to the Republic some resource, requires alas
uniformity in its administrative regimen, and a cheek upon the
clandestine inversion of its product. The direct contribution, al-
though the most congenial to a liberal system, is involved with ob.
stades and difficulties, which have furnished the vigilance of the
Legislative body. Its entire reform appears necessary, reducing is
to terms less confuse and odious, and more productive. I feel the
same on the other laws on indirect contributions. The tax of one
dollar on each mark of gold, for the national muoeum, ought not
to exist ; the product of this contribution, compared with the defi-
cit which results from the clandestine extraction of metals in bar
or dust, which it causes, is so little, that it ought to be dote away
with.
Tlie department of the Post-office ought to occupy the attention
of Congress. The boundaries of the Republic is immense, and
whilst the use of steam beats and goal roads shorten the dimmer.
the posts ought to facilitate the communication among all the citi-
zens, and between them and the Government. This revenge ought
not only to accomplish such important *Warta, but will be produc-
tive to the national tressury. I think do not deceive myself by
being sore that, by improving oars actual revenue, it will be suf.
dent for our ordinary expenses, once we have paid for the rudi-
ments of war which we pomp% end the army be placed on the peace

There it not time to knew the result of the operations of the
Executive in the arranging and settling the loan of March, MM.
The intereated in it have pretested inet the law of the let of
July • but as the Executive have endeavoured to fulfil the views
of Co;sgreas, and the wishes of the friends of Colombia, I hope to
terminate this business to the satisfaction of the parties interesteC,
and to facilitate the negotiation of the new loan. Then we will
have given a nobleman:pie of the good faith of the Governmem,
and establish the credit of the Republic. Posterity will not have
to blame us with having uselessly burthened it with • superfluous
debt to satisfy fictitious net:amino; no, to posterity we will leevc
our country and liberty.
I now come to speak of the glories of the army of Colombia. On
the tith August the city of Maracaibo wee restored to the Republic,
after various successes to our arms, particularly in the &lions na-
val combat of the 24th July. The chiefs to whom the Exam ine.
gave the dircetion of the sea and land forces, corresponded needy
well with the hopes of the Republic, and in virtue of the insmic,
tinny which they had granted to the fierier', 9f the enemy, a cap:-
tulation, the merit and generosity of which aannot be denied by
the Spaniards themselves. Scarcely had the Republic congratu-
lated itself with the triumph of the army of the %%ilia, when its
attention was called to the acquisition of Puerto Cabello otzthe Set
November, in a manner which will always reflect honour on the
army of the department of Venezuela and its chief. This post had
constantly resisted the forces of the Republic, and in it the enemy
had established a rallying point for their operation*. Since Pnptu
Cabello unfurled the Colombian banner, Venezuela had brew:-
stored to tranquillity, and actual war is concluded. The 'gnu,
tive has not seen with indifference these successes in the a
which will be presented to Congress ; I have preserved the woo' •
lection and approbation which they have deserved front the Rs,
public sod iliovernment.
The army of Colombia, which has made war to sonquev
Independence, and liberty, to whose constant and eminent 'emcee
the republic owes its tranquillity, whose arms ;re the strong shield
which det9nds the constitution, this army, as much the friend of
independence as of liberty, such sufferers in privations, as well es
valorous in the field of battle, deserve laws to preserve them front
oppression and vexations, and to secure to them a decent subsist,
encc, to open the door to honour, to favour them with justice art the
distribution of their rewards, and that their families may not be
forgotten after death. These laws I ask from the Congress of Cc-
tomb's, entirely possessed with the confidence that the Legislatimi
of the Republic feel as sensibly ea the Executive, the eminent eer,
vices of the defenders of its independence and liberty.

Our small force of coariecs, a very important part of the aunt,
has accomplished important services, and will always achieve the
like, if they are placed on the footing once before I said they ought
to be. fiCl4l4 obstacles have presented themselves in attaining Stir.
but I hate confidence that thil will be overcome br the triadom of
your laws of organization and the ',natant, of the Leeeutise. The
Secretary of Marine will inform you the use I have made of the
authority granted by the law of the Id July. I hope that the
Congress, bringing before them the mainorials which the Secretary
of Correspondence presented by my order last SellsiOns, may tar,
their attention to the object therein described. They provide tea",
dart matter for the Repreaent‘tives to employ their talents and ex-
perience in favour of the heroic people, our constituents, whoa.
favourable votes we may be sure of, while we devote oursalre•
their happiness and tranquillity.
. _

• •
On finishing this picture I ought to confess that my heart is hal
of bitterness, to see that I have riot been able to do all the benefit
for the Republic which my conscience dictates tome. It is to your
talents and your power that it is left to fill Colombia with pros;
perity. an 4 to correct the errors which I may have involuntarily
made in the course of my administration. It serves tne, however.
as a trwrifort, to present you Colombia free, for the Arai time, front
her enemies, admitted intiohe society of nations, tranquil in its
tenor. and rigidly adherent to the Constitution. Under such au.,
pies you have the most precious opportunity Its open the fountains
of public prosperity, and to reciprocate die confidence which the
[114840t1 has placed in you. Count upon the poomptituiie of the
Executive in the observance and perfection of your delihevations.
and of its absolute consecration to the well-being and security of
the Republic.
FRANCISCO DE P. SANTANDER.
Bogota, 6:11 April, 1824-14.

Extract of a letter from Marseilles dated June 17 :
" A veksel has arrived here fram which port
she left in the middle of May. The Captain reports •,--a
the city of Cairo had been partially destroyed by rain re-.
vious W the onntlagration, in which an entire corps ut ar,
tillery perished, and also the nephew of the Vic,roy. 'Poe
distress and misery of the surviving in'opitarets ars el--!
scnbed as horrible. The Viceroy and his soo were en,
I camped without the walls, with an army amounting to be,
tween 20.000 and 30,000 user„ anti every wvoaratroo
making for embarking upwards of 10,000 Oft board she
Stet for the Peloponnesus. It was suspected, hewer.%
that fresh delays would be contrised to prevent their 'Ol-
- A new prophet had appeared in Mecca, who h. 4
assembled near 20,009 disciples. These, with the Waits-
bites, a very powerful tribe, inter algid, it was said, W much
against the Viceroy."

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Eavr.rox OF SHERIFFS.
Yesterday the Election of trrror the ensuing year took Om
nt Outkihall, and Aldermen BROWN and KEY were unanimously

chosen, after the usual form*.
'Flom was, at the cmmnencement of the businem, a good deal
or merriment ^cited by the cordial manner in which Mr. Samuel
•nd Mr. Henry Hunt approached each other on the hustings,
and shook hands. Since Mr. Hunt has heroines cormroaster, he
ha. greatly increasoil the number of his city friends, and he was on
this occasion complimented by persona of notorimody different po-
litical piir+uits, upon the perfect restoration of his health and

appearam e.
When the Lord Mayor and Aldermen returned to the hustings
front the l'otirt of Aldermen, and the appointment of the Sheriffs

was declared in due font!,
Akierwan Itnoww addressed the Livery. No man, he said,
could more deeply feel the responsibility 'opened upon him by the
tare of his fellow-citizens, than he did himself; a responsibility,
which was incensed by their great indulgence in ullowing him to
*erre the office at his own time, and by associating him with a col-
I' sour for whom he had the highest respect, and whom he was
proud thus publicly to acknowledge his friend. It had always been
upon rierso.ions of this kind customaty to express the nature of the
seminients of those who entered upon the duties of Sheriffs. Ile
should merely say, that he had boldly exercised and declared his
opinions as an Englishman. He should continue to da so; and
whilst lie claimed respect for the expression of his own sentiments,
he should entertain a corresponding feeling towards those of others.
But in this situation it would, he thought, be his duty to abstain
trout the expression of any opinion whatever respecting political
men or measures. Some of his duties would, he knew, press
upon him heavily, and particularly that of the custody of those
actually convicted, and those under the imputation of crime, upon
whom the law thought it necessary to place restraints. During the
!Petallike there would doubtless be sonic who, under the strong
arm of the law, must depart to smother world, to appear be-
bee thrir Maker, and their Judge. Ile should do all in his
p .wer in render the condition of the unfortunate malefactors
endurable as passible; and lie felt assured and consoled at
th.` assurance that he should have the aid of many humane per-
sons, tieder whose immediate tare and inspection they were placed,
toperi!olly of that benevolent gentleman whine duty it was to
admittooir to them the consolation of religion. It would become
his duty to innovate on customs which were considered by some as
almost established, but in so doing, he would be only acting in sub.
envie:try to principles, to which every thing must give way ; and
at the espOation of his office, it would be his gratest reward to
olvain the approbation of his fellow.citiwns. (Loud applause.)
Alderman Kra most warmly thanked the !Avery for the
bonnet thew had conferred upon him, and said that he readily and
cheerfully consentedto undertake all the duties of the office. Being
thus called to the honour, he could no: help congratulating his
tellow.eintoms, his colleague, and himself, that the duties devolved
upon him at a period of peace and prosperity, after war and tumult,
sued agitation had passed away, never, he hoped, to return. The
defies of the office. whether they proved to be light or heavy. he
should pertimn to the best of his ability. With respect to the
Timone.s who should be necessarily in his eustode, it would be his
duty a+ a I 'longish to use every meuns in his power to endeavour
ao Ilit,lllte their stiffrings, and to reform their habits, and to those
nnaenpv iiirdenictors whom the law declared to be unlit to remain
in Ifin world, he should render every aid in preparing them for
that which they were destined prematurely to enter. Ile trusted
tilt. he :old his most respectable colleague would be always
•.‘un4l united for the benefit of the City, and for the preservation
o.' its banchite, and that when they resigned their office, it would
he 1l Ivi have passed through their hands unimpaired. If they
tailed in any r,..siie^t it would he from a want of knowledge, and
rot from any want of heelination to their duty. Lastly, it shook!
`ne their effort to maintain the office in all its dignity and splendor,
am) with a tie of hospitality worthy of this great city. (Loud
eileers,l had been mentioned by his colleague, that they would
tr•-•!.t their duty to make some innovations in customs almost estab.
rsheu ; but those innovations (we understood the worthy Alder-
isnot to say) would in no respect depreciate the office in its 'picador
es dignity.

CITY ACCOUNTS.
Tile anditora then came forward and read a statement of the
finance aff..i-4 of the Lord 3layor. Aldermen, and Commonalty of
tit.: Cif r London up to the 3lst May last. From that account it
eppeared that the revenue of the city, up to last year, amounted to
tile auto of 132,7341/., and that a balance of 8,6t151. had been left in
the hotels of the Chamberlain after the total expenditure. The
items were road with extreme indistinctness, and seemed to refer
rather to what was mere matter of form than to what may be con-
sidered as real business, if the manner of the reader be a criterion

far judgment.
Air. HUNT bowed to the Lord Mayor, and said he had a few
words to nner.--Although he had stood very chose to the Auditors
and bad a very sharp ear, he had not been able to hear anything dis-
tinctly of this account of the city's cash. The Livery, who were
deeply interestnt in the disposal of their own money, hal heard the
sums of 40,000/. and 60,000/. mentioned without learning what it
was all about. Thin was a strange way of proceeding, and one
which he knew could not be very palatable, insomuch as it was
a disposal of the property of the Commonalty without letting them
know whether it was a proper and judicious disposal or not. Now
lie should proyese that the account just read should be published
Sat. the benefit of thowe to whom the money belonged. (Applause,
ith a mixture of disapprobation). Surely those who had the
care of their cash could have no objection to publish an account of
its management. to enable their employee to decide whether they
were trustworthy or not. Those auditors were appointed by the
'Seery, and it was their duty to see that all the city money wasp
pecly received and properly expended. But instead of doing so be
understood that they merely confined their exertions to reading over
an acceunt and presenting it to the Corporation. This sort of work
should be inquired into, and he therefore 'boob' move fur the pab-
holden of the accounts.
One of the Auditors said they were always published.
Mr. Hoar asked where, and by whom, and for whom?
TheArtorroa said, by the Corporation.
Mr. HOST—Oh ! So those who manage and spend the cash ef
the City are the persons for whom the accounts are published.
They publish those accounts amongst themselves ; I dare say very
few of these who pay the money are informed upon the manner
of its disposal.
The A CDIT on said that 12,000 copies were printed fur the use
of the livery annually.
Mr. HITNT—Very well, we'll see that. Gentlemen, have any
of you seen or read any of these 12,000 copies ?
The err amongst the livery was, that they had never seen them.
Mr. Ili's:T-1 amine yowl am in just the same predicament; se
that if they publish 12,000 copies under the pretence of publishing
them to you, and afterwards put them into the fire, the hoax and
imposition upon you are palpable. You are put to a needle's ex.
pease, under the pretext of llseing informed upon a subject of the
highest importance to you, while at the same time the mains of in..
-farroation for which you pay are withheld. lam not aware who
those Auditors are ; I dare say they are respectable men, and that
all those immense sums which we know so little about may be very
properly applied. We are hoe ever bound to have a sharp look out
that they are so. I shall therefore submit my motion, in order to'
have the matter investigated. Will any one second my motion ?
Several Liverymen volunteered, and the motion was acconded by
(AUK tots JACKSON, citizen and felt-maket.
Mr. Heux—Now, I leave it to any One to say, whether it is not
as important that the Livery should examine into the accounts of
those who have a power over their properties, as to listen to the
worthy Sheriffs declaring, that they would pass people into the
other world as easy as they. could, and all that sort of thing. (Loud
'laughter.) Ido not by this insinuate that the Sheriffs will not per-
form their duty, and merit the thanks of their fellow-citizens at the
close of the year.
As the motion was about to be put—
The Loan MAYOR came !inward. and said—The motion is,
that the Auditors accounts be published for the use of the Livery.
1 do not know out of what fund the expense is to be defrayal . • how
the copies are to be disposed of or paid for. I know of no funds
which are at the disposal of the Livery.
Mr. 110,1 T—Indeed ! Why. Gentlemen, don't we know that
we have our own funds, ef which this account has just been sub-
-mined to us. If we have nothing to do with that account why is
it rend to us ? I say you have funds. of your own, and I shall
leave it to yourselves to decide upon dt fraying the expenses out of
those funds. (Laughter and applause.)
The motion was then put and carried by a great majority.
The Loup Mayon again came forward, and begged to auk the
Llvery who was to print and publish and distribute the copies ; or
fiat whence they were to be paid for?
Mr. Ili N T-1 iut of our own funds, to bemire. Let our Town I
Clerk publish thorn, and let them be left is our own plan for our
own use. Let troy Liveryman who pleases examine them ; and
1 t cs be beholden to no one.
A I.,veryman asked where the money came from to pay foe the
I:fitat copies which the Auditor said bad been printed
Toe Auditor said that was a mistake. No 12,000 copies had
l'ect. printed.
The !man MAYOR raid, he wicked to make a few observations
%planation. The City Funds were all under the management
of the Corporation at large, who appointed the officers for the pur-
-1 /we; but with respect to any fwds that were under the direct or
eisinct control of the Livery, he knew of none, and he believed
tier: were none. Ile knew this, because he had tried it acme time
ago, with respect to the payment fur MOW resolutions which the
Livery voted should he inserted in the public Papers. It being
found that the Livery had no funds, the Corporation were applied
to, and they did not think proper to pay for theta. He merely
stated these Gress, without giving any optmon on them, either one
way or the Other.
Mr. Hunt—Why, we are told we have very large funds; and
1 hope and trust. notwithstanding what has been baud, that some
quarter sr..it be found from which this eery small expense nifty be
',arrayed. Surely our patriotic Lord Mayer will not think it too
treat a sacrifice, .for the benefit of his fellow citizens, to get it done.
Bffhaps he will pay foe it; at all events, we can pay for it amongst
us. Let tha Lord Mayor 'tat down something toward* it, and I
w.. 11 cote? it. (Hissing.) Witat is there to hiss at, when I offer
to subscribe to get it done. In the account the money is said to he-
long to the Lord Mayor, Aldermea, and Commonalty of the City
t.f London. I hope tbe woni " Commonalty" will in future be
st rick out, if lee are to be toll that we have no control over the

to ,nay.
The roomon-crier here dissolved the Hall. The reso:ution WU
entered by the Towmelerk, and the Livery retired.
The Lewd 3lseyoT afterwards held a Court of Aldermen, at Which
tx CW01316./)41.1 was lIIWOTTI.
Mr. mutaders was admittrd and sworn into the office of ll'uter
The Come appointed the Guildhall Ses.sinns to be holden on
NVodnestker die 11th July next. instead of 31ntuluy the 12th;
41. e .01t1 tMiilel akiwignie will be held on the lrtih of that month.
The Rule?* of the 14'ut.:ttnen and Lighte:aica'N C4napaar were
last • ear.

THE BAPTIST ifISSIONARY SOCIETY'. tune, with a view to a emote let meat. Animated with all a
a-or.-- avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll In on,
This Society celebrated its anniversary yeoterday, at the Wea. after another—wave after ware--and there is nothing before the
/man Chapel, Great (been-street, Lincoln's linn-fields, and not- eyes of the natives but an mama hopeless Prospect of new giOre
withstanding the very unfavourable state of thewe
a-fielder,
weather, the meeting of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually faltering
' was numerously attended. The platform was crowded by gentlemen for the food that la continually wasting. With us are tea retribu.
of various religious persuasions, among whom we noticedalMnjarnin tory superotitions, by which a foundation of charity compendoes
Shaw, Esq. Joupli Butterworth, Esq. the Rev. Pr. Winter, the 'trough ages to the poor for the rapine and injustice of a day.
Rev. Christopher Anderson, of Edinburgh ; Alexander Haldane, With us no pride erects stately monuments. which repair the mis-
chiefs which pride had produced, and which adorn a country out ,
EM. I Capt. Gordon, of the East India Company's Service, litc.ates
TT.
Rev. SIIAW, Esq. having taken the Chair, of its own spoils. England has erected no churches, no hospitals,
The 3lr. DYE. proceeded to read the Report, which con.. Ino palaces, no schools ; England has torilt no bridges, made no'
tamed a summary account of the proceedings of the Institution high roads, cut no navigations, dug. out no reservoirs. Every
since its last anniversary, and particularly of its opmations on the i other conqueror of every other description has left some menummit,
pleas.. either of state or beneficence behind bim. Were we to be driven
continent of India. The prospect at Dinagepoor continued
ing, and the chorea under the care of 11r. Fernandez, had con. I out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had
siderably increased. The Menem of Jessore, situate about sixty . been pomeased during the inglorious period of our dominion
Iby anything totter than the ourangmutang or the tiger." Such
miles N.E. of Calcutta, was described by the Missionaries there as
I was the true picture of the apathy with which England hod hitherto
one of the best cultivated fields in Bengal. In order to avoid many
acts of injustice and oppression, to which the native Christians I regarded India; but what did they now behold a they saw many
were exposed from the heathen landholders and maaistrates, a new horrors vet, indeed, existing there; but while they. observed a sys.
village had been formed near Sahebtsunj, called Chnothinpore. At tern which broke up every human sympathy, the infant tom from
Nelgunj, in that district, a large school had been formed, the ex- its mother's breast, and plunged by that very mother into wintery
prose of which was borne by the Semmpore School Institution. I grave, the widow immolated on the pile, the hand of the daughter
Three native youths had been sent by 31r. William Thomas. the I holding the torch ; et the they saw the sun of righteousness drawing
3lisaionary to the Serampore College; and so cnnsiderable had I upon that land ; eiviazation widely spreading. itself, and all the
been the aistribution of the Bengalee New Testament, in that • milder charities of the Gospel gradually dispersing those dark Mo.!
quarter, that the fifth edition was completely exhausted. At ! lames, which the cold uneympathizing system described by Burke
Dacca, where the first attempts to plant the (impel fourteen years ' served only to ch Mak. These things would perpetuate not only the
gratifying alteration had I name of England, but also its Christianity', that were they to be
ego, were wholly unsuccessful, a very
taken place by the introduction of the Schools, under the manage. ' turned out of India to-morrow, and all their splendour of empire
ment of Mr. Leonard. These were 15 in number, containing 1,3(10 ! destroyed, tae British Missionaries would there leave an impert.h.
pupils for the Benicalces. and one for instruction in thc Persian lan. i able fame. After adverting to the laudable exertions of the Baptist
guage, in which Martyn's version of the New Testament was con.' Missiovaries in other parts of the world, the Hon. Gendernan,
saintly used. On the return of Mr. Thompson from serempore ea conclued an eloquent speech by seconding the Resolution, which
Delhi he was cheered by an event highly gratifying to himself, and was put and carried unanimously.
which excited greatsensation in that popalouseity.An agedßrahutin, ! JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH, Esq. rose to propose the second
held in the highest estimation among his neighbours far his attain- , Resolution, expressive of the regret of the meeting at the loos of
ments in Suemkrit literature, after hearing the limpel fur some . several of the Missionaries by death, and their devoat hope that
time, publicly renounced idolatry ; and, notwithstanding ell the ! the Almighty would raise up others in their stead. The lieu.
efforts made both to allure and terrify him from his purpose, openly ! Gentleman observed, it was a sort of melancholy motion he had to
professed his faith in Christ, and was baptized by Mr. Thompson ' propose, but it was sometimes well to go to the house of mourning, ,
in the presence of many spectators. On this occurrence the follow- ' for they often on such occasions, lead not only to respect but Mimi.
tate the tartan of the deposited. A little while ago he was much
ing remark is made:—" This renunciation of Hindooism by an
' interested by the conversatiessef a person Roan Persian empire,
aged Brahmin, eminent for his knowledge of the Sheldon, and the
sacred hinguage of the Hindus, being in that part of the country 1 who had met in that county with some of the opponents of Henry
quite a new thing, has procured much attention to the doctrine of Mateyo ; among whom were Several of the M utiles. One day after
the (Mama It seems to shew, anions other things, the softly with dinner the convemation was turned towards the memory of that
which Christianity may be promulgnted in the darker). parts of lamented 3lissiooary. Some of the Muftis said to this person,
India. All the threatened apparition to this man's open profession !" Ali !we opposed him with some force., but his words were those o
of Christianity, ended in a few expressions of personal dislike from ! truth, while arts were of sophistry. If there be a state of happiness
his old acquaintance, on account ol the course he hod taken and 1 beyond this world that man is blessed, for he was a good man." It
his having tacitly condemned them and all their religious deem- I was gOOd to meditate on that eminent man ; and, amongst the list
ances, by noblydaring to follow his own convictions of the truth. ' of those excellent men whose loss they had to ieplore, lest his name
For all Mi., howevet, he was prepared, and by sustaining the should not occur at that Meeting, he would then take the liberty to
whole in the spirit of genuine Chrestiamty, he in a great measure I mention that of Charles (leant—a man who laboured night and day
disarmed the resentment of his neighbours and acquaintance. So incotentntiously in the t work of salvation, and to whom Indus
completely omiet were they indeed in the expression of their ' WAS indebted more than tie any other. It had been his (31r.Bas)lot
dislike, that not only was there no reference to any Euro- ; tOIVZIS w ith many person front India, and it was very gratifying to
: hear what had been done there. The Gentleman who spoke last had
peon, (at the time of ins baptism) the attention of the lowest per-
eon tn the native lichee was not officially called to the transaction." • quoted a passime from the eloquent Mr. Burke ; and it would be
—The Report then mentioned the summits of the Missionaries id well if, in their next Report, they were to print that picture on
various other diatricts, particularly at Sertunpore, where several I one aide, and on the other a history of that which had been done
chapels had been erected, and a Native Missionary Society Mad. 1 siuce the time of that great man. This picture would form a most
interesting; contrast. ,The Hon. Gentleman then remarked on the
toted by the converted Itengalem, managed almost entirely by I
themselves. Also in and about Serampore. seventeen schools had !great advantages enjoyed by Englishmen over every other country,
I and was happy to congratulate them upon the absence of a single
been established for the education of female childeen, st which
nearly NW of that sex received instruction. The Comntittee next ,individual who had dared to defend the cruel treatment which was
referred to die Memoir published last year on the subject of the Who
towards a lamented individual belonging to another body.
Translations, and particularly adverted to the variety of tali- W'ho, asked the Hon. Gentleman, had attempted to stand up to
ninnies it contained front learned Natives, intimately comment to
the late melancholy event 1 No one. He did not hesitate
with the different languages into which the Sacred Writings had to say that the Rented 31r. Smith was perfectly innocent. Who
could help ad rig that during six yens' residence, not a sermon,
been translated, to the correct and intelligible manner in which that
not a letter, not a single conversation could be found to partake of
great wink had been executed After mentioning Calcutta,
Howrah, Digah, 31unrima and Chittagong, yep of which any thing but what exalted his character as a man and a
Christian—not in his journal, which was intended to be kept secret
stations the Gospel had in a greater or less de evailed, the
even from his wife, but which was madg public, and most cruelly
Committee caeca cursory view of their proceedings at their stations
used against him, could anything be found to impeach his inno.
in the various Asiatic Islands. They then give a detail of the
*rents which had transpired with their West I is Mission, and in cence Or his piety. But this interruption he felt maned had not
doing so they felt it incumbent upon them devoutly toackn,
acknowledge done any harm to the Missionary Societies ; nay, lather it bad most
that kind protecting care which had defended their Missionaries ma certainly reject' them in universal cstinasaion t and he was roo,lDril
that the more this matter was inquired into, and dispassionately in-
season of peculiar anxiety and alarm, and allowed thorn to experience
rag red they would find that nothing would appear but what
SD material interruption in their useful labours. Every Christian
that would reflect the greatest credit on the memory of the lamented
would deeply regret, that in some of the Colonies, instances had
gentleman.
lately occurred of a widely. different nature, and would pray,
the period would soon arrive when the messengers of Salvation The Rev. Dr. \SINTER seconded the resolution; and in the ,
I shore, and find no impediment fulfills mould be welcomed to everyshort, course of hiss peech alluded to the case of the Rev. Missionary
Smith, and designated the treatment experienced by that gentle-
, lag the high commands of him who had directed them to preach the
IGospel to every creature! In relating the domestic proceeding of man °la cruel Persecution.
Tile Resolution was then put by the CIIAIIIMAN, and was UM.
the year thc first particular claiming attention was Me number of
nimously adoipted.
Individuals who had been sent out to feriae stations, and which
had this year been greater than usual. Besides the return of Mr. The Rev. J. KIXGDORN moved the third Resolution. He ob.,
served that the translations of the Holy Bible into die Oriental
Coultart to Jamaica, twelve individuals had sailed to their respee.
languages had been objected against by the Abbe Dubois. But
titre destinations, to enter upon the arduous labours of a missionary
life. There was only one candidate remaining at present under the Prat' who was this Dubois ? A Roman Catholic Priest, who,
after being In India Z years, for the purpose of teaching
patronage of the Society but some addition, it was expected would
Christianity, returned to his own country, to tell them that he
soon be made to the number, The report concluded with a short
had done nothing. And what reason hod s Roman Catholic
review of the state of the Society's funds, and by enforcing the no-
to find fault with their translation? They, who in their Council
comity of the continued, and unrelated support of those who were
of ten considered and remomidered, altered and re-altered, touched
friends to the dissemination of the Gospel in those benighted lee-
s and retouched the Sacred Valume, to make it suit their purpose, ,
ons, where the beneficial operations of the Society had already
gar to he manifested. and best meet their views ; and if they did this, why should DOS
The CHAIR maw then read a statement of the accounts, by which others be at liberty to do the same ?
it appeared. that the receipts for the last year, including the oz. The Rev. S. Strrox, a Missionary, returned from India on
account of ill hmlth, seconded the resolution. He related many
lance of the former year, amounted to 12,1531. Os. 2d., and the mt.
of the superstitions existing among the Hindus, and gave his ad.
Lenditure to 11,094, Si. UM, leaving a balance of 3141. Os, lid. in
your of the Society. ditional testimony to the terrible self .torments that are practised
those idolatrous people. At the conclusion of his speech the
The Rev. C. Arintasox rose, and moved that the report then ID'
Rev. Gentleman presented to the meeting several Insignia of the
mad be adopted, and printed. The report itself, observed the an Rev.
(Modernism was of a chequered character, as was almost every Beahmin Ozdees (if we may so call them). Among them was a
Brahmin's holy hair, which had been given to him by a converted
thing human ; many of the circumstances contained in it were of a
Bralanin. These he considered as trophies of victory, gained by
nature calculated to excite a Christian's regret, but certainly some
of the facts it detailed were most encouraging, because they showed Christianity over heathenism and idolatry.
that the object which that assembly, and all the friends of Illis. Several other solution were moved and seconded ; alter which
the thanks of tlm meeting were given to the Chairman, who, in a
annuity Societies had in view, was in part obtained. The heart of
the Heathen had been touched. Vain, indeed, would be their speech of much feeling expressed his acknowledgments.
efforts while that sanctuary of the Christian spirit remained un. The collections act& doors amounted to a considerable som.
opened. They might send forth the Bible, and teach its doctrines
to the Hindoo, the Ilrahniin, and the Tura, and succeed in mak.
ing its tnithseo bethoroughlyonderstood ; but unless that ultimate
point were gained, the convection of the heart,all would be froltleas.
By the report, however, it would be seen, that that great end had,
in many Instances, been accomplished by the Almighty God. The
Rev. Gentleman then called the attention of the meeting to the per. THE CRI3IINAL INFORMATION AGAINST LORD
secutior.s and interruptions which the Institution had had to en. FARNHAM.
counter. It appeared to him that these were designed by God, foe In this case He. PERRIX, of Counsel for the prosecution,
the purpose rat effecting the 'MUM results Heresy ever had ex- gibs/reed the Court that an order might be directed to the High
.
toed, and doubtless for a long time to come would continue to of the county of Cavan, commanding him to make a Tel
urn
exist. it must be so—there must be opposition; because it tended to the writ of Venire which had been delivered to him, for the p
to draw forth the truth, and made its evidences the more convinc. pose of being send on the noble defendant but to whichtalrie;
ing. Our Lord foresaw this opposition and foretold from whence Sherrill: hod mode no return. The Learned Ger:tleznan stated, that
it would spring. The very nature of Christianity provoked it. Its the writ had been delivered to the Sheriff in the town of Cavan,
spirituality, the contradiction which It pereato all our human im- which is within two miles of the residence of born FIIIIIIIIOI' yet
poises, every mode, indeed, by which it skewed itself, served to that officer hod not thought proper to make any return to the writ,
Mr. Jameson, the Sheriff's returning officer, stated, on behalf
raise an opposition to it ; for, to see a man praying for himself was
natural, to witness him addressing God for his family, was natural ; of the Sheriff, that though the writ was returnable tin the Mlth ult.
but when we beheld a man praying for his enemies, this mocked it was not delivered until the 27th. That the Sheriff was in doubt
all the notions of mere humanity. and became a problem too dif. what return he should make to the writ, which was an unusual
licult for uninspired wisdom to resolve; for this, indeed, was the one, particularly as against a Peer, and that the Sheriff therefore
height of Christianity itself. The Rev. Gentleman proceeded to wrote to him (Mr. Jameson), requesting advice, but before the
advert to the progress made by his brethren in Scotland, in trans- Sheriff could receive his (Mr. Jame son's) answer the time fixed fee
Musa, the Old Testament into the oriental languages. There were the return had expired. He trusted, therefore, the Court would
about twenty translators; but an interruption had been experienc- not attribute the failure in the return to y disrespect'
going on; eta or any negligence on the part of the Sheriff. Slut n further
ad by them, and only four of those persons were then tonne Court,
urea of them had altogether been stopped. This was owing to the stated, that he had applied to Mr. Ford, the aget for the proses u.
general fund of the Society being so low, that it was considered don. on Monday last, offering to renew the writ at the expense of
better to wait till a mere favourable moment. With regard to this the Sheriff:
interruption, he considered it a call upon them to exercise more 31r. Ford, the agent for the prosecution, stated, that the day I
promptly their charity, towards carrying on the glorious work they appointed for the return was the only one, as he was instructed.
,had begun ; and be reminded them that many of those friends wbe which would enable his client to obtain a trial at the next assius • '
were engaged in the labour of translation, were far advanced in that the writ was returnable last term, and he would himself have
years ; and although the Society might be able to procure others renewed it in the vacation,
but was in hopes that the Sheriff' would
to undertake their arduous task, yet it could not command such have induced Mr. alontgotnm, the agent of Lord Farnham, to
, able and experienced men ; and he, therefore, hoped this would appear for his Lordship.
induce them to be liberal moans replenishing the funds of the The Coo AT, after a few minutes' consultation,
Society. The Rev. Gentleman then stated, that he had Lately con- Perrin'
rat
nsiatELlicat
further delay.
ordered tbat the Sheriff should n;tedake3Wair*,
versed with a native of Jamaica, who was a slave, and had been delay.
converted to Christianity. She said that it was their custom, when.
ever they heard deny slave being about to be sold, to raise amongst HABEAS CORPUS.—A LOVE AFFAIR.
.51r. SIMI:. took an opportunity, during a short suspension of
their fellow Christian slaves money sufficient to buy his freedom. i law argument which occupied the Up, to pray their Lordahipat
This they had been able to do in two or three instances, paying I attention.' to a peremptory motion. The Learned Gentleman said
Pram .91• V• to I:2°L fer each. one's redeMPtioa . After a. Moat im. he was instructed to apply for a 'sit of Habra& Corpus, directed
pensive appeal to the meeting, to contribute largely to the Remote to William Ormsby, the 'Marshal of die Four Courts 31ar, *halms, !
of so invahiable an Institution, the Res. Gentleman concluded by 1 commatidin him -to being before the Court the body of Jane'
1 Ormasby.aaift hote.asm:ablicaolaation‘lM,ititatnr. Shell stated,
w,
bwtaasb grataotuotind,edtbautpotnn
111
moving the resolution.
AI.EXANDEK HALDAXE, EM. said, that in rising tosecond the Elul • /'
the motion which had been so ably moved, he could not help fed-' the month of July* I tin! he was introduced to Miss Jane Ottusby, ,
ing how inadequate lie was to the task assign& him ; but he was ! at her father's Lodgings in Booterstown, and afterwards continued
encouraged by reflecting on the cause for which they were assem. ! to visit •
abouth father's
f consent, at his residence in die Mar_
ganfidesttbeintletropdouncenedt
bled. It was not to Mace around the conqueror's brow the laurel ' shaper. That
son by shedding the blood of bis fellow creatures ; they were to the young lady, sh beingrtera mthaenarlasfaagrrere, brshien
•
not met as sectarians, to canvass, in the narrow spirit of party, each pledged and 'engaged themselves to be married the one to the
things unessential to the welfare of the soul, but as Christians, all whet and that within the last year they have remittently renewed
believing in the tame important and indi sible doctrines of *Re-
daughter,said engagement. That her father, in order to induce his said
with
hm
grtheeatsartgid:a... 1
demptiirn, to advocate and promote the .dissemination of them
deponent,oy banaselformatkbee hlasertcotennse;atytao
throughout the world. In looking to the state of Christianity I Jane Ormsby, to change her purpose of marrying this
the various parts of the globe, there was one circumstance whicha
trwedeatalanahterw.
must strike them very forcibly, and lead Christians to lay aside all and kept' her in
sectarian prejudices; the circumstance to which be alluded was, that the father had put a pistol, on one occattion, to her head, and
that the work of conversion had not been confined to any particular threatened her with ion ilar
Iviolence several times; and that said
sect. If they looked to Sierra Leone, on the coast of Africa, they Jane Ormsby dreaded mental derangement from a continuance of
would there see the progress of the Gomel spreading by the era.such
tions of the Church ailissionary ; if they turned their treatment. Deponent further stated, that by a letter which
eyes he received from the said Jane Ormsby on the 19th • instant, she
towards West India, there the labour of the
Presbyterian informed himshe ' -of full in '
sm. age, a prayed deponent to apply
Missionary offered a source of congratulation to the heart of
to the
o
for a If abeaa Corpus, in
every Christian ; and if they again directed their view to -order to bring her before the Judges of
the South Sea Islands, they would behold the efforts of the the King's Bench, as site was to be forcibly taken ff
London Missionary used there for promoting the like country on Tuesday (this) morning; and depooent therefore prayed
glorious their Lordships
would find that it had ul been attained by the li would grant the Habeas Corpus, in order to have
object ; and if they inquired what had
Baptist Society, they not been a whit her brought up, when be would be ready to perform his promise
and engagement to said Jane Ormsby.
behind the fareinost of any of those he had named ; for if the
ooked at Indio, that vast peninsula aflarded ample proof of
their
y The conclusion of the affidavit occasionedmuch laughter.
The Court Minted'
l
lately granted the Habeas Corpus.
good ministry; the progress of the Gospel among the Hindoos and ,---.-
the Brahmins was a testimony of their labours in the vineyard of FISII NI lat . . . .FT, -'T HURST/AY, JUNE 24.
Christ ~and when he took a retrospective view of the state of that Billingsgate
market this day was well supplied with salmon, a
mighty empire, he could not holy thinking that this Societ
y was great deal of which was what is termed • fai
decreed to weave an amaranthine wreath to die glory of the Deity however, was very fine queer ' a r proParrion.
In order to judge what had been done in India, he would beg •
read an extract from a s to was a scarcity of other kinds of fish : turbots sold d haddock
sprain of a most eminent and eloquent was food, and but few ear;
good soles to be obtained.
The supply of
stateasuan Mr. Boar made by hit '
. . . it suet before this society was whitings tolerable, • deed
was in the only fish at all plentiful ; red
established. In speaking of • Italia lie observed, .. The n • atives mullets are not now to be got ; dories were scarce, and no crimpt
scarcely know what it is to sec the grey hadof
min en govern there without ma 111Pama, and without 11 th d r to *
with the natives. They have no more social habits with the peopleY highra
* I set . ters
prices. )lackarel continue to bebrought , crabs, Mc. were in no gnat abundance, and fetched
than if they still residedin
species of meet with little demand ; one vessel 4 soles sold at ao. per bushel,
interetnirse. but Chet which s t •
.., . m necessary to nett ing a sudden for- whirl,, l when good, were selling at four guineas.

IRELAND.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN,
MONDAY, JUNE 21.