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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

R. Orestes and T. Shackleton. attorneys. December 31.
1,112.-6. Henry and A. Smart, of Berkeley-square, Middle-
sex, clock-makers, August 90, 1812.—F. Mills and T. Daw-
son, of Houndsditch, Loudon, htlebone-cutters, December
18, itts.—J. llook and J. Dodds, of Old Broad-street, Lon-
don, merchants, November s, 18.12.—J. Price and W. Mori •
son, of Liverpool, merchants, November 25, lest.—T. Rice,
W. Morison, and J. Price, of Liverpool, rope•makers. De•
oember so, inn.—R. Lee and It. Dickson, of SL Martin's-
lane, Charinvcross, Middlesex, December ti iiitt.—J.
Teaks and F. Tooke, of Birmingham, platers December so,
1999.-11. Whitehead and D. Clarkson, of platers,
Lan-
caster, attorneys, December 19, WM

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado SUGAR,
computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the
tells day of December, MS, is see. 4d. per Cwt.

Average prices of CORN tram the Returns received in Use
Week ending December 14.

Wheat I Barley I Outs 1 Rye I Beans 1 Pease
a. J. s. J. s. d. s. d. s. d. ad.
0 10 29 3 IA 6 23 0 13 10 29 3

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT OP
COMMISSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS,
TO-1110ILIBOW.

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It. Stevens, Sonlbury dair)tnan
T. Stubbs, Crawforsl-ittrse grvoer ....... ..... 3 I
U. 11. Grom, City-road, merchant.-- ............... t
E. Wodtlward, Whetstone, butcher ...... le
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FROM LLOYD'S uffr.
three4.l)se. /.—Os the #4111:414MOILIC asnal:t t*
3d inst. this port was visited ay zwaraowvavoir *am V.vir
with a tremeodons sea, which bar auto damage to
the shipping in the harbour; many of mbiek broko adrift, and a
Sardinian brig, and two Bombards, were wrecked. The follow-
ing British vessels received damage daring the gale—vie. Britan-
nia, Amy of Jersey; Albion, Tommead, of feignmouth; Atalanta,
Jones, and Flora, Cocking'.. The Rm Stevens, with a very
rich cargo of silks, &c. hound to London, rode out the gale,
without suffering any other damage than the loss of her main yard,
larboard quarter-piece, and other trilliug articles, which are
nearly all repaired, and she will be ready to sail the first fair wind.
FAYAL, NOR. 13.---The following vessels have put in here in
distress:—viz. On Sd ult. Constants, Finks, fromßabia to Am-
sterdam, very leaky. The cargo has been landed, and the vessel
surveyed, eoudesined, and sold. Oa the Ist .natant, the Lady
Mary Pelham, Hatch, from Gibraltar to New York, with loss of
Inesmast cud bowsprit, but is repairing, and expects to sail is a
week. On the 4th inst. the William and Cathie:Re, Martin, from
Philadelphia to Gibraltar; she was upset ou the 34th ult. lust her
rudder, and every thiag w deck, and was obliged to cut away
bee manta, having filled with water; her cargo (door) was all
damaged, aud has been landed and sold.
New YORK, Nov. 22.--Arrived the brig Spartan, I)olleyer,
from Mobile, it 25 days. Spoke on 31st tilt, the Sampson, W.I-
limes, from Mobile to Malaga, and was informed that on the 28th,
off Tortugas, he was boarded by a Piratical schooner, of about
100 toes, with one long IS-under, and 30 men, of all nations,
po
who plundered the vessel of every thing they could carry away---
hung the master swice by the meek, cut open his head with a sabre,
and otherwise ill-treated him. The piratical vessel was corn-
'needed by the noted Laffitte, who stated that two other schoon-
ers were cruising se the Doublesbeaded Shot Kepi, to intercept
vessels hosed to New Orleans.
Sassustoan, Nov. 112.—The Ann Elizabeth, hell, 'from Copen-
hagen, was wrecked on the 15th instant, at •Neslangboyen; the
Proven, Neese's, laden with rye, hides, skists,,andwool, bound
to Altoaa, put into Net lung oven, leaky. the 15th instant, hay-
lug struck on Horn Reef: she will go to Larwig,to repair. The
Sophia, Arbo, from Dram to Cornwall, pat into Larwig this
morning, leaky, and must unload: sba'hitalseen out five weeks,
and as far as riover on her passage. „Thiasetuion is very simile;
to last year, continual storms and thick Weather.
The Zenophon„ Ely, from L.verpool to London, which was on
Pluckington Bank, the 13th instant, gator the 1411 i, without da-
mage, and proceeded, but in consequence of contrary winds put
beat to-Lireepool on Tuesday.
The Hope, -Potts, sailed. from Boston to London, on the morn-
ing of the 3tl instant, and has not since been heard of.
The Four Sisters, Naunell, arrived at Sunderland frost Amster-
dean, picked up, am the 14th instant, off the Wells Bank, a boat
markt% • (lope, of Boston, %km. Potts,' and passed through a
good deal of wreckage.
The American Hero, from Copenhagen to Boston, put into
Bergen leaky, and was discharging her cargo.
The Juniper, Whitfield, of Sunderlaud fur London, pot Into
Whitby, on Mosday, leaky, having been on Whitby Rock, and
will have to discharge. Two otheF brigs were at the Rack at the
same time, but got of and proceeded.
The sloop Janet, Cameron, from Wick to Waterford, which
was on shore near Cardigan, during the late gale, has been got
of with damage, after discharging her cargo.
The Ann, Lolg, of Exeter, wish+ was on shore ea Conon
Beach, daring the late gale, has been gut of and carried into
Yarmouth to repair.
The Robert and Margaret, Nicholson, of and from North
Shields to London, was totally lost on the (Junket, the sth inst.
Crew saved
Re st, Dsc. 17.—The following outward-hound vessels
have taken shelter on account of the ice; via. Three Sisters,
Frost; and Prince of Save Coburg, for London, in this harbour;
Sons of Commerce, Gibbs, for London, in Vlaarding barbsuir ; and
the Alexander, Davey, for Surinam, in Putterhook harbour.
LONDONDERRY, Die. 16.—The Robert, MMullee, from
Liverpool for this Port, in coining up the River this morainic,
touched the ground, when the pilot ordered the anchor to be let
go, when she afterwards drove and it went through her. The
Immo, which tousists of sugar, tobacco, tea, and bale goods, is
totally damaged, the tide having been as high as the Doak.
The Carnmvon Packet, Jones, sailed from Gravesend on Wed-
nesday, kr St. Michael's, and put back the same day, with loss
of mast and bowsprit, and ether damage.
The Ulysses, Todd, from Mirainirlii, patted from her cables at
Piele Foutlray, sth instant, and sustained soosiderable damage
The Topase. from Boston, which was on shore in Bootle Bay,
has been got of and carried into duck at Liverpool.
The Zorgvuldigbeid, Surgher, for Ostend, put back to Liver-
pool os 'fuesday,-haviug struck on the Kish Bank.
The Waterloo, Keleher, late Thomson, from Jamaica to Cork,
get on shore at Florida in Oct. Cargo saved by tee wreckers,
anti part arrived at Nassau.
The Freunde, Beyer, from Rugenwalde and Harlingen to Lon-
don, is totally wrecked near Arcudahl. Part of the cargo saved.
The l.atooa, —, from Liverpool to Gibraltar, struck upon an
anchor a few days ago at Holyhead, and was ran ou ihure.
The Flora, lierealord, from Rotterdam, Is arrived at Maidvtorie,

Mr. Thomas Phillips, of the New Exchange Coffee-house,
Strand, sworn.—Knew the deceased who was SI years of age,
and resided in witness's house since the 20th of October, he
had left his family, and had lived rather indulgently; hie
family are very rev actable, residing In Norfolk. Witness
dischvered a depression of spirits In the deceased ; and as he
had lost his clothes and appeared very dejected, he requested
witness to write to his uncle: witness's servants have fre-
quently obseried hint wandering about the house in a very
, strange way : on Thursday evening witness saw him at home,
he appeared in his usual dejected way: on Friday morning he
took his breakfast, and left home about ten o'clock, and a it-
moo did Wet see him again. From the thtseription in the morn-
ing papers, when he was found, witness knew the deceased.
I He came home twicodering the last fortnight without a coat,
and witness lett lain money to get it, the lust time, but lie did
not obtain it. lie did not tell when he lost his coat, but he
had slept out and lust it. 'He was eoutinually very melancholy,
but from what cause witness could not discover. Deceased
had a good razor;bnt that was left et home.
Richard Cagier, No. lb Friendly -place, kitradwell, sworn.—
Witness belongs to the Thames Police. On Friday night,
When witness went on ditty about eleven o'clock to the Ship.
oposite Norfolk-street, he understood that a coat, hat, and
handkeechlef had been picked up on Waterloo-bridge-stairs.
Said it was suspected some person was drowned. As witness
and his party went up in the boat near the shore, the lower
side of Waterloo-bridge, he saw something white against the
water's edge, when it proved to be the deceased; he was lay-
ing with his face downwards in the mud ; his coat was off, as
well as his neckerchief; witness and his party fastened him,
and towed him on shore at Strand-hum: they took him to the
watehhouse, and left blot in charge of the night constable;
witness saw deceased's throat was cut, but it did not appear to
be very deep, and he was quite dead.
Thomas (tray, a Thames Police surveyor, in the boat with
the last witness. confirmed his statement ; witness saw the de-
ceased searched in the watch-house; but nothing except a
button was found in his pocket.
Edward Type waiter at the New Exchange Coffee-house,
sworn.--On Friday morning deceased went to witnese, and
said he was going to receive some money front his uncle, salt+.
man at Smithfield ; witness advised him to take care of his
money, as he had occasion to know that deceased had spent a
great derd of money in improper company ; he has appeared
frciltitsitty Very dejertted and melancholy ; be had not received
his usual remittances so regularly as he expected ; he bad con-
ceived an affection for a female, which has no doubt operated
very heavily on his mind. When he first clone to the New

Jnryntan.—Sho most have died from being exposed to the
cold.
Coroner.—lt appears that she died from the inclimbency
of the weatherto white she was exposed but I preppie as
adjournment fora few hours, to procure the evidence of the
beadle who sat up at thewatch-house on Thursday night and
Friday morniug.
Tin Jury then adjourned to eight o'eleek, wken they again
assembled, aed the following evidence was adslueed.
Wm. Robertson, beadle of St. Martin's, sworn:-I—lias on
duty on Thursday night, at the widuk-house.Ahuntakrarter
befUre three o'clock on Friday miming, a woman was
brnughl to the watch•house, in a state of intoxication. Three
watchmen brought her to the door. They said they came
from Bird-in•hand-court. I ordered the writcbmentb learn
her on the steps five or len .nnautes, bud gO tor duty..
Obis remained on the stephei
Nips Avethe or ten mioules, arid lwgged
very hard to get into lite watch house to wall* beeself.
then ordered the patrOles to bring her into the watop-house.
They placed her on the bench by the trre--sitte: Thfarwas at
a few minutes after three o'clock. She reasabied in the
welch-house until about fire minutes before iix o'clock, when
ske kft the watch-betide. She Would aid be much intim ice! ed
in the watch-bonse, or she would have gene to sleep, but she
never offered to go to sleep, but conversed all the Moe with
us. She complained ocher feet, she had bad shoes,tea, end of
vbeenialism. When she went away she wanted money to get
a bed. She walked oat without assistance. . •
Juror—lt bits Wien sworn try a witness that he sac the de•
ceased carried out between two est Outten. 4
Witness—She went out withotd.any assistaapetipat I saw.
I (lid not consider hog life in danger, or I should'have seen to
her, and rung the Workhouse bell She Was bad Monte ter,
and was well known at the catch-house. She said she had
taken no victuals for some lime, and' that she lineritrank a
little rum and water, whit had got into her head, end greatly
affected her. She did not request to be takeoto the work.
house. • .
Examined by a Juror.—lt is the practice to turn eSery ono
out of the watch-house at 6 o'clock in the mornieg, etrept the
Prisoners. Of course it was my duty to request the dereanett
to leave the watelihouse.
The Coroner said that it was evidisst the Ideeeserd, after
teatime the warm lire in the watehhoiasei.saught her death
being exposed to the severe cold. Site litight trchave been
liken to the worthouse, and he did not approve of her being
4eded from the watehbouse; but he was satisfied the beadle,
did not think she was so ill as she was when she ells tented
isle the street.
Verdict—" Died from exposure to the inclemency of the
weather and from drinking." it?
A Japanese mathematician was required to desecrate:ate that in
a right angled triangle the square of the kpotheunne is equal to
the squares of the other two sides. linvitig drawn a figure with
a pair of compasses on paper, he cut out the three squares,
folded the squares of sides into a numbhr of triangles,
and also cot out these triangles, then lash ig the am gift hriangles
on the surface of the large square, he made theta exactly cover
and ilt it.
Yesterday, &boat twelve o'clock, a pn.digioes crawd assem-
bled at Tradeston, to see Mr. Russell set out on Ills match to
walk 102 miles in twenty-four successive hours. °ming, how-
ever, to some dispute with the proprietor of the ground adjoining,
where be wan to walk, he did hot commence till helf.past three
o'clock. When it heesate dark, torches weeepeocuted, and the
crowd increased every moment till nine o'clock, when it is con-
jectured upwards of s,ooowcre present. Tbissight was exceed-
ingly dark, and a Number of mischievous youths surrounded •
large gully, or hole full of mud, towards which, when any persov
approached, they opened their ranks, and allowed tb to fall in.
were taken in by this slat agem, which seemed to se
great pleasure to the spectators, as was testified by a loud shoat
atevery immersion of a new victim. Runnell, mean time, was
getting on at a steady pace of about five mites or fire mike and a
quarter an hour: and at twenty-seven saimaus tq eleven this
torenuoa, bad accomplished 53 miles.—Gliaget Clean:cc
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JIBMIRES ON THE PARLIAMENTARY HI:
TORY OF GREAT BRITAIN.

[Liana tux 111.0.14

from the hasty sketch which nialielfrawn of the
state of property, and of the condition of the great
legislative assembly at the commencement of the Nor-
man ars, it appears that three separate parties shared
the entire administration of public affairs. These,
were the King, the Barons, and the Clergy; the
mass of the population being reduced to reset
vassalage. •
Although the Conqueror was a prince of congas;
mate prudence, and had given extraordinary proofs of
vigilance and address in curbing the refractory Bare,
of Normandy, he found difficulty in exacting the same
obedience from his new subjects. He had not only to
repress all popular insurrections and to guard against
the designs of the English Nobility, who bore with im-
patience the Norman yoke, but he had also to contend
with the insolence of the Barons, and the encroach-
ments of the Clergy.
The Barons, haughty, powerful and intractable—
the Clergy, proud, intriguing and ambitious—strug-
gled to emancipate themselves from all restraint, and
establish an exclusive and uncontroled dominion.
Their mutual jealousies involved the country in anar-
chy and confusion. After many years of violent coa-
ti ntion, their resources were exhausted ; and the
people, gradually rising into importance, availed
themselves of the weakness of their oppressors, and
ultimately reduced both parties under their control.
In order to obtain an accurate and comprehensive
view of the downfal of the Baronial and Ecclesiasti-
cal power, and of the progressive advances of the
Commons, it is necessary to be acquainted with tbi
state of parties at the introduction of the feudal te-
nures, and to proceed, step by step, through the site.
ceeding reigns to the forty-ninth of Henry the Third.
..- In this letter, I shall endeavour to point out the
sources from which the competitors drew their strength,
and to explain the causes which contributed to the
success or defeat of their respective operations.
The power of the King consisted in an enormous
independent revenue. He possessed, as I have already
remarked, lands in every county of England, except
, "flhropshire. From these estates, consisting of 1,422
sione)Mi. be drew a considerable revenue ; and in ad-
elm 'is the stated rents, talliages were frequerilt
1.44 iii idiom who lived within the Royal denseenee .
As to theliklers,these were due by the soccage vas-
sals of the theme ; who, besides their constant iwawal
rent, were bound to perform various kinds of manual la-
bour. Scutage cannot properly be called a tax: it WO
" Servility* sorb," that is, a pecuniary composition paid
by the crown vassals, in lieu of military service. This
composition was wholly voluntary on the part of deo
vassal ; for if the superior Lord had attempted to sit.
tort more than a fair equivalent, it was always in the
power of the tenant, by discharging in person the du-
ties of his tenure, to avoid the commutation al-
together. The numerous and expensive wars is
which the Conqueror was engaged rendered it ne-
cessary for him to raise extraordinary supplies, and
all the old chroniclers agree in accusing him of the
most oppressive smodons. Now, as there is no
' bistorical doensoik octant, from which it can be
' inferred thatlialilik. on any single occasion, re-
quired the conierience of the Great Council in levy-
kw taxes, Itevident that the royal prerogative was
3*.c... • so
and tmcontrouled, while the people were re-
-1" ' educed' to plunder and spoliation. The treasury of
Ise the Kin was continually replenished by escheats and
..:- forkiwww, fines, amerciaments, primer seisin, and
1`!;111110iiidao extortions which flowed from the feudal
I :
~" moo, In addition to these vast resources, the
r. "Sig preserved in his own hand the whole executive
', - 1.4 judicial authority ; and as jestice was publicly
'''''. *ought andung. no suitor who had a bad cause, ever
:..
entered thS'Couit without bringing a seasonable pre,
seat to the Sovereign, for if he was net outbid by hi.
t't' competitor, he was certain of obtaining a favourable
'l7 verdict. It will be remembered that in time of
e.
the
an tenants in eapite were bound to assist the King
with their vassals, all armed and equipped, for a po-
triad of forty days ; sad as military enterprises were
usually, in those days, terminated within that time,
there was scarcely any drawback on the royal re-
venues. As to their total amount, it is difficult, if
not impossible, to decide. An ancient historian his
estimated the rental of the treasury at 400.000
wirowaa, which, considering the difference in the :die
of money, would amount to ten millions of the ewe-
;
eency sif the present day. a sum which Mr. Huai fOb
jeCtel as utterly incredible. It is certain, hoirevest
ilia the Conqueror left at his death 60,000 posse.
ir . .
M* lie -.value to Mae hundred thousand pomade
--r 4 our aumacy, which authenticated fact is sift-
s
: dent of Iturelf to prove, that he possessed very
, . considerable resources. From this survey of the
Regal powers, I conclude that the King was abso-
lately
despotic, and if any one doubt the truth ofl
this opinion, let him reflect on these two points :—first,
that William levied money of his own free will—and
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'' secondly, that he derived pecuniary profit from .
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. administration of justice. If these two facts should
4 ' • not be sufficient, let the reader call to mind the a:-
0" • "11. istence of the forest laws. Can it be contended that
7cir.. • ..
a Sovereign, who, in order to gratify his own pro-
pensities, ravaged with implutity a district of thirty,
miles-4spelled the inhabitants from their possessions,
..,
without indemnification—levelled their dwellings with
''' the ground, and converted a flourishing territory into
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a desert:--can it be contended that such a Sovereign
itsi.... le. •
•. , was in any degree limited in the esertiemnaVbis pet'
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* POceed to examine the nature and enbist
• t '4
. • irlbiliwanial power.- •Theripssesas who were. con-
-416 ''.*lndalllO the legislative assembly during the iggigin4.
dynasty, are described by the various appellation
d " Magnates," " Proceres," and " Barones." In
some writs of summons all these words are em-

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and the c

ptoyeu ; rn num., ,
also designated as " Traentes per Itarewayiam, as
throe "bolding by Barony." The term, however,
most frequently employed is " Barones," and appears
to have been the most comprehensive. It has been,
warmly disputed whether the persons described under
these various appellations, were or were not co-equal
in dignity ; and, though the greatest ingenuity, and
the most laborious research have been exercised on
this question, it appears impossible to adopt any hy-
pothesis wholly free from objection. I readily confess
my inability to perceive any distinction, and must
refer my readers, who are anxious of further infor-
mation, to the theories and conjectures of those better
skilled in the controversy.
I have estimated the numbers of the great Legisla-1
tive Assembly at 605, of which 140 were Ecclesiastics.
Consequently the Temporal Barons amounted to 46.5.
It is evident that the aurhority of these Crown vassals
must have been great, in proportion to the smallness of
their numbers, and the extent of their property.
Though the destruction of alludial proprietorship,
and the establishment of the military tenures, had re-
duced these powerful chieftains to a state of de-
pendence on their Sovereign, their power was in fact
but little impaired. Their estates, it is true, were
liable to forfeiture, and many other hardships unknown
to the Saxon law, but they retained in reality all that
influence which must accompany the possession of
landed estates. Within his own demesnes, each
.13area ruled with absolute sway. He had the power
of holding a judicial tribunal to determine all matters
in litigation pending between his own vassals. In this
Court Baron he presided, and pronounced sentence
between the parties. In short, though his sphere of'
'action was more circumscribed, he governed, wherever
his power weeded, with the same unlimited controul
as the Sovereign. Powerful and courageous, these
haughty Barons set at defiance the authority of the
Crown; and, accustomed to receive the most submis-
sive marks of obedience from their own retainers, they
disdained to acknowledge their inferiority to the King ;
and though individually unable to cope with the Royal
forces, by entering into alliances and uniting their re-
spective vassals, they frequently reduced the King to
the most humiliating necessities.
The prerogative was continually exposed to danger,
and would probably have fallen a victim to Baronial
tyranny, had not a third party, equally actuated by
motives of self aggrandizement, appeared, and given
a new direction to the animosities of the King and the

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DICZMHZIII 17.
tad Melt. Or rather at half-past one in the morning, a fire
broke out in the chateau of the Prince of Orange, at Ter-
veuran ; the cause of this is unknown. Happily it was dis-
covered in time, and immediate assistance being given, the
Ire was extinguished by two o'clock without having done any
other mischief than destroying some part of the small stair-
case sear the dressing-room.
A young man named Cuignet, aged as, a farmer, in West
Flanders, who had assassinated his mother, was executed at
Lille on the 11th inst. Ho was led to the scaffold bare-footed,
and his head enveloped in a black veil, and his right band
was cut off before he was beheaded. This unhappy criminal
displayed the most ferocious stupidity.
The central prison at Ghent, which the illustrious Howard,
in his work on Prisons, speaks of as a model, and of which
only five eighths were finished, is W be • completed by order
of the Government in the course of nest year.
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SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL,
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The project of law on the duty upon Hour and cattle was
discussed and carried by 72 votes to 27.
PRANIXFORT, DECENIIII ID.
The Aligemerae Zeitrag contradicts the report of the de-
parture et tho eldest son of the Hospodar of Wallachia for
Constantinople.
The last letters from Ancona say, that Count Metaxa and
the other Deputies of the Greek Senate. were still in quaran-
tine in that port. 'The news that the Pop bad abridged the
term of quarantine, seems, therefore, to be ill•foanded.—Br
eels Papers, December 10.
BAYONNE PAPERS.

SAYONNZ, DECEMBWR 11.
We have received news that General Torrijos drove on the
Bth the army of General O'Donnell from Lombiere, sad oc-
cupied that town, which was the only support of the De-
feeders of the Faith in those mountains. It is added, that
as soon as O'Donnell perceived his adversary's preparations
to attack, he divided his troops into several gnerillas. Tor-
rijos has prolonged the amnesty to the loth of this month. It
is not known whether he has had any action sines the loth,
but there is no doubt that the measures taken by O'Doneell
Will throw great difficulties in the way of the Constitu-
thaalists in their endeavours to restore tranquillity In Na-
flarre, as they hoped they should do.
News from Saragossa of the 3d, says, that Mina had made a
maregaide movement towardsUrgel.
BATONWZ, DECEMBER 14.
It is asserted that a part of tbe Junta of Urgel, which has
lerived at Toulouse, will cease to this city to resume its
factions in the frontier proviooes, but this seems very
.4eebtful.
It is bet true that there bars bee, any engageitlMits
between the troops of Torrijes sad these of O'Dmlmall.
Gough we saw some fugitives arrive here yesterday as/ diedOky
before. The occupation of Lombiere, by the Sinner, is am-
armed, which places the General of the Faith in a crill.l
sal situation and obliged him to divide his troops in many
parties, the more so as Torrijos threatened to make a
Movement on Rowel; however we do not know where them,
MK wretches will retire when the Constitutional Gentili
bliseaupied the passages of the Lino, and placed respects,
Megarripaes at Tudels, ace. It is serials that O'Doettelre
MOO 011ik to desert, and we learn that great 'lumbers of
yang asa hero appeared to take advantage of the prolonged
rail*, Communes, tired et the menses of the De-
imOmtlistibe Faith, appear inelined to favour the Coastin-
g/4y. The Madrid mail has arrived without delay,
that the roads an clear.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY, Declines 23, 1822.
To those who regarded the Quotidienne and Etoile
qf Pqrja, or the pari paws Courier of London, as
Intaglios organs of official information and honest
opisiap, it must have appeared passing strange that
at the very moment when the answer of the Cortes
was expected, it was another dispatch from the Con-
gress that actually arrived. It had been most gravely
affirmed that France bad solicited permission to in-
terfere in the internal Afars of Spain, and that the
Congress had granted permission. Here was an end,
then of all doubt upon this side, and the only object.
of delay and inquiry was, tbs answer of the Cortexl
to the Ultimatum, whatever it might have been,
which France, with the court of Congress, bad sent.)
But all of a sudden anothsrpeiesing order from Cotes
gress arrives in Paris, arid' 'the impartial umpire at
Verona becomes at once a futons partisan, and wet
France to arms.
We have always thought that the desire of war was
much stronger in the breast of the Emperor MAW
•enza than in that of Lours XVIII., and that the
Holy Alliance were much more eager than the Freial
Government to extinguish the Revolution in Spain.
Some of our contemporaries have imputed to Aizia
•Nnita, the magnificent project of designing the con-
quest of Constantinople, and the establishment of a
free communication between the Black Set and the
Mediterranean, while the great Powers of Europe are
wholly
_engrossed is war *IA revolution. This
sort of castle-building belongs not to his Imperial Ma-
jesty: it is the wild puerility of a mind exhausted by
grappling with perverse theories and visionary systems.
No man who soberly views the state of Europe can
doubt that even the Czar of Russia is full of slum at
the progress of revolution, and wholly occupied with
projects for the extinction of that greatest of evils in
his eyes. Why was his Imperial Majesty so zealous
in repressing the revolutions of Naples and Piedmont?
It was not, we presume, in order to facilitate the pas-
sage of the Dardanelles for Russian ships ; neither
was it to extend the power of Russia in Asia or Eu-
rope. It was purely to put down revolution. When
men feel alarm, and have recourse to precautions
against possibilities, there is no end to their absurdi-
ties. It is possible that the extension of populsr
rights, or the narrowing of a prerogative in Naples of
Madrid, way lead to the independence of Poland ;
therefore the wary Czar is all alacrity to •
with the extensionof popular rights and then •
hef prerogatives in any part of Europe. Betlbei
march into Spain we do not believe that even he has
courage to order. Any concession by Spain would
Ibis a God send, and thereof* he descends, with the,
other members of the Holy Miaow, to angry looks
and ambiguous threats. In this inglorious war-

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