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'I he BIIITION re ass cam mance publishing on Saturday morning
at dire o'clocb.

last night we received a file of the Buenos Ayres Arn..•.
lite Government of the Rio de la Plata, following the ex-
amples of England and the United States, has proposed to
the Leg4latur.: to punish as pirates those enzagod in the
Wave Trade.

From Upper Pent we leant that the successes of
VOLIVAIt have compelled the Viceroy, LASERNA, to with-
draw the troops under Valor^. from the province of Po-
tosi, which was *holly yielded to die authority of Ot-L-
Nr TA. Names, data, and places are so confused in these
papers, that we cannot much rely upon their contents.
RRATALA, who some time ago was made prisoner by
r ANITA, is now reported to have been killed in an
action, in which VALDEZ was wounded and defeated by
'A:it:nuts, a partisan of the servile faction. On the
ether hand, we arc told that 01.ANICTA had entered
Potosi, on an understanding with Votncz. Another
statement, more probable and intelligible, is, that the
Royalist soldiers are deserting, disgusted with the quar-
rels of the Spanish Generals, and dispirited with the
little prospect of success that remains to them. The progress
of the Colombian Liberator, their own distention', and the
t.rodual decay of their strength, are co-operating rapidly to
their destruction. An utterly hopeless contest was never
r'orr obstinately and mischievously prolonged.

Among the odious institutions which Europe owes itti-
rediately to the Holy Alliance, the worst unquestionably
is, the Central Commission of Mayenee.. This /rAly
is
toddled on the plan of the Spanish Inquisition ; it arts
I y secret means all over Germany ; it probably has spies
:n every country in Europe, but its power is not exercised
leyand the limits of the Germanic Confederation : whom
it suspects it seises, in whatever part of Germany its victim
tray reside ; it carries him away wherever it pleases, and
subjects him to such rigours as it judges fit to infii,t open
him. The late arrest of Professor Cot SIN. at De:tllett, as
I.e was journeying from France to Poland, is an instanre of
the power claimed and exercised by this political iniitti,it ion.
M. CorsiN is now in custody at 11. 1; lie is c.iarget. 1 1
ernerally with having corresponded with parties engaged
i t revolutionary intrigues in G.7rrnany ; and on this vague
accusation he is, it ithout knowing any thing of the proof
t proceedings against him, confined until the pl.•asure of
tbe Commission of Mayence shall be communicated to him.
T:te following letter from Dresden will throw some ii ht
the character of this body. Wc utterly ilibbelicre all
th? stories respecting secret societies and revolutionary in-
t7igues, at least in the sense and to the extent d.stribll by
11)• Gernmil Papers. If there bad been any polities! ol-
f?nces committed since Islo, why have not the guilty par-
t been publicly tried and cor.victed? sliouhl the
rrismis be filled with this horrible and mysterious s.-ereoy,
.1 this Commission were not the blind instrument of brutal
Red sintlietive tyranny ?. M. de MA No I:, to whom
arusian is made at the close of the subjoined letter, it will,
perhaps, be recollected, was the Minister of the Elector of
Erss E, whom he induced to persecute his subjects, and
spend large sums of money to put down imaginary conspi-
racies, of which lifmtor a was himself the sole contriver.
r• was at length detected, and is now suffrring the
pe-4,litnent to which be heti doomed several innocent indi-

DIEMEN, Drc. 8.

The phantom of scent socicti:s. raised in 11119 by the deceivers
rf Prince", continues to bring misery on many irnocent persona,
and even on whole families. At one time a radii r is torn from the
vents of hi children, by virtue of • writ front the Comndssion of
Ilayenre; at another, a young man of fair and hopeful prospect' is
shagged from the 'nivervity to appear before this tribunal, and is
Lrp: a prisoner for whole months, urder the pnetext that he is a
mtn:ber of some secret society which has for Its object the
rahrulons notion of reforming the world. The rumour of secret
meted:3, which ferments Kings, Nerves also to prolong der months
and years tie imprisonment of many persons of whom the public
has* nothing but by whispers. It is pretended that the &ma.
desire the subversion of all thrones. How is it, then, that
ai•tce 1019 not a single person has been convicted before the tribu-
nals ? IVlty do the prisons continue filling when there has not
Lett one conviction ? Such imprisonments are at variance with
int' sacred rights of humanity. Ought we, in tlermany, thus gra-
to become habituated to such a species of secret inquisition?
I: has often happened that men entirely innocent have been ill).
Fr il0:1 al for months. and when their innocence has been acknow-
ledged, what recompense have the victims received? has
taken flat e at Cassel ought to induce Princes to distrust the pham
tam of secret associations. If there is any conspiracy in our thty,
i: is the corspiraey of those who, like M. de 31 ost:c n, wish to
•sttliject Prince to a system of ignorance, and who, as in the 'Ph
ntl 11th centuries, desire to reign over both Sovereigns and pool*.

At the fire which occurred on Christmas-eve in Spa-
-17,111., it appears that a delay of half an hour took place
bef.:re any water could be had to work theengines it wait-
ir!„ though the burning premises were aetnally conti:Nous
the %cw hirer Mad. The whole neighbourhood was
e:rown into alarm, and menaced with thstrnetion, because
t':c New River Company do not think fit to take any Ohl:e-
-t:al measures for ensuring an early and sole lent supply of
We have been told lately that th. y hare kept their
ro••••ict—a defer:cc for their negligcnce which. scents to
-Cs, that, as they are bounl only to fundsh water for
t!erstic use, they will not sufll r public clamour to divert
the breadth of a Lute from the path in which they
t!:ey hive bith:rto rtey arc rut paid to supply wa-
t-r fa: the eY.titigu.shunent of conflarial:l,llS, and th:r.core,

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et' obsttuctlors wMch precaution cr acei,:ent may
I;3CV raised. This is a sub cc: to which we shall continue
tc cell the attention of the public, until so::,c system shalt
I.c adoptea by the ‘Vater l'ornpaniei to give vill.ct to the
exc:llent arrangements of the Fire 0:n:el,. The latter are
now rendered nearly usele.es for want of the femur. At
every fire that happens, we hear of the engines remaining
idle half an hour after their arrival, during which period
the bitild'n in ritich the mischief has ctnntu:nced is gene-

rally destroyed, and the efforts of the firemen, when the
tardy and scanty supply of water is at length obtained, are
necessarily limited to the preservation of the adjoining
houses. If in the first instance there was water enough,
in most cases the fire might be easily extinguished
soon after its discovery on the premises, and often
in the very room where it has originated. If the
New River Company cannot provide water to a suffi-
cient extent fer the public safety, a candid avowal to
that effect should be made; and, in common honesty, they
' should relinquish endeavours which must so frequently
and seriously terminate in disappointment and injtry to
their customers. We believe that this is the root of the
evil. The New River Company cannot adequately furnish
all the immense district they have to supply. Hence they
I are driven to expedients for husbanding their means,
which daily !spode the lives and property of great numbers
of people to destruction. Surely the public will not pa-
tiently allow this evil to continue another year.

We fed much gratified in making known a benevolent
offer of Mr. Waterhouse. the extensive coach proprietor
of the Swan with Two Necks, in aid of the relief now
raising by subscription for the Spanish and Italian re-
fugees. As it is probable that many familits in the coun-
try would be glad to avail themselves of the abilities of the
the emigrants, as teachers of their native language, this op-
portunity of gratuitous carriage will be highly serviceable
to the sufferers. It reflects great honour on Mr. Wa-
terhouse.
The Quebec papers state that the Indian tribes in the
vicinity of the R d Hirer had made a genera/ attack upon
the settlement 41;* the I I Oson's Bay Company, which
Rost:tined some loss, but that it had succeeded in repulsing
the ns.ailants. _ _

The late inturreetion in Jamaica, it appears, occurred in
a plantation near Montego Bay. It was speedily subdued
by the militia, who fired upon, and killed several of the
negroes.
'f us Br nstasE IV a.—lt is not in this war alone that
the sufferings of India are centered. Bombay, Madras,
and the uple•r provinces of Bengal, arc threatened with a
famine. At Bombay, when the last advice' came away,
only six inches of• water had fallen, when the average
quantity during many years, at the same season, was up-
wards of 11 inches. The consequence is, that the tanks,
a ells, and rivers have been nearly dried up, and one corre-
spondent states, that such is the deficiency of water and
pasture, that at Ftxmalt the inhabitants have been driving
in their cattle, and selling them as low as at three annas
(about five pence) per head. At Madras, by the last ae-
MIMS, no monsoon had commenced ; and in the upper
provinces of Bengal, in the beginning of August, a strong
westerly wind prevailed, unaccompanied by a single drop of
rain. The natives attribute all these calamities to the
baleful influence of the comet, which has made it ap-
pearatice in the se regions. The expanse of the war is
enormous : we stated formerly that a crore and a half
of rupees had been expended. That sum has since
been increased to two hundred lace, and the monthly
extra expense of the war is estimated at to lass (about
5n,000/.) %I'lleit we consider, at the same time, the neces-
sary effect of the famine in decreasing the revenue, it is
evident that the Treasury of Calcutta will soon be exH
hanited, and that it will he necessary to draw bills on Eng-
land for the difference. It is obvious that the rate of ex- I
change in favour of this country must materially improve, 1
anal this solitary fact is all that we have to congratulate
ourvelvt s upon in the whole complexion of the intelligence. I
From the same causes which have ruined the grain crop,
indigo has failed in every part of the country, save in the
Jessore anal l►acca districts, and all that can be said of it
in that quarter is that it has still some chance, but the
fate of the mpg fur the last three years should prevent
our being too sanguine. The crop on the whole will
certainly be short, and, from the small quantities of the
hest qualities in the market, a great advance in price may
he anticipates!. Safflower and the whir productions of
Sylliet and the eastern frontier, that being the seat of
war, must he totally deficient fur this year.—Tr!eacop.
We loam, by a private letter from India, that Lietite-
natit-Colonel AlorTison, of the 4 fth regiment, has been
appointed itt igatlier-General on the Cliittaeong Frontier.
This is the same officer who commanded in Upper Canada,
at the battle of Chrystler's Farm, when, wins the 49th and
toth regiments, he defeated a much superior force of the
Americans, and drove the invading army across the Saint
Lawrence. From his known talent and experience in bull-
fighting, acquired in America, we consider him eminently
qualified for such a command.— Tr.'ese.pe.
Loss o► AN INVIAMAN.—The Romhay Bre:Amyl,
Kemp. which sailed from Bombay the t-•'2l of June, and
from St. Helena the 9th of September, feundercd in the
month of September. We are glad to state, that the pas-
a.•agers, Mr. Clark, Bombay Civil Service; Alr. Seaton,
his Majesty's Muter Mipwright ; with the Captain and
crew, were all saved.—The Captain, with six of the crew,
arrived in the Brazilian packet, from Rio Janeiro, at Fal-
mouth.

PIkiEIY•TION or Lives FROM SlllrirnErz.—A ear-
rarpondent from Falmouth, in allusion to the best means of
preserving lives in cases of shipwreck, says :—" The very
excessive loss of human lie luring the late gales, bring
forcibly to my recoil' etion the exhibition of a portable ap-
paratus. calculated to be carried by all vessels, invented by
a Mr. Trengruusc of Ililston, for presurring lives from
shipwreck, &c. with which he made YOUIC very satisraetory
experiments a few years ago, in our harbour. I cannot but
think, bad this invention been generally adopted, vast num-
bers, whose 7css is now deplored, might have been alive, and
enjoyed by their friemls ; that it has not (TV this been
generally adepts 1, is truly astonishing ; as the testimonials it
has gaim d, are
. .

It, may be of ma.. to inform persons who may wish to
pr.-eced to Van liietnen's Land cr Sew South Wales, that
Covernment inn nil only to give encouragement to those
who have a carital of at least Znid. to employ in the culti-
vation of land in that colony on their arrival. There are
no free rusages granted, and reap. ctabie references as to
character in this country arc also minim!.
At this period, when die stream of public opinion has set
so strongly towards Mining enterprises, to which the union
of capital loubtedlyofTers peculiar facilities, '.7 tender-
ing accessible unilertatings, the magnitude of which must
necessarily deter pthate adventurtrs, it is without any
surprise we learn, that the wants of the public have called
forth a comprehensive association for mining purposes, as
well domestic as foreign. which is now in progress, anti may
be expected to be finally arranged in a few days, under
each auspices as to secure the confidence of the public.
We understand that a Company is forming., for carrying
on the silver mines in Pasco: they arc supposed to be the
richest mines in the whole world.

It is in contemplation, and the plans are already drawn,
to cut a canal from the Calder aryl Hubble navigation at
Salterhebble. to the town of Halifax, in the line of the
brook which runs at the cast of that town, below the
church, and empties itulinto the Calder.
It is iu contemplation to establish a rail-road from Mam.
cl:t ext. to Stockport; also one to Oldham.
It appears from an official statetnent just published, that
there arc 256 Catholic Chapels in England, seventy-one
Charity and other Schools, and SIS officiating Priests; of
these twelve Chapels, one School, and eight Priests, are in
the e:etuty of Hams; six Chapels and five Prinks in Sus-
s. x ; three chapels and Iwo priests in Wiltshire ; six Cha-
pels and six Priests in Devonshire; seven Chapels, one
School, and right Priests in Dersetsbire.—ln Lancashire
there appears to be the largest munber, there being Si
Chape:ii, 6 Schools, anti 79 Priests.
Inacards are stuck about Ilamtrursmith, for the appre-
ticusioli of Edward Caygia Le.‘ and William Ballard, late
limn-drams, mercers, &e. of such place, and of Brent-
fonl, recently declared Bankrupts. 'I he shops in question
hail an extraordinary run of business, especially that in
Hammersmith, during the short time of its being open,
ing to the excellence of the articles and the cheapness of
the pikes. They soon became bankrupts, but the persons
themselves were not to be found, tor goods to the amount,
it is imagined, of IC,OOO/. They are supposed to have gone
to Calais.

The stnurrlers have lately bait very sucereul in run-
ning goods on the Ilatnpslaire coast. Nlessures have been
taken !. tioverumett: ) prevent it in future.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

PARIS.

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a ARIL, DECTMDER 2e.
The condemnation of the unfortunate Colonel G •1: ell a m S
has produced a strong impression en the public mind : such
a revere measure was hardly to have been expected in the
first months of a new reign. This prece4 was conducted
with as much rage, animosity, and disregard of justice, as
that of General BE aro N. The famous Procureur-General,
MANGIN, who is the terror of the Cour Royale, and of all
the Public Functionaries of Poitiers, had enjoined the
Prefii to select a Jury such as would ensure the con-
demnation of the accused. They ware accordingly
chosen from among the most furious Ultras, cal-
lous to the appeal of comer/xi sense, mid regardless
of all the rules of justice. The Procureur-Gencral dis-
played, altering the whole of the trial, a degree of malignity
of which few men arc capable. Notwithstanding this, the
discussions were so much in favour of the accused, and
the depositions of the witnesses were so far from furnishing
any positive proof of guilt, that even the Procurcur-Gene-
ral M•xsux, anticipated the acquittal of the prisoner.
He is said to have been struck with astonishment when he
beard the Jury pronounce G•reNAIS (ittlil.4; the Ma-
gistrates of the Court, the auditory, and the whole town,
were in consternation. It appears that these unjust and
ignorant jurymen had persuaded themselves that it would
be a memorable act of loyalty to present to Cif/eases X., at
the commencement of his reign, an opportunity cf passing
a solemn act cf grace ; anal, full of this magnificent concep-
tion, they pronounced an innocent man guilty, thinking
that the sentence cons:quent on their verdict would not be
put in execution. As soon as their verdict was pronounced,
they addressed a petition to the KING, beseeching his par-
don for the condemned Gate mists, and they imagine, by the
infamous dereliction of duty which preceded this interpo-
sition, they have rendered the monarchy an eminent service.
So intense, however, has been the public indignation at
Poitiers, that they have not been able to screen themselves
from the incensed feeling which their conduct has excited.
This general expression of public opinion did nut escape
the observation of the l'rocurcur-Gcneral M•xci sr, who
instantly sent off a courier for Paris with despatches, in
which he demanded full and entire pardon for the
Colonel. It is doubtful if such a request will be fa-
vourably received by M. DE PLVIIONNET, whose in-
dulgence has hitherto been limited to commuting the
punishment of death pronounced against the military for
political crimes, to an imprisonment for twenty years in
irons. The condemnation of Colonel l; a has
already raised the public mind to a dangerous state of irri-
tation ; and provided his pardon is not granted promptly
and without reserve, the popularity :f the new reign will
raccive a severe blow.

The placing the (Literal Officers es rest toile, contimies
still to occupy many of the Salons of Paris, mid it appears
every day more certain that this measure will ree;:ye no
modification. General DILI ON had lately an audience of '
his Maas sty. The General is an Irishman by birth, who'
emigrated hi the commencement of the Revolution, and
after saving in different emigrant corps, he entered the
English scrvic-, in which he was engaged in !sit When
Louis XVIII. was restored to the Throne, he wrote to
the General a pressing letter, entreating him to quit the
British army and return to France, holding out to him the
most flattering proptets, and assuring him of the constant
continuance of the Royal favour. General Di Leoer, under
this inducement, returned to France, and was employed
for some time in his rani: u: Lieu t.-G moral ;he has been situ.,
placed en dg'sponibilia, and lie is one of thew who fall under
the new ordennance. Being admitted to an audience by the
KING, he presented his NIA/FITT with the letter thus re-
ceived from his brother, and addressed him in these
words :—" Sire, you sec the pressing invitation and posi-
tive promises which induced me to return to France ; hail
I remained in England, I should never have been placed
ea retroile, and had I even been put on half-pay, that half-
pay would have been double the retired pension about to
be assigned to me. Could I have expected that hopes thus
inspired would have been thus fulfilled ?" His NIAJ miry,
with that courtesy which costs nothing, and is at t• ry
one's service, expressed his great regret at finding him in_
eluded in a general measure to which it was impossible to
make any exception ; be however desired him to wait upon
the Minister of IVar, and explain to him the particular
situation in which he was placed. " Sire," replied Gen.
DILLON, " your Minister of War was in the ranks of those
against whom I fought when I shed my blood for your
family: he will, no doubt, listen to my complaint, but I
am satisfied beforehand that he will not redress it. This
reply put an cud to the audience.
It is confidently allirmol, that a Lam is about to be
opened with the Spanish Government, fur 11:41.: rents
millions ,// et in which time irons of the loan to the
Curtis will be admitted, at the rate of 23 per cent. As the
King of SPAIN finds that he must, offer a guarantee to
the capitalists, he has, it is said, applied to the Pore to
obtain a Dal, which will permit him to sell a part of the
property of the Church. roila le coup tle Kra,%. ! The
emptiness of the royal coffers, if it forces the pions Fen-
DINA ND to this mcde of recruiting, will soon bring him
into a critical campaign with the Clergy ; for, depend upon
it, if their territories are to be touched, tilde dere:ion
will won stop short. When once he begins to draw for
supplies upon the BANK or FAITH, the Army the Path
will soon create a dirersion in another quarter.

It is expected in Paris that the affair of Paparoine will
come on as won as the Chambers meet, as a kind of diver-
sion to the attention of the public faint what Affiliate's are
doing.
It appears, according to an extract from the Proptganda
of July Vs(11, that an official communication has been
made from his Holiness the Pope to the Haytian President
Royer, expressing great satisfaction on the part of his Ho-
limas at the anxiety manifested by the President to ace the
Roman Catholic IZeligiett flourish in St. Domingo. T.
obtain that end Ilia Holiness liolda it to be indispensable
that the Atchhisltop of St. Domingo should be in cor-
respondence with the Papal Chair. Leo XII. wishes to be
informed in what manlier the Ilaytian Prelate has Ilith:rto
fulfilled the duties of his situation ; but, at the same
time, directs a letter to he written to that Dignitary, antho.
rising him to exercise the jurisdiction of the Church in all
the Havasu territory. It is suggested that his unassisted
efforts will be insufficient, and a division of his labours, by
the appointment of zealous co-opetatots, is recommouled.
The document concludes by invoking the celestial bene-
diction on the President.

It appears from a private letter, that the Dutch authori-
ties had received an account of the treaty concluded be-
tween his Netherlandie Niajesty and the Court of St.
James's: but as they hail received no instructions from
their own government, they did not consider themselves
authorised to act upon it. It was generally believed, how-
ever. throughout the settlement, that a kind of accommo-
dation would be iiniiitaliately entered into, by which our
manufactures would be admitted into the Javanese ports.
with the impost of a duty of twenty per cent. It was also
expected in J3Vil that this country would have the liminess
to make the Dutch adhere to the spirit of the treaty, in-
stead of hedging themselves behind the leiter, as they
have hitherto shown themselves inclined to do,