The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

IRISH SCHOOLS.

Sir J. NEWPORT;ll,ihrtl;it7Ltowards the close of last
session, moved, that certain papers be prepared early this session
/elating to the state of education in Ireland. He therefore moved,
that there be now laid before the House •• an account of the several
fuse Diocesan Schools in Ireland during each of the last ten years ;
distinguishing the number of scholars in each, the funds hoot
whence each of the raid schools is niaintalned, and the amount
contributed by the Hilltops, Clergy, and Lay Impropriators, re-
spectively ; together with the amount received from the scholars
attending the said schools, and the number of free scholars in
each :

" An Amount of the sequel Parish Schools in Ireland, este-
bliebed by virtue of the 28th lien. VIII. (Irish) ; distinguishing
We number of scholars in each during the last ten pars ; the
hinds from whence each of the said schools is supported' particu-
larly setting forth the amount contributed by the several incum-
bents. together with the amount received from the scholars at-
tending tne said parish schools, and the number of free scholars
in each :
" An Account of the gross Income and Expenditure of the
Diocesan and Parish Schools In Ireland, during each of the last
too years :
" An Account of all the Schools of Royal Foundation, and
of all other schools, placed under the inspection of the Com-
missioners appointed by the al Geo. ILL c. 107, during the
last ten years.
" An Account of the Expenditure of the various sums granted
by Parliament during each of the last ten veers for the purposes of
education in Ireland : specifying the condition under which those
funds have bees disposed of, the names of the public bodies
or individuals to whom hit y have been irtuctl, as sell as the
C2:111011 of rejection, where ar y applications fur aid have been re-
jected :
A Statement of all the measures adopted, and in progress, on the
pert of the Commissioners of Education and of Charitable Dona-
tions, fee * recovery of property withheld from charitable objects
in Ireland. or misapplied, soil the result of such proceedings; the
same to be made up fur the last ten yews."

NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Miatkl.111111;; a new writ was ordered
for MI borough of New ROM, in the room of Francis Leigh, Esq.
LEGACY DUTY.

Mr HUMS gave not;;Wt le;;;kiio-morrow move for cer-
tain' returns respecting the legacy duty.
SUPPLY.

Oa the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
:he House resolved itself into. Committee of Supply.
The CHAIRMAN having read that part of his Majesty's
Speech, addressed particularly to the House of Commons,
The CHANCELLOR of the ExcnEQL: E It said the proceed.
tug was mealy a motion of form previous to the introduction of
the sedoeses. He should, therefore, only more, 4' That a Supply
gramstd to Ms Majesty."
The modes having been agreed to, the House resumed, and the
restttativa was
real% LAW COURTS' ACT. _ _

ltse House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Irish
low Coons' Act, I and 2 George IV. cap 53.
31r. GOULBUHN said he would endeavour clearly and
brieey to explain the object of the Bill he intended to introduce
Cur the amendment of the present Act. There t• .1.4 a general pro-
vision in the existing law, that for the remuneration of certain of_
neat appointed in the Irish Coutts of Justice, the Judges should
nave power to allow a certain sum to the copying and engrossing
Oaths, and far coals and candles. There was a ddference in the
t 'mot% as to the construction of this provision. In one Conn (the
Etchequer) it was considered a justification tor numinatMg an ad-
Lachine. clerk ; but,in the Count of King's Beath and Common

13ritiolt Vrtf3o.

The liniTims Puree commenced publishing yesterday
morning at five o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, Fa situ AKT 10, 1824.

A few days only have passed since we had to bestow our
reprobation on an arbitrary proclamation of Sir Thomas
Nlaitland's, from Corfu ; and we have now to record his
decease. The career of the High Commissioner, in all
the plenitude of authority, has been arrested by the "fell
sergeant," Death ; all apoplectic tit suddenly cut him off,
at Malta, on the 17th of January. No proclamation of his
could stay the approach of this dread summoner.

Pallida more 'quo pulsat pede pauperum tabemas
Regumque turves.
Jam ilium pretnet nox fabulieque manes.
With all his power, and pomp, and authority, to this
favour he has come at last. Ile is now no mote; and
it is not our feeling to war with the silent dead. But Sir
Thomas Maitland's whole career, since he became the
representative of this country in the lonian Isles, was one
of great unpopularity : few will regret him. We should
be anxious to know how long his statues will now be suf-
fered to stand iu Corfu. Will that flattery, which fol-
lowed him while living, be extended to his image when
power and influence no more attend his name? Will

Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death ?
We should be glad to see Lord Ilastings appointed to this
important situation : he was mentioned for it before. His
Indian administration bad few blemishes ; and such a man
is now wanted, of high character and feelings, in the
neighbourhood of Greece, to redeem the name of Britain.
Sir Thomas Maitland did little for its fame.

The President of the United States, in answer to a Reso-
lution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of De-
cember, on the subject of the dispute by Spain with her
! Colonies, and a request to him to lay before them such in-
formation as he might possess, and which could be dis-
closed without injury to the public good, relative to the
determination of any Sovereigns or combination of Sove-
reigns, to assist Spain in the subjugation of her late Colo-
nies on the American continent, and whether any Govern-
ment of Europe was disposed or determined to oppose any
aid or assistance which such Sovereign or combination of
Sovereigns might afford to Spain for the subjugation of these
Colonies, has answered, that he possesses no information
on that subject not known to Congress, which could be dis-
closed without injury to the public good. We do not
suppose that any regular treaty wu entered into be-
tween this country and America on this important
subject ; but we have little doubt that more than
an understanding on the occasion took place. At all events
the declarations of oar Foreign Minister, and the menace
contained in the message of the American President, have
together paralyzed the league of the Continent, and ea-

tinguished all present idea of any crusade against South
America. The latest German papers received by us yester-
day,
under date from the frontiers of Italy, to the 24th,
state that the Allied Powers propose to take a decisive step
'respecting the contest in the South-cast of Europe. France
was strengthening her naval force in the Archipelago, and
Guilleminot was about to embark from Toulon, for Con-
stantinople, accompanied by a number of able officers. It
is probable, now that the ultimate success of the Greeks
has almost become certain, that the despots of the Con-
tinent will endeavour, if they can, to fetter them by re-
strictions in their career of freedom. A great naval ex-
pedition of the Greeks, llydriot, and Ipsariot vessels, to
the coast of Africa Minor, had sailed, and Smyrna again is
spoken of as the object of attack. IVe do not think, how-
ever, the Greeks as yet will attempt a place so populous and
capable of defence. They have, in all probability, other
°ldeas. May success and ultimate freedom, gained by their
own right arms, crown their unexampled efforts for liberty!

During the short sitting of the House of Lords last
night, the Marquis of Lansdown made s strong allusion
to South America: be did not wish (he said) to run a
rate with Ministers in bringing forward that question ; but
if no notice was taken of it from the Treasury Benches,
before the beginning of next month, he should move an
address to the King early in March, praying his Majesty
to acknowledge the independence of the South American
provinces. The Noble Marquis said he would not then
name a day for the purpose, as he understood a communi-
cation had been sent out to Spain on the subject, an
answer to which might be soon expected. Communica-
tions of interest, the Noble Lord added, might also be
looked for from our Consuls or Agents in South America,
who had been sent out in November. We are n. 4 sur-
prised that Lord Lansdown has given this notice: general
disappointment, we know, was felt at that part of the
King's Speech which alluded to South America. Either
these great and rising countries are completely free, or
they are nut ; if they are free—and who can be prejudiced
or sceptical enough to doubt it ?—why should we hesitate to
acknowledge their independence? We would not have
Ministers, " like French falconers (as Hamlet says), fly at
" any thing they see." But what is Spain or her obso-
lete claim of supremacy to us? If she can redeem it by
force of arms, let her do so : but the trade and vast re-
sources of South America are now an object of first-rate
importance to this country ; their friendship and inter-
course is to us every thing, while that of wretched and
impoverished Spain is now nothing. America is every day
rising, with freedom, into power and greatness; her im-
mense capabilities will from this period be unfettered and
have full action. Our accounts with that great continent
now amount to millions. Hundreds of millions were ex-
pended by us years since, in redeeming Spain from thraldom;
and her gratitude was exhibited by claiming for her own
ragged bands the whole merit of the contest, and by a
sweeping proscription of British commerce. Why, then,
should this country stop in the open career of fair policy
and justice, from a weak regard to Spain?

" What's Ilecuba to us,
That we should weep for her."
A decisive conduct is necessuy to arrest the ambitious
designs of other powers, and a few months only, we trust,
will pus away before we .shall confirm our valuable
alliance with the nations of South America, by an un-
qualified aekviowledgasent of their independence. Such is
the only policy worthy of an enlightened Ministry, and
every way becoming this great and free country.

Several petitions, in the afternoon of yesterday, were pre-
sented in the House of Commons, against the coastwise
coal duty ; and Mr. Grenfell, in presenting a petition from
Fenrhytt, for a remission of taxation, strongly suggested
the including this distressing assessment in any remission
that may be made. The price of cotes, from the heavy
duty now imposed upon them, and the monopoly by the
factors, is most enormous ; they are had in Ireland at one-
third the price. No tax can be more oppressive to the
people in general than that on coals. Fuel, in this country,
from its climate, is as article of tirstrate necessity, indis-
pensable to the comforts and health of the population. The
contrast in the appearance of the inhabitants where fuel is
abundant and cheap, and those parts of the country where
its high price proscribes it from the hearths of the peasant
and mechanic, is most striking. It is an article, in fact, of
almost as absolute necessity as food. Unqualified misery
prevails, where the working man and his family have
to shiver in their cheerless hut without fire or warmth in the
most inclement weather, and retire to their beds cold and,
comfortless, to rise chilled and wretched the next morning.
We do sincerely trust that this tax will interest the consi-
deration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and be in-
cluded in any remission of the burthcns of the people
proposed, on the 9.311, to Parliament. Mr. Martin, of Gal-
way, who had two notices on the list last night—one to
amend his bill to prevent cruelty to animals, and the other
to proscribe bear-baiting and other barbarous exhibitions
of the same description—was twice called on by the Speaker,
but was absent. This is a temporary relief to the Smith-
field drovers, and the ruffians who delight in rat killing,
badger-baiting, and the other classic sports of the West-
minster
Pit. The Honourable Gentleman may daily ex-
pect to see a letter: or two addressed to him on this subject
from the disinterected Charley Eastup ; (a Morning Paper
delights in these sort of effusions.) Mr. Martin's exertions
in the cause of humanity have, however, been most praise-
wortbraad persevering; and while the humane and re-
spectable portion of society applaud it, he may be
perfectly indifferent to the remarks of the owner
of " Billy," or " Jacoko," or Mister Townshend the
police-officer, the brute who savagely broke the poor
dog's legs. We never felt more regret than, when this
atrocious act of barbarity was mentioned, that the fellow
who committed it in the garb and with the staff of a po-
lice-officer, could not be brought within the scope of Mr.
Martin's Bill. A wretch who could thus wantonly maim a
'poor unoffinding animal, would think little of human
life. Though Mr. Martin's notices for the present have
dropped, we trust he will, with his usual creditable perse-
verance, early renew them. His services at Smithfield
have already been most truly useful ; he has done much
to reform that brutal mart of savage inhumanity, and will
not, we trust, be deterred by unworthy ridicule or menace
of any sort, from proceeding in his career of public utility,
which all good and honourable men, possessed of any feel-
ing, must applaud.

Mr. O'Connell, in the full frenzy of Irish declama-
tion, has been making a very wild and injudicious speech,
to some dozen hearers, of the Catholic Association in Dub-
lin. The more we see and hear of this body. the more we
are convinced that their weekly convocations can be at-
tended with no possible good. The subscriptions Mr.
O'Connell has been counting in thousands never will be
gathered. The experiment was tried before, and in more
prosperous times, and it utterly failed ; therefore, when
the great " agitator," as the Orange press calls him,
dwells with fond anticipation on the thousands to be par-

celled out from this source, his calculations are like those
of tha.Damascua merchant, with his basket of glass at his
feet, tl e sale of which was to realise so many sequins, with
which he was to speculate in Oriental merchandise, and
then purchase a residence in the suburbs of Bagdad ; but
a kick from the true believer's foot, in the fervour of his
anticipations, proved but too strongly the brittle nature of
his ware, and made a crash of all his hopes in the sudden
breakage of his glass: Mr. O'Connell's speculations are
exactly of the same description. Ile is but too often, in
his political reveries, " a penny w:se and a pound foolish?'
Why will he talk (as talk he must eternally) of things of
which he knows nothing ? His rant about the London
press displayed the greatest folly and weakness. It resem-
bled nothing but the absurd mistakes sometimes made by
the French Papers, when they murder names, and patch
titles on individuals never heard of in this country before.
We have iio love (Heaven knows) for the politics and gross
blunders of the Morning Paper he alluded to respecting
Irela..d, but the allusion made to the gentleman who is the
Editor of that print was in the worst taste; it was equally
coarse and undeserved. The celebrated Louvet, in de-
scribing the character of the sanguinary Robespierre at one
time, said his sole ambition was notoriety and talking :
he mounts on forms and benches, and declaims (said Lou-
vet) about " God and Providence" and his own disinterest-
edness, and the mob around him applaud. Robespierre
(said the eloquent Girondist) can talk of nothing but him-
self, and on that subject alone is he fluent and impressive.
We do not think of comparing Mr. O'Connell to the patri-
cide of the French Revolution. He has neither the talents
nor enormous vices of that blood-steeped demagogue. But
his thirst for ceaseless notoriety is exactly of the same de-
scription. Non-publicity with him would be non-exist-
ence ; no matter what the subject or the result, it is all
alike.

" Swims, et improbus, hic Amor at, dignusque notari."
Mr. O'Connell is not fit for politics—even for the mob poli-
tics of which he is the hero; he should have confined him-
self to his profession, in which lie has been unusually suc-
cessful: in the Courts he is shrewd, active, and useful ;
he has neither judgment nor range of intellect for the
higher pursuits : he is a popular declaimer in the worst
Irish taste; his speeches are mere violence, sound, and
fury, and nothing eke ; amid all he has ever said or writ-
ten, we never remember a wise or enlightened sentiment
coming from his lips. The celebrated John Keogh, who
preceded him, was a man of a different cast ; his addresses
were marked by equal judgment and energy ; he cared
little for the shouts of a rabble ; the success of the great
measure in which he had embarked was all he looked to;
there is no man within memory to whom the Catholics of
Ireland owed so much as to John Keogh ; he was ardent
and devoted in their cause, when to be so was hazardous
and full of danger ; he was fearless and prominent in the
worst of times ; when apathy and danger were all round
him, be stood forward alone, and rallied the despairing Ca-
tholics when his very life might have been compromised ;
relying on kis own talents and the justice of the cause he
advocated, he sought an interview with Mr. Pitt and Mr.
Dundas, and convinced them that, to keep Ireland tranquil,
it was necessary to conciliate its people. The last repeal
of the Penal Code was owing almost solely to his efforts.
We remember him well : his once fine and agile person,
though then bent and enfeebled by age—his eye, which'
still retained all its early fire--his voice, whose energy
commanded instant attention in the most crowded assem-
bly ;—this was the man with whom Mr. O'Connell, in his
closing life, sought to enter the lists of competition, and
before whom, ten years before, he would have reeled and
sunk in the dpst at the very first encounter. The merits
of both cannot be better contrasted than in the result of
their labours : John Keogh, in a period of the greatest
difficulty, was wholly regardless of hinny; and procured
for the Catholics the most inestimable advantages ; Mr.
O'Connell has acquired personally a large accession of busi-
ness
and emolument, and, by his political declamation,'
the Catholics have gained—nothing. Mr. O'Ccemell, if,
he takes our humble advice, will find some other subject
for his rhodomontade beside the press of this country. He
may remember the tehe declarationoofmtlzusLanotinntaaPo:etr,e—,
" %d bit, et insignia tots cantabitur urbe.:

But to Le recorded in any way, praise or dispraise, is the
summit of Mr. O'Connell's ambition ; all is good fish that
comes to his net ; he has a most capacious and accommo-
dating stomach, and can swallow anything.

BRIGHTON, Fes. B.—THE KING.—We are rejoiced
to state that his Majesty was sufficiently recovered to be
able to attend Divine Service this day, in the Palace Cha-
pel, thecongregation in the body of which wal a crowded
one. Ills Majt sty (excepting perhaps that be is some-
what paler from confinement) is looking well. It is
stated, that his Majesty means to leave this for Windsor
at the latter end of the week.

Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock, the Duke of Cla-
rence left Bushy Park in his travelling carriage, and ar-
rived in London at a quarter before twelve. His Royal
Highness afterwards received visits from the Duchess of
Gloucester and the Princess Sophia. At two o'clock the
Princess Sophia went to visit the Duke of York, after his
Royal Highness had transacted military business with Sir
Herbert Taylor.

WEYMOUTH, FE a. 7.—Part of the evtablishment of their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
are arrived at iulworth Castle, to carry into effect the
necessary arrangements previous to their Royal Highnesses
arrival, and taking possession of that mansion.

The account of the decease of Sir Thomas Maitland was
brought to London on Sunday afternoon by an express
from Naples. Shortly after the arrival of the express, Mr.
Walsh, the King's Messenger, was sent off with the me-
lancholy tidings to the Earl of Lauderdale, the deceased's
eldest brother, at Dunbar, in Scotland.
It is said that Mr. Canning intends, in the present Ses-
sion of Parliament, to bring in a bill to enable the holdersl
of foreign corn to grind it andexport the flour.
A report is in circulation, that John Smith Barry, Esq.
of Foata, in the county of Cork, is to be called to the
House of Peers, by the tide of Earl of Barryiuore.—
Drogheda Journal.
The late Earl of Cornwallis and Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry, was the senior of the bench of Bishops, having
been appointed to that See in the year 1769, consequently
he held it 5S years.
Mr. Wingfield, it is generally presumedi is to be the
new Master in Chancery, in the room of Chief Baron
Alexander ; and Sir Griffin Wilson, the Recorder of
Windsor, is to be appointed the Welch Judge, in the
place of Mr. Wingfield.
Sir Francis Blake, who, we are happy to learn, has secured
his election, left this place on Thursday last ; and we are
creditably informed that Sir John Beresford's pirty, al-
though without a candidate at present, have been equally
successful in scouring a majority of votes, for a gentleman
whom they have pledged themselves to bring forward, and
who is daily expected. Thus the borough will, in all
probability, be protected from the evils attendant on a
contested election, there being no room left for a third
eandidate.—Berwick Advertiser.

ENGINE SILK SVEAVERB.—FINAL ADJUITMENT..--•
Another meeting of the silk weavers, pursuant to their
adjournment, took place on Saturday evening, at which
great numbers attended. Mr. Baker, the Secretary, and
one of a deputation, made a report to the meeting as to a
further ticgociation they had had with a Mr. Spiers, rela-
five to the prices and regulations of some of their work.
The meeting adopted the resolutions recommenik 1 in the I
report. After nhich a vote of thanks to the public press
was moved amt carried with great applause. Tu a meeting
was then adjourned for a fortnight, when the expenses of
their present proceedings will be brought before them.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRENCH PAPERS.

Last night we received by express the Paris Papas-10f
Saturday, and the Fitt,le of Sunday ; from which the fol-
lowing extracts are taken :
[From the Consfitntimenell
Berne i.s, Fes. 3,
in consequence of the report of the Medical Commission of due
proviree, that they had found in this city several childres Wet*
with the small-pox. the Authorities instantly adopted certain
halms for effectually checking the Pingress of that most dreemd
disease ; and charged the l'ominissioners of Police with the noes,
tion of the measures agreed upon.
[ From the C'usrrier Fraaraial
Atroansto, pat. 1.
The Gazette of Limber" announces, under the head of Henna.
stadt. that the plague having declared twit upon the frontier of
Turkey, and particularly in the vicinity of Braila, all tzavidlate
who shall come from VI allachia and Moldavia will undergo "a.
tenant for six da_ys.
A letter from Dresden states, that the King of Saxony Is ism,
sandy occupied in devising a great number of ameliorations in kit
kingdom. This Prince has proposed to the States-General a sew
organization of the prisons, a project conceived in the true spirit ei
humanity_so often outraged by the regulations establishedhien
the prisons of Europe. His Majesty is also about to submit to the
States Rome important changes in the civil and criminal code, sat
in legal proceedings. The military organivation will also =day
some modifications, and there will be substituted for the present re.
crafting system, some means for rendering the service less bade-
scare to the citizens. Brant, Frs. 1.
Hie Serene Highness Pi ince Hobenlohe Schillingsfurst halm
died at Lucerne, at the age of 111 years.
The Prussian Minister accredited to the Helvetic Confederatios
has addressed to the Government of the Canton of Argovia a de.
mend, which has excited the attention of the public, and has beta
unanimously rejected. The question was as to the giving up of •
farmer Professor of the University of Giesen, a man generally
esteemed in Germany, and who for many years was £ditur of tie
Gazette of Enterfed, in which he the fulfilment of the pro.
1 mine of a Constitution—promises, as is well known, made azd
often repeated when the Prussian people generally armed alas
I selves against France. The Professor Follen was prosecuted
his advocacy of a Constitution, and was confined for two years"
•
Barba, dunng which time proceedings were pending against hitt,
After a rigid investigation his innocence was established, and hi
was set at liberty. In order to avoid further proseeutiess
he went into Germany, and finally settled at Aran, his native
place, where his merit recommended him to the Glutamine=
of Argovia, which appointed him to give lectures on literature"
the public school of the Canton. lie was afterwards naturalized as
a citizen, and in his old age married a younir person of •respectable
family at Zurich. It is not known by virtue of what authority
the proceedings which bad long since terminated at Baba, has
been revived at Breslau by a provincial court, which, "[,[1014
hearing the accused, has condemned him to six years' imprisonment
in a Prussian fortress.

The Prenudan Minister immediately demanded him to be Oyez
up; but this has been positively refused by the Government of Ar.
govia, which says that it will never deliver up a citizen without ex.
amining into the cause of his being reclaimed, and without hearing
his defence.

[From the Etoik of Sunday.l
FARIS, FEE. 7.
A curious circumstance took place at the Court of Assize, at the
trial of 31adame ('hauvet, accused of not revealing the oonspiracv
of &inquire and o. has. The first witnesses called were Moos. is
Marquis de la Fayette, and 31.1 e Comte de la Fayette, hisses.
The fanner protested against reeziving the title of Marquis is the
accusation and summons, having ceased to bear it ever since the
Deereee of the Constituent Assembly of December, 1724. The
Comte la Fayette did not make the same objection as his father.
( From the Journal des Debate.]
Pwan, Frll. d.
The following is the substance of a private letter t.—" They
write from Maranique, under the date of the 12th of December,
that the French frigate La Fiore, commanded by M. Mallet, sod
the brig Le Genie, had been despatched front that colony for Porto
Rico. The brig was on its return to Martinique, having quittol
Porto Rico on the 4th December. Our two vessels, after having
exchanged flags of truce on the morning of the Ist Deeenthrt,
with M. Miguel de la Torte, Governor of St. John, of Porto
Rico entered that port in the evening, when no advice' from the
Spanish Government had been received, M. de la Torte could
scarcely credit the events which had taken place at Cadh • but
after the details fumished by M. Mallet he hastened to otfiCislly
announce to the garrison the happy charges which bad taken plug
in Spain. On the 4th Te Deane was chaunted, and public motes
!Net took place in celebration of the liberation of his Catholic
jestv, and his re.eatablialiment on the throne of his ancestors. The
same letter adds, that l'orto Cabello had yielded on the 100 of
November to the troops of the Republic of Venezuela, and at that
date the Spanish flag waved no longer on any point of the Spanish
Main."

FItILIITA Fuss!, Fen. 7.—Fire per Cents. opened at 961:90e.,
elated at 1161. 9lk. • Rank Stock, 1.7011; Neapolitan Rental, In:
Spanish Rentes, 2:.1. Exchange on Lcodon —ore month, 4k.;
three months, 25t.

GERIIAN PAPERS.

Yesterday we received a file of German papers to a late
date, from which we copy the following

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Feriae THE MAINE, Fin !.
The arrest of the Aube COIIIIIOIOT, Murhud, has caused a pet
sensation, especially in Darmstadt, where he has many friends, the
more so because the person who calls himself Kelch, whose inter.
course with Murhard is said to have been the cause that led to the
lamest of the latter, is known there as a man who was very well
"tainted with the Hessian police, and bad a certain connection win
it. Infect, M. Ketch did not scruple, on the 29th of January, se
I bespeak a place in the diligence for Cassel for the next day but
the police let him know that if be showed himself in Frankfort, el-
-1 ter two o'clock in the afternoon, he would infallibly be sent our
the frontiers. On this intimation he went immediately to Vilbel,
thence to proceed to the capital of the electorate of Hesse. Psr. sass
at Frankfort thought they had proofs in their hands that Eddi
was a secret agent who was employed to sound the opinion d
some persons who, whether justly or unjustly, were objects d
suspiturna.
FROM THE FRONTIERS OF ITALY, .411.'24
It is affirmed, that in a short time some more French Nan
and brip will sail to reinforce the squadrons in the Archi, liFt
We Man from very good authority, that the Allied Posse
propose to take a decisive step to put an end to the en:ebb
in the south-east of Europe. France, which, fur a long tan
past, has exercised little influence in the affairs of Turkey. as
pears resolved to take a more active part in them, and it a
supposed that the departure of General Guilleuiinot, the eel
Ambassador, will be hastenel. Instead of coins to Vienna.
and Thence to Constantinople by land, he is to embark at
Toulon, accompanied, it is said, by a number of able officers.
Meantime it is said that the Turks begin to be mars and mars
dissatisfied with the interference of the European Powers la
their cos:terns: A great cause of this doubtless is, the long
oontinuarce of the Greek insurrertion, which they 'oppose to
be secretly supported by the Europt Ps. The Greeks oa their side,
after the levourable issue of the campaign by land, place their
hopes on the success of a great expedition by sea, most accuunts of
which speak but in enigmatical terms. So much is known, that
two divisions of their fleet, one consisting of llydriot, the °there
Ipsariot vessels, have sailed towards Asu Minor, and that some
Greeks hint that their countrymen will soon be in possession of
Smyrna. Rut it is Inure probable that the expedition is against
one of the islands, since an attack on Smyrna would, on thc one
hand, rouse the fanatic real of all the hlahometans on the Asiatic
Continent, and on the other, lead to disputes with the European
Powers whose squadrons resat to Smyrna.
AAAAA ORT, JAN. 31.
The researches relative to demagogical intrigues and rare
societies, says a letter from 3layence, have been lately resumed
with =reactivity, and several new arrests have taken OUT.
STOCKHOLM, JAN. a
His Majesty has appointed the Crown Prince to be Viceroy
Norway, and an express goes taday to Christiania with that news
His Royal Highness will not leave Stockholm before_tba end d
February or the beginning of March. As Count 'Sandal hereby
lases his post ,f Governor of Norway. it is thought his Majesty
will give him the Marshal's stall; vacant by the death of Colt
Wrede. _ _

ST. PETERSIIIMOU, JAX. 20.
It Is remarkable that no Russian subject now has the Order rf
Rt. Oeorge of the fret class ; the only penons who possess it or.
the Duke of Wellington, the King of Sweden, and the Duke uf
Angoulcrne, to whom it has been sent on account of his gloroi
campaign in Spain. It is reported there will be sonic new taxa.
which will soon be made known. No official lists of the imporm
land exports of last year have yet been published.

Ell 11.V.GIES.
AMSTERDAM, FER. 6.—On London, 39. 6. Two 310:64
3.4 4.

HAMM: AGII, FEB. 3.—On London, 36.6.

THE. CATE.—By the arrivals to-day from the Cape of
Good Hope, we have been favoured with the report of the
Committee of the Society formed at that settlement for
the relief of distressed settlers, together with the niolu-
tions passed at a general meeting. Among the names ti
the persons fonning the Committee, we observe wined
the most respectable inhabitants of Cape Town. The Ile-
port itself occupies no less than eight octavo pages, sod
enters into au explanation of the manner in which the sob'
scription raised for the relief of the distressed settlers had
been appropriated, and notices many cases of extreme dIP
tress. It appears that a particular kind of wheat, filled
Bengal wheat, has succeeded remarkably well in several
districts, during the three years which have proved so fa-
tal to other k:tuls of wheat. The distribution of this gro
among the settlers has been an object of great iiiiportase6.
A considerable sum had also been expended for the Mai
of the widows and families of deceased settlers, beitiO
principal object for which the Society was originally itts:
toted. The last article of expense noticed in the report
fo: the support of settlers at Cape Town ; a part had Ws
returned by the individuals who had received it. Tlte
Report closes with several extracts from authentic scusee‘
in order that a correct view might be formed as to the
actual condition of the settlers.—Eceming Paper.