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ale arty spoken of as the idendgi :Ululate! of dead Sad Justice,
and M. Ilerrero Prieto as designed to fill his vacated place.
We may positively assert, that the police has got the clue to the
Apostolic otrrpitacy, and is acquainted with all its ramifications.
'important documents discovered among the papers of arrested per.
sons, joined to those found on Bessieres, will bring to light the
projects of those who proclaimed themselves the support of the
Throne, and will make known its true enemies. It is asserted that
orders hare been already expedited to arrest the Archbishop of San-
Maga, the Rev. Father Velez. It is doubted whether it will be
in time, .for several ecclesiastics have already taken flight,. among
the rest the Canon Jars.

FRENCH SYPT. 9.—Five per Cents. joulas du
223 Sept. opened at 991. 44c. Three per Cents. 711. ,nc Bank
I Stock, 2,1251. t Rente de Naples Certif. Faloonnet, 157 f. 15r.
Rents d'Espagne, Inf. ; Rnyal Spanish Loan, 511—Exchange
on London. one month, 25f. 10c. ; three do. 241. 95c —Court
Authentipt.

In another column we have inserted a long extract from
the Attrition Observer of the 30th ult. respecting the Greek
struggle for independence. Our readers are of course pre-
pared to find in these advices no tidings but those of the
continued successes of the Mahometans. The Austrian
Government has thrown off all colour of neutrality, and its,
Paper dare only relate such news as it knows will prove ac-
ceptable to those on whose pleasure its existence depends.
We look to the Austrian Observer, not to learn what is
really the state of the Greek war, but to see to what extent'
the misrepresentation of the enemies of Greece can be car-
ried with any reasonable probability of imposing upon the
people of Europe. On this occasion, however, we hear less
than usual of the impending evils by which we are gene-
rally told the Greeks are threatened with immediate destruc-
tion ; all that is asserted to their prejudice is, that C 01.13
COTRONI was defeated on the 4th of July, in a battle with
lan/atm PACH n at Tricopha. The losses on each aide, it is
allowed, are differently stated. The Austrian Observer is, as
in duty bound, inclined to believe that the Greeks suffered
severely, while they, on their part, affirm that they had
only 30 killed, and that 600 of the Egyptians perished on
the field. These coaieting‘statements are perhaps each
equally unworthy of crtilit. fudging from the result, it
does not appear that this action, or any of those which
followed it, have been of a very decisive nature. There
are reports from Smyrna that IBRAHAM had subse-
quently marched to Argos, and again appeared before
Napoli, at the post of the Mills, from which he was lately
so gallantly driven; but it is not pretended that these
rumours have been corroborated by any intelligence en-
titled to the least attention. We are sorry to observe that
Admiral de Rio NY, who commands the French squadron
in the Levant, has, on pretence of some insult offered
to his Government, had recourse to a measure which
has all the appearance of hostility towards the patriots.
He has seized the Eparch of Syra and taken him
prisoner, it is supposed either to Hydra or Napoli,
for the declared purpose of having him punished. This is
I a flagrant breach of neutrality, and one of the most itiso-
lent assumptions of authority we ever remember. The
Eparch was not responsible to the French Admiral, who,
if he had any ground of complaint, should have stated it
I in the first place to the Greek Government, leaving them
to act on their sense of justice. If they had refused re-
dress, Admiral de RIGNY could not have proceeded with
more violence against the offending individual, over whom,
u the subject of another State, he could exercise no right
whatever.

The Amsterdam Papers of Saturday arrived last night.
they are quite barren of political intelligence. ft is stated
from Hanover that the contributions for the relief of the
sufferers by inundation received by the central Committee
there up to the 19th August amounted to 247,793 rix
dollars.

A Russian Ukase forbids the Jews to settle in the Go-
vernment of Astrachan and the Provinces of Caucasus till
the new regulations respecting the Jew in Russia shall be
published.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Pfe' RAKEURGEI. SEPT. 6.-36.—Two months, 33 9.
• Sr. PETEASBURGH, AUG. 23.-10 11-16.
Lamm, SEr+. 2.—Three months, 6 11i.
Belmar, SEPT. 3.—Three months, 6 21.
AMITEIIIMIII, SEPT. 9.-39 10.—Three Months, 39 7.

The deplorable condition of SPAIN is bringing it every
day nearer to that crisis of convulsion, which, if we are not
greatly deceived, will shake FERDINAND from his throne.
Bankrupt, as he ban long since shown himself to be, in I
conscience, 'and in character; with a head as narrow as his I
heart, and without a single redeeming virtue which can
soften the indignation of a people writhing under the
pressure of his execrable measures; with what rational ;
hope can the Spanish nation look forward to the restoration
of its liberties, while the reins of power are in the hands,
of such a ruler? At this moment the situation of this
Despot is full of difficulty: to effect his atrocious triumph
over the Comrrrurionaetars, he allied himself to the
Priesthood; he fought against Freedom with the " band of
the Faith;" but the Leaders of this band, with as lordly
a contempt for the rights of the subject as his most
Catholic Majesty himself, soon exceeded even his daring
in their designs, and at length got beyond his control in
the combined energy which they employed to carry those
designs into effect. The JESUITS are dangerous instru-
ments for a Government to work with. The Monarchs of
FRANCE and Seam are, both of them, at present expe-
riencing this to their cost. FERDINAND was, for a time,
so very ultra in his zeal, as to receive the admonition even
of the Holy Alliance itself. He would fain have nailed
the flag of tyranny to the mast-head. lie was ignorant
that the work of regeneration was silently going on In his
dominions, while he was reducing the Government and the
Monarchy to a state too feeble to make head against it,
Now, to his utter alarm, and to his inextricable peril, he
finds that the Jusurrs have jumped into the gap. He
feels them hourly edging him from his throne, and he
foresees that, if they leave him a nominal possession of it—
of which he cannot be quite sure—they will usurp the
real power. They are, in fact, already in possession of it.
Their great aim is to re-establish the Inquisition ; which
they declare to be essential to " restoring the Catholic
Church in its purity." They proclaim their design a
! •
Nadel; but in PARIS, notwithstanding the patronage of
Ciliates X, and the ardent support of A :-.RCIIAVEQUE DE
PARIS, tlley are obliged to proceed with more caution.
But r,itAkirt.Fl X, ai well as FERDINAND, are both begin-
ning to perceive, when it is too late, that they have raised
up a Olen by which their own will be ultimately weighed
down.

Every means is adopted by the Austrian Government to
prevent us from obtaining correct information from the
Aforea. Letters from Paris state that orders have been
given in the ports of Italy to exercise particular vigilance
with respect to the letters corning from Greece and the
lonian Islands.

Last night we received New Yotk papers to the 17th
ult. their contents are not of any great importance. The

Court-martial had decided in the case of Commodore
PORTER, but the sentence, of course, would not be made
known till it had formally received the approbation of the
Parainzivr. The Court was proceeding with the trial
of the other Officers under arrest. The American navy is,
'it would seem, in a singular state of insubordination. Two
Captains, CRLIGHTON and DEACON, it was reported, were'
returning from the Mediterranean, under arrest. The bill
for regulating the trade of his MAJEbTY'S possessions in
America and the West Indies has excited great interest in
the United States. It is reprinted at full length in the
New York papers.
There has teen a violent gale or hurricane in the West
Indies. The French islands appear to have been the
principal sufferers.
The intelligence from Mexico and South America is
such as the friends of the new States wish it to be. There
are no events either to alarm or agitate them. The new
States are (to use a trans-atlantic word) progressing in
undisturbed tranquillity, and with increasing prosperity.
The message of the President of Chili to the Congress of
that State is remarkable for its candour and honesty. He
somewhat roughly points out the duties of the Legislature,
but not more roughly than the public necessities appear
to require. We have no news from the Banda Oriental.
The following are extracts:— _ _

The present state of things must come soon to a close.
What remains of the French army of occupation cannot
avert the catastrophe. No outworks which these mercenary
troops—which, to the utter and eternal disgrace, not of the
French nation, but of its rulers, are serving in Spain—no
outworks which they can throw up in the defence of
despotism, can avail their purpose. Every gun they fire
will, in its recoil, endanger the battery. The Jesuits may
plan their machinery of wheels and racks, and may pro-
mise themselves that they shall play over again the tra-
gedies of the Inquisition ; but it will not be ;
Nature o'erpower'd at length will leave her load,

And bat persecution.—

Why, in France, does not Cumuli; X perceive that he
must govern—there is no help for it—with an eye to the
progress of industry, ' and wealth, and knowledge in his
dominions; and not in his dominions only, but throughout
the whole Continent of Europe Why did not his good sense
—for he is not wanting in understanding—why did it not
teach him, from the moment he succeeded to the sovereignty
of France, that it was vain to persist in forcing upon his
subjects of the nineteenth century the superstitious mum-
mery which their reason—ripened by a conflict with its
abuses—bad taught them to deride ? The dominion of the
I Catlatlic priesthood can never again hope to lord itself—es
for centuries it had done—over the rights of nature and
the freedom of political institutions. Within the last
thirty years a light has broke in upon the human mind that
will have " no fellowship wilt the unfruitful works of
duel-nest;" not that we think the reign of Satan is at an
end ; very far from it. We fear the world has long to wait
before he will be so bound hand and foot as to leave the
Saints in full possession of the field. But thus much is
certain, that education is too general, end the habits of
thinking too widely spread throughout the whole of Chris-
tian Europe, to give their Catholic Majesties of France or
Spain any chance of bringing back the hideous regime
of attperstkien, or of governing in concert with at
ambitious and over-ruling priesthood. We learn by
our letters from France, that CHARLES X seems
sunk in spirit, and that he appears but rarely in
public. Is it unnatural that it should be so ? Our readers
will remember, that we predicted thus very early after his
coronation. And why ? Because the sycophants that
surrounded him had no heart—because we knew that
the pious psalmody of their devotion would have been
equally at the service of NAPOLEON bad events thrown
him once more' from the rock of St. Helena on to the
throne of the Bourbons. CHARLES X has not sought the
love of his subjects, and he has at length found that this
love cannot " Nnsought be won." The result is, that he
is unpopular, and—without wishing to speak harshly of
him—we would say that be deserves to be so. He has
done nothing fur the political welfare of France. He has
left the CHARTra of the Constitution to take its course,
and to receive whatever confirmation it could gain from
the Jesuits and the GeV& merle.
CH•TEAUBRIAND, in his pamphlet entitled, " Le Roi
est Mort, Vive le Rai," described CIIARLES X as the" RE-
STAURATEUR DI TOCTES 1.15 LEGITIMITES:. The
compliment was, at best, equivocal. A medal, it may be
remembered, was struck to perpetuate the memory of the 4th
of August, and the Assembly at the same time decreed to

NEw Voltz, Avo. 16.
THE COTTON CROP.—The planters in some parts of South
Carolina are complaining in consequence of an apprehension of
short crops of cotton. A report from the Edisto Island Committee
of Inspection gives the result of an examination of nine crops at
Slan's and Toodogo Islands, which ranged from 50 to 140 pounds
per acre. A letter from John's Island rays that " the crops gene.
rally will not average more than 50 to 100 pounds per acre."
VIOLENT GALE IN THE WEST In n;Es.—The French ship
L'Eslair arrived yesterday from Martinique, which place she left on
the 30th July, communicates the following:—
A hurricane occurred at St. Pierre's on the 26th of that month,
anti continued from seven till nine o'clock In the morning. The
most severe part of the gale was at about nine o'clock, from this
southerly direction. No French ship. were lost. Three American
vessels, two brigs, and one schooner, were dAven ashore, and went
to pieces. The plantations there did not suffer much.
At Guadaloupe the gale was most violent at a quarter past ten.
All the buildings belonging to Government were destroyed.
At Basseterre nearly two hundred persons were killed. In that
quarter the plantations suffered much. At Point Petre several
American vessels and French coasters were ashore. The latter
sustained mote or less damage. The plantations there received
some injury. . . _

All the ;easels anchored at Roseaux (Dondque) were lcst. Some
vowels, also, were log at Barbadoea, St. Lucia, and Antigua. All
the islands to windward are supposed Ao bavalitten awnweriasa
affected by the hurricane.
__

NORFOLK (VIRGINIA), Aro. 11.
HURRICANE rie THE WEST INDlES.—('aptain Bush, of the
schooner James Monroe, in the remarkably short passage of nine
days from Antigua, arrived at this port on NVednesday evening.
Captain B. states that the mail boat, which arrived at Antigua
on the 30th July frotn the Southward, brought accounts of a
very heavy humane which commenced on the 25th, and had ex-
tended its ravages from Guadeloupe to Barbadoes, in the direction
of which the damage done to the shipping was truly distressing—
one town in Guadeloupe was understood to have been entirely.
blown down. Beyond those points named no injury had been re-
ceived. One English vessel, and three or four American ones had
been driven ashore in Dominica. Antigua escaped. The weather
was threatening, and the inhabitants commenced making prepara-
tions. expectipg something serious, but nothing occurred further
than the upsetting of one or two open hosts—their crews, however,
(blacks) were drowned.

Lord rite SIXTEIeTITR the tide of " arSTACIU2SeII Hz' lion, an historical timmars of the Constitution, Latf, and Statute
LA Lt BUTZ was on that memorable day
ofEngland.
The Aguila Mericaa
that the Assembly, in the plenitude of its patriotism, de- Santa Anna, nof the 21st of June, states. that General
who is known as the projector of the Cuba invasion,
creed—the cessation of' all abuses—" La cessation de tout has been appointed chief of engineers.
It was reported that Sr. Don Pablo de la Liaise, Secretary of
let abut." The unhappy fate of Louis TILE SIXTEENTH, Justice and Ecclesiastic Affairs, was about to retire from poblie
by far the best hearted and most benevolent Monarch— I life, and to be succeeded by St. Perez, Bishop of Puebla.
not excepting even Henri JY—that ever sat on the throne President Bolivar has issuedPEßU. an order, that the department of
of France, will best attest the sincerity of his flatterers; Huamanga, in which the victory of Ayacucho was gained, shall
hereafter De called the Department of Ayacucho ; and that the
and as for " La cessation de Sous Ice abut," we can only capital of the Department shall be called Ayacucho. This is dc.
say, how vain, even in its most righteous decrees, is the signed to pet prtu ate the recollection of this signal victory, which ea-
tablished the independence of Peru.
wisdom of man !
CHILI.
LATE HISSAHE OF THE TREsIDEST OF CI:ILI TO TEES
CONGRESS.
GENTLEMEN—The Republic expects from this extraordiney
session of its representatives important practical results of the repro.
sanative system. It should not be matter of surprise, that in an
infant state, which for centuries had been under the rule of an abso-
lute and barbarous government, circumstances should require ex-
traordinary sessions of the representatives of the people. Inespe.
rience, and want of reflection induce the belief, that permanent con-
stitutions are adapted to a people in progress'', and whose informs.
tion and light increase slowly and unequally. The spirit of the
ancient metaphysics urges the adoption of chimerical projects of
legislation and of institutions alone to retard and paralyze, insteadof
giving impulse to the conduct of affairs, and the Three of authority,
which, when important reforms are to be effected, should be
adopted.
Gentlemen—lna few words you see the actual %Otte of the Re-
public, and one of the great causes of the evils complained of, for
whose remedy you ate convened. Nations possessing but the
shadow of representative government have under less imperious
circumstances assembled their Cones. or Congress, thereby benefit-
ting themselves through new laws and provident measures. The
supreme author of liberty, whose kind protection has been exercised
towards us, has favoured us in this Congress with great talents,
eminent virtues, consummate experience, prudence, knowledge of
public affairs, and of the great principles of administrative science.
I'o deliberate and resolve wisely upon the proper questions, it will
not be necessary that they be proposed to you. But were the ex-
ecutive to suggest them he would not be without precedent. There
exists not at this time a system of finance, nor of credit ; nor is the
old, miserable Spanish system abolished. Comincree is uprotected,
education neglected, the militia unorganised, and, in truth, there
is no one subject that does not demand reform and improvement.
The representatives are well acquainted with the public necessities,
and will provide for their relief in the wisest manne#.
Santiago de Chili. RAMON FREIRE.
PRICES or STOCES.—Nzw Yoax, Avo. 16.—United
States' Sixes 1812, offered 100. 1 asked 100 i ; ditto ditto, 1813,
offered 104, sales; ditto ditto, -1818, 104 sales; ditto Threes,.
84b 051.

The following extract of a letter, received at Liverrool
from the Havannah, by way of New York. will explain
the report which was lately in circulation, that the French
had taken possession of Cuba. It appears that the French
squadron in the West Indies, after the mission of M. di
MACIAL: to Ilayti was accomplished, visited the Haven-
nab ;.but we cannot for a moment believe that any ulterior
object was contemplated. The following is the extract to
which we refer :

" HAVANNAH, JULY 2C, 1825.

" I have only a minim's time to give you the informatio s by
an Atrierican schooner of war, that two French line of battle all pa
seven large frigates, and two sloops of war, entered this port this
forenoon. What their object Is I hare not learned, but understand
they are last from St. Domingo."

CITY, SATURDAY EVIIIIND.

Up to two rilock the Consols market was without in-
terest, and but little business was doing in it. About that
time some heavy sales were made, which depressed that
Stock nearly 1 per cent. The opening price was 891 Bj,
at which it continued during the greater part of the morn-
ing. The circumstance to which we have adverted caused
a decline in it to 881, f 1 was afterwards the price, and the
market closed at I 1. Another cause assigned on the
Stock Exchange for the retrogression of Consols was, the
report of the French having taken possession of Cuba.
Exchequer Bills were .ss. 7s. premium.
The prices in the Foreign market scarcely varied from
those of yesterday, and the business in it was very limitted.
We must indeed except the Guatemala Scrip, in which
bargains were done at 11 discount, making an improve-
ment of nearly 1 per cent. since yesterday, whilst the
other South American Securities remained stationary.
The Share market was also without a variation deserv-
ing of notice.

The King of Prussia is expected to arrive at Brussels on
Thursday next. The postmasters between that city and
Liege arc ordered to have 55 horses ready at every stage. ,
It is reported at Frankfort that new conferences are
going to be opened in that city relative to the steps which
must be taken to terminate, at length, the negotiations
with the Court of home for the conclusion of a concordat
with Gerniany.—Brunels Pdper.
We have received the Brussels papers of Saturday.
They announce the arrival of the Prince and Princess of
Orange, with their three sons, at the palace of Laeken. Mr.
Hughes, the American Minister to the government of the
Netherlands, arrived at Brussels on the Gth inst. The
I Royal Sovereign yacht, which was waiting in the roads of
Antwerp for the Duke of Clarence, was daily visited by a
great number of persons, who admired its construction and
magnificence. • They were received with great politeness,
and the Captain had given orders to admit all decently
dressed persons.
-

An article in the Allganeine Zeitung of the 4th instant,
dated Constantinople, Aug. 10, states, that the complaints
made by the Reis Effendi to Mr. Turner, the British Mi-
nister, have been increased by the news that just before
the Capitan Paths appeared off Missolonghi, seventeen
English Officers of Engineers had arrived there to assist in
its defence. The opinion gained ground, that England has
views on Greece, especially as, in addition to the above,
the English naval force was assembled at Napoli di Roma-
nia, and farther remittances from the English Loan had
been received at Hydra.
Yesterday we received the Lisbon Gazettes to the 27th
ult. They are principally tilled with extracts from foreign
papers, and from the Gazette of Goa. The King has
been pleased to extend his clemency to the partakers in the
mutiny among the troops at St. Paulo da Assumpcao de
Loanda, the capital of the kingdom of Angola, in the
month of October, 1823. The imprisonment which they
have undergone is to be in lieu of all further punishment ;
the Captain of the battalion that mutinied, having been
particularly implicated in these criminal proceedings, is
dismissed.

Private letters from Madrid state, that at the execution
of Don Pablo Iglesias, and Colonel Santos, on the 28th ult.
for their constitutional opinions, the executioner jumped
upon their shoulders, and beat out their brains in the air.
The royalist volunteers wished to cut them up, and drag
their limbs about the streets, and the irritated populace se-
conded the idea, but the Royal Guard charged upon them,
and dispersed them to their homes, with strokes of their
sabres.

40.
By an arrival from St. Dceningti ire have received the
new Tariff. The duties now imposed upon British goods
are very high; and are said to have been increased ex-
pressly on account of the neglect of the British Cabinet to
the communications of the Haytian President.—Glube.
We have received Demerara Papers to the 7th July : they
contain no political intelligence. Great interest was ex-
cited in that colony respecting the Ice Company. His Ex-
cellency the Governor and the Court of Policy had sanc-
tioned the establishment, and granted some lands for the
necessary buildings. A cargo of ice had been received
from Newfoundland.

Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, the Governor of the Manri-
tip, has issued a singular proclamation from the Govern-
ment House, Fort Louis, requiring proprietors of estates,
lessees, and other occupants, to deposit at the civil corn-
tnicsaries of their respective quarters, in the course of the
year, ten birds' heads, or twenty rats' jails, at their option,
for every slave in their possession. The birds' eggs, young
birds, or rats, found and destroyed in their nests, shall be
counted in common with others. A penalty of six cols is
' fixed on every bird's head and rat's tail not furnished.
Every head of an ape or monkey shall be received as equi-
valent to six rats' tails, or twelve birds' heads. All those
races are considered destructive to the harvest and culture
on the island.
The London papers were premature in announcing the
decease of Fanny Bias. She died only on Tuesday last,
after a long and painful illness. A great number of Artistes
were present nt the ceremony of her funeral, on Wednesday, '
at Ihe church, of St. loch. No attempt was made to den
her the rites of sepulture, as was the case last year with they actor Philippe.