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London, England, 1825-10-04 00:00:00

ERO3I LLOYD'S LIST.

FAr.storTH, OCT. I—Aaived the Elrick, from London.
Pt t storrit, OCT. I.—Arrived, the Kingston, Severn, from
Jamaica; the Dart, Carson, from Bordeaux. Off the port. the
&wheel, Adams, from Quebec—parted company from the Baron
of Renfrew on the 2tl of September, at the entrance of the Gulf of
St. Laurence.

PoliTStiorr rt. Ocr. 3.—Arrived the Pomona, Wright, from
London • Prince Regent, Jacobs, and Culloden, Thomas, from
Youghal. ()tithe V, mitt, the Globe, Johnson, from Rio Janeiro.
Sailed, the Henry, Davis, for London.
DEAL, OCT. I.—The schooner Ann and Mary, from Ireland to
London, with provisions, went on the Goodwin Sands early this
morning, but was got off by the exertions of the crew, and pro.
ceeded without damage. Passed through, the Brothers, Potts,
from the Cape of Good Hore..asiled 21st July ; Royal CUrlotte,
Lord, from Jamaica—and a ship from the South Seas, reported to
be the Griffin. Oct. 2. Arrived from the river, and remain, the Ca.
therine, 11Pintosh, for India—and the Thalia, Coghlan, for Bue-
nos A yrcs.

RAMSOATZ. OCT. 2.—The Mary Ann, Blackler, from Cork
for London, ran on the Goodwin Sand yesterday morning, but on
the tide flowing, she got off without damage. and proceeded.
GRAVESEND, OcT. 2.—Arrived the Lark, Patterson, from
Hamburgh ; Pearson, Sholton, from ditto ; Marquis Huntley,
Jennison, from Sierra Leone ; Royal Charlotte, } from Is.
mass ; Dandy, Gibbs, from Alkmar ; Brothers, Potts, from the
Cape of Good Hope ; Astrea, Bolton, from Hamburgh ; and
Esther, Forster, from ditto. Sailed the Tula, White, for Malta ;
Eleanor, Robertson, for Mirage; Betsey. Aspill, for Mnendore ;
beds, Northwood, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Fame, Hatfield,
for Hamburgh ; Patience, Kind, for the Isle of France ; Hamble.
tonian, Pattison, for Bt. Mary's (A.) ; Lad the bake, Gray, Watson,W
for St. John's, New Brunswick ; Alert, for St. 51i•
cheers; and F.olus, Anderson, for Oottenburgh.
GIBRALTAR. SEPT. S.—The Alert, Terry, which arrived this
day from the flavannah, was boarded by a Colombian privateer,
and the passengers plundered of their baggage, and about 1,500
dollars.

ALICANT, SEPT. 17.—The Regent packet, Collings, from
London, mired at Dents, on the 12th instant, and was seized
by the Customs and Board of Health, for smuggling and breach
of quarantine.
Ilaxatraoa, SEPT. 27.—The Elizabeth, Flomer, from hence
to Hull, put back yesterday, leaky.

The Mariner, of Leith, and Sylph, of London, were wrecked
near Archangel—crew saved.
The Lord Wellington, Fedgeon, from Nana to London, has put
into Revel, leaky, having been on shore.
The Cochrane, Mitchell, from Oporto, was lost off Potty Har-
bour, Newfoundland, about the 9th ult.—crew saved.
The Terra, Rogers, from Alalags to Trinidad, was captured
on the 14th of June, sear the Isle of Cuba, and earned to
Coitus).

The Albion, Hardy, from Lordon, has arrived at Riga, with
considerable damage, having struck on a rock off Oesel.
The Flying Fish, Johnson, from Newcastle to Lisbon, foundered
off the Lizard, on the 28th ult.—crew !caved,

The Louisa, Cardon, from Trinidad to Quebec, is totally lost
on Seated Island--rrew saved.

The Fleece, Booth, from Sunderland to London, struck on the
rocks at limiter, on Thursday night, and it is feared will not
get off.
The Warren Hastings, from London to Ceylon and Bengal, was
spoke June 19, by the Spring, hackman, which arrived at the
Cape of Good Hope, July 10, from London. The Rambler, from
London, on a whaling voyage, was spoke by the i►lountaineer,
Herbert, which strived at the Cape on the 14th of July. for
London.

Horses have fallen in price. This is in some measure
owing to the importation from Flanders and France, where
good sound cart horses see bought up for English dealers at
from Wo to SOO francs each, that is from 16 to 20 guineas;
and the duty being lowered to 20s. they can be imported,
all expenses :included, for a small sum above the first
cost, and the French Government now suffer any to be
exported from that country.
The great utility of watering wall-fruit trees growing On
a light soil, at the time of the setting of the fruit, and
pretty freely afterwards in the absence of rain, has been
particularly realised in the garden of J. B. Bunn, Esq., of
Poole, whose peaches this year are remarkably fine ; on
measuring one, it was found to be ten inches in circumfer-
ence, and it weighed nine ounces.—Southampton Herald.

THS APOSTOLIC JUNTA.
The grand mad presidia Council of the Apostek,"•7l:ol.
Is held at Toledo, the ' whisk is the Primate
of all Spain. ln the other seven Arebbishoprici and fifty-
one 13ishope3ni there are whit are called Synods, acting
.under the immediate order' of the Grand Council. in
all the large towns there Is en Aposts•ll.! Junta. and this
corresponds with its respective Synod. The high secrets
alone rest with the Grumi cbanal ; the Synods Ea stpsi-
toile Junta blindly execute the orders transmitted tothetn,
whatsoever they may be. livery Clergyman koala ism to
have belonged to the Liberal party, is a member of the
Junta of the place of his residence, and in public ha-ls
bound to further its objects by every means in his poirer.
In every collegiate church, chapter, and convent Mite is
a ramification of the Juntas, and the men most distinguished
' for Mei, fanaticism are she leaders.
This body wan otiolooinstitutod by tloet, fat the
Prime Minion of the lt 1 Itsgency, prev
previous to the
fall of Cali', and next • iter, and at the same tine
Coefessor to King Ferdintiod, after what he called his t.
beration front the captivity of the Coristlietionilists.
Bars lust Ow, is ,Il be renienbered, soon.after the
intrigues the Fran* were at their height tit Mykrid,
and he rale* in the 'gain character if Bishop of Torsos'.
The original *ea. of the Institution was against the Li-
berals; hostage thitit hassince nasterelly deviated. It hue
ratniecet/ops and Otweepondeets in Prance. 1171
Portugal.' *The chief rwtowealiti atind e ,
.41r. is
=444 theis itecAeseriesni;
to contribute
affair
of
to the gsert;erinal
purposes, 'mewling to his means or seal. It is extremely
active; so mush so, that the Grand Council receives ad-
vices of every Important event by which their own inte-
rests can be affected, quicker than those brought by the
French couriers. Every member is bound by a solemn
oath; and, in ahort, the institution possesses all the attri-
butes, and observes all the precautions taken by the most
decided revolutionary societies. The, members use certain
signs and words to know each other, and the correspond-
ence is carried on in hieroglyphics, of which a key is pos-
sessed only by the Directors. The letters or despatches
from the Grand Council to the Synods, and from the latter
to the Apostolic Juntas, are called monitories; and, when
read and discussed at a sitting, the President is bound to
burn them in presence of the Synod or Junta, and throw
the ashes into the air, so that no trace may be left behind.
The sittings of the Inferior Juntas are never on fixed
days, and when one is over, the President appoints the
day when the members are to meet again. Each Junta
has a committee, for the purpose of corresponding and
conducting the most important part of the business. Mach
sitting is opened by the recital of a particular psalm, and
with -great ceremony and precaution, MOTs particularly as
regards women. The sittings are not allowed to have any
journal of their transactions—no record is kept—all is
trusted to the memory. Although the greatest part of the
members are clergymen, some lairs are nevertheless ad•
mated; persons who have given proofs of their uniformity
of principles, and can contribute with their purses. Ail
are men of power, influence, or wealth—all arc bound to
the strictest obedience to superiors.
The principal labours of this body, according to its more
recent organization, are directed to.the overthrow of Ferdi-
nand—not because he is lax
.in acts of despotism, but be-
cause he favours the French, and in his.character is false,
changeable, and afraid of re-establishing the Inquisition,
and going other wished-for lengths. They prefer Carlos,
because lie is a fanatic, firm in his principles, sworn to their
views, and more popular throughout the country—having,
among the lower orders, something of a national character,
which the elder brother has entirely lost, from a variety of
causes. Carlos has been well tutored in the principles of
the Apostolic Junta—although, perhaps, implicated in no
overt-act. His wife, formerly a Portuguese Infanta, and
we are told inheriting all the talents, besides the aptitude.
for public as well as private intrigue of the mother, is a
great supporter of the views of the Apostolic Junta, and
these must now have been in operation a considerable
for, we are confidently assured, when this Princess, toge-
ther with the other members of the Royal Family, went, so
much against their own will, from Madrid to Andalusia, to
escape the first advance of the French, she was overheard
to say to her husband Carlos—" Well, my dear, if under
Ferdinand we cannot have the satisfaction of swimming in
the blood of these Liberals, at least we will do it under
thee." Carlos has confided the education of his two sons
to Jesuits, all of whom are represented as being members
of the Apostolic Junta.
The object of the French in Spain is to organise a depot-
ism, firm and lasting, without any regard to parties ; that
of the Apostolic Junta is to establish the same through
the medium of a powerful theocracy, and to the entire ex-
clusion of the Liberals. The latter wish a king devoted
to their own interests, who will allow himself to he govern-
ed in all political matters by his Confessor, or such other
representative as they may be pleased to place over him ;
and who, above all, will agree to re-establish the Inquisi-
tion, which they conceive is a better safeguard of the
morals and allegiance of the people, than all the Armies of
Occupation the French can send among them. Ferdinand,
they proclaim, is the tool of foreigners. The Apostolic
Junta wish a Sovereign, at least as they profess, revered for
his nationality.
The immense influence possessed by a body, thus orga-
nised, over such a people as the Spaniards, may be easily
conceived, when it is recollected that, according to a census
made in 1803, the population of Spain and her insular de-
pendencies, was found to be 10,351,075 souls, and from the
same data, on an average, it resulted that for every 5,91 t
persons there were 100 Clergymen, Friars, Monks or Nuns,
Spain also contains eight archbishoprics, fifty-one bishop.
ricks, sixty-one cathedrals, and 114 collegiate churches, or
principal abbeys, havinga jurisdiction nearly episcopal. On
a moderate calculation, the Clergy, secular and regular,
possess one-third of the entire riches of Spain, and as re-
gards the labours of the Junta above described, we must
add a large portion of the wealth of the nobles sworn to
the same cause. Besides those above enumerated, there
are the Bishoprics of Leon and Oviedo, in addition to two
other Bishops, one in the convent of St. Mark, in Leon,
another in Uceles, both belonging to the Military Order of
Santiago, which together with the other three Orders of Al-
cantara, Calatrava, and Moutesa, have a yearly income of
t yßnolyi Islilonblsomfirlyialaso,
and certain
ieestrritbsitoiteileantenrosnisg
ande
membersupwards o
off
Admirals, mostly members of the Apostolic Junta. The
t thewen
immense influence and wealth of the Apostolic Junta in
Spain, and we may add in Portugal, may therefore easily
be imagined—of its extensive labours we have hitherto
only seen a partial result.

The family of Mr. Kerchevall, iriMount-strer t, IVhito-
chapel-road, had a very narrow escape from the effects of,
poison on Monday last. On Mrs. K. taking up the chop-
ping-board, on which to chop the suet for an apple pudding,
she observed it was not clean, and desired the washerwoman
to clean it; the woman held it under the tap, and then
wiped it with the same cloth she cleaned out the copper
with—the verdigris from which adhered to the chop.
ping-board, and from that to the suet with which the
pudding was made. The dreadful effects of the poison
were first felt by Mrs. K.'s servant, next by the washer-
woman, end last by Mrs. Kerchevall, by head-ache, pain
in the stomach, and sickness, and until Mrs. K. found the
was swelling and getting cramped, they did not think it
was poison. Mr. Collier, the surgeon, of Whitechapel-
road, was called in, and by means of the pump being ap-
plied with warm water and vinegar, the poison was re-
moved, and they are now doing well.
&nom—Early on Saturday morning a gardener named
Bush, of Turnharn-green, was found drowned in a pond
near his dwelling; lie had previously been subject to fits
of delirium, and was attended by a doctor. It is supposed
that in a paroxysm of insanity he found his way to the
pond, having escaped by his bed-room window, which was
heard to open before any of the family were up. On it
being discovered that he was missing, a search was com-
menced, and the poor fellow wale found in the pond in a
state of nudity.

':Lastly, the faithful Estates will perceive, from the propositiort
which I herewith present them, that my paternal views are solely,
directed to the good of the State, and to the interest of all the inhtvie
bitants of my kingdom of Hungary, and 1 assure you of my Inapt.
vial and Royal favour and affection,"
This speech made an extraordinary hrprenion on the assembly.'
When his Majesty pronounced the words—" Pogreditur nerriar
safes nostra, et n:ortalitun anni in manibus Domini aunt," her '4a.,
jesty the Empress and the Archduchess Sophia were moved tot
teats. The whole assembly, for a moment, was in extraordinary:
agitatiari,and when las MaSesty continued. broke out into mire tate-'
"Lang, very long, may God preserve him." The Emperor, itsi..re
tears in his eyes, concluded his speech, and withdrew. strong!ir
effected, amidst the acclamations of his faithful Hungarians. Thw
Empires and all the Princes and Princesses wore:the national ens.
thine, and this, with the splendid dresses of the Magnates ant
Nobles, of whom about 800 were present, made a great imprersiou.„
It recalled the scene, when the Hungarians. in similar. bat meter
dangerous, circumstances, exclaimed, " Miriamur pro Rege nevtra
31aria Therein." The Royal propositions which his Majesty de.
livered sealed to the Chancellor Prince Coharv, were afterws.rtig
read in a public sitting, first, in the Chamber of the Magee:es.:
then In that of the Deputies, and received !with great erthusiastr.
The Palatine made a speech on the occasion. The Ernprvis
and the Archduchesses appeared again in the gallery, in the Halt
of the Magnates, and were again welcomed a ith tranaper:s.