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(From the l'hiladdidli.o Gazdtc of Dee. 7.1
PERU.

Its the arrival at New of the brig Merope, Cap-
'l ii kiddy, which left (*bortllos on the 48th of August,
folleiring inrormation has been rec,ived
4 j..tler3l 111,ttil had sill posscs•ion of the cAstier of ('sll3o. Sir
31ar.ay Maxwell and Coroaits Brown, of the British frigates
Ihighton and Tartar, w-it from I Mifflin% to Callao at the solid.
trion, it was said, of the l'erovian Boyerninent, to offer to the
spirish Governor a wife escor: an lipoid of, and passage to Europe
the Tartar M00t... rir:th all hi. suite, and a guarantee that the
carrison should Wallow-a the slate term{ as teem stipulated in the
tspitulation Boors, Camerae. at Ayacucho.
General Wald, however, refused aay mediation, and intimated
ta the British Cotronar det• that it was his intention to hold out as
long as he had a shot to fire. There was every appearance of
plenty in the Castle, even to fresh stock and vegetables. A eon-
stanttire wits kept up be: ween Ute ( saw le and the entrenchments of
the Prriots.
The frigate I ini.rd States, Commodore Bull, was lying in Clio.
!Akio, oticersand crew all will. The I .olphin, Captain Percival,
bsd bean despatched to the Itilt.lrave Islands to look after the mu-
tineers of the ship Globe. The Pc.teoc% was daily expected at Cho.
rillos Room wit.dwaid.
Captain Jones aid I,;cutenrint Ramsi, Lad arrived at Lima from
the United States by way of Nancoa, the former to take corn.
mend of the Peacock. in plocc of CAptAill Keynom and Lieute-
nent Ramsay to jom her as First Ikutcnant. Tne markets at
lima were dull for all kinds of .loterican produce exceprilig flour,
which had within thre.: weeks tit.:n seven or eight dollars a barrel.
There was no y, however. of the article, and the prices
were got up altogether feint the management of speculators.
'rot Metope brings despittlics from Commodore lien to (dorm-

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(Frain the EtGile tla:ct: Titesday,
Sr. PET 1:1ISBUSIGH, Dtc. U.

In lb* General Assembly, for the II parti»ents of St. Peters-
burgh, of the Directing Senate. Prince Dmitrai I wahowitsth Lo-
b*9l'W llostoasivji. Minister of mid General of Inlantry,
has communicated the mournful new., that it has been the will of
.11iniglity that his Majesty the Emperor Alexander should ter.
-.:.nate his mintol eveer ott the I.t of December, at Taganrog,
anti' a painful malady. The Directing Senate having taken in
wenetal Assembly tile oath of fidelity to the legitimate heir of the
throne, his Imperial 31niesiy our Sovereign the Emperor Constan-
wie has ordered-1. To make known everywhere this event, by
printed Ukases. 2. To send to till the antlioritirt, military and
civil, the farm of the oath which they are to take, as lattlitul sub-
,..2.:cts of his Imperial 31niesty, and to regaire of them, by t'kases,
that iamied.ately .titer the communications which they will receive,
titer cause the oath to be administered to all the faithful mule sub-
Jeciv of his 31 ije.ty, whatever their rank and estate, with the
eseeption of the peasant. of the Crown, and of the Seignorial
Domains, a. also the Serfs, anti to send to the Senate the roan
of tins taki•ig of the mall, with the signatures of the indivi-
duals appended hy whom it has been taken. But. in order that
ithe Direciing -Senate nu iis part may duly make the arrangemehts
which depend 11ie there SIII.II be made to it the coninitmica-
lions necessary for this that a sufficient number of copies
of the ftwin of the oath may be sent with an accompanying an-
nourrement, and similar copies, to the deparments of Sloscow,
sod to the General Assembly of the Directing Senate of that city.
:t. The Ukases will be sent for this purpose. with the forms, by
canrizrit express I mut the Senate. 4. l'here shad be made to his
Majesty the Eiurcror a report on this resolution of the Directing
TiSenile. as has tr, ficttaiteii
. . . . .

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Though the Empress 3laria in toot nbsolutely ill. nevertheless
the deep alit eti.oi tato which she has been plunged caused her a
total foss of sleep in th.: night of the 11:11, and she found herself
all the I,lMwing day. iir r .Wijesty has, however, taken the
:".,..ranitnt, sleek this improved her health and spirits.
A few hours otter tie ticotit of her husband, this Princess
wrote to the Empress Mother a letter breadiing the deepest
N./TT,111%. This letter 1:::s been published. Ws find in it the fol-
I ,st:lg passage:-
- (lir Angel has rendered to-day his divine soul to his Creator.
n:e there remaths nuthiog on earth. Before I rejoin him, I
it-le but one duty to fulfil, which is to conduct him to the tomb of
he, ancestors.''

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Atter receiiing the news from Taganrog of the ith, the Empress
bore, with much fortitude, the severe of fiction which
ii,essioneil by si I iss so lameicable fur her, and se mournful
: !iie elipire, and her Al ajoyi y seemed tolerably veil. She has
ari:tea lintelf to the Emitters !facia.

Pants. JAW. 2.
We announced yetder,lav t:tt the latest news from St. Peters-
came down to Me 1;:th tilt. ; that the (hand Duke slichael
id arrived in that capital ; that no change had been made in the
ontstom at: affairs. tool that the Emperor Coustantine had been
toclaimed at Moscow as well as at Sr. Peteraburgh.
It' we m.ry believe what was reported in the saloon of St. Peters-
liv.rgh, the renunciation of ihe Emperor Constantine in favour of
I.ts brother the Israinl Duke Nicholas was not conditional, as some
journals h tee announced. How could it be beliesed that Princes,
who gave such an example of self-denial, would consent to the dis-
revotberment of the empire?
What becomes, then, if there is any foundation for these reports.
of all the reasonings of the iliploni-tists of the journals on the
rt.establishotent of t:te kingdom of Poland, and of the coma-
of that event to Europe ?
We have news resperting the health of die Empress Elizabeth-
i• far front being satistactory.
I'h; latest I'lokt:rice Irma Lisbon announces the )(mg to have
titurntd on the of December, from Malta, to that capital, in
u v. ry satisractory state of health ; and that the people, hastening
t t Ms presence, had mantreseed the greatest delight at seeing their
Monarch again.
K ay.! on the same day an audience, which lasted
erten till clews at eight.
The (-sit oral G.,-tk states, on the authority of letters, for the
a-thentizity of which it flees not pledge itself. that at Taganrog
ttn re we., a want of all the medicines nece.sary for the treatment of
the malady which attacked the Emperor Alexander, and that, be-
s..h.s. he had returned to that place much discontented with the
seat,• of the Colonies of the Crimea, and that his illness was in
me IteaAllirt! a disease ,d the mind.
We can contradict the latter part of this intelligence. The Em-
peror Alexander Inol, on the contrary. been much gratified with
every tiling that had occurmd in the Loom of his journey.
lFrom the Justrool des Debts of Monday.l
VIENNA. DEC. M.
The fell,wing are dot Ms of the last days of the Etitperur Alex.
atnter. We have received them in various private letters front St.
Frtershurgh, of the highest authority t—
itn the loth November the Emperor quitted the poet of Sebmto-
vll.l.llol he kid minutely visited. as well as every thing connected
wilt. the Peet in the Black Sea. On his way to Baclitchisersi he
foot d hinisch •heditly affected with a pain in his bead, which he
rttributed to limit;; caught cold. On his return he, nevertheless,
made a party on horseback to travel along the shore of the sea of
Artif. On his arrival at Taganrog he wrote to the Empress Mother
If at he was indisposed, but that he had nothing to fear from his
111 'elm, and wvuld take care of biome:if.
However, the tresipelits which the Emperor had formerly in his
kg was closed, and the fever all at once assumed a dangerous cha-
mt.. The Emperor then exclaimed, •• I shall share the fate of
sty sister, who died of an erysipelas driven in." But the Doctors
perceived that this symptom was bat subordinate, and that the
incase of the Emperor was is gastric bilious fever. of the same cha-
.ow as that which often ravages those countries, and which in
Jr; canard the loss of the greater portion of the Russion army un-
cr lield•3lanshal Monnich
The Emperor lost his reason on the Iron. but the sinapismes,
cite., and other drastic oilcans used, produced a marked improve-
.tent on the 21;th and 29th. This change was unfortunately of
ort duration.
The Empress Elizabeth did not quit fur a moment the pillow of
er sogust hetbarld.
Three V.UfiCtl. (filJ :lagers) were sent from Taganreg the mo-
ment the Emperor was dead ; one to St. Peterwburgh, one to War-
w, to die Grand Duke Constantine, and the third to Carl.ruhe, to
the mother of the Empress Elizabeth.

FnAwicronr. DEc. 29.

The news of the abdication of the Emperor Constantine the Fifa,
in conformity with a secret convention which was communicated to
she Court of Mutants 011 the marriage of the Grand Duke Nicholas,
i. generally reporctl.
The Vienna Cuzrtte of the TM December state', that subsequent
to the official news from St. Petersburgh, there appeared a procla-
mation front his Majesty the Emperor Constantine the First, as
E•npemr of Russia. As this news is dated the 9th. it is physically
i-npussible that the proclamation can have emanated from the Em.
pe?ur himself, but the Grand Duke Nicholas may have been able
to publish one In the name of that Monarch.

Tiff Ex-KING or Swrnest.--The following curious
statement appears in Guliarnanis Messenger:—" Extract
of a private letter of the 35th inst. from Mayence :—The
public attention is at this moment powerfully excited by
the disappearance of Colonel Gustafeen (Ex-King of Swe-
den), whom it was customary to see almost daily within
our walls. Ilk hotel is situated at Cassel, a parish com-
prehended within the fortifications of Mayence. His at-
tendants assert that he went to his son, who resides at
Carlsruhe with his mother, and that from thence they both
(parted for Russia. %Veil informed persons say that Ous-
uus was very intimate with Trine... Constantine, and kept
p a regular correspondence with him."
Oa Tuesday night Lieutenant Laing, of his Majesty's
oth regiment, arrived at the Foreign Office, Downing-
t•eet, bearing despatches for Mr. Secretary Canning,
t In Mr. Ward, at Mexico, to the 14th of October,.
nese despatches were forwarded to the British Consulate
t Now York, on the 7th ult. by his Majesty's sloop of
Pyladcs, Captain Hill, which left Vera Cruz on the
'4l of October, at which time the Castle of San Juan de
• Hos still held out.
11. Lchuby, one of the agents of Gregor M'Gregor (who
at this moment in prison at La Force), was arrested a
t'ir days ago at Btussels.—Gteignara'r Messever.