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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

GERMAN PAPERS.

PROM TIM MAIIIIE,_3I:ILY 4.

It is affirmed that the works carrying on for
strengthening the Prussian frontiers on the Rhine,
have been suddenly and unexpectedly suspended,
and above 12,000 workmen been discharged on
Monday. This news has been sent to several
Courts by expresses from Frankfort.
VIENNA, JULY 2.

The indisposition of her Imperial- Highness the
Archduchess Caroline, on her journey in Italy, was
not or much importance. and is now quite over.
That she now comes to Vienna. is not on account
of illness, but because it ,was cesolved at the be-
-333 I 3 ig of the journey that she should tint accom-
pany the Court to Milan, but return to Vienna by
the. shortest way. •• Part of the attendants who
were left here are already gone to meet her.—
Nuremberg Correspondent, My 7.)
MAUCH, JULY 2.
, The proposal of the Chamber of Deputies to in-
troduce into the administration or Justice the pub-
licity of the judicial proceedings, has been adopted
by the Chamber of the Counsellors of the king-
dom.

NUREMBERG, JULY 5.

On the 3(1 in the evening his Royal Hignesss
the Crown Prince of Prussia arrived here, ler
the name of Count It heazollern, and having
viewed the curiosities of the city. set out yesterday
noon for Wartzburg.
BERLIN, JUNE 26.

The masters of the 200 vessels who had been
waiting for several weeks at the Zerpen Sluice for
higher water to continue their voyage, have sod-
denly, like Alexander. cut the Gordian knot—that
is to say, 103 masters arid sailors took pickaxes
and spades, left their barges in the night, and pro-
ceeded to dam a dyke of the great lake hard by.—
They all set to work, and before morning dawned
the dam was cot through ; but the miller, who had
previously offered to do this himself for an indem-
nity of 1,000 dollars, is at once stopped in his bu-
siness, having no water to turn his mill. Since
that time, the great barges which were stationary
there have passed through the channel. 40 at a
time, and have partly arrived here. We need
scarcely add, that this arbitrary act of the ships'
masters will lead to a law-snit. and it is easy to
fgresee'wtio will lose it.—( Nuremberg Correspolt-
cEit, J«ly li.)
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STUTGAIRD, JULY 5.
It is not difficult to foresee the physiognomy of the
future Assembly of the States of Wirtemberg,
from the elections that have already been made. A
distinction must be made between the old and the
new provinces of the kingdom. In the old pro-
vinces the choice of the people falls chiefly on those
deputies who, during the lust Diet, were of the
Opposition party, the others have been almost all
chosen among the zealous patriots, who have de-
clared rat. the same system. Our city has given the
example, by rejecting its late representative, who
is reproached with not having defended the rights of
the people. and by choosing the leader of the Op-
position in the last Diet, Vice-President Weisharr.
la hose excellent qualities, talents, and patriotism,
areJecognised by all parties.
The hailliages have voted in the same spirit as
tlie capital. They have rejected with a kind of
affectation the candidates who distinguished them-
selves in the late Dirt by their connexions with the
blissistry, or who are supposed to have some rela-
tions with persons in authority. In the ancient
provinces they will absolutely have none but' inch.-
!student members. In seems that the Ministry are
riot isstisfled with the result of these electionr, same
of which in particular appear to give them great
offence. It is remarked that none of the agents of
the inediatised Princes and Courts have yet been
elected for the nest Diet, though there were severel
ir the last. ,
One of the officers employed on the patrimonial
estates of Count Steruberg at Weisman. having ob-
tained snany votes in the Electoral Assembly at
the deputation of the Commune at
Itaivenshurg protested, on the ground is that the
• bailliege of Riavviisburg ought to have a represents.
tlve, and that Court Sternberg ought not to have
one, he being himself by right a Member of the
Diet.".

FRANKFORT, JUNE 30.
In the 23d sitting of the Diet, the Minister of
the Grand Duchy of Hesse is stated to have deli-
vered a declaration relative to the last resolution of
We Diet, respecting the execution of the 13th
Article of the Act of Confederation. The Govern-
ment of the Grand Duchy complains that the
Committee has mentioned it among those who have
not yet fuifilled that Article. Hesse, it' says, has
given to the mediatised Princes and Nobles, ever
• since 1809, all the rights which the Act of Confe-
deration subsequently required for them. The
wishes which they had since expressed, were under
discussion between thew and the Commissioners of
the Government. •

AUGSBURG. JULY 4.

A tine comet, with a very long tail, was seen
here last night. M. Stuck had discovered it on the
Roth of Juno, but it had been since concealed by
the cloudy weather. The nucleus was very bright,
the length of the tail 7 deg. 48 min. and its
breadth shoves deg. at forty-two minutes past eleven
the rail was in a verticle direction upwards towards
the Polar Star. The comet did not set, but up-
priiiirlied the horizon within 4 deg. in• passing
tarutigh the northern meridian. From a quarter past
Eito half past two o'clock the brilliancy of the
ens, surd the size of the tail visibly increased ;
. withstanding the twilight, it was observed at
three in tile • sorning.—(Allgessehee Zeitiutg,
.Ivly 5.)

HAMLIURGH AND DUTCH MAILS.

PRTEILIBURGH, 01116 19.
The numerous bankruptcies which have lately
happened in Riga, London. &c. hive had but
very little kneuence on our exiliange. The im-
ports declaim. ..in price. becasse their quantity is so
large. Tice course of exchange is low. Of the
colonists •fraaa Wirtemberg. who emigrated to the
southern provinces of the empire tu 1817, about
500 fautiltes have been settled at their own desire in
c.eorgio., • WARSAW. JUNN 518.
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THE. REIM Ski PR? SS.

LON DON,
SATURDAY. JULY 17, 1819.

There is something either very suspicious or very
insulting in the anxious solicitude expressed by the
Ministerial Papers, that in the trial of Sir CHARLES
WOLSELEY and JOSEPH HaanisoN, the Jury to
which their case may be referred will do its duty to
the KING and country. Do they apprehend that
proceedings by law against any of those who may
have distinguished themselves by opposition to the
measures of the present Ministers, rest upon a
footing so insecure that success cannot be antici-
pated—or do they mean to insinuate that the moral
character of this country it so degraded, that a
Juror's oath is no longer to be regarded with confi-
dence, as affording protection to the lives, fortunes,
and characters of the people ? They cannot le
friends to our social system who would endeavour to
fling discredit upon the principle that gives it con.
sisteucy. When the Ministerial Papers, however,'
speak of Juries " doing their duty," they mu.t
not be understood in the ordinary acceptation of
these words to mean that the Juries should honestly
and justly determine the merits of the case, and
decide between party and party without favour or
affection. In the vocabulary of these independent
friends to the purity of justice, the " duty"
of • Jury implies • perfect confidence in the
statement of an ATTORNEY-GENERAL, sod
in the evidence given by the witnesses ad.
doted for the Crown, and that they should
find on their oaths that words are sedition., and
delivered with the worst intent, provided it be so
set forth with due legal form in an indictment.
The history of the few last years has, however,
proved that Juries may be found to entertain truer
and more exalted notions respecting their duties,
and possibly the 'Slimly remembrance of some
events that evinced this independent spirit on the
part of the people, might hart suggested those
anxious hopes that have been so feeliugly expressed
in the present instance by the Ministerial writer..
•It would sus doubt be much more satisfactory. if
• Ministers were not tompelled to undergo thicorderl.
but were perlaitsidlo arrest, and lead -with trims,

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every individual whose conduct might mart a spirit
too free, or who may render himself displeasing to
those in authority.
Paris-Papers of Tuesday have arrived, from which
we have made the following extracts:—

PARK/, JULY 13.

Yesterday the King took an siring in the little
park of St. Cloud, from eight o'clock in the morn-
ing until ten. His Majesty continues to enjoy the
best Wealth.

'The operations relative to the drawing of recruits
of the class of 1818, were terminated in the depart-
ment of the Upper Garonne an the 2d of this month.
They have every where been performed with as
much order as tranquillity.
A letter from Orbec, in the department of Cal-
vados. says—'• On the tith of this month, the town
and valley of Orbec were made the victims of a
storm, which occasioned the greatest disasters. A
continued rain at the cominericement caused the
river to overflow its banks; a frightful torrent soon
overturned 300 feet of a wall, tore up the street,
which had been newly paved, undermined the foun-
dations of an inn, and overthrew an adjacent house.
The river then directed its course to the valley,
where it destroyed every hope of harvest. A n,il-
lion and a half of kilogrammes of corn have been
overwhelmed. The loss to the farmers is estimated
at nearly 500,000 francs; that of the inhabitants
of the town is also considerable."

Th. Princess Bernard of Saxe Weimar was deli-
remit of a Princess on the 24th of last month.

The. Chamber of Peers assembled yesterday. A
Special Committee was appointed to make a report
on the Budget of the Revenue fur 1819. The
Chamber beard the project of law relative to the
importation of corn, the law relative to the ex-
change of certain properly of the Crown for cer-
tain property belonging to the Duke of Orleans,
and also the law relative to exchanges of pro-
perty between the Crown and private persons.—
These projects were ordered to be printed, and
transmitted to the bureaux.

The Duchess of Berry is rapidly approaching to
chat state which, it is hoped, will rown the wishes
of the House of Bourbon.

The Five per Cents. ere 10 r. 85 c. ; Bank
Stock. 1,445 f.

Flamburgh and Dutch Mails have arrival, with
Papers to the 14th instant. Several parts of the
Continent have been iecently visited by dreadful
storms : in some instances they have beet► attended
with loss of lives.

Yesterday was settling day at the Stock Ex-
change, but we have not heard that there were any
defaulters to any considerable amount.

The Duke and Deichers of CLARENCE left Mei-
ningen on the 15th ult., and are now established at
the baths of Liebenstein„ where it is said her Royal
Highness will remain to enjoy the tepid bath for a
mouth or two. The milieral waters of Liebenstein
are particularly recommended in nervous and hypo-
chondriac complaints, and generally in all cases of
debility.
Letters from Amsterdam mention • report pre-
valent there of the plague having broken out at
Mogadore.
Letters from Cape Henry (St. Domingo). dated
May IS, notice the arrival there of Sir HOME POP-
HAM, with the Inhigenia frigate and tbe Bearer
brig. The Admiral Was received by hjoir sable Ma-
jesty, CHRISTOPHE. with every mark 'of ceremony
and respect. Preparations were making for n series
of entertainments to be given to Sir HOllll POPH A m
mod his officers, and nearly all other business was
suspended.
The merchants of the City, connected with the
Spanish trade, hate been thrown into great alarm.
it is stated that an order had been received from
Madrid it few weeks ago, for immediate returns of
all British mnnufactured cotton goods in the differ-
ent towns of Spain (which had been allowed for sale
since the prohibition, on the English merchants
paying • large sum of money to the Spanish Govern.
eviern). On these rettiroa reaching the capital, au
official decree was published, compelling the English
merchants to pay immediately the whole amount of
the valued stock in haat is cash to the officers of
Government, and • further fine of 40 per cent. on
that amount; intimating that otherwise their pro-
perty of every description would he confiscated.

The number of informations filed in the Court of
Exchequer for the recovery of penalties under the
Customs end Excise Laws, from Ist January, kBlB,
to Ist January. 1819, was 761, as appears from the
retu►n made to the order of the House of Commons
on this subject.

Major KELLY, who lately died in Paris of .1 wound
received in a duel, wort the brother of Mr. Thais EL
KELLY, the celebrated composer.
The hop plantations in Kent bre considered in an
ituprnvist:; state, as the vermin has rather decreosed,
and the blues look better. The duty is got up to
I iO,OOO/..
Denbigh. in North Wales, is this year to have its
Eisteddlord. or Birdie Congress. The subject of
the prize to be contended for by Bards, in the an-
cient language, is Charily.
On Tuesday evening Mr. GUY, silversmith, in
King-street, Holborn, left his shop about nine
o'clock, without any person in it, and before his re-
turn, at eleven. his shop bad been broken mien, and
robbed of plate, watches. &c. to the amount of
above 5001. He learned from a tradesman opposite.
that one of. his family had, a few minutes before
eleven, wen two men issue from his house with
bundles; and inspecting they had been robbing
the pimp, informed a watchman, but the trusty
gnardian of the night refused to examine the pre-
mises, •or pursue the robber, lieciinse it was oft his
beat. The: lock of the door was forced, and a chain
sibich fastened it was cut asunder.

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POETRY.

THE SAI.E OF LOVES-A BALLAD.
BY THOMAS MOORS, ESQ.

dream'd that in the Paphian groves,
My nets by moonlight laying,
/ caught a flight of wanton Loves,
Among the rose-burls playing ;
Some just bad left their sity'ry shells
While some were full in feather;
So pretty a lot or Lovps to sell,
Were never yet strung together.
Come buy my !Aver,
Come boy my Loves-as
Ye Dames and rose-lipp'd 31isses
They're new and bright,
The cost is light,
For the coin of this Isle is kisses.

First Clods came, with looks sedate,
The coin 01/ her lips w.is ready;
" I buy," good, she, " my love by weight,
Fall grown, if you pleit4r, and steady."
" I.et mine he light," said Fanny, " pray,
Such lasting toys undo one;
A light little Love that will last a day,
Tu•morrow I'll sport a new one."
Come bay my Loves,
Come buy my Loves—
Ye Dames, and robie-bpp`il Misses!
There's some will keep,
Some light and cheap,
At from ten to meaty kisses.

The learned Prue took a pert young thing.
To divert her virgin Mow with;
And ;dock sometimes a quoin from his wing,
To indite her hillet-dour with.
Poor Clue would give fora well-fleilfd pair
Her only eye, if you'd ask it ;
And Tainths brgg'd, old toothless fair,
Fur the youngest Love in the basket !
Come buy my Loves,
Come buy my limes—
Ye Dames, and rose-lipp'd Misses!
There's some will keep,
Some light and cheap,
Al from ter to twenty kisses.

but one was left, when Swaim emote,
One worth them all together;
At sight of her dear looks of shame,
He sntiFil and prnsed his feather.
She wiali'd the boy—liras more than whim
Her looks, her sighs, betrWd it ;
But kisses were not enough for him,
I aided • heart sad—she paid it'
Good bye, my Loves,
(3.4/4 bye, my Loves—
'Twos,ld make ynn smile to're seen its;
First trade fur this
Sweet Child of Bliss,
And then nurse the buy between ns!