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advanced towards the %pow ; a brisk action ensiled between
Men and apavtar Use garrison of the forts. About noon, no-
sorsa was obliged to fall back upon the (contain called DeA
Nap, between the town and the forts : he ntaintained himself
in that poaiti4n till three o'clock, but was afterwards cow
pelted to retu►n isto the fort. During the action, the guns
of the fort were beard, and several houses in the tools were

damaged. Mina did not quit Alas daring the engagement; be
saw the whole from a height above that place.
It is said that General Roten is blocked with 1,500 men at

Berge, by a considerable number of Royalists and some of the
inhabitants of the environs. It is added that Mina has sent
a detachment of 1,100 men from his army to that place.-16id.
PERPIGNAN, DEC/IMRE/IL 11.
DIXTRICT OF • POIVATO terns.]
Al I stated in one of my last letters, Miss's troops were
drive, to oar Frostier, but, during the night, instead of en-
tenng France, he crossed a column of the Constitutionalists,
and threw himbolf in the direction of Olut. General Milan,
was at Figueroa the day before yesterday. Malleville is at
Cart with some officers of his stet. Tim troops of the Army
ofthe Faith, who have taken refuge in Franco, remain can-
toned in the villages ; a part only have moved in the direc-
tion of Bt. Laurent de Cerda.

We have received intelligence that Oeseral Torrijos has
driven the army of O'Donnel from Lombiero, and occupied
That tows by force, which was tko only rallying point the
Army of the Faith possessed in these moustains. It's added,
Oat as sees as O'Donnel perceived the dispersion of the
enemy, he divided his troops into guertllas. Torrijos bat pro-
issonsli the amnesty until the soft last. We know not whethe►
tiara bee been sit engagement since the loth; but it it cer-
-11001110 tie step which O'Donnel has taken will throw great
alikeUes in the way of the Conetitatiossalists in restoring
trannsillity in Navarre.--Jeurisel de Toulouse.

AUGSIWIRG, DECEMBiIft 16. 1
It is affirmed tbit the Chris Gan Powers will not do any
Using for the hoarsest Greeks; bat this resolution (lamen-
table as it would be) does sot put an end to the immediate.
l 'differences between Turkey and Russia, whose objects a[
*j
Moldavia, aid the navigation of the Bosphorus,
,together with the forced departure of M. Btrogonoff, me-
naced by a fanatic people.
It appears certain that M. de Lebzeltern will repair to,
Constantinople, charged with a new mediation betwess Me'
Porte and (be Calitoct of Bt. tetersburgb.
The reception of the Austrian Interouncio, whiob made as
much noise, is net without precedent. The most remarkabl
circumstance was the Ambassador's speaking in Turkish ; if
lea mark ofrospect, and perhaps the Porte will henceforward
fa that Ambassador should follow this example.

he Gazette Univereette, •bicb seems to suppose that Rus-
ik is Olt inclined to take 'silence at the haughty demands of
tbe-Poste, gives the following letter from Odessa:—

" 01111411 A. novnainta se.
"The fall of Hatt Effendi and his friends, altbough not
accomplished by political insinuations, but by a popular
commotion, will cause much joy at Verona. It is affirnied
that our Emperor has declared that he would send a new
Ambassador to Constantinople as soon as one only of the
Turkish Ministers who were present at the negociations of
M. Strogonoff was deposed. This dismission bas taken
place."

The same Journal says, that the catastrophe of the
Captain Pacha is confirmed. The two Captains of the
fire-ships which blew up the Turkish Admiral, arc named
Pipinis and Wniauly. Of all the Turkish Captains, ten
only saved their lives; they were nearly all assembled
roiled the Captain Pacha. C.hourschid-Pacha has really
attempted a fresh invasion of Livadia, and been re-
pulsed. The Greeks have received considerable reinforce-;
ments in that province, being convinced, and with reason,
that it is there the fate of the Morea must be decided; parti-
cularly, as Omer Friona has express orders to penetrate as
far as Lepanto, to manoeuvre from thence. upon the rear of

the Greeks, who are in northern Livadia, and thus to facili-
tate the' esterprisea of Chourscbid Pechi.
According to the latest intelligence from Turkey, the

Asiatics had entered Conslantiaople, but the Janissaries bad
driven them back with toes. There was an open clrll war
in consequence, brtweeq the Ap or lbe Janissaries sod Ibra-
him Pacha, Commandant of the Asiatics. The result of this
conflict will perbapa decide the fate of the Porte.

The outrnge upon the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
is, in its character and circumstances, so public and.
so flagitious, that it has necessarily excited universal
indignation : but it is, besides, $9 connected witltThe
state of parties in Ireland, and.witir the policy of the,
system of legislation hitherto ac—teclupon in that coun-
try, that it strongly draws the public attention:; to the
abstract prejudices and intolerant pleas which have so
long excluded four-Efths, of the people .of Ireland
from the civil rights which reason, justice, and ex-
pedience agree in awarding. The assassination of the
Viceroy was attempted beeause.he had prohibited
the particular observation of an anniversary. .That,
anniversary celebrates the. triumph of the people over
prerogative, of constitutional freedom over arbitrary
power, of Protestant liberty of conscience over Popish
pretensions to dictation and.infallibility. But where is
the scene of this triumph? No man who is not so
much attached to the dominion of the sword as to hold.
reflection and humanity in utter abhorrence, can say.
that Glencoe .ought .to 'be the scene. It would be
indeed a cruel insult to. every thing affeetionate,,
kindly, generous, iasthe nature of man, to compel,
the.gonised wives, children,` friends, and servants,
to deck with triumphal ornaments the blood-stained.
murderer of their husbands, parents, benefac-
tors, and masters. But Ireland is but an enlarged.
and populous Glencoe: The triumph of King
WILLIAM was there the triumph of the sword,
of the stringer Divine- rule of " doing unto
others as we would have others .do unto us" suggests
here the soundest political argument. The relative
_situations of the two islands may be conceived to have
been changed, and Catholic Ireland may be supposed
to have forced her Catholic -King upon Protestant
Great Britain. Ought,the anniversary of the triumph
to be celebrated in London and in Edinburgh ? The
merciless triumphs of Roman conquerors were never
so inhumanly and savagely conducted. Their berba-.
roes and cruel ipirit has often been justly branded by,
Christian writers, but none of them was ever cele-

brated in the country whose conquest was the subject
of triumph. ,Sotti►h CLAUDIUS ne►er dreamed ofl
leading CsaicTscus in chains through the streets
of London.

•
, But" reland is a conquered country, and the Revo-1
lution of 1688, justly styled glorious in England, was,
to Ireland the conquest of an invader, and the corn-
menceMent of a system of despotic misgovernment.
That conquest was. perhaps necessary, just, and unac-
companied with wanton cruelty ; bat it was a conquest,
and was therefore odioto to the people of Ireland.
Unhappily, too, that conquest was effected in the age
of persecutions. The slightest shade of difference in
religious belief cotistitutedlhen the distinction between
the heirs of salvation and the doomed to eternal per-

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dition. it is the inianost bigotry which oss pretend'
that pensecutios belonged not as much to the spirit
and the ractice of Protestantism in that age, as to
the spirit or practice of Popery. The Protestant con-
querors forced their religious establishment upon

Ireland, and compelled the conquered.
Catholics to supply enormous revenues to the Pro-
testant clergy. 4 Here is an act of power, if not of
persecution, with which the Roman Catholic religion
is not chargeable in all the range of its imperial and
long-continued domination. Perhaps the palpable
and unpardonable injustice of this act of oppression
is at the bottom of the whole system of Itijustice which
has rendered Ireland what it is. At least it must be
conceded that the memory of King Wretimr is
divested of all glory in the sober view and in the
national imagination of an Irishman.
It will not be understood that we allude to histori-
cal grievances as arguments for violently subverting
BAYONNE, DECEMBER 11. the

order of things in Ireland. Far from it. We

would proceed as cautiously and as moderately in
effecting political changes in that country as we would
even in England. But we allude to those facts in the
former history of the sister island, in order to shew
that justice, humanity, and enlightened religion press
strongly for every possible relaxation in favour of a
conquered and oppreused people. Be the conquest
maintained—be the hotestunt Establishment main-
taioed—be the Union maintained ; but in the sacred
name of humanity let those aggressive impositions
be divested of every superfluous offence. Let not
" civil disabilities" be engraved for ever on the
collars of Irish serfs—let not the vexatious and cruel
mode of levyiug tithes perpetuate religious rancour,
—let not the restricted number of proprietors eligible
to a seat in the Legislature aggravate the evils
inseparable from the Union.

All reflecting and liberal men bare long recom-
mended, not the concession of privileges, but the re-
moval of wrongs, by the Government of this country.
Repeatedly has the recommendation received the sanc-
tion of the Commons House of Parliament. It is grievous.
to think that men, whose motives and general character
it is impossible not to respect, should still resist what
is so Christian in a religious, and so safe in a politi-
cal view; it is more grievous mill to find those men
in the Cabinet of our KING ; it is most grievous ot
ell to find them rest their immoveable opposition on
antiquated dogmas and fanciful inferences. Men;
'often take a pride in peculiar distinctions and dingle
AI singularity of opinion or habit as other men to
their armorial bearings or family name ; but surely it.
it not to be imagined *at the Earls of Lammas&
and ELDON, and the Right Honourable Mr. Pinyi
can upon such fantastical grounds persist in dividisi
the Irish nation into two hostile factions, of which tbsi
more numerous is to be fettered and galled by exchs-1
lion and insult. Yet it is indeed difficult to discover,
a more solid reason for their conduct. They are Rot,
to imagine that the public are satisfied by plausible:
.refinements in parliamentary speeches, or by grave.
protestations of scruples end apprehensions. Let the
Earl of ELDON confer privately upon the subject with
Mr. PLuzaKyr7 ; the Earl of LIVERPOOL with the
Earl of H.ARROWIIT; and Mr. PEEL with Mr. CAN.
swro—omd we shall hear no More of their refinements
and scruples.
'The appointment of the Marquis •WELLEstssflp
he, Lord Lieutenant, was the first decisive step of the
pessent reign towards• redressing acknowledged
oirtongs, in Ireland. 'TO some of his late measures
*at distinguished Nobleman justified the expecte-
eions of those who knew him best. For this reason he
has been insulted and threatened with assassination
by furioes Protestants. The tide of feeling has con-
sequently' set irr strongly in favour of liberal opinion
'and fair legislation- towards the Catholics, and
we trust, sweep away •in its generous flow all the
petty bulwarks. of bigotry. The Lord Lieutenant's,
reply to the Address of the Corporation is dignified
and just, indicative at once of his proud conscious-
ness of having, acted right, and of his well-considered
contempt of base men who seek distinction by in-
tolerance.
•

Yesterday the Doke of YORK held a levee at his
Office in the Korso Guards, which was attended by
General Sir WILLIAM LUMIALT, Major General Fut.:.
LEK, Lieutenant General S: Maims, arigadierGe
o.ral Ws cs.sa.,..Major General. AINSLIE. Colonel
AVALosa, Colonel PENN, sad a number of others.

We sincerely regret to peke a scene of disgraceful
outrage which occurred in this city this morning
(tuesday, 17th inst.) ' We have only just come to a
owlodge of the proceedings, and can therefore only
curitirly -refer 'to 'them; indeed, in any case, we
'would feel unwilling to dwell fully upon them, as it
appears to us that the transaction in tolo requires
both inquiry and explanation. The remains of a re-
snectable resident, Mrs. Lax, of Scotch-street, were
removed from her house
.for interment, but before
they esitild :he tie4Sciettoti4o-Ahe hearse prepared for
.their conveyance, a dispute arose respecting them.—
One party stating her to be a member of the Roman
Catholic communion, insisted on their removel to the
chapel, where the Clergymen of that persuasion
were assembled for the purpose of having a mass cele-
brated previous to interment ; which another party,
alleging that she lived mind died a member of the Pres-
byterian church, insisted that no such ceremony
should take place. The scene of riot and confusion
•as most discreditable, and blows were freely dealt
by both parties. The result of the transaction was,
that the corpse was committed to the grave in spite of
the exertions of the 'Roman Catholics implicated in
the affray, who, we understand, are determined on
taking it up again. Some hints were thrown out, but
whence -they originated we cannot undertake to say,
that the corpse afforded a very fit subject for the in-
quest of a Coroner; if such is the case, we feel the
Magistrates of the city are bound. to have it examin-
ed. We have been also informed that one of the
.Roman Catholic Clergymen of the parish was called
on to exert himself to prevent or allay the ferment
excited on the occasion, which he declined, 'and in
such a manner as stimulated those of his flock who
were concerned to a more determined perseverance in
riot and disturbance.---Armagh Volunteer.
Several estates have lately been offered for sale,
both in this and the neighbouring codnties, at which sales not
even a stogie bidder attended. Those sales which have, through
the neeesetties of the seller, la, •11 forced, have fetched prices at
least one-half less than could have been made ten year, ago. An
estate in this county, open-field laud, after being repeatedly put
up to auction, without a bidder, with good house and outbuildings,
was last week sold at ley. per acre, and the buyer already repeute
of his baripOu.—lluitingdon Paper.

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rHE LOVES OF 171 E ANGELS.
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This new production of Anacreon Moore has ex-
cited considerable expectation in the literary world,
as much from the singularity of its title as from the
well-earned reputation of its author. Various spe-
culations have been entertained with respect to the
moral and religious tendency of the poem ; and we
are assured that the agents of the Vice Society, and
the attornies of the Bridge-street Association, have
indulged in the hope of terminating the year by a lu-
crative job to themselves and their employers. Mr.
Moore appears himself to be sensible that he has
adopted an equivocal title; for be states, in the pre-
face, " that the subject is not scriptural—the notion
on which it is founded (that of the love of Angels for
women) having originated in an erroneous translation
by the LXX. of that verse in sixth chapter of Genesis,
upon which the sole authority for the fable rests."
An elaborate note on this point is subjoined, in which
much research and erudition is displayed. So much
for the title of this new publication. As to its poetical
merits, we think it inferior to Lalla Rookh, though it,
contains many beautiful and spirited passages. Har-
monious versifications, splendid imagery, intense feel-
ing, and warm and impassioned diction, embellish',
every page of the Loves of the. Angels; and, if this bad
been the only work of Mr. Moore's, we 'should not
have hesitated to pass on it an unqualified encomium.
We do not wish to detract from the merits of the
English Anacreon in ranking the Loves of the Angels
below the Fire Worshippers, but we do consider this
first-named production to be as inferior to the latter
as the National are to the Irish Melodies.

We now proceed to give an account of the struc-
ture of the poem, and we cannot do this in a more clear
and intelligible manner than by quoting the following
note in the margin of page 71 :

" It is the opinion of some of the Fathers, that the know-
ledge which the Heathens possessed of Use Providence of God,
a future state, and other sublime doctrines of Christianity,
was derived from the premature revelations of the fallen an •
gels to the women of eartb."

Mr. Moore has attempted by an allegory to explain
the fall of the soul from its original purity. The poem
is divided into three stories, each of which contains a
narration of a love amour between an angel and one
of the daughters of Eve. We present our readers
with a few extracts, and all of them from the second
story, upon which Mr. Moore has bestowed all the
fire of his genius.
The first is a description of the birth of Eve, and is
exquisitely beautiful:—

" Can you forget how gradual stole
The fresh awakened breath of soul
Throughout her perfect form—which seemed
To grow transparent, as there beamed
That dawn of mind within, and caught
New loveliness from each new thought?
Slow as o'er summer seas we trace
The progress of the noontide air,
Dimpling its bright and silent face
Mach minute into some new grace,
And varying Heaven's reflections there—
Or, like the light of evening stealing,
Or some fair temple, which all day
Bath slept in shadow, slow revealing
Its several beauties, ray by ray,
Till it shines out a thing to bless,
AAI full of light sod loveliness."

I

The Angel Rubi, who thus describes the loveliness
of our common mother to his ten companions, did
not limit his admiration to Eve. Fancying, and cer-
tainly the conjecture was a very rational one; that her
daughters would inherit the bewitching blandish-
of their mother, he feels dissatisfied with heaven, and
determines to seek on earth one of those " Enchan-
tresses of soul and frame whose charms he had long
panted to enjoy.
After alluding to the wiles of the Serpent, and
lamenting that so venial an offence should have been
visited by so tremendous a punishment, the Angel
bursts forth in the following glowing and impassioned
strain :
" Oh, 'tis not to be told how long,
How restlessly I sighed to And
Some one from out that shining throng,
Some abstract albs form and mind
Of the whole matchless sex, from which
In my own arms beheld, possest,
I might learn all the powers to witch,
To warm, and (if my fate unblest
Woad have it) ruin, of the rest!
Into whose inward soul and sense
I might descend, as doth the bee
Into the flower's deep heart, and thence
Rifle, in all its purity,
The prime, the qui n tescence, the whole
Of wondrous woman's frame and soul."

The fair maids of the " olden time" seem to have
been as willing as those of modern days. Rubi soon
.found a mistress, who, of course, possessed every
personal charm, and every mental accomplishment.
His passion increased daily, and he willingly coo-
' pried with all her requests. He unfolded to her the
mysteries of creation, revealed the hidden treasures
of the earth, conducted her—

'• Through caves of fire—through wilds fair"—

and in their hours of amorous fondness—
,. Many a truth, remote, sublime,
Which God would from the minds of men
Have kept concealed, till his own time,
Stole out in those revealments then—
Revealment., dim, that have forerun,
By ages, the bright Saving One !

The denouement of his amour is perfectly horrible.
The Angel is prevailed upon to visit his mistress, ar-
rayed in all his angelic panoply. Mortal vision was
overpowered by the dazzling blaze of celestial efful-
gence, and Lilis was scorched to death in the arms
of her distracted lover. This is decidedly the finest
part of the poem, though the idea is not original.
The classical reader will call to mind the story of
Jupiter and Semele, the mother of Bacchus.

Upon the whole, we confess ourselves disappointed.
Indeed our admiration of Lalla Roohh is so un-
bounded, and the recollection of its numerous beau-
ties so strongly impressed on our memories, that we
are almost incapable of forming an impartial estimate
of the merit of The Loves of the Angels.

lion. Mr. Pelham his kR town for his father's, Lord Yar-
bureugh's seat, Itrooklesby, Lint olushire.