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all delay ; that it was then tenolred thnt the regicides should he
seta to l'agartiog. where his imperial 111.1jenty was stsying ; that
these regicides were menshers of the society of United Sclavonians ;
and that newerthelwas after further deliberations it wee agreed that
the Emperor Alexander should not he annannirated till May 1826,
when the enn4pirators supposed that he would review the troops at
licbt.T•erkoff.

12. That last'y another desperate villain who had arrived at St.
Poet...burgh from the extremities of Russia in the autumn of
and also hod joined the association of the North, offered his
arm to assassinate the Emperor.
13. That when a short and cruel malady. fulfilling the inscru-
table decrees of Pmvidenee, deprived Ruasia of a sovereign and a
father, the commirators conceived new plans of subversion • that the
persona designated as the first victim, were all the memher, of the
Imperial family ; that they were all to be sacrificed at the same
time ; and that insurreetiona should break out at once at St. Peters-
' burgh. at Moscow, anti in several can:onments of the army. The
men, unworthy of the mime of Russians, who meditated these de-
bsigns, strangely deceived themselves both with respect to the extent
I of their means, which were null, and to Hie possibility of the revolt
i which they thought they had prepared. Their attempt at St.
I Petersburgh on the 2Gth December, and that of Alouravieff A postol,
i near Kieft', have proved that they could not rely on insistence front
I stir class of the nation, for the few soldiers, and even some of the
I officers who followed them, were only deceived, and thought they
were combating for their oaths ; they have proved that such plots,
even if the combination had been less absOrd, could not attain their
object in Russia.
We repeat it, the number of tonapirators, and especially that of
, the great criminals, is not considerable. All the secret 'ovulations
ohith they had established are knowh ; all the projects which their
infatuation, or their villany, funned or revealed ; all the means
they were to employ to execute are disenvered, and thus, as we
have already had occasion to state, important distinctions appear,
a, it were of themselves, among the accused whom the commission
of inquiry hce to examine. Some were the founders and chiefs of
the secret societies ; others, their accomplices, were initiated into
their frightful mysteries ; others were to be the instruments of in-
etruetions with winch they were, in Goa, unacquainted. Lastly.
there are some who, like the misled soldiers, did not think they
took term against order and their legitimate Sovereign.
These differences could not but prolong the -labour,' of the
Comattissims of Intinher. Though the chief criminals are already
convicted, the exelEplary punishment due to regicides, to pro.
motersOf troubles, or to men taken with arms in their hands, has
necessarily been deferred, that the Commission might confront them
with their acebonpliees, that it might, by means of the whole of the
examination+, and the proofs resulting from them, be able to de-
termine the different degrees of punishment; above all not to exag-
mate them, and to arrive at conclusions, the justice of which should
be incon estible. _ _

For the rest, the conclusion of its labours is not far off; and we
hasten to add that it has onlers to point out to the Emperor, with.
out delay, all the individuals arrested, from a fortuitous concur.
term of circumstances, on suspicions which have proved unfounded,
end that his Imperial Majesty immediately has them set at liber,y.
A report from General Vermaloff, dated Tscherolenaia, 9th
January, announces, that immediately aftc the receipt of the ma-
nifesto issued on the accession of his Imperial Majesty. the General
and all the troops with him had taken the oath of allegiance to
the Emperor Nicholas.
The necessary measures had been taken at the same time that all
the rest of the corps, as well an the civil authorities, placed under
the orders of General VeruialoW, should also take the oath.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Fes. 27.—Five per Cents. 98f.
94k. Three per Cents. lilt. 38c. hank Stock. 2,009 f. Rentes de
Naples 72f. Rente d'Espagne B}. Royal Spanish Loan 454.
Hayden Loan 72.9 f. Exchange on London—One :11outh, 251.55 c. ;
Thugs ditto, 251. 25c.—Courr Asithenlique.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report of last
night, that Mr. BROUGHAM withdrew his motion relative
to the bettering the condition of the slaves in his Majesty's
Colonies, in consequence of Mr. CANNING'S luminous
statement regarding the coler.ial policy of the Government.
The Speech of the Foreign Secretary will be read with
great interest, not only by persons more immediately con-
nected with the question, but by the public generally.

The Times, in its leading artiee of yesterday, added one
more to the many coarse and vulgar rhapsodies which it is
in the daily habit of pouring forth Against the Govern-
ment ; but the revengeful spirit of this stock jobbing Jour-
nal has been so long seen through, and is so well known in
every commercial circle, that its malignity, wicked and
desperate as it is, fails to produce the effect intended by it.
Its language has about it all the excitements to rebellion,
but its mischievous tendency is so manifest as to defeat
itself, by cartlaug with it the appearance of trfsehery if it
has the effect of encouraging the spirit of insurrection
among the many, it has a tendency to alarm their fears, by
the very undisguised terms in which it draws them on to
disturbance and revolt. Nothing, in a season of public
distress, is so well calculated to incense the lower classes
against their Government, as holding-up the Ministers of
that Government as wilfully adding to their misery, by
making the necessaries of life dearer than they otherwise
would be, and thus putting them purposely beyond their
reach ; thus holding them up as not merely regarding their
! sufferings without sympathy, but designedly aggravating
them, and treating the consequences with contempt. IVhat
Jacobin Lecturer ever addressed the people in language
better contrived to goad and irritate them than the follow-
ing

" It should seem to be the most singular object that a
Christian Legislature, or the Ministers of a Christian
King, ever had in view, to raise the price of Me commodi-
ties of human life upon the sill: frets or the Government—
upon those by whom the commodities are to be tin:anted.'
Yet SUCH IS THE I,ROJASSED OBJECT of the MINISTERS
and LEGISLATURE of this. (Thy; and the account which our
journal presents in another part, of the negotiations with
the Bank, and of the secret conferences of the Bank Direc-
tors with each other, proves the difficulty with which Me
anti-social Act is to he accomplixhrd. Would it not be as
natural arrl more effectual to extract Me teeth of Me inha-
bitants, that they may masticate less, or to ruin the physi-
cal constitutions of their bodies, that they may have less need
of all the commodities demanded in a civilized state of so-
ciety, than to STINT THE SUIPPLT, IthilSE ABUNDANCE
exists, by sexing high andAtitious prices,"
Can any man who values the peace of the country, and

who feels towards it those attachments which the blestings
he has enjoyed under its Government has begotten, and
which a long familiarity has conaolidated—can any such
man read this shameless attack without a feeling of disgust?
The distress of the manufacturing community is undoubt-

edly rest ; but as far as Ministers could relieve it they
have done their duty as became them. The Times, her»
the very first appearance of those commercial embarrass-
ments which have since spread so widely, has employed its
columns in crying down public credit—in defaming bankers
of every class—in striving to bring the financial solvency
of Government itself into suspicion—and in resorting to
every variety of exaggeration, and every merle of in-
vective by which the calamities of the crisis could be in-
I creased. It is well known in the City to what an extent
it succeeded—how it rejoiced at every new distress, and
blazoned forth every fresh failure—how it has gone on'
appealing at every turn to the distempered feelings of the
' ignorant, and working on the worst passions of the wrens-
ployed ms:ratives. From the first hour of that panic which
occasimbil so much pt h:ic distress, up to this moment of
the ardent exertions of the Bank and of Government to re-
lieve it, its continued aim has barn to infuse a new source
of bitterness on every occasion that offered, and to misreprp-
sent all the m, asures of Ministers as injurious to the couh-
try and disgraceful to the state. But this jacobin spirit
will recoil upon itself ; it has no moral corrective in the
feelings or the character of be agents ; its antidote is in
the sterling integrity of the Government and the allegiance
of the people.

It is with deep regret that we advert to the extracts
from private letters received from Macclesfield yesterday,
which will be found in another column. It appears that
the tranquillity of that part of the country is seriously in-
terrupted. We sincerely sympathize with the numerous
matiu:act ttrers who have been, in consequence of the recent
stagnation of trade, thrown out o; work ; but at the same
time they must be reminded that the course the Chesshire
Wt :Ann/ arc pursuing can only aggravate their distress.
A wanton destruction of property di ',gives the benevolent