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-Thr.o4lotwier is the outlitteof theConstitu7ll4o
of the lonian Islands, adopted by the Legislative
Body, May 2, 1817, ratified on the August
following by hie Royal Highness the Prince 'Regent,
is, the Reale'bf his Briarnic Majesty, the Protector..
of that Slate. This Act was published on the

nth December, and waa to be piat in farce from

the Ist January' this year. The anniversary of these
two days will be henceforward celebrated by a
agleam festival. The state or the lonian I.l:tails
consist of the isles of Corfu, Ceplialotihr; Zsiite,
St. Maure, filmes, or Teske, Corigo, Paso', and
other little islands on the coast of Dalmatia or the
Morey, formerly under the Dominion of the Re-
public of Venice. The fundamental religion is
that of the Orthodox Greek Church. The vulgar
tongue is the Greek.

The Government shall coneist of a legixlative

Assembly, • Senate, and a Judicial
The military command, Secortliug. to the. Treaty of
Paris, belongs to thetNisiss mender of the troops of
his Britannic MajeoVie.ftottctor of the Union.
The Members .Lrigislative Atoembly are
named by the body of Electors ; the Senate by the
Legislative Assembly; the Members of the Judi-
cial Authority by the Senate. These elections
shall be merle for five years. The Lord Commis-
sioner of the Sovereign Protector is invested with
the power of convoking or proroguing the Parlia-
ment in cases of urgent necessity, but it cannot be
dissolves' in such is case except by virtue of an cor-
der of his Majesty in Council.
The Senate, as the depository of the Executive
Power, shall be composed of five Members and a
President. The President shall have the title of
Highness, and each of the five Members that of

Prestuntissime, nearly equivalent to that of Exerl-

leticy. The President shall be named by his Ma-
je►ty the Protector. The Senators, chosen among
the most distinguir.hed persons in the Legislative
Assembly, shall be elected in the following propor-
tions, namely, one for each of the is! mils Corfu,
Cephalonia, &tate, and St. Mature, and only one
fur the three islands Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paso.
The Senate shall have, among its attributes, the

proposing of projects of laws. Every project ap-
proved by u majority of votes, shall have the validity

of s law, provided it have the approbation of the
Lord Commissioner, and be not opprised by an Or..
divatice of the King's Council.
There shall be at Corfu a general printing office,
tinder the immediate direction of the Semite, and
the inspectioa of the Secretary General ; no other
printing office shall be established in the isles of
the Union without the permission of the Senate and
►he approbation of the Lord Commissioner.
Such are the general bases of the constitutional
organisation of the lonian hands, which, according
to the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris, of sth
Nov. 1815, are to form one free and independent
State, under the protection of the King of Great
Britain and his successors.

GHENT, MARCH 9.
The terrible wind which has lasted for wine days
in our neighbourhood, and which mny he called a
hurricane, has caused injury in the province. On
the coast the damage is much more considerable ;
from Calais-to Breskins nothing is to be seen but
wrecks of vessels that have totally peri►hed.
FROM THE FRENCH FRONTIERS, MARCH I.
The Duke of Wellington is not expected back
at his head-quarters before the latter part of the
month of April, when it is believed that the newt..
cintions now on foot will be terminated. It is
added that the Duchess will pass some mouths this
summer at Mount St. Marie.

BRUSSELS, MARCH 4.
We learn from Paris, that the Freucl►a►an who
accompan►ed Lord kinnaird to Paris, says his
name is Nicole (later accounts call him Marinei),
but peOple are convinced that this is only an es.
sumed name, anal that this man is no other than the
noturious Mehee de la Touche. so well k►►own fur
the various parts he acted during the Revolution.
He is said to have inland several persons impli-
cated in this business.

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lit 1. ire pes Ci;utti. ate Gs f. aJAc.
Ire es„thittb:—
Pllllll, MARTI 11.
rda'y receivea, after :boo., the Ildieit.tera
I Coveys of lie torrtgo
bring roonned to LIN hotel by a sligi4

His Excellency the Duke Ile Kirke ‘littipiry of Fe-
reign Affairs, awl a part of the Ntilotters of the Diplomatic
Body, ass...mishit on the preceding day. at too o'clock, awl
held a lung court mire at the hold of Lord Wellimiluti.
fPc are assielst ihst the Doke of Wellit.voli loot fixed!
his departure from Parts fur the 48th of for month. Ilia•
Lordship will, in the ti rot itt.tsure, in-o“ 0,1 to hi,: Itemol:
loaders of Cambra ; it is hoiyrra that he will then onske4
a journey to London before he. Altair,: to Ilse Cuosoltilb 01
the Potentates.

The ship Clumlernspor, of 1,400 tons, from Rritzil, rs.t.
anchor on the :Id of this month, :it Chef Itsts e. Per i m
is valued el serer:ol hull• s_ It xmoists 10 .1' g:or, Coo ;iy,
cotton, ..slepetre, pepper, g slot uihrr lot (Vous lo
articles, psri kid". ly Iwo boxes containing I Mil 411 snuynnie s
This vessel Isdrslined lie User..
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A !titer front (t.ip slates, that al four o'clock in the rr-
ing of the 24th (Whitt month, a for. . wolf appe:•rr.l iu the
C46lllllllUllt of Saviors, and tit w al tht: wife of on Olivier, sit
the moment the was opeuitt,; Iht door to ants stnin the cause
of the tumult that prevzileil is the street. 'llw woman had
sufficient procure of mind, twriwitlistanditig to, to
combine the movement of the aniuml wits li,. opining uf the
dons, tool huhliog I there, gave time to tit h.ts to hill
'lle animal had previously disfigured a child %ecru
Fears of age, tiotwillostaudiog the exertion, toi los f.tilier, and
was tot the poinj of devour iug a grotatto, wht 11 it was Irealesi
i.t a man. A cumpetisatitra Ls Iccit gout to the vicious
' of this

PAM., if %nut 12.
Accoinon from ll* .I slalc, that the wif,
of Miura' lakes no nuur;►luurut, and that het itei: is cuo-
aidrnd dAilizer.

The I:cpurt uw the Ilth'get will be broiszlit op un M.inday.
Nu ragliph P.,pera have heels received wiihiu these tau
flay., owiwg ii/ ilie AdVella' If inie orthe weather.

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I The cornet discovered at Mat-saints waaolpii Eyed al Awls-
bows, ou the 23 March, at three uiluck iu the wins iug.

cHAmnER ur• pnEns.
PITTING OF

The deliberation on the projet of the law fur reuniting 11 e
army was resumed. The twegityglirce first Artie's. of
projct w►re adopted provisionally; ass amenilinent 'wooln
on the 24th Article MJT4 negatived by the prrviiios gurgion
The Article sus then put to the vote and adupgid by the
Chamber.
Several ether innesolincnts were proposed and rejeck•d,
hod the law was Sonny passel on a 111%
in favour of it 'wing, SO—Against it, 74 —slsjui ity, 22

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
SITTING 0? Tim 9TR.
ENGLISH PRISONERS AT vumnuN.

M de Sainte Alttcgootlc reported frum the Cutotniitee of
Petition,.

A Brent number of the inhabitants of Verdun complained,
that the English prisoners del:illicit during several yenta 'III,
the depot of that lows had contracted di tits, which %vele
nut paid, in runseqoence of their precipitate departure on
the first invasion of France. Their •arions rerlainntious,
bush to the nerve!' nod English Cower ttttt cots, had hut as
yet obtained a fivourahle ;mown..

The Committee proposed lu send the Petition to the
Minister fur Foreign Affairs, which was ;adopted.

nrittiv, rtn. 2n.
The Loan is not yet concluded, although our bankers
hare offered 70 per cent in money for the State utilization*.
The GOVCIVIDeIIi aouid then rt ceive thirteen millions in
mummy, fur eighteen in paper. But as this S11:11 to be
reiumbursed iu thirty-six years, under the euxditions
already known, it would be wrong to say, that the Stale
would lose thirty per Cent. capital. It only pays S per cent.
annuity instead of 7 1-7111. The advaidage of the lAyan
would &pew' on the future snide of the currency of
Prussia.

NERUAII3F.CG, 111RCII 4.

The Adore Congress will lie only a coationation of the
CUNIKIMPS of Vienna, and of all the points of deliberal ion
which had been interrupted by the sudden eyelets of 1817 e
The mutual advantages to be obtained by the several Stales
under the relnti 4444 % of commerce and eincigatioti---the reci•
pr..cal measures to coutiren the respect which nations owe
themselves, and to repress the licentiousness of revolutionary
writers—the regulations to be MlsMPhed on the N3'1.11
of public domains, stud the property of Corporation.; in
some German Shies, and n crowd of ollter Rarope•.m ques-
tions, will he the object of di-eus,iuu•, from which will
spring the happiness of the 'tropic, and the repose uf Em-
pires, fur a Wag series of years.

At the departure of the O'er/meth store-sh;p,
lately arrived at Portsmouth from Malta, the Thty
and Ganyntede (Sir C. PENensc), with tile (ails-
gow, were left at that Island, on the 19th January ;
the latter had arrived out the dad• prior to that on
which the Weymouth sailed. The. Togo', Captuiti
DEANS DENDAS, had gone to Tangiers, with two
Morocco Princes, who hail arrived at Malta, on
their return home from a pilgrimage to Mecca.—
The Barbary Stater were all very pearesh'y
posed ; they had 'hewn particular civilities to Eng-
lish vessels.—The Albion was on her return from
Cibrsloar to Malta. The Myrmidou only was ut
Gibraltar when the Weymouth which was oh
the 44th ult. The Weymouth sailed on Saturday
morning for Deptford, to land sonic c.i.es for the
PRINCE REGENT, containing remains 4t►illarr, nt..
nice*, &e.) of the aticirrit city of Carthage, a pre-
sent from the Dey of Tat rot.,.

On Saturday, nt two o'clock, u Cithintt Council
wrap held ut the Foreign ()trice.
Lord livitourit.ii trancicioNl at the
Admiralty, on Sawaluy, prtrioui to t,is leaving
England,_

ifraterilay ('cunt AluirsTrn. the Lon° CHAN-
CELLOR, the of 1.111,F uputio., the At -iglus of
ANHLESSY, Earl BATHURST, un.l Vi-volmt CAS-
TLEREAGH, had audiences of the PRINCE I:EGENT.

Saturday the nuke of YokK 4114 Docile), of
G.I.OIICIATIR vlsited he t; P.UNN I.as CLul-
loss Wow.. Could NitrstEn. and Visc t
bad audieurrl of tlic Pat ••:t.;;. Ittavy T.

Co.—the Gunter hi ninetilts.tot of kld. Sn hoe 17.11,A. --Tito
money, ustd the letter' (e"tuirurigoltl, The rationing ar
is 100,000 &liars , Sottish houses
viscuin. Ilse Xing yester
h.be also failed foe
tlenipetantiary and
stance has iwrde r sensation on Chanute. and • • •••
xru euingois
very distressing consequences were apprehended. onlisposition, i•I13 fli
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