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LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1824.

Monday's Paris Papers, and the Etoik of Tuesday,
reached our office last night. The Maniteur is barren of
all intelligence. The Etoile has an article vindicating
Ferdinand's wretched government, worthy of the bigots
from whom it has proceeded. According to this paper,
The spirit of malevolence daily ascribes to the Govern-
" ment projects which it does not entertain." It then
userts that the reported decree which condemned, by one
sweeping denunciation, all the Alcaldes under the Consti li
-
tutional system to the galleys for ten years, " was put into
circulation by the enemies of the throne. In the same
" way," the Elate adds, " it was said the militia were
menaced with perpetual imprisonment, and new mea-
" sures of rigour were preparing against all those who had
manifested attachment to the ancient system. The Go-
" vernment has now no need of these new acts of severity:
" it is consolidating itself daily, and acquires strength."
This is a bold assertion on the part of even the Etoile. It
would be hard to find where the strength of the miserable
Ferdinand's government lies, except in the foreign bayonets
that su►round him : were they to quit Spain, its " consoli-
" dation" would soon disappear. But the Eieile has disco-
vered—mirabile dicta!—that all the measures of the wretch-
ed tyrant are directed solely against the gi;oies in Spain.
" At all times," this paper says, " Spain has been covered
" with idle people and vagabonds, strangers from all parts.
" of the world, principally gipsies or Americans, who
" overloaded the population." The new dceree, according
to the Etcile, is levelled solely against them, anal this
journal praises highly the wisdom of the measure. It
denounces, in tl.e same sentence, the secret societies of
Spain. We fear the assertions of the Etode will find little
credit. The tyranny that now outrages Spain is too pal-
pable in its principles and ends, and is covering that un-
happy country with misery and misfortunes. From one
extremity to another its people groan in bondage; and no-
tking but the foreign force within the Pyrenees prevents
open and general insurrection, which even now partially
prevails, and is every day increasing.
'From the Monitenr of Monday, Jan. 211)
The official part contai.is only some unimportant notices from the
Depe:ation of the Minister or Justice relative to private individuals.
Non-Official part.]
I:fit:LW:SF:, JANUARY V).
• • •

The affair of the deserters, of whiel;;;i;;;; had se;;;;1 time.
occasion to speak, and the preliminary investigation of which is
now carrying on in this city, has just led to the presentation of a
very extensive and important requisition of the Attorney-General,
Baron Clary. This Magistrate read it on the 17th inst. in the
Chamber of Accusation (analogous to the Grand Jury.)
A company of miners, who fought at the Trocadero and is corn.
mandad by (amain Rompleleur, arrived here on the 13th. Moat
ci these brave men have the cross of the Legion of Honour.
Ilrotr. the Etoile of Tuesday.)
MADRID, JAN. 17.
11111 spirit of malevolence daily ascribes to the Government pro.
jers which it does rot entertain. Thus a degree of the King has
been spoken of nt Madrid, which is stated :o condemn all the old
Alcaldes under the Constitutional system to the rlleys to: ten
years. This news is put into circulation by the enemies of the
Throne. It would lee too tedious to repeat all those that they
scatter among the public. Thus they said the militia are menaced
with perpetual imprisonment, and new measures of rigour are pre-
paring against all those who have manifested attachment to the
ancient system. The Goverrinient has now no need of these new
acts of severity ; it is consolidating itself daily, and acquires
strength.
At all times Spain has been covered with idle people and raga.
berth ; strangers from all parts of the world, principally gipsies
or Americana, who overloaded the population; the new Decree
lays down measures respecting them, and when it is considered
that the Revolution found among these people powerful and vile
aueiliariee, we cannot but praise the views of the Government :
lastly, this Decree interests the tranquillity. of the Peninsula, by
the measures and the chastisement which it prescribes for all the
members of ascret sock:lies" whatever they may he.
The Decree alluded to is for the regulation of the military. It
is composed of several chapters, each divided into a root many
articles. The first orders the establishment of a general intend.
art:y of the financial administration of the war department, which
shall act under the orders of the Minister of Finance.

Yesterday the following Bayonne letter reached us,
containing the substance of Ferdinand's new decree,
putting the whole of Spain under political " surreil-
!mitt." Cainbronero and Burgos (both Afrancesados) are
said to be the atztht:rs of this decree. Its details will
to read with considerable intertst. It talks of the re-
pored abdication of Ferdinand, and the French falling
back to concentrate on the Ebro.

" BAYONNE, JAN. 20.

"We hart news emm Madrid of the 15th. There are still re-
ports in that capital, of the abdication of the King (but not vii!un-
tardy), an event whi.it would tecessarily produce great changer in
out situation in the country. and they even speak of our troops fall.
jog back on the Ebro. On the lltth an Extraordinary °suite ap.
peered on the arganiration and attributes of the genera/ police of
the kingdom, of which the following is the substance. The no-
tice will be under a superior 31agistrate, called Siipetintendent-
Ueneral of the Police of the kingdom. In the provinces there
will be bite:Want and Sub-tklegates of the Polite. Their attri-
butes shall be— _ _

" To keep exact accounts of 211 the inhabitants of thee:omoms,
to deliver and emintersign peasports. to give cartes de verde per-
mission to sell in the streets and markets; to open inns, furnished
hotels, ordinaries, collie-houses, ; to carry arms ; to open re-
g^ilers of all public carriages ; to watch over the furnished hotels,
coffee-housni, Fuldie plats of diversion, he.; or servants out of
place, mechanics without employment, and all persons whose
games of subsistence are IA well known ; to take up beg-
gars and children, who am lost, abandoned, or exposed ; and
gmsies without a settlement; to take earn that there be not
tnhoduced over Vie frontiers, by sea or land, any work, in
any largnage whatever. IlniCS.4 the bearer presents an express
osier signed by his Majesty, or an order of the Council
armed after the inspection a • copy, which shall have been pre-
e'mtisly delivered ; to seise ell books which shall have beat in-
tr-enced in contempt of these regulations, whether they be in pos-
session of a bookseller, printer, or private person, or cumniunitirs,
isoinver they may be pnvileged ; and to deliver the copies into the
Lands of the Magistrates; to hinder the importation, the cireula-
aoc, and the reading of periodimi publicat ices, satirical
pamphlets, and other papers and prints, in which the per-
son or the prerogatives of his Alikieny arc attacked, or in
o3iett the measures of the fineeroninnt are ridiculed g ensured ;
it. arrest all individuals who shall utter obscere words •nd insults
against the King, as well as all drunkards, professed gamblers, & c.;
pursue robbsrs. both in the town and high-ways; to pre-
.es: riatollll poets and meetings which threaten the public
traaguillity ; in pursue with the utmost rigour the secret societies,
whether Cornniuneros, Freemasons, Carbonari, or any other dark
tins which does or shall exist ; to take care, in tercets with the
c:ustcrin frame officer, to prevent smuggling; also to provide fur the
security and salabiity of the pri.ona, liesphels, ainohnheatres,
etaaa.foetories, slaughter-houses, (sr.; to execute Articles 13 and
4, relative to secret societies and smuggling, and, till the law
shall estahl'sh a military corps. charged with the protection of the ;
lowa* sad rondo, the senael Felice may use its and

ems of need calk en the seamy mammies and the armed Arcs
under them.'•
The remainder of the Decree relates to the mode of meeting the
expenses which this Dew Police will occasion.
This Decree, which is certainly formed on the French model,
comsat be executed in Spain.
Messrs. Cantbronero and Surges (Afroneesados) are said to be the
authors of this Decree.
At Valladolid (it is reported) persons are arrested every evening
without any reason, and released again with as little reason the
following day.
It is said that the Marquis d'Almenara is going to set out on a
secret mission. The armed bands increase dad).

The Dublin Papers of Saturday and Monday contain the
details of an application for a criminal information against
Lord Farnham, a Magistrate of the county of Cavan, in
Ireland, under circumstances as outrageous as ever yet
came before any ('oust of Justice. This man is the
Colonel Barry, who put himself forward as the nightly
,defender of Thorpe, toe Dublin Sheriff, and the Orange
(party, during the last Session ; and who, if he did not talk
as well, was at least we loud us any member in the House.
The King's Bench report which appeared in our paper of
yesterday, presents a precious picture of this Orange advo-
cate, and humane Magistrate ; but flagellation, it is said,
was not new to his Lordship. When Colonel of the
Cavan Militia,, and during the horrible period of 1798, his
ears were accustomed to the groans of the mangled victim,
at the halberds, and to the cat soaked in human blood.
From Mr. Wallace's statement in the Court of King's
Bench in Dublin, on last Saturday, supported by affidavit,
it appeared that a wretched little boy of twelve years of
age, named Michael Lynch, charged with cutting down
some branches from a tree on Lord Farnham's estate, was
summoned by his wood-ranger to appear at a petty ses-
sions, on the 3tl of Siitember, to be held at the Dispensary
(his Lordship's gate-house), at Farnham, in the county
of Cavan. where the boy and his miserable father',
accordingly attended—that at this place, called a Petty
Sessions, there appeared no magistrates, but Lord Farnham
and a Protestant clergyman of the name or Robinson—
that the boy, on the mere assertion of the wood-ranger,
unsupported by any oath, was charged with being caught
in a tree, and cutting down the branches; and no other
testimony whatever was offered or heard. But not con-
tent with this, Lord Farnham immediately declared aloud
that the wretched boy should be whipped ; when his father
supplicated for mercy, stating he was very poor, and often,
with his family, went to bed supperless for want of fuel to
boil his potatoes. The trembling boy also threw himself
on his knees, and is tears implored his Lordship's mercy,
but the humane Lord Farnham answered both by a sentence
of torture, saying " it would not do, and he should be
tucked up." Ile then ordered the unhappy boy into the
custody of a barony constable named James M`Lean, and
without any formal conviction or any legal evidence to
warrant it, ordered Wilson, his wood-ranger, to immedi-
a'ely prepare a bundle of rods to flagellate the boy with.
The Reverend Clergyman (Robinson), on seeing the bunch
of rods preparing by his Lordship's whip-beggar, remon-
strated against its size, and the cruelty of mangling the
boy with such an instrument of torture ; and some branches
were in consequence taken from it. It further appears,
that on the rods being really, Lord Farnham, in shove-
sence of his clerical associate, ordered the barony constable
to strip the agonised boy; which was done, and another of
his familiars then took him on his back, while a third pro-
ceeded to mangle him—that after this torture had been in-
flicted for sonic time, Lord Farnham took the rods out of
the hands of his executioner, and lacerated the poor boy
himself. Mr. Wallace stated so much of this horrible time,
when he was stopped by the Chief Justice, who immediately
granted a conditional order for a criminal information
against his Lordship. If such atrocious facts as these were
not pnblicly recorded upon oath within the precincts of a
Court of Justice, could we believe them ? Would it be
credited that a Magistrate, a Peer of the land, could so far
forget the high duties of his station, and the common feel-
ings of a man, as to subject a wretched little boy, for a trifling
aggression on his property, to torture, and be himself the
ruffian executioner? Every feeling rises up in arms
against so inhuman an outrage ; yet this man is the Parlia-
mentary Hector of the Orange Party. He is toasted at
their drunken revels, and was their leading advocate during
the last Session. With facts such as these sworn against
him upon oath, would he be suffered to sit within the
Commons Ilouse again, though returned for a Borough in
this country? If the charges made publicly against Lord
Farnham iii the Court of King's Bench be true, we have
no hesitation in saying they are sufficient to damn the cha-
racter of any man, and render hits unfitted for any re-
spectable association, either public or private. We shall
see how he will meet the foul charge—whether it will be
hushed by a gratuity to the wretched beings, the objects of
his cruelty, or whether lie will venture to contradict the
outrage upon his own oath and those of his executioners.

Mr. Charles Flint's sentence has expired. We laid this
case before the public, as containing an alarming anticipa-
tion of the consequences to be expected from the uncon-
trolled and uncontrollable abuse of the power vested by
reecut Acts of Parliament in County Magistrates. We
holdup the conduct of GEORGE C wy ND, Esq., he cause
it places distinctly before the eyes of all, the extent to which
oppression may be carried, smiler the forms of law, and
the danger of placing the power of punishment in unwor-
thy hands. We shall now proceed, as we promised, to
bring forward the case of Mr. Aaaam FLINT, a respect-
able attorney at Uttoxeter, and brother to the youth
whose sentence and whose sufferings we have already de-
tailed. It is somewhat remarkable, that this memorable
Magistrate, Mr. Cu Err/rms.—memorable, we mean, as
having been the father and framer of the Vagrant .4ct, an
act that will long embalm his memory in the r-coils of
legislation,—it is somewhat remarkable, that his in-
exorable love of justice should have displayed itself
so conspicuously in one
.family—that his quick-sighted
search should have discerned the necessary connection be-
tween their ruin and the claims of puhli:. justice? How
j are we to account for it, that his judicial authority should
chance to bring, at an interval of two years, two members
of the same household, two brothers, within its merciless
grasp ? This fact is not only calculated to call forth at-
tention, but to create surprise. It excited both, to a eon-
aiderable degree, in the county of Stafford, of which
GEORGE CH ETWY N D, Esq., is the Representative. We
shall, before we have done, connect the conduct of Gr:o.
CHETWY ND, En., with the controverted question of title
between Sir George Jerningham and Richard Stafford I
Cooke, which involves property of incalculable amount, and
which creates so powerful a division of parties in the county.
We shall in so doing furnish a key to a course of proceed-
inp, which without it must appear inexplicable. The case
with which we are at present concerned will be fcund re-
ported at great length, and with the utmost correctness, in
the Lichfield Mercury. It was a charge of assault, the
most paltry and contemptible charge, generally, that camel
within the scope of our crimiial jurisprudence. If the
pasty Lad brought his action, he might have obtained a
compensation from the verdict, commensurate with the
injury sustained, if any bad been sustained; but the de-
fendant might then have pleaded a justificatiors, and this
would not have answered the purposes: the panics,

would have failed, as they well knew, and they therefore
thought it best to proceed by indictment, for a breach of Me
King's peace. Out the day appointed for the trial of the
traverse, it was called on by the proper officer, in the ordi-
nary course and practice cf the Court, and the Jury was
in due form sworn. Bnt, behold, no ('ounsel was in-
structed on the part of the prosecution ! As no prosecutor
appeared, the Court, of course, ought to have directed an
acquittal. But in the present iastance, Mr. Brutton, the
Governor of the County Gaol, volunteered to inform the
Court that the prosecutor had not crinwled it to come on !
No very satisfactory apology this for an apparent contempt
of Court, and still less valid as a reason for not directing an
acquittal. But as the brow of offended Magistracy can oc-
casionally relax a little of its rigour, this was deemed a
sufficient excuse, and the apology was received in full
satisfaction. After some other business bad been disposed
of, the traverse was again called on in due course, and the
dory again sworn, and on being called on by the proper
officer, returned a verdict of NOT GUILTY, roil WANT OF
eviueNce; which reamer was about to be recorded,
when Mr. CIIETWIND,—NO APPLICATION BEING MADE
Fos THAT PURPOSE—and to this most extraordi-
nary circumstance we would chain the public at-
tention, and we therefore repeat it,—NO spriscsr lox
being made for that purpose, directed the trial to stand over
until Me next morning! ! ! A most unprecedented inter-
ference this !! ! What could possibly have called for this out-
rage on all the ordinary Proceedings and principles of private
justice? We trust the Member for Stafford will be able,
in his scat in Parliament, to justify it. He owes it to his
station as a public Magistrate, to slsew on what warranty
he thus acted. lie owes it to his professional character to
refer to the rules of justice, and to the maxims of law
which bear him out in this proceeding. He owes it to
the high responsibility which attaches to him as a Mem-
ber of the British Senate, to vindicate himself to his
constituents, and to the public, who have a right to call
him to account.
We come now 10 the issue. in this most frivolous and
contemptuous :barge, fire witnesses, all of them servants
and relatives, swore to the assault, and six most respect-
able and unbiasswi witnesses positively contradicted it.
The Jury, however (we will say nothing here of the influence
of purl"), returned a verdict of guilty of the assault, and
the Chairman, Mr. CH rr WI-ND, forthwith, after exprm-
ingproforma " the pain he felt in passing- sentence on a gen-
tleman of his own profession, and the more so for his having
been acquainted with the drjrndant
.for several years, and
having (luring that time several times met him on business,"
proceeded to pronounce the following sentence :—" That
the defendant he confined to the common gaol of this coun-
ty for the space of SIX CALENDAS MONTHS, should pay a
fine of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS to Me King, and be fit,-
(her imprisoned until the./Ine be paid"! ! !—the defendant.
Mr. Flint, being all this time a most respectable member
of the:profession, and the elder brother of Mr. Charles
Flint whose ease has already called forth the public sym-
,psthy and indignation, wherever the facts of it have been
wade known !! !

4t is not for a Magistrate and a Member of Parliament
teseek for a tellimph over a person, or a party, by tramp-
ling on the principles of the British Constitution. Mr.
CalxvWYtrn, who discovers so much anxiety to cleanse the
country of paupers and vagrants, would be far better em-
ployed In reforming the abuses of the trihnnitial power,
laud purging the Magistracy itself of corrupt and anwor-
thy members. The public can suffer but little by the
vagrancy of the poor and &leading", whose misery forces
them to wander afar for bread; but from proceedings which
oppress the subject and dishonour the national justice, the
public have an infinitely deeper interest in protecting
themselves, and in being protected by the legislature.
The Constitution is an empty form if its principles are dis-
regarded in practice ; the best laws are a dead letter, if
they are not honestly and uprightly executed. It is the pro-
vince of Parliament to look to this. There is an excellent out-
line ofa speech of Mr. Bess E.S—Mr.Chet wynd, if he wishes
to turn his eye to it, will find it in Vol. X. of his Posthumous
Works--delivered on a motion for leave to bring in a Bill
to ascertain the power of...furies in prosecution for libels.
iVe trust, by the way, that a motion will be made next
Session, with reference to the caae before us, to ascertain
Me power of Magistrates, and to bring it again within the
rale of the Constitution. Mr. Burke begins his speech
thus—" I have always understood that a superintendence
over the doctrines as well as the proceedings of the Courts
of Justice was a principal +eel of Me constitution of this
House; that you were to watch at once over Me lawyer
and the law; that there should be an orthodox faith as
well es proper works; and I have always looked with a
degree of reverence and admiration on this mode of
superintendence ; for, being totally disengaged from the
detail of juridical practice, we come something, perhaps,
the better qualified, and certainly much the better
disposed, to assert the genuine principle of the laws, in
which we can, as a body, have no other than an enlarged
and a public interest. As our situation puts us in a
proper condition, our power enables us to execute the
trust. We may, when we ace cause of complaint,
administer a remedy. We stand in a situation very ho-
nourable to ourselves, and very useful to the country, y.
we do not ebuse or abandon the trust Mat is placed in us."—
We trust that, in the present instance, those into whose
hands the people hare entrusted the guardianship of jus-
tice and the laws, will not do either ; that they will neither
abuse their trust, nor abandon it. An arbitrary Magistracy
is suited neither to the English character nor to the English
Government. The authority vested by late Acts of Par-
liament in Justices of the Peare, is such as to leave no au-
thority in the Constitation, of power to protect the subject.
It is the duty of our Representatives to go fully into the
subject, if they are either to ask or to deserve the confi-
dence of the country. We must not excite discontent by
injustice, and then enact laws to put it down. Such :iudi-
eial procedure as this of the Member for Stafford can never
be suffered to pass without public inquiry. The spirit of
justice will rise up against i.. As Mr. Bunk I: well observes,
in the very speech re have just adverted to, " The people
remain quiet ; they sleep secure, when they ima-
gine that the vigilant eye of a censorial Magistrate
watches over all the proceedings of judicature ; and
that the sacred fire of an eternal Constitutional
jealousy, which is the guardian of liberty, law, and
justice, is alive night and day, and burning in this
house. But when the Magistrate"—we wish Members of
Parliament would pause over this passage, for it contains
a most important and memorable truth—" but when the
Magistrate gives up his office and his duty, the people u-
nitise it, and they inquire egHl much and too irreverently, be-
cause they think their Rep esentatives do ic.tinqnire at all."
We have more, much more, to say to the Meml•cr
Stafford, in his judicial character as Chairman of *the!
Sessions ; but it would occupy more space than we can at
present spare. iVe stall revert to the topic as soon as Par-
liament meets; when we trust that not only will his con-
duct be brought under inquiry, but some revision of
these late Acts he made, which at present are a stain on
the Statute Book, and which enable the local Magistracy to
become at once the scandal and the scourge of the country.

His Majesty, we are happy to announce, was yesterday
'considered in an improved state. To the inquiries of the
Nobility and Gentry, which were as numerous as on the
two preceding days, the following answer was continued
to be given to a late hour:—
•• Ili% Majesty has lud a more favourable night, and is better to-
day.—Tuniday, Jan. 27, 1824."

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a ('abinet Council was held
at the Foreign-office, which sat upwards of three hours,
the Council not breaking up till past five o'clock. The
lengthened deliberations pf the Cabinet were _apposed to
be relative to the state of the West India Islands. _ _

Yesterday Mr. Wynn gave the annual great Cabinet
dinner, so called, as, in addition to the Cabinet Ministers,
the Great Officers of State, and other (Acid Gentlemen,
were invited, for the purpose of arranging the roll of
Sherif& for England for the present year. This annual
meeting and entertainment is generally given by the Lord
President of the Council. The reason supposed why the
Earl of Ilarrowby does not give the dinner upon this oc-
casion is, that the Noble Earl's family and household are,
not arrived in London yet from his Lordship's country I
seat.

We learn that in the House of Peers the Address will he
moved by Lord Somers, and seconded by Viscount Lortesi,
brother of the Earl of Kingston.
The subscribers to Lloyd's appear to be on the increase,
there being thirty-three gentlemen to be balloted for on
Wednesday next, as subscribers.
In the Foreign Market yesterday, the Mexican New
Loan attracted the most attention. The price advanced
to 41.
The Lord Mayor gave an elegant dinner at the Mansion-
house on Tuesday, to a party of about .50, consisting of
moat of the Aldermen, the Sheriffs, Common Sergeant,
Chamberlain, &c.

It was reporutl in Paris, on Monday, that the Govern-
ment had receive-I news of great importance from Spain,
but the nature of it had not transpired.
RO3IE. JAN. i IL—Prince Gustavus, son of the Ex-King
of Sweden, quited this capital on 'he morning of the Bth
instant, with the persons of his suite. His Royal High-
nees repairs to Naples, whither a courier has been sent to
the Russian Legation, to announce his approaching arrival.
BERLIN, JAN. 15.-It is said there will be several
changes in our diplomatic relations. Comte de Fleuviag
will go to Lisbon and General de Valentini, a distinguished
author, is destined for an embassy in the North.
The following is from the /I.4.zie Journal:—" If a
rumour afloat in the northern province, particularly at
Amsterdam, may be depended upon. it is in contemplation
that Prince reilerick should go to Batavia, to reside there
in quality of Viceroy over the Belgian Provinces in the
East Indies."

Rio JANEIRO, Nov. 19.—0 n the 13th inst. an embargo
(which still continues) was laid titian all shipping, in con-
sequence of some disturbances among the troops, arising
from the Emperor forcibly dissolving the Legiiative As-
sembly ; and to prevent unauttrnticated accounts from
reaching the Provinces before the Manifest and other
papers which have been published of this proceeding.
The death of the rpanish Prime Minister M. de C'asa
fruit, was arcelerattd, if not wholly occasioned, by a cala-
mity of a domestic nature—the loss of an only son, who
was lately killed in a duel. The influence of this Minister
was greatly counteracted by that of the Clergy, who re-
garded him as a person too much inclined to the doctrines
of the Liberal School. This opposition, however, was not
certainly of so violent and harassing a nature as to break
the health of the Minister; but be sank under the afflic-
tion above mentioned.

The Commission of three officers, viz. Sir James Smyth
(King's Aide-dc-Camp), Sir John Oldfield, and Major
Fanshawe, that left England in October, safely landed
from the packet on the 26th Nevember last, at Barbadoes.
On the 6th December they were about commencing their
labours, by visiting Jamaica; they will go through the
West-India Islands, and probably the Bahamas, and Ber-
muda, and return to this country in April. The object
of the Commission is, to ascertain the state of the for-
tresses and barracks; but more particularly to -eport on
the various annual estimates, recently laid before the Mu-
ter-General of the Ordnance, for repairs and additional
barracks, for which enormous sums are yearly voted by
Parliament.

Extract from a letter, dated Antigua, 7th Dec. ISO:
" We have just received accountsfrom Demarara of the
execution of the IL:v. Mr. Smith, a member of the London
Missionary Society, who has been hanged, upon the fullest
proof, for exciting the late rebellion in that colony. The
poor deluded negroes, who have paid the forfeit of their
lives upon this occasion, uniformly at the gallows declared
with their last breath, that it was by his preaching and ex-
citement that they were led to revolt."
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Tr: N ERIFFE.—About the loth of November a French
frigate arrived at Tenerife, with a Governor from Cadiz
on board, to restore the old order of things in the Canary
Islands, which occasioned much confusion and bustle
among the inhabitants of Tenerife...
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Tirf: I)} CAN Patzz-sioxzy.—Upon inquiry we have
ascertained, that there has been hit!ierto no distribution of
the Deccan prize-money, and for the best of all passih:e
reasons, because the money has not yet been brought for-
ward.

On Tuesday forenoon, at half-past ten o'clock, the re-
mains of the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry were re-
moved with great funeral potop, from his house at Rich-
mond, Surrey, for interment in the Deanery of Lichfield.
The coffin was covered with rich silk purple velvet, and ele-
gantly studded with gilt furniture ; on the lid of the coffin
was a handsome gilt plats, with the following inscription :
—" The Right lion. James Earl of Cornwallis, Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry, and Dean of Durham ; died
'2oth of January, 1814, in the eighty-first year of his age."
The body was conveyed in a hearse with six horses, and
followed by three mourning coaches, with six horses each,
the whole richly caparisoned with velvet covering, and rich
plumes of ostrich feathers, with family escutcheons and ar-
niorial beatings, and preceded by a man on horseback,
bearing the coronet on a velvet cushion, uncovered, and at-
tended by two pages, followed by fourteen men on horse-
back, with black cloaks and scarves. Next the mourning
coaches, were his Lordship's carriage with six horses, which
will proceed the whole of the way. Several private car-
riages followed, among which were those of the Marquis
of Stafford, the Dowager Duchess of hichtnond, Viscount
Sidmouth, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of
Lincoln, the Bishop of Winchester, Ac. The funeral
'reached St. Alban's on Tuesday, and will arrive at Lich-
field
onThursday. _

It is understOod that Dr. Hall will succeed to the
Deanery of Durham, which became vacant by the recent
death of the.llon. James Cornwallis, D.C.L., Lord Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry. It is rot yet determined who is
to be the successor to the Bishopric.
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0:- vont, Cone T.—The accession of Messrs. West,
Puller, Pearson, and Winter, front the I txford Circuit, in
so short a petits!, will open a wide field for the talents of
younger Counsel. It is whispered that C. Phillips, Esq.
the flowery Irish Iltrrister, will attend this Circuit.—
G/ nicester Paper. •
At the Theatre of San Carlo, in Naples, a squadron of
ati horses manoeuvred with the greatest ease upon the stage,
in I)uport's ballet of Cindy/ dia. They were rode by Ger-
mans, and charged at full speed.
THE Maui c Minnons.—Beside the harmonic society,
which met in the Wiwi of Mesmer, where, for his four
louis, the subscriber was instructed in all the secrets of
the scienv of animal inagnetism, and was an eye-witness
of the predigies of somnambulism, there were secret at-
semblien in Paris, where the visitors were to be gratified
with a vi,w, either in a mirror or in water, of the objects
they were mist anxious to witness, such as the beloved re-
latives or friends they had lost, those who wire distant
from thin. &e. The mirrors were purchased at a high
price, and the composition of the marvellous water charged
extravagantly dear. On their return home, the) ascer-
tained the nullity of their talismans, but took care to pre-
snve silence, anu left other dupes to be caught in the same
trap.
r•sv Taa NSlT.—When the celebrated Franklin was
about to return to Philadelphia, as he emld not bear the
motion of a carriage, it was planned that he should embark
on the Seine, opposite his own house at l'asay, to pro-
ceed to Rouen' and thence to Havre, where the vessel that
was to convey hint to America was fittin. It might thus
have been sa4l, that it was not necessary for him to take
one single step in advance, on Isis route from Paris to
Philadelphia.

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liaincitt meets; wben we trust that not only will his con- cced to Rouen, and thence to Ilavre, where the vest
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ciaa;.rsetories, slaught:r-houses, (..c., to execute Articles 13 and injury sustamtd, any had been SUStalllt 11 ; but e these lata Acts be trade, which at present are a stain on have been said, that it was not necessary for him
mative to secret societies and %snuggling, and, till tine "1 fenilant might then have pleaded a justification, and this !the Statute Book, ;Ind which enable the local Magistracy to one single step in advance, on his route from I',
wisit estshlisit a rnslitsry corps, charged indt the protectson of the ,
worse and roots, the geuend Pubce may use its and it. woted not have answered the purposes: the partits n become at once th.: scandal and the scourge of the country, Philadelphia.
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