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TOCORRESPONDENTS.

Letter of an ETE:wrirx ES!, and sonic others, respecting
the insufficient supply of water at the late dangerous conaagra-
t,uns, are of necessity postponed till to-morrow.

The BZIT/1111 razes commenced publishing yesterday morn-
ing at lin o'clock.

LONDON', THURSDAY, Novxmaza 18, 1824.

The French Papers of Monday came to hand last night.
Tlie principal news they contain is respecting the Greeks,
witose military successes rival their naval glories. The
o.o.,titsrliinind, in reference to the arrest of M. Cocsist,
c•;rtends that there can be no longer any doubt as to the
existence of a general European Inquisition, of which
Pans is the centre, though the first oflice has been estab-
lisi:ed at Mayence. "It is bound together," continues the
h:•.itor, "by a secret and active correspondence with
fume, Madrid, and Lisbon. A Police, wholly political
pe•haps in its origin, has gradually assumed a mystical
xitaracter, and at first intended to be directed only against
revolutionists, has finally made war upon the best and
wisest :rieuds of liberal ideas, and the most enlightened
it'sciples of modern philosophy. This Police, arising front
a coalition without an example or resemblance in history,
sets, like all secret commissions, but with a power, juris-
diction, concert, and promptitude, which none of them ever
tad. It has fallen into the hands of the most intriguing
and mischievous of men, devoted fanatically to the
t-iumph of their system, and the establishment of universal
despotism." A letter we have received from Geneva,relative
to the proceedings of the Central Commission of Mayence,
states some facts, which, if they be correct, as our informant
assures us they are, would induce us to believe that horrible
crimes are perpetrated by the Germanic Inquisition.
We are unwilling to carry our alarms and suspicious to the
extreme length to which this information would lead
them, but why arc the proceedings of this tribunal
shrouded in darkness and mystery, if they be lit to see the
light ? The following is a translation of the letter we
Lave received from Geneva, by way of Paris :
I have been informed by a person intimately connected with a
Prussian refugee, who is now at Aran. (from whence he will pro-
bably noon be driven,) that the latter had assured him, that the
Judiciary Commission of Mayence had lately cot.deruncil 34 Wl-
',duals, accused of bolding meetings for conspiracy, raccoon de
4...-n2esdelisagogipses.) and who are to be secretly executed, one
the other, in the differ...tit fortresses where they are confined.
some of them. it re believed from all appearances, have even al.
p,ady been executed. This Prussian refugee, who has unveiled
tb.s dreadful mystery, has himself reason to expect, if not the same
vestment, at least a most severe imprisonment. Ile is, I ant told,
C:Jtely watched, in Switscrl.tri, by a Prusviln Colonel.

• • Me King of Pitt:9min, who is at present the most violent and
t'..e most alsrmcd 31ember of the holy Alliance, him insisted that
• .:titans of Bask should disih'ss the two Prussian Profeaeora,
✓ 3 for Mice years have been employed in the I.lnivmity of that
et,. The Council appear determined to refuse to comply with
• &mend; but there is ever) reason to believe that they will,
r •rTrtheleri, be compelled to nerd their Prof away."

rile official despatches of liottear.'s action with the
l'ayalists, which our readers will find in another column,
not materially vary from the account we gave yester-
day, from the Jamaica Papers. The rencontre took place
at Keyes, a town about 110 miles N.E. of Lima. C N..
• star: seems to have ben desirous of avoiding an engage-
ment. but the advance of the Colombians was so rapid
Oat the Spanish General appears to have been compelled,
it, order to cover the retreat of his infantry, to hazard a
tirrnish of cavalry. No material result on either side
tulloweJ the conflict. CA N rat It A C AUCCCelled in en-
'Sling his infantry to take up a position at Jauja. without
losing any prisoners. 'rile Colombian despatches claim
the victory in tenni absurdly hyperbolical, and calculated
to lead us to doubt that the disasters of their enemy have
bees as severe as they think proper to represent. CA N.•
va,adac bears the character of being the best cavalry officer
in the Spanish service, and we dare say, when we
hear his moved of the fight, we shall find that it

will be described as a masterly and successful manoeuvre
to save his army from being forced into a precipitate battle.
'f he design of the Spanish Commanders appears to be, to
draw 801 IVAR into the middle of Peru, and not to risk a
general fight, till be shall be so situated, that, in case of de-
feat, he may be utterly destroyed before reinforcements can
reach him. On the favourable disposition of the Pe-
ruvians he can place no reliance. It is evident that
the first reverse would be his entire ruin. The skill
and caution which have hitherto characterised his mi-
litary career, will not, however, we trust, desert him
in his present arduous campa;gn. It is something at least
that the Royalists have fled before him, and that, the
first time be has drawn his sword in Peru, it has been
victorious.

The present age will certainly be recorded in history as
one of the most remarkable periods in the progress of so-
ciety. It is not long since, when a cordon of French troops
were posted on the Spanish frontier, and blood was uhl to
flow in the Palace, that the King—the present worthy Fla-
niNar: o—busied himself in embroidering petticoats and
other decorative under-garments for the blessed Virgin;
and according to the last advices from Constantinople, as
will appear by our Paper of yesterday, the Garai])
SPIGNIOIt, at a time when the Turkish dominions are

Irocking with the convulsions of a revolution that threatens
to annihilate his empire, issues an Edict to regulate the
toilet of the Turkish women, whose graceful locks, it
seems, are suffered to descend in ringlets below the Mus-
sulnian line of chastity, and whose under-petticoats show
more of the ancle than is allowable by " the holy law."
The Imperial Firman prohibits their wearing embroidered
.firidgis, and indulging in gay colours : the Turkish belles
appear not merely to have " lengthened their chain a link
or two," but to be proceeding to extremes, which will soon
set the KOUAN at defiance. " They have not feared,"—
the Finnan proclaims the shocking fact with becoming se-
riousness and alarm—" they have not feared to go to the
public walks with extraordinary veils, which suffer their
faces to be seen." Should this dire infection of vanity be
suffered to spread, there is no prophecying where it may
end; if eyes and noses are to be displayed, there is no say-
ing what may be shown next. "It is evident," says this
sumptuary Edict, " that the Government must put a stop
to such an irregularity." And it proceeds accordingly to
denounce the wearing of the aforesaid embroidered
fe-
. and the wearing of veils so contrived as to show
their faces. " Such conduct," says the G R•N D Simonton,
" is equally contrary to the divine law and to my
will." The Turkish Ruler, no doubt, ascribes the Greek
superiority, and his own disasters, to the vengeance
of the Prophet, drawn down upon the Government by
these arts of dress—these overwrought labours of the
toilet; and above all, to this longing after admiration,
which makes the Turkish coquettes so adjust their veils
as to suffer their checks to see day-light. That his war-
like efforts, therefore, may be no longer crippled by these
over-ruling causes, it is made imperative on all husbands
to take care that their wires do not appear abroad in a
dress "irreconcilable to delicacy and honour, and unsuit-
able to Mussulman women." " You, my Cadi," says the
Firman, " will transmit the present order to all the
Imans, to be published in all quarters; and you will
exert the utmost diligence to hinder the women from going
out in a cortamc which our Imperial will has forbidden."
This pious proceeding of the Ga•w Teal will, no doubt,
arrest the progress of the Greek empire, which, we msy
expect, will be reduced in proportion to the curtailment
of " the embroidered ftWdg.;s'"Flie execution of the
Patriarchs in cold blood r:quired this atonement: and
peace may now be soon expected to reign throughout the
whole domains of Islamism.

♦l'e give to-day rather a curious article from the Ame-
rican Papers, relative to the spread of the Orange system
to the United States, and its natural consequences, public
disorder and tumult. There appears to have been, on the
great Orange anniversary, a regular &Wray, quite in the
spirit of the proceedings that used annually to disgrace

Ireland. The Orangemen matte preparations to outrage
the feelings of their Catholic countrymen, and the latter
resolved, in order to prevent the offensive celebration, to
commence hostilities in the enemy's quarters. The ring-
leaders on each side, equally guilty of a breach of the peace,
were convicted, and at the close of the Sessions attended
to receive the judgment of the Court. The Recorder
of New York made a sensible athlrtis to them on the ex-
treme absurdity and impropriety of their conduct, and
trusting to the effect of his admonition, only bound them to
be of good behaviour for twelve months. We have in this
affair a striking instance of the inveteracy of the feel-
ings in which the party schisms of Irishmen have ori-
ginated. All these persons had left country most
probably with an intention of never returning to it
again ; they had taken up their residence for the rat
of their lives, under a Government and among a peo-
ple who have nut the slightest connection with the
events they wished efilinnively to commemorate. Yet we
find the United Irishmen, on the one side, and the Purple
Marksmen on the other, as ardent and uncompromising in
their mutual hatred, as if the battle of the Boyne had been
fought only last year. The American Courts have wisely
determined to put an end to the mischief at once, by a mild
but firm and impartial administration of justice against both
the parties. These trans-At lan tie proceedings are nut wholly
unworthy of observation at home. If we see these prin-
ciples of " political fanaticism," as the Recoyler of New
York very properly termed it, operating in the United
States with sueli force, where there arc no excitements
bat " idie remembrances and antipathies," what must
he the danger to which the peace of Ireland is neces-
sarily exposed front such a source ? Bow much stronger
should be the measures of repression used to prevent
the continuance of these party feuds in the country
which gave them birth ? But the same course of even-
handed justice should be followed. If there are those
iu Ireland who aim at unlawful objects (of which by
the way we have as yet had no proof), let them be
deprived of all pretext■ for appealing to the passions
of their countrymen, by raising an outcry that the
law is unfairly administered ; that whilst it crushes with
unsparing severity the crimes of the Catholics, it passes
over v.ith impunity the offences of the Orangemen. We
have, in the present condition of that country, the best
evidence, that a system of Government which extends to
all the Kt sn's subjects the blessings of equal protection,
without reference to the creed they profess or the %Mimi
to which they may belong, is the only system calculated to
ensure from them cheerful obedience to the laws, and an
undisturbed state of public tranquillity. Never was an
experiment more successful than that which the Marquis
West est.!: If has made for the pacification and prosperity of
Ireland. Let us not be deceived then by the exaggerated
accounts we hear of the growth of party feelings among the
mass of the population. There are perhaps some increased