The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-21 00:00:00

CHILBLAIN CERATE.

rINHIS CERVig,lr;;lts emollient and healing pro-
perties, is found to be sin excellent application for Chil-
blains when broken ; and if used to the hands and feet, when there
is a predisposition to these annoying affections, it is attended with
the utmost advan.age in preventing their occurrence. Being free
from any disagreeable smell, or unsightly appearance, it may be
used without the least inconvenience to the hands and arms. It
is also used with great success in cases of Scalds, Barns, Bruises,
Eruptions, and Ulcers, especially in Sore and Ulcerated begs.
Sold in Boxes, at Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. by Butler, Chemist, 4,
Cheapside, St. Paul's; Savory and CO. 136, New Bond-street ; 210,
Regent-street; and by the principal Medicine Venders throughout
the United Kingdom. Of whom, also, may be had the CAJKPUT
OPODELDOC, an excellent Remedy for Chilblains (before
broken), allaying the irritation ; used also in Rheumatisins, Spas-
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N.B. Be careful to ask fbr Butler's Chilblain Cerate, and Cje-
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NEW SONGS.
"Cherry Ripe," by C. E. Horn, sung by Madame Vestris 2 0
" May thy lot in life be happy," sung by Mies M. Tree,
written and arranged by T. 11. Bayley, Esq. . . 2 0
" The Daughter of Love," sung and composed by Miss
Paton - - 2 0
" Such tears are bliss," sung by Miss Stephens, written
by T. H. Bayley, Esq. arranged by J. C. Clifton - I)
" Morning around us is beaming;" the words and music •
by J. A. Wade, Esq.
" Sweet, 'tie now the moonlight hour" do. do. . 1 6
" Wake, my hove ;" a Serenade ; the words by W. Logan,
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" Where are you going my pretty maid ?" sung by Ma-
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" Blue Eyes and Black Eyes ;" the words by Butler Dan-
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fit 1 loamy turn to thee, :Wary ;" the words by. Horace
Smyth, Esq.; the music by Michael Kelly - 2 0
" The Land of the Stranger ; ' written by E. M. Fitzgerald,
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"Oh ! I ne'er shall forget ;" arranged by dn. - - 2 0
" Rule Britannia," with Madame Cetalatu's Vexations, and
a striking Likeness of her in the frontispiece. Composed
by Pio Chiandiettini - 6
" Soft in the Esst," sung by Miss Graddon and Miss Fords,
composed by O. A. - 2 e
" The Year that's arra'," arranged by Sir J. Stevenson . 2 0

Published by J. Willis and Co., Proprietors of the Royal Mu.
sisal Repository, SI, at James-street, London; and No. 7,
Weatuun:and-atrust, Dublin.

I)IM()ND, HAIR-CUTTER ((mermen? to Mr. Wake)
I, Burlington-Gardens, having invented a Headdress to
Ladies at.d Gentlemen %knout the use of napleasant elastic
springs in the neck, which adheres moat pleasantly to the head,
may be made not to weigh one ounce, and a pt•rfect imitation et
nature, no doubt will supersede all others in theit elegant and In-
coining appearance • warranted not toehrink, and may be washed.
se that they may always he purfeetty dean, imprene and suit the
contour of every Illevatenance:Airidies'lNlese, made satiety •ia curl
in the dampest weather, or in any climate; 11. if. each.

It is the consciousness of this which err.holdens the literary quack,
the patiendess self-dubbed physleian,the hireling scribbling assassin
" et id genus owns," to stigmatise the excellence he dreads, and
aim at the degradation of practitioners who have been guilty of suc-
cess under the most appalling circus, -amen of discouragement.
Yet do Lien and Co. keep their own counsel, and, in preserving
inviolate the secret of their confiding patient, are content to " do
good by,stealth, and blush to }Wit fame," and,despising the attacks
of "hungry" libellous pretenders, will boldly pursue their course
and invite the afflicted to partake the arivroitages of their syrern.
The youth who has enervated his ?rattle by the strangely fascinat-
ing am, which the poor victim of folly will too readily eienpreherd
without further aescrtrition, may find relief from his misery, and be
kindly taught to regain his lost place in the scale of creatian. The
Auffrer who, from Nadler extreme of irdulgence, has, with un-
bashful forehead, wooed debility, may barn to renovate net ire and
repair his abused constitution. The man of pleasure, eNpe.sed to
and suffering from Lou Venerea, however aggravated by Gllaltrac.
tin of the quack, on the concealment from diffidence, :nay hnd a
certain restoration ; and finally, in cases where the delay of a eon..
ntibial pledge has almost extended disappointment to despair, they
offer to the married female those hopes which she can reasonably
apalcize.
in can be forwarded to may part of the world patients
writing fur the same 101 please to enclese a Tank ;sate.
Attendance at ',erne for consultation n usual.
GOSS and CO. M.M.C. Surgeons.
\o.ll, liouvcrie,eptet, Fleet-street., London.
•,,* Just published (Seventeenth Edition. 1. TILE .4191 S
O!• 1.1 a • familiar commentary on Maribor, Diseases. 2d.
1114,1EIANA. addressed exclusively to the Female fiex. May be
had at 20, Telemeter-row ; Pall-rdall • 111, Trinees-street;]
Soho • 174, inset-asset 4, Ilheltniasertinst, iseadan Potter, 71.
traii.4.A.4el.4 DlAblill • Jones, 114, Trorogate. Glasgow ; and bll
o uth-brldgo.street,-Tdinbutgh ; and bf all buolnerers. Triceps.

Livr.aroot., Mincu 17.—Arrived the American ship Mar-
garet, M'Cleland, from Plymouth. Sailed the Selma, Longlield,
for Mobile..--.No appearance of the packet shf p.
LIVERPOOL. Illancit 17.—Arrived the Finny, Peaczxk, frdm
Oporto; and the Rolla, from Nassau, New Providence.
NORTII SIIIELDS, MARCH 17.—The :Ilercha.nt, of Siunkr.
land, Taylor. which got on the Black Middens 7th inst. • tent to
pieces yesterday.
Hay •NN an, FEB. 12.--AiTived on the 2d inst. the Colombian
schooner Clara, prize to the Spanish ship Fama de Cadiz. Thrcr
sailors, part of the crew of the English brig John and Ann. front
London, bound here, were on bawd of her, who state that their ves.
ad was taken off Cape Antonio by the Clara, and sent for Carlii.
genii The Cataluna, arrived here M. hist. from Barcelona, was
boarded off Banco& by • Colombian brig; and the Sampson,
which arrived on the' Mb, teem Morels, wsa branded by a Col.ini.
bian brig near the Paws de Maine. . .
JAMAICA (KINGSTON). JAN I.—A shallop, belonging to the
ship Hector, with eight hogsheads of sugar, was lost nn the 24th
tilt. and one roan dniwned. Another shallop, called the Portland,
W belonging to the ship 'ellington, was wrecked at Cocoa Walk, on
Merriam day, and three hogsheads of sugar washed out.
A svatt•no, DEc. 25.—The Telegraph, Pagan, front Liven... 4
which arrived 20th inst. is gone to Antos Lizard, to discharge,
she could not pass the bar here cn account of drawing tub inecli
water.
CARTAGENA DT. COLOMBIA, DEC. 21.—The eargu of the
Joseph and Ma, from Loudon, has been discharged, in a very
malted mate, some articles being entire!y•Jestroyeal.
JANIIABY 12.—0 n the 4.11 Mat. arrived she Spanish wheonir
Vigilante, rom Jamaica to Batabaea, Cuba, prize to a ColorUblo'i
privateer.

It is reported at Lloyd's. that the Diamond frigate, Lord Nopler,
from Mexico, ite. is arnved off Plymouth.
VESSILLII SPOKEN W!Tli.—(lncinnz!u•, Blew, London foe
17th Feb. withia 48 hours sail of the latter place., by
arrived at Plymouth.

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were on board of her, •
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who state that their vessel via
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CHILE LOAN—The sixth Half-yearly DIVIDEND
on the above LOAN, which becomes due on the 31st inst.
will be paid by 31essra. Mullett, Brothers, sad Co. at their Count.
ing.houre, let, Leadenhall.street, on that and every succeeding
day (iundays excepted), between the hours or ten and two. The
Linvidind Warrants. with a List thereof in numerical order, must
be left be 'lamination one d.y previous to the application for pay-
ment.
London, March 16,1825.

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iirlitgilt Wreg4o.

TIIE•I7'RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Thls Evening, MONDAY. March SI, will be performed
ZINO RICHARD THE THIRD.
Date of Glo'ster, Mr. Kean; Earl uf Rkbmond, Mr. Wallach. Lady
Anne, Was Smithson ; Queen, %DN. W.West.
After which,
HARLKVIN AND THE TALicrir.
11111 SLY TREES. AND GOLDEN WATERS.
Hu:again, Mr. Howell; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Ellanebard; Clown. Mr.
Kirby. Columbine, bliss Barnett.
• Tomorrow, Dee Feefiwbuts, The Hoesignol, and Dille of Clyde.

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'lf EATRE .ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
This Evening, MONDAY, March 11. win be performed
:NATIVE 1,144 t
Or, Tilt RETURN FROM( sLi.vvre.
Marino dl 11.1nntalto. Mr. Sinelaft; Oulseppo, Mr.W. Varren ?we-
arid!, Mr. Cooper: Pertgrino. Mr. Fawcett. Clynoune. Miss Rani-
menus, ; Zassizia, Miss Love; iliondina. Miss N. Tree.
After which.
ALADDIN; or, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.
Aladdin. Mrs. Vining; Anew: gar, Mr. Farey: em
ark. Mr. I. I. Oil-
:width. Widow, Mrs. Davenport.
Tomiotrow. A Roland for an Oliver, Clari, and Aladdin.

THE.4IRER ROYAL
RIOS.—LA, COVENT-6-41iDEN.
O t TOST NIGHT.
Du WEDNIVIDAY ?MKT, March ea.
Patti' I.—Selections from the Sacred Oratorios of Samson (Handel).
Jab (Su and The Prophecy Made).
raw 11.—Cantata, " The Oftring of Devotion at the Shrine of
Name (for the first time in this country), the words by Hampden
Keg., arranged to the original Music under the title of " Nat ur ,
94316, by C. 10. Von Weber.
~:,'
Yodel PM Mad= e Caradori ; Misses Graddon.
Lu.V.417.W ay; Mrs. Tennant: Master Longhurst: and Miss
M. litrabisru, Pearman, K. Cluiymtui, Tinney,
Loader of , Mr. Mori. Conductor at the Organ and Piano
farts, Mr. S. Wesley. The Choruses, under the direction of Mr. %Vat-
ten. will be and complete. assisted by the Young Gentle-
men of his Majesty's Chapel Royal anti St. Paul's Cathedral. The
whole under tin. superintendence of Mr. Hasse..
The Dramatic Free List does not estend to the Oratorios.

THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLNISH OPERA HOUSE;
STRAD.
MR. MATHEWS AT HOME.
Efettlnd, MONDAY, March Id, and on Mondays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays, Passion Week excepted,
MR. MATHEWS' hIESIORANDUM-110oK
et Pere:laxities, Characters. and Manners, collected during his various
Trips.
Souse—" Memoranda In Confuelon"—.• Nightßubbles,'
• avast goat—. Selling Matcht• Old and hew Times"— Public
BOW-StTeet.
PAST 111.—A moninotylogur, to be called
•
THE. CROWN His DANGER.
Deers open at seven; the Perfortnanee to commence at Eight. Places
it i,e Wren ut Mr. Stevenson, at the Bur-othce, Strand Entrants, from
till Five.
GASTIOY.The new Eatertatament will not be printod ; and all
Pids.,ll prerelease to crate::: any ?tr=y of It art grow Impositions sad
Maude ea the

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ihe Bat 'r tsU Passa commenced publjalu lig on Saturday marring
at tire o'clock.

LONDON, MONDAY. MARCH 21, 1825.

The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night. On
'Yhuraday the Law of Sacrilege was kid before the Cham-
ber of Deputies by the Keeper of the Seals, who felt it
necessary to oar au excuse for the shocking severity of
he proposed punishments. " The severity of the punish-
ment," said he, " lies been blamed, and propositions has
beea made to substitute one less severe. We say it, not
*About regret, that we should have preferred the absolute
sdence of the law. The law might have been silent on the
subject of sacrilege, as among other people, and other times
and places it has been on that of parricide. Is would not
be impossible to find in this omission itself a proof of pro-
found respect for religion ; but, from the moment the law
provides a punishment for the crimes of sacrilege and par-
ricide, it cannot, without shocking the principles of morality,
religwo, and even common decency, avoid punishing them
with the utmost severity. It is much easier to conceive
the language of impiety to be the denial of sacrilege being
a crime, than that of the man of piety denying it ought
to be visited with the most severe punishment." The
discussion of the law for reduclng the Renter was opened
by M. Bouctiss, a royalist deputy, who strongly opposed
the measure. M. Bo uRD t u afterwards deiiv;.red Sl:leech
which made a ileep impression on the Chamber. The
project of last year, he said, had at least the merit of
clearness; the prestait was tortuous, confused, and incom-
prehensible. Both these speeches were ordered to be
printed. The debates will be continued several days, as
the cumber of intended speakers who have inscribed their
manses is very considerable.
'Jibe recent debates on
m the Law of Inticiunity have cu.
se;ition of disquietude Itml RUM
national proper ty—thdee who, as
• his last speech in the Ctrair.Ler of
to the emigrants as wireety to Dap
strength. We know' by private
state of France is pre ;Want with
; and it has been observed of late
is motion, though no out can
design these changes are made
no allusion to time proceedings.
those topics which are pernaitt...l

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I.9.ol4.l.ll.l.ll"lmummomewuessuumuno----
OCKB ON SATURDA Y. to them, to keep up the mockery of an opposition in reality
India Bonds 82 84 pm
ez.B.thold. Low as be pe
not permitted.
Lottery Taco, lit. les. An analysis has been made of the votes of the Chamber
COCKS ON SATURDAY. of Deputies on the law of indemnity, from which it results
Neapolitan Bonds 211 1 that of the majority of 259, by which it was passed, 249
Pella V lan ond.. gri.
Ditto Acct. 874 84_71 . were parties interested—three Ministers, six Director
Portuiuese solidi toe Generals, and one King's Commissary.
Ditto Asct. 99i 'Thrussian Bonus 1011 eDitto
Prince de Mzr reanten bad an audience of the
Ditto Bonds (1822) King of FIANCE on Wednesday. It lasted upwards of
Russian Bonds SI I I
Ditto Acct. 9SI a® hoar. The report was current at Pans on Thursday
spaniel Caws. 144 a 1 12 i i that the intended Congress at Milan would not take place.
MAO Acct. 241 4 i id*
Ditto Cons. OM) 19/ 11 1 By a Bordeaux Paper It appears that Ou vas an is
Ditto Acct. 194 threatened with suits on every side. The Intendant of the
Ditto National Bonds Province of Madrid has summoned him to that city, but
before be can obey the call, he must obtain leave of absence
from his present abed*.
The news from Spain is not less afflicting than all that we
have had for the last two years. FIRDIN•ND is yet very
ill. Nobody sees him but the Queen and his physcian,
but be perseveres in his system of terror unrelaxed. So
greet is his hatred of publicity, that he has ordered the only
remaining Newspaper of Madrid, except the Gazette, to be
suppressed ; and in future only two Paper' are to be per-
mitted, one to be exclusively appropriated to advertisements,
and the other to contain only the royal ordinances and the
discoveries that may be made in the arts and sciences. Such
is the system devised by the government of an European
nation in the 19th century;
Fes Neu Fuvros.—Paitts, MARCH 18.—Five per Cents. opened
at 103 f. • closed at 10-2 f. 9Sc. Rehm de Naples, Certif. Falcoonet,
93f. Sbc: Rentei de Eapagne, 184. Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 60.
Exchange on London—one month, 26f. Sc.; three ditto, SC 1100.
—Coors Arthextiosts, Morels 18.

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In the Brussels Papers of Saturday, which arrived last
night, we observe that the proprietors of the Rhenish vine-
yards are complaining of the difficulties they experience from
want of a liberal system of commercial intercourse between
France and the Netherlands. The measures that have
lately been adopted by the British Government relative to
the wine trade will, no doubt, tend to relieve them. We
find that the reduction of the import duty on iron has al-
ready put into activity the iron-works of Liege and Na-
mur. In the South American market a vast demand is
expected by the Flemish ironmasters. This is alit should
be. The more prosperous each particular interest becomes
in every nation, the greater must be the welfare of our own
country, which will necessarily thrive the faster, the more
able her customers are to buy her commodities. Public
improvements for commercial purposes are everywhere the
order of the day. In the Amsterdam Papers of Saturday
it is announced that the plan for opening a communication
between Brussels and the Scheldt by means of a canal is
under the consideration of the Government of the Nethse*
lands. According to these Papers there seems to be every
reason to believe that the visit of the Prince de hILTTLit•
NICII to Paris has a political effect of great importance.
The affairs of Greece are naturally conjectured to be those
which chiefly occupy the attention of the Austrian Cabinet.
Every prospect is favourable to the Greeks. Constanti-
nople continues in a state of excessive agitation, and the
provinces are miserable and disaffected. Tranquillity jai
not restored in Servia, and the whole aspect of the Turbdil
empire portends its speedy dissolution.

In the German Papers, which arrived yesterday, there
is an observation which deserves attention. The writer is
speaking churlishly of the engagement of German miners
by the agents of the Anglo-Mexican Company. The ad-
mirers of England, he says, will see in this mission fresh
cause to extol our energy and enterprise. lie does not
deny that we are entitled to this praise; but he ascribes
our great wealth to the prohibitory system on which we
have acted with regard to the productions of other coun-
tries. " The reproach," be adds, " however recoils on
ourselves; because we have allowed the free importation
of their goods, while their ports have been closed against
oar corn." It is of essential importance to the success of
the liberal principles of commercial intercourse which we
are now adopting ourselves, and recommending to the
adoption of others, that we should impress them with the
conviction of our sincerity, in respect of the perfect reci-
procity on which we profess to be willing and desirous to
act. If any part of our commercial system should seem
to warrant the suspicion that we are false in our profes-
sions, no rhetoric we can use will persuade foreigners to
enter upon the course we advise them to pursue. It is a
serious question how far our present Corn Laws are cal-
culated to produce the effect ascribed to them by this
writer; for if such be their tendensy, that consideration
alone might make it proper to revise them.

By the Jamaica packets we have received letters and
papers to the 25th January. The news of the liberation
of Peru had reached that Island. The negroes were very
contented, and the island was perfectly tranquil.
Much interest has been excited in the West Indies by
the trials of some slaves in Trinidad for murder. The
prisoners were defended by the Proctuodor Syndic, or, as
he is now termed under the late Order in Council, the
Guardian Protector of Slaves. This officer appears to have
discharged the duty with the utmost zeal for his clients,
and with all the technical adroitness of his profession.
The case of one slave, who was condemned to death, was
carried before the new Court of Appeal, on the advice of
the PROTECTOR, who opened his speech by a complimen-
tary allusion to the constitution of the Court he was ad-
dressing. The ATTOENSY-GCNER•L, who conducted the
prosecution, replied ironically, and with some justice,
that " it was undeniable his Majesty'a Ministers bad
conferred upon this Colony privileges which had been
denied to the people of Great Britain ; they had given us
a Court of Appeal in criminal eases, whilst they submitted
to the inconvenience of dispensing with this additional
machinery for themselves. In the purest spirit of bene-
volent justice, they had given to all the rogues and vaga-
bonds of this Colony a professional defender, at an expense
of 2,000/. per annum, when, after a laboured debate in
the last Session of Parliament, they had decided that their
brother felous in Europe were totally unworthy of a SIMI-
' favour."

Last night we received New York Papers to the lids
ult. Their contents 'elate almost exclusively to the late
struggle for the Presidency, and to speculations tespecting
the new administration under Mr. ADAMS. In the tint
ebullition of their anger and disappointment, the violent
democrats declared their determination to nominate Gene-
' ral Jack SON as a candidate for the next Presidential elec-
tion. It appears, however, that this threat, which was
• too remote to be very terrifying if it had been sincere, will
not be acted upon. Mr. Cita wr oRD was offered the choice
of remaining at the head of the Treasury, but he has respect-
fully declined the situation. Mr. CI AY, it is believed, will
continue in the chair of the House of Representatives, where
he tan render the Adutnistration more efficient aid than in
the Cabinet. Mr. Cu si To N, it is understood, will have the
Hepattment of State. Great efforts arc making to get pus-
session of the loaves and fishes ; and the new President is
reminded on mil aids that he was supported by the friends

THE BRITISH PRV

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of the suitors, " in the confident expectation that they
should be provided for." This is one of the most obvious
' evils of an elective chief magistracy. The sum-ireful can-
didate must regard one half of those he governs as his
allies, and the other half as his enemies. The following
are extracts from these Papers :
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT ELECT.
Mr. WEBSTER, frem the Committee appointed for that pur-
pose, yesterday reported that the Committee had waited on John
Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, and hid notified to him that, in
the recent election of a President of the United States, no person
having received a majority of the votes of all the electors ap-
pointed, and the choke having consequently devolved upon the
House of Representatives, that House, proceeding in the manner
prescribed by the Constitution, did yesterday choose him to be
President of the United States for four years, commencing on
the 4th day of March next. And that the Committee Mid re-
ceived a certain answer, which he presented to the House. The
Committee clan, in further performance of its duty, had given in-
formation of this election to the President.
" Gentlemen—ln receiving this testimonial from the representa-
tives of the people, and States of this Union, I run deeply sensible
to the circumstances under which it has been given. All my pre-
decessors in the high station to which the favour of the House now
calls me, have been honoured with majorities of the electoral voices
in their primary colleges. It has been my fortune to be placed, by
the divisions of sentiment prevailing among our countrymen on
this occasion in competition, friendly and honourable, with three of
my fellow-citizens, all justly enjoying. in eminent degrees, the
public favour; and of whose worth, talents, and services, no one
entertains a higher and more respectful sense than myself. The
names of two of them were, in the fulfilment of the provisions of
the conatitittion, presented to the selection of the House, in concur-
rence with my own : names, closely aissociated with the glory of
the nation, and one of them, further recommended by a larger
minority of the primary electoral suffrages than mine.
" In this state of things, could my refusal to accept the trust thus
delegated to me give an immediate opportunity to the people to
form and to express, with a nearer approach to unanimity, the ob-
ject of their preference, I should not hesitate to decline the accept-
ance of this eminent charge, and to submit the decision of this
momentous question again to their determination. But the consti-
tution itself has net so disposed of the contingency which would
arise in the event of my refusal ; I shall, therefore, repair to the
post assigned me by the call of my country, signified through her
constituaonal organs ; oppressed with the magnitude of the task
before ma, but cheered with the hope of that generous support
from my fellow citizens, which, in the vicissitudes of a life devoted
to their service, has never failed to sustain me—confident in the
trust, that the wisdom of the Legislative Councils will guide
and direct me in the path of my official duty, and relying above
all upon the superintending Providence of that Being ` in whose
hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.'
" Gentlemen—l pray you to make acceptable to the House the
0111 stance of my profound gratitude for their confidence, and to ac-
saps yourselves my thanks for the friendly terms in which you
Leave columuniestad to me their decision.
" .101Iff Qt:INCr ADAMS.
" Washington, 10th February, 1823."
" A letter from Alvarado, of January B, received at Baltimore,
states that the schooner Susan, Newman, (from Baltimore,) had
been carried in a prize on the charge that she was bound to the
Castle with supplies. On the of January another American
schooner, name unknown, anchored between the city of Vera Cruz
and the Castle, and is said to have been sunk at her moorings by a
fire from the city—the Castle opened its batteries against the city,
and the firing continued twenty four hours. A report was received
on the Bth, that another Baltimore schooner had been captured
near the Castle."
" Alf. Appleton, from Spain, arrived at Washington City on
Thursday. The Notional Journal of Saturday states—' We have
reasou to believe there is no truth in the report received at New
York, from England, of the intention of the King of Spain to de-
mand of the United States a real of their recognition of the Inde-
pendence of several of the South American States, under pain, in
case of refusal, of revoking the cession of the Floridas: "

The Catholic Association held its last Meeting on
Wednesday. During the preceding week the amount of
the Catholic Rent exceeded 1,8001. The proceedings
were befitting the occasion, and we trust, whatever may
be the result of the Bill now before Parliament, that
the moderate and conciliatory tone of the Catholic leaders
may not at any future time undergo any change. They
have by their recent temper advanced their claims con-
siderably. While they seem to appeal only to British
justice they are heard, and if they will argue, they
must convince; bat when they used menaces, which
the speeches in the Association too often resembled, the
British people could not brook the affront, and were
alienated from a cause which its advocates rather sought to
extort by fear than to establish by reason. We cannot suffer
this opportunity to pass without commending the excellent
feeling which characterised the speech of Mr. O'CoNNELL
on the celebration of St. Patrick's day. Every friend to
the union and welfare of the kingdom must have read it
with the warmest sentiments of pleasure.

The Times, in its leading article of Saturday, informs the
public, as from authority, that " a communication from
Madrid has been received by the agents for raising a Spa-
nish Loan in this country, in which FERDINAND reiterates
his former declaration, that he will never acknowledge the
bonds of the Cortes, even for the value of the paper en
which they are printed. We feel much pleasure," it is
added, " in making this his Majesty's declaration public,
as well as gratitude for his manly," &c. For what sinister
purpose this public and positive announcement is made we
do not pretend to know; but we can most distinctly affirm
that Mere is not a word of truth in it. It will not after this
be difficult for the public, and more particularly the fre-
quenter of the Stock Exchange, to estimate the reliance
to be placed upon what the Times has written on this
subject, with so much " interest," for this last fortnight.
In the first place, the messenger that arrived on Friday
night brought no despatches whatever relative to the loan ;
and in the next place, FERDINAND has not, at any period
during the last three months, refused to recognise the
Cortes Bonds. On the contrary, he has offered and is at
this moment witting to tecognise them at thirty, interest
included, upon condition of getting a loan from the
Capitalists of London. It is even further true, that this
very offer has been rejected, and that Mr. GREGORY, one of
the Agents to whom the Times, we presume, alludes, has
returned to Madrid with an offer of a loan upon the
security of the Quicksilver Mines, and of certain duties to
be levied upon wool and manufactured cottons, provid,xl
FERDINAND will pay (not recognise) the Bonds at 35,
and undertake further that no part of the loan so granted
shall be applied towards the re-conquering the South
American colonies. No answer has been, nor can be for
some days, received to this offer; but we can assure the
Times, for its information, that an eminent capitalist, en-
gtged in the above ncgociation, has proceeded to Paris,
there to meet Mr. GREGORY on his return, and to arrange
with the bankers of Paris for completing the loan, there
being no doubt whatever of FARDLNAND'S ready ac-
quiescence in the terms proposed.

CITY: SATURDAY EVENING
The Money Markets were exceedingly flat on Saturday.
here was scarcely anything doing in English Securities.
Consols for money were at 931 f, and for the account 931.
Indeed the English market is now quite a secondary con-
siderition with speculators, Shares and Foreign Stocks oc-
cupying their principal attention.
In the Foreign Market, South American Securities were
flat. Colombian Bonds were at 911. The Mexican Scrip
(1825) Zit 3 ; and the Brazilian 211. The great depression
of the morning was in Spanish Bonds. The Old declined
to 243 1, and the New to 191. New Greek Scrip continued
steady at 3i 1 discount, and it was eagerly bought at that
price, because speculators seemed convinced that by so do-
ing they were making a good bargain.
The Share Market was dull. Pasco Peruvians were
from 22 to 93. The Mexican Company's Shares were at
41 5. Colombian Agricultural at 142 1.5. Indeed the
only Shares that attracted notice on Saturday were the Co-
ral and Pearl Fishery, which were done all day at 81 9,
and speculators considered themselves fortunate at getting
Clem at that price.
The Westminster Fish Company's Shares are issued,
and have been done privately, we learn, at to 8 prem.
In the Colonial Market there was very little jobbing ;
but from the bargains we heard of, we can state that the
price of Coffee is firm. Sugars were rather eat.

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