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HAMDVRGH MAIL.

novenae of every pistol sit, and obliged to become
sold ion, or servants; iv thieves, for a subsistence.
I' In America, the rapid increase of inhabitants
takes awry that fear of rivalship, and artisans wil-
lingly receive apprentices from the hone of profit by
their labour during the remainder of the time stipu-
lated, after they shall be instratted. Hence it is easy
fie peer families to get their children instructed; for
the animas are so desirous of apprentices, that
many of them will evenitive money to the parents
to hove boys from tee to efteen years of age binurd
apprentices to them till the age of twentymoe ; and
asay poor parent* hive, hr that wrens, on their
arrival in she conntry. raiser miiiiry edough to buy
land sufficient to evtablish and to sub-
sist the rest al their Goody by agliciltore.
• .• a •
" The almost jeutral usedioerit3r-ef fortune that
peeve& in America, obliging its peeple to follow
some bovines. for sebelitence, them vices that arise
usually from idles's, err, in a great measure, pre-
vented. Industry awd constant employment are
great preservatives of the morals mad virtue of a na-
tion. Hence had examples to youth are more rare
in America, which most be a comfortable conside-
ration to parents. To this May be added, that
serious religion, under its various denominstione.
is not only tolerated, but respected and practised.
Atheism is unknown there, infidelity rare and se-
cret, insomuch that persons may live to a great age
iu that country without Itaillig their piety shucked
by meeting with either an atheist or an infidel.
And the Divine Being seems to have manifested his
.approlmtion of the mutual forbearance and kindness
with which the different sects treat each other, by
the remarkable prosperity with which he has been
pleased to favour the whole country."

FOREIGN INTELLIGh ACE.

PARIS. OCTOBER 25.

The restore►ion tinder ineentori of the artillery
of Valenciennes, and of every thing that had been
left in depot to the Allies,.itras effected on the 18th
by two Engli•b officers appointed by his Grace the
Date of Wellington,' in the hands of MM. Morin

and C■prite, officers of art►llery, charged with this
duly by the Minister of War.

The retaking possession of the fortrespes of
Valeticienue9. Combroy, Lantlrocies, Le Questioy,
Maabeuge. tootl Cootie, will be performed with the

realest solemnity; different regiment* of the Royal
'Moira, and several legions orgrmised in Picardy and
Champsgile, are already appointed to form part
of these garrisons. The national guards of the oc-
cupied towns will be newly organized, and will do
duty with the trim's' of the line until the army shall
be comple►ed according to the royal ordinance*. It
is impossible to express the joy and satii.faction that
prevail in all that part of *ranee. The King is
blessed there, for there is no our who is nut per-
suaded that to his virtues alone we oar our deliver.
mice.

An article dated Valenciennes, October 21, says—
" The Russian corps, commanded by Lieutenant-
lieneral Count ‘Voronzow, is controlled in our envi-
rons; and the Danish troops under the Canon of
'Linehan]; the Hanoverian and Saxon contingents
are concentrated. The English are at Aspire
and its environs. AII these troops form a total of
near 33,000 men of all arms, whose condition is
superb. Among these troops of all nations, is re-
marked a beautiful regiment of cossacks, which is
di•tinguislisd by its excellent discipline.
" Alter the grand review of departure, and the
mainativres which will follow it, the Allied troops
forming the right wing of the Army of Occupation,
will put itself in motion to return homewards. All
the baggage of the English army will be embarked
on the Scheldt, on board vessels there assembled,
which will transport it to Antwerp.

I' The resuming possession of all the fortresses
occupied by the Allied troops will take plaice sue-
cruively, so that it shall be terionated by the 15111
of November. The King lies already named the
emends and superior Officers who are to occupy
them 81111 have the command of them. It is thought
that Valenciennes will be one of the la,' evacuated."

The Deportment of the Moselle—For the fourth
nomination there was a ballot between M. de Thor-
met, Mayor of Metz, and Lieutenant-General Gre.
Dien General Grenier has been appointed.
Upper Saowe—MM. de Grammont and Martin
de Gray, former deputies, hare beau re-elected.
These deputations are complete.

LETTER !ROM MUNICH, OCTOSEE 13.

We live here in perfect tranquillity, sod know no-
thing of the supposed warlike preparations which
seem to disturb our neighbours, and are even said to
have given occasion to active conoter measures.—
Our troops remain quiet in their garrisons, and we

hope that tl►e misunderstandings which have arisen
will be peaceably and amicably arranged.
Prince Charles, who was sent to Frankfort to
meet the Emperor or Russia, has brought back
the agreeable intelligence. that his Majesty, after
the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle is over, will pay
a visit to our Court.

CONSTANTINOPLE. SEPTEMBER 9.

A few days ago, while the Sultan was following
his favourite amusement of archery, news was sud-
denly brought of a fire having broken out near his
summer residence, Beshictirsh: he immediately
mounted a horse and hastened to the spot, but the
violent biotin prevented speedy 41:3191111/Ces stud in

THE BRITI SH PRESS.

LONDON,

THURSDAY, °mule 29. Isle.

THE QUEEN.

Both the Doctors were in attendance upon her
MAJESTY at Kew Palace o►► Tuesday night, and
we have the pleasure to say, were enabled to issue
the following favourable Bulletin alter their visit
early yesterday morning :
" Kew Palace, October 28, 18118.

" The Qoeen is more comfortable this morning, in tense.
quence of several hours sleep in the night; but the romp.
toms of her Majesty's malady are not changed.

" F. MILMAN,
" H. HALFORD.°

A more detailed and particular account was sent
to the PRINCE REGENT, the Duke of Yogic, &c.
in London. Ifer MAJESTY continued in the same
comfortable state during the day, so as to render
it unnecessary to send any other communication to
the Royal Family.
Yesterday the Patrice REGENT went to dine
with the Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess
AUGUSTA, at Kew Palace, and continued his at-
tendance there till a late hour.

The Paltocsins walked iu Kew Gardens, as
usual.

The proposed Reduction in the Army is before
our readers, and is probably such as had been ge.
*lenity anticipated. Retrenchment in every mode
of expense, and particularly in our military esta-
blishment. is too congenial to our wishes not to
meet with our approbation ; but we trust we shall
nut be deemed unnecemearily captious in offering a
few reminks upon the time and manner in which
the reduction now proposed is to be carried into
effect.

The country is not only entitled to every re-
trenchment consistent with propriety, but it has a
right to expect that every such measure will be ac-
complished in such a manner that the good may be
obtained without incurring the probable chance of
evil. The sudden disbanding of 31,000 men, none
of whom are likely to be distinguished by much
industry or prudence, must be attended with some
inconvenience. This would be best obviated by
causing the measure to take place in those particu-
lar seasons when the agriculture of the country
would give immediate employment to many of
them, and thus afford time for their gradual union
with the mass of society. The approach of winter
offers but a dreary prospect to the greater part of
them; we, therefore, cannot avoid thinking that
the time for carrying the reduction into effect is
but ill chosen, end that less inconvenience would

be felt by Abe individuals themselves, MAI Ly the
nation generally, were the reductiou postponed for
threetuoistlis.
We object also to the plan of reduction. and
think that entire regiments. amounting to 1,2,600
men, ought to have been reduced, rather than
have all the remaining regiments (exclusive of
those serving in India) diminished by fifteen men
to a company, or lin to a regiment. This mode
of reduction debilitates the entire military system,
by destroying the efficiency of every psrticular
ment. Should a sudden emergency arise. re-
quiring the immediate expedition of an army, it
will be found, after a few years of the peace eats.
blislinient, very difficult to select corps in a per-
fectly efficient state. The muster-roll will he bur-
dened with old and sick, mid men unfit for any
other service than a parade; and military men are
well aware, that such persons bear, on home ser-
vice, a large proportion to the nominal strength of
the regiment. Nor is it in this country a very
easy matter to fill up the ranks of an army no a
sudden. Recruiting corps must he forivhd, depots
established, recruits trained, and, on the average,
six months will have flewd before efficient Pol.
die,, can be thus created. It is no argument
against those plain facts to urge the advantage of
vupporting the staffs and skeletons of regiments.
Staffs and skeletons can be formed much more
easily than soldiers, and it is absolutely absurd to
keep up the sheer of regiments that are not tit for
'foreign orelviei at • week's notice. We have only
spoken of the infantry, but the same reasoning ap-
plies with much givater force to the cavalry, as it
requires much more labour to form it. Nearly
3,000 dragoons are reduced, at the rate of ten men
a troop. It were preferable, as it spars to us,
that tour regiments were reduced, than that the
efficiency of existing regiments should, by this
species of reduction, he endangered.

We have received the Pdris Papers of Sunday
last. with the exception of the Gazelle de France.
We hope that this Journal may not have commit-
ted one of those " ►ins of presumption" which
occasionally attract the notice of the Minister of
Police. The present, moment is critical, mid the

sentiments of the several Journals in France will no
dunk be scrupulously rxuuioed. The evacuation
of the several cautionary fortresses will he so nit-
!atmd that this measure shall be completed before
the 13th of November.
The Five per Cents. continue to look downwards.
They are now 75 1.--. Bank Stock is 1,63 ii i.

We have received Beaton Papers to the 49th ult.
one day later than opr last, but they contain no
news.

Hamburgh Papers have arrived. They contain
a statement, derived, it is said, from an authentic
source, of the objects intended to be pursued by
the French exiles who recently established them-
selves on the Trinity River, in the province of
Tens. They were in the course of this year. un-
der General LALLESIAND, to unite with a party of
Mexicans, who will, with their assistance, endea-
vour to overthrow the Spanish authority in that
province. The French party is said to amount in
cavalry. artillery, and infantry, to 4,000 men.—
They are well officered, and, with the powerful in-
centives of avarice and ambition, added to their
well-tried valour and experience, will probably de-
cide ►he fate of Mexico. This statement of their
purposes coincides with the speculations contained
in an American Paper, which we noticed some days
since.

The enemies of Spain are increasing, and about
to increase rapidly in South America. while the
blind and besotted Government can achieve tin en-
terprise to retard the final extinction ails power in
the New World. We have greedy hinted at the
success with which the cause of South American
independence has been advocated in this country•.
11 is uo longer a secret, that not less than 1,500
gallant young men have volunteered in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland to join the Independent standard,
under the guidance of an Officer who has distin-
guished himself very highly in South America.
They will sail iu a few days from the Thames, but
their destination is not known with certainty. New
Grenada is mentioned, but we have been assured
that the leader of this expedition has as yet formed
no determination upon this point, but is resolved to
be influenced in a great degree by the circum-
stances of the war. Some vessel'', it is said, have
proceeded to Greenock and the north of Ireland,
for the purpose of taking out more volunteers.

Yesterday Baron HUMBOLDT. the Prnsaisn Am-
hassador, had a long audience of the Paimca
RIPEN? at Carlton-House.

The Duke of YORK visited the PRINCE REGENT
yesterday.

Yesterday • Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Captain C. 0. MAUL
was sworn into the command of the Ship Atlas,
consigned to Bengal and Chins.
Oar letter from Dover, dated October 27 (Tues-
day), says:—'s We have daily many arrivals of
transports and hired vessels from Calais, with regi-
mental baggage, detachments of troops, horses, and
many military Officers. Lieutenant-General Lord
Elm., with his personal Staff, horses and carriages,
arrived lost night, and a division of cavalry are ex-
peeled to-moriow at Calais."

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