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Being put to the vote, the project vas adapted by
87 vote► against 5. The Assembly adjuurned till
tu-uourrutv.

Fridav the Ike, 24, Capt. CHAMBERS, arrived
at Portsmouth from the North American station, to
be paid off—last from Halifax, in 19 days. A let-
ter, dated 11.111fisx, October 25, 1818, says--04 The
American Navigation Act, which prohibits trading
betwevn this plsee and the United States, as re-
spects vessels owned at 114 s port, has not a little
stirred op our war frelings.• We hate here Boston
Papers of the lid, int:taint, but they contain no
pews. Congas, meets on the 16th next month;
the questions relating to South Ameriea are ex-
pected to he among the first to engage ith attention.
The squadron here is just breaking up fur Ber-
muda, to winter. The Serowe* sailed yesterday.
Sir DAVID NlttrrE, in the Leander, with the Bel-
lette, Capt. U. PecHeLL, sells 40•11 e arrow. The
Forth will winter here."

THE BRITISH Pain was the first of all the
London Prints to communicate, on Monday last,
the great import:nice ostensibly attached by Mi-
nisters to the dispatches from St. Helena. From the
bustle excited at the Admiralty—the early meet-
ing of the Council--tka massy that presided at
their deliberations-41m mystery is which they were
involved, uo permit striacqusinted with the history
of the Green Boureald hesitate to presume that
the dispatches were of vital importance; and even
the people of Portsmouth, who had only the extraor-
dinary interdict of Capt. Balsa to speculate upon,
cannot be fairly reproached with excessive credulity,
in believing that something extraordinary had taken
place at St. Helena—that BONAPARTE was dead,
or had effected his escape. From the first impres-
sions necessarily produced by these extraordinary
paraphernalia with which the arrival of Captain
Barrie were so studioatly decorated, arrests were
expected to be the order of the flay in London; but
from this apprehension the public mind was speedily
relieved by the Treasury INints, which assured their
residers that the traitors were not, as the sagacious
Captain's iuterdict of twenty-four hour.' silence
would intimate, in London, but iii Berlin, Mu-
nich, &c. The babble is, however, nearly burst,
and we find this mighty secret is nothing mere
than a suspicion of being suspected—not a dis-
covery of an actual plot, but a correspondence
that may lead to the detection of a plot. It is a
fact that the most exaggerated accounts are
artfully circulated of the delights and pleasures
of St. Helena ; it is a second Pandora, and the
public will not fail further to remark the extraor-
dinary coincidence, that this charge against BONA..
PARTE is brought forward et the moment when it
is sought by Ins Erica& at Aix-la-Chapelle to
procure so amelioration of his condition. The
following is an extract from the Hampshire Tele.
graph :
" The nature of the dispatches brought by the
Murata (concerning which such unueual secresy
was observed), was communicated in a Second
Edition of our last Paper. We have reason to
believe a much greater degree of importance has
been attached to these dispatches than their coateuts
deserve. We here subjoin an extract from a letter
we have received :

" St. Helena, Sept. 28, MS.

" The Mosquito sloop of war sails to-morrow for Eng-
land ; she is charged with dispatches from Ilk Hudson
Lowe, relating, it is understood, to an intercepted cot.-
repondence, which has diseolnewed the existence of a plot,
the of of which was the liberation of &wapiti, from
this island. I forbear to mention the names tly cir-
culated here, of those who are said to he implicated in
this transaction ; a Hawker's boast in London, however, and
two individuals is England, with others on the Continent,
it is rumoured, are concerned. Detection of the plot was
produced by the circumstance, it is said, of many letters,
addressed to a person (the name of which no iudividual is
io be found here), lying uncalled fur at the Post-Office.—
Bonaparte is in very good health; he still, hoirever, abstains
from exercise, confining himself wholly within doors. The
reason assigned at Longwood fur the departure bent. of
tkueral Goergaud, is a quarrel between him and General
bloutholon. Gourgaud hail been challenged by the latter,
but Bonaparte forbidding them to fight, Gourgaud quitted.
It is confidently said, Bonaparte has recently obtained
the sum of 15,0001. in dollars through what means this
weighty bulk could hive Bern carried clatidestinely to Long-
wood, Is still a matter of mrPrise. The discovel4.7 of the
plot has also brought to light where the whole of Bona-
parte's treasure is deposited Bertrand some time since as-
serted, he could, at any time, command a million sterling.
Of the three Commissioners, one only remains on the island ;

thaws of Russia and Austria are none to Rio, to take up their
abode some time. Bonaparte will not admit either one of
them to his presence. The Austrian Commissioner, Baron
de Stunner, alto ieturned some weeks sluice to his Court, did
not, during the lung period be remained on the island, once
see Bonaparte.
" This island is not healthy for a continued residence; it
is fur many hours, every day, covered with **pours and dense
fogs, mid it dues not yield a sixth !Hirt of sufficient vege-
table sebstances for the use of the troops and *cameos. The
inbsbitants flee wholly excluded from all means of liveli-
hood : no ships arc allowed to remain here longer than is
absolutely necessary: all supplies come front the Cape'
but they are very 'Canty. and what fresh meat is afforded
from this channel is whoa; ergrossed by the troops; the
ships never Set a meal of it ; and thirieg the last five months
they have had only one third bread, nb cocoa, and 00
pease ; the deficiency is wholly made up of tier. Thwart*,
consequentl), prevails much; and ail the vessels have lost
many men; lime Mocquito has lost shout^9 su thiee months,
and the Commenr has scarcely seamen 'slough on board to
work the ship. Rut notwithstanding this utak state, the
rquafsron has furnished 10$I inns to assist ha 'sodding a new
house for Bonaparte, of the moat camoriims dimensions.
The seameni after the dal's Intik is over, arc maitbed to

•
14:1 er Iht lana, to be clicatupo for the
night, Dory ship furnivhes guariLbisatC, which 1116/
moot the 151.4;641, Nod, as they approach the v,eino.
are always chAllengid by the sentiueli. A shot 111111 e
since, one of the sloops of aor in worktioz to a indwatal of
the Wand, ditc.evtud 10.0 On 11 in a cove 101 l the ellort , she
areurdiagly moil boat, MI brought uff la., l'amsturk con.
five; Negroes, who had been Raising; and alai, it !urinated,
um:4l to gel to the beach from the tir of the cliff by o hrt•ret
but ilangenois path. A ore bait.,y was mon Tweet!, tot-
mtdiatt:y erected, and it was t this 1111100.1. °nate,
it is said, that the Gre,t Moo ...as to tn. ta.
We are
.rolletAlll4 1.11111111,1111.11 billf:r11 of 1.41.•nt le
off thc i.13m1: the ci...riaera certainly 60111 lee
such, but netts board them. A ttanspor; front the (tap..
later) passed omit close, lying to, to windward, shout Ml)
miles front the Wand, which took ua moire of bir; t.be
might, however, have hero 'dating, or looking out for Bpa-
nish or Portuguese Intliamen : alts was a large lro,g ,chonner,
of 18 gutty, and apparently full of men.—The troop, here
are wort healthy than the seamen toe; mall tnaualties,
however, tweur among the former—several aentistels have
been lost by falling over the cliff,"

Our readers may probably remember hating
"seen in this Paper, ut ‘e!eral times, (luting the last
and present year, reports of certain judicial pro-
ceedings in various Courts of Frasier against M.
Di MAUIR6UIL, biarquis d'Orvault, who was
charged with having robbed the Queen of Ws:s7-
lrillatta of diautodds Sad specie So II very large
moult. There-appeared in thin case, from the
comuseneematits a degree of mystery, which was
Hot elucidated by fluty c►rcumstances that transpired
during the *al, as reported in the Paris Papers.
A clue, however. has it length been offered, which
demands the mast eeriest attention or every Govern-
ment, sod every people that boast of ciedirition ;
for should it lead to. tbi developcment of trii;ll, it
most damn to everlasting fame the illustrious per-
sonages who ullr;Oadd the sceptres of Franc., Rus-
sia, and Pros*l4lltile, on the contrary, should
it prove to he;rre tiliginated in falsehood, the indi-
vidual who offers it to public view should be
branded with Atrfamy, and driven with shame from
the walks 4 Society.
Ma Di MAUBLIEUIL has .addressed to the Con-
gress awe-lifting at Aix-la-Chapelle, and generally
to all the Powers of Europe, a Memorial, in which
he directly and openly charges the Government of
France, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of
PRUSSIA; with having comurirsioaed him to uss.issi-
mate NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, his sore, and his
lieothess that to effect ►his diabolical purpose they
'gave him full powers to require the assistance of
vilistever number of troops he might think neces-
snry-autlaorised him to command the services of

all post-masters throughout France—and promised
him, as the reward of the murders, the title of
Duke, the government of a province, the brevet

and two hundred thousand

francs a year. To these were added all the
riches belonging to the BonaPsare family,
with the power of Promoting to the rank of
Colonel all persons whom he might employ
in the perpetration or the crime, This com-
mission M. Dx Matimmult. declares he undertook
solely for the purpose of mu,lifyiugor preventing its
execution. The Memorial stiles, that sows afire the
Treaty of Finstainehleau had been signed. before
NAPOLEON had yet departed for Elba, Tat.t.tir-
RAN D,wtio then acted as President of. the Provisional
Government *collecting what sacrifices had been
made in the Royal cause by the family of M. DE
MAUSREUIL, and the injustice and oppression he '
had experienced under NAPOLEON, conceived him
to be ,‘ the only man to whom the Sovereigns could
open themselves, and intrust the execution of the
extraordinary enterprise which had been plootord."
Six messages were sent in his absence to his bonne,
and on his arrival in Paris he lost not a momeirt
in repairing to the Provisional Govermaeor, and
.1 there, in TALLEVRAND'S cabinet," sAys M. DE
IL, " all was revealed to me."
" I pass over all the preeautions which were taken, the
coweitiabutes which were held, all the oaths exacted from
we before those terrible and fatal revelations were made. 1
also pass over all the disguises nod expedWnts which were
alternately adopted and rejected. I any nothing of the per.
sons who knew that I bad just been :arrested with a CO
and Important minion, Sec. lts short, after
having recovered from the astonishment and sitipefactiou
which the kredistedge of such projects and the ceituinly of
theiresistenes had produced in use, 1 collected all my etivrgy,
seeing that tbere was no retreat, and declared that since the
confidence which they placed in we was unbotiailed, they
must leave the whole to tie, and let me be the sole disposer
of my means, end of the eitcation of the Plans which I
should propose I was fortintate enough aftbr-
Wards to be able to refuse certain esebarriusime ofirers which
were Made to me; such, for instance, as the horses of the
Resperor of lassies. end wiping the rest, Mai which i.e
had given to his A ide-dc-Ceiwp Ptapatel, and which he
hail taken back after that Officer had been killed at
rere.elianiprimise. Ht. SI slesty rrpreweeiteel it as the best
in his stables. Another nifer whirls embarrassed me greatly
was, the obtfianfe randtaioss of giving me a litinclanient of
one hundred Oaken, or melted soldiers, taken from unsung
the Allies. This part of the p:/II was at
bazar relinquished."
M. Da 51Aunrtrutt, states, that the Count
IVA atots arrived soon after, and far from
disapproving of the plan, be adhered to it with
extreme complacency ;" he then atter some very
gross mod unnecessary personal abuse of the King
of FRANCE, the Bourbon Family, and others,
Which M. Dx MAunnEutt should be unformed
gives nb strength to his representation,
communicates copies of the orders di•liverrel to
him, whereby 1w was sodomised to rerinire the 11P.
vistunCe of ali civil mid military uothowitite. These
order% are sevtieliF blow(' by the Count ANaLks,