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innocent ! Surprising it must no doubt have been., r' a, and of the Marquises hltlOui. and Castillo
that the common rumour of Italy. and the renre„. .aaLof, on their way to Loudon, supposed to be ft*
of England—the hope of the demo.- • the purpose of Biting evidence in Attune of the Queen
of the virtuous and the ie.', of ENGLAND. The t*o Marquises tome Groh Pesaro. The
. *
n Government has issued an Ukase for CO loupe.
should ever have reach.:
.• of her ltlajearty's dime levy of troops) to the number of witelyeele thou-
Collnuel. Fre Leine will it he remembered sand inert, throlighnot ill parts of its caressive empire.
i" Italy .iMies were to be made for de. The Emperor AtirltAborit vcis on the 3d of Ortoticr
41 nary caluronv against the Piiticess her at Warsaw, watching the proceedings of the Polish Diet, /Ge
it •Lts: and for ages will it be lamented in The sitting of the Dies, un the 18th of sepremher, swelled
to mind those stormy yr:weedier, in former days.
England that the nice technicalities of vulgar
unhappily distinguished the meetings of the
practice should have induced the most august Mid eventually led to the destruction of Orli kingdom. The
for aasetribiy was so exit emcly tor buten!, Num a try re it-41411mi
assembly in the world, convened avowedly
the disco.ery of truth, to prevent the QUEEN the Marshal prcsidiug was ertnpellril to put en end to the
from exposing the foul conspiracy winch had been sitting. An article from Vienna states, that the interview
of the Sovereigns will certain!, take plane on Ow 2dih or
framed, GM knows how and by whom ! against her
28th of this month. Tire recent revolutions, especially
honour and her dignity. With what feelings would limit .
of Portugal suit Naples, will, it is 'bunch,, occupy
it be received if the same assembly should now in its the attention of the Conger as. Lord slimmer win, it is
wisdom and integrity pertntt the Counsel employed said, attend on behalf of England. The Court Vienna
against her MAJESTY to undertake an elaborate affect a right to take an interest in the affairs of Portngsli
defence where the charge specified no names of per. in consequence of the insure. of the Archduchess Leo-
aim, mud where the evidew„„ hid, might h.er roLours, to the Parsec ItuvaLorthat country.
plicated the actual conspirators had been rejected
The ATTORNRY-GENERA I. moat have expreted
from the arty commencenient of the case, from the
very that speed' of Mr. llactuusssu, that the
sources of the prosecution worthy he assailed, and,
in proof of this, no sooner trio the Clerk of the
Milan ',sin:write put to the bar than the ATTORN EY-
GENERA 1. drew forth from his bag a brief which
had been prepreed long since, and from which the
Advocate's Clerk was cross-examined with extraor-
dinary Minuteness! The ATTORN F.Y-GENERA 1.
La t repeat his assertion that ileitis! not anticipate
the charge of conspiracy, anti if he did anticipate
it lie should have been prepared with such witnesses
111 iu his opinion might be necessary for rebutting
it. But the evidence for the charge not having
been received, the ATTOENEY-GINERA L Cols have
no Ixeteuire for calling witnemes to rebut it, even
though Baowti were present to attend.
Earl GREY, however, seems to have riOttly con-
jectured the true motive to this eatraortlinary ap•
pliestioss; and, with his accustomed judgment, at
once suggested the proper means of preventing the
contempleted abuse. The ATTORNEY-GExERAI.
is probably desirious of obtaining fresh evidence
upon other parte of the case, and affects this ex-
treme asmiety for lite. character of his friend
Bum* as a pretext for gsiniug time. Earl GREY
therefore advisee. that if the power si timid be con-
ceded to the Arreangy-GENERA I. of calling wit.
nevem to 'repel the charge of conspiracy, he should
be required to conclude his evidence for the reply
before he entered upon this extraneous topic. We
await the dee.isiott of the noose upon this moat im-
portant point with the greatest onsiety.
la the early part of yesharday Mr. BROUGHAM,
by way of compewzatiog in some degree for the
loss of the Baron D'ENDE'S evidence, submitted
• copy of the Trieste Gazette, to prove the distinc-
tion and honoring with which the Princess of %%TALES
had been treated ; but the Lords rejected this evi-
dence. We conceive Mr. BROUGHAM'S uneasiness
upon this point very ill founded, for the evidence
of the far greater bomber of the witnesses already
adduced its her MAJESTY'S behalf, chews • most
clearly that the Princess of WALES, at Naples.
Munich, Rome, Carl'ruhe, and other places, uni-
formly associated with personages the highest in
rook and power, not excepting Royalty itself.

The Secret Committee, to whom the correspon-
dence between BROWN and POWELL had been re-
ferred. brought in their Report. It appears from
the letters; that RASTILLt waS not only ill in
health, as he himself declared, but that he evinced
an in►incible relectowce to return to England.—
lie was in every point indisposed. We had ex-
pected this. The fellow .knows when he is safe,
Wit might not be agreeable to his notions of per-
sonal security were he to encounter the dangers of
a prosecution for subornalion of perjury.—DE.
MONT, the chamberinsid, was again called. She
was examined relative to ►otme conversation with a
Madame MAIICIIINI or MARTIGN:, in Switzerland,
in the year 1818, in which she expressed herself in
high terms of praise of h. r MAJESTY, but she dia.
claimed all recollection of the circumstance. Ma-
dame MARTIGNICS testimony follows. It contains
a circumstantial account of a conversation that oc-
curred between her and DEMON?, in the year
1818, relative to the Princess of WALES, in which
DEMON? had highly extolled her Royal Mistress.
Truly it mast be confessed that the Countess of
CoLomnteee is, as Dominic Sampson would call
it, very oblivious !

German Papers have arrived at our office, hut
their contents are nut very interesting. The Aus-
trian Observer, pursuing its vocation, draws a
very gloomy picture of the state of public affairs
in Naples, where, it says, the expectation of a war
very generally prevails. The Austrian Paper de-
scribes the army of Naples at from 10 to 12,009
men, while the Neapolitans themselves represent
their disposable force at 200,000 men, arid their
whole armed force, including militia and local
companies, at not less than 700,000 men. It
further states, that the navy of Naples consists of
only one ship of the line, a frigute, and a few
smaller vessels, and that the treasury is in great
distress. It admits, however, that the country en-
'quaillily.

During the last week there have been an almost continual
succession of gales from the S.S.W., W. N.W. and V. The
shipping all along the roast have *offered very weirerrly, al-
though not so much as might have been rxpreted, the da.
wine consisting in a great Ins mire of the losses of mole,
anchors, rigging, masts, &c. The pert letters tees ived Tester.
slay at Lloyd's give further accounts of the gale r.: Saturday
and Sunday, during which hme I resod, were lost,
including one at Portsitionili, with all the crew. Nearly all
the vessels in the Dosing ran fur Itamsgate harbour, a great
part uf them having lust their authors and rubles, sails, Sse.
It is expected that there has been a great deal of damage
dune along the coast whirls we here sot yet heard

A letter from Dover, dated October 22, says--. 4 Eight
Italian witnesses fur the CIVVVAW arrived last night from Ca.
Iris; also Mr. VICILEIRY, 11W ileat.olleri officer, who has
been tlONVlCCfaidally in peareli of FILISIKLIN.-015 Tuesday
last the Led( passage vessel, of Dover, ran on shore near
Calm..., with passengers, &r. which were safely disenuliarked ;
and we are happy to hear the vessel was got off lad night.—
poring the late gales a French lishiag boat, with about 16
p.rsinis on board, wan sunk between Boulogne and Calais,
and all baud. perished.—A fishing boat belonging to Dover
hay liven missing, nod it is feared may have foundered at
sea.—This morning it blows a perfect hos-vireo'. : a fishing
smack, iu running for the harbour, amidst tremendous sea.,
was driven behind the pier, and washed sip to high-water
mark; fortunately the russet, having ben' Cutely re built,
held together, and saved the beta of the persous no hoard "
Extract of a letter from Chili, &ilea Smiling° di
Chili, June, 1820:
" Patriot bayonets will, ere long, irrevocably fix the des.
tiny of this vast peninsula in Pere. Sis ilsoosatill troop.,
beaded by Gen Sao Martin, w ill sell in a very few dace ;
except in the immediate neighbourhood of Lima, will meet
with no Spanish force capable of uppoeieg the slightest re-
sistance. All there is ripe for a revolution ; and the explo-
sins will inevitably take nitre the very moment a rallying
point is suffered to the innumerable patriot who havesolicited
the aid of this army, and for whom 10,000 stand of arms are
carried in the fleet, and officers to discipline and commend
them. The Spaniards have, in all Peru, from 14,001) to
13,000 troops, but scattered over that immense cowutry,
and for the greater part separated from the rest by a dis-
t:sure of many hundred leagues, and snails and chains of
mountains almost impasaahle. A force of from 3,000 to
5,000 men is ale* about to march from Cordova, via
Tucuman, Salts, and Jujuy, io order to tipper Peru ,"‘Polovi,
Cochabamba, La Paz, etc.). The Spaniards are in a most
critical situation, ready to split amongst themselves were
tiny nut prevented by the fear of the patriots. and an im-
mense black population, eager bi avail itself of any oppor-
Notify of shaking off its chains. A system of espionage,
both public and private, bus been established, which has
cast a rneral gloom over all society, and almost destroyed
all intercourse and confidence between man and man.—
Many of the most respectable Creole inhabiter's are under
confiuensent ; the Viceroy lies found it necessary to have re-
course to the most violent extortions, in order to gratify the
increased avarice of his satellites, who, foreseeing that their
harvest is almost at an end, are labouring to melts a pro.
vision for the storms about to ensue, and endeavour by
largesse, to secure the fidelity of the few natives who still
adhere to the cause of Spain. Commerce is at a slamd
still, since no Spanish flag is seen in these seas, and all
intercourse with the mother country at an end. The
enemies to South American iudepeodeace have, doubtless,
triumphed not a little on viewing the unfortunate
scenes which have of late been acted at Buenos Ayres.
Here all is tranquil; and in spite of the bad example almost
invariably set by Spanish rulers, whose policy never went
further than to meet the necessity of the moment, and attain
their object by any meson whatever, the Chili Government
is fully aware of, and acts on, the principle that good faith is
the only basis of national prosperity ; and the people have
wholly laid aside the jealousy of foreigners and foreign im-
provement, which, although in the heart of Europe, has kept
Spain so many centuries behind its neighbours. With re.
gard to comm. ree, what invariably happens whenever a field
is offered to British speculation has occurred here: the mar-
ket was in the first place glutted, and many lost money; con-
sequently all were disheartened, and scut nothing inure;
now, really all those goods have been consumed, and many
articles are very much in request, and enormously dear. The
wine.drinkers are quite discousolate, compelled to make use
of that of the country, which is very indifferent, since nu
other is to be procured. The Praaba Spanish frigate, late con.
sort of the St. Moo, 74, which bas doubtless foundered at
sea, has availed itself of the opportunity of running from
Lima to Guyaquil with a convoy and reinforcement for that
garrison, whilst the feel remained at Valparaiso preparing for
the expedition. It is rather singular that even the failure of the
rocket attack on the shipping at Callao, and the late distur-
banees at Buenos Ayrts,have produced an effect beyond mea-
sure favourable to the object of the expedition, since it has
lulled the Viceroy of Peru iutu au opinion of conscious
security, such as to prevent his taking those vigorous mea-
sures of defamer which he otherwise must undoubtedly
would ; and indeed be has of late disbanded two corps (as
I am told, a species of permanent militia) at Linea:'
The brewers of the city of Oxford have at length
reduced the price of ale from 21. 12s. to 2/, end
strong beer from 31. IGs. to 11/. per barrel ; no con-
sequence of which the publicans have lowered the
retail price of ale from 641. to 541. and strong beer
from Sd. to 7d. per quart. It is expected, from the
great reduction io the price of malt and hops, that
it will be still lower.

The pilchard fishery appears to have been more
successful at Scilly this year than on any other
station in Cornwall. Although- only eight boats
are employed, there are at present in the cellars at
Trento about 150 hogshead* of fine fish ; and as
the sum of 5/. per hogshead, ready money, has
been offered, the advantage to the poor islanders
who have been engaged will be considerable.
Robert Surrage, John Dempsey, Julia Beck,
Joseph Elliott, Malachi Clinton, sad Patrick
Lynch, private soldiers in the 13th regiment, at
present in Greenock gaol, have been indicted to
stand trial before the High Court of Justiciary,
upon the 7th of November next, for the crimes of
maliciously discharging their loaded arms at the
lieges, and for murder.

joys tranq;

A Flanders Mail has arrived at our office. An article in
a Ghent Paper announce. the arrival at Troyes, us the
lbils instant, of his Serena Ilighneta Don CAWS Prince