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the Court in the first instance entered up judgment
(.f death against. him ; but before the proceed-
ings bad been laid before the General, the Court
rescinded that judgment, and sentenced the prisoner to
flogs ed and imprisoned. General Jackson, however, iu
the plenitude of his power, dashed his pen across the
sentence, and ordered the wretched victim to instant
•execution

" Suppose the Court had a right to try these men,
about which there is much reason to doubt, and let it
also be supposed that the Court, instead of flogging and
imprisonment, had sentenced Ambristk to be shot, still
the question will recur, why this indecent hurry on the
part of the Commander in Chief? Why were not the
two cases rcferr to the Prcrident for his decision?
By the 65th Article of War, Act of Congress, 10th April,
1814, it is expressly enacted, that no rentence of a Ge-
neral Court Martial, in time of peace, extending to the
loss of life, shall be carried into execution until the
whole proceedings shall be laid before the President of
the United States for his approval, and orders in the
rase.' l'o this it may be objected that these men were
executed in time of war :—The reply to this is, that
war must be declared by the Congress of the United
States, not by a General in Chief."

Frankfort Papers have arrived to the Ist inst. The
Ausiriun Observer contradicts. in the most full and
solemn manner, the rumour put into circulation by
one of the Flanders Journalists, of an attempt to as-
sassinate young. Napoleon. The Germanic Diet has
resolved that. for the next five years, the quotas of the
different States, in men and in money, shall be regu-
lated upon the basis of their population. A Ccnsas is
annexed to the Ikerce, from which it appears, that the
Germanic confArary edibra,:es a population of
00,091,050 RAIN.

Ity the I•'landers null, we hava a r:port that ar-
rangements arc already making for the sale of a num-
ber of the Errglish artillery and commissarint horses,
preparatory to the return of our troops from the conti-
nent, The French Government, it was supposed, would
purchase the horses of the Russian corps. d'armee. The
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Hanover
o'l the 28th August.

The Washingiva Ger..Y.':! contains an interesting
State Paper, if we could persuade ourselves to beiieve
that it was genuine is Solo, or correct in the detail It
professes to be t:ireetions from Joseph Buonaparte
• daring his occupatinn of the Spanish Peninsula, fur the
purpose of revolutionizing Spanish America. The
first remarkable pxsage in it is that in which King
Joseph asserts, that the Government of the United
States had agreed to furnish him with the munitions of
war. This may even be suil by such a person as Joseph
Buonaparte or his brother Napoleon, and yet not be
true ; as neither of those northies was emLlently re-
markable for his veracity : but when we.coine to 6'3
passage wherein the turaler is directing his
agents to bribe the servants of the Spaniards in power,
who opposed his proi-..tt3, to poison their masters, oe.:
credence fails. Either the whole, therefore, is a fa-
brication, or some ingenious person has inserted this
last trait in order to rendzr the prodasaion more spi-
rited.

Lord Castlerengh, on lanr.A. at Calais, proceeded
inmiediatety to -Cambrin •where be remained but a
very short time, and ptcceeti.Nl to Belgium. It is be-
lieved that, b.2iime the opealong of the Congress at Aix-
la-Chapelle, he will go to Spa, in order to have a con-
ference with Prince ilardenberg, and with Prince Met-
ternich too, who, as the liters from Germany state,
intends also to r..•par to that place. The prevalence of
harmony is more than ever remarked between the Ca-
binets of [minion, Vicuna, and Berlin, and their Mi-
nisters at the different Courts.

Extract of a letter received in Glasgow, dated et
Buenos-Ayres, June 5 :—" Fur some time past sales
have been nearly at a stand, in consequence of a re-
port that a considerable abatement was intended in
our importation duties. We have now the pleasure to
advise you, that it has been carried into effect, and ac-
company herewith a correct copy of our tariff. We
dou t not that this reduction will produce a very bene-
ficial effect on our trade." [The tariff' limns a large
pamphlet. The duties are generally reduced une-
third, and in some cases-one half.]
Extract of a letter, dated Preston, Sept. 9 :---`e We
are very unpleasantly situated here with our work-
people, the weavers, who demand 7s. in the pound on
their present wages, in consequence of the non-compli
ance of the master., who appear in this neighbourhood
to be giving to the public as much as they can nfliwd.:
still we are of opinion that the wages will be pushed
up equal to frora 2..14 to 5 per cent. on the cloth, and
that before a lung time elapses; as this tulva:;;;e has
been acceded to in different parts of the country, par-
tieularly in those parts where the rate of wages was
previously lower than With na, and where they are uow
higher than we pay."

INDIA.
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The Asiatic Mirror of the lith April Communicates
a number of curious particulars respecting the state of
politics in the East. It seems that, nutwithstutuling
the friendly professions of the Rajah of Berar to the
British Government, and the signal forbearance with
which he had been treated, some proceedings of a dark
and treacherous, as well as a highly dangerous charae-
ter, were brooght home to that incorrigible Mahratta
Chieftain. While in pursuance of formal conventher
he was issuing public orders to his officers fur the deli-
very of his forts to the British army, it was discovered
from an intercepted correspondence, that he seeretiy
encouraged the Killedars and Commandants to gain
time by every possible expedient, and evade the sue.
render to the last. uhe same spirit of duplicity anti
perfidy was detected in un intercourse he muintained
with Bajee Row (formerly our friend the Peishwa).---
This chief, it is known, after escaping the Generale
Smith and Pritzler, was marching directly towards
Nagpore. From the intercepted letters it appeared.
that the Rajeli had determined to take an unexpected
leave of the British, and throw himself into the arma
of his worthy Ally. Oar Resident, therefiTe, on finds
ing his suspicions of this false act confirmed by unvee.
tionable documents, sent the Rajah a polite invitation
to converse with him at the Resideney His Highneas,
thinking proper to refuse the desired interview, was
seized in his palace by three companies of British troops,
and sent off under a strong escort to Allahalxvl, wher'e
it was pr.'stuncd he would find his way to Caleu tta.—
A tried friend of the Company's Government is said in
have been placed on Cie Musnud of Nagpore, as secs.
ceisor to this refractory and ungrateful Rajah, who had
been indebted for his own sovereil„eny to the favour and
indulgence of Great Briteiu. Air ounts were received
at Nagpore on the 2Gth March, that General Smith
had come upon Bake Row by surprise, and that, in an
encounter which followed, the famous Gold* fell. This
circumstance, however, if it really happened, does not
seem to have checked the progress of B :jet! Row, or at
least to have altered the direction of his movements.—
We find by the advices sent, that, on the 11 th of
April. a general belief prevailed at Nnpore, that Bajee
Row was advancing thither " with an im:nouse iheee,"
(this we take to be a mere figurative expression), thee
he had already reached Jaulnah, and would be in the
neighbourhood of Nag-pore by the 24th of the month.
The purpose of this extraordinary movement was pro.
',ably to reunite under the old Peishwa banners all the
scattered bodies of Mahratta troops, beaten as they
were, and nominally disbanded, which had been o::-
gaged in the service of the Rajah, or even of the Chiefs
to the northward of Neriauldah who had siemed forced
treaties with the Governor General. Aitholgh we
have little room to question the final result of this
parently desperate undertaking to the Peishwa, it
would be unfair to withhold the applause of a soldier
from the holdneis mid t!ecision of these military coon.
sels which could slg,,,,est to Bajee llow a march of little
less than 500 mi!es (for such is the distance from Hs
capital to Nagpore), with an active assailant harrassing
his rear, and the country in front and on every side of
him in the hands of a victorious enemy. :t is plain
that, throughout the ‘vbele operations cif this war, a
greeter weight of embarrassment fell upon Lord Has••
tmgs, from the unexampled bad faith of the Mahratta
Chiefs, than from the skill or courage of their armies..
Every one of them practised the mast revolting insin.
cerity. The Peishwa in the first instance accused his
own officers of disobedience ; and shut his eves to the
recruiting which they carried on extensively in his
name. The Rajah of Nagpare followed this previous
example, and carried his Mahratta chicanery so far ns
to yield his own person to the British authorities, while
the whole force of his dominions was drawn up against
them ; and they were compelled to gain by battle the
guns which the Rajah had solemnly sworn to surrender.
flue younger Holkar, after his decisive overthrow, as-
cribed the previous necessity of fighting to the mutmous
spirit of his soldiers! and Seindiah's hypocrisy left Au
bloody traces behind it, only because he was already
conquered before he had time to move. The Pindar-
rees are annihilated us a predatory power; and it is
fortunate that they are so. Their increasing crimes and
numbers, backed by the four great Mahraita Sovereign-
ties, would have been altogether inconsistent with the
peace of India and might have proved ruinous to the
stability of our Asiatic empire, had not both been sea-
sonably and effectually guarded by the vigorous policy
of the British local Government in the East. An ad-
dition of 5,000 men to our military establishment in
India is looked upon in these accounts us likely to be
authorised on the representatious of the Governor Ge-
neral.

A Chief, belonging to the Crecklndians, is arrived
in the Semiramis, for the purpose of laying before the
British Government the particlar tlAtils of tie su f •
ferings of his nation, in consequence of the recent out-
ra,ges committed by the American army in West Fl
rida. The Chief is Mid to have been employe 1 during
the late American war as interpreter to the Indian ariry
under the cumnutad of Major Nichols, of the Royal
Marines.