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GERMAN PAPERS.

VIIIIcNA, MAN 16.

The Congress of the Ministers of the German
Powers has contributed to throw much light on the
commercial relations of Germany, and especially
given the merchants and manufacturers of Austria
occasion to take into consideration the depressed
' state of trade, and the means of improving it. It
is not to be denied that people here were at first
rather distrustful of the proposals of the merchants
and manufacturers from the rest of Germany, be.
cause it was believed to be their principal object to
.overthrow our prohibitive system, in order to obtain
a free competition with us in Austria, and we there-
fo►e considered them in some respects as our rivals.
But in a short time, when we were better acquainted
with their object, alai had read the various memo.
ties which they had presented to the German Sove.
reigns, to the'Congrevo, and to the Diet at Frank-
fort, we saw that all the States of the Confederation
had the same interest..nousely, measures of reprisal
towards It reign States, and as free an intercourse as
possible among themselves. It cannot certainly be
denied, that in many parts of Germany, especially
iu Saxony, manufactures may be produced cheaper
than in the Austrian Monarchy, because the work.
men are contented with more simple food, and can
therefore work for lower wages. This seems to be
a reason why our Government should reject the
proposals for the freedom of trade, and the adver.
saries of this freedom build their chief arguments
on it. But the fact is, that it is not an open com-
petition with the rest of Germany, but the secret
competition, that favours the smuggling in of Eng-
lish good. chiefly, and sometimes of French. If the
English sell an ell of calico at the Frankfort fair
for eight krruscrs, the smuggler who bells it in
Austria for 40 krruzers gains 400 per cent., whereas
the Saxon can sell only a few per cent. cheaper.
Besides, if foreign goods were prevented from pass-
ing the frontiers of Germany, it may be presumed
that ell the aiming manufactories would be hardly

ableto 111°6 the Oematlll, and therefore they erouhl
be :ill folly employed. .
Mr. List has also proposed to our Emperor ter
let the custop-houses in the Austria.. frontiers con-
tinue for a time after those on the frontiers of Ger-
many, to prevent the introduction of foreign
goods. Thus Austria would ha►e a double protec-
tion against the smuggling in of the latter, arid
besides he does not ask fur his constituents a com-
petition with the manufactures of Austria, in casts
:where the latter cannot yet support it. Such Intl-
ties may remain for a time excepted from the ge-
neral freedom of trade. Front the reception which
Professor List had in his second psiVate audience
of the Emperor, it 'may be inferred that his Ma-
jesty views the plan in a favourable light. It is
affirmed that the Council of State his 'received
orders in consequence of this audience, to apply
to all the departments of the Administration con-
nected with trade and manufactures, for their opi•
mons, which will doubtless prove such as the inte-
rest of Austria requires, Dull so that the delibera-
tions at Frankfurt will be quite satisfactory to the
merchants and manufacturers in the other German
States. CARLSRUME, MAY 48.

Our Government Paper contains a remarkable
notice, from which we karat that the free city of
Frankfort will not allow in its territory a free trade
with the manufactures of the Grand Duchy. This
proceeding, which has given rise to repriaals, is a
melancholy proof how far we are front on entire
freedom of trade in the whole German Conic-
SAXONY, MAY 30.

der ition.

It is now proved by a most careful investigation,
that the much-lamented Professor Kugelgen was
attacked and murdered by n single assassin, the
artillery soldier Kaltofen, and that this man also
committed the murder of the carpenter. six mouths
ago, in the high road near Dresden. The artillery
soldier Fischer, who had previously confessed him-
self guilty of both murders, appears to be quite
itiumrelit, and to have been led by weariness of life,
and his contimmed understanding, to confess himself
guilty of those ermines before the real author of
them was discovered. The further investigation,
has not led to suppose that there was any accom-
plice.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

lEXTRACT FROM ♦ PRIVATE LETTER.I

" HALIFAX, MAY et.
" At two o'clock this day the Earl of Dal-
housie, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of
British North America, attended by the Admiral,
his Majesty's Council, the Staff, naval ancrmilitary
officers, and the principal people of the place, at.
tended to lay the first stone of a new College, to
be erected at the north end of the grand parade.
The whole of the Freemasons of Halifax went in
grand procession. They formed in lodges at their
hall, and preceded by a military band and follow-
ed by another, they marched to the places pre-
pared for them on the building.
" His Lordship came on the scaffolding at two
o'clock, the grenadiers of the 62d regiment being
his guard of honour.- Detachments from each re-
giment kept the ground.
" A fter a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Twining, Grand
Chaplain, Lord Dalhousie addressed the assembly
in a speech of which I have not time to give an out-
line; but in it, his Lordship mentioned, that the
building was intended as a College, upon the plan of
that of Edinburgh, where all students who profess-
ed the Christian religion were eligible for admit-
tance. Strangers residing here for a short time,
might also enjoy the benefit of the institution, and
gentlemen in the army, the navy, and the military
establishments. His Lordship concluded a moat
eloquent and animated address with his fervent
wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the under-
taking.
" A bottle with coins, and a tin case with parch-
ments, &c. were then severally deposited in the
recess made for them, and the stone was lowered
into its place with all the requisite and due forms,
under a royal salute from fort Charlotte; after
which the Rev. the Grand Chaplain closed the
proceedings with a prayer, and the whole assembled
multitude gave nine cheers. The military and ma-
sonic processions then returned in the same order in
which they came.
" The day has been beautiful, and a greater as-
semblage of people was never witnessed in Halifax.
" The Countess o( Dalhousie and her two sons;
Mrs. Admiral Griffith and the Miss Wilsons, and
most of the fashionable ladies here witnessed the
ceremony from a convenient scaffolding prepared
for them.

" Lord Dalhousie purposes to leave Halifax for
Quebee in his Majesty's ship IVewcastle. on the
Ibt of Juoe, without waiting for Sir James Keinpt."

B KNISH PR SS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1820.

THE QUEEN.

A hope still remains that the unhappy differences
subsisting between their MAJESTIES will yet be
made the subject of private arrangement. " Some
communications and explanations," to use the
words of Lord LIVERPOOL in the brief allusion
which he made to this interesting point yesterday
evening in the House of Lords. have passed be-
tween the Ministers of the Crown and the QUEEN'S
official advisers; but the affair is yet-in a state from
which, as his Lordship declared, no presumption
could be formed of what might be the probable
result. In the mean time the adjourned debate
upon the KING'S Message was ngain postponed by
Lord CASTLEREAGH in the House of Commons ;
and the first meeting of the Secret Committee ap-
pointed by the House of Lords, which was fixed

for this day, was further adjourned by the Esti of
LIVER*OOI, until Saturday—subject, of count, as
in the former instances, to the subsequent. resolu-
tions of the House. Allusion was made in both
Hours to the documents connected with this sub•
jecr, which appeared yesterday in-this, and we be-
lieve all the other Morning Papers, copied from a
respectable Sunday Paper. Lord LivEareot...in
particular, expressed himself very warmly in cen-
sure of those persons who communicated them
to the newspapers; but he fully relieved the
Qt:F.Eses legal and official advisers from all
stolEcion of their having been guilty of this wont
of good faith. His Lordship further stated, as did
also Mr. BROUGHAM ill the House of Commons,
that the notes published in the newspapers were not
correct, " although," slid Lord Liveapoot.,
" they were evidently communicated by some per-
sons who had seen the originals." IVe may there-
fore conclude that they were substantially cor-
rect, though perhaps not verbally accurate. It
was hinted by Mr. Ilannuttast, that had her MA-
JESTY'. domestic arrangements been such as be-
came her dignity, this occurrence would probably
not have happened.
Lord HOLLAND'S intention of presenting a Bill
to the House of Lords yesterday evening for a re-
peal of the Royal Marriage Act, being according
to the Noble Lord's original notice contingent
upon the failure of the tiegociations between their
IItiAJESTIES, was not, in consequence of Lord
LIVERPOOL'S statement, carried into effect. This
notice has naturally excited much speculation
among the public, and has, as might be expected,
given occasion to many absurd rumours, some of
'which it appears attributed to his Lordship the
egregious folly of purporting to give to his pro-
posed measure a retrospective operation. This
intention the Noble Lord yesterday evening
distinctly disclaimed, stating that he contemplated
nothing beyond a simple repeal of the Act. The
Noble Lord postponed his motion yesterday evening,
but lie at the same time apprised the House that it
was his intention, from an impression long cherished
of the necessity of repealing that Act, to submit a
Bill for the purpose some time within the present
week.

A Petition was presented yesterday evening in
the (louse of Lords ly•the Earl of CARNARVON
upon a subject which certainly demands public
notice. The Petition was from certain persons
in the city of Coventry, complaining that proceed-
ings had been instituted against them in his Ma-
jesty's Court of Exchequer, in consequence of
their having prepared and sold toasted wheat or
barley, to be used as a substitute for coffee. With
respect to the particulars of the petitioners' case,
we profess not to be acquainted, but we have been
given to understand that reversl persons in London,
and in many parts of the country, have been pro-
ceeded against with extreme severity for having
sold toatsed wheat, barley, and beans, not under
the name of coffee, which would undoubtedly be a
gross fraud, and as such deserving of condign pit.
nislitnent, but without any disguise whatsoever,
under their own and proper names of toasted
wheat, barley, or beans," which, so far as we can
collect, is tint opposed to any principle of law re•
cognised in England. The persons who have en-
gaged in this trade are for the most part poor, and
consequently unable to defend themselves against
the power of the ArroRtrer•GENERAL, and have
the question of law determined. In many in+lances
the dread of prosecution has compelled poor people
to relinquish the trade, and has consequently been
attended with much mischief; in others, actual pro-
secution has completed the ruin of fatuities. The
subject, we think, is not undeserving the attention
of the Legislature, for it is somewhat severe that the
act of selling toasted grain should he punished,
while no penalty is attached to the act of selling it
baked.

We have received Paris Papers of Friday
last. A writer in the Journal des Debuts of the
latter day seems to consider a revolution -in the
Government as approaching, and that the oc-
currences in the capital during the last week are
its unerring symptoms. lie says. " During five
years the guilty wishes of some men reqiiire, and
the efforts of others prepare a new revolution. Ac-
cording to the favourite eworession of one of its in.
citers it is en marehe ; its first symptoms have al-
ready appeared ; it is approaching.
The writer then, with an uncommon degree of
freedom, considering the existence of the previous
censorship over the press, reciter the respec►ive de-
sires and objects of the several parties into which
the revolutionists are divided. One party, lie says,
are of opinion that l" llowarature. is wanted ;" an-
other are anxious to see the young NAPOLEON on
the throne, under the guidance and protection
of Austria; a third affirm that no happiness can be
found under any form of government but that of
a federative republic, similar to the United States
of America, each department in France being con•
stituted into a separate State ; while a fourth contend
that the safety of France consists in the investiture
of a foreign Prince. Possibly the writer might
intend that u considerable portion of this statement
should be understood as meaning to throw ridicule
upon these factions; but it is certain that in the
mean time the ntanifestatio•s of public opinion in
Paris is of a nature not to be treated with ridicule.
Every evening regularly grooves of discontented

persons assemble in the squares and street!, and rr.
ceive the troops who are sent to disperse them wi!ii
shouts of a seditious tendency. The execution of
Louvel was fortunately unaccompanied by any cnni-
motion, awl during the day the city enjoyed pet feet
tranquillity ; but the Journal des Debars observes.
" this tranquillity was deceitful. At about
past eight o'clock in the evenings crowd of several
hundred persons appeared quite suddenly on tl e
borkeard des Capueires, all armed with r•lni...
They proceeded en masse along the causeway shun!.
ing Vire la Chorte ." sod, also would believe 1!
' Vive l' &Testier ." AcClamatioris of a nature
still more culpable were also uttered, but they were
too atrocious to admit of our repeating them."
" This seditious assembly," continues the Jour-
nal des Debuts, 6, traversed the boulevards es
to the gate Saint Denis, without encountering sot•
force sufficient to disperse them, and still coolinu tl
inerea,ing they met with no opposil ion until they en-
tered the boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,* hrre a incymt
of the horse national guard attempted to oppose their
progress, but was unequal to the task. But a de-
tachment of dragoons of the royal guard nod of
the horse gendarmerie having attacked them :.sir
the Chateau.d'Eau, dispersed diem. A small por-
tion proceeded to the faubourg Saint A imal:e trc
lateral streets. The boulevard was vet °pied be
troops of the line. Some seditious cries were uttered,
which had no other effect than to cause the 511.1ps
to be closed. Several of the rio'ers were arrested
in the faubourg, and at ten o'clm k tranquillity tv,s
re-established."

Another paper states, that the agitators caused
various false rumours to he circulated in Peri. oil
Thursday; such a., that the Kist; had left Paris;
some said for Versatlle., others far 1....whit:0,1.am,
others for Lille, .Cr. 11.4 AJ t STY, however, i:ail
not left the Palace of the where lie eon.
tinned to transact business with Ins Minster..
During the whole of Thursday the tranqtill!i'y of
the capital was not disturbed. Aii ordinance of the
police was posted throughout the city, not icieg the
contempt with which the former ordinance prohi-
biting assemblages of people in the streets was
treated, and announcing that all fronds wh cis 11,:t
not immediately separate oti bring required by 4
police officer. should be instantly dispersed Li
force.
The discussion still continues is the Chamber of
I)eputies upon the second paragraph of the tir•t
article of the Law of Vet-tient.. It is surpris:ti4
that when both parties in the Chamber perceive ti e
danger to which the public peace is exposed in con-
sequeuce of the endless debates upon this subject,
the Alembenisto not devote more time to the debates,
and bring them sooner to a conclusion. The discussion
seldom commences before half-past one o'clock, and
the arrival of the dinner hour regularly termitiatis
the day's labour. And thus, day after day, they pro.
long an altercation the continuaiice of which ha.
excited angry feelings throughout the country, di.-
turbed the tranquillity of the capital, and tu..,_!:t
eventually endanger the safety of the Bot:an,o:
dynasty. The discussion was adjourned to the fol-
lowing day.

The Court !loyal of Paris, on Friday liar.r, con-
firmed the sentence of the Court of Correctional
Police against Sir James Crawford, which con-
denim(' him to six months impri•oninent.

l'lie plague bas again brok:.ti out in Toni., ai;,l
Iris already carried off hnlf the inhabitants of tiwt
city.

The French Five per Cents, are 73 f. 75
Bank Stock, 1,535 f.

We have received German Papers of recent &or.
The attention of the several Powers appear• to hr
occupied with their commercial relations, and the
depressed state of trade and manufacture iii their
respective countries.

American Papers have been reteived to the 14,11
last. We regret to find that they contradict the
account of a great and decisive victory obtained in
the Carraccas by the Patriots under General PA} 7.
mentioned in the New York Papers. The BA it.
more Paper of the 9th rays, the account wsa bans-
cnted in the West Indies. The Notiostai hifelii-
gencer contains an account of the proceedings in
Congress to the I Ith tuclesive. On that day a dis-
cussion took place in the Senate upon the 1111%
which had been mkt up from the tithe, Minor, fix-
ing the time for the next rin chug of Congress at
an earlier day (the ,2tl Noventbei) than the consti-
tutional day. The arrangement was opposed by
Mr. 13seliona, and others, nu the grosad of the
extreme inconvenience to prok-tonal and @peel-
tural Members, and the grv3t sacrifice to those
particularly who have famitle.," to spend so gtr:ot a
portion of their time at ‘Vashirgtott, rod on 'Le
bad tendency of promoting the el:1.101On of the See.
pions of Congress. The 8111 was finally read the
third time, however, and pios.d.

" After the Message from the Passim: NT," sass
the National " to Congress, on the
subject of our relations with Spain, there can 1w
but little doubt that that matter will be suffered
by Congress to rest where it now des,. There ai -
pears, indeed, no probability that Congiess wir.
under present circumstances, authorise the Paul

DENT to cause to be occupied any part of Ilse terri-
tory in the possession of Spsin."
A prospective resolution, nith term, to the re-
cognition, by the United State► Government, of tile
independence of certain South American prawn

was agreed to in the House of Representatives on
the 10th. The Aational Intelligenelr remarks,
that this decision of the House was in consequence
of the result of the rico...lotions respecting the
Treaty with Spain. The resolution was to the fol-
lowing effect That it is expedient to provide
by law a suitable outfit and salary for such Mi-
nister or Ministers as the PRESIDENT, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, may send to
any of the Governments of South America, which
have established, and are maintaining, their lade-
-I,,,iidence of Spain."
A second Resolution, moved by Mr. CLAY (wbo
in the course of the debate avowed his intention
shortly to retire from public life), requesting the
PRESIDENT ID " cause to be presented to the Ge-
i,etal most worthy and distinguished, in his opinion,
in the service of any of the Independent Govern-
ments, the sword which was given by the Viceroy
of Lima to Captain MIDDLE, of the Ontario, with
the expression of the wish of the Congress that
it fitly he employed in the support and preservation
of tie liberties and independence of his country,"
was afterwards withdrawn.

Solidity night, at half-past nine o'clock, a Cs.
tinet Council was summoned to meet at the Earl
of LivIIRPOOL'S house, in Whitehall, where all the
members had assembled by ten o'clock. The Mi-
tiii.ters composing the Cabinet continued in deli-
licrotion till half-past eleven. Yesterday another
Citiinet Council was held at two o'clock, at the
Foreign Office, which sat till half-past two.

Alt,an. BROUGHAM, DENMAN, find «'IL•
LIAM! held a conference last morning about ele-
ren in one of the Chambers adjoining the
!louse of Lords.

The Limn CHANCELLOR, Viscount Stumm)Tti,
nod \•i'count CASTLEREAGH, had audiences of his
51 A.l isTY teattrday.
In consequence of the outrages of the mob in
hrenkiarg windows in the west end of the town, the
streets are traversed at night by patreles of the
horse guards. A detachment passed up the Strand
last night at nine o'clock.
Mr. Conners' has presented • petition to the
Douse of Commons respecting the current value
el money, in which he says, that in the year 1803
salad the tight succeeding years he purchased and
iniprocril an estate in the county of Southampton,
at the cost of 30,0001. and upwards; and that at
the clo.r of that period he gave ■ mortgage on the
said estate for 13,0001. which the mortgagee now
threatens to foreclose—a procedure which, if carried
• effect, most, under the present circumstances,
and as the law now stands, be ruinous to the Praia
tioner, and deeply injurious to all wbe have claims
upon his pecuniary resources. •
Yester.fly the Countess of DIARY. the Mar.
rilioness r.f LAIIIIDOWN, Lady CHARLOTTE SET.
noun, Lady MAaY STANLEY, Dowager Lady
Scurcr.t., Lady LAURA FITZROY, Lady ISABELLA
Ili.scitFoan, Lady CHARLOTTE SEYMOUR, body
slob it, N. attended by Mrs. Fair and Mr. CLAUS.
yrz. Charge d'Affaires from his Majesty the King
of Ihnst.mx, his Grace the Duke of SOMERSET,
Lord Furrow, Sir ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, &c.
the Central School of the Briti►h said
Fort ign School Society, and paid great attention to
tl.e itdieient operations of the system, for upwards
of txo hour,. The whole party. expressed great
saiisfaction with the good order and progress of the
laildr.o, who were particularly examined on Their
qiininiance with the Holy Scriptures.
At Ludlow, Salop, on the arrival of the news of
the landing of fur Majesty the QUEEN in this
cout.loy, considerable rejoicings were manifested
lay ih. iolorbitauts iu festive meeting. and by ring.
g of LH- I;s.

The iritterford Mirror, of the Bth instant, says,

" A ststemeol ask effigies of the Bank is preparing, end
till be R sibmilted to the eredittos as sous as possible after
Nrwpurt's funeral —Jane 7, 1820."
" We lise'r lug heard of any other stoppage. either
ti Is ttay or yesterday. The utiles are taken at a
pi:beta"

Probate of the will of the Isle Right Hon. Henry Earl of
Ileretrood, Viscount Lasce::es, and Karoo Hartwood, pass-
-5,1 ander the seal of the Prerogative Court in Doctors' Cum-
MI the Nth ult. The wrsonal estate, within the Pro-
vince of the Archbishop of Carnes busy, being sworn under
250,5)001. The grant was made to the present Earl (late
Henry Yiseount Lascelles;, the son and sole executor. Con-
sioterable testamentary provisions are made, in pure
of powers created fur that and ether purposes, by a
trust deed, bearing date the 24.1 of May, 11100; among
which are. 10.0001. to Lord Lascelles ; 40,0001 to the chil-
d/to of Lady Frances Douglas (except sis eldest son or
daughter, who may succeed to certain entailed estates, and
except also the Countersue Aberdeen, whom the testator con.
eiders well provided for by marriage) To his daughter, Lady
Mary Ana Yorke, 1,0001. per anuu m fur life,oite-half of which
to he devoted to the support and tuainteaanee nf her children ;
to whom also is given the sum of 20,0001. in equal shares,
on their arrival at 21, or marriage. Certain freehold estates
in the remit) of York ere devised to Lord Laseellcs, as are
also others in the islands of Jamaica, Harbadoes, Grenada,
Asc.; hut upon the same trusts and limitations as they were
devised to the testator by the late Edwin, Lord Harewood, the
provisious of whose will are directed to be fulfilled. The Gee.
hold mansion in Hanover-square, purchased by the testator
i•f the Doke of Roxburgh; and that ski, in Hanover.square,
purchased of Mr. Wellesley Pole, and lit the oecupe lion of
Lod Lascelles, are given to his Lo-ilsiiip fur life, and ulti-
mately ar voiding to the trusts provided in the deed,ot May,
1800. The furuiture, books, plate, pictures, jewels, Lee. in
ibi BC Louses, nre to remain as heir. looms. The freehold house
in Ilauovi /square, purchased of the executors of Sir J. Earle,
and that at !Southern, in the suburbs of the city of York, arc
devised to Lord Ductile, absolutely, who is also to have
all heusi hold furniture (slot left as heir loomaj carriages,
wines, tl/4c. end live sad dead stock. Miss Easily Hall, the
niece of the late Countess, has legacies to the amouut of
ts,oool. and upwards, besides an ammity ; and her coastaut
"l!rolions to her Ladyship in her last illness are alluded to
with Et alerts' acknowledgments. Legacies to servants are large
and numerous, all of the upper class havieg about 501. per
sou Insides immediate bequests. The residue is directed to be
applied to the provisions of the above.neentioned deed, Lord
Lascelles first taking to his own nse the sum of 90,0001. and
his children 6001. each, the testator not making Mesita larger
provision, m their father will have full powers for that per.
pose by the trest.deed of Maxi 1800.—. This will I. dated the
lath of July, 1810.

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BOARD OF GRERN CLOTH,
ST. JAMESS PALACE, 10TR Jule, 1620.

BY HIS MAJESTY'S COMMAND.

. Notice is lierthy given, That all Carriages proceeding to
_Lie Majesty's Drawinigroum, at -Buckingham Honse, on
Thursday the 16th of June, are to fall into the line at the
top of St. James's-street, go along Cleveland-row, and
through the Stable-yard into Ilse Park, and act down with
their horses' heads towards Buckingham-gate ; after setting
down, they are to wait in the Birdcage-walk, and on the
Parade opposite the Horse-guards : in taking up, they are
lo go along the road of the Mall, or the walk adjoining, and
gu nut at Backiughani-gate, or the Horse Guards.

No Hackney Coaches will be permitted to come into the
Park, but must set down at the outside of Buckingham-
gate.

The gate et the top of Constitntion•hill will he open only
for Carriages belonging to persons having the entrd, and
servants attending the Royal Family; which are to set
clown at the great door of the Palace in the Court-yard, and
to wait at the bottom of Constitution-hill.

Tickets for Carriages belonging to Persona baring the
entre, going in at the gate on the top of Constitution-hill,
will be delivered at the Board of Green Cloth, St. James's
Palace, on Tuesday next, between the hones of One and
Three o'Clock, and no other Carriages will be admitted at
that gate.
Chairs are to enter the Green Park at the door in the
Stable-yard, adjoining the Queen's Library; to proceed
across the Green, and to set down at the ,;reat door of the
Palace, and to wait within the railing. •

CHOLMONDELEX.