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MAJORITY.

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PA alio PA PEES.

reverse Of their fanatical Yankee neighbours they
}•sstly abhor any connexion, political or social, with
Oat• most detestable race.

" The land. in this province are such superior
to any where similar productions are cultivated in
soy of OK-United States; the manners of the pio-
sAeArrieet*Uld.etritolarr.otaioapeose•etwere otsweesnal.
to Irieb.timstiterionr, as it is never charged with
these tiourande of ferrite, an familiar. add so fatal

ygtfitligatil,Fm44o.l,o,4•4ol,-aMtioit.-1100.0 litotIOr•
duration than in tibiae parts of the State of New
ifwelt, but a provision to Meet them 'more readily
atid isfer to obtfip—yet if.a an in Ireland, who
liks any decent pay. .of 'subsistence. Wont& ob4ervt
e ganie eco • .oml upplic.vioii he most-do in
say pert of this he would. do much bet-
te'V at home. -
•"- Quebec is a riot ettriosity ; the Upper Towa
is neatly built ; Wittiest* on the plaits of
t.ia.l on the brink of an abrupt precipiee,,more llutu
two hundred feet higher 4liiin the stateliest mast
of the numerous ships that at this, Moment ride
bailer its inaccessible walls,,oo OS treat river St.
Lawrence. . •
" I was at the races of Quebec we Tunday ;
r'ey were ou the same celebrated planes;L their pito-
c pal patrons were English Officers in the Civil
awl Military Departments, the Canadians appear-
not to take much antler of loch amusement..
Tt,ey furnished me with a faint recollection of the
Curregh, and some strong lines of our national pro-
i,ensities, by the spirit of fun, ouid•rivalry; and riot.
frstluent in such assemblies in Ireland, as the ser-
i; nits of the Gentlemen were principally Irish, and
money and humour at command, both were
distributed without restraint or reflection.
" Yours truly, " W. Cox."
" New York, Nov. 40, 1219.
" I have -determined to returu home, oar am I
prepased. by my very sad experience, to encounter
oity more of the frightful climate and other miseries
ilcideut to the infernal awe of society in this cotto-
ny, with the wretched penury to be met with in all
ttorts of this laud.
" You may conceive some faint idea of the
health of this place, when I assure you, even New
York, the must salubrious city here, was entirely
t,-iltaced to a solitude during the last summer,
which, to avoid, I made a most expensive excursiou
to Quebec. a distance of 570 miles; uot. au Irish..
niati At &Milli:Mil that did nut 1.11 victim to the
yellow fever..among them. Mr. folio Walsh, late of
i`olier's-quay. and his son and daughter; not as
acre of ground occupied by white men, in this ex-
t region. that did not feel the scourge of
every species of fever hitherto known, besides thou-
sands of a $l,ll variety.
" Colibett has gone home, and then surely I
ritoy vehture, and will venture, as I would prefer
the dry gallows at home to au inglursous sweating
.tenth under American blankets.

" P. S.—l will have ready for publication, on
my arrival, a Novel, iii true Irish style, which 1
tv:ll venture to say, will be utuch superior in origi.
vt) le, and composition, to soy of Lady Mor-
v it,'..—What will the world say when it is known
tim wined Novelist? Laughable, certainly, but
tine, as the existence of E 4 ex-bridge.
" Yours,
"6 WALTER COX."

The following list of the Majority in the House
or Cootanomi on the Banishment Clause in the new
Hill affecting the Liberty of the Press, is copied
lions s Paper of yesterday, whose correspondent
%isles that he got the hst from a Member, who made
it out is the Committee, and assured him it is very
peurly tweet. al War 111. 100 sure out of 109 :—.
Arbiiihnot,Rt.tios. Pane, John Philips, Hon. E.
C Fame, V. Pitt, W. M.
Ila ales, G. Finlay, K. Powell, W. E.
Oink* H. Fittgvraid, Rt. Hon. Priagle, Sir W. H.
Withers,. Ho*. 11.. V. Maine, J.
Berkelt,,Rt.Hon.J. Gifford, Sir R. Ronsbuttom,J.
Wain,. Lord Gilbert, D. G. Robinson, Sir C.
Binning, Lori Gordon, J. Rubinson, Rt. Hon.
tilsorlforil, Mims of Goulliurn, ff. F. J.
il.•iirne, Rt lion. Gram, It nock.ege, 1.... d
W. S. Graves, Lord Sandon, Lord
H adshaw, It. HI Hart, Hun. GV. Scott. Hon. W. H. J.
+burden. J. Heygato,Alilerman Seymour, Horace
liilatoti, T. F. Holfural, G. P. Seymour, Hugh
Assxh, Sir H. B Holmes, W. filirliion, R.
CJlthorpe, lion. F. Huskhson, Rt.Hoii. Somirset, Lord F.
C. W. Staunton, Sir G.
C.auning. Rt. Hon. Ginn's, .1. Stephen., S.
f7arrall, J. Irving, J. Stewart, Hun. J. K.
Golsen!, R. M. 'twelve. Lord Stirling, Sir W.
rAallerrslllo. Cord Einnersley, W. S. St. John, Hon. H.
noels, Air c.. Lawson, U. Tennyson, C.
Gli,vg,ll4lp. R. H, Logh,T. T‘mbue, W. E. P.
roe, H. Lewis, T. E. Townslieud, Hun.
c..cha, Won. J. S. Long. St Hon. C. HG.
Cdllet, E. J. Lovrebtr, Loral Valiriort, Lora
Confirm, Sir W. Lygon, Hon. E. P. Vsiisittart, Rt. Hon.
Cooper, It. H. Alarquern, T. P. N.
ealagy„ Sir J. S. Martin, R. Vernon, GV.
Courtanny, T. P. Martin, Sir T. B. IVallate, Rt llon.T.
CoMc 3. Mellish, W. Walpole, Lori!
Cost, Hon. F. Monty, W. T. Ward, Huu. J. W.
Cusl, Hon. PR. Neale, Sir H. B. Warrender, Sir G.
Mission, G. R. Dinusauney, F.,M. Wiltwahain, E. B.
Dent, J. Osborne, Sir J. Willoughby. H.
Dodson, Dr. Palmerston, Lord Wilmot, R. J.
11),, mists, Rt. Hon. Pearse, J. Wilson, T.
W. Pere?, Hon. W. H. Wrigbt, J. H.
Eliot, Hon. W. Phiiionere, Dr. %trout-sky, 11.
El, ,sain, H. TZLIMIL—S. R. Luslinigiou.

tOICNIGN IN7 ELLIGENCE.

PARIS, J•NUART 10.
The King heard mass yesterday in his apartments.
The Prince deTallevand has beers seriously in-
disposed for some dap.
BERLIN. DECEMBER n.
By an order of the 26th'uf this month. the King.
or the reiterated request of Lieutenant-General De
M yea, Ministet of War. accepted his resignation
of this-office; .acrd to trimly his satisfaction at the
General's services. granthd him a pension of 6.000
c‘0414.. Litut.-Geniril de Woke •has been
koinutii Minister of Wer.
We Neva fibtuady spoken of the deprivation
114. Wetrel," piehihdr .f theology: This oo.tak;
cothrl Wild of terihdul.t the Likelea!
dectared! that* ‘,Apienft deprivia Man 'if
his 'dee, :usesidi,fikAtiTiiriaiiittia a letter of con-

LONDON,
FRIDAY. J-11-111/ART 14. MO.

A letter of condolence from M. DE I-VETTE,
Profet.ror of Theology and Morality. adtheoed to
Madame SA M DT, the mother “t the unfortnnnte en-

thuviast who murdered KOI7EI3UE, will be found
in our extracts from the Berlin Paper-4. Vt'e have
read and translated tins letter with niingled kelings
of surprise and indignati ))))) anontshed that any
man, and more particularly a -Prrifessor of Divinity
and Morality, could as far forget lit lieriwed to the
religion which it was his duty to enforce, and to the
social institutions of his country, as to undertake
to write a justification of the foulest crime that
could enter into the heart of man to conceive, or
fill to the hand of man to perpetrate. In the com-
mencement of the letter M. DE ‘‘'ETTE sparks of
the friendship entertained fur him by Madame
SANDT, min in this expression we•hoprit that we
bed found at once an excuse, if not a justification,
for his letter. for au unplike of friendship and of
humanity might induce him to exercise his inge-
nuity for the purpose of givir:g some calm. how-
ever deceitful. to the sorrows of a • parent's beat;
but wit find'ihit the letter has required " a clan-
.delitine Publicity." whicii is intrilitsted to M.
lig %VETTE. and. when iuterrogrteif by the proper
suslitorities, be did not deny that the letter contained

sincere expression of his sentiments. Oil.
11W Wg.rre has. consequence. been deprived of
his.proYesso.rship by the iir&-r or the king of l'avo-

std, for, for., 4.14 Majesty well observed, 1, the irps.
partasiTchiltige irs Pip(esior Isf TlietOityitod it 4
Alonglily atietnvt ins!,
lily tisainsittation, and I-should wound my eWscienee
weer Ito continue to confide the education of youth

011141.-teess
_alto regards assassinatisakApp-igsscisid, by.
,litrtskerroothtions and presuinptio,"
IWe4Protess or acksuncl;dges that r was:
t!if even i.nirgoral, and tiat
.st good end
'NUBIA* justify . bad la. aims. Mum Then does he
justifftionrfier ? Slasply by..rOferring the action to
itehtiments entertained by Ibe assas.in t and
provided vtich assassin shall hava-formsed a firm con-
'fatten of.the propriety of his conduct, and has his
mind sußiciently spiced with enthusiasm, he may
cut half the throats in the kingdom, and he shall
be entitled to the sympathy of all men who can soar
above vulgar prejudices, and be honoured with the
epithets " pure and pious," which the Professor
unsparingly heaps upon S•NDT. Eiror," he
affirms, "is excused, and in some degree de-
stroyed, by the firmness and the purity of convic-
tion, and passion is sanCtifled by the source from
which it flows." How absurd is such a doctrine,
and yet how flattering to the weakness of the ho-
stile oriderstanding Varry lan it thereby consti.
7tise judge of hie owa ghettoes. -owtl every
raw, loiterer revolting to the general prose of
otaultiott, is ehaugell "into a virtue keightt and.glo.
rious, in direct proportion to the moral blacknews
of
the offence. for " the firmness of the cuoviction"
.
will be sufficiently proved by the perpetration of
the crime; rind where is the man who will question
the pointy of his own motives ? The Professor extols
the act as it lonely phenomenon in our age, and
one winch which will rouse men from their lethargy.

It coooot be surprising that the youth or Grimm),
shonid here entertained such dangerous and anti.
social doctrines us hare been imputed to those
who resided in the Universities. oaten we hear a
grave Professor giving utterance to such &putted
sentiments—a Professor. too. of Divinity and
Morality! Fortunate is it for Genuaimy that sorb
man has been removed from the chair of public
instruction, which, with such opinions, he must
hare peiverted into • vehicie for the dissesbinstion
of tumid poison.

Paris Papers of Sunday issid.Moaday last have
arrived at our office, bat they contain no intelli-
gence of public interest. Marshal Sout.i, Duke
of Dalmatia, one of th► persica* included in the
Ordinance of the 24th of July, took the oath of a
Marshal of France b.-twerp the KING's bona., on
Sunday last, anti had the lianour of receiving (mut
his M.,)esly a Nlsrslial's //Wan. floor mi•er.ibly
tinfot t unite N isv ! I ill lir. like LAVALETIE,
suceeedrd in piison, *fief tetiirilre
litcMollllerd, we should are 111111 now, hike LA VA-
tu cuttiiiry to
like SOULT, receiving flow un inilulgesit Alaider
she highest 11011011 lb Of his profeiision ! Sir Iliont:ltT
WiLsoN, Caplan) Ilvrctitbisus, and Mr. I;sucr,„
now have good reason to congintnltite themselves
upon their generous noignatiimily in having saved
the life of LAIALETTE.

M. DECAZES IS rapidly recovering from his late
indisposition, hut the illness of M. DE SERRE. the
Keeper of the Seals becomes more soil snore alarm-
ing. It is there Tore resolved that JI. PASUCIEII
shall take the place iu the Tribune allotird to Al.
DE SERRE for opening the proposition to the Cham-
ber of Deputies for altering the law of eleclions.
The illness of other important personages is
noticed in the Paris Paper•. The Prince Ott
TA 11.1.EVILAND has been affected sigh ■ *evert
cold ; the Ex-Director BARRAS is elatigrroto•ly ill ;
the Cardinal Secretary• of State, GONSALVI, Iws
also been seriously indisposed.
The French Fonds on Saturday were 73 1. 90 c.
Bank Stock, 1,418 1. 7.5 c.

Ti e following fulsome panegyric neon its em.
ployers is copied from a Treasury Journal of last

high, :
" A few weeks since, and nothing was heard thronghout
the country but the loud nod angry accents of faction. The
poor were stimulated to plot agsiiist the rich ; the rich mow-
Felled to combine against the poor. We seemed in lie tread-
ing the very verge of civil strife, and the least timid amongst
us doubted the posaibility of escaping a crisis a hich mast
have coded by the effusion of blood, either in the field we
or the scaffild. The Parliament met in the midst of this
tierce agitation ; and, by the wisdom and energy of its pro.
ceedings, it allayed the menacing fermeot with au effect so
instantimeous, that it was impossible not to regret the com-
paratively tardy application of the remedy. No sooner was
disaffection coerced, and the progress of delusion checked ;
no 'ouster was there a breathing time for loyal and I
able men to resume the exercise of more tranquil virtues,
than we beheld, on every side, a motile sod a geurrons com-
petition, unparalleled, we will affirm, is any other county
hi the world, to relieve the distresses of those who hail so
lately &tied ■nd calumuiated all the instruments of that
ethyl"

l'he labourer should be worthy of Isis hire, and
probably it was the consciousness of this truth duet
dictated the above paragraph. IVitli the zeal of
the writer in the cruise of Isis employers we are
not inclined to quarrel, but we cannot subscribe
to his misrepresentations. Where did he find that

for the tranquil state of the country we err indebt-
ed to the measures proposed by ISlooistets,
adopted in the present Session of Pas loinfrot ? All
the energy sod activity to which so much virtue is
imputed, were exercised under the loos existing
-Aellts the Salami commenced. All the persons I.'o-

Ws tad for WoOroly old sedition hAre bre',

vt S't

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, .
c*ge4l under the old lo s; me ft dastelibs had
Ottessaooner eisforeA• t
e, , - ~ , ,
,
thew crimes would hire 4 6 siiii<*pressed,
: oud:hever would love o(taiised so igen t a height.
Had CARLILE been prosecuted in the first mouth

not have been stopped as effectually as he nos is?
Insiesd then of giving Ministers credit fur their
wisdom and energy, we are more disposed to cen-
sure them for atiatby and oeglact. A single pike
has-secit been discovered under the operation of Che
new lIMP, awl as for radical Inertil!lre it. is no.
torious that they were on the docline• before
throe laws were enacted. 'rite insignificance of
the last Fiusbury meeting was a subject of ridi-
cule even to the miserable few of whom it
was composed. The radical meetings in the
country, the numbers of which had been exag-
gerated from the brgi eeee lug, bad acquired a like
character; they were in a state of rapid decay.
The present cold weather would in itself be suffi-
cient for their entire extinction. But the grossest
part of the intorepresetinst remains to be noticed.
A stranger, on trading this generous competition in
the country to relieve the distresses of those who
had so lately d• fi<d and calumniated all the
instruments of relief, would conclude that the poor
in every tow,, in England were radical., and that
in every such town there was a corps of yeomen
Caval►y. who were employed in healing the woniids
their sabres load Wade, by works of charity and !►r-
ur6tencr. The society of this country perhaps
does not boast a more amiable feature then the cus-
tom among its Nobility and Gentry, which fixes
them at their country seats, dispensing their kind-
ness and hospitality among their tenantry at this
season of the year. Hence the Provincial Papers
annually abound about Christmas with accounts of
benefactions 81111 donations b. towed by the rich
upon the poor, of soup eatablisba►euts. and other
means adopted for their relief in all the variety of
their wants, whether of food, furl, or raiment.—
The ardour with which this noble and generous
competiti is exercised at the I/traria amine-sit is
sufficieudy replanted by the intense severity of
the weather. It is ionisers-el in the counts y, extend-
ing to districts that the radical influence never ap-
proached. 11-e repeat that we do out blame the
real of Ilse writer in the service of his employers;
but he is highly reprehensible when, for the sake
of pesylog them an unmerited compliment, he
would, crustraty to the truth, represent the ►icb and
the poor as lately committed iii simile all over the
kluge' eeeee , and now reconciled only by the magical
energy and wisdom of tlie late measures proposed
bt• Mini-ters, and adopted on their recommendation.

Yvorniay morning, at an early hour. the LORD
CH A NCE 1.1,0 had an audience of the PitttiClL RE-
GENT et Carlton-honor.

The PtttucF REGFAT left town yesterday, soon
after iii.e u', luck, fur Brighton.
On tVecluesnlay the POUNCE REGENT brill a
Court at (74rItini-hon.ie, Inch was attended by
the Fir‘t Lord of the l'vraisnry, the Secretary of
State fur Foreign Affaits, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chewier, the.Maoter-Graeral of the Ordnance, the
Pre>itleutt of the Boma of Control, the Fowl of
Moktrave, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Ihorse, &c.

111,. ADANDF.RCIER, extra Megsenger of Lord
STEWAItr, ‘Vecitlesday at the Foreign
Office, a.th diTtatelirs front Vienna.
Mr. I'A.KILV. extra Italian Messenger. left the
Foreign OTher yesterday evening, with dispatches
for Sir WIC A'CotYnT, Bart. at Naples.

The plop in which se alluded for converting Mr.
MicKs's barge warehouse at London-wall into • re-
ceptacle les the accommodation of the host-dent
wandering poor Among the Vresent inclemeut
was, was adopted yesterday by a respectable meet-
ing, and .a subscription was opened for the purpose
earning it Oita effect. The LORD Ai A YOR, the
Bishop uJ CIiESTER. and a great number of OW-
Chants and hankers were present.

A eluonge is shortly to take place in the chief
direction of the QtiiirtruiMaster-Gesieral's depart-
ment, •t the Horse Gust dr, - Sir BENJAMIN
D'Uttote, who at present our the distinguished
post Or Qoarter-MoStrr-Generale leers!, Issiog been up- i
pointed to he Government of two of the West
buds* lalaurla. We are not enabled to speak with
certsney as to tier person likely to succeed to the
V Caul actuation. but we understand an arrinigeo
mem to be isi contemplation for bestowing it on
Colonel JACK-OM, ..f the Guards, while 1116 Grace
the Diderot Ilicnsiums. Rio is et present 1111 half-
pay, is ioteutled ti succeed that officer in his Few.
meta.

Letters from Paris, dated Friday last, state. that
the Muth of Frasier, in colowrittenee of the very I:-
milled applications for if v•counts made in thedepres.-
etl'sitredion of commerce, 111/5 accumulated a Ili"-
posahle capital 0r 170 or francs. nearly 7
millions sterling, winch at thin moment is 11114 great
degree utiproductive. This has led to a reduction of
the 'interest on Aires held to that institution. to 6 per
cent. per anunm. the lowest rate permitted by the
lit on which their charter as laid. A. the
shares, sit the Bank of France ore now quoted at
1.430. i.stied it 1,000 franca, the real in-
terest pal) is little more than 4 per cent. Enid that at
a period "boo the I,•uvrtiniritt securities of the coun-
ty urerrealifin“ 7 per rent. per annum. "Flie
iii-
rt the dank of ... l• .rAnceare now Meditating a
lorbisure whirl' will probably approximate their own
fonds. and these of the roam ry. to the some level—
to obtain the sioreticor of their proprietors to the in-
vestineot of the puritan of their capital for which no
commercial detnand 111.1111.11, 111 the purcliti.e of roars.
'nor aiiritipt WAS Milk last ye.lr, and was thall reit-
demi shornvr by a majority of one person only. The
price of tier rents, a. brought by this mail, is lower
the last, the quotation. at the c lesion of
Friday's market twing 7-21: 30e., wills 44.80, fur the
rote of rxekteigr.— ( Evening Paper.)