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other 19 years, and so on. To this acconnt is added
a list of persons who died in custody since the year
1812. the number amounting to twenty. (Vibes*
one unfortunate man bad passed thirty-one years,
ten months, and fourteen days, ands r personal re:.
strain,: two had suffered inspriarinent for fourteen
years, and others for periods of eleven, nine, and
eight years. We know it will be said that these indi-
viduals might have shortened the duration of their
imprisonment. sod io many instances have ociiided it
altogether, had tlwy obeyed the order of the Courts;
but the circumstance still offers to potilic view

a certain evil, which demands the interference of
the Legislature. It is not to be endured that
:rty hidividusl should set at defiance the power.of •
Court of Justice. and choose at his own dis-
(retools whether he will submit to the decree of
the Court or endure perpetual imprisonment. The
sight of an individual suffering a long, and a seem-
ingly endless cuptivity. is revolting to the public,
and prudehre would suggest the propriety of pre-
venting a frequent recurrence of it. This might be
effected either by enlarging the powers of the
Courts of Equity, and enabling them to enforce
their own decreei BY other means, than imprisoning
the person in contempt ; or if this were not thought
advisable. by empowering the Courts of Common
Law to come to their assistance, and canoe writs to
be issued for enforcing decree' s of Cossets of
Equity in the same manner as judgments of the
Common Law Courts. At all events some remedy
ought to be applied to an evil so anomalous in its
appearance, and so inconsistent with the general
principles of our judicious polity.

Emilio en Addresses will he presented to the
QuEEtt. at Brandenburgb House. on Mondry
two. Her MAJESTY wall receive the Addresses
from Edmonton. St. Luke's. and that fiotn the
NVatermen and Lightermen, Wednesday next.
The torocession wish the last mentioned Address is
expected to be very interesting. as it is supposed
some thousands of the vratermett and hsrgemen will
attend on the occasion with their boats.

A met tiog of the Freemen of the City-of Here-
ford, resident in London and its environs, will take
place in a few days. we understand for the purpose
of addressing her MAJESTY.

A requi4tion. numerously and respectably signed
by the Inhabitant Hou.eholders cif the parish of
St. lune', Westminster. has bent presented to the
Churehtvlirdeng for the purpose of calling a Meet-
ing to tuldres. her MAJESTY : they having declined
to cull such Meeting the Requisitionists have them-
selves vaned one for Wednesday next.

Tttc ARMY.—A General Court-Martial is to
sit at Pie'shill Barracks. on Mond•iy next. the 25th
instant. by order of Major-General Sir THOMAS
BRADFORD. K.C. 8., Commander-in• Chief, to try
all such prisoners as may be brought before it.—
lirtsident, Col. Sir WILLIAM IVILLIAMS, K.C. 8.,
13th foot.—(Ediabargli Star.)

iMPROVENENT $ll TRADE.—Since we last no.
tired the slate of trade, it has continued to im-
prove. The fall trade has been reasonably brisk,
and the culeuderers have been actively employed for
the last four weeks. Weaving work is easily got;
14°Q 4-4th tweals have risen from id. to 31. an ell
weaving. A small advance has also taken place
on, the rote of harnesses and' lappet•.—(Gloftgo6
C' Atonic*. ) . .
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. Extract of a letter dated Cadiz, September
1, fly the way of Panama we have received ktirrs from
Lima, by the packet Votainforrio, which reach up to the 22d
April. They info, in as that the Government of Chili con-
tinued to the same slate of aaarehy is which they were
iiliinged by the late oecreresees in Buenos Ayres, which had
mule a Alt p impresatua on the country. Even the idea of
as eap..lit' being' $4 at down against Pere is new given
op, stud the people conceive it was only a Wither in iota Ord
to amuse the public, and prevent or retard any commotion
spinet O'H looms said his adherents, who have become very
unpopular. Al all events, the Viccaoy is prepared to give
them a warm reception, ia cam they should come, and the
Peruvians are to ama determined to support bin. They
lure prospered, whilst the others have seem their coilistry
&east:ilea, and they blow the arivaistageons attitude in
whirl. they now stead too welt, to wish the thoeuderey of
Chili task-masters. _ _

“ The frigates hrste►afda and ?infante have eyecup to
cruise uff Vaiptraisu, aril if they du their duty. they are snf.
firii at to hold an asesadeucy in the Vieille. We bare also
received letters from Guayaquil, reaching up to the 30th
May. They COI3IIIUI all that has been stated fens Lira. le
Portobello the Constituting was pee/aimed ow the 20th June,
amidst great rejoicing'. The skip. of *at St. Jaen and
Asia will certainly leave this fur the Pacific in the *hole of
the ensuing October. if we ran judge fru* the exertions of
the Million. of Maria., and the wishes of the merchants
here.”

It is reported in the patina circles which take
an interest iu the affair. of Iteland, thus Gowen'. -
merit intends, if not to abolish, at least to make a
considerable alteration in the Irish Linen Boars,.
We know not how far this repot t is founsled in truth►;
but the conversation. which took place in the House
of Con►tuuns on that subjvct, whets the Al isicellsair our
Estimates were discussed, iu the last Sessi 0000 , ap-
pears to give it countenahee.—(/)1,/,/ii, I..reaL Post
In alluding to the lute dreadful conflagra.ion at
Constatititiop e, the Genital, papers inlorm WI, shut
the great Ileknist and Orieotaliiit, ARISTON, or
Samos, fell u victim to the II sines. 111 x. Aftlrroll,
the friend and fellow-traveller of the celeloated
VoLxxx, after the Hoye example of his country.
unit, KOL:)IAS, DOUCAS, CARCIOTTI. &r. &C.
...insiecratesl an immense fortune, which► he' lavl
nru►cilally obtained by cot 00000 erce in Egypt, in
piomotisig and directing the efforts of the Greeks
the acquirement of knowledge and of useful is..
stitutious. Mr. A xurrox bud IMF. lied over great
part of Asia. Oceania, Africa, and Europe, in com-
pany with the Cheval►er Domitsx DK. RIENZI, de-
ecrtidaht of the relel►rated worthy of that name,
the friend of Prriwicti, root cl the Emperor
C111111.1:6 IV., and who, in the 14th century. as
Tiihune of the Roman people, so nobly visidicated
tile cause of rat mud liberty. to addition to the
regret winch, on the score of huntaiii.y, must tie.
eePwarily •be felt fur the melancholy fate of Xlr.
4ailrrux, the literary world has to deplore the loss
of his I►sec:our minitaseripts, amosigst which was
that cut.tatnig the xa.tire history 01 lII* CZtrii•iVe.
I:act Is,

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