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Chamber of Deputits. No biols hive as yet been
throwu out of a dissoltiiion, but it mjy be ex-
Meted, as we have reason to believe, iu the course
of the next autumn.

•
We have received Paris Pavers of Monday
last. They contain some further proceedings in the
trial of M. FGALGEs' assassins. The Court were,
iu the Sitting. of the 17th and 18th last, princi-
pally engageckin hearing witnesses for the defence,
which, in the case of &WOGS, consists in endea-
vouring to prove an alibi ; and in that of JaUsiolla
depends on creating some confusion in the minds of
the Jury relative to the state of M. FUALDEs' Ac-
counts, as affected by the robbery said to have been
committed on his person., The assesaination is
known to have been perpetrated about eight
o'clock in the evening ; and about five or six
o'clock BArriDN was seen by Uttsul.♦ PA-
PILLON conversing with M. FUAILBZII, and on
parting with him litard to say, " At eight
o'clock this evening—be sure you do not frirget it."
EIAsTIDE has, during the trial, maintained, for the
most part, excellent spirits, and indulges frequently
in merriment and laughter, but on the 18th he way
effected to tears by the impassioned prayer fur
me►cy, addressed in his favour to the Court, by one
of his female relatives, who swore that he had hot
left her house during the entire evening of the as-
sassination, and declared, with vehemence, that all
the witnesses against him were perjured.
On Sunday the KING, accompanied by the
Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family, the
Cardinals, the Prince Duke de TALLITRAN D. and
the Nespirlitan mid Speuish Ambassadors, heard
Mess at the Chapel of the Thuilleries. which was
executed iu grand orchestra, under the direction of
31. the Chevalier CHILILUBINt.

Madame the Countess of GOTHLAND (the
Queen or Swains!), attended by several Swedes of
distinction. was preseut on Saturday in the Di-
plomatic Tribune. at the Sitting of the Chamber
of Deputies.

A Dutch Mail arrived last night, with Papers to
the 30th of April. They repeat the prevalence of
a confident expectation in France that the Army
of Occupation will be withdrawn in October.

A Flanders Mail his arrived. with papers from
Brussels to the 28th lut. The following are ea-
tracts :

insekeone, APRIL 2t.
Though the contrary has bees asserted, it appears to be
certain that Mr. Lamb, the Owlish Plenimiteetiary to the
Diet, has, be the express order. of his Governnmet, deliver.
ed to Coast Las Cases, who resides i■ the city of Frank-
fort, all the parcels, papers, letters, niesescripts, and do.
cements, which were takes frost the Comet on beard
the vessel which cooveyed him limn the Cape of Good
Hope to the Thames. Among these papers which were
sent from Loudon to the Covet, are several remarkable
pieces, eves designs sad plans drama by Napoleon's own
head, as well a very less repave addressed by Las Carts to
Loden latiesparte us the voyage to St. Helena and the
abode there.

lIRIIIISZLI, AMU L 27.

Madame Curet, who .as arrested oa the 2d of this
montb, has just been set at May. The Duke of Welling-
toe was to Mate Paris yesterday (Ilse 26t6) to embark at
Calais, the megyeiations.at the liquidations being termi-
nated.

The long-pending stair of Messrs. Doney and Crawford
has beep at length decided. M. Dowry, for prearatiog to the
Kitt( a remonstrance in very improper and eves insulting
terms. claiming from hie Majesty the payment of a large
nom doe to him by the India Company, is coodemised to
three years imprisonmest asd the costs. Mr. Crawford is
acquitted.

New Orleans Papers to the 22d of February have
arrived. The question as to the Florida', and the
boundary between the Spanish possessions and the
American territory, occupies the undivided attest.
tton of the inhabitants of New Orleana, as they
state it is • most interesting question, particularly
to that place and the adjacent provinces.—The fol-
lowing is an extract :
a Spain requires as sine qua non, that the Mississippi
(mark this) shall be the boundary of her Mexican domi-
nions. Spain is no doubt induced to persist in these arro-
gant demands, from a belief that she will wit stand alone,
iu the event of a rupture. Indeed, her Minister has inti-
mated, in the late unpublished correspondence on this sub-
ject, if we are correctly informed, that his Government has
not►ing to fear from s war will the United States, as it will
•ot have to etratenti with us single-hauded; and ibis threat
is so strongly corroborated by the fact, that Great Britain
and France have offered their mediation in the pending con-
mummy between ns--but it is not tree that the former
Power has so far interk►ed as to protest again►t the cessioa
Floridaof to this country."

Iu another part of our Paper will be found an
extract from a private letter, written by an Officer
attached to one division of our army in India, which
presents a most magnificent picture of the extent
and efficiency of our military operations. The
whole army in the field in the latter part of Octo-
ber, the date of this letter, is computed at 100,000
men, exclusive of the enormous and unwieldy assem-
blage of servants and followers who usually crowd
the camp of Indian armies. The Governor-General

was leading one division in person, and is repre-
sented as travelling with all the magnificence
and pageantry of the most powerful Sultans of the
Edo. The army was stated to be at that time
marching against Gwalior, one of Scut DIA'S prin-
cipal forts, in the full confidence of success. Ac-
counts, however, of a much more recent date, have
been already prcsente4 to our readers, stating, that

'preparation
effect of terrifying SCINDIA into usibmissaion, end
that this restless chief had consented to surrender
some of his principal fortresses into the hands of the
British. •

these immense military

:
have had the

The splendour of military achievements, and the
apparent increase of power which success in war
generally implies, ought not, in our minds, to pre-
vent an inquiry in this country into the nature and
character of those hostilities which have now dis-
turbed the tranquillity of India. We are aware
that many persons in this country hold the opi-
nion, that the mutual interests of Great Britain
and Hindostan require an exitnsion of the
British possessions in the East : but we believe
that none will be hardy enough to contend for that
event, if in its accomplishment the ordinary prin
ciples of humanity and justice should be sacrificed ;
they would desire to have at least some good pre-
tence for hostilities, and that the fair fame of this
country should not be tarnished by wanton ag-
gressions. The advocates of the contrary opiniou
hold that a further extension of British power in
India would be ineomposible with the professed ob-
ject of such a measure, namely, the good govern-
ment of the country, and that the ruling Power,
by enlarging the grasp of its possessions, would
only endanger their security. To both these classes
of disputants an inquiry into the causes of the pre-
sent war would probably offer much for serious
reflection. Any manifestation of unjust ambition
on the part of Great Britain would not, we believe,
find many advocates at home, were it only for the
extreme impolicy, in the present affairs of the Com-
pany, of increasing its financial difficulties by ex.
pensive military preparations ; while, on the other
hand, if the war arose solely from the enmity of the
independent Princes of the Peninsula, assisted and
encouraged by the impatience of our subsidiaries,
allies, and subjects, it would seem to determine the
impropriety of still farther extruding our autho-
rity, and teach us rather to secure what we How
hold, than to seek • precarious enjoyment, calcu-
lated to endanger even our previous possessions.
The subject is entitled to the must earnest consi-
deration of Parliament, and we trust that the pre-
sent Session will not close without UMW notice of
the military events in the East Indies.

Count MUNSTER had an audience of the PRINCE
REGENT yesterday.
Employment for the poor has lately increased,
but without damping the spirit of emigration.
Five ships belonging to Dumfries have sailed for
America this season, and two American ships from
Annan, altogether with upwards of 500 emigrants
on board, almost all hushundmen, and many
of them possessed of considerable property in cash.
Until the lark and the present year, emigrati
was never thought of in these quarters. • A few
weeks since three ships, principally with emigrants
oil board, sailed from Newcastle ; and on Sunday
se' •ght two Sunderland ships sailed from that
port with emigrants for the United States, many
of them poor miners from the neighbourhood of
Alston Moor. This alarming spirit or emigration
would find its best remedy in an increase of
the comforts of the poor ; but this would re-
quire a reduction of taxes, and a system of eco-
nomy slid retrenchment on the part of Ministers,
for which they do not appear to have any great
taste. It is grateful, however, to think, that their
waist of wisdom may be supplied by the impolicy
of other's, and that the evil will receive a check
shroud which it should have found at home.—
The Whitehaven Paper, received yeste►day, states,
that several persons iu the parishes of Bewonitle
and Stapleton have lately been preparing to sail for
America ; but, in consequence of the unfavourable
accounts which they have received from those who
emigrated last year, they have altered their deter.
rniustioto.

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