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MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1818.

trial exhibited so strong a picture of domestic wretched-
ness that we need not wonder at the extent of that
bounty which we hope will for the future place a very
unhappy man in comparative happiness. But, as we have
already observed, it is on the manner in which this boun-
ty has been bestowed, that our censure must fall. Mr.
Hone has been made bya party, the stalking horse to hide
their real designs. Their cry is tiro liberty of the press,
' while every day proves that by encouraging its licenti-
ousncss they are accelerating its ruin. The constitu-
tional right of a trial by jury is reiterated amongst
them with loud applause, while by their indecent and
brutal conduct, they reduce the Judges in our Courts
.to a worse condition than their criers, for they
call for silence in vain ; they tear down and
trample on the solemnity, which has hitherto guarded
the seat of Justice, and by an unequivocal demonstra-
tion of their temper, endeavour to awe both judge
and jury into a compliance with their wish.
They deny that to ridicule the scriptures by parodying
them is criminal, because great and good men, in all
ages, have parixlied theta. forgetting that it was don e
not to destroy, but to support religion. When they
can show that Mr. Hone's parodies had tEe furtherance
.of either religion or morality in view, we shall give
credit to him for his intentions, and to them for
their sanctity. Some of the detig,nations, however,
which accompany small sums in the list of subscrip-
tions, speak volumes for the creed of these benevolent
patriots. We there find Derry Triangle, as one of
them which, to us, conveys a meaning which makes
us blush, as we write it for the frontless impudence
of the wretch who could subscribe his name thus, and
tin the men who admitted such a designation to stand
amongst their names Do these abettors of infidelity,
•
these bosom friends of men who have openly denied
their belief in the revealed religion of God, imagine
that the thin disguise of political zeal will hide the
real workings of their hearts? In attempting to de-
ceive the public, they do but decieve themselves, and-
s° injudicious is their zeal, that every eflint which
they make to further the end they have in view,
serves but to give strength to those, whom they con-
sider their enemies. May it long have this effect;
for if we are to choose between our present state and
an irreligious democracy, we should certainly prefer
the former.

A Meeting was held in the City on Friday, to con-
sider of some means by which the numerous distressed
Seamen now wandering about the streets of the Metro-
polis, might receive relief. To excite the benevolence of
charitable persons in behalf of such objects as these, is
trul, laudable ; and we doubt not the humanity so
truly natural to Englishmen, will prompt them to
come tbrward to succour those who have fought our
battles, and shed such enduring ;gory upon the naval
annals of their country. We need not add, that our
warmest wishes attend the humane object in question.
A letter from Smyrna, of the 15th of Oct. states,
that Ali,Pacha ; the Governor of Epirus and Thcssa!v,
some months since, ordered a beantifill (;reek lady
named Euphrosine, of whom his eldest son, Mouctar
was enamoured, to be drowned iu the sea of
Jannina' with fifteen of her female friends ; but, as
none of his subjects would execute his commands, he
had the barbarity to carry them personally into effect.

GENERAL Peet.—lt having been declared in the Phi-
laddphia Democratic Press, that the patriot General
Nes is a black man, a writer in the New Yoeh Co' lam-
bkin contradicts the assertion, and says, " He is a white,
born in Merida, the capital of the province to which it
give its name. It was he that destroyed the greatest
part of Nlorillo's forces, in the march from Santa Fe to
the province of Venezuela. He now commands the pro-
vinces that had b n freed by the valour of his arms,
viz, Barinas, Merida, Truxillo, and Cueutta."
The American Government, it is said, has resolved
to maintain in the poor house, at the expewe of lle
Captain in whose ship th 9 have sailed, all such Euro-
pean emigrants as shall nit be able to find employment,
on their arrival in the United Status.

PRICE 94d•

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FR iNCE.

By a prnjet de ►ni, adopted ou the 22d, by the Chamber, the
Finance Minister has obtained a pro isional credit for
100,000,000 francs, ($,300,0001.), granted in antic ipation of
6-12ths of the taxes of ISM which are to be assessed ou
scale of the present year. This scheme is both a consequence
and invoice* the immediate pressure on the French treasury.
and most give rise to nitinherless hardships; which, indeed
the Minister has frankly admitted, but without proposing any
measure of alleviation,

The report npon the law respecting the journals was not
brought into diNcnssion in the Chamber of Peers, on the 2,6 th
ult. On the name day the Bureaux et' the Deputies met to
es;dnine the prnject of Finance, and the Committee autos.
bled on the law tur the recruiting of the alloy.

SPAIN.
" MADRID, I)vc. I6.—The project of recruiting the army
by a conscription is on the eve of being carried into execu-
tion icy a Royal Ordinance, which prescribes the new mods
of supplying our military ranks. Every year 11,000 men, taken
from those between 1$ and 30 years of age, to affect all classes
without exception, are to be called into the troops of the dif-
Cerent years. Front this conscription esemptimi may be ob-
tained by paying for once a sum of 5,000 fran4N. The im-
provement introduced by the Minister of Finance 11110 the
s%stern of contributions having produced the most salntary
effects, it appears that Al. Equia has rucommeoded to his
Majesty this basis for the rerruitment of the army.