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GERMAN PAPERS.

•UG9BURO, FEBRUARY 20.

Notwithstanding the vigilance and activity at the

police, the attacks and wounding of woolen, who
appear aloue.in the streets in the evening, stilt coo-
flour. As the perpetrator does not con.iiler hint-
ed( safe in the public streets, on asccoont of the
',stroke set to watch, be now begins to steal into
houses, and there to gratify his wicked inclination
by stubbing women whom he finds stone.
FEBRU ARY 22.

The inhabitants still live in the greatest terror.
The boldness of Use disturbeis of the public secu-
rity goes so far, that tiotvritlintanding the increased
number of guards set by the police, a girl was
wounded in the street the evening before yesterday,
another •pursued, and yesterday evening, at bevel'
o'clock,•an tattoo was even made to 0,441,5111i1te a
student. He was suddenly attacked by an un-
known person, armed with a stiletto. but by his
instantly turning round, parried the blow Irons the
heart, at which it wa. aimed, so that it struck the
breast, and did not prove mortal ; but the young
nian, is defending Wa nted*. was besides severely
wounded in the band. The assassin fled. We
most praise the general indignation and tumult
among the people, who f sll together in crowds iss
order to seize the wretches who have so long carried
on their wicked Ir./reeding% undiscovered. This
afternoon a notice bas been issued by the police,
mud all the streets and squares are occupied by sol-
diers of die police, gees-d'ornses, and military pa-
trot's. FEBRUARY V.

Last night all was Tito. only that • tire broke
out as it did ou the preceding night, but it was
• merely occidental, and .ono astiogui,hed.
The notice says—•• Fur some time past excesses
hove been committed herr, which excite the indig-
nation of the Magistrates Nisi of every hottest citi-
sem The Alegiotrates of the city have adopted the
measures net:essay for the iusitateuance of prisons'
...fel and order." The notice forbids all disturb-
, mice of tranquillity by 'wise sod cries its the streets,
evecially at night ; the stealing into homes, or
pressing ageing notividusils, also all everting of
arms by persons whose vocation does not entitle
them so to du. The rowing of idle femaleeabout
the streets is expletioly to be pnevented ; all Ow
back and side doom of houses must be closed at
See o'clock. The. hour heed by the Police for
claims o.lll*-hawse, saver's, &c. is to be strictly
observed. •
A 4.• atoseat out be sign within tweuty.four
; , • t•

log at eight n'riork ; au .1 all paraoila who have
permits if residence ore to rpm', without delay

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duce their permits or cartel de WO* to be renewed.
whether the time for which they wino originally
given be expired Of not.
NAPLES; JANUAIIM

01) the 25th instant the Crown Ponce of Den.
mark *meowed Mount Vesuvius, to °harry, ova at
hand the irruption of this volcano, winch has now
continued fur some months. He MI 411 accompanied
by Sir Humphrey Davy, and M. Mnn,ricelli,
Secretary to the Academy of sciem,.. Some ex-
periments made by Sir Humphrey Davy skew that
the lava irsutsig from the •ulcano roman's no coal,
and that the ashes, when thrown into water, inflame
and form • little volcano. This end several other
txperinientslove reason to hope that we may sit least
discover something relative to the cause of these
vokanoes, over which nature has hitherto thrown

VIENNA. VIIIIINAIT 20.

The Deputies of the Society of Ocrmsn Mer-
chants and Maitafarturrrs have addressed a long
memoirist to the Evierne of Austria, to Oleo the
inlwanitages that who'd accrue to In. Majesty's du.
11l i l lions in partictifor, as *ell as to Germsny in ge-
neral, by the establishment of heavy duties, to
be levied on the frontiers ut all fooreign goods,
loud the abolition of tolls, &c. in the interior
of the Gellll.lo CUllfielieedlioli. They think that
the imuurtation of the mioufactules of Frillier'.
EIIK I tut, &c. might be wholly prevented ;
whereas they are now smuggled in such quasi.
mire, that prohibitions oily injure the *objects
of the oste ; lor whole the house manufactures
derive but little advantage from them, the sub-
jecia of his Miejesty most pay the premiums timid
our smuggling, it bring notorious taint there are out
all for funitier. inmisrusore companies against loss by
sinuggling.-4-(Frankfort rupers, February 28.1

THE BRITtSII PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Simms 7, isso.

It would appear from various articles of intelli-
gence which we hare extracted from the Glasgow
papers of Thursday last, that lovely apprehensions
have been entertained by the Magistrates of the
Wien, that some sudden violence was contemplated
by the Radicals in Glasgow and its vicinity. The
town on Wednesday last pretested all the bu•tlr of
military preparation, and the &serify with which
the yeomanry corps of the town and neighbourhood
displayed their strength on this occasion of sudden
alarm, shews with how formidable a front the friends
of public order are prepared to encounter those
who would dare to distu►b the peace of the coun-
try. The shuns, we are basin to find, was alto-
gether unfounded, no Radical ventured to spew
his face; bat whether the ■bseuce of an enemy
in the present instance should be attributed to
the dismay excited in the minds of the Radi-
cals by the formidable character of these mili-
tary preparations, or to the absolute nonentity of
any furs to public tranquillity, it is not liar us to
determine.

Of this, however, we are well convinced, that no
state of mind ran he so truly distressing as to live
ne continual apprehensions of some unknown but
terrible calamity ; and nothing cats lie more cruel
than that permits should make it their bu-inems—
the poincipsl object of their unremitting industry.
to excite in others this feeling of mysterious alarm,
for which they most well kilow there is no solid
founds ion. Under Inc inadde g impulse of
such unib filled terror the mind bec es incapable
of rightly exercising its own powers, or of esti-
math% the• memo of adequate security, arid the
adarmist acquires an influence in the fears of his
victim, which neither belongs to bi, own merits nor
suits the condition of the sufferer. That the miuis-
terial writers should set upon principles in their,
stature so disbolical, would, if stated as au abstract
proposition, be considered utterly inipossible.
br-
cause it is the undoubted interest of their employers
to excite by every means the couSilence of the
people, and chiefly by reinrvrutiug themselves as
posscssing in • high degree the public esteem awl
love. and theist under their auspices all is peace, har-
mony, mid prosperity. Should any doubts of their
popularity flash opens their mind., these writeis
should conceal from the world so humiliating a con-
viction, and /hew their wisdom by recommending
such precautionary nod inotictive measures as
would ensure the public safety, without foolishly
exciting in the minds of the malcontents any Mews
of their power, influence, and importance.
foreseut ministerial writers, however, set upon
the principle of inspiring ats universol alarm
of dangers that no man can drfine, end are quite
satisfied if they can retain the authority of their
employers, though it be posicha-ed at the peace
of mind and tianqiiillity of our half of the
',Aim,. and at the mcirifice of the good
came end hitherto unsullied character of the
other. We do put deny Ono many of the people
called Radicals may and do eutertain very don-
grails designs, but we will eilirai.that neither their
bombers our their metal of annoyaoce are of the
character to justify the apprehensions esiorrsoed by
the biutietews-411i11 *keit agents ; sod farther, that
..4 let •

of • weak Administr■tion might he to facili-
tate their dangerous projects for securing the pos.
*region of a power superior to the elitist and even
to the furors of the Constitution.
We would beg leave to ask any unprejudiced
men in the kingdom, whether any good purpose
ran be emitted by the miserable attempts of the
Treasury hirelings to argue the public into a be-
lief that the Cato-street "conspiracy, whatever it
may have been, had massy extrusive ramifications
throughout various parts of she country ? We would
ask even of his Majesty's Ministers, whether it be
prudent, at the present moment, to endeavour to
give a chnrecter so formidahle to r purpose so daring-
ly terrific ? Can the Government derive any •d-
-vantage from p►oving (even if it could be proved)
that a very considerable portion of the Ring's subjects
are organised a ins, so devotedly hostile to the
measures pursued by the Administration, that they
are ready to rush into the extreme of guilt and
danger for the purpose of consigning tl►e Moister,
themselves to the murderer's dagger? In a civilised
society there i• no crime, whatever may be its atro-
city, diet is not restrained more by the force
of moral eentimetit operating upon the minds
of all, that, by she admonitions of law, or even
the terrors of iounielintrot. Alen tremble more at
the idea of et►rountenug the torrent of public opi-
knot, than •f braving the slings of conscience ; nor
cats it be overlooked tluit even conscience itself is
nothing snore then a iterception of gond and
evil, in relation to the opinions inspired by edu-
cation, and the concurrent feelings of mankind.
Assaesination is regarded with more horror its
Great than in Italy by the great ensas of
the nation, and although the paten is of revenge
may in Greet f3ritaiat as fiercely shake the breasts
of individuals as its Italy, yet the crime is, thank
Ileavesi ! amongst us of very unfrequent occur-
rence. The general horror which the crime
in-
spires in the great body of the people prevents
individuals from comeniplioing it, being con-
vinced that under no circumstances would they ohs
tain the succour or sympathy of their countrymen.
Is it then prudent to endeavour to undeceive the
public upon this point, and to chew them that the
doctrine of assassination is avowed and practised by
a far greater number of the people than had ever
before been imagined ; that the moral feelings of
the nation do tint revolt ■t it to the extent we pre-
viously supposed; and, finally, that circumstances
might occur its which even an a in might
count upon the resistance mid sympathy of his
fellow-creatures ? Such a mode of proceeding is,
in our view of the subject, fraught with extreme
danger to the moral character of the people. It
will be time enough to censure the criminals when
they are known so be guilty; but it is neither
decent, just, nor politic, to inculpate by sweeping
censures and fanciful reasoning large classes of the
community.

Flanders and Dutch mails have arrived, bat
the intelligence h ght by them is not very im-
portant. Accounts front Matthrim of a very recent
date inform us that SAND. the assas►in or KOT•
Main, though weak, has pretty well recovered of
his wounds. The proceedings against him are Ptill
going on, anal this new SKIDS awaits the decision of
his fate with calm resignation.
Accounts from Cairo have been received at
Rome, atiting that Ali Pachs has advanced to-
wards Palestine, at the head of a numerous body
of troops, and lips seized upon it. The rime
accounts ►ay that the advanced guard of his troops
had already entered Jerusalem.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was expected at
the Lodge in the Phoenix Park, near Dublin, on
Friday last. The Papers from that City, received
yesterday, contain rut her details of the (lilt urbances
in the IVesterii I)iatricts. The activity of the re-
sident Gently, aided by an lucre:y.4:g military force,
is, however, expected to speedily suppress these
tumults. 'three hundred end fifty of the Royal

l'eterim commanded by Colonel Twiee,
arrived at Galway on tlie 211111 last. A strong divi-
sion of the !isth Rifle Brigade marchrd into that
tot's'. The 77th regiment have moved from Galway
and Timm to the comity of Roscommon. The whole
frontier of the county of Mayo, adjoining Galway
and Itiwconimon, is lined by parties of the militia
staff and yeomanry. " From the Tram Gazette
it appears," saga the 1.)511114 vetting Post—

" That the Rilibonenen in the neighbouibood of that
Town suffered some of their associates to return to their
sgrieultoral ditties, in e onseq f the reduction made
by some of the lendkods in that sicinity, in their rents.
Is not this fad a presumption, that those infatuated MKS
hare no ulterior objects, as bas been asserted, iu contempla=
lion ilre do Off mein to insist upon this as an errpstment
opium the assertion, for it would be unfair to the public not
to acknowledgq that we are is possessiou of itaurmation of
another kind—hut we doubt our authority. Al all events,
however, we must trait for further disclosure ; psJ the As-
sists are at hand, irbieh will relieve tire public mind, sad,
we doubt not, contribute materially to quiet the disturb.
aides su the Nest of Ireland."

We have authority to state. that the friends of
Sir THOMAS TIJIATOM, in Southwark. amend to in-
vite that Gentlenum again to sifts himself as a eats•
didate to legresent them in the new Parliament.

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here, wily die IR- the ou~sOilss assested jut° such simassesius iusporiasses it they
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hirsute of the lis Intl of the furores none find their :NorNincisillislesignhola
sod it.isert..., • . regarding whether sostice their
c;,.. . 1 . ilk
i7c*: rilike.,_'"liiirliudiklicito:fs
het Arced, been g -or not. All innkeepers,
&c. are to deliver the ounces preowtihrd, until for. grubbing of lie Wilmer* sod their Portillalls•