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PRICES OF CORN.
Average Price. of Coen of ellithill4 and ITales, by the
Quarter of Fight Winchester Bissinits, anal of Oatmeal per
hullo! limbs. avoiniorninol hots ilsgretietnreeeeiveat in the
wreck faded the 2Stb of March, 1820.

A revere Priers ot' anti& Corti inStothart, by the Quarter
of itscht Winchester Bushels, sad of Vestotral per Mal of
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TAR!!, MARCH 26.
'Fr. Majesty hertril mass in his apartments yes-
terday. hits health is considerably improved.
MARCH 30.
Tilt King yesterday beard inns. in his apart-
meots, after which he transacted business with arse-
tal of his Ministers.
BULLETIN OF THE KINCrS HEALTH.
" March 29, eight o'clock in the morniet.
" Ns Meje.ae ye,icialey passed a very genii day, end
slept t•ery well in the nicht. Hie pollee i 4 winformli teenier.
i•Sigro.4l) " PORTAL, A LIBERT, DISTEL."
The Spaoisli Ambassador had yesterday a private
Norrie!ice of leave of his Majesty. lie departs im-
useshatrl London, whither he is charged by
hit qttvereigis with a mission to the King of England.
The Kuw also received the Prince de Castelci-
cola, the Neapolitan Ambassador, who took leave
of his Majesty previous to his going to London,
whither lie is charged by his Sovereign to prestitt
omplinieuts of condolence to the King of Eng—
Iniai no the death of his august father George 111.
Y.isterday evening, at nine o'clock, as le Sieur
Mare, a aoitiler of ilia sth regiment of the Itoyul
;n3r,l, was mewing rite Champ de Mars. for the
purl.... of joining his regiment, three individuals
aiseo.red him, and naked him, " Art not thou of
rhe Royal Guard ?"—" Yes," replied the brave
soldier, " I have that honour ;" and so saying, he
placed hip hand upon the guard of his 'aloe. The
Ihrre roffirlis immediately rushed upon him, knock-
trl Finn sloe. ii, se zed his sword, and required
liiin u, art' " Vire P Itmpereur !"—" No," replied
the faithful soldier, "Vire le Itoi!"—" Cry Vire
nurereur ! or thou diest."—" Vire le !Col !" re-
twaltd be again. i.stimit!y several sabre cuts were
made at lit. head :Ind arms, and the assassins pro-
ceeded to drag hitit to the quay, for the purpose of
thoolog hitn iota the river ; but happily the ap-
proach I.r severai persons, attracted by Mare's
cite., put the murderers to flight. 'flue wounded
ealilier was conveyed to the hospital of the Cron
C:idlots. Hopes are entertained that he will survive.
TI :e Court of Assizes, in it. first Session of April,
ut,:k.ll will commence on the 3d, will be occupied
with eight cases relative to seditious cries. The
I :st, aloeh will be heard on the 13th, comprises
prisons. The case of the Smut Bedault, the
re.l_,.lo.il)lc Editor of the Constitutionel, for the
j•-lilictriitin of an article of the most alarming
11 dt te. adi he heard on the Nth.
Lonvel underwent another examination yrs-
t .rsiay.

MADRID, MARCH 19.

1),, the $,ll of this month the regiment. forming
garrison of Tarragona declared for the Cutisti-
tile Governor, the King's Lieutenant, and
of the teginient, have been put under
grt,t. On the 9th, at live o'clock in the morning,
tr relziment formed in line in the square of the
Ca.:iedr:it. Between seven and eight o'clock all
toe officers of the garrison, some canuie., mer-
rt,v,t•., and other individuals of various corporate
b•nitrs, as•t!mbled at the Town Hall. A Junta wits
twined:lnt-1y installed, the Constitution was pub-
ed. and every thing passed with the utmost
vanqJillity. Lieutenant-General Count Espagne,
• old French emigrant, is the Governor of
Te•ra•giloa.
At Murcia the Constitution was She proclaimed,
al.d •%ura ea the Ilth with the greatest trait-
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MARCH 20.

We %Indent:mil that the Constitution was pro-
the irlrnd of Cuba on the Is: of
January; a fact of high importance, as it sliest,
II al the combirations of the Constitutional party
en. braced at Ihr same time Spain and the Co-
ion ;es. It wa: eu the lit of January that Quirtsgst
avd tie irbops in Andalusia declared for the Con-
'rite Doke de Frias is appointed Ambassador to
London, in the place of the Duke de San Carlos.
NI. L. de Outs, who hid been Ambassador to the
United States, aid succeed M. de Labrador at
1N aie!,
lie Count de Torero, Member of the Cortes,
now a refoge.e in France, whose sister is the widow
G-nerel porher, is to go to lirrlin as
Pt,,nipoiriitiary, to the place of M. 11,,,cutil
Vsd , Jo.
Powlio, Secretary in the Ministry of State, is
appoinied Ambamiudor to the Court of Lisbon.
M. de Carnpuzatio goes to Dresden in the place
of ill. Salinou, who is appointed to St. Petersburgli.
It %rein% that the Ministry of the Interior is given
to I),u Alvares Guerra, who had been Minister at
Cadiz in the time of the Cortes, and who is 1814.
was rsiled to Ceuta in Africa. If this be confirm-
ed none of the old Ministry will remain, except
114,0 Antonio Gontales Salmon, in the Finance.

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The greatest uncertainty still prevails respecting
thr occurrences iu Andalusia. Letters From Seville
si ignite Unit tranquillity was restored at Cadiz
since the 4slls.
It vrenss that Colonel Riego, after various coon.
termarehes, had retired to Mourne. Three officers
sit (I' Donee''* airily, obit entered his camp, excited
in his mind a false security, by reprereuting to him

THE B 'WISH PitESS.

lON DON,
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 152.0.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday
last are principally occupied with reports of the
speeches delivered in the Chamber of Deputies
upon the articles of the law for subjecting political
writings to a previous censorship. Six or seven of
the articles have been adopted by the Chamber, but
the discussions of one day are rm. the greater lout
rept titions of the speeches delivered on the tidy
preceding, and are in both instances singularly
barren of interest. During the debate on IV,lned-
day M. MANUEL, to shew how injuriously to the
public interests the discreti•:nnry power of pio-
hibiting certain publications in the ,
was exercised by the noisier, in the years
1816 and 1817, enumerated several instances
wht rein works of, as lie conceived, general
utility were prohibited. Ile stated that the
journals had received formal injunctions to take no
notice of a work on criminal jurisprudence, by
BettENOE•, or of the -Secret Chrunide, or the
comedy of Pride and Vanity. Several instances of
violence were offered to personal liberty, and the
public press was closed against the comp:mots of
the injured, or the statements of their tiotierbio,s.
—The Slew AlaugnEut I. brought au ac.ion
for unjust and t lose imprlsonment, but the
journals were prohibited from publishing the trial
—A foreigner, M. CROQUENEOUnt;, was arrested.
but the journals were forbidden to speak of the
circumstance—Oa the 4th May, 1817, an order
was transtnitted to all the journals not to copy •
piece of iiiteresting intelligence Oven bt• the..bar-
na des Debuts, respecting a dispatch bout the
E•igie.it Government which had been intercepted and
opened—:l conspiracy broke out at lionrileaux ; die
journals were en•lninrd no' to limier the affair, which
was that of the Sieur HANDON —On the Ilrh of
June, 1817, the Mrlor of Moro issued • prod:f-
iliation; ...timer was imposed on thr journals—Ti e
concordat was of the highest general interest, but the
journals were forbidden to speak of the negoci4tions
with the Pore:, mid in general of all ecclesiastical
affairs. On another occasion instructions were
given that no news front Bourdeaux bliould he pub-
lished until further order..

Thi b catalogue al prohibitions might no doubt
be very muds extended, but it cuss never excite
surprise to learn that arbitrary power has beets
abused by those to whom it was intrusted. The
universal experience of mankind proves the danger
of creating power, without at the same time re-
serving some means either of irdirret control or of
subsequent responsibility. Ministers in France
are not likely to be more virtuous or forbearing
than their brethren in wily other pert of the world,
and will, co doubt, be iiiiiiienced like them by
consideretions of self-interest, party favour, or pri-
vate animosity. 11'hy, indeed, should the prin-
ciple of a previous eciisorrhip of the rest. be
established, if it were wit nsiderstood that the Nli-
meters might at their discretion exercise is capri-
cious authority over the vehicles of public intelli-
gence Under such circumstances, power must
ever be the criterion of correctness in narrative and
propriety in sentiment, and it cannot be expected
that the depositaries of this power should permit
the publication °folly fact or opinion, calculated,
however remotely, to weaken their authority, ur
diminish the morel force of their characters.

Eleven persons are to be tried before the As.ize
Court of Paris during this and the next week, fur
uttering seditious expressions in public places. A
soldier of the Royal Guard wail attacked rind newly
murdered in Paris a le« nights since fur refusing
to exclaim Vice 1 'Emperestr, when required to du
so by three men. BOINPAIITE'S memory is err.
tainly still warmly cherished by a large patty iu
Frsuce, sod possibly more IN lICCQUIIt of the hatred

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borne to thao I.eit ley *ter 'fps.
time towarOpilitisriainer 'of Si: Miens than arises
out of sympittqforltts suffl•rinvl4. We know (bat
when N. 11,01,030 entered Patio, on his return from
Elio', his presence seemed to excite no enthusiasm
except among his troops, and yet-the-fight of the
, BOURBONS was on that acetifies) far from being a
subject of sorrow. The death of the Duke of
BERRY, as was stated in the Chamber of Deputies;
by the Minister Snows, was heard not scaly in
Var.'s, hut in several parts of the kingdom, whit
a ferocious joy, and although this eafortunate
Prince was extremely unpopular, yet this feeling
of ferocious joy at his death, which not even a con.
sigh-ration of the revolting crime by which he *of-
fered could moderate, may he fairly attributed am
minih to the general dislike in which his family is
livid, es to his individual want of popularity. It is
to be regretted by the friends of the Boyaikorts,
that the two Princes who, in the order of succession,
Stolid next the throne, are touch more unpopular
than he who now occupies it. They are despised,
especially the Duke of A ncont.atat, even tnore, if
possible, than they are disliked.

The KING'S health, we ■re happy to say, appears
to be re-established, but the nature of the recent
attack on his stomach is calculated to inspire the
mo.t serious apprehensions.
Rumours have prevailed in Paris that the Duke
DecAzes will shortly be restored to his former place
in the Cabinet. This, however, is represented by
the ultra-rnyalist journals as " a weak invention of
the enemy."

Thr 111(441- intelligence presents one very inte-
resting and suniewhat siugular fact connected with
the tterlit I eVOI Winn. Our readers are aware that it
was on tilo hat day of January that the troops com-
manded by Qui ROO A drclai ed to favour of the Con-
stitution, and on the same day the Constitution is
said to have been proclaimed in the island of Cuba.
Stich a coincidence is not very likely to have occur-
red without previous concert on the past of the
Constitutionalists in the Old and New World ; it
therefore manifests the extent of the conspiracy,
awl the judicious nullifier in which it was con-
ducted, for the design had evidently escaped
the suspicion of the Spanish Government.—The
Duke DF. SAN CA lUDS, the present Ambassador
from Spain to our Court, will be immediately sue-
ce• 41,11 by the Duke DE FRIAS.

The Five per Cents. are 73 f. 50 c. Bank Ac-
tion., 1,460 1.

A (lamburgh Mail has arrived. The States of
Hanover have at present under their considera-
tion the establishment of a National llttik, or
of a Sinking Food, which may answer the purpose
of a Bank. An article from Berlin mentions, that
at Leiria4a4li the respective interests of Prussia and
the Government of the Prince of Leppe-Delinold,
are now regulated. This town, which is entirely
surrounded by Prussian territory, belongs to both
Princes in cmatmon. The tribunal there passes
eritteacr as a Prussian Court of Justice, but adding,
at the same time, rr in the nartre of Prince Pau-
lin:l of Leppe-Delmold," as guardian and Regent.
II ed11,4e9 are carried before the higher Courts of
Justice nt Berlin, they also pass sentence with the
same addition.

Severn! alterations are ordered to he iromedintely
rustle in the Royal George yacht, under the com-
mand of the Honourable Sir (711ARLES PAGET,
at Portsmouth, preparatory to his MAJESTY em-
barking on his summer aquatic excursions.

Saturday morning arrived at Portsmouth the
Shrerwater sloop of war, Crptain D. Cox, from
the J 31111601 station, to be paid off. She left Ja-
maica ,2311 i Jannary, Davannah 43d February, and
Charleston :oh March—she took 130,000 dollars
frcru l'ort Royal, f•,r merchants at Charleston, and
has brought about '230,000 to England.—The
Bearer, Captain SAIIIMAREZ may be daily expect-
ed : ►he is to bring a large freight of specie
from Port Royal. The communications be-
tween Jamaica and the Main of South America
had not been frequent : she does not bring news of
the Independent forces. The troops at Jamaica
wcre particularly healthy ; as were the ships gene-
rally.—The Iphigenia had been very sickly. Sir
Doms Pornma was recovering from a severe pa-
ralytic attack.—The SOille, Captain PortiAm,
had sailed for Vera Cruz ; Wasp, Captain T. W„
CARTER, fur Campeachs• ; Sapphire. Captain
HART, for Curthagerta ; and the Oniario, Cup;airi
Gosi.iNG, for Port-au-Price.

The Good Friends (belonging to Sir F. BARING)
wits to rail from the Havannah on the 33d Fe-
broary, for Cowes.

Advices from the Isle of France have been re-
ceived to the 22(1 of December. Though only a
few days later in date, they contain many ad-
ditional particulars concerning ihe malignant dis-
order prevalent there. The number of blacks
who had fallen victima to its violence within a few
weeks exceeded 2,000. The white inhabitants,
with very few exceptions, had been free from at-
tack. The fatal quality of the disease was much
aggravated by the ignorance which prevailed con-
cerning its true stature. By some of the phyoi.
ciao' it was denominated the cholera marbles,
while others. described it no a species of the plague.
The effects of the terror produced by this disorder.

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kpiThittts a stop to oesriz. ali;trapiehiti4rla4.
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i•lfeiriv4•l4e been before aitivia'sied. The &Mt!. tioi,
tailroil Louis by all rticiacif property barLitiSheed
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the Governor to issue a proclamslioo, suspiading,
for 'one mouth, the payment of carry species of
dein oe iik•isoiary obtigation; a step which, tinder

other circunistinics, would bare been deemed ex-
traordinar,i but witiets- had- been rendered impe•
relive by the peculiar situation of the island. He
had also prohibited the intercoanie with the island
of. Bourbon, ships, coming from thence being
required in perform quarantine for folly days. The
disease was supposed to hove been introduced into
the ble of France by the Topaz/ frigate, bet is
what wanner is not explained.

Captain ilvtßY rOIIIIM, of the Larne, ha. been
promoted to ihr rank or Post Captain. Lieut.
BORER? TAIT. °Vibe Glasgow, is promoted to the
rank or Commander. and appointed to the Larne.
Lieutenants 0. B. VERNON, JOHN M'DOVII&LT.,
and JOHN BAMFORD, have been promoted to the
rank of Commander. Lieutenants J. ALEXANDER
and C. Itustit.E to he superannuated Cuinntind..
ers; Mr. JAMES RANKIN to be a surgeon. Lieut.
W. BLACILFoRD appointed to t4e Tamar; Hotv.
STorroto to the William And Mary yacht.

IVe are sorry to hear that the Leander, SS. bear.
ing the flag of Hear-Admiral Sir Him Blotes.
rood, K.C.B. fur the East Indies. has been in
very imminent dmger at Madeira. She
.turcl a
quick run (acity five days to that imlatitl, and was
preparing to leave it, when, io getting under weigh,
the capstern upset ; two other anchors were let go,
but they did not take hold, when the cables were
imtsiertly cut, in just sufficient time to prevent her
driving on ashore.
The following ship, arrived at the Motherhauk
lart week, and were put under quarantine
:—Wed-
nesday the. Ana, MATTHEWS, front Trieste, with
fruit, bound to Ilausburgli, with by. of sails and
boats. Same day, the Persereranre, GIBiON,
from Veneras, with wine, for Bremen, with loss of
fore-yird. Orr Saturday the Aeteon, STEWART,
Irene Cephalonia, with currants, to Portsmouth, for
ruder♦

The Photos frigate, Captain W. A. MosTA-
Gus, will sail about the 15th inst. for the North
American station. Lieutenant-General Sir JAMES
KEHPT, Governor of Nova Scotia, and Staff, will
embark in her. The Favourite, 24, Captain 11.
ROBINSON ; Clinker, Lieut. W. MaiTIN ; and
Pater, Lieut. NI tucturt, will sail when the wind is
fair, for the Newfoundland station.
The Earl St. Vincent, Sistrsou, for New South
Wales, arrives, at Portsmouth yesterday se'nnight.
She has taken 160 convicts on board from the
hulks at Portsmouth, for that settlement. They
are guarded by a detachment of the 4fith regiment
on passage thither.
On Thursday Rear-Admiral LAMBERT sailed
from Portsmouth for St. Helens, in the Vigo, 74,
Captain IHom Au 113ftow,i, to relieve Rear-Ad-
miral PLAMPIN. A number of smugglers were
put on board, to serve abroad five year*, according
to the statute.

The Crown and Zephyr transports, from Chat-
ham, bound to Guernsey, with part of the 7th Vete-
ran Bat whim, sailed from St. Helen's, nit Thursday.
The Integrity, with part of the triune regiment,
for the Isle of Man, passed through on the same
day. The Christiana has sailed for Sheerness to
land the troops she brought from Malta.
The Bavarian /rape►iu! (;;'uzette slates, that the
stetter thle cathedral of Spier., where eight German
Emperors sod the members of their titnihies are
buried, is to be repaired, and rescued from future
decay.

Nlajor CARTWRIGHT was originally in the navy
before the American war, and diotingssished himself
iii the Falkland Islands, a+ Flag-Lieutenaot to the
late Loaf HOWE. The Major's name having re-
monied on the Admiralty books as Lieutenant, be
was in the Havel promotions at his late MAJESTY'S
Jubilee, promoted to time rank of Alsoier and
Commander, and no an appointment on such an tic-
caribou is usual, he was nanituated to the .Sjoy sloop
of war, a sloop for a long time laid up in dick.
It is generally known that at Trentham-hall,
when the family is there, a stated relief is gives to
all poor travellers; it was at first established for
labourers going and returning in harvest time, but
it has for many years been general for all that apply,
except soldiers in parties. The provision is a piece
of good torrid, weight fourteen ounces, and a pint of
good table beer. The dodge not being seen from
the road, and at "Dine distance, it could not be
supposed that such numbers would apply, so as
to give regular employment for a porter, and re-
quiring considerable trouble in obtOiling a regular
supply of the bread and beer. The *image MM..
her 1114 t call for this relief is from fifty to a hair-
died daily, and iss the month of August last the
numbers 'hat received were as follow :
Men
Women
tholdrcn

Total iu our trouth 4,366

The show of horses it Mahon, during the pest
week. Ints been pretty large, but the generality
were Out in good conolotoon. •nd cnly noonlerme
price. were obtatiresl.—Pitine horses see middy
sold, ;,t good prices.
At Volk Palm-Sun fair. hest week. there was
a numerous shew of both beasts und sheep. prin-
cipally lean stock. The following is the ave-
rage :—llest prime English beef 88. to Bs. 6d.
Inferior ditto 7e. 6rl. hest Scotch beef, Bs. to
St. Gil. Inferior ditto 7s. 6J. to is. per stone.
Prime wether mutton Bid. to 9d. Inferior or ewe
ditto Bti.

It has been finally arranged, that the whole of the
prisoners connected with the Cato-street Conspiracy
shall be arraigned•at the bar of the Old Bailey ou
Saturday, the Illth of the present ononth. It is pro-
bable that nothing further than their arraignment
will take place on that day, but the !Dimness will
proceed on the following Monday, to the exclusion
of the regular business of the Sessions, which eon..
a:twee ow the 19th of the month.

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ARRIVALS.
lite Marquis of Woolly. as kis hoax in Gri-it G... 4._
street, Wr.leninst.r. from 4 Wl.ll In Ilse Doke ul 114i1111.•1•..
at btu sent. Kim.lndio*, if unßniedonilyir. .
Earl (-Arum'lll:in, al Warren's frltrlaii, Negras-eirt., I. ivi
• Coeti•iental lour.

The Earl of Lionsore, 14 Reddish's Hotel, /el t,
Rom his seat in tielead

Le Ceram, de Wilke and snite. at Drinari'l
Mr-sinew% wish leterrs of condolence in bill MO J•
the king of Denmark.

Mr. sad Mrs UM! F. st Thomas's Hotel,
square. from doll' seat in Y•altrhire.
Sir George Nerkwiih, Baronet, at the British Dot r.
imoya-street, from irehnd.
W. David sad John Markham, Esqrs. at ditto, ruin;
MOM.

Edward Davenport, E•q. at Fenton's Hutel, S:. .1 um...
street, from dictum Howbesy, Leicestershire.

DEPARTURES.

Eget amtLeosintess Cowper, fruen-----illeir house in (:rurz
street, Hsouver square, for Brighton.

Comfit sad Colonels lit. dotorio, from their Was,
asnoser.sqoarr, fur Na ighten.
Lord Thome" Cecil, from thi•Royal Hotel, St. Jawtr.'s-
street, for his brother's, the Al:Argots of Fatter'. arm, Hui-
IlitM, Lincolosistre.
Lord Doostley, from ditto, for Meitoo Illowbray, Leicrst.
terslrire.

Lord Gwydir, from Whitehall for Bath.
Lord Melbourne for Braehruts .

George Byng, CGq. M.P. Irwin his house in St. .
square, for his seat in Herts.
Lord Mistier, from thelVaterluo Iluerl, Jerusyn,ire,t, f..;
his nest is Herts.

Warden Scriunns, Vag. from ditto, for his wet, Curkice.!
Psi k, Sussex.
The Her. Mr. Mayo and Mrs. Maya, from RI ikes 11. d. I.
Jermyu•sdrrl, for their arm in Kent.
Earl and Comfiest Vernl tin, f.oin !heir lionise iw Grusve.
nor square, for their seat, Gushaintiory, Herts.
Viscount Maynard, Irons his bowie in Grosvenor-squale,
for his seat in Essex.

Earl Bearehavapi, from his house in rAit f.or hic
in 'Worcestershire.
The Earl and Countess of St. Germains, from their lulu ;a
in St. lames's•squar, fur their seat at Blackheath.

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