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BUTCH MAIL.

felt to his vengeance 11w principal authors of die
totivpirsey. He has sent 150 heads to be exposed
t the gates of the Seraglio.

ST. PETERIBURGH, APIA 15.
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DIVORCE OF PRINCE CONSTANTINE.
Cie the ii.oo,h March (0 S.) wns published the fol-
ly,' iue Intpurtunr Imperial Manifesto:—
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the greet of Cad. we. Alexander the First, Emperor
pea eisdneral of All the Russia.. lee. let hereby signify in our
sohjects--nor ant .1%-balarrel broth. r Clarets/heck
mottlesod Doke Cotaatatoine has, by a rroto..l adetreaaed to
rat beloved Slather the 17.6wpreaa Slaria, *ad i 0 as. drawn
one attentiDa to his family affairs with reepect to ibeloag
absence of his Consort, the Greed Dicier Aisne (born
Prioress of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld) who making a joinery
into foreign enanstries so far hark as the year 1891,
en scionot of her extreme bad health, hss owl only
slut yet returned to hies, bat aecordiug to her own per.
roast deelaratiow, camel .gaits relays to Russia, end
then (ice be wisbes that his marriage with her may he
sliasolved. In eisseetreitee of this retreat, with the epproba.
tics of owe beloved IllotheiN we have referred this affair to
the troosideratino of the Holy Systed, which, on comparing
the eireumiesioces of she twee with the lowsof the Church, and
on the posiweiples of the 355% Article .1 Basil the Great, has
decided "The marriage of the Caarewitseh mud Grand Dube
Consiantioe with the Grand Dorian Anise is to be dissolved,
and he is lobe allowed, if he thinks purr, to coolest( a
new marriage." Front all these eireamstawees, ere have Mem
shot every alba usaintaia unimpaired the matrimonial
nobs, is oar Imperial Family, after it bas bees already
broken of .early Wickes years' without aux hopes of be.
lag motored, would ha of so avail. We have gleesome appro.
bation ateoriliag to the prinei pies of the lime ante Church. to
theories, ezeeutiois of the above.mentioned decision of the
Holy Synod, and einosnaud it to he every whore riverbed
in its fall extent. Directing OUr thoughts ow this occasion to
the various eireinastanees which may take place in the mat ri-
Inoitial connexions of the members of the Imperial
and the eunsequenees of them, if they are not provided for
and dentinhied by a geoerellaw, we consider it as iseerseary
re the perpetual asaintenawee of the dignity and traoeuil.
lity of the Imperial Family, and eves of our empire. to a. 1.1
to the already existing regulations respecting the Imperial
Family, the following Supplementary ()Misuser :
Whew any member of the Imperial Family shall form
swatrimoonl union within individual who is sot of weenies.
welding nub, that is Is say, who aloes not beton to a Bove.
leers or reiguiag Howse, then sad its that ease the member
of the Imperial Family canoed commuaicate to the other'
individual the rights which appertain to the members of the
Imperial Family, and the children born of such a marriage
have no right to the siteccession to the throne.
At the same lime that asellenollllKe this our will to all pre-
sent sod future member of our Imperial Family, and to all
...ufaithful! subjects' arcordiag I. the 53d article of the et-ge-
lation requesting the Imperial Family, we hereby bind before
the Almighty Ruler all and every versos whom this con.
terns, to keep this our sepplementary ordansoce holy mud
inviolate to time everlasting.
Given is our Capital City of St. Petersborels,toth March,
is the year of our Lord 1820, and of our Reign the
twentieth.

The Emperor Alexander has been Plighily
posed. but is noir fully recoverer!.—/Ditch Papers
and Hassbargh ('orrespondent. May 4.)

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
TUESDAY. MAY 9. 1820.

The question of the Civil List was brought en
last night in the House of Commons, at about la-
past nine o'clock, an hoar too far advanced for the
proper consideration of m important a subject. This
circumstance, and the absence of sufficient previous
inquiry ioto many topics necessarily connected with
the fair investigation of the proposed arrangement,
induced Lord Joan Russat.t. to mom, by way of
amendment, that the consideration of the Report of
the Committee of Supply, in which the Civil Lid
had been formally proposed, should be deferred to
Mionday nest. This amendment was rejected on a
division which took place, the numbers being for
the amendment, 157; against it, 256. The origi-
tsaf resolution was then carded, and the House
adjourned.
Lord MILTON gave notice yesterday evening in
the House of Commons, that on this day se'nnight
he would move for a repeal of the duties imposed
on the importation of foreign wool. The sudden-
ssess with which this tax was proposed in the first
Session of 1819, co•operated with the forms of Par-
liament to prevent the voice of the country from
being heard with respect to it ; bat petitions have
been already presented in the present Session from
consideratle numbers of persons interested in the
woollen mannfactures, praying for an immediate
repeal of the impolitic and destructive tax, and
suppotting their prayer with arguments drawn from
facts which cannot be controverted. Lord MILTON
will be strenuously assisted in his motion by his
colleague Mr. STUART WORTLNT.
But while Lord MILTON confiner his operations
to one branch of our system, owl proposes the

weans of reducing the pressor- that tiow threatens
its existence. Mr. Minima suggests the necessity
of ft-modelling our entire commerciall system. so
fee as it collet:tn. our relations with foreign states,
as the moat effectual mem of relieving the present
eisbarraned state of the country. This Gentle.
seas submitted to the Howse of Commons yester-
day evening a petition from the me►chants of
London, which we siot long since laid before the
public, preyiog for a Knievel investigation of our'
usereoutile system. with a view to the removal of
the prohibitious and restrictions that now oppress
sod vainness the operations of our foreign etim-
Miter. Mr. BARING drew a disheartening picture
of the state of public affairs, and manifested the
urgent necessity that exists of entering upon so
ir.quiry ipso the ceases of the present distress, and
• the 'probable mesas of affording relief.

This evariig Mr. Alderman Wow) rowan., to
brieg forward his ■notion iu the House of Com-
atose for the appoirituseut of a Secret Committee
to mramine rehearses relative to the conduct of
Ceorge Edemas, the spy. This moo.ion, the pub-

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Tic must be aware, refer solely to the cmiduct •
of Edwardx, with regard to the project said to have
been devised by him for destroying the Members
of the House of Commons, and will not touch upon
his connexion with the Cato-street conspirators,
which could not come within the ordinary jurisdie.
lion of the House.
We do not think that those of our contemporm.
ties who have touched upon the general question of
the propriety of employing spies, have treated it
with the delicacy which the nature of the
►equires. The employment of spies must always i
be regarded as a matter of expediency and nectar
pity, and the propriety of having recourse to their
agency must depend altogether upon the eircurn•
stances of individual cases. Should a conspiracy of
a dangerous ttter? be formed against the state,
and one of the party be induced from remorse or
terro► to reveal the plot to the Government, no elms.
could fairly or justly censure the Ministers foe iw.
strutting this informer to associate will with his for.
mer companions, and watch the course of their pro•
ceedings until the moment arrived when justice
may be permitted to strike the guilty. But no ideas
of political expediency could justify a Government
in giving a general commission to any individual to
be on the watch for treasons, with nu assurance that
his reward should be proportioned to the plots de.
ward, and the numbers of conspirators convicted.
Such an employment must stimulate the spy to ex-
ceed the strictness of his duly, and he will instantly
fix upon some wretched outcast of fortune, whose
bad plosions, assisted by poverty and the tempt•
ing assurance of immediate gain, may without
much difficulty he moulded to his will. In this
case a treason is f..rmed, which probably without
'such agency would never have existed; and if the
effect be fairly traced to the cause, the guilt of the
transaction must eventually rest with those who
we►e so indiscreet as to employ the spy before the
conspiracy was hatched. Whether this supposed
case may resemble the reality of the late conspi-
racy we do not pretend to ray. It is, however, es•
serted, that Edward. had formed his project spinal
the Members of the House of Commons while
Thistlewood was confined in Horsham gaol, end
that he frequently exp ee I a wish that the period
of the wretched man's imprisonment were expired,
as Thistlewond was 44 the boy he wanted." Ed-
wards formed an acquaintance with T;iistlescood
immediately after his release from prison, and oc-
, casionally supplied him with money; and it is
easy to perceive in the plot framed against the
lives of his Majesty's Ministers, the characteristic
traces of the scheme which Edwards is said to have
projected against the Members of the House of
Commons.

A Dutch Moil arrived List night with Papers to
the 34 instant. The marriage of the Grand Duke
CONSTANTIN*, brother of the Emperor of RUSSIA,
with the Princess As we, of Save-Coburg, has been
dissolved. The grounds for this proceeding are,
the continued absence of the Princess fora series
of nineteen years, and her declaration that she can-
not retu►n to her husband. The Rossian Imperial
Manifesto, pronouncing this matrimonial dissolu-
tion, is given in another part of our Piper.

Brussels Papers to the ith instant have arrived.
They mention the arrival in that city of her Royal
Highness the Duchess of KENT, whose equipages
in passing through Ghent had been mistaken by
many for those of her Majesty the Queen of Gaza T
ParrAam. This is a double mistake; the Duchess
of KNIT is at Kensington Palace.

We have received New York Papers to the
7th of April. They announce the arrival of
General Visas, the Spanish Minister. An ex-
pectation is thence entertained that the question
of the Florida. will be finally adjusted before
the close of the present Congress. In cotesequesice
of an opinion gaining ground unfavourable to
the bile Commodore DICATUR, hie friends have
published the whole correspondence between
him and Captain BARROW that preceded the late
fatal duel. It is of great length, but is interesting
only to their countrymen.

The Judges of the Court of King's Bench seve-
rally delivered their opinions yesterday upon the
grounds load by Mr. Hunt for a new trial. and
unanimously refused his spplicstion. The Apron-,
NIT-GENERAL immediately prayed the judgment
of the Court upon the Defendants, but Mr. HUNT
and JoKitson having expressed s wish to be allowed
time to obtain some affidavits from Munehester. the
Covet postponed the further consideration of the
care until Saturday, when the Judges would deter.
mine whether they could give the Defeudants fur-
thertime until Monday.

Yesterday, at two &chick, • Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, which sat fur two
hours iu deliber•lioo.

It was finally determined in a Council held at
the KING'S Pelee!, on Saturday last, that the Coro
nation shall take place on Tuesday the Ist of August;
arid the necessary directions swat issued accordingly.
—f Enid*, Picts.)

At s Catholic meeting held in Dublin on the
3d instant, itiiinta stated as the opinion of his phy.
vicious. that Mr. thiamin could not undertake an
immediate journey to London without i.siminent
clanger to his life, sod it was therefore resolved to
entreat hit, to postpui.e it. An aggregate meeting;
to consider of a I'etition to railiament, was nt the
I mune time 6wed for the 16th instant.

. . ,
Saturday the Princess SOPHIA MATILDA arrived
at Propylene, on a visit to the Princess AUGUSTA.
Yesterday maiming the Princesses attendee! di.
Sine service at St. George's chapel, where a sermon
was preached by the Canon in residence. After
Divine Service the Princesses returned to Frog-
Owe.
The Te►race was yesterday opened for the first
Sim an a Sunday since the lamented long affliction
at *sr late venerable Sovereign, when a numerous
'assemblage of all ranks attended. The bind of
She Royal Horse Guards attended, and played
from one o'clock till three. The sight was truty
gratifying to the iuhabitanta and others; but, alas !
the great attraction of the King and Queen, per.
ambulating iii the midst of their loving subjects
-ef the general orders of 'twiny, and frequent and
constant Courts for tee higher orders, is no more.
From the Terrace it is allowed there are the finest
views in the kingdom. ft was owing to the cold.
neve of the we►ither the band attended at the early
hour it did. When the weather is warmer it will
attend in the evening.

.DCW KR. MAY 6.

Arrival. at, sod departures from, the York
Hotel—
The Earl of Wisebilara soul suite, The Caustoes of Clan-
rirardo, family, aid suite, his Highness Prince Hesse Hoe-
twirl( sad wile, General Sir Jubn Hamilton, Mr. sad Mos.
Stavely. the H 0.,. Mrs Herbert and family, Mr.Torress,
Mr. sad Mrs Coward, Mr. Wits at sad Sem, Delves Brimsb.
lON Esq Major Booby, W.. Berry. Esq., his Eteelleacy
Mr. Hill and-seite, Marquis De Twishy, Color,' Arboth-
Not, Miss Hervey, Mr. Bray, Mr. Bosaield, Mr. Appleby,
Miss Everett, Mr. Dear, -- Davenport, Esq., the Count and
Countess of Meatier sod suite,.—C-al.bsge, Esq., Stewart,
Lsq., Balkan, Est, Mr. sad Mrs. Heudrie and family, Mr.
sod Mrs. Mantis, E. Compton, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Kirwan,
Miller, Esq, hoe Earl of Lauderdale, Lady Mary
Maithiad. Adair, Esq., Pollock, Esq., Jobs Mae-
lagidne, Esq. Hayward, EMI, the Reverend Mr. Wilkes,
Mrs. Nesbitt, Mrs. Wahiawa, Mr. and NM Waters sad
family, MajorGeueral and Mrs. hiller, Mr. sad Mrs. Cooke
sad family, Mr. sod Mrs. Canning cad family, Mr. sad Mrs.
Laser. P. Lattia, Esq. the Host. Mr. Barnewall, P. Amaielt.
Esq. the Misses Byrn, bliss Edgeworth, Major Berridell arid
family, Mr. sod Mrs. Dixon. Mr. arid Mrs. Barrett, Mrs.
Gans, Mr. sad Mrs. Heavy Boris( sad suite, the Earl of
Whitworth, the Duchess of Dorset sad smite, Captain
Marra, Gordon sal Lady, Loris Goldssid, Esq. Mr. and
Miss Hale, Mr. end Mrs. Weitlestime, Capt. Paul, Captain
Yorsoe, M•s. Kiesaird, Mr. and Mrs. Butler Danvers,
the Hos. Mr. mod Mrs. Vaansek, Mr. sad Mrs. Arnold and
family, Mr. Butler sad son, Capt. Butler and nos, Gptai■
Smith, R.N., Miss Torbingios, Mr. sad Mrs. Pape sad
family, Daley, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Amlersou. Captain sad
Mrs. Singkros and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dimadale, the
Damn of Dowry, family, and suite, Mr. and Mrs. Tate and
family, Dr. Banana, Mr. Emmett, Sir W. Waller sad the Ba-
roams Howe and suite, M.s. and Miss Herbert Jarrett, Mr.
sad Mrs. Ellison tad family, Lloyd. EN., Mr. sad Mrs.
Keyes'er cud family, Mrs. and Miss Triathlon, Mr. sad Mrs.
Gaud and suite, the Earl of Essex and suite. Mies Mon-
sois, Mrs. Daniels and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jefferies and
family, Mrs. Liedisry and family, the Earl of Elgin sad smite,
Mr. ad Mrs. Sheppard, Mr. sad Mr.. Wood, Mr. and Mrs.
111riges and family,Stuato Ready, Esq.

Yesterday the Duke of GLooctsrea visited the
Kum for some time, at his Palace in Pall-mall.
The Duchess of boat( was not so well on Sun-
duty morning usher Royal Highness had been for
sott►e days previous. We are happy to say her
Royal Highness was better it: the evening.
Yesterday limning Prince LBOPOLD attended
the anniversaryof the Port of London Society fur
promoting religion among seamen, et the City of
London Tavern. In the afternoon his [loyal High.
mess left town for Claremont.
Prince LSI/POLO left lowa yesterday for Clare-
mont.
The Marquis of CAUDIII and Lord Baste•
rocs are returned to town front his Lordship's
seat, Mayhem Abbey. Susses.
The Marquis of SALISBURY left town yesterday
for his sent, Hatfield.

Countess AN N ISLET and family leave town this
day fur Paris.
Lord NEWIIOIIOIII2R arrived yesterday at the
Briti.h Hotel, Jeranyo-street, Irons his seat In
Berk..
Arrivals at the Branswick House Hotel, Han•
over-tq nate—
Lord Gray, and the Hon. Mr. Gray, from Scotland ; the
Bishop of Dower, and Mn. Alexander and family, from
Ireland. The Bishop of Norwich acid family has left ditto,
for the Palace, Norwich.

Upwards of 3,000 Nobility and Gentry have been,
within the Met few days, to inspect the model of the
monumental grolope, to the memory of the late
lamented Willem* CHARLOTTE. at Mr. WYATEr,II,
in Heorietta.ttreet, Cavendish.square, and have
all spoken of it in terms of admiration. The Duke
of YORK was among the relicts of yesterday.
The ()wham Theatre opened on Monday even.
lint, wish the musical drama of Guy Mannering.
The part of Dane& Dimon. was admirably aut.
mined by Mr. MERRY Jommirrom. Mrs. FAULR.
NKR perlornied the part of Meg Mertilies with curt.
eiderable allergy and effect. 'rite beautiful air of
" le say not seoran's heart i< bought." was sung by
Mrs. BALLY, amid the universal applau.e of the
audience. Mr. BELLAMY sung " lie mine. dear
Maid," with considerable effect. The performance
concluded with the melo.drame of The Falls of
Clyde, its which Mr. Jonnston, M the part of
Donald, equally etrinced his dramatic powers. Upon
the whole, the character. were well entwined. and
the performance went off with, couoiderable
lharhons Chronicle.)

Jardkial Wit.-111 the case of BALDWIN V.
Trinity College. Dublin, in the Court iir Common
Pleas. in that city, ouTuesiley last. Lord Notional,
in giving judgment. observed. that it was quite in.
soillicirsit for the dernandant in • win of right to
5o: .• lie claimed by descent." That, continued
his lAirdshiii, with his accustomed humour, would
be a shrewd smwer fur a sweep who hod got into
your 'rouse by coining down the chimney. **Pray,
Sir. how-did you gr. into my hawse I got in
Ogr Mew." "'relit desetssms wend. •ud this
would be au easy made swerpkg way of gettiug

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BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY, WAR E.
Betting was brisk sl the fallowing odds

DUST. ..
i to' apt Plow Mule 100 to 6 APS AOoto6B
7to 2 apt !taster . 100 to 6 apt Too,
6ho I 11014 Kill Dail f. 100 to 5 apt Akin
9to 1 apt Wacky's Bro. Even two apt the kW.
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OAKS. •
I • lo 1 apt !!ride
11 la 4 is. apt she field.

7 le 4 apt loreer.l

6 to $ .st Prodes“

PRIDESTIIIA
. ,
Getwge Wilson, the celebrated Blackheath pedestrian, sow
in the 54th year of Isis aim has undertaker the mamma lark
or walking 1,600 miles in 18 asecessive days (Sosidays ex-
cepted). to commence tr. Monday the llith of May, at
the Welliactoo Cricket crooned, South street, Sloamemplare,
Chelsea, hesitating each morning at live, mid isishiag his
daily proportioa of she performance before nine is the term-
itic. The veletas evinces great mall/lean is his 'mitigate
success. . _

ST. HELENA.

We have been favoured with • letter from gt.
Helen., doled March 4, 18'20, of which the fol-
lowing is so extract :
a Lieutenam l'igot, of the Leveret. the Master and aloe
gems, of the Rosario, the !Western( the Redwieg, the Cos-
ner of the Leveret, sad the Carpesiter of the Heron, are is.
retitled home : our uses are particularly healthy, although
this is the sickly sessom—indeed oar sick list has been very
small when compared with the lest pars of 1818 ; it was them
between SO end 60, nod now from 14 to 18. 1 suppose they
are pretty well reasoned by this time—at any rate they
ought, for we have not more thaw two-thirds of our old hand*
on board the Cosq•eror. 1 have every reason to believe the
Issue or soft bread to the seams has dme more mod than
any other thing, and particularly of late, wham war supplies
of fresh beef have hem so uncertain. About • mewl h Mum
our people began to get rather sickly, sod the bats iseremed
very much, upon which the Doctor stated the nee to the
Admiral, and, as we were Meiling all biscuit at the time, be
suggested the meemity of reforming to soft bread, as he
considered su ure..h biscuit, with such s ...all proportion of
fmab !swat, to be is a great measure the cause of the mein
getting ill. The Admiral immediately ordered soft bread
to he issued Anse days a week, and 1 assure you the chaste
in the biek list was sees in less than • week ; and now. in-
stead of increasing ou board skean., of the Pquadrua, they
are decreasing daily."—(Pirsouth

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