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London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

1N SENATE, Dm 17.

The Semite resumed the consideration of the
11110 mode ys sterility for instructing the Cont.
notre of Piddle Lands to make inquiry relative
to lands in ►ha Virginia military tract ; and
of the Itt..olution to appoint u Committee to

LONDON,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, WIS.

Paris Papers to the 17th instant have arrived sit
our Office. The law relative to the recruiting of
the army still continues the subject of discussion ill
the Chamber of Deputies, where opinions appear
extremely divided, as well on the expediency as on
its consistency with the principles of the constitu-
tion. Some members there are also, who would
oppose the law as derogatory to the Royal preroga-
tive, although it has been proposed by the King
himself. M. de COURTARUEL considered it dan-
gerous that any military bodies its the kingdoin
should be rendered so far local as to require the en-
actment of a particular law to enable the King to
march them beyond the limits of their several de-
partments. It was inconsistent, he said, with the
prerogative of the Crown, and might eventually
render them a Parliamentary army, obedient rather
to the law than to the King. The power of the
sword ought without doubt to rest exclusively with
the Executive Power ; but this prerogative is by
uo means invaded by renderitg particular division*
of the military local throughout various parts of the
empire. M. de BONDI proposed an amendment,
' that the vote of the army should be annual, as it is
in England ; and the Barnum de BRIGODE, in sup-
porting this amendment, remarked, that such was
the practice in the time of BONAPARTE, and added,
that if they were not more constitutional than the
English, they ought not to be less so than BONA-
PARTE. The proposition is a good one, 'nitwit!).
►tauiiiug the moult...at absurdity of the Baron's il-
lustration, in which there appears is greater regard
to point and antithesis than to truth.
The Weimar Opposition Paper, the publication
of which had been suspended since last November,
has again appeared. The Editor, have been
changed, and it is made to publish a declaration,
drawn up under the direction of the Government.
acknowledging its repeated offences in comment-
ing too severely upon the existing state of public
affairs, and promising a future amendment. This
circumstance teaches the full value of the Wieny of
the press iu Germany, when in ‘Veiniar, where it
was supposed to flouri►h, the complaint of ass angry•
despot, or of his Moister, is sufficient, without a
public or private trial, to call down on the alleged
offender the utmost of Royal or Imperial indigna-
tin%

Of Madame Matcsots some interesting circum-
stances will be found in our extracts. This Lady
has been conveyed to Alby, where she is to undere.:o
her trial as sit accomplice in the murder. She en•
tered Alby on horseback, and, font the pleasure
she experienced in the gaze of the people, and her
desire to gratify their utmost curiosity by throwing
off the hood of her cloak, she evidently looked
upon her entre, as a species of triumph. She bas
published her Memoirs, which are read in Paris
with great interest, and of which some notice is
taken in another part of our Paper. lu this book
she still peremptorily denies that she was the woman
said to have been concealed in a closet in Bsa.
CA I:3 iIIEMOUS honk', at the tittle of M. FLIAL-
DES' murder. She will find some difficulty in in-
ducing the world to credit her assertions, partirii-
lady as a Court of Law has recognised her guilt,
so far us to grant her husband a divorce.
The Five per Cents. on the 15th, were, Ski f. 25 e.
Batik Actions 1.557 f. 50 c.

Some doubt• seem to be thrown, by the New
York Papers of the 9ist, on the report of MINA'S
capture, but they adduce no satisfactory evidence
to discredit the official report that communicated
that event. For the present, at least, we cannot
refuse our reluctant assent to the probability of
this unfortunate circumstance.

The disposable forces of the United States con-
tinue to advance towards the South. The inrtsse•
dime and avowed object of this armament is the
seizure of Amelia Island—not fur the purpose of
appropriating it, hut merely to interrupt the sys-
tem of piracy that has been there organised against
the commerce of every nation in the world, lint
who can doubt that the ultimate object is the
possession of the Florida,, on which the United
States have long been looking with the anxious
and wistful eye of ambition ? A letter from Sa-
vannah notices a rumour which is said to have
prevailed at Amelia, that a expedition
was fitting out at some of the %Vest India
Islands, for the purpose of taking poosses•ion Of tile
Flotilla*. We have already given our opinion at

some length Al the onluotw.c.e vi 11. l ar
itroirioceN, owl we eitttoot avoid once more expre..-
tog our fears thlt they call prove lit no thAiwt
iterioll es untie of quarrt-1 lietweett Great Dotaita autl
the littiteil States.

We may expect to find the southern contest he.
come very Shortly the 501..j...t.t of discussion in Cor-
t;res•. ()11 the 15,1 i last the INSIHDENT, in pm-
Nuance or a vote of the !Uite of Representative•.
transmitted to them co.n.ounications respecting the
motive! that induced the Government to ia,,,e onlrN
for the seizure of Ainelin Island awl Galveston:
A motion has also hero made and carried in the
Senate, requesting the PREqDENT to have all
papers relating to tirgociations with 504111441 be.
fore the Itonse. The debates subsequent to these
communications will be read in this-country with
peculiar interest.

The pertinacity of Ministers in trs in;; Mr. floss
thrice for the same offence, elaited a display of ta-
lent that would otherwise perhaps have never beets
known; and crowned him tvith a triple victory. The
persecution that has been since carried on against
him in the Treasury Journals, like the trials, is cal.
culated to defeat its own purtawe, by exciting the
sympathy of every just and liberal spirit in his fa-
vour. For his fortune and his lame he is, there-
fore, indebted to his enemies. At the head of this
day's subscription are his Grace the Duke of BED-
FORD and the Mariptls of
as high in public estimation as iii rank mud virtue.
Some weeks have elapsed since the cot 1111 l eiscement
of \l r. !NNE's Subscription, and in that interval the
outcry against it in the Treasury Yount'ls has been
lowland incessant. The calmest/finery talents, the
courage and eisaislinesv of Mr. IioNE, could not
command 'heir respect ; the embarrassment of a
uuurrruus family could out disarm their vetilneance.
Stanching between tie benevolence of the public
and its object, they would represent Mr. Hose as
a vile criminal, awl every person who contri-
buted a mite in his behalf as the advocate of im-
piety and profaneness. There is no clime more
odious than impiety, aidl uo charge more likely to
operate with effect. %Veal( and timid men, him-
ever strong in the consciousto ss of their own inno-
cence, would be slow to encounter it, and there cats
lie little doubt that many of that de,criptioit hive
been deterred front connog forward its aid of Mr.
110 N C. It is with this view of the case, Lord SFr rum
lately wrote his hold and liberal letter, and the
Duke of HFttronn, with the Ilarrpiis of Tv% N-
I-rick, we may presume, now present tin mseltes; we
trust that their weight and influence trill stem that
torrent of malice which has swept away ruby persuluis
of inferior rank and less consideration, and that the
stream of liberality aill henceforth flow pure and
free from the foul obstructions by which the bare-
ness of the Ministerial l'ress has sought to impede
its progress. Among these we lately noticed one,
front which the enemies of Mr. HONE flattered
themselves they would derive great advalitage, but
which has, unfortunately for them, turned to
their confusion. Three or four names, with SIM+
nonexed, which appeared in the list of subserip.
tioin, have been disavowed by the parties, and
this circumstance liaa beets eagerly seized upon by
the Treasury Journals, and reprevented as a trick
of the Committee to promote the subscription
by indirect and fraudulent menus. Ilad the
names been of high rank and consider:auto,
or had the sums annexed to them been of great
magnitude, this construction, however false, mittlit
appear plausible; they might have haul a lwinficial
influence, however temporary, upon the suhscrip-
(ion, by inducing others to follow their example
but this was not the case; they were the mimes of
prisons, however respectable, of humble life, and
the struts trivial. As a trick or deception, it could
not operate lair a moment to the hrurtit of Mr.
HONE; its exposure, shalt was certain, must, nu
the contrary, throw an odium 011111 the cau.se.
The smoke may readily and surly decide witrttier
this stratagem was resorted to by the frie:uds Ai,.
!lONE, whore cause it must nrcessatily injure, or
by his enemies, whose purpose it was calculated to
promote, and alio have eagerly sought to implore at.

1/n Fridav last a 11leeiiiig of Enrolls to the
Liberty of ihe Pass and Trial by July wa: Intl at
the White Swan lint, St. Peter's, Naraicli,
T. O. SPRINGFIELD In the Chair, for the pm-peon
of commencing a Subscription for Al r. Wl4. ,
when severed spirited Itestilutions were 1181/11•11110;1•Iv
passed, and a Committee appointed to receive solo.
seriptions.
Extract of a letter from Castle, J.,11.
13 We are Isere 111 the but rct:tee (or rather
eliefecmesertng liptarj of is election coolest. The
1114111. 40 KINN RD essiivtissed the
Ilurgesses in upposiii.iii to the interest of the E tit
of lion Is, yesterday Lord (*tier and his moles
(the present Nieuthers), with the siirrouoiliiig Gen-
try, respectable Tenantry and mails-is grill tl
riot-inter, decorated with flrilllrs. Sit FR NCI%
RI RDLIT, as the friend of Mr. Piss e um. in-lived
flow the Ciaven Anus Inn—the looses were taktet
limn his carriage. and it was dragged thron,;ll the
streets. Lord CI.IVN, on hrsr.,ll of the
addressed the liiirgesse-; Ilt. I:INN .4
ulso south an rhopirlit appeal ; all the poli!:c hots s
iii the town were open to the fiirsids of the pail**,
nod there have been se teral skit iiii.lirs. 110 I.
parties lire sanguine of potter:lb tl liell
*hall be di.solVed. This ruining Sir F. BiItDETT
and 11;s fot:"ldv lift Wail fur the Leicrsteisiitit.
II inf."

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WINDSOR, JAN. 19.

This morning her MAJESTY and Princess ELT-
ASETH, with the Ladies in %Vainiig, took an
wring in a coach and loin through Englefield
Virern.

. The Russian Ambassador was introduced to her
MAJC*TY this morning at the Castle, by Mr.
Disoittrivv., a►d afterwards went to Froginore, and
viewed the house and grounds at that place; he
then retuned to the Cattle and viewed the public
apartments there, which lie very much admired.
The Doclie.s or GLOLICUTEIL and suite arrived
herr at two o'clock.