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beralions.

" I do not conceal from myself, Gentlemen, the difficulty
of an undertaking so ably performed by the Honourable
Colleage whom I succeed, and who, treadin7, in the steps of
his illustrious predecessors, has pointed out models for me
to imitate, iu a career wherein, tl gh not inheriting their
talents, I shall at least collect lessons from their experience.
" Already have they apprised me that to cause the inter-
nal laws to be observed, which the Chamber has imposed, I
should in myself give an example of the snhu;ission those
laws exact.to maintain with impartiality the order that dis-
tinguishessta r discussions, and that liberty of opinion whit
in respecting persons secures the triumph of triith-
" Faithful tu these principles, I shall seek the other rules
of my conduct in the wishes of the Chamber, and I dare
hope that its kindness, and my exertions to &serer it, will
be the first bond of that perfect union which should trigu
swung ■s fur the happiness of Frenchmen."

This Address was ordered to he printed, and the
Thanks of the Chamber were coted to M. Angles,
Dean of the Chamber. who, previous to the *lec-
ture' of M. Ravez, performed the duty of President
d'age.

DECEIII3ER
The King heard MRSa yesterday in his apart-
ment. The pains he experienced some days in his
knees are alleviated. Last night was better than
the preceding, and his Majesty's sleet► web quite
unbroken.

Yr-literary afternoon him Excellency Salieh-Gon.
lora Minden, an !whim Prime, Veltil or Delegate
of hi. Highness the Nabob of Beditore, appeared
at the bour of Madame the Duchess of Seritit and
of NI. the Duke de I),ittiae.

Public trosiipiillity is etlectuidly restored ot Con-
stinititiople, Where thert retilitlll Ito trares of II le agi-
tation that previiileil daring the entire autumn
among the Jaiwaries. The wo:e ott-toturrs rig I oiit rd
by Int Growl Seignior. mot tile iii. tl:tt
principal cotntmenders of these troops, have exer.
cooed% beneficial influence un the toditartoott'e of
public order.

incFme:::a I.

The fnllowing is an account it !lir ships ofX.sr
now armed for the expedition to A mesicii. They
Nre wider the mina and ul Brig.ofter I)on Francisco
Moirllo, N good officer, who jowl to the experience
an 1 wisdom of old age, all the energy of a young

mon :
MON te wer of 74 !tots—The Ferdinand VII. the F.itgle
of the North, the t stheck, she Aletand.r. These f.ittr ..hips
(wne.. part of the ignailron purchased ‘14.111 ROISPiA.
Frigeler--I.a Preterit, Le Mercurio, a.. I I Idgens, 44
tees each i u Protits, l.a Vies,.it 3 gm... Emil.
Thy twit ta.t or thew triptr, tiny (vine from
Correllet—l.a Fattta, 24 elms ; Le I) ianothi, 20 gums.
ilrigehaitie—La ILrna, la
'flaw lieet tell be augnielittil by FOIIIC !kir* and

Wig:it:fitter, and by 24-grn trains. I'ol
ruives will be ruulUlrudrdby Cie Spam
Doti JtAr Prim:, Riven,.

As for the espethemarry moor, it is still 'yr I
Bolt it still be composed of IS,Uiui neo, of at.
It sill be coomiatitirti by Could Ile l'Ainslist, •14,>
is spisolutecf Viceroy of Buenos Ayres, sod %h.', at
IV said, will preserve the Govcronsettt Cd.: Nfl
A i1d4111642. It is impossible t.. sentiun tilt ,no,
for the departure of the eikpeiliiion—sitialiy ohettele4
,end to retard 'the troika, of which the want of
motley is out the legit.

MADRID, DRCSMIIFIt

It appears that the escort of the galleyoloirs %11,1
were led in chains to Girlie. and ceute,, of which
We hn►ee. already epithets, did Lot consist of ,nacre
than twenty infantry cud s,xteen cavalry. II 14i
attacked by fifty mew on horseback, and is iv .1'
not 'mid after 011 aetto►t, in whin', soveril soldier*
of be escort were slain, that some of thr 46.44-e
slates were rescued. It is dungeos* h► troy. i
without a goord in La blat►chn and Antl4ltioio,
in this hitter province it is neee•sary to re-
cto the couriers by thirty men. A numerous party
of banditti 'presented threavelves some days •••1 five
.at the Irmo of °citrus, *bout ten leagues from
iledsid, where they exacted contributios, end
communed many cameleer.
A .Royal notice of the Conneil of Finance, is..
sued on the 10th ult. submits the pampurts of all
isulividuals, whether natives or foreigners. who enter
or depart Spun', to e tax of 40 realm (S•. 414,—
Foreigners way travel in• Spain, mud trove lice
kingdom with paroports from their Ainbotsethirs or
Coesule-General ; but they will lie liable t.. ply
the el►uve tax for the rises of she Minister of St
Besides tlw ilidicatimis which have hitherto h•reu
mentioned in their pw*pu►ts, they Inuit stow co
tato the motives of their journey.

CIMIPTVAS DAY,—iiutioiay at all the rehlic Ilt6ct•

I'lll4. Bit iTI S 1 ;. Pkt 14... S S.

LONDON,

FRIDAY, DEcnisart 25, JBlB.

We have received New York Papers to the 9.801
last. They contain the Report of Mr. Roost:v.
oue of the (7ommissioners•appointed to repair to
Buenos Aires, and examine the condition of that
Gorertitnent, with a view to cletersuiiieng what rela-
tions should be established between it and the
(hilted States. This Report is the first of the
series of documents accompanying the PREtiIDEST.S
Message to Congress. We give the gre..ter pint
of this interesting and extrusive article this day.
It commences with the first acquisition of South
America by Spain, and represents the present
Revolution as the necessary consequence, long
since predicted, or her unjust, oppttssive, and
devout: Co•ieriiment, but facilitated and ex-
pedited by the recent events in Europe, uml
the variable and inconsistent conduct of Spain
towards the American Provinces, whose interests
were neglected or lost sight of until too lay. It
recommends no specific policy to he pursued by
the United States nod Govrionient, but goes nu to
inesition, that the British Government had, through
its official agent, entered into commercial
teguls-
tions with General A RTIGSS Oit the stihject of trade
with the Enstrrn shore. A copy of the official iii-
strument is referred to us forming pout of the Ap-
pendix. It adds, " has a Consul who,
with her Naval Commander oil that station, appears it
to conduct the confidential alfoirs of the British
Cabinet with the Government of Buenos Ayres."
The New Yurk Papers contain the proceedings
in Congress up to the relating chiefly to the
dispatch of routine bushiess, and the oppointaient of
Committees, to which ditlereid parts of the PRES,.
DENT'S Speech ate referred.

A Bill had been reported, to estahli,h a uniform
systein of bankruptcy throughout the United States.
A Resolution, also, had bean carried, rrquesiii:er
the PRESIDENT to communicate such information
as might be in his possession, touching the execution
of so much of the first Article of the late Treaty
of Pei.ce between Ins BRITANNIC MAJESTY seal
the United States Government, as related to the
restitution of slaves.

The persons employed to survey and fia the
northern boundary Of thi United Stater, have
finished their labours on the St. Lawrence and its
Islands, and have nriiiard at Lewistown for the pur-
pose of surveying the Niagara River.
In our last number we prevented to our reader►
a summary view of the PRESIDENT'S Alr,sige to
the Congress of the United States of America, hut
a complete copy of it will be found in another
part of this Paper. Tie picture it offers of the
increasing power and magnitude of th .t great
Is: an eminently flattering proof of the wis-
dom in which the political institutions that hind tilt.
Slates ill one body were originally conceived. and cf
the vigour and moderation with which they have
been uniforualy administered. Another State, that
of the Illinois, has been nailed to the Union,
ine, if we mistake not, the entire number of the
States to twenty-one. This new State contains so
area of 33,000 square miles, being cousidtrub:y

more thin the even of England tad Wales,
and is, MCCI4IIIIIg to the unvarying lestiintwy
or ail who have travelled through that part of
the amid, extremely fertile, and capable of the
highest deg:er of cultivation. Its population has
increased surpri,in.tly within a few ye ars, having,
in consequence of its superior natural advantages,
not only collected a large proportion of the putties
pool emigrants from Europe, but also drawn oft
oly of the old itiliabitatos front the Eastern or
A.irritic States. It is the happy peculiarity of
political institutions of the Ciskei' States,
that the more numerous the Stales become, the
greater consistency does the Union acquire; for,
■s it is remarked by the PRESIDENT in his Mes-
sage. " by increasing the number of the Sates
the s °l:Heiler of the State Governments in their
own security is increased, and their jealousy of the
;notional Government proportionally diminished."
The Sours are collectively a restraint upon the
General Government, and individually upon each
other, which are in their turn kept within their
proper limits by the superintending power of the
Congress. 'There exists no single authority in the
I-jolted States which can be considered, like that
of our Parliament, omnipotent. The Constitution
has defined every power, so that ambition in such
a state of affairs can find no room fur the increase
of its injurious propensities.

In reading that lout of the Message that refers to
the relations of the United States with Spain, it is
impossible not to remark lire very angry mid un-
friendly spirit that pervades it. The Cabinet of
Washington arc vexed at not being able to rouse
the torpid dullness of the Spanish Court into some-
thing like that haughty vindictiveness that once
distinguished its relations with foreign Powers, that
they might. on the first semblaiice of hostile pro-
ceedings, take advantage of the pretended war, and
oinks prize of what still remains to the degraded
monarchy of Spain in the western hemisphere.
Spain. however, dare. not think of revenge, and,
iiierefore, the United States must yield to her hu-
mility, and surrender their conquest, which they
bad hoped her attempt to recover it by force of arms
would have justified them in detaining.
It was necessary, however, in this political Ma-
nifesto, to give the world some pretence fur the
flagrant disregard of all laws of social order, ex-
-I.ibited by the United States in the seizure of the
Floridal. The excesses of the Indians, the cruel-
ties exercised by them against the inhabitants of
the frontier of Georgia, offer a ready excuse, which
is the snore convenient, as the Government of the
United States knows well that the raid Indigos CUM
110 t reply to the well-told tales of their cruelties. An
trvtiptioit of the Seminole Indian., the burning of
houses, the laying waste of plantations, the mas-
sacre of inch, women, and children, present, no

doubt, a picture of human suffering, shocking to

it sity. But if the Seminole warriors were to
111.' wield the pen as well as the tomahawk, they too
;..reossid tell of irruptions, and hooting., and burn•
nig". d massacres ; to which they might add, that
to man who talks about God and religion,
se e first invader; that he had seized upon
the prairies, and woods, and savannahs, winch had
elk; afforded protection and food to the Indian ;
that nut satisfied with more ground than fie *could
till, ur cern sell to his numerous brothiiin who came
from betriiiil the ocean, he still encroached upon
the little that remained to the Indian. and when he
had driven the Inked and defenceless being to his
last extremity, and goaded him to exasperation, he
constitutes himself the judge between the white
min and the Indian. and murders his victim for
having dared to think of retaliation. The North
American Indian, when first discovered, exhibited
pobsesition of many noble and generous senti-
ments. He is eminently capable of friendship.
and might, by proper care, have been incorpo.
rated with his more civilized invaders. This was
effected in some instances; but it has not been the
policy of the United States to sacrifice the sale
of some acres of territory to the improvement of an
interesting and gallant people.
The war against the Seminole. was the pretext
for passing the imazinary line that divides Flo.
Lids from Ceorgia, but the capture of Pensacola
and Saint Marks was achieved by General JUR.
SON without the authority of the Government—
not, however—and the distinction is remarkable
tint in hostility to the Cabinet of Spain. but only
to evince the Ihrpleareire of the United States
towa.ile the conduct of the Spaoisit Governor of the
Florida.. This Officer is asserted to have en-
couraged mill protected the Indians, and, accord-
ing to the PRESIDENT'S reasoning, hail thereby
merited the saute fate that 661 the unfortu-
nate ARBUTHNOT and ; for, siya
Cie PRESIDENT, with an evident allusion to the
fate of the unfortunate Englishmen, " Men who
thus connect themselves sith savage communities.
and stimulate them tower, which always atteraled
on their part anti acts of barbarity the most shock-
ing, deserve to be viewed in a worse light than the
atlvagri. They would certainly have no claim to No
inituointy from the punish a'r which, according
to the rules of warfare pra tied by the ravage.,
thigh justly he inflicted on the savages themselves."
This doctrine being thus broadly advanced, we
have u right to ask, why General JAcitsriti did loot
la( card by court-Martial to try and punish the
liarairard, as he did the British subjects? ler by tins

represtntation the former was sore culdil)io. We
lutist here close our comments fur thr present.

We have received Paris Papers of Sunday and
Monday last. M. Raves, the stew President of
the Chamber of Deputies, entered on his ',lnce on
Saturday, and made a Speech to the Chamber, con-
coining an infinite deal of nothing," but which,
in compliment to the Speaker. was chirrorourly
ordered to be printed. The DING'S health
ap-
pears to be pretty nearly restored. lu our extracts
from these Paper. will he found a catalogue of the
ships now preparing be Cadiz for the South
American Expedition, but no mention is as yet
anode of the probable time of their sailing.
The intelligence from Madrid is dated the Bth
of December, and as it contains no mention
of those occurrences which were for some days
rumoured in Loudon, we must conclude that
those who gave utterance to such reports here
were misinformed. The Madrid Paper, however,
confesses the dangerous state of the provinces of
La Mancha and Andalusia, from the great strength
and audacity of the troops who had deserted their
colours, lest they should be embarked for America.
These men appeared in force at the town of Ocana,
about ten leagues from Madrid, and there exacted
contributions. The couriers, in passing through
Andalusia, require au escort of 30 men ; but erns
that force would seem inadequate for their security,
when an escort of 20 infantry and 16 cavalry was
defeated by 30 armed horsemen, who rescued a
chain of galley slaves. This state of affairs speaks
volumes 011 the imbecility of the Spanish Gorey?.
meat. A civil war must be the immediate ',Millie
of which the necessary consequence must be the pew.,
feet independence of the South American Cohstiesi
The French funds have improved. The five per
Cents. ou Saturday ire 64 f. 90 c.; Blink Stock
• 1,515 N
Yesterday, about one oNt ock, the PRINCE RE.
GENT left Carlton-house
Lord CASTLEREAGH was elbsely engaged in busi.
ness during yesterday, at the foreign Office. The
Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers have called
upon his Lordship to pay their respects, moil make
inquiries after the Noble Viscount's health, since
his return to England from the Congress.

The CH ANCRLLOR Of the EXCHEQUIR left town
yesterday for Blackheath, to spend the Christina.
with his mother.

Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL left town for
Coombe Wood.

The 2d, or Queen's Bays, landed at Waterford
on Monday. from Bristol, and have proceeded to
replace the stations of the late 20th light dragoon..
We have received Barhadoes Papers to the 10th
wit. His Excellency Lord COMBEIMERE opened
the Rowe of Assembly on the 3d of November, and
in his Speech forcibly urged the necessity of comes.
!Mating and revising the Slave Laws of the Island.
In the reply of the House to his Excellency's
Speech, they observe, that they are desirous to
" raise up still stronger harriers against cruelty and
oppression ; for it is the business of the hews to trust
nothing to the good di.positious of men."—The
island was perfectly healthy at the date of these
Papers.

It is raid that a great number of persons (shout
twenty or thirt)•), lately Exchequered for selling
sloe leaves for ter, and counterfeit collie, have
taken their departure for the United States.
The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of MANN
has obtained a grant of 3001. (from the Society in
Loudon for building and enlarging Churches and
Chapel.) in aid of the New Chapel at Ramsay,
which will probably be completed in the course of
the ensuing spring.
The three sons lately delivered at one birth. by
the wife of Mr. THOMAS BAIENDALI, of Preston,
base all fallen a sacrifice to the small-pox.
A poor mall, named JOHN CROSS, a boatwright,
of Marsh, in Lincolnshire, has within the last
fifteen days last his wife and six fine children, her
that dreadful disease the small-pox !—This is a
striking instance of the folly, we might almost say
the wickedness, of not adopting vaccination.
In the course of the last month eighty persons
died of the small pox at the Hague, where it con-
tinues to make great ravages.
Yesterday se'unight an armed party broke into
the house of THOMAS NEILL, sat Daratilar, county
Waterford, and near Two-mile Ihidge. After
demanding money, arms, &c. and not obtaining
them, they gathered the poor people's wearing ap.
peril, bedding, &c. in a heap, and were going to
burn them, to induce them to give, perhaps, what
was not in. their power---in the mean time, and to
their honour be it said, NEILL'S neighbour* came
to his assistance, with inch arms or weapons as they
could find. The banditti then fled; hut the
honest band of country people, not satisfied at
dint, pursued them, and made prisoners of two of
them, Pat rick Forati and John Gorman, while as-
cenclnig the mountains. They found a pistol on
Foram, and since reoovered other arms of his at a
pit-house. Two other men were afterwards
taken 011 the same charge. These four persona
were lodged in Cloarnel gaol, by Captain Powytt,
of thirteen, and his honest little party of rural
genrlonne r ie.
In the parish of Clanduff, near Hiltown, a few
nights 1.1411. some nocturnal plundtters beset the
I se of mo,STEPHENSON„ which is rather in I
lonely situation, and remota from any niighbodrs.
One of the marauders soon forced his Way into the
habitants°. Mrs. STF.PHISNSON being alarmed, and
having no one in the house but two children and a
maid-servant, called out to the latter, " not to stir
or she would he murdered ;" and she herself re-
mained in her room in a state of terror. The girl,
however, felt no such apprehensions; hut, with 11
truly Amszoitiau spirit, sallied out to the kitchen,
seized the plituderer by the throat, fling him down,
and pummelled end kicked him with so much forti-
tude and perseverance, that he bawled out for mercy,
on which she thrust the discomfited villain out of
doors,—(Netcry Asper.)

DOYING ASP BULLtAITING.

The young ball from Norwich, whose performances had
atirtcted much attention its the Coll,lltY. was staked yea.
terday, fur the first time before the Londoners, and be sic.
iluittoil himself like • Bwudall, by krepnt. his ailversariei
in good order. But to make tip a day's spurt, two hells
took place for subscription purses, between • water.
wan, named Mom.; and a St. filles's Pat, name,' Afitrphy,
and two others of inferior note Croptes and Wm. perry
seconded the waterman, anil Ton doors tool Skelton went
in with alai phy. Belting was 7t04 on Murphy.
The fight lasted forty miaow., and the first part of it was
manfully contested. The men let louse 11p4111 each other with
much delernsistat ion, sad some severe hits were placed io the
fin, ruituil to the advantage of ‘liirphy. The second round
was bravely contested, hut the waterman spewed sum-
very good generalship ; in the third round he brunglit
his adveisary down to his weight, and by stontaelisrs
be brought down Murphy's head to a proper klieg'
fur receiving, and In the fourth round he secured the
battle, although it look him ninth time to win it. In the
latter rounds Pat was too groggy to du any mischief, and
the waterman won it easy.
The next battle was between • black and a white, which
was MOO by the latter in ten miuutes. Both appeared to
lave been in want of a heef.stake.

Next appeared the celebrated Norwich bull, which set the
yelping tyke's at work. He turned oat superior to the Cum-
ashreare's hull, and treated the dugs most contemptunitsly,
fixing his eye upon them as they advanced towards him, and
never commencing action until they were close upon him,
when he sent them into the air with the greatest facility.
Is ordrr to keep pace with the amtisemeatr, Jack A.*
Comma, near Ealing, was fixed upon for the spurts.