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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1820.

The Paiis Papers of Sunday arrived at a late
hour last night. Thry contain nothing new re-
specting Naples. - The Austrian troops on the
frontier maintained a rigid discipline, and had

'Made no movement up to the 3d instant.

The folloivittg are extracts:—
PARIS., DECEMUER 17.

A telegraphic dispatch announces that the Tara,
with M. Hyde de Netts,'lle oft board, sailed on the
14th inst. front Brest for the United States of
America, with * favourable, wind.
The Derutie, will meet for the first time this
day, in the Hall of ConferenceP.

Fire per Cent. Consols. 7S fr. 35 cents-4611k
Actions, 1,430 fr.

VIENNA, DECEMBER 6.
My Lord Stewart has beets its our city • • see the
beginning of this week, being anxious to prevent
the purpose of his Lady, oho, although far ad-
vanced in pregnancy, had determined, it is rash',
to be carried to Truppau in a litter. The Noble
Lord will set nut to-morrow to attend the la-4 con-
ferences of Congress.

We learn that Mr. Canning has withdrawn from
the Ministry. and that other change. are in conse-
quence near ut hand. It is also thought that Lord
Stewart will be recalled from his post at Vienna.
.—(Gazelle de France.)

His MaJErnr's Answer to the City Address,
presented to In, MAJESTY on the gtli instant,
yesterday produced an animated debate in the
Common Council. A ►notion, expressing surprise
and regret at this Answer, was moved ley Mr.
FAxet.t., and, after a strenuous opposition, was
carried by • majority of 30. The numbers being,
Ayes 88—Noes 53.

We have received Lisbon Papers to the gth inst.,
and from their silence respecting the state of poli-
tical feelings iu that capital, we are to collect that
the public tranquillity is perfectly established. The
Government are actively employed in modelling
such parts of the internal economy of the State us
seemed most to require revision, and have in par-
ticular appointed a Committee for supervising dm
receipts and expenditure of the Treasury, and se-
curing the lumpier application of the public money
to the purposes for which it may be destined. A
Committee has also been organised for correcting
all abuses affecting the public health of the city.

A lively anxiety seems to be very generally felt
that Parliament were quickly assembled. The meet-
tig of she great national Councils, end more especially
of she I louse of Commons, would, in our opinion,
effectually terminate all the deceitful practices
that are now exerted to alarm and agitate the public
mind, and throw the shield of delusion over the
indeecility of the Ministers. The public ear is now
daily abused with -declamatory invectives against
sedition and disloyalty, and the Ministers and their
partisan, may safely omit to notice, because they
cannot meet the challenges that have been thrown
out, to specify one act on the part of any norther) of
the people which could justify charges s 3 severe ;
hut should they ventute in Parliament to indulge
in language of the same character, they will be in-
staidly required to " descend from their iambics,"
anal miss' change their vague and general calum-
nies tofu allegations that can he made the subjects
of grave and specific inquiry. %Veil pleased, we
are convinced, the Ministers would be, if ersey weir
enabled at the meeting of Parliament to answer a
challenge of this nature with an account of some
horrible conspiracy framed for the overthrow of the
existing Government, the deposing of the K trio),
and the advancement of the QL'F,EN to the throne
of these realms!! With what triumph would Lord
LIVERPOOL and CASTLEREAGII, in their
respective Houses of Parliament, answer the m..ver
of an amendment to the Address with hints of the
dangers they hail all near() by the wisdom of the
abused and slighted Ministers of the Crown, and
with a denuticaition that a green bag might be ex-
peeled in a day or two to pore the ningssiturle of
the dangets and the services of the Cabinet. But,
alas ! uo sedition or treason can be proved to relieve
them from their present embarrassments, and though
every follower of the Ministers ni every county, tow me,
and parish, from the Orkneys to the Laud's
End, were to swear win; voce that the spirit of
revolution was moving over the face of the land,
their united depositions would he insufficient to
enable thy A TTORN ET-GENERAL to frame a ►iugle
count in an indictment. It is ten improbable that
had not Fiddler, adios Franklin, and his gang
been so seasonably discovered, a very pretty plot
might have been got up to meet the necessities of
the Cabinet about the time of the re-assembling of
Parliament, and the ingenious productions of this
" loyal" manufacturer of placards would have
answered admirably for filling u green bag, as
doubtless they have dour on former occasiosis ; but
thin hope has Touished, and Mr. PEARSON'S lotto-

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trite discovery has clWroyed, for st least some titre.
every reasonable prospect of miodivr adventurer's
atiecetalisig in this peculiar brunch of ingenious
industry. In the abserce of all red sed&ix,
the partisans of the Alinistees must, content
themselves with a phantom of their own creation;
and as children in relic:l6,er to each other
the nursery tales of demotes and hobgoblins, de-
" lairr in implicit belief it the existence of these
super-rest und creations of iitste;tulated fancies, n d
are mutually ietrifird even at the sounds of their
ono voices, so it is probable than matey of ibe
children of larger growth, who disseminate thee,'
idle rumours of imaginary dangers, are really
frightened at the tegoes of their own stories, whic:i
produce a deeper and stronger impression eve
their very extravagance. Tins dreadful system
delusion can I otalimor only until Parlieuient 5!..11
have assembled ; the reign of terror, the power el
these hobgoblins of the Treasury, is suited only la
our present twilight view of the political state cf
• the country ; but as the dawn advances the mystel y
must cease, reason resumes her empire with return-
ing light, and the Mind will 1;1/ longer siitEr a
vapour of the brain or the phantom of a diseased
vision to (sock it with the semblance of reality.
There is not a rational or impartial man us the
empire at ho regards the attempt to procure what are
called " Loyal Addresses," as any thing best au
expedient to sue a tottering Alit:ist,y fr:iin de.
struction ; and every honest mail who calmly re-
flects upon the danger actually incurred by agi-
tating the country for such a purpose, and in-
flaming the spirit of opposition by the irritating
and disingenuous charge of disloyalty and disaffec-
tion, will dteply censure alike the motives and the
111C31111. Parliament will, we trust, mark their sens-

of the whole proceeding by a strong expression of
its disapprobation. This topic is intimately in-
volved in the question of the treatment winch the
QUEEN 11:45 experienced from the 51inisters, the
policy of instituting the late prosecution, mod this
manner in whicli it was conducted. The charge of
disloyalty made by the Ministers and their agents,
is an attempt to divest the QUEEN of public s 3 to.
pathy, and the assurance of public support in the
event of any further attack, and implies the
strongest ceat.ure upon all who have presumed to
express an opinion unfavourable to her MAJEdTY's
prosecutors. The House of Commons must of
necessity undertake a review of the whple case,
from the moment of the late littia's death; for
by that House the subject is still untouched, with
the exception of what might be called an interiv-
cutory judgment upon the impolicy of the prose-
cutler'', in which the measure was condemned as
derogatory from the dignity of the Crown, and in-
jurious to the hest interests of the country. Tine
judgment has done the House of Commons im-
mortal honour, and has had more effect in check-
ing the clamour fur Parliamentary Reform than all
the specious arguments ever uttered within or with-
out the walls of either House. To that jueiginen;
the House will no doubt adhere; at least all who,
sanctioned it by their voles are bound to protect
front calumny, as unfounded as it is wicked, all
who throughout the country approved of that vote,
and eventually found their early opinions confirm.
ed by the result of the trial at the bar of the other
House.

As the greater part of the last Session of Parlia..
ment was occupied by the QUEEN'S case, so mint
a .cousiderable portion of the ensuing Session be
also devoted to the some subject; for even were the
Moistens of the Crown to be silent respecting her
MAJESTY, and make no further attempt to oppress
her, the situation of the Quests is such that it is
impossible for her MAJESTY not to demand front
Parliament protection and redress. The Queen of
ENGLAND hiss neither revenues nor Palace, nor
rank at Court, uor has she had any public recog..
ninon of her existence, but for the purpose of ex-
positig her to obloquy and danger. When she inti-
mated her itatentiott at the close of her anomalous
trial of addressing herself to the House of Com-
mons, the House war prevented by a disgraceful
trick limn entertaining liar SlAJrstY's Message.
For these causes generally her MAJESTY has to
complain, for the last-inentioued the House of
Commons has to cotitplaio;—her MAJESTY ties no
11,V41111 of redress but fermi the representatives of the
people—the House of Commons has in its own
hands the means of redressing the insult offered to
itself. It is no excuse in the present day that it is
the undoubted prerogative of the Crown to dissolve
Parliament when and how it ideates—the preroga.
tiers of the Cfbrill have long been known only as
privileges appertaining to the Crown for the tit
of the people, to be eNert...:l under the control
liametti. Hot let the ataionlited prerogative IA the
Crow's he 011inittril to test in the discretion of the
Ministers, will they he satisfied to oppose it to the un-
doubted privilege of the House of Commons to da.
pose at its sole discretion of the public motley ? To
talk about pretogstive now.a.dsys is out of place;
the G ivernment of this empire since the Itevolutioa
is sisietly a parliamentary Government, iu which
the. executive authority is de facto amenable to
Pitilistutitt, by means of the responsibility of the
11u.irtets of the Crown. To talk about undoubted
prerogatives therefore is absurd, they could not save
a Minister's head from the scaffold, nor be pleaded
even in conjunction with the royal pardon in bar to
an imps achment, and if one spark of ancient spirit
still animates the House of Cummous, it %sill prove

to the preterit Miaiptert or the Crown that they
mistottk the extent of their influence when they
raptured with sill h little ceremony to prevent it
trom entertaining in diactmion the condition of the

Queen Consort of thrn,e realms, under therm-
, ,tames of such prculiar kterest uot rattly to the
Illustrious Princess herself, but, also to the empire

in ruerail.

Onr statement of WS. CANNING'S resignation is
confirmed. Mr. PEEL is mentioned as his sue•
velum in the Presidency of the Board of Control.
A Treasury Journal of last evening says, the Right
1100. Gt•ntlemau will in a few days set off for the
Contitle:lt, where he will reside for some time, but
'in no [intik: or official capacity.

We mr, now in po+e•+inn of tolerably complete
details regaiding the revolution, slightly noticed in
our last. ohicli has occurred in the affairs of the
infant kingdom of Hayti. CHRISTOPUE perished
by his own hood, and his death has added another
to t!►e list of mushroom and ephemeral dynasties,
of which dot last quarter of a century has seen the
ani extiuction.

Like many other aletolute 'Sovereigns, who have
solig;it to reign by mere brute force alone, Cunt,-
10i-tit's power declined when, overtaken by bodily
infirmity, flu could no longer, by his personal ex-
crtiot,s, terrify Ilia slaves into submission. While
sutfeiiiig under a paralytic disorder, his troops were
cau'intiply forming plans for throwing off his yoke,
anti 011 the 6.11-October those at Cape henry re.
volt(A, ui.d iu a body matched out of the town

and took up a station at the distance of a few miles
- trout it. CIIRISTOPIIt's body guarth:, who gill re-
tained a show of fidelity towinds him, were there-

Upon ordered to march agaiu►t the rebel., and en-
couragd by the distribution of money amongst
01..nt, and pertnistion to plunder Cave Henry. 0:1

the Bth some slight skirmishing ensued between the
lan iyartic9, lint it ended in the latter joining the
Calti!‘c of independence ; on bearing which, Cuets-
Toette, fe..li,•g "his desperate situation, 'hot himself
t hrooxl► the heart in his residence at Sans Soisci.
The next step taken by the insurgents wss -to seize
his coffers. which were well filled, and to impri•ou
those of his minions who had aided lirn in his wu►k
of tyranny. The members of his family were, at
the same time, placed under arm?. Ablut the
period at which there events were occurring at Cal e
Henry, the military at St. Nlarc's had risen up, and,
having killed the Governor, seat proposals to Pre•
sident Boren, who immediately advanced with a
large body of his troops from the southern portion
of the island, and took possession of the town.
What might be his ulterior views and operations
remains to be known ; but it appears probable that
the poinilation of the northern putt would_resist
any attempt to b ing then► under BOYER'S govern-
ment, and would endeavour to form a separate
goveruinent, on similar principles, however, under
a leader of their own. A General titmouse, at
the date of the latest advice, from Cape Henry,
haul already been placed at the head of a provisional
administration, and the scheme of a regular consti-
tution was da.ly expected to appear. A consider-
able improvement in trade was anticipated to flow
from the recent change, and the greatest cordiality
prevailed amongst all classes of the people.

The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE pared through
Berlin on the 3d thatatit, on his way from %Vamp
to Trappers.
The hereditary Prince and Princess of Mx-
MARS arrived on the 4d iustent at Rime, on their
return from Naplts.

So prrv.tleitt is the use of silks in dree4 in the
'kingdom of ‘Virtentherg, a %notion has been made
in the Chaniber of Deputies to prevent their wear
from the let of January nest, fur the encourage.
Inept of home masoisfactur,...
Yrstrrd.y a Court of Directors was held at the
Edst.latlitt House, when the under-mentioned Corn.
siaspolers took leave of the Court, previous to de-
parting for their reepertive 'femme 99999 S. VS.-
Captain T. Whim., Margolis Cautdra ; Captain C. S.
'Manta, RWISI Oft Witt ; Captain 11.- Cruititchauk, Farquhar-
;nu ; aud Capisie T. Butrattatie, Bombay and
Curtain .1. Paterson, Repulse—for St. Helena, Bea.
aloha, and China.

From The Bombay Carevirt 61 the 15th July :
" The accounts franu Trincomalee, by the late sr-
gkve us the grstifying assurance tlvit the
stiFrection in Keudy has br;n enuipletelysulnlueel,

the rrbel Chief, lifranskr.nuwEn, erne drliveteel op
_by some natives of the t►orttaraat part of Alateli,
sod, its Let, th•►t the whole i,husel of Ceylon is in
a *tote of pet feet tranquillity."
Onctots of 'Malik bereft:Sae used to attend the
Osforil and Cambridge addree.ses to the throne.
babitrd in their panel:live awl appropriate era-
ennit—.of Lite thry have not been seen to join in
University proetssions.
It is ult to cone►ire tht.t the Qrarierly Fe-

rimer had not, at ti.ii partierihr keueturr, the
QuEcN's ex‘e &dying in bs d. whirn he wrute
the fulketrg p isesge :
It requires mere time and coat to retneir an edifier, !haw
to-dainhcc it ; and eertaisly mute zeal to derend the estrus.
I.lstrd, than tare to raise the calumny. att*ck, if at
sksere4: make, is trecesearily lively, and nor a t 11l .... is
I •.is.eil by the sir of novelty it ivories with it ; but a defence
• an oily boatl Ike honed infetiliaa if cirryiag ur La( h hr
ile *ante place we had.f.rmred% occupied; w.il ;Hallo!,
,hurl of a 'miraculous ilr.meaa.l,al:ort will so cenipletely
,radieme a false or an aggroraltel charge, a•• to leave no
traera of it behind is the inisils 4.f ilswie who leire :091 le.
11'4 ivad the t SO ileOld (lidlatit rty Review,
No. p 403.)
It is relented that drills apptiements of the
Royal Marines are about to by etatiged fur those
pew generally used by the army.

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POETRY.

R EMONST It A NC E.

Arrra A CONVILRIATIOS WITH LOROJOICT
WHICH Hr HAD INTIXATCD SOWS lOLA OT GeTINO
ALL ►OLITICAL PURIVI7f7I.

What! thou, with thy genius, Ihy youth, and thy name—
Thou, hero of a Russem, whose initioct to ma
The accustomed career of shy sires is the same
As the eagle's to soar with his eyes on the son—

Whose Nobility conies to thee, stormed with a seal,
F'sr, far more ennobling than Monarch e'er set—
With the blond of thy race, offer'd tiptoe the Weal
Of a nation Host swears by rhea martynbloi yet I.
Shalt thou be faint-bearied and turn from the strife,
From the mighty arena, where all that is gram!.
And desoted, and pare, wd adorning in life,
Is fur high-thought's] spirits like thine to command?

Ott! no,
Between lyrists sod traitors, sad timid lee. bow,
Never think, for an instant, thy cossolry can spare,
Such a light fro. her darkening horizon an thou!
WA a spirit as meek BP the gentlest of those
Whu iu Lift's sunny valley lie shelter'd and warm—
Tti hold and heroic as ever yet rose
To the top cliffs of Fortune and breasted her storms;

With an irdonr fur liberty, fresh as in youth,
It first kindles the BsrJ and gives life to his lyre,
S• t mellow's!, ev'n now, by that Mildness of troth,
Which tempers, bet chills tint, the Patriot's fire;
With aa elognenee—ont like those rills from • height,
Which sparkle, and foam, and in vaporer are o'er,
But a current, that works oat its way into light
Through the filtering recesses of dourest and of lore.

Tints gifted, thou sever nest sleep in the shade;
If the stirrings of the music of Fame,
And the charms of thy cause have sot power to persuade, -
Yet, think how to Freedom thou% t pledged by thy Name.
Like the laurel at Delphi, whose boughs used to be
Srt apart for the Fane and its service ihriste,
So the branches that spring from the old RUSSELL tree,
Are by Liberty elaiie'd for Ibe nse of her shrtue.

L I N ES

WRITTtS BY TUE LATE EDWARD TOPHAM. t/Q. 04 MS
FPORTIVID RESIDENCE, THE MOLD COTTAGE, DOW Al).
4EIVIIISJED FOR FALL.

This little spot, the Courser's fulkst pride,
♦ race of Dugs, before 'unknown, supplied;
Whaterr old Orford's iciest, taste, or skill,
D;scover'd first, here rose superior still :
Here Smowboll claimed • higher wreath of fame,
While Snowdrop long maiutaie'd his father's aortae.

TUT TOLLOWING TVITKTN, BY 7112 MIT AMNION, WA.
INTRNDIO TO MAK THE IPOT WHERE TOT PAR.
TARED GILSYNOUND YES IR RIND IN THE esousine.

He who outbounded time sad spare,
The fleetest of the greyhound race,
Lies here !—at length subdued by death,
His speed oe shaped, and out of breath.
Ab! gallant Snowball! what rentable
Up Portion's hunks, ti'er Flizton's plaint,
Wall thy streugdr—thy Pinny force,
Which rather Sew, than ran the course!
Ah! what remains ? save that thy tweed
Flay to their father's fame sucered ;
And •hen the prize appears to view,
May prove that they are Snowballs too.

Among the inquirers yesterday offer the state of
the Duci.e.• of CLARENCE and the Princess Et' er A.
SITU were the Plinets! SOPIIIA, who called in the
morning; and among those who kit their names
were the Earl and Countess of BRIDGEWATER,
Viscount end Viscountess CASTLEREAGH, the Mur.
pus •ICASIDEII, Lady HENLEY, M ss EDEN, Mrs.
GEoaas LANZ Fox, and Vnicannt and Vietionte,s
Asnauookr.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Duchess of
KENT. the Princesses VICTOUINE and FEODOE,
and suite, rrtarned to her Royal Illicitness's apart-
ments at Kensington Palace, trout a visit of some
weeks to Ina Royal Highness Prince LEOPOI.D, at
Claremont, and which woe prulintLed 011 'mount
of the extreme mildness of the Istvan.. The Royal
Duchess ucsni after her arrival at the Palace, has..
tented to pay au affectionate visit to her beloved
ltoyal telative, the Duchess of CLARENCE. tier
Royal Highness was accompanied by her daughter,
the Princess FEODOR. The Doclie.t4 buil the
pleasure to -find the Ditches, of CLARENCE and the
sleight Prioress ELIZABETH going on U 4 well as
trustable. The Duchess of KENT and the Princes
FEODOR returned to Kensington twitter's hut: cud
six o'clock.

The new entertainment forthcoming et the
English Op►rs-house i‘ Dahl to he something in the
btyle of Mr. PIIILIPSTBACS Phantasms4oria, in►-
ported f Vienna. end exhibitrd wmar pars
*nice, tl►uugh t►4t so terrific. and tuuch more

• - amusing.
Alr. CUTLER. who west well known some years
since's. Master CUTLER in the mut•irel world. sing-
ing unit filsdnase Matto, is about to make Ins .p-
-presence ss a Lass stinger.
Signer GARCIA is much better. It is expected
dist the frigi tful accident of which he ws. nearly
the victim. with leis friend the oufortunote Nolo!,

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I will not be attended with any further hid effects,
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(Paris Paper.) .
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1 The following tiogular eircunisLowe occurred a
• few days ugo at I;it,;;;,lesotatle:--A covey of pur-
triages. seven in isu.oher, .;ere very closely putsurd
by ;I. brisk. into Ow Ineu:sow.e yard of SAMUEL
i W 10.1.3, Esti. owl (1-1,, with such U.J. uce agaitiNt
1 one of the malting+, that inur of them fell dead
lupon the spot, and wrre picked up by 11u men ut
work in the yard; the other three were. so !Amused
i NY Lb be tlellille to escape, and were token by ala-
i other per•on et a few pada (listener. Their sore-
-1 mats yUratttr 11140 till entail- uwejured.

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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

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The Lord of the Manor rrsa tierktinedi last ni 4!) t,
and proved vet), attractive. The. house d.aplit,ted
a fashionable attendance. and every, part of itms•
completely filled. Mr. littattim played Traemore
far the first tone. I►la %vivo iii tiny voires and encored
in " Lore anemic the noses," sutd several other
favourite airs*. iilatne VisTklS. lis► YUYEY, &c.
received nlsn u full share of applawe. The Orr of
Mo!! flagon, fur which U.. 11uNoi4 tvvi all-
nouucetl• w,u• •ustaiued by .Jr.. Wit.i.tAllS *with
goad t 'rile great variety of itig; proved a
nob treat to the, lovort. iN week sonitcla, arid the
acting kept pace with the vocal 'Pt rim titers.