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London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

PARIS PAPER,I.

PAWS. DECEMRER IJ.

Fridry night his Majesty eXpersericed a slight
touch of the gout. Lust morning he heard Alas.. of
his apartments. Ilia Majesty, however, was ea-
-861.1,d to prerole at e 1 Council of his ithulaters, which
lasted from one till three o'clock.

Lord lVeHowson, who 4rts off this day for Lim-
duo, hint all audience of !ruse or the King mud the
Roy»! Fatally.
'Die Wait lettere fiuw florae state, that the

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LON DON,

THURSDAY, DECFSIBER 17, tAte.

the trials of those persons who hard previously
pleaded Gnilty to the minor charge of having
forged notes in their possession. without a sufficient
excuse, and who were subsequently permitted by
the Court to withdraw this plea, were resumed yes-
terday, at the Old Bailey, and occupied the Court
from ten o'clock until half-past six. Three men
were tried and found guilty—the proof of forgery
being as distinct and satisfactory as was adduced on
Monday. It has thus happened, that all of those
who were permitted to withdraw their original plea,
and took advantage of this indulgence, have been
convicted. lit all these cases, the several Juries
displayed mi anxious solicitude to ensure the
fullest and most satisfactory evidence; and from
an observation that fell yesterday from a Juryman,
during the trial of Kingston, it will be seen with
what feelings the distressing scene that took place
at Newgate ou Tarsilvy morning was contemplated
by him and his brethren. Attempts have already
been made to contrast the conduct of the Juries
who convicted thespiisoners in some of the Bank
prosecutions with that of the Juries who seemed to
he more scrupulous; and, judging from what- has
happened, we 'at slime this species of invidious
comparison will embrace the convictions of Monday
and yesterday. Upon the former point we must
aweive, that uhlusegli we most strenuously ap-
plaud the ...induct of those Juries who did not con-
vict un imperfect evidence, we by no means imply
censure on those lIUMCIOUIi Julie► who, an nearly
the same evidence, had formerly pronounced pri-
soners guilty. In those earlier cases, the Judges
had represented the evidence of the Bank Inspector
as sufficient, from an impression that a Bank In-
spector could nut lie deceived, and the Juries, en-
testa g the same impression, naturally adopted
the opinion of the Judge. -This confidence, how-
ever, in the infallibility of the Batik liwpectors,
bas, iu coosequence of a more earnest inquiry into
the grounds of it, liven in a great degree dissipat-
ed, and such tAltiriter as that which was pro-
dared on Nloo.E.y sod ‘Veduesday, was neces-
sary to uht:.io a conviction for forgery. It will
iu futtite he vain to think of inducing a Jury to
convict a prisoner by the unsupported evidence of
au Inspector ; either the signing clerk whose name
14 forged must deity the writing to he his, or in
ca,e the name signed should be an imaginary one,
Rot belonging to any of the signing clerks in the
Batik, proof must be given to that effect. This
remilik embraces tine second point, for this evi-
dence was brony,lit lonward on Monday and yester-
day, and thereby marked a sufficient distinction
between the Cases then decided, and those in which
the prisvuers were acquitted.

Paris Papers of Sunday last have arrived at
our Otfi•e. 'I he King of FRANCE has been
again us.iiled by his old malady, the gout, but he
has not been prevented from devoting himself, as
9JUiti, to the high doors oh los station. The Duke
of WI:r.r.INGTON left Pills on Sunday, for London.
The Diti,e of Anuonattired in Paris on the
ev g of Saturday, hating made a flying tour
thiongie the northern provinces, and visited the
principal fortresses lately occupied by the Allies.
The French Funds still continue vety much de-
pressed. The five per cents. had climes! on Friday
nominally at fit, at least the price twos so quoted
in the Pais lovers, lust private accounts state that
the actual price was .0 fr. They opened on Satin.

day morning .62 fr. and loon after fell to 60 fr.
They varied considerably during the day, and
finally closed at (iii fr. Bank Stock fell on Satur-
day from 1,485 to 1,475 fr. at which it closed.

‘Ve yesterday took occasion to notice the alarm-
ing state of the kingdoui of l'rtuigal, degraded,
impoverished, and insulted ; expo.ed to the ag-
gressions of foreign Powers, without receiving
a semblance of protection, or even of sympathy

from its native Government. The people of Por-
tugal are deeply sensible of their sufferings, but
whence cuss they hope fur redress ? Those per-
MOM who are best acquainted with the state of
the public mind in Spain, look forward with con-
fidence to the public manifestation of a revolu-
tionary spirit in that country ; and in such an event
we do not douht that the people of Portugal will
make common cause with the Spaniards, in termi-
nating the existing Governments in both countries.
The reign of the Inquisition cannot be endured fur
ever.

Yeste►dav a Court of Directors was held at the
Esst India Hllll4e, whin Cllll4lll C. GRAHAM, of
the ship William Pill, took leave of the Court
previous to departing fur St. Helena. Beocuo
and China.

It is said the Earl of HARROWIIT'S nomination
as A inbassiscior to Paris will be followed by a change
in the Home Department also, Lord SIDMOIJTH
resigning the office of Secretary of State, and suc.
ceeding Lord HARROWSY as President of the
Council. Should the shove arrangement take place,
Mr. 131,:5t. is talked of by some persons as Loid
St DOIOUTH'S successor.

His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON was ex-
pected from France yesterday; Lord CASTLEREAGH
returns to-morrow.

The French Government has contracted for 4,000
hogsheads of tobacco. The contract has been made
partly in France and partly in England.
At Norwich Corn Market on Saturday, there was
a good supply of Wheat and Barley, the former of
which declined in price 2+. and the latter Is, per
month. Other grain was also lower.—Same day
the Cattle Market was large, there being a good
supply of Scots and home-breds; but prices are
still high. Also a great quantity of pigs, small
and large, and the pens were filled with sheep,
almost all half-breds.

YARMOUTH ELECTION.—We lately stated, that
on Mr. LACON'S decliiiing himself as a Candidate
fur the Representation of this Borough, it was re-
ported that his friends deputed three Gentlemen to
proceed to London to procure another Ministerial
Candidate, and that they had returned without
succeeding in the object of their journey; but we
now find, front authority, that the object of their
visit was to arrange the necessary evidence for sup-
porting a Petition to the House of Commons
against the return of C. E. RUSIROLD, Esq. for
that Borough, with every prospect of meccas.—
l'he paragraph was copied OHO THE BRITISH PRESS
fron► a Provincial Paper.
On Monday se'nnight a Special Assembly of the
Corporation of the City of Norwich took place, for
the transaction of business. The Aldermen having
proposed an Address of Condolence to the PRINCE
REGENT on the death of the QUEEN, a conference
was appointed, at the end of which the Address
was read by the SPEAKER, but the wording was
objected to by Mr. SPRINGFIELD and Mr. E. TAY-
LOR, as containing absurd flattery ; and the latter
gentleman moved, that in the part of it which
stated that " her MAJESTY'S character had corn-
minuted universal gratitude and esteem," the word
" universal" should he omitted ; which was carried,
on a division, by 16 to 15.
THE QUEEN'S WILL, &C.—ft now appears cer-
tain that her late MAJESTY had no other property
to bequeath but her diamonds ; they are to be di-
vided among the PRINCESSES Ist equal propor-
tions. A valuation has been taken, and these jewels
are estimated at little ►hort of a million sterling.
The codicil to the will disposes of the QUEEN'S
ready money, viz. four thousand pounds. The
other property, namely, the wardrobe, goes to the
unmarried daughters. It is very valuable. A Lady
of high rank, many years attached to the House-
hold, observed, " Her MAJESTY was the riche►t
Queen in Europe iu wardrobe."
A considerable degree of alarm was excited in
the City on Tuesday morning, by the Bank doors in
Bartholottiew-lane not being open for business
at. the regular hour, nine o'clock, and the no-
pearauce of a number of soldiers parading the
inner courts, nod sentinels at the front entrance,
Book-buildings. It was afterwards escertained
that some tears were excited of an unpleasant
nature owing to the execution of the criminals for
forgery ; but, we are happy to state, that at half-
past ten the doors were opened, and business cora-
ineticed without the slightest attempt having been
made to disturb, in soy shape, the security of this
great National Establishment.
The Garden of Natural History at Cambridge
has recently received, from the island of Seriphos,
in Greece, a species of Dianthus, of such rarity
and beauty, that it is regarded as a very great
botanical curiosity. Three living plaids of the
Tree Pink, or Dianthus frnticosus properly a va-
riety of Dianthus arboreta, have been presented to
one of the Professors of the University be Mr.
STA NsFELD RAWSON, of Halifax, who visited
Seri phos, now Serpho, in search of this plaid, being
guided to its habitat by the account which TOUR-
NEFORT published, who discovered it at Seripluat
upon the 24th of August, 1700, and carried tine
reeds to Paris, where they sprang tip iii the Royal
Garden. TOURNEFORT Calls it " Caryophyllus
Gra.cus arboreta ;" he has figured it in his work,
" Voyage tin Levant, turn. i. p. 219, Lyon, 1717,"
and thus speaks of it Lopluate n'a pas chongi,
quoique levie de arcane et cultivie dons le Jtirdin
on elle fait les houneurs de la Greet parmi
tine infinite de planks cares venues du name pays."
Since ToußiaßsoßT's time it was lost ; many tra.
;sellers sought in vain for specimens of it in Giteee
but, fortunately, as the p'-ots here alluded to are
in a thriving state, it is now like'', to become na-
turalized in this country, and, at all event", to be-
come a cuusiderable ornament of our green-houses.

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TUC AI:CHUCK!: MAXIM! LIAN.

DUBLIN. orcasinfit 13.

011 Sunday last the Archduke Maxim'heti, ac-
companied by the Noblensen arid Gentlemen of her
suite, attended High Mass, which was celebrated
by his Grace the Most Rev. Or. Murray, in the
parish chapel of 'rownsesoloitrret. Immediately
preceding Mass an impressive sermon was delivered
by the Itev: B. Murphy. The Archduke signified.
in the course of Monday, to the Most - Reverend
Dr. Troy, that he would attend his Grace's Mass on
the following morning, alright o'clock, which early
hour was fixed upon in couaequence of the arrain4e-
melds for his departure on that day. At the up.
pointed time his Imperial Highness arrived, and was
received at the outer gate of Liffey-street Chapel, by
the Most Rev. Dr. Troy. and the Most Rev. Dr.
Murray, in full canonicals, and by them conducted,
in procession, within the sanctuary. lithos was
celebrated by Dr. 'Fury, and, in the course of
the ceremony. the GoTri page of the Ali-sal was
presented to the illustrious Stranger, conformable
to custom, when a Prince assists at the erlita.
tinn. This lie kissed, in testimony of his faith.—
A crowded soul most respectable congreption
had the gratification of a itiiessilig the troly pions
and cdif)ing deportment of his Imperial flightless,
who, ut the conclusion of the cereinouy, oirs
preceded to his carriage by the Prelates and their
Assistants in the Paine order as on his recep,
lie took occasion to express his sense of the :men.
twins experienced from their Loidships, arid did not
conceal his surprise at the magnitude of the Catholic
population, which, lie said, would require douches
of much more considerable dunensimis than the pre.
sent edifices for their accommodation.

The Archduke Maximilian sailed for Holyhead
ou Tuesday. A meeting of several respectable illd i-
vid viduals, relatives of Irishmen, who, during the per-
secutions, received protection and distinction in the
Austrian territory, was about to he held, to make
arrangements for giving the illustrious visitor a
public dinner, hut was prevented from taking place
by his Imperial Highness's departure, which was
sudden and unexpected.

Yesterday was Prince LEOPOLD'S birth-day,
which was observed by his Royal Highness's trades-
men illuminating their houses in the evening.
The Princess AUGUSTA means to keep up the
minor charities in Windsor and it. vicinity.
The Duke of RICHMOND has sent home, as pre.
sent. from Canada, two boxes of flower-roots—one
for the Duke of Guano's, the other for the Earl of
DARN LEY.
A series of Court Balls will follow the Coronation
of the Kiog of FRANCE; they will he most magni-
ficent spectacles.
We understand that Miss O'NEILL is engaged
to perform at Colchester, this week, in her three raw
vourite characters, Belvidera, Juliet, and Mrs.

Mr. HARLEY, to the great regret of the public,
still remains ou the invalid list of New Drury, and
his medical friends are apprehemive that it will he
some time yet before lie is able to resume his pro-
fessional duties.

At a public dinner for the benefit of the various
schools instituted for the instruction of the lower
orders, several toasts were given applicable to the
occasion, " Church and King," too, were not for-
gotten; and at length some one proposed the three
1"1, " Peace, Plenty, and Prosperity," with re-
ference to the country at large. An honest-hearted,
Odin-dealing man, however, thought this last
pledge inapplicable to the present Meeting, and,
CONSCIOII% of the value of education by the %emit of
it himself, declared he could find a more appropriate
one, and gave the following :—" The three WI,
Reading, Writing, and 'Rithinetie!"

An ancient historian, describing the English,
says, that they sire fond of loud noises, and great
bell-ringers. It would appear that the modern
English have not degenerated. Such is the de-
mand for Church bells, that there are no less than
four peals to he opened at the ensuing Christmas
and beginning of the New Year, viz.—A new peal
of six, tenor 11 cwt. fur Llatidegai, near Ilaci4or,
in North Wales; a new ring of eight, tenor 16 cat.
for Newton Heath New Chords, near Nlancliester ;
it new peal of six, for St. George's Clouds, iss
Norwich, tenor 12 cwt. ; and is hold peal of ten,
fur the new Church at Dudle, in Statiardslshe, the
tenor eSi cert. in the key of E

MARSHAL CLARKE'S FAMILY —A Correspondent in Pnris
Rives the following account of an lain' which has just nude
a considerable 'wise there

" M. Braupoil deft. Anlaire, a young man, SubiLieutcnaut
in the Legion of the Haul Rain, last mouth published, under
his own name, a libel, as base as it was injurious, entitled,
"Orniroa funtLre du Due de retire." Without soy respect fur
the scarcely cold remains of the deceased, and in defiance of
all decency, the memory of this Ex.slinister is aspersed in the
most outrageous language. M. de Itlonteiquiris Fezetssae,
sou-in-law to the late Duke, challenged M. de St Aul.iire to a
ilitel,and certainly no challenge was ever inure excusable, I will
even say, more honourable. The two champ'. -gm, at [ended by
six woods, mostly Gene rid Officers, repaired on M lay last
to the wood of Vincennes, at break of day. The combat mink/
have lames meat desperate; they were in fire pimultatteously
at fifteen paces, alto pistols of btree bore, and the two ad-
versaries might probably have perislo d together by the first
discharge. Alri ody the drills were loaded, and the signal
was on the point of being gives), when a patrols. of gendarmes
rushed upon them, separated the combatants, and molested
them to the Stsff residence newt ably to au Mike' from (lest.
I)espiuui•. The duel, thriefore„ did oat take place for this
lute ; hut the noturc of the offence rxritca a fear, that it is
only el lrycd. This M. Riau poll de St. Aldan,: is nut related
to Count Ile St. Anijire, father-40am, to Count de Lazes
Refine the Ri.vointion a decision of the Parliament had
prohibited that family from even taking this name.—
The father of the• young ofiirer of she Lrgion of the Heat
Rhin is will known here for his Nitta ',beret opinhnp. awl
conduct. The convitlion is gencial that it is lie, and out
his son, who is the :totm of tit... pamphlet; it is also an-
nouticeil, that the Dui hews De Feltre Its. it in contempla-
tion to institute proceedings against lutn for estuinny."

Yttnetddy morning. doting tie liervy tog. ns a
Wip4 Cro,•Stlig LIMA I..lllAllll.4itilift, anti
taking a putitit of snuff out of Y very
sr atidscioos young villain suatcl:ed rt out of Inv
halo and got clea: I it with it.

TO THE EDITOR 3F PAM.

SIA-1 he: leave, through the medium of your •slosige
and wi.tr.•t circulated Paper, In emit the attention uf the hi,
moo, Politic to the di,treasing state of 111/1%11 111111 r In. forty.
sante females who ate ermined for &lit in the Fleet Prima,
hoping thereby In rouse the feelinea of my runn"Ymfo to
investigate and re.irega their et ievolarmi• A lady (a friths/ a
muse) *en! IIM other day to visit a respeetableteatlewomass,
who, Gum her heiii: eissaed with the Low SST wart' of 507,1
a, %CS, was anljected lu have ber ea. s arwatkesi with such
Mown. sad indreesw Gum n drunkest man, nv i• 41..
td.nekine to female delicacy, but to the feelinzai 80.1 parti-
cularly of the British nations. Her cell, fur I rail call the
,01111 T au litre she 1. by 1111 usher 1141111', hrillZ 11111) 111.1,11,,1,1
f his by a thin part itiolt, tour, t hal
ey from the fluor Iu the cciliuq. liy the early insertion of
this pus will oblige, Sir, _ _

You; tollitalit nvneler.

Decenthr 18, 1813.

A NUM DECENTIL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

SIR—I have extracted 111 few words from the
Patent, to hew that there is nothing unlawful, nr
new, in the comport rxistiog Iwtweesi the riflers
our two Theatres with re 4pret to those lwrforiner.
who withdraw, or may be discharged ; it will he
seen, that instead of being prevented from s•tine:
for one ‘etrui, if the law were rigidly roiforceit, they
might be prevented ever timing in London again.
lam, Sir, your obedient Sto v.mt,

VrRITIs.

" And the better to !nearer, amity and corietimnitettre,
and that the one may nut encroach %tong the "Mr by any
indirect we will and ordain, that no actor, or ane
other person cmpinyed about ciihrr of the said Theatres,
ejected by the said Sir W. Dayeumt and Tlttnnis Killigrew„
or either of them, or deserting his Company, sh he le-
ceivetl by the OuTerntsr, or any of the said other company,
or any other person ur persons to be employed
ur in any manner r.leling to the stage. without the einirent
and approbation of the Coverons vi the said Cump
whereof the said person su ejected or deserted was a Mem-
ber, signified mules his hand and seal "

Tl4Cliil4 Royal. Dral y-lane, Tuesday,
Dec. 15, 1818.