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certificate. This Proclamation was to tame effect
from the Ist day of June, 1830, and was to
continue in force until the Ist of January, 1832.

We have received Prince Edward's Island
Papers to the 3d of May. The House of As-
sembly had passed a Bill for the relief of his
MAJESTY'S Roman Catholic subjects, by which
they are placed with respect to civil rights on a
footing with their Protestant fellow-subjects,
The Council, however, had affixed a clause,
suspending its operation until the Royal assent
was obtained. In addition to the suspending
clause the Council proposed a number of addi-
tional ones to the Bill. Such amendments as
were merely of a verbal nature, or which tended

to make the sense of the Legislature more clear,
were without hesitation adopted by the House
of Assembly, but the House rejected the clause
requiring all Roman Catholics voting at elec-
tions to take the oath at the hustings. The
oath is of great length, and the time limited for
elections would be insufficient for administer-
ing it to half the number that might be ex-
pected to offer themselves. The other clauses
added by the Council related chiefly to the ex-
clusion of Jesuits, of whose introduction into
the islandimuch apprehension seems entertained.
Another conference had, however, been held
upon the subject of the amendments, and the
result had been the withdrawal by the Council
of the suspending clause, and all the other
amendments to which the House of Assembly
had not previously signified their concurrence,
with the exception of the following addition to
the oath :

" And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly
abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Esta-
blishment us settled by law within this realm."

Mr. E. BLAQUIERE, a gentleman well known
by his late interesting " Letters from the Mediter-
ranean," has just published, in quarto, an edition
of Signor PANA wri's " Narrative of a Residence
in Algiers." At the present crisis, when the eyes
of Europe are directed with considerable interest
to this den of pirates and robbers, the appearance
of such a work is deserving of particular notice.
The present will, in every respect, satisfy public
expectation. It bears every mark of authenticity,
i 3 copious in its details, lively in its mode of
communicating those details, and in addition to
its geographical notices of Algiers, comprises an
historical account of its Regency, together with
biographical sketches of the DEY and his Mini-
sters. In a few days, perhaps in a few hours,
perhaps already, this strong-hold of piracy may
be captured. The reader, therefore, may pro-
bably be desirous to glean a few particulars re-
specting. a territory, whose power is on the eve
of passing away—for nothing, we confidently
believe, can now save Algiers from the grasp of
the Trench soldiery. An army which was so
well-regulated and disciplined that, though con-
sisting of 40,000 men, it could finish its de-
barkation safely within eight hours, is not likely
to suffer much from any opposition that Algiers,
on the land side, may attempt to offer:—
" The regency of Algiers includes above six hundred
miles of sea coast, between the river Melooia, which se-
parates it from Morocco, and the Maine, its eastern boun-
dary; While its extreme breadth, front the capital to the
country of Dates, does not exceed one hundred and eighty.
It is bounded on the west by the kingdom of Fez, the chain
of the Atlas and Biludelgerid on the south, Tunis on the
east, and the Mediterranean sea on the north. The Dey's
absolute domination extends four days journey from the
capital. Beyond that, until you reach _the Biludelgerid, is
inhabited by wandering tribes, who merely pay tribute when
the army takes an annual tour through the country.—
The regency is divided into four provinces, Mascara, Al-
giers, Tittetie, and Constantine. Labez is a mountainous
eistrict which pays tribute; and Biscara is another poor
tributary country in the kingdom of Zeb. Between Al-
giers and Bugia to the south, are the mountains of Couco,
inhabited by the Angui, a ferocious people whout the
Deys have never reduced into complete subjection.
Towards Fez is the little desert of Angad, much frequent-
ed by heusta of prey and ostriches. Previous to reaching
the eser Atlas there is a large tract of country called
Tell, from thence commences the country of Dates. The
most considerable river in this part of Africa is the Melooia,
the ancient Melva,: a part of which is navigable for
small vessels. The principal cities are Algiers, con-
taining about one hundred and twenty thousand souls ;
Constantine, with a population of one hundred thousand ;
Tremisan, once the capital of a great kingdom, but
now reduced to insignificance; Bona, which has an
excellent bay and strong castle ; Oran, a large and popu-
lous town with a tolerably good roadstead, and within
a few miles east of which there is a fine bay capable
of receiving the largest fleets. Tenet, at one time
time the capital of a rich and beautiful kingdom ; Bouje-
lab, which is very strong, and possesses a much larger
port than Algiers, though not quite so secure; Mersal-
quivir, a place of some consequence ; and Shenshell, where
there is also . good anchorage ; Arvav, celebrated for its
extensive salt-pits, the finest in the world ; El-callah, re-
waed frr its great market and manufactures of shawl,
and carpets; Bleeda, a populous town in the interior;
at d also Gigera, on the sea coast : the territory of which
is extremely mountainous, and the inhabitants considered
the most savage and ferocious race in Battery. All
those ebristians who happen to be wrecked on this
coast are invariably made slaves of."

We believe the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER'S new Sugar Duty scheme will turn
out as inconvenient in its operation, if it be
practicable, as it is unjust between the two great
interests to which it applies. Every man at all
conversant with trade must, at once, see the
incongruity of a duty with an ascending and
descending scale, like that in force upon Corn,
and proposed now to be levied on Sugar. It is
worse than even an ad valorenz duty, the diffi-
culty of which consists in the vexatious abuses
to which it ever has been, and ever will he sub•
ject—abuses which lead us to concur entirely
.with Mr. POULETT THOMSON in his doubts
of the expediency of ad valorent duties, when
any other system can be devised in their stead.
The Sugar Duty scheme cannot be better cha-
racterised than was. done by Mr. THOMSON, as
" alike unjust to the East Indian interest, par-
" tial to the West Indian, and injurious to the
" community ;" it is inconsistent with the
pledge given .to. the. East. India interest in.