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LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, MAYV, 1815.

Naples. Amongst other intelligence, these letters
say that his Holiness the POPE is gone on a shoot-
ing party to Filumicino. His Holiness, in his
sporting attire, and making his dogs break and•
stand, would be an object of the highest admira-
tion to the English sporting world. The follow-
ing are extracts:— , _ _

LEGHORN-, MAY 6.
Yesterday a ship arrived here froth Alexandria; which had
lain off Modon. A passenger on board went on shore, to the
camp of Ibrahim Pacha, before Navarino. The Pacha was
besieging that place, which was defended by 300 Greeks,
and had already made a breach of two or three feet.—
On the land side Greek parties had often shewn them-
selves, but, no previous engagement hath taken place.—;
There were several Greek prisoners in the Camp. The
Arabs observed very good discipline and Ibrahim seemed to be
without any apprehension, so that he hart sent away all his ships.
Ile might have about 8000 men. His communication with
Coron and Motion was quite free, but not with Patras. The
Nile at Alexandria had been so very low that there was not only
a want of ods to load the ships, but for some days even a
scarcity of water. The new canal was nearly dried up. The
plague was not violent.—( AI/genuine Zcitung, May 14.)
SWITZERLAND, MAY 10.
On the sth of this month the Great Council of Lucerne ra-
tified, by a majority 63 votes to 16, the capitulation with the
King of Naples. It is well known that the party Which is opposed
to the old system of raising Swiss regiments for foreign service
had exerted itself to the utmost to prevent the conclusion of this
convention for the Neapolitan service, but, as appears from the
above result, without success. By the happy termination of
this negociation, in which the Duke of Calvello has shewn great
skill and perseverance, the number of troops required for the
service of his Sicilian Majesty will be completed without diffi-
culty. The venerable Monks of St.-Bernard intend to form
a similar establishment for the assistance of travellers on Mount
Simplon.

New York Papers have arrived this day to the
21st April ; they contain the following interest-
ing extracts from Buenos Ayres and other
places •' •

BUI:IIO3'ATRES, JAx. 3.

The Congress declares itself constituent, or formed for the
purpose of adopting a new mode of Government in place of
the confederacy established at the declaration of independence.
The Constitution proposed must be accepted
.by the province
before it can be adopted. For the present the Government of
Buenos Ayres are invested with all powers necessary for nego-
elating with other nations, for the purpose doubtless of ac-
cepting the proposal which -Great Britain was understood
to be prepared to offer. In consequence, on the 28th January,
Mr. Woodbine Parish laid 'before the Secretary of Foreign
Relations •his credentials as Plenipotentiary of Great Britain,
authorised to form a treaty of peace and commerce with
the united provinces ; the most active exertions were making
on both sides to conclude Ow treaty
COLOMBIA.—We have received our Carthagena Papers to
March 26, accompanied with Bogota Papers to the 3d. Our
correspondent writes us, under date of the 31st, that a brig had
arrived from London with half a million of dollars. The
Papers contain Bolivar's third resignation of the Presidency,
and two replies from the President of the. Colombian Senate,
under date of Bogota, Feb. 11. The latter says that he con-
voked the Congress in the evening of the 3d, and before a large
and most solemn audience made known the purport of Bolivar's
letter. The question was put to the vote, and the resignation
was not accepted, being oppoSed by 21 Senators and 52 Repre-
sentatives, when the Hall rang with acclamations. The citizens.
appeared in great numbers in the streets, and expressed send.
ments of approbation.—A Minister had arrived at Bogota from
Guadenala, but had not yet been received, as that Court had
not been acknowledged.. -
MEXICO.—By the brig Enterprise from Tampico, we have
received our Mexican Papers to the 2d March, but they con-
tain nothing important.
llAvANNAH.—Captain Lane arrived last. night in twelve
days from Havannah ; reports that no intelligence or event of
interest had transpired .up to the period of his sailing.
',nom AL VARADO.—We learn by Captain Nye, arrived in
twenty days from Alvarado, that an embargo had been laid
there, in consequence of an expedition fitting out against Cam-
peachy.

A Petition was last night presented to the
House of Commons, by Mr, HustE, from several
Master Mariners and Ship Owners of London,
complaining of the deduction of sixpence per
month from the wages of merchant seamen for
the support of Greenwich Hospital. Mr. HusKrs-
sox mentioned in reply to the fact, that the public
was put to considerable expence in supporting Bri-
tish seamen when sick in different ports of Europe.
If this subject is taken in the point of view in which
Mr. Hume presented it to the House, it certainly
is unfair, to call on, persons not entitled to claim
the benefit of the establishment to support it by
the contribution of the smallest portion of their
wages, and notwithstanding there may be some
truth in Mr. HusrussoN's remark, yet it could
hardly be deemed sufficient to justify the imposi-
tion of the tax. Seamen are entitled to the re-
lief extended to them in foreign ports in the cases
mentioned, in common with the other subjects of
the Crown of England, and without any refer-
ence to their character of seamen ; and besides
(in Portugal for instance) the expellees so in-
curred are defrayed by a levy on private English
merchants, residing in the port where relief is
sought for. Mr. HUSKISSON certainly did not
make the remark in order to defend the system,
but merely threw it out as rebutting the
prima facie case the petition otherwise made out.
If, however, we are not mistaken, merchant sea-
men are entitled in certain cases to be received
into Greenwich Hospital, and if so, ought not to
object to a deduction from their wages to go
towards its support. We think that all mer-
chant seamen, maimed in fight in defence of their
employers' property, either from the open ene-
mies of the State or from pirates, are, under
an Act of WILLIAm the Third, entitled to the
benefits of that excellent Establishment ; and as
almost every man admitted into the Hoßpital has
sustained some bodily injury in the service of his
country, the merchant seamen do not stand in a
situation so different from the seamen of the
Royal Navy, as to claim a total exemption
from this impost. Perhaps on the score of
amount the Petition might be, entertained,
for there is this difference bet Ween the two ser-
vices, viz., that whilst the seamen of the Royal
Navy are by service alone, unaccompanied by
bodily infirmities, entitled to the benefit of
Greenwich Hospital, it is only under certain
circumstances of injuries actually sustained
that the doors of the Hospital are open-
ed to the reception of seamen in the mer-
chant service. It does, therefore, appear to
be unfair to take the same contribution from
both classes to support an Hospital, for admis-
sion into which both classes do not enjoy an
equality of right.

Petition was brought... up last night. This
The Report of the Committee on the Balli-
, purporting to be signed by fourteen
cisase of a Petition in favour of the Catho-
lic assclotielaieiln
severely. punished.
persons, when in point of fact
.thirteen of the
names attached to it were forge.ries. Nothing is
alleged in extenuation of the crime, and notwith-
troshi:e
Whether it was considered by him as a
stotansodyintgheitoiffnaeyodaeir'poeuagrhlita
good joke
or whether it was done with. a view to mislead
and impose on the credulity of the House, in
either case the offence is one of the gravest dm_