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London, England, 1825-04-25 00:00:00

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MARRIED,
On Saturday, the 23d inst., at 3larylebone, Mr. Abraham
Field, of Warwick-street, Golden-square, to Elizabeth, only
daughter of Thomas Treble, Esq., a Knowl-hill, Berks .

Mary Poole, daughter of
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On Sunday, the 17th t 31r. Notth Meadows, a 15, St.
Martin's-le-larand, in his 71st year.
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Eiti-acts franc the lifor—v;g:Papers)-Ipril2A,.lBts.

• • EM 0 RIC Nt,- 'PoSr.)
•A n Extraordinary Gazette was, publitilted,. yes-
terday, consisting of Aispatches from; General
Sir A. Campbell; to the 17th 'of December{ de-
tailing a series of brilliantvictories,,in which the
collected force of the Burman Empire-was:
dis-
persed and aftnO4t gestoyed by the superior
skill and euterprize of ComparatiSety. aliandful
of British and Indian-troops.: • The•:enetny had
assembled an army Of 60,000c.inbn -before
the town of Rangoon occupied by our forces,
and seem in fad to-have tindertakety its -siege,
flattering themselves that they would •eislly an-
nihilate the few thousands which we had to op-
pose to their overpowering and desperate multi-
tudes. They were well ProVided with artilleryand
muskets, and formed lines and opened.trenches
with a degree of skill acid-military judgment
which could only have been expected frOm the
Most experinced officers. • On the sth of Decem-
bet., however, Sir A.' Campbell caused their left
wing to be suddenly attacked, when it was.rom-
pletely beaten and dispersed, all,its cannon,
stores, arms and standard, falling into our hands.
The Burmese Commander, however, Malta Bun-
doola, who seems to be a man of great Military
capacity and determined resolution, collected the
"remains of his left, and 'in twollays carried his
lines still closer to the town of Rtingooh.' his
enabled Sir Archibald Campbell to make I se-
cond, attack, -which took 'place on the. Morning
of the. 7th, and was' still more decisiVe than
the first. The enemy lost about five thouiand in
killed bud wounded, 9.40 pieces of ordnance, and
large quantities of muskets. Still, however,
Bundoola's, resolution was .:unshaken. He col-
lected his fugitive troops, 'and having received
some reinforcements, returned once more to the
immediate vicinity of Rangoon and began en-
trenching and stockading with as much persever-
ance and judgment as before. Ile also deter-
mined this time to be the assailant, and on the
14th December his emissaries set the town of
Rangoon on fire in several places at once, by
which one-fourth of that place was destroyed,
and sent fire-rafts amongst our fleet. The
latter having done no injury, and the confusion
not being probably as great as lie had expect-
ed, he made no attack. Sir A. Campbell. then,
with excellent judgment and dashing euterprize,
assailed him a tbird tine, carried all his Nags
with only 1,300 British and Indian Infantry,
though defended 'by upwards of 20,000 men,
took the greater part- of his arms and ammunition,
and drove him bark in all directions. The same
day thirty war boats were taken 'by the Britiih
squadron, and the whole force collected for our
ruin was destroyed by water-and land. No offers
of submission' had yet.been made, but no doubt
can be entertained that such brilliant and deci-
sive victories must put a- speedy end to the war,
by showing to the "etietny the:ittutility of their
strongest efforts. FOr.the Official detaits,.see our
preceding page.

IC‘is due to Sir Archibald. Campbell to say,
that throughout all the glprions opt raliOns in In-
dia he -has displayed consUMMate ,kill, • and •un-
daunted intrepidity. Ile' lured the enemy from
their woody haunts, in the first instance, by a
systematic caution, . which they„ascribed to timi-
dity, and he marched. hiMself with his troops to
the attack of works, which he declares to be the
most formidable of the kind he ever saw. lie
was admirably seconded both by the land and
forces ; and it is matter of great gratification sea
to observe, that the native troops hi our service
acted throughout with the utmost steadiness and
bravery, emulating the European's in that deter-
mined valour, which alWays characterises the
British soldier.

[TIIE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We received last night Rio Janeiro Papers from
the Ist of February to the 9th of March, inclusive.
At this period profound tranquillity seemed to pre-
vail throughout the Brazils,, which is no slight
proof of the prUdenee and conciliatory spirit of the
Government. We find. from. these Papers, that it
can act with vigour when the occasion requires it.
At Pernambuco, the celebrated Padre Cabeca
was executed on the..l2th of fiecember,„for the
prominent part which he took in the late dis-
turbances in the city and 'province Of that name.
Emilianus and Rangel, two active accomplices
of the former, were to suffer' the same fate in
a_ fey days afterwards ;,'44e,:4 Negro, called
Agosteno, who appears to have acquired some
notoriety for his. conduct ,un the aumeroccasion,
was, for some reason .that- is not explained, re-
commended to, mercy: ~,The.!.Military.tommiss-
ion, appointed 'at -Bahia; ttirt-rY :WO.. persons
implicated in the affair.of . the 26.tb df,,O.ctOber,,
have ordered the execution, it is said, of Major
Satinel who commanded the artillery oil that
day ; and it. is stated,. .that Padre
Mencar, and three of their partisans have been
conveyed. to Rio, to be disposed of there as
the Emperor might think fit.- Lord 'Cochrane
had arrived, at Maranhaiii, where his first
act was to cause Bruce,
.-to whom the epi-
thet " infamous " is. applied, to restore
all the sums of which he and his Secretary
had robbed and plundered . (we copy the Rio
Paper verbatim) the inhabitants of Maranham,
under the name of contributions. 'His LOrdShip,
it is stated, was taking other measures, which
promised soon to establish tranquillity in that
province. The Diario, of the !id of March, con-
tains a very long report from a non-commissioned
Officer of Engineers, who had been sent to
make a general survey of theTroviuce; of Matto
Grosso. He has particularly directed -his at-
tention to the rivers and the country nearest to
their banks. He has sent several plans and maps ;
and the progress • he has already made in his Sur-
vey, has. given so much satisfaction, thjst orders
have been issued to the Governor of the rovince
to afford him every assistance,

ETAS 'nun.]
The direct intelligence from Greec,c, extracteal
from the official Journal published at Bydra, ie

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of a cheering nature, not so much for any details
of military prowess,'as for the evidence itaffords
of that more arduous.consummation—the triumph
of the law in an infant state, over the spirit of dis-
cord and insurrection. Colocotroni, the four De-
lijani, the two Notaropouli, and others, were
shipped off from Napoli in the open day for Hy-
dra, without a murmur from the people, but with
every apparent mark of public joy and of confidence
in the 'strength' of the Government. A letter
from Egypt describes the Pacha to have been
throughout the whole of his late expensive and
unfortunate campaigns the dupe of Turkish
artifice, and of flattery administered to him by
Europeans in Turkish pay, who pronounced him
the Napoleon of Africa. A French General,
said to be of the name of Boyer, has recently
joined•' the Pacha, and obtained a chief com-
mand over his troops.

• [MORNING CHRONICLE.]
While the most. distinguished opponents of the
Catholic Claims, in both Houses' of Parliament,
are coming forward in a manly manner to de-
clare that they are at length sensible their ob-
jections were founded in error, an individual,
who some time ago occupied much of the public
attention, from the prominent part he, acted in
the Bible Meetings in Ireland, has also come
forward with the declaration, that so long as
the present system continues in Ireland, its use-
less to attempt the execution of such plans
as those w hich his visit was intended to pro-
mote. We allude to a speech of the Honourable
B. W. Noel, delivered on the evening of Thirrs-
day last, at the Annual Meeting of the Leeds
Auxiliary Hibernian Society, as reported in'the
Leeds Mercury. He declared " that he found
the denial of civil privileges to the. Catholics one
of the greatest obstructions to the success of the
Society. It irritated them against the Protest-
ants,und made them suspect everything coming'
from that quarter, insomuch, that one intelli-
gent individual, residing in the county, said to
him You might as well hope to do good by
sending - tax-gatherers, as by sending preachers,
so long as this system continues.'" The Ho-
nourable Speaker, it is said, " dwelt with great
fnrce and animation on the wrongs of Ireland ;
and he did not expect to see any great improve-
ment in the condition of its people until these
were redressed. Ile hoped that a more enlight-
ened policy had been at length adopted by this
country, and he trusted that all just grounds of
complaint would be removed. In detailing the.
opposition which had been made to the operations
of the Society by the Catholics, nothing was far-
ther from his intention than to excite any feeling
of hostility towards them. The Popery'
cry 'was dying fast away, and the Orange feelings
in which it originated, had, he trusted, also sub-
sided." We trust the opinion of Mr. Noel will
not'be lost on those who have at heart the ditTu-
Sion of religious knowledge throughout Ireland.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Yesterday we received the Diario Flumminensc,
and other Brazilian papers to the 3d ult. inclu,
sive. , They are filled only with the accounts
of _ the Emperor's severity towards the sub-
dued revolters of Pernambuco. We very much
doubt the wisdom .of the. sanguinary course
pursued, by the Imperial Government. The
South Americans have not yet. Seen the blood
of their fellow-citizens shed in this manner by
their own Governments. All the deliberate acts
of vengeance which have stained their soil have
been the deeds of the European Authorities
whom they have rejected, and for that reason,
perhaps, as much as any other, Don Pedro should
not forget that he is him Self not an American,
and :that the prejudices against him, arising
from his connexion with the Royal Houses
of the Old World, may revive in sufficient
strength to drive him from his newly-founded
throne, should lie provoke mischievous cdmpa-
risons between his sway and the milder rule of the
republican States in its vicinity. There is a
great mistake in considering., the revolter.; of Per-
nambuco as rebels, according to our, estimation of
that term in the long settled and lawfnlly esta-
blished Governments of Europe. The' Emperor
of 3razil holds his crown only by an act of the
same character with that which was unsuccess-
fully attempted at Pernambuco. The POrtu-
Kuese Government might with propriety put him
apd his adherents to death, but Don Pedro can
show no title but superior force to justify his un-
measured severity towards the inhabitants of the
northern provinces who resisted the inipoSitiOn
of its self-made authority.

[MORNING HERALD.)
The all-prevailing taste for humbug met with
a ludicrous, but yet DOt mean addition in
.what is
reported to have passed a few nights.since, on the
presentation of a Petition from 163 Lawyers in
favour of the Catholic Claims. The opportunity
wayseized upon by Mr. Scarlett of lauding his
professional brethren to the skies, as surpass-
iog •all who have gone before them in know-
ledge, eloquence, anti legal eminence: We
believe the. Learned 6entletnap said nothing
about political consistency—and Mr. Brougham,
who, on this occasion, followed in the wake
•of his circuit leader, could not forbear throwing
his weight into the scale, and as. his precursor
had exhausted all the epithets of -common-place
eulogium, the latter soared into the
:higher
regions, and called the present Bar " illustri-
ous." If self-applause is that which hououra-
bie minds are most pleased with, then all that
we can say is, that honourable minds must have
undergone a complete revolution. Had we been
in their case, we should haVe been better
pleased had; sortie. unprofessional Member risen
to add his testimony to their merits. Anil ‘Vliv
was this not done I—but because it is quite.noL
•torious- that the Bar is. just now at the loWist
ebb that- ever was knovin ; and is crowded with
mere aspirants for. place,, not one tenth of whom;
are fit even for the kind of offices they aspire
still less to occupy the.seats which were once filled.)
by. the Dunningsi the W,edderburnes, the Mans:-
fields, :the Erskines, .arid ,matix More of the
last and (we might almost say) of the present
age. This, we will venture to affirm, is the con-
viction of all competent lookers on._ Yet this is

the period which two of the leaders--of the
King's Bench Bar (both' themselies justly
eminent,_ no doubt), would., have the world
believe is that in which the profession has
arrived at a degree of reputation, not to say
of splendour, never equalled or . Surpassed ; and
when the opinions of a little junta of its mem.
hers are to be extolled before those of any other
class of the community. We are far from deny-
ing that'there are among the members of the pro-
fession many persons of great talents and inte-
grity. Were it not invidious to name living
persons, we. have no doubt but that we could
single out rnany who, if not " illustrious,"
are alike. respectable, honourable, and emi-
nent. But we fear that they form, as far at
least as professional eminence' is concerned,
only the exceptions to the rule ; and that, as a
whole, the profession of the Law does not call
for, or deserve the high encomiums thus passed
upon it ; and which the world, we believe, will
consider as we do, to have been an egregious
specimen of mere humbug.