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Law on the Press is passing through the Cham-
ber of Peers, and Wednesday was appointed for
the discussion of an important amendment, pro-
posed by Count de BASTARD, which refers all
offences. of the Press to a trial by Jury. In the
Chamber of Deputies the discussion on the Lai`
of Accounts was resumed, and the law was car-
ried by a majority of 182 to S 9. The French
Five per Cents. closed on Wednesday at 91f. 35c.

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Cortes are still occupied with the Constitutiona
Code, in which they have proceeded as far as
the 181st Article. They have passed a decree,
enacting that all Portuguese Consuls hencefor-
wards shall be natives of the United Kingdoms ;
but that foreigners already holding situations of
this kind may be continued or removed accord-
ing to the will of the Government. A discussion

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has taken place in the Cortes "respecting the
flualizing of the current coin, and a project for
this purpose is before the Assembly,accompanied
with a Report from the Finance Minister on the
legal value of the gold coin.

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Madrid Journals to the c2lst of last month
have been received, but their contents have been
already anticipated by the French Papers. An
'Official decree has been promulgated, relative to
the conduct which the military are bound to ob-
serve on occasions of popular tumult. It enacts,
that they are never to be present, unless under
the orders of their officers, to assist the civil
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The report that a frigate of Buenos Ayres, at
Gibraltar, was fitting out a small vessel to cruize
in the Straits against the Spaniards, has been
officially contradicted by the British Consul at
Gibraltar.

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Letters from Petersburgh, of the 11th of Fe-
bruary, state, that the report of the importation
of cloths, rum, and Champaigne, having been to-
tally prohibited, is unfounded. According to the
new tariff, which has been laid before the Em-
peror, and which, it is said, is to undergo a fur-
ther revision, the following articles are prohi-
bited :—Embroidered goods, East India and
European printed chintzes, ready made clothes
of all kinds, porcelain, refined sugar, lumps, and
'sugar-candy, and also silk goods : lace to pay
eight roubles per pound ; pocket handkerchiefs
and ribbands four roubles per pound, on im-
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" The last letters from Lima, of the 16th
October, mention a difference between Lord
Coma A.NE and General SAN MARTIN, in conse-
quence of the former having seized about 500,000
dollars, belonging to individuals and the Govern-
ment of Lima. This money was sent on board
the transports for security, and laid hands on by
Lord COCHRANE for payment of the seamen of
the fleet, who were at the time in a state of mu-
tiny, not having received any pay for upwards of
twelve months. Lord COCHRANE had sailed for
the Coast of Mexico, to endeavour to meet with
the Pmeba and rengan:a Spanish frigates, and
to assist the Patriots in that quarter. Captain
GUISE had been appointed'Admiral of Peru by
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WEST INDIA INTERCOURSE.—It seems that
serious apprehensions are very generally enter-
tained at THE OUTPORTS, that it is intended to
admit AMERICAN SHIPPING more extensively
into the trade of the British West India Islands,
for we have been requested by several Corre-
spondents to reprint the Speech of the late Mas-
ter of the Rolls, Sir WILLIAM GRANT, against
the American Intercourse Bill of 1806, to which
we recently alluded, and in compliance with
their wishes, we propose to insert it in our paper
on Monday next.

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Letters have been received this morning from
New Orleans, to the 6th January, from which

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We extract the following :
" ST. ANTONIO, DEC. 4.—On the night of the
:3(1 October, General LONG, with 50 men of all
nations, entered the town of La Bahia, pro-
ducing the greatest consternation by their horrid
Yells (I happened to be there at the same
time) ; they put to flight the centinels, and
took possession of the fort and artillery without
opposition. As soon as intelligence of this
reached St. Antonio, the Governor dispatched
Colonel IGNATO PARIS with 150 men, with or-
ders to retake the place, and make prisoners of
LONG and his party. lie arrived near La Bahia,
and sent to LONG requesting to see him, to ascer-
tain the cause of his unfriendly visit. LONG met
him, and stated his object was to establish the
independence of these provinces. Colonel PARIS
replied, that their independence was already at-
chieved, and told him not to give himself any fur-
ther trouble, demanding the giving up of the fort.

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Lox ut would notgive it up.—At 11 o'clock (morn-
ing) Col. PARIS made the attack: A warm
firing was kept up for 24 hours ; LNG's artillery
did no execution, and he finally surrendered at
discretion. LONG and his party were brought
prisoners to St. Antonio's ; and from thence were
sent to Saltillia to take their trials as public
robbers and pirates."

The Navy Five per Cents. Bill underwent a
discussion last night in the House of Commons,
and was str!ctly canvassed by Mr. TIERNEY,
who, at the same time, disclaimed any objection
to its principle. He propounded to the House,
as a difficulty to be met on this occasion, that
Clause in the Act of k 1797, which provides that
the Five per Cents. shall be irredeemable, till
twenty-five millions of the National Debt
shall have been redeemed and paid off.—
This objection was answered by a reference to
the preamble of the Aet passed in 1813, for can-
celling a part of the Stock in the hands of the
Commissioners for the reduction of the National
Debt, where it was recited, that whereas, the
238 millions purchased by the Commissioners
for the redemption of the Debt, exceeded
the total of the Capital of the Debt existing
in 1786, that amount of Public Debt should he
deemed to be satisfied and discharged, and that
so much stock might be cancelled. It was also
observed thati2s millions had been bonafide paid
off by the redemption of the Land-Tax. Mr.
TIERNEY disapproved of the short time allowed for
dissenting, and Mr. DENMAN moved that it should
be extended from the 16th to the 30th of March,
but the motion was negatived by a large majoritri
Mr. HusiussoN observed, that although a few
days only were given for the expression of dissent,
yet, the Country had had warning of the proposed
measure ever since the latter end of February,
and could not, therefore, be said to have been
taken by surprise. That a delay should be afforded
till some certain, conclusion could be formed with
respect to the issue of the disputes between
Russia and Turkey was, we think, very clearly
demonstrated to be an unreasonable proposition.
To defer a financial measure in expectation of a
time when public affairs shall be every where so
settled as to leave no room for anxiety and con-
jecture, is, indeed, to wait " dam defirtat amnis."
It may be expected that, during the period al-
lowed the fundholders for making their option,
reports on the subject of Continental affairs will
be very abundant, and highly coloured. The
present agitations in France, whatever be their
real complexion, will, of course, be greatly magni-
fied on the one hand, and under-rated on the
other, with a view to the impression which may
be made by statements of either kind, on pecu-
niary transactions at home.

The infamous name of JEFFERIES has been
very freely associated within these few days
r with that of a respectable Law Officer of the
, City of London, by writers irritated at the re-
. cent condemnation of CARLILE'S miserable con-
federates, yet afraid to defy public decency by
' arraigning the verdict or defending the criminals.
Allusion has been made in particular to the con-
duct of JEFFERIES on the trials of BAXTER and
of Lady LISLE, as resembling that of the Com-
MON SERJ EANT in the cases of CARLILE'S
shopmen, because this learned Magistrate has
presumed on one occasion to express a zeal for
the honour of religion, and thought fit, on ano-
ther, to reflect strongly upon the line of defence
pursued by Counsel. It is necessary that
public attention should sometimes' be drawn
to the grossly malicious and partial manner
in which history is cited for the sake of
throwing odium on living characters, and fa-
vouring the application of injurious nicknames.
Upon the trial of BAXTER, who was prosecuted,
not like the priests of the Temple of Reason, for
a formal attack upon " the fiend religion," and
upon the Christian religion in particular, but for
a few sentences reflecting, by implication, upon
the prelates and established clergy, Chief Jus-
tice JEFFERIES put down and silenced three
Counsel successively who were steadily urg-
ing arguments drawn from history and le-
gal record, in favour of the defendant.—
Two others were deterred from even attempting
a defence ; and the Judge continually broke in
upon the proceedings with rude jests and scurri-
lous invectives, calling the defendant, among other
similar appellations, a " snivelling Presbyterian,"
" a rascal," " an old knave," who had written
" books enough to load a cart, every one as full
of sedition, he might say treason, as an egg is
full of meat ;" and he animadverted with equal
freedom upon the defendant's partisans and
friends present in Court, threatening to crush
them all. The behaviour of this furious tyrant
on the trial of Lady LISLE is too well known
to require description here ; he did indeed be-
gin the proceedings of that day by professing,
that he held himself accountable for his conduct
to " the King of Kings, the Great Judge of
Heaven and earth ; ' a declaration well becom-
ing the mouth of a Minister of Justice, either
in those or in the present times; and only turn-
ing to the dishonour of him who made it, be-
cause followed up by the most flagrant oppression
and injustice; because, with the same lips which
had uttered this pious acknowledgment, he pro-
ceeded to revile and intimidate an individual
whose evidence was not sufficiently strong against
the prisoner, and to profane the name of the Al-
mighty, by pronouncing it an infinite mercy that he