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RUSSIAN 'INTRIGUES 1N CANADA

New York, Oct. 19.
Dear Colonel,—Permit me, unknown as I am to you,
to trouble you with this correspondence, and let your well-
known zeal and devotedness to the cause of our dear country
serve me, in this instance, both as an introduction to you
and as an apology for my intrusion.
We have not here been ignorant of what passes in
Europe, of the condition the old world is in, and of the dis-
sensions that agitate its different Cabinets. But most of
all have we diligently watched the intriguing policy of
Russia wherever it was at its foul work, whther it tended
towards undermining the influence of powerful empires, or
preparing an unavoidable ruin to its neighbours, as it had
once done to Poland. Yet what we most feel indignant at
is that the despicable (podia istola) Czar, while endeavour..
ing to palliate his most inhuman and most atrocious acts
before the world, shrinks not from employing the vilest
means, provided lie can lower us in the estimation of other
nations. His task, however, is a difficult one. We are well
aware that the safe sojourn afforded to our countrymen in
England, and the sympathy felt in their fate, must prove a
deep sting to him : he, therefore, does everything in order to
destroy that mutual friendly connection. It is for that
purpose, undoubtedly, that he sent an individual, named
" Colonel Von Shoultz," one of his blood-hounds, to Ame-
rica, with an order to assume the character of a Pole, the
easier to accomplish the object of his criminal mission.
This person, a disguised Muscovite (for from all appear-
ances he can be but such) had opened a regular office at
New York, 380, Pearl-street, since the 15th Oct., and
contrived, through the medium of Polish Jews residing
here, and employed as his agents, to make out a list of all
the Polish exiles, whom he ordered to call at his office, in
order, as he stated, to deliberate upon the fate of our un-
halipy country.

You will conceive, for your own heart will tell you, what
feelings were awakened by the purport of these words in
the breast of every Pole. We hastened to his office—
but, alas ! from the evidence which I shall give, we were
soon undeceived ; for it was obvious that the would-be
Pole we saw could be but a sinister agent of Nicholas, and
had no other object in view than to make game of us.
He contrived to induce several from amongst us to bind
themselves by an oath to secrecy ; but as to the others, he
informed them merely that the restoration of Poland could
never be effected but by the success of the revolution which
had already been prepared, and was on the eve of breaking
out, in Canada, and that every true Pole mustjoin its banner.
After some insignificant remark on politics, he cunningly
closed the affair with imprecations against the Government
of Russia. All this he spoke in English, not knowing, or
feigning not to know, Polish. Again, Polish names, e. g.
Kossowski," he pronounced d la Russe, " Kassowskoy,'
which not a little surprised us. Our suspicion of his being
a Russian was still more confirmed when his secretary,
Izydor, a Jew, excited by liquor, said that this Von Shoultz
could speak Polish ; and he (Shoultz) starting up from his
chair abruptly, addressed one of ours in the following Eng-
lish jargon ;—" Sir, I am very sorry, for I am not able to
speck Polish ; but never mine, speck English, I understan
you very well indeed." _

Henceforth this Mr. Von Shoultz was, of course,.treated
with contempt by us, and his proposals rejected, as being
at variance with our interests.

We cannot help thinking that this is a new intrigue of
Russia, and that the said Von Shoultz is but a secret agent
sent to the United States for the purpose of decoying our
countrymen to join the insurgents of Canada, and under
the specious banner of liberty (a word he often repeated)
to fight against the English' Government ; whilst the Czar
would avail himself of the opportunity maliciously to point
out to the Cabinet of St. James's the ingratitude of the
Poles, and their co-operation with the rebellious subjects
of England.
I am therefore desired by my countrymen to beg you to
acquaint the English Government with the purport of our
present communication, and even, if necessary, to publish
it, that it may be known how far we were from entering
into the views of the adventurer in question. Furthermore,
we request you to add, that we shall never be found guilty
of creating any uneasiness to the English Government in
Canada ; but wish at all times to evince, to the utmost
of our power, our sense of gratitude to the English nation
far their generous conduct towards our brethren in their
country.

We lay this matter at your heart, and we confide in your
zeal that you will act promptly; for if this be a hidden spring
of Russia, as we believe it is, the sooner it is broken the
better. Let the world know it.
1 forbear to affix my name, lest I should be annoyed by
the Secret Society : but you shall soon know my own name
and of those who acted with me on this occasion.
Meanwhile I beg to assure you, dear Colonel, of our high
esteem and brothery affection, N. D.
To Colonel Lach Szyrma, 10, Duke-street, St. James%
London.

On Saturday evening, about half-past seven o'clO'ck,
a barley-stack, the produce of fourteen acres, and also a
large clover stack, on the farm of Mr. John Ahlitt, at
Lavenham, at some distance from any building, were dis-
covered to be on fire, having apparently been ignited at
the same time, in opposite directions ; and the whole of
the former, with the greater part of the latter, was con-
sumed. 'We regret to add, that whilst some of the labour-
ing population exerted themselves most meritoriously,
others not only took no part in extinguishing the flames,
but even went so far as to express their gratification.—
Suffolk Chronicle.

An inquest was held yesterday, at Homerton, on the
body of a female, which was found in the Regent's Canal,
near that place. Deceased appeared to be about twenty-
one years of age, and had evidently been respectably
brought up. The bonnet, reticule, and shawl of the de-
ceased, were found near the bank of canal. The bon-
net was of brown silk, fashionably nilade, with " whiskers"
inside, composed of lace and artifittial flowers. Deceased
was of dark complexion and handsnme features. In the re-
ticule was a handkerchief, which ryas damp, whence it was
conjectured she had been weeping, previous to throwing
herself into the canal. Verdict—" Found drowned;'
At Lambeth-street, yesterday, six persons, named
William Churtell, James Gregson, John Hapskins, Francis
Toy, Richard ViAcent, and James Norcott, were placed at
the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton and Mr. Tubbs, on
a charge of being concerned in obtaining from the ware-
house of Mr. Barber, of Brewer's-quay, Thames4treet,
twenty casks of butter, of the value of one hundred guineas,
by means of a forged order. They were remanded.
Fifteen apprentices were entered in Chatham Dock-
yard on Monday—five shipwrights and ten caulkers ; and
orders have been received for five apprentices to be entered
at the death of every shipwright, until the establishment of
forty be compicted.—Kentish Gazelle.
The Journal 91 Odessa announces the death of the
Grand Master of the Imperial Court, Cyrille Narischkine.

FRANCE.
On Sunday evening the King received the 'Bavarian Mi-
nister, the Prefect of the Seine, and several Generals and
Colonels. Don Francisco de Paula and his family visited
their Majesties.
Pierre Rene Choudieu, who had been a Member of
the Convention, died in Paris on Sunday last, in the 77th
year of his age. Choudieu was appointed Public Accuser
of the department of Maine et Loire in 1791, and
shortly afterwards Member of the Legislative Assembly,
where he was the first to move the downfall of Louis
XVI. and the establishment of the Republic, in support-
ing a petition addressed to the House by his constituents.
He• advocated the most energetic Republican principles,
and on the eve of the 10th of August, in which he
took an active part, declared the Legislative Assembly
to be incapable of saving the country, and denounced
the Throne and the Court as the permanent seat of con-
spiracy against the people. After the 10th of August he was
deputed by the Assembly to allay the effervescence which
had manifested itself among the sections, and caused the
new municipality to be revoked as illegally instituted.
Returned to Convention, he took his stand amidst
the most ardent Montagnards, procured the rejection (in
favour of the Orleans family) of the proposed decree of
expulsion of all the members of the Royal family, and
voted the death of Louis XVI. without an appeal to the
people or delay. Manuel and Kersaint having tendered
their resignations, in order to avoid participating in the
trial of the unfortunate monarch, he moved that they be
proclaimed infamous and traitors to the country. Deputed
to the army of La Vendee, he recommended the adoption
of the most rigorous measures in order to suppress the in-
surrection, and on has return to Paris he denounced the
Girondins as the principal abettors and promoters of that
civirwar. In 1794 he was sent as Commissioner to the
Army of the North, where he had occasion to ghe proofs
of firmness, courage, and disinterestedness. After the
downfall of Robespierre, he, faithful to the principles of
his whole life, revealed the plans of the Thermidorian fac-
tion, and on the 12th Germinal he openly charged
the President of the Convention, Andre' Dumont, with
conspiring in favour of Royalty. He was soon after ar-
rested and removed to Ham, where he remained confined
until the amnesty of the 4th Brumaire. Bernadotte,
Minister of War, gave him subsequently the direction of
a branch of that department, but, as he continued to advo-
cate Republican principles in the Society of the Manege,
of which he became one of the most influential leaders, the
Consular Government deprived him of his office. Fouche
shortly afterwards found means of implicating Choudieu and
a number of other stanch patriots in the conspiracy of
Georges, and he was obliged to fly to Holland, where be
carried on for some time the business of a bookseller. In
1815 he accepted from Napoleon the post of Lieutenant-
General of Police at Dunkirk, and having signed the ad-
ditional Act, he was included among thel regicides who
were obliged to emigrate from France after the hundred
days. Choudieu retired to Belgium, where he exercised
the profession of reader," or corrector of the press, in a
printing office, and returned to his country only after the
revolution of July.

Between the Ist and Bth inst. nine packets entered Bou-
logne with 337 passengers, and the same number, with
358, sailed.

The Journal du Havrc complains of an act of rigour to-
wards the steamer Phwnix of that port, which was de-
tained two extra days at London on her last voyage, in con-
sequence of her having on board five bales of raw silk,
the origin of which she did not declare when she arrived at
Gravesend, where all vessels are inspected by the custom-
house officers.

The Avondbode of Amsterdam gives the following from
its correspondent at Brussels :—" It appears that M.
Van Praet is gone to Paris to endeavour to obtain an ad-
ditional article to the treaty of November 15, authorizing
Belgium to acquire by purchase the provinces of Limburg
and Luxemburg. It is added that M. Van Praet has de-
clared that Belgium is ready to give as a compensation for
those provinces the sum of 50,000,000 florins, or an annual
rent of 3,000,000 florins."
The Piedmont Gazette promulgates a convention con-
cluded between the King of the French and his Sardinian
Majesty, for the reciprocal expulsion of malefactors taking
refuge in their respective territories. The treaty was signed
on the 23d of May at Turin, and ratified on the 30th of
August, but its publication has been delayed in consequence
of a negotiation concerning some additional articles.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our Correspondent at Newport, Isle of Wight, seems to have
mistaken our Newcastle Corn Letter for that ofthe Corn
Exchange, Mark-lane.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day

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INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1838.

Again wheat may be freely imported, paying the
nominal duty of ls. The average of the last six
weeks, published to-day, is 735., or Is. 6d. higher
than the average of the previous six weeks. We
stated last Thursday that the averages would rise so
high this week or the next as to admit of the importa-
tion, duty free. It has happened at the earliest period.
The fact was certain a week ago, and there could he
no reason whatever, therefore, for the speculators,
who are at present the scape-goats of the land-
lords, to get up the price this week one shilling.
We regret, however, to state, that the rise of the
average of the week is to-day no less than 2s. sd.
Last Thursday it was 735. Id., to-day it is 755. 6d.
Such a fact is a complete answer in our opinion to
the accusation against the speculators ; and this rise
of price in the face of all the foreign supplies we
can get, is a most melancholy indication that the
scarcity is very great. Hitherto the prices have been
kept down by the great quantity of inferior and
damaged wheat of our own growth, which has been
brought to market, and now they are getting up
by the sale of the superior foreign wheat, and of the well
harvested crops grown in England. The average price of
646 quarters, sold last week at Guildford, was 82s. 4d.--
of 1,439 quarters, sold in Warwickshire, 80s. 6d.—and
of 569 quarters, sold in Devonshire, 83s. 3d. In Car-
dif the price has risen to 85s. 7d. ; thus are prices
getting up to the famine level, and the people down
to a state of actual starvation.
In the Times of yesterday it was stated that wages
have not risen since 1835, and that it now costs ss.
3d. more per week to buy the same quantity of food
as a labourer could buy with his wages in 1835.
In fact, wheat is now very nearly fifty per cent.
higher than it was in that year ; and the labourer now
gets only Is. 6d. or 2s. a-day, as he got then. In the
same Journal which contained this proof of the de-
terioration of the labourers' condition, there was also
yesterday an account of a public meeting of Noblemen
and Gentlemen at Canterbury, presided over by,the
Reverend the Archdeacon of CANTERBURY, attended
by many members of the Chapter, and chiefly ad-
dressed by the Reverend Dr. SPRY. We were at first
in hopes that the object of these noblemen, gentlemen,
and clergymen, was to devise means to relieve the
poor, and to petition for the abolition of the Devil's
laws, which would come with much grace from the
Clergy of the Established Church ; but we were soon
undeceived. Dr. SPRY, the Rector, we believe, of
Marylebone, who is now prosecuting a suit against
the Churchwardens of that parish to recover from
them fees for the burial of paupers, who is, through
the case of Mr. HESELTINE, a well known member
of the Chapter of Canterbury, which left the whole
population of its Ville of Dunkirk without a chapel
or a school—Dr. SPRY took care that there should
be no mistake. The object of the meeting was not
to provide food for the starving people—nor even
to promote the removal of the impediments which
the Legislature has laid in the way of their providing
food for themselves—but to educate them in connection
with the National Church. In other words, the ob-
ject of the meeting was to drill the youth of the com-
munity into obedience to the dogmas and discipline of
the Church, and make the next generation, if pos-
sible, contented with the horrible degradation and
partial famine to which the noblemen, gentlemen,
and clergymen are resolved to doom them by
continuing the Devil's laws. Those, indeed, who
know any thing of the noblemen, gentlemen,
and clergy of England, whose pecuniary in-
terests are bound up with the preservation of these
laws, are well aware that they are the immediate au-
thors and supporters of those laws, and that they wil
never sacrifice a farthing to the demands of honesty or
the principles of religion. They will, if they can, drill
the people to their purposes, but they will never allow
them, if they can help it, to acquire either useful
knowledge or strength to use it.
So clearly was this made out by Dr. SPRY, that a
great part of his speech was directed against those
who offer education to the people without drilling them
into obedience to the dogmas of the Church. In
very bad taste he attacked some of those voluntary
societies which, receiving not one farthing from the
State, have considerately undertaken, by improving
education, to do part of the neglected duties of the
well-paid Establishment. The guilty conscience of
this member of the Canterbury Chapter even led him
to direct his animadversions against Mr. LIARDET,
and the Society of which he is a member, for the
remarks he some time ago made on the scandalous
manner in which the Canterbury Chapter had neglected
the inhabitants of their property in the immediate
neighbourhood of their own Cathedral,, and gave them
up to be the victims of THO NI 's delusions. The Clergy
are the servants not of righteousness, but of Mammon,
and, like Dr. SPRY, they sneer down attempts to
teach the people any knowledge but such as suits
the purposes of the priesthood. Instead of demand-
ing the repeal of the Devil's laws, they join the land-
lords in dooming the people to hunger, and trade to de-
cay ; and the landlords, in turn, aid the clergy in drill-
ing the people into a belief that to follow their system
is the only way to recommend themselves to the
ALMIGHTY.

It appears from the very graphic letter of a Corre-
spondent, inserted elsewhere, that the Tory Corporation
of Poole is upon its last legs, if,,not already in aracule
mortis. The ci-devant Town-clerk, though he stated
that he had voluntarily resigned his office, had the