The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

WHITSUNTIDE, 1823.
NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY,
which now stand in the ORDER-BOOK of the HOUSE of
CommoNs.

Wednesday, May 21.
NOVICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Sykes—Repeal of the Duty on Tallow Candles.
2. Sir James Mackintosh—Criminal Laws.
3. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—Bill to prohibit Bull-baiting, and
Dog Fights.
4. Mr. Spring Rice—Bill to amend the Laws relating to Co-
roners (Ireland).

ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Elections,(Treland) Bill—Second Reading.
2. Sheriff of Dublin—inquiry into his conduct—Committee
thereupon.—Witnesses to attend.
3. Beer Duties Bill—Report.
4. Quakers Affirmation Bill—Second Reading.
6. Turnpike Trustees Meeting Bill---eommittee.
6. Grand Jury Presentments (Ireland) Bill—Further conside-
ration of Report.
7. Linen Manufacture (Scotland) Bill--Committee.
8. Silk Manufacture Bill—Second Reading.
9. Masters and Apprentices Bill—Report.
10. Tithes Composition (Ireland) Bill—Further Consideration
of Report.
11. Commutation of Tithes (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
12. Joint Tenancy (Ireland) BilL-Further consideration of
Report.
13. Church Rates (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
14. Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill —Third Reading.
15. Supply—Postponed Resolutions of 30th April to be consi-
tiered.
16. Supply—Committee.
17. Ways and Means—Committee.
Thursday, May 22.
NOTICES OF moTioNts.

1. Mr. Fowdl Buxton—Motion relative to-the capture of the
ship Requin by Mr. Ogilvie.
2. General Gascoyne—Address to his Majesty to direct that the
Warrant of 6th March last, issued by the Secretary at War,
be re-considered, and that payment to Half-pay Officers
in Ireland be paid in British currency.
3. Mr. Woolryche IVhitmore—Committee to inquire into the
Duties payable. on East and West India Sugar.
4. Sir Thomas Baring—Select Committee on Mr. M'Adam's
Petition for further remuneration.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
I. Commercial Credit (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
2. Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
3. 'insurrections (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading.
Friday, May 23.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Slave Trade Consolidation Bill—Committee.
2. Poor Laws Amendment Bill—Second Reading.
3. Sale of Game Bill—Second Reading.
4. Occasional Freeholders Bill—Committee.
L. Beer Retail Trade Bill—. Second Reading.
6. Confirmations (Scotland) Bill—Committee.
7. Commissaries (Scotland) Bill—Committee.
O. Capital Crimes Defence Bill-L-Second Reading.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Huskisson—To equalize the Duties on goods imported
in Foreign Ships with those payable on the like goods im-
ported in British Ships, in all cases where British Ships
are treated with the same reciprocity in Foreigh States.
2. Mr. Fyshe Palmer—Bill to enable the Public Brewer to re-
tail Beer in smaller quantities than four gallons and a half,
provided the same be not conaunied on the premises of the
Brewer.

Monday, May 2G.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Land Tax Commissioners Name Bill—Committee.
2. Juries (Scotland) Bill—Second Reading.
3. Transference of Securities (Scotland) Bill—Second Reading.
4. Usury Laws Repeal Bill—Second Reading.
6. Lancaster County Court Bill—Committee.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Calcraft—Repeal of the. Leather 'Tax.
2. Lord Viscount Palmerston—To vote Estimates, Disembo-
died Militia.

Tuesday, May 27.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS,

1. Mr. Lennard—Bill to alter and amend the Laws respecting
the burial of persons who have been adjudged/c/o de se.
2. Mr. Hume—Propriety of discontinuing the Office of Lord
Lieutenant, and Chief Secretary, and other Offices, in

Ireland. -
3. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill for the better administration of
Justice in New South Wales.
4. Mr. Wilmot Horton—lSM for establishment of Civil Courts
in the Colony of Honduras.
OUDERS OF TUE DAY.

1. Waste Lands Improvement (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading.
2. Hides and Skins Bill—Second Reading.
, Wednesday, May 28.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

I. Lord Nugent—Bill to place the Roman Catholics of Great
Britain as near as may be in the sane situation as those of

Ireland.
2. Mr. Maberly—Select Committee to inquire into the expe-
diency of imposing on Malt the amount of the Duty at
present imposed on Iker,—as affecting the Public, the Com-
mon Brewer, the Poorer Classes of Society,:and the increase
of the consumption of Malt.
3. Sir Henry Parnell—Secret Committee to inquire into the
cause of the present Disturbances in Ireland.

ORDER OF THE DAY.
Combination. of Workmen Bill—Second Reading.
Thursday, May 29.
King Charles's Restoration.
Friday, May 30.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Assessors at Elections Bill—Second Reading.
2. Registry of Vessels Bill—Further consideration of Report.
3. Great Sessions in \Vales Bill—Second Reading.

THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY of LONDON.

Clann. nun Gaidheal an gnaillibh a chide.

The last General Court for this season, of the
Highland Society of London, was held, pursuant to notice, at
the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, on Saturday the
17th, for the dispatch of business.
Lord SAL T 0 U N and ABERNETHY, the Society's President
for this year, took the Chair at half past . six o'clock. The
Meeting was most respectably attended, and most of the Gen-
tlemen present appeared in the Highland costume. Among
them we observed, the Right Hon. Lord Strathaven, M.P., the
Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart., the Hon. Mr. Lake, Gen-
Turner, Gen. Mg.geod, of the Madras service ; Col. Stewart of
Garth, Mr. Simon M‘Gillivray,. Messrs. Alexander and John
M'Donald, Mr. Forbes, the younger of Edinglassie ; Mr. Sande-
man, Mr. Downie of Appin, Mr. Grant Allan, Mr. Longlands,
Mr. Duncan of Damside, &c. •
After dinner, the Depute-Secretary read his report .of the
proceedings of the last Committee of Management. The Court
then voted the usual grant of '2O/. for the annual competition of
Performers on the Great Highland Bag-pipes at Edinburgh,
and of Gl. to the six best dressed Highlanders at that Compe-
tition. The Court also approved of the resolution of the Corn.
mittee, that an account of the proceedings of the Society, down
to the present time, be drawn up forthwith for publication, and
that the execution of the said work be committed to the care
of Sir John Sinclair. _ _

The COurt then proceeded to the election of Members, when
(a ballot being dispensed with) the following Gentlemen were
unanimously,•and with loud cheering, declared Members of the
Corporation, viz.: the Right Hon. Robert Peel, Secretary of
Statel_proposed by Sir John Sinclair, and seconded by Mr. S.
M‘Gillivray-; the Right lion. Lord Gmntley, proposed by Sir
John Sinclair, and seconded by. Mr. Grant Allan ; and Mr.
John Andrew WiCenzie, of \Valthamstow, proposed by Col.
Stewart of Garth.

The health of the Sovereign, Chief of the Institution, was
drank with loud apatise; and with all the honours ; then fol-
lowed, the Duke of Fork and the Royal Family ; and the rest of
the standing toasts of the Society, in order, when the sentiment
" cliu le cruadal," (hard-earned fame) came in turn.
Lord STIIATHAVEN, M.P. rose. His Lordship observed,
that he could not have a better opportunity than that which the
sentiment did le cruadal afforded him of proposing the health
of the Noble Chairman ; and he was quite certain that the mere
mention of Thigoniont was sufficient to justify his coupling that
sentiment with the name of his Noble Friend.—(Loud applause;
three times three.)
The CITAIRMAN bilefly returned thanks.
General TunxElt, in rising to propose the health of a Noble
Lord present, declared, that in doing so he had various reasons
for feeling the highest gratification. He was gratified to see
among their numbers a young Nobleman of high endowments,
and of an ancient and most honourable family,—he meant the
Noble Member for East Grinstead, Lord Strathaven, (applause),
who brought along with him what that Meeting would prize
even more than the circumstances of high birth and accomplish-
ment—namely, the sentiments and the soul of • a true and a
hearty Highlander.—(Sliouts of applause.)—Nothing could
testify this better than the vigour and the success with which
his Lordship has applied himself to the study of the Gaelic
language, in which he (General T.) had reason to know that
his Lordship could peruse the poems of the immortal Ossian
with the utmost ease. The gallant General considered that for
this alone the Society is under obligations to the Noble Lord;
because, by the weight of his own example, be has given an
incitement to similar zeal to such of his countrymen as require
it—a zeal which went so directly to forward one of the purposes
for which the Society was instituted, namely, the preserving
the language of the ancient Caledonians.—(Loud applause, and
three times three.)
Lord STII4THAVEIf felt obliged to the gallant Gentleman
for the manner in which lie had proposed his health, and to the
Meeting for having received it with such cordiality. The
gallant General did him but justice in ascribing to him a zeal
and fondness for the Gaelic language. He did indeed feel in-
terested in it it was the language of immortal Fingal and of
Ossian, whose poems of unequalled ,:eauty it was the joy of his
soul that he could peruse in the original tongue.—(Applause.)
—Professing himself an admirer, then, of the Gaelic, to need
not add, that he admired the purposes of that Institution—that
he felt most happy in having become connected with it, and
most desirous to attend its public Meetings.—(Loud applause.)
The PRESIDRwr proposed the health of a gallant friend of
his present, for whom heaves certain that every individual at
the meeting had the highest esteem. For his own part he felt
esteem and gratitude towards the gallant Gentleman in no or»
dinary measure; the former he felt from a long acquaintance
with him, and the latter *Om his late well-known work on
" The Highland Regiments," which no true Highlander can
ever read without feeling his- Obligations to the author. The
meeting needed, not to be informed that he meant Colonel
Stewart, of Garth.---(Loud applause ; three times three.)
Colonel STEWART briefly expressed himself obliged for the
honour that had been just done him by the Noble Chairman
and the meeting.
Colonel STE wART rose to propose the health of a Right Hon.
Gentleman on the President's left hand. He said, that if sin-
cere wishes for the welfare of the Highlands of Scotland, and
of Scotland at large—if strenuous and steady exertions for the
good of that country could give to any man a claim on
the gratitude of that Society, anti of all Scotsmen, the Gen-
tleman he alluded to possessed those claims in a most
eminent degree. He might well say that the benefit of
his native country
.was the subject of his thoughts morn-
ing. noon, and night. He meant Sir John Sinclair.—
With that most respectable name were associated many excel.
lent publications and many useful projects, which would come
readily into the recollection of the Society, and especially the
" Statistical Account of Scotland," a work Which, whether he
considered the variety and. value of its information, or the mi-
nuteneas and explicitness of its details, had but few that could
cope with it in political usefulness in any country in the world.
The Right lion. Gentleman by whose happy device that great
work was projected, did contribute to render Scotland the best
described country on the face of the globe. Ile felt the greatest
pleasure, therefore, in Propoging the health of Sir John Sinclair.
—(Loud applause, and three times three:)
Sir Joust StarcLitin briefly returned his thanks to the Meet-
ing. The welfare of Scotland was certainly a favourite subject
of his reflections, and it was pleasing to his mind when he could
in any way promote an object so dear to him. Touching the
account of the Society's proceedings which had'been committed
to his care, he observed that he had already made the necessary
extracts from the records, and that he therein found enough of
matter to render the publication alluded to a work of no com-
mon interest, and such as would, he thought, be beneficial to
the Institution.,-(Applause.)
The meeting was altogether one,of the most pleasant descrip-
tion. Mr. Melrose, one of the gentlemen connected with the
Drury-lane Fund, who held a meeting in an adjacent room,
kindly offered his services to sing a song, which were gladly
accepted, and " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled" was sung by
him with great spirit and effect.
About midnight the thanks of the meeting were voted to the
Noble Chairman, who then withdrew, and the meeting imme-
diately broke up. •
Mr. Clarke, the. Society's piper, (well known for his intre-
pidity at Vimiers), and Mr. (low, the Society's violist, with
hi,s band, suited their strains to the toasts and sentiments with
much felicity. .

Mr. MATuEws.—This celebrated hero• of the
sock, took leave of a numerous and brilliant audience on Sit.
turday evening. He appeared in the Farce of The Review,.
Polly Packet, and Moarieur Tonsoii, On vo occasion has he
displayed a greater variety of characters, or given more gene-
ral satisfaction than that which Was experienced on this even.
ing. He appeared to excel his utmost abilities to please; and
he elicited from his auditors that applause which his eminent
talents so justly merited. His three songs were all so loudly
encored, that he was under the necessity of repeating them.
The " Nightingale Club" caused much merriment, and will
long be remembered by those who beard him. The great va-
riety of characters which he personated were well sustained,
especially that of Morblieu, where he appears at his ease. Few
of the actors who preceded him have hiLd a knowledge of the
French language, Mr. Mathews understands and • speaks
French fluently, hence his power to pourtray so successfully
French characters. At the conclusion of the farce, Mr.
Mathews came forward in a neat and pertinent address,
_ and
thanked the audience for the very flattering reception he re-
ceived since his arrival in this city. He dwelt with peculiar
delight on the great encouragement experienced in those pieces
which he represented by himself, and appeared evidently much
embarrassed when about bidding his audience Adieu ! . He
observed, that notwithstanding the Atlantic would very soon
divide us, yet he would remember with fond delight the noble
hospitality, generosity and kindness so often bestowed upon
him—and above all, the unbounded approbation he so fre-
quently received from the crowded and brilliant audience'
which repeatedly graced the Theatre, would he cherished with
gratitude to the remotest period of his existence. Here his
feelings almost overcame him. Mr. Mathews said, Ladies and
Gentlemen, you will no doubt meet with many possessing more
abilities than myself, but I do most sincerely assure you, none
can feel more gratitude and affection—l am unable to proceed ;
permit me to bid you all an affl?ctionate farewell. He retired
amidst the acclamations of the audience.—(Americau Paper.)

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every day, have suffered 'four whole days to
elapse without making a public communication.
They well know that great anxiety, and even
alarm, continues to exist respecting the state of
affairs in Catalonia; and if it had been in their
power to announce any thing that could in the
least tend to allay the public agitation, we may
be assured that they would have been eager to
give publicity to favourable news. On the
contrary, they seem, by the statement in the
Journal des Debate, to be preparing the public
mind for disastrous events, or at least for the
disappointment of the expectations that had been
raised, as to the facility with which MINA'S army
was either to be detroyed, or driven before that of
Marshal AIONCEY into the interior of Spain.--
The intelligence of the Journal des Debals is
of the 11th of May, from the head quarters
at Gerona. But. the dispatch from Marshal
MONCEY, of that date, was received in Paris on
Thursday morning. We mentioned its arrival in
THE SUN of last Saturday, and stated that it was
understood to announce that the French army had
sustained a severe check, and that MlNA,instead of
marching in the direction of Campredon, had turn-
ed right upon Ripoll, had driven before him Ro-
MAGOZA and a French division, and had proceeded
to Berga. The French Papers have taken no
notice of this dispatch, until Saturday, and even
then the Journal des Debuts has only said, that
it contains nothing new,—and that MoNCEY'S corps
was about to cover Barcelona, and to put itself
in line on the Ebro ! Our account of the French
Marshal's Dispatch is, however, confirmed by
the letter of the Baron D'EttoLes, which
states that the enemy (MINA) had retreated on
Berga! There can be little doubt, therefore,
that MINA. has actually destroyed the corps of
ROMAGOZA. Even the adherents of the Faith
cannot believe that under these circumstances
Marshal MoNcEY is about to extend him-
self on the line of the Ebro ! It would
be bad enough to leave a hostile population
and the unsubdued fortress of Figueiras in his
rear ;—but to leave the active and unrelenting
MINA behind him also, with the choice of either
taking a trip into France, or amusing
himself by destroying the convoys of the enemies

of his country, is entirely out of the question. o
long as MINA is undispowd of, it is impossible
for the French to advance.

[From the Journal des Debats.]
PARIS, MAY 16.
" NEWS FROM THE ARMY OF SPAIN.

" We have intelligence from Gerona, dated
the 11th of May. There was nothing new. The
Baron d'Eroles, possessing the same knowledge
of the mountains, and having soldiers of the same
description as Mina, was pursuing the latter.
The other corps were beginning their movements,
in order to cover Barcelona, and to put them-
selves in line on the Ehro.

[From the Journal dc Paris]

44 It is reported that the bac) discipline of the
soldiers of General Quesada ,having compelled
him to make an example of : two of them, who
were shot, a great part of the others quitted him,
and he was in consequence obliged to raise the
blockade of Santona.

( From the Comentunonnet. )

" PARIS, MAY 16.—This morning the King
transacted business with the Marquis of Lauri-
tons Minister of the household.
" The Monileur, in its non-official part, con-
tains the following letter :

Copy, of the letter of Baron d'Eroles to Marshal 31ncey,
written from San Pedro de Torello, on the 10th Mlty.
"Mr Loan—According to the notice I had the nour of
writing your Excellency, I put my troops-in movement on
Vidra yesterday, when I was informed on my march that the
enemy had retreated on Berga. Judging that the situation
of Vidra would separate me too far from his lines, I marched
to San Pedro de Torello, for the purpose of moving
to-day on Santa Tuirto de Besora, and perhaps of pushing as
far as Ripoll on my right. On one or other of these two pointi
I shall await the determinations of Count Curial and General
Donnadicu. I have informed them of my opinion, whichls to
follow up Mina till he be totally destroyed ; and I can assure
your Excellency that if we pursue him for 8 days with spirit
he will be destroyed for want of provisions and ammunition.
" Receive the homage, &c.
"Lieut.-Gen. of the Armies of his Catholic Majesty.
(Signed) " Baron d'EROLES."
[From the Pilote of Sunday.]

A LrAn, MAY 4.—The fort of Figueiras holds out vigour-
ously, and sends us plenty of balls and shells ; but that does
not prevent us hemming it in very closely : the 9th divis'on
occupies the town; the occupation took place on the 25th, by
the sth regiment of the line, commanded by General Marir-
gone. The Lieutenant-General supported the movement at
the head of a part of the brigade Rastignac.
" Two days ago, on the 2d, the garrison of the fort took
arms, and covered the ramparts within and without the place
1000 or 1,200 men approached within 50 paces of the town,
and began to fire their muskets, our troops were on the walls
and ready to act ; but General Maringone having thought pro-
per to let the enemy approach within musket shot, forbid the
Constitutionalits to be fired on till they were within ten paces.
They did not advance far, however, but contented themselves
with discharging all their artillery at the town.
" The Lieutenant-General was well pleased with the conduct
of his troops on this occasion, and generally since they occupy
Figueiras. The garrison of Figueiras is composed of the sth
regiment of the line, of the third company of Sappers, and a
part of the troops of the Spanish General Coll, better known by
the name of Mosen Anton."

[Extract ofa Private Letter from Paris, Saturday Night.]

" It is asserted here, that the moment our
Army arrives at Madrid they will asqemble the
ancient Cortes, conformably to the Decree of
FERDINAND. of March IS2O, anterior to the re.
volution of the same month. We are entirely
destitute of news from the Army, except that
which the Monitear and Journal des 'Mats
choose to give us.' It is certain that the Corps
under the Duke d'Arwouttmn.is marching on
Madrid; and there is not the least. obstacle

to prevent it from entering that capital.—
But affairs do not go on so well in Catalonia as
could be wished for ; and it is certain that MINA.
has out-generalled his antagonists. Even at Ge-
rona, by the last accounts, Marshal MoNcry did
not know what direction MINA had taken.—
Other informa(ion states that he was marahing in
advance of Mc) Ltrou, to form a junction with
BALLASTEROS. To be rightly informed of
MtNA's movements, we must wait for the Spanish,
accounts." —mum—

. .
The following are extracts from Frankfort
Papers, received at a late hour this morning

VIENNA, MAT o.—The latest reports from Constantino-3'
do not bring any thing very remarkable. A short time be-
fore the departure of the courier, the Porte had received infer-
mation of armaments of the Pacha of Scutari. The preceding.
day several frigates and corvettes had been launched. The
Sultan personally showed the greatest activity, and often passed
several hours with the Captain Pacha. On the 10th he unex-
pectedly appeared in the Council of Ministers, where he re..
mained four hours. This excited the more surprise, as he had
lost the night before his youngest son, Prince Astred. He
has now only one son, who is ten years of age.
An account from Corfu, of the 11th of April, says :
" When Sir Thomas Maitland arrived at Zante, where he
stopped two days, he found an agent from Missolunghi,
who was said to be sent on an important mission, by the
principal chiefs of the insurgents. Sir Thomas Mait-
land appointed Captain Hamilton to confer with him.—
The next day a report was opened that the English Go-
vernment had promised special protection to the insur-
gents. But it was soon found that these reports were
without foundation, and we here knew positively, that
these interviews did not lead to any result. Sir Thos. Mait-
land, before his departure, in concert with Sir Graham Moore,
sent *Captain lamilton with the Cambrian frigate to the Archi-
pelago. The old reports were then revived, and political objects
of all kinds were assigned to the mission. But it seems that
Capt. Hamilton had orders to claim the restitution of an English
merchantman which had been taken by Hydriot corsairs; and

the last letters from Zante say, that on their refusal to delive
;up the vessel, he had burnt three Hydriot vessels.
" Hitherto the greatest tranquillity prevails on the opposite
coast as well as in all Albania, Epirus, and Thessaly. Since
the retreat of the Turkish troops from Missolemghi, the in-
surgents have not attempted the smallest enterprise, and we
do not hear of preparations for defence. They seem to be en-
tirely occupied with their divisions. Maurocordato, it is true,
has gone to the Morea to take the place of President, which has
been given him, but it is certain that he left Missolemguis mith
• the prospect of speedily returning to Italy.

" Several letters affirm that the plague has broken out at
Napoli di Romania, but some persons say that the Senate
residing there, has purposely spread this report in order to
keep away visitors whose presence would be unwelcome. At
all events the situation of that place and of the whole sur-
rounding country is deplorable. The citadels of Corinth,
Coron, and Modon, as well as Patras, and the forts on the
Gulf of Lepanto, are in the possession of the Turks. Accord-
ing to the last accounts, the greater part of the Turkish troops
that left the city of Corinth for want of subsistence, who escaped
the massacre at Vostizza, are said to have arrived at Patras.
44 From Patras we learn that the Pacha of Scutary has now
declared that he is really ready to act in the service of the Porte,
with a numerous army of Albanians. Notwithstanding
all that has been stated for some months past of the defection
of some isolated tribes, of new movements among the Saluists,
&c. nothing of the kind has yet happened, and it is certain
that the very great majority of these warlike tribes has no
inclination whatever to combat for the Greeks, whose sen-
timents they have never participated. But if it is desired
that they should serve well, the . first thing necessary is
to pay them well. Point d'argenl, point d'arnantes.—
Some persons make the number of those troops enrolled by
the Pacha of Scutari amount to 25,000 men : others state that
it is much greater. The number will chiefly depend on the
pecuniary means which the Porte may place at the disposal of
the' Paella. It is said that great preparations are else making
at Larissa."

CoNsialvrixopt.r., APRIL 10.—It is generally asserted
here that the Greeks will not negociate with the Porte, except
on the basis of their entire independance. Lord Strangford ap-
pears to endeavour to effect an arrangement. The negociations
with Persia are not near a conclusion. The Porte is said even
to have declined the mediation of Lord Strangford. The new
Firman regulating 'the trade of the Black Sea is very disagree-
able to the Franks, as it is nearly equivalent to a toll on the
passage of the Dardanelles, and is likely to be a great hindrance
to the commerce of all foreign nations.

The following Extract of a Letter was this
morning posted at LtmYD's:—
[Extract of a Letter from Brest, dated May 13.]

44 I arrived here, this day in the French fri-
gate Cleopatra from Bahia, in 53 days. When I
It ft, the siege of that city was still continued by
the Brazilians under the command of General
LABETAT, and its defence by the Portuguese
under General MADEIRA. A Brazilian squadron
had sailed from Rio Janeiro, and a Portuguese
one from Bahia, and bOth were in the neigh-
bourhood of the latter place. Fresh provisions
of .every kind were very dear at Bahia, which,
added to the stagnation of trade, was producing
great misery and want among the lower classes
of society."

Yesterday the KING received a visit from the
Duke of Clarence. We are extremely happy to
state his Majesty is going on very welt. Yester-
day, at one o'clock, Prince Leopold received
visits from the Duke and Duchess of Clarence,
the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Victoria and •Feodor. The Royal party
partook of a dejeune. Last evening the Duke
and Duchess of Clarence left town for Bushy
Park.

The young Princess of KENT completed her
fourth year on Saturday last.
Yesterday a letter was received from. the
neighbourhood of St. Sebastian, dated the 9th
inst. The French having found it necessary to
give farther protection to the communications
along the great road from Irun to Vittoria, had
for that purpose withdrawn part of the force em-
ployed in the blockade of St. Sebastian. On the
night of the Bth the garrison made a sortie, re-
pulsed the besiegers, and took some prisoners.—
Several new leaders of Constitutional Guerillas
have begun to distinguish themselves in this part
of Spain. Mendoza, formerly the Aid-de-Camp
of Porlier, is one of these commanders. Colonel
Pablo, otherwise. named Chapalangara, is ano-
ther.. He makes excursions along the road which
leads from Pampeluna to Vittoria, by the way of
Salvatierra. One of the sons of the Conde de
Espeletta, formerly Viceroy of Navarre, has also
put himself at the head of a Guerilla.-4--(Times.)
MR. THOMAS TAYLOR, generally. known
by the designation of PLATO TAYLOR, on account of
his translation of the works of the celebrated Greek Philoso-
r'her, is preparing ELEMENTS 01, A NEW AniTIIMETICAL
o•ririow, in some respect analogous to that of Decimals,
by which expressions producing a great variety of infinite series
maybe obtained, which can by no other means be tbund ; the
series. discovered by the moderns, 'for the quadrature of .the
circle and hyperbola, are shown to be aggregately incommen-
surable quantities ; and a criterion is given, by which the corn.
mensurability or incommensurability of infinite series may be
inftdlibly and universally ascertained.
%Vu understand that a large supply of .Bibles,
sent out to Malaga, was distributed by some of
our countrymen in that quarter. Many were
most gratefully received by several Spanish
Priests, who were much in want of these, and
never had formerly seen the Scriptures without
note or cotnment.

INQUEST IN THE FLEET PRlSON.—Yesterday a
'Coroner's Inquest was held in the lobby of the Fleet Prison,
before Thomas Shelton, Esq. Coroner, and a Jury composed
of the most respectable gentlemen in the neighbourhood, to in-
quire into the cause of the death of Mary Peters, which hap-
pened on Friday last in the said prison. The Coroner reca-
pitulated the evidence, which, he observed, went to prove
throughout that the deceased was addicted to drinking: It
had been proved also that she was at times subject to delirium.
The Jury returned a verdict of—" Died by the visitation of
God."

Yesterday afternoon an unfortunate accident
happened near Slateford. As the Lanark coach was coming
to town, at a brisk rate, an old man, a pensioner, rather the
worse of liquor, with his wife, were proceeding along the road,
they were called to by the coachman, when the man, in en-
deavouring to get on the foot-path, stumbled and fell
back before the horses, which with the carriage passed over
him. He was taken up in an almost lifeless state, and con-
veyed to the Police Office; but he died before reaching town.
On inspection of the body it was found that one or two of the
ribs were fractured, and that the right thigh bone was broken.
.—{Edin6urth Courant May 17.)