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LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, A APRIL 14, 1832.

THE KING'S LEVEE.

His Majesty held a Levee at two o'clock yesterday afternoon
at the Palace at St. James's.

William Woods, Esq., was presented to the King by Vis-
count Goderich, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State, on being appointed Officer of Arms attendant on the
Knights Commanders and Companions of the Bath, when his
Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon
him.

Monsieur Lavalette w•as presented to his Majesty at the
Entree Levee by Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador.

The King gave audiences to—
Earl Grey, the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess of Lans-
downe, Viscount Granville, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Hill,
Viscount Althorp, Viscount Palmerston, and Viscount Mel-
bourne.
At the Entree Levee there were present—

The Netherlands and French Ambassadors ; the Wirtem-
berg, Bavarian, Prussian, Spanish, Mexican, Belgian, Saxon,
Lucca, and Brazilian Ministers ; the Danish and Swedish
Charge d'Affaires ; the Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian
Minister on a Special Mission ; the Baron Zuylen de Nyevelt,
the Minister on a Special Mission from the Court of the Nether.
lands ; Count Orloff, the Russian Minister on a Special Mis-
sion ; Count Michel Woronzow ; the Archbishop of York; the
Bishop of Worcester, Clerk of the Closet; the Lord Chancellor,
the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the
Treasury; the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and
Colonial Departments; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, the Secretary of State for Ireland, the Lord Cham.
berlain, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Captain
of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain
of the Yeomen Guard ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the
Master-General of the Ordnance, the Judge-Advocate-General,
the Comptroller of the Household, the Master of the Cere
monies, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Solicitor-General.
Lord Byron and Sir Robert Otway were the Lord and Groom
in Waiting.
Among the general company were—
DUKES—Gordon, Richmond.
Marquis of Downshire.
EA RLS--Winchilsea, Roden, Sheffield, Plymouth.
V ISCOUNTS--Combermere, Falkland, Sidmouth, Gran-
ville, Ferrard.

LORDS—F. Fitsclarence, Templemore, Dudley Stuart,
John Thynne, Marcus Hill, Erskine.
BISHOPS—Exeter, Llandatf:
Right Hon. Robert Grant.

SlRS—Edward Thornton, G.C.8., Robert Kennedy, Charles
Dec Voeux, Bart., George Barlow, 11. Williamson, Sandford
Graham.

Baron Linsingen.
DEANS—Lincoln, Carlisle.
Rey. Dr. Vignoles, Rev. W. Canning.
MESSIEURS—AyImer Bourke Lambert, Thomas Shep-
pard, Rae Wilson, Whitshed, George Burrard, M.P., Dehany,
W. J. Hamilton, P. Campbell Scarlett, Augustus Smith, Thomas
P. Courtenay, W. Stuart, James Barnett, Birch, Throgmorton,
Keith Douglas.

ADMIRALS—Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir James Whitshed,
Sir Robert Otway, Sir E. Codrington, Sir Thomas Foley,
Brace, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Thomas Williams, Sir Harry
Neale, Bart., Lord A. Beauclerk, Sir P. Durham, Sir E. Thorn-
brough.
GENERALS—HaII, Moore, Sir Henry Fane, Mawby, Pigot,
Peachy, Sir W. Oswald, Sir W. H. Clinton.
COLONELS—Sir Charles Thornton, Macdougall, Sir John
Kenward Shaw, Potter Macqueen, Lempriere, E. Currey,
Bowater, Story, Hanmer, Lygon, Finch, C. 8., Sir John Burke,
Shawe, Rice, Jones, Gibbs, Sir John T. Jones.
M AJORS—Macarthur, Tynte, Burney, Jones, Mackworth,
Sir Francis Head.

CAPTAINS—Hodgson, R.N., Phibbs, Last, S. R. Jarvis,
Frederick Irby, KN., Sir J. Broke Pechell, R.N., Henry Vyner,
Sir John Louis, R.N., A. Shippard, R.N.. Cates, Williamson,
Arthur Hamilton, Chinchase.

COMMANDERS—Ramsay, Crosier, Booth, George Evans,
Maitland, Smart.

LIEUTENANTS--George Cremie, G. Courtenay, A. An.
dereon, J. D. Blythe, E. Brace, A. Mackenzie, Hodgson.

ENSIGNS—Hon. Charles Stuart, G. C. M. Wilson.

The following Address was presented to the King by the
Earl of WinchiLsea

"TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" SIRIG—We, the undersigned, your Majesty's most dutiful
and loyal subjects, inhabitants of the city of Canterbury and
its vicinity, most humbly approach your Majesty to express
our joy and thankfulness that God has been pleased to bless the
labours of several Societies in Ireland formed to afford instruc-
tion to our fellow-subjects. In the midst of the powerful and
unceasing opposition of the Roman Catholic Priesthood, edu-
cation and the knowledge of the Scriptures have been progres-
sively advancing in the Island, until we have reason to believe
that near half a million of scholars are receiving the benefit of
instruction in the word of God.

" We therefore feel it to be our duty, with all humility, to
lay at the foot of the Throne the expression of our grief that
Parliament should, in spite of such manifest good, have with-
drawn its aid from one of the most efficient of those Societies
upon the unprotestant objection that the reading of the Holy
Scriptures without note or comment is obnoxious to the Roman
Catholic Church; and that your Majesty, under mistaken ad-
vice, should have been persuaded to issue a Commission for
Education in Ireland, a prominent feature of which is directly
at variance with one of the first principles of the Reformed Re-
ligion, for the maintenance of which your Majesty's ancestor's
were placed on the British Throne.
" We, therefore, most humbly but most earnestly implore
your Majesty that you will be graciously pleased to revoke the
Commission, which, as Protestants, we deem to inflict an im-
proper restraint on religious liberty; and as Christians we be-
lieve to be directly opposed to the Divine Will, and to the
present and future welfare of your Majesty's subjects.
. . _

" And your Majesty's dutiful subjects will, as in duty bound,
ever pray," &c.

The Earl of Roden presented a petition from Cork against
the Reform BilL

Viscount Sidmouth presented an address from the city of
Exeter and its suburbs againt the new system of national educa-
tion in Ireland.

The following were presented to the King
The Rev. Dr. Vignoles, by the Marquis Wellesley.
Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, by the Duke of Sussex.

The Dean of Lincoln, on going abroad.
Col. Sir J. K. Shaw, Bart., on succeeding to his Baronetage.
Mr. Rae Wilson, on going abroad.

Lieutenant-Colonel Potter Macqueen, by Lord Palmerston.

Captain Hodgson, R.N., by the Dean of Carlisle.
Captain Phibbs, by the Marquis of Londonderry.
Commander Ramsay, on his promotion, by Sir J. Graham.
Captain Last, on his return from the Mauritius.
Lieutenant St. George Cromie, by Sir Herbert Taylor.
Captain Henry N'yner, by the Earl of Erroll.
Major-General Moore, on his promotion, by Lord Hill.

Lieutenant-General Hall, on his removal to the Colonelcy of

the 70th Regiment.
Colonel Lempriere, by Major_General Lord Fitzroy Somerset.
Capt. A. Hamilton, on return to India, by Mr. C. Russell, M.P.
Mr. Thomas Shippard, by Lord Stourton.
Lieutenant-Colonel Macdougall, on Ma departure for Canada.
Lieut. J. D. Blythe, on promotion, by Lieut .Gen. Callender.
Lieutenant A. Mackenzie, by the Right Hon. Charles Grant.
Second Lieutenant G. H. Courtenay, on his appointment.
. . .

Lieut. A, Anderson, by Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart.
Major Mackworth, on his appointment, by General Lord Hill
Ensign G. C. M. Wilson, on appointment, by Lieutenant.

General Callender.

His Majesty held a Privy Council after the Levee, at which a
petition was presented to the King in Council from the Earl of
Dundonald, praying to be reinstated in his honours. The Hon.
William Bathurst attended as Clerk of the Council.

ASSIZE MEMORANDA.-LITERARY CHA-
RACTER.— At the assize,' at Wisbeach, last week, during the
trial of the worse than brutal affair at Tid St. Giles, a witness
(Samuel Eglington) being called upon to speak to the precise
day, said he knew it, because he afterwards looked over Moore's
Almanack,—for nothing, however, particular, and he could not
tell why.—The Judge, appearing to doubt his capacity to read,
ordered an Almanack to be placed in his hand, and directed
him to read its title. It was not, he said, like his own ; how-
ever, upon examination, he deliberately, and with due em-
phasis pronounced it to be " The Englishman's Alma-
nack." " Quite correct," said his Lordship; " now read me
any passage from the inside that may meet your eye."—The
witness turned over the leaves, and at length read clearly and
slowly from the remarks upon the weather,—` A great deal
of snow in Jan-u-a-ry pro-mi-ses a for-tile year. A great deal
of rain " " That will do very well," quoth the Judge.—
(Laughter.) " Now, Sir," said Mr. Flanagan, the Counsel
for the prisoners, "you may go down, after such an ordeal your
character for literature is established for ever !" Another
witness in the same cause (Thomas Button) knew that the of-
fence took place on the 12th of February, because he went to
church on that morning. [The day of the month was an-
nounced, of course, by the clergyman, in giving out the psalms.]
—Stamford News.

ON DlT.—During an interview, some days
since, between an Illustrious Personage and an Ambassador for
his family dominions, the Monarch is said to have addressed
the diplomatic to the following effect :—" I he:r there is a
great deal of correspondence going forward between your
capital and Berlin, wherein that Court is strongly urged to
delay the ratification of the Belgian treaty till the Refbrm
Bill is thrown out ; now, write to your people that the Reform
Bill will not be thrown out, that it will pass—nay, it shall pass ;
and, likewise tell them this, that no Minister ever possessed a
King's confidence SO entirely as Earl Grey does at this mu
ment " Morswng Advtrticsa,

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 1(

DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 10.

Extract from a despatch addressed by the Earl of
BelmorP, Governor of Jamaica, to the Right
Hon. Viscount Goderich, dated Montego Bay,
Feb. 10:
I have the honour to inclose the substance of thy

accounts I have received since the date of my last
despatch, up to the 29th ultimo, the day on which
I embarked, at Port Royal, on board his Majesty's
ship North Star, for Montego Bay, where I arrived
in the afternoon on the Ist inst. Before I procee 4
to relate the transactions which have occurred
since my arrival here, it is necessary I should afford
your Lordship some information not contained in
the annexed paper, which in fact is the original do-
cument from which the bulletins have been daily
published. _ _ _

In my last despatch I informed your Lordship
that Mr. Birdiell, a Baptist missionary, had ar-
rived from England, and that, in consequence of in-
foftnation which had been received, it had been
thought necessary to place him in custody. His

papers were examined by the Custos of the parish,
and, on the 17th January, I received a despatch
from Sir W. Cotton, informing me that nothing
therein had been found to criminate him. By the
information of different negroes, and the confession
of others after condemnation, it appeared that they
looked forward to his arrival as the time when they

were to expect freedom, " that he was to bring
their freedom out," and in the disturbed state in
which this district still continued, it was thought
necessary to detain him. lie was, accordingly, re-
moved by Commodore Farquhar from on board his
Majesty's ship Blanche, to the Garland Grove, the
ship in whch he sailed from England. I have also
informed your Lordship that serious charges had
been preferred against a Moravian minister, named
Pfeiffer, and with my last despatch, I inclosed copies
of letters I directed to be written to General Craw-
ford on this subject. I have now the honour to in-
close a copy of the evidence given on his trial, by
which I think it must appear, that, at a moment of
great excitement, the officers who composed the
court-martial discharged their duty uninfluenced by
prejudice. In justice, however, to Mr. Pfeifer,
who was acquitted, I must also add, that the witness
Sutton joined the insurgents after the trial, and has
since been shot.

Having received an offer from the maroons be-
longing to Moore Town, in the parish of Portland,
and Charle,town, in the parish of St. George, to
serve in this district, I ordered a detachment of one
hundred and seven men, under the command of
Captain Fyffe, Superintendent at Charlestown, to
embark at Pert Antonio, and proceed to Falmouth,
there to act under orders from Sir Willoughby
Cotton, who speaks highly of their services, parti-
cularly in scouring the woods, a species of service
for which their habits of life render them particu-
larly efficient. I considered it important to avail
myself of their offer, not only on this account, but
also that by employing them, I thereby secured
their fidelity, a consideration to which I attached
much importance in the critical position of affairs at
that time.

The information I eceived from Sir Willoughby
Cotton caused me to suppose that my departure for
Montego Bay might be hastened sooner than even-
tually it was thought expedient for me to arrive
there. It became necessary, therefere, to summon
a Council of War, previous to my departure from
the seat of Government, to determine whether mar-
tial law should ccrainue in force. The Council :►s-
sembled on the list ult., and decided unanimously
that martial law should continue in operation.
On the 25th of January, certain Wesleyan Mis-
sionaries communicated their desire to wait on me.
On receiving them, two of their members preferred
complaints in written papers against some of the
militia stationed at St. Ann's Bay. I immediately
directed copies of these papers to he transmitted to
Major-General Cox, who is also Custos of the pa-
rish of St. Ann, with directions that lie should in-
stitute an inquiry thereon. I have the honour to
transmit a copy of his reply, with the several in-
closures to which he refers.

I received a despatch from Sir W. Cotton, dated
the 27th ultimo, inclosing also a letter from Mr.
Barret, the Custos of Saint James, by which I
learned that both Sir Willoughby and the Custos
concurred in thinking, that the time had arrived
when a conditional amnesty might be proclaimed,
and that my appearance here might in some degree
serve to heal the moral wounds this rebellion had
inflicted, and expedite the period when affairs might
be suffered to resume their ordinary course. On
my arrival at Montego Bay I found the favourable
reports I had received from Sir W. Cotton fully
confirmed. With few exceptions, the negroes in the
parishes of St. James and Trelawney had returned
to their estates, and in some instances the managers
of properties had b'gun to repair the buildings
which had been destroyed on the commencement of
the insurrection. The gaol, however, was crowded
with prisoners, and numbers still continued to be
brought in. Not one of these miserable wretches,
amounting fully to five hundred, would probably
escape conviction on the clearest testimony, for all
were engaged in the insurrection. Enough of ex-
amples had been made to render indiscriminate pu-
nishment unnecessary, and with Sir Willoughby
Cotton's full concurrence, I stopped in some measure
the trials by court martial, limiting their proceed-
ings to cases of great enormity. On the 3d instant
issued a prociamatitui, a copy of which is in-
closed. Your Lordship may perhaps consider the
terms of the proclamation too vague and undefined,
that the names of those intended to be excepted
ought to have been stated, and all others admitted
to a free pardon ; but until the overseers could be
allowed to return to their estates, it was impossible
to I.rion, who ought to be expected, and at the time
of issuing the proclamation I also issued a general
order, a copy of which I have the honour to in-
close. When returns agreeably to this order are re-
ceived, I shall then discriminate even among prin•
Fipals, by publishing another proclamation, should
it be found necessary, excepting
.by name those only
whose offences are of a nature wh;ch must exclude
them from pardon. Although I felt unable to
frame the proclamation exactly to my satisfaction,
I did not on that account delay to issue it, because
I hoped it might save some among the insurgent
slaves from the destruction they were dai!y ex-
posed to while holding out in opposition to the
laws; and I soon felt happy to learn that many
had since returned to the estates to which they
belonk The day following I constituted a corn-
mission of magistrates, in whose humanity and dis
cretion I placed much reliance, to inquire into the
nature of the charges against the prisoners, so tha
none should be brought to trial who were not ac-
cused of murder, or had rendered themselves con-
spicuous as leaders in the insurrection. The magis
srrates having commenced an inquiry, many were dis-
charged and sent to the estates they respectively
belonged to; others were sentenced to receive cor-
poral punishment, on whom sentence of death must
inevitably have been passed, if tried either by court-
martial or in a civil court of law. Those whose
crimes could not be passed over were left for trial.
I had not Ling been in Montego Bay before I felt
convinced the perioi.l had arrived when martial law
might be discontinued; tranquillity had been
in a great measure restored in the parish of Han-
over. The returns I received before leaving the
seat of Government, represented the number
of slaves absent from properties in Hanover a;
one thOUSanei air hnntirati Snt.n Off Or trio

(PRICE 7D

f ion of my proclamation, this amount was reduced t
little more than four hundred, the rest, with the ex-
ception of some killed, having returned to the estate-
to which they belong. It became, therefore, a
matter of great importance to relieve the overseers
and book-keepers of estates, all of whom are Euro-
peans, from militia duty, and allow them to returr
to the properties under their charge, for in their ab-
sence the slaves felt themselves neither under pro
tection nor control. By the 48th of George th,
Third, cap. 4, commonly called the Party Law, the
Governor is empowered to order parties of militir,
on duty in time of insurrection or rebellion, and thi-
la w appears exactly applicable to present circum-
stances. With Sir W. Cotton's concurrenee,and OR the
recommendation also of Mr. Barrett, the Custos of
Saint James, I published a proclamation, declaring
martial law to cease. At the same time I issued
militia general order under the Party Law, a copy
of which is enclosed with the proclamation.—
Having now accomplished all that I had hoped.
and more than I had expected, in so short a time
after my arrival at Montego Bay, I determined to
remain in this part of the country a few days longer,
in order to observe how these measures could
operate, and to employ my time by travelling through
the disturbed part of the country, and visiting the
properties which had chiefly suffered. Many per-
sons also appeared to doubt whether tranquillity
was sufficiently restored to dispense with martial
law, and I thought I could not more strongly show
that the insurrection was quelled than by travelling
through the part of the district which of late had
been most disturbed. Ott the 6th I proceeded to
Lucea, where I met the Custos and several magis-
trates of the parish of Hanover.
The prison there was also crowded, and I directed
the same course to be pursued, as I had adopted in
Sr. James's. The following day I crossed by an
interior road to Savanna-la-Mar, where also I met
the Custos of Westmorland and other magistrates,
to whom I made a similar communication.

On the 9th I continued my route in New Sa-
vannah, the residence of Mr. Salmon, in the parish
of St. Elizabeth, where I met General Robertson,
commanding the militia in that district. Accom-
panied by General Robertson and Mr. Salmon, on
the 11th, I proceeded on my return to Montego
Bay ; by the western interior road, through an
estate called Woodstock, to Struire, a post now oc-
cupied by a detachment of militia. but where the in-
surgents had made a stand; from thence through
the estates of York and Greenwich to Hazelymph
and Seven Rivers, Lord Seaford's estates of Old
and New Montpellier, Anchovy Bottom, and then
descending the hill, to Montego Bay. lam parti-
cular in describing this track, because it leads
through the country which lately had been the seat
of the insurrection, and from whence, looking across
the Great River, I could see Cataduna, Lapland,
and Ginger Hill, places, the names of which your
Lordship will find frequently mentioned in my
former despatches. The whole of this country pre-
sents one scene of devastation, the buildings on
every estate being burnt down, and the greater part
of the canes destroyed by cattle. On either side,
but especially in the eastern direction, to a large
extent, the same work of destruction has been con-
tinued. On all the estates, however, through which
I passed, except the estate of Greenwich, I heard
that the negroes had, with very few exceptions, re•
turned, and were conducting themselves in as orderly
a manner as could be expected. The overseer at
Greenwich complained that several of those who
had retnrned, had again left the estate, and that two
of the slaves had killed an ox, a day or two previous,
and had not since been seen. I assembled the
slaves I found on this estate, directing my observa-
tions chiefly to the head men of the property, de-
siring them to explain to any now absent, that the
proclamation I had issued offered a free pardon to
all but principals in the insurrection; that every one
must now see how vain and hopeless any attempt at
insurrection must prove, and what distress and
misery they had brought on themselves by the de-
struction they had committed ; that they were now
houseless, and in a great degree their provision-
grounds had been destroyed, sharing the same fate
as the cane-fields of their masters; that all before
me had been guilty of rebellion, and thereby had ex-
posed themselves to suffer death, but that pardon
was now offered to them provided they continued
in lawful obedince, whilst those who should return
to their former rebellious practices would be de-
prived of all benefit of forgiveness. I then caused
the proclamation to be read to them, and inquired if
they had any complaint to make. Silence ensued,
when an old woman said they had no complaint to
tell me of, but promised they would be good, and
wore sorry for what they had done.

On my arrival at Montego Bay, I had the morti-
fication to learn that a new scene of disorder had
occurred during my absence. A part of the 84th
regiment had occupied a chapel belonging to the
Baptists, by order of Sir Willoughby Cotton, during
the insurrection, and this detachment having moved
to Lucea, on the same day a large mob assembled
and razed it to the ground. I have the honour to
inclose your Lordship a copy of a letter I this day
received from the Custos, informing me of this dis-
graceful proceeding. I regret also to learn that the
Baptist chapels at Falmouth, Lucea, and Savanna-
la-Mar, have shared the same fate. Such turbulent
and disorderly conduct calls for my immediate in-
terference, and I ir:close your Lordship a proclama-
don which I shall cause to be printed and distributed
to-morrow, this day being Sunday. It is certain,
however, that an opinion generally prevails that the
insurrection, which now happily is quelled, has been
the work of the Baptists, and the houses and small
settlements belonging to free people of colour, many
of whom are in the militia, having shared equally in
destruction with larger plantations belonging to the
white inhabitants. I greatly apprehend that the
mischief may not be confined to the extent I am now
acquainted with.

SINGULAR INDICTMENT FOR PERJURY
—At the Old Bailey sessions yesterday, Thomas stene, lately in
business as a hop-merchant, was indicted for perjury, in swear.
ing that he was 21 years of age, in order to obtain a marriage
license between himself and Miss Mary Hinnington, whom he
also had sworn to be of age. The indictment was preferred by
the young lady's father, an attorney, residing in Nelson.square;
and it appeared that the prisoner frequently visited the young
lady with the knowledge of her mother and other persons in the
family, after her father had forbidden the prisoner the house
and on the 30th April, 1831, he married ber by license, not for
her fortune, for it was proved that she had none, but for the at-
tachment he bore her. The mother knew that the marriage
was to take place, as did the young lady's brother. These pro-
ceedings were instituted, it would appear, in eonsequence of
the prisoner refusing a separation ; and while the prisoner was
confined in the Poultry Cornpter on another charge, his wife
had been taken away by her father, who would not allow hire to
know where she resided. The Jury acquitted the prisoner, to
the apparent delight of a crowded Court. It was stated that
the prisoner and his wife are sineerely attaohed to each other.
THE Woor, TRADE.—The attention of the
manufacturers and others interested in the wool trade was
drawn yesterday and on Wednesday to sales of Van Diemen's
Land, New South Wales, German, Odessa, and other wools.
There was a pretty full attendance at the sales, and the bid_
dings were brisk. In all, above 300 bales were declared for
sale. Yesterday afternoon Van Diemen's Land and Australian
wools went off from Is. 3d. to lc fid. per lb. Some Odessa
wools fetched from Is. tid. to ls. Bd. per lb., and the German
wools from 10d. to ls. 434 d. per lb. A few bales of good New
South Wales wools obtained Is. 91yd, per lb. The result of
those sales is that New South Wales maintain their value,
while other sorts are a shade lower. Further sales are about
to take place. The arrivals of wools from Van Diemen's Land
and New South Wales during the present year are expected tc
be very great.

The Treasurer of the County of Hants ha,
resigned his office, on account of the remuneration being al-
together inadequate to thy trouble and reipor►aibility attached to