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of November last year ordered a loa❑ of 1,200 contos of
of reis, establishing a commission proportionably to asses,
the merchants and capitalists of the cities of Lisbon.
Oporto, Coimbra, and in Ville de Figueira, to be receiv. d
in a certain time, and to receive legal interest, and the
Baron de Quintilla having been assessed at the moderate
sum of twenty-four contos of reis, not only did not pa.)
the moderate sum assigned him at the time fixed, but stu-
died all means to dude and m mifestly to resist the accom-
plishment of my royal orders, which was not to be ex-
pected from a subject whom my august predecessors had
honoured and distinguished with the privileges of Fidalgo,
Cavalleiro, the title of Baron de Quintella, Commander of
the order of Christ, Governor of Sortelha, and Lord of
the Villa do Prestimo, thus unequivocally showing himself
refractory, perverse, and disobedient to what I was justly
pleased to order for the advantage and general good of my
kingdoms.
" For these and other just reasons, I am pleased to re-
voke, erase, and annul, as if they had never existed, not
only the title of Baron de Quintells, but all grants and fa-
vours which have been conferred on him ; ordering the
M TA du Consciencia e Ordens to deprive him of the ensignia
of Knight and Commander of the Order of Christ. (Here
follow directions to the Conde de Basto, Secretary of
State, to give the necessary orders for effacing and striking
out all decrees and registers recording the favours granted
and to Joaquim Pedro Quintella de Farroho.
" Palace of Queluz, 15th March, 1832."
(With his Alajesty's signature.)

LISBON, APRIL 17.—We have the satifaction to an•
nounce that there has just arrived in this port his Majesty's
brig, the Treze de Maio, in twelve days from the island of
Madeira. It brings word that not only that part of his Ma-
jesty's dominions remained in the most perfect tranquillity,
I ut that it was also in the hest state of defence, and the in-
habitants animated with the greatest enthusiasm for the
King our Sovereign.

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This is another proof of the contempt which the ac-
counts deserve that are published by the radical juurnals
respecting Portugal.—Lisbon Gazflte, April 21.

The following are extracts from Dutch papers
received this morning. The navigation in the
North Sea is opening :

TILE HAGUE, APRIL 29.—We learn from Flushing,
that the works for the defence of that place are enlarged,
and in many points mounted with cannon. The corps of
marines continues to be much reinforced, and 2,000 vo-
lunteers are to be added to it from the army. It is proba-
ble that more troops will be sent to the 4th and .sth dis-
tricts. News had also been received at Flushing, that the
citadel of Antwerp continued to receive fresh reinforce-
ments, and had I.ltely been furnished with new heavy
artillery.
THE HAGUE, MAY I.—Their Majesties arrived here
yesterday afternoon, in good health from the Hague.
Prince Frederick and Prince Adalbert of Prussia are gone
in the Royal yacht, from Amsterdam, to the Nieuwe,
Diep, and the Helder.
M. Hoogen, the Dutch cabinet messenger, arrived here
this morning, from St. Petersburgh, with despatches for
our Government. It is supposed that he brings the answer
to the despatches sent by Count Orloff, the day before his
departure for London.
The Second Chamber is summoned for a public sitting
on the 7th May. _

BOIS-LE-DUC, APRIL 30.—The proposed changes in
the cantonments of our troops took place on Saturday, the
bead-quarters of General Van Geen being transferred to
Tilburg, and those of the Duke of Saxe-Weitnar, to Buxtel ;
so that the head quarters and the divisions of the army
cantoned round them are in the same position as in No-
vember, last year. The Prince Fitld-tu trshal is expected
shortly to visit the several divisions.
_

AMSTERDAM, MAY I.
Actual Debt, *6 per Cent 42,/,, to 42%
Amort Syndic, o,i per Cent 69A to 70
Ditto, ditto, 56 per Cent.
Voluntary Loan, 6 per Cent.
Exchange on London, one month ll 0
Two months
Dutch Papers, May 2.

VIENNA, Arm 23 —Five per Cent. Metalliqucs,
S7',7li ; Bank Stock, 1151.

ST. PETERSBUCII, APRIL 17.—His Excellency Ma--
shal Mortier, Duke of Treviso, Ambassador from his
Maj.sty the King of the French to our Court, arrived here
on the 18th, in the evening.
The lonacs bridge was moving, and the ice in the
Newar is broken up, so that the communication between
Was,ely and Ostrog and the left bank is wholly. inter-
cepted.—St. Pele?sburqh Journal, April 18.

It is rumoured that " a split" has taken place
among "the waverers," some of the more liberal
are said to be disposed to support the 10/. fran-
chise, to which the others are opposed. Lords
HARROWBY and WHARNCLIFFE are reported
to entertain opposite sentiments on the occasion.

A Society has lately been formed under the
title of " the Society for the Diffusion of Infor-
mation on the subject of Criminal Punishments,"
of which his Royal Highness the Duke of
SUSSEX, whose name is connected with every
enlightened and benevolent institution, is patron.
The laws of England have been too justly
compared with those of Draco. Their sangui-
nary severity, however, is not, as many perscns
are inclined to believe, a relic of former barba-
rism, but is for the most part of comparatively
modern date. Treason, murder, rape, arson,
were the only crimes, by the ancient common
law, punishable with death ; but between the
years 1660 and 1819 upwards of 180 (different
offences were made subject to the same penalty,
and the more recent statutes have in reality done
but little to remedy the evil.

A speech made by Sir WILLIAM MERE-
DITH, in the House of Commons, in the year
1777, on debating a Bill for affixing the penalty
of death to a crime not previously so punished,
has been lately published as a tract by the above
Society, in which he observes that—" When a
Member of Parliament brings in a new hanging
law, he begins with mentioning some injury that
may be done to private property, for which a
man is not yet liable to be hanged, and then
proposes the gallows as the specific and infalli-
ble means of cure and prevention,"—which he
afterwards observes, " in process of time leads to
making crimes capital that scarcely deserve whip-
ping." He then gives the following account :

" Under this Act, one Mary Jones was executed, whose
case I shall just mention ; it was at the time when the
press-warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland
Islands. The woman's husband was pressed, their goods
seized for some debt of his, and she, with two small
children, turned into the streets a-begging. 'Tis a cir-
cumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young
(under nineteen) and must remarkably handsome. She
went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse linen off
the counter, and slipped it under her cloak ; the shopman
saw her, and she laid it down ; for this she was hanged.
Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket) that
she had lined in credit and wanted for nothing, till a
press-gang came and stole her husband from her; but
since then, she had no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her
children to eat, and they were almost naked; and per-
haps she might have done something wrong, for she
hardly knew what she did.' The parish officers testified
the truth of this story. But it appears there had been
a good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate ; an example was
thought necessary; and this woman was hanged for the
comfort and satisfaction of some shopkeepers in Ludgate-
street. When brought to receive sentence, she behaved in
such a frantic manner, as proved her mind to be in a dis-
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We doubt whether the records of any age or
country can furnish a case of greater infamy, or
a greater disgrace to national jurisprudence.
" Take all the circumstances together," says Sir
\VILLIAM MEREDITH, " 1 do not believe a
fouler murder was ever committed against law,
than of this woman by law," and justly adds,
that « the true hangman is the Member of Par-
liament—he who frames the bloody law, is an-
swerable for the blood that is shed under it."
The law under which MARY JONES suffered