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London, England, 1826-02-15 00:00:00

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SOLEM 9111.1 1)10ERE FALSUM JUDEAT?

LON DON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15. MC

The EMU* of ye,terday quotes the closing
prices of Renter on Monday, for the fives 071.
40c. ; for the three: 63f. 70c.

3fir.o, Dm:. I.

It appears that the itfol inks decline all contest with Ibrahim
Pacha. Colocotroni, it is said, remains tranquilly in the vil-
lages of the Canton of Caritene.
Pelikias and Constantine Marontichali, who passed over to
Spezzia when it was thought to be menaced by the Tasks, have
returned to the Continent, and their troops have dispersed. The
eflintsOf the Government of Napoli to induce them to repair-to
Ifissolonglii, have been ineffectual. Captain Gource id also
said to have given his refusal to depart.
A Letter from Smyrna, dated 14th December, says that the
Turkish and Grecian fleets are still lying off Miasolonghi.
It is added that a slight brush had taken place be-
tween these fleets, in which a Turkish frigate was burnt.—
Ibrahim Pacha has not been able to enter Patras, of which
the 'Forks themselves isave closed the gates. 11e,,, therefore,
threw himself on the shores of the Gulph of Lepanto, and ea-
vagcd Vostizza and Gastouni. Ile surprised Cidixhii, and put
the inhabitants to the sword, and appears desirous of cutting ofT
all communications with (7orinth, and the Greek Cantons which
provision that place.

Sr. PETERSBURGIt, JA)I.
The Commission of Enquiry continues its labors, but has
not yet come to any decision with regard to the offenders.

The Archduke Ferdinand d'Este and his numerous suite
was expected on the 30th. 'tranquillity reigned throughout
the capital. The (hand Duke Constantine was still at Warsaw.

The Allg►emeine Zeitung received this morn-
lag, has nothing of any interest whatever. We
nevertheless cannot but refer to the last para-
graph of our extracts, which gives an account of
the execution of FRANCON!, a murderer, and the
manner in which that execution was performed.
We should have thought the 19th century was
not a time for the revival of a practice revolting
to the feelings, and which had been most pro-
perly long since suffered fall into disuse :

ROME, Jax. 26.
Notwithstanding the continued cold,..which has made Reim-
tour's Thermometer full 3 deg. below Zero, the amusements of
the Carnival go on with the same spirit, and are rendered par-
ticularly attractive by the splendid hospitality of the Ambas-
sador of France and Portugal (Conde" de Funchal), and of the
Duke of Braciano (Torlonia.) Several English families also
give great balls. David Wilkie, the painter, and Signora Cant-
Lani, equally attract the attention of the public in the midst of
their festivities. The latter gave, on the 20th, a concert in the
Theatre della Valle, in which she gave new proofs of her extra-
ordinary talent, but was not received with the same enthusiasm
:stun former occasions. It must be confessed, however, that
instrumental music is at a very low ebb in Rome, and that the
patience of an eminent singer is continually put to the rack by
an orchestra which is never in time or tune. •
Rosa Mariana continues to excite general admiration in the
Opera of Semiramis, in the Theatre Fordinone, bitter voice
and pure taste. It is a pity she stands alone in the opera; all
the other performers are bast.
Very salutary reforms have been made in the hospitals at.
Rome; they arc placed under the same system, and under the
superintendence of a General Board, which makes its reports
immediately to the Sovereign. By this means the revenues of
those establishments, soineof which are very richly endowed,
will be no longer frittered away. The number of young men
Who have been arrested for offences against good manners is 26.
Five murders out of private revenge have lately been com-
.One of them gave occasion to a characteristic ex Tres.
sion of the ancient Roman spirit. When the gens-d'armes
arrested the murderer, who was attempting to keep back part
of his bowels which were in danger of falling out through a
bread wound inilicted with a knife, lie willingly suffered lam.
,self to be taken, and said, " That was a noble combat ; Mars
annself would, not have been ashamed to take part in it."
Franconi, a youth 20 years of age, the murderer of the Pre-
iate Tregetti, was executed yesterday in the Piazzo de Popolo,
in presence of an immense multitude of spectators, who filled
the square end the terraces of Monte Finn). .When the sen-
tence of death was read to him on the 24th, iri .When
evening, he
Persisted, in spite of the clearest evidence, in denying the fact;
ut at length he confessed it. This prompt administration of
:Mace has met with general approbation, which, however, does
not extend to the manner in which it was executed.—
There exists an ancient law, by which the murderer
of an Ecclesiastic is to be knocked down with a ham-
mer, on which his throat is cut, and his arms and feet
separated from his body. This kind of capital punishment,
which arose in the notions of the middle ages respecting
.the
dignity of a Priest, had not been practised, as far as I 'maw, since
the reign of Pius VI. On this occasion it was revived. Im-
mediately on receiving the blow with the hammer the criminal
fell to the ground, apparently lifeless ; on which the execu-
tioners proceeded to fulfil the other parts of the sentence with a
dexterity and propriety that were really remarkable. The de:
Cached members were exposed ftir an hour, than put into a

' coffin and buried. It is said that five other criminals, sentenced
to death, were to have been executed before the Carnival, be-
cause it was thought that the people would thereby be deterred
from the commission of similar crimes; but it seems that his
Holiness considers that this mixture of the horrible withothe
comic as more likely to weaken the impression of the first. than
to inspire a permanent and salutary terror.—(Angemeine
Zeitung. Feb O.)

Wv extract the following remarkable narrative
of the escape of the steam•vessel, on board of
which ►vere Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL and his
Staff, from a whirlpool in the Irrowaddy, from a
Calcutta Journal :

A letter from Rangoon, of the kith ult. mentions that the
steam vessel (with Sir Archibald Campbell and his staff on
board, returning from Rangoon) was nearly lost on her way
up to Promo, having unfortunately got into a whirlpool be-
tween Donabew and Surrawa. Through the strength of her
engine she had the best part of her hull over the whirpool, but
her stern having got into the vortex, she swung round and
round with great violence for several minutes, and all on
board,
,it is said, despaired of her getting out safely. A Mr.
Ventura, who was a spectator at a small distance, in a boat,
hastened towards the whirpool to save what lives he could, in
case of accident. Luckily the paddles of the steam vessel
were outside the verge of the vortex, and Mr. Dsrwood, the
Engineer, put the greatest power of the steam to the test,
which brought her off: but poor Mr. Ventura with his boat
went down, and was seen no more !

We spoke yesterday of a project which it was i
understood the Government had in view of ex-
tending relief to the llerchants by an issue of
Exchequer Bills, on the credit of goods deposited
with them. In answer to a question put by Mr.
Nirtr.sosr, whether or no such was the fact,
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that
he considered that such a proposition on
the part of Government would be most Un-
wise, for the merchants having brotight the
evil on themselves by ..over trading, had no right
to look to the Government for relief from
the consequences of their own deliberate
acts. Nothing can be more 'conclusive than
this argument of Mr. ROBINSON, supposing
the premises on which it proceeded were
altogether true ; but believing, as we most sin-
cerely do, that the measures of Ministers necessa-
rily produced what they are now pleased to call
over-trading, we cannot but conceive- that howe-
ver wise the refusal of assistance, at such a time,
and by such means might be, it is rather hard on
our traders to be so severely visited for a fault
not altogether their own, but which certainly
was occasioned by the very Ministry who
now cast it in their teeth. An attempt
however will be made in some way or other to
give assistance to the commerce of the country.
What that way will be we leave our readers to
imagine, from the following extract front the
Speech of the Cu A NCELLOR of the EXCA MUER.
on this point, made in the llouse last night :
" If by any relief which could be administered in the money-
market—if by any absorption of that species of securities which
were now circulating at a low rate of intertst, to be effected by
the assistance of the Bank, any pressure could be removed—if
the issue so created should find its way through the ordinary
channels of commercial intercourse to those who stood in need
of relief, that would be a triode of proceeding which, though
it might not be immediately efKetual,--and lie did not pre-
tend that any measure he had recommended would be so,—all
he could venture to promise, even to himself, from his measure,
was, that It might ;Mind some slight relief,—that would be a
mode of proseedirg which the Government would leave the par-
tits interested in it to take, without any objection. It' the B Ink
would administer that species of rlief, he, as a Member of the,
Government, would have no hesitfition, at a future periodofthe
Session, to apply to Parliament for a grant to repay it any ad.
vaneca which it might eventually have occasion to make,'

Mr. Husrussou's motion for the House to re-
solve itself into a Committee on the Navigation
Laws, with a view of enabling the Government
to carry into effect the stipulations of the
Treaties with the Republics of the United Pro-
vinces of the Rio de Is Plata and Colombia,
led to a short discussion on the principles of free
trade lately introduced into our commercial
system. Little, however, was said on this point,
but with pleasure we perceive, that the bold
and confident tone with which the President of
the Board of Trade introduced and carried
measures in the last Session was greatly sub-
clued, and the Hon. Gentlemen was content to
give us more argument and less assertion than
heretofore. We believe that it 15 now beginning
to be felt that the Government have gone too far,
and that the success which has attended their mea-
sures, has not in any degree kept pace with their
wishes or intentions. On the subject, how.
ever, last night under discussion, a great deal
may be said on both sides ; but it appears to
us that any departure from that great principle
of the navigation laws, which requires goods to
be imported into the United Kingdom in the
ships of, and direct from, the country of produc-
tion, cannot be wisely departed from, unless some
great and obvious benefit will result to the country
from it. It may then by a question whether a Com-
mercial Treaty with these new Republics was of
sueit !importance and value to the country .as
to justify such a departure from our general
system. With all due deference to the Honour.
able the President oft the Board of Trade,
we humbly opine that ttuas44tete of the Marine
of these New. Reptiblics was to England a
matter of secondary consideration, and could
not be taken as necessarily superinduciug such
change in our navigation system, unless the
question us to the value of the Treaty itself
had been previously disposed of. There are not
wanting political economists, who say that corn.
mercial treaties are of no value whatever, seeing
that every nation will (for it must) trade with that
country which offers it most profit or most ad-
vantages ; and it would, therefore be wise in Mr.
Humus!'" to say a few words on this point, in
order that we .may judge how far these treaties
are beneficial to the country, requiring as they do
a modification of the first and chief principle of
the English Navigation System.