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London, England, 1826-04-17 00:00:00

ewe service in the innoxious clime of the coasts of
Colombia, ought to have shielded his name from at-

tack, and proves, at all events, that the Admiralty had
not in his case conferred promotion on an officer who
was wanting in zeal, or unwilling to risk his life in his
professional duty.

• A Dauders Mail arrived this morning, from which
we have made some extracts. It appears that LORD
COCHRANE still remains at Brussels, although it had
been. previously asserted that he had arrived in
Greece :---

BRussxts, Arair. 14,

A )3ritish Cabinet Afessenrger, coming from London, passed
through this city yesterday at noon : he is the bearer of dig-
patehel for the Duke of Wellington, whom bo expected, as he
said, to meet at Berlin.

AUother British Cabinet Messenger also passed through las
night; he came from Constantinople, and was to proceed -to Lou•
don with.alt speed.

FRANKFORT) APRIL 9.

A Cabinet Order of the King of Prussia of 18th January last,
re-establishes in the provinces on the Bank of the Rhine the pri-
vileges of he Nobility, which were abolished under the French

Rejnthlk.

Ilia Xing has reduced the postage on money sent by the Royal
Post-offituk.

It is observed that the Prussian State Gazette gives very long
details of the debates in the French Chamber of Peers, all upon
the pyoposecl law for establishing the primogeniture. It may be
remembered that the German Journals have said, that the Coun-
cil of State at Berlin had been discussing a similar question.

BRUSSELS, APRIL la

Afatthieu Laensbergh giVeS the following particulars of a dread-
ful critne--the result of ignorance and' sueerstition, which has
just been committed in a village near Huy :
Oa Monday last (April 10):a poor woman having gone to the
house of the miller Gehoulet, at Aloha, to carry home some hemp
which had been given her to spin. The sons of the miller, on
the authority of a woman who told fortunes from cards that this
poor woman was a witch, they made a fire of faggots, over which
they suspended the poor creature, end would certainly have put
her to death had not her cries brought some persons to her assist-
ancp. The villains.had already given her a wound in the breast
with some sharp instrument; it is believed that it will prove
mortal. • The, three assassins have been arrested by the Afare-
riuntisee.

Romit, MARCH 31.
The following paper which is in circulation here is the subject
of general conversation. There are various opinions respecting
the authors of this curious piece, sotue.pretexid that it is the copy
of a circular formerly sent to all the members of a great associa.
tion; others that it has served .as the test of a bull ; others be-
lieve that it is apocryphal and purposely.spreud among the public
to give food to malevolence; we are entirely of this Qpinion.
Supremacy of the Court of Rome and arguments tending to
. . _

• justify it.
" It is complained that the social body is in a state of langour
and uneasiness; that it is being disorganised that evils of all kinds
oppreAs at the same time individuals, families, towns, and states.
" Can it be otherwise, where every thing is confusion and
disorder; where those who scarcely know how to obey, insist
upon commanding; when individuals are misplaced, powers con-
fouioted, principles disregarded?
" The Church and its Ministers have on earth a legitimate
authority, a pre-emincuce above all powerg which it would be. in
vain to dispute. They emanate from the nature of things, from
the divinity itself.. The Atheist alone overlooks these great
truths.

"if We admit the existence of God, we mast also believe in
the immortality of the soul, anti a future life.
paifie throug this orld is nothing, our
.existenee ia inss futurity, andh all ourw futurity in eternal life. whole
"'Our short and frail existence is therefore only a preparation
for another life.
" It is there a more elevated, a more important function than
that of priest, who is commissioned to purify and fortify our
souls, to justify man and to render him worthy to appear before
hie God.

"But, in the midst of these public functions, should narrow
point, be prescribed him? Forced to limit his mission to the
teaching of dogmas to the observance of the rites, shall he remain
a stranger to all the rest? and shall the shepherd abandon his
dock in the midst of precipices? • •
"Clod being invisible on earth, cannot manifest himself to man
except by his, church: His image is the altar, and his representa-
tives on earth.

"Ilut why should they represent God if they cannot cause his
!out mends to be observed ? why are they the ministers of his worship
if they cannot cause it to le respected? How should they be
the mediators bet Ween the creature and the Creator, if they have no
influence, no authority? .Lastly, if their divine mission is ac-
knowledged, it cannot be desired to render it ineffectually usdess.
." It follows from thole principles that these Ministers of reli-
gion cannot be subject to human laws, except so far as they have
been sinictioned.by the church.
" In fact, civil, laws, made for the .amelioration of the human
species, cannot attain that object except by being made to har-
monise with the Divine law. Noir; what magistrate; if it is
Cot the ecclesiastical authority, would be competent to appre-
ciate this agreement?
" The meanest stall in the temple of the Lord is above all
thrones, and the supremacy of the princes of the church over the
princes of the earth is founded on divine right, and must be con-
sidered as the basis of social order.
•" To contest this principle is to seek to place the weak and
uncertain will of man fell above the immortal and infinite power
of God; it is disregarding' the divinity itself."
The 2VOtizie del Giorno of yesterday gives accounts from
urm'esa.iff the 9th of March. • They say that the Turkish com-
anOere of that place have sent away a great
number of &milks,
n order t(i'lodge 7,000 Ottoman soldiers wounded iu the late at-
tack made by Ibrahim upon Missolonglii. This journal adds
liat it is confirmed from all quarters that 'Mullis has taken a
Convoy of .25 richly laden Egyptian ships; sent by the Pacha of
Egypt to Constantinople.
A itliort is current that the Greeks, by a very bold coup de
main, have made themselves masters of seven inagaiines, filled
with provisions and ammunition, in Thessaly and Olympus.
The same JoUrnal, on the authority of a letter from Zante, of
22d February, states, that a vessel dispatched by the Greek Com-
mittee at Paris had landed in that island. a Deputy from the
, Committee, 18 officers, 5,000 markets, and 5,000 uniforms; and
these officers affirmed that the,Philhellenis at Philadelphia would
send to the aid of the Greeks seven ships of war, two of which
are•steum vessels.
• The most corisiderable inhabitants of the l%iorea are now at
te'consider on means of saving the country.
Ba Art, 13.
While the French Journals made Lordnssrcs, Cochranearrive at
Zante,and announce that that celebrated Admiral is going to defend
the cause of the Greeks, the Noble Lord is residing in Brussels,
and every day rides on horsehack on our ramparts.—(Brusseis
"Fen, April 15.)

. . . .
, The Times of this morning says, that a letter has
'Zen received from Berlin, which states that the
ltuasian ultimatuin' on the long-diSpined question re-
lative to the northern provinces of Turkey.? has been
kit to Constantinople, that the. Emperor NICHOLAS
1, COMMUlliCated Copies :. of the ultimatum to the
.uke of Wtr.LlrroxoN„ and to all the foreign En..
VO9B at the Court of. St. Petersbugh. That, it within
a' fixed period the terms of the treaty are not fulfilled
!Iy the appointment of hospodars, &e,, it is said to be
he declared it of NICHOLAS to mnrch a di-
1i1461 of his'army to the frontiers of Turkey, and,
the event of a further delay in the face of this
hostile.demonstration,
taken Walachia he will cause possession to be
ve of and Moldavia, and place the Go-
nunent of them on the footing prescribedbythetreaty
with the: Turks. - -