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J. Miller, Regent's-terrace, King'.s• mail, Chelsea, merchant,
to surrender Feb. It, 28, and Nlarcb 31. at ten, at Guild-
Attornies,•Messri. Knight and Freeman, llitsinghall-
street-.
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W 7.8 Werintor' e S-^,ersetshire, )lor‘e-c!ealer; Mtrch 3, at
two. 4, at ten, and 4 , at two, at Ow Counntergial Room ,
Bristpt. 'Attornies, Mes4s. Adlington and Gregory, Bed-
ford-row, London ;and r, iteeve6, G!astontinry.

R. S. walker, East Smithfield, colour-manufacturer, Feb.? 4,
March 7 and 31, at twelve, at Ciuddhall. • Attornieft, Mr.
o.l)aldestom, Fenchurch-street ; and Messrs.
Leman, Bristgl..•

H. J. V. Lou; and F. 11. Feltoe, Grear,rower-street,, wine-
Inert:ha:lts, Feb. 21, March 3, and 31, t ett, at :ittilcllntil.
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Mes,trs. Stietwoon and Son, t..anterbitry-stinal e,
.Sontlwartz. •

P. M. I'owcll, Hastitias, .librarian, Feb. 21, at two,
99, dt 'eleven, and Nlarell 31,! at ten, a( Lo idea.
Attornies, Messrs. Lamb andllawke, Princes-strect, Dank
pt England, London.
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tcumit-Colonel,.vice 13ane3, Arceased. ' ,

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tilid Ethnuild l'aftsliall, Esq.

THE COLONIES.

TIVIBER DUNES.

As this interesting- question is not filially dis-
posed of, aml great anxiety is felt fro”i the un-
certainly which prevails respecting it,"we are in-
duced to direct the attention of our Readers to
the follo%
.I(!titirtiiiie Memorial from the Mer-
chants at Montreal upon this question:—
TO THE NICHT IioNOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE
CoMMITTP:P. 1.1: PIS MAJESTY•S PEIVY COUNCIL
FOR TEAM'. AND PLANTATION, &C. &c. &C.
The Memorial of the Merchays aad Others ca-
goged and concerned in the Timber Trade, le-
sidiag in the District of Montreal, in the Pro-
oince ().f Lower Canada,

SiaEwETt4,—Thar your Memorialists hav;.og
learnt that it has been in the contemplation of his
:Majesty's Government to Cause a Poty to be im-
posed on Timber impotted into Great Britain
front his Majesty's Nord] American Colonies, are
urged, by cousiderrion nt public and privioe in-
terest, to represent to your Lordships the extreme
impolicy of such a measme, and the injurious
consequences which would result front its adoption.
Linder the protection which his Majesty's Go-
vernment has affordt.d, these some years past, to
the importation of timher from the British Colo-
nies, this province has been -enabled to engage
extensively in this branch of commerce, and con-
-iii-rabk capital has been employed in forming
• tablislinuts for c4rrying it on suceesst'illy.
i'slutuaLolvantsges have hencc arisen to the Colo-
ny ail(! the :`,liiiher Country. In the former, this
trade has fatilitatcd the cle.tring and sefriement of
the waste lauds, has given employno la -to a mill-
titiule of itylividuals, and augmenteiii. the wealth
and resources of the Colony.
To the latter it afforded the incalculable advan-
tage of securing supplies of Timber for naval put-
poses, from its oe.-n dommions. tit a (one when
the hostility of the Northern Powers of Europe
had interdicted any supplies from them ; and has
contributed to promote the national strength am!
prosperity, by furnishing extensive.:.employment
.for British Slopping, and by increasing, to a great
amount, the Importation of thitish Manufactures.
The influence of this trade is indeed telt in all
the br,Anches of Colonial Commerce ; and anv
measure calculated to diminish the Exportitiion of
Timber front Coe Colonies, would, in its indirect
consequences, affect the other branches also.
Ainoio4 these, the Fisheries would evidently sus-
tain great ;;'.logy front such a measure. At present
the importation of Salt for the use ol the Fisheries
is much faeilitio.ed by the means of obtaining -a
eturn cariro of Timber ; and the sante advantage
gives occasion to the importation of various other
bllky articles, the expense of the freight of which
could not otherwise be borne. By any injury
done to the-Timber Trade, therefore, that of tl:e
Fisheries would be grcioly itnuaired, and the Ex-
poitation from the Mother Country much dimi-
Dished.

The great and important benefits derived from
this '!'ride to the Colony and the Mother Coun-
try. your Memorialists beg leave to represent,
most certainly cease with the Trade itself, if the
tn-asure allinted to should he adopted. Any Doty
imposed en Timber front the Colonies would add
so much to the existing disci ntagrs under which
the Trade is notvcarrird on, as to he absolutely
destructive of it. Since the establishment of
peace, and the sources of supply itt Europe have
bLen again operied, it has been barely practicable,
not Wit nstandiroz rite extremely low rate of freight,
to carry on the Trade tvithout 10:`5, dilli it could
centaiidy not exist under any new cause of discuto.
anlnent.

In the anticipated destruction of this Trade
from the Measure in question, your Memorialists
have reason to deprecate great immediate injury to
themselves and their fellow subjects. Many of
thern."relying on the continuance of a liberal fro.
lice on the part of his Majesty's Government,
towards the Colonies, have invested their capital
in estalAishments for carryi►►g on the T►rther
Trade, which derive their value from this Trade
only ; and without it, they, as well tts numerous
classes of individuals employed in :he labour re-
quired by this Trade, will he deprived of the
means of subsistence'on which they had a right to
calculate. The other classes' of society, though
not itr►mediately affected by this measure, would
feel its infbtence in the diminished trade and re-
sources of the country, on which all more or less
tlel►eitd.

While your Memorialists have such well-ground-
ed cause for alarm from the proposed measure,
they nevertheless persuade themselves that, in.the
justice and liberality of his Majesty's Govern-
ment, they will find sufficient protection to pre-
vent its adoptiOn. .After having exerted them-
selves successfully in defence of his Majesty's Go-
verninvnt, dining the late American war, it would
iud..ed afford matter for painful reflection, if the
resources of the country sltonk he crippled, and
numerous classes of its inhabitants (of which your
Memorialists make part), ruined by a measure
originating With that Government, and altogether
at variance with the just and liberal,policy which
it has lung pursued. It has been a part of this
policy, the expediency Of which past events has
confitme-d, nor Only to abstain from raising a reve-
nue on the Trade of. the Colonies, but to roster

nod ptotnnte their growth-and atlvancement, by
tulotitting the importation' from them of articles

of their own produce,,:opou better terms than
like articles received froisforeign nations ; a pre-
ference the more just,. ,as it has served to com-
pensate, in some degree, for the disadvantages
produced by an exch4iou of the colonies from ail
Foreign Trade. • ;,,
in no bran( It of ibe Colonial Trade is it more
expedient that this fostering protection should be
sti,,rthd, 111: in that of the Timber exported
from" the C9,louies ; it is under this protection

on+y that it, has received existence, and has be-

some of iv.:mid importance ; and without this

seippott, it must cease to exist, to the great injury
Coldries F.nd of the Mother Country.
Memori4lists, reposing'She fullest .con -
tiroce in the heneticeot 114e1100118 of Ens Aiojesty's

Government, pray that the premises may receive
your Lot dships' favourable consideratio►t.
A►►d al in duty hot►nd they will ever pray,
&c. &c. &c.
Montreal, Nov. 20, tBl7.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Perfurmot Last Night.
THEATRE RREAL, Di rt Y-LA •!E.—(Bt h time), The Rrifle of
Ahping : ; Zulieha, Mrs. Marlyn. After
Itosina.
Tim EATEE RovA CovENT-Gmtpr.N.--Tlte Point of lionnnr :
Chevalier It St. Fralte, Mr. Young.; Bertha, Hiss
Aft-tr which, he Illustrious Traveller. To which was
added, Husbands and Wives.

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THE tz4tTN.

SOLE:,I FA t.iUAI .AUDEAT

ii,()N()ONT ,
JVEfiNEST , El I1?U .4 Ri" IS, ISIS.

‘Ve received this morning the Paris Papers of
Sunday last. They do not contain a word as to
the discovery of the Assassin %rho fired at the
Doke of WELLINGTON, nor is the least mention
made whether the doe said to have been obtained

had been followed up with any or tvhat success.
It is ~ingular also, that im only one of the Joni--
Lodi is the name of the Duke of WELLINGTON
even inenflOned. 'file following are extracts
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FEB. 14.

`r A Petition from French Proprietors of Na-
! tional Property in Spain, which had been placed
under seqUestration by the Government of Fer-
VII. claiming the execution of the Ist ad-
ditional article of the Treaty of Peace between
France and Spain, of the 20th July, 1814, was,
after some discussion, ordered to be referred to
the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
`"Fhe Count Corvetto, the Minigter of Finance,
presented the Projet of Law respecting the Cus-
toms Duties referred to in the Budget.
" The Rang de St. Crieg developed the ob-
jects of the Proj-t.

" The Projet was ordered to be prin!ed, and
the discnssion of it to commence in the Bureaus
on Thursday next.

Dupont elc l'Eure) made the following

proposition
That the King he humbly prayed to present
a Projet of Law for the purpose of sectoring the
constitutional exercise of the Liberty of the Press,
of defining with certainty the responsibility of
authors and printers, of determining the charac-
ters of Offences 'arising from --printed works after
their publication, and of establishing trial by-Jury,
with.regard to offences of the Press.'
" The proposition will he developed in one of
the next Secret Committees.
" Adjourned, without appointing a day for the
next public:sitting.
PARISi FEB. 15.—Since the event of the 10th
the• Duke of Wellington has been daily visited by
the King's Ministers, the Ambassadors, and the
most distinguished persons in the capital. His
Gtace rides out as usual on horsebark.•accom-
pAnied by one of his-Aides-de-Camp. His Grace
yesterday visited the -Doke d'Angoilleme.
" The Madrid Gazette confirms the intelligence
from Genoa respecting the conduct of the Dey
of Algiers towards the Foreign Consuls. The
news has been brought to Mahon by several ves-
sels from Algiers, the passengers on board which
all agree as to the circumstances which have been
already related. Our Vienna Correspondent In.
forms us, that the intelligence has been officially
transmitted to the Count de Rossi, the Sardinian
Minister at the Austrian Court.
" The trial of Maenad') Brtinean, calling him- •
self Louis XVII. proceeds day by day at Rouen.
" FIVE PER CENTS.
"Saturday
" MADRID, FEB. 3.—According to the state-
ments made by.Mahotnet, who has arrived -at Ma-
hon, and who was the chief of the unsuccess-
ful insurrection against the Dey of Algiers,
and by those who have escaped with him, all
that has been stated respecting the forcing the
daught-er of the hanker of the English Consulate
at Al7;iers, and a French girl, the daughter of the
master of the principal inn there, into the Dey's
seraglio, and respecting the imprisonment of all
persons connected with the English Consulate, is
confirmed.
" lIAMBUBCH, FEE. 6.—lt is understood here
that the contract for a Loan to Prussia, by Messrs.
Rothschild and Harandon, has not beets ratified,
and that the ratification will nut take place with-
out some modifications.
" HALF., FEE. s.—Yesterday at the sitting of
the Grand Courted of the Canton, the Swedish
Gnstavus Adolphus Gustayson (ci-de-
vent Kits; of Sweden), was formally introduced,
and received as a citizen of Hale,"

A Letter from St. 'Mary's, dated Jan. 6, in the
New York Commercial Advertiser of the 20th, says,
' Nature has pointed out the Hondas as properly
a part of onr dominion, and we should no longer
incur the tisk of its bring transftrred to a third
Power; we can now occupy it with justice,. and
even at a futuce period the tonscquences ma be

or a more serious character Om; they possibly ca

be under existing circumstances."

The Mercantile Advertiser of the 17th Jan. states,
" that the Dutch ship April, which recently ar-
rived at New Castle, on the Delaware, from Am-
sterdam, with 1,100 passengers, lost upwards of
500 on the passage."

Lord FOLKESTONE and Mr. BRouGu.vm, the chief.
PATRONS of Discontent, to use the mildest term,
last night presented Petitions to the House of
Commons from those who had been detained under

THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION ACT, and pray-
ing that Ministers should be denied an Act
of Indemnity. Lord CASTLEREAGH effeettlaily
answered those Senatorial Patrons of REFORM, and
stated that an Act of Indemnity would riot interfere
with the ulterior views of the Petitioners. As to the
allegations in the Peti! ions, we do not put the least
confidence in then►, and considor them as gross
exaggerations, if not absolute falsehoods, from►
beginning to end, however they may have im-
posed upon the capacious credulity of Lord FOLKE-
STONE and Mr. fittouGn Am, whose conviction is
easily excited in all matters adverse to Govern-
ment. As to an ACT of INDEMNITY to Ministers
for having SAVED the CouNTRY from insurrec-
tions, that, it not timely and vigorously opposed,
might have ended in the horrors of a Gallic Re-
volution, and the total subjection of the best
political system ever devised by human saga•
city, and mature. by the progress of practical ex-
perience, we conceive that an act of HONOUR and
GRATITUDE, instead of INDEMNITY, would more
properly express the feelings of the people and
the sentiments of all Europe. • •

The preservation of H ALTH 811(1 the security o
PROPERTY are such important considerations, tha

we regret our want of room yesterday to notice
the Bill presented to Parliament for regulating the
practice of SURGERY, and the Petitions presented
to the House of Lords on Monday last by Earl
FORTESCUE, from the A ttornies and Solicitors of
Devon, and those of Westminster and Bristol to
the House of Commons, on the same day, by
Lord LASCELLES and Mr. PaoTnEßoe. The Bill
respecting the SunGeoNs, however, we inserted
yesterday, and we are glad to find, as they
are one of the most useful and valuable bodies of
tire Community, that they are so zealous to rid
th it profession of all Empirics, and we shall be
anxious at all times to give our strenuous support
to so laudable and so important art object. Having
said so touch ourselves, and basing inserted tinisny
valuable cominimications from Correspondents on
the subject of CERTLFIC‘TED CONVEYANCERS, we
need not add that we shall be equally anxious at
all times to pro'Eote their endeavours to clear their
profescion also from Ertipirics in TUE LAW, whose
presumption and rapacity may otherwise, as we
have before observed, bring ruin upon families
whose property wholly depends on the frail tenure
of Deeds devised by Ci•Mt, founded in Ignorance,
and adopted by Credulity.

COLCHEF:TER ELECTION.—State Of the Poll,
Second DaV
ILMIAN
HARVEY

Arrijority

207
103

104 HOC WILDMAN.

The New York Evening Post of the 17th Jan.
contains the following statement respecting Mr.
COBBETT

" PHILADRLNITA, JAN. 16 —Mr. WM.COEBETT
s now in this city, He proposes to proceed to
Llarrisbnigh,, to petition the Legislature to reload

him a sum of money, which he thinks very itnhro•
perly exacted from him during the administration
of Governor APKEANt."

CORN-EXCHANGE, FEB. 18.—We had no fresh
Arrivals this morning, and very few Sales made,
as buyers appear to he waiting for supplies, con-
sequently we consider the prices-nominally the
same as on Monday.
Yesterday the Duke of Yonx transacted .mili-
tary business with the PRINCE REGENT RE Carl-
ton-hrmSe.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL, Earl BATHURST, and
Lord STEWART had audiences of the PRINCE RE-
GENT at Carlton-house.

The Prince of lIESSE HOMBOURG received visits
yesterday from the Duke of CUMBERLAND and
several distinguished characters. His Serene

Highness walked ont to visit the Duke of YORK,
and afterwards dined at his new residence for the
first time.

THE DUKE or CLARRNCE,—We are -extremely
concerned to say the Duke of CLARENCE is indis-
posed. His fist attack was on Sunda?. On
Monday Sir HENRY HALPonn was three times iu
attendance upon his Royal Highness. Yesterday
was the day appointed for the Duke to leave Lon•
don for Bushy ; but on account of his continued
indisposition the journey was postponed.
MUM-I.—The second of those gratifying FA-
MILY CONCERTS, under the, conduct of Mr.
HAWES, which have been so much admired, took
place last night at the Adelphi Terrace. l'Ve have
not space to dwell on•the merits of the evening.—,
Miss GOODALL and Miss CAREW were expected,
but were prevented 'by illness from attending ; but
MiSS WILLIAMS, and another young Lady, whose
name we did not learn, added .much to the vocal
department, which was otherwise well supported
by BELLAMY, TERRAIL, EVANS, ',FIRTH, and
1-IA?,:EiS • iliis SJIARP displayed her powers very
successfully on the Harp; hut the wonder of the
night was a Violin Concerto by Miss TREMEARN,
whom we have previously noticed. She is but
just nine years of age, but her taste, judgment,
and execution, might excite the envy of veteran
Perforners.of high rank. The Music was well
selected, and the whole highly applauded by a
nIIntCrOUS and elegant company.- - 1'

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

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in our Paper of Monday last, 91111di.lig "'red
mysterious event which is said to hove °ectir.e,
in a family of high distinction, we sated 3 the
port that this evert had been noticed in
ler
" Novel of Glenarvon, though disguise.(l
circumstances invented by the fair Authol'" re.
consequence of this report, we have been
quested to insert the follot‘ing paragraPb
" The Lady alluded to in the above par'gr-Ire
is perfectly iftdignant th,t her name shotO I°o
been made use of as being in .he slightest degi
connected with a report %%hich has been
circulated throughout Loudon,--a report sv
trelnely absurd, that it can only have derived j
"I"mentary consequence from the credulity ''.l;
loquacity of those who made it, and sPre°dii;
It is perhaps needless to add, that such reports t
entirely wit hoot foundation ; that witnesses
+l
live who can disprove every syllable that has ":-/0.
advanced ; and that Sir RICHARD Clitor'
was as much distinguished by a character f°r
tegray, honour, and humanity, as he was by 4,3 t
very superior talents, was utterly incapable nd
such an act. It is assuredly most unmanly
cruel to asperse his memory at such a moroc"lt
a charge of this nature; more particularijr `vbeiv
a
the cause of his unhappy death has been.ireigai.c
but too well explained—suflicientiv, as it 113:13.
have been presumed, to have satisfied the
tiable edge of public curiosity at least'for s°l--

(lays."
n
We readily insert the foregoing parsg"rb
justice to the Lady whose name we hail ill(r-'41
diced in the article to which it 'refers, IPt
may be allowed to observe, that the merit °-
popularity of her work rendered it i"'Vs6il)l°
that her name could be concealed. What
Lady says respecting Sir RICHARD CROFT doe;
honour to her heart, and we feel too much,
reflecting on the dreadlui tcrinination of his life'
to dispute any part of her 'tribu e to his character'

intellectual, moral, or professional.
With respect -to the story itself, which has been
so universally prevalent, and which the worlti
believed, as Lord Townley says, " as it 41°e!,
every thing that feeds its appetite for scandi"P-
we have heard it contradicted on such AuTll°llll.l.4
induces us to consider it wholly as an unfound%
fabrication. Indeed, we are as.,ured, from
same authority, upon which we are disposed Cott
fidently to rely, that it will soon receive s"ch
complete refutation, in all its points, as will tense
probably put an end to all further rumours 00
subject, except such as may be circo,to merell
by malevolence and credited by 104.