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strengthen that Military position, consecptently
the Inhabitants cat Batavia are much alarmed, as
~ot more than 600 European Troops were lett to
defend the place against the NlAlays, wh•o are able
to muster x force of near 100,000 men. If the
attack should be made, a general massacre is ex•
peered.

FROM SPANISH Amitarca.—The Nymph,arrived
at Pnihdeiphia, left Carthagena the 23i1 March•
Mr. Phillips, supercago, informs, that the Pa-
triots were in great force at Morapert, on the
river Madaleua,• and were advancing ; and that
the prospects of the Royalists in that Tinter were
very gloomy. 'The Commandant of Marines had
taken the, command ot the Army of Observation
and Operation, near Morapert. Every thing was
quiet at Parsama, except the approach of the Pa-
triots upon Choco ; 200 men had been sent from
Parsama to check them, and a strong body, in-
tended to co-operate, was dispatched op the river
Asato, in the Gn!ph of Darien ; but they had re-
turned to Carthagena, not being able to form a
junction. In the Nymph came the tutxte, of tlre
brig Macedonian, ot Boston, plundered in thei
Pacific by Lord COCHHAN6.—(Washington Paper,
April II.)

The fate of some of the more conspicuous
tators of the Pr ople is at length deci .eft, and they
arealoomed to suffer frir the disturbalices which
they excited, and which have led in several ins an' es
to melancholy consequences. Mr. HUNT, whose
abilities ought to have taught him better conduct,
.was yesterday, after. a most patient and impartial
trial, before an unimpeachahle tribunal, consisting
of Law Authorities stistinguished for learning, cap-
dour, and rectitude, sentenced to imprisonment
for two years and a ball, but not to solitary con-
finement, as his sense of the nature and tendency
of his crime induced bins to apprehend. He is
at the end of that period to give security for
his good behaviour for five years, himself in
10001. and two sureties in 500/. each. We
sincerely hope that he will employ the indul-
gence of the Court, during his confinement, in
study and reflection, by which means he may in some
degree atomic for his errors, and become a useful
member of society. His Reforming Allies, Jona.
Sufi, HEALY, and BAMFOIiD, ale to be impri-
soned a year each, anti also to find Sureties to
keep the Peace for five years. Sir Charles
WoLseLeY, and the person styled Parson HAR.
itson are each to be imprisoned eighteen
Months, and of amuse to find Securities for their
good behaviour at the termination of that
period. We,shonld pity the situation of the
Baronet if he had not gloried ill having partici-
pated in the destruction of the Bast lie, and if all
the consequent horrors of the French Revolution
had not made him insensible of the fatal tendency
of his opinions. But he is still an object of pity,
as his late conduct may be imputed to a want of
that power of reflection which svould have other-
wise prevented him from falling into his recent
errors. Such is the danger of listening to the
Doctrines of COBBITT, which have tended more
to mislead and corrupt than any other of the
whole Host of Reforming Scribblers and De-
claimers, or indeed of all of them put together.
To doctrines of that kind THISTLEWOOD and
the other Conspirators, who paid with their lives
for their atrocity, owe their too-weli merited fate,
and the Reformers consigned yesterday to
sonment by the justice of their Country, easy
im-
pute the disgraceful punishment which they are
doomed to suffer, to the same baneful anti en-

Snaring cease.

Considerable alarm prevails throughout all the
Sea Ports, lest that the Government have detertniu-
od to lower the duties on the importation of Foreign
Timber ; for ourselves, we cannot believe so, not-
withstanding the opinions Which were expressed
in the course of the Debate on the Petition re-
cently presented by Mr. BARING, for the repeal of
the Statutes which are now called restrictive ; but
which, until the introduction of the modern no•
tions in political economy, were denominated
ProteCting and Encouraging Statutes. Any altera-
tion of the present ditties on Foreign Timber will
prove ruinous to the British Ship•owners, Ship-
builders, and to the various branches of trade
connected with the building, repairing, and out-
fit of shipping. The Petitions which have been pre-
sented against the protecting system of the Home
INTERESTS, do not speak the sentiments of the
great body of the Merchants of England ; on the
contrary, they proceed from individuals who have
extensive connexions and establishments in foreign
countries, and who are induced to advocate these
inroads on the better, and, hitherto successful,
policy of Great 11; itain, front motives, which are
obvious to every person conversant in the foreign
trade of the country. IVe are informed, that it
the Ditties on Foreign Timber are lowered, it will
i'6'row out of emplopnent an immense number of