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London, England, 1824-05-08 00:00:00

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Last night, in the !louse nt Commons, the CHAN-
cm.Lort of the EXCHEQUER brought forward the Budget,
,hich oily no considered as a supplement to the clear
And able statement of our financial affairs made by the
Right Honourable Gentleman on the '23d of February.
The 'host important point is a proposition for the re-
dnction of the interest on Exchequer Bills. These se-
ities, on which an interest of threepence-halfpenny
per day was paid during the war, ate now to be re-
duced from twopence to three-halfpence, by which a
saving of 12220,000 per annum will be effected. A further
saving to the Public will arise from an arrangement
now to be made for covering the charge for certain
outstanding Exchequer Bills, out of the accumulating
produce of the Consolidated Fund in each quarter,
which has heretofore been left untouched to the end
of the quarter. It is satisfactory to know that
so high is the credit of the country, that the holders
of Four per Cent. Stock, who have assented to the
proposition of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
for reducing the rate of interest form a very great
majority of the whole. The total amount of Four per
Cent. Stock was seventy-five millions. The assents
cover sixty-eight millions, and the remaining :seven
millions held by the dissentients, will be paid off in Oc-
tober next, by an issue of Exchequer Bills at a reduced
interest. Those Biils themselves, principal as well as
interest, are to be discharged by the Commissioners for
the Redemption of the National Debt, at the rate of one
million per quarter.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has agreed to
allow an abatement in the Tobacco Duties of three
pence per pound in favour of Tobacco the growth of
Canada. This decision of Government was yesterday
communicated to Mr. GALT, in order that it might be
early transmitted to the colony the measure is so well
calculated to benefit.

This forenoon we received the French Papers of
Thursday, by Express, from which we make the fol•
lowing extracts:

FROM GALIGNANI'S MESSENGER.
PARIS, MAY 6.
Yesterday the King presided at a Cabinet Council.-

TI e Chamber will meet agrlin to-day. to take into
sideration the law roject relative to Military Pen,,;„.
We learn from Naples of the date of the l6th
following intelligence:
A new Loan to a small amount has been contrac,,,
for Sicily, it is said to be for 15i) 000 ounces, ‘‘.?li:
Mr. Rothschild has taken. The conditions ale ri
known, but it is believed that the Government does
pay more than 5} per cent. interest per

Extract of a private letter from Naren.b,?:,z,
April :—" The Ottoman Government had rornte.i a 1,
solution to employ the Janissaries in the ex7ted,it.
against the Greeks ; but a, soon as they were int;
it, they manifested their discontent in co inter► n.
tiger that the project wars renounced. It was (crest;;.,
~r
to try another experiment : secret instruction, t,„
transmitted to the Aga, and an appeal Was rr.
them. This appeal had not the desired effect, as ni::7
20 or 30 men quitted the ranks, and these were no;
fluenced by zeal, but by the hope of touching a Coo;
round sum."

The following is from the Memorial Bordelais of tLe
Ist instant:—" The prisoners of war which fornte,i t!.e
garrison of Pampeluna arrived in
that city on the .2k:
ultimo. The regular soldiers were sent home; Ia;
rtilitia were conducted to the citadel, and afterwatj,
received orders to shut themselves up in their respe6r.
houses. Things continued in that state until the (24A
when the militiamen were attested by order of the So.
nish Authorities, and again imprisoned in the cita.h"
I'toceedings are to be instituted against them. It is r
()able that after some moralts. deteation they will
I ibera ted."

Frankfurt Papers to tl,t! I t instant rercheJ us tl:*
morning. It appears that the report in the Frer::'
Journal of Lepanto, hiring been taken by storm,
not true. The early evacuation of Sicily and N.ipie
and the publication of an amnesty, are talked
following are extracts:
FROM THE FRONTIERS OF ITALY, APRIL

Our latest letters from ti.e lonian Islands say, ;!,!I
no remarkable change has taken place at Patras c L.
panto. The contending parties have fiequen:ac:i.:
in the neighbou►hood of Patras, but with alternate ill,
cess. In the month of FAruary, the gars 'son, rtlr:cli
still very numerous, made a very suceeisful sally,
persed the blockading corps, and levied enntributi(l
in the adjacent countty. About the middle of
it attempted a similar excursion, but it failed, and
repulsed with great loss, because the blockading coil
had been considerably reinforced in the interval. T
fall of Patras, however, does not seem to be near .-•
hand, as the garrison is said to be well provisioned,
i the Greeks are entirely destitute of means to attack
the heavy ar tiller y expectedfrom Napoli di Romanian(
having come. As things now stand, a formal siege t;
this forum is not to be thought of, and the blockade triii
be protracted till it is again relieved from the sea sic
The Greeks might, and have employed
winter in the conquest of this place, which is of n
highest importance to them.

Before Lepanto they have hitherto been inactive,
expectation of the reinforcements of troops and
plies of ammunition, which have been collected
Missolonghi, when these arrive a serious attack Hill
made on the fort. From these accounts we see ti:::
there is no truth in the report published in the Jouth;
des Debats, according to which Lepanto had been taL
by storm. The advance of the Greeks in Albania •
given new strength to the report of offensive
tions against Thessaly, lint it appears to be ill found
for the must recent accounts say, that the Greek Go,

meat, which had made preparations for this expedite
against Thessaly and Macedonia has given is up,
it has been informed of the intended plan of the Tin
for the next campaign.
According to this plan, the Ottoman troops embat,
on board the fleet are to be landed in different parts
the Morea, and supported by a powerful corps of t
Paella of Egypt, who is to take the chief command
all these troops. At the same time, the corps in
caly and Northern Albania are to advance towards
I'eloponnesus, to make a powerful diversion. This
obliges the Greeks to confine themselves is effect
defensive operations, for which every preparation
making ; and they will not be able to act offensive'',
they shall have repelled the attacks with which they
threatened.

SWITZERLAND, APRIL 21.

Letters from Italy, of a very recent date, affirm
the Austrian division, commanded by General DG
was making every preparation to evacuate the kinL
of Naples and come to Upper Italy, where part of it
least will be continued in the Venetian States. Ger
Mohr is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Austi
forces in the Venetian ten itory, and will shortly ei
into that office.

Negociations are said to have been for some ti
foot between the Courts of Vienna and Naples, the
ject of which is the entire evacuation of the kingdom
thn Two Sicilies, and the French Court is said to i
rest itself very much for this evacuation.

Tranquillity and order being restored in the kit%
of Naples, the time fixed for the entire evacuation
the kingdom by the Austrians may be anticipated;
still it cannot take place till there is a well org.;::i
army, and this is a principal reason of the exec
making by the Neapolitan Government to form
army. Some accounts mention next autumn as
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time wen the foreign troops are all to leave the ki
dom, and others say that a convention has been
eluded, by which they are to be entirely withdrawn
the Ist of January, 1825.
Orders ate expected respecting the Very titlnir
Austrian troops in Upper and Middle Italy, which Wi

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ke put into execution at the beginning of the _summer.
Milder measures of Government are announced, for
Piedmont and Sardinia, and the publication of a general
amnesty for all political crimes and misdemeanours,
with a very few exceptions, is expected ; also various im-
provements on the internal administration, though there
is probably no foundation for a report which has been
spread of the introduction of a representative constitu-
tion in the Sardinian dominions.
NUREMBERG, APRIL 28.

In the autumn 22,000 troops, will be encamped in
oar neighbourhood. The reviews will begin on the
sth of September, and continue 11• days.

This forenoon we received Bermuda Papers to the
10th of April. One of them contains a long series of
Resohnions passed by the House of Assembly in Lower
Canada, ielative to the Revenue, the charges on which
it is proposed to lessen by reducing the salaries of the
Governor and other Public Officers.

The u haling season has commenced favourably, and
several have been taken off St. George's, Snmer;:et, and
on the south-side of Devonshire; Mr. DAtits's boat has
captured three this week.

QUEBEC.—The ship-building business, in which little
has been done in this port for some fears past, appears
to have revived. This winter ten ve•sri', moAly of
large classes, are on the stocks, in various stages of ad-
vancement, in the different dock-) ardr, and in the rivers
Sr. Lawrence and St. C:arles.

Letters from St. Domingo mention, that an agent hi,
been sent to Fiance to urge the Government to recog-
nise the Indepen,.!ence of that Islar,d : and that a Com-
mittee hau been appointed by the French G .vernment
to consider a commercial treaty which Ilitnce intends
imposing to Hayti.

In the absence of official ilitelli;4ence from Cape
Coat, everything that !elates to the Ashantees t%;l1 Le
read with interest—sti at least thinks the Editor of the
Literary Chronicle, who, on this occasion, hos gone
somewhat out of his usual path, to inset t the following.
letter, which, though not of a recent date, contains many
particulars wot th recor.iin 'the Edit,,r states it to be
from a known Correspondent, on %%hose velocity he
can rely.

" Cape Coast Castic, Royal Gold Co:esr, I9th April, 1823.

" We landed in Cape Coast on the feid of April, where we com-
menced duty wi:b the Royal African Light Infantry, widely dif-
ferent to that lounge parade to which the Guards are accustomed
iv St. James's Park. I observed only eleven white men in the
Loy.] Attilkry herr, and they looked to me as singularly as the
three /,lock in the Duke of York's band, with the dress exceptions.
The !loyal Artillery had been out fighting against the tyrant King
of Ashantee ; the engagement was terminated by the loss of great
Pt:piers en both sides. We expect this noted King, however,
every day, to conic down from his encampment to fight us; need
I eild, that we see prep./red to give him and his men a very warm
receptior. The first serjeant whom the Ashantees killed belonged
to the P.oyal African Corps ; they took his jaw-bone and presented
it to the it liege as a token of triumph; and he desired as many
more Si could be furnished to decorate his dwelling. The manner
in which the Asbantees murder people, who fall into their power,
xtreniely cruel: first, they cut off a finger, and ask you, if you
see that ? and then take t. 31 one of your ears, and shew that to you ; I
and then one of you? eyes,—and so on, till they have complately
dissected your body. What a barbarous state must this zene be in,
where the inhelinauts delight in the horrors of torture! 0 happy
England ! inwhich civilization dwells and rules the actions of society.
" The Ashatitees are naked, except a small !loth which they wear
about their middle : the women are similarly dressed, only they
have a hump in the lower part of their back, like the pummel of a
saddle, on which they carry all their work and their infant children,
who seem to skey as soundly and sweetly as on a bed of feathers :
tbeywear great varieties of beads round their neck s,wrists,and
and soot:: of then.' have as much gold in their hair as would amount
n £7O or 1.80 sterling. Those of the females who are looking for
husbands, have about fifty small silver keys hung down before
them. One man thinks it nothing to have twelve wives, who are
all with hint, and equally desirous of gaining his pleasure ; indeed,
I could not but remark their attachment to him, whose frown was
terrible. I have been with the King of Cape. Coast; I drenk tea
with him; he skewed me gre::t civility, and requested a repetition
of my visit. Though nearly as rude as his subjects, yet he is a
personable man, and conversive. Ile lives in a good house, has
sr veral things in it which have been sent hint front England ;—he
can read and write English, is fond of music, and dances admit--
0)1y. The men :did women cut their hair in a grotesque fashhm—
in fact, ;hey shavi it ; thus, every time it is shorn, it is done so
strangely, that it assumes a different appearance and novelty, ac-
cording as their fancy changes. We shortly proceed to Sierra
Leone, but I hea: a had account of it. There is a large seined
at Cape Coast ; about eighty boys and girls attend it ; they go
to church every Sunday, mid sing.
"After service they all sln.ut, God save the King.'—Only four
are left rut of the Regiment which came from the Isle of Wight.
White ladies ate so scarce here, that I have seen only one of the
fair sex sil•Ce toy arrival. I have a bird that sings French, and,
what is mere remarkable, swears good round English: it is called
a erown bird. The drum beats to duty—war is written on our
foreheads—We conquer or fall.• Your's truly, W. W. F."
"I'. S. I beer sent tins letter home by a vessel coming front the
coast, laden with gold and ivory ; but there is not much gold to be
got now we are at war with the Astrataces."
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