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when It tile Mr moment she is proposing a law that
shall punish with mutilation and death; any person
who shall treat with irreverence a consecrated wafer.—
Surely the Editor of the Etoile must have forgotten
the massacre of St. BA RTROLONZW. the persecutions of
the Hugonuts, and the events at Nismes within the last
eight or ten years, or he would never have asserted that
gi no Government, not excepting that of the Romans,
ever more perseveringly exercised I elisions persecution;'
and yeesuch is the charge made against this country,'
how unjustly we need not state.

Private letters from Paris state, that the Government
is proceeding with all possible diligence against certain
parties, whose delinquencies in supplying munitions for
the Spanish war have been exposed by the Commission

of the Chamber of Peers. No fewer than 20 persons,
occupying posts in the Commissariat Department,
or placed high on the staff of the army, during the Spa-
nish expedition, have been arrested, and held to bail.
—M. OUVRA RD is, of course, at their head, and is said
to have been examined several times by the Jmge d'lm-
struction appointed to draw up; the indictment. One
result of this inquiry has been, as formerly stated, to
exculpate Marshal Bar.cutso, Minister of War, who
was dismissed during the campaign from alleged inca-
pacity, and whose incapacity was inferred from tile want
of those stores, and the inadequacy of those arrange-
ments, which are now proved to have been ample
and adequate.

We have received Dutch and Brussels Papers to the
16th instant, and Hambnrgh Papers to the 12th. They

are filled with details of the miseries inflicted by the
recent inundations, and the means taken to alleviate
them. The following are extracts;

HAMBURG% FEBRUARY a.
The Senate has appointed a Committee of three
Members (Senators Jenisch, Abendroth, and Benickeh

to receive and distribute the contributions for the relief

of the sufferers by the late inundations on the 11th of
February. The accounts in the Hambnrgh Papers, from

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all the neighbouring country, are of the most afflicting

nature, and the damage sustained is a counterpart to
that caused in North Holland. Not only are the
dikes broken through in a great many places, but the
waves in numerous instances rose over them, having
reached a height never before known.
In the Duchy of Bremen, many houses were entirely
washed away, and a great many persons perished. The
dikes of the Stor, which runs by Gluckstadt, are broken
in above fifty places. At Gluckstadt, a Greenland
whaler and two barges were forced through the dike,
and carried away two houses on the harbour : thirty
persons ate said to have perished there. The accounts
from the Hanoverian side of the Elbe are equally me-
lancholy ; besides the actual immense damage, the
flood has deposited, in many districts, such vast quan-
tities of sand, that it is feared the fields will not recover
their former fertility for many years.
The accounts from Embden are dreadful beyond all
expression ; even on the Bth, several streets had no
communication with the other parts of the town. A
letter from Steinhausirsiel, on the river Jande, says," the
water rose in an bur and a half (from 9i to 10. in the
evening) fourteen feet above the usual high water mark.
It flowed over the dikes in every part. The flood is said
to have exceeded by four feet that of 1717, the highest
on record, and according to which all the dikes and
other works were calculated."
KONIGSBERG, JANUARY 21.

The magazines of corn annually increase, and some
corn dealers have still quantities of wheat which they
bought six years ago, and on which their loss is very
great. Some cargoes of grain were expected last year,
but the result was not favourable. In the Russian and
Polish provinces which used to send corn hither, the
stock on band increases, because the high duty prevents
importation here. This, indeed, hinders our country from
suffering by exceaive importation; but, on the other
hand, hinders the sale of herrings and colonial produce.

HAARLEM, FEBRUARY 14.

It seems that the whole coast of Overyssel, from
Kampen to Kuinder, is overflowed, and that the water,
impelled by the storm, carried everything before it, so
that very few houses could resist it, and marry persons
lost their lives.
In the province of East Friesland alone, it is supposed
that 200,000 acres of fertile land are under water, and
that 10,000 horned cattle have perished. Accounts from
Husum, on the coast of Holstein, are of a similar na-
ture. It is certain that the numerous small islands on
the coast have suffered severely, as is evident from the
quantity of household furniture, among which are
twenty cradles, that has been washed on shore. There
is no positive information, says a letter from Husum,
but as far as we can see from the beach, only three
houses are left on the island of Kleinmoor, and Sudfail
seems to be entirely washed away. It is estimated that
above two hundred waggon loads of household furni-
tore and other goods are washed on shore.
BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 14.
An the accounts from the northern provinces conti-
nue to give a deplorable picture of the ravages of
the inundations. The letters from Guelderland con-
tain the most melancholy details. The town of Emb-
den has suffered greatly; the tower of Eenrum was
struck by lightniog during the- hurricane, and partly
reduced to ashes.
In the midst of these-dreadful calamities, it is con-
soling to humanity to see with what seal people every
where hastei to the relief of the innumerable victims
Subscriptions have been voluntarily opened on the Ex-
change of Amsterdam, which have produced a million.
of florins. A single house is said to have subscribed
250,000 Rol ins.

,
This forenom ire receivkci hales of the New Totk
Papers to the 25th January. The following is from the
Cosnntercird Advertiser of the 24th January :
BALTIMORE, JANUARY 20.
Faom rua PACIFIC.—The brig Canada, Captain
Hutchins, arrived at this port this morning, from the
Pacific, having left on the 21st September, and
Valparaiso'on the 28th October. Captain Hutchins re-
ports that the Spanish squadron, consisting of the Asia,
64, and the brig Achilles, arrived at Callao on the
12th September. , Admiral Guise, in his frigate of 38
guns, and schooner Macedonia, then, lying under the
Island of San Lorenzo, descried their approach by
means of a telegraph he had established on the Is-
land ; he challenged them to an action, but the
Spaniards declined, and passed to windward, under
a press of sail, for the Castle. Guise remained off the
harbour a hew days, and then went to Huanchacho, to
collect more force. Doting his absence, the Spaniards
had determined on an expedition, destination unknown,
to consist of the Asia, Achilles, ship Esther, of 28
guns ; brig Perrueta, of 18 guns ; and brig Constante,
of seven guns ; with several transports. The return of
Guise on the 6th of October, with an addition to his
force of four of die Colombian squadron, will find
diem other employment. Guise had resumed his old an-
chorage under the Island. General Ramirez had retired
to Suagera. Advice' had reached Lima, of the arrival
at Huanchacho of 1500 men, from Hanoma, under
the convoy of Admiral Spray. Bolivar was at Gua-
mance, marching on for Cusco : the Viceroy was at
Cigniani, thirty leagues from Cusco, to be • joined
by Valdez.

Extract of a letter from New York, January 25 :
" A Merchant of respectability here, has informed me
that he has a letter, which states, that Lima and Callao
were in possession of the Royalists on the 6th of Octo-
ber, but were expected to fall into the hands of the
P.itriots in a short time. A Curacoa Paper says, that a
Spahish Expedition was fitting out ai the Havannah,
against Colombia, but it is not credited here."

In a preceding column we have given some inkerest-
ing intelligence from South America. Letters have
also been. received to the 17th of September, from
Arequipa, in Peru, which tend in some degree to clear
up the obscurity which has lately covered the real state
of affairs in that country. The contest between Ords-
VITA and,Va LD az had been terminated by a Convention,
which gave to the former the government and chief
command of the provinces between the Desaguadero
and Tupiza, and left VALDEZ free to unite his forces with
those of LA SERRA and CANTARAO. OLANETA was una
derstood to retain his own troops, but not to take any
part in the attempt to oppose the progress of BOLIVAR,
and had therefore become neutral in the war. In conse-
quence of orders transmitted from CANTARAC, VALDEZ
was on the-march with all the forces he could collect, to
join him ; and LA SIANA was proceeding from another.
quarter to the place of rendezvous, a town called An-
daguaylas, only a fe* leagues distant from Cuzco, and
where it was calculated that the whole force would be
enabled to assemble from the Ist to the 4th October.
—The union of these reinforcements, it is supposed,
would place about 9,000 troops at the disposal of CAN-
TARAC, with which to make another stand for the pos-
session of Peru. As both CANTARAC and VALDEZ are
said to be Officers of great merit and bravery, there
appeared no doubt of their intention to oppose the ad.
vance of BOLIVAR in that position, and a general en-
gagement was therefore considered inevitable. The
fresident, according to the best accounts, after having
placed garrisons in Huanta, Huancavelica, Huamanga,
and other towns on his line of march, had with him

12,000 troops, all in the best order, and in a state of
discipline and equipment not inferior to those of a Eu-
ropean force. They were all tried soldiers, full of con-
fidence in their Commander, and accustomed to success.
What is perhaps of equal consequence in forming a
conjecture of the result of the encounter, nearly the
whole of the provinces through which the Liberator had
to pass were decidedly favourable to him, and attached
to the cause of independence. The troops under CAN••
TARAC were generally of an inferior description,"being
composed for the ghost part of native Indians, untrained
in habits of discipline and subordination, and of very
doubtful attachment to their leader, not to take into
the account his inferiority to the enemy in numerical
force. The position of BOLIVAR, as it appears to us
from these accounts, was so excellent, that the conse-
quences even of a defeat might soon be repaired, while
that of CANTARAC, on the other hand, would only be
rendered a degree less desperate by a victory. His de-
termination. however, appears to be fixed, to support
the cause of Spain in Pero so long as the slightest
chance of success remained.

It is stated from Portugal, that M. PINNZIRO, the
new Minister of fartign Affairs, will meampany Sir Cmsauts
&TOAST to Brasil, in order to negotiate for the mother country the
best terms that can be obtained, as the price of the recognition of the
independence of the new empire.
Mr. 0-Cosaau. and Mr. SHELL sailed from Dublin
for England on Tuesday morning. More of the Members of the
duals:ion are quickly to follow.
A Petition for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate,
the Pasco Peouvisst Mama Cossmwv, was presented last night to
the House of Commons.

-Accounts received from India of a late date state,
that there has been another battle with the Burmese,,
and that on the 13th of September our troops carried
two stockades.