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'subject' of tongratulatiod. ilis Highness, however,
still in this capital, residing as hitherto in the Palace of
Prince Schwartzenburg, and will not go, as we hear, to
his new destination till the spring.

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Hamburgh Papers to the 22d inst. reached us
forenoon, from which we make the followirig.estta
ST. PETERSBURG% JANUARY S.
We have heard it stated as certain, that there is as
intention of giving to the Neva a new and, straight
course, for the purpose of preserving the bridges on
the breaking up of the ice, and preventing the interrup-
tion of the communication between the different parts
of the city; perhaps, ton, the danger that threatens the
lower parts of the cit y,by iturndltions,would he lessened
by the execution of this project. The able:A engineeri
are already employed in surveying the ground, and a
corps of soldiers will be employed in this undertaking.
The day before yesterctry Te Deem, was performed
with great solemnity in the Cathedral Church, in honour
of the 12th anniversary .of the deliverance of Russia
from Bonaparte.
The Chariitable Committee for Artisans who are re-
duced to poverty by the late inundation, has received
25,000 rubles from ,Holland, through the medium of
M. Streglitz, the Banker.
The subscriptions at Moscow already Mount to
150,000 rubles.
The second of this month was ob!erved in all the
Protestant communities as a day of fasting and humj-
Lotion, in commemorati, n of the late inundation.

HANOVER, JANUARY ts.
The 12th No. of the Collection of the L aws contains
a circular letter of the consistory, to all the General
and Special Superintendants, &c. relative to the Cen-
sorship of the Press ; in which, referring to the Royal
Edicts on the same subject, of 14th October, 180, end
9th September, 1824, the ancient edicts *f 1705 and
1731 are mentioned, by which no subject or inhabitant
of the country, whoever he may be, shall have anything
printed, however little or trifling, in or out of the
country, till it has been laid before the Censor, and ap-
proved, on pain of a fine of 50 dollars. A copy of this
circular is to be sent'to every Clergyman, to be deposited
in the archives of the parish.

By the latest Papers from the United States, which
are to the 2d instant, we learn that the merchants of
Boston have strongly petitioned Congress for the adop-
tion of severe measures against the Pirates. Mr.
LLOYD, who presented the Petition to the Senate, de-
clared it was in unison with the voice of the whole
country, which called for vengeance on these blood-
hounds ; and that scarcely a day passed that was not
marked by some new recital of murder and plunder
perpetrated by them on the lives and property of Ame-
rican Citizens. The Senate appeared to pay great at-
tention to this Petition, and it is expected that they will
empower the Executive to act, as the emergency may
require, with promptness and energy.
On the motion for a Committee. in the House of Re-
presentatives,to consider the claims of citizens who had
suffered by our invasion of the territory of the United
States in the last war, two Members declaimed with
great acrimony against our mode of warfare, as preda-
tory, savage, and.unnecessarily injurious to individuals.
It is,however,somewhat curious,that of the two Members
of the House ofitepresentatives, both alike unfriendly to
England, one refines the charge of the other, as applied
to England. Mr. WILLIAMS opposes indemnity to the
sufferers, stating that the refusal would serve to ani-
mate the citizen-soldier on the frontier to repel the
enemy—that is, according to every rational version,
would render the destruction of ,his property by the
invader at once unavoidable and justifiable. Mr. CAM•
RIMMING'S argument, contrary to his intentions, we sup-
pose, produces a sufficient apology for those troop:whoa%
he accuses ,of wanton devastation and violence. He
advocates the claims of the sufferers, and proves they
have a right to indemnity, inasmuch as " wherever by
military occupation property has acquired a military
character, it is rendered liable to destruction by the
enemy." It is, however, proper to add, that the two
worthy members are not persons of any great consider-
ation in America, for their talents or influence. The
current of authority sets the other way.
Intelligence from Madrid to the 14th inst. states, that
encouraged by the good sense and moderation of a pa:t
of the Ministry, the Ambassadors of the Foreign Powers
had demadded the suppression of Military Commissions.
and that of the Tribunals of Purification. Their de-
mand is said to have proved successful so far, that the
individuals who had-not yet purified themselves, were
to do it before the ordinary tribunals. Official intelli-
gence of our determination to recognize the indepen-
dence of the States of Mexico, Colombia, and Buenos
Ayres, had reached the Spanish Government on the
10th of the present month. The effect which it produced
on the King and his Counsellors is not mentioned, but
private advices represent our act as destroying the last
hope which the Spanish Government still retained of
reconquering its insurgent colonies with the aid of fo-
reign troops. Instead of making vain efforts to send
expeditions against South America, FIUIDIWAND ought
to protect his own coasts from the attacks of Colombian
privateers and Algetine corsairs, by whom they are so
thickly infested, especially the Straights of Gibraltar
that Spanish merchant vessels cannot pass from the
European to tote African side without incurring great
of being taken.

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Yesterday, the Lords of his Majesty's Privy Council
assembled for the first time this season at the new ternporas7 Coun-
cil Office, in. Whitehall.place, to hear French Appeals.
• Yesterday aiternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office, Downiakstreet, which roe
attended by the F,arls of Llvaarota., Wavratoiu-tway and liatinuurr.
Mr. Secretary Prat, Mr. Secretary CANNING, lIKCJIANCIOLLOS of
the Simi:was, Viscount filiamata, Mr. Wawa, Mr. livricik
SON, &c. The Cabinet broke up soon after five o'clock.