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London, England, 1815-02-14 00:00:00

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LONDON"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1813.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al' TWILLYB O'CLOCX t
Reduced 641-4 per Ct. Bli-5 per Ct. Navy 931
Consols 63i 64—for account, 64$—Omntum
Batik Long Anus. 16 5-16ths—Boudi Ids, 171. pre.
li:chequer Bills 31. to Gs. prem.

We have received Paris Papers of Friday : they
contain some sprightly articles. The annexation of
Belgium to Holland, the eternuns sub /lettere vulnue,
with all Frenchmen whose intellects are not yet
sobered by adversity, or who cannot participate in
the enjoyments resulting from a cessation of hostilities
throughout Europe These persons magnify the
discontents of the Belgians : they eagerly seize upon
the exclamations of the rabble, or the manifestations
of a few stupid Priests who are their leaders, and tell
tit that this spirit is one of friendship for France and
Fletestation of England. The refusal of the latter to
ling Te Deem for the deliverance of Belgium, is (pot-
ied in the Paris Journals as a striking indication of
ithis mischievous spirit. They ask what deliverance
he* the Belgians experienced ? Really this question
!might come with a good grace from Elba ; but from
?aria we expect some more liberality. Have the
ißmigians no feelings as men, and do they not rejoice
see common With all mankind at the overthrow of

180NAPARTE and his execrable system, even if their
own individual condition is not yet bettered ?

We observe with satisfaction, that the Prefect of
ode of the southern departments of France, who in-
tercepted the glorious intelligence of April last from
reaching SOULT, and thereby occasioned the desperate
battle of Thoulouse, has been put upon his trial. It
will take place on the 23d instant.

Just as our Paper was going to press, we received
the Paris Papers of Saturday. The accounts from
Rome reach to the 24th ultimo, at which time no
Neapolitan troops had made their appearance s
MURAT and the Pope, however, are said to be at is-
sue, and the former has intimated that he will oc-
cupy. the Papal territories until the Allies give him
the States which he pretends they have guaranteed
to him. The disputes respecting Saxony are de-
scribed as settled. The last note of Austria is said
to have been friendly in the extreme, and Prussia,
I with her consent, now gets the greater part of Saxony.
A letter from Ghent contradicts entirely the re-
port of the Belgian Clergy having refused to sing
is Dann for the deliverance of their country : matters
of etiquette between the civil and religious Authori-
ties alone occasioned the delay in the celebration.
The Piris Papers are still filled with the pleadings
i!1 the cause between the Count and Countess de Sr.
Lau (the Es-king and Queen of Holland) respect-
iog the custody of their son.
The reports from Vienna are very contradictory :
one article states that all is settled respecting Saxony,
and another asserts as positively, that the Ex-King
pertinaciously refuses to cede a single inch of his ter-
ritory. He says the Allies can never consider Saxony
as a conquered country, for they never declared war
against him. This is precisely the kind of logic we
may expect from a Jesuit King with a Jesuit Priest
at his elbow, for Faller SCHNEIDER/ his Confessor, is
also his Minister and adviser : in this his Majesty re-
sembles the beloved FERDINAND of Spain.

In common with all the friends of the human race,
we exulted at the overthrow of a tyrant who had
trampled on all Yaws—who was influenced by no
one motive but that of personal ambitiod, and made
no other estimate of the value of human beings than
as they could be made instruments in his hands to
obtain the object of his desire. In common with all
the friends of humanity, we rejoiced at the overthrow
of a system which threatened to drive Europe back,
and at no very distant period, to a state of barbarism.
In common with the lovers of social order, legitimate
authority, and impartially administered laws, we par-
ticipated in the general joy of Europe on the emanci-
pation of her general family and the hoped for restora-
tion of the individual portions of Sovereignty under
which she had before made so much progress in those
principles and arts which serve to ameliorate the con-
dition of humanity, and to foster the better passions of
the mind—philanthropy and universal benevolence.
And in unison with the feelings of every honest Bri-
tish bosom, we felt proud at the noble part that had
been acted by -our common country ; the high cha-
racter we had attained among the nations of the
world, and the commanding influence which our
Government appeared to have acquired, and from
which we anticipated the most happy results in the
arrangements necessary to be made in re-organizing
the long-deranged movements of the complicated
machine of European polity :
But our hopes were perhaps too sanguine; and we
confess with grief, that we look with regiet and dis-
appointment at every thing that has occurred since
the capture of Paris, excepting only the restoration
of the Bourbons. We had hoped that the Potentates
of Europe, in the days of their distress, degradation,
captivity ! had learnt a lesson which they would not
only remember but act upon in the days of returning
prosperity.
We had some reason to count upon this with a cli..
gree of confidence. Their acts, their protestations,
their proclamations to the people of Europe, we con-
, sidered as sacred pledges that the rights and privi-
leges of all would be respected. 13y long experience

*e had bier, 'taught the true vbilue of all professions
and proclamations of the. French Government : by
an equally long experience we knew that the *Go-
vernment of this happy country had uniformly sought
only the overthrow of an execrable tyrant and the re-
storation of the llgitimate Govetnmcnte of the
Continent—that they sought not the aifgraittlise-
ntent of Britain or an increase of her territories

at the expense of the prostrated nations of Europe.
—All this we contemplated, and we v.•,,re wak
enough to believe, that each of the Powers of the
Continent would feel so overjoyed at a resuk so un- I
expected—the overthrow, the annihilation of their
enemy's power, and the restoration or Oidividual
possessions enure, that room would not Love been left
in their breasts in which to stow the smallest portion
of any neighbour's possession.
But what have we seen !—Enough to fill our minds
with despair as to the future prospects of Europe.—
Let not England deceive hersef. The seeds of future
convulsions are already sown, and already it is time
for this country to look forward to the storm. But
let us not be misundentool We mean rot to blame,
in the smallest degree, the conduct of Ministers,.
We sincerely believe they have done every thing that
was in their power to prevent the blameable arrange-
ments that have taken place, and to provide against,
or rather to ward off the evils which they threaten; but
we had only one voice at the Congress ; and we fear we
had no choice but to comply or to withdraw cntirely.
—We hesitate not in saying that our opinion is, that

it would have been better for the world that we had
withdrawn. The motive for the act would at least
have brought one other feeling into play—that of
Shame I The dividers of Europe would have felt
ashamed to proceed in their system of partitions and
equivaleatr, had Britain boldly said 44 Do so on your
own resisoutibiliey, for you shall not have even the
semblance .of our sanction."

We shall only add, that could the possibility of
such results have been foreseen, it would have been
much betta for the Continent, as well at for this
country, hid we left the powers of the Continent to
make all their own arrangements, without any inter-
ference whatever on our part. The desire to obtain
our approbation, ultimately, to the measures they
might have adopted, would have had a powerful in-
fluence in restraining the cupidity of some of the
Powers. But who could have foreseen *hat has
taken place ? Neither the Ministers nor those who
are loudest in censuring their conduct.

Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at
Carlton House, which was numerously attended.
It is said an Illustrious Personage has appointed
the Earl of GRANARD to the Office of the Hanaper,
in Ireland; and that the Elrls of Ronmx, LIMERICK,
and CIIARLEVILLE, are to be immediately created
I'eers of Great Britain, which will occasion three va-
cancies in the Representative Peerage of Ireland.

Yesterday another interview took place between
Lord LIVERPOOL and a number of the Members of
both Houses of Pm-Lament, on the subject of the
Cora Laws. It is said that the subject of considera-
tion was, whether the import duty should commence
at 75 or at 80s. the quarter?

Busau.—This day the Lord Mayor ordered the
price of Bread to be raised Half an Assize, which is
One Penny in the Peck Loaf.
The Sussex innkeepers have in general reduced the
price of posting, and lowered the price of feed one-
third, or from 6d. to 4d.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION. (Third Day.) -- State of
the Poll this day, at twelve o'clock :

Mr. BARCLAY
Mr. W. 1. BO IRDETT

1189
9dl.

We ate sorry to hear that another very considerable
mercantile failure took place in the City yesterday
morning. The sum stated is said to exceed £300,000.

The fine statue of his late Majesty, Grano& the
Second, is about to be removed from Stephen's Green,
in Dublin, to Marion-square, for which the Palma
REGENT's rmission has been obtained.
The will of Joanna Southcott is still in abeyance.—
She is said to have left property to the amount of
413000, and Parson Tor.= and Mrs. UNDERWOOD are
the residuary legatees.
BONAPARTE is desirous of giving the town of Porto
Ferrajo the name of Cosmopoli.
The Austrijsns are augmenting their forces in Italy,
and placing all the garrisons on a complete footing.
We stated yesterday, in the greater part of our
limpression, the arrival of the Maria Francisca, from
the Havannah, with intelligence tif considerable im-
portance respecting the British expedition under Ad-
nsiral COCHRANE, destined for New Orleans. The
port at which this vessel has arrived is Portsmouth,
and not Liverpool, as stated by mistake. The report
which we gave yesterday, on the authority of some
passengers, who came by the Maria Francisca, -was,
that the British troops, incapable of proceeding to the
mouth of the Mississippi in the heavy ships of war,
constituting the maritime strength of the armament,
had embarked on board transports and other light
vessels which could pass the shoals in that situation
but they were still intercepted by fire-ships, piles,
and other expedients of defence to which the enemy
had resorted, to protect the entrance of the river.—
Under this difficulty, it was added, that the British
landed, and were subsequently compelled to re-em-
bark, by the powerful resistance given by the Ame-
ricans, whose force under JACKSON, who commands
the 7th military division, is calculated, with the Ken-
tucky and Tenessee recruit at about 10,000 men.
It is but proper to add, however, that there is an
abunAsince of letters in town: from the Havana!, of
variOes dates up to the 9th of January, which do not
%Ike the slightest allusion to any such unfortunate
octurrences. We apprehend, therefore, that the
whole is a fabrication of the American resideots rtt
the Havannah i and we have as yet no good reason
whatever to *doubt the ultimate success of our Expe-
dition, which we trust has by this time inflicted a
severe chastisement on the New Orleans division of
the American States.

- Pur,a INTELLIGENCE.

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THE STARLING AND MARY ANN E.l sr-IND 1A!,,m4.
The two ships above tnentioned sailed from IttFA
under convoy of his Majesty's ship DESIREE, at.Li it
will be remembered they parted compar:y on the pas-
sage, and as the DrArtza fell in with an American
privateer the next day, great fears were entertained
for their safety ; they were fortunate enouxh to escape
the enemy, but the Starling in coming up Ci;annel
went on share yesterday mor:rittg at fain a acci:,
near Be,ch3 -head, where sbe n‘rw iics with her masts
cut away— :rew and passengers saved.

The Kay Ann his arrived, but the following
extract from Scilly wlll relate in what state :

" SCILLY, PCB. 9.—Came in the Mary Ann East-
Indiarnan, from Madras, last from Ole Cape, in great
distress. She is one of the ships that parted from the
convoy—when off the Wcctern Islaaiis she shirped a
sea that carried away her whed, binnacle, bulk .hea3r,
and cabin-work ; nearly cleared her decks.
Her foremast is sprung,, ant p. 14 t of her caigo has
been thrown overboard."

Information was this day received Ott the India
Holm!, stating, that the Comp:int '3 ships Bombay,
C:thalva, Lady Ni -Mlle, and Neptuae,
Convoy ori his Majety's ship Owes Gtexpowt,s,
arrived in blalacca Road; on the 91st Angitit la-t,
and weze to leave on the :n:1 for WhatripAi.