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egging largely, whkh has had en 'drawable Act Ms the
Market, but Consols remain at $Ol file ills Amami. slid 1100olt
Money.—Private letters bring the price of the Trench Ptah cm
Monday at iser. 25c.

CURRINT PRICES%
S per Cent. Consols 801/8 !4 SO
5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 103% tilt 44
Imperial 3 per Cents. 801/5-India Bonds 40s. pre.
Eschequer Bills of £l,OOO, par, 2s. pr.
Ditto £5OO, and Small, Ss. 6s. 4s. pr.
Consols for Acct. 8044 Vs.

Another instance of the sincerity of the professions
made by Ministers for economy and retrenchment
was last night exhibited in the House of Lords, on a
motion made by Lord KING, for a reduction in that
part of the Civil List which relates to Ambassadors
and Ministers at foreign Courts. It appears that in
the year 1791, the whole allowance to Ambassadors,
not including pensions, Consuls, &c. was L'75,005,
and then we employed twenty-three Diplomatists ;
now the number is only twenty-one, and the amount
of salaries is £1 33,840, exclusive of Secretaries of Le
gation, Consuls, &c. and a sum of £61,809, last year,
for outfits, extraordinaries, and presents.

In 1791, Earl GOWER (now Marquis of STAFFORD),
ow Ambassador at the Court of France, received
£8320 a year; now, Sir CHARLES STUART has
£ll,OOO a year, and a house, the purchase of which
cost the country nearly £30,000. There is a proport
tionate increase in the salary to our Ambassador to
Austria, Lord STEWART, whe has £12,000 a year,
and whose office is nearly a sinecure, as his Lodshrip
spends very little of his time at Vienna. But the
favourite and relative of the Nlarquis of LONDON-
DERRY is the best paid. In the time of PHILIP the
Third, the States-General of Holland used to carry
their provision with them into the Assembly, which
made the Spanish Ambassador write to his Master to
conclude a peace with them, as he could never con-
quer men who thought so little of their own comforts,
and sacrificed everything to their zeal for their coun-
try.—Now Lord CLANCARTY has a sum of £13,000 a
year to enable him alternately to enliven a couple of
Dutch towns by his presence. This is the Nobleman
who was an Ambassador abroad, and a Postmaster-
General at home at the same time, and who, during
two years of the time he held the latter office, was
never within a hundred leagues of London. Our Am-
bassador at Florence, Lord Buttonzamt, has £3900,
and yet his Lordship has long resided in England,
relinquishing the cares of diplomacy for the more im-
portant duty of writing Italian Dramas for the Co-
vent-Garden Oratorio. But Switzerland is the worst
diplomatic job of the whole. Switzerland, where
there is no business which could not be done by a
Consul or a Charge d'Affaires, for the old salary of
£250, actually costs this country the extravagant
sum of £1590 a year. The increase in the salaries of
Ambassadors, since 1791, is £58,000 a year, inde-

pendent of several extraordinaries, which are much
greater than formerly. Now, as it is notorious that
the expense of living abroad is not increased since
1791, the augmentation of salary is uncalled for, and
a clear saving of £.58,000 per annum may be effected,

without the slightest wrong to any individual, and
without in the most remote degree affecting the
public service ; yet Ministers refuse to make the
reduction.

This forenoon we received the French Papers to
Monday. Those of Saturday do not contain a single
article of importance. On that day the Chamber of
Deputies were engaged in discussing an amendment
made by the Chamber of Peers, on the seccnd article
of the law for repressing offences of the Press.—
The only subject of debate seemed to be whether. the
charter was a boon from the Sovereign or a Consti-
tutional right of the Nation. The Amendment of the
Peers was adopted, when the Chamber proceeded to
vote on the whole law, which was adopted by a
majority of 245 to 99. The Budget next came under
consideration, when several of the items proposed
were agreed to. -
The foreign and domestic news in these Papers is
very scanty. Lena: from Saumur state that a num-
ber of persons, amounting to between thirty and forty,
have been arrested for their share in the plot of Gene-
ral BIRTHON. They have been sent to Poictiers
for trial.

Accounts from Argos, of the 24th January, state
that the Greek Congress had terminated its delibera-
tions, after having formed a Supreme Government
for Greece, to the sovereignty of which all the local
Juntas were to submit. This Government consisted
of fifty Members.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents. Friday, 89f. 70c
Saturday, 89f. 95c.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, DATED
bf ARCH 21.

R The disturbances occasioned by the preaching of the Mis-
sionaries In the Rue des Petits Pares, are subsiding into that
mode of attack which generally forms the finale of every French
explosion—jokes, puns, and vaudevilles or ballads. A holy father
was last week expatiating on the miraculous riches acquired by
St. Crispin, the shoemaker, when one of the congregation ex-
claimed, that he must have stolen the leather—and the laughter

of the assemblage rendered the remainder of the discourse in-
audible. This will give you some idea of the taste displayed by
the Missionaries in the selection of subjects, and of the spirit
with which their exploded legends arc received : but it is easier
is order out the National Guard, or a regiment of Swiss, than
to procure respect for Monkish mountebanks, or stop the torrent
of lyrical ridicule, which resounds within the very precincts of
les Petits Pere&

" By a dexterous mismanagement not often exhibited out of
France, all parties have contrived to be wrong in the recent dis-
turbances. The Liberah and PrOftilbalb of Toleration were eini-

aptly culpable In their intolerant and turbulent sisluiti npott
Priests recognised by the law, however knavish or fanatical.—
The Government evinced little wisdom in the alacrity with
which they made their appeal to sabres and bayonets, and thus

identlfiedilsentseVres with the zealots and their maudlin miracles.
And finally, the Missionaries themselves were to blame for ob-
stinately persevering in the exercise of their calling, amid the
clatter of cavalry, and the ringing of masques, with a certainty
that under such circumstances, no benefit could accrue to rai-
-1 gion, end a probabllity that the disturbances they were gene-
rating, by opposing the public wish, might seriously endanger the
State. It is to be hoped that all parties may benefit by their
blunders, so as not to have hereafter the remembrance of a folly
perpetrated in vain."

Boston Papers arrived this morning to the 27th
of February.
BOSTON, FEBRUARY ER.
FROM CIIILI AND PERU.

Eitract of a letter received at New York by the
arrival of the ship Washington at Nantucket :
- -

" VALPAIAISO, Oct . 27.—The fortress of Callao surrendered
on the list of September, and this event, for the present, has
settled the war in Pern, but La Serna will join Ramirez at
Arequipa, and the Spanish army there will then be very consi-
derable. Yesterday arrived the whale ship Loan, front the
United States. Of the three English vessels bent in here for ad-
judication, the ships Lord Sheffield and EdwardEllice have been
cleared, and the brig Indian condemned.
" Oct. 31.-=-Yesterday arrived the schooner Amman, thirty
days from Callao, privately dispatched by Lord Cochrane to the
Government with a small part of the specie (50,000 dollars) he
took from Gneral San Martin, for the purpose of opening the
way for his charges against him. The Protector dispatched
another schooner, on the same day, with dispatches. This is
becoming a very serious business: Lord Cochranemanages well,
but I think he has too many against him: he now confines him-
self to his ship, fearing that if he trusts himself on shore, the
Protector might put him in prison, as he did an inferior Officer
who was engaged in taking the money.—The Amanda has ar-
rived in twenty-five days from Guayaquil, with freight. In
that place things are very unsettled, and the Government there
dues not manage Its affairs well. In the late Revolution, the
ship Emp.rorAkzander,was taken by the Itoyal party, and car-
tied to Panam.., and the brig Ann was sunk. There is a report
that San Bias has declared In favour of the Patriots."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CARACCAS, JAN. 19.

4, The United States schooner Spark is now cruizing

in the Mono Passage ; a Danish brig is cruizing be-
tween Laguira and St. Thomas's; and the English sloop
of war,Falmouth, sailed on Monday for Porto Cabello,
to inform General Torres that the English Govern-
ment will not admit of a blockade, and if the Spanish
cruizers attempt to capture a British ship, they will
take every Spanish vessel they meet with, in reta-
liation, England not choosing to admit of a privateer
blockade. Twenty-four vessels were lying at Laguira,
and markets dull.

The Maine Gazette says, we are enabled to state,
for the information of our commercial friends,
4, That, from various sources of unquestionable au-
thority, it is understood that the Ministry of Great
Britain are inclined soon to relax their Navigation
'Laws, as they respect the West India Colonies of that ,
country, so far as to admit nur vessels to a full par-
ticipation of the trade, subject, however, to a duty
upon our products, with a view to favour those of
their Northern Colonies."

The situations -of Governor at Portsmouth, Ply-
mouth, Windsor Castle, Edinburgh Castle, and va-
rious other places, are mere sinecures, and the sala-
ries are very high—oome of them from £l,OOO to
£2,000 per annum. They are chiefly held by opu-
lent Generals, who ate full Colonels of Regiments
besides, and mostly live in the sunshine of the Court.
The Scotsman observes, with respect to Mr. Poet's
argument for maintaining two Postmasters-General,
namely, that the office was a century old, that it had
escaped Mr. Bunxes pruning knife, and that the re-
venue and business of the Post Office had quadrupled
since 178$, " that the business of the Justiciary Court
of Scotland has increased many fold within the same
period, without adding one iota to the duties of the
Lord Justice General, whose office has existed for a
century, escaped Mr. Bunxe's reforms, and yet, after
all, is entirely useless."
" We lament to state that a diabolical spirit, simi-
lar to that which has been manifested in other parts,
in the destruction of farming stock by fire, has shewn
itself in this county. About eight o'clock in the even-
ing of Tuesday last, a straw stack, containing GO
loads, standing in the yard of Mr. Baker, of Denton
Court, near Gravesend, was discovered to be on fire.
In a few minutes the flames became truly awful ; but
the wind fortunately blowing from the buildings and
the other stacks, and the prompt arrival of several en-
gines from Gravesend, Northfleet, and Rochester, the
fire was confined to the stack in which it originated,
and which was totally consumed. From all- the in-
formation that can be obtained, there is too much rea-
son to apprehend that it was the act of an incendiary,
and that the object in view was the destruction of a
threshing machine which was in an adjoining barn.—
The man who first discovered the fire, perceived in
the stack a light about the size of a lantern, and in a
moment the whole side of the stack was in a blaze.
In a few minutes afterwards Mr. Brenchley, who re-
sides at Denton Court, in passing through the yard,
was run against by a man, who dropped a light and
made off; Mr. Brenchley instantly extinguished it,
and on going to the spot the following morning, he
found a tobacco-pipe, but little used, broken in
pieces. On Saturday night another stack, consisting
of stubble, standing about half a mile from the above,
and belonging to Mr. Jarvis Noakes, of Shorne, was
discovered to be on fire and totally destroyed.—'l
This appears more to have been set on fire to occasion
alarm than anything else, as a large stack of wheat
stood a short distance off, and might have been as easily
fired. We cannot speak too highly of the alacrity with
which the several engines arrived at both places, and
the great exertions used by the i.tighbours to yell
the flames and preserve the remaining property.—
This part of the county is at present in a state •f
great alarm: every exertion is making to find out the
miscreants, and liberal rewards are offered for their
apprehension, which, we trust, will lead to detection.
A shocking accident happened at the former fire
to one of the firemen belonging to the Kent Office
engine from Rochester, who, in jumping off the en-
gine before it had stopped, was run over, the wheel
passing over his head and chest. Medical assistance
was immediately procured, but he lingeied in great
agony till the following day, when he expiic.l.
1 Maidstone Journal.