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London, England, 1822-10-03 00:00:00

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freemen, raw..
enemies of liberty. These brave Italians were soon
succoured and delivered, and thus the affair of 4313:
ronne was decided in favour of the sacred cause of
the country.
A letter from Rocroy, of the 27th of September,
says—" A fire, which broke out here last night, his
spread the greatest consternation. Towards midnight
the flames burst oat with great violence in a brewery
of considerable extent, which in -an instant it con-
mimed, es well as two neighbouring boilJings. The
[Preservation

of the finest street of the city is owing
to the devotion which the-inhabitants, the Authorities,
and a detachment of the 47th regiment of the line
exhibited. A heavy shower of rain, svlth happily
fell at the time, served to check the Barnes, which it
would otherwise have been dNficult to get under, from
the scarcity of water. The amount otloss cannot be
yet guessed at. It must have been very great. Most
of the buildings, however, were insured.'
The tribunal of Correctional Police at Metz has
given
judgment upon the prosecution of the Public
Ministers against Lamort and Bouquillon, Editors of
the Abbeille de la Moak, for an article in that Paper
of the Sd of September, entitled " An historical rela-
tion of the events which took place at Colmar." The li
article was charged to be written with a view to excite
the people to a hatred of the King's Government.—i
The sentence of the Court was—a month's imprison-
ment, and a fine of 150 francs upon Lamort, and 40
days and 200 francs upon Bouquillen.
A frightful storm was experienced on the 20th of
this month at Marseilles. For a whole hour thunder,
wind, rain, and hail, prevailed to such a degree as
to put. an end to all laboun The streets were covered
with hail-stones of an immense size, and two-thirds
of the windows were broken.
FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER 24.
During the first weeks of the fair, nothing was heard
but complaints of the bad tern of affairs. In the se-
cond week these •complaints ceased, and at present
the fair is very good. What has contributed to this
change are precisely the circumstances which ap-
peared to prejudice the sale of merchandize. They
expected to see restrictions applied in other parts of
Germany, and increase the Customs. The buyers
coming from different parts of 'Germany, in which,
although forming part of the association of Darm-
stadt, no Ordonnances have yet appeared as in Ba-
vaiia and Wirtemberg, and the Great Dukedom of
Baden, against the importation of foreign merchan-
-clize, are in haste to 611 their stores before the prohi-
bition is given, which has favoured very much the
sale of both French and English goods.

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Sir York Papers anfited this morning to the 25th
August. 'The Paper of the 22d August contains au
account of the fire ats New York, which is far from
being of that magnitude reported yesterday :
FROM Txa NZW YORK GA.ZZIVE ON VIZ 220 MIGPIT.
41 Alvin eight o'clock last evening a fire broke out
at the great depot of naval stores opposite the Coffee-
house Slip, on Long Island. In a few minutes several
stores, and sheds filled with naval stores, &c. were in
a vivid blase. The illnminition was sublimely grand,
and on the city side attracted asi assemblage of
thousands of spectators, who filled our wharfs and
stores on the river side, and hundreds were seen on
the hills in the rear of the flames. The wind was
very light from the S.S.W. and the flames received
but little aid which was not derived from the com-
bustibility of several thousand barrels of naval stores,
which, like the lava of Mount Vesuvius, spread a
most interesting sheet of fire over an extensive wharf
to the river, and presenting a most splendid blaze to
the surface of the water: The stores were princl-•
pally owned by Mr. Henry Warning, and were rented
by Captains Waite and Merry, who. had in stowage
the property of numerous individuals.
" Since the above was in type, we learn that the
property destroyed includes Thomas Armstrong's
porter-house and store-yard, Messrs.Vandever's porter-
house, J. Tuttle's dwelling-house, and the stores of
Warning. It is supposed that the buildings contained
about 1400 bales of cotton, and 12,000 barrels of
naval stores. The naval stores may be estimated at
about 24,000 dollars, and the cotton at about .56,000
dollars, making a loss (including the buildings) of
about 100,0(X) dollars. The brick store of Messrs-
Warning and Hemberly, full of cotton, is the only
building which was not laid in ashes. It is not known
how the fire originated, but it is presumed to be the
work of an incendiary."
Fevaa.—The following Notice has been issued
Nzw Yeas, Au 0.23.
" To MO PII.IIOIIDINT OF TIM BOA 111) OF MULTI&

• The case of the Fever at the corner of Wall and New-street'
having excited unusual apprehensions in the public mind, from
the fast of the patients not having been in, or probably near, the
infected district, I think it proper to state, that the disease, though
attended with sane suspicious symptoms, has not yet exhibited
any unequivocal evidence of malignity. ".1. D. BLISS."
PROM THE MERCANTILE ADVERTISER Or AUGUST 23.
The Board of Health at Baltimore has resolved
that no vessel (craft excepted) from any port or
place, particularly from New York, shall be permit-
ted to come into any dock to unload north of Cam-
den-street, until the 15th of October, without first
being examined by a Commissioner of'Health.

NORTH-WEST LAND EXPEDITION.
MONTREAL, AUGUST 17.

Through the politeness of a Gentleman who has
just arrived in this city from a distant port in the
North-west territory, we have received intelligence
that the Expedition which was fitted out by direction
of the Admiralty in the summer of 1819, under the
orders of Lieutenant Franklin, was on its return to
Hudson's Bay. The Expedition advanced as near to
the Copper Mine River in the following year as the
approaching winter would permit ; and in the spring
of the last year, having embarked the canoes which
they had carried overland with them, they descended
that river until it discharged itself into the Hyper-
borean or Frozen Ocean. -
The Expedition then proceeded in the execution of
its ulterior object, namely, to explore the coast of the
Polar Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River
round to Hudson's Bay. This, however, it would
appear from the information we hive been able to
collect, it could no further effect than by, surveying
a few hundred miles of the coast to the northward
and eastward, the winter having set in towards the
end of August with such severity that it obliged the
party to return. It does not appear fi om the arrange-
ment that was made, that land marks should be
placed by either Captain Parry or Lieutenant ank-
lin when they should first arrive at certain-points a'
they proceeded, that the former had reached so far
as the party of the latter.
Several deaths had occurred, among whom Mr
Wood, nine Canadians, and one Esquimaur. It i;
stated that, from the observations made in this expe-
dition, the mouth of the Copper Mine River differs
by several degrees of latitude from that laid down
by Hearn.

The United States Papers do not contain much in-
telligence relative to South America. An article
from Caraccas, dated August 1, states that it was
the intention of General PAEZ to retire to Valencia
during the rainy season. Accounts from Rio Janeiro
to the 10th July, state that an expedition, consisting
of two frigates, three sloops of war, and two gun-
brigs, had been fitted out at Rio, and were on the
point of sailing against Bahiamhere General MADEIRA
had 3,000 Portuguese troops.

The Americans have revised and made great its-
provemenu in their Criminal Code. With the me-
lancholy conviction before their eyes, in the uniformly
sanguinary instances of British justice, that the great
frequency of capital punishment does not prove the
most effectual or moral remedy against the commis-

smimilm.0•0••••

*NAVE been received from Bahia to the ?f,th
of July, by wheels it appear. that the expedition which
railed from Lisbon early in Jelne, and which was re•
ported in the advises brought by the last packet to
have leached its destination safely, had not arrived
at Babia 6y 'the date abovementioned. The expedi•
tion from Rio de Janeiro, dispatched to the assist•
ante of the party contending for independence, had
also not arrived. General MADIRIA, the Mili:ary
Governor at Bahia, had intelligence of the sailing of
the expedition from Lisbon, and had in consequence
equipped sit vessels of war, to cruise off the port of
St. Salvador, in order to facilitate the entrance of the
expedition from Portugal, in the event of its being at•
tacked by the R ioJaneiro squadron. At Bahia, no event
of importance had occurred, but the situation of affairs
denoted the approach of an important crisis. The Go-
vernor was proceeding to strengthen himself in his po-
sitions, and to guard against surprize on the part of
the inhabitants. The communication with the inte-
rior was wholly cut off, and all business suspended.
It was greatly feared that the inhabitants of Bahia,
in the difficulty of accomplishing by any other means
the independence they desired,would emancipate and
put arms into the hands of the black population—a
measure that might be followed by the most dis-
astrous consequences to the province. It forms a
striking feature of the contest for ascendency at Bahia
between the Portuguese and the Brazilian interests,
that while two armies, the subjects of the same Power,
were on the point of encountering on shore, there were
two fleets at sea, nearly equal in point of strength, in
the same predicament. The squadron of the PaniClt
REGENT is dispatched for the purpose of intercepting
that fitted out by the Cortes and his father, the King
of PORTUGAL ; and should the fleets come to an action,
Brazil being nominally, at least, still under the domi-
nion of Portugal, they would actually engage under
the same flag.

The Duke and Duchess of CL A RENCF. are expected
to arrive on Saturday or Sunday next at Bushy Park,
from the Continent.

The Dowager Marchioness of Loma°NoEnny hns
left Sir WILLIAM JAMES'S seat in Wilts, for Bolder
Wood Lodge, Hants.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was in Exeter on Friday
last, and viewed the antiquities and beauties of the
Cathedral, with which he expressed himself much
delighted,

The Duke of MaNtata.tat arrived yesterday evening at the
Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from his seat, Kimbolton Casee,
Huntingdonshire.

The Duchess of KENT, and the Princess her daugh-
ter, were present last week at the Isle of Thanet Races,
and seemed much amused. On her Royal Highness
arriving en the Course, she was waited upon by the
Stewards, Sir E. KNATCHBULL and Mr. WA RRE, and
her carriage placed near the winning-post.
Thursday last, the tenantry of the Rev. Sir ABRA-
HAM ELTON, Bart. met his agent at Goodman's Hotel,
the Hope and Anchor, Redcliff-hill, Bristol, where
the agent expressed the determination of his worthy
patron to make the abatement of his rents £4O per
cent. when the tenantry cheerfully paid the amount
of his demands.

A Correspondent at Portsmouth says As'a proof
of the estimation the new Marriage Act is held in tl:ii
place, there has not been one mechanic, tradesman,
or independent person, mariied there since its pass-
ing. The only persons that have consented to no-
dergo its fiery ordeal, are three sailors, two soldiers,
and two marines."

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.-.—LaSt night the Co-
medy of Speed the Plough was performed at this
Theatre, when a Gentleman, named EVANS, from the
Bath Theatre, made his first appearance before a
London audience, in the-character of Farmer Ash-
field. The attempt was an arduous one; the merits
of our regretted favourite EMERY in this, and other
characters of the same cast, are too fresh in our re-
collection for us to avoid drawing comparisons, and
his death has left a void which we fear will long re-
main unfilled. Mr. EVANS, as far as we could judge,
under the disguise of stage costume and deception,
is very young. His face and figure recalled to our
mind poor TOKELRY. He appears to be thoroughly
versed in the whole business of the Stage. In the se-
rious parts of the character he was very successful.
The expression of shame for having attempted clan-
destinely to get possession of Young Handy's letter to
his daughter—of fear lest he should be di.covered
whilst attempting to open the box—and of satisFac-
don and self-gratulation at having resisted the temp-
tation to read the letter when in his possession—dis-
played much feeling, and called down loud applause.
On the whole, though falling short of his predecessm-,
the attempt may be deemed a successful one, and Iris
reception favourable. W. FA trnEN played Sir uric!
Handy, and gave a rich picture Of the scheming re-
jector, the fond father, and the hen.pecked husband.
Mrs. DAVZNPORT played Dame Aslyiell with all her
usual excellence. Her fears of Mrs. Grand', and !icy
anticipated triumph over that formidable rival, were
expressed with all her accustomed force and point;
and her fair daughter, Susan, was prettily supported
by Miss Focrra, the interesting languor of whom:
features, occasioned by her recent indisposition, w.rs
perfectly in unison with the char actor.—The even-
ing's entertainments closed with the Musical Farce of
Rosina. Miss M.,Tarts was in tine voice, and warmly
encored in the admired song, 44 IVhilst with village
maids I dray." Miss FOOTS a Nabs was a d.:iicaie
piece of village coquetry; and. Mr. CONNOR. in rLe
Irish haymaker, told the story of Rosins; sew re a it'i
a -broad humour that excited much Enertime t. Toe
House was well atteuded.

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