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London, England, 1822-02-20 00:00:00

HANOVER, FEBRUARY s.

According to accounts that are worthy of credit,
this City and the whole Kingdom of Hanover may
expect to have the happiness of seeing his MAJESTY,
our beloved Sovereign, among us in the month of
June this year. His MAJESTY, it is said, will favour
his faithful Hanoverian subjects with his presence for
a period of some months.

Even the oldest inhabitants do not recollect such
a mild winter as the present. We have similar ac-
counts from the Hartz mountains.

We hear, that within these four months 80,000 rit
dollars in pistoles have been coined.

CASSEL FEBRUARY 7.

On occasion of the unhappy circumstance that oc-
.curred at the Maiquerade, where an attendant of the
Prince was taken ill and died, in consequence, as is
supposed, of poison, the Police has published the
following :

" To obtain means to trace the authors of the above dreadful
circumstance, all those who were at the last Masquerade, are
hereby summoned to appear, within forty-eight hours, before
Mr. Wende, Councillor of Police, to register their names ; and
those who shall not appear within the time here specised, if it is
in the sequel discovered that they were present at the masque-
rade, will be arrested as suspected persons."
STOCKHOLM, JANUARY u.

Counts Skjoldebrand and Morner were nominated
to the dignity of Nobles of the first class, on Satur-
day, the 58th anniversary of his Majesty's birth-day.
Yesterday, St. Charles's day, the Hospital for In-
valids, founded at Ulriesdal, was solemnly opened.—
In the afternoon, his Majesty, in person, was pleased
to instal Count Morner as Director of the Academy
of Agriculture, in the room of the late Baron Edel-
crantz.—His tajesty, in his speech on the cccasion,
observed, that from the accounts that had been re-
ceived, it appeared, that since the union of the two
Scandinavian kingdoms, the population of Sweden
had increased by 140,000, and that of Norway by
'60,000 persons, by the improvement in agriculture
and cultivation of waste lands; and that this addition
was to be estimated as equal to the acquisition of a
province, which would have cost much expense and
bloodshed.
COPENHAGEN, FEBRUARY e.
The decline of the Danish trade with the Wet k.

.fes is rem tikable. In 17G1, fifty-two ship! were
sent thiril.r, wld in 1789 the number was Wk. But
since the pe.ice of 1614, this branch of our commerce
is diminished that only from thirty to forty ships
go :here annually from Copenhagen.

The French Papers of Sunday contain the conclu-
sion of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies of the
prece,ling day, on the Law for repressing offences of
the Pre,s. After several Amendments had been pro-
posed and uniformly rejected, the fourth and fifth
Articles were passed. The Chamber then proceeded
to ballot upon the whole Law, when the numbers
were, in favour of the Law. 'l9; against it, 137.
Several Members of the Opposition (the Conditig-
tionnel says twenty-five) refused to vote at all. Thus
the new Ministry triumphed over the public spirit
which the Deputies manifested, when they forced
their predecessors fiom office, and have enacted laws
more odicus and destructive of the Liberty of the'
l'ress than the Censorship. The whole discussion on
this Law, and the ordinary proceedings in the French
Chamber of Deputies, gives but a very contemptible
cp:nion
.of them as a Legislative Assembly. In one
:e,pect they certainly are somewhat improved. Two
cr three years ago, the Member, who in a race across
the Chamber got first to the Tribune, only mounted
it to read a long pamphlet, which he brought in
pocket, and which had been p;epare.l for him.—
The Members who wished to reply did not do it on
the instant, but came prepared next day with a
countet-pamphlet, generally of greater length, and
the whole proceedings of the Chamber consisted in
reading and h-aring a succession of treatises, many
of which were quite foreign to the subject. Now a
ftw of the Members venture an extempore speech ;
but often in such violent and intemperate language
es would disgrace the hustings at as English election.
The French boast of their politeness; but we must
tot look for it in their deliberative assemblies, where
the most rude and ungentlemanly language and per-
scual ieffections are indulged in ; which, if used in
aa English HOMO of Commons, would send the
c:: ;:der into custody, and cause an instant demand
it:r satisfaction from the person insulted. Even the
nesident is not respected; when a tumult ensues he
r.a call silener and sing Isis bell as violently as he
:eases, the French Deputy will either persist in his
crn:'.uct, or turn round on the President and tell him
that he acts unfairly, and that bit. conduct in the
Chair is disgraceful.

Tl:e public spirit in France appears at a Very low
e1:7) ; it is all either violence or apathy. Even the
Joni irAls have given no decisive sign of their
:eicase fi om the Censorship ; we presume,
::.e new law, which has a retrospective effect inas-
ruch as it possesses the power to suspend any Paper,
the gene:al spirit of which, for some time, may be
deemed offensive to the Ministers.

In the course of the debate on Friday, in the French
Chamber, M. MANUEL, one of the ablest and most
decided of the Opposition Members (tho, singularly
enough, returned for La Vendee), asserted that the
cordon of French troops on the Spanish frontier was
placed there with hostile intentions on the liberties of
Spain, and not to keep away the yellow fever. This
assertion was vehemently denied by the Minister kr
Fox eign Affairs; but notwithstanding this declara-
tion, the Spaniards entertain the same opinion.
By Madrid Papers and Letters of so late a date as
the Bth inst. we learn that an energetic Note has been
addressed by the Sparish to the French Government,
c)mplaining of the connivance of the Authorities on
the frontier at the attempts of persons disaffected to
the existing order of things. Spain might have used
a still stronger expression; for suspicions have long'
existed, rot only that offenders against the country.
Lave found an asylum and protection within the
French territory, but even that the means have been
there furnished to them for renewing their machina-
tions. The Spanish Cortes, who exhibit a striking
contrast to the French Chamber of Deputies, have
manifested great spirit in considering the insult of-
fered by the populace to two of the Members, Count
de Toaarso and Senor MARTINEZ de la RosA, in
consequence of their opinions. In the Sitting of the
Sth inst. this circumstance gave rise to a very ani-
mated debate, in which the leading Members of that
Assembly delivered their sentiments. Among the most
el,,quent speeches was that of Senor Senn°, who con-
terded warmly for the unrestrained liberty of debate,
a..d said that the whole Assembly had been insulted
in the excess complained of. He considered, however,
that the party who had succeeded in exciting this feel-
ing in the populace was wholly weak and eontemptib:e.
—The debate ended by a proposition, which was
adopted, for naming a Commission to confer on the
subject with the Government and the proper Autho-
rities, and to report to the Cortes whatever it might
judge proper to be done in relation to the events of
the preceding day. These proceedings in the Cortes
i•ive a highly favourable impression of the state of
the public mind in Spain, and, if we may judge from
the jealousy with which every inroad on the Consti-
tution is regarded, and the temper and moderation
of the discussions, there is little danger of the per-
manence of the constitutional system in Spain, not-
withstanding the efforts of the factious.

A letter from Malta, dated the 10th ultimo, says—
" In the great hurry in which I am at present, you
must excuse my entering into a detail of political
news horn this country. Jt is so Mysterious, so corn-
pllcated, and uncertain, that I calionly say that great
cent, will probably take place very soon. Tux PLOT
CS TV-MIMING 114 THE EAST !'

, hitIGIII'OI47,FEBRUARYI6.
The Kiwi, attended Diviie Service yesterday.
His MAJESTY was accompanied by—
The Master of the Ilotse,und the Told Steamed. The Clerk
of the Closet, the Bishop of Lincoln, Was nit in attendance. we
fear, through indisposition. In the pew to the right or his Ma-
jesty were Lord Maryborough, Sir lk IBooutfleld, Sir BP. Bep-
pel, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Unload Nagle, and Sir lIL
grove Turner. The whole of the above Noblemen, were ha-
Mted in the Windsor uniform, and wore stars, the Duke of
Dorset and Lord Maryborough excepted. The body of the
Chapel was crowded with Nobility, &c. admitted by tickets:
The KING wore a plain blue coat, with a black
stock, the former buttoned closely to, plain, and witb-
out the star, or any species of ornament whatever.
In health his MAJESTY never appeared better, and
so devout was his manner, that it enforced a similar
observance of the sacred occasion in all present.
At the Palace last night, Messrs. KNYVETT, SALE,
&c. sung several Glees in very fine style, and which
was alternately succeeded by the powerful melodies
of his MAJESTY'S private and most complete Band.

Yesterday, the Duke of YORK, as Commander-in-
Chief, held a Levee at his Office in the Horse-Guards,
which was attended by General BALFOUR, General
HART, and nearly thirty Officers.
Yesterday a Committee of the Lords of the Coun-
cil assembled at the Council-office, Whitehall.
The Earl of LONSDALE is in a fair way of doing
well, after the operation of couching.
Mr. Courrs, we regret to state, lies dangerously
ill at his house 1W Piccadilly.

Vice-Admiral Sir 'items's° KC RATS is dangerously ill at his
apartmcnts in Greenwich Hospital.
We understand, that the return from India of the
Nlarquis of HASTINGS is at last definitively fixed; and
that he is to succeed Lord STEWART, as our Ambas-
sador at the Court of Vienna. The Marquis is known
to have long been anxious to withdraw from his pre-
sent situation, where he could not be prevailed on to
remain ; indeed, his resignation has, it is said, been
in England upwards of ten months. The education
of his family is one powerful motive with his Lord-
ship to .revisit Europe.
We have received Gibraltar Papers to the 29th
ult. The following are extracts :