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TUESDAY EVENINC, APRIL 13, 1830. PRICE 7D.

FRENCH PAPERS.

From the Messager des Chambres of Saturday.

We learn to-day, by a letter from Constantinople, of the 10th of
March, that the Vice Admiral of the Turkish fleet, Table Pacha, is
about to set off for Algiers, with a view, if possible, to make an
amicable arrangement of the existing differences between France and
the Dey.

It is already known that the ministry has made a bargain with an
eminent mercantile house in London, for the conveyance to Algiers
of troops and provisions to the amount of 8,000 tons ; and that is
has concluded an arrangement with the Liverpool Steam-boat Com-
pany for the use of four of its vessels, to be employed between
Toulon and Algiers during the expedition.
It now appears certain that the English Government has formally
opposed the freighting of these vessels, and that it has given orders
for the suspension of all the preparations, by virtue of a clause in
the Foreign Enlistment Bill. The Charter-parties already con.
eluded will, therefore, be annulled. It appears, however, that in
spite of the prohibition of the English Government, there is no
doubt the French agents will be able to obtain the same number of
vessels for the projected expedition, under the pretence that they are
to be sent to ports other than those of France, as was done with re-
spect to the new Republics of the South, and even to carry arms to
the Greeks. This measure, at all events, proves the feeling of the
English Government against the expedition.
It is curious enough that Spain has refused to lend us the Port of
Carthagena forour vessels to put into and get provisions during our
expedition, under the pretence that she would be subject to revenge-
ful attacks on the part of Algiers if we did not succeed. To what
point has this Government descended, and what gratitude does it
show us for our campaign in 1823 !
Negociationshave been entered into with the Pacha of Egypt, in
order to obtain his co-operation in the expedition against Algiers, and
an Envoy extraordinary has been sent to him with this object. It
was believed the mission had been successful, and the arrangements
were nearly all concluded, when a formal interdiction arrived at
Cairo from Constantinople. The Sultan gave positive orders to
the Pacha not to lend his assistance, and Mehemet will there.
fore - remain inactive. Some persons attribute this to Eng-
lish influence, and indeed it is not easy to discover the part which
the English Cabinet takes in this affair. According to some ac-
counts it has required the French Government to enter into an en.
gagement not to attempt to make on the coast of Africa any esta-
blishment, or form any colony; and it is said that by virtue of
special Treaty, the French army is bound to re-embark, and to
leave the country a month at the latest after the taking of Algiers.
Other persons, on the contrary, say that the two Cabinets have come
to an understanding, in order mutually to profit by the results of the
expedition, and that France will be allowed to do what she likes to
Algiers, the right being reserved to England to do as much on some
other point of the coast.

A letter from Tunis, dated March 26, says that an English fri.
gate has left blahs for Algiers, in order to take the English Consul
on board, as well as the other Consuls, If they should desire it.
A report has been circulated at Marseilles, that an English car.
vette had, a short time previously, appeared off Algiers, and a mes.
senger was landed, who informed the Dey of all our preparations,
and not only offered him an asylum in the corvette, but also to re-
ceive all his treasure on board for safety. This report, however,
must certainly be without foundation.

GERMAN PAPERS.

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.
PROM THE ELBE, MARCH 29.

We hear that the German Diet has granted to the Duke of
BRUNSWICK a further time of three weeks, and if this time should
expire without the Duke's complying with the decisions of the
Diet, 6,000 Saxon troops are to occupy the Duchy, or rather the
dominions of his highness.—Nwrernburg Correspondent.
STUTOARD, APRIL 2.

As the two Chambers have, by extraordinary efforts, dispatched
the business laid before them by the government for this Session,
the Assembly will be dissolved next week. The Diet has unani.
mously voted an Address of Thanks to the King for the Commercial
Convention concluded with the kingdom of Prussia and the Grand
Duchy of Hesse. His Majesty returned a most gracious answer to
this Address, assuring the Chambers that he would persevere in the
same spirit in his endeavours to promote the welfare of the country,
by removing the impediments to the freedom and extension of

COLONIAL FINANCE.
From the West Indian Reporter.

The justice and expediency of protecting and encouraging the
consumption of British sugars, by lowering the duty, or of entirely
semoving the whole of the oppressive restrictions which, at present.
cramp the energies of our West India Colonists, become every day
more evident.
Wire the duty on sugar lowered to 15s. (its amount from 1791
to 1796) or even to 18s. the cwt. there can be no doubt it would
very materially increase the consumption, and add to the comforts of
the people, without diminishing the revenue. la 1815, when the
price was about 925. the cwt. the consumption was only 1,888,965
ewts. From the sth of January, 1828, to the same period, 1829,
the mice may be stated at from dffis. to 56s , and the consumption,
notaciisstanding the distressed state of the middling and lower
classes, is nearly doubled. There are numerous other proofs of the
efficacy of steady low prices, in increasing the consumption ; and
ye► in the face of all these tacts, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
asserted, in May last, that the reduced price had not produced " a
very increased consumption." We may shortly have to notice fur-
ther assertions equally destitute of foundation. The consumption
of sugar in Ireland, during the year 1828, by a population of
about nine millions, was only 245,550 cwts. if sugar were
brought within the reach of the middling and lower orders, in
that part of the kingdom, by a still more considerable re-
duction of the duty, we have no doubt the quantity there
consumed would be quadrupled or quintupled, to the great
benefit of the revenue, and adding very materially to the
comforts of the classes alluded to. On this subject we give
the following quotations from a periodical generally opposed to
Colonial interests :—" The average consumption of sugar in Ire.
land, in 1800 and 1803, when the duty was about 20s. amounted to
571,000 cwts. or 63,752,000 lbs. But at an average of the four
years, ending with 1820, when the duty was as high as 30s. the
consumption was only 266,000 cwts. or less than half what it had
been at the former period, notwithstanding the vast increase of po-
pulation during the interval. And, at this moment, when Ireland
has from three to four millions of inhabitants more than in 1800,
she does not consume much above half the quantity of sugar she
did then.

" At present the Irish duties are, in effect, prohibitory; and
might be thought to have been imposed, not for the sake of reve.
nuc, but to debar the people from the use of sugar, that they may
be the better able to buy whisky, and contribute to the Catholic
rent ! At all events, it is now clear as demonstration, that if the
duty were imposed for the sake of revenue, its oppressiveness has
totally defeated its object; and that to make it productive, it must
be effectually reduced. Generally speaking, we are averse to mak-
ing any distinctions in the duties in different parts of the empire ;
but in the peculiar circumstances under which Ireland is placed, we
think that the duty on sugar consumed there might be advantage.l
ously reduced to 10s. or 12a; allowing it to increase by Is. a-year,
until it rose to les. or 20s. the level at which the duty of this coun-
try should be fixed. Were a plan of this sort adopted, we have no
doubt whatever that, in the course of half a doses years, the con-
sumption of sugar in Ireland would be quintapkd ; whilst the re-
venue, instead of losing, would be doubled or trebled."—" The
first step towards supplying what is confessedly the grand desidera-
tum in the case of Iceland, is to reduce the duties on articles of
convenience and luxury, so that they may become attainable by the
mass of the people. If this be done, we may rest assured, that
the desire, inherent in all individuals, of improving their condi-
tion, will impel them to exert themselves to obtain them. A taste
for the articles in question will be gradually diffused amongst all
ranks, and ultimately it will be thought discreditable to be without
them."

" The same sort of machinery which serves to prevent whisky
from being smuggled from Ireland might serve to prevent the smug-
gling of sugar ; and though a few thousand cwts. were clandestinely
imported, it would be of no consequence. Neither do we propose
that the difference in the rates of duty should be permanent."
It is at all events quite clear, that a continuance of the present
ungenerous and oppressive policy is progressively creating sense..
tions, which years of kindness; may not obliterate from the minds of
the Colonists, and which may ultimately lead to the most deplorable
consequences. They have for a series of years seen relief granted to
every class of their fellow subjects, whilst, notwithstanding their
loyalty and devotion to the Mother Country, during the late long and
arduous struggle, to them it is still denied.
To affirm that they enjoy any thing like freedom of trade under
the present system is absolute folly. Were the whole of the re-
strictive regulations and oppressive burdens imposed by the Mother
Country removed, and the expence attending the government
and defence of the British West India Colonies to be regulated
by a conventional agreement, the Colonists might expect to obtain
s favourable hearing in the markets of Europe and America. They
might hope to see their islands visited by foreign ships, bring-
ing, in exchange for their staple commodities, supplies at moderate
rates, and carrying away raw and refined sugars in payment, or at
low freights, so as to enable them successfully to compete, by
superior science and machinery, with those rivals whom the " phi-
lanthropists" of the Mother Country have raised up to oppose them
by an increased supply of new slaves; but we again repeat, that to
say the Colonists enjoy any thing like a free trade or " fair play,"
under existing restrictions, is to insult their understandings, and
undervalue their commercial and political discernment.
Cayenne Pepper is a dangerous condiment, as it is
most frequently adulterated with the red oxide of lead, a poisonous
sdditament. To discover the fraud, boil some of the suspected pepper
in vinegar, filter and add to it sulphate of ammonia, which will
throw down a dark precipitate, indicating the presence of lead.
At the last sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences,
a curious paper, entitled "General Considerations on Animals at
different Geological Periods," was read by M. Boubee The author
of this paper supposes that all the animals disseminated in the pre-
sent day over the surface of the globe, in rivers, lakes, and other
fresh waters, had a marine origin, and that they were scattered by
the general irruption of the waters, which appears to have happened
long after the formation of chalk. Those, says the author, which
were able to live in water gradually more fresh, which was =bath
wed for sea water, which of itself had become less salt, from its
being spread over the land, continued to propagate • but they have
undergone important modifications, determined by lose which the
elements in which they had lived had experienced.
A melancholy affair took place this week at Pendleton.
which has been attended with fatal msequences. It appears that
the family of a labouring man named Oldfield, consisting of himself,
his wife, and six children, have been reduced to a ststeof great dis-
tress' owing to the want of sufficient employment by the man. On
Thursdays humane and respectable neigithour sent to the family
quantity of broth which had been boiled in an iron pan. As might
naturally be supposed, the mother and children partook of the food
with great avidity ; but the father being out of the way, Dose of the
broth fell to his share. In time all the persons wbo bad taken the
broth became seriously indisposed, and one of the children died in
the course of the day. Mr. Barker, burgeon, of Pendleton, and two
other medical gentlemen, being informed of the circumstance,
speedily attended, and rendered prompt and efficient assistanco.—
'1 stomach-pump was had recourse to, and we are happy to say,
that though the poor woman and her five children ass still vary an.
well, no fatal results are anticipated. An inquest will be held this
day, before Air. Milne, to inquire into the circumstances of the
child's death.--Manchester Ads.

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The Rev. Dr. Spry. the Rector, reamed his pulpit in Maryle.
bone on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, after an absence of warty
months.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry held an Ordination
on Sunday last, in the Cathedral Church of Wells, when the follow-
ing Gentlemen were ordained Deacon:—George Harrison. II A
St. John's College, Cambridge; Wm. Fison, A. Catherine Hall,
Cambridge ; John James, B.A. Queen's College, Oaford.
OXFORD, Avail. 10.
Saturday last the following Degrees were conferred :
MASTERS or MITS.—Hey. H. Wrightson, Queen's, GrAnd
Compounder; Charles Pocock, Christ Church.
Bacast.oa or MITS.—John Pearson, Magdalen.hall.

THE CHURCH.

The Rev. T. Brenton, B.C.L. Fellow of New College, in ILL,
University, has been presented to the Viartv of Steeple 31 ori!:•;,,
Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. C. Reptell.—
Patrons, the Warden and Fellows of that Society.

►E ARMY.

MILITARY INQUIRY.
A Board of General Officers has been engaged for a consider ahl •
time in the investigation of a charge, made by the widow of an
officer against a friend of her busband,of having retained and app.).
priated to his own nee various sums of money, with which he had
been entrusted to pay over to an agent in Dublin. We can now
state that the officer alluded to was Colonel George Wright, of the
Royal Engineers, and the widow was Mrs. Fitsmayor, relict of
Major Fitzmayor, of the Royal Artillery; and we have also the sa •
tisfaction to add, that the result of the inquiry has been a full and
honourable acquittal of, ,he gallant officer, as will appear by the
following letter
" Lord Dowxrs, Secretary to the Master-General of the Ord-
nance, Lord BERESTORD, to Colonel GEORGE WRIGHT, of
the Royal Engineers.
OrrICII Or ORDWANCIE, MARCH 31, 1830.—The Master.
General of Ordnaaos having bad before him the proceedings of a
' Court of Inquiry, assembled for the investigation of the claim ad.
vaned against you by the Widow of the late Ma* FITZHATOR,
of the Royal Artillery, I am directed to acquaint you that his Lord.
ship is happy to find that the allegations of Mrs. FITZKAYOR
have not been sustained ; but, on the contrary, that the Court has
reported that the pecuniary transactions between you and Major
FITZMAYOR, as far as the Court has had to investigate, hare
place.; your conduct in an honourable point of view.
(Signed) " DOWNES."
The headquarter division of the 73th, under the command et
Lieut.-Col. E.lland, sailed on Wednesday, from Cork for Chatham,
whence they embark tor the Cape of Good Hope
Captain Stanway, Commanding Engineer in the Waterford dis-
trict, is ordered to England on promotion, and is succeeded at
cannon Fort by Capt. Al. Dixon, R.E.
Major Broke, the new Assistant Quarter Master General, is ar-
rived at Cork.

Li.mt. Nunn, 66th, succeeded Lieut. Nowlan, 7lid, on tLc Re-
cruiting Service, the 25th of last month, at Kilkenny.
LIMERICK, Arum 10.
The Ist or King's Dragoon Guards are on a route from Rillinrobe
and Longford for Caher and this garrison, to replace the Queen',
Bays, who are ordered to embark at Dublin fur Liverpool,
to proceed to Manchester.
Major Kearney's division of the Queen's Bays leaves this garri.
son on the 22d instant.

The 6th Dragoon Guards proceeds the latter end of the month.
from Dorchester, for Bristol, on route to Cork, for the purpose m
relieving the 2d Regiment of Dragoons.
The Hope transport sailed from Cork on Wednesday, with the
Reserve Companies of the 88th Regt. for Harwich.
The two companies of the 56th at Glanasheen and Corofin will
shortly be withdrawn, and join head-quarters in Limerick garrison.
Major Lord George Hervey, commanding the detachment of the
76th Regt. at Rosetta, is ordered to join head-quarters at Birr.
The new Constabulary Act authorises the Government to Appoint
minapector In each County, under the Inspector-General of the

The lit, or Ring's Dragoon (hods are commanded by Colonel
Teesdale, and comprise eight troops. The following arc the OtH.
cers--Lieut.-Colonel George Teesdale; Majors Delancey and Max-
well; Captains Skinner, Bray, Reed, Smith, Ilacquern, Blaning,
Martin, and Wilson; Lieutenants Brander, Haul-mos Hill
(Adjutant), Dames, Tyu' en Monis, Handley, Smith, Hawke',
Wilkie, Cosby, and Grant; Cornets Schonawar, Hon. W. Irby,
Scott, Phibbs and Tod; Paymaster Maclaurin ; Quartermaster
Brown; Surgeon Jones; Assistant-surgeon Pearson.

SHIP NEWS.

DOVER, Aram 11.

Sailed yesterday his Majesty's packet Salamander, with the mail,
dispatches, and a number of passengers, for Calais. Arrived yes-
terday, his Majesty's packet Crusader, with two carriages belonging
to Murray, Esq. and a number of passengers, among whom were
Mr. M•Pherson, bliss Murray, Mr. Clark, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Best,
Mr. Lynch, &c. from Calais. Arrived the Britannia steam vessel,
from Bologne, with one carriage and a number of passengers.
Arrived to.day, his Majesty's packet Salamander' with des.
patches, one carriage, several boxes of gold ban, Crotch the
Messenger, and a number of passengers, amongst whom were—
Lady %1 illiamson, Count de Duporelli, Mr. Dyke, and Mr. Auper
with dispatches, Miss Potter, Mr. Drake, Mr. Collet, Mr. Beech
and 1 ate. Sailed the Royal George steam vase], with Ad.
miral W inthrop, Mrs. General O'Connor, and other passengers, for
Calais. Sailed the Medusa steam vessel, with wools aid a for
passengers, for Boulogne.
FALMOUTH, Aram 10.
Arrived yesterday, the Magnet packet, from Lisbon, sailed 4th
April. Two French steamboats arrived in the Tagus on the 3d
April, bound to the Mediterranean, put in by stress of weatha.
Sailed yesterday, the Marlborough packet for Lisbon; his Ma.
jesty's steamer Ea* (with mails) for Cadis and the Mediterranean,
and the Briseis packet, for Madeira, Teneriffe, and Brazil. Sailed
this day, the Reindeer packet, for Barbados, Jamaies, and Cartha.
genes, and the Barracouta packet for Halifax and Bermuda.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.-1111 Majesty's frigate Galatea (42),
Captain C. Napier, C. B. arrived yesterday in the Sound, from
Portsmouth, for a foreign station. By letters received from
on board Ids Majesty's ship Ocean, we learn that hes return to
England is not anticipated for some period. Sailed the Erin,
Carlisle ' • Sarah, Lawson ; and Liskeard. Saunders, for London.
Arrived the Polperrro, of Jersey, from Alicant, 49 days, cargo
of wine for Guernsey and Wataford ; Britannia, 1111Dowell.
from Galway ; and Jack.r.the.Lantern, Thornton, le days
from Terceira, where she landed the Marquis of Palmella and
suite; was chased into Angra by the blockading squadron, which
It appears consists of one frigate and three or four brigs; the Mar.
quis was received with great enthusiasm, and has considerably dated
the hopes of the Constitutionalists. A Proclamation from Don
Pedro was in circulation in the Wand ; its purport we have not been
able to learn ; and it was rumoured that the Emperor has granted
8,0001. per month towards the support of the garrison.
DEAL, Aram 11.
Arrived from London the Albion, Pollard, Miramichi ; Ring.
Saber, Raynor Quebec; Sarah, Roome, St. John's; Thomas,
Hodder, Quebec ; Ann, Boyle, St. Helena; Exmouth, Greig, and
Endeavour, Collins, Quebec; Justice, Reay, Halifax ; Francis,
Heard, Quebec; Quebec Packet, Atkinson, London, Falkner ;
George Canning, AHAB= ; Liddel, Thompson; and Cicero,
Robinson, Quebec; Crown, Barker, and James, Walton, Mira.
michi. Arrived from London the United Ringdotn, and Elizabeth,
for Jamaica; and the Regulus, Antigua. The outward.bousd
remain.

POILTIIMOUTY) Aran. 11.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Briton
from Houduras, sailed the 2Gth of December ; from Vera Crux,
of January; from Tampico, the 16th of February ; and Havannah,
the 2d ult. has 800,000 dollars, and a small quantity of cochineal
on board. Sailed his Majesty's ship North Star, for the West Indies.
George Smith, Esq. secret/Br/ to the Navy Board, left Ports.
mouth for London yesterday, having clet. his labour at this
dock yard, the result of which will be the reduction in the
mechanical departments, and alterations in the clerical depart.
menu, similar to those effected at Plymouth. The intended
reductions amongst the clerks will take place about the !Ist of
this month, when, it is calculated, all arrears of duty will have
been cleared off: The superatineatious, it is rejtected, will in.
elude the following gentlemen, vies—Store Office, Mr. John
Thorpe, first clerk, first class ; Mr. James &harrier, fourth clerk,
second class, both of whom were volunteers ;_-,(befit OSee, Mr.
Z. Webb, third class;—Measurer's Office, Mr. Cressy, attend
clan, Mr. Stolle; Mr. J. Radcliffe, and Mr. Garlic Smith, third
class. Mr. George Stints, of the Stenekeeper's 011ioe, b been
appointed to Deptise# Victualling Ake.
In puntranee of the cased system of atoomny adopted by Go-
vacuously Mr. Rancor% the Deis" Starehasper at Priddy's Hard
Magazine, has been put upon a retired allowance, and the office
done away with. The acme aims at ether statism an saes re-
duced. Mr. Pella*, Deputy Storekeeper at the loyal lilmse at
Puriket, has been appointed Storekeeper at Weedon, Norpten.

A commis ion n has bees for some cla sitting at the
Anchor las, Upbath, and tba &gag lag, leettasaata, far the
examination of vitspopeg in the ask now deganding in Diners'
Commons, and which, it is es pectek will be gbinly determined,
gagageing the gelidity of the will gni soh& of fie Be.. John
Alonkhome, he. Rectors( ammilincifteer Liphook.he this county.
by which be has beggestaed the lailh of his ye
College, Wad, to figued a school in the parish
Portnneeith Herald.

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