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a military conspiracy not only in the' capital of Lot.'
raine, but albp in the fortress of that province. 41 All
this," adds the journalist, a is very obscure; but
what is certain is, that the genius of Evil is again at
Work in several parts of France." A letter from Corfu,
in the,e papers, dated March 8, says, 44 Would you
believe it ? We are reduced to regret Ali Raba.—
He is succeeded by a man more cruel than he: it is
the implacable sanguinary enemy of the followers of
June CHRIST, Omer Bey Briani. He has just been
proclaimed Pachaif Joannin-a, of Berat, and of Del.
vino. Torrents of blood will flow under the talons of
this merciless tiger, who is guided only by fanaticism."
Madrid Papers to the 8:11, and Lisbon Papers to
the 6th inst. have reached us, but their contents are
unimportant. •

This forenoon we received a Dutch Mail, bringing
Papers to the 20th inst. The following are extracts:

HAGUE, APRIL 15.
The following are extracts from the Report of Mr.
Boye to the Second Chamber of the States-General,
on the Petition of several Land-owners, requesting that
measures may be adopted fur the relief of agriculture:
" The petitioners beg you to take into consideration
the melancholy situation of agriculture, which begins
to make the numerous and estimable class of farmers
feel the first effects of distress; the value of agricul.
tural produce being so depreciated that it does not
repay the expense of cultivation. They represent to
you, that the rents are for the most part unpaid, and
that the fortunes of the landlords are endangered, as
well as those of the farmers, by warrants of distress
and ejectment, so terrible to those who are the objects
of them ; discouragement is added to the exhausting
of their resources, and they will soon be in want of
the means to cultivate the land with that liberal and
useful expenditure which has raised the agriculture
of Flanders to the highest degree of perfection.
"If the ruin of the country is completed, that of
the towns will soon follow. The mass of the popu-
lation lives in the country; there we have the great
majority of the consumers, not of articles of luxury,
but of those most necessary and common. In pro-
portion as their distress shall oblige these consumers
to do without the productions of manufactures and
commerce, and in proportion as the landowners shall
be compelled, in consequence of the diminution of
their incomes, to limit their expenditure to the most,
rigorous economy, the population of the towns will
soon become as wretched as thatof thecountry,whose 1
prosperity can alone maintain that of the cities."
The Report then states, that the Petitioners observe
that in the neighbouring countries agriculture is
wisely encouraged and rendered prosperous by a ju-
dicious legislation ; this hinders the Petitioners from
exporting their surplus produce to other countries, as
they formerly did; while at home, in the midst of.
ruinous abundance, foreigners are allowed to over-
whelm them with their produce, and to share in the
only sales now possible, those which are strictly ne-
cessary for the supply of the home consumption. This
unlimited competition, in the opinion of the Peti-
tioners, is doubly fatal. It deprives us of part of
our ready money, and, by adding to the already too
large supply, depreciates more and more the value.
of our own produce.

The New York Papers to the 24th ult. which have
been received, contain two documents of considerable
importance. The first is a Report of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs " on the recognition of the late
Spanish Provinces in America." This Report gives
a summary statement of the succes.ive declarations
of independence by the South American Provinces,
and then enters into an elaborate vindication of the
conduct of the United States Government in recog-
nizing the independence of dim Provinces. The Re-
port concludes with the two following ltesolutions :

,s Resolved—That the House of Representatives concur in
the opinion expressed by the President, in his Message of the
Bth of March,lB22, that the American Provinces of Spain, which
have declared their independence, and are in the enjoyment of
it, ought to be recognized by the United !States, as Independent
nations.

" Resolved—That the Committee of Ways and Means be in-
structed to report a Bill, appropriating a sum, not exceeding one
hundred thousand dollars, to enable the President of the United
States to give due effect to such recognition."
_ _ _

The second document is a Report from the Com-
mittee of Foreign Affairs, on a petition " praying for
the repeal of the laws closing the ports of the United
States, and the British Colonies in the West Indies."
The Committee declare themselves decidedly against
abandoning any part of the restrictive system, unless
an equal concession be made by Great Britain.
Two of the New York papers positively assert,
44.' That the British Government Ilas determined to
rescind its Navigation Laws, and admit American
shipping into the ports of the British West Indies
upda a perfect equality with British vessels !"—And
another journal, the Everting Post, says, •' That a
project for this purpose will be introduced during the
present sitting of Parliament."
It is stated in a New York Paper of the 22d March,
that the Columbian Republic has issued a Decree,
ordering the foreign Officers in the service of the
Republic their back pay, with other allowances; this
will give to each of the liish Officers under Gene-
ral d'Evereux, and those who went out under the late
General English, a very handsome sum. To Lieu-
tenant-Colonels 115,000 dollars'; and to other ranks
in proportion. Several of them have taken estates
in Caraccas in lieu of some part of the pecuniary re-
wards coming to them, and have actually, at the
present moment, coffee plantations in full work in
the neighbourhood of the city.

The intellizecce received from Ireland this morning is of a
mixed character. Several outrages have been perpetrated in the
counties of Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Waterford. in Limerick
and Cork, on the other band, the peasantry are giving up their
arms, and returning to agdeultural pursuits. At the adjourned
Assists for Limerick, as Wednesday, four men received sen-
tence of death, and many more are expected to sufferom the
county agenda: presents an awful catalogue of crime. At the
Cork special Sessions, on Wednesday, four men were sentenced
to transportation under the Insurrection Act—Friday, the Con.
pandas of Dublin elected, by a large majority, Alderman As-
' sago to be Lord Mayor of the Cky for the Mutat rear.