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astern,.2nd a few minutes afterwards a shot crossed-the
stern of the American; a number of voices now assailed
that unfo►tunate ship to surrender. Captain Petty, with
great presence of mind and intrepidity, came forward,
and from the quarter deck, with his trumpet, offered
the pirates whatever supplies they wasted ; but this was
not heeded by the marauders, and _duce boats,from die
pirate, full of men, boarded the American, sword in
hand. On reaching the decks, Captain Petty and hi,
Officers were called to shew themselves, which they no
sooner di i, than they were seized, and in the most in•
Yuman manner bound with cords. During the confu-
sion attendant on this dreadful scene, several of the
crew of the brig threw themselves overboard, and pe-
rished chisel- in the ocean Or by the shots of the pirates,
who had now 'wise possession of the hapless American
brig. The few which remained on board with the Cap-
tain and his mates were lashed to the windlass, capstan,
and other pasts of the ship. Some of the Americans.
however, se lie) resisted this barbarous usage were inhu-
manly murdered by those bloodthirsty monsters, who
afterwards threw their bodies overboard. In the mean-
time, the CAptain and remainder of the crew, after en-
during every cruelty from the pirates, were forced, with
barely their clothes on their backs, into a boat, manne.l
with same of the crew of the pirate, who were well
armed, and sent on shore, through several heavy surfs,
where they left them.
It is impossible to describe the wretched situation of
the Captain arid the other poor fellows, left during tire'
night on a foreign shore without any sustenance, and
far distant from the abode of man. The climate being
warm, they rested till morning, when they perceived
that both the pirate and their vessel had disappeared.

THE I!',VENING ,TAR,

LONDON.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1825.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Everything has taken a change in the City this morning for the
best, and there is a far more favourable appearance than there has
been for some time past.
Consol, opened at 81i I for the Account, and soon after went
up to 81i 82 ; and are HOW 81j, with a firm market, and every
appearance of a further advance, with more confidence.
The French Three per Cents. after 'Change hours, 63f.
In the Foreign Market not muck doing.
Current Prices: Old Spanish 12i 13, Russian 77. Mexican 614
VS, New Colombian 58k, Greek Bonds t 7 13, Guatemala 14 12,
Tacchequer Bills 20 discount.

Pt: ICK OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.

S per Cent. Bed. BO'% t %
3 per Cent. t'ons. Shut.
per Cent. 881,4
SI per Cent. Bed. 881,4 1/4
4 per Cent. New Shut.
Long Anti. 191/4 %
India Bonds 15 18 7
£l,OOO Exd.eq. Bills 21 8 disc.
£5OO ditto 10 2 disc.
C 10() and L2OO ditto S disc.
Overdue 6 disc.
Cons. Mr. Account 811,4 82 81% % 81%
FRENCH FL/NDS. FAUN. Decearsix
Five per Cents. • . 94f. 80e,
Three per Cents. 62f. 10e.
Ilentes de Naples . . 711. 7k.
Royal Spanish Loan, 1823 . . 46f.
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Azstilso Bell S p Ct 90 Scrip.
Brazilian Bonds. Neapolitan Bondi,
Do. Scrip, 5 p C. 1825, Peru.. lids, 6 p C.
l)itto Acct. Ditto Scrip, 1825,6 p C.
Buono Ayres Bonds Portuguese Bonds
Chllian Bonds, 6 p Ct. "'fuss. lids. 4 p C. 66 9
Colombian lids, 6 p C. Ditto Acct. 69
Do. lids 1824, 551 Do. Bonds, 1822, 90
1)o. Acc. 561 9 61 1 1 Russ. 8dv.1622. Sp Ct. 72 7/
Danis!) Bonds, Ditto Acct. 771
Du. Marks Span. Sp Ct. C. 121
Dittoßonds, 3 p Ct. 1625, 58 Ditto for Ace.
Ditto Acct. Ditto $lO,
Greek Bonds Span. S p. tt. C. 1823,
Do. Bds, 1625, 16/ French Routes, 5 p C.
Ditto Acct. lit Exchange.
Mex. Bonds 5 p. Ct. French Bente% 3 p C.
Ditto Acct. 5 p C. Exchange.
Do. 1k15,1825, 6 pC. 69; 3/ Guatemala Bonds,
l)u. Acct. 626 1 1 1 31 3 Ditto Acct. dis.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
NIA Kr. rani.
Chilian 100 5 X
Colombian 100 . S
Havtirn 100 5
United Mexican 40 Yo
Ditto New 40 10 IS 16 151
Droitwich Patent Salt 25 15 IS
Provincial Bank of Ireland 100 19 71

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At elate meeting of the Nevi Roman Catholic Asso-
ciation. O'Courirtoo seized the occasion to allude to the
distress now prevailing in England. For many years
past this person has thrust himself into such notoriety
among his countrymen, that it is supesfluous for us to
r mind the Reader that he is universally admitted to
be the leader and authorized organ of that body in
Ireland who have so long agitated the nation, for the
ostensible purpose of obtaining from the Brit sh Parlia-
ment a law conferring political power on Papists.
In Assuming, therefore, that he speaks the sentiments
of his party, we are authorised by every known rule by
which parties are held together.—He is a man of can-
slcierable private fortune and of good education, and so
ar• many of those who co-operate with him. We have
a right, therefore, to infer that the recent downfal of so
n-aly princely establishments in England, involving in
tl eir ruin the happiness of thousands and tens of thou-
sands of respectable families, would have affected the
n-,lnds of our generous fellow-subjects of the sister king-
doms% ith emotions of the deepest sympathyand commise-
ration. Besides, those men have at all times, in soliciting
equality of privileges, so earnestly placed in the fore-
ound their undivided loyalty, their unshaken attach-
rt...nt to England, their ardent desires, their most fer-
vent prayers for the advancement of the prosperity of
our common country, that fee, ainotig us cook)
n,uster up such callous sceptici m as to suspect the
sincerity of professions so long, so solemnly, se vehe-
mently, • and so constantly reiterates. The no ,n tide
prosperity of this part of the Empire is, for the moment,
overshadowed by a disastrous eclipse—a blighting mil-
dew bad passed over the land, sod threatened for a
time every inch of the surface wi•lt desolation.—
Cart we doubt that, in such circumstances, the sever-

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hilities of our professed friends. and brethren of the
Roman Catholic persuasion •will be powerfully awaken-
ed, and that they will mourn over our sufferings? Besides,
a little while ago, Ireland-0 sorely afflicted with famine,
felt the generous and unmeasured bounty. of the English
people flow into every cabin and cottage inhabited
by her vast population, in which there W4i misery
to be succoured, sickness to be alleviated, or nakedness
and hunger to be replaced by comfort. They are said
to be proverbially grateful. Their orators and leading'
men, who undertake to interpret their feelings, have no
doubt, then, in gratitude for recent favours heaped on
•them with a prodigal hand, hastened to expiess their
sorrow for the afnicted poor of England, who are likely
to encounter want and misery in consequence of the
late unprecedented convulsion in commercial and
manufacturing pursuits. Such are the natural and just
expectations of the English people. They are answered
by O'ConrsaLL as follows : Ihe present calamities of
the people of E►tgland are a consdation to him."
We do hope that these words will be remembered
when next the Catholic Petition is laid befae the Re-
presentatives of the people of England. We say they
are the words of the Catholic body, because they are
not indignantly disavowed, nor the _utterer of them
hurled with abhorrence from his unworthy pre-emi-
nence in their councils. We say, moreover, that they are
identically the sentiments of that “ fine animal" on this
side the water, with whom O'CONNELL has fraternized;
sentiments too well known to contain the thrice diftilled
essence of hatred, rancour, and malignity, against the
welfare and glory of this nation. Furtunately, the mask
is at last thrown off, and if, hereafter, the British Parlia-
ment should confer power on those who avow them-
selves the implacable foes of the British people, it can-
not be said that they will have erred in ignorance.

Lisbon Gazettes to the llth instant, reached us this
forenoon. They contain no intelligence from B.axil,
and, indeed, possess little interest. The KINO had issued
a decree, assembling a Committee, to propose a plan
to his MAJZSTYa for the definitive organization of the
military system for garrisoning the islands of the Azores.
Another Royal decree, dated 21st November, states,
that the representations of some Masters, Doctors, and
Students, of the University of Coimbra, had been laid
before his MAJiaTY ; they were implicated in the pro-
ceedings instituted there on the restoration of his MA•
sesvt's inalienable rights, and were, in consequence,
removed to a distance from their usual place of abode,
and from the literary career to which they had dedicated
themselves, with a view to their future establishment
in life:—though the Royal pardon has been extended to
them, so far as to exempt them from the punishments to
which some of them were sentenced, they are still cut
off from their future prospects, and their innocent fa-
milies in great distress. His IsfAxasilr, therefore, wish-
ing to extend his Royal clemency, to as great a number
of individuals as possible, and considering that party
animosity had a great part in the imputations under
which they . suffered, 2nd also, that- the cued,'
committed proceeded in a great measure from the
giddiness, inexperience, and ardour of misguided
youth, has been pleased to extend his Royal pardon,
published in the decrees of June 5, 1824, and of June,
24, 1825, to all those Members of the University who
have not been banished from the kingdom, that they
may all return and resume their literary occupations
and studies : but those Professors, whose chairs have
been given to others, are not to be restored to them,
but they are to be retained by the new Professors, till
there is a vacancy of some other chairs for which they
may be qualified.

The Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 17th December, con-
tains the following article on the situation of Greece,
which we shall be happy to ledrn is unfounded :

The Ossereetere Trials*, of the 6th, says, " By a ship which
has arrived here to-day, in six days from Prevesa, we learn that
the Captain Pacha's Beet appeared before 111isselonghi, on the 2Sth
November, and that the surrender of that fortress was, in conse-
quence, thought to be near at hand. It was said, that the Govern.
ment of klissolonghi had left the place on the approach of the Beet,
and had lied to Zante. It was likewise said, that Ibrahim Pacha
had sent to Egypt, onboard of 40 transports, many Greek families
whom he had taken prisoners in his expedition to klistra."

The French Papers of Thursday, and the Etoile of,
yesterday have reached us. The latter contains several
ordonnances of the K NO of France. The most important
is that which convokes the Chamber of Peers, and the
Chamber of Deputies, which ate summoned to meet on
the 31st of January not. Another decree, raises to
the Peerage, Sieur de BrAussrr ROQUirORT, Archbishop of Ai:.
A third transmits the title of Due de Cossaustro, on the Baron of
that name ; and by another ordonnance, H. de floos,the Advocate-
General (who distinguished himself in the late prosecutions of the
Consiihaionnei and the Courier Francais), is named Maitre des Re-
guce:s, in the room of Sieur MAILLA&D, who is named Counsellor
of State.

M. BILLART, the Procureur-Getteral of the Cour Royale, has

contradicted the statement in the CourWr Francais, that the Keeper
of the Seals was in the Court during the deliberations on the
affairs of Spain.

The Elide contains no further particulars relative to the death of
the Emperor ALEXANDIIII. It has, however. one important para-
graph connected with the subject. It is an article from Berlin, of
the 15th inst. (erroneously said November'), which states, that as
soon as the Court of Berlin receives the official news of the death
of the Emperor ALIMANDER, Prince Wn.wat, of Prussia, son of
the Kiwi, will repair to St. Petersburib, to compliment the Em_
peror CONSTANYIKZ:

We think it is pretty clear from this, that the Rapt Almanack
maker of &alit is no conjuror, or he would not have made the
blunder of calling the Grand Duke Nu:not/A heir to the Throne of
Russia ; fur had the King of Puussia had any idea of a disputed
succession, he would not be so ready in his felicitations on the'
accession rif CONSTANTINE, particularly as the Grand Duke NICIIOLAS
is his son in law.

The Dale, after giving an account of Taganrok,and that part at
the country generally, says it can excite an surprise that the Ex-
raloll perished in a climate so very unhealthy.

The Govetiinient of Azoi, in which the town of nsanfok

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+voted, eo,npri•es those provinces which the floc:fans acioired
from the Turks, by the treaty of 1774. A description of Taganrok

hai.alreedy been given in the Stet of Wednesday.

The Mode contains some accounts from Spain, by which it ap-
pears that M. Zan Baumann set out for Dresden on the 11th inst.
The high price 't bread in Madrid had excited much discontent
among the lower orders, which had manifested itself in such a way
as to call forth the attention of the police.

An article from Zante, dated the 12th of November, repeats the
account of the defeat of the enemy by the Greek Chiefs, KAZAIS-
ICAZI and SMUT* ; and the capture, by the former, of a convoy be-
longing to RILINCHID NOM, consisting of a lumdred camels, and
two hundred horses and•mules, escorted by three hundred and fifty
men, the whole of whom, excepc fifty, were killed.
An article from Trieste, of the 9th of December, states,
on the authority of letters from Corfu, of the 2.3 d ult. that
the arrival of the Turkish fleet before Missolooghi, is
confirmed ; but they are silent at to the report of the Commission
of Government established in the city having fled to Zante. The
same letters add, that three European transports, having on board
some Greek families, which 1111ANIX PACIIA was sending to Alex-
andria, had been taken by the Greeks and sent to Hydra.