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" Posts. ()craters 15.
41 Died. M. de BARNALI, rue de G.trmer, who lived
for some years in an obscure way. A will was found,
wherein he kit— sever,gl legacies to the clergri
amounting to lilt),000 franca ; and a letter addressed
t, W. llit,•Duat. Esq. M.D. as follows t
• 4, Saa--Esery.Christian'egratitude ahoutd not be forgotten t k
is some years sines I here been in London, where you supported
mein my distress with food and -clothing ; moreover you often
vied to Irish Me is a garret at my lodgings In Somers' fawn.--
Not MAW alone havers been kind, hot also to my poor col-
Wool the.ltmlgrant Ptiests. Now I will repay you, having be-
st yea, In my last will and testament, three thousand.
)1•411=1, silty thousand francs, as a testimony of nay esteem
sod gratitude for the very great assistance you afforded in my
dicrem.-1 am, Sir, your,, Sm. . .
" Paris, Oct 2, 1816. • " MARGE DE BARNALIN

• IMMEURGII MAIL.
ST. PETER cBUROI I, NOVEMBER 9.
The weather here has lately undergone very sudden
changes. On-the 30th of October, afar having been
for a considerable time mild and mciatiji. dry, it began
to freeze towards evening. N.,at day the weather
being fine, Reaumur's. thermometer-was at 4, of cold,
and twenty-four hours afterwards 10. On the 31st
drift ice appeared in the Neva, the brides of boats
were carried away, and the communication between
the different quarters of the city was thus interrupted.
On the 2d November the river was quite frozen over,
but the ice was not strong enough to bear wall(' rg onit.
Neat day a temporary bridge for foot paswngets
was laid from Wasiliostrow to the Admiralty side,
but on the sth of November it thawed again. Thus
the communication was again interrupted. The thaw
continued, and since yesterday the river is quite clear
of ice, so that boats navigate in all directions.
The coarse of "Esc!purge has been rising for some
time, which is attributed to the great exportations of
torn from Odessa and• Riga, for which drafts are
generally drawn from this capital.

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LONDON.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1816.
PRICE OF STOCKS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Reduced Ut I —Crum. sup. s'•ut-LCons. for ace. 6341
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For such further particulars respecting the late
Riots, as have tranipired since our • Report of yes.
terday, rtf:r our Resders to the details in another
part of this Paper. Some of the daily papers have
given revrts or twb speeches, said to have been ad-
dressed by a Dr. WATsos and his Son, to the mis-
creAnts who proceeded in a body from Spafields on
Monday. aori produced so much alarm in the Metro-
polis. We avoid their imrtion for several reasons:
the langnage put into their mouths is such as, in
OW opinion, should not even be repeated in the
ears of the ignorant : the individuals will pro.
bably be yet put upon their trial, and the minds
of those who may be called to sit upon them as
a Jury, should not be • pre-occupied with state-
ments which may not be well founded. We have
great &obis as to the correctness of the speeches at-
tributed to these individuals—and for this reason :
we had our Reporters stationed in different parts of
Spit.6:lds, to observe what was passing. One of them
chanced to be close to the waggon from which the
nob was addressed ; and, as we stated on Monday,
then was but •as :fader. This might have been the
. 7isess,..er W*Tsow, for the speaker was a youth ;
lout the elder WATS H 4 did not speak—or, at any
me, not from the" coal waggon. We have A-
lready given the substance of what the young man
aid. His speech was short, violent, and ended with,
*I'D() you want a lerider? then follow me!" on which
he jumped from the waggon with a tag in his hand,
sad set off with the mob at his heels. The nest news
we bead of this party was their assault upon Mr.
Baccirmes shop in Skinner-street. after which fol-
lowed all the disgraceful scenes which have been laid
before our Readers. • From all the circumstiolces
conrioe doubt that, at least, in, the attack made on
Mr. BECKWITH'S, the Orator, whoever he was, who
bad volunteered himself as a leader, was present and
probably very active.
The more we consider the event; of Monday, the
more we are • ltd to congratulate the public on the
vigilance of the Government, the LORD MAYOR, and
o:her Magistrates. It is impassible for the imagina-
tion to picture to itself the honorsi• d evils to which
this great Metropolis would inevitably have been es-
posed, but for the anticipatory prudence of the Se-
eflItTARY of STATIC for the Rome Department, and
the vigilance, zeal, and activity of the Loan MAYOR,
and indeed of the whole Polite of London, West.
sninster,-and the Borough. Nor will the active veer-
fans of Sir JAM= SHAW, and many other spirited in.
dividuals, in support of the Magistrates, be easily
effacer:l.Front the remembrance of their fellow-citizens.
Flow different .the conduct of our Magisirates and
citizens on this occasion. from that which took place
when,Ltird Gamma GORDON'S rabble spread them-
selves over this Leviathan of Cities—and how diffe.
rent,in consequence has been the result !

Tuesday there was a Meeting of the Householders
•of Mary la-Bonne Parish. The business was opened
by Mr. Hymn, in an excellent speech, and several'
Resolutions, in favour of the Distressed. were carried.
Upwards of £4BO was it subscribed, and
Messt O. MARSH, SIESALD, and Co. of Bernees-street,
were appointed to receive subscriptions.
A Meeting of the Parishioners of St. Bride's was
also held on Tuesday; and a subscription was entered
into for the relief of the Poor of that Parish. Meet
logs have also been called for the *bate laudable
pt.rpobe in several other Parishes.

AFFAIRS OF..sotWg AMERIC43 . •
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Letters and' Newspaper* ere .the 11th septembo
have arrived from the River Plate. At that date,
Monte Video had not been, occupied by the Porto.
guts., as sated in the accounts received on Tuesday.
from Barbadoes. The report stated to hove reached
Commodore BROWN, and which induced him to sail
for Barbadoes, might have arisen front the circum-
,stance of some Portuguese parties having taken pos-
session of the small forts of Santa Theresa and Sas
Miguel, within the Buenos Ayres frontiers, and ad.
vanced flying parties to within fifteen l:agues of
Maldonado. Having a large sum of money on board,
the fruits of his long cruize against the ships of the
Mother Country, he would naturally be induced to
avoid entering the River.—The last intelligence re.
ceived at Buenos Ayres of Bemire was, that he was'
off the Gallipagos Islands, in the South Seas, and
expected home:
The letters state that the greatest activity prevails
among the Independents, who were making every
preparation to repel the Portuguese, should they ad.
vance. Captain Bow Les, Of his Britannic Majesty's
ship AIIPIOON, had completely done away with the
ill impressions left by the former Commander. Mr.
Seariats had begun to exercise the functions of Con-
Lel General, as was understood, in consequence' of
instructions from England. 1)IAz Vet.Ez and Doz-
ens° have been compelled to evacuate Santa re.
By this arrival we have received a copy of the Act
of Independence by. which the United Provinces of
La Plata renounce their allegiance to Spain, sod
erect themselves into a Sovereign and Independent
State. We subjoin a translation of this Document:
" ACT OF INDEPENULNCE OF THE UNITED PRO.
VINCE 3 OF LA Ptak l'A, RENOUNCING THEIR AL.
-LEGIANOZ TO SPAIN.
44 In the worthy City of San Miguel del Tucuman,
this 19th day of July, ISIS, the ordinary sitting being
ended, the Congress of the United Provinces conti.
nued its former deliberations respecting the great and
august object of the Independence of the Towns and
Disuicts constituting the same. The anxious wish
of the whole country fur its solemn emancipation from
the despotic power of fie Kings of Spain, was evi-
dently universal, constant, and decided : the Repre-
sentatives, nevertheless, consecrated the whole scope
of their talents to this arduous affair, as well as the
rectitude of their intentions and the interest required
by the sanction of their own fate, that of the repre.
scatted towns, and of posterity. At the close of the
discussions they were asked, whether they wished
that the Provinces of the Union should form a nation,
free and independent of the Kings of Spain and the
mother country Filled with the impulse of justice,
they first exclaimed in the affirmative, and then each
one severally reiterated his unanimous, spontaneous,
and decided vote for the independence of the coun-
try, by signing the following