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London, England, 1816-02-26 00:00:00

the examination of the Proposal on Public

. CORFU, Li-NUARY 2.
The contagioua ly with which ire
threatened broke out at Mar:obi-4 a v;llage IS
to the east of this town. By the rreaAiresofraP
Lion adopted, it has fortunately been preaentedial
spreading. A Proclamation of yesterLy'slosb
nounces this important tact, and that the C
of Health have exinessed their belief, frets Ml°
boa collected, and their own observation, tha
discave is merely local.

NAPI,LS, FEBRUARY .1.
Th• most recent lettas from Aii assure sit
the contagious malady at N'ja has not este
beyond the confines of that place. and that
creases daily.

FRANN.FORT, FEB. t 7.
The Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar issued, 036
2t.th January, an ordinance relative to the es:unveil
of the States, and 111,. ue.v constitution of the ('a
Duchy • of which tlie following it: the substascr:,
" The States-General of the Grand Dttcleg
assemble at Weimar on the ;in of Aprit nett. To
Commissioners named by his Majesty, viz. 1401
Ziegesar, li.rumm, and Hutt land, will be preso
then ueliberations. M. de Ziegesar will Ftcs4'
the assembly, but v:it out. a voice, except is tsti
equality of votes : the two others will Lave al.
tive voices. •

Tne States will take into their considera
plan of constitution which will be afterwards sub
ted to his Royal Highness, and which cannot bt
in execution; but, after having received the soli
of the Sovereign, his Royal Highness reserves to
self the right of adjourning or dissolving theassel
of the States."
Professor Goerres, editor of the Rh v. t'
has repaired to Berlin, in order to obtain teSlll°!
to resume his Journal.

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reached us. Their contents are
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bessof certain documents of the late unfortu-
yulf of FRANC& We subjoin the most inte-
of these documents:
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CHAMBER OF T)EpuTyygg.
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THE /ATE QUEEN OP 'FRANCS.
e Ministers for Foreign Affairs and of Police
g been introduced, the latter, (Count de Caze)
the tribune, and with the most profound
on, spoke nearly as follows s
Geudemen—The King has charged us to make
onnication which must affect you in a singular
ier...[Efere the deepest silence prevailed, and
say depizted on every countenance.] The
ihe just, (he contiaued) is never lost to pos.
ipa always affords grave and salutary lessons :
oloce bath permitted that a written trace
oregnain of the last thoughts, the last wishes
04 fa his people by a Sovereign whose name is
Isse sacred in the memory of men : there exists a
ameit of Louis XVI. But this sorrowful conso.
ja was not left to us with respect to his Queen.
'alone received and heard her last sighs. Her
gbier was not permitted sooner than 2.5 years
swards to receive her mother's.benediction, which
'kit in-some measure renews, must nevertheless
jrn her grief.
silie.aUthenticity of the letter I am about to read
Ise is undoubted. It is impossible that characters
lie written in a bolder or firmer hand, a proof of
riaquillity of the soul of the writer at that awful
low. It is not signed ; but its authenticity is
prasteed.by an evidence which makes us shudder
ibboner: the testament of the victim is witnessed
rha executioners! This interesting document
lathes the tenderness of a mother; a wife, a sister,
el a Mewl, united to the dignity of a Queen and
t knees; of a sage: it is, in short, worthy of being
wed by the side of that august and sacred testa.
est which has been read from the Chair of Truth,
per the Word of GOD himself."
.hl. de Cass then read the following
imam QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE, TO TIER $l5-
.. .- • Tait, MADAME ELIE IDETII.
°October 10, Half-pal: Four o'Clock in the Morning..
',lt Isteljoe, say dear Sister, that f write for the !an time.
eve here contemned, not to a shameful death, for that is only
dem who are erim.nal, but merely to go and rejoin your
her: innocent like him, I hope to tie same firmness
One my List moments. I am as cairs as are whose
' •ces do not reproach them; I feel the most profound
at abandoning my ,our children—you know that I existed
it then. :-tt 1 ycio, my good an 1 ten .ler Sister, you who have
put• . sacs ificed every thtni to he with us ;
I,!realVul ituation do I leave you! I have le.irnt even by
, hi my own case, that my dat,,hter has bees sepa.
11:reen you. Alas! poor chili, I ,dare not write to her, for
rill not receive my letter. I do not ktimv even if this will
pa—receive, for both, My benediction. 1 hope that one
it, when they are older, they will be Mated with yeti, and
Sy your und.vided tender care.
'‘ Let both of them think on what l hive never ceased to in-
liato them; that the pri.,c.ples and tint execution of their
des are the f.rsthaiis of life ; that the'r fri!-iidship and nuptial
Alcoa win Gum their lia;%piness: I. r my daughter know that
Ae age at wh'ch she is, she ought alavls to a.sist her brother
iliac counsel which her greater experience than Lis and her
oddity will inspire her; that ma sun in his turn, will a.Torol
alines all the cares and screws which friendship can M-
in; let them finally both feel, that irs whatever situation they
irfina themselves, they can only'be truly happy by their ver-
andas. Let theta take an fxample from us. How much
Maxim in our misfortunes has our filendshp not airorded
o!Our,goo,od fortune vrt can enjoy doubly when we can share
inch a Muhl, a:a where can we ind one more tender or Mare
intim in our own fatutiy ? Let my son never forget the last
Mk glib father, which I repeat to him expressly : namely,
hi It aball never seek to avellgo oar death.
'llene now to speak to you of someti.ing which Is very
bial to my heart. I know how much vexati..n tile Child
1111111,0 an yea: pardon him, my dear Siver ; think on his
Ij end how easy it is to say to a child what we wish and even
lit which be does not understand : the day will come, I hope,
hat be will be quite sensible of tine value of your goodness and
*reels for both. It now remains for me to entrust you with
illutihollghts. I wished to write them at the commencement
,111 trial; but in addition to their not permitting me to write,
qrocredings were carried on with suck rapidity that I really

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I die In the Cads.)le, Apostalk, and Roman Religion, in
Hof my FatherA, in that in which I have been educated, and
kb I have always pi °leased, not having any spiritual consols•
ktettpect, not knowing even if there are any Priests of this
°Ova lure, and even the place whet° I am would' expose them
smith if they came to see•me.
isinetrtly ask forgiveness of Got, for all the faults which

'we committed 'ince I lave lived. I trust that in his goodness
ed 3 hear my last prayers, as well as those which I have long
tbat he would receive my soul through his mercy and
. I a-k pardon of all those with whom I im acquainted,
et you, my dear sister, in particular, for all the paps which,
%out wishiug it, 1 A ay have caused you. I pardon an my
%des the ill which they have done me. I hereby bid adieu
tt/statto and all my brothers and sisters. I bad friends t the
II" a being styrr.tod from them for ever and thdr sorrows"
illy greatest regrets in dying ; let them at least know, that
tat last moments I thought of them Adieu, my good and tea-
tattr! May this letter reach you! Think always on me.
albearaloll with all my heart, as well as my poor dear ea'
My Con! how heart-rending it is to quit them for ever!
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dads.. As T ion imififfie ikattiosso, they plops brio/
me a Priest; bat I bare pn,eitt the I shall not pay a Oasis *or&
to bhp;, sad that I shin treat Mat ass perfect stranfir.."
After teiding the Leiter. the Minister tentained a
'lonrtime sitiationlees: tears Stied every eye) and at
length be continued i
" The King, in chargieg us With thii communica.
don, has authorized us to say, that he is desirous that
yen should see in this 'communication a proof of the
desire which he has of confounding every sentiment
with that of his people, and of sharing with you the
consolations which he receives, as he shares nur hopes,
and our mitfortunes. I now ,deposit a tenified copy
of the Testament of Queen Marie Antoinette. His
Majesty has ordered a facsimile of it, when engraved,
to be given to every Member of the Chamber."
On the motion of M. LAINet thanks were eated•to
the King for his communication.

A Dutch Mail arrived this morning. The Papers
which it brings contain frightful accounts of the Ls.
"ages of the Plague in the Turkish Province►. In
Bosnia, consisting 'of a million of inhabitants, one
half have perished 1 The Christians have on this
occasion suffered in an equal degree with the Turks.
With this melancholy exception, the Dutch Papers
contain no news.

WINDSOR, FEBRUARY 2.5.--TO•MOIY3W her MA.
JESTY, two of the Plum:asses, and the Princess Owe-
Lo:yrs of WALES, will le,ive here for Brighton on "a
visit to the PRINCR R MEN?.
BRIUII lON, FEBRU A fIY 25.—The arrangements for
the inarriage of the Princess CHARLOTTE of Witt.es
with Prince LEOP3LD of Conoutto will be completed
on Tuesday next. The Earl of Livenkot. had a
private audience with the PntNec RECISNT yesterday,
and immediately returned to London.

Sa►urday 21 of the Pititice RECIENT'S horses left
London to change those of the Qua= and Plum-
ceases on the road to Brighton, to convey them to
that place.
Yesterday the Duke of Yoint, the Duke and
Duchess ot CUMBERLAND, with a numerous assem-
blage of Nobility, attended Divine Service at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace.
Saturday the Earl ot Live/ mom entertained a
large party of the Peers with a sumptuous dir.iier at
Fife House.

Saturday Mr. G. PotistmlY gave a grand dinner
to a large party of the Oppoittoa Members, at his
house in Curzon-street.

On Saturday, Lord Stnstoteru entertained the
Royal APCIIDUICE% Prince ESTEIMAZY, Count ST.
JULIEN, Baron Pose, and a large party, with 'an
elegant dinner, at his Lordship's new residence, in
Hiil-street, Berkeley-op-ire.
YesterdAy Prince ESTEIIIIIZY gave a most magni-
ficent dinner to the Royal APCIIDUKES, the Duke of
MuNTROSE, rtinCe CASTELCICALA ; Earls Live:tenor,
Bantuasr, HARltossnY,and WESTNIOI(ELALD; Lnids
CASTLEREAGH. MELVILLE, and SinsiouTti ; Counts
Sr. JuLmst and BEROLDINGES ; Baron Posy, Gene-
-141 MASENY, Etc. at his house in Stratford-place.
The ..ascussion on the Income Tax shouht
gular course, take place this evening but from the
manner in which Ministers received Mr. Bantstes in.
dilution, that he meant to move a postponement ut
that tremendous question to a more distant period, we
have little doubt of their disposition to accede to the
proposed delay. IN:rne can deny Ministers the praise
of candour in this respect; and we trust that they will
in the issue bi found to have as little cause to upbraid
'their countrymen at large with the want of spirit.
We are, indeed, ready to confess, that if the people
could be so base and a!)ject as not now to stir, when
the cons: quences of this measure are so well under-
stoott—the violtti-n of faith, under which it is or
would be propo:ed, so acutely felt--*-they are worthy
of no better tate than to have a Standing Army,
,and an eternal Income Tax, fastened upon them.—
For our own parts, we should Wave thought that very
recent txpericace might have %hewn men the dread-
ful danger to be apprehended Irons standing armies,
the debasement they inflict en their tellow-citizens,
the miseiies which they carry forth among their
neiehbours, and above all the difficulty, when once
they are established, with which they are to be got
'rid of. Look at that of the late French tyrant. The
merest remnant of it now existing, dissolved and scat-
tered over the whole of France, obliges the Allies to
maintain a cordon of a hundred and fifty thousand
Imps supported by a chain of the strongest for-
tresses on the confines of the country.
K:ither do we blame Ministers for the share they
have taken in this precautionary measure. But
while they are at these pains to put down a standing
army abroad, let us not have one at home. Let the
painful service in which they are still engaged on a
foreign land teach them their duty upon their own.
Let them look at the ominous inference that would
be drawn from these ostensible facts—that while
thirty thousand British troops are required as our con-
tingent towards preventing the military Jacobins of
France from rising again to harass mankind. we have
I;kewise occasion to keep twenty-five thousand on (cot
in this very island for some similar purpose, we sup-
pose: for no other purpose whatsoever has yet been
declared, or can be declared. - Let- Ministers, we
say, beware of the conclusions which-evidently re-
sult from these insulting premises.
On the subject of standing armies we shotild have
said but little at this time, but that they have been
made the pretext for the continnanee of this~ de.
tested Income Tax, by which all England is thrown
into commehibti : and Ministers are, as it should
seem, by one fatal step, going to lose all their popu-
larity and' honest fame, and place their own
laurels on the heads- of their antagonists, whoa(
events have so often baffled and confounded. As to
! the Income Tax itself, we have described all its rigid,
inquisitorial, odious properties j nothing is or can be
urged in its defence but necessity i and a necessity
'which shall impose, in time of perfect peace, a tax of
such a nature as was never thought of in former days,
even dating periods of the most disastrous war, th
we apprehend, and see clearly, a necessity whit!'
Englishmen cannot be brought to understand. The
only necessity that now exists is a necessity for eco-
nomy,—not a neceuiti tor 'extortionate. Crush, rapa-
cious maim:

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Major. General Go,mm bas taken the coattilad ot,
the gamiest, of Cork, vice Major-Genera) roam „
. The depot.of the 15th regiMent of Huiseri have
left Arundel for Canterbury. .
Tuesday, he Ship Charles, No. 525, and brig
Eliza, No. 197, arrived iit Cowes Roads, with p art of
the 88th regiment, front Cork, for the depot. at Park-
burst.
The Perthshire Milkiia; from England, have ar-
rived at Perth, to be disembodied..
Friday, a detachment of the 88th regiment, com-
mended by Major DUNN, late of the 2d battalion,,
which has recently been reduced in Ireland, laoledat
Portsmouth, and marched to Hilsea Barracks ; they
are expected to embark again. in a few days fel.,
France, to be incorporated with the Ist battalion now
in that country.
About two hundred of the 2111) Regiment, at Fort
Cumberland, under Major CRAIG, will embark to.
morrow hi transports, to be conveyed to the River, to
re-embark on board the Indiamen, to join their regi-
ment in India.
The sth Regiment, fl-om Fort Monckton,
and the
38th Regiment, from Hilsea, will replace the Bth and
49;1t. The 38th wild occupy the Portsea barracks,
and the sth, Forehouse barracks.
The craft appointed to convey the troops of Ports-
mouth Garrison to Ireland, have sailed to Ostend to
bring over British troops.
IiAMSGATE, FEBRUARY 24.
Arrived from Ostend, the Commerce transport,
with 180 men of the Royal Artillery; likewise the
Ulysses and Formax transports, from the same port,
with a detachment of the Sd Garrison. Battalion, and
some staff and artillery horses.
FEBRUARY ?3.—Arrived the. It innersley Castle
transport, to receive on board p art of the 3d Batta-
lion 95th Regiment, for Ireland, expected here in a
day or two, fr,art Canterbury. Lieutenant JAMES
FfTZGERALD, of the 32d Regiment, who was badly
wo'iaded at Waterloo, came over in the Ulysses,
mentioned above.
FATAL ACCIDENT.

Saturday an inquest was held at Portstnouth, by
R. CALLAWAY, Esq. Coroner, on the body of the
lion. C/lAat.e. Tuttxotnt, who was drowned the pre.
ceding evening. It appeared by the evidence of Cap-
tain CHARLES KNATCtIBULL, of the 22J Dragoons.
and Lieutenant DUNDAS) of the 47th Regiment, that
'ahey end the deceased, with other pass‘mgers, came
hoar! in the General Stuart Cast Indiaman; that, off
I the hie of Wight, trey get into a pilot boat : on their
way to Portsmouth, the deceased being much intoxi-
catei, and sitting on the vesw!'s gunwhale ,in act
of stretching himcelf, fell overboard, and having :t very
heavy Flu:if:in coat on, was finable to help himself.—
He was not in the water more than two or three mi.
notes, and every exiltion was made to restore anima.
tion, but without effect. The accident happenei about
eight o'clock, immediately off the platform ; he was
taken on shore, and a surgeon being in attendance,
further excri ions were made, but still without effect.
Verdict, Accidental ekath. —The above unfortunate
Gentleman WAS a Lieutenant in the (35th Regiment
he was sixth son of the late,. and brother to the pre.
sent Earl of WINTERTON ; he is also krother to the
Host. A4ll4lllVa TUUNOUR

NAY"/ 1. INTBLL IGENCE.

PALMOU ri I:EBRUARY 29.

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Arrived yesterday the Duke of Kent Packet, with
mails front Lisbon, in twelve days; Fox Packet, with
snails from the Islands, in twentpeight days; and
hit Majesty's schooners WHITING and SE ALA Kg, from
a cruize. Arrived to-day. the Snake Packet, with
mails from Gibraltar, in twelve days; the Clifford,
—, from London for Virginia; the Peter Proctor,
PrrEtuaN, from London for Dominica. Sailed yes-
terday, tl:e Having, Nesenv, for Rouen.. Sailed to-
day, the Snake Packet, lioamm for Stangate Creek;
the Harper transnnrt, RCKET, and Verulable tran-
Tort, Cvms, for Cork; and his Majesty's schooner
SEALAEK, a
POR TSMOU TH, FEBRUARY SS. •

Arrived the Henrietta, Ivh:FiNo, from Charleston,
31 days passage ; and -the Efforii, JONES, from the
Downs, for Leghorn. Sailed the General Stewart,
Roars, for the Downs. Came in yesterday the Ge.
neral Stewart, from Bombay ; the Palafoz, CAME-
RON, from Sea, having been on shine in the Owers ;
and his Majesty's ship LARNE from a cruize. Sailed
the Elizabeth, Trafalgar, Patriot, Union, Mariner,
and Bideford, transports, for Ostend ; and the Pau-
TRIDOL sloop of war for the Eastwarsl.—Wind W.