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London, England, 1818-05-08 00:00:00

itself winlsi be a !evolution, at ef a kind that
would sooner or later cause a convulsion wildi
Would shake the bonds of sttlety tb theii- very foun-
dations. What! gimp to a rith man a number of
votes prOportioned to his property, when it may so
happen that he may be ignorant, foolish, vichms I--
There never was any thing so preposterous offered
to civilised society in the shape of a law.—Let us,
hope that wisdom sufficient may be found' in the
House of Peers to strangle an attempt which threatens
the most dreadful conseqpencee; . '.'

A Mail from Flanders arrived last night, and
another from Holland this morning.
An article from Frankfort states, that at a recent
confidential sitting of the Germanic Diet, the follow-
ing important questions were agitated : What line of,
conduct ought to be observed, when one of the States
of the German Confederation, which is at the same
time an European Power, shall be implicated, in the
latter quality in a war, in consequence of which its
German dominions shall be attacked and occupied
by its enemies? Can any of the Powers who are
members of the Confederation, such as Austria, Prus-
sia, Denmark, or the Netherlands, establish a :totem

of neutrality, mud support the iyateni of an
morality? Can the mere pasuas ofrisidge

through the German territory of the Powerwhichit
at war, be considered as an act of hostility to the
Confederation?

All these questions, which are of the highest im-
portance in regard to the future public law of
Eu-
rope, are to be discussed by the Military Committee,
I and afterwards by the Diet. It is affirmed that the
I Ministers have sent to their Courts for instructions on
the subject.

The Neapolitan Journals state, that a triple Con-
vention has been concluded between the NEAPOLITAN
Government, the KING of FRANCE, the KING of
SPAIN, and the PRINCE REGEN
sof ENGLAND, by
which the privileges ant exemptions which the sub-
jects of these three Powers enjoyed in the commerce
of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies are abolished.—
His NEAPOLITAN MAJESTY promises that the sub-
jects of these three nations shall be treated on the
same footing as the most favoured Nations, and that
the exemptions and privileges thus abolished shall
not be renewed in favour of any State; that they
shall enjoy an abatement of 10 per cent. on the
amount of the duties payable after the Tariff in force
since the Ist of January, 1816, besides other advart_
tages mentioned in the said Convention.
Some Danish subjects in the. West India Colonies
have been 'found guilty of having communications
with the Corsairs of the American Insurgents, and of
having even fitted out vessels and exercised piracy
on their cisvn accounts with passports or licences
given by the leaders of the Insurgents. The acconv
pikes in this traffiF have beet diicovered and some
of them condemned to hard labour. This santance,i

passed by the Danish Authorities in the West Indies,'
will, it is said, be brought before the Supreme Court
of Justice in the Mother Country for revision.
' The inhabitants of the City and territory of Cob-
lentz have received the following rebuke from the
King of PRUSSIA for having applied to him for the
,establishment of that Constitution, with the solemn
proMise of which he encoura3ed them to exertion
against the common enemy at the close of the last
'war. The thing is worth quoting at length as an ex-
ample of the hollow casuistry, by which the Sove-
reigns of the Continent pretend to justify their con-
duct, in still refusing to their people the rights which
belong to them. If the fourth year of a General Peace
be not a fit period for an act of necessary internal
policy, who can hope that the fit period will ever
arrive at all?

" The period at which the organization of the States is to take
place is not freed either by the Edict of the f22tl May, 1815, or
by the 13th Article of the Act of the Confederation. All times
are not equally propitious to introduce changes into the organiz-
ation of States. Those who allow themselves to remind the So-
vereigns of the execution of a promise freely given, thereby ex-
press a blameable doubt of his fidelity in fulfilling his engage-
ments, and improperly take upon them to decide on the tune
when this new order of things ought to be established ; whereas
the fixing bf this time ought to be as free as the promise given
was. Every Centntone, every Corporation, every Individual,
has the right to ley at the foot of the Throne, and to present to
the Ministers, their requests, by the way of petition ; but the
excitement tpreeseetim) to petition mace be tolerated ; and
this excitement exists when a petition is hawked about in a
whole preying', and the inhabitants imked to sign it.
" It is for these reasons that the petitios which was presented
to me a kw days ago, in the name of the City of Coblentz, as
well as of the Communes which compose its districts, has given
nie just displeasure. I shall fix the period wish the fulfilment
of the promise which I have given, respecting the introduction
of the representative system, 5h..11 take place; and I shall not
suffer myself to be influenced by anyi unsuitable remonstrances
on this subject.
" My principles in this respect have been declared In the
Federal Diet, and in consequence of these principles I shall con.
tinue to take the necessary preparatory measures. The duty
of stbjects is, to wait (with confidence in my fidelity in
fulfilLng an engagement which I freely made) for the moment
which, atter an examination of the situation of the whole Mo-
narchy, I shall judge fit for the execution of the article of the
Federal Act, which is appealed to.
(Signed)
• " Potsdam, uist March, 1818."

" Fasmuscx Was'Lar.

We subjoin some accounts relative to South Ame-
rican affairs. They are not so recent by some days
as other details that have appeared ; but they are,
notwithstarlding, interesting ; for the industry of the
Fe) nantlizis in circulating reports favourable to their
cause, often has the effect to hide the real state of
affairs for sonic time., These accounts confirm the
previous statements of BouvAa's success against
the Spaniards, and leave little doubt in our mind,
that Mostu.Lo has been completely worsted by the
Independents;

" TRINIDAD, M IRCII is.
" Private letters /menthe opposite coast mention, that a Spa-
nish Division, from Cumana, had been defeated at Cumanacan,
(10 leagues frum the formeri, by Colonel hloaras, and that the
Spaniards lost above 100 men. )Torras then re-occupied Ca*
dace, probably in preparation for General BLILMUDEZ advance.
These letters add, that Naca RIO, a Spanish Mulatto Colonel,
bad deserted from their cave, joined ost.rs, and was carrying
on hosalities against his former employers.
" moat determined enemies of the Spaniards are nowt the
very Samoa they formerly employed to externthunt the en-