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!is what w cabby seateitas promise or gearintee to 1
them. It will be peculiarly-difficult to found civil
tritedom among cheat, on account of their great le•
vity, and their prtinenesi to Comedy, One of the
most intelligent among them once said, “ Perhaps
misfottune May strip us of that levity of character,
which all oar Governments hive carefully nursed,
because it was necessary to make of us a slavish
people.' This frivolity probably contributed more
to the unfortunate course which the Revolution took,
than all that they call the subterranean intrigues of
Orleans and the Emigrants"

Paris Papers to the 20th arrived at a late hour last
night. According to the Gazesle Vale, the sus-
pended march of the foreign troops, and the arrival
of reinforcements, arises only from delays of em-
barkation occasioned by the weather, and the arrival
of detachments to complete the regiments of &cu.
pation according to the Treaty.
Theie papers add little or nothing to the reports
respecting Sir R. *molt; and really little is known
but the fact that he is charged, along with Captain
HUTCHINSON and Mr. Baum., with having aided the
escape of Lavaurris. We'hope it will prove other-
wise un his trial; for the act, if true, cannot be jus-
tified on any ground. A Morning Paper, under the,
head of a Private Letter from Paris, gives the follow-
ing documents, said to have been found by the French
Police, which are to be adduced in evidetice against
the English Gentlemen implicated in the escape of
LAVALETTE

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" I. The Tailor's Bill, sent by hatchlnssiel to Wilson, for the
uniform, supposed to be that in which Lavaktte escape.).

" 2. A Nute of the sth instant, froni Hutchinson to Bruce,
asking him, ' whether he hail forgot his poor friends in the little
room 1' and engaging him to tome and join them at one o'clock.?

" S. A Note of the 13th of December, from Wilson to Hat:
chinson, hi which he says, that 4 if the expedients proposed are
tried, success is certain.' He also adds; that' andH—;
Englishmen of note, are quite turious at the fate of iley:

" 4. C.rtain Nqtes of Wilson, relative to conuntinieations
‘vh:eh he had made to an Engll.6 Newspaper in favour of Ney."
COPY OF A LEITF:R FROM SIR CHARLES STUART TO THE
DUKE DE RICHELIEU, ON THE ARREST OF SIR ROBERT
WILSON, MR. C. BRUCE, AND MR. HUTCIIINSON.
•• PARIS, JAN. 13.
Sift-I have learned with surprise that several
English Gentlemen, among whom arc General Sir
Robert Wilson, Mr. Crawford Bruce, and Mr. Hut-
chinson, have been arrested this morning, that their
papers have been seized, and that they have been
conveyed to the prisons of this city under the direc-
I don of the Minister of the Police.

14 As I have repeatedly manifested to your Excel-
lency my determination to extend the protection of
my Sovereign to no person whose conduct endangers
the safety of this Government, I should !lava been
flattered, if, as British Ambassador at the Court of
France, I bad betn honoured with a communication
qiism your Excellency; which -might have prevented
the necessity of an official explanation of the motives
for a proceeding of this nature towards iirdividuals
whose services and rank in some measure guarantee
the loyalty of their conduct.—l have the honour, &c.
(Signed) 41 CHARLEY STUART."

The French Journals mention two Protestant Fa-
maies having abjured their errors and been received
into the Loom of the Church of Rnme 1 The details
which we have given under the head French Pro-
testants, throw some light on the real source of these
conversion:. We again assert, that persecution has
not ceased in the South of France ; and we maintain
tat the very efforts that are made to mislead the
Protestants in other countries on this subject, ought
to operate as a most powerful stimulus to persevere in
their efforts for the emancipation of their fellow chris-
tians from being subjected to suffering for conscience
sakL'. The very effort of their enemies to throw upon
them the odium of the revolutionary crimes perpetrated
by the majority (that is by the Catholics) is in itself
a most abominable trait of a persecuting spirit.
Mockings, reproaches, and calumnies, are not slight
inflictions. We are rejoiced, however, to find that
the persecutors, be they who they may, have failed in
their efforts to extend their system to other places
when they endeavoured to have the flying Protestants
denied the common rights of hospitality.

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The SPEAK= of the House of Commons will give
his first public dinner on Saturday se'nnight.
Lord and Lady CASTLZREAGH will come to town
this day for the season, which is several days sooner
than they were expected, they having fixed on the
30th instant.

The Earl and Countess of Liveneoor. came to town
yesterday for the season. The Earl of LIVERPOOL
will give the first Cabinet, dinner for the season to-
morrow, at Fife House.
We believe we may at length announce, that a
matrimonial arrangement has actually taken
_place,
in behalf of the presumptive Heiress of the British
Throne, on the one part—and a Prince of the House
of Saxe-Cobourg, on the other. The probability of the
event has been so long whispered, that its final settle-
ment will excite less general surprise. It is the
third son of the reigning Duke who is to receive,
some time during the ensuing spring, the hand of
the Princess Cneatorra of Warta. The Bride-
groom elecr,—we suppose we may call him,—is the
same Prince who drew considerable attention in Lon-
don, about a year and a half ago, by the grace of his
person and the dignity of his address t we believe we
may also add, in plain English phraseology, that his
Highness is in other respects a very excellent and
worthy man. He is at present a Captain only in the
Austrian service, about 26 years of age.

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