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Chief of the ,British Embassy sent out several years'
since to the Court of Morocco. Why so interesting
a narrative should have been so long withheld from
the public we are not informed, but it seems there
were secret and !along reasons for delay. The An-
thor, in his way to the African Continent, as well as
on his retorts, passes through France and Spain, of
which he Fives many interesting particulars respect-
ing the pnncipal features of the Country, the state of
Literature,.and the Manners of the Inhabitants. On
his arrival in Africa, he sought in all directions for
objects on which to exercisehis kpirit of inqairy.
tural History in general, and Geology in particular,
molted much of his attention; but his strong natural
bias for these. pleasing pursuits did not make him
indifferent to moral and political observations. He
bas described the Moors and Arabs with a masterly
pencil. and while contemplating the existing tribes
spread over that part of the Continent of Africa, his
mind is carried back to ancient times and other races
of men, and many curious disquisitions are in conse•
quenee die result of his reflections. To those. there-
fore. who de%ght -in tales of other lands, and scenes
'neath other skies—in treeing with eagle ken the re-
motest gradations of man—in transporung themselves
into countries little known or visited, and revelling
in-all that Poets or Historians hays sung or said of
the romantic East, this Volume will prove an inex-
haustible mine, and one on which the fancy clay
pause and linger with infinite delight.

COLONIAL INTALLICENCE•

Papers from Barbadoes to the 20th October, we
regret to state, communicate the death of Sir JAStits
LEITH, Governor of that Island. He was attacked
on the 10th of October with a fever which proved
fetal to him on the 16th. His character as a Gene-
ral, during the late war, is well known. The many
wounds he had received rendered him, perhaps, less
able to resist the attack of the fever that terminated
his valuable life. Antigua and Guadaloupg bore
strong testimony to the wisdom, the justice, and the
policy with which he administered their respective
Governments. Sir JANiss was buried with military
honours, on the 17th of October; the troops, inhabi-
tants, and every human creature being anxious to pay
him this last sad tribute of respect. By the death of
Sir JAMS! LEITH the command of the forces on the
Barbadoes station has devolved on Major-General
RAMSAY, Governor of Antigua.
In the General Assembly, on the 29th August,
several Messages from the tiroTeroor 'rem 'Wawa-mit
containing copies of the Addresses of the Houses of
Lords and Commons to the PRINCE REGENT, on the
late InsurreCtion ; and a Dispatch from Lord BA-
Tuvarr, with a recommendation to the Legislative
Council and General Assembly to meet the views of
the Sovereign and Parent State, by passing such Acts
as may be beneficial to the true interests of Barbadoes.
Mr. MAvEns congratulated the House in having,
in a Bill under consideration, anticipated the views
of the British Government, by the adoption of mea-
sures to ascertain more particularly the Slave ;Sopula.
lion.— It was agreed that an answer should be returned
to the Governor's Message on the following day.
The House then went into a Committee otsthe Bill
alluded to.
The gramma, in addressing the Committee, ob-
served, that to the present Bill, which was free from
the obnoxious clauses Mr. Wilberforce had intro-,
doted into his in the Bosse of Commons, and parti-
cularly of that indecent clause which seems to have
been unnecessarily inserted, merely for the purpose of
insulting their feelings, he bad no objection. Though
no Africans had been illicitly imported, and though
it was impossible to smuggle any into the Island, yet
that was not so well known in England. The pass-
ing of the Act would, therefore, remove all suspicion.
After commenting strongly on the conduct of the
African Institution, he concluded by giving his sup-
port to the Bill.
Mr. JORDAN agreed in opinion with the Speaker.
couceiving that there could be no fair objection to the
adoption of this Bill, since it was divested of the heavy
espenses andthe noxious clauses of Mr. Wilberforce's
measure.—The clauses were then read and agreed to
unanimously.
Oa the With, the Assembly ordered an Answer to
the Governor's Messages to be presented, in which
they informed his Excellency that the earliest atten-
tion would be paid to the recommendations contained
therein ; and that they had the satisfaction of inform-
Jog him, that a Bill had been already, introduced em-
bracing the objects recommended, which Bill had
passed through its first stages, and was in further
progress.--llw House then proceeded to the hitcher
consideration of the Slave Population Bill. , I
Mr. Mavens thought that the appointment of toe
eerspos to receive and transmit lists of Slaves should
Le left to the Commander in Chief, instead of to the
Represettatives, and moved to amend the Bill ascot-
dor—This Amendment was carried.
. Josoast (seconded by Mr. Mayers)doved that
the blank in the fifth clause should be ups with
the sum of seloo penalty for each Slave omited to
be given in.
Agreed to, and the clause passed unanimously.
The remaining clauses were arced to now Ma
A shock of an earthquake Was felt on the morass;
of the 10th October, about half-past font o'clock,
at Bridgetown. Barbadoes; but it does not appear to
have been generally experienced by the inhabitants of
that town.
The Desiree Reach frigate, of Se guns, and a
brig of war, arrived at Port-au-Prince on the dth of
October with two Preach Commissioners and
They
Gentlemen, formerly Fiancees of the Island.
landed under a flag of truce; and it was stated that

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FRENCH PAYERS.
We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday,
They contain the long-promised Laws for securing
the Liberty of the Subject and the Liberty of the
Press. These are the titles which they bear, it is
true, but they are direct 113i1111011/eft 1 They ought
to be called Laws for securing the peace andosn-
quillity of France. They are to last only for a year,
and hopes are encouraged by the Plitiiiver that they
will be then abrOgated. to snake room for the prin-
ciples oftivil and Religious Liberty upon witicktbe
British Constitution is founded, and which seems stilt
to be regarded is a Model.
CHAMBER Of DEPUTIES, DECEMBER 7.
Da Con, the Minister of Police, broughamt for-
ward the nevi LaFs respecting the Liberty the
Subject and the Liberty of the Press, which he pre-
faced by a long speech, musarkable for that verbosity
with which French statesmen often deliver them-
selves. The substance .of kis speech was, that the
law of 29th October, 11315, by which the Govern-
ment was empowered to arrest and detain suspected
persons, and to seize inflammatory publications, was
intended to be only temporary. It was then called
for by the turbulence and restlessness of men brought
up in scenes of revolution, but its powers had been
exercised with every possible clemency, and every act
of indiscreet zeal on the part at subordinate audio_
rides bad been repressed as soon as known. The
greatest number et persons in custody at any one'
timie throughout all France. had never exceeded 419,
and that was only for a few weeks during the troubles
at Grenoble. Since that time they had been gra-
dually reduced till, in the beginning of November
the number was 52. and these had been reduced to
Si by the beginning of the present month. of whom
17 were confined in Paris.
It was still found necessary for the public security
to continue some restraints on the acoons of lIITDU-
brat men, but not to the extent of the law of October,
1815. That was therefore to be abolished, and a
new one substituted, which however would, like the
former, be only temporary. He appealed to the
Chamber to say if Government had not exercised the
powers with which it had been entrusted with great
moderation, and only for the public welfare i and re-
minded them, that in England, where they had only
the fear of such enormities as had actually afflicted
France, the Haw Corpus Act had been suspended
no less than nine times in the short space of half a
century.
The law respecting periodical works, he observed,
could not yet be dispensed with. It was by means
of these that the factious disseminated their infiam-
nsatury sentiments, and therefore it was necessary
that this law should accompany the other—but also•
to be only temporary, and somewhat more mild than
the present law.
With respect to the case of the Ronimrs, (father
and son), imprisoned for publishing libels on the
Government, M. de Carts remarks, that from the
magnitude of their offences, the most charitable
course be can adopt is to be perfectly silent.
“ Loos, liter
44 We have ordained as follows
Gs I. Every one accused of plots or machinations against the'
person of the King, the security of the State, or the persons of
the Royal Family, may, until the expirtelse of the present law,
sad without there being any necessity to carry them before the
Tribunals, be arrested and detained hi virtue of an order signed
by the President el our Coined of Ministers, and of our W-
eida Secretary of State for the Departmest of General Police.
so 14 All jailors and keepers of houses of attest shall deliver,
within 14 hours ban the committal of the person arrested, a
copy of the maim of arrest to, the Zing's Advocate, who shall
innasetteir swabs the primmer if the latter requires it, draw
up Ms commodes, neeive from-hkra all papers in justilleation,
and transmit the whole to the IVllsastss of Judea, who shall
mike his Report demon to the Counctof the King, which shall
Sealy decide.
* UI. The Law of Ma October, 11115, is hereby abrogated,
mid shall cease to have els* tae Wadi after the promenades
of the preen* law%
44 IV. The preempt Lew shall empire on the Ist of January,
PiPsd. age.) " Louis."

LIBERTY OF THE PRESS•

4, It is ordained, itge
a. I. No leered or Periodical Publicist= shalt appear wittiest
tbe Noses of tbe Mot
• Tbis Law obeli aspire as the tat et lassery; tilts'
SUPPIAIMEDITARY OIit.DONNANCE.
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I. Wises soy Publication sties time bees seised is virtue el
the Law of UK °amber, ISM die pew. aball, osier
yids Si soNity,biasetilied widda lie bests to** pales whose
property has bees weed, was, within three dem my saki op.]
positions is ease at eyeaddas. the Procurator of tbai =isE shall
au all Maw= to obtain a decision wkido $ week e this week,
being **bad, eke slime, if set =Owed by theTitbooli,
be void, and the progeny steal be isetastly irate:eV'.

AMEItICAN PAPILItS.

• .‘ migmonm...
ie ben to the nth, Baltimore sled Phi.
to the 15th, and New York to the 17th
arrived.
arrived ht Norfolk from Barbadoes, lid
what we hope will prove unfounded-, the"
is that Island had again shewn strong
of iniubordinatkin, and that several con-
spiracies had been detected among them, one of
which had in view to surprise and take possession of
the fort at Bridgetown. A large number of the in-,
stergeots had bees apptahended, and the Civil Au-
thorities were coostantly occupied with trials and
executions.
One account, via St. Vincent's, states that Sir
Gamma MeGazooa bad beaten the Royalists in a
great battle, in the provioce of Valentia—anotber
that Sir Gamma had bees defeated! Such accounts
cannot be reconciled.
The Beverley, which left Macao, on the 19th of
June, reports, that Lord Ammer, the British Am-
bantam, was momentarily cyanid. It was Said
Sir GIONON STAUNTON would join the Embassy, and
that its object was to obtain permission to visit the
Manufactories in the interior of China* but which it
was the opinion of the most respectable Hong mer-. 1
chant in Canton, would not be allowed.
The Beverley arrived in Table Bay, Cape of Good
Hope, oaht sth inst. and left there the 18th Septem-
ber:* On the 29th July the British frigate RtvoLu-
' TlMlAlary of SB guns, and a sloop of war, went on
shore in a heavy gale, in Simon's Bay, and received
much drmsge. The former, when heaving out.'
patted her careening tackles, by which all the people
who were at work on her bottom were killed.
The British sloop of war SPIT was supposed to be
bound to Tristan de Cauca, as the English were
about settling the Island, and it is said was intended
for the future residence of NAPOLION. Great reduc-
tions of the army had been made at the Cape, the 83d
regiment had been ordered to Ceylon, and others to
Europe. Sailed in company with the British frigate
Thais, having on board the former Commander is
Chief. The Racoon was.to sail immediately for As-
cension, to look out and stop St. Helena, should 80.
NAPARTI run off with it.
Letters from New York of the 17th ultimo state,
that the ship Harlequin bad arrived there, in
twenty-eight days from Liverpool—an unprece-
dented quick passage. Sbe was the first to commu-
nicate the failure of the harvest in this country.-
-The consequence was, an immediate advance upon
flour, from 10 to 13 dollars per barrel ; and every
other kind of wheat had a proportionate rise. The
letters continue to repeat the distressed state of trade,
which far esceeds what is experienced in this country.
The affair of the Firebrand still occupits the
swo of every one in America j and so irritated is the
public feeling upon she occasion, that a war with
Spain seems inevitable;

AFFAIRS OF SOUTH AMERICA.
By the Leeward Islaad Packet we have received
accounts from St. Thomas, dated the 20th October,
of which an extract will be found subjoined. They
fully confirm our late surmises respecting the affairs
of Venezuela, and furnish us with the result of the
general and decisive battle to which we alluded on
Monday last. We had not then received sufficient
details to establish the fact that the Spaniards, before
they evacuated Barcelona, put to death, in cold
blood, all those they judged favourable to the Pa-
triotic cause, but this horrid deed now seeins beyond
doubt. The mind recoils with horror at these
scenes, and if the infuriated agents of reams/sup
only reflected a little, they would find they were not
furthering the interests of their Master, but only
bringing down vengeance on their own heads, and
disgrace on the Spanish name.

" ST. THOMAS, OCT. 20.
o The political and military affairs of the Spanish Main have
at length reached an important crisis, that seems to portend the
total downfal of Spanish power in_ this quarter. Unaware In
what shape these occuersoces are wafted over to you, we shall
endeavour to give an outfits* of what has happened since our last
respects which will enable you to form your ewe conclusions.
64 After Boilver's defeat at Ocuniare, a Scotchnisn, of the
name of Sir Gregor M'Grsgor, who had early entered WO the
Independent service, and married a Caracas Lady, cut his way
into the interior of the country, accompanied by a corps of cavalry
commanded by him, and passing in the rear of the capital, he
went towards Barcelona, collecting all the men and hones he
could en the road. There he formed a junction with the other
'Chiefs who bad been auesublingst Macula, and 911 the 10th of
Septentber,dises ticked forces oompletely dieted the Royalists
osier Lopes, and Barak= fell into their power. 'The King's
party having Medved timely advises of this disaster, had time to
evacuate ; but this they did let do till after they 'bad put to death
ail those inhabitants whom they viewed In she light of partisans
to their enemies.
.6 SUMS days afterwards, practidng their old tricks of decep-
tion, the Royalists caused a report to be circulated, that Barce-
lona tad been retaken by them; and Indeed such lairmation
was studiously eonveyesl over here, but yesterday a veuel came
la diem from Barcelona, which, on the contrary, brings positive
Ezost
to, that Generals MoGreger„ Pier, Bermudez. and M.
with in army of abottt 3000 men, subsequently attacked
'tiny, composed of a similar number of forces, and
letomactled by Morales; when, after a most obstinate and
ingspoisnt, the latter was routed, with the loss of all his bag-1
gage, angler/A and even his musicians. He was driven front the
field of battle, Which was coverod with the deed, and with the
' greatest difficulty retreated with only Ito men. Bermudez, wile
pm a bold momple to biefellemees, was wounded. Comm
hitherto bad am base bus, hit mit coo receive se soomen,
and the goyim ma mks ois.hieset smog in this hasher, it is ,
isms evicted to give op. Ills tooperese are mow is fall taireb
in Cantu% sad Qtr tile rad Ival be Wm& by Sarum, ao loM.
CChief, oil* a helli body of um, whom the Royalists
elelit oever boon alis to rellises., The Spit& . Iwo noir ao.
alba din at AMP liteltpogrees. _ ,' •
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, , r Some days op sog an left Pam& Ski Ii omit she

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the snores ~t. N.Prthern Africa, and the paucity of Colosy of Demerara and Berbice took place for the oh. hove arr
authentic details relative to this little known and purrs" of virgins what they ache Methodist Mis- A I s
highly interesting country, induced us lately to point %onuses. Tt.ey have not gone so far as to say that
out to the particular attention of our ders the religious instruction will be/hurtful to the slaves and "Ported wh
• eiy curious Narrative of a Ratostscx ionTRIPOLI, other inhabitants s but these ignorant salaries, they the Negroes
a production which, in richness of description and SAT. would spread misery and desolation among the bruptcons GI
variety of anecdote. has not been equalled since the British West India possessions, and they suggest the ,inirocies ha
publication of the Correspondence of Lady. Wortley propriety .of dividing the West Indies into Parishes, "r"
which had ii
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