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London, England, 1820-10-26 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

Lady Anahatst, from her seat, Montreal House, Kent.
The Countess Dowager of Stanhope, from her seat, Chevyning Howe, Seven Oaks, Kent.
The Marquis and Marchioneu of Tbomond, at Cook's Hotel,
Albemarle-street; from a tour; Baron Roebeck and family, at
ditto, from the Continent; Joseph Wilson, Esq. at ditto, from
Bognor ; Means. Randalls, at ditto, from their seat in Scotland.
Mr. and Lady Mary Singleton, at the St. James's Hotel, Jer-
myn-street, from their seat in Kent.
Lord Louvaine, M.P. from his seat, Barking Hall, Suffolk.
Sir T. Heave, Bart. from his seat, Dagenhiun Park, Essex.
Lord George Lennox, from Nottinghamshire.
Dowager Lady Julia Petre, from a tour.
The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, from a tour.
DEPARTURES.

The Earl and Countess ;FiKrii;i_iii yesterday, to Titteti-
hanger,. Herts, for a few days, previous to their leaving town for
Wimpole, Caminidgeshire. '

Fives-Comm.—The Gas-light Man took his benefit
at the above place yesterday, and the amateurs pa-
tronized him very higfily. Oliver and Larkins
made an interesting bout.of their combat, and Scrog-
gins and the Birmingham Youth played off upon
each other with much severity. Bales and Spring
displayed the science in first-rate style, but the most,
interesting set-to of the day was between the Gas-
light Man and Shelton. It was tremendous on
both sides, and the Gas-light Man appealed twice
to the spectators, to decide in his behalf that he had
drawn the first blood, to decide a wager to that effect,
The specimen exhibited by the Gas-light Man has
raised him in ske-estimation of the Fancy, and there
is but little doubt the odds will be 7 to 4 and 2 to 1
in his favour, previous to his battle with Cooper.
Abbott, jun. challenged Martin, (who shelved)
for 140. a side, to fight on‘that day month. Martin
said he was ready and willing.—The Gas-light Mary
returned thanks in good style, and the company se-
pirated, on the whole well pleased. Young Brown
it matched for another battle with Curtis.
Some partial affrays have lately taken place, both
in the barracks and in public-houses in Newcastle,
between a few hot-headed young men and parties of
the military, and which originated in a difference re-
specting the QUEISN.
EDINBURGH, a Satirical Novel.--Varions reports
have been in circulation as to the cause of this pub-
lication being so long suspended. It seems, however,
that the embargo is at length got •rid of, and the
work of this facetious writer (a bosom friend, we
ate told, of the late Tou,Snearoau), which is to
exhibit a fine free picture of select manners and nto-.
rals, is actually to appear on the Ist of November.

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• • 'SECRET COMMITTEE:

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The following is the Report of the Secret C9m•
thittee of the House of Lords, appointed to examine
aid' verify extracts from the correspondence between
Colonel BROWN and J. A. POWELL, Esq. relative to
the mission of Giuseppe Rastelli to Milan, and his
detention there : •
" The Committee kave tett, and, In the discharge of the duty
imposed upon them by the House, have called before them
John Allan Powell, Esq. who being examided, stated that diet
eatracts which he preseuted at the Bar of the House contain
the whole of what has passed in the correspondence betweed
'him and Colodel Brown, respecting the cadges of 'the mission
of
Giuseppe Rascal to Milan, on the 14th of Septeinber cast, and
of his detention there.
" The Committee then pew:coiled to examine and to verify
these extracts; and upon comparing them with the parts exhi-
bited to them of the drafts of Mr. Powell's letters to Colonel
Brown, and of the original letters of Colonel Brown to Mr.
Powell, find that they have been made faithfully and correctly.
These extracts may be classed under two heads :—First,
those containing the Communications made by Colonel Brown
to Mr. Powell, and received by the latter before the 14th of
September last ; when Ilastelli was dispatched to 111iian.—Se-
condlyti the extracts from the letters which have passed between
Colonel Brown mad Mr. Powell at the time of liastelii's depar-
ture from this country, and subsequently thereto.
" From the first of these it appears to the Committee, that as
early as the 4th of July, 1820, 1 letter was written by Colonel
Brown to Mr. Powell, and received, as the latter supposes',
about the 12th of the same month, though be cannot now ascot-
tan the precise date of its arrival, in which Colonel Brows
states the excessive alarm prevailing in Italy,in consequence of
the dissemination of false rcports respectinc-idle maltreatment
end even the murder of some of the, wittessses then in England,
and strongly urges the necessity of procuring letters front them
to counteract such reports, and of sending them by a courier.
" Communications of a similar nature, stating the mischievous
effects of the reports in circulation, and of the use made of them
to deter other witnesses from coming to England, appear to
have been made by Colonel Brown to Mr. Powell, on the ltith,
18th, aad 24th of the same month, and also on the 4th of Ate-
gust, on which day he represents the alarm of the families of
the witnesses then in England to have been greatly increased
by the non-arrival of any letters, and expresses his hope that
[ letters from them will be speedily received.
It also appears, that on the 9th, 15th, 17th, 22d, 25th,
28th, and 29th of August, and on the 2:1 of September, similar.
representations were repeated in the letters of Colonel Brown,
and received by Mr. Powell prior to the 14th of September,
the date of Rastelli s mission to Milan, in several of which the
necessity of sending a courier with letters front the witnesses is
again strongly insisted on.
" In these communications the strongest statements are made
of the mischievous Impression produced by the news of the at-
tack upon liastelli's party at Dover, by the representation of the
riot there as a massacre ; by the report of the loss of an eye by
Rascal himself, and of the murder of Sacchini ; and by the re-
turn-of Rossi and the Lugano witnesses, in consequence of these
reports. The terror of the families of other witnesses, who
were said to have lost their lives; is represented to have been
extreme • and Colonel Brown states all these circumstances as
having deterred witnesses, by fears for their personal safety, from
coming to England, who were before ready and willing, and
going off with all expedition possible,'
The Committee have confined themselves to this general state-
ment of the substance of the various representations thus made
by Colonel Brown to Mr. Powell, of the reports circulated in
Italy, end their effect in deterring other witnesses from coating
to this country, which Mr. Powell states as his inducements to
select Rastelli as the fittest courier to carry dispatches to Milan
on the 14th of September, but have not thought it right to re-
port the extracts themselves, as they contain statements which,
in that form, could not be received as legal evidence of the cir-
cumstances to which they refer, but which, if produced, might
affect the important inquiry in which the House is now engaged.
" The same reason does not apply to the second head of ex-
tracts from the letters of Mr. Powell to Colonel Brown, which
were sent by RasteUi, or written subsequently to his departure
from England, and from Colonel Brown's answers thereto. The
Committee have, therefore, thought it their duty, without com-
ment or opinion, which they do not understand themselves to
have been required to offer, to subjoin these extracts in ter; as
they have been delivered to them, for the information of their
Lordships House.
Itertacts most Mt MATTI 07 LITTIIII 710)t MR. PORXiL TO
COLOIML wows.
No. I.

" Lincoln's Inn, September 13,1820.
" I now return you Eastern, as I conceive he may be of use
to you; but you must take care to let us have him here again
on or before the 3d of October, with all the information, eviH
dente, and witnesses you possibly can collect."
l'Estract from another part of the same letter, at an interval of
several pages.]

" I am aware that it may be a ililecult task, under the cir-
cumstances which have taken place, to induce persons to trust
themselves here ; but we rely upon your utmost exertions to
accomplish this important measure, and trust you may succeed."
No. 11.

" Lincoln's Ind, September 14, 1820.
" I have little to add to my letter of yesterday, eacept tq re-
turn you the papers to be proved, if possible, in the way that
will be pointed out by and some of which I have marked
in petfcil; they mint
.01 be returned to me, done or not done,
by the Ist of October. Bastelli takes back with him letters
from everybody; be sure to forward them, and get as many
answers as you can."

No. 111.
" Lincoln's Inn, September 28, 1120.
• I hope we shall in two or three days see Rastelli again,with
the papers I returned to you by him, and other witnesses, who
may be a counterpoise to those to be called by them."

112TRAFTS OF =Tale mom cotout BROWN TO MR. POWELL.
No. IV.-(Received the 28th of September).
" Milan, September 21.
Just u the Courier was starting, Rastelli strived. Every
attentioll all be paid to the letters brought by him."
No. V.—(Received the 4th of October).
• " Milan, September 27, 1880.
a Rest*Rl will take back with him and two
new witnesses, referred to in letter. I much fear
Rutsill is shuffling. He is in bed, and says he has a fever.from
crossing the water, and he is heartily sick of the manner in
which the witnesses are confined in England. I wish he bad
not been sent back at such a moment, as it will, I am sure, be
difficult to move him again. I shall press him the moment he
*aves his bed."

No. Vl.—(Mr. Powell believes, received the 7th October).
" October 1, 1820.
" Rosielli Is still in bed with a violent fever."
No. Vll.—(Received the 7th of October).
October 2, 1820.
" and Hasten' continue ill in their beds."
No, VII L—(ileceived the 7th October, as Mr. Powell believes).
October 2, 1820.
'4 Rasta' is also on his pillow, and bas been bled twice yes-
terday. He has a serious fever; and, as I hear, he attributes
it to having vomited blood en the passage over the water. I
expect very great difficulty in getting him back to London."

lIIITRALIO Or ♦ LV:111731 PROM MR. row= To COLONEL "mom:.
No. IX.

" Lincoln's Inn, October 8, 1820.
a We are exceedingly sorry to And that you have any doubt
of the willingness of Hasten' to return. Ile would most cerr
tainly not have been sent to you, had there been the least reason
to suppose, he would not most readily have come back, and had
we not conceived thit he might be of great use to you at Milan,
as he himself stated he• thought he csuld, and that he should be
very wen able to return here by the stl. As it is, we consider
It of the greatest moment that he should come back ; 'and I
have it expressly in command from the Attorney-General to say
toyou, that no means must be left untried to make him do sc. Ins
absence would prejudice the cause exceedingly, as it would be
immediately Construed into a fear of his re-appearing, and the
most injurious, hOwever untrue, infereiries would he drav-
from it. The return of this man is so much desired, that we
send ]Crows expressly to you to inform you of it, and to enforce
it in tbe strongest manner."
No. X.—(neceived since the examination of Mr, Powelrat. the
Bar of the House).
" I have not seen Bastelli, except the day of his arrival and
the day slier; he continues in his- bed seriously ill. It would
`appear to be a severe attack of the jaundice; I shall urge Itiat

NtFd bis bed as soon • is possible, sod endeavour ter persuas
him to return, but be Cannot for three weeks to come i and ins
horror of the sea is such, that it will be a tremendous task to
induce him to cross it again.
$ On --'s suggestion, 0-- is to visit Rastelli, see him in
his bed, and in the presence of his Doctor, who will sign a cer-
tificate o—'s presence of the danger which would attend
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