The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-27 00:00:00

-the interests of every honest British merchant. Assure your
countrymen, that although no people appreciate peace with all
the world more than we do, yet that, relying on the justness of
our. cause, we 'know no' fear, but are united as one-roan, to
-uphold 'the.honour and independence of our country."
" Rotterdam, 20th Nov., 1&32."
Signed by 120 of the principal merchants.)
RE A L PATRIOTISM.— ( Fa therland.)—An application was
made to the governor ;of the province of North Holland, on
the .14th instant, by the Director General and Coinmandant
of the Marine, to know upon what terms the steam boat called
the Noord Holland would be'disposed of to the government for
the -service -of the country under the present circumstances.
'l' he reply of the governor of the states of North Holland to
this request is datedTrom Haarlem on the 15th instant. After
commenting in 'touching language on the times and circum-
stances in which every sacrifice ought to be made to uphold the
inttependenee of theocountry, the ;answer proceeds to express
the satisfaction of the sttit es of North Holland in being en-
abredto afford assistance in the 'hour of trial to their beloved
Fatherland, and concludes by -not only making a present of the
vessel for the use of the state, but also offers to.pay all the.
-wages of the -crew, amongst whom -is the experienced pilet
Iltunker, who has a perfect knowledge of the coasts of the
North Sea.
The only news 'from Antwerp, by. the mail on Saturday, con-
sists of a. communication made, or intended 'to be made, to Ba-
ron Chasse, that if he be content to admit the neutrality of the
city, the French will not enter it; if he hesitate to bend himself
thus far, the batteries in front of it will be immediately occupied,
atud.the-attack will -benracte-from-that side as well as-its oppo-
site. The ultimate•surnmons had'not been given at'the date of
the last accounts (Thursday, noon);r the cannonade, it was ex-
pected, would commence on the Zit (this day). The corres-
pondent of the Times mentions a very formidable engine, which
be calls "an infernal machine," that is to be used against the
citadel. It is a large cask, strongly hooped with iron. A cask
is a very appropriate weapon with which to subdue a. Dutch
crarrison; but instead of tilling' it with' rockets or shells, ai pm-
°
(.I:?sit assailant would have filled it with right Schiedam. i the
French forces are, it is said, to receive such augmentations as
will enable them not merely to act against the citadel, but, in
case of need, to oppose any attempt of the Dutch to enter the
country. They are to have some ten or twelve thousand ca-
valry, which can only be employed against the Prince of
Orange, unless, indeed, they are to charge at the head of the
terrible cask. .

PRUSSIA.
Bossy, -Nov. Id.—Erxtraordinary movements Of troops are
taking place in all Rhenish Prussia. Soldiers are daily hasten-
ing to the Belgian frontier, and the people have notice to pre-
pare to have a great many -troops quartered on them. The
cavalry of our garrison has already marched out, and the land-
wehr is ready for action. Prussia assembles an army to which
it is not eas.y.to tind an.equal, and which van-meet-uny-eneuty.,
In a week a large Prussian army -will be assembled in this pro-;
vince, of which there will be.a.general review at Cologne.
SuEsiA, Nov. 7.—Accounts from Warsaw. :speak of plots
lately discovered there, in consequence of which many arrests'
had taken place. The .particulars are not known, but it has.
transpired that the persons -implicated are Russian officers, who'
were dissatisfied with many of the regulations of the Field-
Marshal. The parties concerned, who may, perhaps, have no
political object, are said to have been connected with other
officers in St. Petersburg. The guilty are taken and sent to
Russia to be proceeded against, except a few who are said to .
have escaned by way of Cracow into Galicia. The state of
things in Poland becomes daily more satisfactory. The impe- •
rial clemency is open to every Pole who applies for it. 'I he
confiscation of the estates that have become forfeited to the
crown proceeds very slowly; and every well founded applica-
tion on the subject is attended to. -A great number of Poles,
who have fled to foreign countries, continue to receive from
their own country funds for their support. Trade and business
Of .all kinds revive, and citizens and country people rejoice in
the restoration of tranquillity and security. Only Warsaw
Will be long without the social gaiety and splendour which it
formerly enjoyed, because the great tamiiies have suffered the
most severely.—Al/gemeine .Zeitutty, Nov. 16.
FRANCE.
The French papers are filled with addresses to the. King on
his providential escape from being shot. In the letter of our
Parisian correspondent will be found the translation of an
article in clic Cuastitutiontid, which gives a Most theatrical ac-
count of the whole-affair. His Majesty's life, -it appears, was
saved by it young lady, and most providentially that young
lady is a Fleming. . Nothing could be more interesting on the
present occasion. There was, according to the manner in
which they manage these matters in Franee,-an immensity of
line situations, and the thing could not have beenbetter got up.
at Porte at. Martin, in.its most melodramatic days. Our cor-
respondent truly says that the ,Standard will be among the
lirst to denounce both the crime and the criminal, Assassina-
lion, though among the legitimate weapons of that party which
patronises the batiot, is, in all cases and for all purposes, a
crime odious to God and man. But the Standard must pause
for,proof. Ii Giroux de St. Geniez be guilty let him be dealt
with as the law of France directs; if he belong to one of the
;political unions of Paris, it is tolerably -certain that he is as
worthless a fellow .as the majority of those whose intri-ues in
such bodies,.aidedby-the bigotry and' blunders el-the l'elignae7
administration, reared the throne of the-barricades; but there-
is so much the appearance of this being no -more than a police.
plot, got up for the purpose of investing the. King with some.
temporary popularity, and invoiving'the Duchess of Berry in ,
fresh danger,. that we shall wait until we know more about the
matter. itt. de St. Geniez, if lie fired the pistol at all, may,
like M. Deutz, bean agent. of-the police. lle cannotbe a greater
scoundrel than those whom they ito, ordinarily, employ.—Landon
Sty mford..„

The French. Ministers will, it is said, be in a minority in
their attempt. CO try the Duchess. de Berri by a special law;
the, Deputies will impeach her.
It has . been agreed, at a private meeting of the French
Deputies, that Dupin shall be elected President without con-
test; Benjamin Delessert and De Beranger will' be Vice-
Presidents.

CEYLON.
(Private 'Letter from Guile, May 7, 1832.)
The weather here on Friday. and Saturday night, but parti-
cularly the.latter, was awfultyhad: ltrize-hdd some very, heavy
squalts butgenerally-the wind was light, and veer
mg all Aciuud.the conipass, with very heavy rain. 'The light.:
mug and.thunder mere terrific. I never remember anything to
equal it. At times the flashes of lightning succeeded each other
so quickly as to form a continued light, and the roiling of the
thunder was incessant, -some of the peals as if close over our
heaps. 'The church was struck,.it is supposed about live on
Sunday morning; the east pinnaele, a mass of masonry of
about eight4o-te,n-feet high, vats-knocked off, and the greater;
part fell through the roof, The-front-of the reading-desk and
• the:side of 'the governer's pew, which is immediately opposite
•on the other side of the church, were shattered ; the lightning
appears to'have come down two'lamp irons,une Ilea: the desk,
-the other -near the pew, the lamps of which were of course
shivered to atoms, as there is not any appearance of it having
.einne through !the ceiling. It is supposed the electric fluid
' ,which damaged •the desk and pew must have come through an
Open 'window, near the latter, and not by the same which '
knocked,off the pinnacle. It is wonderful more damage- wa
Hot done to the church, as the lightning once entered it, from,
the quantity of iron work about it. A. -house in the fort has.
been a -lithe 'injured, and some cocoa-nut trees outside de-
stroyed; providentially no lives have been-lost, at least I have
heard of none. The brig Johanna's royal-mast was struck,
They say about three on Sunday morning; the lightning passed
dOwn it, the topgallant-mast, topmast, and into the foremast-•
head,' from thence into the fore-trysail, which is quite destroyed,
from whence it escaped without doing any further damage.
None of the spars'lell, but are, notwithstanding, useless, except
the foremast, which is still serviceable, and as she has a spare
topmast they think of being ready 'for sea again to-morrow
evening. The pilot went off to her on Saturday morning to.
take her to sea, but thehad weather prevented her getting out.
Though, as I said above, we 'had generally 'little wind, the
squalls on Friday night were sufficiently long and violent to
cause some loss of anchors amongst the vessels in the harbour,.
and a consequent unusually heavy demand on us for cables and
anchors, which, however, -we were able .to meet; we supplied
five anchors and four cables to three of them on Saturday;
some of the vessels were again adrift during Saturday night,
but were remoored yesterday; as they still remain, and as the
weather appears breaking, I trust it is all over for the time.—
The houses here are all like shower-baths, from the incessant
and heavy rain.—Culumbo Journa/,,May 16.
The High Court of Appeal, established by the charter, for
the revision and ultimate disposal of causes instituted in the
'Provincial Courts, held a sitting on Friday, the 4th ultimo, his
Excellency the Governor attending in
.person, as he also did
on Saturday, sth. The cases entered in the Secretary's list
were numerous, but did not occupy as much time as they were
expected to do. •

His Excellency returning to Kandy on the night of the 6th,
and the Criminal Session of the Supreme Court commencing
o,n.llonday 7th, intervening, the meeting of the High Court
of-Appeal- stood deferred until Monday last, 14th.
T
The 'business was then proceeded in before the Hon. the
Puisne Judge, Mr. Seijeant the Quorum Commis-
sioner, and the Hon. RonERT Born, the commisioner of Re-
venue. -The Court satlor about an hour, when its silting closed.