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taken of the conduct of the
deed, whether in rega rd to each other, or towards the
• Public, in the impositions daily practised in the Tend.
• ing of this article, well eterits attention. The ex-
' sent of the criminal traffic carried on in the articles
of Tea and Coffee, by those who claim the merit of
esclusive purity in the sale, by the number of persons
who attended at the Meeting of the Tea Dealers and
Grocers, to vindicate their injured reputations by
inking with persons of respectability, and in the'
hope of purchasing an ablution of their sins by sob."
scribing a pound note, but whose character end con-
duct could not hear an investigation, they having been
so unfortunate as to have fallen older the vengeful vie
',Ration of the Excise. The Meeting in question,
when purged of these offenders, doubtless exhibited
respectable and.irreproachable company of trades-
men ; yet certainly nothing but a legal investigation
could more openly establish the fact of many
nefarious practices, of which the Public are
tint aware, prevailing in the branch of trade upon
which the health of the community so much de-
pends. So far is it certain, that the Public are
without security from the effects of sinister rec.
tices its the adulteration of en important necessary.of
life, and so far is it more clearly manifested that the
Public ought to have the articles which compose their
dilly beverage supplied to them in a genuine state.--
'the characters of dealers most steed or fall by the
coalition of the articles they vend, and not by their
own self-commendations. The cause of the iniquity,
whit b certain individuals practice with so little com-
• portion in this respect, and of the injury which the
Public sustain from these impositions, appears, prima
fade, to lie in the mercenary dispositions of men :
but were the real origin of all this mischief properly
investigated, I doubt not, Sir, 'it woetd be found in
sources of Public evil, which you, as a Statesman
sod a friend to truth, would do well to explore and
disclose. I byre no hesitation in saying, that the
temptation to adulterate Tea is chiefly caused by the
excessive load of taxes, and the unjust restrictions
that are laid upon the importation of that article.
The weight of taxation upon this article alone is
enormous; and every one knows to what an exor-
bitant price the Tea Leaf has been raised by these
impositions, and the rapacity of the monopoly
which has kept the benefits of our India Empire
from the British People, yet loaded them with all the
*Weil consequences of Indies' wars &otitis esclusive trade.
'this subject merits as much the attention of the Re-
presentatives of the British People, as it does of the
Public at large, and I trust, Sir, you will impress ifr
upon them.—t am,
Nov. 11, 18111. ONE OF YOUR READERS.

?I AVA L IN T E LIGSNCIL
Nov. 10,—Ceme down Cr.. Ike River
er -lied ills Medusa, Fletcher, for St.

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Illittp; Zeds Wilson. for Genoa; Rork, Phil-
'. lips, for Mogadore ; and the Whitiug transport, and
sentain with the rest, as per last.
KIMSALK, Nov. S.—Arrived last evening the brig
Nelson, Datidone,of and from Bristol for Newfound.
land, with coals, leaky.
Ilagsvicts,Nov. 10.—Arrived the Beaufoy packet,
with a Mail, &c. from Cuxhaven ; -and Alliance
packet, with a Mail, &c. from Gottt•nbergh.—
On the sth instant, the Britannia, Fos, of and
Item London to Bremen, with coffee and sugar,
pot into Accumeziel, having been on shore, and
so leaky that the greater part of the sugar
was dissolved.--The Marmion, Cranson, from
Ifambergh for New Orleans, was brought into this
harbour by two salvage smack, with lon or rudder,
and leaky, basing been on shore on the Shipwash
Sand.

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..ty 'ays - esaml.
to their brethren throughoutre anA -- .f n cons,-
(pence of a Requisition, most numerously and re-
spectably signed, calling upon the High Sheriff of
Galway to assemble the Protestants of his Bailiwick,
for the purpose of addressing the Leghlate re upon
the subject of the grievances of their Roman Catholic
fellow.subjects, a Meeting was held, with the con-
tent of the Sheriff, and a Petition in favour of Ca-
' tholic Emancipation has been adopted. It was moved
by Mr. Martin, the Member of Parliament for the
county, and seconded by Mr. Arthur French St.
'George, of Tyrone,. Protestant Gentleman, of ei-
4ensire possessions, and of great influence in Gal-
way. After a few objections from the Hen. William
Li Poer Trench, " which," the Dublin Evening
' Post states, " were directed mere against the form,
'than the principle" of the measure, and hi which, if
edds, " the lion. Gentleman displayed great taleut,",
the Petition was adopted withoet alteration.

ELECTION or GENERAL LAFAYErI'E.
[THOM A CORRESPONDENT.]
PARIS, OCT. 31.—The triumph of ministerial in-'
trieoe over public +Titoism, in the department of Seini
et Marne, has been followed by a speedy and tioat
defeat. As soon es it became known in France that as
enormous expense of money, and a profligate abuse of
influence had succeeded iu preventing the return of
General Lafayette in his own department, a consider- •
able movement took place in several places, for the
purpose of securing him a seat in the Chamber of
Deputies. The department of La Sarthe has got
the pas, and obtained him for its Representative,
notwithstanding that the President of the Eke-
torsi College (Mons. Pasquier) had adopted the
unusual expedient of suspending the Election for
48 hours, in order to gain time, and fatigue the pa-
tience of the electors. This vigorous demonstration
of public spirit evinces the ardent attachment of the
nation to those principles of liberty, which guided
the Legislators of 1789 ; to whom, if the Court had
faithfully adhered, the misfortuoes and crimes which'
followed, might have been avoided, and the ill-fated
Louis might have been still seated on his Throne°.
The electors of La Sarthe ere chiefly agriculturists,
and are fair Representatives of that numerous, use-
ful, end respectable class, to whom Gen. Lafayette is
not mere allied by his farming speculations, than by
the tenor of his political opinions. To their respect
for his character iud public conduct, their choice is
entirely to be attributed; for he is personalty un-
known to them, and has neither property nor con-
nections in that part of the country.
The premature triumph and the calumnies display.
of in-the Courier, of the 20th alt. now recoil upon
'itself. Whether that article be, or be not a produc.
tiou of the French Police, is of little consequence.--
The Editor of the Courier, whether he be the feed
servant of • Foreign Minister, or the substantive pro.
pegotor of falsehood, is alike estimable in the eyes of
big countrymen uirues horuw emu& accipiut.
General Lafayette, be pretends, was the time:
serving depeudant of the Emperor, during the hen.'
aired days t. What, Sir when he proposed. Napo.
leon's abdication to the Corps Legialatif ? When he
publicly defended his count rymen from the calatoulous
charge of versatility, mad. by Lucien, before that
Body ? No, Sir, the worthy patrons of the Courier
are not more notoriously attached to their places and I
pensions, than General Lafayette to those glorious
peenciples, which guided him to America, arid accom.
paled him through all the vicissitudes of the French
Revolution : which animated him in the field, il-
lustrated him in the Senate, consoled him in the
dungeons of Olmutz, and now crown him with the
Isuffisges of his countrymen, and with the respect and
veneration of all, that are not hostile to liberty in
Europe.
• The relations of Lafayette with Napoleon, during
the hundred days, were those of open and uncom-
promising resistance. During the splendour of the
Imperial Regime, be was 'wither a M-sober of Na-
poleon's Sinete, a Chamberlain in his Court, a Mar-
shal in his Army, nor a Pensioner on his Treasury.
Had he figured in any of these characters, he would
now meet with less opposition from the French Mi-
nister, and less malignity from the English ally of
all servility and sycophancy.
I):tt venison corgis, resat censure ealambas,
Is the motto of the day. Less honest and more
flexible, General Lafayette would have been joy.
fully received mono( the thousand pirouettes to whom
patriotism and loyalty are mere marketable commo-
dities; and with an amnesty for the past, end a pen.
sion for the future, have been enrolled in the serene
order of legitimacy, the admiration of the Courier,
and the contempt and derision of the rest of man-
-kind.

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' Ma. Gomm—The County of Galway has fol
lowed the example of the town of Newry, in re-
sohing to present an Address to Mr. GRANT. A
numerous and most respectable Meeting of the Gen-
tlemeo of Galway was held at Lnchrea, on Tuesday
-Jecttnnight, the lligh Sheriff of the County in the
, Chair, and an Addriss, moved by Colonel MARTIN,
and seconded by Mr. R. J. FRENCUs of Rittman° (a
Catholic), was carried unanimously. There is a
strain of good sense, good feeling, and moderation
running through it, which must not only make it
highly acceptable to the distinguished and popular
individual for whom it is intended, but will be sure
to obtain the unction and applause, of the country
at large.
Salaries of some of the principal Officers of the
American Government :
Per Annetta.
President ,t5.400 0
Vice-President 11:5 0
Secretary of State ..1.1115 0
Secretary of Treasury 1,195 0
Secretary of War 1.011 10
Secretary of Navy 1 011 10 --
Principal Clerks ~ 787 10
Post-Master-General . . Bl5 0 We understand there is likely to be a scrutiny for
Director of the Nita .........» 450 0 . ' Northampton as soon as time will permit. The ac.
Chief Justice ,. ....,910 0
a
Attorney-General
... fte
Commission of the Land-olice 450 0 other circumstances, and laid before Counsel, who
Ministers Pleuipotentiary 2,025 0 1 ars of opinion there is no doubt of success.
Members of Congress while on Duty, Thirty- . . .
Nor Shillings per diem each. The remains of the late General DE RUDE were de.
C REV(' INCREASE or CRIME.—It appears by a rm. t posited *on Saturday in St. George's Chapel. His
turu presented to the House of Commons (and which Royal Highness the Duke of Yorm'attended as chief
was ordered to be printed on the sth of June last), mourner.
that the numtet of criminal offenders committed for Fusertxt. or LORD Vara.c.TonT.—The mortal re.
trial in England and Wales, during the last thirteen mains of this estimable young Nobleman were can.
years, has
.increased in the last year to more than signed to the family mausoleum, at Maker, on Fri-
triple the numlwr of the former year : that the number day, iu a manner corresponding with his rink in so.
sentenced to death was in nearly the like proportion : ciety while alive, and the respect due to his charac.
but that the number of executions was not one-half in ter and memory.
proportion to the number so-sentenced. The numbers THE MATCH BETWEEN TURNER AWD RAWDALL•••--
vier eas follow : The partizans of these first rate heroes of the fist
In gAt years 1805 anal 1817. dined together yesterday at the Goat, in Lower
Committed for trial 4,&15 13,935
Sentenced to death. .
Etecnted
being lins, in IBos—and lin 11, in 1817. hundred guineas, were deposited. Betting, guinea
The remains of the Right floe. Was. ELI(); M.P. to pounds, and from that to five to tour on Randall;
were brought yesterday evening to his late residencelThe match to take place within 25 or 30 miles trout)
in Old Ilurlington.street, from Scotlind. This day i London. Should the backers fancy their men so as
they are to he removed fer interment in the family to double the stakes, the 28th of Norereber Is the
%ault at Reigate, Surrey. ' day named for that itrrse.:..

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M. C.
• See the Account of the Transaction of 1792, in Hies
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Nob.
*as *begged Abe ehole of
heerieg of the( cause which
was on the greeter 'part of fatality, tad el dull,
public interest. • -.cot rroit•
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VICF.-CHANCELLORI ColJltt.ltift 411IY "3
ATAITHAIILL,GML:' '%_•)e-. •
This case had been several times li!fote tbi-Usiert.
Sir ARTHUR, PIGGOTT, for the tbaeealOre of the doe
ceased Mr. Waithman, new applied tot an order to
enable them to carry the will of the testator • into
execution. Mr. Waltham bad'bequearhed the sea
of 6001. per asn. to be applied to the establishment
of a school on the Lancaiterlan Syitem, for the &lo-
cation of the children of Catholics and Protestants
of every denomloation. The school was directed to
be built en a spot of ground called 'beret* of Old-
castle, in the county of Meath, Ireland. This ground
was the property of Mc. Napper, the testator's mt.
phew, who was a minor at the time the will wea
made. In e codicil to the will, the testator farther
bequeathed all the property which he might be pos.
sessed oftand which was not otherwise disposed la
his will, to the establishment of the said school.—•
The testator had died several years before Me.. Nap-
per became of age, and the ezectaion of the Wall
necessarily suspended, as he, duly* his oinorltz,
could not give a legal grunt of the ground on whit,:
the testator bad appointed the school to- be erectedc,
It appeared from the
.report of theilmter„tket Ur.
Nipper, who is now of age, was willing end analyse
to do every this In his power to promote the Ma•
ilisliment of tO Charity ; and that sretbief was
wanted but the order of the Court. • -
The Vsca•Cuiecit.i.oe wished to lino*, if the
nearest of kin dtiputed the +Atli!, of the bequests?
Mr. DELL said, his Client could not oppose the
present application ; but at the same time, Beware
ed to him, that the Court could not, gtire a firial
order on she subject, since it did not appker holt lb*
Master's Report, that a regular, aratt_of the pro+
petty bid been obtained from M.r. Nipper. Ite else
suggested that the swat of kin were 111'11(14'10 the
interest which had accumelated us th,legicy Mime
the testator's death.
The VIcCoGSIANCELLOR said, that the telatlineof
the testator could have no title to the interest, since
in the codicil annexed to she will, all his prispottr
was made over to this Charily., lie Ole, therefore,
decidedly of opinion that it shoolti go to the foonda.
Linn, end not to the neat of kin. lie agreed with
Mr. Bell in thinkusg, that before the Court ordered
the charity to be carried into execution, it was bee
realer, that a regular grant of the propirty Oswald be
obtained hoes Mr. Napper, because the terms of the
will clearly implied that condition: He should
therefore order that the Rimier appoint frosty.s to
receive from Mr. Napper a grant in tee of a tenets
spot of ground, such as is specified in the will of the
testator ; and that, on the production of each a grant
in fee, regularly eircuted, he proceed to approve
of a proper scheme for establishing and maintaining
the charity. Costa of All parties to be taxed, as be.
tweets Solicitor sud Client.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 10.

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gieidqs
public.Mit in France, which Weis to 'screw with
every dalr, with peculiar satisfaction. Now is the
time of their triumph. New it is desionstrated they
the French Re►olution did not take place in vain.
The eeperiment which the French made was a bold
one; and unluckily for Europe, they were soon be.
frayed into errors, of which their enemies, and the
enemies of ill imptosemeot, availed themselves to
throw discredit on all changes and reformations what-
ever. When the most glaring tamps wee pointed
out=—when it was sheen that institutions had in the
course of time become altogether inadegeate to the.
oliject for which they wet. created, the constant sn•
steer was, look to France—see what the conse-
'quences of innovatioo have been in that country.—
The cause of Reform was in some degree discredited;
'for there are but too many people in every nation
incapable of separating the essence of a thing from
that which is accidentally allied to it. The messes
and errors of the French, which might be easily
accounted for, and which every good man lamented,
were pronounced to be the necessary result of all
changes of Government. Establifhed or not esta•
blished became the only criterion of good or evil.
But the excesses of the French Revelation, how.
eve► much to be lamented, were only transcient ; the
goad which it has effected is now clearly demon.
elated to all whe are not resolved to shot their eyes
to the truth. A richly endowed church, in its con-
mitetion et variance with the interests of the nation,
'has given place to one of Which the great body of the
Members are reduced to more than Presbyterian
simplicity. Tithes are abolished, sod the French
cultivator sees himself the uncontrouled arbiter of
his operations. A powerful Noblesse, who were in
the enjoyment of innumerable priyileges and dis-
tinctions at the expence of their fellow-citizens, are
now stripped orbit that could render them oppressive
to the comnienity. And to crown the whole, the
People of France, under an Election Law, which
secures to them a suffrage so universal, that in the
majority of departments, it must, in a great mea-
sure, bid defiance to corruption, have obtained a
national blessing beyond ail price; and to which, we
trust, for the sake of the 'sample to other countries,
as well as their own immediate advantage, they will
adhere through good and bad report.
The effects of this Election Law have struck the
grand supporters of errors and prejodices with an ap•
prehension bordering en despair. This Lsw has shown
them, that they have uo longer a hold on the nation
--that their day is past. 46 Look at the late Elections,'
says the advocate for this class in this country; "Not
a single Royalist returned—not one!" No; the
French have had sense and spirit enough to spore
from them those, who openly avow that the People
ought not to have a voice in their own affairs. They
wish tto Royalists of the class who support divine
right—;they wish no Chatesubriend, who had the im-
pudence to tell ttre present King of France, openly,
that ha was sere he would net order crime and jujus.
ties, but if be did order it, it would have bees, his
duty to obey him. They do not wish Royalists who
maiotain that a King has 4 right to rule in spite of'',
his People. They prefer a different sort of Royalty
—that which teaches Kings that their power is de.
rived from the will of the People, and is a trust which
ought to be dzeroiaed for their benefit.

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CONSPIRACY AND ABDUCTION.
TIMING, AT THE PaOSECUTION OP THOM?, V. PAM.
10*DITCH, WILLIAM DOWDITCH, AND lIKTAILA4
OTHERS.
This was a motion by Mr. SCARLET?, for. e rale to
show cause why the ‘erdict in thin case should not
be set aside, and a new trial grunted.
The case was tried at the last Summer Assizes for
the county of Dorset. It was a prosecution against
the Defendants, for a conspiracy unlawfully and
wickedly to carry off by force, and against her will,
and without the consent of her mother and guardian,
Mnry Glenn, spinster, under 17 years of age, its or.
der to constrain her to marry James Bowditch, Is.
bnurer ; and also for assault and false imprisonment
of the said Mary Glenn, in furtherance of such un-
lawful purpose. The trial took place before Mr.
Justice Park, and wee detailed in the Peblic Prints
sit the time at considerable length. Mr. Scarlett, the
'better to ground his motion, recapitulated the facts
,as they came out in evidence, which were, as shortly
as possible, these :
The Prosecutor is a Gentleman of great respecta-
bility, residing at Taunton, in Semersetablre, sod
the young Lady in question was a native of the Island
of St. Vincent's, who was sent to Englawd for her
education, end consigned to the care of the Prose.
actor, who was her uncle and guardian. • The young
Lady arrived in Engicad early in 1817, and having
tinfortonately contracted the hooping.cough it the
house of her uncle, es well as his' own children, her
uncle procured a place of reception for his niece, two
of his children, and a children's maid, at the hemmer
a reputable woman., named Joan Bowditch, who waa
,strongly recommended to him, and resided abut a
mile from the Prosecutor, at a place called lioiway
' Farm ; and at this place Miss Glenn and the ether
young persons, sent there for a change of sir, con.
tinged from the 9th of July until the Id September
following. When they were about to retorts home,
a communication was made to Miss Glenn by her
each., that she was about to be placed at a boarding
school, at Chelsea ; end *bloat this time, according
to the young Lady's testimony, a Mrs. Malraine, the
recently married daegliter of Mr. Bowditch, expressed
to Miss Glenn her extreme regret to hear she
was going away ; and asked her if she knew of the
warm attachment formed tooteds hler by her brother,
James Bowditch (the Defendant)? Miss Glenn,
with some surprise and displessere, answered in this
negative; and added, it was impossible he cool&
suppose she would encourage such en attechtnent
from a person in his station of life. To which the
sister answered, he vie so much attached to her, that
he would go distracted if she west awsy • that he
siai desperately in love with ker. Miss dlenn re-
puted her surprise and discouragement to the views
of a person so much below her io life, wheel she had
always seen amongst the common leboorers, and
coosidered as of the same clan. Mrs. Mainline ex.
pressed her 'grease sorrow for this determination,
and entreated Miss Glenn to go into the ford and
speak to her brother, and to represent to him the
greet difference of 'their si,eation in lift, and con.

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