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therefore he still contitwril to plead guilty to
minor charge; and pleading accordingly i he teal ag
conveyed out of Court. • • '
The neat prisoner was William Jones, oho I
pleaded guilty of the minor offence, but now fen;
ed his plea to !bet
.elfect. Has trial was there(
proceeded Anknot &tutted when ae left
Court. The capital part of the indictment •
waved, and he was put on his trial as to the aka'
hick subjected him to transportation for the teri
14 years.
?fit cases of the unfortunate men who are erclei
to be banged to-morrow morning for the soppy
crime of uttering rorgtd Notes, and who were ci
demned upon the same evidence as the other arm
persons were acquitted on last seek, base excited,
traordiaary interest. A Meeting of the Inhibition
the Ward of Bread-street was to be held this di
to take the 'Muslim; of Chest: poor men Imo &reside
tiou. VI e cannot believe teat the fetal mandate
be carried into esitutiott—we cgottot beliree
the indignant *yet of the Public will bkebock
and all feelings of humanity and respect_ tiir poi
opinion and decency, be outraged by sods a lip
tack., after the recorded verdicts of success
Juries, and the loud voice of condemnation
pressed against the murderous' aystenv which cr
out for such wholesale immolations. Yet tbt
is much reason to tear that the monster is j
taunted, . Ida has steeped its fangs so deep
in the blood of Briton. The cry still is that
system mast be upheld—the.sy item unfortnnatelj
closely connected with the Government of ti
country.—ore--nhat ? the Paper Fabric must fa
and the Goverftiustal whose corruptions moot
carried on talked ON fictitious aid, must under
Reformation. A dreadfol alternative indeed !
thus appears that, the Paper System has arrived
a stage in its natural progress, which renders a gat
alteration indispensable. What a state is the couut
brought to, when it is apprehended that the mi
wholesome and necessary alteration cannot tje awe
without. endangening the foundations of 811 pub
safety ! !

New Took 4ad other American Paper, to the 14
alt. kw reached us. Congress was to be open,
welhatAtiy; bet the Washington Papers are not
sofficiently lati dim to bring os the Peat DENT'S Ms
sage. The seat arrival will doubtless istritish tii
important decsilieut. The followleg
PENSACOLA. •
Ili Willem from a Gettiteman whe lately avtivi
Itom Pensacola (says the Mobile Genetic, of Oct. ?Al
that Capt. BOTLIIII to whom Lieneial JAcssum gat
the command of a company of ranger!., It:!. had an
other brush with the Indians, and Saab &teen wounde
and brought to Pensacola, although his parry !add
advantage of the Indians. We leant farther, tin
part of the troops. stationed at Pensacola had coo
tneuced their march for Appalaclicola, but en th
arrival of 4 Inesseager with dispatches for the Corr
mander at Pensacola, they were ordered to retorts t
that place."

EXTRACT or A LETTERS DATED CURACOAs OCT. 22, T

A MERCHANT IN THIB CITT.

66 It is reported that the Spanish aad Patric
squadrons have had an engagement off La Gaya
and that the former were defeated. ShGuld Ada
rel Batox have been successful, General flot.tv.t
will, nu doubt, gain advantages, and probably ud
vance with his army from Guayana, where he he
been some time quartered. Part of !itotes qua
droo was sent in boats to La Guy to at night for ih
purpose of cutting oat vessels, but was obliged ti
retreat."

The French Legislative Chambers have commence,
heir Session. The Speech of the King at the open
ing of the two Chambers on Thursday hit is elm, ii
soother column. It is like other Royal Speeches,
skimming, vague, and unmeaning document, full •
vanity and hollow promises. His Majesty assomini
for once in his We the heroic phrase, speaks of tit
erection of the Royal Standard at Thionville by th
hands of the Duke of ANGOOLEME, and the &par
tare of the foreign troops, as if the whole host of In
traders had been frightened away by the gallaq Delo
and his Royal Avg ! The good old King, however
soon relapses into his parental fondlings, and strives ft
console his children, for hewing borne the burden rabid
he brooght upon them, namely the Army of Occu,
potion; praises his People for that unanimity •
heart and sentiment vshich enabled him to fulfil his pe
cuniary engagements, alludes to the declaration n
the Five Powers as evincing the friendship which pre
veils among the Sotereig:,4, aad sfio,tEng n prospro
al a long period of peace ; intimates the approach o
his formal Coronation, at which he is, by oa.h, ti
confirm the institutions founded on the Charter,
strict adherence to which he incolcates as the onl;
means of avoiding despotism on the one hand, am
anarchy on the other ; informs them that the time j
at no gtinit distance when he will be enabled to fro
pose a diminution of the public borthees which thl
nurse of known events bas hitherto rendered im
{tracticablt; eulogises the ready obedience of thi
reheat youth to the provisions of the itegfeitioi

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