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LONDON:

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Among some other arrivals from the other side of
the Channel-, we have letters to-day from Paris,
stating it was known that fjord CASTLEREAGH had

left Vienna. This, we think, his Lordship ought to

have done long ago, seeing how little the represen-

tations he is said to have made in the name of his

country, have been atte►nled to. We have seen a
Representative of Great Britain following too' long

in the train of Continental spoliators, and lending,
by tame acquiescence or ineffectual remonstrances,

the sanction of this great nation, which professes to

support the cause of general liberty and national
right, to acts that violate all national law, and threaten

the extiuction of every recognized principle of j uvtice.

Did his Lordship go to the assembly of Continental

Sovereigns, whose salvation we are said to ,have
wrought, to dictate a continuance in the same line of

liberal policy which had averted the threatened ruin,
or went he merely as a spectator to Congress to be
ready at a call ; as one fond of pageants, and sighing

out " a little longer, yet a little longer," to be the
train-bearer of Emperors and the cicisbeo of
Queens ?—or, in the name of wonder, now that they
tell us all is settled, and Russia and Prussia have

got every thing their own way, and his Lordship
nothing but the honour of seeing them carry' their

sovereign will into execution, what did the great
Statesman go to Vienna for? and what new glories are

to adorn his brow ? What emblem is most meet for his

high deserts? The bundle of sticks, from the old

man's fable of the union of the feeble brothers--the

The French Pipers now furnish us with some par-
ticulars of the triaLof Gen. EXCELMANS. We could
%ply state the acquittal before. '‘This swidier,sivhci
bas been so basely traduced, does not, appear to have
wanted personal courige in the hour of trill. When
questioned on the heads of the Charges, with which
our Readers are acquainted, he replied, as to
the first, namely, .his holding correspondence
with the enomy, (Mu Eike being nom considered
in that light by the French Government) ;
that he could not have kept up a correspondence
with the enemy, for at the moment when he wrote,
France was not at war with any Power : as to the
second, relative to espionage, he said that he
would not reply to such a charge : on the third, that
the profound respect which he had for the person of
the King was a sufficient guarantee that he had writ-
ten nothing offensive to him ; that in his letters
there could not be found a single expression relative
to the King bf France: to the fourth charge he re-
plied that he had only disobeyed an order of exile,
thinking that the Minister had no right to issue such
order: and lastly, an the fifth, that he knew not in
what his pretended crime consisted.
" General ExcermAus, acquitted and free," say
the French Papers, " has availed himself of the first
moments of libevty to present himself at the foot of
the throne, in order to thank his Majesty for having
hadjutfice done to him, and to swear to him inviolable
frklity. Acquitted and free!" they exclaim—" it
was was not in this way that things proceeded under
BONAPARTE ;" and they here launch into the most ful-
some panegyrics on the magnanimity and justice of the
present French Government. put, if so much ineffable
goodness pervades the conduct of their present Go-
vernment, how comes it that a man so innocent as
i General ExcwitArts is proved to be, wu thrown int*
I a dungeon, and the rod of power waved over him
with :such tyrannic dominion ? Public justice has
bad a triumph, but it is at the expence, and to the
shame of the Government, which sought the ruin of
an innocent man.

frog of MACRNES (the symbol of taxation), or the
fiddle-stick of llEtnEcont, which had such power Advices were received last night from the United
in its day ? Whatever fresh honours his Lordship' States, in public Papers to the 10th of December,
allay merit, or whatever may be decreed to him for I and private letters to the 29th of the same month.—
his great exertions to uphold the British name at the The most important document which they furnish is
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Congress of Continental Powers, there can be little the new American Tariff, prepared in the contem-
doubt that he is now on his way home to enjoy 1 plation of Peace, and which is now likely to be
them—having modestly resigned the task of putting acted upon. It is to continue in force for one year.
the British signature to terms dictated by. Russian ! We have inserted a copy of it in another part of this
and Prussian Ministers, to the Duke of Wrt.tasta• , Paper. The public Journals that have been received
TON!! ! Fresh honours for the British hero, also. are in the Federal interest, and indulge in showing
We live in glorious- times! the financial distresses of the American Government,
It is now said, that the share of Poland which and of the country. They are, of course, though
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Russia has appropriated to herself, and which is the now of no signification, abundantly re-echoed by
greater part, is not to become a kingdom, but that the the Ministerial Papers here,—an odd way of reflect-
Emperor of RUSSIA has caused himself to he declared ing honour on the British Administration, who
Grand Duke of Warsaw. This is said to have been , bare so signally manifested the necessity of mak-
done iu due form of the 13th slit., the day of the lag Peace with these impoverished Americans.—
Russian New Year ; and affords an instance of re-1 It is rather curious, however, to perceive, that in
spect for the public opinion of Europe, truly the midst of all this declared want of credit and
Russian. means in America, the navy of the United States is

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Prussia seems determined t• have the Protectorato
.of Germany, which must inevitably fall into her
hands if Saxony is incorporated with that kingdom.
There is a report of an attempt having been made to
carry off the King of SAXoNY. France will doubt-
less show herself more energetically, as the subject
of the Left Bank of the Rhine comes into considera-

tion. There is a talk of her having an increase of
territory. The territory she wants is Belgium* and
it will be on this side she will have it. France has
not givers up her pretensions to the whole of that
country ; and SOTLT'S order for the purchase of
horses is supposed to be connected with this object.
We' should have stipulated with France for an
abandonment of every pretension she had to Belgium
before we rostored her West India Islands.

Tim distracted affairs of Italy are coming more
into notice. The most monstrous, secret, and in-
quisitorial tribunals are represented as now esta-
blished, and in full activity in that unhappy coon.
try, on pretence of treasonable practices. Who
reads ip these proceedings the restoration of liberty
and justice ?—Beneficent Governments indeed ! for
the return of which the people ,have bled and toiled
with such heroic intrepittity,--with such martyr-like
suffering.

We have extracted from the Augsburgh Casette,'
an important State Paper relative to King JOACKIN,:
of Naples; it appears to have been published by the
Government of Naples to show his services to tim
Allies and their engagements with him, and gives ap
interesting narrative of the origin and progress 4
MURAT'S separation from NAPOLEON, and his at.
tachment to the cause of the combined SO:,
vereigns. It appears from this Manifedo, which
probably contains the substance of the Memorial*
which have been laid before the Congress at Vienne
from the Court of Naples, that MURAT toads early
overtures to the Emperor of AVSPEIA, Did that the
Allied Sovereigns at length guaranteed it him his
Kingdom of Naples for his cooperation halite war,'
—lt also lets us a little into the cane of the
hesitation now evident on the part of some of
the Aliied Sovereigns to fulfil the Guarantee,'
the obstacle to the signature of the with
Russia, arilitig from the Declaration of
ALEXANDER on his entering Paris,
not treat with NAPOLEON, or any of
and the conditional accession of Great '

rapidly augmenting ; they were better prepared than,
perhaps, could be wished, to receive Admiral Cocu-
' ItANEN expedition ; and in the very Papers which
bring us this gloomy picture of American affairs, we
find a letter from their Commissioners at Ghent,
dated Aug. 24, rejecting in terms of the firmest dig-
nity the famous sine qua non, which our Ministers
advanced with such wisdom and resolution, and
abandoned with such haste and indifference !
We find also by the Papers now before us, that
the American General WAantuit, had made a suc-
cessful incursion into Canada, and defeated a body
of militia. The Ministerial Papers notice this en-
terprise in a way that must puzzle some of their
readers to find out whether this General M'ARTUUR
is British or American. They can, indeed, find' it
out when they consider that he is pushing into Ca-
nada, if they know any thing of our possessions there;
but this is disclosing an unwelcome secret ! What !
disclose our nakedness so far as to confess that
the defence of these valuable possessions, our last
shy and refuge, rests only on some raw Militia,
and that these are yielding like the grass before an
American General! This would show the necessity'l
•f the peace too much. Yet so it is. But " the
Treaty will put all to rights." We wish it may. ,
It will rather seem strange to many, at a time
when such confident expectations are entertained of
the ratification of the treaty of peace with America,
that another expedition, as we find by the Cork
,rapers, is about to sail from this country for some
part of the Western Continent. Have Ministers any'
doubts of Mr. Mantsott's readiness " to subscribe ?"
Or is that mirror of all righteousness whom we have
placed on the throne of Spain about to give us
another-proof of his gratitude, and an opportunity. of
signalizing ourselves among Spaniards in another
hemisphere, by sending out th now collect-
ing at Cadiz to shut as out from the ports of South
America ? The last accountt from Cadiz inform us that
the greatest activity was used in fitting out an expedi.
tion for South America ; and in the man time a
vessel had been sent off with sealed orders, for Porto
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wisely making it a sine qua non, that
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