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London, England, 1818-02-21 00:00:00

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and even command you. Tell
and oblivion.'
_Amen; is not only the sense of the
Royal espression, but the very words of his Majesty,
sech as I remembered and transcribed them upon
hewing the palace."
The King has granted the tide of Baron to
-Hoe, one of his first valets de ehambre, by en Ordi-
stance dated the 9th instant.
In the Chamber of Deputies no business of im-
' portents was transacted yesterday.
French Funds, 5 per cents. 664. 40 c.
COPENHAGEN, Fri. s.—The Noblesse of the
Duchy of Holstein have presented a new Petition to
the King of Denmark, in which they demand the
constitutional institutions which which were promised
them by the Federal Act, and which for two years
Wive been the object of the labours of a Commission.

LELECTION.-Sir RORT.
• .A. 4 HERON.---"The FREEIMLDERS of the COUNTY
of LINCOLN. ce•ident. in London and its Virinuy, is the
Imerest of Sir Robe'. Heron, ore ennwstly requested to owes
his Committee at the Rum Intr. Wept Smithfield, on FRIDAY,
the 27th 'aslant. at Six o'clock in the Eseuing precisely, to
consider of the hest nwaus fur scenting his Election.
By Ordrs'ilt the Committee, 18th Feb. 1818. •
All Consouniettiium addressed to the (;ununittee will be
thankfully received.

PRICE OF STOCKS THII
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3 per Cent. Conwls 7R;
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LONDON:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1818•

The Report of the Secret Committee of the House
of Commons, which has been so long expected, was
yesterday again postponed, and will not be made be-
fore Monday of Tuesday. It is, of coore, conjec-
tured, that there has been much difference of opinion
in the Committee. Considerable additions seera
to be making to the labours of the Lords'
Committee, but it does not appear that any of the
Petitions presented for redress form part of the ad-
ditions that cnotinoe to be made to the contents of
the Old Bags. Yesterday Lord St nuorru appeared
at an early hour in the House of Lords with a new
Green Bag of testimonials to his own good con-
duct and that of his Colleagues, which, open. his
Lordship's motion, was, of course, referred tp
the Select Committee.—This addihoual Appendix ke
doebtless to enable Ministers to correct their errata,
and avail themselves of the oversights pointed oat to
them by Parliament. This evinces pretty clearly the
limited character of the proposed enquiry, when we
find in the lapse of SQ very few days, that even the
Ministers can add considerably to the information of
the Committee. How essentially the sources of t►st
information might be increased it is easy to imagine,
were the Committees empowered to examine on oath
the several Petitioners who have offered their testi-
mony at the bars of the two Houses of Parliament.

The Paris Papers to the 18th have reached es.
The attempt upon the Duke of %Yocum...Totes life
is not noticed, and his name is merely introduced to
observe that he was visited by the old Prince of
CONDE. This silence of the Journals on a subject
conceived to be so intimately connected with the in-
terests and honour of the French nation, is a perfect
riddle to the alarmists in this coontry. What ! cry
they, is the life of the Great Conqueror who re-
stored liberty to Europe, a thing of no value
'• They beat thew brains and think that wit aid come.
Knack as they will, there's n!ilsolly at home."
No satisfactory answer is given to the question.—
The Police is extremely retire, but unfortunately
it now appears that the caution of the Police extends
to the Journals ; and there is no way of supplying
the deficiency of communicat" but by the diffuse
pen of private Correspondents, all of whom are so
many oracles in their own way. This expedient
answers the purpose. The " indefatigable activity"
of these sources of information produces stories in
abundance. The worst of it 1,, that the accounts
thus furnished do seem a little ersggerated, notwith-
standing the importance of the event. Though the
64 horrible attempt" has ceased to. be the subject
of remark in the Papers, we are Old •it con-
tinues to create a sensation that can only
compared to that produced by the explosion of
the infernal machine, which threatened the tife of
the First Consul; that the Ultra-Royalists accuse
the Bona ps lists of the• actual design to assassinate his
Grace, and that the latter party reproach the others
with a feint upon his life, for the purpose of exas-
perating him against the Revolutiouists, and of thus
priming him to lend his assistance to the Ultras, in
their scheme to overturn the Ministry. Another
speculation trill have It that this criminal act is
list to be attributed either to the demi-soldes or
as Ike Ultra-Royalists, but to certain Jacobins
eti wer own nation, hostile to public order, and
jealous of the glory of the Duke of W ELLINOTON,
and of the family of the Welleskys in general.—
Bat if these suppositions must all give way, on'
account of the want of proof, still wider fields
open to conjecture in the numerous enemies which
his Grace's glory has created, in Belgium,
Spain, &c. and the room for jealousy which his
Grace's gallantry in another respect is said to have
occasioned. The assassin in one instance is no other

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thin a Hancrierlsor Offiter, *hose
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accused of having had an intrigue vrtt, bat 44 ikei
well-known mofai chajpcter of his,aft repos
such an *dimes impatatirte." nbwever, ig Dote
ie said to have dlttinctly sees the individual who
fired upon him, and to have observird that he
wore mustachios ; in consequence of this indication,
many half-pay Officers have received orders to quit
Paris, ind others are put ender strict earveillmice."
This mustachio plot is, therefore, a very enlecky
circumstance for those who are fond of loch ores.
(Penis. Mustachios may consequently be expected
to he out of fashion for some time in Paris. Certain
it is, according to the Correspondent of the Cosner,
that the person who fired at his Grace cannot be in
the regular Freud army, for a young man who his
just published a Pamphlet on the Coalition and
France, is going to address a Letter to the Doke of
WELLINGTON, in the name of the French Army, to
convey to hisG tete he sentiments of abhorrence which
these brave soldiers feel for the Conspiracy with which
he was menaced ! This is the most convincing view of
the clink affair that has
.y 0 been gives, and the
young man who thus boldly hazards hit pen, will
doubtless by this act entitle himself" to the thanks
of the Secret Committee, who are of course deciding
on the conspiracy. We have stated what has been
communicated to ourselves from good sources on
this mysterious transaction, namely, that by the re.
suit of the investigations made by Count Ammo
Sub-Prefect of Police, it appears that the person who
fired the shot most, from the position where the
coachman and footman swear they sa w him stand, harri
been only three or four feet from the carriage ; that
the carriage was not touched, but that the direction
given to the ball was five feet &Wive the head of it,
and that the bullet was found in the ceiling of the
gateway. We have now merely to remark, in add,-
ion, that the crime was committed in the night be-
ween the 10th and l Ith, and the Police, so late as
he 17th, if the above account furnished to us is nut

true, had discovered nothing at all but a double-bar-
relled pistol its a cellar at some distance from the
'put ; aad a doable-barrelled pistol is not the most

likely weapon to have been used in firing a single
shot. it is said iii the letters, and (lie Brussels Pa-
pers assert the same, that many persons have been
arrested on grounds more or less suspicioas,
but nothing has transpired of the interrogatories
to Which they have been subjected.--it is mi-
llions enough, if such arrests have taken Our
that these at least should not be noticed 11011.

Paris Papers. The French Police might be better,
gruptnyed in directing public opinion in France thou
in writing correspondence for our Government News.
pariets. But they probably do justice to Jolts
BULL'S soperior capacity of swallowing in titian.
spect, and thus oblige us with a dish in our oen
Park style.
The Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Mon-
day affords nothing of novelty or interest.
The King has created his Valebde-Chansore a
Baron, and the Gazelle de Prance has a Second
Edition to announce this important intelligence. We
are almost ashamed of saying the French Papers con•

tain no news.
The French Fends Experience no material for-
mation. The Five per Cents. are at 66 f. 40 c., and
Bank Stock at 1,555 1.

No accounts of the death of the King of SWEDEX
appear to have reached Paris; and it is rather is.
mar kable that no further confirmation from the uthet
Continental channels has been received 4 The fact is
eatreasely probable, both from his advanced age, and
from the attack of illness under which he labouredat
the date of the last official advice* ; but of his
actual dissolution the only authority as yet its
that of the Ilamburgh Papers. It appears cer-
tain, that there is a strong party in Sweden favour.
able to the claims of the son of the deposed GUM.
ova ; and,uorne communications have lately been re-
ceived this country, intimating that this party
were likely to take decisive measeres in the event cr
a demise of the Crown. We shall look with some
entiety to the contents of the neat dispatches; for
though the interests of England are not directly in-
volved in the event; yet, from the establishoteut
given to the Holy principle of interference in 114
choice of Kings, it will be impossible to Vet" au ea•
tire -change of dynasty in a neighbouring Mosarch),
1 without disregard.

A Dutch Mail brings Brussels Papers to the 15th,
which, as we hive abote observed, are chiefly re-
writable for statements which, if true, are carefully
suppressed in the French Papers, that several per-
sons have been arrested on suspicion of having heed
implicated in the attempt to assassinate the Duke of
WELLINoTom. The re-organisation of the Frencb
army, on the plan of the new Bill, is expected
to
commence shortly after Lent. It is presumed tbst
3000 ti:ltlßi.ccoart•ti
attire nos:,f vice.2n half.pay, will in couseciseuce
en
The frill of the W,kes of corn in the Northern
French •Dopartments-has-tended to reduce the prices
in Flanders ; where the:winter corn also presents s
most promising appearance. The Elector of Ilmt
CASSELIII staled to be seriously ill, a circumstance
which would retard the marriage of the Duke of
CAMBRIDGE. It is an article dated 46 Casseltreh 6,"
which mentions this ; soother from Fraulfort,dat44
on the 12th, says nothing of his Highness's it
though it notices an order made at bis Coed,

- NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
—711."""
Dust., Fun. 20.—Arrived the Emerald, Gardner,
frost the South Seas.—Put back several outward-
bound vessel,. and remain with the rest, as per last.
DOTER, Fr.s. 20.—Arrived late last night the
Ariadne, Mullen, from L'Orienr, having been behind
our Pier; Mary, Saunders, from Oporto; Integrity,
Sutherland, from Charente, in five days, for Len.
don; Briseis, Visman, from Smyrna for Amster-
dam; Franklin, Susan, from Amsterdam for Bata.
via; Barnes, Masterton, 12 days from Oporto,
bound In Lynn.
PosismouTu, Fes. 20.—The General Stewart,
Granger, passed by from Madras, for London,
patted from the brig Antelope, bound to this port
for orders ; spoke off St. Helens, his Maiesty's ship
Phaeton, bound for England.—Pot back from sea,
the Ventral' and London.
PLYMOUTH, Fun. 19.—Came in the Waterloo,
Barney. from Madras, for London, with cotton,
rice, and Indigo - sailed the Bth of October ; no news.
FiLuouTu, igs.lB.—Arrived theStanmer packet,
With Mails, from Jamaica.—Sailed the Two Bro-
thers, Henley. for London. •
Mumma, Fun. 20. —Arrived the Prince of Orange,
with Mail and passengers from Holland.
LivsarooL, Fss. 19.—Arrived the Alliance,
Rolcliffe, from Buenos Ayres. On the 29th Oct. in
lat. TS. 18. south, long. 35. 7. spoke the Creighton, of
and front London, for the South Seas—out 48 days;
10th Feb. spoke the Superior. from this port (or
Philadelphia ; 14th, spoke the French ship Theolese,
from Havre for the South Seas ; same day spoke
the brig. Thomas, of London, two days from the
Lizard ; 15th, spoke the Wellington, from this
port for Rio Janeiro.—Arrived the Mount Vernon,
--, from New York.—The Sarah, Hopkins, from
this port for Boston, was lost, on Arklow Bauks
the 11th inst. crew saved.

The Wytnn, from Bengal, is supposed In
be arrived, letters hating beers received, dated 20th
September, marked by her.

WINDSOR, Fan. 20.—Yesterday Princess Au-
GUSTA, with Genets! MANNERS, and other attend•
snit, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great
Fark. Soon after one o'clock the Qum, and Prin.
ceases AUGUSTA and BLIZABLTII, with a Lady in
Waiting, rode oot in a coach and four through
Slough, the Maidenhead road, and Datchett.
The Austrian Ambassador yesterday visited the
Palace REGENT. His Royal Highness, in the
course of the morning, gave audiences to Lords
BATHURST and CASTLEREAGH, and Count MUNSTER.
The William Pitt and Carnatic arrived at Bengal
en the 3d Aug. last.
The Libbers contain hut little deserving of notice.
MEEK KHAN has ceased to oppose hostile measures to
the Itujah of JTPORE, and continues so be the inter•
ressor between CHUYI/OOR KHAN and the BHAEE.
The affairs of Moeltan and D{eru•deen•ponnah are
still unsettled, and Rua.iarr SING iudezible on the
subject of tribute.
The Marquis of HASTINGS had arrived at Patna
with his suite, where be was not espected to make
any stay. His progreiss has been retarded by the
loss of boats, with baggage, &c. on his route to the
Upper Provinces.
M r. POMIONST, if is now said,joins Mr. LATHAM,
in opposing the retoro of the present Members for
the county of Cork, at the ensuing General Election.
The Earl and Countess of Smolt and family ar-
rived on Thursday evening, at their house in Arling-
ton-street, from their seat, Crosteith.hall, Lance.

shire.
The LORD M AYOR has appointed* Common.hal
to be held on Tuesday next, to petition Parliament
for an Enquiry into the conduct of Ministers under
the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
There having been daring the present Session of
Parliament but few Petitions for Private Bills, arising
as supposed, from an expectation of an early disco.
lotion, it may be useful to state, that in 1807, when
the Parliament was dissolved in April, by which
She progress of many Private Bills was stopped, and
• new l'arliament met in July, the principal Officers
of both Houses came to the resolution of not de-
manding any fees upon those stages of the Private
Bills again ietroduced in the new Parliament through
which they had paused in the preceding Parliament,
and thus the parties paid no more than if their Bills
had regularly gone through all their stages witboet
interruption.
It is said, that the Duke of DEVONSHIRE will re.;
eeive the hand of one of his fair cousins, the daugh-
ter of Lord GEORGE CAVENDISII.
ARMY IN FRANCE By an estimate of army ser-
vices for the year 1818, it appears that the annual
charge for his Majesty's Land Forces in France, ist:
eluding the pay of General and staff Officers, aad
Ofbcers of the Hospitals, is 555,4191. 19s. U.
The adjourned Meeting of the Friends of the
Drama, in Dublin, was held there on Saturday lest,'
when the Committee appointed at the previous Meet.
log, made a long report of the present existing abuses
of the Irish stage, upon which it was agreed to pre-
sent a Memorial to the Lord Lieutenant, for the
establishment of a second Theatre in that city.
REGALIA OF SCOTLAND.—We understand that on
Satorday the Commissioners again tisited the Crown.
room, having found it necessary to have aceorate
drawings made of these reliques by artists of emi-
nence, when having collected all the information ne.
massy to make an accurate report upon the matters
contained in their warrant, and after taking further
precautions for the security of the Regalia, again
shot op and sealed the chest containing them, as well
as the Crown-room. As the honours of Scotland
are now ascertained to be therein contaiaed, a senti-
nel is stationed beneath the window of the room as a
measure both of honour and additional precaution,
although the uncommonly strong defences of the
Crown .room might be almost supposed to reader it
superfluous in the latter point of view.
Yisterday the Lone MAYOR and Sheriffs went in
state to Bow Church, Cheapside, where the annual
Sermon was preached before them, and •boat oils*
or tea Bishops, for the propagation of the Gospel is
foreign parts. The Sermon was preached by the
Bishop of Cuanza ; after which they went to the
Mansion-house, where a ssmptoe•s dinner was pro-
vided for them by the LORD MATOI4