Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-05-23

Buenos Ayres january 5th up to the
10th of February nothing satisfactory
can be gathered, SO as to ascertain the
real political and military state of affairs
of that country. 1t appears that Fran
cisco Ramirez, having collected an ar
nv, composed of Monteneros and mall
contents, entered the territory Of Buenos
Ayres on the 29th of January, and fought
a battle against the army of Buenos
Ayrcs, in the valley of Capedo, on the
LIST of February; when the latter, headed
by the Director Jose Rondeau, was de-
feated. After his defeat Rondeau re-
paired to Buenos Ayres; but, during
his absence, Congress had appointed
Juan Pedro Aguirre, Director pro TEN.
Rondeau then resigned his Office of Su-
preme Director; Congress was suspend
ed, and meanwhile Cabildo, "a board
of civil and military officers,) governed
the province. Efforts were made to
raise an army which could take the field,
and oppose F. Ramirez's federal army,
while the veterans and other men capa-
bic of bearing arms, even slaves, were
enlisted to guard the city Of Buenos
Ayres.
LONDON, MARCH s.
We received yesterday four days
Paris papers to Thursday last, inclusive.
Those OF Friday, which were due this
morning, have not arrived.
The project for suspending the free
dom of the public journals has been
passed by the Chamber of Peers, ll36
to "a, but with several material altera-
tons. The journals now existing are
exempted from its operation, and the
duration Of it is limited to the end of the
next session The commission of censor
ship is also struck out, but it remains
part of the project that the journals
shall be subjected to previous censor
ship, under the pains and penalties di-
rected in the original projet, but with
out stating by whom that censorship is
to be executed. This strangely anomal-
GUS projet, as it is now framed, was, on
Wednesday, (the amendments of the
Peers having been previously approved
by the Crown presented to the Chamber
of Deputies, and the preparatory ex-
animation of it in the bureau appointed
for Saturday last.
The Journal de Paris, of Tuesday,
contains the following article -" Let
tiers from Venice state that the English
authorities in the Ionian isles are under
the necessity of doubling their prccau-
tons, particularly at Santa Maura; the
transportation of the inhabitants is more
and more manifested every day, and
every thing presages new insulrection.
The Governor, Sir Thomas Maitland, is
said to have urgently demanded rein
torcements.
The Gazette de France, of Tuesday,
states, that report was circulated at
Paris on Monday evening, Of an attempt
having been made To assassinate the
Emperor of Russia, who, in endeavoring
to turn the weapon Of the assassin, re-
ceived wound in his hand. We do not
find in any Of the subsequent Journals
that this report is at all confirmed.
Terrific Pleasantry.-An occur
renee, calculated to give rise to painful
reflections, which took place a short
time since in Berlin, is much spoken of
IN all parts Of Germany. During the
late carnival, a masked ball was given
in the theatre Of Berlin. Four masks
entered, dressed in black, and bearing
coffin. This strange circumstance pro-
duced very unpleasant sensation, but ii
soon ceased to excite any attention.
The four men deposited the coffin in
corner of the room, and mixing in the
crowd, soon disappeared. On the fol-
lowing morning the coffin was discover
ed under some black cloth, and on OPEN
ing it, there appeared a very correct
likeness, modelled in wax, OF an august
person. dear to Prussia. The figure
was pierced with several stabs of a pom
lard. A bloody dagger was deposited in
the coffin. The authors of this terrific
pleasantly have not as yet been discover
ed. Paris haher,
.The King Of Prussia.