, jl^^ j,. \ Price yd. SMALL FARMS, WITHIN 20 MINUTES WALK OF THE CROSS, TO BE LET. SEVERAL POSSESSIONS on RUTHRIES- TON, lying along the South Entry, of such sizes as to accommodate tenants, and with suitable Dwelling Houses and Offices, are to be let. with entry as at Martinmas last, for sue!) number of years as can be agreed upon; likewise, TWO SMALL POSSESSIONS on Upper llutluieston. The ground is all at present in excellent condition, and seve- ral parts of it, from its soil, and contiguousness to the public road, would answer extremely well for Nursery and Garden Ground. ALSO, HOUSE & GARDEN TO BE SOLD OR LET. RUTHUIESTON LODGE, containing Dining Room and Drawing Room, four Bed Rooms, coomeeiled Room and Garret, an excellent Kitchen, Kitchen Range, with Out- cel- lars and other conveniences- The House is situated a short dis- tance beyond Union Place, on the great South Entry, and has been built within these few years. One or more acres of ground adjoining will be let, in lease, if required. If not sold, or let in whole, within a month, the House will then be let in floors. Entry at Whitsunday. ALSO TO LET,. THE TAVERN at the north end of the Bridge of Dee, presently possessed by William Lyon. The House being commodious, and having a large Hall suited for public Meet- ings. makes it a Very advantageous situation. Entry ar Whit- suoday. LIKEWISE, Several SMALL COTTAGES, within twenty minutes walk of the Cross, having Carpets and Grates, well adapted for Summer Lodgings. Entry immediately. Application may be made to Mr. Dutbie, the Proprietor, at Rosehiil; orJohnAugus, Advocate, Broad Street. ROD FISHING AT THE CRUIVES., TI3E PRIVILEGE of ROD FISHING on the CRUIVES WATER being Let, for the ensuing Sea- son, to one Gentleman antl eight of his Friends, no other Permissions can be granted by the Heritors. The Overseer, and Servants, at the Cruives, will stop all trespassers. This Day is Published, PRICE 3s. A LETTER TO TIIE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EAIIL OF LIVERPOOL, ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION, BY JAMES FORDAL, A. M. London : Printed for Loneman, Hurst, Kees, Ormc, and Brown ; Arch. Constable and Co. Edinburgh ; aud A. KKOVVX and Co. Aberdeen. This day is published, and sold By JAMES JOHNSTON, Bookseller, Exchange Court, Union Street, In 1 vol. 8vo. price Gs. boartls, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF TIIE ANCIENT RIGHTS AND POWER , or THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND. To vhicb is prefixed, A SHORT INTRODUCTION UPON GO- tLTRNMENT IN GENERAL. Bv ANDREW FLETCHER OY SALTOUN. T HARBOUR OF ABERDEEN. » T< HE HARBOUR TRUSTEES of ABER- - A- DEEN having taken under their consideration, a Re- presetftation from the Shipmasters Society of Aberdeen, sug- gesting the propriety of keeping up the Flag on the Signal Staff, on tlie North Pier- head, after high waler, so long as the Flag- master shall think it prudent and safe for vessels entering the Harbour :— Notice U therefore given, that the Trustees have, in consequence of the foregoing representation, and on account ofthe increased depth of water on the Bar, issued instructions to the Flag- master to keep up the Flag till high- water, and afterwards so long as he shall deem it prudent and safe for vessels entering the Harbour. Notice is likewise given, that the Light on the Staff- head during night, will continue hoisted tiil high- water only as here- tofore. COUNCIL CHAMBER, Aberdeen, January lit 1S25. ESTIMATES WANTED, J^ OR the MASON and CARPENTER WORK - of a HOUSE, to be built in Marischal Street, according to a Plan end Specifications to be seen at the Shop of Wm. Clark & Co. Castle Street. Those wishing to give in Esti- mates wiU please lodge them with Mr. Archibald Simpson, Architect, on or before Thursday first. ^ Aberdeen, Ftb. J22, 1825. SALE OF WRECK, SHIP AND CARGO ; AND NOTICE TO CARTERS. On Tuesday the 4th March, there will be sold by public roup, on the Beach, at Garron Point, two miles North of Stone- In. ven, HIE WHOLE MATERIALS of the Russian Ship jEOLUS, ( equal to about 200 tons British register,) saved from the Wreck of said vessel— consisting of Anchors; Cables ; ( 2 of them almost new) ; Capstan ; Windlass ; Stan- ding Rigging, ( part entire and part much cut) ; Boom ; Spars ; Sails; and 2 or 5 tons of remarkably lioe Swedish Iron, in bolts, and other forms. AUo, a Boat, and a great deal of Plank and broken Wood. At the same time will be exposed to sale, that part of the CARGO which has been preserved, viz. about 3000 2 and 5 inch fourteen feetDEALS; 300 IIANDSPOKES; and 30 BARRELS TAR. The Deals are of excellent quality, and will be sold for home consumption, or for exportation, as the Honourable the Board of Customs have, in consideration of the unfortunate circum- stances ofthe case, liberally consented to allow 2 or 3 months for the convenience of their being exported, without any ad- vance of duties. They may be sent to Ireland, where the duties are less than in Great Britain. The whole at tides can be put on board Boats, in good wea- ther, with the greatest facility ; or they may be carted up to the public road, from which they lie at about 400 yards distance. It is calculated, that the Deais can be delivered at Stonehaven, at one penny each. The sale will commence at half- past 10 o'clock. Limpet Mill, a public house on a small scftle, is three quar- ters of a mile, on the Turnpike R > ad, North of the place of Sale ; antl Kn ,; ('!•.. in Harriet Street, will send two or more Coaches there, if seats are bespoke in time — each person paying bis own fare. . ' It is recommended to Carters, and such people as are villing to Contract with purchasers, for Carriages, to attend at the rout). Aberdeen- Jan. 17, 1823. FOR HAMBURGH, r— THE REGULAR TRADER H AZ AR D, rs now on the birth, loading fo » that Port ; Will clear on Friday 28th curt. And Sail positively ot Saturday the lit of March. For Freight or Passage, apply to John Stewart, General A^ ent, Crown Court; or to Captain Smith, onboard. - ' Aberdeen, Fel>. 18, 1823. NEXT TUESDAY. J. & J. SIVEWRiGHT ARE SELLING THE " TICKETS AND SHARES OF THE SMALL LOTTERY, - TO BE DRAWN ALL IN ONE DAY, NEXT TUESDAY, 25TII FEBRUARY. The Scheme, although there are ONLY 6,000 TICKETS, con- tains Prizes of .£ 20,000 and .£ 16,000 ! BESIDES SIXTEEN OTHER CAPITALS, All Money and all Floating. In the Lottery just ended, J. & J. SIVEWRIGHT had the pleasure of diatributing the undermentioned Capitals amongst the Purchasers at their London Offices, and at their Agents' in the Country, viz. 14.315 PRIZE OF £ 10,000 2,612 2,000 11,291 1,000 12,844. .,£ 500 1,603 4,878 300 8,147 7,746 300 15,220 Ko401 200 18,836 This treatise on the ancient Constitution of the Parliament of Scotland appeared in 1703, when the proposed Union be- tween England and Scotland had become the subject of dis- cussion. The object of the enlightened author was to rouse the members of the Parliament of Scotland to a sense of their doty before their meeting, so as to secure a fair representation of the people in Parliament, and so to limit the powers of the Sovereign, that Parliament should at all times possess an effi- cient controul over his public acts. In the prosecution, bow. ever, of this patriotic design, he met with the utmost opposi- tion from those in power ; and, in the true spirit of the times, this treatise was bought up and destroyed. A few copies, how- ever, escaped, and found their way into some private libraries; but so scarce had it become, that when, in 1792, the Earl of Buchan published the life of Fletcher, althoogh he had heatd of this essay, he had never seen a copy, and believed them all destroyed. Though unsuccessful, the attempt of Fletcher did him in- finite honour ; and the Editor trusts that, in rescuing this treatise, the work of our worthy and enlightened countryman, from oblivion, he will aid the march of liberal principles, and receive the countenance ofthe enlightened public of Great Britain, to whom he sends it. The party animosities that occasioned its suppression have now passed atvoy, but the truths it advocates are immutable; and, in many instances, applicable to the times in which we live. It adds no little interest to this work, that those principles which, in 1703, were advocated by Fletcher, and a few kindred spirits in the Parliament of S othmd, are now generally recog- nized as just in principle ; and the present Constitutional Go- vernment of Spain, which has so greatly provoked the legiti- mates of Europe, appears to be very nearly adjusted to the mo- del of Fletcher. <?> 0nml. MR. BROUGIL has the honor of informing the Nubility, antl Ladies and Gentlemen of Aberdeen and its Vicinitv, that it is his intention shortly, of offering to their notice A CONCERT of VOCAL tJ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. On which occasion, he will be aided by the assistance of Mrs. BJIOUGH, ( late Miss Hobley. of the Argyle Concerts, Lon- don, ami the professional Talents of Aberdeen. ON SALE, CAPE MADEIRA, in Bond. 60 POCKETS HOPS. A few Ilhds. BELFAST DRIED HAMS. Prime MESS BEEF and PORK. EDAM. GOUDA. and KANTER CHEESE. DUTCH BUTTER, in Jars. Apply to PETER MACFARLANE. Aberdeen. Feb, 21, 1823. BOOKS BY AUCTION. flu Monday the 24th February next, there will be sold by Auction, in Mr. Ross's Sale Room, Upperktrfcgite, npiI- U So tire Ltbfcirv' which belonged to the late X EWEX M'LACH LA N, Esq. Old Aberdeen. Cata- logues will be ready Cor delivery on Thursday, 6th February. Uppe- rkirkgnteJan. 29, 1823. A CARD. i& ogal fimpljttvjatre, Sin ton Sbtvut. FOR TIIE BENEFIT OF MRS. BROWN, Being hy Desire, and under the Patronage of several Families of Distinction. On MONDAY next, Feb. 24, 1823, There will be brought forward a great variety of NEW ENTERTAINMENTS, Which will be expressed in the Bills of tbe Day. Tickets and Places to be had of Mrs. Brown at the Amphi- theatre, from II till 2, and of the Booksellers. HARD WOOD. On Saturday the 1st of March, at 12 o'clock noon, there will be sold by public sale, at Balgownie, ( Fraserfield,) X). YIE lull grown ASH, ELM, and PLANE y TREES. Credit oh security. David Cuningham, grieve, will shew the trees, if required. EXTENSIVE SALE. On Monday 24th inst. there will begin to be sold by Auction, In Brown tSon's Auction Rooms, Union Street, THE ENTIRE STOCK OP SILK MERCERY, CLOTHIERY, WOOLLEN AND LINEN DRAPERY, Which belonged to D AVID MAMTIN, Merchant, And now to the Trustee for behoof of his Creditors — COMPRISING nearly EIGHT HUNDRED LOTS of the most Choice and Fashionable GOODS that have been exposed in Aberdeen, for these many years. Catalogues of which may be had of BROWN & SON, Auctioneers. Credit will be given. OUTSTANDING DEBTS FOR SALE. On Friday the 28th day of February, 182.5, and within the Lemon Tree Tavern of Aberdeen, at two o'clock r. M. there will be exposed to public sale, rglHE OUTSTANDING DEBTS due to the Se- JL questrated Estate of ALEX. WALKER, Merchant and In surance Broker in Aberdeen. As also, all claim, right, and interest which the Trustee has, or may have, under a Bond and Letter of Relief, granted by Mr. Andrew Davidson, Advocate in Aberdeen, to Mr. Walker. Under this Bond, the purchaser will have right to upwards of ^ 1000 sterling; a considerable part of which is se- j h^ rd' l^ ntence* or~ " absUuse proposition in cured by arrestments. matics • A List of the Debts may be seen, on applying to James M* Hardy, Advocate in Aberdeen, who will give every ne- cessary information. Aberdeen, Dec. 17, 1822. To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIB, THE age of chivalry, both in arms and literature, is now over. The days when champions tried their arms and scholars their wits, on each other, are gone and past; and much of the bravery of the one class, and the profundity of the other, has vanished along with them. In those romantic times, when Knights could throw down their gauntlets, dar- ing an adversary to pick them up; or a Scholar challenge a compeer in mental gladiatorship with the arms of logic, with out any charge of vanity being attached to either, how much more likely were arts, arms, and literature, to be cultivated and improved. This practice, which has of late gone to a lamentable degree into disuse, is of the highest antiquity. In ancient times, no two masters in art or science ever met with- out a combat. The Queen of Sbeba, in her visit to King Solomon, proved his prowess in the lists of yfsdam. In the ages of Grwee atref Rome, Sculptors, and Warriors, tilted against each other most cou- rageously. Even in the times which we look upon as the dawn of literature and science, after the night of ignorance and superstition which followed the downfal of the Roman Em- pire, we find Picus, Prince of Mirandola, challenging whole Universities to the mortal war of words, and our own country- man, the admirable CRICHTON, not only following his example, but even condescending to answer the cartel of an unconquered prize- fighter. DESCARTES brought himself first into notice, by solving a problem which had been affixed in defiance to the gates of a certain College— and even so late as the end ofthe seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century, LEIB- NITZ propounded a proposition, by which, as he expressed himself, to feel the pulse of English Mathematicians, and had the honour of being answered by NEWTON. Since that time, challenges for the mere quarrel of pretensions to supe- riority. have vanished entirely in the arts and sciences ( with the sole exception ofthe science of Pugilism,) or at any rate have dwindled down into tame competitions. We no longer see rival Colleges endeavouring to puzzle each other with some Logic or Mathe- FOR ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, ( A Constant Trader,) THE SHIP FAIR F I E L D, 350 Register Ton=, Will take in Goods and Passengers for the above port, and sail on the 1st March. For Freight or Passage apply to JOHN LUMSDEN. Marischal Street, Jan. 14, 1823. SCHOONER FOR SALE. To be sold by public roup, ( if not previously disposed of by private baagain.) within the Lemon Tree Tavern, on Saturday the 22d curt, at 6 o'clock, p. m. THE SCHOONER LIVELY of Aberdeen. ^ SgJ-^ Jgw-? ( Burthen per Register 83 Tons,) AS she presently lies in this Hatbour, with her tvhnle Stores, Bout- , & c. Farther particulars may be learned, on applying to ARTHUR THOMSON, Insurance Broker. No. 8, Adelphi, Abetdeen Feb. 14, 1823. For HALIFAX, PICTGJJ, $ M IRA MIC III, THE BRIG L O U I S A, ^ JRE ® !*? JAMES OSWALD, MASTER, Will he laid on for Goods and Passengers for the above Ports, and sail on tbe 15th March. For Freight or Passage, apply to the Master on board, or GEO. ALLAN. N. B— The Louisa to be chartered home. Union Street, Jan. 17, 1825. iEtas parentum pejor avis tulit Nos nequiores, mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem. I was, therefore, particularly gratified on being shown the gauntlet of a Literary Knight Errant, now or lately in this city, which he has condescended to throw down to us Aber- donians, in the form of an isolated Pentameter. So much was I pleased at the revival of an ancient custom, that I did not cavil at its questionable shape, remembering the famous consecutive pentameters of Virgil, with the filling up of which he puzzled all Rome; nor did I quote the impudent remark of LUCRETIUS: Omnia enim stolidi magis admirantur amantque IDV6Tsis qua* sub verbis latitantia cernunt ; But, looking upon it as a compliment to my worthy towns- men to have such a pearl cast before them, I set myself to dis- cover the words of this wise man and his dark saying ; and having, in my own opinion, penetrated its mystery, I hasten, with your kind permission, to lay it before the public. The propounder has given us it, in laudable imitation of the most ancient MSS. w ithout points, as follows : QUEM DABIS HAEC LOCA QUAE QUI DARE CUNTCTA POTEST. Availing myself, therefore, of the prerogative of commen- tators and critics, I point it thus ; Quern ? Dabis ? Haee loea quae? Qui, dare cuncta potest. The difficulty is now over; but, for the stfke of tbe Ladies, and those Gentlemen who may have forgot how to fill up the unmerciful understoods of the Latin language, I shall trans- late it word for word. ( Q, UEM ?) Whom have we hear ? ( DABIS ?) Will you give us no account of yourself? ( QUAE HAEC LOCA ?) What take you these places for ? ( Qui.) He who comes here, ( POTEST,) must he able, ( DARE,) to gioe, ( CUNCTA.) a particular account of himself. ' J atn, & c. CE DIP US. as tire price of the produce of superior soils will rise at the same time, the rents of those lands must rise in the same propor- tion as soon as the cultivatoi's lease is expired, in order to assimilate his profits with those of the Cultivator of the poor soils. Thus, rents always rise as poorer soils are taken into cultivation ; and the average price of corn is regulated en- tirely by the expense of raising it on those soils. A COBBBTITE says, he does not feel the force of this reasoning ; and indeed, though be had not said so, it was quite evident that he does not ; but if he has ever the good fortune to meet with Mr IIICARDO'S writings on this subject, be will there find it ex- plained in a manner which, I presume, he will hardly endea- vour to controvert. It is necessary to keep in view that it is prices, on an average of a certain number of years, that are here understood ; for in a country deprived of a free trade in corn, the variations of . demand and supply must necessarily occasion great fluctua- tion of prices. In this country at present, they are at the lowest ( Qf ^ kin, step of the descending progression : but if there is any truth . in the tales of the distress of the farmers, it is impossible they ; can continue so low ; for in spite of all that a COBBETITE and j his adherents can persuade them to the contrary, the farmers will not persist much longer in raising crops, when the price for which they sell them does not pay the cost of production. But a COBBETITE contends, that poor land) cannot be hurtful to tbe farmer, because he pays less rent fiir them; and ibis may be true with regard to those whose rents correspond witfi the low price of farm produce ; but it is the misfortune of the greater part of the farmers, that they entered on their leases when prices were double what they are at present, so tha COURT OF REQUESTS. LORD WAtf. SFIELD* S WIG— WILLIAMS V. LAwREXCfii This was a case which, by the parties concerned, was con-* sidered of no small importance ; and which, to the auditors, in the course of its discussion, excited no small'merriment. Mr. Williams, who is what is . vulgarly called a barber,- thtt in more refined language is termed a pcrruquier, Speared hi this Court a few days b. jck, and obtained a summons against the defendant, who is clerk to Mr. RV<? V'QS. an attorney in Tottenham Court Road, calling uppn him to attend on a given day, to show cause why he" should not pay a debt of o9s. I I f d. Mr. Williams, who spoke vtith a sort of li « ping squeak, gar- rulously addressed the Commissioners, " fie had ( he said) been a hair dresser, m? in and boy, for 68 yeais. He hail j served his time in tha" Temple, where he had had the honour of making wigs for some of. the greatest men as ever lived—: of all professions, and of all ranks— judges, barristers, and commoners — churchmen as Well as lay tr. cn— j I literate men as well as literate men ; and, amon£ the latter, he h-> d io rank the immortal Dr. Johnson : but of all the wigs he had ever set comb to, there w as none on frhich he had so much prided himself asa full state wig w hich he had made for Lord Mansfield? it was one of the earliest proofs ot his genius *. it had excited the warm commendation of his master, and the et- vy of hi* brother shopmates ; but, above all, it had pleased* nay, even delighted, the noble and learned Judge himself." Oh I gemrnen." exclaimed Mr. Williams, 44 if you had known .'"'.•" X ' , ' " —' : what iov I felt when I first saw his nobis Lordship on the ™ : U. St! '."^- L!^'" Is * t. t!! e pre* ! hencbwM, that wig on his head!" ( In an under tone, but sent prices, are incapable of affording them the ordinary rate of profit on their capital, exclusive of rent altogether. Would it. not be an advantage to a farmer, then, to abandon such lands? And if it is his interest to diminish the supply of corn, is it not natural that he should throw the poor soils out of cultivation first, seeing that his rent will remain the same till the end of his lease, whatever lands he cultivate ? A COBBETITE finds it the easiest plan to affect to ridicule such obstinate things as principles, which will not vary, so as to coincide with his pre- conceived notions. That an increase ofthe supply of corn does not always indemnify the grower for the reduction of price, is a principle the soundness of which is admitted by every eminent writer on the subject. A COBBE- TITE is the first, I suspect, that evercalled the truth of it in question ; and what has he to say against it, except that he does not believe it ? It is generally allowed that a redundance of the necessaries of life, is attended with more pernicious consequences to the produce, than that of any other commodity. Cheapness cannot bring them within the reach of a poorer class of people, for they are already as generally us£ d as they can be ; and though people may consume rather more than usual, the difference will not be very considerable, they will rather avail themselves of the cheapness of bread, to eat more bread, drink more spirits, and wear better clothes. Great part ofthe superabundance of corn must, therefore, remain in the granary of t[ ie farmer, or be sold at a price far below the cost of pro- j duction. ' This is the last time, Mr. Editor, I shall trouble you on this subject. I shall leave a COBBETITE unmolested, to apply his precious nostrums for the relief of the Agriculturists, however much he may outrage reason and common sense, being sen- sible that his 44 borrowed arms" are of too biittle a metal, and the hand that wields them too feeble, to do much mischief. I am, Sir, yours, & c. TRIP TO J. EM US. Methlick, Feb. 19, 1823. ....£ 200 200 200 200 Tickets & Shares are Selling by J. & J. SI VE'WRIGHTS' Agent?, TV. ROBERTSON, Bookseller, PuUic Library, Aberdeen. W. DAVIDSON, Annuity Office, Huntly. V. WILSON, Bookseller, — Arbroath. FRUIT LOZENGES. HPIIESE LOZENGES are principally composed of - IL BLACK CURRANTS, a fruit universally esteemep, and their efficacy in Sore Throats, Coughs, Hoarseness, & c. is so fully established, as to render a particular detail unnecessary. The virtues of the fruit are here concentrated and preserved through every season of the year, and heightened by a judici- ous preparation. The acid being wholly retained, a few ofthe LOZENGES dissolved in water make a pleasant, cooling drink, in cases of Fever. Sold in boxes only, by Messrs. BUTLER, Chemists, No. 20, Waterloo Place, EDINBURGH ; by Messrs. Dyce, Innes, Black & Co, Clark & Co. Williamson, Barton, Souter & Co. and Forsyth, Aberdeen; M'Donald, Old Aberdeen ; Will & Co.; and Jamieson, Peterhead; Taylor, Fraserburgh; Whyte and Bruce, Bant)'; Taylor, and Turner, Elgin ; Paul, Huntly ; Urqubart, Keith ; Forbes, Oldmeldrum ; and by most Che- mists throughout Scotland ; of whom may likewise be obtain- ed, the genuine BALSAMIC LOZENGES, and PECTO- RAL TOLU LOZENGES, both used as Expectorants in recent cases of Colds; and the M AGNESIA LOZENGES, for Heartburn, or Acidity on the S. omach. Tbe above are'put up in boxes, inclosed with a bill of direc- tions and label, in both which, it should be observed, that To the EDITOR ofthe ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, A CORRETITE is, no doubt, vastly smart in his way. and may, perhaps, m. ike some impression on those who are apt to mis- take a good stock of assurance for more valuable qualities. Per- haps I might, with rather more propriety, retort on his superfi- cial remarks, the epithets of 44 botheration" and 44 palaver but not happening to know the precise signification of these and other elegant expressions with which be embellishes his language, I shall refrain from using them. A Cobbetite has found out, it seems, that it costs no more to raise corn on poor lands than on rich ; because the less amount of rent paid for the former, compensates for the de' ficiency of their produce, An important discovery truly ! The consequences that may be deduced from it are, tbat corn can be raised just as cheap on the barren moors of Aberdeenshire, as in the Carse of Gowrie ; and the present population of Great Britain could be supplied with as cheap food as they are at present, though four- fifths of the productive powers of the soil were destroyed throughout the kingdom ; all the difference won id be, that the rents of the land lords would be proportion- ably reduced ! It' a Cobbetite had been aware of the real nature of rent ; that i; constitutes no part whatever of the expence of raising raw produce, it being merely the surplus that remains after the expenc. es of cultivation are deducted ; that corn would not sell a fraction cheaper, were landloid ® to give up ilu i r mts altogether : he might have avoided this absurdity. It is the quantity of labour required to produce corn, and every other commodity, tbat must always in average seasons determine its price ; and whenever recourse is had to inferior soils, which Messrs. BUTLER'S Name and Address, us above, are print- j require more labour to produce the same return, the price of ed, eoiu mast rise, otherwise it would not be produced. lUmOe, To the EDITOR ofthe ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, YOUR readers are often at a loss to determine whether they are most amused and instructed by your own labours, or the lucubrations of your numerous Correspondents. Many Editors are much assisted in that way ; I think, however, you can now boast of an assistance that has never hitherto appear- ed in any Journal. But as I am well convinced that his . smutty Majesty, the Autocrate of all the Infernal Regions, is too Phrtosr. phersr a mamfefcioagainst his enemies, I saapect he has been betrayed by his Aberdonian Secretary in Street. However, as I sincerely wish well to the cause of the enemies, he seems so much to dread, truth and knowledge, I feel obliged to the said Secretary for the lesson he has given to the world. Like other Monarchs, his Majesty boasts much of the extent of his power, the number and might of his Allies, the valour and discipline as well as the overwhelming - myriads of his troops, and his inexhaustible resources. At same time, he seems so well informed ofthe difficulties his enemies have to encounter, and enumerates such a vast force he maintains in the very heart of the ir dominions, and appears to think so little of the few real friends they have, that I apprehend the fears of discomfiture which he throws out, are intended to deceive his enemies and put them off their guard. Indeed, I think he has taken his measures so well, and carried on his plan with such consummate wisdom for more than a century, that there is no power can stop the progress of his ultimate success, under the able commander, the Autocrate of the North, the sole arbi- ter of the fate of Europe. As the conquest of the whole of Europe, by simple warfare, might be a work of great hazard, and perhaps ages of time, a much more comprehensive and easy mode of spoliation was devised forty years ago, bv which the Russian boundaries has been moved Westward 15 degrees of longitude : and the Austrian to Tyrhenian Sea, the king- doms of Sardinia and Naples being merely provinces of Aus- tria. By stirring up dissentions, supporting a faction, and in- terfering in the internal affairs of neighbouring states, a pretext is soon found for marching in armies— and then follows a par- tition of the territory and the slavery of the inhabitants : of whom all the discontented will be accommodated in the Mines of Siberia. As I am not know n for a Prophet, I may not obtain much credit by a simple vaticination ; whertfore, let us descend to particulars. When France was set on to assist in humbling Britain, during the disputes with America, the first partition of Poland took place. When a conspiracy was form- ed against the. liberties of France, a treaty was made for the spoliation of a considerable portion of her territory as well as of Bavaria ; and during the struggle, the whole remaining terri- tory ofthe Republic of Poland was partitioned, that of Venice added to Austria, and several small states in Germany added to Prussia. Several fine provinces were taken from the Porte and added to Russia. Sweden was deprived of Finland for the same purpose ; and Denmark was despoiled of Norway to in- demnify Sweden. Britain, for about a thousand millions of treasure, and many thousands of brave warriors, obtained the Islands of MALTA and TRINIDAD. Spain got back her belov- ed FERDINAND and the Inquisition. From this short sketch, it may be seen what the powers of the West have done to for- ward the views of Russia since 1770; by which she has obtain- ed additional territories equal to a fourth part of Europe. Let us now briefly advert to their present conduct. France having obtai » < d a sort of free Constitution, was recovering from the effects of a war, in which she bad been engaged for twenty years, with almost ail the rest of Europe ; of which ali the ad- vantages were lost in one unfortunate campaign ; not by the condact or bravery of her enemies, but by tire effects ofthe weather. She would soon have resumed the commanding at- titude she has been accustomed to present for so many ages, had she not unfortunately admitted the Jesuits, along with the King, and the antique Nobles. Spain had also obtained a free Government, had expelled her invaders, and, notwithstanding the loss of ali her rich possesions iu the new world, w as fast re- covering her ancient consequence among tlie nations of Europe ; but unfortunately she got back FERDINAND, who cannot live without Despotism and the Inquisition. Italy has long been the sport of contending Despots, as well as Flanders and the smaller States of Germany. Had France and Spain remained in peace, and enjoyed the certain benefits of their free Consti- tutions, they would soon have become too formidable to the Autocrate of Russia : but if they are embroiled in a war, ho will get full time to execute his designs on the Ottoman Em- pire. When these are accomplished, and his Holy Allies, the j Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia, completely surroun- j ded, he may drive them on to the Westward at pleasure, till ; he find it convenient to tell them there is no further u e for j more Potentates but himself. Some of your readers will ex- claim, where will the fleets and armies of Britain be, whilst all ! these deeds are doing ? The Holy Alliance will,, most likely, have little to dread from them, while the reins aje held by the Pitt Club, who have hitherto promoted their cause mo, t effectually. As the dread of a Reform in Parliament induced the sime Club to hurry the nation into the war against the liberties of France, it may be found very convenient timv to j commence a crusade against the liberty of Spain, Reform being now more loudly called for than ever. Ihe time, how- j ever, will quickly go by, in which an effectual cluck can he i given to Russian ambition ; and this country will have to struggle against if, at no very distant p « Kod, a! pur, and in- ' effectually. " SI MPLICJ t'S. 1 2J< t/ t Side, Feb. 7, 1 +' 23. rubbing his hands with ecstacy.) 44 Upon my say se;, I was fuddled for three days after !" The Commissioner— What had this wig to do wit, h the de « fondant's debt ? Mr. Williams— A great deal : that's the very bone of con- tention. The Commissioner — Doubtless; but you must come to the marrow, if you can, as soon as possible. Mr. Williams— I will. Well, as I was a saying— where did I leave off'?— Oh ! when 1 was fuddled. The Commissioner— I hope you have left off ( hat habit now, my good man. Mr. Williams— Upon my say so, I have, trust me; but as I wa » a saying, to make a long story short, in course of time I left my master in the Temple, setup for, myself, and did a great stroke of business. Ay, I could tell you such a list oH customers. There was— Commissioner— Never mind, we don't want your list; go on. Mr. Williams— Well, then, at last I set up in Boswelf Court, Queen Square. Lawk me T what alterations I have seen in that Square, surely, in my time. I remember when I used to go to shave old Lord —— Commissioner— For God's sake do come to the end of your story; Mr. Williams— Well, I will. Where was 11 Oh! in Bos well Court—( Commissioner, aside: 1 wish you were there now.) Well, then, you must know when Lord Mans- ^ eld ( God rest hh soul!) died, his wig— the very, very wig f made— got back to my old master's shop, and he kept it as * pattern for other Judges' wigs ; antl at last who should die but my master himself. Ay, it's what we must all come to. The Commissioner— Go on, go on, man, and come to the; end of your story. Mr. Williams— I will, I will. Well, where was I ? Oh! in my poor master's shop. Well, so when he died, my mistress gave me— for she knew, poor soul ! how I loved it— this identical wig; and I carried it home with as much delight as if it had been one of my children. Ah, poor little. things ! they're all gone before me The Commissioner— Come, if you don't cut this mattef short, I must, and send you after them. Mr. Williams— Dearee me ! you put me out. Well, as I was a Siiying, I kept this here wig as the apple of my eye * ivhen", as'illluck would have it, that ' ere Mr" J, • lwrence came' to my shop, and often asked me to lend it to him to act with in a play— I think he called it Shy cock, or Siiyloek, for he said he was to play the Judge. I long refused, but he over persuaded me, and on an unlucky day I let him have it, and have never ( weeping and wiping his little eye with his white apron) seen it since. The Commissioner— And so you have summoned him fo/ the price of this wig ? Mr. Williams.— You have just hit the nail on the head. The Commissioner.— Well, Mr. Law rence, what have you to say to this ? Mr. Lawrence ( with great pomposity).— Why, Sir, I hare a great deal to sny. The Commissioner.— Well then, Sir, I desire yon well say as little as you can, for there are a great many persons . waiting here whose time is very precious. Mr. Lawrence.— Not more precious than mine, I presume, Sir, I submit that this case is in the nature t> f an action of trover, to recover the possession of this wig ; and, this admitted, Sir, I have humbly to contend, that the plaintiff musjfc be nonsuit* ed; for, Sir, you will not find one word of or coneerninga wig in his record. Commissioner.,— What rccofd ? Mr. Lawrence— The record in Court* Commissioner—* We have no record. Mr. Lawrence— You have a summons, on which I attend to* defend myself; and that is, to all intents and purposes de faptti as well as de jure, a record, similar to, and ofthe essence of a record in the Court above. Commissioner— Sir, we are not guided by the precedents of Courts above here. Our jurisdiction and our powers are defin- ed by particular acts of Parliament. Mr. Lawrence— Sir, I contend, according to the eommorj law of these realms, that 3 am right. Commissioner.— I say, according to the rules of common sense, you are wrong. Mr. Lawrence— Sir, I have cases. Commissioner— Sir, I desire you will confine yourself W this case. Mr. Lawrence.— What says Kitty upon the nature of these pleadings ? The Commissioner— And pray who is Kitty? Mr. Lawrence— The most eminent pleader of the present day. The Commissioner— I never heard of a - vvomati being a spe- cial pleader. Mr. Lawrence— T?- 1 is not a woman, Sir ; hers a man, Sir, and a givat man, • Sir—- and a man. Sir— The Commk, i >?- Do you mean Mr. Chitty ? Mr. Lawrence— » ! . an the gentleman you call Chitty, ant! most erroneously so col him ; for you ought to know that the' Ch in Italian sounds like an English K ; and Mr. Kittv, by lineal descent, is an Italian. It is a vulgar error to spell his name with a y final, it ought to lie i, and then it would pro- perly sound Kit tee. The Commissioner—- I should rather take Mr. Chitty's au- thority for this than yours. Mr. Lawrence ( in anger)— Sir, do you contradict me? The Commissioner — Sir, 1 will bring this ease to a shor* ssue. Did you borrow this man's, wig ? Mr. Lawrence— I did. The Commissioner— Do you chose to return it ? Mr. Lawrences- It is destroye t The Commissioner— How destroyed ? Mr. Laurence— It was burned by accident. The Commissioner— Who burnt it ? Mr. Lawrence— I did, in „ performing the paft of tbe jud^ ft in Shakespeare's inimitable play of the Merchant of Venice.-* While tou intent ou tire pleadings of Portia, the candle caught the curls, aud I with difficulty- escaped having my eves burnt ou » . The plaintiff here uttered an ejaculation of mental suffering* something between a groan and a curse. The Commissioner— Well then. Sir, I beve only tokfell you, you are responsible for the property thus intrusted to your Care y and, w ithout, farther comment, 1 order a'd adjudge that you pay to the plaintiff the sum of 39s., which the surw lw is prepaied to swear h is worth.. Mr. Williams— Swear ! Lord love you, I'd swear it was worth a Jew's eye. Indeed no'money can coni^ nsate me fuf its loss. Commissioner 1 cannot order you a Jew"* Mr, Williams unless Mr. Lawrence can persuade his friend $ hylock to part yvith one o' his ; but I will order you such a sum, in monies numbered, as you will swear this wig Wifl* fairly ani honestly Worth. A long dispute followed as fo the value of the wig, when Mr. Williams ultimately agreed to take and costs, and the parties y: ere disunited,, mutually grurribl at eaeu; o& eff A•'•• R'FR(' I. TT* UAL REPORTS FOR JANUARY. ENGLAND. The accounts from the'country, with respect to the effects of the weather upon the wheat crop, are univer- s; i1! v favourable. The first dry frosts were beneficial in killing slugs aud insectile vermin, and checking the too great luxuriafltS? of tiie early sown wheats ; whilst the succeeding snows have proved a cover and protection. The continuance of severe weather, however, has put an ( mire stop to tillage, and confined tlie operations of husbandry to carting dung and ditch earth for manure, road work, threshing, and tending cattle. From the dry state of the soil, the pastures have remained pro- ductive Mtiusuallv long, and a great stock of fodder has been spared. The turnip crop has turned out wonder- fully productive, anil the quality hitherto greatly superior to expectation ; indeed, iiad the. winter proved mild, it would have Iteen impossible to have consumed the crop — a circumstance which docs not go to prove a dimi- nished extent of fanning culture. Great quantity of hav iiits been spared, since scarcely any stock but the lambs have stood in need of it. 1 he greatest difficulty is experienced in supporting the labourers, who are too generally degraded to the state of paupers. Reports still from various parts of tenants' effects taken ill exe- cution, and industrious families turned adrift— a pro- ceeding equally cruel and impolitic, unless very sub- stantial reasons can be alleged. The advance on prices before Christinas has not the appearance of being per- manent ; and barley, oats, and beans, are on the de- cline. Hie last crop of barley and oats, it is probable, were greater than was supposed, and the stocks in hand Considerable. Potatoes are rising in price. In wool little do ns, excepting fine wool. Store pigs have risen considerably, and unexpectedly. The meat market re- main steady ; indeed, the best articles have generally produced a considerable price, the times considered. KINCARDINESHIRE. The great- change of weather which has occurred since the l'ith, tends, in some measure, to convince us that those who hud predicted an early and severe winter, have not been so much in mistake, as circumstances at- J the date of our last led us to imagine. Though an early one it cannot be called, it has latelv been pretty severe. The rains which fell in the early part ofthe month were succeeded bv two or three days of very mild weather.— On the morning of the 13th, there was a moderate fall of snow, accompanied by froSt. For nearly a week after this more or less snow fell daily ; and up to the 28th tiiere was little abatement of the frost. For several days the store flocks were unpreeedentedlv pinched for food, in consequence ofthe snow; but though they are, no doubt, a good deal reduced in condition, we have not heard of many having died. Field work for some days was almost wholly at a stand, and, except carting, little has been done during the month. In many instances, chieflv in the higher districts, the roads were rendered the admission, totsiteli payment" was made, u ' shun a discussion; whifch discussion, in truth, the de- fender was far from dreading. A minute, which had been recently, lodged, was now. j read by Mr. J. S. Moore for the defender. It bore, I that the defender, in respect ofthe offer which had been 1 made by Stevenson, now tendered to the pursuer payment of his expenses. An altercation now arose between Mr. MOTS'CREIFF and Mr. MORE;— the former contending, that the offer now made was different from that which was made on Monday, and could not be accepted ; " the other, that both were precisely the same. The Court decided this incidental point in favour of the pursuer. Lord Gi LLIES observed, that his reeollec tion of what took place on MQIK1. IV was so perfect, that were he put into the witnesses' box, he would swear, that the offer then made was, that the expenses were to be paid/ » r and hy the defender. His Lordship also ob- served, that this was a cause between Mr. Gibson and Mr. Cheape ; and Stevenson had no right to intrude himself into it. The judgment of the Court, upon the motion before it, having been demanded bv the defender's counsel, the LORD CHIEF COMMISSIONER proceeded to deliver his opinion in a most luminous speech, which occupied up- wards of an hour, and of which we can only pretend to give an imperfect summary. His Lordship observed, that had no offer been made bv the defender, the question would have been of easier solution ; at least, since the offer had been made, he felt himself called upon to take a more comprehensive view " Sire, we are Frenchmen; no sacrifices will be considered too great by your subjects, to defend the dignity of your Crown, and the honour anti- security of France. It is to your Majesty, Sire, that it belongs to deliberate; it is for us to concur, hy all our efforts, in the noble enterprise of suppressing anarchy, to recognise peace alone to restore to li- berty a Prince of your blood, to insure the repose of Spain, to I consolidate that of France, to deliver from the yoke of oppres- nee.- standing France wants lo preserve its legitimate Monarchy;— My Lords, the question of war is not, as some have been pleased to May, a question of dynasty ; it is a question of party alone. The interests of Royalty are not at stake t no, but the interest of a party, steady to its. old hatred, fixed in its old prejudices, and which is less eager to maintain than to re. conquer— it is a retaliation which some seek to take on the height of the Pyre- of the question than otherwise won! I have been necessary. 15y the statutes, constituting and regulating this Court, they were intrusted with the discretionary power of re- mitting causes to the Court of Session above, in order to have questions of law determined, before proceeding to trial. Within what limits this power ought to be exercised, was a point which had been most patiently considered in the ease of the Duke of Roxburgh and of Professor Leslie : and the decisions in tiiese cases esta- blished the principle, that the Court ought not to remit every case in which a question of la w arises, to the Court _ above ; but that they ought to exercise that discretionary ' power only when it appeared to them, that it would be most expedient, upon the whole, to have the question of law previouly determined. There were certain bars to an action, in point of law, the discussion of which required no previous investigation of the facts ;— there were others where the facts required first to be investi- gated. Now, in the latter case, it would almost uni- versally be found most expedient to proceed at once to trial; for, in the course of the trial, the questions of law were naturally evolved, the Court directed the Jury with respect to the law, and should either party be dis- satisfied with its directors, he might tender a bill of exceptions, which would bring the questions under the most solemn and deliberate discussion. It had been said, that iu Scotland there was no law of libel : or, at least, that its maxims were exceedingly un- mipassable by the snow ; turnips were also completely j settW_ It ha( J alwavs been considefed proper, and it covered, and there being few pulled at the beginning of was trufJ wisdom> ;„" such a case, to avail ourselves of the storm, < rtv. ng to the wetness ofthe ground, cattle (( le aila!^; t* furn; s| ied by the English law, so far as that had to be put on short allowance, and, in several cases, ] flw ° ced to be follnded on reas0n and justice. Now, the feeding stock were served with potatoes. Milk cows, fat cattle, meal, oats, and in short, most kinds of grain, have declined in price since last report. Best oatmeal, 13s. to 13s. 6d. ; same quality of oats, 13s. to l is. ; wheat and barley, 18s. to 20s. ; Chester, 16s. to 18s. ; pease and beans, 1 Is. tid. per boll ; fat cattle about 5s. per stone. Scarcity of fodder begins to be more and more talked about, and should the spring months prove rigorous, many will, no doubt, find it difficult to keep their live stock on till the grass season. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF SESSION— FIRST DIVISION. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 6. FOX MAULE, ESQ. V. THE HON. WILLIAM RAMSAY MAULE Of PANMURE. This was a cause of considerable interest, and the Court was crowded to excess. Mr. CocKBURN stated the case for the pursuer. Me said lu's client was the eldest son and heir of the honour- able defender, who possessed an estate paving a rent of upwards of L. 20,000 a year. That his client had lately come of age, and was an Ensign in a regiment of the line. His full pay amounted to L. 90, and his father gave him an additional allowance of L. 100. But he con- tended that this sum of L. 190 was not sufficient to en- able him to support a rank suited to his exalted station in society, therefore his action concluded for an aliment of L. 2000 a year : which was equal to the aliment re- ceived by the defender himself, while his father possess- ed the estates of Panmure. The Learned Gentleman referred to various law authorities and decisions in sup port of his claim. Mr. J. A. MURRAY for the defender, stated, that he fully admitted his client's liability to aliment the pur- suer ; but contended, that the clauses alluded to did not apply, inasmuch as in them no aliment had been given to the claimant at all. But in this case aliment had been given by his client to an extent which he conceived to be adequate to his sou's support as an Ensign. That in this opinion he was supported by that of the late Sir John Moore, who had, in every case, when he was Colonel of a regiment, advised the parents of his sub- alterns only to allow them certain - stitrs in t* ldition to their regime ital pay ; that the opinion of that distinguish- ed General was, that an Ensign should only have L. 100 a- year additional ; that ill this opinion his client con- curred ; and iu doing so he acted upon the feelings of w hat was most conducive to the future prospects of his son in pursuing the honourable life he had chosen. Mr. CRAMSTOUSJ and Mr. MONCREIFF have still to be heard previous to the decision of this interesting case. Mr. CRANSTOUN was heard for the pursuer on Fri- day ; and on Tuesday, Mr. MONCBEIFF was heard on the part of the defender, when the Lords ordered Memo- rials to be given in by the Box- day in the ensuing vaca- tion. The cause will not therefore L « decided till the Court meet again in May. Tlie LORD PRESIDENT stated, on Tuesday, that, the Court would hold the Editors of Newspapers liable who published cases while they were in dependence, as such publication might influence the minds of witnesses. His Lordship said, tlwit a very erroneous report of a Marriage ease lately before the Court had been publish- ed, which was remitted to the Commissaries for farther proof. JURY COURT.— Feb. 12. IN THE CAUSE, JAMES GIBSON, ESQ. O. DOUGLAS CITKAPE, ESQ. Mr. MoNCRF. fFF, for the pursuer, called th? atten- tion of the Court to the present state of the process. On Monday, the counsel for the defender judicially tendered lo the defender the expenses incurred by him, in order to constitute a ground for the motion before the Court.— Since then, a correspondence had taken place between the agents for the parties which he would now read. ( Here Mr. Moncreiff read the correspondence, the import of which was, that Mr. Cheape tendered the expenses, be- cause Mr. Stevenson being bound to relieve him, was willing to pay them, and Mr. Gibson refused to receive any proposition from Mr. Stevenson, or connected with any offer made by him). Mr PATERSON, for the defender, expressed his wish to know what the pursuer would lie at ? sion a magnanimous people, who assisted us to burstour. own fet- ters, and who can only receive from their legitimate Sovereign institutions conformable to their views and manners. 11 Sire, your courageous and faithful army, which knew how to contemn the dastardly insinuations of revolt,- goes forth with ardour. Under the banner of the lily, at the voice of your Majesty— guided by a Prince that your heart and your subjects delight iu calling your son, this noblestandard will only proclaim enemies to the factious. " We return thanks to your Majesty for the precautions which you have taken to protect our maritime commerce. Your prescient wisdom watches over all our interests, and the naval forces of your Majesty, swhicb have so often afforded timely aid to humanity, will maintain, with equal devotion, the honour of the French flag. " Sire, your faithful subjects, the Deputies ofthe Depart- ments, deeply affected by your Royal promises, will repeat them to your people. Tney will tell them that the most just of Kings wills the assembling and maintenance of his armies only with the view of preserving social order, and defending our country and our institutions from ail contagious and disor- ganising principles." We have accounts in the Paris papers of the taking of the fortress of Seo d'Urgel by Mitia. Tills shews that ihe Spaniards have an army of some sort iu the field, which the band ofinsuigents cannot resist, otherwise this fortress would not have been taken. The troops of the Faith, by whom it was occupied, arc said to have made the best of their way into France, whether they were pursued by the Constitutional force into the valley of Andorre, which belongs to the French territory. PARIS, Feb. 6.— M. de Lagarde, the French Am- bassador to Madrid, arrived safely at Bayonne on the morning of the 3d inst. He had demanded his passports on the 26th ult. but did not receive them till midnight on the 28th, though he had ordergd the arms of France to be taken down from his hotel; and it was not till the 30th that they were countersigned by the Political Chief at Madrid. At six o'clock on that day he set off, accom- panied only by M. Belloc, his principal Secretary of Legation. According to the report made by M. de La- garde, the bands ofthe Army ofthe Faith stopped all travellers, whether friend or foe, who fell in their way. His Excellency met several couriers, who had been stop- ped and deprived of their dispatches, and passed a cou- rier of the English Cabinet, who had started 30 hours before him, and to whom he had himself entrusted dis- patches for the French Ministry. It is affirmed that the two divisions, commanded by the Prince de Hohenlolie will, if war take place, enter Spain with the army of the Western Pyrenees, and be detached to ociupy Arragon. Advices from Vienna state, that in the event of war between France and Spain, the Emperoi Alexander will place a fleet at the disposal of France, which will have land forces on board. A letter from Brest of the 21st January, furnishes the following details : " The courier brought yesterday orders to fit out im- mediately the Centaure of 80 guns, and the Flore fri- gate. We have already in our harbour tw, o seventy- fours, a ship of the line cut down, two frigates, and several corvettes. They are all ready to sail. Orders have been given to re- establish the Semphores on the coasts— powder, balls, and bombs have been sent to Bayonne— levies of sailors art already ordered here, and will be or- dered also in all ports of France." FEB. 10—' 1 lie grand review took place this after- j noon. The Count d'Artois and the Duke of Angou- j lcme went through the ranks, but the vivats were very | weak. When his Royal Highness had reviewed the j troops immediately within tiie inclosure of the Tuilleries, he and the Count d'Artois rode round the place and ad- j dressed the artillery. The troops, as a matter of course, • i shouted Vive le Hoi ! and Vive le Due d'Angauleme ! I but the crowd, which was considerable, was almost si- j lent— here and there a hat was taken offi and a cry ut- there were two demands which might be prosecuted in a Court of law, one for debt, properly so called— the other for compensation of damages. In the former, as soon as judgment was entered for the debt, the de- mand was satisfied; in the latter, for every act of injury there was a separate action. Thus, should one newspa- per be published in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, and a libel be published in such a paper, an action should lay upon each separate publication. Then, there is the law o( joint deeds, well known in England. If a num- ber of persons concur in an act of injury, the person in- jured, after receiving compensation from one of the parties, has no farther claim against the others. For ex- ample, there are two publishers of one newspaper, which libels an individual; that individual, if he receives satisfaction for the libel from only one of the publishers, his claim of damage is extinguished. There is also the j tered, but there were ho responses— no echoes ; tile cry question of what is an editor? Is he merely the compi- j Jied upon the breeze, and the Parisians concealed their ler of the Contents of a newspaper— the reviser and cor- ; enthusiasm for war— that enthusiasm which some of the rector of its original articles— or simply a corrector of English Newspapers proclaim so loudly, ofthe press? And is his concern such as to subject j The streets are pretty full of carriages, him to a separate liability? There is also a question re- specting the authorship. Does the author, by putting the manuscript out of his hands into those of the editor, commit an act of publication, for which separately he is responsible ? Had the case both of Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Cheape come at the same time before a jury, the jury might have apportioned ( and he might have direct- ed them to do so) the damages between these defenders, according to the shares which it might have appeared they respectively had in the publication. When the pre- sent case is under trial, he may find it his duty to tell the jury, either that the facts which appear in evidence constitute a distinct act of injury, which the defender is bound to repair, or to tell them that they amount to an injury which has already been compensated by the ver- dict against Stevenson ;— and, in either case, either of the parties may tender a bill of exceptions, and have the question, which is then presented in a distinct and tangi- ble shajie, brought under solemn discussion. It could not be said, that the parties, by this course of proceed- ing, were denied the benefits which an English litigant has by the privilege of demurring. Cases from the Jury Court have secured the utmost dispatch in the discussion of bills of exception and of motions for new trials, both in the Court of Session and in the House of Lords— and, should the law have been misunderstood, either party has an almost instant remedy. Upon the whole he thought the Court would exercise a sound discretion by refusing to remit this case to the Court above. Lord Gi LUES concurred entirely in the view which had been taken by the Lord Chief Commissioner. Motion for an absolvitor or a remit to the Court of Ses- sion refused. And what ore the motives urged to induce France— France so happy, so tranquil, so prosperous, to expose herself to the risk of a war against Spain ? Of what has France to complain ? All is reduced to this simple proposition The Spanish Charter is full of imperfections. " I agree in that proposition, it is full of imperfections. Rut when have neighbouring nations received the authority of ex- acting from an independent people the reformation of their po- litical laws ? Tf this theory be admitted, what becomes of the independence of nations? What extraordinary reformers, what wonderful Lvcurgtises will not 100,000 soldiers form ?— especi- ally when 100,000 are ready to follow in their track ? Where is he who can be deceived by this political Quixotism? Is it thought that the secret of this new Crusade will long continue a mystery in the eyes of the people of all countries? No, no, my Lords ; Spain has conquered freedom for herself ; Spain is no longer overrun by privileged individuals; she affords a spectacle intolerable to pride ; it cannot be tolerated ; and what is to he the event? In Spain, what was ineffectually attempted in Francois to he attempted, viz.— a counter- revolution. " I am well aware that the invisible movers in this grand conspiracy against the liberies of the people are not so siupid as to aspire to any success by the sole efforts of their partisans; what then is in reality the support on which they rest their last hopes? They do not know it: they would shudder if they were required to state it truly. My Lords, that support, with- out which they are nothing, is the support of foreigners. Let it not be said that this hypothesis is a chimera ; this parricidal wish has been avowed iu the Papers of the day. those cheerless echoes of the passions which agitate the surface of our native land. " But what is the pay of the foreigner on whom they will be compelled to place their last reliance ? What is he to receive for his co- operation in these monstrous transactions ? Who will pay his armies, who will provision thcot ? Assuredly it cannot be unfortunate Spain— she has no treasure, she has scarcely enough to supply her own subsistence— she is rich in courage alone. " Prudence forbids my entering into more ample develope- ments ofthe dangers of war with Spain ; your intelligence and reflection will supply the deficiency. But I have said enough to show that it was my duty tonppearin this Tribune. It be- longed to me, who am old — who respect France— who am de- voted to the King and his Family— to me w- ho have taken so prominent a part in the events of the double restoiatiou— who by my efforts and, 1 venture to say it, by my successes, have placed all my glory and my responsibility in the renewal ofthe union between France and the House of Bourbon ; to prevent as far as in me lay the work of wisdom and justice from being compromised by rash and foolish passions. " The King is deceived, my Lords ; it is our duty to unde- ceive him. " He is told that his people wish for war ; his people desire peace. " He is told that the honour of his crown is compromised by his not revenging the insults offered to Ferdinand. Iiis an- cestor Louis XIV. did not revenge insults far more flagrant ; atitl yet ill a question of dignity Louis XIV. is a model not to be despised. I'he happiness of France is the glory of Louis XVIII. and he is worthy of enjoying it. '' He is told that Spain, a prey to anarchy, is dangerous to France. Let facts answer for themselves. Is it true that anar- chical doctrines have made an alarming progress in France? On the contrary, has not power made rapid conquests among us since the revolution of Spain ? " Let us not be afraid, my Lords, lo present the truth to our King ; he never rejects it, and it is io this confidence that I support the amendment which has just b ' en proposed to you by the Baron de Barante. May the majority of this Chamber be induced by their fidelity to the King and the Chamber, to sanc- tion it by their votes ! " My Lords, I will only say one word more, and it is to ask you whether'no one has any doubts w ilh respect to the secret wishes of Ferdinand VII. I permit myself a personal opinion on this point; I ground it on past events but too well known to me. Assuredly the King of Spain was never more com- pletely deprived of all liberty than during the seven years of his captivity at Valencay ; and I appeal to some bf my noble col- leagues to recal to their recollection that at that painful period, neither their honourable names nor their touching devotedness could inspire that Monarch with sufficient confidence tojeniove from his mind the impression, that the attempt which they were willing to make for his deliverance was nothing but an act of temerity of which he would be the victim ; and my personal relations with King Ferdinand have authorized me to believe, that these refusals arose from a noble confidence in the fidelity of his subjects, to whose courage and attachment he wished to owe hir, liberation This hist observation, notwithstanding the difference of the times, affords you many opportunities for comparison." Tuesday, Fell. 1 1. Lord ELLENBOROUGH gave notice, tint lie should move the second reading of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill, on Monday next. On the motion of Earl SHAFTESBURY, the House ad- journed until Thursday next. On Thursday and Friday the House was occu;. ved with hearing appeals and some routine business.. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM FRENCH PAPERS. By Paris papers of the 10th inst. it appears that the address of the Chamber of Deputies to the King was adopted in a secret sitting, and after a stormy discussion, by 202 to 90. All the amendments proposed in it were rejected. In the course of the debate the French Mi- nisters were reproached by the Ultra party with delaying the war so long; in answer to which they replied that thev themselves were unprepared ; and in the mean time they did all that was possible- to keep alive the principle of counter- revolution— by supporting with money the bands of insurgents who were in opposition to the new order of things, and by every where encouraging the ap- pearances of insurrection. This is the language said to have been held by M. Villele, and if France has really been pursuing this treacherous policy towards Spain, it not only leaves little hope of peace, but it renders peace not very desirable. Open war is better than such a peace, which affords a cloak to such dangerous intrigues. The following is the passage of' the address of the French Chamber which touches on the affairs of Spain : " Yes, Sire, it is by the return to religion, to legitimacy and to order, that this fine France, enjoying, at length, real liber- ty, shews to Furope how public calamities may be redeemed. " Why should the example of our present prosperity and the lessons of our past misfortunes he lost, upon a neighbouring State, whole independence we do not question ? But can we see without alarm the discords which devour her, and abandon ourselves to the dangers with which we are menaced by the ca- lamities which afflict her? " Destined by Providence to close the abyss of revolutions, ; ? He had been offered payment of his whole expenses charged upon the ! your Majesty^ in his paternal solicitude, has made every ef- principle which he himself contended for ; but it would j fort ta guarantee your subjects, and save Spain herself from seem, that nothing would satisfy him but the payment i the disastro » s etitos o{ " » e of » band of perjured sol- „ c, l,„. „_,.„. . t .! if 1 ' I 1,- I, . , ' diers. A blind infatuation has rejected the counsel of the chief m. tutse expend " V lue iierenuer uimseit, coupled with ; oftll( J august family of the Buurbuns, but very few masks. It is indeed a triste carnival. CHAMBER OF PEERS, FEB. 3. M. Duke de Levis, Reporter ofthe Special Com- mission, presented the projet of an Address in answer to his Majesty's Speech, which was examined in a Com- mittee, and discussed in a general assembly. An amend- ment proposed by M. the Baron de Barente, and mo- dified by a second amendment, proposed by M. the Count de Segur, was supported by the Count Daru, and opposed by M. de Villele and Viscount de Chateau- briand, and finally lost by a majority of 90 to 53.— The original projet of Address was then adopted by a majority of 99 against 26. SPEECH OF M. DE TALLEYRAND. The following is the Speech of Prince de Talleyrand, delivered on the occasion of the Chamber of Peers taking in toconsideratioo the projet of the Address to be presented in answer to the King's Speech :— " My LORDS— Sixteen years have elapsed this day, since, invited by him w- hc then ruled the world, to slate my opinion relative to the contest about to be engaged in with the people of Spain, I had tlie'misfortune to excite his displetlsuie by un folding futurity to his view ; by disclosing to him all the dangers which would spring up on all sides during an attack not less un- just than rash and presumptuous. Disgrace was the reward of my sincerity. The regulations of destiny are extraordinary— after so many years I am again called upon to renew the same efforts, to urge the same councils to our legitimate Sovereign. " The Speech from the Throne has caused the last hope of all the friends of peace neatly to vanish. It threatens Spain ; and my duty obliges me to say that it seems tome alarming lo France. At all events war has not yet broken forth. Peers of FROM GERMAN PAPERS AUGSBURG, Feb. 3.— An account from Lintz of the 26lh ef January, says, " For some days past tiiere has been much talk of the eventual march of an Austrian arm}' through the Austrian dominions to proceed to Italy, there to embark for Catalonia. This news, however, rests at present only on reports." TRIESTE, Jan. 26.— Accounts from Missolonghi and Zante, of the 3d and 8th, say, that the Greeks in the Morea are engaged with the civil and military organi sation. In Albania hostilities have likewise ceased. The English Government has at length permitted the Suliots, who took refuge at Apolonica after the evacuation of Suli, among whom there are still 2000 men able to bear arms, to the Morea to assist their brethren. They sail- ed for the Morea on the 1st and 2d Jan. All the let- ters represent the affairs of the Greeks in a very flourish- ing situation. The letters from Vitoglia to the 7th Ja- nuary agree that the Greeks are near Larissa ; that Odvssens had defeated the Turks in the defiles of'Zeito- ni, and that Omer Vrione perished in the action. NUREMBERG, Feb. 5.— According to the Sehaffhausen Gazette, the Ministers of the Allied Powers, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, on presenting to the President of the directing Canton the circular Note of their Sove- reigns, verbally expressed a wish that every thing that may give cause for complaint might be avoided in the public Journals, and that the Police might every where keep a strict watch over suspicious strangers. The latest accounts from Italy state the number of Austrian troops that have left Piedmont at 5,000. No account has yet been received of the departure of any Austrian troops from Naples. The onlv change that France, one moment remains, one moment is left to you. to j | lag taken place is the embarkation of 5,00;!, who were ger- ! • , i... i. j c:.,: i.. r..„ r, • i .• . • • , ... save the King, to save your country from the risk of so dangt; ous an enterprise ; hasten then to make use of it— to fulfil the most sacred of duties, to undeceive the King, abused as he is with respect to the wishes of France, the wants of his people, j whole island. General Walmoden, who commanded in his own peculiar interests, and not less than with regard to the Sicily, was Soon to embark at Palermo, and expected at Naples. Genera! Frirnont does not leave Naples, but in the south of Sicily, for Reggio. Itis positively af- j firmed the Austriatis will gradually withdraw from the state of Spain which is now represented to him as enfeebled by intestine dissensions. " The wish of France— it is almost superfluous to say it— the wish of all France is for peace. Sated wiih the glory of arms, she flattered herself, that under the Government of her King, she should be enabled to recruit, during the leisure of peace, the strength wasted in a war of thirty years. All the parties of this vast empire, composed as they are of so many various interests, are unanimous on this question. Lille thinks as Strasburg, Lyons as Bordeaux. Marseilles as Grenoble, The most furious party spirit cannot deny this truth. " And how could it be otherwise ? Has not Ihe merchant of Bordeaux and of Marseilles, in this case, the same interest as the manufacturer of Lyons and of Rouen ? Is not the one threatened with having all the treasures which he intrusts to the sea snatched frotn him ? Does not the other see the moment approaching when his manufactories must close, which have hitherto formed the source of his glory and of the prosperity of his country? Shall I speak ofthat part of the population which derives its support from daily labour ? " Each individual belonging to ibis class already knows, by the reduction of a part of his labours, that in future he will re- ceive only a portion of those earnings whicfi are necessary for the support of his family, and that he may, from day to day, be deprived of the last resource. Can you suppose, my Lords, that agriculture will be more fortunate— that it will escape the dangers which threaten commerce and industry ? In our per- fected system of society al! classes are united in one chain of general welfare. The embarrassments of the mercantile will be felt by the class of cultivators, and our agriculture, too, will find a loss in the members who will go to destruction in the de- solate plains of the Peninsula. " O that the powerful of the earth could count up the suffra- ges at this dreadful moment I Oo our side is an united peo ple ; on the other— what shall I say ?— are some individual interests, who struggle to make a restoration, concurred in by all for the general benefit of society, subservient to their own private advantage. Those self- same chivalrous sentiments, which in 17 SJ> attracted the hearts of the generous and seduced the imagination of the enthusiastic, yet could not preserve the legitimate Monarch, may again destroy it in 1823, uotwith- will certainly retain the chief command. HAMBURGH, Feb. 4.— The foreign Cabinets having proposed certain changes to the King of Saxony, that Monarch replied to them—" For many years I have been very well satisfied with my people, and inv people are satisfied with me— what more is wanted ? My subjects have never done me any harm. I see nothing to change." The King of Bavaria has also refused ro accede to the demands made for restricting the sittings of the States- General, and submitting the press to a severe censor- ship. The Mayence Gazette gives a deplorable picture of the breaking up of the ice at Coblentz. The water, it says, rose to the height of 22,1, feet, penetrated, with large masses of ice, into the city, and inundated the lower streets during the space of two hours. The wa- ters flowed back with great fury against the bridge of the Moselle ; all at once this ancient chef d'eeuvre, which had resisted the storms of many centuries, fell in with a horrible crash. Two hours after there was no more wa- ter in the streets ; it had only left in them masses of ice, and soon after the Moselle was clear. Imperial parltasmsu. HOUSE or LORDS. Monday, Feb. 10. THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, at the request of Lord Ellenborougb, who was unable to attend, presented a Bill for amending tile act of last Session respecting Marriages, ( his Lordship said he mentioned this that it might not be con- sidered as his own bill), which was read a firsfc time, and ordered to be printed. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Monday, Feb. 10. COMMUTATION OF TITHES IN IRELAND. Sir II. PARNELL presented a petition from the Grand Jury of Queen's County, Ireland, praying for a commuta- tion of tithes. As the manner in which tithes was at present exacted was productive of equal inconvenience both to the payer and to the receiver, he trusted that the clergy of Ireland would lay aside any thing like factious opposition to the at- tempt which the Noble Marquis was now making to reform the system. He likewise hoped that his Hon. Friend ( Mr. Hume) would postpone the motion of which he had givcll notice, until that which was to be submitted from the Irish Government had been introduced to the House, and received its full and mature consideration. Mr. GOULBURN felt that it was quite unnecessary for him to enter at present into any disclosure of the intentions of the Irish Government on this great and momentous question. Indeed, he was convinced that the House would lee! s- uclt disclosure to be premature, and would not, therefore, fie- mand it of him. lie must now repeat— what he had had oc- casion to sav mote than once in the last Session— that the Go- vernment of Ireland had, from the first moment of its arrival in that country, been sedulously anxious to discover some just mode of removing the evils which arose from the present system of collecting tithes. Mr. S. RICE asserted that a more inefficient measure than that of last Session had never been passed by any Legislature; and, as a proof of his assertion, stated there was not one in- dividual throughout the whole country of Ireland that had at- tempted to take advantage of it. As the declarations of the Right Hon. Secretary were now of the same vague and unsatisfactory nature that they were last Session— all of which, by the by, had ended in nothing— he ( rusted that his Hon. Friend would on no consideration postpone the motion of which lie had given notice. Mr. HUME saw no reason why he should give way upon this subject, especially alter the long delays on the part of Ministers, lie begged to ask the Right lion. Secretary of State, why, when he was Secretary of Ireland, he had brought no proposition on this subject before Parliament? It was now understood that the Clergy of Ireland, after a long and strong opposition, had consented to commute their tithes for an agreeable assessment. Whatever official reserve the Right Hon. Gentleman ( Mr. Goulburn) thought fit to keep, he ( Mr. Hume) had not the slightest objection to men- tion the general nature of his propositions. He should first contend that the Church property in Ireland ( meaning that in possession of the Deans and Chapters and Bishops) was altogether too large for the purpose for which it was intended ; next, that there should be no overpaid absentees of 10001. 20001. or 30001. a- year, and starved curates of 501. COl. ami 701. a- vear, but that the acting clergyman should be allowed enough for his maintenance as a gentleman, for ihe benefit of the district in which he performed his duty. He was opposed to the payment of any clergymen who were not resident, and he should call upon the House to declare this simple proposi- tion whether Ihe church property was not set aside by the State for the maintenance of religion, and whether it was not in the power of Parliament to appropriate it in the way most conducive to the interest of religion ? He should not consent to postpone the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. GOULBURN said, the principle on which his mea- sure would proceed was, for a composition and commutation of tithes. Lord A. HAMILTON begged to correct a mistake that had gone abroad respecting his motion on Scotch representa- tion; he had fixed it for the 11th id' March, not foi the 11 tU inst. Mr. GOULBURN gave notice of a motion, as we under- stood, for the reduction of the stall'of the Irish army. ASSESSED TAXES. Mr, MABERLY rose to move for certain papers. II « should he able to show that six or seven inill'ons of taxes might be repealed, without the slightest injury to pubic credit; and if he Were able to prove to this extent, be thought he should have a strong claim to support. He was prepared to contend for the repeal of the whole of the assessed taxes, and to argue particularly, that the house and window- tax » a> very unfairly borne, as in many instances- it amounted to 40 percent. It was in those cases nothing but a partial property- tax. He hoped that in the present state of the Country, Hon. Gentlemen would not be satisfied with tlie Minister's proposal to repeal only two or three millions of taxes. He then moved for various returns. Mr. G REN FELL begged to ask his Hon. Friend whether he Contemplated as a part of his plan of reduction of the as- sessed taxes, the re enactment of the tax opon property or income ? Mr. MABERLY replied, that he had no intention what- ever in moving for these accounts to bring forward any motion for laying on any sort of property tax, under any modification- whatever. SINKING FUND. Mr. HUME, in rising to move that a .. el- ies of financial papers should be printed, said the title of one of these papers was, " An account of all sums of money paid over to tha Commissioners for the reduction ofthe National Debt, for the year ending. oth January 1823;" and from that document it appeared, that 1.5,853,0001. had been so paid over. The- system was, however, a complete fallacy. It turned out to be a mere transfer— a paying with one hand, and at the saaio moment borrowing with the other, without liquidating any portion of the amount of debt. It was as perfect a farce as. was ever played off by any juggler. Mr. LUSHINGTON said, one of the earliest objects of Government would be to bring the subject of the Sinking Fund under the consideration of the House, for the purpose of simplifying the system, and rendering it. more intelligible. THE LATE KING'S LIBRARY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL begged to know whether it was. true, as reported, that his Majesty meant to make a gift of the late'King's Library to the public. If such were the case, it was a most liberal proceeding, well calculated to strengthen the attachment of the people to the House of Brunswick, and he wished that the high utilily of the present might be preserved by its being placed in such a situation as should make it ge- nerally accessible. It was a fact frequently complained of, tli. it the metropolis had no sufficient public library, for that of the- British Museum could scarcely be deemed public. He wish-- ed much to see a collection so thrown open as to afford uni- versal encouragement, to literature. If the country could not in its present state afford such an expellee, he trusted, never- theless, that the object would be kept in view ; and the mag- nificent donation now made by the Sovereign would be welt applied as the basis upon which a future establishment might be raised, Mr. PEEL said that the report was well ( bunded. No particular arrangement .-- s to the disposal of the gift had yet been made, but he doubled not that, in the detail hereafter ta be settled, the object aimed at by the Noble Lord would ha duly attended to. The House then adjourned about a quarter past six o'clock, TuesdquLEebruary 11. HOUSE. Lord HOTIIA51 irios'ed; fltat, the House be called over on the 20th inst. in order that the fullest attendance of Mem- bers might be procured, for the discussiou of the Catholic Question. The motion was agreed to. IRELAND. Mr. GOULBURN moved lor leave to bring in a Bill to continue and amend the Yeomanry Act. Mr. HUME wished to know, whether the Constable Act would render the Yeomanry Act unnecessary. He had under- stood, that the corps consisted chiefly of Orangemen, so that whenever they were called out, they rather increased than di- minished the difficulties they were required to suppress. If the Yeomanry were to be continued, lie trusted the expense would not be so great; for according to the returns, officers, were put on pensions if they wished to retire, or if others were, to be promoted, although the pensioned parties were as health*, as he was—( A laugh.)— This was a shameful abuse, anil some inquiry ought to be instituted, especially into the ex.. pense of nominal Brigade Majors, He hoped, the bill would not be allowed to pass, until the House was acquainted with the reasons for thus shamefully placing various persons on half pay. Mr. GOULBURN could* not reply to such details now, lie thought he should be able tu give " such explanations as would be deemed satisfactory. Mr. A BEKCROMBY thought these matters ought to ha discussed before the hill was a lowed to pass. lie had viewed the motion with much anxiety iu the present critical and most alarming state of Ireland ; fur the Yeomanry liad so- conducted themselves as to create general suspicion. Mr. GOULBURN had no desire to hurry the bill through the House, and only wished that the measures relating to Ire- land should be laid on the table as early as possible ( bear.)— With regard to the Yeomanry Corps' m Ireland, which,' by some gentlemen, were now aeemed so useless, the House should recollect that only a short time since the Yeomanry was almost, the only force tu which the Government had been atde to lock. WINDOW TAX. Mr, HORHOUSE gave notice that, after tfie Easter re- cess, he should renew his motion for the repeal of the window tax, provided no war should take place, and that the repeal of the whole or part of the assessed taxes should not render such motion unnecessary. CROWN LANDS— IRELAND. Mr. HUME moved for a copy of the Commissioners' reports i respecting Crown Lands and Quit rents In Ireland. Some re- ports had recently been made, whieh he wished should be laid before the House. He should hereafter propose that these Crown Lands should be sold to pay off the debt; they pro- duced about 63.0001. a- year; and. if sold, he understood they would increase the stttn to 2,000,0001. He was asto- nished that the Triennial Report of English Crown Lands had not been submitted to the House. Those lands also he should ' propose to be sold for the public benefit, by being now only used to promote corrupt patronage. The Hon. Member con- cluded with moving for the production of the Irish reports. Mr. GOULBURN" did not intend to oppose the motion, but a bill had already passed the House for the disposal of quit Tents in Ireland. The motion was then agreed to. SCOTS CLERGY. Mr. HUME gave notice that he should to- morrow move for returns of the stipends of the Scots Clergy in 1750 aud 1822.— Adjourned. Wednesday, February 12. Mr. Canning and Mr. llerries, the new members for Har- wich, took the oaths and their seats. The former on entering the House proceeded immediately to take his seat on the Trea- sury Bench, without waiting for the customary instruction and oaths, a negligence of etiquette that occasioned considerable laughter among the members present. Dr. PHILLIMORE brought in the Marriage Act Amend- ment Bill, which was read a 1st time, and ordered to be read again on Friday. The Irish Yeomanry Bill " as brought In and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Wednesday. FOREIGN TRADE. Mr, WALLACE rose to move the revival of the Committee on Foreign Trade. When the Committee was first appointed, the country was in a very distressed state ; the foreign trade, nevertheless, was extended to the amount of L. 14.000,000.— In 1819 and 1820, the increase was estimatedat L. 11,000,000; and it should be borne in mind, that at that period the manu- facturers, as well as the agriculturists, were in a very distress- ed condition ; yet, under all those di- advantages, the exports had greatly increased. In the last year there was a great ex- cess. and the increase was greater than what it was during any time before the war, when the country was in a most flourishing state. The increase of exports last year, as compared with 1320, was in ihe aggregate 7 per cent. Commerce having been thus attended with signal success, even when labouring under great disadvantages, it became Parliament to remove all the difficulties that stood in the way, in order that the greatest facility migh. be given to increase trade and commerce. The removal of existing " obstructions would enable merchants to in- creise their business. When the Navigation Amendment Act was introduced, much was said of the injuries that would re- sult to the trade with Holland and Norway, but those anticipa- tions had never been realized. The inquiries that had been instituted led to the belief that no such inconveniences would • arise ; and experience proved clearly, that these gloomy fore- bodings had no foundation in truth. The pilotage and lights regulation had also been productive of the greatest advantages ; and no doubt existed that it would be advisable that the old restrictive system should be got rid of altogether ( hear, hear.) The principle of recipocrity ought to be adopted, which, he thought, might be done without any danger ; on the contrary, with advantage lo the navigation of this country ( hear, hear).- Having viewed the benefit that had resulted from a more liberal system, he felt persuaded that the House would concur in the propriety of promoting further ameliorations of our commercial system ( hear, hear). He concluded with moving for the re- vival of the Foreigd Trade Committee. Mr. BARING expressed his approbation of the motion ; an', 2 said, that the former Committee had been productive of great advantages. Mr. RICAItDO was fully sensible ofthe great advantage that had resulted from the labour of tbe former committee, and the amelioration of our commercial system—( Hear.) Mr. HUME regretted that the right hon. gentleman ( Mr. Wallace), who had spoken from the lower benches, should be removed front the office ill which lie had been so useful. He also lamented that any political differences should have produc- ed a resnlt calculated to injure the interests of tbe counlry. Mr. CANNING concurred in what had fallen from the last speaker, and regretted the absence ofthe right hon. gentleman under any circumstances, whatever those circumstances might be, but he could assure the House that no efforts on the part of government would he neglected to restore the right honour- able gentleman to that official utility to which his merits so decidedly entitled him. — ( Hear) The committee was then appointed. CIIIE F- B A RO N— IREI. AN D. Mr. S. RICE again brought forward the subject connected with the fees of the Chief Baron of Ireland to which he was not entitled, and in fact were altogether unwarranted. The commissioners of legal inquiry had brought forward a charge against the Irish Chief• Baron, to which the Judge had plead- ed not guilty. The government ought lo remain neutral, when so important a subject wasat issue. If the commissioners had erroneously preferred their charges it ought not to interfere.— If they were well founded, the Chief- Baron was unworthy the office he filled. The House would recollect that the commis- sioners had already cost the country upwards of L. 100,000.— Were not abuses to be corrected ? He was prepared to enter into the question, but he should like first to know what steps government intended to take. He only wished to take such a course as would best promote tbe ends of justice and the con- venience of public business. He should call for the production of various papers on this subject, and among them copies of all correspondence between ihe government aud the judges, and others immediately connected withthe affair of Baron O'Grady. Mr. GOULBURN defended the course which the govern- ment pursued on this subject, and on the part of the Irish go- vernment he was prepared to disclaim any intention to originate any proceeding against Baron O'Grady, for, by doing so. they would be guilty of gross injustice. The removal of certain ma- gistrates was, however, a very different question, having been appointed only during pleasure. Such, however, was not the case with tbe higher officer connected with the present charge, aud the procedure ought certainly not to originate with the go- vernment, l'lie prosecution of the charge could not be vested in better hands. Mr. ABERCROMBIE considered, that if the charges were to remain with his hon. friend ( Mr. S. Rice), it was not a little singular that a noble Lord ( Londonderry) had moved for and named a Committee on the subject. That fact shewed that it was not an unreasonable expectation that the government should interfere in such a way as became the government. If there were defects in the administration of justice, with whom did the duty rest, but the government to remedy the evils com- plained of? They ought to protect the subject against the nial- administration of justice, and not to do it was an abandon- ment of duty, ( hear.) Mr. S. RICE shortly replied- The motion was then put and carried, and the papers were ordered. SCOTCH CLERCY. Mr. HUME said, as the church property was to be investi- gated, he was desirous of obtaining an abstract of the average returns of the income of the clergy of Scotland in 1750. and during the last three years. He moved for such returns. Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that there was no objection to give all possible information, but he questioned if that now sought for could be obtained witbouj reference to each clergy- man. Mr. HUME had taken the precaution of writing to Edin- burgh to ascertain whether such motion could be complied with, aud he found that the clerk of tbe tiends could procure it. Sir J. C LE RK wished the motion to be postponed for a few days, in older to ascertain whether it could really be complied with. Mr. HUME said, that as there existed so much alarm on the subject, he had no objection to postpone it for 8, 10, or even 20 days. The motion was then withdrawn. New writs for Dorset in the room of Mr. Portman deceased, and for Winchester in the room of Lord Concannon deceased, were ordered. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. On the motion that the house resolve itself into a committee of supply on his Majesty's speech, Mr. HUME felt it his duty to call the attention of the house to the language ofthe speeches which had been so full of pre- mise, but which had been followed by such failure in realising the economical promises. As far as the state of the counlry was concerned, he regretted to say, iliat tiiose speeches were almost all fallacious. In 1817. Lord Londonderry promised re- duction. Though the expenses of the army were to be L. 13, pOO, 000. they were in reality I,. 14,000,000, and last year they exceeded L. 15.000 000. i he greatest attention to economy hail been promised in every speech from the throne for the last 20 years, and the house gave as much attention to tliein as it pleased. Notwithstanding the sweet honied words of ministers, he called to Parliament to look to the results, and in order to shew the spititin which economy was promised and ' expense promoted, he woulci only allude to the appointment of I, ord G. Beresford to the Ordnance, an office declared to be useless even in war. How, then, could ministers deflkfod such appointment? ( Hear, n-., r.) lie d. d not wish to speak des- pairingly of the noble Loit.' s merits. Ou being promoted to the peerage, an act gave bun L. 2000 per annum; as governor of Jurtey, L14Q0, aud altogether liis income n as L. 6000, in- dependently of the new bflieo. He should hereafter shew haw much the Ber6sfords received in Ireland— thousands and tens of thousands a- year. The Commons of England, in unison with the voice ofthe people, ought to reject unnecessary ex- penditure. He concluded with moving an amendment, that as the military commissions were opposed to the continuance of Lord Beresford's office, the House required ample information regarding the appointment. Mr. CANNING opposed it, on the ground that notice ought to have been given of so important a motion. No office haei been granted. Mr. BROUGHAM partook ofthe objections which had been made to his Hon. Friend's motion, but from quite an opposite motive. He was anxious, in particular, that persons more technically acquainted with the subject should be present, in order to inform the house of the real merits ofthe ease, and to defend it, if it were capable of defence. He wished his Hon. Friend would postpone his motion, because the subject was one of too much importance, and as had been well said, the remedy so extreme in its nature, that it ought not to be thus incidentally and accidentally brought forward. Sir ft. Fergusson and Mr. Abercrombie were of the same opinion. Sir F. BUHDETT.— I fully agree with what has fallen from my Hon. Friend w- ho has just sat down. I agree with his reasoning— I accede to his inferences. I think it quite clear that no beneficial results can arise from a perseverance in the proposed Amendment. I a n prepared to support every proposition which has for its object an expedient reduction of Ihe public expenditure ; and I give to the Hon. Member for Aberdeen all the merit to which his resolute, and unfailing, and active attention to the public interest so justly entitles him ; but- at a moment like the present, under the circumstances in which thiseountry is placed with regard lo foreign relations, I cannot agreed to the amendment proposed by the Hon. Mem- ber. 1 know that it is the privilege of this House to stop the supply, hut it is a great and glorious privilege, not to be used on ordinary occasions. The grievances which would call for such extraordinary interposition, must be not only acknow- ledged, but monstrous ; and a sound discretion would not willingly call for such a strong measure, except under cir- cumstances where any other redress was unavailable. I think ihat the Hon. Member for Aberdeen will consult both the be- nefit of his own motion, and also the inclinati • I of those who are usually inclined to support him, by not pressing a motion, from which no good result can arise. Mr. HUME— If the amendment which he had proposed would any way interfere with die honour of the country, or dis- turb the harmony of all parties, he evould, for the sake of una- nimity, withdraw it.—( Hear, hear.) The Amendment was withdrawn accordingly, and tbe House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply. Report to- morrow. Adjourned. Thursday, Feb. 13. There being only 36 Members present at four o'clock, the House adjourned. Friday, February 14. Several Petitions were ptesented against the late Marriage Act. The New Marriage Act was read a second time and or- dered to be committed. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Mr. MABERLY adverted to the form in which tbe public accounts of receipt and expenditure were kept, and the partial accounts laid before the House, from which, he said, a casual observer would be led into error, to the amount of L. 5,000,000, and would continue under that delusion until the 25eh March, when the accounts for the year would, as a matter of course, he laid before the House. He trusted tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer would lay an official account before the House as much earlier than that period as possible. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said no exertion should be wanting on his part to produce the account to which the Honourable Gentleman alluded. He would also take this opportunity of giving notice fliat he would, on Friday next, on moving for Exchequer bills, take an opportunity of submitting to the House a statement of the view which his Majesty's Government took of the finances of the country. Mr. HUME submitted to the Right Honourable Gentle- man, that until the correct account of the means and expendi- ture of the country evas before the House, it would be extreme- ly inconvenient, nay even impossible, for the Right Hon. Gentleman's statement, to be understood ; and he therefore submitted lo the Right Hon. Gentleman that it would be much more convenient to postpone that statement for a few nights, till the account could be laid before the House. Sir If. PARNE1. L agreed to this opinion. Mr. MABERLY said he understood the Right Hon. Gentleman did not intend to call upon tbe House to come to any resolution on Friday. He wished to understand him cor- rectly on this subject, as he should shape his course according- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he should only propose resolutions, and move that they should lie on the table for the consideration of the Members. LORD CLANWILLIAM. Mr. HUME said he saw, by the Gazette, that Lord Clan- william was appointed Ambassador to Berlin. Mr. IiOs e would of course retire. He was desirous of asking the Right Hon. Gentleman, if Mr. Rose was to retire on a pension ? Mr. CANNING said, certainly not. Mr. H UME said he had another question to ask. respecting Sir Benjamin Bloomfield. As Sir Benjamin was appointed Ambassador to Stockholm, he wished to know if his pensions and allowances, as previously granted, were to merge in his allowance as Ambassador? Mr. CANNING said he was not aware of 3nv case in which the allowances or pensions granted to any individual who should afterward be appointed Ambassador to any foreign Court merged in his allowance as Ambassador. THE STATE OF AGRICULTURE. Sir T. LETH BRIDGE, after adverting to the present distressed state of the agricultural classes, and the failure ofthe measures adopted for their relief during the last session, was desirous of asking of the Right Hon. Secretary of State, whether his Majesty's Government was prepared to bring for- ward, during the present session, any proposition for their re- lief. if they were not so prepared, he should consider they had not done their duty to that large class of his Majesty's subjects. Mr. CANNING said, it was certain that his Majesty's Go- vernment were not prepared with any plan for the relief of agriculture ; but it was equally certain, that his Majesty's Government had never, for an instant, ceased to give their serious attention to this subject j and at one time, he was free to confess, a plan was under consideration of Government, which he was sanguine enough to believe might have been productive of good, but, on farther consideration, it was found that to adopt it would only lead to disappointment. If his Majesty's Government had tailed in attaining this great object, they had failed in conjunction with two Committees of the House. If the Hon. Baronet had any plan of relief to propose, the Government would he most ready to receive it, and lo give it the most serious consideration; but the Government had no direct plan to propose ; still indirect relief might be given, and that indirect relief would be stated in his Right Hon. Friend's plan, which would be submitted to the House on Friday next. The relief to which he alluded would be a considerable reduc- tion of taxation. Mr. CURWEN' gave Government credit for having had a consideration ofthe agricultural distress within their view. It was impossible they could have done otherwise ; but he must regret that some efficient measure had not been proposed or contemplated by them, as relief from taxation, such as the Government could give, would not afford sufficient relief.— Thep or rates and tithes were the great evil which bore down the agricultural classes, and would continue to increase their difficulties and distresses. These bore almost entirely on the land. lie thought all property ought to be subject to bear a proportion of taxation. He was as anxious as any man could be to support public credit, but he thought that funded pro- perty should be made subject to the poors' rates, and he had expected a proposition to that effect from his Majesty's Go- vernment. He thought the tax on funded property should be 50 per cent, of the poor's rates ; nothing less than that would relieve agriculture. Mr. ROBERTSON agreed with the last speaker, that funded property should be made liable to this description of taxation. He contended that the public were paying too high an interest for their money, and gave notice that he would, in the course of the session, submit a motion for the reduction of the interest of the national debt. The report of the Committee of Supply was then brought up and received. CATHOLIC QUESTION. Mr. H. HUTCHINSON, seeing an Hon. Gentleman ( Air. Wynn) in his place, wished to ask him, whether his Learned Friend ( Mr. Plunkett) persevered in his intention to j bring the Catholic question before the House on the 20ih inst. | as he had heard some reports to the contrary ? ! Mr. W. WYNN had no hesitation in staling, that his I Learned Friend would bring the question forward on that day. | Mr. HUME gave notice, thai he would, on Monday next, • submit a motion to the House on the subject ofthe Lieutenant- 1 Generalship of the Ordnance. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES, j Resolved, That this House will not receive any Petition ' for Private Bills after Friday the 2Ut ciay of this instant, ; February. Resolved, That no Private Bill be read the first time after ! Monday the 2ist day of March next. ; Resolved, That this House will not receive any Report of such private bill after Monday the 5th day of May next. Ordered, That the said Resolutions be printed. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. II. Whitehall, Jan. 31. The King has been pleased to direct letrers patent to bd passed under the Great Seal ofthe United Kingdom of Greai Britain and Ireland, granting to the Right Hon. Frederick John Robinson the offices of Chancellor aad Under Treasurer ofhis Majesty's Exchequer. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom, granting to the Right Hon. William Huskisson the office of Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy. Duchy of Lancaster, Jan. SI. Tfte King has been pleased to direct letters patent to pass the Seals of his Majesty's Duchy and County Palatine of Lan- caster, for constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart. Chancellor ofthe said Duchy and County Palatine during his Majesty's pleasure. Whitehall, February 7. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland constituting and appointing the Earl of Liverpool ; the Right Hon. Frederick John Robinson ; Berkeley Paget, Esq. Viscount Lowther ; Lord Granville, and also the Right Hon. John Maxwell Barry and Edmund Alexander M'Nagh- ten, Esq. to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer ofthe Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal ofthe said United Kingdom, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Charles Watkin Williams Wynn ; Ilensy Earl Bathurst, the Right Hon. George Canning, the Right Hon. Robert Peel, his Majesty's three Principal Secretaries of State ; Robert Banks, Earl of Liverpool, First Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury ; the Right Hon. Frederick John Robinson Chancellor of liis Majesty's Exchequer ; John Baron Teignmouth ; the Right Hon. John Sullivan ; Viscount Cranbourne; the Right Hon. William Henry Freemantle; the Right Hon. Sir George War- render, Baronet; and Joseph Phillimore, Doctor of Laws, his Majesty's Commissioners for the Affairs of India. Foreign- Office, Feb. 8. The King has been pleased to appoint Henry Watkins Williams Wynn, Esq. ( now his Majesty's Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated States ofthe Swiss Cantons) to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordi- nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Wurtem- berg. Chas. R. Vaughan, Esq. ( now Secretary to his Majes- ty's Embassy at Paris) to he his Majesty's Minister Plenipo- tentiary to the Confederated States of the Swiss Cantons, The Hen. Algernon Percy ( i. ow Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at Turin) to be Secretary to his Majesty's Embassy at Paris.— Gibbs Chawford Autrodus, Esq. ( late Secretary to his Majesty's Legation to the United States of America) to be Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at Turin, and William John Crosbie, Esq. to be Secretary to his Majesty's Legation to the Confeder- ated States of the Swiss Cantons. Whitehall, Feb. 7- The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Greit Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity of a Baronet ofthe said United Kingdom to Sir Edward Hyde- East, Knt< late Chief Justice of Calcutta, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten,- Whitehall, Feb. 8. The Kin£ has been pleased to appoint Lieut.- General William Carr Lord Beresford, G. C. B. to be Lieutenant- General of the Ordnance, in the room of Sir Hildebratid Oakes, Bart, deceased. Whitehall, Feb. 7. The King has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Alexander Cuthbertson to the church and parish of Edrom, in the Pres- bytery of Chirnside, and county of Berwick, void by the death ofthe Rev. Mr. Hastie. A meeting of the electors of ScMmvdV£ was held on Tuesday in tiie Borough, at which a petition for a reform in the House . of Commons was carried by a Wge majori- ty. Tiie principal speakers were Mr. Ellis, Mr. Ar- rowsmith, Mr. Calvert, Sir It. Wilson, and Mr. S. Davis. Mr. Peel lias transmitted to the authorities in the commercial and manufacturing towns frf the kingdom, a number of inquiries, to which answers are required. The j following is a copy of this official paper : 1 — What is The present state of trade and employment of the working classes?" 2.— What *' The rate of wages as compared with the charge of providing comfortable subsistence for workmen and their families ?" 3.— What " The increase' of buildings, with details as to the amount of the increase?" 4.— What " The general disposition of the working classes, in regard to the peace of the country and subordination to the laws?" 5.—" What is the calculation with respect to the continu- ance of trade and employment." Captain Godfrey, arrived on Thursday at the Ad- miralty, with dispatches from Sir C. Rowlev, at Ja- maica, copies of which were immediately forwarded to the King and his Majesty's Ministers. LIVERPOOL ELECT ION.— Mr. Huskisson has met with unexpected opposition at Liverpool, but it was fri- volous and vexatious. Mr. Kushton objected to him, and concluded a most uncivil speech with proposing Mr. Molyneux, sou to the Earl of Sefton, as a candidate. Mr. Harvey objected to Mr. Huskisson for holding pensions, according to the Red Book, of £ 1900 a- year; he thereore begged leave to nominate a Gen- tleman to whom no Administration had.^ ever thought of offering any place or pension, Doctor Cromp- ton. A poll commenced, and at the close of it on Tuesday night the numbers were— for Mr. Huskis- son, 145; Lord Molyneux, 31; Dr. Crompton, 0. At half- past eleven next forenoon the poll closed, Lord Molyneux's friends not wishing to protract a useless contest. The numbers at the close were-^- for Mr. Hus- kisson, 239; Lord Molyneux, 31; Dr. Crompton, still 0. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 15. At the Court at Brighton, the 13th of February 1825.— His Majesty having been graciously pleased to deliver the cus- tody of the Seals of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lan- caster Is the Right Honourable Nicholas Vansittart. the oath of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was this day, by His Majesty's command, administered to him accordingly. Whitehall, February 15. The King has been pleased to direct, letters patent to be passed under ( he Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignitv of a Baron of the said United Kingdom to the Right Honourable Nicholas Vansittart, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Bexley, of Bexley, in the county of Kent, His Royal Highness the Duke of York has been pleased to appoint Doctor Alexander Morison, of London, to be a physi- cian in ordinary to Iwa Royal Highness household. War Office, Feb. 14? 58th Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant William George Earl of Erroll, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Moore, who exchanges. 45th Ditto, General Richard Earl of Cavan, K. C. from the5Sth Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Lister, deceased. 58th Di » to, General Thomas Lord Lyrideoek, G. C. B. from the 90th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lord Cavan, appointed to the command of the 45th Foot. 90th Ditto, Lieutenant- General Hon. Robert Meade to be Colonel, vice Lord Lynedock, appointed to the command of the 58! h Foot. 93d Ditto, Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel Hon. Sir Charles Gordon to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Milling, who retires. LONDON, Feb. 15. BniGHTON, Feb. 12.— His eVIajesty, we linve tiie liigli gratification to state, continues hourly to improve in health. His Majesty's illness here is now regarded as a circumstance past, and all anxiety, in the happy cer- tainty of his recovery, has vanished, In the pleasure of this feeling the inquiries at the Palace in number to- day have comparatively been but few. FEB. 13.— Since the commencement of his Majesty's present indisposition at this place, we have not endea- voured unnecessarily to excite the public mind, by exag- gerated statements of its progress. Possessing the best information on the subject, we knew that notwithstand- ing the occasional fluctuations ill the malady, and which sometimes have been attended with excruciating pain, still there never was any immediate danger. We are quite aware that the efforts of the medical persons about the King have been baffled and disappointed— they enter- tained no conception that his Majesty's illness would have continued so long, especially as the King is repre- sented to be a pliant patient, with whom his physicians never experience any difficulty. The complaint was ori- ginally the gout, attended with no unusual symptoms, and it was imagined that after a lew days it would be ex- pelled, but we hear, t!. at volatile visiter has recently re- moved its quarters, and that with unusual severity. I'he answer to inquiries at the Pavilion this morning is equal- ly favourable with the report of yesterday, but we are free to confess, the actual state of his Majesty's health cannot be gathered from these reports, and whilst we be- lieve there is no danger of the King's recovery, on this point, there will naturally be uneasiness till liis Majesty removes to town, which he will do, when the physicians are of opinion there is no prospect of a relapse.— Morn- ing Chronicle. The report of the state of the Duke of York yester- day, was—" his Royal Highness is going on well to- wards recovery." The Royal Duke rode out 111 his car- riage oil Monday and yesterday, for a short time. The Spanish Minister transacted business at the Foreign Office yesterday for a considerable time. His Grace the Duke of Manchester, with his second son, Lord William Montague, arrived on the 8th of December, at Port Royal, Jamaica, in the ship John Shand. On coming round the point, his Grace was saluted by Fort Charles. He remained oil board that vessel until a quarter after one o'clock, when he disem- barked in the Admiral's barge for Port Henderson, under a salute from the vessels of war in the harbour, their yards at the same time being manned. Every de- monstration of respect and attachment was paid by the inhabitants, and the rejoicings and festivities were con- tinued to a late hour. On the 10th Spanish Town was illuminated. The Marquis of Htintly has left town for Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire. We regret to state that an eminent house at Frank- fort, in the manufacturing line, has suspended its pay- ments for 700,000 florins, about £ 70,000 sterling. IRELAND. DISMISSALS.— It was rumoured yesterday, that three gentlemen, in the immediate service of his Excellency, were dismissed from their situations, on account of a part they took at a late convivial and political meeting in Morrison's Tavern. On inquiry we found this report confirmed. The Chamberlain, Sir Charles Vernon, Captain Stanhope, and Mr. St. George, have received intimation that their services will not longer be required, and the reason, we understand, is assigned. In reference to the part which these gentlemen may have performed at this musical and Orange festival, we know nothing ; hut several of the toasts, and the feelings displayed were indecorous, at least in any assembly, excepting that of the Pandemonium in Werburgh street, where the rioters in the theatre concocted their measures. ' Certainly those who depended on the executive ought to : have been its advocates.— Dublin E. Post. NEW APPOINTMENTS Mr. George Rich has' been appointed to the office of Chamberlain, in the place of Sir C. Vernon. The Hon. Mr. Stopford, son ; of tiie Earl Coin- town, is to be, we understand, the Aid- de- Camp, in the room ofthe Hon. Mr. Stanhope; and Mr. Montgomery is to have the place vacant in con- sequence of the dismissal of Mr. St. George. eorf. s, viz.— Royals, 8( fch, 41st, GDl!:, 4fith, 5- kh* and 80th Regiments nf Infantry-— are ordered to be it! the Downs o'n the 16th, aud to sail on the 20th instant, lor Madras, J'lie Hythe and Windsor Itnliamen, having on board detachments belonging to the undermentioned cords : — 11th Light Dragoons, anil, tOth Lancers, and the 14th, 38th, 4- 4- th, 59th, and 87th Regiments of Foot, arrived in the Downs on the 2d, and are to. « ail, the Hvtlie ou Saturday, and the Windsor en Monday or Tuesday next, for Bengal. MARKETS, AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN. The following is the General Average. which governs Im- portation. taken from thfe Weekly Returns of the quanti- ties and Price of llrilish Corn, Winchester measure, ill England and Wales, fpr the week ended 8th Feb. Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, - 5d 23- Od 28 » Od 17 s 8d Reims, Peas, Oatmeal, Bear or Bijr, 95s fid 3( K 1 d 00s Od 00s OOd The Average Price of Blown or Muscovado Sugar, corns puteil from tbe Returns made in Ihe week ended the 12; h Feb. is 34s. 3^ d per cwt. duty exclusive. CORN EXCHANGE, Feb. 17. Our supply of grain of all kinds is very <?' maH; ilie prin- cipal part of our arrivals having been taken olFoil Frielav, has left but a very trifling surplus in the market. In consequence of the purchasers having bnng back so long, they are now compelled to come into the market, which, together with the suiallness of the supply, has oceasioned arise in Wheat and Barley, which may be quoted at an advance of full 2s. pet- quarter— Oats also are looking up. CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN. Wheat White ( new) Do. Fine l) o. Old ., Red Do. Fine Do. Old .. Rve Barley Do. Old Malt Do. Fine . Pease Hog s. s. d. 28 to 44 0 44 to 52 0 — to -- 0 55 to 42 0 — to — 0 — to — 0 18 to 21 0 2- 1 to 27 O — rn — 0 40 to 5( 5 0 — to — 0 26 to 28 0 Flour, 35s. to 40s. Pease. Maple Do. White Do. Boilers Small Beans Do. Old Do. Tick Do. Fine On Is Feed Fine Do. Poland Do. Potatoe Do. Fine - Seconds, 30s. 35s. s. s. d. 28' to 30 ( » 28 to 32 0 30 to 34 o 26" to 30 0 — to — O 21 to 27 O — to — a ) 7 to 20 0 — to — 0 1 8 to 22 0 22 to 24 0 — to — 0 HADDINGTON CORN MARKET, Feb. 14. A large supply of Wheat in market, which solel quickly at the beginning, but slowly towards the end of the market* Top price of Barley 21s— Top price of Oats 16s. Wheal. First 25s Second 21 s Third 18s Varley. 21s fid J 19s Od 16s Od I Oals. 16s 6d 14s Od 12 s Od Pease. - J Beans. 13s 6d j 13s ed 1 Is Od Ills Od 9 s Od I 9s 0( 1 NAVAL REGISTER. FROM LLOYD'S MARINE LIST, Feb. II. YARMOUTH, Feb. 1 — During a gale of wind from the North East last night, the Britannia, Bratchie, from Bordeaux to Leitb, came on shore— does not appear to be damaged. Crew saved. GIBRALTAR., Jan. 16.-— During a strong gale at S. W. ex- perienced yesterday evenit g the Hero of Kirkcaldy, Wilson, parted from her cables, and was driven on shore on the West Beach ; but it is not supposed she received any particular damage. The Isabella Simpson, ——. arrived at Madeira, from Leitb, on the 8th December, and sailed on the lltli for Jamaica. The Alfred, Oliphant, arrived at Gibraltar from Leith on the 11th ult. FEB. 14.— The Fullarton, from Ayr to Liverpool, is sup- posed to be lost on Hoyle Bank. The wreck of a sloop ( wheat laden) has been seen there, and a trunk washed up, which was shipped on hoard the Fullarton. Hamliro, Feb. 4.— Since Sunday a moderate frost has again returned, with a considerable fall of snow. Havatinab, Dec. 18. — The ship Alexander of Bordeaux, from Vera Cruz, to touch at this port with a valuable cargo, consisting of cochineal, indigo, and spice, was boarded olf Baltla Honda, robbed of her cargo, and disabled in her masts, for the purpose of preventing her reaching this; in conse- quence of which she bore away for New Orleans, where she hasarrived in the greatest distress The schooner. Harmony, of and from New Orleans, bound here, was also captured, the crew maltreated, and the cargo plundered. Both which de- predations were committed by a long low schooner with one gun amidships, and a crew of 70 men, supposed to be the same vessel which sailed from this port clandestinely a few weeks ago. [ This List narrates a number of depredations committed by piratical privateers in the vicinity of the Jamaica station." 1 This day there were 3,50 bolls of Oatmeal in Eefinburgh Market— Retail price per peck of best oatmeal. Is. Id. — — .—:— tfu EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKST, Feb. 12.— There were 105,5 Sheep in the market, this morning. White- faced siicep solel from 18s. to 30s. ; hlaek- faced wedders, from 20s. to 24s. '• Quick sale. In the Grasmnarket, there were 259 fat cattle, which sold from 5s. to 6s. 6d. per stone, sinking offals. DALKEITH. Feb. 10 - s- There was no O. itme. 11 at this day's market but from the mills in the place. Best, 16s. curreift, 15s. per boll. Retail, is. to Is. Id. per peck. FEB. 13.— The quantity of grain at this day's market is an ordinary supply, although there are no carts from the south of Soutra hill, the road nof being cleared of the snow. Wheat sold readily ; Best, 2.3s. ; current, 20s. Barley, best 20s. ; current, 18s. Oats, best. 16s. ; current, 14s. Pease and Beans, from lis. to lis. per boll. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, Feb. II— Notwithstanding the broken weather, there was a pretty fair supply of fa. cattle in the market yesterday. Sales were brisk, and prices ahout Cd. a- stone higher than last day. Beef, according to lis quality, ran from 6s. to 8s. a- stone. The sheep brought forward were, with the exception of one lot, those that remained unsold lart day. Black faced wedders ran from 16s. to 20s. and white faced ditto from 20s. to 26s. FAIRS. FERRUARY Dornoch, Callan's Fair, 1st Wednesday Monymusk, 2d Wednesday Charleston of Aboyne, 3d Wednesday Nairn, 18th day Abergeldie, last Friday Inverness, Wed. after 24th ( Old SlUe.) Banff' Candlemas Fair, Ist Tuesday Rattray, ditto Forres, Candlemas, 1st Wed- nesday Dingwall, ditto Stonehaven, the Thursday be- fore Candlemas Mint taw, 3d Tuesday -( New Stile.) Neiv Pitsligo, 3d Tuesday and Wednesday Cotnhill ( Newton of Park) 1st Thursday after Cand. Botriphnie, Fumnck, 15thday Old Deer, 5d Thursday Huntly, last Tuesday Alford, ditto Stricheri, do. & Wednesday Tarland, last Wednesday Redeastle, ditto Oidmeldruin, day before Fyvie Fyvie, Fasten's- even, ist Tuesday and Wednesday after New Moou next al'tef Candlemas Elgin, ditto. Extract ofa letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, dated Antigua, Dec. 27 " The mail boat arrived this mor- nincr with the first monthly mails brought over bv the a J o - Jamaica packet, and brings accounts ot a severe gale having been experienced to the southward. At Mar- tinique, 23 sails of vessels were driven on shore ; and several small vessels at Barbadoes, amongst them the mail- boat Mathew King. His Majesty's ship Pyramus, lying at Barbadoes, parted her chain moorings dragged both her anchors, and fired guns of distress, but rode it out. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. SAILED.— From Portsmouth— The Swallow, Ross, for Madras. The Britannia, Luke, for Madras, is wind bound at Plymouth. ARRIVED The Susan, Hamilton, from Bengal ; the Nestor, Theater, from Bombay— sailed the 15th September, and left St. Helena on the 2d December ; the Catherine Stewart, Forbes, from Bombay and the Cape ot Good Hope ; Forbes, Chapman, ditto ; the Timor, Ford, ditto ; the Mary, Body, from Bengal and the Cape of Good Hope ; she was struck by light- j enincr during the night of the 24- th ult. to the westward of c o t a the Azores, which splintered the main mast and main top- mast, and set fire to the foretop- gallaiit- mast, and one side of the heel was burned offi Every man on deck ' was knocked down, and one side of it was nearly covered with fire Sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Bengal, the Thalia, Haig, on the 7th, Hope, Flint, on the Oth, and Larkins, Wilkinson, on the 12th September. The Ganges. Biden, from the Mauritius and Madras, arrived at Bengal on the 4- th August, from whence the David Scott sailed the same day for China The Os- prey, M'Gill, from the Clyde, has also arrived at Bengal. The Melpomene, Mowbray ; liose, Corueby ; and Piggot, Totnlins, sailed from Madras on the 29th of December for Bombay. The East India Company's ship General Harris was at SinCapore on the 26th July last, and was expected to sail for China in two or three days. The Berwickshire touched at Sincapore, on her voyage from Bombay to China, about a fortnight previously. The Marquis Camden and the other ships were daily expected to puss on their way to the same destination. The Kent, Sutherland, arrived at the Mauritius from Bengal on the 25th November, and would soon sail for London, for which place the Mary, Ardlie, was loading there. The King George IV. Clark ; Clyde, Driver ; and Prince Regent, , have arrived at Bengal from Lou- don. The Atlas and Kellie Castle, East Indiamen, having on board detachments belonging to the undermentioned MARCII- Nairn, 1st Tuesday Dornoch, 1st We> dnesd. iy Perth, 1st Friday Mintfaw, 2d Tuesday Dumfermline, 13th riny Tain Spring Fair, 3d Tues, Banchory Ternan, Midlemfan Fair, last Thursday Echt, the day before. ( Old Stile.) Marnocb, 1st Tuesday Inverury, 2d Tuesday Lochel, ditto / New Stile.) IVIigvie, 2d Tuesday Tarves. 2d Tues. & Wcdnet, Fraserburgh, 2d Wednesday Old Deer,' 2d Thursday Marnoch, 3,1 Tuesday L » nabo, 2d Tues. & Wednei. Udiiy, the day before Cornhill ( Lady Fair) 25th day, or I st Thursday after Huntly, last Tuesday Turriff, last Tues. Sc Wednes, Fochabers, last Wednesday.- SMITHFIELD MARKET, Feb. 14. To sink the Offal, per stone of 8lbs. Beef, 3s Od to 3s 8d I Veal, 4s Od to 5s 0 » 1 Mutton, 3s Od to 3s 4el | Pork, 3s Od to 4s od Beasts, 521— Sheep, etc. 4.730— Calves. 1.30 — Pigs, 90. « PRICK OF STOCKS. 74j- f| I India Bonds, 30 32 pr. 74 3- J- 5- J 74 | Ex. B. 2d. =£ 1000 12 14 pf. 861 87 Lottery Tickets, 221. 19s. 9- g 93 f j Cs. for Ac. 74$ 3J 4$ 4 237 3 per C. Red. 3 perCt. C. 3| Cents. 4 per Cents. India Stock, EDINBURGH, Feb. 18. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIAliY. Yesterday Archibald Alison, Esq. was sworn intr » the office of Advocate Depute, vacant by the appoint ment of John Hope, Esq. to be his Majesty's Solicitof- Geiieral for Scotland. William Jackson and Eliza Jackson his wife, from Haddington, were put to the bar, charged with the mur- der of Marion Jackson* mother of the first mentioned prisoner. Owing to the absence of a material witness ( Dr. Levins), who was professionally engaged, the diet was continued till Monday next. Oil Monday, the First United Associate Congrega- tion in Arbroath gave an unanimous call to Mr. Joseph Ilav to be their Minister. The Rev. Mr. Chapman, Carnoste, preached and presided on the occasion. On Tuesday, the lltli instant, the United Associate Congregation of Biggar gave a unanimous call to Mr. David Smith, preacher, to he their pastor. The call was moderated by the Rev. Mr. Harper, Lanark. FLRE.— Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, art alarming fire broke out in the Old Fish Market C1OM.\ in the premises belonging to Messrs. John Thomson & Co. and occupied by them in their extensive book- binding establishment, and as a book and stationary warehouse. The fire raged with great fury ( of about two hours, but was at length happily got under with- out the loss ofanvlivi » s, or any person being seriously hurt, although the building is nearly burnt to the ground. Owing to the prompt attendance of the Magistrates, Police officers, military, and fire engines, and to the active exertions of Messrs. Thomson & Co.' s workmen, property to a great amount has beeu saved. The pre- mises contained many valuable" manuscripts, and rare and curious books belonging to public libraries, and in progress of binding, besides drawings and plates for va- rious geographical works in course of publication. These, of which the l>, ss could not have U-< tu repjiix- ti, we are liapnv io understand, liave been preserved with- out any materia! injury. With the exception of the tetmior. irv inconvenience to their luisinrss, it is believed that Messrs! ' I liomson £: Cot's loss will in other respects be covered bv insurance. On Wedn'esdav week, while the men were employed in clearing tf: e Arbroath inzd, thev found a boy smo- thered in a wreath of snow, standing upright, with a pack fastened upon his back. ( in Fridav week, a farm servant was found dead Btnonorst tlie snow near Kinr. cRwootL' He was on the " eve of beitig married, and had been travelling to a tailor's lor a suit of new dollies for that occasion. On Sunday, a noor beswar- man was found dead near the same place. On the .- ante day; two voting men, genteellv dressed, aro ? aid to 1,11 ve been found dead ntar the common of Dun- liinj. Each oftheiu carried a bundle ; hut no other par- them have transpired. THE SALE AT AGENCY OFFICE. SALE OF SILVER- PL A FED GOODS. MACS WEI NT most respectfully bests lo acqnnivt e the Nobility ttnil Geniiy. thatthe Sde of S! 1 ArER PLA- TED GOODS . will take place on the 25th inst. in place, of the 3 ' Sth, postponed in consequence of the weather. That part of this consignment wiiich '//( is nriivcd may be seen ot any tirw b- fore the sale. The aitirles are warrant PI. ATE— " union .- UHpVtcJy failed, afur. an expence had been inctwed of ' 0,000 douldooiis, and the partv'now think it prudent i take a little time for consideration. Our King's Speech, on the opening of the Session, excited great indignation amongst the war partv, who have found out that our Ministry is composed of vile plebeians, from whom nothing wise or good is to be expected, and the Duchess d'ANGOULEMB does not spare even our So- vereign, who had before incurred her high displeasure, during the lata storm, aro he, in. t? t: ; Hcgei and 7 in h ilia t. At LONDON.— Thetis, Crutehley Turner, I. ondon, - Jo. Six with stonsc, Kv inder, Deary ; and ticulars cone; riling On Sundnv last, two horses, with saddles and bridles, v c re thscovertti iieiulv smothered, among the snow, on TO DEALERS. TI. TvT S. has for s- ile. tiy priiate imrtratn, s N O ! UV J C11 CRAPES — BOMB A ZEE N S- ud Tweeled BOMBAZliTTS. Parcel of - atid . Main the tell roi. d in Glcudovan. It is feared their riders j have perished. J The son of a farmer, a few miles from Rodgorton, set j rut during the height of the late storm at the usual hour, to the school there. About half an hour afterwards, his j father, dreading the diffieu'tv the boy would have in find- j ing his way through the drift, followed him, tracked his j path, and at some distance from home, found the lifeless j body of his child. GROUND AT LOANIiEAD TO LET. There will be let on Lease, for such number of years as may lie agreed on, r 1111A T PARK, ncii r the town, lately possessed by Charles Macdonald, Carter, and belonging to the Trades Widows Fund. Apply to John Barron, Watchmaker, present Treasurer of said Fund. FALL OF GIBSONS LAN'P, GLASGOW. A great portion of that large tenement, five stories high, he- sides the giuri- ts. situated in Sd'tmarket Street, and on the north- east corner of Prince's Sheet, known hy the name of . Gibson's Land, fell on Sunday morning, from top to bottom, with' a most tren eodous crash. As soon as tins melancholy disaster was communicated to '" Mr. CU'hmd, the superintenuant of public wo4ks, that gentle- man was instantly on the spot. A number of workmen were employed, and cas ts and horses procured, when they proceeded to business ; hut such was the vast quantity of stones, timber, See. that it was some time, notwithstanding their ( vest exertions, heft. re they could make much impression upon them. Before one oYleck, however, the voice of a woman was heard under a pa- 1of the ruins which it was highly dangerous to approach, and this was a period of gre t anxiety to every person concern- ed. At length John Love, a carpenter, with Messrs Scott nnd Grieve, courageously went in quest ofthe woman, whom, he fcund in a ? p: ice just large enough to contain her, with one of her arms jammed in between two pieces of wood. A glass qf water having been handed to her as she was faint, Love ; : ocu;. ed a saw, and after an hour's hard labour he succeeded in extracting her from her perilous situation, a little after two o'clock, when she proved to be a girl of the uame of Mary " Hamilton, servant to one of the families ; she was conveyed ti> the Royal Infnmary, and we are happy to say is now doing well, though her arm is broken* No other persons have yet been found. Several tradesmen have sustained a serious loss by this event, not having had their property wholly removed ; pmong others, Messrs. Robert Hutchison and Son, Printers, who possessed the second, stoiey as a Priming Office, have lost a considerable quantity of types, & c. & c. and a Ruthven Print- ing Press, belonging to them, made^ yesterday a very conspi- cuous figure, remaining stationary in its position,. and project- ing over the fallen ruins. Mr. Jenkins, Bookseller, who had a binding- shop in the premises, is a ho a considerable sufferer ; and many others have met with severe losses. It was a fortunate circumstance that this melancholy disaster ditl not happen on Saturday evening, as numbers must inevi- tably have perished, the street on that- night being u- ually very throng ; and had it taken place from two to three hours later than it did, many people going to church must have suiFered. BIRTHS. In Srraton Street, London, on the 11th currcnt, Lady Jane Peel, of a son. At No. II, Brown Square, on the 19th current, Mrs. G » abame, of a son. At London, on the 4th in^ t. tbe Lady of John Loch, Esq. of a son. At 15, Dundas Street, on the 12th inst. Mrs. A. Clephane, of a daughter. At Edinburgh, on the 1 Uh inst. Mrs. Matheson*, wife of D. Mat besot), Esq. Advocate, of a son. At Ballinaby* on the 25d) ult. the Lady of D. Campbell, ofa daughter. In S: ration Street, London, on the 11th instant, Lady Jane Peel^ of a sou. At Kiib igie, on the loth inst. Mrs. Stein, of a son.. At Brighton Place, Porlobeiio, on the 14th instant, Mrs. Struthers, ofa daughter. MARRIAGES. At 17, Forth Street, on the 1- 1 th inst. Charles Peebles, E o|. wri'er in Glasgow, to ?* Jiss Paterson of Smith field. At Edinburgh, on the 13th inst. Mr. William Ritchie, New- mains, Kirkliston, to Mrs. Thomson of Parkhouse, Stirling- shire. A t Lawhill, on the 5th inst. John Martin, Esq. Newhouse, ty Jean, daughter of the late David Low, Esq. Liuditferau. DEATHS. At Overhcrton, Oxfordshire, on the 9th inst. Lady Edward Somerset. At Coin, St. Aldwin's, near Fairford, Gloucestershire, on 3lie 2d inst. General Lister, late CoJouel of the 45th Regiment, and Governor of Languard Fort. At Aux Caves, Hayti. on the 17th November, Thomas S< ott Freeland, Esq. merchant. At Mu> ravthwaite. on the 13th inst. aged 28, John Murray, }> q. of Afurraythwaite, late Vice- Lieutenant of the county of Dumfries. At Glasgow, on the T. h inst. Dr. S miuel M'Gavin, aged 25. At the Manse of Drymen,. on the 10th instant, Mrs. Anne AUau. aged 90, widow of the Rev. Duncan Macfarlane,. late Minister of Dry men, Stirlingshire. At bet house, in Piccadilly, London, on the 2d inst. Mag- dalene, Countess Dowager of Dysari, widow of Lionel, fourth Ecirl of Dysart. Tn Harley Street, London, on the 4th inst. Lady Rumbold, widow of Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bart, and daughter of the Lite Dr. Edmund Law. Bishop of Carlisle. At Pimlico, on the 7th insf, the celebrated Novelist, Mrs. Ann Radelifte. She had been indisposed for about a month with a violent cold, which terminated in inflammation, and took f » om this life the much admired author of the Mysteries of Udolpho, and other works of imagination and genius almost equally popular. At Glasgow, on the 2d inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Telfer, relict of Dr. Macaulay, of that city. At Leiih Links, on- the 5th current. Mrs. Janet Stewart, Spouse to Mr. Adolphus Sceales, sen. there. iiaaaa To the EDITOR rf the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, THE spirit and judgment which have been displayed for some years past, by the Students- of the University of Glas- gow, in the election of their Rector, have commanded the approbation of the learned of this kingdom, and have, I n » ay say, rendered the College celebrated throughout Europe. It were greatly to be wished, that the same firmness and discrimination were shewn by the Students of our College in articles ARE warranted the best SHEFFIELD FOR having allowed MR. OWIEARA'S work to he publish • son^.. SwDirs ™ ^" Th « , Frcnch^- riissmx; c1' VKRS- TKA SETS— COFFfOE POTS- HRANCHES | entertain different sentiments. 1 hey are adverse to the and CANDLESTICKS— BREAD BASKETS. & c. & c. I proposed war against Spain, and express themselves There are likewise. THREE DOU BEE- B A RIIE I. I. E D j with great contempt of the appointment ofthe Duke row J. I NO PIECES— with a great variety ufc 1- INE j d'ANGOULEME as Generalissimo. An epigram is hand- JIO,. EI. EKRY. etl about in Paris, very neatly expresses the effect pro- Die whole may he seen tins day and Monday, preceding - ,.•.' . . ' | duced by tftplitlte speech ot then- jut King, in sinking the funds and elevating the shoulders : - I, e petit discouri, du Ie gross Roi des Gnules. pit baisser ! es Pondes, et Innsser les Epaules. In the mean time, the Cortes of- Spain proceed with great energy in their preparations for defence. Additional levies are voted, and a hundred and fifty gun - boats are ordered to be fitted out for the protection ofthe coast. The capture ofthe fort of Urgel, the lust stronghold that the insurgents had in Catalonia, leaves Ml N'a's armv dis- poseable to act against the enemies of the country, wherever their services may he required; and that, army being composed of well disciplined troops, time wili be al- lowed to form and exercise the new levies before thev are called into actual service. Of the spirit that prevails in the Cortes we may judge from the following extract, from the speech of Seriov CANGA, on theOtl. instant: The lime is therefore arrived for till Spaniards to declare themselves, as in the year IKOfl. in order that we may secure our freedom and triumph as we then did. ( Repeated plaudits.) Let us reply to the proud potentates who threaten tis with an army under the protection of the God of St. Louis, ( tint we shall invoke the God of St. Narcissus of Corona— that if they appeal to the God of St. Louis, we shall call upon Ilim who protected the Spaniards at Roncesvalles— th. it if they seek the aid of the " God of St. Louis, we shall rely upon Him who protected us fn the battle of St. Quintin,— and finally, that ifthetlearly helovedson of the Kingof Francebethe- commaudcr of the troops advancing against us, we shall show him the Casa tie 103 Lujanes, where he will tind Ihe tower in which a French King ( Francis 1.) was imprisoned. In fine, let lis declare, that it is not against the French nution, tint against its Cabinet, seduced hy a fanaii.' al faction, that the Spaniards, who are resolved not to be slaves, invoke the God of Justice, through whom they will obniin the victory. I NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. I> OBKRT IlfJNTER,. Whitewali, having execut- ed 11 Trust Deed in favour of James Johnston, senr. and • Thomas Craig. Aberdeen, nil tbo., e indebted tothesa'd R. H. will please make payment of their accounts to James Johnston, senr. within four weeks from this date ; those remaining tine after that time will h<- prosecuted without delay. All those having claims against R. II. will please lodge the same imme- diately, with J. J. senr. properly vouched. HOUSE, & c. INT UNION STREET, TO BE SOLD OR LET. •• robe sold, that new and commodious FAMILY A HOUSE and OFFICES belonging to,, and occupied by Mr. Shirrefs, Advocate. If not sold, the House furnished, or partly so, if required, wil! be lei, for title or more years, from Whitsunday first,— Grates will be left in the principal Rooms and Kitchen. PURI. JC SALE OF AMERICAN PINE AND HARDWOOD. Ou Wednesday the 5th of March next, at 11 o'clock forenoon, there will be exposed at public sale, A BOUT 160 LOADS of YELLOW PINE, 50 do. BIRCH, With a parcel of PINE PLANK, just landing from the Emperor Alexander, Capt. Watt, fiotn the Bay of Fundy, and will lie found to be of superior quality. The whole may lie seen in the yard at Footdee, formerly possessed by Messrs. Nico], Reid, & Co, and will be sold without reserve. Dealers and others will find it their interest to attend. For farther information, apply to ltOBT. CATTO. Feb. 21, 1823. ARCHIBALD REITH, ( Late with Mr A. STEWART, Broad Street, J T5EGS leave most respectfully to intimate to his friends and the public, that, having purchased the whole extensive stock of Gnosis belonging to Mr. William Cuslmy — consisting of every artiele in the LINEN DRAPERY and SII . It MERCERY line: also, a general assortment ofevery description of IIA BK li DASH ERY, HOSIERY, LACE. tions against poachers for offence now in dependence. At this interesting period the best weekly newspaper printed in London is Monday's Edition of The Obser- Catherine, Baxter, lflth inst, Cato, Da. is, 17th, do. ver, which is printed every Monday evening in time to send from London by that night's mail. It is a large folio Newspaper, of twenty columns, well printed, and I contains but few advertisements. A newspaper better adapted for Country and Foreign circulation was never before published. The price is Eight Shillings and Two- pence the Quarter. It can be ordered through the Country Booksellers, or at the Post Office of any Coun- try Town. ¥• 1 TIDE TABLE CALCULATED FOR ABERDEEN BAR. ( AI'I- AKENF TIME.) MorniTide. \ Evening Tide. Feb. 22. I I'litCE OF PROVISIONS, & C. IN THE MARKET, YESTERDAY. Quartern Eoaf — — OOd Oatmeal, p. peck, lOd a 1 Id Bearmeal. — — 7d a Od Potatoes, — (,' tl a 8d Malt, — — 2s 3d a Od Beef, p. lb. — 3d a Sd Mutton, — — 3 5d Veal, — — 3d a Sd ABERDEEN Pork, — — ad a 4d Butter, — —. 12d a I-- 3d Eggs, p. doz. 9d a J 2d Cheese, p. st. 5s Od a 6s 0.1 Tallow, — 8o fid a 9s Gd Iiav, — — 7d a Od Raw Hides, p. lb. — < id a 5d Coals, p. boll, 6s Od. a 0 » . Od 24. 2.5. 26- 27 28. Saturday, - Sunday, Monday,. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, - Friday, " I I 1 II II O — 6S 0 — 59 1 — 33 2— 6' 2 — 40 9M. 59 fill. 36. VI. 41 16 49 25 50 MOT> N S AGE. Full Moon, the 25th day, at 4h. 57m. Morn. The Duke de SAN LORENSSO, the Ambassador from Spain to the Court of Paris, arrived at Dover on the 16th. A great crowd had assembled njKin the piers, and as soon as it was ascertained that his Excellency was onboard, he was saluted with three times three cheers for Spanish Liberty, a compliment which seemed to af- fect him much, and which lie returned by taking off his cap, and repeatedly bowing to the people. He will meet with many more marks of respect from the generous people of England, who are enthusiastic in the cause of Spain ; and from the Sovereign to the lowest subject, we have no doubt that his reception will be meist cordial. I lis Excellency, we are informed, is an un- commonly handsome man, of the best address, aud de- scended of a noble family, that would claim the respect of even an old Cas'tilian. V\ ith regard to the business before Parliament, ninny important notices have been given, but as vet no discus- son of much importance has come on. Mr. CANNING GLOVES, FANCY TRIMMINGS, & c. & e— he has now , has s., jd> t| lat l, fs Majesty's Ministers do not think it f limmntl/ Vltl InititlOee ill ll. of G'w- V.-. t H.- inn Qtront 1.: » .,!<. n/ i. n. 1 ... " . . . . . commenced business in that Shop in Union Street lately oceu pied by him ; and from the nature of the purchase, A. Reith can, with confidence, assure those who may favour him with a share of their patronage, that the Goods on sale wili give ample satisfaction, both as to quality and price. Union Street, Feb. 18. THE CIIROjYICI. E. ABERDEEN; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1823. Summaijj cf Dcutto*. THE recent proceedings in Ireland against tbe rioters, who so brutally instikecl and endangered the life of tl » e Lord Lieutenant at the'Theatre, are most t xtraordinarv, and prota that the Orange party is prepared to go all lengths in order to screen the guilty from deserved pu- nishment. It will be recollected, that in the first instance the Grand Jury refused to find the bills against the riot- ers, although supported by the oaths of about thirtv re- spectable witnesses, and that the Attorney General felt himself under the necessity of proceeding against them ex officio'. The result of the trial was, that the Jury would not agree oft a verdict, and within a few hours of the close ofthe term they were discharged, the Attornev General reserving to himself the right of putting them again on trial, should that be thought advisable. The full report of the proceedings, contained in tfie Irishman, leaves not a doubt ofthe guilt of the accused ; but it is shocking to find some who, from their rank in societv, ought to be men of honour grossly pervarieating, and giving evidence which, ablv as it was exposed by the Attorney General, no impartial juryman could possibly credit. Such, however, is the state of society in Ire- land, that the discharge of the Jury, without having given in a verdict, is celebrated as a triumph by the Orange party, and tlie grossest language is made use of against the Lord Lieutenant, the Lord Mavor, and die public functionaries, who in the discharge of their duty endeavoured to bring the guilty to punishment. The Roman Catholics were long falsely accused of entertain- ing the tenet, that faith is not to be kept with heretics ; but it now appears, that Orangemen are inclined to re- taliate, for the late proceedings, a report of which ought to be circulated all over the three kingdoms, prove that, in some instances, party spirit has not been restrained even by the solemn obligation of an oath. It is report- \ ed, that Lord WELLKSI, F, Y. utterly disgusted with late events, wishes to retire from office— and no wonder. In the mean time, he has dismissed from ofiice, certain gentlemen who had publicly given toasts most insulting j to his Majesty as well as his Representative. Applica- tion, it is said, is to be made to his Majestv, to re- in- practieable at present to do anv thing for the relief of agricultural distress— but it is understood that manv, if not all of the assessed taxes, are to be done away, which must in so far relieve both landlords and tenants. Mr. HUME has moved for a return of the livings of all the established Clergy of Scotland, and the Clerk of Teindfi can furnish an accurate statement ofthe incomes ofthe Clergy of country parishes ; but the incomes of the Clergy in large towns frequently depending upon seat rents, he cannot furnish, although a return of these also may be obtained without much difficulty* We presume our worthy Representative^ intention is to contrast the incomes ofthe Scottish' Clergy, with those of the estab- lished Church of Ireland, in which the tithes are enor- mous ; ancl we believe, the proportion between the funds forthe support of the Clergy of Scotland, compared to the church livings of Ireland, will be found to be nearly as one to ten, the number of Protestants in Scot- land being compared also with those of Ireland. BIRTH. — At Schivas, on the 17th inst. Mrs. FORBES, IRVINE, of a Son. MARRIAGE. — At Metherchiny, on the 15th inst. by the Rev. Morris Forsyth, Mcrtlach, JAMES CAMERON of Bal- moral, to JANE, eldest Daughter of JOHN WATT, Esq. DEATHS.— At Peterhead, on the 31st uit. Miss ANN ARBUTIINOT, aged 77 years. At Aberdeen^ on the 5th inst. CAMEROK, Daughter of ALEXANDER MORE, Esq. Collector of Customs, Aberdeen. At Aberdeen, on the 12th inst. ANDREW. SKENE, youngest daughter of FRANCIS GORDON of Kincardine, aged 5 years. In Tavistock Place, Russell Square, London, on the 6th inst. JOHN FORBES, Esq. late Collector of his Majesty's Cus- toms for the colony of Demerara. At Edinburgh, on the 16th current, Mr. MICIJJE GLEIO, student of law, aged 22 years, youngest son of the Rev. GI.* o, Gleig, of Arbroath. He was. possessed of amiable dispositions, and excellent abilities ; and his death is much lamented by his relations and all his acquaintances. At Thurso, on the 50th itlt. much and most justly regretted. Miss ELIZABETH . Born, youngest daughter of the late Lieuten- ant Boyd, of. the 7th royal veteran hatalion. At Bellfield, on the 14th instant, THOMAS MACKENZIE SIMPSON, Esp. late of the Island of Jamaica, much and justly regretted. At Inverness, on- the 16th instant, Miss Axs FIIA3ER, eldest daughter of the late Hngh Fraser, of Dunbullaci). The EARL of FIFE, whose heart is ever feelingly alive to the sufferings of the poor, and whose hands are equally open to re- lieve them, last wet k ordered Seventy- five Barrels of Co ds to be distributed by the Miniver of TurrirT, among the most ne- cessitous in that parish. This Donation, so peculiarly season- able, was received by the numerous objects of his Lordship** bounty, with the warmest gratitude to their noble and generous, benefactor. Duiing his late visit at Elgin, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Fife was pleased to call at tlie Lancasterian School lately established there forthe instruction of the orphans and children of the poor. His Lordship was so much satisfied with the object in view, the manner in which it is attained, and the cleanliness, discipline, and proficiency of the children, that he humanely directed live pounds to be paid1 by Provost Innes to the Trea- surer, which on the part of that Institution is gratefully ac- knowledged. D. M'Caan, a- pcor deaf and dumb man, came to Peter Reid's, Innkeeper, Kintore, in the evening of the 27lh Jan He earned with him several cop: es of a printed certificate, from the Kirk Session of Cromarty, dated tlie 1st of April 1815, bearing, " that he has lived in this parish for these six years; that he was deaf and dumb; and during that period was supported bv the industry of his mother," & c. Sec. Very soon after he art ived he was s^ iz^ d with vomiting of blood, end lingered in dist e s until the 9 h curt, when lie died.— He was watched and nur- ed with the greatest attention and kindness by Mrs. Reid and her servants ; he also received the aid of the medical praeiiiion. er of the place. He was buried in the Church- yard of Kintore, at the expence of his landlord and the Kirk Session. It will no doubt be satisfactory to those interested about the fate of this poor mart, to learn that he was kindly treated on his death- bed, and decently interred. A woman calling herseif Catharine Falconer, w ho formerly travelled with stoneware, and for some time past with merchan- dize, and who said she belonged to Inverness, came to the house of John Jaffray in Cumineston, on the 11 th January, apparently in got d health: in the course of the evening she fell asleep, and dropt from her seat, to appealance dead.— Medical aid was immediately procured, but without effect, the vital spark being extinct. The body was decently interred in the church- yard of Montquhitter, Should this meet the eyes of her relations, they will u'cept it as u notification of her death. We are glad to have it in our power to inform our readers, that the lad Ross from Ardclaeh has returned. His friends mention the fact, in order to remove any suspicion from John Gibb.— 7n vernessPaper. On Wednesday the 5th inst. the United Associate Congre- gation of Johnshaven gave an unanimous call to Mr. Walter Scott, preacher of the gbspel, to. he their pastor. The Rev. Mr. Ren wick of Muirton presided on the Occasion. While the men, employed in cutting the road at St. Cyrus on Wednesday, were about finishing their labours, the Right Hon. Lord Kennedy, who happened to pa « s at the time in his coach and four, handsomely gave the overseer two guineas, wherewith to regale the labourers. Last week, a Swat), measuring 7 feet 8 inchcs between the extremities ofthe wings, and 4 feet 8 inches from beak to tail, was killed at Netherdale near Turriff. MONTROSE. Feb. 13.— We are apprehensive, that in consequence of the late severe storm, several persons have suffered in the exposed situations of the country. A person belonging to this place was found dead, at or near the " Caiin o' Month," and his horse beside him, lying in the same situa- tion, laden with two ankers of whisky. A smuggler of the name of Donald Gordon, his servant,- and two horses, are said to have been drowned in an attempt to cross the water of Dean, near Forfar. We understand the late storm has been very destructive to the herds of deer in this country. The fine park of deer at Panmure, the seat of the Hon. W. R. MAULE, have experien- ced its fatal effects, some hundreds of them having died, and what remains are much injured. P 0 S T S C R I P T. LONDON, Feb. 17. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ON Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, the schooner Mercury, Walker, of this place, coal loaded, from Sunder- land, ran ashore here on the sands, near the Broad- hill, where the cargo is discharging ;. and it is hoped the vessel may, if the weather proves moderate, be got offwuhout much damage. It appears, that in standing into the bay, from the manner in which the sand hills have been intersected and partially carried off by the numerous carters who daily load their carts from them, the land in one part so much resembles the Girdle- ness as, with a light, most improperly allowed to be visible in a house, to give it the appearance of the entrance of the har- bour, for which the helmsman believed he was steei ing, when the breakers warned the crew of their danger— but too late, as the vessel, although stayed, immediately struck, and was, by the swell of the sea, driven on the sand. On Wednesday morning, part of the decks, sails, and other wreck of a vessel, were cast ashore near Cruden, about 18 miles north of this place. The unfortunate vessel proved to be the schooner Lord Nelson, Cuilen, of and for Portsoy, coal loaded, fiom Sunderland-*- aij^ tio doubt, had been lost with all or. board, in the tremendous gale of the night preced- ing, probably by being unable to clear that dangerous reef, called the Scares of Cruden. ] n the dreadful storm on Monday Sd inst, the brig Hastings, of Lynn, Captain Stevens, coal laden from Blylh, was driven on shoie near to Cambo burn mouth; three of the crew were washed overboard, the master and the others, much worn out with fatigue and cold, were carried up to Cambo House, where they soon recovered ; the ship is entirely wrecked. From pieces of wreck come on shore, it appears that some foreign vessel must have suffered on the Bell Rock ; Some Celiardyke fishermen who were lately at the rock, reports it to ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF SAN LORENZO. This Metropolis represented yesterday afternoon a scene truly gratifying to the friends of freedom, and to all who sym- pathise with the gallant people of the Peninsula. To the Spaniards this intelligence wi; i be above measure grateful — while to the Despots banded to destroy their inde- pendence, it will lie a better draught. We shall proceed to lay before our readers a brief account of the journey of the Duke, from his landing at Dover till his arrival at the house of Admiral Jab. it, the present Spanish Ambassador, in Portland- plaee. The Duke left Paris on Tuesday last, in company with his Duchess, and in Cabas there appeared every disposition to give him a very handsome reception, from the numbers of persons who assembled in front of his bote* ; but the police prevented thi « v In Dover he was received in the most enthusiastic manner, and in the public offices he received every facility, agreeably, as we understand, to instructions sent down by, Government. It being known that the Duke was to arrive in London yes- terday, several Gentlemen went out to meet him in their private carriages ; but the rapidity with which he muved on, preven- ted them from paying their personal respects to him on U> e road. At Blackheath he was met by Admiral Jabat. Here he alight- ed and got into the Admiral's carriage. The postillions weri* decorated with red ribbons. Along the road from Blackhcat/ i- the procession was hailed with continued huzzas. In the middle ofthe Kent- road, a- large concourse of people had as- sembled,- who took the horses from the Ambassador's c uriage, and drew it in triumph o\ e? Vvestminster- hridge, through Regent Street, and up to Portland- place. The line of road along which the Duke passed was thronged with people, who felt anxious to testify their respect to the late Representsive off Spain in France, and their ab! rorre; oc# of those principles which had compelled him to quit the French capital. In Portland- place an immense concourse had assembled^ and their reiter- ated huzzas, on such an occasion, could not have been very pleasing to a near neighbour, the French Ambassador. The Duke appeared highly gratified at the reception he had met with, and through the medium of one of tlie Secretaries of the Spanish Legation, he exp essed his warmest thanks to the- persons who ha I accompanied him. He dined at Admiral' Jabat's ; but in the evening it was his intention, we under- stand, to remove to a hou^ e prepared for him at No. 52, Wey- moutb- street. The Duke is a man of about 40 years of age, of noble mien,* and extremely aff.. ble manners. lie belongs to one ofthe most ancient, families in Spain, and during the late invasion of thy French, he carried oiv the war against them as a Colonel of Infantry, and at the head of his regi nent frequently distinguish- ed himself.— The Duke and Duchess appeared in high heulUi and spirits. The Duke is known to be strenuously and cor- dially devoted to the new order of tilings, and his late, inter- course with the French Government, at so critical a moment,, must have endeared him to his countrymen. The reception the Duke has met with from our countrymen will be followed by other demonstrations equally unequivocal. Arrangements for a Public Meeting, on a grand scale, are- rmiking, the particulars of which wiHSeoon be laid before the public. A private letter from Pan's bas been received, which states that the departure of the Duke of Angouleme for the army is- still further delayed ; the. cause is not mentioned. With the exception of notices of the movements of the troops, and acti- vity in the naval arsenals,, the French Papers are quite barren. The report of the discontent iujhe French Army on the frontiers of Spain, though repeatedly contradicted by some of the Paris journals, has received to a certain extent official con- firmation. An order of the day. hy General tui'ial, dated Perpignan, January 4, announces the dismissal of a superior officer and six subalterns. " for professing bad principles." Madrid journals, which have been received to the 7th inst. contain a communication to the Cortes on the subject of the speech, of the King of France. In that body one unanimous- sentiment seemed to prevail of determined resistance to the threatened invasion by France ; and all the demands of the War Minister for men and money to place the army in an efficient state were instantly complied with. The government having thus received the necessary powers, all that now remains is to give effect to what has been so liberally *' oted ; and if due energy is displayed by the people in seconding those wise- and vigorous resolutions of the Cortes, an army may soon line formed torepd tlie threatened danger. The Mariscbal College and University of Aberdeen, the Alma Mater, have conferred the degree of L L. D. on ALEXR, ANDERSON, A. M. Teacher of Mathematics, in the East India | be a Spanish vessel from the Baltic, Military Seminary, at Addiseombe, Surrey. | The sloop Marion., Thomas Folder, master, belonging to Mr. JAMES RUSSELL, of Aden, has been admitted a Member { AUonby, was lost at the Mull of Kinhoul, in the Highlands, of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, and a Procuiator j on the 3d current,, after being four days at. sea ; having sailed before the different Courts here, j f » om Workington for Liverpool, laden with wheat, on the 51st At the RUTHKIESTON TRYST, held on. the 19th, the sale of j of January, and. meeting; with foul winds, near the entrance the appointment of their Rector; and as tiie day of election is fast approaching, I would beg leave, through the medium state some of these officers ; but we cannot for a moment believe, that such an application can possibly prove of your excellent paper^ to address very few observations to my felWw- students on'this subject. The importance of electing a proper person to fill this situa- tion cannot be denied— it is not a mere matter of form or childish ceremony, in which the Students have no interest, that they are conventd to perform; it is the exercise of tbe highest privilege which they enjoy as Students of the Univer- sity, and should be gone through with coolness and delibera- tion. They assemble to appoint a person, whose duty it is to watch over their - interests with a jealous eye, to be careful that no abuses or encroachments in the College be permitted, to whom, in the event of any difference with the other Mem- bers of the University, they may appeal. And in fine, whose duty it is to be the protector of their rights aud preserver oF their privileges. It must be evident, that the person best qualified to fulfil this office, is some one in a public situation, w hose principles are known and whose talents are unquestion- able, whose public conduct has shewn, that, to whatever sta- tion he may be called, he will peiform the duties of it with integrity and perseverance, not considering his appointment solely as an honour conferred on himself, for which lie has no returns to make, or duties to perform, but who shall be care- ful that'the interests committed to his charge shall not be neglected. There Is at least one person in public life, connected with Aberdeen of this description, whose public conduct has, on every occasion, shown him to be the true friend of the people ; and whose zeal for the public service, and ability in detecting abuses, bespeak him admirably qualified for the office of Rector to the College— such an appointment, would be no less honourable to the Students, than satisfactory to the pub- lic at large. Leaving these few. hints for the consideration of my fellow- students, I remain, yours, See. A Student of Mui Uuutl College^ Feb. 21, 1823. successful. The peace ofthe country hits been disturb- ed by the proceedings of this intolerant faction, who pretend' that the Constitution is endangered, because they are prevented from irritating and insulting the Catholics, certainly as good subjects as themselves, and in the pre- sent case much better entitled ta the protection and fa- vour of Government. Let this faction bear in mind, that ii' they will have recourse to acts of violence, the physical foree of the country is with the Catholics ; and we will add, the good wishes of a vast majority b^ th of Englishmen and Scotsmen, who most heartily wished success to his Majesty's gracious eflorts to do away that vile spirit of animosity, that 1ms so long disturbed aud disgraced Ireland. Although, from the warlike speech of the King of France on the opening of the Chambers, it was believed by many that hostilities against Spain would be im- mediately commenced, under the auspices of the Duke d'ANGOULEME, some difficulties appear to be in the way, and the Duke, it is said, does not set out for the army till the beginning of April. The late attempt of the Royalists, under the Frenchman BESSIERES, to surprize Madrid, was planned in France, and had for its object the relief of FERDINAND, who was to be car- ried off, whether to join the invading army, or place himself at the head of the Royalist Spaniards, we are not informed. The enterprize, however, upon the suc- cess of wluch the French ultras had built all their hopes, Cattle was veiy brisk, and at greatly improved piices; before 1 2 o'clock, numbers of MHeh Cows were driven off. sold. Fat ' Cattle and Work Morses vere likewise in demand. A good many oats were sold, at from 14s. to 16s. 6d. per boll — Oat Straw sold at ,8' d. while Hay gave 7\<\. per stone. The Tryst was most numerously attend'd ; it, is supposed, that not less than from 5000 to 6000 people must have been cn the ground in the course of the day. AM PHI THEATRE.— We scarcely tliink it ncccssary to call the attention of our readers to the various Enter- tainments announced- for Monday evening, for the Benefit of Mrs BROWN. The high estimation in which this Lady is held, together with her abilities as a performer, must ensure jn r a crowded hquse: before we close this paragraph, we would wish to coax our readers, into a plav- going disposition. On Tuesday night, for the Benefit of Mr. ANSEL, we hope that there will be no coaxing required, and that bis anxious en- deavours to please the public since the Commencement, will be rewarded wuh a Rum per. During this week, the weather has been very unsettled— alternately frost and fresh„ with heavy squalls. On Tuesday, it blew a violent gale from S. to SSE. continuing until mid- night. when it calmed, aud continued moderate, with frost, until Thursday night, when we had afresh aud strong gale until yesterday afternoon. On Wednesday last, the body of a travelling Chapman was found in the snow,, ou the road near Udny ; the poor man hav- ing, it is supposed, lost his life in the preceding most tempes- tuous night. Cant., Seilar, ofthe Glentanner, and his crew, have paid to die Treasurer of the Shipwrecked Seamen's Fund, Two Pounds Six Shillings, as a contribution to that useful institution— an example which we shall be happy to see followed in other vessels. At a Justice of Peace Court, held at Keith, on the 5d ins*. Alexander Johnston, farm servant at Gollachy, was convicted in various penalties, at the instance of the Association for the protection of Game, for shooting on the Duke of Gordon's Lauds of Glastirum, in the parish of Rathven. The Court also found that Johnston's Gun was forfeited, and ordered it to be delivered up to the Ageut for, the Association. We un- derstand several other convictions have lately taken place, on complaints preferred by the Association,, and various p. msecu- nuary, of the Mersey, was driven to the Mull, where the vessel was waiting for a pilot coming off from the land, riding with two anchors and cables, when tbe surf covered her, and she went down in about seven fathoms water. The crew took lo the boat, and got safe. ashore. ' We understand the cargo was in- sured. The sloop Maggie of Perth, bound for London with grain, was totally wrecked, on the coast of Northumberland, during the late storm. The ship and cargo are lost; hut it is matter of more serious regret that three of tlie crew, two men and a boy. were washed overboard when the vessel struck. The master and another boy. who, it is said, were below at the time, were rescued from a watery grave.. QUICK DISPATCH.— The sc hooner Deveron, Captain Scott, sailed from Aberdeen on Saturday the 15th inst. at half- past 4 o'clock iu the afternoon for Sunderland, where she arriv- ed on Sunday evening tide— got out her ballast on Monday morning— loaded a cargo of coals— sailed again same day, aud arrived in Aberdeen on Tuesday, at half- past four in the after- noon— making an extraordinary quick voyage of 72 hours I ! Alexander, Booth, of this place, at Dublin, from St. John's, 10th inst. The Crimonmogate, Davidson, which arrived at London, from Charente, as stated in our last, put into Toubay on Mon- day, passed on Saturday at noon, the bull of a sloop disrupt- ed and water- logged, 45 miles South ofthe Eddjstoue. ARRIVED AT ABERDEEN. Feb. 14. — Euphemia. Fyfe, Berwick, fl » ur; Flora, Loftet, ancl Catherine, Milne* Inverness, grain Peterhead Packet, Thorn, Peterhead, goods.— 17. Margaret, Smith, London- derry, flax.— 18. Lord Huntly, Philips, London, goods ; Marq. uis of Huntly, Davidson, Leith, do.— 20. Fmgal, Mor- gie, London, do.— 2K Tyne, Smart, Newcastle, do;. Hero, Leslie, do. do. Four with coals. SAILED. Feb. 15,— Mansfield, Morison, London, goods; Lively, Collie, do. grain ; Helen, Davenie, do. do ; B^ omby, Middle- ton, Hull, goods ; Friends, Chalmers, and Stag, Barclay, London, gfcain ; Newcastle, Leslie, Newcastle, goods; Lon- don Packet, Williams, Leilb, do ; Jamie, Chalmers, Lon- don, grain. — 16. Expert, Leslie, ditto, goods; Countess of Elgin. Still, Montrose, do.— 17. Commercial Packet, Smith, ; KiikwaM, do.— 20. Barbara ajid Margaret, Byqhan, Pet, er- An article in the Paris papers from Zmte, dated 7~ th Jan; gives an account of the capture of Napoli di Romania by the Greeks, on the 12th December. The account is so circum- stantial that its accuracy seems unquestionable, and the con- quest is of the utmost consequence to the Greeks. It Ls th^ strongest fortress in the Morea, has an excellent harbour, and the Greeks are said to have found in it 400 pieces of cannon, besides a great supply of musquetry and ammunition. I t WJI taken by assault, and of 600 Turks in it only 40 were saved, ' i he Greeks mean now to make it the seat, of their government- This account has since been confirmed. A Freneh evening; paper of Saturday, contains the official account of the taking of Napoli di Romania by the Greeks, an event which proves at once their perseverance and sagacity, and the barbarous stupidity of their opponents. The Greeks, after a long bloc- kade, and in spite of the efforts ofthe Turks, to relieve it, have- reduced this fortress, the importance of which, perhaps, lew of our readers are aware of. Ii is, in fact, one of the strongest, pUces in Europe. u Naupli, or Napoli di Romania, situated at the foot ofa very high mountain, is divided into the lower town, vulgarly called Varochi ( the Quarter), and the upper town with the: Citadel, or Acropolis, denominated as formerly Palarcwtev Its fortifications, erected upon the system of Van ban, are of the date of 1695, and since that time to the year 1780, have- been augmented and improved by yarious engineers, whom the Porte has sent there.. At the period of the war in Egypt, in 1798, the artillery of this fine fortification was almost en- tirely renewed. In 1816 the Vizier having fixed his tempor- ary. residence in this. town, the fortifications were repaired, the trencheskcleaused, the gun carriages renewed, aud tlie case- mates and cisterns improved. In Naupli there is computed to be 450 pieces of artillery. It is the Gibraltar of the Morea, the strongest place- in European Turkey. Whoever possesses Naupli is master o£ the Peloponnesus.'* I H II 1 We have it from authority on which we can rely, that tho- bodily health of his Majesty is * unv perfectly re tored. Saturday afternoon, when our informant, a Gentleman who possessed the' best means of ascertaining the fact, left Brighton, the only remains ofthe disorder was n debility in both knees,. unattended with pain, but rendering it difficult for his Ma- jesty to stand without assistance,— Globe. The King will be in town ou Thursday to receive the Re- corder's Report, and will stop at Carlton- palace for three or four days, after which he vsiil return to Brighton, and remaiu there till Easter. Some ofthe Cabinet Minis'ers left town yesterday morning for Brighton, to attend a Council at the Pavilion. l. n the House of Lords yesterday evening, the Marquis of Landsdowa a* ked Lord Liverpool whether any negoeiatioa had been lately entered into vrith Austria respecting the loat* advanced to that country many years ago by England. The Noble Earl answered that the English G verntnent had been pressing Austria for the payment of this debt, and that a prini-* ciple of arrangement for tfie purpose had been agreed to by the* Court of Vienna. Lord Althorp yesterday gave a well. timed notice, in the House of Commons, of a motion for the repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill. BERWICK ELECTION.— On Monday last, Rear- Ad-, miral Sir J.. P. Beresfo. rd was elected to represent the town o£ Berwick in Parliament, vacant, by the Removal of Lord Ossul- sum to the Upper House, in consequence of the death of his father, the late Earl of Tankerville. As there was no other candidate, the election was unanimous ; and Sir John, after the business ofthe day was concluded, entertained about 20(> ofthe electors in the Red Lion ; those who could not find ac- commodation there were liberally provided for elsewhere* We hear that the Marquis Wellesley is shortly expected in England, to attend his duties in the House of Lords* In his Lordship's appointment of the Lords Justices in Ireland who are to conduct the affairs of the Government during his Lord- ship's absence, the Lord Chancellor fur Ireland, Earl Manners, ha* been emitted.