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FOREIGN OCCURRENCES.

FRANCE.

Louis XVIII. has received the congratulations of the King of England, and several other Sovereigns, on the birth of the young Duke of Bourdeaux, who, with his mother, the Duchess of Berri, continue to do well. The anniversary of the death of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette was celebrated at Paris on the 16th ult. with the usual solemnity. The Duke and Duchess of Angouleme attended the solemn ceremony in the church of Saint Denis.

Three persons, named Gravier, Bouton, and Legendre, have been found guilty of exploding a petard under the windows of the Duchess de Berri, during her late pregnancy, in order to cause her to miscarry Gravier and Bouton have been condemned to death. The King has signified his intention to remit the capital punish

ment.

A Royal Proclamation to the consti tuent body throughout France recommends to them such a choice of Deputies at the present election as shall best preserve the monarchy from the assaults of faction, and secure to France the continuance of freedom, peace, and prosperity.

From the Moniteur it would appear, that the peasants of France are by no means eager for the military service in that country. A royal ordinance is issued against such recruits as shall mutilate themselves to escape from serving; and provides that they shall be incorporated in the company of pioneers.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. Accounts from Madrid of the 20th Sept. state, that on the 18th the Cortes agreed to the abolition of the privileges of the Phillippine Company. In the Sitting of the 19th, the 69 Ex-Deputies, who, on the King's return to Spain, signed the manifesto against the Constitution of the Cortes, were decreed to be deprived of all honours, dignities, pensions, and employments, and were also declared to have lost the confidence of the country.

The King of Spain, as appears by an article from Madrid of the 23d of October, has ratified the decree for the suppression of the monasteries. It is said to have cost his Majesty a severe struggle before he could agree to the annihilation of this branch of the old institution of despotism; but good sense and reflection at length prevailed, and he sacrificed a favourite prejudice, with princely magnanimity, to the publick opinion. The event was immediately announced by the Ministers to the Cortes, and confirmed the confidence which the nation has, from recent circumstances, learned to place in

the Sovereign. A report has been made on the public services of the leaders of the Revolution, by the Committee of Compensation; and it has been recommended that those distinguished mea should be rewarded out of the property of the monks, before it could be applied to the discharge of the national debt. The memorable remonstrance of the MinisterGeneral of the Capuchins has been reported on by a Committee, who have declared it to be seditious, irreligious, and criminal. The Prelate who subscribed it is likely to be summoned to the bar of the Cortes.

The Spanish Cortes are proceeding with activity in the course of elementary legislation, The monopolies of salt and tobacco are to cease on the 1st of March 1821. The new loan for 200,000,000 reals (50,000,000 francs), contracted for by the house of Hubbard and Ardouin, has been sanctioned by 126 votes to 27; a majority unexpected, as we have been informed, by the Government. The law on the liberty of the press has been adopted with very few amendments.

Letters from Lisbon of the 16th ult. inform us, that Marshal Beresford arrived at Lisbon, from Rio Janeiro, a few days previous to that date, in the Vengeur, 74, Capt. Maitland. His arrival caused a considerable sensation in the Portuguese capital. The Government stated, that in the existing circumstances of the country, they could not possibly permit Marshal Beresford to land. Lord Beresford, together with several English officers of the army of Portugal, has returned to England.

The intelligence from Portugal describes the public affairs to be going on most cordially under the new system.

ITALY.

On the 1st ult, the Neapolitan Parliament was opened by the King in person; and a long discourse was delivered by the Vicar General, in his Majesty's name, containing a sketch of the position in which the kingdom appeared to stand, and of the objects which would require most immediate attention. An affectionate address of thanks was immediately voted to his Majesty. General Pepe then resigned into the King's hands his commission of Commander in Chief of the Army; the occasion for which it had been granted having ceased on the meeting of the legislative body; after which the Royal Family left the assembly.

A telegraphic dispatch was received in Naples on the 7th ult. announcing the sur render of Palermo. On that day General

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Pepe took possession of the forts. A general pardon was published in the name of the Prince Vicar General, and the affairs of State returned to their ordinary course. The troops who had been taken prisoners in Palermo on the first revolt, to the number of 450 men, rejoined the royal standard. In the course of the negociations between the Neapolitans and Palermitans, it came out that the following are among the secret provisions enacted by the Congress of Vienna; viz. that the union of the Two Sicilies is guaranteed to his Neapolitan Majesty-that he is to continue to exercise his antient sovereignty, and that no Representative Government can be established in Italy.

We have more recent news from Naples of some importance. General Pepe's treaty with the inhabitants of Palermo has been rejected by the Neapolitan Parliament, as degrading to the nation, and declared void-Pepe has been recalled, and Coletta, with 6000 men, ordered to reduce the Palermitans to uuqualified obedience. SWITZERLAND.

Apprehensions are entertained, that the spirit of revolution is making rapid progress in Switzerland. All its machinery is represented as in full motion at Zurich, Basle, and other principal cities of that interesting country.

GREECE.

By advices from Corfu, dated October 12, we receive the interesting information, that the emigrants from Parga, whose treatment, notwithstanding the small and obscure spot they occupied, has excited the sympathy of the whole civilized world, have received from Ismael Pasha, of Janina, a formal invitation to return to their native country. They are offered, in the name of the Sultan, full security and protection, and, on certain conditions, the restoration of all their property. They are understood to be waiting the result of the deputation they have sent to Constantinople, before taking their final determination. Ali Pasha, their old enemy, it appears, still holds out against the Turkish power, in the fortress which is situated in the Lake of Janina. His fall, however, is considered as inevitable.

GERMANY.

The Paris journals. mention, on the authority of intelligence from Vienna, that the Emperor Alexander arrived at Troppau in the evening of the 20th ult. and was received with great military pomp. The Austrian Emperor was there before him; and a formidable train of secretaries, ambassadors, &c. was in attendance. The conferences about to be held would relate, it was generally imagined, to the affairs of Spain, Portugal, and Naples.

By recent advices from Troppau and

Vienna, it would appear that the Emperors of Russia and Austria are at length determined to act hostilely against Naples, with the view of putting down the new Government established there. A confederation of States in Italy is also said to be resolved on, with the Emperor of Austria at its head; and a Maritime Confederation under the guidance of Russia.— Lord Stewart, the English Minister at Troppau, is said to have addressed a Note of great importance to the different Ministers, which may be supposed adverse to the proposition of the two Imperial Potentates. France is further stated to have presented a Note to the Congress in favour of Naples, and the King of Spain to have offered to his relative, the King of Naples, an auxiliary force of 30,000 men. Of the disposition of the King of Prussia nothing is known; his Ministers at Troppau declined sanctioning the measures of Austria and Russia without the presence and approbation of their Sovereign. POLAND.

The intelligence from Warsaw is so far important, as it shows, that there is a political spirit in Poland alive to the rights and interests of the country, and bold enough to resist, without dismay, the propositions of the Imperial Government, when they appear to be at variance with the public welfare. The Diet assembled at Warsaw debated with much warmth, for three days successively, the subject of the criminal code recommended by the Russian Ministers, and finished by rejecting it almost unanimously; 120 being against the law, and only three in its favour. The objections principally turned on the want of security to the general freedom of the subject, which was visible throughout the whole code, and more especially the absence of any provision for a trial by Jury. The Emperor, according to some accounts, was anxious to conciliate the Poles on this occasion, by listening to the arguments against his own ministerial projet.

The Emperor closed the Diet on the 13th of October, with a speech, in which his Majesty evinces a feeling of displeasure at the general conduct of the Members during their Session. The Marshal of the Diet addressed the Emperor in an exculpatory oration; wherein be ascribed the reluctance of the deputies to accept at once the new penal code on the ground that more time would be essentially necessary for coming to a just decision on that subject, than was allotted for their deliberations by the royal pleasure. ASIA.

Two persons professing to be Christians, and natives of Persia, have been lately travelling in India to collect charitable contributions. The Rev. Messrs. Kel

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holf and Sperschnelder, the Missionaries at Tanjore, from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, were so well satisfied, after examination, of the truth of their representations, that they gave them a testimonial to that effect. Their names are, Lucas John, aged 40, and Joseph John, aged 23. Their native town is Chosrabad, in the province of Hedeshegan, in Mesopotamia. It contains about 700 inhabitants, who are all of the same community, They are the offspring of antient Jewish Christians, and are now suffering greatly under the government of Persia. The number of these Christians amounts to about 10,000. They have an archbishop and three bishops. The former resides at Mosul; one of the bishops at Chosrabad; another at Meredeen; and the third at Diorbekir. By the Mohammedans they are called Nazarenes, and Syrians by the Arabs; but among themselves, Ebrians, or Beni Israel, which name denotes their relation to the antient Jewish Christian Church, as does also their present language, being very like the Hebrew, They have no connexion whatever with either Greek or Roman Churches. They hold the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity, and the Gospels and Psalms are taught in their schools. These two men seem honest and simple, and well acquainted with the truths of Christianity, though quite deficient in reading and writing.

Letters from Madras state, that a dreadful storm was experienced on that coast on the 8th of May. All the small vessels in the port and vicinity, without exception, were wrecked; and it is supposed 1000 men were drowned.

AMERICA.
American Papers state, that a dreadful

fire at Yarmouth, in Nova Scotia, has ravaged a tract of country 100 miles in length and 17 in breadth.

Notwithstanding the silence of the Ma-> drid Papers, it appears almost certain, that the Florida treaty (made, it will be remembered, by Mr. Onis, and to which, last year, King Ferdinand withheld his sanction,) has now been ratified. By this treaty the United States obtain legal possession of the whole of East and West Florida.

Accounts from Buenos Ayres furnish particulars of a dreadful storm experienced there on the 24th of August; by which many vessels had been lost, besides coasting craft, sloops, &c. engaged in the river trade, and their crews drowned. At a village on the coast, 50 people were also drowned in their houses by the overflowing of the river. The private letters state, that, up to the 8th of August, tranquillity reigned at Buenos Ayres; and that Alvear and Carrera, the soi-disant leaders of the federal party, had sustained so complete a defeat from the citizens, that they had been deserted by all their followers. Both these chiefs contrived to effect their escape.

Advices from Spanish America state, that the envoys of Morillo had remained only ten days at Angostura, and that the truce was only for a month; and a letter from La Guayra of the 6th August states, that hostilities had been renewed on the 4th; the cry and motto of the inhabitants being, "War or Independence."

Madrid accounts of the 26th ult, state, that General Morillo was, at his own request, to be allowed to return to Europe; and that he was to be succeeded by General Latorre,

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS

PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.

Oct. 16. This evening, a most dreadful fire broke out in the premises of Mr. William Spooner, au honest and industrious farmer, at Lynn, Norfolk, which in a very short time consumed all the hay, corn (nearly the whole crop), and all the implements of husbandry, a sow and six pigs, with a variety of other articles. The injury amounts to the sum of 666l. 13s.

Oct. 29. At Wootton House, near Ayles bury, the seat of Earl Temple, a most destructive fire broke out about midnight, occasioned by the over-heating of an iron pipe in the nursery, which, coming in contact with some wainscoting, communicated to the other rooms.-Captain Jervis, a

friend of his Lordship's, and it is said a considerable sufferer on the occasion, was the first to give the alarm, by calling upon all to save themselves. At this moment the fire was making rapid strides; and Lord and Lady Temple, and their infant daughter, with difficulty escaped to the house of the venerable minister. The floors soon after began to fall in, and but a few minutes had elapsed before the main part of the house presented one stupendous body of flame. The roof sunk about day-break with a tremendous crash. Nothing remains but the two wings, which were detached. The house was built at the beginning of the last century, and part of the interior was superbly painted by Sir James Thornhill, in the same style as Hampton Court. At a moderate calcula

tion, the loss is rated at 40,000%, and no part of it insured.

The benevolent and philanthropic Mrs. Fry has lately paid a visit to the Derby County Gaol. The attention which this lady has long bestowed on the arrangements of prisons, and the discipline of their wretched inmates, and, above all, the distinguished success which has attended her judicious and unwearied exertions in the Metropolis, particularly in Newgate, are well known. She was attended by several ladies and gentlemen, and made the most minute inquiries respecting the arrangement of the gaol, regretting exceedingly the want of accommodation for the purpose of classification and discipline; which is now under the serious contemplation of the magistracy. She addressed the prisoners in a most kind and affectionate manner.

Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, taking into consideration the depressed state of agriculture, has generously applied the sponge to the great arrears upon his rental; and has thus fairly claimed for himself the old title of the head of his family, "A Prince of Wales."

The 22 men, charged with high treason, arising out of the late disturbances in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and who pleaded guilty, have been sentenced to transportation.

The Marquis of Tavistock lately took the chair at a meeting at Wisbeach, of landholders, &c.; when a plan was put in train to effect an improved drainage of the fens.

Leamington never was so full of fashionable company as it has been all this sea

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New buildings on a most extensive scale are going on with great rapidity; and many houses are engaged by families of distinction for their winter quarters.

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Nov. 2. In York Consistory Court, a suit for divorce was decided, which had been instituted by Mrs. Milicent Killingley against her husband, both residing at Nottingham; the plea of the wife was adultery; and the fact being admitted by Mr. Nicoll, the defendant's advocate, the Court pronounced for the divorce.

Nov. 3. The following extraordinary circumstance took place at the house of William Turner, esq. at Reigate, Surrey: -Mr. Turner was in the benevolent practice of giving away milk to the poor inhabitants of the place, and among the rest to the family of a man named Yeomans. On the morning in question, this man's daughter, a girl about 12 years old, went to the house as usual to fetch her milk; the maid-servant took the vessel, with which she proceeded to the dairy, leaving the girl standing on the stone pavement in

the scullery. Presently afterwards she was alarmed by a noise, which seemed to come from the scullery; and, on looking into the room, she missed the little girl, and observed that a part of the flooring had given way, discovering a vast subterraneous recess of very great depth. She could not then discern the girl, but she gave an immediate alarm, and ladders were procured to descend, for the purpose of exploring the vault, which, however, was for some time found impossible, owing to the strong foetid effluvia that issued from the place. This having in some degree abated, a person ventured down the opening, and found the body of the girl at the bottom, a distance of 30 or 40 feet, quite dead, apparently from suffocation. The account this person gave of the place was, that it resembled a cess- pool, or well (for which it probably had been used); but, what is very singular, the existence of this dangerous hole was altogether unknown to the present family, and a more than ordinary number of persons had passed and re- passed that spot during the morning. The rafters under the pavement were found much decayed.

Nov. 5. A benefaction, as singular as it was noble, was made at Dr. Hanna's meeting-house in Belfast, after a sermon preached there for the Charitable Society of that city. On examining the collection made at the door, two Bank post bills for five hundred pounds each were found in one of the plates.

Nov. 8. great number of people assembled to witness the cruel diversion of baiting a bull, in a shallow of the river near the bridge at Rochdale, Lancashire; when the pressure upon the wall became so great that it gave way, and fell into the river. Six men under the wall were instantly crushed to death, and a great num. ber of men, women, and children, precipitated into the water, many of whom were seriously hurt.

OCCURRENCES IN LONDON
AND ITS VICINITY.

Oct. 22. The sugar-house of Messrs. Nesbitt, in Old Gravel-lane, Ratcliffe, was burnt to the ground in the night-the loss is very great.

Oct. 23. In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, Thomas Davison was found guilty of publishing two blasphemous libels. Davison defended himself; and, indulging in gross invective against the Scriptures and Clergy, was fined three several times by the Judge (Best): the fines (in all 1001.) were afterwards remitted. In the above Court, the same day, Jane, the wife of Richard Carlile, (who during her husband's imprisonment continues to keep a shop in Fleet-street for the

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sale of political and deistical pamphlets), was also found guilty of publishing two blasphemous libels: she was not cominitted.

Oct. 28. New half-crowns, having the likeness of his present Majesty, were issued from the Bank this day.

Nov. 7. The Southampton, the finest and largest frigate ever built in England, was launched from his Majesty's dock yard, at Deptford, amidst the cheers of a large assemblage of spectators.

Nov. 9. This evening, about five o'clock, a fire broke out in the back premises of Mr. Glazier, timber merchant, Drurylane, which burnt so rapidly that it threatened destruction to the whole neighbourhood. There being a great quantity of wood and shavings on the premises, it communicated with the dwelling house, which in an instant was in a blaze. The premises in question were totally consumed, and several other houses damaged. The theatres were in the greatest danger; the doors were kept closed beyond the usual hour of opening,

Nov. 10. This evening the houses in most of the principal streets of the Metropolis were illuminated; and the bells of several parish churches were rung in consequence of the Bill of Pains and Penalties being given up. But the most interesting and novel sight was, the illumination of the ships in the Pool,visible from London Bridge. The effect was, indeed, extremely beautiful. Every ship, as far as the eye could reach, was lighted, not only at the masthead, but at the bows, and in various other parts of the vessel. In the Metropolis, the police were on the alert, in consequence of orders received by the persons connected with the police establishments. They were no where so necessary as in that part of the Strand which is the principal seat of the daily newspapers. The Courier office refusing compliance to the demand for lights, the populace became incensed, and from hooting and hissing, proceeded to break the windows, There was a large force of constables in front of the house, but they were not sufficient to restrain the outrage. A little after eight o'clock a detachment of horse guards, and of the horse patrol, made their appearance, and continued to traverse that part of the Strand until about half past ten o'clock, when tranquillity was perfectly restored. Dur

ing this interval large parties of the popuJace followed the military, huzzaing and shouting, "the Queen! the Queen!" At one time a placard was exhibited in the Courier office window, announcing that the Riot Act had been read. Fortunately, however, the populace shewed no disposition to further violence, and the military bore this very harassing and annoying

service with patience and good temper. On the arrival of the military at Templebar, they were about to enter the City; but they were prevented from so doing by, the gates being shut against them. Among the crowd near Charing Cross, a person armed with a dirk rushed forth from a house, which was particularly assailed, and wounded several individuals; he displayed the utmost violence until he was disarmed; after which he escaped with difficulty.

Nov. 11. This night the illuminations were more general than on Friday. The Lord Mayor had, in the forenoon, caused a large placard to be posted up in front of the Mansion-house, announcing his intention of illuminating both on Saturday and Monday nights. In consequence of the shameful conduct of the mob on Friday, in breaking the windows of such persons as did not choose to illuminate, the Police' Magistrates on Saturday adopted proper measures to prevent as much as possible a recurrence of such proceedings. The's New Times office, in Fleet-street, however, was assailed by a mob, aud the whole front, doors, and window-frames, demolished.

Her Majesty having addressed a letter to Earl Liverpool, demanding a suitable palace and establishment, his Lordship replied, that he had communicated her demands to his Majesty, but had not received an answer. On the 17th inst, an answer was returned by Earl Liverpool to the request of her Majesty: it is in substance as follows:

"That he has received his Majesty's commands to inform the Queen, that it is not possible for his Majesty, under all the circumstances, to assign any of the Royal Palaces for the Queen's residence. Lord Liverpool has been further commanded to inform the Queen, that, until Parliament shall meet for the dispatch of business, the allowance which has hitherto been enjoyed by the Queen will be continued to her; and that it will then be for Parliament to determine the amount of the future provision to be granted to her Majesty."

In an annexed Paper, Lord Liverpool adds:

"That he thinks it material to observe, that this answer must not be understood as withdrawing the facilities which had been previously offered for procuring a residence in London for the Queen."

Nov. 15. His Majesty held a Court, at his Palace in Pall-Mall, at which the Rev. Dr. Carey, (the Bishop of Exeter.) was introduced to kiss hands upon his appointment to that Bishoprick. The Rev. Prelate did homage before his Majesty upon the occasion.

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