lute them all' Austriaca (in the Austrian manner); that is, with sticks and stones. An exemplary example was given to these infamous, vile, bought followers of the ever-renowned advocate Vimercati, conductor, inventor, instigator, and head of that infamous commission fabricated at Milan. Well, let them come to London, which will be their graves, since, whatever may be the result for the good Queen, whether good or bad, not one of them will ever return to their homes to enjoy the fruits of their infamous depositions. Every thing is prepared to give to each what will satisfy him. The government, to save them and to shelter them from the just popular fury, has been obliged to re-embark and send them to Holland, and they are sure to stay there for at least three months.

"What a difference between those infamous Italians and those who daily arrive to give evidence in favour of the first Queen in the world; they are well received, applauded, respected;-among whom I am to inform you of the arrival at Dover of signor Maurice Camera, under equerry of her Majesty, as an extraordinary messenger, with dispatches.

"The people stopped him, and would look at his passport to ascertain the truth; the moment he was known he was carried in triumph, followed by a crowd of people, and accompanied to the post; in the midst of applauses he triumphantly arrived in London.

"Here, my friend, are truths which will certainly give you pleasure. You may communicate them to all those who have made it their pleasure falsely to attest what they never saw with their

own eyes. It is money only that has dragged them to their perdition, now and for ever. I am sorry, on this account only, to be an Italian. Let me hear from you respecting my suffering country. (Signed) TEUILLE."

DORSET ASSIZES.-Chad, bart. v. Tilsit. This was an action of trespass against a fisherman of Poole, who was defended by the corporation of that place, for fishing in a small bay near Brownsea island, the residence of sir Charles Chad, who had purchased it from the Sturt family. In point of fact, the question to be tried was, whether the place in question formed a part of the harbour of Poole, or whether (it having been embanked in the year 1773, though the embankment was soon after thrown down) it was the private property of the owner of Brownsea island. The evidence for the plaintiff consisted of ancient documents to show the most extensive grants from the Crown to the Abbey of Cerne, and, at the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry 8th, to the earl of Oxford; and of parole evidence to prove that persons who fished there had asked so to do, and, when ordered off, had complied with the order. On the part of the defendant, grants of Charles 2nd were put in, naming the place in question, to the duke of Richmond and a Mr. Giffard; and the parole evidence of several fishermen, to show that they had invariably fished there without interruption, never asking leave.-Verdict for the plaintiff.

WARWICK ASSIZES. The King v. J. H. Brandis. - This was a prosecution for a seditious libel. The libel, which was entitled "An Address to the Re

formers of Birmingham and its Neighbourhood," was then put in, and the clerk read the following, among other extracts:"Fellow Countrymen,-A crisis is fast approaching, which, to use the memorable expression of the celebrated Paine, will try men's souls.

"We have already experienced, in the murder of our countrymen at Manchester, and the shameful denial of justice to the injured, what we have to expect from the clemency of our rulers, when their will supersedes that of the law.

The moment is now arrived when it is absolutely necessary that every Englishman who values the prosperity and welfare of his country should be at his post.

"I would leave it to any impartial person to decide who are the greatest traitors to their princethose who would address him in the honest language of truth, and point out to him the precarious position in which he stands, and caution him against pursuing those measures which can only end in his own ruin; those who would represent to him the real situation of the country, and thereby enable him to escape, before it is too late, the danger with which he is threatened; or those who would, by perverting facts, only stimulate him to persist in that career, which must either end in a national convulsion, or reduce the country to the lowest ebb of political degradation (in either of which alternatives he must become the victim). I think it needs not much penetration to decide which of these two is his real friend; and was the prince in possession of

"It has been threatened, by some of the scribes in the pay of corruption, that, if we are not perfectly quiet, and submit ourselves to be fleeced by the system, without murmuring, a foreign force will be introduced to compel us. I say, let them come; and cursed be the hand that would not grasp the vengeful steel to free his country from oppression. I hope that courage, which is the characteristic of Britain's isle, will not forsake it on the present occasion; for all the fortitude we are in possession of will be wanted in that contest which the madness of our oppressors seems likely to bring upon us at all events the approaching crisis will be very different from what the people of this country have ever before experienced; it will, if they act with firmness, be one of the greatest changes that ever occurred in Britain; it will not be as it heretofore has been under similar circumstances, merely a change of men, while the state corruptions are suffered not only to exist, but to spread their luxuriant branches over every part of our civil and religious institutions-it will not be a displacing one family to put in its place another equally as bad; but a general alteration of the whole system, a victory of the whole people over a monarchical despotism, a cruel aristocracy, and a boroughmongering oligarchy.

'Britons, slumber no longer! 'To be happy, you must be free; To be free you must be united. "What could a million of men perform that were disunited? But were that number cemented together in one common cause; with one sentiment vibrating through the whole, I would ask, what would be able to resist them? Consider, then, that in England, Ireland, and Scotland, the number of reformers is estimated at four times the above amount; which body, would they act in unison, might bid defiance to all the tyrants in the world combined."

T. J. Vale, a printer at Birmingham, proved the printing and publication.

The defendant managed his own cause, and was found Guilty. Samuel Hall, Benjamin Price, and Joseph Reynolds, were arraigned at the bar, and charged with uttering forged Bank of England notes. The prisoners pleaded guilty to the capital offence, upon an understanding with the prosecutors that they would be transported for life, which sentence was passed upon them. Benjamin Price declared that he had been thirty years a wholesale dealer in forged notes, and never had been detected before.

FRANKFORT.-The Germanic Diet is at present occupied with a singular subject, being nothing less than an open war now raging between the duke of Oldenburg, and the free town of Bremen. The subject of the quarrel is, the right of the navigation of the Weser; the duke claiming a right of control over the river, placed an arrned vessel at its mouth, a measure which pro

voked hostilities on the part of the senate of Bremen.

FRANCE. The report of a committee of the French chamber of Peers has declared, that no Peer can be subject to bodily arrest, whether his debts had been contracted previous to his nomination, or incurred by subsequent engagements.

The foundations of very large barracks have been laid, and the erection is now carrying on with great rapidity, on the road to Marple, about half a mile from Stockport. It stands on a commanding eminence, overlooking the whole town.

The buildings and land in Camp-lane, near Leeds, have been purchased by government, for permanent infantry barracks. The intended erections near Sheepscarbar, about half a mile distant, for which parliament have voted 28,000l. of the public money, are to form cavalry barracks.

A clergyman in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, on Sunday last, after praying for her majesty the Queen, solemnly added,

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may no false witnesses be allowed to rise up against her, and may the mouth of liars be stopped."

Mr. Grattan's picture has been restored since his death, to the place it formerly occupied in the hall of Trinity-college, Dublin, from which it was removed in the year 1798.

The Bank of Ireland now refuses to receive guineas in lodgements, in consequence of the low rate of exchange between England and Ireland, by which the money offices are enabled to provide themselves with gold at five and a half, which they lodge in

the Bank, draw out at par the next day, and thus secure an exorbitant profit.

This morning, after the tremendous lightning of the night, the parade-ground in the Tower of London, which is planted round with trees, was strewed all over with dead sparrows and other birds.

REGENT'S CANAL.-This being the day appointed for the opening of the new branch of the Regent's Canal, the managing committee, with the chairman, and a number of other persons of rank and respectability connected with the undertaking, embarked near Maiden-lane, on board one of the city state-barges, which had been borrowed for the occasion, accompanied by several other barges, having on board bands of music, and decorated with flags and streamers in profusion. The procession went under the great tunnel through Islington, where the bands of music played several national airs, and the effect produced by the reverberation of the sound was grand beyond description. The party then proceeded to the grand basin in the City-road, where a salute was fired, and they were hailed with the loudest acclamations from the numerous crowds stationed on the shore. After having gone round the basin, the party proceeded down the canal to Limehouse. At Limehouse the party stopped, and partook of a magnificent dinner. Soon after the opening procession had gone through the locks, there was a great competition amongst several of the Paddington barges for the honour of being the first to land produce on the wharf at the grand basin. A desperate

struggle ensued between two of them, but, after a well-contested race, the honour was won by a barge, the name of which we believe was "The William," from which was landed the first produce, and a cask of ale, which was immediately drank up on the spot by the navigators, with loud huzzas to the prosperity of the undertaking.

This canal, which has been nearly seven years incomplete, unites all the principal canals in the kingdom with the river Thames. The construction of the locks is on so excellent a principle, that only three minutes and a half are occupied in passing each of them. The work was projected by J. Nash, esq., the royal architect, under whose superintendence it has been completed. The tunnel under Islington-hill is about three quarters of a mile in length, and passes beneath the bed of the New River.-At 7 o'clock nearly a hundred gentlemen sat down to an elegant dinner, the earl of Macclesfield in the chair.

SLAVE TRADE. — The Rev. Dr. Cotter, one of the coloured people who went out from the United States with the colonists to the coast of Africa, mentions that a Spanish ship was recently captured, having on board 400 slaves. To prevent them falling into the hands of the captors, the Spanish crew mixed poison in their victuals, which destroyed all but six.

Nothing could prove more satisfactorily the necessity of an immediate change in the form of government in Spain, than the expositions made to the Cortes by the ministers, each in his respective department. The army

manifested, as it would seem, even a superior degree of neglect; of a nominal force of 88,000 in fantry and 7,000 cavalry, not more than a few regiments were uniformly clothed and armed, while the far greater portion displayed a picture of nakedness and destitution, which the description of Falstaff's ragged company alone could equal. One regiment stationed in Ceuta were so destitute of clothes, as to be unable to leave their quarters. There were in the whole army only $7,000 muskets, of which 6,000 were useless, and the remainder were of different calibre. The fortresses were in the very worst state, and the artillery were not possessed of ammunition enough to maintain a battle for one day.

KING OF SARDINIA. There are some curious anecdotes related of his Sardinian majesty, namely that on his restoration he issued a decree, prohibiting all such of his subjects from hold ing offices under his government who had been vaccinated, as vaccination was as he supposed of French origin. Then again, the king never walks or rides over the beautiful bridge near Turin, because it was constructed by the French !! He has also closed the fine road of the Simplon, because that was made by the French.

FRANCE. A Horrible Mystery. -The Sieur C, a young man of good family, possessed of the means to marry, has already espoused four ladies without having the happiness of seeing any of them alive on the anniversary of his wedding day, death having seized them a few months after marriage. The last, how

ever, lived long enough to bear him a son, and soon after she yielded to the same fate which appeared to pursue all the other unhappy females to whom C had given his hand. The parents of the fourth victim of this destiny, actuated by a prescience for which they could not account, directed all their solicitude towards the child, and demanded it from C, who not only was unwilling to give it up, but even refused to show it to them. However, in about two months C contracted a fifth marriage. The sad parents, who never ceased to bewail over the mother and the child, took advantage of the circumstance to summon C before a meeting of the family, in order that he should produce his son. The son, alas! it was not in the power of the father to produce him. He was still obliged to attend the meeting of the family. What was to be done? C ran to the village of St. Rambert, observed a child about three years old at play on the banks of the river, and immediately he conceived the design of making it pass for his own. Capproached the child, caressed it, gained upon it by sweet cakes, and succeeded in carrying it off without resistance. The father and mother went to look for their child, but not being able to find it, abandoned themselves to despair. A neighbour informed them that he had seen it in the arms of a gentleman who had directed his course towards the village. They hastened thither and happened to overtake C.

Conducted to prison and interrogated, he has been fully committed for trial at the pro