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(The Pit stood up, and cheered.) "The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave, "Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow :

"O, heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold; "And put in every honest hand a whip,

"To lash the rascal naked through the world,

"Even from the east to the west." (The pit stood up again, the men waved their hats, and the women their handkerchiefs; the acclamations throughout the whole house were loud and general, and lasted for several minutes.)

PALERMO.-The dreadful fate of Caltanissetta has intimidated into submission to the provisional Junta all the open towns and places of Sicily not under the immediate control or protection of a Neapolitan garrison. Messina, Trapani, with, as is believed, Catania and Syracuse, still adhere to the old government. A committee of 20 of the most eminent persons of this city is employed in the organization of a regency, the members of which are to be elected by the representatives of all the communes of Sicily, and before whom a formal oath is to be taken to the constitution of Spain, and the independence of Sicily, under a royal prince of the present dynasty of Naples. The civic guard amounts to 15,000 men, and is composed of individuals from 18 to 55 years of age, including all ranks, from masters of ships upwards, to priests, friars, and the first nobility. An expedition was sent off some days ago for

Syracuse, under the chevalier Abela, but when on the road, a party of the guerilla troops employed on the occasion wished to plunder. The commander and officers remonstrated, but to no purpose: they were attacked, and some of the officers wounded and stripped. The mutineers, who remained in possession of the artillery, had the hardihood to return to this city, where immediate measures were taken against them. They were surrounded, disarmed, and are now in confinement.

29. BERLIN.-M. Muhlenfels, of Cologne, whose arrest was announced nearly a year ago, had been removed, a short time afterwards, to Berlin, where he has been ever since kept in confinement, on suspicion of having been concerned in revolutionary intrigues. Protesting against the manner of his arrest, he had refused to answer any of the interrogatories put to him. His intellectual faculties have just sunk under the misfortunes which he has endured, and it has been necessary to remove him from his prison to the hospital of lunatics. M. Muhlenfels is not yet thirty years of age. His bosom is furrowed with the scars of the wounds which he received in 1813 and 1814, when he served as a volunteer; and his breast is covered with the insignia of different orders, which the king of Sweden, then Crown Prince, gave him with his own hand. M. Tollenius and M. Bader are likewise still kept prisoners. All the other persons who were arrested on the same account have been successively released.

30. THE QUEEN'S TRIAL.-A telegraph communicates to his

Majesty every half-hour, the state of the proceedings in the trial of his royal wife.

The witnesses called in the House of Lords this morning, were sworn on a New Testament bound in black morocco, with a white cross on the part which they kissed.

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SCOTLAND. This forenoon the prisoners in Stirling-castle for high-treason, were informed of the decision which government had come to on their respective cases. Andrew Hardie, John Baird, and James Clelland, to be executed on Friday the 8th Sept. -Gray, Murchie, and M'Farlan, are to be transported for life, and the remainder are to be transported for 14 years, except Crawford, who is to be liberated.

PARIS.-By a royal ordinance the king has disbanded the National Guard of Brest, and dismissed some of the public functionaries in that city, for their failure to support the magistrates, and to repress the outrages of the populace, on a late occasion. Several officers of the legion of the Seine, forming part of the garrison of Cambray, implicated in the plot for overthrowing the Bourbon government, being disappointed in their attempts to corrupt the soldiery, had betaken themselves to flight. One captain and two subalterns, however, were arrested.

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people. They all swore to maintain the constitutional system; and the people agreeing thereto, they constituted a president and vice-president of the supreme government of the kingdom. The first news we heard of it was on the 28th.

Yesterday afternoon they published a proclamation, calling on the Portuguese to be faithful to their king, and by no means to assist the rebellion; promising several things for the good of this city, and referring to the despatches which a vessel from Rio had brought the day before. The Providencias, as they were pleased to call the regulations contained in these despatches, were nothing more than what every person knew before. They were increasing the duties on foreign wines, oil, and several other articles not the produce of the country, imported into the Brazils, and decreasing the duties on those of this kingdom.

31. This day James Wilson, convicted at the late Special Commission, was executed at the front of the New Gaol, Glasgow. He was loudly cheered by the mob on his appearance; and an effusion of blood from the unfortunate criminal's ears, which appeared through his cap after he was turned off, provoked feelings of horror, which were exasperated to the utmost detesta. tion by the subsequent ceremony of beheading.

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Loss OF THE SHIP LIVERPOOL POOL"Brig Francis, off Plymouth, Aug. 31. I am tremely sorry to inform you of the loss of the ship Liverpool, on the morning of the 8th of May last, at 2 a. m., when she

unfortunately struck on a reef of rocks off Corisco, in lat. 1 deg. 18 min. north: she instantly filled with water. At day-break we were surrounded with a number of canoes, well manned and armed; they soon got possession of the ship, and immediately the decks were crowded with blacks, plundering in all directions, stripping us naked, and throwing us into their canoes; among whom I noticed captain Bean, without a stitch on him, who was only recovering from a long sick

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One of the crew was shot by the Africans previous to our being taken out of the ship. We were taken to the shore all in different canoes, and placed in separate towns. The only place the natives traded to was, Gaboon, where I arrived on the 16th of May. I waited on Prince William, and prevailed on him to go down to purchase the captain and the remainder of the crew. After relating the distress we were in, he consented, and set sail the following morning, and on the 22nd he arrived at Gaboon, with captain Bean and four of the crew. There was a French brig and a Portuguese schooner lying in the river. The French captain purchased captain Bean, J. Stowell and myself, and was good enough to give us passage to Martinique, where we arrived on the 16th July; from thence to Dominique, where I shipped along with J. Stowell on board of the Francis, bound to London. Captain Bean was to leave Dominica on the 1st of August, in the Ealing Grove, for London. The protest was not noted St. Pierre. Captain Howard left us at Tom Short's on the day we took our departure, which was

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Deaths from the beginning of the contagion till the 15th, 1,914.

AN AMERICAN DUEL.-Lately a duel was fought between Mr. Richard Stuart and Mr. Townsend S. Dade, both of King George County, Virginia, on the Maryland shore, immediately opposite their residence, at a short distance, with muskets loaded with buck-shot. Mr. Dade was shot dead; Mr. Stuart was so severely wounded, that he expired in a few hours after. They were neighbours, near relations, and heretofore friends. This unfortunate difference occurred about a mere trifle.

SEPTEMBER.

1. THE QUEEN'S COUNSEL.These gentlemen have generally left the House of Peers so privately, that they have not been observed by the immense concourse of spectators. Yesterday, however, and to-day, Messrs. Brougham, Denman, and Lushington, were recognised, and received with unbounded accla mations.

The following letters have appeared respecting the conduct of one of the Milan commission couriers:

"Paris, Sept. 1.

Palais Royal had bought of an individual twenty Bank-notes, which being sent to London for payment, were returned as forgeries. The report of this transaction excited suspicion among the money-changers, and rendered them distrustful in their operations. Meanwhile, notes were offered to another moneychanger, who asked twenty-four hours to inquire into the address of the seller. The address was given; it was that of a British Cabinet courier. The moneydealer went next day to the appointed place, accompanied with two other persons, who had been the dupes of the first transaction. They found the trader in notes of the day before, who was much embarrassed at their presence. They found with him new notes, which they considered as forged. They proceeded immediately to inform the authorities of the circumstance. An inspector of police ordered the arrest of the accused, whose papers were ordered to be sealed. The affair was about to be put in a train for a judicial inquiry, when the individual arrested applied to his ambassador, who evinced an extraordinary zeal in withdrawing from the operation of justice a subject of his sovereign."

"Among the individuals at tached to the Milan commission there was one called Krouse. He held the title of courier for the British cabinet, but, as it would appear, executed functions not distinctly marked by his ostensible occupation. Sometimes he received an order to go in search of discarded servants, for the purpose of collecting their evidence; and sometimes he was despatched from Milan to London, carrying the result of these proceedings. Not satisfied with the considerable pay which he received, he took advantage of some days' stay at Paris to utter forged Bank of England notes. One of my friends, who was the victim of his knavery for a large sum, denounced him to justice. Mr. Krouse, was arrested and thrown into prison at Paris. In the examination of his papers, proof was found of his crime. Many forged notes, similar to those which he had sold, were found upon him. He had the address to destroy a considerable quantity of them before his arrest. The agents whom he employed to dispose of those forged notes declared, that they saw large packets of them in his possession. In fine, taken flagrante "The British courier, Krouse, delicto, he would infallibly have bought at Milan six Bank of Engundergone the punishment de- land notes (three of them of 201 nounced against forgery, if his and three of 10.) of a person ambassador, whose protection named Colombo, which Colombo he claimed, had not employed had purchased of a shopkeeper all his diplomatic authority to called Albertelli. Colombo would snatch him from the hands of not at first sell them for less than justice. 24 livres per pound sterling; but "A money-changer in the Krouse afterwards obtained them

In the Renommée we find the following defence of Krouse set up by an apologist for him :

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Having arrived at Paris, Krouse wished to sell them to money-dealers of the Palais Royal, and at their request left with them his name and address."

The will of the late Benjamin West, esq., president of the Royal Academy of Arts, has been proved by his sons, the executors, Raphael Lamer West, and Benjamin West, to whom he has bequeathed the whole of his estate and effects. Personal property under 3001.

IRELAND. The bishop of Raphoe, in the late visitation of his diocese, consecrated four churches, two of which, from their remoteness, have remained without consecration for upwards of 40 years. His lordship also personally inspected eighty-two churches, and their glebe houses, held visitations in the thirty-one parishes, and confirmed four thousand persons.

NAPLES.-The fête of the Virgin, says a Naples article, was attended by 80,000 men under arms, and the officiating bishop was surrounded by the appropriate ensigns of the Carbonari.

In alluding to a late dreadful conflagration at Constantinople, the German papers inform us, that the great Helenist and Orientalist, Ariston of Samos, fell a victim. Mr. Ariston, the friend and fellow-traveller of the celebrated Volney, consecrated an immense fortune, which he had principally obtained by commerce in Egypt, in promoting and directing the efforts of the Greeks in the acquirement of knowledge and of useful institutions. Mr. Ariston had travelled over great part of Asia, Oceania, Africa,

and Europe, in company with the Chevalier Dominy de Rienzi. Rohilkund,

EAST INDIES March 28.-The notorious rebel Bhujah Sing, who has for upwards of 18 years infested the jungles on the north-east frontier of the Barelly and Shahjuhanpoor district, commenced his yearly depredations in the beginning of this month, by carrying off the zemindars of three villages, for the purpose of compelling them to ransom their persons.

On the evening of the 15th March, Lieut. Chitty received intelligence that Bhujah Sing was encamped in a thick jungle on the banks of the Chooka Nullah, and at two a. m. on the morning of the 16th marched to him with the force under his immediate command, consisting of about 40 sepoys, and 20 suwars.

The enemy had taken the precaution to post four picquets of 18 men each, to prevent a surprise, one of which was extended a considerable distance on the road leading to this encampment; but lieut. Chitty, being apprised of this, was enabled, by the darkness of the morning, to move round them unobserved, and having extended his men for the purpose of cutting off the retreat of the enemy (the thickness of the jungle not permitting them to act in a body), a smart independent firing commenced, which was continued for about half an hour, as the rebels retreated along the banks of the Nullah, when, their ammunition being expended, they precipitately fled, and were pursued for nearly two hours, until not a man remained in sight.

The loss of the enemy amounted to 12 killed, among which was

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