shall present the list to the King. This arrangement has evidently arisen out of the new system adopted by the French Government; and is construed into a proof of the declining influence of the UltraRoyalists, of whom the Count d'Artois is the chief protector.

General Gilly has been condemned to death in his absence, for his treasonable opposition to the Duke of Angouleme, in the month of April last year.

Lieut. Mietton, Aide-de-Camp to General Bonnaire (both of whom were lately tried for the murder of Col. Gordon), has been shot in the Plain of Grenelle. On the same day Bonnaire was taken to the Place Vendome, where the sentence of the CourtMartial was read to him; after which he was degraded from the Legion of Honour

his sentence is transportation for life, which implies loss of civil rights and confiscation of property.

The English visitors at Paris are augmenting daily; their number already amounts to 29,000. The French rejoice at so many of our countrymen spending their money among them; and ascribe the flocks which continually arrive, to the desire on the part of John Bull" to study French customs-the language-their urbanity-and the arts;" and, says an article in the papers, they behave like good neighbours, fully reconciled!"

A company has been formed in Paris for supplying that city with water, in the manner in which it is conveyed to every house in London, and with iron pipes. The King of France has granted them an exclusive privilege for 99 years. The Establishment, we are told, has been chiefly formed upon British capital. The order, it is said, will amount to a quantity, which, in one length, would exceed 300 miles; and not only are British capital and labour to be thus employed in the enterprize, but British skill also: our iron-works are to manufacture the pipes.

The Paris papers of the 20th inst. mention the trial at Nismes of 20 persons, for having, in the year 1815, at the period immediately subsequent to the Duke of Angouleme's unfortunate enterprize in the South of France, murdered, with circumstances of great barbarity, in the village of Arpaillarges, some volunteers who had followed the fortunes of his Royal Highness. Eight persons were condemned to death, and a ninth sentenced to perpetual hard labour, and to be branded with a hot iron. We lament to state, that two women were particularly active in the perpetration of these murders. Armed with iron forks, they delighted in mangling and stabbing the dead bodies of their victims.

We understand from the Paris papers, that the Algerines, afraid of a bombard. ment, have sent into the interior their most valuable effects.

NETHERLANDS.

The King of the Netherlands has joined the Christian alliance; and there are new reports of an intended interview between the Emperors of Russia and Austria, soon after the latter shall have attended the marriage of the Archduchess Clementina with Prince Leopold of Naples.

Some whimsical.circumstances are related in the foreign papers, of the terror produced by the Bologna prophecy of the end of the world. Amongst others, an affair that happened on the 11th at Ghent appears the most ludicrous :-The trumpets of a regiment of cavalry there having sounded, according to custom, about nine in the evening, and there happening to be a thunder-storm at the time, three-fourths of the inhabitants precipitately quitted their houses, and were found on their knees in the streets and public places, imagining they had heard the seventh trumpet spoken of in the Revelations, announcing the day of judgment; and some time elapsed before they could be tranquillized. At Liege also, on the same day, the people were terribly frightened, in consequence of an enormous mass of clouds appearing, or supposed to appear, in the shape of a huge mountain over the city.

SWITZERLAND.

The weather in several parts of the Continent has been such, that in England we should rather rejoice at our exemption, than complain of our sufferings. From all parts of Europe there are accounts of the dreadful ravages of storm and tempest, of lightning, thunder, and rain. These ravages have not been partial; every kingdom has had its share in the dreadful visitation. Switzerland appears to have been more afflicted than any other country. The canton of Glaris is represented to be in the last degree of misery and want. The Birs and the Birsig have broken their banks, carried away the bridges, and inundated large tracts. Canton of Basle is in a dreadful state. the plaius, the grain, and every other produce of the earth, is under water. Germany the destruction is nearly as of Wurtzburg, the husbandman is in utgreat. In Saxony, in the Grand Duchy ter despair. Turkey, Hungary, Italy, and the whole of the Eastern part of Europe, have suffered largely.

ITALY.

The

In

In

An article from Cagliari, in Sardinia, mentions the chace of two Spanish brigs, richly laden, by five Tunisian vessels; but the former luckily escaped, and found refuge in the port of Cagliari. Vessels are stated to be continually met with by the French cruizers off the Island of Corsica, entirely abandoned; the crews of which had been made slaves by the pirates,

and

and the vessels, after being plundered, turned adrift.

A party of 57 Algerine pirates, who landed at Alghieri, in Sardinia, were lately cut off and made prisoners by the inhabitants, and their vessels taken.

Sir Thomas Maitland landed at Corfu on the 24th April, and immediately assumed the Government of the Ionian islands. An oration, in Greek, was made on the occasion by the President of the Senate of Corfu, in the presence of a vast concourse of the inhabitants; in which, in a strain of considerable eloquence, he described the advantages which the trade of the islands, their agricultural interests, and the political rights of the natives, are likely to derive from the arrangement which has placed them under the protection of the British Crown.

So generally had the report of the extinction of the world been circulated, that at Udina, Clagenfurth, and other parts, the people rose, and it was found necessary to call in the military.

GERMANY.

The Emperor Francis has conferred the dignity of Prince on Count Corbary, a rich Hungarian Nobleman, who, it appears, is related to the Prince of Saxe Cobourg.

Prince Blucher kept the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, at Carlsbad. The veteran was in such good health and spirits, that, at a ball upon the occasion, he danced a Polonaise with the Princess of Tour and Taxis.

The opening of the Germanic Diet is postponed till the middle of next month.Much hostility towards Prussia seems to prevail in Saxony: an article from Frankfort states, that the censure on political writings and periodical journals is rendered every day more severe in the Saxon dominions, in order that the Prussian Government, against which several of these publications are directed, may have no cause of complaint.

For some time past there has been mention made in all the foreign papers of a meeting of the Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prussia, at Carlsbad. One of the Paris papers says, that "this meeting appears to be the result of a secret article of the Treaty of Holy Alliance; by which the Sovereigns had stipulated, that, when they should not be agreed upon all the points, reference should be had, not to the Ministers of the three Powers, but to the Sovereigns themselves."

The disputes between the King of Wirtemberg and his subjects continue with as much acrimony as ever, and no Constitution is yet agreed on or settled.

The German papers inform us, that the state of vassalage has been declared GENT. MAG. July, 1816.

to be at an end throughout the Prussian dominions; and that the peasantry of that country are now free.

Letters from Hamburgh represent the state of Sweden and Norway as far from tranquil. The Diet of Christiana had been prorogued six or seven times, and was finally dissolved; but the result of its deliberations is studiously kept secret. Great distress is experienced in Norway: the manufacturing of iron in that country, which hitherto was one of the principal supports of the labouring Norwegians, has of late greatly decreased. The King of Sweden, who has been long ailing, is now seriously indisposed. The last report of the physicians was, that his Majesty could not survive many weeks: on this account. the Crown Prince will hasten his return from Norway to Stockholm.

RUSSIA.

We have intelligence from Petersburgh of the abolition of the vassalage of the peasants in Esthonia by the Emperor Alexander. The enfranchisement, however, is not to take place suddenly, but gradually; so that the whole may be completed in 14 years.

The Emperor of Russia lately gave another instance of his goodness of heart by attending the funeral of his preceptor, Prince Soltikoff, and walking in the procession next to the coffin.

An article from Vienna states, that the Emperor Alexander, as a proof of his pacific disposition, has lately ordered his Ambassador to deliver to the Turkish Divan a note declaring that he has no other desire than to see Europe at peace after her violent agitations.

TURKEY.

Her

By letters of the 11th of June from Constantinople we learn, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales arrived in that city on the 6th of that month. She took up her abode at the British Palace, till a house at Buyukdere was fitted up for her reception. On the 9th, all the Foreign Ministers, and the same evening the British factory, were presented to the Princess. Shortly, another presentation was to take place, to give those an opportunity of being presented who were disappointed on the former occasion. Royal Highness (say the letters) conducted herself at all times with the greatest affability; yet in other respects, she failed to afford satisfaction to the British merchants; inasmuch as she gave a decided preference, in all her dealings, to foreigners. She had credit on a Greek house for 40,000 Spanish dollars, when a British house could have accommodated her Royal Highness as well. Being in want of jewellery, the Princess applied to a Frenchman; and she is attended by a Neapolitan Count

Count and two Ladies. At Genoa and Sicily her Royal Highness was well received; but at Malta, it is said, the Governor made the vessel, on board of which her Royal Highness was, perform quarantine in the strictest manner.

ASIA.

The general state of India, as described in some of the latest Papers from that country, would, without any particular show of hostility from any one Power, justify the extensive armaments put in motion on the Mahratta frontiers. Besides the late suspicious movements of Scindeah, and on the side of the Rajah of Berar, it is stated in these Papers, that the Rajah of Typoor possessed at the time of the late dispatches but a mere nominal authority over the extensive domains so long held by his antient race; and that, with the exception of a few miles around the city, the whole country had submitted to the government of Ameer Khan, an adventurer who had for several years rendered himself extremely troublesome in that quarter.

The affairs of Holkar's Government were in a state of more than usual distraction; and the Army of that Chieftain, though somewhat reduced in numbers, was yet in a mutinous condition, on account of the great arrears of pay. No one in the State seemed to have consequence sufficient to repress their tumultuous proceedings; nor a strong hand or pecuniary means enough to satisfy them in their demands.

Letters from India state a war with the Napaulese to be almost inevitable from the preparations made by them to take advantage of the retirement of the British force from their territory.

In addition to the erection of a Bishop's See in India, with three Archdeaconries, two national Scottish churches have lately been instituted-one at Calcutta, and the other at Madras.

The Duchess of Wellington East Indiaman has been destroyed by fire in Saugur Roads: the pilot, two officers, two passengers, and many of the crew, perished.

By the last advices from Batavia, his Excellency the Hon. T. S. Raffles had been relieved in the Government of Java by the Hon. J. Fendall. One of the Dutch Commissioners, Mr. Naherys, had arrived at Batavia; and the remainder of the expedition, for re-taking possession of the colony on the part of the Dutch, were expected in the course of the following month. A disposition on the part of the Native Authorities, hostile to the re-establishment of the Dutch influence, had been evinced; but the Island was perfectly tranquil, and it was hoped that the transfer would be effected without endan gering the peace of the country.

AFRICA.

Letters of the 17th ult. from Gibraltar state, that the Dutch Admiral Baron Capellen had just returned thither from off Algiers, with his squadron. He was in the Bay of Algiers several days, reconnoitring the fortress, and endeavouring to induce some Algerine ships to come out from under their batteries to fight him. A trerendous fire was opened upon him, and kept up for almost two days, without doing the least injury, although a vast number of shells went over his ships: Some of his boats were manned to cut out, during the night, an Algerine brig; when about 40 or 50 gun-boats, armed with long 36 and 24-pounders, filed out of the harbour, came to her protection, and exhausted all their ammunition in the wildest manner, without occasioning to the Dutch any loss whatsoever. The Admiral, it is said, has since been reinforced at Gibraltar by the Amstel, a fine frigate; and is waiting for the arrival of two lineof-battle-ships and a frigate from Holland. He is, however, most likely soon to sail again, to compel the Algerines to remain at home, or to fight him at sea.

Algiers, to which Lord Exmouth's fleet is expected first to proceed, is defended by about 1000 pieces of ordnance, of every calibre, 300 of which are brassit is surrounded by a high wall, the Southern side of which is adorned by men's heads, trophies of Algerine crueltythe Dey, who was General of the Army before his elevation, is an active and enterprizing soldier, and during Lord Exmouth's late visit was day and night at his post, making ready to repel any attack the Dey refused to agree to the proposal of liberating his prisoners in future, instead of making slaves of themhe said it was the commerce of the country, and the Turks and Moors would never submit to it. The Turkish soldiery at Algiers amount to 15,000, and are, in fact, the governors and tyrants of the country, holding the native Moors in complete subjection, and the Jews still more so.

Vessels arrived from the African coast represent the Slave Trade to the Northward of the line as still carried on in violation of treaties, and in fact more flourishing than ever.

del, begun by Charles V. is but weak, and is exposed to batteries from a rising ground near it. The first place of attack, would, indeed, be the Port, or Goletta, which is strongly fortified against a naval assault, and openly exposed to bombardment from a hill close by the ruins of antient Carthage; but if this place be destroyed, it will be many years before their piratical shipping can be secured from an enemy.

Advices have reached town from Cape Coast Castle to the 22d of April last. The people of Cape Coast town, and the Fantees, had been so fortunate as to make their peace with the Ashantees, by paying to them 100 ounces of gold; and reciprocal oaths were the consequence. As the Ashantees, who are a powerful nation in the interior, and who some years ago visited the coast with an army of upwards of 100,000 men, have for several years been prevented from trading with Europeans, by the hostility of the Fantees, and other nations residing in the neighbourhood, their present visit, by opening the path into the interior, is likely to be attended with very important commercial advantages; great quantities of gold and ivory being produced in the Ashantee country.

AMERICA.

In

The weather this year has been equally unseasonable almost every where. America it has proved no less extraordinary than in Europe. There they have had snow about the middle of last month; in Albany and Bennington it had fallen to the depth of an inch and a half. In that vicinity much damage had been done by the frost. From New York it is stated, under date of the 15th of June, that the cold weather, and even frosts, continued: in the upper part of the state large icicles were pending, and the foliage of the forests was blasted by the frost.

Considerable damage has been done at New Orleans, in consequence of the rapid inundation of the river; the whole of the suburbs was covered with water; and the road was only passable in boats.

In British manufactures, almost the only article of demand at New York, was British fine cloths; and so great was the deficiency, that the price of a coat was ten guineas; hats of good quality were at 'ten dollars. Trade was not in such a state of total stagnation as it is in some situations of Europe; but the floating capital by which it was supported is in a great measure withdrawn by the inordinate appetite to involve money in the new National Bank, from shares in which all foreigners have been excluded. Notwithstanding this circumstance, a large capital has been engaged in the East India trade; and the small port of Salem alone has

equipped 26 ships on this remote destination. In the whole, 115 vessels from republican ports are employed in that commerce, under most advantageous circumstances; and many of them are now at Amsterdam, Hamburg, and other European ports, with return cargoes. Great profits had been derived from Agriculture; and produce generally in America is very high. The flour, the growth of the United States, now obtains at Cadiz between ten and eleven dollars a barrel.

Arrangements are in progress, to establish a respectable naval force on the Lakes of Canada. Sir R. Hall, lately Commissioner of the naval yard at Quebec, is appointed to command it.

A regiment of Blacks, raised from American refugees during our late contest with the United States, has been sent from Bermuda to Trinidad; where they are to have grants of land, and other privileges, in fulfilment of promises made them at the period of their enlistment.

The Araxes frigate, which has arrived at Portsmouth from Jamaica, has brought a great quantity of bullion, with letters, of the 15th ultimo. A very tragical circumstance took place at Port Royal on the 10th of last month. It appears, that some offence had been given by one of the boat's crew, to a party of Blacks; who, in consequence, on the following evening, went in a body to the landing-place, determined to revenge the insult; when the Hon. J. Calthorpe, Lieutenant of the Junon, was unfortunately, in landing from that ship at the moment, struck by a brick-bat on the back part of the head from one of the Blacks, and never spoke afterwards. He was brother to Lord Calthorpe, and was most highly esteemed: his body will be sent to England in the Junon.

Martial Law, at the last accounts, was still enforced at Barbadoes. Numbers of negroes had been shot and destroyed, and a great many more remained to be executed.

A letter from Guyara, dated the 4th of May, states, that Gen. Morillo had taken the whole of Sante Fe, the capital of which was entered on the 6th of April. The bands of insurgents who had opposed the progress of the victorious army had been subdued; and a large body of troops had been sent off to Venezuela, as well as a detachment of 3000 men to Panama, who were to proceed by Lima to Buenos Ayres.

The warfare existing in the provinces of New Spain, bordering on Mexico, between the Royalists and Republicans, appears to be carried on in the most sanguinary man. ner; very little quarter being given on either side. The Republican General Morellos, on being taken prisoner, was carried before the Inquisition in the city

of