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Newspaper Page TextLATEST FROM PRANCE. New-York, March 14. Bv the Packet ship Francis Ist, Cap tain Skiddv, from Havre, (sailed the 3d of February) we have received Faria and HavreqAipers to the 2d of February, in clusive. The Hessian states are engaged in sep arating the priraie phijiefiy of the Elec-> tor from that of the state. Poland. —The Hamburgh correspond ent states,, under date of Berlin, January 23d, that the Dictator Chiopicki left the D ctatorship because he insisted on nego tiating with the Emperor for a reconcilia tion, while some of the members of the Diet opposed it. The Augsburg Gazette contains u letter from the Polish frontiers, •of January 18th, which asserts that a re conciliation with Russia is now impossi ble. “The Emperor neither can nor will extend the amnesty to the ringleaders themselves.” Frince Czartornisky’s es tates in the old Polish provinces have been confiscated, and 300 Wiina students have been transported into the interior. These steps, indieate severe measures in contemplation.—The country is said to be fall of armed peasants, who treat as -spies all persons passing the frontiers. Under date of Warsaw, January 20th, it is mentioned that the Russian government have seized the funds of the Hank of War saw, which were at Odessa, and arrested •an agent sent thither to withdraw them. A monk from the Palatinate of Plosk, had arrived at Warsaw, and appeared ar med with a lance, sabre, pistols and cross, and was enthusiastically received. His example has been followed by twelve monks of St. Bernard. In the Palatin ate of Cracow, the peasantry, armed witli scythes, are commanded by monks. Seventeen new regiments of National Guards are forming, and the 13 regiments of the hue have been doubled. The pat riotic enthusiasm of the Poles is said, hy some letters, to continue extreme; and t>y others, is said to have been greatly exag gerated in the accounts published. It is stated that (id young women have peti tioned the government to form them into a military corps. Belgium. —On the 29th of January the hall of the Congress was early filled, and a cry of “Vive le Due de Louclitcnherg” being raised by a person in the gallery, he was reprimanded by the President. A letter was read from the provisional gov ernment, with an extract from the proto col of the conference held at the Foreign Office, January 2D, 1831, at which the plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, were present. —ln it plenipotentiaries fix the following boundaries:-*-Ist. The limits of Holland shall include the territories, fortresses, towns and places which belonged to the -r .i*«- Uuiwui in oun ces of the Low Countries in the year 1799. 2d. Belgium shall be formed of all the territories, which were under the denomination of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the sreaty of 1815, except the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which, being possessed by the Princes of the House of Nassau, by a different title, forms and shall continue to form, a part of the Germanic Confederation. 3d. The pro visions of articles 198 to 117 of the gen eral act of Congress of Vienna, with res pect to free navigation, to be applicable to the rivers and streams that traverse the territories of Holland and Belgium. From the Charleston Mercury LATEST FROM ENGLAND. Fy the Ltr. ship AJlary Catliurinc, Capt. Holt, arrived la's'f evening from Liver pool, we have our files of English papers to the loth February. We have also been favored with letters from Liverpool of the 13th and 14th, which communi cate the important intelligence that “the British government is going to put a du ty of Id. per lb. extra on the import of Cotton from ail parts of the world.” The Chancellor of the Exchequer opened the ministerial budget on the 12th. In his speech upon that occasion, in which he details lus plan for the reduction of old and the imposition of new taxes, he says, amongst other things, “I intend however, to propose that a tax of Id. per lb. shall be laid upon raw cotton imported into this Country, and a drawback also of Id. on all cotton goods exported.” Our readers ore referred to our commercial head for additional information on this interesting subject. It is contemplated by the new British Ministry to reduce the taxes to the ex tent of £ 1,340,000. —An article will be found below exhibiting a statement of the alterations proposed in the system of tax ation. The Due de Nemours, son of the King of France, has been elected by the Bel gic Congress, King of Belgium, but it is said that his father had refused his assent to this proceeding. In connection with this matter, the London Courier publishes, an important communication from its Brussels correspondent, which suites, that a protocol from the Congress of London, dated the 7th Feb. had been communica ted to the Provisional Government that c vening; and that it'is not only declared, that the French Government is resolved to reject the offer of the crown of Bel gium lor the Duke 6f Nemours, hut that it adheres to the protocol of the 20th Jan uary, and consequently disavows the let ter of Count Scbastiani. It further states, that, in the event of the Duke of Leuch tenberg being again proposed and elect ed, he will not be recognised by any of the five powers. The Polish Diet has declared the throne of Poland vacant. A proceeding so <lc- cisive against the Emperor Nicholas leaves, of course, no alternative but bat tle. May the success of the Poles bee qua| to their heroism and the justice of their cause. Mr. O’Connell and the other travers ers, it is said, have pleaded guilty to the fourteen first counts of the indictment preferred against them. A nob prosequi was entered upon the remaining counts. Mr. O’C. was *o have proceeded immedi ately to England. London, Feb. 12. FRANCE AND BELGIUM. The Courier des Pays Bas, and other Brussels papers to the date of the 6th, bring the close of the extraordinary elec tion of a King for Belgium, which had been going on for some days within the walls of the National Congress. The choice has fallen upon the King of France’s son, the Duke de Nemours, a lad of 16 years of age. The ballot took (ilacc on Thursday, ’.vhen, there appear ing to be 191 deputies present, the abso lute majority was fixed at 96. The num liers, upon a scrutiny, then appeared—for the Duke de Nemours 80, the Duke of Leuchtenberg 67, anil the Archduke Charles of Austria, whose name hud been introduced inorder to keep down the ma jority for the French candidate 35. This result rendered another scrutiny necessa ry; for the absolute majority had not been gained by any of the candidates, 6c the fruit of this second trial was—for the Duke de Nemours 97, the Duke of Leueh tenberg 76, the Archduke 21. The French Prince was accordingly declared elected, amid the loudest acclamations in the galleries in the congress. A form of oath was drawn up which he is to take, and hy which lie binds himself to respect the independence and to defend the integ rity of Belgium, and he was solemnly proclaimed in the city, to the great satis faction of the populace, with whom a French connexion has always been a fa vorite measure. The congress having thus done its part, the scene of interest is now transferred to another quarter, where it rests to determine, whether the procee ding which has just been terminated is or is not to be final. The French Govern ment seem to have been playing a strange and rather suspicious game throughout this election; for, whilst it was depreca ting, solemnly and officially, the re-union of Belgium with France, or the return of the Duke of Nemours, it is said, that its agents were straining every nerve to se cure the ultimate favor of congress for the young Prince. Pending the deliberations a note was read in congress from Gen. Sebastiam, disclaiming, on the part of the French Government, any participa tion in the famous protocol of the 20tli of January, which, from its saddling the Belgians with part of the Dutch debt, and giving away Luxcmburgh to the King, had already given great offence. Tliia VUIUIUUIIIV.dI toil reiiioveu IllllCll ot the odium which that document had drawn upon the French party, and con tributed not a little to influence the result of the election. The decision of the Belgic Congress respecting the choice of a King, reached Paris on Friday evening week, by tele graph. A council was as soon ns possi ble, assembled at the palace, and the an swer was returned late the same ..igh by a courier, and most peremptorily conclu sive, “the King would not give his son to the throne of Belgium.” The deputation of the Belgic Congress sent to offer the throne to the young Duke of Nemours, arrived at Paris on Sunday week. The deputation consisted of nine members, along with the president. Three of them had preceded the rest by some hours, and were immediately presented to King Phil ip by the Belgic envoy, Count de Celles. His Majesty is said to have received them in the most gracious manner, to have pre sented them to his family, and to have dismissed them with hearts full of grati tude. An hotel of the Government is as signed to the deputation during its stay, where their expenses are defrayed at the public cost. The Flauilers papers give a frightful picture of the state of fermentation, bor dering on anarchy, which prevails in Bel gium. Iu Ghent there are almost daily contests between the party of the Prince of Orange and that of the Provisional Government and Congress. A skirmish, which lately took place between one body of the revolutionists and unother, iii which some were killed and wounded, has l>een seized as a pretext by the Govern ment for suspending all the authorities, and declaring that city out of the pale of law. A pro-consul, under the nome of a Government Commissioner, has been sent from Brussels, who treats the inhab itants of Ghent as foreign enemies, and dismiss with brutal insolence their magis trates from the Hotel de Ville. At the same time an attack was made on the office of the Messager de Gand, an opposition paper; the windows were broken, shots were fired into the house, and no redress was obtained. The ring leaders were apprehended, but afterwards set at liberty, without trial or punish ment. The Du lie of Nemours had been pro claimed King at Ghent, and in all other towns of Belgium, as soon as the account had arrived from Brussels of his election. One of the papers remarks, that they had plenty of bell-ringing, and plenty of every other sign of inauguration; and that the only trifling thing which they wanted was a king to instal. The Brussels deputation, however, seem not to despair of persuading Louis Philip to give them his son. So, at least, one of their partisans states in the Na tional Congress; hut we have learnt from late events to distrust the impressions, if I not the positive Icclarationr, of the Bel gium deputies. Mr. Van de Wjwer is not | probSbh/tvorsc Han Tils colleagues, aiid we have his postive assurance to a state ment which wenow know to be false. ; When the Congcss was in the heat of i speech-making,on the value of difl’ereut | connexions, uni the merits of different i candidates, tiiisgentleman told lie had received a no titration from Paris, that the Duke of Neuiuirs* would accept of the Belgic crown, if it were tendered him.; The *sseui Wjy toted him king under this impression, aid the telegraph had no sooser anuouiced the result to Paris, thu« the declaration of Mr. Van de M ever was contradicted by the only party who could have wairanted him in making it. Eitker, therefore, the diplomatists of Par is, <r the diplomatists at Brussels, must have told a falsehood. The Delgic deputation is now well feas ted, well lodged, mid well flattered at Pars. They are likely, therefore, to re main for some days longer “to see the li ons,’ and must find an excuse for their unpatriotic delay in some jirol’essed anti cipation of being able to convert the Pal ais Royal to their views. P O L A N D. Accounts to the 27th ult. from War saw, in tlie Uambuagh papers, settle the question of Polish resistance, and leave no hope of accommodation till after the decision of -lctory. The Diet, oil the 25th, declared that the throne was va cant, or, in other words, deprived the Emperor Nicholas of the crown of Po land. This iiiiportatunt step was not taken but on the most mature delibera tion, and after the most zealous eilorts to reconcile the rights of the dinasty with those,of the nation. - TiiMiJj'ovisioiiul Government, desirous of abiding a rup ture with their King, though resolved to secure the independence of their country, sent envoys to Bt. Petersburgh to ex plain the conduct of those who had ex pelled the King’s brothr, and to settle the basis on which their future obedience was to rest. The Emperor refused to see these eriv6ys, unless they disclaimed their mission from a “rebel” authority, and acknowledged their continued sub mission to the Czar. Nothing was ac cordingly done to reconcile the Polish people to their former sovereign. The foliowing lqttevs contain some interesting particulars: Warsaw, Jan. 16- —ln the yesterday’s sitting of the Diet,. the .throne of Poland was unanimously declared vacant. Ac cording to the‘latest accounts from the frontiers, hostilities had not commenced. The Polish troops are stationed r.n ec/iel lotis from Praga to Bresez and Kauen* Here every thing is quiet lor the present. In consequence of that part of the proc lamation of Count Diebitsch in which he declares a white scarf the symbol ol’ sub mission. the white cockade has been laid aside, aud die tn-coiouretl cockade assumed in its stead. Jan. 27. —The Russian troops are said to have received strong reinforcements, and to have advanced from Grodno. On the 11th Count Diebitsch removed his head-quarters from the latter place to Sobolke. Hostilities had not yet com menced, in the proper sense of the word, hut the well known Polish partisan, Col. Kushel has been several times over the Bug, to disturb the Russian out postsr a feat the more easy of execution, as, with a frost of 1G degrees, the rivers in that part of the country are completely frozen. Prince Radzivil has addressed a proclamation to the troops, in which he tells them, that the fate of their country can now be decided on the field of battle alone, and clips upon them to emulate the deeds of their fathers. The Count ess Wongsowicz who lately presented a standard to the guard of honor, has, with in these last few days, given her whole service of plate, to be applied to the purchase of warm cloaks for the men belonging to that corps. As anonymous gift of 100,OOi) florins was sent into the public treasury about the same time. Letters appear in the Brussels papers from Warsaw, which accuse Chlopicki, the late Dictator, of treachery to the cause of his country. He is said to have been placed under surveillance by the provisional Government. KINGS BENCH Saturday, Feb. 12. The King , ts. O'Connell and Others. —The Attorney General rose to move the Court to appoint a more distant day than Thursday next for triul in this case. He was proceeding to state the grounds of his application, when he was interrupted by, Mr. Perrin, who said he had a mo tion to make which would, probably, supersede the necessity of the Attorney General proceeding—he had to apply for liberty to withdraw the plea of Not Guilty as to the first fourteen counts of the indictment. The Attorney General said, on the part of the Crown, he had no objec tion to the granting the application. The consequence was, that he was en titled to judgement upon these counts; that, he considered, would be sflicient for all the purposes of justice* He should, therefore, enter a noli prosequi upon the remaining counts, and he congratlated .the Court and the country upon being spared the agitation, la bour, and anxiety that the trials would have produced and he relied upon the Court for the future maintenance of the peace of the country. Extract of a private Letter. I have only a moment to sav, that O’t ’omiell and the other traversers have pleaded guilty to the first fourteen counts in the indictments, & there will be no trial. No judgement will he pronounced, ami he goes immediately to Louden. VARIETY. ’ Tie ss Hunter. —The follow mg cu rious occurrence is mentioned in the Journal do l’lsere; A short time ago a hunter, who was sporting on the banks of tlie Lake of Wallansted, in Switzerland, discovered the nest of one of those destructive birds, the ‘lamuiergeyer,’ a species of the vul ture,— shot the male, aud made his wav along. a projection ol the rock with a view pf taking the young birds. He raised his arm, and put his hand into the nest, when the female hovering over his lioad unperceived hy him, pounced upon him, fixed her talons in his arm, and her beak in liis side. The sportsman, whom the slightest movement must have piecip itated to the bottom of the rock, with that coolness and self-possession so peculiar to the mountain huntsman of that country, notwithstanding the pain he experienced, remained unmoved. Having Ins fowling piece in his left arm, he placed it against the face of the rock, pointed to the breast of the bird, and with his toe, as they al ways go barefooted, the better to enable them to hold and climb the rocks, he touched the trigger, and the piece w ent off, and killed his enemy on the nest.— Had the bird been any where else, it must have dragged him down along with it. He procured assistance from the neighboring auberge, or inn, hard by, and brought the two birds as trophies of his valor away with him.—Some of these birds have been known to measure seven teen feet from the tip of the w imrs, and are only equalled in size hy the Condor of South America. A WINTER’S HORROR. M c find in the Western Times, publish ed in Centreville, Indiana, the follow ing account: ‘Distressing.—We were informed a few days since, hy a gentleman traveller from the w est, that during the severe wea ther, a man about 45 years of age, his wife, six children, and four horses, were frozen to death on the great prairie, in Il linois. When discovered, the mother lay with a small child in her arms—five oth er children round her—the father, with an axe and flint in his hands, as if he had been try ing to strike fire—a part of his wagon was cut into small pieces for kind ling, and all the horses in a heap, still' in their harness. The name of the unfortu nate family, or where they were from, was not ascertained when our informant pass ed along.’ All men feel—there is not a heart that God has formed, that does not melt at the contemplation of such a scene as the one recorded above. But where is the father or mother, who looks out upon the group in the great prairie, and does not feel a swelling of the heart, to w hich tears are but a momentary release. There is no gift of poetry to heighten that scene—fan cy can lend no color to the picture—na ture, truth, the dread realities, have done more than ingenuity would have dared to invent or record. Twenty-five Cent pieces recently is sued from the Mint, are in circulation in this city. We understand they are freely paid out at the United States Bank. A correspondent of the National Gazette remarks, that they are much superior in general appearance to the old, but he thinks they are still susceptible of im provement. The Eagle, he says, on all our coins, has a dull, lifeless appearance; its plumage looks more like shingles than feathers. He complains, also, of the o mission of the legend—“E Pliiribus U num." To which the editor of the Na tional Gazette remarks—“We are sure, however, that the ‘Bank-men’ are not Nul lifies. The act of Congress regulating the coins, directs the following ‘devices & legends: Upon one side an impression emblematic of Liberty, and the year of the coinage, with an inscription of the word ‘Liberty.’ Upon the reverse, the fi gure or representation of an Eagle, with this inscription—‘United States of Amer ica.’ E Eluribus Unum was an unau thorized addition.” Galvanism. —The Boston Palladium relates an amusing and singular incident which is said to have occurred a few evenings ago at a lecture-room in Boston. Some galvanic experiments were to lie made, and a large dog being selected for the purpose, he was executed about fif teen minutes before the commencement of the lecture. It being necessary to ex pose the muscles or nerves to the action of the battery, the dog’s tail was then cut off. At the first application of the galvinic power, poor Tray, who had on ly been stunned by the blows he had received from the executioner, roused him self, and, with a jump and a growl, seized the first man in his way by the calf of the leg, and then, in spite of canes and umbrellas, he ran, spattering blood profusely upon every body, to the door, which the scientific company were very glad to open for his escape. Minister from England.— The New- York Commercial Advertiser of the 15th inst. says— “We learn from good au thority, that Sir James M’lntosh, will probably succeed Mr. Vaughan, as Min ister from Great Britian to this country. The mission of this distinguished man will be most gratifying on many uccounts; and especially to the intelligent citizens of America, whose curiosity will he grat ified by an intercourse with one whose writings have long commanded their re spect and admiration, and whose public career in various offices, and in the House of Commons, has been upright and emi nently useful.” LEGISLATURE. OFNEW-YOR* Thursday, March 10. The consideration of the following resolutions reported by the committee of ways and means, was called up bjr Mr. Selden, chairman of that commit* tee, in pursuance of previous notice, and passed unanimously. Resolved, if the Senate concur, That the surplus revenues of the United States beyoiul what shall lq? deemed hy Con* gross necessary lor the expenses of the general government, and a proper pra. vision for public defence aud safety, ought to he annually distributed among the several states, according to their pc]> ulation, to be estimated in the manner pointed out bv the second section cf the Ist article of the constitution for the ap portionment of representatives and direct taxes. Resolved, if the senate concur, That his excellency the Governor of this state, be desired to transmtt a copy of the fore going resolution, to the executives of the different states, to be laid before their re* spective legislatures, with a request that they w ill take the same into consult ra* tion, and transmit the result of their pro ceedings to this and the other states, and also to the President of the United States, to be laid before Congress. A son of Thomas Monroe, Esq. late Post Master at Washington, is aid-de camp to the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia. He went out to Russia, under the auspices of Mr. Poletica, when Russian ambassador to this coun« try, and was successful in gaining the confidence of the Emperor Alexander, who attached him to his person during the remainder of his reign. A letter from a gentleman in Pans to his friend in dated the Ist of February, says:—“The great news of to-day is, that the Duke of Nemours, second son of the King of France, has been chosen King of Belgium; and this it is believed, will cause a war. It is not yet known what England will do; but it is certain that she is arining ships of war. In France the troops are,all marching. All those of Paris and its neighborhood arc to set off in two days so that we shall have none left but the National Guard.” Colombia.—We learn from Captain Lee, of the brig Sea Nymph, from Cartha gena, that a Colombian man of war schoo ner arrived on the 18tli, from Porto Bel lo, w ith Commodore Boysou and Lady, passengers, they having left that place on account of a revolt. On the 12th of Feb. General Fernandez took possession of Barrauquilla, and Gen. Montilla march ed for that place from Carthagena, the 14th, with a battalion of 300 men, inclu ding' SO paralpj'. Tl.o militia -were or dered to be in readiness on the 18th, to march that night to Savannaforga, a vil lage about 45 miles from Carthagena, as a disturbance had taken place there. Re port says that the inhabitants had risen aud were in arms, their object being to o verthrow the present government, and re place Gen. Mosquera in the chair. Carthagena was left with only 150 regular troops, and about 200 militia to guard the place. Every thing was qui et there; and it was believed the insurrec tion would be put down with very little difficulty.— N. V. Gaz. SETTLING COFFEE, A gentleman at a boarding house, complained to his landlady that liis cof* fee was not settled. She probably hav* ing got up backwards that morning, tartly told him to put his foot in it and settle it. Thus directed the gentleman did not hesitate, but putting his cup on the floor, he coolly applied his foot. But in making thorough work with his coffee, he unfortunately smashed the cup and saucer into powder. ‘Oh heavens!’ screamed the lady ‘you’ve spoilt my new set of china!’ ‘I beg your pardon, madam,’ replied the gentleman, if in my zeal to follow your directions I put down my foot further than I should have done. But it was to me an entire new way of doing business, and some allowance should he made for my awkwardnes However, we must all live and learn. The Boston papers state, that at the great sales of Domestic ’Manufactures in that city, on the 11th inst. under the aus pices of the New England Society, the Goods were disposed of for the most part, at on advance over the last sales—:n ma ny cases from 15 to 17 per ct. A large' concourse of traders from different States attended the sales. Female Students —Women by avßuming the literary character lose milch of that softness and delicacy of manners which arc their recommen dations to the love of the other sox. When birds are kept in capos and taught a variety of notes, their power over sounds is indeed much inereasod; they are more noisy, but tho natu ral sweetness of their voices is lost. A friend was onee asked whether he would choose a learned wife. ‘Sir,’ said he/1 would as soon take one with a beard.’ A Dutchman arid an Irishman were going to be hung. On their way to the place of execu tion the Dutchman was in great distress, and commenced crying most piteously—the Irish man asked him wnat’a tho matter—he replied, ‘I ish goim- to he hung.’ ‘Oeh, you fool,’ re plied the I ashman, ‘and ain't 1 going to be hung too?' 'Put,' said the Dutchman, ‘de Irish arc uso to it.* Dew.—The annual average quantity deposit ed in England, isestimoied at a depth of about 5 inches, being abn ! onr-.-everth of the mean jusntitv of n oktnro m< ppord to ho received from tho atrnopbeie over all Great Britain, io • lie year; or about gg l('l,n’j7 h’ss tons, Ulung the ton at a.'g imperial tuns.