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FOREIGN iN Jb vY o.
Belfast , Jany. 31.
It is said the emperor of Russia
has appointed a committee to frame
a Constitution for Poland.
p. fi'-i
Serious Business.
Mi i.an, (Italy) 1 3 .
C?ount Bellegrade was
at the Theatre de la Scala, which
was crowded s with spectators. In
the mid ft of the play fomc voices
were heard in the pit, {flouting
Viva Napoleon / Thefc clamors at
jflrft dijiurbed the performance a
little, but they were soon ‘{lifted, &
hi3 did not ferm to care
them. These shouts
were repeated nowever with more
violence towards ?the end of the
third ad, when count Bellegrade,
vVho was noticed giving orders to
one of his aids-de-camp, rose up in
his bo?:, and adtireffed the pit as
fellows:
“ Gentlemen —l have ro warn
you,.'that the doors of the house
are (hut, and if you do not inflantly
deliver up to me the authors of
thefc seditious Cries, I {hall cause
the to be emptied, and nt the
head of ‘myfokMcrs, w’ho v. iil be
able to find them.”
Nine the mod guilty were
then, delivered s.ip and {hot the
fame evening by terete light.
This measure has not a little r.s
tpnilhed those who affect to treat
with indifference a cry which can
now be regarded as nothing but a j
fkrftal pf revo>, and which calls to 1
the of Europe the
wretch ysho lias been too long its
febuigg;
,a —; w— -i
¥lf Tli'i i” its Ilea to v C
A Barba docs paper, of pec. 1 5,
contains Accounts of the formal
furren Jer o{ tS;e colpr.y of Martin
ique to the French, (pursuant to
trcSfly) o:v the and of iliatfmonth.
The change of flag wasjinnounced
by tiie thunder of artillery from
the ‘batteries and flflp.f, while the
jPurutece rent the air with “ Vive
le Roy! Vive les Bourbons!”—
iflnfc $.0 ft cordial unanimity pre
vailed ahicr.gfl nil parties, and a
fpjendid entertainment’ was given
by Sir James Leith, the command
er in Chief, in honor of the ceremo
ny. The, colony of Martinique,
ii rows,.’ therefore under the entire
control o'of the government of
France. Major General Lind fey,
us tlte governor or the colony.
C’ T a \ * ‘ J v ’1 r -
ovj Vt PlrY iv \ . }■
•Although European nowfpapers
are not tiie very be ft “authority, yet
they utay give us an idea of the
tiifppptions and intentions cf the
Kings’ and Princes under whose
an;.Tirmty they ajc ®u!d;ihed—We
fliall now give a brief flatenient of
the Jubilance of the muff. prorr.i
uent articles as :!;ey appear in the
French papers brought to this port
by Captain Rkbrough :
Mur rr’s feat on the throne of
Naples teems to be very insecure;
it is pretty evident, that the legiti
mate Sovereigns wllh to difpoffete
him of bis regal authority.—Spain
continues in a ffate of diffraction,
cuffed by the violent and arbitrary
proceedings of the violently bigot
ted Sovereign.—Austria is endea
voring, uhilft ihe is extending- her
power in Italy, to prevent the en
croachments of Runia and Pruflia,
on Poland and Saxony.—The Lon
don rimes has left off fcotefir.g
America, and has corns out in full
force a.j'M'T'ifc fh** A
I ander—and for what do you think,
I gentle reader ?—Becaufe the Rul
! fian Autocrat has not made a tar
iff of duties .favorable to Englifn
Commerce !—As Alexander has
i notcondefcended exactly to agree
| with my Lord Caftlereagh’s meas
ures at Vienna, there seems to be
j a coldness between the two Courts,
1 which may poffibty eventuate in
j actual’ hostilities about what the
! Englifn Ministers call English via
-1 ritime rights* that is, to have all the
I commence of the world submitted
j to their controui and emolument ?
There are three personages now in
Europe, who seem to give the Lon
don Minifteriaiifts much ulteafinefs,
viz. Bonaparte , Talleyrand & Gal
latin.—The first they want to re
move from the rock of Elba to a
strong caflle on the dreary coast of
Scotland ! —ls a war ffiould again
ensue in Europe, Boney may again
appear on that busy and bloody
flage, and be a thorn in the fide of
fomc of the Legitimates.—lt has
been said that he has been kept in
peto by Austria in case of need ;
and as all agree that there is a
firing aliection subsisting between
him and Maria Louifia his wife, it
would not be surprising, in these
wonderful times, to fee him fight
ing for his father-in-law—Talley
rand is silently working his way at
Vienna, and being a Frenchman,
he will endeavor, b jf r i from inter
eff and principle, to promote the
cause of his country—-As to Galla
tin, if v. e are to believe the Lon
don paper;, he has been intriguing
with the discontents in Ireland, in
order to promote emigration to A
medea! —This will be a fine dish
for Cobhett, for John Bull seems
ready to {'wallow any absurdity, be
it pver so ridiculous or ever (o mon
ftruus.—lf this latter {Tory be true,
it will aTfo give great offence to a
great Southern Letter-writer, who
lays that Irish potatoes and Irifli
men are the two greatefl curies ever
bestowed by the Almighty on the
world !—There are madmen in ev
ery part cf the world, who contrive
to irftpofs their nonsense on men
madder than themselves.— Am.
From the London Morning Chronicle
of December 79.
England, bullied in her continen
tal policy, oppressed with a debt
which equals her revenue, ground
down in lpirit with taxes, so as to
render peace with America almost
on any terms popular, eveo if made
by those whose mismanagement
has occasioned our misfortunes in
that hetnifphere, ami who can net
fubferibe to “it without recording
Britifli dllhonor in more indelible
characters, by the relinquifiiment
of higher pretcnfions- England,
perhaps, is doomed to date tiie de
cline of her naval power and pros
perity from that epoch which Arc
hailed as the cera oi her unrivalled
greatness and i.nperilhable fuprem
acv.
J _.
In looking over our file of En
glifn papers, vve find in the London
Courier of Nov. 2iff, the British
r(Tidal account of the capture of
the U. S. brig of war Syren, by
FI. M. flrip Medway 7.1 guns,
co mm ended by Anguftus Brine.—
She was captured cn the 12th of
lass J-uly, after a chafe cf 1 \ hours
was commanded by lieut- N. J. Ni
cholson, her captain (Pa-ker) hav
ing died at sea. It is very (tegular,
that this official account has never
reached this country before.
1 pf V r 7. p ncf
British Parliament. —“ Our No
vember file of London papers,
(fays the Newport (R. 1.) Mercury) j
received by the prize Adeona, con- 1
tains a lengthy debate in the house j
of lords, on the 14th November,
on a motion of the marquis of
Buckingham, for the production ‘
of the minutes and sentence of the •
court martial on captain Barclay,
for the loss of the fleet on lake ;
Erie. In the course of the debate,
the moss gross tniftatements were
made by itvera!, “noblelords)’ res
pecting the force of commodore
Perry’s squadron which, in facte,
was less in number of guns and
men, than the Britifn The mgr
quis of Buckingham, however,
outffriped them all. He dated,
that, “the American flotilla was
DOUBLE in number of ships and
guns* and in number and quality cf
seamen.” ! ! „ .
The fame file also contains an
interesting debate in the house of
lords, on the Bth cf November on
the addrefsko the prince regent, —
£rLORD DAR iN LEY said, “that
when he found Britain deriving
from tiv: biilliant results of the
continental war, none of the ad
vantages of peace, t a large army
kept up in Flanders, her affairs at
congress {fill tin fettled, and above
all her eiil 1 s insulted and repelled
on tiie other fide of the Atlantic,
he could not avoid exprdling his
diffiit is faction, i’o one part of our
policy, the naval, he had the lafl
year That while our
j
military reputation was raised to its
higheff*pitch our naval fliould have
funk, and at a time when its whole
force was ultengaged, seemed ex
traordinary. That in the course of
the war, with but few exceptions,
viftorv fliould have been on the
j
enemy,s fide in the sdions ofvef
fels ot the lame class, was alto ex
traordinary; so much so, that he
fliould fed hitnfelf obliged to call
their lordff.ips’ attention to the
faffs early in the season. On the
whole view of the ffate of the coun
try, he found no cause for congra
tulati >n. He did not overlook the
success which had partially attended
our land operations; but it was a
matter of doubt with him, whether
those were not overmatched by the
national indignation at the burning
of property [at Wafliington J not
connected with national uses.”
In reply to lord Darnley, lord
Melville (the firft Icrd of the admi
ralty) made the following moss ex
traordinary ffatemenr, which eve
ry one muff know to be a gross ex
aggeration of British captures.
Lord Melville said, “ that he pro
fumed it was the noble iord’s in
tention to ffate that the naval ad
miniffration was deficient in the re
putation which had hitherto be
longed to the sea forces of England.
Let it be remembered, that where
the enemy sent no fleets so sea there
could be r.o great naval victories :
but with the numerous seamen cf
the enemy, her multitude of priva
teers, her natural means of annoy
ance to a trade which spread over
the world, the question of success,
or difeomfiture, was to be decided
by looking at the protection af
forded to that trade in the presence
of the hoff of enemies. Something
might be guefled of this from the
sass, that between captures at home
| and cur colonies we had within a
few hundreds of twenty thousand
American seamen prisoners /—This
was not like inactivity. We had
also captured from them m<jre than
two hundred ships of war and am,
ed'vessels ! ! —He would add a few
little faffs of that nature. The
lift was thirty-eight ships cf war
from the greatest force downwards,
and one hundred and ninety nine
armed vessels, captured abroad, in
different parts of the world, he
would not rate the enire number at
less than nineteen hundred!”
[Really, ro offer comments cn
this is to insult the undeftanding of
our readers. The famous Bajtoa
Manchauscn is lately deceased, And.
lord Melville is emulous of his re
putation and charaffer.]]
Niles’ Register.
EXPEDITION TO ALGIERS.
We learn from a valuable friend,
that the firff squadron for Algiers
will fail in a few days, under the
command of Commodore Srephen
Decatur : in a few weeks the se
cond lquadron will !>e ready, V*-
cluding two 74’s; Commodore
Bainbridge takes charge of this
squadron, and on his arrival, will
command the fleet in the Mediter
ranean. It is {fated that Commo
dore Chauncey has afleed for, and
obtained the Washington, 74, one
cf the fleet. Many officers of oif
tinffion join the expedition. Be
sides those already mentioned, we
have heard of Com’rs Perry arffr
Maeflonough, Captains Jones anti
J. D. Elliott, (second in command
with Perry on the memorable loth
September, 1814.) To the fleet
will be attached a confiJerable por
tion of our invaluable Marine corps.
A detachment of artillery under
the command of Captain Arrher,
of this ffate, (the gallant andffneri
torious officer who was on board
of Commodore Chauncey’s fleet on
Lake Ontario,) wall be sent with
the expedition. Capt. A. will have
the management of the Shells,
Carcafiks, Rockets, &c. items of
the proposed tribute. He is to be
brevetted Major previous to his
departure.—Dr. Argus.
Boston, March 25.
Pence ‘testablishmem.
We learn that the following are
the General Staff retained to coti|
pose the Peace Eftablifliment of the
U. States Army. Major Generals
Brown and Jackson ; Brig. Gens.
Scott, Gaines, Macomb and Rip.
lev.
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dhe Engineer Corps, we learn
is complete. Its station is at Weft
Point.
Captain Hull is about to repair
to Washington to take his feat at
the Navy Board.
The John Adams corvette will
proceed to Bermuda to bring home
the crew of the President.
The sailors from the Lakes are
every day expeffed here ; and aj
sheer hulk has been purchased for
their accommodation.
Frigate Guerriere.
The flatemem publiflied in the
New* York Commercial Advertiser,
on the report of a pafienger, of the
total loss of the Guerriere is al
together unfounded, She did net
even touch the bar, and failed un
der bare poles, more fwiftly than
any of the coasters. She was
Saturday lying off Chester.—Phila
delphia Demo. Press.
The English East-India Compa
ny have manifefted a disposition to
admit the American trade upon
j the footing of the moss favored na*
tion.— Pet. Inf,
