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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. 4 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,