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grace for your own satisfaction, and that of others concerned in the same; and to the end that this royal decree may be carried into effect with the greatest punc tuality and exactness by the publication thereof to whomsoever it may concern.'

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The foregoing royal order has been communicated to the council by the president; who, having seen the same, together with the resolution of the exchequer of ficers,-who, by a decree of the 15th of July last, were pleased to order that the general treasury of the revenue of public lands should direct what is most expedient to be done with respect to the payment of the salary of the 16,000 rials of vellon allowed to the director of the said schools, for which purpose the necessary order was issued the 20th of the same month; it was deemed proper to ask for a copy of the plan which is to serve as a rule for this mode of instruction. In consequence whereof, and of what was recently set forth by the said exchequer officers, it was agreed that his majesty's resolution, contained in the order herein transmitted, be published and circulated without prejudice to the privileges of the council and those of the public cause.

Whereof I inform your lordship, by the advice of this supreme tribunal, for your own information, and that you may cir, culate it to the magistrates of the towns in your department for the same purpose. May the Lord preserve your lordship many

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Constantinople, Oct. 25.-" On the 16th, the two elder Duzoglies were beheaded at the Seraglio gates, and two others, a brother and a cousin, hung at the door of one of their country houses on the Bosphorus. On the 17th, the head of Apturaman Bey (late director of the mint), who had been sent into exile with a pension of 30,000 piastres, was brought to town and placed by the two first-mentioned, where they remained three days.

"On the 23rd, another of the Duzoglies, who had been absent on account of bad health, was brought in, and of course placed in confinement. Nothing has yet been done with respect to the other parties implicated; but there can be no doubt that, as soon as every thing is confessed and recovered, to which it is said they have been enforced by torture, the same fate is reserved for them.

"The property found in Duzoglies' possession, and what was discovered elsewhere, exceeds credibility; and what has been sold brings prices far beyond the original cost; for the government forces the rich bankers and other royahs to attend; and what the Turkish nobles do not want for themselves, is knocked down to them at any rates they please.

"A great number of families have been ruined by this event, they having placed their funds at interest in the hands of the Duzoglies; and there is hardly a respectable dealer in jewellery in the place but what is implicated, either for property sold, or en, trusted to them for sale, the whole of which had fallen into the hands of government, and is selling off

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by public auction. When individuals under foreign protection, who have seen and claimed their property whilst under the hammer, can get no redress, you may judge what chance remains for the poor royahs."

Aberdeen, Oct. 27.-On Saturday and Sunday last, we were visited with one of the most tremendous gales which have been experienced on this coast for many years. It commenced on Saturday afternoon, and continued during that night, and till late on Sunday night, blowing from N. and N. N. W. in squalls of unexampled violence, accompanied with snow and sleet; and we regret to learn, has been productive of most disastrous conse→ quences to the shipping, but more particularly along the coast. From the direction of the storm, the shores of the Moray-frith have chiefly suffered; the various creeks and harbours from Buckie to Kinnaird's Head presenting one continued scene of devastation; among which the new harbours of Banff and Macduff have sustained incalculable damage. The works at Macduff, to which the noble and patriotic proprietor had contributed so largely, are nearly destroyed. At Redhyth, Cullen, Portknockie, Buckie, and Rot tenslough, great quantities of herrings and other property have been carried off, and many fishing boats dashed to pieces. At the last-mentioned creek, the sloop Industry was put ashore, and has become a wreck; crew and part of her materials saved; and at Portsoy the piers, which had stood above 100 years, have been

earried away, and about 1,000. value of herrings lost. During the violence of the gale on Sunday, public worship was entirely suspended, the people being employed in endeavouring to save their property and secure their dwellings. A foreign brig, loaded with flax and flax seed, is ashore in Banff-bay, and her mate said to be drowned; and a vessel loaded with herrings driven ashore at Portknockie, crew saved; but the cargo entirely lost.

At Peterhead, the sloop Aid, loading oil at the South Quay, was driven from her moorings, and totally wrecked on the west side of the bay; about 20 tons of oil have been saved, and 16 lost.

It is also stated, that the breakwater at the New Harbour received some considerable damage, but the extent had not exactly been ascertained, owing to the continued violence of the surf.

Fraserburgh, Oct. 25.- A shocking spectacle presented itself this morning on the north side of Kinnaird's-head light-house, where during the night the brig Adonis, of Liverpool, had been driven on the rocks and dashed to pieces, and all on board perished; the wreck of both vessel and cargo strewed along the shore, exhibiting an awful catastrophe, cargo consisting of hemp and tallow. Several dead bodies were repeatedly seen this forenoon, dashing against the face of the rocks by the violence of the waves, one of whom had the appearance of having been a passenger, as he had on a long black

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cloak. Several articles of children's clothes have been also washed on shore. On a small part of the stern was, " Adonis, Liverpool;" and on a sign-board, "Adonis, Geo. Atkinson, for Oporto."

Stonehaven, Oct. 25.-From the violence of the easterly storm between Saturday and Sunday, a run of the heaviest sea that has been seen here for a long time back, rolled into our harbour, which is quite open to the storms from that quarter, and is at best but poor shelter for vessels during the winter season. About one o'clock on Sunday, a small sloop belonging to William Smart, of this place, broke from her moorings, and was driven with such force upon the beach beyond the harbour, that, in the course of a few minutes, she was literally dashed to pieces; scarcely a plank or deal in the whole hull but was broken into different parts.

She had on board 163 barrels of cured herrings, all of which, except three casks, are totally lost. None of the crew were on board at the time she broke loose, or they must undoubtedly have perished.

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Petersburgh, Oct. 28. · king of Spain has requested permission from the Russian government to engage 40 Jesuits, destined to re-establish in the Spanish colonies the celebrated missions which contributed so much to propagate in them civilization and Christianity.

St. Petersburgh, Oct. 29.-His royal highness the duke of Gloucester, president of the British Society for the Amelioration of

Prisons, has addressed a letter to the president of the Russian Society, the privy counsellor prince A. Galitzin, expressing his profound gratitude to the emperor on the occasion of his majesty's erecting at Cherson a monument in honour of Howard. The duke at the same time sent a superb bust of Howard, bearing a strong resemblance.

Cassel, Oct. 26.-In all Hesse, the great festival of the victory of the Germans was celebrated with the usual cordiality, dignity and love of order. In the night of that glorious day, fires burned upon all the mountains, and shone in many plains; joy every where reigned in its true cordial expression-the loud transports of the people and festive assemblies of the high classes. Though the festival was kept all over the country, not the slightest disorder or impropriety any where took place.

Paris, Oct. 26.-The trial of the editor and publisher of the translation of Mr. Hobhouse's history of the " Hundred Days" took place before the Assize court of Paris yesterday. This translation was originally printed at Ghent, and a copy of it was purchased from a traveller in Paris by M. Domerc, one of the defendants in the present case. This copy was shown to the other defendant, Regnault Warin, who thought it might be published, if some parts, which reflected with too much severity upon the king and the royal family, were suppressed. Regnault Warin undertook the task of erasing the most offensive parts, and these altera

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tions being made, the book was printed. Five copies of the publication were, in pursuance of law, deposited in the public office; 484 copies were sent to Brussels, Ghent, Geneva, Naples, Warsaw, Turin, and other foreign towns; 487 were distributed among the booksellers at Paris; and 25 were presented to the friends of the publishers.

The publication was charged as libellous, in having made a formal attack upon the inviolability of the King's person, the or der of succession to the throne, and the constitutional authority of his Majesty. Several passages in the work were charged as calumnies against the members of the royal family.

The Advocate General, in his speech to the jury, remarked upon some points of diversity between the original work and the translation, which were not to the advantage of the latter. He observed, that although "the author was a republican in principles, and too much inclined to sacrifice legitimacy to usurpation, he, however, was not blinded by the despotism of Buonaparte. He censured Napoleon on every occasion, but all these passages had disappeared in the translation. Mr. Hobhouse had used the word right,' in speaking of the sacred title of his Majesty to the throne, but the translator prefixed the epithet pretended."

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At half-past four o'clock the jury retired, and returned to the court at half-past six. They pronounced the two prisoners not guilty of formal attacks upon the inviolability of the

King's person, &c., but they de clared them guilty' of public insults towards the King and royal family; and the court, after some deliberation, sentenced Domerc to six months imprisonment and 1,000 francs fine; and Regnault Warin to one year's imprisonment and 1,000 francs fine.

27. Paris. Yesterday, M. Gevaudan and colonel Simon underwent an examination before M. Meslier, Juge d'Instruction, for having permitted meetings of the friends of the liberty of the press to be holden in their residences, in contravention of the article 291 of the penal code, which enacts, that "no association of more than twenty persons shall take place either daily, or on appointed days, for the object of discussing religious, literary, political, or other topics, without the sanction of the government, and under such conditions as the public authorities may judge proper to impose upon the society." The violation of this article is punishable by a fine of from 16 to 200 francs.

28. Manchester.-The people of Bolton sent a requisition some days ago to the magistrates of the Warrington division, acting at Leigh, requesting their protection in the exercise of their constitutional rights to meet and petition for the redress of grievances, and to express their opi nion upon the subject of the late transactions at Manchester. They have just received an answer, addressed to Mr. Bowker, the late boroughreeve, from Mr. Barrow, the chairman of the magistrates, recognizing the right of the peo

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ple to meet, and to petition either parliament or the Prince, upon any subject; and enclosing a letter from lord Derby, in which the same recognition appears, accompanied by a declaration, that the magistrates would not be justified in interrupting the people in the exercise of that right upon any occasion, if they conducted themselves peaceably. The noble lord, however, concluded with expressing his disinclination to interfere with the discretion which belongs to the magistrates.

29. Ten additional field pieces, with a proportionate number of artillerymen, have been ordered by government into the districts under the command of major. general sir John Byng.

The disbanding of the 25th light dragoons, which lately arrived at Chatham from India, has been countermanded, and orders have been issued to suspend, for the present, any further discharges from the regular army. The skeleton of the 86th regiment, which also lately arrived from India at Chatham, is expect ed to join its depot in this city immediately.-Canterbury Paper. 31. Paris.-The members of the society of the "Friends to the Liberty of the Press" assembled yesterday in great numbers at the house of M. Gevaudan, where they deliberated upon the difficult circumstances and critical situation in which the society is placed. It is remarked, that since the ministry has made a direct attack upon the committee of the Liberty of the Press, the members of the society assemble more numerously than ever.

NOVEMBER,

1. The advices received from Port Jackson, by the Foxhound, to the 13th June, contain information very important to the interests of this advancing territory. It was some time since announced, that a passage had been effected across the Blue Mountains, and that a most desirable country had been discovered to the west of those towering heights; and we have now the additional gratification of stating, that a commu nication has been opened to it of easy access, running through lands of the first description. The colonists are indebted for this acquisition to their resources to the exertions of C. Throsby, Esq. a large land and stockholder, many years resident in New South Wales, who, after two preceding attempts, succeed. ed in May last, with the assistance of two native guides, Cooc koogonn, chief of the Burrahburrah tribe, and Dual, in passing from the Cow-pastures direct for Bathurst, having en countered only those difficul ties inseparably attendant on the first explorers of the forests of a new country. Mr. Throsby was, on the whole, occupied 15 days on the expedition, his progress being protracted from some of his party falling ill, and bad weather; but by the delay he had greater opportunity of examining the country on each side of his route; and in his letter to the gentleman from whom we have the information, he says "I have no hesitation în stating,

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