the productions of every country; to render this island the universal emporium of trade, and to see the city of London the metropolis not only of the first commercial kingdom but of the commercial world itself, have been the objects for some years to which the hopes and labours of my public life have been constantly devoted: objects, of which, through the known sentiments of his majesty's government, and the wisdom of the legislature, I trust, under the blessing of Providence, we shall all witness the accomplishment. If this should happily be achieved, if I shall have been fortunate enough to be in any degree a humble instrument in the success of such a work, the consciousness of having fulfilled my duty, the certain prosperity of the country, and, gentlemen, the grateful remembrance of this day, I shall feel to be rewards far beyond any pretensions I can possess, and more than sufficient to satisfy the utmost wish any reasonable ambition could cherish. The assurance of this feeling, I trust, will be ac cepted by you as the best pledge I can offer, that my zeal will never be remitted, while any part of the duty imposed on me by the wish you have been pleased to express is left unperformed, and while it is in my power in any way to contribute to the advancement of our navigation and commerce, to which may be traced so much of the blessings which, as a people, we enjoy, our wealth, our greatness, our maritime power, our exalted station amongst surrounding nations, even of the liberty of this country itself, and the means by which we have been enabled to bear so glorious a part in re-estab. lishing, I hope permanently, the

freedom and independence of Europe. Allow me to trespass one moment further on your attention, to express my particular obligation to you gentlemen who have done me the honour of attending on this occasion; and to assure you, that your personal kindness to me, in consenting to form this deputation, has made an impression upon my mind, that will remain unaltered to the latest hour of my life.

FRENCH PRESS.-An article in the Drapeau Blanc having given offence to the Chamber of Peers, the editor of that journal, and M. Martainville, the writer of the article, were brought to the bar of that assembly. They were heard by themselves and counsel, after which the Chamber acquitted the editor, and sentenced Martainville to be imprisoned one month, and to pay a fine of 100 francs. The proceedings were with closed doors.

28. LORD PORTSMOUTH'S CASE. -This important case, after having occupied seventeen days, in the examination of witnesses, was this day concluded. Mr. Commissioner Trower summed up the whole at great length. He particularly commented on the evidence of the medical men, who had declared lord Portsmouth to be of unsound mind, and put it to the jury, whether they had seen any thing in their examination of his lordship to lead them to a different conclusion. In alluding to the marriage of the earl with the present countess, he thought that Mr. Hanson had been guilty of a dereliction of his duty as a trustee, in acting as he had acted in furtherance of this marriage without the knowledge of the other trustees. The jury retired for an hour, and then returned an unanimous ver

of Portsmouth, is a man of unsound mind and condition, and incapable of managing himself and his affairs; and that he has been so from the 1st Jan., 1809." The jury afterwards declared, at the suggestion of the chief commis sioner, that, having heard no evidence on the point, they knew not who was heir to the titles and estates of the earl of Portsmouth.

GENERALS PEPE AND CARASCOSA. About two years ago, the Neapolitan general Carascosa announced his determination of calling out lieut.-general William Pepe, late commander of the Nea politan forces. Very shortly after general Pepe's arrival in London, which was on the 1st of this month, be received a letter from gen. Carascosa, in which that officer, after charging general Pepe with conduct injurious to his reputation, avowed his opinion, that military revolutions were, in all cases, contrary to the principles of honour

that any change in the govern ment of Naples was unnecessary -and still less in that of Spain. The letter concluded with a chal lenge in the usual terms.

To this letter, general Pepe replied, by declaring his opinion, that every free state was indebted for its liberty to military revolution, not excepting even England-that the Spaniards were now a prey to civil anarchy, only because certain individuals, calling themselves Liberals, were, in fact, hostile to the constitution of the Cortes that he had employed the authority which his rank and his command had given him at Naples, to resist the despotism of a government, which, while it rendered the people miserable, was of no

dynasty and concluded by accepting the challenge.

On the 20th, the generals met count Santa Rosa, ex-minister of war of Piedmont, attended general Pepe, and M. Brunet, a French gentleman, general Carascosa. The weapons were swords, and the combatants engaged; but at the second pass, general Pepe's sword snapped short near the guard, on which the seconds interfered, and the combat, as is usual in such cases, was deferred.

A second meeting took place to-day, a few miles from London, not far from Kew-bridge. On engaging, general Carascosa attacked with great impetuosity; but after several passes on both sides, general Pepe seizing his adversary's sword with his left hand, disarmed him; and placing the point of his sword at his breast, had his life in his power. Here the affair would have terminated, but general Carascosa, on recovering his sword, renewed the combat, which was warmly maintained, until he was finally disabled, by a thrust from general Pepe in the right shoulder. General Pepe, seeing his adversary incapable of further defence, declined availing himself of his advantage; and thus the duel terminated.

MARCH.

1. HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY A FEMALE-On Thursday evening, at about half-past seven o'clock, as Miss Disney, a farmer's daughter at Reedham, in Norfolk, about 16 years of age, was on her return home from Yarmouth, accompanied by a female servant and a boy, she was accosted on Had

discoe Dam by a person in woman's attire, who approached her and demanded her money, with a threat of cutting her throat if she did not instantly comply, at the same time putting her hand in her bosom, as if to take out the knife. On hearing this threat, the servant and the boy ran away, leaving Miss Disney in the power of the robber, to whom she delivered a morocco purse with 28s. and a bundle containing oranges, lace, &c. On the receipt of the booty, the robber made a precipitate retreat. When Miss Disney arrived at Haddiscoe, the circumstance had become pretty generally known from the servant and boy, and several people were about to hasten to her assistance. The Yarmouth Morning Star coach coming up shortly after, information of the robbery was given to the coachman. On the coach's arrival at St. Olave's-bridge, the landlord of the public-house there, asked, if he had room for a female to Yarmouth, to which he replied in the affirmative. The female then made her appearance; and it immediately occurred to the coachman, that she must be the robber, of whom a description had been given him at Haddiscoe. The coachman placed her inside, and requested a friend to get in also, and to take charge of her, but not to make his suspicions known. On the arrival of the coach at Yarmouth, a mayor's officer took her to his own house; where, on examining the bundle she had with her, it was found to contain the very articles which had been stolen from Miss Disney; and on a further search, the purse, with its contents, was found beneath her stays. To-day she was brought

up

for examination before the ma

gistrates for the county, at Yarmouth; when it appeared, that Miss Disney, with the servant and boy, came to Yarmouth in the forenoon of the day of the robbery to make a few purchases; and, in the course of their perambulation, met with the prisoner, who was well known to Miss Disney from their having lived in the same parish together. On their return home in the evening, the prisoner expressed her intention of accompanying them part of the way, and proceeded with them as far as Fritton, when she bade them good night. Miss Disney had not, however, proceeded far over Haddiscoe Dam, when she was accosted by the prisoner in the manner before described, whom she then took to be a man disguised as a woman. The prisoner was fully committed to Norwich Castle, to take her trial for the offence. She is about 18 or 19 years of age.

WILD BEASTS.-The Isle of Man was lately in danger of being overrun by beasts of prey. The caravans belonging to Polito, got into a deep drift of snow, on the road between Douglas and Ramsay, when, owing to the inclination of the vehicles, the beasts were forced on one side; the boards gave way, and forth issued tigers, bears, hyænas, and other animals; but their ferocity was totally paralyzed, either by the cold, or the appearance of the snow all around, and they were again gotten into secure confinement.

TREAD MILL-Mr. Secretary Peel, in January last, addressed a circular to the visiting magis trates of the twenty gaols and houses of correction, where treadwheels have been established; "asking how long the tread-wheel had been in operation; and whe ther they had found any injurious

effects had been produced by it on the bodies or legs of the prisoners, who had worked thereat?" The replies of the magistrates in effect are, that no injury of the sort is complained of; on the contrary, that the tread-wheel is conducive to health.

PRINCE ESTERHAZY.-Some considerable time ago, a French man, calling himself count de Bettera, waited upon prince Paul Esterhazy, and made a claim for the payment of a large sum of money, which he alleged he had won at a gaming-table, during a residence in Austria, from prince Nicholas Esterhazy, the father of prince Paul. The prince, not being inclined to give implicit credit to such a story, resisted the demand; but, finally, in order to get rid of the claimant, who was exceedingly boisterous and troublesome in his mode of enforcing his suit, he consented to pay him 150l., upon condition that it should be taken as an entire acquittance, and that he should quit this country. Bettera, how ever, subsequently repeated his demand for the whole sum, which he had alleged in the first instance to be due to him; and, failing in obtaining it, he had recourse to threats and conduct of the most violent kind. He took every opportunity of insulting the prince, and that as publicly as possible. He went several times to the residence of the embassy in Queen Anne-street, and accosted him at various other places, threatening to horsewhip or cudgel him; and another mode of annoyance, which he adopted, was, to make the prince the subject of a caricature, which was exhibited in the window of a well-known shop in Piccadilly. At length, he went so f

as to threaten to blow out the brains of prince Paul, who thereupon made complaint to his majesty's ministers. The consequence was, that Monsieur de Bettera was visited one day last week at his hotel, the Prince of Wales, in Leicester-place, by an officer, who conveyed him before the privy council, at Whitehall. He was there examined, and then committed to the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, until he could find sureties to keep the peace, with an order also that he should give forty-eight hours' notice of bail. To-day he gave notice of bail, and was conveyed to a policeoffice, to enter into the proper recognizances; but the persons, whom he had named, did not come forward, and he was remanded back to prison.

BEQUESTS TO THE NATION.There has been published, by order of the House of Commons, an account of the sums of money, given or bequeathed by individuals towards the reduction of the national debt, up to the 5th of January, 1823. The following is a list of these donations and bequests:--

James Burgis, 1st August, 1809, 2001. 3 per cents.

Admiral Peter Rainier, 1st February, 1810, 11,488. 188., and on the 5th April, 1819, 1877. 9s. 3d.

Anna Maria Reynolds, 1st May, 1816, in stock of various descriptions, to the amount of 35,996l. 7s. 4d. sterling.

Anonymous, 1st May, 1816, 10.-Ditto, 5th July, 1818, 5l.Ditto, 5th April, 1822, 300l.

Richard Quarlermain, 5th April, 1822, 100%.

Major Thomas Gamble, 5th July, 1822, 14,300l. navy five per cents.

The total amount in money is 66,626l. 14s. 1d.; and the estimated amount of three per cent consolidated annuities, which the above donations and bequests would amount to, on the 5th of April, 1823, if the whole sum had been vested in those annuities, is 187,2431.

7. A splendid entertainment to the Spanish and Portuguese ambassadors was this day given at the city of London Tavern. The most distinguished members of both Houses of Parliament, and the most eminent persons of the commercial and monied interest, filled the room. Upwards of 400 persons of rank and respectability were there. Lord William Bentinck was in the chair, and on his right sat the duke of Sussex, the duke de San Lorenzo, supported by the ambassadors of Spain and Portugal, &c. &c.

PRINCE ALEXANDER HOHEN LOHE. Dr. Badeley, Protestant physician to the convent of New Hall, near Chelmsford, has pub lished "An Authentic Narrative of the Particulars of a miraculous cure of one of the nuns." The patient, aged 30, was suddenly attacked on the 7th of December, 1820, without any apparent cause, with a pain in the right thumb, which rapidly increased, and was succeeded by a swelling of the whole hand and lower arm.

The

swelling becoming red and painful, the advice of Mr. Barlow, a respectable surgeon of Chelmsford, was taken; under whose directions the usual remedies of leeching, blistering, fomenting, poulticing, and embrocating, were employed. After giving these various modes of treatment a trial, Mr. Barlow, supposing matter had formed near the bone, made an incision in the

ball of the thumb, but no matter escaping, he recommended further advice to be taken, and Mr. Carpue, of London, was accordingly called in, who, after inspecting the part, enlarged the incision, supposing that matter would follow; but none appeared. After the expiration of a week, another incision was made on the back of the forefinger, with the view of affording vent for matter; but nothing except blood escaped. The surgeons, being evidently a little embarrassed, and desirous to get rid of the responsibility of the case, declared, as is common in such cases, that the constitution was in fault. The assistance of Dr. Badeley was, in consequence, resorted to; who prescribed mercury, with other medicines, to correct the constitution, while mercurial friction was applied to the affected arm. This was continued, till the nun was salivated. The swelling of the arm, while the system was under the influence of mercury, nearly subsided, and in this state it continued many days. The disease, however, soon continued to advance, till it " as bad as ever," notwithstanding Dr. Badeley had succeeded in "re-establishing perfectly her general health, and notwithstanding every thing had been done which the London and the country surgeon could suggest during 18

months."

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Mrs. Gerard, the superior of the convent, supposing that the disease could not be cured by any human means, wrote to prince Hohenlohe, of Bamberg, who is, by some German enthusiasts, considered to be peculiarly favoured by the Almighty, to solicit his interference with the Disposer of all events, in behalf of the afflicted nun. ·

To Mrs. Gerard's letter,. the