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MONTHLY REGISTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPE. FRANCE. The Moniteur of the 23d October contains the official returns of the late elections in France. One fifth of the Chamber of Deputies has been renewed, for the first time, in pursuance of the Act passed in the last session. Eighty-seven members have been chosen, of whom fifty-nine have been members of preceding legislatures, and twenty-eight are new deputies. The result of the elections is stated to have been to the disadvantage of the liberaux.

The trial of Ruault, ex-sub-Lieutenant, took place on Friday the 19th October, before the Court of Assize, at Paris, for the murder of the Baron Dugeon, Marechal de Camp, &c. The features of this case were of peculiar and revolting atrocity. The Baron was allied to his meditated assassin by marriage; he found him in obscurity, and advanced him to rank in the corps which he commanded. But Ruault's perfidy and cowardice at length compelled the Baron to renounce him. Engaged in a duel, Ruault watched an opportunity, seized the sword of his antagonist with the left hand, and run him through with the right. The proofs of this were upon record. Another duel ensued; and again Ruault triumphed through treachery. It was then only that the General dismissed him from the service. The accused, on being apprehended, made no secret of his object, and on his trial he made a similar declaration. "When," he stated, "I was expelled from my regiment, I formed the resolution of punishing Dugeon, and of putting an end to myself afterwards; he desired to assassinate my reputation, and I have assassinated his life." The Jury declared him guilty, and he was sentenced to death. The Judge announced that three days were allowed him to appeal. He left the bar without the slightest symptom of remorse or fear.

Forgery on the Bank of Scotland.The trial of James M'Dougal, alias William Harper, alias Debreton, commenced on the 25th before the same court.-He was indicted for having committed certain forgeries upon the house of Barillon and Co. in Paris, and the Bank of Scotland, and circulating them knowing them to be forged. The prisoner said, in contradiction to the declarations of nume

rous witnesses who recognized him as William Harper M'Dougal, that his name was James Harper, and that he had generously substituted himself for his brother, in order to save him from an igno minious sentence. The Jury having de liberated for three quarters of an hour, declared the prisoner guilty-1st, of for gery of commercial and banking writings; 2d, of having used a forged stamp of the Bank of Scotland; 3d, of forgery of private writing. The sentence of the Court was eight years' hard labour, pillory, branding, and 500 francs fine.Macdougal has appealed against the sentence condemning him to hard labour and the pillory. He persists in asserting that he only passed himself for his brother, who, he says, will not fail to come forward and prove his innocence.

NETHERLANDS.-On the 15th October, the King of the Netherlands opened the Session of the States General with a speech, in which he gave the most satisfactory account of the present state of the kingdom. His Majesty states, that he continues to receive the most unequivocal testimonies of friendship from other powers; and that, notwithstanding the events in the Levant, there are still wellfounded hopes that peace will be maintained. The fears of an unfortunate harvest are vanished. Commerce and navigation have not been neglected; and there is reason to hope that they will become more animated. The manufactures have not prospered as might have been wished, but some of the most important have considerably improved of late, and there is little reason to complain of want of work. His Majesty speaks with satisfaction of the diffusion of knowledge among the people, and of the improvement also of the fine arts.The internal administration of the kingdom is improving; the communications are facilitated by new roads; important works have been executed to prevent the inundations of the Rhine, and others are in contemplation; a great reform is intended in the prisons; the state of the finances is promising, and the new projects of laws of that subject are nearly ready.

NAPLES.-Accounts from Naples of the 2d October state, that after a long trial, twenty-three persons have been found guilty of the murder of Signor Giampietro,

ex-chief of police, during the fury of the revolution. Three of them have been executed, and the rest sent to the gallies. On the 30th ult. the Pope's bull, by which the Carbonari are excommunicated, was read in the principal churches and chapels at Naples. This would in former times have produced a great effect; but it is now said the greater part of the Neapolitans have abandoned their ancient belief, and rather despise than dread the thunders of the church.

SPAIN. The extraordinary Cortes assembled on the 28th September. On this occasion the King, after declaring the satisfaction with which he meets the legislative body, enumerates the several subjects to which he wishes to point their attention. The first in order was a more convenient division of the surface of Spain, and a corresponding adaptation of the political government, both general and local. The others related to the measures to be adopted to restore the tranquillity of the Americans, the examination and reform of the duties of cus toms, the currency of false coin, and the charitable institutions. The President made a suitable reply to the speech, and the King returned to his palace, amidst the acclamations of the people. The re ply of the Cortes to the speech of the King was read in the sitting of the 29th. It is general and common-place, and presents no remarkable information or expression of opinion. It commences with a compliment to the nation and the King; observes that the grand object is to produce uniformity in the motions of the "political machine;" speaks of the importance of the assembling of the Cortes; and concludes with a declaration of their resolution to support the throne.

According to the latest advices, the elections are every where carried in favour of the Constitutionalists. At Murcia, on the 4th ult. thirteen persons were committed to prison, charged with plotting to subvert the Constitution. Cortes had passed a decree, authorizing the Government to keep embodied from 8,000 to 10,000 of the militia until the next meeting of the Cortes.

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The most melancholy details continue to be received of the progress of the yellow fever in the east of Spain. From 300 to 400, it is said, die daily in Barcelona. This unhappy city is also af flicted with famine. All communication with it is cut off. The infected are left without assistance. Their own weight in gold would not induce any person to approach them. "Children, whose mothers have failen victims to the deadly

contagion, are suckled by goats." Some provisions had been introduced into the town by placing these on board of vessels, and committing them to the wind when fair, by which means they reached the harbour. Tortosa is in an equally deplorable state. The Bishop has sunk under the disease. Cooler and rainy weather having commenced, the disor der abated, but after these rains, warm weather again set in, and increased its virulence. Miserable wretches attempting to escape famine and pestilence, are driven back without mercy into the infected districts. The fever, it is said, has spread to Genoa, Figueras, Alicant, Murcia, and the island of Minorca.

In the midst of this dreadful affliction of Providence, wretches, availing them. selves of the horrors which paralyse the minds of the inhabitants, have added to the number of deaths, by the most dreadful atrocities, which are truly appalling to read of. In Barcelona, the water of two wells has been poisoned, and two mon sters have been taken into custody who were seen throwing arsenic on the fish exposed for sale in the market. Not a day passes but some crime of this nature is perpetrated, under the view of pillaging the houses which death causes to be deserted. The government, seeing the necessity of keeping the people strictly within the infected districts, had ordered an additional force to march into Catalonia, for the purpose of restraining them.

PORTUGAL. On the 15th September a grand ceremony took place at Lisbon, on laying the first stone of a monument to be erected in honour of the constitution. The King attended, but it is observed his Majesty did not take a lively share in the general expressions of gladness and triumph which proceeded from the great body of his subjects. The troops under arms, on this occasion, amounted to 8000. The citizens had a public dinner, at which 400 persons attended. The following were the first three toasts :-" 1st, The Sovereignty of the Nation, established on the memorable 15th of September." 2d, The Sovereign National Congress." 3d, The Constitutional King."

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RUSSIA AND TURKEY.-The ques tion of war or peace between these two countries is yet undetermined; and the chances on either side seem pretty equally balanced. A London ministerial paper, which has all along confidently asserted that no war would take place, has lately

altered its tone so much as to announce, that "Lord Strangford and Count Von Lutsow, the British and Austrian ambas

sadors at Constantinople, are incessant in their endeavours to preserve peace." "Much," the paper adds, " is hoped from the perseverance, talents, and address of these able and experienced diplomatists, and from the confidence with which they have inspired the Divan. By an exertion of that influence, they have compelled the Sublime Porte to retract a firman, or proclamation, published on the 10th of September, in which a war with Russia was contemplated."These circumstances, though by no means conclusive of the question of war or peace, shew that an appeal to arms between Turkey and Russia is by no means an improbable event.

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of the suppressed proclamation issued by his Sublime Majesty is not stated; but the substance of a document, professing to emanate from the recesses of the Di. van, and probably the identical firman alluded to, appeared lately in the public papers, in which the Russians are distinctly charged with having framed all the plots which at present agitate the Turkish empire, and with having put arms into the hands of the Greeks, in order to produce revolt and revolution.Against the machinations of these "perfidious" Russians, "the brave and faithful Mussulmen" are cautioned to be upon their guard; and it is declared, that the claim made by the Russians "of independence for the Rajahs, and all their other demands, are so contrary to the Ottoman Power, and to the interests of the Sublime Porte, that rather than accede to them, his Sublime Majesty will not hesitate to support a war, however long and sanguinary it may be." Baron Strogonoff, the Russian Ambassador, who recently quitted the Turkish capital with so much precipitation, has been received, on his return to Russia, by the Emperor Alexander and the Court of St Petersburgh in a manner the most gracious; from which it is inferred, that a war with Turkey, of which this Ambassador appears to have laboured to lay the foundation, would not be by any means unacceptable. The inference which we draw from all these hostile indications is, not that a war is inevitable, but that it is highly probable.

GREECE. It is stated in an article from Vienna of the 10th October, that a great number of young foreigners had arrived in that capital, on their way to Greece by Trieste; and that they had been refused passports by the Austrian government. Artos, and the castle of Belvidere, are said, by the Moniteur, to have fallen into the hands of the Greeks,

and their armed force in the Morea is stated at 28,000 men On the other hand, the Turkish squadron is said to have landed 7000 men at Modon, and thence to have sailed for the relief of Patrass. According to an article from Genoa, the Turks had murdered the Primate of Cyprus, and many other Greek inhabitants of that island.

ASIA.

EAST INDIES.-The letters from India state, that the horrible malady of the cholera morbus is again making dreadful ravages. It seems to have become an additional complaint in India; it flies about in all directions. It attacks troops on or after a march. A Madras native battalion lost three officers and 150 sepoys when on the march. Out of a detachment of 200 sepoys at Seroor, onetenth have fallen victims, and they have lost the same proportion of camp followers, but no officers have been affected, but one of their ladies died after a violent attack. It is singular that the cause cannot be discovered. Dr Mardon, the surgeon, says, that in his extensive practice in the division of the army under his care in the Deccan, he is convinced that it is not infectious, as none of the surgeons who have visited patients, under the most aggravated cases, have caught the infection. Giddiness, vomiting, purging, and spasms in the stomach, are the usual symptoms. Bleeding and large doses of calomel are the usual remedies.

AMERICA.

UNITED STATES.-The papers from the United States, have for some time been filled with accounts of aggravated cases of piracy: this evil had come to such a height, that meetings of the merchants had been at length convened, for the purpose of considering the risks and losses to which commerce has been in consequence exposed; and the attention of the American Government has also been directed to this great and growing mischief, the navy department having issued a notice to all vesssels bound for the West Indies, or the Gulf of Mexico, that they are to have the benefit of convoy.

The following is a list of the American navy, as it exists in the present year.

SHIPS OF THE LINE.

Fit for sea. Building. Independence....78 Virginia.............78 Washington......78 Pennsylvania.....78 Franklin..........78 New York.........78 Columbus..........78 Chippawa..........78 New Orleans......'

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Massachusetts....78 New Hampshire,78

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United States.....58 Cayenne..........32

Guerriere..........58
SLOOPS.
Java................58 Peacock............20
Macedonia.........48 Wasp..............18
Constellation......48] Frolic..............18
Congress...........48 Oneida............14
And several smaller vessels, besides
guarda costas, &c.

CHILI AND PERU.-It appears by an extraordinary Gazette from Chili, that the General Arenales had gained a decisive victory over the Royalist General Riccafort, near Pasco. The greater part of the Royalists were either killed and wounded, or taken, only a few cavalry officers and soldiers having escaped to Lima. After this battle, an armistice was solicited by the Royalists, which was agreed to by General San Martin, for 20 days. Negociations for a permanent peace were to be immediately begun, and there was every reason to believe that they would be successful.

The Chilian government has restricted the blockade to the ports between 11 deg. 48 min. and 12 deg. 51 min. south latitude, but Lord Cochrane levies 18 per cent. upon the value of the cargoes of the ships going into the Peruvian harbours, and 34 per cent. if they return with specie. The Gazette contains some correspondence be tween his Lordship and the masters of some of the British vessels he has detain ed, in which he declares that the blockade is of very little consequence, as they have no right to trade in war to a colony from which they are excluded in peace.

CARACCAS--The American papers contain intelligence from the Spanish Main, from which it appears, that Carthagena had surrendered to the independents, and that Puerto Cabello and Cumana were expected to fall into their hands in a few weeks. At the former place, the black vomit carried off about twenty persons daily. Among the sick were the Spanish Generals La Torre and Morales, and the latter was not expected to survive. The Spanish troops who surrendered at Boca Chica had joined the republican standard. MEXICO. The whole of Mexico has shaken off its dependence upon Spain, and the manner in which the revolution has been effected precludes even the possibility of a future struggle on the part of the mother country to re-assert her ancient dominion.

Royalists and Insurgents have all join ed in the declaration of independence; and the Plan of the new Government to be established, as well as the Articles of

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Adjustment, are signed by Iturbide, on the one side, and by Count de Venadito, the Viceroy, going out of office, and Don Juan O'Donoju, the new Vice-King, on the other. The Articles of Adjustment, entered into on the 24th of August last, declare, that Mexico shall form a sovereign and independent empire, whose form of government shall be a moderate Constitutional Monarchy. The Plan of Government adds, in a still more specific manner, that New Spain (or the Mexican empire) is independent of Old Spain, and of every other power, even upon our own Continent." Both agree in offering the sceptre to the present King of Spain, Ferdinand VII.; but on condition, that “he shall personally appear in Mexico within the time that the Cortes shall specify, in order to take the oath." If he should not appear within that time, the Imperial Crown is to be offered to his brother, the Infant Don Carlos, and successively to such Princes of his family "as the Congress may think proper," until some of them shall be found willing to become Emperor. These are the principal points of the new arrangements, which afterwards branch out into the various details of the Government, the establishment of the Cortes, the formation of a Supreme Junta, and the plan of a Constitution. It is declared, "that all inhabitants of New Spain, without any distinction of Europeans, Africans, or Indians, are citizens of this monarchy, and eligible to every office, according to their merit and virtue;" a principle not more liberal than just, and well calculated to promote the complete civilization of all the tribes of which the population of that extensive empire is composed. In order to secure this order of things, a "protecting army" is to be formed, which shall be denominated the Army of the Three Guarantees, as it will take under its protection the preserva. tion of the Roman Catholic religion, the independence of the country under the new system, and the intimate union of Europeans and Americans. The Viceroy, O'Donoju, engaged to send two Com missioners to carry the treaty to the King of Spain, and to offer him the crown on the conditions already mentioned. It is evident that those conditions are of a nature with which it is scarcely possible for Ferdinand VII. in his present situation to comply. Neither is it likely, that if he cannot go in to claim and fill the Imperial Throne in Mexico, he, or indeed the Spanish Cortes, will allow his brother, or any prince of his family, to accept the digni ty offered them, and thus to consummate the total separation of the two Empires.

SEPTEMBER.

BRITISH CHRONICLE.

The late Queen's Funeral.-The coroner's inquest, on the body of Richard Honey, one of the unfortunate individuals who lost his life during the disturbances at the funeral procession of her late Majesty, after a laborious and keen investigation, which occupied them fourteen days, closed their sittings on Tuesday the 11th instant, when they brought in a verdict of" manslaughter against the party of Life Guards who were on duty at the place where Honey was shot."-Mr Sheriff Waithman acted as counsel for the relations of Honey on this occasion; and strong endeavours were made, but without effect, to bring home a charge of murder against an individual officer of the Life. Guards. For this purpose, the witnesses were examined over and over; the Colonel, Adjutant, and other Officers, trumpeters and soldiers, of the regiment were examined. The witnesses and jury were admitted to the barracks, to inspect the regiment on parade, in order, if possible, to identify the individual who fired the fatal shot. Mr Adolphus appeared latterly on behalf of the regiment; and between him and Mr Waithman many keen altercations took place. Several individuals of the jury also displayed much acrimony and partial feeling in the course of the investigation.

Sir Robert Baker.-The conduct of this gentleman, on the occasion of the Queen's funeral, in permitting the procession to take a route different from that marked out for it by Government, has, it appears, given great offence; and Sir Robert has, in consequence, resigned his office of Head Magistrate of the Bowstreet Police. On this subject a London paper of the 14th instant says, that "a statement of the unfortunate affair of the 14th August having been laid before the King, his Majesty was pleased to express his disapprobation of some part of Sir Ro bert Baker's conduct on that day. This was communicated to Sir Robert, and his resignation as Magistrate immediately followed as a matter of course. Sir Robert sat at Bow-street, for the last time, on Wednesday evening. Yesterday afternoon the office of Chief Magistrate was conferred upon Richard Birnie, Esq. by command of his Majesty, through Lord Sidmouth. (Mr Birnie has since been knighted). Mr White, of the Queensquare Police-Office, we understand is, to be third Magistrate at Bow-street."

VOL. IX.

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Yesterday the pier of suspension lately erected at Trinity, near Newhaven, was proved, by the weight of twenty-one tons being placed between the different points of suspension. Although that was the extreme weight up to which Captain Brown, the contractor, was bound to prove it, such was the confidence of the contractor, as well as of the proprietors, in the strength and stability of the structure, that the passengers, by the various steam-vessels which frequent it, were allowed to pass without interruption, during the. whole operation, so that at one time there was a weight equal to that of 500 persons on the arches at the same time.

27.-Dreadful Accident.-On Sunday the 23d instant, a dreadful accident happened at Keighley.-There has lately arisen in Yorkshire, and in various other parts of the kingdom, a religious community calling themselves Primitive Methodists, from what they consider an adherence to the principles and practice of the original followers of John Wesley; by others they are called Ranters. On Sunday in the afternoon, upwards of 200 of these persons were assembled in the upper room of a wool warehouse at Keighley, for the purpose of holding a love feast. When the services of the day were drawing to a close, from the breaking of the timbers of the floor, the whole assembly were precipitated through the floor into the room below. From fifty to sixty persons, a large proportion of them old women, were severely crushed and wounded. An elderly woman, named Martha Wood,

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