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fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in eleven volumes octavo.

The Lady's Magazine is now in the fiftieth year of its progress; and such a length of duration is certainly an indisputable evidence of public favour. With a view of securing a continuance of encouragement, the proprietors have resolved to commence a New Series, on a plan which will correspond with the spirit of the times, and the improved state of the female mind.

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Mr Farr is about to publish, Remarks on the Treatment and Cure of Scrofula, detailing the success of his practice for many years past in removing that disease.

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MONTHLY REGISTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPE.

FRANCE. The Paris papers of the 28th December contain a report of the trial of General Savary, Duke of Rovigo, who was in 1816 condemned to death before the first Council of War, for contempt of Court, in not making his appearance. The original charges against this officer were, first, for having betrayed the king, in accepting any place under Bonaparte before the 23d of March; whereas he had on the 20th been nominated to fill the office of Inspector-General of the Gendarmerie; and second, for having, by secret manœuvres, and by means of criminal intelligence, facilitated the return of Bonaparte to France. A letter, purporting to be written by Savary, and bearing his signature, was read, to prove his having appointed a Doctor Renault to

convey letters between Napoleon, in the island of Elba, and his friends in France, but the authenticity of this letter was discredited by witnesses. Savary proved, by the testimony of several persons, his unwillingness to accept of the place offered to him by Napoleon, and that he never fulfilled the duties annexed to it until the 25th of March. It was stated by M. Dupin, the advocate for the prisoner, that after the battle of Waterloo, Savary followed the fortunes of Bonaparte, and embarked with him on board the Bellerophon, but being arrested as a prisoner of state, he was conveyed to Malta. After a considerable lapse of time, he was resolved to proceed to Paris, to purge his contempt, and in his dangerous journey from Hamburgh to Paris, he was escorted by a young English officer,

whose conduct in this respect was warmly eulogized by M. Dupin, and compared to that of Sir Robert Wilson, Captain Hut chinson, and Mr Bruce, when they magnanimously saved the life of Lavalette. The Council of War, after a short deliberation, acquitted the Duke de Rovigo of the two charges, and immediately ordered that he should be set at liberty.

A circular has been addressed by the Minister of War, the Marquis de Latour Maubourg, to all the Generals of Division and Colonels, stating that he has received information of seditious addresses having been disseminated among the troops in garrison, for the purpose of seducing them from their duty.

SPAIN. Extract of a letter from Madrid."The terrific proceedings of the inquisition still go on. Under the false pretext of freemasons and schismatic and libertine philosophers, enlightened men who have rendered the most important services in defence of their country's freedom, are now immured in the dungeons of that tribunal. The Count de Montijo, a grandee, and late captain-general of Grenada, has been sent from his military prison to confinement in the inquisition of Santiago de Galicia, one of the worst in Spain, and his brother, the Count de Teva, has also been conveyed away, it is supposed, for a similar purpose. It was the latter who spread so much enthusiasm in the country at the time of our glorious revolution. Senor Mariav, ex-president of the Cortes, Don Luis de Avila, Manuel Calderon, Miguel Dandeya, Dr Cecilia, and several others, are confined in the inquisition of Grenada, and great apprehensions are entertained for their safe.

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of August. General Barnes, who has been appointed to succeed Governor Brownrigg in the Governorship of that island, arrived at Columbo the end of July. The natives were turning their attention to the cultivation of the island, and there seemed to be no prospect of the tranquillity of the colony being disturbed.

NEW SOUTH WALES. A letter from Sydney, dated July 23, 1819, speaks in very high terms of the increasing prosperity of the colony, and from which we extract the following passages :-"The natives continue very harmless; the Governor has established a school for the native children, which succeeds well, though seve ral of their parents are averse to bring their children to receive the benefits of education, lest it should be intended as a means of enslaving them afterwards; at least so they endeavour in their uncouth manner to make you understand. The children are every Christmas regaled with pudding and beef, and rewarded according to their improvement in writing, reading, drawing, &c. These aborigines are a strange people; there is yet but little known of their customs; they certainly believe in a good and evil spirit, of which latter they are most terribly fearful. You would be surprised at the hardihood with which they bear the most dreadful blows; when any one of them has committed murder, or any other great offence, he is sentenced to stand punishment; this is performed by the culprit, furnished caly with a shield, standing in the centre of a piece of ground, and before a certain number of his tribe, who are to throw so many clubs, or I should rather say spears, at him, which if he can ward off, so as to escape with life, he is pardoned. The natives also begin now to have a little more sense of decency, and feel the propriety of clothing. A light-house has just been finished, and is considered a masterpiece of its kind; it is 353 feet from the sea, and the light is discoverable at a distance of eight leagues. Three churches are to be built; the design of one to be erected at Sydney is to be forwarded to England; it is to be in the Gothic style. A gentleman here is building a magnificent house, containing a banqueting room, 36 feet in length, having a double row of pillars of the Grecian order; and I assure you our town begins to wear a very respectable appearance."

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fres beyond the Kay. The result of the last movement has been, the capture of 30,000 head of cattle, the destruction of several of the enemy, and the clearing of the country embraced by the line of operations from the hostile Caffres. Hinsa lost no time in communicating with the Lieutenant-Colonel, and the 23d ultimo had been fixed for an interview between them. As information had reached Graham's Town of the return of Lieutenant-Colonel Willshire to the Banks of the Gwanga, there can be no doubt that the arrangement concluded with Hinsa at the intended interview had been satisfactory. It is also known, that the chief Congo had surrendered to a party under the command of Major Fraser and Captain Somerset; thus, of the three principal Caffre leaders, two are in captivity; and although the third, "TSambie, has succeeded in making his escape to the mountains, he is so completely a fugitive, so totally abandoned by his followers, and so reduced, as well in real strength as in influence, that his mere existence becomes a matter of secondary im. portance."

AMERICA.

UNITED STATES.-On the 6th December the Congress of the United States assembled, and on the following day the President's message was delivered in the usual forms. It commences by announcing the forward state of the public works; proceeds to lament the ravages of disease in some of the provinces, the commercial distresses of the Union, and the deficient returns of the late harvest; adding, however, as topics of consolation under each of these afflictions respectively, that the pestilence had disap. peared; that the country was rapidly recovering from its commercial embarrass ments; and that the agricultural produce of the year, though unequal to that of other seasons, was still abundantly adequate to the supply of the States, and would even leave a considerable surplus for exporta, tion.

The President next adverts to the subject of the Florida Treaty; and, after discussing at length the mutual claims and rights of the two countries, and, of course, concluding in the inference, that the States are fully entitled to the cession of the provinces in question, the President states the delay of the ratification to have been accounted for by Spain, at first by a pretended necessity for explanation on certain points; and, after the American Minister at Madrid had declared himself authorised and prepared to furnish any explanation required" It was alleged by the Minister of Spain, that this (the American) Government had attempted to alter one of the principal articles of the Treaty, by a de

claration which the Minister of the United States had been ordered to present, when he should deliver the ratification by his Government: and it is further alleged, that this (the American) Government had recently tolerated or protected an expedition from the United States to the province of Texas."

The declaration is explained by the President to refer to certain grants of land in the Floridas; with respect to which it was thought proper to declare, that though all grants made by the Spanish Government before the Treaty, should be held valid : all made subsequently should be deemed void.

The expedition to Texas is stated to furnish as little pretext, since it was notoriously undertaken against the wishes of the American Government. The Message then proceeds to call the non-ratification a new and very serious injury," addiug, that, "by this proceeding, Spain has formed a relation between the two countries, which will justify any measures on the part of the United States, which a strong sense of injury, and a proper regard for the rights and interests of the nation, may dictate." And in conclusion, "From a full view of these circumstances, it is submitted to the consideration of Congress, whether it will not be proper for the United States to carry the conditions of this Treaty into effect, in the same manner as if it had been ratified by Spain-claiming on their part all its advantages, and yielding to Spain all those secured to her."

As Spain, however, has proposed to send a Minister to explain, it is suggested that no immediate measures of hostility should be adopted, and that any law passed should be but contingent. It is also proposed that additional laws should be adopted, to enforce still further a neutrality on the part of all American subjects in the contest between Spain and her colonies. The President ends this topic by congratulating Congress upon the circumstance that France and Great Britain are favourable to the ratification of the Florida Treaty; and that the Emperor Alexander is believed to entertain similar sentiments.

The message then regrets, that the commercial arrangements with Great Britain, relative to the West India and Canadian Trade, which have been so long under negotiation, are not yet satisfactorily concluded; and suggests, that new prohibitory laws will probably be necessary to enforce them. Adding, however, that nothing is likely to disturb the perfectly amicable disposition now subsisting between the countries. The President also states, that a friendly Sovereign has been named by the American government, as an umpire to adjust the existing commercial differen

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