From the Confederacy. The whole project, however, which was supported by a large portion of the Federalists, is said to have been abandoned upon the promulgation of the conditions demanded by the British Government. Indeed it is asserted, that the effect of our propositions has been to alienate the Federalist party, and excite one universal sentiment of hostility against Great Britain. The taxes are voted without opposition; loans are raised without difficulty in all the States the youth are hastening to arms, and 30,000 rations are daily delivered out at New York, to supply the men who are labouring on the works, and the troops collected to defend the city. Congress were engaged in preparing their financial arrangements, the prominent features of which were taxes of various descriptions, to the amount of twenty-two millions of dollars, a National Bank of fifty millions, ten millions to be subscribed in specie, and the balance in the public stocks. It is mentioned in private letters, that the extent of the demand of the American Government, under the new confidence it has received from the general support granted to its measures is, the status quo ante bellum; and in addition, they have no objection to the arrangement with regard to the fisheries as it stood in 1783, when the treaty of peace was concluded; and further, with regard to the boundaries of Canada, they are willing to rectify the errors which crept into the former demarcation.

The long-expected dispatches from Sir George Prevost, Sir James Yeo, and Capt. Pring, relative to the military operations before Plattsburg, and the naval engagement on Lake Champlain, have at length arrived, and shall appear among our Gazette Intelligence next .month. Sir George Prevost attributes the necessity he was under of retreating, to the destruction of the British flotilla; and Sir James Yeo says, he has good reason to believe that Capt. Downie was urged and hurried into action with his ship in an unfit state; that the attack upon the Enemy's flotilla in Plattsburg Bay, made at the earnest solicitation of the Commander in Chief, was injudicious; as it gave the Enemy decided advantages, without enabling Capt. Downie, if successful, to co-operate in storming the land-batteries. Had these batteries been taken first, Sir James observes, the flotilla, deprived of protection, would have been compelled to quit the Bay, and our squadron would then bave engaged on equal terms. The total loss sustained by our squadron on the Lake, was 129

men.

IRELAND.

The Pope has already commenced the exercise of his jurisdictional functions in Ireland. He has issued bulls appointing The new appointed,

to the vacant sees.

or rather those who have received canoni cal induction, had been previously selected by the Parish Priests, collected in Chapter, with the Dean at their head. They are Drs. Kelly and Everard to the Archdioceses of Tuam and Cashel respectively; Dr. Plunket the diocese of Elphin ; Dr. Murphy to that of Kildare; Dr. Tooby to Limerick; Dr. Marum to Kilkenny; Dr. Waldron to Killala. The appointment to Ardagh had not arrived.

A School of Physic has been established in Dublin. It comprises six Professors, viz. for anatomy, chemistry, and botany, in the foundation of Trinity College, called University Professors; and for the theory and practice of medicine and the materia medica, called King's Professors, each of whom acts in succession, for six months, as chemical lecturer and physician. Şir Patrick Dun has endowed a chemical hospital and a medical library. Students matriculated at Trinity college, and certified by the six Professors, obtain in three years a diploma, on a footing with those granted at Edinburgh and Glasgow; and another class, after longer terms and other grades, obtain diplomas corresponding with those of Oxford and Cambridge.

The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, have received from Parliament a loan of 20,000l. for the purpose of completing the North square, commonly called Botany Bay. This sum is to be repaid by instalments of 12007, per annum. One double and single building are now roofing in, which will complete the East side; the Northern side is to consist of four double and two single buildings, with a grand front of cut stone, nearly corresponding in style of architecture with the superb front in College-green, and with a similar railing. This side will form a beautiful termination to D'Olier-street. They are already laying the foundation, and expect in two years to have it ready for the reception of students. This highly necessary addition will accommodate 120 students and two Fellows. The entire College will then contain but 320 students. The present buildings can accommodate not more than 200; which is far short of one-third of the entire number on the books.

A Cork Paper mentions a recent attack made upon the Cashel Mail, on its way to Dublin; the ruffians blocked up the road by resting a tree upon two cars, placed at the opposite sides of the highway, còncealing themselves, and firing as the coach approached, by which the coachman re. ceived a ball in the breast, and the Assistant-surgeon of the 38th regiment was

shot

shot through the head; the coachman not falling, but turning the coach round to proceed to the stage he had left, the miscreants fled.-Another outrage was perpetrated by the same ruffians, on the 1st Nov. at the house of Mr. Prendergast, of Greenmount. After dining, they robbed the house of jewels, Government debentures, documents of stock, wearing apparel, &c.; and after remaining seven hours, during which one fellow amused himself with playing on a flute, they departed with booty, the value of which is estimated at 10007. They have been apprehended in Tipperary, and prove to be disbanded soldiers of the Wicklow Militia.

COUNTRY NEWS.

Nov. 2. The new Parish Church of verley, Wilts, raised at the sole costs and charges of Francis Dugdale Astley, esq. the munificent patron of the living, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. It is a beautiful Gothic fabric of Bath-stone, built cross-wise, on the vemerable model of the old parish church, furnished with tower, chancel, and vestry; the inner roof of vaulted oak, and the whole interior completed in a style of unusual taste and elegance. His Lordship was pleased to express his admiration of the zealous industry of the founder, and the skill of Mr. Morlidge, the architect; when he recollected that he had granted the faculty for raising this beautiful church for the short space of eighteen months.The ceremony was attended by many of the neighbouring clergy and gentry, while a great crowd of the country people paid the deepest attention to the solemn and impressive rite of consecration; during the service, both the sacraments of the church were celebrated, and a judicious sermon, adapted to the occasion, preached by the Rev. F. Astley, rector. Adjoining to the church, the liberality of Mr. Astley is still further exerting itself in raising a commodious Parsonage-house.

The beautiful antient steeple of Thacksted church, Essex, was lately struck by lightning, so as to be split nearly half way down from its lofty weathercock. A scaffold is now erecting to its summit, in the hope of preventing the necessity of taking it down, by the application of iron cramps.

Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, which, till within the last four or five years, lay uncultivated, is now nearly brought under the dominion of the plough. The number of the inhabitants has very much increased within the last two years; and a church will shortly be opened for their accommodation.

A rich vein of lead and silver ore has been discovered in Wheal Penhale Mine, which promises to become one of the most productive in Cornwall.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. Windsor Castle, Nov. 5. "His Majesty has continued for the last month in an uniform state of tranquillity, but without any diminution of his disorder."

Friday, Oct. 14.

This day a Civic Feast was given, at the London Tavern, by the Members of the Court of Common Council, in commemoration of Mr. Deputy Pinder having en tered the Fiftieth year of his representation of Farringdon Within, as one of the Members of that Court. This tribute of respect was a cordial testimony of the feelings entertained by his fellow-citizens for the services of a man, who for half a century has, by his uniform attention to the best interests of the Metropolis, and by his perseverance in carrying into ef fect many works of public utility, contributed most essentially to the prosperity of the City. The Meeting was attended by nearly 150 of the Members and Offcers of the Court. Among them were : The Lord Mayor (Sir W. Domville), who presided on the occasion, the Lord Mayor Elect (Mr. Alderman Birch), Sir William Curtis, Sir John Eamer, Mr. Alderman Combe, Sir James Shaw, Sir M. Bloxam, Alderman Wood, Alderman C. Smith, Atderman Goodbehere, the Chamberlain, Town Clerk, Comptroller, Solicitor, Remembrancer, the City Counsel (Messrs, Valliant, Bolland, and Reynolds), Mr. Se- ́ condary Collinridge, Mr. Dance (the venerable City Architect), and a considerable \number of the principal Members of the Court. After the routine of loyal publie toasts, the Lord Mayor called the attention of the Meeting" to the health of a Gentleman of whose eminent and long acknowledged services he should not think it necessary to enter into any long or studied panegyric. You all, Gentle men," observed his. Lordship, "are perfectly acquainted with his merits, and the honourable and useful manner in which he has for an unparalleled length of time fulfilled his duties. His attention to the various duties of the Committees entrusted with the superintendance of the affairs of the Metropolis has been the constant object of your honest praise; and his advice and co-operation upon all public questions have been always liberally and conscientiously conferred. We are all bound to thank him for his services, and I am convinced we do it cordially; for it would, indeed, be extremely difficult to find a life so blameless, and so usefully spent, as that which our worthy and venerable Friend has passed. We are not going to cheer a military Veteran, and a man dig nified with the honours and titles of his Sovereign; but we are going to cheer a Veteran in our domestic service, who, without any return but the grateful thanks of his fellow-citizens, has contributed to

our comforts and happiness. I therefore propose the health of Mr. Deputy Pinder." This was received with enthusiastic plau dits. Mr. Pinder addressed the Meeting, with evident marks of strong and varied emotions: My Lord, beg you will accept my sincere thanks for taking the Chair on this occasion, which is to my mind a pleasing addition to all the favours you have hitherto been pleased to confer upon me. To you, Gentlemen, who are Aldermen of the City of London, I feel truly indebted for honouring me with your presence to-day. To my friends, my very kind friends, the Common Councilmen, who have encouraged and promoted this Meeting, I can only say, you have made me a very proud man. The notice of the Corporation of London must at all times be gratifying to every honest feeling, and to every worthy heart; but to me it is peculiarly so, as I receive it as a proof that I have not spent fifty years of my life without the gratification and applause of my fellow-citizens. To you, Gentlemen, who have acted as Stewards, I have to offer the tribute of an old man's feelings, which, I trust, will not be deemed of less value because they are the result of a long experience, and may be justly considered as divested of all flattery, or any anxious wish to please, where compliments cannot be of much use to yourselves or to me.-] -My Lord and Gentlemen, I could, perhaps, say much, very much, on this extraordimary occasion; but I feel I might be wanting to you and to myself. I am overcome, overwhelmed with your kindmess: 1 begin to feel that I know not how I am placed here. [The worthy Deputy was so affected that he shed tears.] Let me add, that your notice of me is impressed upon my heart for ever. God bless you all!" The impression made upon the Meeting by this address is indescribable. Tuesday, Nov. 8.

The important Ecclesiastical Cause, so long at issue, respecting the valuable adWowson of Bradwell-jnxta-Mare, in Essex, was this day decided by a solemn adjudication of the Court of Common Pleas, in favour of the Rev. Sir Henry, Bate Dudley, Bart. the Plaintiff.-This case is of material importance to Sir H. B. Dudley, involving a property of upwards of 40,000%.

Wednesday, Nov. 9.

This morning Mr. Alderman Birch, the newly-elected Lord Mayor, the late Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, Recorder, Sheriffs, Chamberlain, and other Officers of the Corporation, assembled at Guildhall, in their several robes of office, and thence proceeded as usual to Westminster-hall, where the old and new Chief Magistrates were presented to the Barons of the Exchequers and the

Recorder, addressing their Lordships, paid a handsome tribute to the worthy Magis trate who so lately filled the Civic chair, who, he said, "had not only merited the thanks and gratitude of his fellow-citizens; but his dignified reception of the Allied Sovereigns, at the splendid banquet given at Guildhall, had induced his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in be half of his Majesty, after conferring on him the title of Baronet, to grant him armorial bearings, as a mark of Royal ap probation, and a lasting memorial of the glorious event which had distinguished his Mayoralty.

The Chief Barou, addressing the new Lord Mayor, said, "By the suffrages of your Fellow-citizens, and the concurrence of your Brother Aldermen, your Lordship has been elected to the dignified situation of Chief Magistrate of the City of London, A great and important trust is thus committed to your Lordship; and you will have to perform many arduous duties, in which the citizens are highly interested. Your Lordship is duly qualified in every respect for all the duties, however difficult; and your Fellow-citizens and the Publick have reason to be convinced, from experience of the past, that you will be steady and impartial in the discharge of your duty an Chief Magistrate. Unshaken loyalty, and firm attachment to our excellent Constitution in Church and State, have marked the leading features in your Lordship's character. From such a review of your past conduct, your Fellow-citizens may clearly (as the Learned Recorder has stated) confide in your Lordship as Chief Magistrate, for the just performance of the high trust you are called on to exe

cute."

Mr. Baron Thomson then, addressing the late Lord Mayor, observed, " My Lord, The period has now arrived in which your Lordship is to be released from the duties of an important office, which you have discharged with so much honour to yourself, and advantage to the Publick. In review. ing the occurrences which have taken place during your Mayoralty, I cannot but remark, that you contemplated, in common with other good members of society, what has made Europe different from what it was when you entered on your office. You have seen the downfall of the Enemy, the peace of Europe reestablished, and the restoration of the illustrious Sovereign ofance, with other happy events which ave occurred during the time your Low hip presided.-Iconsequence of the events, my Lord, Allied Sovereir visited this Metropolis and the Citins joined heart and hand giving bo and expressing gratitud those A" Sovereigns. High and tingui honours were conferred r

and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, with the Royal Visitors, were invited to Guildhall, where their reception was worthy the most opulent City in the World. Your Lordship's conduct on that day was highly meritorious; and his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name of his Majesty, was pleased to bestow on your Lordship hereditary honours, which were made known to the Publick, and intended by his Royal Highness, as a memorial of the grand and hospitable manner in which the Allied Sovereigns were entertained by the City; also to commemorate an event which will for ever distinguish the annals, and place an honourable mark on your Lordship's Mayoralty. With these well-deserved honours, your Lordship will readily quit the conspicuous situation you have held, and retire with the applause of your fellow-citizens."

Sir Wm. Domville and the new Lord Mayor then bowed, withdrew, and returned to Guildhall, where the company sat down to dinner a little after 6; and the tables groaned under the greatest profusion of dainties which opulence could purchase, or taste and experience suggest.

The Lord Mayor drank a toast to the Ladies; and the Earl of Liverpool proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, who made an eloquent address to the Company for the honour done him by the Noble Earl. "Invested," he said, "with the insignia of the high, proud, and distinguished office to which he had been called by the confidence of his Fellow-citizens, impressed on his mind a just and lively sense of the important duties he had to fulfil, and of the high responsibility which is imposed upon him. The maintenance of the antient rights of his Fellow-citizens the dignity of the first commercial City in the World the preservation of the peace

the administration of justice--the promotion of the prosperity of the Metropolis, were all objects which he must ever have in his view, and were duties which he must exert his feeble talents to fulfil. In his humble endeavours to discharge the functions of his high office, he was sure that he should meet with the indulgence of his Fellow-citizens, as well as their support. Surrounded as he was at that moment by all the chosen and selecte intellect of the Country, by the Minisers of the Prince Regent, by the Larned Judges, by the Representatives of the most illustrious Potentates of rurope, by his Brother Magistrates, an the respect able Citizens of London, ie could not do justice to the feeling that rose in his breast; nor would theme devoted to conviviality permit hi4 to detain them by atempting to express the various emotions that rose up iris mind when he reflected en the intersting moment when he was called to the high situation. The state of

Europe, so recently delivered from a most afflicting war-the unparalleled importance of the objects which now engaged the consideration of the Congress sitting at Vienna-all brought about by the wisdom, vigour, perseverance, and disinterestedness, of the British Government, aided and supported by the energy of the People (among whom, the Citizens of London had always been the most conspicuous in their activity, zeal, and liberality), presented to his mind at that moment the most elevated idea of the greatness of England, and impressed on him a just reverence for that glorious Constitution which had enabled his Majesty to make such signal exertions for the deliverance of Europe. To preserve that Constitution, and to keep alive that spirit in the City, of which he was for the time the Chief Magistrate, would be the object of his warmest ambition; and it would be the happiness of his life, if the Negociations now going on should happily terminate in the accomplishment of the work of Peace with the only power with which we were still at war." This address, of which we have only given a feeble outline, was received with the warmest applause.

The Lord Mayor then proposed the health of the late Lord Mayor; and, in doing this, he paid the Hon. Baronet a just and merited eulogium on "the honourable and dignified manner in which he had supported the character and done the honours of the City, in a moment of the highest glory that the City ever received. When they had, in the spirit of English hospitality, to entertain our own Sovereign Prince, and the most illustrious Potentates of Europe, it was not easy to say in which the City of London had the most distinguished itself-by the splendour and magnificence of the reception it gave to these high and august Personages, or by the polished and graceful manner in which the Lord Mayor had done the honours of the City on that most memorable occasion, and which had so eminently contributed to the splendour of their name." The toast was received with the loudest acclamation; and the late Lord Mayor returned thanks wih his accustomed modesty and neatness.

The Lady Mayoress (Mrs Birch, daughter in-law to the Lord Mayor, and wife to his Lordship's son and chaplain) was seated on a sort of throne, in a chair of state, in the Council Chamber, whither the visitors were conducted as they arrived, to be introduced to her Ladyship, who received them with becoming grace and affability. She was dressed in a splendid court-habit. Her head-dress consisted of several small white ostrich feathers, and a profusion of diamonds. The whole was in good taste, at least as far as taste can comport with a large hoop.

Friday,

Friday, Nov. 11.

This night a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Tewson, dealer in marine stores, in Narrow-street, Limehouse, which for four hours raged with, the greatest fury, the engines, from the narrowness of the street, being scarcely able to afford any assistance. The fire caught the opposite side of the way; 16 houses, besides several warehouses, connected with the supply of the shipping, were burnt down. The flames were not completely got under till nine in the morning. The fire is supposed to have been occasioned by an apprentice of Mr. Tewson's going into the rope-loft with a lighted candle.

The Bishop of London is making very considerable additions and other improvements, to Fulham-palace, the amount of expenditure on which will probably amount to 20,000/.

The Court-Martial on Colonel Quentin, of the 10th Hussars, assembled at Whitehall on the 17th October. Colonel Palmer appeared as the public prosecutor. There were four charges against him; three for neglect of duty, whilst his regiment was engaged with the Enemy; the fourth, for allowing a relaxed state of discipline in the regiment, which brought it into bad repute with the Commander of the Forces, the Duke of Wellington. The trial occupied the attention of the Court for seven days, and the following is their decision:

"The Court, having maturely weighed and considered the evidence adduced on the part of the prosecution, as well as what has been offered in defence, are of opinion that Col. Quentin is Guilty of so much of the first charge as imputes to him having neglected his duty as commanding officer on the 10th of January, by leaving some of the divisions without orders, when attacked by the Enemy, but acquit him of the remainder of the charge. With respect to the second charge, the Court are of opinion that Col. Quentin is Not Guilty. -With respect to the third charge, the Court are of opinion that Col. Quentin is Not Guilty. With respect to the fourth charge, the Court are of opinion that a relaxed discipline, as set forth in that ebarge, did exist in the regiment under Col. Quentin's command, while on foreign service, during the period alluded to in the letter and orders referred to in the charge; and, as they cannot but consider the commanding officer of a regiment to be responsible for such relaxation of discipline, they therefore think themselves bound to find Col. Quentin guilty to the extent of allowing it to exist; but, as they consider the Letter from the Adjutant-general to the troops on the Continent, of March 30, 1814, expressing the displeasure of the Commander of the Forces, as a reprimand to Col. Quentin, adequate to the degree of blame which attached to

him, the Court do not feel themselves called upon to give any sentence upon this charge in the way of further punishment; and they consider that any thing unusual in this determination will be explained by the singularity of the circumstances attending this charge, by which an officer is put upon his trial for conduct which had before been the subject of animadversion by those under whose command he was then serving, but which at the time was not considered deserving of a more serious proceeding by the Commander of the Forces; nor does it appear to have been made the subject of any remonstrance or request for a more serious investigation on the part of the officers of the regiment. -The Court, having found the prisoner Guilty of so much of the first charge as is above expressed, and so much of the fourth charge as is above recited, with the reasons which induce the Court to feel they are not called upon to affix any punishment to the last-mentioned charge, do only adjudge, with reference to the first charge, that Col. Quentin be reprimanded in such manner as his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief shall be pleased to direct.-The Court, however, cannot conclude these proceedings without expressing their regret, that there appears to have existed such a want of co-operation among the Officers of the regiment, as to render the duties of the Commanding Officer much more arduous than they otherwise would have been."— The general Order, dated Horse-Guards, Nov. 10, stating that the Commander in Chief had laid the proceedings before the Prince Regent, by whom the sentence was approved of, shall be given in our next.

A Steam Packet Company has been formed in London for building and esta blishing conveyances by Steam-boats on the River Thames. Mr. Dodd, civil engineer, of Newcastle, has the merit of completing this arrangement; and the next spring will witness boats impelled by steam plying between London and Gravesend, and London and Kingston. Boats on this principle possess the invaluable property of working against a foul wind or contrary tide; and in consequence the hour of departure is regular, their arrival certain, and they are never compelled to bring up and land their disappointed passengers frequently many miles from their destination.

An inquest was lately held in Red Lionsquare, on the body of Mary Ann Scott, who, whilst getttng coals in the cellar, set fire to her clothes, and was so burnt as to cause her death. The Surgeon who attended her, attributed her death to the injudicious use, as a remedy, of ink mixed with oil, which, from the state of the body, he could not remove; and the Jury returned a Verdict accordingly.

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