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FRANCE. The law for recruiting the French armies has passed the Legislature by a great majority, and the sessions have been adjourned. This law resembles the militia law of Britain, except that the levies may be employed on foreign service. The establishment of troops to be kept up during peace will, it is said, exceed 400,000 men; a number which, by some, has been considered alarmingly excessive; but when the population and territory of France are considered, its immense extent of frontier, and the number of her fortified places, a smaller establishment would scarcely be sufficient even for purposes of defence. The peace establishment of Russia is thought to be not less than 600,000 men; of Austria 350,000, and of Prussia 250,000. That of France, therefore, cannot be considered as much beyond her fair proportion.

The trial of an adventurer, named Mathurin Bruneau, who pretended to be the Dauphin of France, son of Louis XVI., called himself Charles of Navarre, and imposed, by his specious pretences, on many respectable individuals in France, terminated on the 18th February, and sentence was pronounced against him as a vagabond and a swindler. He has been condemned to pay a fine to the King of 3000 francs, to an imprisonment for five years, on account of the crimes which he was convicted of; and on the expiration of that period, to a farther imprisonment of two years, on account of the insults offered to the President by the prisoner during his trial. He is farther condemned to pay three-fourths of the expences of the proceedings; and on the expiration of his present sentence, he is ultimately placed at the disposal of Government. Bruneau's accomplices are also convicted, and sentenced to different degrees of punishment, in proportion to their offences.

An attempt was made to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, in Paris, on the 10th February. While he was returning to his hotel in his carriage, a pistol was fired at him; but the ball neither struck his Grace, nor even his carriage; and, in the confusion, the assassin escaped, and hitherto remains unknown. Previous to this attempt, Lord Kinnaird, at Brussels, received a letter from an expatriated Frenchman, named Martinet, residing at Antwerp, offering, on

certain conditions, to disclose a conspiracy which had been formed against the Duke of Wellington's life. Of this the Duke was apprised, but he considered it unworthy of notice. However, since the event happened, Lord Kinnaird and his informer have been invited to Paris, where they have arrived; but Martinet, according to private letters, not having fulfilled the promises he made, has been himself arrested along with M. Brissot, the editor of the Antwerp Journal, and M. Croquemberg, a Belgian officer. Martinet was formerly the keeper of a coffeehouse at Dijon, where he was remarkable for his zeal in the cause of Bonaparte.

NETHERLANDS.-The Prince of Orange has once more resigned his situation as Mi. nister of war, but retains his other mili tary employments. The Prince, it seems, would have had to wait on the Second Chamber of the States-General every time that a new law relative to the war depart ment should be proposed, to explain the grounds of the law, and defend the measure; and conceiving this duty as incom patible with his rank and dignity, he resigned the office. Count de Goltz, who had, on a previous occasion, fallen under the displeasure of his Royal Highness, is named a member of the first Chamber of State; General Piper, formerly IntendantGeneral of War, is appointed Secretary of State, to conduct the war department; and General d'Aubreme, charged with a certain subdivision of the War-Office, is to communicate immediately with the King.

RUSSIA. The Emperor Alexander has issued an ukase, abolishing the barbarous practice of mutilating the noses of crimi. nals whose sentences for execution are commuted for public labour.

SWEDEN. The death of Charles XIII. of Sweden has elevated Marshal Bernadotte to the throne of that kingdom, under the title of "Charles John, King of Sweden and Norway." The death of the King took place on the 5th February, when the Council of State was immediately assem bled, and the Crown Prince having signed the declaration prescribed by the Constitution, the different members of the Council immediately took the oath of allegiance, and the same evening a proclamation was issued in the name of the new King. The King, after attending divine service, went,

attended by Prince Oscar, now Crown Prince, to receive the oaths of the militia and city-guard, and was received with acclamations of joy as he passed through their ranks. On the 7th the Estates of the Kingdom also took the oath of allegiance, and the ceremony being ended, the King retired to his apartments in procession, amidst the cries of Long live the King."-Nothing seems to have occurred to disturb the public tranquillity, or to interfere with the succession to the Crown in the new dynasty.

ASIA.

EAST INDIES. By the last intelligence from India, we learn that the Marquis of Hastings expected, before leaving his government, to establish a subsidiary force at the residence of each of the Mahratta Princes, and to have a district of country assigned for their maintenance; with a British Ambassador at each Court. Nearly the whole of the three armies of Madras, Bombay, and Bengal, were in the field in October, as was supposed, to support this plan. A second plan of the Marquis of Hastings is to crush the Pindarree, or itinerant predatory power; as these hordes, were a gene ral war breaking out, would be well disposed to serve with the Mahrattas against

Britain.

NEW SOUTH WALES.-Letters, of a recent date from this colony, bring favourable acccunts of its prosperity. So overabundant have been the supplies of every kind from Europe, and from India, especially of manufactures, that purchases can be made at less than their original cost. So much attention was paid by the owners of the numerous flocks of sheep to the quality of their fleeces, that the mother country, it is said, will soon have a large annual supply of wool from the colony.

AFRICA.

ALGIERS.-Accounts have been received from Algiers, dated the 14th December, which set at rest some exaggerated rumours that had been prevalent, respecting certain barbarities said to have been exercised by the Dey, and insults offered by him to the British and Sardinian Consuls. It appears from these accounts, that no insult has been offered to the English Consul, although the conduct of the Dey had been very outrageous. He has, it seems, carried off several youths and girls of the Jewish nation, and also a Christian girl, whom he has forced to embrace the Mahomedan religion, and has taken the females into his haram. He is not very friendly with the Consuls, and it is believed to be his intention to make war against Spain and Sardinia, as he has lately confiscated three Spanish and one Genoese cargoes un

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der the most frivolous pretext. The plague increases in the town, and the deaths are about 30 a day. It has reached Oran and its neighbourhood, where its ravages have been dreadful.

AMERICA.

UNITED STATES.-The American papers contain a Message from the President, justifying the taking possession of Amelia Island, on the ground that it was becoming the resort of lawless adventurers, whose vicinity was dangerous to the subjects of the United States, and he intimates that, for similar reasons, it may also become necessary to take possession of the Floridas.

SOUTH AMERICA. The history of the revolted Spanish colonies still presents a variety of successes and reverses, bloody yet undecisive, wasting the strength, but continuing to feed the expectations of both parties. By accounts from Trinidad, we learn that at Nutrea, about 700 miles from the mouth of the Oronoco, the Patriots, under Gen. Paez, had obtained a victory over the Royalists, and their standard had, in consequence, been joined by many of the inhabitants, hitherto kept in check by the terror of the royal arms. On the other hand, it appears, that, while Bolivar was marching to join General Zaraza, the latter had been attacked and defeated on the 3d December, near Calaboza, about 120 miles south of the city of Caraccas, by the royalist General Latorre. It is said, however, that the Independents fought with great valour, and that this check will have no serious effect upon their affairs-that Bolivar will immediately take the field with a superior army, and will proceed to bring on a general and decisive action with the Royalists, in which, from the character and numbers of his army, success is confidently anticipated.

The province of Guyana, it is stated in private letters, enjoys the utmost tranquillity under the Independent Government; those who had favoured the cause of royalty having acquiesced in the new order of things. From New Grenada it is stated, that the Viceroy had officially announced that he could no longer sustain the kingdom, in consequence of disasters experienced by his parties on the plains of Cuse

nane.

The capture of General Mina, and dispersion or captivity of his followers, in Mexico, is now amply confirmed; and farther, that this enterprising, but unfortunate individual, was shot before the fort of St Gregory, on the 13th December last, adding another victim to the catalogue in which the names of Porlier and Lacy are inscribed--men who became traitors to their Sovereign, only when he had become a traitor to the liberties of his people. N 11