the expiry of these powers at the present moment would threaten the country; and the Committee feel, that they should ill discharge the high trust reposed in them, if they did not declare their unreserved assent to this opinion. They, therefore, with the fullest confidence in the loyalty and good dispositions, not only of those classes of the community and those portions of the kingdom which have generally hitherto remained free from disaffection, but of

the greatest part of those very districts which are the chief scenes of discontent and of threatened disturbance, cannot refrain from declaring it as the result of all the information which they have collected, that the time is not yet arrived, when the maintenance of public tranquillity, and the protection of the lives and property of his Majesty's subjects, can be allowed to depend upon the ordinary powers of the law.

FRANCE.

Disturbances continue to occur in various parts of France. The grenadiers of the 1st battalion of National Guards, having refused to act against the people, were disbanded by the Prefect of the Lower Seine; in which he was sanctioned by the King. The agitation of the public mind at Lyons is said to be such as to produce much uneasiness to the Govern ment; the theatres in that great city had been closed. The Gazette de France mentions ten considerable places where arms. were taken up by the people, and attacks undertaken, not only against the civil authorities, but against the soldiery--the cause of these risings seems to be, the want and misery of the people, except in the department of the Rhone, where the half-pay Officers are charged with sedi tious aud disloyal conduct,

The trial of the persons engaged in the Bourdeaux Plot has been brought to a close; and Randon, with five of his chief accomplices, have been capitally convicted: eight are sentenced to fine and imprisonment. Cassaigne, one of those sentenced to die, declared in a solemn manner, "that he had long known Randon as an agent of the police; and that he, Cassaigne, had pretended to participate in his designs, with a view only to snatch some of his victims from him."

Corn has fallen very considerably in the markets round Paris, and probably throughout all France; Stocks too, have declined to 64 fr. 20 c. a fall of three per cent, or more, within a few weeks.

The Civil Authorities at Amiens pub. licly resolved not long since, that Vaccination was not to be promoted, because Providence sent the small-pox among men that they might not increase too fast!!!

The Royal Family of France are established at St. Cloud, where 25 only of the National Guards of the district, and a few cavalry for Monsieur, constitute their ostensible protection. The King walks in the little, or nearer, park. The Duke and Duchess de Berry have been there; but they returned in the evening to the Elysée Bourbon, at Paris, where the Duchess awaits her confinement.

NETHERLANDS.

The anniversary of the battle of Waterloo was ushered in at Brussels with the ringing of bells, and every other demonstration of joy. It was a little damped by a tumult, in consequence of the exces sive rise in the price of butter and bread. The populace began to pillage, but were soon dispersed by the military. The presence of the Prince of Orange also contributed to tranquillize the public mind. He addressed the people, and assured them that no time should be lost to provide for their wants.

The nest of partizans of Buonaparte and his system, who have long found a refuge in the provinces of Flanders, have at length become objects of the displeasure of the King, and are to be removed to some distant quarter.

SPAIN and PORTUGAL.

Three thousand inhabitants of Catalonia have petitioned in favour of Lacy, demanding his pardon; and General Castanos, the Commandant of the Province, has sent in his resignation. Lacy's, conspiracy, it is said, was with the view of founding an Iberiau Republic.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon, of the discovery of a conspiracy, the object of which is stated to have been, the overthrow of the authority of the King of Portugal, with a view to the establishment of a Council, who should govern in the name of the young Duke of Cardaval, now about ten years of age, the nearest of the King's relatives remaining in Europe. At the head of this plot was General Gomez Freire de Andrade, a military officer of some note. Several members of the Government were to have fallen sacrifices to this treason; those of course, from whose energy, ability, and inЯuence, the most formidable opposition was antici pated to the designs of the conspirators, Among these, it is asserted, were Marshal Beresford and Don Miguel Pereira Forjaz, so long a leading member of the State during the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. The troops and the people were to have been seduced from their allegiance; and the new Constitution, already formed, was to have been pro

elaimed.

elaimed. General Gomez Freire was arrested on the 25th of May, and sent to the fortress of St. Julian, on the Tagus. General Baron Eben has been arrested also, and some interior officers of linle influence or character. Eben is an aidde-camp of the Prince Regent, of low extraction, but of considerable abilities, and has been elevated to his present rank from the humble station of a private soldier.

He is the author of a Work of merit on Military tactics. Hitherto it has not appeared that any other persons of cou sideration were implicated in this project. ITALY.

Buonaparte's courier Santini has been arrested at Como, when he was probably on his way to communicate his secret dispatches to the Ex-Empress Maria Louisa.

Eugene Beauharnois has sold his possessions in Italy to the Crown of Naples for 5,000,000 francs, or 210,000.

Sir Thomas Maitland, the British Commissioner for settling the Constitution of the Ionian Islands, lately convoked the Legislative Assembly at Corfu, and directed them to commence the work of framing a free Constitution, subject to the approbation of the British Government. Sir Thomas Maitland then returned to Malta.

The Piedmontese Gazette states, that Professor Brugnatelli has discovered a remedy for the bite of the mad dog. The remedy "consists of hydroclore (liquid oxygenated muriatic acid), used internally as well as externally the wounds caused by the bite of mad animals are to be washed with it. It appears, that the substance destroys the hydrophobic poison, even when used several days after the bite."

GERMANY.

The ceremony of the marriage of the Archduchess Leopoldine with the King of Portugal took place by proxy at Vienna, on the 14th of May.

The Emperor of Austria, it is said, intends to give a Representative Constitution to his Polish provinces of Gallicia and Lodomeria.

A circular letter to the Clergy in Hungary, issued on 23d December last, has been recently republished at Buda. It prohibits the circulation of printed copies of the Bible, either gratis or at low prices, by the London Bible Society, or other foreign associations, in the Hereditary States. The object of this circular is, to protect the native bookselling trade with respect to the sale of Bibles.

A letter from Leipsic of the 16th of May, represents the recent fair as much inferior to that of the preceding Michaelmas. The number of strangers resorting thither was less numerous, it is said, by

14,000, than on the former occasion. The general grievance seems to be, that Ger many is overstocked with goods; or, in other words, that its inhabitan's are des titute of means to buy them. The desires of people on the Continent are limited to mere subsistence.

Austria, in order to remove all fear with respect to the Son of the Archduchess Maria Louisa and Buonaparte, has, it is said, agreed that the Duchies of Parma, Guastella, and Placentia, shall, after the death of his mother, go into the Spanish house of Bourbon, instead of descending to him: England is believed to have caused this arrangement.

The brave Tyrolese have opened a subscription to raise a national monument to Andrew Hoffer, the hero of the Tyrol, whom Buonaparte ordered to be shot at Mantua. The house of Sand. Wirth-Hoffer, which was burned by command of the tyrant, will be re-constructed of stone. A church will be erected near the house. The sepulchral monument will display the statues of Andrew Hoffer, of the Duke D'Enghien, of Kleber, of Palm, of Pichegru, and of Stofflet.

Jerome Buonaparte has purchased for 250,000 florins an estate at Erla, about two leagues from Vienna.

Gen. Savary is said to be placed under surveillance in Styria.

Great distress prevails in Prussia. No less than 40,000 weavers are said to be starting for want of employment.

A mob assembled at Stutgard on the 29th and 29th of May, to vent their illhumour on the Government. The rioters attacked the house of the Minister Wangeuheim, committing outrages and depredations. Two leaders, a barber and a coachman, were arrested; and all has since been quiet. The States assembled on the 2d of June: when the President put the question whether the Constitu tion, as modified by the Royal Rescript of the 26th May, should be accepted or not? This question was decided in the negative, by 67 voices to 42.

Some accounts give an unfavourable representation of the state of affairs in Wirtemberg since the dissolution of the Assembly of the States. There are re ports of arrests and banishments; and the King and Queen are said to be about to set out on a visit to Flanders. In proof of the great distress, it is said that 500 families had arrived at Newburg, o the Danube, on their way to Russia. SWEDEN,

The King of Sweden has acceded to the Holy Alliance; but not, it seems, until after invitations at different periods from the Courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

(To be continued in the SUPPLEMENT.)

COUN

COUNTRY NEWS.

May 15. The parishes of St. Peter and Paul, and St. James, în Bath, perambulated their respective boundaries, agreeably to custom. In the afternoon, the Mayor, attended by some members of the Corporation, and numerous inhabitants, went on board a vessel at the buttom of the South Parade, accompanied by a barge belonging to St. James's parish, and went down the river, to the extent of the City boundaries, beyond Norfolk Crescent. At seven o'clock, the Mayor and some of his friends re-crossed the ferry in safety, and the boat returned for another party: 20 was the prescribed number, bat before the boatmen could push off, several additional persons got on board, and, as it was feared, proved too heavy a freightage! When some yards from the shore, and where the river is particularly deep, the boat upset! Several saved themselves by swimming, a few by cling ing to the upset boat, whilst some of their unfortunate companions were franticly snatching at their legs,—some individuals were rescued by the attending boats, and afterwards restored; but six persons were not extricated, till life was extinct.

June 4. It gives us pleasure to notice the continued and rapid spread of the National System of Education. A Committee of the most respectable Inhabitants and Parishioners of Burslem, has been formed, for the erection of a School for 1000 children on the principle of the National and Diocesan Societies.

The account of the foundation of a Church at Guernsey, in our SUPPLEMENT.

Tuesday, May 27.

This morning her Majesty, the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth, attended by their Ladies in Waiting, went to Eton College, and were received by the Provost and the Heads of the College. The Prince Regent arrived directly after from London. In a short time the procession for the Montem was formed, and began to move according to their orders; to view which there was the most brilliant assemblage of beauty and fashion that has been known upon any similar occasion for a number of years past. The young Gentlemen of the College proceeded on to Salt Hill, according to custom, in grand procession, attended by the bands of the Royal Horse Guards, and of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, in their full uniforms; the young Gentlemen receiving from the Royal Family,

the Nobility, and others assembled upon the occasion, the usual gratuities, which, we understand, amounted to upwards of 7004-After the Montem, the Gentlemen partook of a plentiful repast at the Castle and Windmill Inns. The following afternoon the young Gentlemen walked from Salt Hill in grand procession, to Frog. more, in their full Montem dresses, where they had the honour to be invited by the Queen. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince Regent and the Princesses, were in readiness to receive them. They all appeared sensible of the honour conferred upon them, and were headed by the Masters of Eton College. They were regaled with wine, cakes, tea, and other refresh

Tuesday, May 27.

The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, held their Anniversary for the distribution of the rewards, at the Freemasons Hall, the Duke of Sussex, President; when the various premiums adjudged to the Candidates in the different Classes of Agriculture, Chemistry, Polite Arts, Manufactures, and Mechanics, were delivered. It was a very interesting meeting, and His Royal Highness, by his dignified manner, and happy and appropriate observations upon the different claims, added much tó the interest of the day. In presenting the Silver Medal to Master Barlace for the drawing of a Portrait executed with his left hand, His Royal Highness discovered that the youth had suffered amputation since he had last seen him. The emotion he betrayed on the occasion for suffering humanity, evinced the proudest feelings of his nature. Mr. Aikin, who has recently been elected secretary in the stead of Dr. Taylor, deceased, delivered a most excetlent address, setting forth in a masterly style the rise, progress, and objects of the Institution. On the following evening, in the Society's Rooms, a motion was made by Mr. Pearsall, that the "thanks of the Society be given to Arthur Aikin, Esq. their secretary, for the very able, scientific, and luminous address, delivered by him, and that the same be printed and circulated under the direction of the Committee of Correspondence and Papers;"

The Lord Mayor was this day unanimously elected one of the Representatives for the City of London, vice Mr. Ald. Combe, resigned. He was put in nomination by Mr. Smith, M.P. for Norwich.

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This day the Trials of the State Prisoners confined in the Tower, viz. James Watson the elder, Arthur Thistlewood, Thomas Preston, and John Hooper, commenced before Lord Ellenborough. The prisoners were brought from the Tower to Westminster-hall in four glass coaches. Jarge and strong railing had been thrown across the Hall, from the Treasury steps, to prevent the pressure of the crowd and the interruption of the Law Officers in their passage to the Court; and 300 constables were in attendance. Soon after 9 o'clock Mr. Watson was ushered into Court, dressed in a suit of black, and carrying under his right arm a book; he bowed respectfully to the Court, and took his seat immediately behind the bar. Preston and Hooper then successively entered, both dressed in black: Thistlewood came in last; he looked !; was dressed in a sailor's jacket and trowsers, and wore a black silk bandkerchief. The impannelling and challenging the Jury, and reading the numerous counts of indictment, occupied the whole of the forenoon. The counsel for the prisoners were as follow: for Thistlewood and Watson the elder, Mr. Wetherell and Serjeant Copley for Preston, Mr. Edw. Lawes and Mr. Rigby: for Hooper, Mr. Holt and Mr. Starkey. It

was very early determined that the pri soners should be tried separately; when James Watson the elder was placed at the bar, and the other accused parties were ranged behind him.-The trial lasted till the Monday following; when a Ver dict was returned of Not Guilty. The three other prisoners were brought up on the following day; but the Attorney Ge neral having declined to prosecute, they were acquilted. [An Account of the Trial shall be given in our SUPPLEMENT ] The fol lowing is an abstract of the indictment. There are four counts in which the traitorous object is laid in four different ways; but the overt acts from which those objects are inferred, are the same in all, except the third count, in which the riotous assembling and parading of the 2d of Decem ber is described as having been with the intention of subverting the Government, and dethroning the King-acts technically known under the name of levying war. 1st count: compassing and imagining to put the King to death. 2d: compassing and imagining to depose the King. 3d: levying war. 4th: conspiring to levy war against the King, in order to compel bim to change his measures.-There are 14 overt acts charged to prove the treasons alleged in the 1st, 2d, and 4th counts, namely: 1st overt act; consulting to devise plans and means to subvert the Constitution. 2. Conspiring to levy war, and subvert the Constitution. 3. Conspiring to attack the Bank and Tower. 4. Conspiring to seduce soldiers and others. 5. Ordering pike heads, &c. 6. Providing arms and ammunition. 7. Conspiring to burn barracks. 8. Hiring a house to keep com bustibles. 9. Conspiring to procure meetings in Spa-fields. 10. Treating for the hire of waggons and stages. 11. Hiring a waggon, providing arms, ammunition, and banners, making harangues, &c. 12. Parading the streets, attacking gapsmiths' shops, &c. 13. Addressing soldiers in the Tower. 14. Levying war.The third count is for levying war as a substantive treason, without any overt act. Thursday, June 19.

The Anniversary Meeting of the Phi losophical Society of London was held at the Society's Rooms adjoining Scots' Cor poration Hall, Crane Court, Fleet Street. The Anniversary Oration was delivered by Dr. Olinthus Gregory, and will shortly be published. It was very numerously attended; as was also the Dinner, when many excellent addresses were made by His Right Hon, the Duke of Sussex, who was in the Chair, by Lords Erskine, Henniker, &c.; Drs. Gregory, Mason, Collyer; Messrs. Coleridge, Pettigrew, &c. A Volume of Transactions of the Society is now in the Press, and will appear about the close of the year.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
New Pieces.

ENGLISH OPERA, LYCEUM.
June 7. The Election; altered from a
Comedy by Miss Baillie: The Musick
by Horn.

June 18. The Bridge that carries us safe over; a Dramatic Sketch.

DRURY LANE THEATRE. June 11. Incog; or Three Days at a well-known Hotel; an Afterpiece.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Whitehall, May 31. The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom granted to the Right Hon. Charles Abbot, of Kidbrooke, co. Sussex, late Speaker of the House of Commons, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Colchester, of Colchester, co. Essex.

June 3. Sir G. F. Hill, a Member of the Privy Council.

June 7. J. Becket, esq. Judge Advocate General.

June 14. Lord Strangford, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Swedish Court.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

The Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, Speaker of the House of Commons, vice Right Hon. Charles Abbot, now Lord Colchester.

Rev. Charles Mayo, LL. B. Head Master of Free Grammar School, Bridgnorth. The University of Glasgow have unanimously conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon the Rev. Fletcher Dixon, Vicar of Duffield, co. Derby, and retired Chaplain of the 54th, or Cumberland foot.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. G. T. Carwithen, LL. B. Stoke Piro, alias Perrow R. Somerset.

Rev. H. W. Sibthorp, Washingboroughcum-Heighinton R. co. Lincoln.

Rev. Frederick-William Goldfrap, B. A. Clenchwarton R. Norfolk.

Rev. Robert Steele, Mundesley R. Norfolk.

Rev. R. Field, B. A. Mendlesham V. Suffolk.

Rev. Richard Ramsden, D. D. Grundesborough R. Suffolk.

Rev. Thomas Davis, B. D. Besselsleigh R. Berks.

Rev. Joshua Stopford, Hayling, alias Hayling Southwood V. Hants.

Rev. Thomas Vaughan, Hope Bagot R. Salop.

Rev. Sir Henry Rivers, bart. Martyr Worthy R. Hants, vice Moysey, resigned. Rev. C. Abel Moysey, A. M. Walcot R. vice Rev, Sir H. Rivers, resigned.

GENT. MAG. June, 1817.

Rev. W. B. Bonaker, Church Honeyburn V. co. Worcester.

Rev. Thomas Mears, All Saints R. Southampton.

Rev. C. Powlett, High Roden R. Essex. Rev. R. Affleck, Silkstone V. co. York, vice Kelly, deceased.

Rev. Heory Strangeways, West Grimstead R. with Plaitford Chapelry annexed, Wilts, vice Broadly, resigned.

Rev. T. Morgan, Chaplain of Portsmouth Dock-yard, vice Dr. Scott.

Rev. T. Griffiths, St. Michael V. Southampton.

Rev. J. Sharpe, Doncaster V.

Rev. William Marsh, East Lambrooke R. Somerset.

Rev. Dr Charles Burney, a Prebend in Lincoln Cathedral.

Rev. Dr. Hook, Preston Candover V. Hants.

May 7. At King's- Weston, the wife of William Dickinson, esq. M. P. a dau.— 11. At Bishop's Court, Exeter, Rt. Hon. Lady Graves, a dau.- At Belmont, co. Chester, the wife of Joseph Lovett, esq. a son and heir.-16. In Stanhope-street, the wife of E. J. Littleton, esq. M.P. a dau. -23. At Yarlington, co. Somerset, the wife of Francis Rogers, esq. a son and heir.24. At Paris, Right Hon. Lady Fitzroy Somerset, a son.-27. In Lower Seymourstreet, Lady Katherine Stewart, a dau.28. At Hale Hall, co. Lancaster, the wife of John Ireland Blackburne, esq. M.P. a son and heir.-31. At Stapleford Park, Rt. hon. Lady Sophia Whichcote, a son.

Lately. Of a son and presumptive heir, the wife of Hon. G. J. Tuchet, eldest son of Lord Audley.-At Winchester, Lady Rivers, a dau. The wife of John Broadley, esq. of Kirkelia, co. York, a son and heir. At Dublin, the lady of Sir John Judkin Fitzgerald, bart. a dau.-At Cambray, Lady James Hay, a daughter.

June 3. At Knowle farm, Sussex, the wife of Major-gen. Beatson, a son.-4. At the Chateau of Neuilly, the Duchess of Orleans, a dau.-11. In Devonshire Place, the wife of Col. Carmichael Smyth, Royal Engineers, a son.