spoiling it of its most valuable proper ty. They brutally turned Mrs Vachel and her daughters out of the house, to seek an asylum at twelve o'clock at night. Measures were immediately taken by Lord Sidmouth for the sup pression of these alarming excesses; and the military within twenty miles of Newport have been ordered to march, with all possible expedition, to that place. The tribunal of the Holy Office at Rome, after invoking the illumination of the Holy Ghost, has annulled the proceedings commenced by the inquisitor of Ravenna against Solomon Moses Vaviani, who, after embracing the Roman communion, had relapsed to Judaism. His Holiness, in the decree issued upon this occasion, thus expresses himself : "The divine law is not like the law of man; it carries with it mildness and persuasion. Persecution, exile, prisons, are the means employed by false prophets and false teachers. Let us pity the man who is deprived of the light, and who even wishes to be deprived of it; for the cause of his blindness may serve to promote the grand designs of Providence," &c. His Holiness has ordered that no future proceeding of the kind shall be attended with loss of life or limb to the culprit. JUNE. 1st.-HAYTIAN ALMANACK.-The Royal Almanack of Hayti for 1816, contains 127 large 12mo. pages. Its court lists may vie with those of any empire, of whatever standing or com. plexion. The king, who has commenced the sixth year of his reign, will be 49 years of age on the 6th of October. The queen is in her 39th year. The prince royal, James Victor, Henry, entered his teens on the 3d March. He has two sisters, princesses. There are five princes of the blood. The ministers and grand offi. cers of the crown amount to 20. In the peerage are eight dukes, 19 counts, 34 barons, and nine knights. The king's household consists of about 140 chamberlains, pages, professors, almoners, secretaries, &c. The queen has 14 ladies of the bedchamber, besides her male attendants. There are six regiments of guards. The Order of Henry boasts of 130 members. In the army we find six marshals, nine lieutenant-generals, and 21 generals. Of artillery two regiments; of engi neers one corps; of infantry, 24 regiments filled up, and eight others named; of cavalry, two regiments; of naval officers, including the grand admiral, 29, besides cadets. Long lists are also given of the fiscal and judicial departments. The queen holds her court on Thursdays, at five o'clock. The king receives petitions at ten o’clock on the court days, and returns an answer on the Thursday following. Such is the progress of this interesting settlement. The Code Henry is a thick volume, comprising probably more matter than Erskine. The laws are of course on the French model. The American editors remark very freely on the rejection of the bill in Congress, to increase the salaries of the ministers of the United States at the courts of Paris, Petersburgh, and London, to 12,000 dollars. They term it absolute meanness, and deserving universal reprobation. 3d.-ELY, Wednesday morning. Several of the rioters who had fled, have been brought in in the course of the last two days; three or four of them are delegates, who had been active to raise the different parts of the island, to join the Littleport body. The examinations are continuing. Several persons have been fully committed, as numbers of others will be, to be tried before a special commission, expected soon to issue. Seventy more remain in custody, charged with capital offences, and about 24 have been liberated on their recognisance, who appeared to have been pressed into this desperate service. The magistrates, finding that they could now dispense with farther military assistance, directed that the 1st regiment of dragoon guards, under Colonel Acklom, should fall back to Cambridge, and that the artillery should proceed to Newmarket. The long swivel pieces, wild-fowl guns, and other arms, about 60 in number, which the rioters used, are now placing on the wall of the military depot. PARIS, May 27th. The Earl of Oxford requested a permis to see Sir Robert Wilson-it was refused. He then applied for his passports, when he was informed that he must appear in person, sign his christian name, sit for his signalement, &c. The noble Earl conceived that the rank of a British Peer should preclude him from the necessity of complying with such for malities; but it was not until the ambassador interfered, and stated that it was a privilege of the English noblity to sign simply the surname, which, without prejudice, Lord Oxford could not depart from in France, that his Lordship's passports were forwarded to him at his hotel. A letter from Jamaica, in noticing the situation of the negroes, mentions, that rebellious songs are frequently heard in the streets of Kingston, and on the various plantations, and particular ly at the Sunday meetings of the slaves. The consequences of such a situation, he says, cannot be calculated, and he observes, that prompt and decisive measures, on the part of government, can alone prevent an insurrection of the black inhabitants; a partial supply of white troops would not be sufficient for the public security, as it has become necessary that the black corps should for a time be sent off the island. The Carthagenian schooner Meteor, commanded by the notorious pirate Mitchell, has been captured by the United States brig Boxer, under the command of Captain Porter, who, after taking out -30,000 dollars, sent in the prize to New Orleans. It will be recollected that Mitchell has been ac cused by several of the Americans who escaped from Carthagena of having offered his services in carrying off from that place, on the approach of the Spaniards, a number of the natives and the American settlers, with their effects, whom he afterwards landed on a desert island, where he abandoned them without any supply of provisions, and proceeded on a piratical cruise, retaining in his own hands the whole of their property. A Spanish ship is said to have been captured on the 9th by a Carthagenian privateer, having on board 400,000 dollars, and bound from Vera Cruz to the Havannah. The privateer was probably the Meteor, Mitchell, mentioned as above. The Moniteur mentions that one Belly, the mayor of Vigan, near Cahors, has been displaced for not obeying the orders of the sub-prefect relative to vaccination, and for having shown the greatest indifference to the progress which the small-pox was making in his commune. 4th.-FIRE.-About one o'clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out in the extensive workshop of Messrs Irwin and Keep, coachmakers in Maryla-bone Street, which is immediately behind Sir H. Russell's, where a large party of nobility aud gentry were at tending a grand ball and supper. The flames struck such consternation into the company, that the ladies, without the least regard to ownership, entered the first carriage, from five to seven being squeezed together. The nobility and gentlemen, amounting to about seventy pursued a different course. Though full dressed, they laudably assisted in working the parish engine for an hour. On the flames extending to Sir H. Russell's stables, that gentleman conveyed his most valuable property to the house of a friend oppoWe regret to state, that the whole of the premises of Messrs Irwin and Keep were destroyed, and a valuable stock of carriages consumed. The Princess of Wales was at Tu nis ten days before the arrival of Lord Exmouth's squadron. The government of Tunis received her with great distinction, and, on the 20th of April, she went on board the Admiral's vessel, commanded by Lord Exmouth, where a grand dinner was given. Her Royal Highness is much pleased with the gallantry of the Bey, who insisted on accompanying her on board the ship in which she departed for Alexandria, at the same time that the English squadron steered for Tripoli. The farther intentions of the Princess of Wales are not known, or whether she purposes to reside for any length of time in Egypt. 5th. In an action (Dixon v. Bell) in the Court of King's Bench, 1001. damages were given in consequence of an accident with a fowling-piece, under the following circumstances, viz. the defendant, on leaving lodgings which he occupied in a house in which the plaintiff also lodged, left behind him a fowling-piece Ioaded. In the course of a few days, he sent a Mulatto girl of 12 years of age, with a message to the landlord, desiring him to take the priming out of the pan, and deliver the gun to her. This was complied with, and the girl, after receiving the gun, inconsiderately pointed it at the plaintiff's child, when it went off, and its contents, consisting of printer's types, lodged in the child's head, and put out one of his eyes. The action was laid on the ground that the defendant had misconducted himself in sending for the fowling-piece by so careless a servant. 6th. The intended union of their Royal Highnesses Princess Mary and the Duke of Gloucester, was finally settled on Friday evening, at Buckingham-house, by her Majesty and the Prince Regent, and will speedily take place. It is perhaps not generally known, that this match arises out of an old and faithful attachment, so ardent on the part of the Royal Duke, that he is said to have declared he would never marry, unless he was blessed with the hand of his amiable cousin. SOCIETY OF ARTS.-On Friday the premiums given by the Society for the encouragement of arts and_mamufactures, were distributed in Freemasons' Hall, by the President, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. In the department of the fine arts, the Minerva silver medal, offered by the Society for the best drawing of the fine antique statue of Venus, in room 2, in the British Museum, was given to Miss Janet Ross. The Duchess of Rutland attended in person to receive the gold medal adjudged to her for the best method of raising oaks.-There was great applause when her Grace came forward, and when his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex delivered her the premium. A gold medal and 100 guineas were given to Mr Ryan, of Netherton colliery, near Dudley, for a method of ventilating coal mines. The following escape from drown. ing is almost miraculous :-A young gentleman at Liverpool went to bathe in the Mersey, a short time before high water, from the rocks opposite the North Battery. Being an expert swimmer, he for some time amused himself in that salutary exercise; but, when about 200 yards from the shore, he felt the tide beginning to ebb. Aware of his danger, he endeavourd to stem the current; but its increasing rapidity baffled his efforts, and he beheld, with indescribable feelings, the shore fast receding from him. Despairing of success, and unable any longer to breast the force of the current, he resigned himself to it and was carried into the river, midway between the Magazines and the Rock point. He now became almost insensible, chilled by the coldness of the water, and exhausted by his previous exertions; and he merely recollects being taken into a boat. This boat, it afterwards appeared, belonged to an Irish trader, the name of which we regret our inability to state, then under sail, and turning the Rock point. He entreated the crew to land him on the Cheshire shore; but they could not comply. They conveyed him to the vessel; put him in the cabin; placed him before the fire; with the characteristic humanity of sailors, used means to restore him; and having succeeded, they supplied him with an old jacket and trowsers. The captain promised to put him ashore on the first land they made; accordingly he landed him on Sunday at the mouth of the Liffey, and gave him a shilling. He journeyed thence to Dublin, where he arrived the same night. Conscious that his relatives would conclude him drowned, he was anxious to return to Liverpool with all possible expedition. But, to his inexpressible grief, there was no vessel at that time ready for that port; and either from bashfulness, or want of presence of mind, he neglected to apply to persons from whom the bare mention of his name or misfortune would have elicited assistance. -After paying for his lodgings out of the bounty of the captain, on Sunday and Monday nights, his small stock was completely exhausted; and, unable to procure farther accommodation, he spent Tuesday night in the neighbouring fields. When he embarked on board the packet on Wednesday, he had neither money nor food; and during the course of the voyage he subsisted on a few crusts given him by a female passenger. The feelings which his return excited in the bosom of his relatives are indescribable. They were busy in preparing the "suits of woe;" and his parents again beheld, though in ragged attire, their beloved son, whom they supposed dead. We are extremely sorry to learn, that on Friday se'ennight, the 24th ult. an accidental fire took place at Abergeldie-house, the seat of P. Gor don, Esq. by which the principal part of that truly hospitable mansion was unfortunately burned to the ground. The fire, we understand, took place in the housekeeper's room, and from thence communicating to the roof, had attained considerable strength before it was discovered, so that all the efforts made to save the lower part of the house proved ineffectual; and the only part of the building that remains is the tower or castle, containing the dining-room, library, &c. The house and furniture were partially insured; and of the latter, we are sorry to say, but a very trifling portion has been saved. A singular circumstance happened at Corstorphine on the king's birth day. The Society of Carters had resolved to celebrate what is called the "play" on that day. The brewer of the village, as usual, had accommodated the Society with the use of his large barn for dinner. In the morning the tables were regularly set out, the plates were laid, the barrels of beer and other liquor, for the accom modation of the company, were placed in the house, and the caterer was in the act of putting down the knives and forks with the victuals (usually cold on such occasions), when some unlucky boys, having got into the cart-house adjoining, discharged a pistol, the wadding of which having lodged in the thatch, the whole was almost instantaneously in a flame. The barn, cart-house, tables, plates, knives and forks, beer, &c. were totally consumed, and the caterer, in endeavouring to save the wreck of the materiel, narrowly escaped with his life. This accident, however it may have for a short time damped, did not altogether depress the spirits of the company. The school-house was soon fitted up; and, after the usual sports and festivities of the day upon such an occasion, the dinner was there consumed, and the merry dance kept up until an early hour next morning. 7th.-About five o'clock on Friday afternoon, a most distressing accident occurred within a quarter of a mile of Bathgate, on the road leading to Linlithgow, and nearly opposite Balbairdie house. Robert Meikle, a servant of Mr Simpson, farmer, Easton, and tacksman of extensive lime and coal works in the neighbourhood, had been directed by his master to carry with a horse and cart a quantity of gun-pow. der, for the use of his lime quarries, to the place which he occupies as a depot for that article Meikle, at the place above described, was sitting on one of the shafts of the cart. From causes yet unknown the gun-powder took fire, and exploded with a tremendous noise. The unfortunate man who drove the cart was thrown into a clump of planting, and the horse, much scorched, ran furiously to Bathgate with the body of the cart, where it soon alarmed the inhabitants, who ran to the spot, and discovered Meikle almost burnt to a cinder; scarcely a vestige of his clothes escaped from the fire, they being completely reduced to ashes. When found, he was alive but insensible, and died in less than two hours. It is understood there were about nine barrels of gun-powder on the cart at the time of the explosion. PARIS, June 1st.-The Consistory of the Confession at Augsburg, in the department of the Upper Rhine, lately transmitted an address to the king. His Majesty, in accepting it, observed," that he always ranked the French, of all religions, among the number of his children." 99 The Prefect of the Upper Rhine, on receiving the letter which contained these remarkable words, sent a copy to M. Hitschler, president of the protestant church at Colmar. His Majesty has directed a benefit to be given at the theatre of the Opera to Mademoiselle Jeanne Marie Corneille, a descendant of the great dramatic author of the same name, and has fixed upon the Cid as the piece to be performed. On Thursday, their Royal Highnesses Monsieur, Madame, and the Duke of Berri, went to the Menus Plaisirs to see the basket of bride clothes and favours, intended for the marriage of the Duchess of Berri. The exhibition offered to view all that French industry could invent to supply a lady's toilette. Nothing was wanting, from modest plain wove linen to superb cachemire, from the spangle to the agrafe of diamonds. Their Royal Highnesses appeared surprised by the general effect of the whole display. Upon a white marble alcove a stand was raised, covered with purple velvet drapery, bordered by a gar land of lilies in gold embroidery. The four corners displayed lilies and stems, surmounted by four ears of corn, also embroidered in gold. On each side appeared the arms of the two houses intermixed, with the initials of the august couple. In short, the stand supported a mass burning with majesty, in beautiful colossal flowers of silver and leaves of gold. This was |