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gaturftaj) to monftag?** iflosts. LONDON, FEB. 2. THE French papers to Wednesday have arrived. X They relate principally to the trials of two indivi- duals for the attempt to shoot the King at the opening of the Chambers in November last, and the situation of the Duchess de Berri. The intended assassins would appear, if the evidence can be relied on, to be- long- to a Political Society, and to have acted on its principles. The most important avowal in the indict- ment refers to this point. The Police," says this do- cument, knew that there existed at Paris a multitude of associations where regicide was the basis and fun- damental rule of their union—that the greatest part of the Friends of the People,' and particularly the mem- bers of the society of'the Rights of Mail,' encouraged each other to commit this crime, and that, with this object, they purchased arms and practised at a mark." The proceedings will excite the greatest interest, as the Movement party seem still inclined to regard the whole affair as a manoeuvre of the police, contrary to the di- rect testimony offered in the preliminary investigation, and in defiance of all the common estimates of ficti- tious conspiracies.-The Carlists have published a kind of divine-right protest against the conduct pursued by the Government with respect to the Duchess de Berrl. They declare that her Royal Highness cannot be tried, that she cannot be detained without trial, and that she. cannot be punished by exile. It seems difficult to say what such persons would really propose, short of her establishment at the Tuileries, as Regent of the king- dom in the name of her son, Henry Y.-—Marshal Soult, although confined a few days from the kick of ahorse, has never been disabled from attending to the minis- terial functions of his department; and the reports, in consequence, of a successor to him being about to be appointed, may be considered as totally destitute of foundation. These papers report the probability of an alliance between France, England, and Austria, for the purpose of checking the Russian Eagle's meditated swoop on Turkey. A sloop of war, La Diligente, had been ordered to proceed with all possible despatch to Alexandria, upon an important mission. A squadron, collected at Brest, is spoken of as about to proceed to the Tagus, to demand reparation for certain wrongs inflicted on French subject by the Government of Por- tugal, in case that the latter shall refuse to make the necessary atonement: and another is said to have been collecting for some time, the destination of which is supposed to be the Levant, to co-operate with the French fleet already there. This, however, is mere conjecture. The Dutch papers to Thursday's date have arrived in town. They are still barren of any information of value as to the intentions of the Court respecting the last demands of England and France. The matter, it would appear, was still under discussion, having already oc- cupied the anxious consideration of more than one Council of the Dutch Ministers. On Friday last the Cabinet was again summoned, and the occasion was deemed of so much importance that the King himself presided. The last despatches from London was the subject, but this sitting had not concluded the discus- sion of them. In a letter from the Hague, dated the 25th ult., it is stated, that these despatches are still under consideration, and the answers not yet deter- mined upon. It is affirmed that the negotiations at London are not to be continued unless the Scheldt is again opened, whilst our Government requires that the prisoners and ships be .previously released. It appears by the last accounts from London, that the detention of our ships is still rigorously enforced." The Jamaica papers to the 17th of December, re- ceived on Thursday, are calculated to create feelings of alarm for the tranquillity of that island, in conse- quence of a difference between the Board of Council and the House of Assembly. This difference appears to have originated in the refusal of the latter to receive two Bills sent down by the former on the 12th Decem- ber—one of them for enforcing the attendance of Ma- gistrates on the summary trial of slaves; and another, authorizing vestries to take probate of deeds as well as Magistrates. The appearance of the later excited a high ferment among the Representatives of the Jamaica planters, and the Speaker of the Assembly told the Clerk of the Council, that with every respect for the Council, he was bound to decline receiving the Bill. The message," he added, I am ready to take, but the Bill I cannot receive without violating the rights and privileges of this House." In answer to the denial of their right, the Board of Council came to strong re- solutions, not only asserting their right to originate all Bills, except Money Bills, but declaring their determi- nation not to eo-operate with the House of Assembly until it should retract its doctrine, and, in the most un- equivocal terms, acknowledge the right of the Board. On the following day the Speaker had scarcely taken the chair, when the Provost-Marshal-General" ap- peared at the bar, and commanded the attendance of the Assembly in the Council Chamber, where his Ex- cellency gave his assent to a Money Bill, and dissolved the Legislative Body-a resource provided by the Con- stitution for cases of such extremity, and thus making an appeal to the people, happily under a more extended and liberal franchise than that which returned the for, mer House of Assembly. His Excellency took the op- portunity of reading to them a pretty severe lecture, for the law of menace and defiance they had formerly assumed. By the American papers last received, it appears the House of Representatives at Washington has, with all convenient speed, reported a bill for the modifica- tion of the obnoxious tariff, obviously designing, by the satisfactory reduction of duties before the 1st February, to deprive the inhabitants of South Carolina of all pre- text for putting into execution the rash project of re- sistance which they had fixed for that date. These modifications are evidently framed for the relief of the southern states. The diminution of duties is greatest 011 those manufactured articles which they employ for the clothing of their slaves, and in the gratification of their own luxurious habits. The reduction in the for- mer case comes so low down as 5 per cent, ad valorum. On almost all manufactured articles the reductions are considerable, particularly on cottons, woollens, and iron. The rate of duty has been materially raised on silk and tea, being a foreign produce. The latest ac- counts from the Carolinas mention that the irritation among the inhabitants continued, that no person fa- vourable to the continuance of the Union could hold an pfficial situation. There had, however, been no ob- struction to the collection of the duties.

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