which was performed by the Rev. Mr. Matthews, of the Dutch church in Garden-street, in the morning; that of the afternoon was conducted by the Rev. Mr. M'Kean, of the Methodist church, and that of the evening by the Rev. Dr. Milnor, of St. George's Chapel. The Editor of the NewYork Advertiser observes, “among many others we were gratified to see the Hon. Mr. Thomson, Secretary of the Navy, Commodore Evans, and sev

eral other naval officers. The seats on the lower floor of the church were in a great measure filled with masters of vessels and mariners, and among them a company of United States marines in uniform. There was something deeply impressive in the appearance of so large a number of sailors, well dressed, decent and devotional in their demeanour, and apparently much interested in the solemn duties in which they were engaged."

GREAT BRITAIN.

The trial of those who conspired for the assassination of the ministers of England, has been brought to a close. They were found guilty. Thistlewood, Tidd, Ings, Brunt and Davidson have been executed. The royal clemency has been extended to the remaining conspirators.

The sums voted by the new Parliament, are 850,000£ for the civil list of England, and 200,000£ for Ireland. 'These sums are independent of the revenue derived from Scotland, the hereditary revenues of the crown in Ireland, droits of the Crown and Admiralty, the produce of the four and a half per cents Leeward Island duties, and the revenues from the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster,' The solemnity of the Coronation will be celebrated on the 1st of August. It is understood that the Queen will not return to England.

The merchants of the city of London, have presented a petition to the House of Commons, the object of which is to induce Parliament to remove restrictions from commerce. It is stated in the Petition, "that the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable, as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation;' and 'that a policy founded on these principles would render the commerce of the world an interchange of mutual advantages and diffuse an increase of wealth and enjoyments among the inhabitants of each state.'

In the trial of the strength of parties in the new Parliament, there were

on the side of Ministers, 275, and in the opposition 155.

The Catholic Question, it was supposed, would be the subject of discus sion on the 25th May.

FRANCE.

In this unhappy country, new alarms have been given to the existing government.

The following extracts shew that treason has been again at work.

"Count Angles, Prefect of the police, having received information that a scheme was arranged to be put in execution on the night of the 7th of May, for producing a second explosion un der the windows of the Duchess de Berri's apartment, his excellency at half past ten, repaired to the Thuilleries and concerted precautionary measures with Marshall MacDonald, majorgeneral on service, for surprising the perpetrator in the act. The sentinel were removed and disguised gendarmes, and police officers were stationed in ambush to ensure his detection. At midnight a man was perceived to approach, with cautious step, the pri vate door which opens into the Rue de l'Echelle, and deposited a petard; at the moment he was about to set fire to the fusee by means of a lighted segar, the police agents and military rushed upon him. He was escorted to the guard house where he fainted. On recovering he gave his name Graviers, and he was soon recognized, having been a captain in the fifth regiment of lancers, of the ex-imperial guard; on his person was found a copy of some odious invectives against the royal family in verse. On examining the

petard, it was discovered that it contained about 2 lbs of powder. The attorney-general quickly arrived, before whom Graviers underwent an examination, which lasted from 1 o'clock until 6. In the course of yesterday two of his accomplices were taken, one of whom named Bonton, was formerly a courier. It is supposed they are two individuals who were observed to post themselves, at the time of Gravier's approach to the palace, one near the Rue de Rioli, the other in the palace Carousal both of whom fled precipitately on his arrest."

"The duke d'Angouleme, has been openly insuited in his tour to the south; and an officer bearing the written pass-word from the palace of Monsieur to the gardes du corps, was attacked on Wednesday night by three ruffians, desperately wounded and deprived of the letter. His loss, however, was instantly made known by him, the pass-word was changed. It is supposed that an attack was meditated against the palace. At Lyons serious symptoms of disloyalty have appeared, and the troops refused to act against the people."

It appears that an envoy from the French government, arrived at Buenos Ayres in 1819, with a proposition to establish a Constitutional Monarchy in South America. The Prince selected as the sovereign was the Duke of Lucda, the late heir of the kingdom of Eutruria, and a Bourbon. This prince was eighteen years of age, and it was the intention of the French government to solicit for him, the hand of a Princess of Brazil, and to procure the consent of the five high powers of Europe. The Congress at Buenos Ayres acceded, in a secret session, to this proposition of the French. It is hardly necessary to add that the recent revolution at Buenos Ayres, which we noticed in our last number, will prevent the execution of the project.

SUMMARY.

By letters received from some of those free people of colour, who sailed for the coast of Africa, it ap

pears that no obstacle has arisen, un

friendly to the proposed plan of colonization. The vessel in which they sailed touched at Sierra Leone, and subsequently sailed for the island of

Sherbro, at which place they landed on the 20th March. John Kizell, an African from whom Messrs. Mills and Burgess received many offices of kindness, had prepared ten small houses for their reception, although he had not heard from America after the sailing of the missionaries above named. They write that the timber is large and plenty, and they enjoy the usual tropical fruits. It is the intention of the colonists to settle on the main land. On Sunday the 26th of March,the colonists opened a Sunday school, when in addition to their own, they received twenty of the native children.

The United States' ship Cyane, conquered on the coast of Africa four schooners, viz. the Endymion, Esperanza, Plattsburg, and Science, and sent them into New-York. These are American vessels, and are all libelled by the United States' Marshall of that district as having been engaged in the Slave Trade. It is understood that government will send other armed vessels to the coast of Africa.

On the 20th inst. Troy was visited by a fire which consumed about one third of the fairest portion of that flourishing city.' The estimated loss is from seven hundred thousand to a million of dollars.

On the 22d inst. a fire broke out in the rear of Broadway, in the city of New-York, which consumed in a short period property to the amount of fifty thousand dollars.

In conformity with an act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, the people of that State will assemble in their respective towns on the 18th of July, to decide upon the question of calling

a convention to revise the constitution.

M. Rouffigniac has been elected Mayor of the city of New-Orleans, an office supposed to be worth $20,000 annually.

The Hon. Elijah Boardman has been chosen a Senator of the United States, for the State of Connecticut, for six years from the 4th of March next, the term of service of the Hon. Samuel W. Dana, expiring at that time.

The Hon. John Holmes, and Gen. John Chandler, have been chosen Senators in the Congress of the United States, for the State of Maine.

General William King has been chosen Governour of the State of Maire.

It is stated that the Indian tribes in

the Province of Texas, consist of 25,000 persons, and that they can bring into the field about 5,000 warriors.

At the late election of Delegates in Missouri for the formation of a constitution, the persons chosen in the several districts are all opposed to the restriction of slavery.

The Legislatures of Connecticut and New-Hampshire, have in reply to certain resolves of the Legislature of Virginia, declared their opinion that Congress have the right to restrict the introduction of slavery into new states, and that they ought thus to prevent the extension of this great moral as well as political evil.'

It will be recollected by many of our readers, that during the late war with England, the pilot boat Patriot was despatched to Charleston for the purpose of bringing to this city Mrs. Allston, lady of the then Governour of South Carolina, and daughter of Col. Burr, formerly Vice-President of the United States. Mrs. Allston was in a delicate state of health at the time, and unable to travel by land. Timothy Green, Esq. of this city, an intimate friend of Gov. Allston's family, proceeded to Charleston in the pilot boat, for the purpose of accompanying Mrs. A. on the voyage. From the time they embarked and sailed from Charleston, no tidings whatever had ever been heard of the vessel, or any one on board. It was at first supposed that the vessel must have been captu ed by a British cruizer, but after a lapse of time, that hope was abandoned. Notwithstanding the weather was mild and favorable for several days after the vessel left Charleston, and such as to render her loss mysterious, up to the present time no other idea of the melancholy circumstance had prevailed, than that the vessel must have foundered at sea, or run under during a chase.

But the mystery is at length developed-for the honour of human nature, it were to be wished that the facts had never been revealed, and that the following horrible tale had been buried with the wretches who told it.

A gentlemen recently from NewOrleans, has communicated to a friend of the family of the late Mr. Green, that two of the pirates lately sentenced to suffer death at New-Orleans, confessed that they composed part of the crew of the above pilot boat Patriot!that after being at sea two or three days, and near the shore, they rose upon the captain and passengers, and confined them below--when they stood close in shore, and after plundering the passengers of a considerable sum of money and plate, belonging mostly to Mrs. Allston, they launched the boat, and scuttled the vessel, which soon filled, and went down with the unfortu nate inmates confined below! The dreadful tragedy was performed in the dead of the night. These wretches succeeded in reaching the shore with the boat, and had thus far escaped detection and punishment for this horri ble crime.-N. Y. Merc. Adv.

The return of the Steam-Boat "Robert Fulton" is an interesting fact in naval history. This elegant vessel has made her first voyage from this port to Havana and back by Havana and Charleston, in safety and with extraor dinary dispatch. She performed her voyage from New-Orleans, including her stops at Havana and Charleston in 17 days. When the accommodations of this vessel, which for comfort, convenience and elegance were per haps never excelled, are taken into consideration, together with the securi ty and certainty which attend her voyages, she may be viewed as superiour to almost any thing of the kind in the world.-N. Y. Adv.

with the intentions of nature. The same is true of that feeling with which we witness an act of magnanimity, which springs from a mere desire of reputation. The feelings which are excited on such occasions are generally composed of a variety of ingredients, and on the proportion in which these ingredients are combined, will depend the character of the whole. Thus the emotion of sublimity, to which allusion has already been made, is sufficient of itself to diversify greatly any emotion with which it may be mingled; so much so, as to induce a suspicion in the minds of common observers of a difference, not only in degree of intensity, but in nature and in origin. We have also a striking example to illustrate the modification which our feeling or principle of action undergoes from its being combined with other feelings and principles in the difference between the friendship which we feel towards a child and that which we feel towards an old man. That unmingled friendship is universally the same, like every other active principle, will hardly be doubted, and yet how diversified by those extraneous feelings which are inspired by the circumstances of age!

2. Another objection of Dr. Smith's is this:--if conscience is a distinct faculty of the mind, "not only the objects of its approbation and disapprobation have a moral character, but also the faculty itself." Thus he says, if I see a man express his approbation of an act of cruelty, and I disapprove of his conduct, I in fact disapprove of his approbation, and thus attach a moral character to his conscience, from which his approbation springs. But he takes it for granted that practice and opinion on moral subjects always go together. "Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor," does not seem to be one of his maxims. It is very far from being probable that any man can be found who is so great a monster, that should he even manifest an approbation of an act of cruelty, he

would speak the real language of his conscience. But even granting that such a man could be found, still we may blame the man himself and not his conscience, for suffering it to be overpowered by some passion or prejudice, or led astray by some association.

3. The principal objection offered by Dr. Paley is the diversity of opinion which prevails in different parts of the world on moral subjects. He does not offer it, it is true, as his own, though no one who reads his observations on this subject, has any doubt that he is inclined to give it much weight. Thus we are told that “theft was not unfrequently rewarded by the laws of Sparta ;" "that a wild American is diverted with the writhings and contortions of the victim at the stake;" and in short, that "there is scarcely a single vice, which in some age or country has not been countenanced by public opiniou." This objection like the last takes for granted that diversity of practise proves diversity of opinion. But it is well known that many practise and habitually practise what they know to be morally wrong, and may not this be true of nations? Might not the gov ernment of Sparta have borne with a little self-condemnation for the sake of obtaining those advantages which they supposed would result in certain cases, from the encouragement of theft?

But even admitting that, with res pect to moral subjects, there is as great a diversity of opinion as of practice, this does not prove that conscience is not a distinct principle or faculty of the mind. For in the first place, there are many causes which would tend to produce a diver sity of opinion on moral subjects, even if the doctrine were true. One of these causes is an imperfect analysis of moral subjects. It is well known, that in order to be sure that our conclusions on any subject are correct, it is best to analyze our rea sonings, and see if all that has been taken for granted is true. Thus if I