March 2, 1815.-Lieut. W. Mackenzie, 2d regiment Bengal Native Infantry, has been appointed Resident at Manado, whi ther he is to proceed with an escort of two subaltern officers and a small detachment. One of the officers is appointed to do the duty of magistrate and store-keeper. Lieutenant Mackenzie had been succeeded in his situation of Secretary to the government of Amboyna by Dr. Babingtos. Robert Stuart, Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service, has been nominated Resident of Ternate; and Mr. Sargent, President of the College of Justice in that island. No preparation has been made for the ces-sion of the Moluccas to the Dutch. The market for Indian articles is in general heavy. The arrival of the Scaleby Castle by an influx of goods, has rendered sales dull; and with few exceptions, Bengal goods are selling below prime cost. The Dispatch, Captain Fern, and two other vessels have arrived from Penang and Batavia with cargoes of Rice, which have sold well. The Wellington schooner has arrived from Timor. The Minerva, Captain Russell, was to proceed to Java by sexy the way of Ternate. HOME INTELLIGENCE. London, April 7.-This day the folfollowing bulletin was exhibited at St. James's palace: "Windsor Castle, April 6.-His Majesty has enjoyed good bodily health, and has been very tranquil, during the last month; but His Majesty's disorder has undergone no change." Yesterday, about three o'clock, the Prince Regent left town for Hampton court, where his royal highness dined. The Prince of Saxe Cobourg was expected to meet his royal highness there to dinner from Brighton. By the recent statement of the British naval force up to the 1st instant, it appears that the number of vessels in commission are 267, ordinary and repairing for service 438, building 35. Total 734. The North Star sloop of war, Capt. Cae, arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday from Jamaica, having on board a large quantity of specie; she sailed 12th February. Accounts had been received at Jamaica, of the arrival of the Dutch force at Curacea on the 27th January, to take possession of that island in the name of the Dutch government. The governor, Admiral Kirkert, in the Prime William Dutch ship of the Kine, entered the harbour in the evening of the 27th, but in consequence of soine orders relative to the surrender of the place not. having arrived, the island was still to remain in the hands of the British. There was a remarkable difference in the number of deaths among the allied troops in Paris in 1813.-The Russian army lost twenty-three men; the Austrian army fifteen; the Prussian army one hundred and fifty-four; and the Fuglish army one thousand and twenty geven. en ichellon, and entered their positions from Valenciennes to the Somme. Alf the fortresses in this line have very anmerous garrisons. These troops, composing the right wing of the grand army, consist of sixty-five thousand men, vis, thirty-thousand English, twenty thou sand Rassiars, and Danes, Saxons, and Hanoverians, five thousand each. The positions are so chosen, that the allies can at all times cut off the fortresses which still have French garrisons, from all communication with the interior. At the last court of Common Council, Mr. Waithman in the close of his speech, addressed the court in the following man ner:-" My Lord Mayor, after this, I shall not frequently have occasion to troube your lordship, or this court; I mention it, at least, after more than twenty years of unabating exertion for the promotion of the liberties and happiness of mankind; some may attribute my relaxation from public business, to a desertion of my principles-but the state of my health at this time, requires some attention, and prescrites to me the necessity of abstaining, at least for the preseut, from public exertion. I am, however, persuaded that this corporation, and the people at large, should make the most unremitting call upon the legislature, for a severe and rigid system of reform and economy, in every depart April 12,-The first spring meeting of the Golf Club was on Saturday last, at Blackheath; the day proved highly favourable. After three hours, play, the club, tegether with a few friends, sat down to an excelleut dinner at the Green Man. The afternoon was spent in conviviality and good humour, virtues for which this club has long been eminently distinguished. The exercise of the Gol is, perhaps, of all others the most conducivement of the state, otherwise it will ne to health and longevity; in playing, the museles are put into moderate action, the chest is thrown open, a sufficient degree of interest is excited to keep the 'mind actively alive and cheerful, and all this is from necessity performed in the open air. The game itself is elegant and interesting; a fine player will, under favourable circumstances, drive the ball by one stroke of the club from two to three hundred yards,, with a velocity equal to that of an arrow, and with perfect correctness towards the goal, avoiding such hazards as a Scylla on the one hand, and a Charybdis on the other. The allied troops, composing the right wing of the army of occupation, took up in January last, their positions in the garrisons and cantouments which have been assigned them by the Duke of Wellington. The Saxon and Danish troops form a line which extends to the French fortresses in Artois. The Hanoverians haye concentrated themselves about Conde and that part of the Scheld. The Russians have extended themseves further into the French territory. Their left wing leans upon Charlemont, the most advanced troops of the centre extend to the frontiers of the district of Laon, and their right wing leans upon Maubenge. Behind all these positions are the English ; . ver be obtained; and there can be no chance for the country being retrieved from its present distressed and embarrassed state-this, however, I must leave to others, who may exhibit more ability, and whose exertions may be attended with more success-but who can never shew more zeał, perseverauce, and disinterestedness." The Parisians have not yet done wondering at the steam-boat, in praise of which their journalists are absolutely wanton: but what is better, there is. great reason to hope that their admiration will not evaporate in a few warm panegyrics, for there is a partnership of highly respectable persons already formed for the purpose of establishing a communication between London and Paris, by means of steam-boats. Though the main attempt may fail, some collateral advantages to trade and navigation may be reasonably hoped to accrue. They are now placing before the royal arsenal at Berlin a cannon and two mortars of enormous size. The Prussian troops found the first at Paris, with another of the same size, which the Austrians sent to Vienna. They took the two latter pieces at La Fere. Napoleon, It is said, had kept these four pieces ou account of their prodigious size and de structive effects, to employ them one day, with other heavy a tillery, in the siege of Gibraltar. The total number of persons that have belonged to the forty-second regiment from 1797 to the preseut time, is thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty-seven. There are only three men in the corps that fought against Buonaparte's Invincibles in Egypt. Mons, April 5.-A tragical scene has just thrown our town into terror and consternation. The day before yester day, about eight o'clock in the evening, Mrs. Papillon, the mother of a family enjoying a decent competence, commit ted an act of despair or madness, to which the annals of the human mind scarcely furnish a parallel. Being fol lowed by her three children, a boy of two years of age, and two girls, one eight and the other five years old, she dragged them to the well; then seizing the two youngest, she threw them in; the eldest girl struggled a long time in her mother's arms, uttering agonizing but fruitless cries: the barbarous mother, violently seizing her, threw her into the well; into which she at last threw herself also. These four unhappy victims have been taken out dead, and all the assistance of art was lavished on them in rain. Yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, they were buried. It seems that this woman, whose mind was doubtless deranged, had meditated this great crime during the whole of the third. On that day she performed her, devotional exercises, and distributed abundant alms. Madame Popillon had formed the project to destroy all her family; besides the three children who were the victims of it, she had two others; her eldest son was at a boarding-school at St. Ghislam, and the youngest at nurse in the country. This mother, whom one does not know by what name to call, had sent an order to the nurse to bring her the infant on the day destined for the accomplishment of the tragedy, which the woman refused to do. At the same time she charged the St, Ghislain carrier to carry to her son a flan, (a kind of cake), which was poisoned, with a letter, desiring him to eat it alone, without giving any part to his schoolfellows. On the road this fan was spoiled, and the carrier, fearing be should damage the other goods which he had with him, threw it away. If we add, that this wretched woman was five months advanced in her pregnancy, we shall have an idea of the destruction which she had calmly meditated. While the dreadful scene was passing, her husband was at the coffee-house; she had had the cruel precaution to leave a note on the table, pointing out the well as the grave of herself and childrew, The Hamburgh Correspondenten con tains the following tragical story, which it alleges to have lately taken place in a country town of Hanover :-A mother of three little children threatened one of them, in the presence of the other, in a joking manner, to cut off its nose, for some naughty trick of which it had got a habit. Soon after she was busy down stairs in bathing the youngest child, who was ill, but hastens up stairs on hearing a dreadful cry in the upper part of the house, and meets on the stairs the eldest child, who tells her he has executed the threatened punishment upon the other child, who had again been guilty of the same trick. In her anger she pushes the child so, that he falls down the stairsfinds the maimed child swimming in its blood, in the agonies of death-rushes down stairs agaiu-finds the other child lifeless at the foot of the stairs-totters into the bathing room, finds the youngest child suffocated in the bath, and hangs herself shortly after in the extremity of despair. The Hamburgh Correspondenten of the 9th of April, contains another of those tragical stories of which we have lately had several from the Continent. It states, under the head of Dresden, April 1, that a carpenter of the name of Reichel, after. inflicting such severe wounds on his father and mother-in-law that their lives. were despaired of, had murdered his wife, and destroyed himself. Previously to this, he had on the same day, though happily without success, endeavoured to set fire to several houses. The Editor observes, that had he not received the account from a credible source he should have deemed the story, a first of April hour. Paris, April 24.-The trial of Messrs. Wilson, Bruce, Hutchinson, commenced on the 22d instant, and concluded this day.-M. Dupin, the advocate of Sir Robert Wilson and his friends, made speech of considerable ingenuity, but turning principally on points of French law. On the facts charged against the accused, after their avowals, corrobo rated by the fullest proof documentary and parole, no possible doubt could remain: and about half-past five this afternoon, the jury (twelve in number, drawn by lot) delivered their verdict into court. It was read by their foreman, and contained an acquittal of all the Frenchmen, except the turnkey, Eberle, who, as well as Sir Robert Wilson, Messrs. Bruce, and Hutchinson, were found guilty. The president, M. De Seze, then proceeded to read the heads of the penal code applicable to the convicted persons. The article applicable to our countrymen was No. 224, which prescribes imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, nor less than three months, at the discretion "of the judge; and the president, without hesitation, pronounced for the shortest allowable period. Sir Robert and Mr. Bruce had both previously addressed the court, explanatory of the motives for a Conduct which they did not deny. Sir Robert observed, that those who blamed, what he had done would probably - have censured him for inhumanity, had be refused to assist in snatching a fellow ergature from destruction. Mr. Bruce proclaimed himself a friend to liberty, and to the constitution of his country, as settled by the glorious,revolation of 1688; but he declared his detes fation of that fictitions revolutionary li *berty which desolated Europe. Both these speeches were listened to with great attention by the court. On a dispute which arose as to the official translation of one of Sir Robert's letters, the advoente-general allowed the prisoners the Denefit of interpretation, which was most favourable to them. The court was fuller on the third day than on the second, but Jess so than at the opening of the trial. Madame Lavalette was among the audifors. 4. particular circumstances obliged, us to pass through Compiegne with a person who must remain unknown, we wished to stop an hour or two in a remote and retired quarter. He frankly replied that the would trust entirely to as on the subject; that his existence depended on preserving his situation, but that he would not hesi tate to accede to a proposition, particnlarly since he saw we were interested in the affair. I vow that I felt repugnance at implicating such a person in the affairs but the cause was too important to stop at that consideration, and Į encouraged the hope that a day would one time arrive in which it might be possible for me to acknowledge this service. Bruce procured Lavalette's measure, and Hutchinson gave it to a tailor, saying it was the measure of a quarter-master of his regiment, who wanted a great coat, waistcoat, and pantaloons, but did not need a suit. The tailor observed that it was the measure of a tall man, and that it had not been taken by a tailor. His remark alarmed me so much, that I thought adviseable to send to Hutchinson, to say to him, that, as the quarter-master could not wait till Saturday, it was necessary that the clothes should be carefully packed up, and that they wou d be forwarded to him after his departure. Hutchinson and Elister took besides all necessary precautions with respect to horses, and reconnoitred the barriers in a promenade on the preceding day. Every precaution for avoiding acci Sir Robert Wilson's Account of the Escape of Lavalette.-Letter from Sir R. Wilson to Earl Grey, intercepted by the French government." It was determiued (says Sir R. Wilson) that the fugitive should wear the English uniform; that I should conduct him without the barriers Ja an English cabriolet, wearing the unidents being adopted, it was finally agreed form myself, that I should have a relay horse at La Chapelle; and proceed from thence to Compiegne, where Elister should repair with my carriage, in which I should afterwards travel with Lavalette to Mous, by way of Cambray. I had no difficulty in procuring from Sir C. Stuart, at my request, and our my responsibility, passports for Gen. Wallis and Col. Les nock, names which we chose because they were not, preceded by Christian names. The passports were duly countersigned by the minister for foreign affairs; but when they were presented for signature, one of the secretaries asked who Colonel Lesnock was? He immediately replied, it is the father of the admiral, This objext being accomplished, Elister took the passports for Col. Lesnock, procured posthorses for his carriage; and finally, to avoid all suspicion, took an apartment and a coach-house at the hotel de Helder, In the name of Col. Lesnock. Bruce for tunately learned, that the bridge, commanded by his consin, Gen. Brisbane, was at Compiegne, and that his aide-decamp would quit Paris next day, the 7th of the month, for Compeigne, with the horses and baggage belonging to the gene ral, who was then in England. We saw the aide-de-camp at Bruce's, where we met by appointment. We told him that very that Lavalette should be removed to Hutchinson's lodgings on Sunday, Jan. 7, at half past nine in the evening precisely; and that next day, at half past seven in the morning, equally precise, I should be at his door with Bruce's cabriolet, my servant, the servant on my mare, well equipped, as if I were going to make an inspection. That Hutchinson should ride along by the side of the cabriolet, keeping up conversation with us, and that in case any embarrassment occurred, Lavalette should mount my horse and I the mare, in order that we might act more freely and gain in expedition. I should certainly have preferred passing the barriers on horseback, but it was thought that the manner of riding on horseback might attract attention, and that passing the barriers in full day, and in an open carriage, would shew too much confidence to give cause for suspicion. The hour being at last arrived, Elister, Bruce, and myself, repaired to Hutchinson's apartments, under the pretext of a party for punch; at the moment when Lavalette was to present bimself, Bruce, advanced to the top of the stairs, Lavalette took him by the hand, and we saw before us this interesting personage. He was dressed in a blue uniform and sufficiently disguised to pass without |