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Chrmiology of the Month. 



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of making himself independent, lie has 

 just received insttnctions from the 

 Porte to take the entire direction of 

 the war against the Greeks in the 

 Morea. 



AFRICA. 



Letters from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, announce the capture of a Spa- 

 nish ship, by the Baracouta sloop of 

 war, and between three and four hun- 

 dred slaves were lound on-board the 

 prize. 



A letter from Tanfciers, dated March 

 21, states tliat Ben Y'Show, the chief 



have also submitted to the Emperor, 

 sending their women as hostages to Fez. 

 Accounts from Palermo notice the 

 arrival there of the ship Mariner, 

 Woolacott, from Bristol, after having 

 been fired upon by an Algerine ship of 

 war off Cape Bonar, from which she 

 escaped by superior sailing. 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



Advices from Peru, to the 261h 

 December, which state that negocia- 

 tions had commenced between Bolivar 

 and the Royalist General Canterac ; 

 and that if hostilities should ultimately 



of the province of Garb, has had an be resolved upon, Bolivar would take 



engagement with one of the marauding the field in March, at the hcacl of an 



tribes of his district. Muley Shcid has overwhelming force. Colombia had 



given up the siege of Mequinez, and dispatched nine thousand men to the 



gone to Tafilet, having, it is said, assistance of Peru. 



secured in the Atlas mountains a safe 

 place of retreat ; while the Governor 

 of the Black Honciaja, at Mequinez, 

 lias sent to the Emperor a considerable 

 remittance from the treasury at that 

 place. One of the Berribber tribes 



The disturbances which took place at 

 Mexico, the latter end of January, 

 have completely subsided, and tran- 

 quillity is restored. The firmness of 

 the Congress on that occasion is highly 

 spoken of. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON, 

 With Biographical Blemoirs of dislivguished Characters recently deceased. 



CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 



MARCH 18.— Mr. Hobhoiise presented 

 a petition to the House of Commons, 

 from Mr. Wirgman, jewellerof St. James's- 

 street, praying for tlie abolition of all the 

 immoral and corrupt macliinery of elec- 

 tions ; that I he Ian(iliol<lers sbonUl send to 

 parliament, in a direct and simple manner, 

 Ihe members tiiey now send by disgrace- 

 ful and fraudnlent means ; and that a cer- 

 tain nnnil)er of seats tlionid be sold by 

 auction, to accommodate the other in- 

 terests. 



20. — A Philanthropic Loan, or Benevo- 

 lent Bank, introduced to the Stock 

 Exchange. Its object is to enable the 

 poor to pledge at a smaller rale of inteiest 

 than is allowed to ilie pawnlirokers, 



2G. — The inhabitants of St. Paul, 

 Covcnt-garden, petitioned the House of 

 Oomnious, complaining of the Window 

 Tax, of the niaintcuance of llic Sinking 

 Fnu'l, while surplus revenue was appropri- 

 ated to oilier purposes, anil of llie mis-ap- 

 plicalinn of 4-,(l0(),000i. to that ill-go- 

 verned country, Irehuid, but too much of 

 it being applied to the support of "an idle 

 and dissolute Irish gentry." 



— . — A Prospectus issued in the city, for 

 the formation of a joint stock company, 

 with a capital of lao.OOOi. under the title 

 of the 'Ilianies and Isis Steam Vessel Com- 

 pany, for the purpose of conveying goods 

 and passengers more rapidly. 



29. — A grand op|)osiiiou dinner at 

 Brooke's Subscription House. It was nu^ 



meronsly attended by the leading mem- 

 bers of Opposition in both Houses. 



31. — The Common Council agreed to 

 petition the House of Commons against the 

 renewal of the Alien Act. 



— . — The anniversary dinner for cele- 

 brating the election of Mr. S. C. Whit- 

 bread, took place at the Mermaid 

 Tavern, Hackney. Mr. Shaw Lefevre in 

 the chair, supported by Mr. Byng ; and 

 Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Hume, Mr. Hob- 

 house, Mr. H. Grey Rennet, Mr. Alder- 

 man Wood, and a considerable number of 

 the freeholders of the county, were 

 present. 



April 5. — A lectureship, called the 

 " Ricardo Lectureship," or political eco- 

 nomy established in the melvepolis. Mr. 

 M'Cnlloch delivered the first lecture to 

 a distinguished audience. 



9. — Mr. Hobliouse presented a petition 

 from several inhabitants of Westminster, 

 against the practice of the Law of Libel, 

 under which individuals were committed 

 before a bill had been found by a Grand 

 Jury. 



12.— The Alien Bill passed in the 

 House of Conunons, by a majority of 

 ninety-three to forty. 



17. — The London Missionary Society 

 petitioned the House of Commons, com- 

 ])laining of the sentence upon their late 

 missionary, Mr. Smitli, at Demerara, who 

 lost his life in prison luider the harsh sen- 

 tence of a Court Martial ; because slavery 

 is iuconsislcnt with the doctrines of Chris- 

 tiauityj 



