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system will never be changed nor any relief to 
the snffering people be given by any House of 
Commons, the members of which are not re- 
turned by the free will of a majority of the 
people. 
Your Petitioners greatly fear that unless a 
thorough reform in your Honourable House 
speedily take place, a violent revolution may 
be anticipated. 
To prevent the evils we anticipate—to 
rectify as muck as may be possible all errors— 
to put an end to all abuses—to tranquillize 
the minds of the people—and as an earnest 
return to a wholesome state of things, we 
pray— 
That your Honourable House will take into 
your most serious consideration the complaints 
and allegations contained in this Petition, and 
will cause an immediate and full enquiry to 
be made into the state of the representation 
of the people in your Honourable House, 
with a view to a thorough refurm thereof. 
FRANCE. 
The kingdom of the Bourbons seems 
to be passing away. They were years 
in the school of experience, and they 
learned nothing. They now play with 
fire, and they must expect to be scorch- 
ed. Every arrival from France excites 
lively expectations, and the eyes of all 
Europe are directed to the operations 
of GENERAL BERTHON on the Loire, 
who, we have heard, is a man of great 
ability. All the votes of the Chambers 
cannot but add thousands to his forces, 
by the contempt with which they treat 
the best principles of the Charter, Two 
hundred and nineteen of the Deputies 
voted for the law against the press, and 
but one hundred and_ thirty-seven 
against it, while twenty-five refused to 
vote on a question which, as determined 
by the Charter, was not open to discus- 
sion. Again the common sense of the 
French people is outraged by an hypo- 
critical attempt to introduce a spirit of 
religious fanaticism, such as degrades 
too many countries; and the essays of 
the preachers in the churches of Paris 
have given rise to as many tumults. 
A change of the French ministry, an 
administration of liberales,and a literal 
respect for the Charter, are the only 
means of saying France from a terrible 
re-action. 
ITALY. ; 
A new eruption of Vesuvius com- 
menced on February 18th, which on 
the 19th was so violent as to cause an 
extended earthquake. 
UNITED STATES. 
The following is the fourth census of 
the people of the United States of 
America: 
Political Affuirs in March. 
| April 1, 
Maine 298,335 | Georgia 340,989 
New Hampshire 244,161 | Alabama 127,901 
Massachusetts 523,287 | Mississippi 75,148 
Rhode Island $3,0/9 | Louisiana 153,407 
Connecticut 275,218 | Tennessee 422,813 
Vermont 235,754 | Kentucky 564,317 
New York 1,372,812 | Obio 581,434 
New Jersey 277,575 | Indiana 147,178 
Pennsylvania 1,049,398 | Illinois 55,211 
Delaware 72,749 | Missouri 66586 
Maryland 407,350 | Ter.ot Michigan 8,296 
Virginia 1,065,366 Arkansas 14,273 
North Carolina 638,829 
8. Carolina,except 
Kershaw Dist. 490,309 Grand Total 9,625,734 
The slaves amount to about 1,531,436, and 
the foreigners not naturalized, to 53,646. 
The persons engaged in agriculture, were 
2,065,499 ; in commerce, 72,397; in manu- 
factures, 349,247. 
SOUTH AMERICA. 
We rejoice at being able to announce 
the independence of Panama, and 
the Isthmus of Darien, proclaimed at 
Porto Bello, Dec. 5. It completes the 
emancipation of the great Isthmus 
which unites Southand North America, 
and these provinces will form a consi- 
derable republic. 
In like manner, the insolent prin- 
ciple of legitimacy, or the property of 
nations in besotted families, has re- 
ceived another lesson in the Brazils, 
where the fine city of Pernambuco dis- 
played a spirit on the 5th of Jan., 
which we trust the next advices will 
prove to have extended to all Brazil. 
Callao surrendered to the illustrious 
San Martin, on the 21st of September. 
There are, however, reports of differ- 
ences between him and Cochrane, but 
happily Peru and Chili are indepen- 
dent. 
Vera Cruz, also has surrendered in 
Mexico, and Iturvebé acts as nobly as 
Bolivar, so that the whole continent of 
America is free from foreign domina- 
tion, except what remains in the North 
and in Brazil, and we regard this as a 
blessing equal to the mother countries 
and the colonies; for the former may 
derive even greater benefits from the 
independence of the latter, while they 
cease to be cursed by that influence of 
patronage which colonies confer. The 
error and delusion of the colonial sys- 
tem begins now to be duly felt. 
THE IONIAN ISLANDS. 
When the diplomatic arrangements 
at Vienna, forced on Europe a variety 
of political absurdities, one of the 
greatest was the nominal placing of the 
Ionian Islands under the remote pre- 
tection of Great Britain, but as now 
appears, placing them under British 
sovereignty. What is gained by any 
party is inconceivable, and the people 
of 
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