.156 From the LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, May 17. BANKRUPTS. .lacasOn .1. Middleton, Norfolk. merchant, May 24, 26, June 2s. Au. An , ti..e and Wright, King's-bench-walk. CuretsLori, Liverpts,l, merchant, June 11, 12, 21. Att. Wkwlle, Juho-street, Itedmrd-row. K'ir.cocit, E. Huddersfield, carpenter, May 28. 29, June 28. Att. Battye, Chancery-lane Dttscosr. .1. Lonilon.strect, Crutcheil.fr4irs, May 21, 22, June TH. Mt. Nichings, Frith-street, Soho. flost . T. E. niche- wall. plumber, 'llly 20, '27, June 18. Att. Loxley icrl Son. Cheate.rde. Dowsi:, W. R. 'fooley- , treet, tdinw-chandler, May 2t, 50. June 28. Au. II tirsr Milk-street, i'hcapridc. &LANE, T. Gibr altar-walk, Be•haal-gr,vn. cabinet-maker, May 20, 31, June 28. Att. Howell, Furnival's-inn. Be onsitaw, J. Poqern-row, Tower-hill, woollen-draper, May 20, 30, June 88. Att. Farrel. 'Clireadniville-street. Hy NIPIPIEI'6, .1. Ilaanmersmith. builder, May 24, 31, June 28. Mt. Hunt, Surrey-street, Strand. LAN W. Hitchen, 'texts, patten-maker, May 20, 31, June 28. Att. Berridge, I latton-garden. Pril , llltAY, C. Bath. stationer, M.:y 29, 30, June 28. Mt. High n.oor, Scott's-yard, London. 1..F.1:11, S. Hurst, Laneaztcr, June 3,4, 28. Atts. Willis and Co. Warnford-cotut. IrET LEY, M. Leeds, wooLtopler, May 27, 28, June 28. Att. Lake, Dowgate-hill. WiIk:ELDON, Bonsai'', Derbyshire, eolour-manufacturer, May 30. 31, June tub Atts. Phalan and Stone, Hare—court, Temple. Rov rot, J. Brunon-upon-Trento saddler, June 2,3, 28. Mt, Cookncy, Castle-street, Holborn. DOW LEI', 'l'. and J. %Villow-street, Bankside, corn-merchants, May it, 31, June 28. Att. 31eymott, Great Surrey-street. .ComtuTitutts, D. Liverpool, merchant, June 4,3, 28. Atts. Lowe and Bower, Southumpron-buildings. PIrLIANG, .I.:Chudleigh, Devon, urereliont, June 9, 10, 28. Att. Fuirbank, 4taple 4 nn. KEN!.:ETT R. Muidstone, carpenter. May 20, June 7, 28. Att. Swain and Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. AlonsoN, J. Sheffield, merchant, May 27, 28, June 28. Atts. Tilson and Preston, Coleman-street. REtfu, W. Fleet-street. low-hooksellee, May 20. 31, Jnue 28. Arts Webster and Son. Queen-street, Cheapside. DI VIDENDS S. limns, Plymouth, jeweller, June T. F. I. Jutlin, Angel-court, Throumorton-street. merchant, May 24. E. Illsekmore, Caroline-street, tiedlOrd-square. taylor, June 7. E. White, Ilishopsgate-street-without, coach-master, May '2O. E. Simmons, Queenhithe, warehouseman, June 7. ,L Eley. Blackfriar's-road, brewer, June 7. it. Edwards, Murgan's-lane, Touley-street, spirit-merchant, June 7. W. Fisher. Cheltenham, carpenter. June 13. J. Teece, Newtown Baschurth, Ss op, shopkeeper, June. 9. J. Cooke, Cotton, tialop. June 9. W. Bradley, Reading. woollen-draper, June 9. J. Brunsden, Fore-street, Lambet', whiting-no 'V. Bothwell, Peochurch-streetoprinter, June 7. NV. May, P. Sharp, and I. Wilson. Livetpoul, upholsterers, June 10. H. C. Il.rosely, Austin-friars. merchant, June 7. 3. Doris, of Bristol, tanner, June 23. 7. Pearsall, W illsbridge-iron- works, Gloucester, hoop-maker, June 17. V. Brown, Wigan. Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer, June 20. 111. Falkr,er and W. Birch, Manchester, stationers, June 18. 4. and A. Hood. Great :Marlow, Bucks, grocers, June 3. 4. 11. Itobins, of Bristol, druggist. June 21. Marshal l„ 'Backwater. Hants, grocer, June 9. J. Pool, Duke-street, Mary-le-bone. carpenter, June 7. 11. Luker, Walton, Surry, painter June I. D. Anderson, Gray's-inn-lane, coal-merchant, June 7. 3. Dowdall, Dartmouth-street, Westminster, carpenter, June 7. R. Behenna, late of Penryn. Cornwall, =lnter, June 7. D'Arville, Oxford, timber-merchant, June 14. J. Nicholson, Berkeley-street, Clerkenwell, cotton-spinner, June 7. J. Ryder. Robert-street, Surry, hat-manufacturer, June 7. .1• F. and R. Seaton, and 'P. Voter, Pontefract, bankers, June 12. .7. Estill, Rowland's-row, Stepney-green, master, mariner, June 7. 71. Watkins, F. M'CLure, And L . ',Bucksaw, New Bond -street, r, Jude 7. June 7. C. Coldamith, Bridge-street, Illackfriars, tavern-leeper, May 2a. W. Althorn, Tokenhouse-yerd, broker. May 24. C. Love, Oki Bond-street, jewt:llet, August 16. liatensan's.row, Shoreditch, paviour, June 17. J. Turnbull, .1. Forbes, R. A. Craw fo ul, and I). Skene.Bruad-street, merchants, June 7. CERTIFICATES, JUNE 2. E. Ewell, Westbromwich, Statrord, von-founder..—B. Bradley, Birmingham, common-carrier.—W. liarne.,, New Sarum, Wilts, ironmonger.—A. Spcare, Brewer-street, St. James, Westminster, Dines, and H. Watkins, Bri..tol, chemists—W. Brookes, Paternoster-row, weaver.—J. Wardell, Guistnough, York, prooney Popplewell, Robert Town, York, card-maker. .—W. Bonreliier. King-street, Bullion], watch-inaker..--11. and J. ttoason. 'Three-tuts-court, 'Southwark, seed-tactors.—J. Knight, liiival Stysex, taylor.—R. Middleton and Dyson, Beverley, "York, merchants.—.l. Wight, Stourbridge-oanimon, Woreester, Cieltster.—N. Wittmhury, Manehe , ter, cotton-dealer.—T. Bsistol, ergritio-ntaksr.—J. I''ol2o, liiogston-upon=Hull, hatter. omorwswiaoops Ayala. CALAMITY 1,--Yesterday being Ascension Day; the Parishes of St , Peter and Paid, aid St. James, perm'''. bulated in the forehotin their resperttite boundaries, twee ts:oy to a custom periodically Miser Yeti, and wisely esta bibbed by our nhcesturs, as a weans of preventing disputes and litigation. In the afternoon, the Mayor, attended by some member:, of the Corporation, and numerous inh.ibitatis of the city, went on board a vessel at the bottom of the South Parade, aveempanied b' a barge beloolging to +it. James's • Parish, and net nt down the river, to the ement -of the city boundaries, beyond Norfolk Cre•eent. It was about a <Will .- let past seven -o'clock. when the placor arid atone of his friends re-crossed the ferry in safety, and the boat returned tar somber party ; '2O was the premerilwd ina»ber, bat bid'm the twatioati cookl I , usii off, set era, arldifoural persons got mg board ; and, as it was f. -red, proved too heavy n ft mulatto! When seine y.)rds from tits shire, and whet e the .aver is par lienlarly deep, the boat upset and cut:invited the whole party the water ! The disaster spread 'like lotlitoing through tlie city, and front every quarter affrighted trienits mud parent: very 3CCII hurrying 'so the fatal spot. , •t•vei at they tonna had eared themselves by swimming, a few by dinging to the upset boat, whilst some of their ouhirtiniat , cowhides vi ore frau tidy snatching at their legs—same individual* e resetied from their impending tale apparently lifeless, by the atienil log heats, and afterwards restored hy the Inr .t.soity Rod sk It of several Mt diced Gentlemen, who oioniptiy a,sensh,e4l on the .:sea -tun, but the iOlioWilig is the 1110111111111 lust of 4110•1 "Who were not exilic:tied till the vital spark ad , •nli.•11) rx • -tinct : Mr. George Hawkins. aged .10, writing.-master and ac •coiti Oat, I, xfoi 41.. 4.%% ; Lockyer, aged 30, ' , mile a•of, .)ranter-court ; Chau' s, aged iii, sou of Mr. Vint cot, our of the City Serjeants at Mace ; Richard Chiport, aged in, Soil of a journeyman carpenter, apprentice . to Mr. W•likillS, 11l A eh e ap.ataret! a son (aged about 13) 01 MI Dyes, master of the Mit., e's Head, : a soi..( I.:1 of Cull, ofjp.: City rrison.—Balh Paper ; lbtltXV. TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE NATIONAL HEG ESTER. LONDON: lIIONDAY, MAY 19, iSI7. Paris Papers have been received to the l(ith ; and by an article from the Myrrh) di Rome, of the 30th of last month, inserted in these papers, it appears that there is foundation in the reports of the Pope's illness. The French funds are rapidly on the rise. General Mila no had not, according to u letter from Madrid, been arrested so lately as the Ist of the present month ; and great interest was making with Kin.. Ferdinand to ob tain a pardon for General Lacey. The convoy so load destined Sir Rio Janeiro was expected to sail from Cadiz on or about the 10th of the present month. Louis the XVlllth held his first Catind Carina, at the Tuileries, on Wednesday. The fireign news that has reached town during the last week, is of rather more importance than what was received in the coarse of the preceding one. Conspi racies are breaking oat in different parts of Spain, and the .allitirs of that country seem to indicate the ap proach ofanother sad crisis. It is also stated that corn motions have occurred in the lonian Isles, and that some of our countrymen have fallen the victims of them. Turkey is menaced by the ambition of the Paella of A:‘2xandria, who has modelled his army on the European plan, and monopolizes the commerce of 1 Egypt. France appears to be more tranquil than fur some months past ; and her Funds arc looking up. Amidst the abuse and persecution which England, fr that devoted deer," still experiences from the conti nental press,—amidst the jealousies and thwartings she sustains from nations who were rescued from destruc tion by her subsidies and her prowess !—it is pleasing to observe that one continental State is disposed to ap preciate her worth ; and we refer our readers, with mingled pride and Fleasure, to the decision of the Ca binet of Prussia, with respect to that prohibition with which our commerce was threatened to be visited by the Continent. It will Le seen that the Lords Spiritual and Tempo ral of this realm, conscientiously following the exam-, ple of the House of Commons, have negatived the Roman Catholic demands, by a decisive vote. Anti cipatory of the result., a contemporary print just,y said, on'the 9th of the montir:--“ The public mind has often seemed to lie brought near to a willingness to digest the proposed measure; yet, always at the point when its consummation appeared .close at hand, there tuts been .a kind qf recoil in the ,general feeling; and the great body of the Protestant Intemst has started back from the step 'which was to be taken with apparent aversion. We think we see the same aversion begin ning to manifest itself now 1" We Lave just received the Paris Papers of Wednes day last; Pants, MAT 14.—" From Madrid we learn, that the misunderstanding that exists between our Court and that of Rio Janeiro appears to have assumed a sc rums aspect. If we are to credit the reports in eircu iutitm, a considerable force will soon be put in motion in the provinces of Leon anti Estreruadura. It is said even that orders have just been given for the departure of twelve regiments of intimtry and some regiments of ca valry ; that Generals Elio and Castanos will have the command of the troops to be assembled on the frontiers of Portugal, A tarps of artillery of the Royal School of Segovia is to proce,al forthwith to Badajoz.' Nothing is known at Paris with any certainty of the late conspiracies and troubles in Spain. The Censorship exercises great vigilance over crery thing that coucerns the affairs of that country. Paris, in the mean time, is said tube the thmatreof nog freiations between Spain and Portugal., as London is said to be the theatre of nego ciat,ions between Spain and her American colonies. In they: Litter the British Miuistry take the side of Spain, as in the former they are said to de that of Portugal.• We are told here, that Lord Castlereagh bas declared to the Spanish Ainbassat44, that in the event of a war 1)0- metal Spain and Portugal, Great Britain would be uL liged to defend the latt...r ; .and that the Ambasa.lor re• plit.d to him, that such an issue t•ould not be avoided except by stitcen is the double auediaim MAY 19. Papers from various parts of the United States have reached town, to tith April, but they contain no news relatito T to the Union. On the authority of a Jamaica Paper 4:l'M:mit 11, it is said General Nlorillo had been defeated on his way to the Venezuela territory, and that a division of foreigners had deserted hint and joined the Independent cause. Another Paper, dated king ston, Mardi 17, states that General Marino had taken Cumana by assault, after a loss of 4 or 500 men, and put from 700 to 1000 Sptutiards to the Sword, who had retreated into the fort. It was reported that President Petion was dead ; some reports stated he had been poi soned. Commodore Taylor, commanding an independ ent squadron, had been very successful, and captured three Spanish Guineamon. It appeani that the Merchants of Kingiton, Jamaica, have presorted !. Memorial to Government. prating protection against the aggressions committed in the West Indies by the navy of the Beloved Ferdinand. Government have given notice that transports suit able for the conveyance of horses arc wanted ; the veg. sels to be of small tonnage, and to be tiken up for two months. COMMERCE OF TILE CONTINENT. The following most welcome piece of intelligence is extracted from yesterday's Paris Papers, in a .enter from Berlin, dated May 3. " In a sitting of the- Council of State, connected with the subject of our finances, held on the Lith of April, under the presidency of his Sx cellency Baron de Huniltoldt, the question of the free dom of Commerce was discussed and put to the vote, when the prohikitory system was finally rejected by a majority of twenty in oppositioa to two." INDlA.—According to the West accounts from India, there has Leen mud► sickness in the Upper Provinces; and the Bombay Papers say, it has spread to the wes tern side of India, having given rise to a dreadful fever in Kattywar, in one district of which the deaths are said to have exceeded twenty-five daily. The fever was deemed contagious, and its progress was so alarming•, that the Bombay Government had judged it necessary to take precautionary measures to intercept its trans mission along the coast. It was hoped that the setting in of the cold season would be productive of beneficial effects. The Mahratta Chiefs are still engaged in hostile di versions ai,minst each other, but in no quarter has there appeared any symptom of rapture with the British Go vernment. It was supposed that the Marquis of I List ings would visit the Upper Provinces, for the purpose of carrying into effect, under his personal inspection, some arrangements relative to the police and military regulations in these parts, which have been long under • GHENT, MAY S.—There are now in circulation ! manuscript copies of a Memorial presented to his Ma jesty by the Bishops of Ghent, Nassau, Tournay, and the Vicar General of Liege .and of Nlalines. This Me morial is relative so the mode of instruction presented for the Universities, by the regulations of the 25th of last November. The Bishops state, first, that being bound by their duty to watch over the great interests of religion, they arc obliged to prevent the introduction of a system of education, which might corrupt youth, and violate the dogmas and the discipline of the Ca tholic Church. It is with this view that they point out severalheads of the regulations, which have appeared to them susceptible of producing this result. It is laid down as a principle, that it is to the Catholic Church that the world is indebted for the establishment of Uni versities, which have succeeded to the Episoopal schools. The principal object of this institution was to propagate all the branches of human knowledge, and principally religion. Abbe Henry says, that it was to preserve the holy doctrine that Universities were jimmied. It is to preserve youth from the contagion of philosophical errors that religion has presided over all studies under the in tervention of the Bishops, who alone have received the the power of teaching, or causing others to teach, eccle siastical science. The Catholic Sovereigns, who were themselves interested in the maintenance of religion, implored the authority of the Sovereign Pontiff to direct the high scitools by wise regulations. Thus was erected the celebrated University of Lorraine, which has been to religion a nursery of men whose names will be ever illustrious. Pope Martin V, in his bull creating it, speaks of the duty which is imposed on it, of encouraging as much as possible sciences of every kind, by the means of which the science which has for its object the mainte nance of the true faith is propagated more and snore.— . The interests of the State and of the Church arc now the same, and require the application of the same prin ciples. The Bishops assert, that in the present state of morals religion is now snore than ever necessary, the great principles having appeared to them to be violated by the mg-Amiens of the er,ih of November. They have therefwe laid before his Majesty the observations containui in this Memorial, which may embrace a doe trine too exclusive, and manifest fears exaggerated by z ail , but which have the merit of being written witb a moderation not always found in writings of this na , I lure,—(Orackfivin Ylte Journald. Viand.)