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THE CAMBRIAN.

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THE CAMBRIAN. SWANSEA, Fkidav, MAY 5. Extract of a Letter from London,, dated Eight rfClock Wednesday Evening last, The f tindsdiave risen to-day about one per cent. and various are the reports .and conjectures assumed as the cause. It was firft said that Bonaparte had again abdi- cated; next, that be hud been^ missing for a week; and thirdly, tlvat there was air insurrection in Paris* and that the French Ruter was deposed by the Jacobin party. Our confident belief is. that neither the one nor the Other of these acts are known to have actually taken place; but ouropiljion is, that before many days we shall hear of important events froiii tire other side of the water. More letters of the 29th April, have reached us from Paris; which prove tliiit a i)-ut,iber of families are leaving that city as fast as possible. I'he House of Itecamier and Co. at Paris, has stopped payment. "A mai) has arrived from Lisbon, hv which we learn that the Portuguese Government has of late been attempt- ing to levy contributions upon the British residents in that qapital which the latter had succeeded in resisting, al- though the return of.UIDS paid, amounting in some instances to iibbve 10OJ. each individual, was very doubtful. The House of Lords fas some short time oceupied in the discussion of the Hftstone Election Bill, nfter which the House adjourned till Friday. In the House of Commons, after iome routine business, Lord Nugent bronght forward a motion for a Committee to enquire into the circumstance between his Majesty's packets (he Montague and Melpomene, and an American privateer. His Lordship spoke at some length, but we do not conceive the subject of general interest. Mr. Crpker amwerh-d his Lordship, and Mr. Preston, at very consider- able length, pressed the uecessity of the enquiry, and made some strong comments on the behaviour of the Montague. We left tlie Hon. Gent. speaking at half-past »i^ o'clock, Consols left off to-day at 53_i J; Thè members of a Benefit Society in Swansea, who bad supposed theiliselves possessed of 38 jiuitieas in gold, were strangely surprised and murufied on Monday night lali, bti opening their box, and finding their treasure transmuted into! halfpence. Tlie akliymist lias, not .yet been dis- covered. Caution.—Wtn. Thomas, of iMsath, was a few days since lined 4Us. for not H-lyin;; his natne Al painted on his carts; and Win. I'iTum.is, his son, was at the same tnue-lined 10s.-ibr riding on one of tlie cafts, and .•driving.furiously along the road. These practices are too piev iient, and. we. repeat, These practices are too piev iient, and. we. repeat, th it it is the determination of",the M tgistrties to repress them by inflicting tlie penalties in every instance. The Ilev. T. Morgm, Rector of hanvarhes, Mon- mouthsliire, has beeii appointed by Viscount Mel- ville to liie Chajdaincy of the Royal Navy Hospital at Haslar. ffhe Itcv. J. Parsons^ M. A, of Ciiftoo Wood, has been instituted to the Vlcara^cS qf All Saints, Bri-i- tol, on the presentation of the Deaii and Chtpter of that Catlje,.jr,,I. It appears by the Bolfast Ciirpiviele that Mr. Joseph Lancaster,-to whom the wpfld is so deeply itidehted for the introduction, of a practical system of general education, has been lecturing with great effect and energy at Mayiioolh-College, and in other parts of Ireland, where the Lancasterian sys- tem is ui genera! favour, as a resuU ol long expe- rience in its beneficial efttcis. The Emperor Napoleon has appointed a Committee to i:i ro- duce the system into all the departiueins of France, • as an integral branch -uf the Governtneut. On-vyednesday, a hoy, iseven years nt age, was ilrovv-ijed in the river MofMtow, hear MunUlullth, whilst atigbng. „ In an action tried ut tliaT^ancaster assises; for the recovery cfdehts, contracted hya lady, who h id passed, with the consent of the defendant, for his wife, one of the witnesses fur the jMaintil?, Who liveJ ill, the house in which the purties lodged in Manchester, stated, that she never entertained a doubt (jfttifif being mall and wite, as—" they were often qtiarr?!lii>g; and once she remembered his lialvi Veil hpjf a little personal matrimonial cor- rection On the 2d inst, wascootmitted to Carmarthen gaoi, by D. Parry; Esq. Richard John, labourer, on the complaint of Mr. Geo. Morris, «f Llangennech Park, for nut thrashing com clean according to agreement. The Jphti and Ann, from Youghall to Cardiff, with corn, received 'considerable damage in the gile of Friday se'nnight, off St. Anne's Lights, and the piaster was washed overboard. She has put itjto Tenby to repair. The slopn Dolphin, Wrri. Williams, master, from Millord to Pothiliey, laden with culm, was left !>v her crew in a sinking state, oft' Padstow, on Moti- day iast. The crew reached that port in their boat about four o'clock in the afternoon. Mi/ford, May o.—This day arrived the Fox Cus- toms, cutter, Capt. Cuff, with liet prije, a most beautiful vessel (nhout 33 tons burthen) called the San Euphemia; ot Gweek, vi'illiam Iloskyn, master, which she captured neap the Land's End, for having on board about 150 ankers of brandy and geneVa, which have been deposited in the Custom-house store. Two persons foiipd in her have been sent on board his Majesty's ship Myrtle, for the nival service; the other part ofthecrew had put on shore to sell the cargo, a short time before she was taken possession of by the Fox. The San Eupheniia was built for a pleasure yacht, and is allowed to be as handsome and Well-built a vessel as auyof her size in this harbour. This is thesecond cargo of spirits seised and brought into this port within a week. A short time since the slopp Jane and Mary; of fJwilueli, Jones, master, laden with copp«r-ur*, hound from Conway for Swansea, struck on the Crow Hock, and was obliged to run on shore near btackpoie. Cargo expected to be saved.

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