8 DECEMBER 1832, Page 9

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The Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation directing the immediate release of all Dutch vessels having on board perishable cargoes.

The French ships Syren, the Rear Admiral's vessel, and Medee, arrived in the Downs on Thursday. The whole of the combined fleet is now assembled there; so that, virtually, the blockade of the Dutch coast is abandoned. The boisterous weather has led to this result.

We understand that Sir. George Cockburn is to have the West India command, vacant by the death of Sir Edward Griffith Colpoys, K. C.B.

—Globe.

A Court of Directors was held at the East India House on Wednesday; when the following Captains were sworn into the command of their respective ships—Captain Robert Locke, Duke of York ; and Captain Charles Shea, Buckinghamshire, consigned to Bengal and China.

The Emperor of Russia had issued a new Ukase respecting the Polish patriots. The trials of the first class of criminals are to go on, but no new matter is to be gone into. Criminals of the third class are to be pardoned; criminals of the second class are to be given over to the Military Governors of Minsk. The gentences may be commuted or remitted, on representation to the Emperor by the local authorities. A violent eruption of Mount Etna, which took place on the 17th and 18th November, destroyed Bronte, a town situated nine leagues from Catania, and containing a population of 10,000 persons.

A young woman of Blaye named Clementine Prat, and a baker of the same town named Peigne, bad formed an intimacy and attachment for each other. The lover, however, not only resolved to defer their union till she could bring him a dower equal to his own property, but in order to attain this object, induced the infatuated girl to attempt to get rid of her father' her mother, her sisters, and her uncle, by means of poison, in order to become the sole inheritor of the family property. This base and horrible plan failed in the execution ; detection followed; the guilty pair were placed in the hands of Justice, and on the 27th ult, they were both arraigned before the Court of Assizes for the department of the Marne. The trial lasted till one o'clock in the morning of the 29th; when both the culprits were found guilty and sentenced to hard labour for life.—French .Paper. •