The great high-land of this country is apparently the extreme point of the continent, from which Statenhock is divided by a narrow sound which runs towards the east. The country is adapted for European settle ments. The sea is never frozen, and the Greenlanders, have never, in this part of their country, suffered from famine. The direction of the Moravian congregation proposed, at the same time that they transmitted their report, that his majesty should, for the purpose of instructing the above-mentioned heathens in the Christian religion, permit a missionary establishment to be formed at Statenhock, similar to those already founded in three places in the other Danish possessions on the coast of Greenland, The royal permission to this effect was granted. 31. The erection of a monument at Wittenberg, in honour of Martin Luther, was commemorated with great solemnity. The day being extremely fine, the concourse of people was very great, and the whole was conducted with a degree of order and solemnity suitable to the occasion, and which made a profound impression on the spectators. The statue of the great reformer, by M. Schadow, is a master-piece of art. Before the statue was uncovered, the ancient and celebrated hymn "Ein fester Burg ist unser Gott" was sung in chorus, and had a surprisingly sublime effect. Dr. Nitsch then delivered a suitable discourse, at the conclusion of which, a signal being given, the covering of the monument fell, and disclosed this noble work. Many of the spectators, overpowered by their feelings, fell on their knees in adoration of the Almighty, who gave their country this great man. The preacher then put up a solemn prayer, concluding with the Lord's Prayer, after which the whole assembly sung the hymn, "The Lord appeared, and restored to us his work through his servant." In the evening a bright fire was kindled in iron baskets placed around the monument, and was kept up the whole night. All the houses, not excepting the smallest cottage, were illuminated; the town-house, the lyceum, the castle, and the barracks, were distinguished by suitable inscriptions, and a lofty illumination between the towers of the town announced the sense in which the inhabitants of Luther's native place honoured his memory. The students from Halle, Berlin, and Leipsic, conducted themselves in the most exemplary manner, and went at 11 at night to the marketplace, where they sung several academic songs. FRENCH CENSORSHIP.-From the 1st July, 1821, to the 31st of October, there have been suppressed by the censors in the Constitutionnel, 24,495 lines, which, added to the 88,425 lines previously suppressed, since the establishment of the censorship (3rd April, 1820), form a total of 112,920, which at the rate of 700 per number, are equal to the matter of 161 numbers of the paper, and 220 lines over- (five months and eight days.)-Constitutionnel. AMERICAN LAW CASE.-Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for Jefferson County, October Term, 1821; present, Peace, Chief Justice, and Hitchcock, The traverse jury being empanelled and sworn, the counsel for the state offered Mary Cooper, a black woman, as a witness, to prove the fact of killing. The counsel for the prisoner objected to her being sworn as a witness, on the ground that she was in competent to give evidence in the cause by the statute of this state, amendatory to the act intituled, an act to regulate black and mulatto persons. The section of the law, upon which the objection was founded, is in these words :"Be it further enacted, That no black or mulatto person or persons shall hereafter be permitted to be sworn or give evidence in any court of record, or elsewhere, in this state, in any cause depending, or matter of controversy, where either party to the same is a white person, or in any prosecution which shall be instituted, in behalf of this state against any white person." The witness offered in this case was pure black; and the prisoner was adnitted to be a quadroon or one fourth black. It was contended by the counsel for the prisoner, that the term mulatto, made use of in the statute, did not include all the different grades of people of colour between white and black, but was confined to half bloods, or the offspring of a white and black, and that such had been the decisions of the courts of this state; and that, as a consequence, this defendant, not being a black or mulatto, was to be considered as white, and entitled to all the privileges of a white. It was also insisted, that the intermediate grades between black and mulatto were to be considered as black. It was admitted on the part of the state, that it had been decided that the term mulatto extended only to half bloods. But it was said, that in putting a construction upon the statute law in question, two questions arose― 1st. Who were included in the terms black and mulatto, and thereby disabled from testifying? 2nd. Who were included in the term white person, and therefore entitled to the privilege of excluding blacks and mulattoes from testifying against them? It was admitted by the counsel for the state, that when the legislature excluded blacks and mulattoes from testifying, it might be a fair construction of the statute, to suppose that they intended also to exclude the intermediate grades between blacks and mulattoes; because there would be the same reason for excluding those who were more than half black, as there would be for excluding mulattoes. But it was urged, that the legislature, in describing the cases where the disability was to operate, had made use of the term white person alone; that the term white person, in common parlance, meant one who had no mixture of black blood, and was used in contradistinction to persons of colour, or those who were wholly or in any part black. There was no instance in any dictionary of the English language, or in any other book, where the term "white person' was not limited to those who were pure white: that the distinctions which exist in society, This decision is important; because it settles the principle, that quadroons, and others of an intermediate grade between whites and mulattoes, are entitled to all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities of white persons; or, in other words, are, in law, to be considered as white. They are liable to be called upon to do militia duty, and work upon the highways; and have a right to vote at all elections, equally with whites; and may be appointed to, and hold any office in the state. NOVEMBER. 2. Lord Byron's tragedy of Marino Faliero having been translated into French verse by Mons. Gosse, was played at the Theatre Français. The hissing began at an early period of the play, and in a short time was mingled with bursts of laughter. The curtain fell at the reiterated command of the audience, before two-thirds of the performance had been completed. tains an ordinance relative to the importation into France of foreign iron stretched by flattening machines (fers etrangers etirés au laminoir.) The preamble of the ordinance refers to the law, which authorises the government to change the regulations of the tariff of the customs, and to present the alteration to the chambers in the form of a law-project. Then, after stating that it is necessary to protect the manufactured iron of France against the competition of foreign iron etirés au laminoir, the price of which is greatly inferior to hammered iron, it is ordered, that from 15 days after the publication of the ordinance, all such iron, when imported, shall be placed in entrepôt, and shall afterwards pay the duty which may be fixed by law when taken out of the warehouse for consumption. The committee of arts and manufactures connected with the department of the interior is to decide on the doubts which may arise relative to the distinction of flattened and hammered iron, after having considered the opinion of the director-general of the customs. FIRE. A fire broke out on the premises of Mr. George Hoppe corn-merchant, in Old Gravellane, Wapping. The flames communicated to the granary, consumed the whole, and materially damaged the adjoining houses. 6. The pretended princess Olive has addressed the following letter to lord Sidmouth. "To the Right honourable Lord "MY LORD.-When I reflect 3. FRENCH IRON TRADE.— The Moniteur of this day con- on the injuries I have received by the refusal of your lordship to forward my claims in a proper way to his majesty, I consider it as a duty that I owe to my high descent to inquire of your lordship why I have been suffered to remain so long neglected, and deprived of the rights which, in common with other younger branches of the royal family, I am entitled to ? As soon as the demise of my late royal uncle, his late majesty, occurred, I addressed your lordship, for his present majesty's gracious know ledge. In my letters repeatedly sent to your lordship, I assured you, for the king's knowledge, that I had but one anxious desire, which was to act in conformity to his majesty's royal will and pleasure, after an audience had been allowed, to show my papers. If, my lord, I had been an impostor, it was the duty of ministers to have inquired into my claims, and to have exposed them, if unjust or illegal. But, no! my lord, every application was treated with cold and apathetic contempt; and although all the writings of my parents' marriage and my birth have been verified according to law at judge Abbott's chambers, Sergeants'inn; at Master Simeon's office, court of Chancery; before sir Robert Baker, and Barber Beaumont, esq., and twelve affidavits sworn and sent into your lordship; yet at this moment I find myself neglected and oppressed, and without one guinea of support from the government or royal family. My dear late cousin, prince Edward, duke of Kent, supported and protected me several years before his la mented death. His royal highness saw the papers delivered to me by the late earl of Warwick of my legitimacy, and there are at least a hundred papers connected with my parents' affairs and my own; and general Wetherall, comptroller to his late royal highness, looked over many such papers at my residence in his royal master's lifetime. The excellent heart of the late duke of Kent was of a nature to decide, in all events of life meeting his eye, with religion and moral justice. Thus he loved and cherished me, his cousin; and solemnly bound himself to see me righted the moment that the death of his late majesty authorized my papers meeting the eye of the nation. My lord, you well know why my claims are neglected: a mighty cause exists! But it is a duty that I owe to myself and the English nation, to give a narrative of facts as they are, unless immediate justice is done me. I am Olive, the only child of the late duke of Cumberland, by Olivia, his virtuous, injured wife; and very shortly the public shall know the great and forbearing conduct of Dr. Wilmot. To him, at one period, the English were indebted for tranquillity:-it can be proved, my lord. And although my health is similar to the late injured queen's (my first cousin), from having experienced every deprivation and persecution from interested enemies, yet I religiously trust the time is not remote when truth will triumph over calumny and oppression. I have the honour to be, my lord, your obedient servant. OLIVE." cuit court of justiciary of murdering Wm. Mitchell, his brotherin-law, residing at Burnside, in the parish of Keig, suffered the punishment due to his crime, in front of the gaol in Aberdeen. The circumstances of this atrocious case attracted the attention of the public in no ordinary degree. Thom attempted the destruction of a whole family with which he had lately connected himself by marriage, in order to get the money and other property of which he knew them to be possessed, or to which some of them had recently succeeded. To effect this horrible purpose, he found means of introducing poison into their victuals, in consequence of which, William, the younger brother, after great suffering, died; while the other brother-in-law, and two sisters, who gave evidence on the trial, after being reduced to a state of pain and debility, under which they still labour, were saved from falling victims to the ruthless design of their unworthy relative, by the accidental circumstance of having ate sparingly of the poisoned food, so that the medical aid, though late resorted to, was partially effectual in bringing about their recovery. The unfortunate man, as well on his trial as afterwards, and in the face of the strongest circumstantial evidence, solemnly denied the crime for which justice had condemned him to suffer. To this he appears, after receiving sentence, to have been more strongly prompted by a vain hope he had entertained of the interest of a family of distinction, which he had strongly solicited, being used in his favour. But being soon informed that the atrocity of the crime, which had been sufficiently proved against him, must forbid any interference in his case, he appeared to open his eyes to a sense of his situation, with deep contrition confessing his guilt. He wrote a certificate in vindication of his wife from any participation of his crime, and afterwards addressed a letter to the Mitchells, expressive of deep regret for his offence, imploring their forgiveness, and begging they would receive his wife with affectionate regard, as their sister, altogether free of blame. On Sunday, the 4th inst., his sons, his daughter, and nephew, came to take a solemn farewell of their unhappy parent and relation. At the moment of embracing one of his sons, he slipped a written note into his hand, wherein he expressed his earnest wish that he might speedily convey to him such poison as might be most effectual in depriving him of life. The answer in a letter from the son to the unhappy father, was an exhortation to him, that he should submit to the punishment awarded him by the injured laws of his country, and apply to the throne of grace for the only true consolation, which could support him in the greatest distress, and at the hour of death. Information of this last effort of despair being communicated to the proper authorities, two men placed in his room, and, being relieved alternately by two others, remained with him, until the day of his execution arrived. were 8. DISTURBANCE AT THE THEATRE FRANCAIS.-For several months past, the Marriage de Figaro has not been performed at the Theatre Français, because the last time it was represented, |