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FRENCH PAPERS. At a late hour last night we received the French Papers of Tuesday, and this morning those of Wed nesday came to hand. After Mass, which the Ktwo heard in his apart ments on Monday, his MAJESTY received a Deputa tion from the Municipal Council, and from the Na tional Guard of Versailles and Fontainbleau, congra tulating him on the birth of the Duke of BouttneAux. In the Address from the National Guard of Fontain bleau, we find the following passage, which may serve as a tolerably correct specimen of French Ad dresses in general : " May the enemies of legitimacy tremble at their own impo keine ! May they acknowledge the finger of Goa, in the sub lime inspirations, and in the courage of a virtuous and adorable Princess, who has become altogether French. Nay your Ma testy deign to have confidence in those, who, bursting with a sacred fire, possess in their hearts the innate feeling of love, and service towards you." To which his MAJESTY deigned to reply— " I receive with pleasure the sentiments of the town of Fon ttinl;leau ; and I recognise them in those which you have ex pressed." The accounts from Naples come down to the 22d ult. The Constitutional Journal of Me Two Sicilies, announces that the Duke de GALLO, sent as Ambas sador Extraordinary to the Court of Vienna, had been obliged to stop at Clagenfurth, and that to the complaint which he had addressed to Prince MET TERNICH, he had received for answer, " that in con sequence of an overturn which had upset the fcun dations of the social edifice, and which menaced at the same time the safety of Thrones, of acknow ledged Constitutions, and the repcse of the People, his Majesty, the Emperor of AUSTRIA, would act in contradiction to the principles which had invariably guided him, if he accepted the mission of the Duke de GALLO." The same Journal announces the refusal of the Imperor of Russta to receive the Prince de CIMI TILE, upon which it makes the following remarks: It appears, then, that our political reform will be the principal object of the deliberations of the Con gress, which is to assemble at.Troppau. Let us hope that more correct notions will enlighten the allied Sovereigns." To balance this news, which excites here considerable uneasiness, The Journal of the Two .Sicilia announces, that Don ONIS, the Minister of Spain, bad presented to his MAJESTY a Letter of Con gratulation from. his Sovereign, in reply to that, in which the King of NAPLES announced to him the accep tation of the Spanish Constitution for his Kingdom. The accounts from Sicily are not later than those we have already given. General Fr ORESTON PEPS had published a new Proclamation to the Sicilians, in which he promised a complete oblivion of all that had passed, on the sole condition that the revolted cities should re-establish the Authorities as they be fore existed. The Deputies from the City of Catania, avid the Province of that name, to the Neapolitan Parliament, had arrived in Naples. There is nothing new in these Papers from Spain; nor any Portuguese intelligence whatever. French Five per Cents. let t off on Tuesday at 741.50 c. FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 5. The Ecclesiastical Affairs of Protestant Germany, I and the regulation of them, are a chief subject of conversation in this country. Since the last answer of Cardinal Gonsalvi to the proposals made to the Court of Rome, by the Plenipotentiaries of the Ger man Sovereigns, it is considered as nearly certain, that the basis of the provincial arrangement will be adopted in a manner almost agreeing with the pro posals. There are merely some modifications which the Court of Rome requests to be acceded to ; but it is also affirmed, that these modifications are not pro posed as absolute conditions, and consequently their non-acceptance would not break off the negociations, -which have been for some time on foot, nor much de lay the conclusion of the provincial arrangement above mentioned. According to the basis of the convention which is to be concluded, the new divi sion of the Bishoprics is fixed till a farther division, and may perhaps be considered in some respects as definitive. Each of the States which shall take part in this negociation will have a territorial Bishop, for whose endowment and that of his chapel very suit able provision shall be made. The Holy See shall en joy the right of confirming the Bishop presented to it. It cannot refuse this confirmation, except on very serious grounds, which shall be communicated to the Governments concerned, &c. It is thouipt, that the Sovereigns whose delegates form the Lcclesiastical Congress, will have in common a Minister residing at Rome. On the other hand, it is affirmed, that the Pope intends to have an accredited Minister to the Germanic Diet, who will charge himself with - all affairs concerning the Holy See, its interests, and tbs.: of the Catholic Church in Germany. Madrid Papers have arrived to the 28th ult. At the evening Sitting of the Cortes, on the 26th, an ani mated &bate took place on the Bill for defining and limiting the Freedom of the Press. The first clause, enacting, that " Every Spaniard has a right to pub lish his sentiments without a previous censorship," vas read and approved. But a special exception is made with respect to commentaries on the Sacred Scriptures, and the dogmata of the Catholic Religion, which notes or commentaries are prohibited from publication, without the licence of the Ordinary. A warm debate arose on the two following clauses, ‘vhich explain and restrict the jurisdiction of the Or dii,ary, and allow the author, who may feel ag grieved, to appeal to the Junta of Protection. In the course of the discussion, reference was naturally made to the Institution of Juries, so essential to the mai.ltenance of a free Press; and a handsome en comium was paid by M. CALATRAVA on the Trial by Jury in England ; where, observed another De puty, the institution is perfect, whereas in France it i; defective.—The Sitting of the Cortes is to be ex terided to the 9th of November. REroLFITION IN PORTUGAL. The anxiously expected Lisbon packet arrived yes terday, after a long passage, owing to contrary winds. She left the Tagus on the 21st ult. and the accounts brought by her fully confirm the statements we have already published from the French Papers regarding the late occurrences in the Portuguese capital, though with some new particulars. We subjoin an extract of the most important letter that has reaehed us ; but the Lisbon Gazettes we have received are not later than the 18th. On their contents the best details we lately published from the Paris Papers are evidently founded, and this, s in some measure, accounts for their unusual accuracy. In the packet arrived M. de Souza Botelho, the new Portuguese Minister to our Court. He cannot be considered as coming from the Lisbon Govern ment, as his nomination took place in May, 1817, on the King's birth-day, when so many changes took place, and Count Palmella was made Minister of „koreign Affairs and. War, which departments go to gether in the Portuguese Monarchy ; M. Souza is named Minister here, and Count Funchal sent in his stead to Madrid. M. Souza is son to the distin guished individual who recently published so splen did an edition of Camoens, in Paris. He is married to one of Count Palmella's sisters, and his long ab sence from his station may be accounted for by the delay of his brother-in-law at our Court. A statement has been published of the reasons which induced the Oporto Junta to suspend British Officers in the Portuguese service. The writer very, candidly acknowledges the important services of the British Officers in the Portuguese Army, but states, that when they entered, their establishment was not contemplated as permanent. The fact is, we have carried our influence in Portugal too far; that coun try, besides having been converted into a colony of Brazil, had been placed in a state of humiliating de • pendency on us. This could not last long. The writer, however, considers the presence of British Officers in the Portuguese Army only as among the miner evils his unhappy country laboured under, and which he has himself so long and unceasingly denounced; but he is indliced to notice it, because their suspension had excited some sensation in this country, and he was anxious to speak in justification of the measure adopted by the Oporto Junta. It has not, however, in any way affected that sincere friendship felt for us as a nation, founded on that commercial intercourse we have for so many years enjoyed with Portugal ; nor do we know of any complaint that the British Officers themselves were enabled or disposed to make. The question now rests for the determina tion of the future Cortes, who, no doubt, will be early assembled ; and as, from the present feeling prevailing in Portugal, it may be expected that the most patriotic and enlightened men that the country contains will be elected as Members, this, as well as other important measures which are to regenerate the Monarchy, will meet with a fair and equitable decision. ” Luger?, SETTniszi 20, 1820. " On the 15th a packet arrived from Rio Janeiro, with or ders to the Regency to send there 4,000 troops and two millions of crusadoes, and, in order to raise the same, to double the tithes, or adopt any other measures to that effect. On the same day, the Revolution broke out among the people and troops • in op position to the latter were sent Generals Leite, M ozin bo, and Resendi, to use their influence, but in vain, as the troops de clared they would either effect the Revolution, or march on to meet their brethren in arms, and at length the Revolution was effected by the troops, who nominated Resendi as their Gene ral,—when a Government was formed ad interim, composed of Principal Freire, Count S. Paio, Count de Resendi, Count Penafiel, General Azedo, and Hermando Braancamp, whose first step was, at the instance of the .htit do Pam, to send an escort of forty men to the houses of each of the late Governors, to inform them of what had taken place, and that their authority had ceased, at the same time recommending them, for their own safety, to confine themselves to their houses, and that the said guard would protect them. " The new Government also sent messengers to the Oporto Junta, informing them of what had transpired, and inviting them to co.operate. " On taking possession of the Treisury, it was found to con tain; to the great surprise of the new Authorities, 21,000 dollars, about £5,000, of which about £l,OOO only was in leek, the rest in Government paper ; two Inspectors for the 1 reasury were appointed, the well-known and respectable merchants Luis Illonteiro and Joze Nunes da Silveira, and many other neces sary measures were adopted, &c." The following is an extract of a Letter from the British Consul General for the Azore Islands, dated St. Michael's, Aug. 21:— " On Saturday last nearly 50 persons were landed here, being part of the crew and passengers of the Portuguese ship, Carlotta, laden with a valuable cargo of sugar, coffee, hides, &c. from Bahia to Lisbon, captured, on the 28th ultimo, a little to the westward of Flores, by an Insurgent fri gate privateer, from Buenos Ayres, said to be called La Ruina. The Carlotta mounted twenty-two guns and sixty men, and defended herself an hour before she struck, losing four men killed and five wounded.' The privateer had eight killed and thirteen wounded. It is reported sh:. mounts thirty-four guns, with a complement of two hundred and fifty men, had been out four months from Buenos Ayres, and the Car lotta her first prize. Since May, a number of fast sailing brigs and schooners have appeared amongst the Azores, with whale-boats over their stern and quarters, apparently in search of whales, which in some seasons are numerous - amongst the Islands : but these vessels, though approaching the port within gun-shot, never came in to procure refresh ments; and many persons supposed them to be pri vateers in disguise : sometimes ten or twelve have been seen close to each other. I now learn, that the Insurgent privateer employed one of those ves sels to take out part of the Carlotta's cargo, and land the prisoners ; and the Carlotta being a fine frigate-built ship, well armed, the Insurgent has put one hundred men on board her, and cruLzes in com pany off the Azores, and no doubt will send the rest of the Carlotta's cargo away in different vessels; and, with this accession of force, will, I fear, do incredible mischief. lam told the Carlotta is insured in Lon don ; and, as many Spanish and Portuguese vessels are insured at Lloyd's, I have judged it proper to enter into this detail f in order that the Underwriters may be apprised of the risk they run ; for, as these Islands are a point of reconnoissance for all vessels bound home to Soaiu and Portugal, hardly anything can escape. The Audaz, Portuguese brig of war, of 20 guns, has been three months here, attending the Captain-General, instead of cruising for the protec tion of thin trade." LAW INTELLIGENCE. !rl COURT RING'S BENCH, OCTOBER 12. RUST= AND SUTHERLAND V. TAYLOR. This was a West India transaction, and rose from dealings that had taken place between the parties. In 1815 there was a balance of £3,400 in•flivour of the Iplaintiffs, which, with the interest due upon it, the present action was brought to recover. The ques tion in dispute was, whether the interest should be carried over, as an 'addition to the principal, thus forming a new principal, or only simple interest would be paid? The Court observed, that the law knew nothing of compound interest, the only question was as to the usage of the trade. There being no proof that the usage was in favour of the demand of the plaintiffs, the Jury found the balance due from the defendant to be £4,339 including £939, the simple interest on the principal from 1815. HOUSEMAN AND PIERCE V. 'BOSANQUET AND CO. The plaintiffs in this case were the assignees of a bankrupt of the name of Simpson, who had deposited the sum of E 1,900. in bills of exchange, in the hands of the defendants, respectable hankers. The only question was, whether the money had been deposited previously or subsequently to the act of bankruptcy? The defendants were only desirous of ascertaining to whom they should pay it with safety to themselves. A person of the name of Haywood, with whom the bankrupt had boarded and lodged, stated, that on the 30th of January the bankrtipt told him that lie must leave his house (which was in the City of London), and remove into the County of Surrey, as he was afraid of an arrest on the part of his creditors. He also deposed, that several days before the 30th of January, • `tUe bankrupt had requested him to give orders to his servants to say he was net at home-when any persons called for him. The reason assigned was, that he hid become responsible for the debts of a man named Wilson, and was apprehensive of mo lestation from his creditors. A clerk of the defendants proved the bills to have been deposited on the 31st of January. The Jury found, that an act of bankruptcy had been committed before the bills had been deposited ; and they were consequently handed over to the bank- _ rupt's assignees. Several causes were disposed of by arbitration ; but nothing of interest occurred. The Court rose at an early hour. Extract of a letter, dated Banks of the Danube, October 5, 1820 : " His Imperial and Apostolic Majesty of Austria has at length remitted to the Sovereigns of the Holy Alliance, a long Note, in which he laments the rapid progress of the innovating spirit of the times, and which his Majesty attributes to the baneful influence of secret societies, and the pernicious works of a few sceptical writers of the age, whose aim, says the Mo narch, is the ,entire subversion of all constituted au thorities, as sell as all moral and social order. -The Emperor then proceeds to recommend to his august Allies, the immediate extirpation in their several States of all secret societies, especially, g Freimaurery,' 6 Illuminati,' g Fregeistery,' and Misticismus: His Majesty then states to the several Sovereigns, at great length, the occurrences that have take place at Naples, the whole of which he attaches to the cabals carried on in the Lodges of the Freemasons, under the name of Carbonari; and dwells very empha tically upon the imminent danger that Sovereigns risk by tolerating in their dominions, societies that are capable of overturning the regal power of the best consolidated Governments. _ _ _ " The Emperor then proceeds to inform the Mem bers of the Holy League, after a long and elaborate avant propos of the motives that induce him to assemble so large a military force in Italy. He declares, that to suffer the Revolutionists in Naples, is incompatible with the dignity of his Crown, and with the tranquil lity and welfare of his people; that he is bound by the double ties of consanguinity and State policy, to re-establish order in the whole of the Italian Penin sula, and to protect the Head of the Christian Church against the machi nations of revolutionary demagogues that surround him. The Emperor concludes with com plimenting his High Allies on the good spirit which evinces itself through all the Northetn States of Eu rope, and declares his determination to restore imme diately the ancient order of things in Italy. " The Austrian troops continue to pour - into Italy from every quarter ; Several parks of heavy artillery have quitted the Arsenal of Vienna for that conntry. The Landwehr is ordered to be immediately called out ; it is supposed, by the middle of this month that the Imperial forces in Italy will amount to up wards of 200,000 strong. One army is formed on; the frontiers of Piedmont, the other on the borders of the States of the Church ; his Highness Field-Marshal Prince Nugent is spoken of as Generalissimo of the Austrian forces, in lieu of Marshal Prince Charles of Schwartzeuburg ; Prince Nugent, on his artival in . Vienna, had a private audience with the Emperor, which lasted four hours; he has also daily long con ferences with the Prime Minister, Prince Von Met ternich. The greatest activity reigns in the Aus trian War Department, and the whole military force, with the Landwehr, exceeds nine hundred thousand effective men ; the department of the Police has been trebled; all foreign Newspapers are interdicted. The Emperor, at the earnest solicitations of his bro ther, Archduke s Rudolphus, Cardinal, Prince Arch bishop of Olmutz, issued a Decree on the 20th ult. for there-establishing of the Order of Jesuits in all the Imperial dominions ; an Ordet or Mandamus from the Imperial Aulic Council, has been addressed to his Excellency Prince Louis Taaffe, Viceroy of the Kingdoms Of Galicia and Lodymiria, instructing him to place the Jesuits expelled from Russia, in imme diate possession of all their former Colleges, Gym— nasiums and Novitiates, in the Austro-Poland States. The Jesuits expelled from Spain are to be established in the Kingdoms of Lombardy, Venice, and Dalma tia. The Sovereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prus sia are to have an interview the latter end of this month, at Troppau, in Silesia. Ms Royal Highness Prince Anthony of Saxony is arrived at Vienna, on i his way for Madrid, to visit his daughter the Queen of Spain. The Princess Nugent (born Princess Ruffo- Soria), with her children, resides in the Palace of her uncle, Prince Ruffo-Scalia, Ambassador in Vienna, from the Court of Naples. The vintage is begnn in Hungary; and is the. most abundant ever remembered." - , . , . tht artEt s ,v: _c__. Her MA.TILSTY returned the foltowing Most graeioui Answer to the Address from Limehouse: " I feel much satisfaction in receiving this loyal and affec tionate Address from the Male and Female Inhabitants of the Path& of St. Anne, Limehouse. " Whatever may he the final issue of the present proceedings against me in the House of Lords, the measure itself will not form one of the brightest pages in the judicial history of our country. Though the conclusion of the most Honourable Jodi. cature should be in favour of my innocence, it will never be forgotten that the principle cf the Bill was highly unconsdtuz. tional—an infraction of individual right—and an invasion of national liberty. " To behc.d all existing laws, both civil and ecclesiastical, de liberately set aside is order to crush one individual, for the purpose of gratifying another, is a proceeding which, however it may have found support in the obscured judgments, or in the corrupt interests of particular individuals, in the present gene ration, will experience the unqualified reprobation of posterity. " When the tumultuous agitation of the present conflict shall have subsided, and men's minds shall have recovered their for mer serenity, it will hardly be thought credible that any Minis ters, not absolutely insane, would have suffered such a question to endanger the peace of the community. " The great excellence of a free Constitutimii, that the law is one and the same for all. But how can we reconcile to our ideas of a free Constitution the violation of every existing law for the benefit of an individual? Yet is nut this, in a few words, the substantial intent of this Bill of Pains and Penalties? “ Conformity to the laws is, for the sake of example, more requisite in a King than any of his subjects. ' Ought, therefore, a divorce to be granted to his Majesty in circumstances in which it would be denied to any of his subjects? " Ought it to be granted to him on terms which are neither compatible with the precepts of the Gospel, as interpreted by the Church, nor with the temporal laws, as fixed by the State?' The following is her MAJESTY'S Answer to the Address from the Ward of.Farringdon Within:— " I am deeply obliged by this impressive and affectionate Address from the Alderman, Deputies, Common Council, and Inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Within. " I am grieved, but not surprised, that the Clergy should so universally have acquiesced in the erasure of my name from the Liturgy. Charity is the most es►ential part of piety; but this sort of piety may often be an obstruction in the way of ecclesi astical advancement. While the Pastors of the Church are so worthily occupied, it could not be supposed, that more than two or three of them would step beyond the line of ecclesiastical . . decorum to administer spiritual solace to a persecuted Queen. I , Is it not a little remarkable, that the only. innovation which the hierarchy has been willing to admit in the ancient Liturgy for about a century and a half, is orie that was dictated by male volence. But, if any alterations had been proposed in the Li turgy, which harmonized at once with the genius of Christianity • and with the improved sentiments of the age, the authors of the proposition would have been reviled with as much rancour and as little moderation as if they designed, not merely to prune the superfluous branches, but had come prepared with an axe to cut down the very trunk of the Establishment." To the Address of the Deacons of the eight incor porated Trades of the City of Perth, her MAJzsri returned the following Answer : • " I have great satisfaction in receiving this loyal and affec tionate Address from the Deacons of the eight incorporated Trades of the City of Perth, in the Convener's Court assembled. " The indignities which I experienced when abroad were ex crescences from that great trunk of conspiracy against my ho nour and my rights, which has taken such a deep root in this country, and has spread its branches far and wide over the Con tinent of Europe. " The Nation has been insulted in the person of the Queen ; nor ought it to be forgotten that a Minister of the Pope dared, in an official instrument, to deprive the Queen of England of that appellation to which she is latefully sntitled. There have been times when such an insult wed not have been suffered by any Ministry, and when, if they fiad been endured by the Mi nistry, that Ministry would not have bin endured by the People. " The malice of my enemies has done its worst; and the day of moral retribution is at band. Injustice and falsehood may flourish for a season, but it call be only for a.season. That sea son will soon pass away; and he who seeks them, where they were once seen, soon finds that they are to be seen na more. The ways of PILOVIDIMCS are not as our ways, but they are al ways in favour of moral rectitude in their ultimate results." • Yesterday the Marchioness of STAFFORD, arrived at• Stafford-houses Cleveland-row, from Dunrobin Castle, in Sutherlandshire. The Noble,Marquis and• Marchioness had a select party of family friends to• dine with them on the occasion. On Wednesday,• Count de BOURKE, Minister of Legation from the Court of Denmark, and his Lady, arrived in town. His Excellency has been knighted since his late departure from this country, by his So vereign, at the Court of Denmark. Viscount and Viscountess HAMPDRN, have issued cards for a dinner and evening party, to-morrow, at their house, in Green -street, Grosvenor-square. The Right Hon. JOHN MIINDESTONE has been re elected Provost of the City of Edinburgh. Mr. LITTLETON, M.P. for Staffordshire, is now ra- pidly recovering from the effects of his late fall from his horse. Fortunately no fracture occurred, which was at first apprehended. • FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Lord Binning, in Chesterfield-street, from a tour. The COuntess of Essex, from her seat; Cuhiobury Park, Lady Anthers; from her seat, Montreal House, Kent. Countess of Galloway, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-st.' DEPARTURES Lord Ashtown, to his seat, Chissell Hall, near Southampton. From Mivart's Hotel, L ower Brook-street, the Earl and Countess of Kenmore, for Paris. From the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street—The Earl of Clan rlearde, for Oxford. Wednesday another Austrian Courier arrived at the residence of Prince ESTERHAZY, Chandos House, with dispatches from the Court of Vienna, with which the same courier proceeded immediately to his Serene Highness, at Worthing. A letter from Venice, of the 18th ult. furnishes the following particulars relative to the late disturbance in the lonian Islands :—" It appears that a spirit of discontent and disaffection, originating in a variety of grievances, has for some time existed in those islands. • Towardi the end of August last, General ADAM, Sir THOMAS MAITLAND'S LOCUM tenens in his absence, having been informed that that spirit had suddenly assumed a more serious and decisive cha, racter in the island of Zante, proceeded thither with out delaY from Corfu, the seat of Government, with a strong reinforcement of troops, artillery, and am. Munition, which were embarked on board of a frigate, and other armed vessels. On his arrival some of the principal and most wealthy of the inhabitants of the town, together with three Priests, and about twenty country people, were- arrested, and sent to Corfu, where they remain closely confined in the citadel.— Among other causes of dissatisfaction the sequestra, tion of the Church domains is mentioned as having !principally contributed to this manifestation of dis content in the people of - Zante, who ascribe to the demands 'necessary for the support of an expulsive Governinent; and the erection of superfluous Palaces,: the adoption of measures so oppressive and soeuusual."; - ~~ 1 4 l