Star. — London, England, 1826-12-23 00:00:00

J- /*TVG AL We subjoin two very impoitant documents which wete annexed to the report made by Count Villa Real to the two Portuguese Chambers, on his return from his mission to Madrid, • and which were distributed among the members. The fist is a letter of the Couot to M. de Moustier. the french Ambassador at Madrid: the second is the Frenchman's laconic and unsatisfac tory answer to that letter. The publication of these documents presents, also, in striking contrast the good faith and anxious efforts made by the Portuguese Go• vernment to maintain peace, and the obstinate, unfair, and treacherous conduct of the Spanish Cabinet. Monseiur le Marquis,—Her Highness the Infanta Regent of Portugal has heard, not without surprise, by the first accounts which I sent here after my arrival on the 6th of September last, chat the Spanish Government has not recognized that which is established in Portu gal in the name of his Most Faithful Maje ty Don Pe dro IV. and that it had taken the resolution cyl not re cognizing it without having first consulted its allies. In the hope that the Allied Powers will not be slow in de claring to Spain that they . recognize the legality of the Government established in Portugal, and ikthe desire of avoiding all discussion which may complicate the re lations which exist between Portugal and Spain, her Highness bas consented not to insist, for the , time upon this questi ot, and only to exact of the Government of Spain, the immediate withdrawing of the horses, arms, equipments, &c. raised by the Portuguese rebels, who bad taken refuge in Spain, and the dispersion of the said rebels. This restitution of all justice was indispensa• ble. in order to pave to the rebels that their cause was not sot potted by Spain. "s Unhappily, the conduct of several of the Spanish authorities has given to the chiefs of the rebels the fa cility of continuing in error the Portuguese whom they had drawn into their tebellion,and also of allurinf others. " The circular of the Captain-General of Estrema dura upon the affairs of Portugal, which has been pub. lished in the journals of Cadiz and Valencia, and the publication by the journal of the Balearic Islands of the 19th September last, of a letter given from Bada joz, in which the Government of Portugal is called re volutionary, and the ignorance in which the Spanish authorities have left their Government upon the oath taken on the 22d of September last by the Portuguese rebels at Serena, and upon the fife of the Church, which those who were assembled at Lugo celebrated on the 1-t October last (for M. de Salmon only obtained the knOwledge of it by me, on the 20th October), *are so many proofs of my assertion. Thus the rebels have continued their falsehoods and their intrigues to excite new troubles in Portugal, as I have had the honour to inform your Excellency, before the revolt of the regi ments in Algarve, and that of the Marquis de Chaves, broke out. Again, after these events, the Spanish authorities of Ayamonte have been to compliment the rebel authorities established at Villa Real de S. Antonio, during the few days that these have been able to main tain themselves there. Notwithstanding these facts, the PortugueteGovernrnent and authorities have always ab stained from giving the least support, direct or indirect, to the discontented who escaped from Spain. Spanish deserters have taken refuge in Portugal. Not only has her Highness the Infanta Regent caused them to be die- armed and sent into the interior, as has been done in Spain with the Portuguese deserters, but she has caused to be inserted in the Lithos Gazelle the public decree of his Catholic Majesty against them, although the Spanish Government has not permitted me to print either 41 the Gazelle of Madrid, or in the provincial jt7attrial,s,:rre decrees of amnesty promulgated is favour of the Portuguese deserters, and has sent me an order to announce to M. de Salmon that she would send back to the Spanish Government the arms, horses, &c. carried off by the Spanish deserters, even before she had any certainty that the Spanish Government would act in the same moaner with regard to the army and horses carried off by the Portuguese deserters. " 1 ought to believe that at this moment the Spanish authorities are engaged in sending back our arms and horses, and in dispersing our deserters, in obedience to the coders forwarded to them by their Government.— But, in the actual state of things, this act of justice is not sufficient to secure the tranquillity of the Peninsula. Ilis Highness the Infant has taken the oath to the Chatter granted by his Mkt Faithful Majesty. The Goveinment of his Must Catholic Majesty, can, there t• ire, no longer have the slightest reason for not acknow ledging the Government established in Portugal. In still ref using to do this, what guarantees can it offer to induce a belief that the Spanish authorities will no lon ger give us just ground of complaint? How can Por tugal demand the observance of the treaties subsisting between the two countries? So long as the Portuguese Government shall not be formally acknowledged by that of Spain, everything must remain in uncertainty as to the relations existing between them. In this posi tion, are the conciliatory intentions of the Courts of Europe fulfilled ? Does Spain give no cause of dis quietude to Portugal ? D es she not give to Portugal a reason for adopting similar conduct, to secure her own defence and well-being? " Is it consi•tent with the interest of the Prninsula,and of the able of Europe, that POrtugal should be kept in alarm on ace( sent of what may befall her from with out ?—that the attention of its Government should be Withdrawn from the objects of its internal administra. tion ; and that it should be impeded in its progress by tie encouragenrei.t which the passions, inseparable from changes such as this country has recently undergone, will naturally find in the attitude of Spain ? It Por tugal has hitherto been able to abstain from taking measures which the duty of her preservation would appear to dictate to lier, she has done so only in the Confidence which she has placed in the support of her allie-. In thus proving her moderation, Portugal has acquired the right of addressing herself to them,without fearing that her appeal will be made in vain. " For these reasons it is that her Royal Highness the Princess Regent of Portugal flatters herself that the Cover nment of his Nlost Catholic Majesty will no longer hcsoa c to recognise the legality of that established in l'orrogal by order of his w Most Faithful Majesty, and that she has commanded me to address the Spanish Government to this effect. " M. de Salmrn, %shunt I hastened to apply to, bow ever. assurss sue that the motives which have hitherto prevented his Government horn entertaining this ques tion still prevent it trom doing so. He has assut ea roe that the Courts of Russia and Prussia have, in effect, already given the Soanish Government to understand that they tecognizt as legal the Government established in is ottliga l ; but that neither the Coutt of France nor the Conti of Atisttia have hitherto made him a similar c noun nitation, eitlicr through the aget.cy of tl,e repie- F....., tentatlves of his Catholic Majesty at these Courts, Or by your Excellency, or by Count de Brunetti. As the communications which the Duke de Rays lan has made at Lisbon leave no doubt tiacKhis Most Chris tian Majesty has recognized the legality of the Govern- Meat established in Portugal, and as your Excellency cannot be ignorant that the Charge d'Affaires appointed by her Royal Highness the Infanta Regent to your Government has already had the honour of being pre sented to his Most Christian Majesty, I do not hesitate to inform you of the 4 bjections which M. de Salmon has made to my application, in the hope that your Ex cellency will think proper to obviate them so far as re gards the opinion of - your Government with respect to that of Portugal, and that it will be pleased to cow municate to M. de Salmon that the opinion of his Ma jesty the King of France as to the changes which have taken place in Portugal, coincides entirely with that of the Cabinets of London, St. Petersburgh, and Berlin. " In haste, &c. " Count De VILLA. REAL. " To his Excellency the Marquis de Moustkr, Ambassador from France. " Being of opinion that the solution of the very com plicated questions contained in your letter which you did me the honour to address to me last night, cannot concern me, I beg you will trot take it amiss.that I con fine myself here solely to acknowledging the receipt of your letter, whichl will not fail to bring to the know ledge of my Government. “ 1 have the honour to be, he. the " MARQUIS 'DE MOUSTIER. " To the Count de Villa Real. s! Madrid, Nov. 11." amtnunition, and money, yet the sums collected in the' monasteries, and among the people, allow every day larger remittances of these articles. The peasants of the country of Salinas alone have collected 10,000 Teals. The Bishop has made an appeal t. his Clergy, and processions have celebrated the re cent victories of the Marquis de Chaves. The Consti tutionalists made no resistance at Bragansa, and the' subjoined letter which 1 have received may give you an idea of the march of the Marquis ; it is from a Portia. gnese Royalist: " MONTEFORTE, Doe. 5. " We occupy this post in the mountains, and our advanced posts are near Villa Poy and Laniego. The last is an important point of operation, and our Royal ists will occupy it in a few days. We are lodged here in a convent, and the good Fathers console us for our fatigues ;we endure them for the good cause. ' Don Miguel and the country for ever: We have not yet met with any red coats ; it is long since they have op pressed our towns and the country. In the eyes of these men we were a colony ; they must be driven back to the sea. The Moors formerly occupied our provinces; the Moors have disappeared; we are still brave sons of the Lusitanians. We who have, as it were, given to this world a new world, had no longer a country. The brave Chaves is still with us. At Braganza, Montealegre was at our head. We entered the city without any re sistance; what Portuguese could resist those who pro. claimed their deliverance? We remember what that General said to us- 0 Children, you are told of indepen dence, but is there any independence with the red coats?' We march from one. fete to another. The peasants arm themselves as guerillas; their families welcome us ; the ' convents, the chateaus, and the cottages, are equally I open to us. In a few days I shall write to you from Oporto." " A scene, at which I wish you could have been present, was the reading in the University of Valladolid, of a letter written by the Marchioness de Chaves, t►e heroine of Portugal, to our Bishop, to thank him for the care he has taken of the Royalists. I can hardly expreu the enthusiasm of the people. There is still here some thing of that chivalrous character which had its source in the old faith, and the remembrance of the country. In my next letter I shall send you an extremely curious document; it is a consultation of the Lawyers, and of the corps of the Clergy of Salamanca, on the rights of Don Miguel to the crown of PortugaL" FRENCH PAPERS. VWME TEI smut Oh THOLSOAIre PARIS, Dsc. si; _ _ _ _ _ The Count de Sellon, Member of the Sovereign Council of Geneva, made the following proposition in that body on the Ist instant I propose that the Council of State employ the means the Constitution has put at its disposal, to present, in the Session of M.ty, 1827, a plan of a penal code in harmony with the Christian religion, which the Members of the Supreme Cotincil have sworn to maintain, and with the republi can forms which govern Geneva." The Memorial Bordelois has the following article : Printed papers have been circulated in Monte Video, announcing the arrival in that place, on the SOth of August last, of Don J. F. Perez, coming from Yrapua, in Paraguay, where it was said that the inquisitorial system of Dr. Francia became more and more insup portable —as, since the beginning of his system of neu trality, his brother Don Joseph Gaspard was his deputy during his absence or illness, and that now, on the de parture of the Doctor for the town of Pilar, the Govern ment has been entrusted to his Secretary, Don B. Zapi das, the discontent has increased, and has shewn itself among the troops, and every one was convinced that Paraguay could not, under pretence of neutrality, con tinue cut off from all the test of the world. The thinking part of Paraguay was inclined to an , union with Brazil, and as M. Guaraccy Fort, now in Eorope, who had been appointed, to the great satisfac tion of the people, Commander in Chief, was to return through Brazil, it was probable that he would arrange matters with the Emperor for the good of his country. Thus the Brazilian empire would have the limits traced it by naturthe ocean, and the rivers Amazon, Para guay, and La Plata. Admiral Rim has recovered from Spezais a part of the pro. perty taken frost Ave French merchant vessels by Greek pirates. CHAMBER OF PEERS—Paws, Dix. 19. The Chambtr met at •ne o'clock, to receive the report of the Commission aimed in the last sitting to prepare the Address. The Duke of Levis reported from the Commission, and read a draught of an Address, which was immediately examined in the Committee.—After tie discussion of it in the Committees, the whole Chamber reassembled. The Minister for Foreign Affair delivered a speech, which the Chamber ordered to be printed. Baron Pasquiee and Viscount de Chateaubriand were heard on the whole Address. The different paragraphs of which it is composed were afterwards subjected to a particular discussion, at the end of which the draught was recom mitted.—The Chamber will meet again at two o'clock to-morrow. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—Simms or Dec. 19. President, by seniority, N. Chilhaud de la Rigaudie. After the reading and adoption of theproca verbal of the sitting of yesterday, the scrutiny of the ballot be tween Messrs. Chiffiet and Labourdonnaye, for the no mination of the fifth candidate to the Presidency, was proceeded with. The Ministers who are Members of the Chamber took part of the scrutiny, and withdrew immediately after placing their vote in the urn, to pro ceed to the Chamber of Peers. The scrutineers began to exhibit the result of the scrutiny before four o'clock. During this operation, Id. de Berbis requested the President to desire the Deputies present not to withdraw, in order that the Chamber might be able to proceed to a new scrutiny. The President replied, he had already expressed this wish to the Chamber. The number of voters was 217. M. adfffet obtained 110 votes; M. de la Bourdonnaye, 93. There were 14 blank papers. The President declared M. Chiffiet fifth candidate for the Presidency. The exposition showed that here were 217 voters. The majority was 109. The suffrages were thus divided : M. de Manignac, 182 ; M. de Vaublanc, 163; M. Carrelet de Loisy,l2B; M. Pardessus. 105; M. de la Bourdonnaye, 52; M. Hyde de Neuville, 24 ; M. de astours, i 6 ; M. de Berbs, 12, &c. Messes. de Vaublanc, de Martignac, and Carrelet de Loisy, were, in consequence, declared Vice-Presidents. The sitting closed at half-past six. There will be a public sitting 81711,10 OF TI 20rn. The ',toga verbal of the last sitting was read and adopted. The President opened the scrutiny on the nomination of the four Vice-Presidents. He then read a letter addressed to him by M. the Chancellor, in which it was announced that the Cham ber of Peers, in its Sitting of the 16th inst: had defini tivrly constituted itself for the whole of the Session. The Ministers, Members of the Chamber of Deputies, attended to take part in the scrutiny. *lle Minister of the Interior, in giving his vote, handed to the President by seniority the Royal Ordonnance, choosing M. Ravez from the five candidates proposed to his Majesty, to pre side over the Chamber. This Ordonnance, countersigned by the Minister of the Intetior, is dated December 20. PROW THE QUOTIOIZEMIL VALLADOLID, DEMISES IS. Our communications with the Marquis de Chaves have not been a moment interrupted ; the Portuguese peasants serve us in a manner as couriers. The whole province of Tras os Monte.: has now limn against the Constitutional system ; and according to the inform ation which we have received, the first Royalist coops must now be the masters of Amarante, Ca nanezes, and Penafiel, fifteen leagues from Oporto; hitherto they have met with no serious opposition from the Constitutionalists, who fly or join the conquerors.— We hope to learn, in two or three days, the surrender of Ooorto, unless the English troops should arrive in time to shut the fortress and defend it against the Roy alists, which we do not think. The enthusiasm conti, nues, and though t e Spanish authnrities repress, ol ClideAV ens to hew that they teptessetlit sending of arms. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23,1826. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols, which left of yesterday at 80*, opened this morning at 90k ; since which, the Consol market has become heavy, caused by some private sales being effected, and they base receded to 7S SO, for the Account. The speculators are anxiously *eking for arrivals from PortugaL Consols have just been done at 791. Up to the present time, little or no business is doing in the Po. reign market, and the prices are almost nominal at present. Current prices : Old Spanish 13, Mexkans 64k 63, Colom bian 54 k, Milian 57 39, Peruvian 31 32, Portuguese 7111 *, Rus sian s4e 1, Danish 57, Greek 171. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, which were in the earlier part of the morning at 80i for the Account, have since receded to 7ef, owing to reports by private accounts from Pads, that the Portuguese Insurgents hay. Mg pined ground, burning and pillaging as they advanced, and causing the inhabitants to cry " Long live Pzannww and Don Mama." Consols may be quoted at present at 791 to i . The R.:press from Paris brings the Relates at Five per Cents. WOE Three per Cents. 67f. 95c. but, after 'Change. they were 68f. 20e. Scarcely a bargain doing in the Foreign Market, and most of the prices remain as in the earlier part of the morning. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK: • 3 per Cent. Red. 79 78% 3 per Ceni. Cons. Shut. 3i per Cent. Red. 8534 85 34 4 per Cent. New Shut. 4 . per Cent. 1826. 94 1 ,4 34 Long Ann: 18 9.16 7-16 1 ,6 India Bonds 35 39 £l,OOO Exclieq. Bills 17 19 17 £5OO ditto 18 20 £lOO and £2OO ditto 18 20 Commercial 8 Bank for Acct. 200 India for Acct. 239 1 ,6 Cons. for Acct. 8034 34 79% FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct. Portuguese Bds. 5pC 701 70 Do. Bonds, 1824,34 Ditto Acct. 70 69 701 Do. Acct. 34. Russ. lids, 1822, $ p C. 84 e 84 Danish lionds,3 pCt. 571 Ditto Acct. 84 Greek Bands, 5 p Ct. Span. Bomis 5 p Ct. 12i D0.80nd5,1825,5 p C. 171 I Po. Acc. Mcx. Ms 1825, 6p. Ct. 641 1 Fr. Renter. 5 p C. 981750 Do. Acct. 65 641 Exchange, 25( 50c BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. SHAM IMIII6 Brazilian 100 20 28 Paseo Peruvian 100 20 Si Potosi La Paz and Peru, Au. 50 5 AV lls. .e 2 98. Canada Company 100 10 13 In the way either of amplification or illustration, we have nothing to add this mnrning to the important in telligence we laid yesterday before our Readers; and a few days may intervene, before it shall be in our power to announce the complete triumph of those pacific prin ciples, which the French Minister of Foreign Affairs has proclaimed as the basis of his policy at this time. The concurrence of the Chamber of Peers in that policy may, from what has already transpired of its proceed ings, be considered as certaitt; but it is in the other Chamber. that the great struggle has been anticipated from the beginning; and, from the studied delays in terposed by the Ministers, it would seem, that if they are not afraid of the vote of that Chamber, they look forward with anxiety to the debate that will previously take place. It is in this Chamber, that the more hot headed, intemperate, and uncompromising portion of the Royalists are to be found ; and as these men think that iheir principles are insulted and their interests betrayed by the course the Government has taken, it is difficult to say ti what extent their hostility will be carried. As they flatter themselves that a new , administration can only be formed from their ranks, in the event of the present Cabinet being dissnived, their opposition at this time will probably be distinguished by the most inflam matory appeals to the vanity of the nation, and to the prejudices in particular of that part of it which is dis tinguished by a blind zeal in support of legitimacy.— We think, however, that they will be more succzssfui in tt,e- one instance than in the other, for, however ad dieted the nation may be to military renown, an d i n toxicated with the idea of it s own power, yet i t would sooner see both compromised, than owe the gratificatios of its wishes to the ultra•opposition. The Ministers, we presume, fear very little from the impression that may be made upon the public at large by the forthcoming debate; and, in all probability, they s ave not let slip the delay that has intervened, withouttaki ng the necessary precautions to prevent it from influencing the vote. They will exert themselves the more effectually because the question, that is to be decided, is one of personal interest and feeling, on their part, as much i s of public duty and national policy. Their bittere st enemies are the men, who are expected to take the lead in the approaching discussion, in denouncing their pacific measurewe derogatory to the national charac. ter, offensive to' theli.oyal Emily, and inconsistent with the security cf thrones. Their support of those measures will be ardent in proportion to the violence with which they will be attacked ; and thus, from private as sell as public considerations, every effort will be made by the Ministry to preserve the present friendly relations be. tween France and this country. We had written thus far when We received by Rums the Etoik of yesterday. announces another slight improvement in the Rentes, but contains no other information, capable of throwing additional light upon the great question that now engrosses univer. sal attention. It contains a report of the proceed. ings in the Chamber of Peers, which we gave yes. terday, and also the Speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs ; but as it does not differ in any essential point from what we have already given,we shall not republish either the Speech, or the proceedings. The Address, which had been sent back for revision to the commission, appointed to draw it up, was presented again on Wed. nesday, and adopted without further discussion. On the same day there was another preparatory sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, when M. PAnnssaus, an ad herent of Ministers, was chosen fourth Vice-President. He had 128 votes, whilst M. de LAIOURDONNAYIL, the leader of the Royalist Opposition,had not half as many, only 54 Members having voted in his favour. If this be a good criterion of the strength of Ministers in the Chamber, it is clear that as decisive a victory awaits them there, as they have just achieved in the Peers.— In the same sitting, Messrs. CNINEVAS and BARON were _chosen Secretaries ; and another sitting took place on the following day to select two more, in order to complete the requisite number, but the results are not mentioned. Under the usual rubrick of 4 4 lies of the day," the Eloik contradicts a statement of the Aristargie, that the expedition, destined from Gibraltar for Lisbon, had entered Cadiz, when the French authorities hastened to give it all the assistance of which it stood in need, to enable it to arrive at its destination. It also contradicts an account, which appeared in the Journal Des Debats, stating that a messenger had been sent off from the Fo reign Office to London, charged with the disclosures made by Baron Domws, in the Chamber of Peers. There is no news from Madrid, or any other port of Spain, in the Etoile • and the intelligence from Lisbon is not so late by several days as that we published yesterday. It will be seen by the following extract, that a serious accident has befallen the King of PRUSSIA: PARIS, Dacestara 21. We have received the following account from Berlin, dated the 15th instant : This morning, as his Majesty was quitting his cabinet, at the usual hour, he had the misfortune to have a fall, by which his right leg was fractured, about three inches above the ancle. Dr. Wieble arrived soon afterwards, and having ezarined the fracture, em. ployed the usual means. He was soon joined by Dr. Grate and Dr. Ufiand ; and they published the subjoined bulletins, in order to tranquillize the public mind: The first merely mentions the nature of the accident, and says that there existed no cause of alarm ; the se cond, which is dated six o'clock. is a; follows : Nothing has intervened capable of occasioning anxiety. Ws lkiaittrry ',tranquil and calm. There is nothing remarkable in the state of his Maamirr, unless it be a slight fever, which is usual in similar cases, and which, besides, is accompanied by no alarming symptoms." The following is an extract of a private letter from Brussels. The writer of it participates in fears. which, by this time, we doubt not, have been wholly dissipated. The policy of France is no longer matter of conjecture :- 1, BRUSSELS, Dec. 19. " You will easily conceive that the affairs of the Peninsula occupy here thff whole of the public attention. There have been ' few cases of such an unanimity of opinion. The resolution of the British Government to aid their Portuguese Ally, is hailed with the greatest enthusiasm by all classes. Mr. Canning is the hero of the day • his speeches are read with avidity--commented upon—covered with applause--all traces of the animosity which still subsisted here against the English have vanished—England is looked upon as the champion and saviour of constitutional liberty, mid is called upon to give the last blow to despotism. There is a great anxiety to know what are the real dispositions of the French Goa vernmeut; and permit me to tell you, that, in spite of your asser tions to the contrary, a great many people here will not believe that the Cabinets of London and Paris perfectly agree as to the course to be pursued, in order to restore tranquillity in the Pen insula. These persons foresee a general war, and this appre hension is shared by the commercial classes of this town. There are, however, others, and their number is not small, who seemed convinced that this storm will blow over without altering the present peaceable state of Europe ; they hope the energy displayed by Great Britain will suffice to inspire Ferdinand with more reasonable feel ings, and induce him, at last, to give a constitution to his subjects. " Meanwhile nothing transpires respecting the light in which our Court views the proceedings of yours ; all Is quiet here. 1 1 )e alarm that had been excited at Amsterdam and Antwerp, by the in telligence of your hostile measures,of which every person admired the promptitude, has somewhat subsided. The Netherland Stocks, tbst were very low last Friday, rose again the next day, and it is expected they will remain steady. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21.—The Infantry Regiments in tended to be embarked at this place for Portugal have now finally departed. The histvu.s.it, 74, Captain H. Hut., which sailed yes terday with Sir THOMAS HARDT, wit obligedlo put back to St. 'fit lens last night, by strong southerly gales; but she sailed thence at d2%- light this morning, with a fine wind for the northward. has the 63d liniment on board, with General Sir . Dwain Bt.. FE intr. and Sir T. A.RINTHNOT. Sir THOMAS HARDY, nutwithstami. t the weather, kept at sea in the Wattestev, 74, having been by the Gtocasrza, 74, Captain HORTON, from St. Helens •'C 'hips have the Guards on boards.—A Detachment of the I Nil .an arrived this afternoon to embark. The lurk Lancer., .1t "• nainder of the 10th, 'came in on Sunday t ts are quite ready to receive them. Tuv km, 11., 74, . 111 ..Li on Sunday 101 the Tagus, detd,:.l ',Ult., .1. I a