The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1826-08-16 00:00:00

usti manufacturers —C. Naish and L. Downer, Bishorgate W it hout, dress-maker—R. Thelwell and J. Furness, jun., Man 'b aster. watchmakers —X Wilson and R. Wilson, Bolton, Lanca shire, joiner—J. Crowther and B. Warwick, Care-street, Clare mmket, victuallers—J. Oliver and T. Tappentlcn, Ilcrne, Kent, br:A-coakers--J. Minskip and J. Pollard. Doncaster, bono.mer. chants—T. Iladland and A. Latin ton, Buckingham, butchers — W. Croil and A. Crnil, Glasgow and Birbadoes--R. Glen and W. IDisalls, Manchester, corn-millers—J. M. Blair and S. Ew an. Manchester, merchants—E. Willater and J. itl'Keand. Liver pool, booksellers—O. Phillip', R. Phillips, and T. Wedgwood, Derset-street, Spitainelds, dealers in china. _ _ PORTUGAL. (From the Coarfirstiotore/.1 T.ITRACT or A PRIVATE LETTER, RV EXPRESS. Evening of the 2d August. It is with the most lively satisfaction that I hasten to take ad. vantage of an opportunity which presents itself to inform you that the ceremonies and (eke relative to the administration of the oath to the Constitutional Charter have been performed wait din try try pomp, and that the most heartfelt joy. and the most perfect order. constantly prevailed during the three days of public. re. joicings. The public enthusiasm is at its height, and the soldiery rarticipate with anlour in the patriotic transponsof the people. The intelligence from the provinces bordering on the capital announce t':e same enthusiasm. Conformably to Act. !It chap. Y. of the New s ' ,institutional Charter, the Infanta Isabella Maria. Provisional `.logent, has bean pros almed Definitive Regent of the kingdom, e-ahorized to govern till the majority of the Queen Donna :liana sic Gloria, under the title of !Mina Maria 11. The Council Regency ha; discontinued its functions since the adotinis -attain of the oath, and the Princess Isabella Maria at !we nt exercises the royal rower alone. A; I informed you ray letter of the Dith July last, a new :Ministry has been stalled after the administration of the oath to the Con national Charter. The Regent of the kingdom, making us, the extraordinary powers intrusted to her by her august brother nt Pedro IV. before his act of abdication, as legitimate Sovereign Portugal and the Algarve% has thought proper to modify the mposition of the new ministry, decreed at Ito Janeiro the 28th . Arra bat. the ?stile day on which his Majesty confiriuri the 'visional Regency appointed by King John VI. on the 6th • 'rat last, which is to govern the kingdom till the installation of • who is designated by the Constitutional Charter of the Por uese monarchy. You haft, no doubt, received the nominated • of the persons chosen by the King. Don Pedro, to compose the • ministry. This list was correct, but local considerations. and sreseen combinations anti accidents, have neceisevily required le indispensable alterations. In the first plate, cirounistanas .uireci the immediate presence of all the Ministers. MM. Gi la and Plaint° were absent. The energy and firmness of M. un. Superior Commandant of Oporto, pointed him out as a per person as Alinister of ll'ar. Don Diego d'Alvizau could t accept the ministry of Finance. and M. Braancamp has been minted. Don Francisco d'Almeida has received the portileidite Foreign Affairs. Ile is shout two-and -thirty, and has been Secre • y of the embassy at Paris. under the Marquis of Mariagra. 1 . Gareireis is appointed Minister of the Interior in the place M. lAcenia, who has fallen under some misunderstanding. he former being designated by the late King as one of the tlinisten at the time of the restoration in the month of 3lay, i tria. replied with dignity that " a man who had been a linister under a Constitutional Government, could not and ought cot to be so under absolute power." - - - • - We are requested to publish the following note " Several journals have repeatedly announced that the Count of f . drvilliers (Joseph Bonaparte) had obtained remission to come to ) elgluan. They added, that Joseph Bonaparte had already caused a magniticent hotel to be purchased at Brussels. where he was to snlay all the splendour of a man who possessed a fortune of 00 millions (francs). The Count of Surrilliers WAS already seen in OW streets of Brussels, escorted with Asiatic polar. The result of an these reports is as follows :--Joseph Bonaparte has resided ten vests in the United States. There is more than exaggeration in tac immense fortune which has been bestowed upon him. Ile is extremely anxious to visit his wile. whom the state of her health prevents from travelling, by sea. Permission has certainly been granted to hint to reside In Belgium; but it is impossible that he should vet know that this permission has been obis% ed. and it is ertlr a fortnight since it has been sent to America, where he Sall is, a-ell 'Otero be lives as a quiet and respectable citizen, under the pro m:ion of the laws." LurENIAL 3L4NIFESTO. Sr. PrrEnsstackm, JULY 29. We. Nrcnoies, &e. The High Criminal Court, treated in consequence of the Mani. levet of 13th of June, to try the conspirators, has perforated the task assigned to it. The sentences passed by it, in conformity with the existing Ia but mitigated by us, as far as the claims of jug- Pee sad the safety . of the Empire permitted us, have been pub. fished and carried into effect. In this manner an Affair has been terminated which we have always considered as the affair of all Russia; the criminals have received their merited punishment the country is freed from the eontagtous disease, which had been so long spreadine in secret. When we again have our eyes oh these deplorable events, we shall find, that we have one duty to perform. tin the spot, where, seven months ago, the breaking out of a sa d. den rebellion at once revealed to us the horrible secret of an evil, which had already ten years' growth, a last act of commemoration, an atoning sacrifice, must consecrate the memory of the Russian blood, shed there in the Cause of religion, of the Soverei,,m, and of the country. Solemn thanksgivings must be offered to the Al mighty. 'We have acknowledged His hand, when it tore the veil that covered this detestable mystery. We have acknowledged, that lie euffered the crime to arm itself, and thus prepared its destruction. The rebellion, like a sudden tempest, seemed to have broken out fitly to destroy the conspiracy, of which it was the tirst overt act. This conspiracy was not in the character or in the manner of the Russian nation. Contrived by a handful of criminals, it had no accomplices but a small number of men, who were in constant in tercourse with them—corrupt hearts, and unbridled passions; and, sa spite of wicked and persevering exertions for ten years, it could tot succeed in extending any farther. The heart of Russia has been, and always will be, inaccessible to such attempts. The Rue than name does not disgrace itself by treachery to the throne and the country. We have, on the contrary, received on this occasion the most affecting proofs of unbounded devotion. We have seen tethers arm themselves with inexorable severity a gainst their crimi nal children—the neatest relations give up the wretches suspected of being accomplices—in a word, all el mem of our subjects, in• spired by the same feelings, unanimously demand the sentence and punishment of the guilty. The conspirators, however, though confined to a narrow sphere, had been active. The wound was deep and dangerous, because it was concealed. When we consider that the chief object of the conspinttors, their first purpose, was invariably the assassination of Alexander the blessed, we arc filled with indignation and sorrow. Giber considerations occupied and eirbarrassed the attention other cares inspired well founded apprehensions; amidst indispensable investigations, innocence v. as to be respected, to be preserved from useless suspicion humiliation. But Providence, which was pleased, at the moment of our accession to the Throne, to surround us with cares mai thilleulties, gave us also courage and strength to complete the • irk which it imposed upon us. After five months' labours, the Cemmittee of Inquiry, by its seal, its perseverance, ar.d imparti ality. and by the use of persuasion, succeeded in moving the hearts tai tire most hardened criminate, in exciting their remorse, and in inducing them to make voluntary and sincere confession. Th.• high Court of Justice, which embraced this great trial in the whole =tent of its political importance, its character, and its ramifies. tions, has brought it to the legal termination. Thus, thanks to the unanimous accord of all good rand faithful Russians, a scourge has soon vanished, which, in another state of social manners, would have made a long resistance. The melancholy events which disturbed the internal peace of Russia are passed. and, as we trust in the Divine Mercy. passed for ever. Acco rdin g to the inscrutable decrees of the Almighty, who makes good to proceed front evil, these very events may contribute to the public good. May parents now devote all their attention to the moral education of their children. It is not to the progress of civilisation. but to vanity, which is more fatal titan indolence—to want of know ledge, that we must ascribe those unbridled thoughts, those violent passions; that confused and fatal lialf.knowledge, thnt propensity to extravagant theories and reveries, which begin in demoralisation and end in rain. In vain are all the et:lints, all tile sacrifices of the Government, unless domestic education sup. ; its its views, and sows the seeds of morality in the heart. Here, as in every thing elite, the nobility, the bulwark of the Throne, and et the national honour, must set the example. All the care which it employs in the improvement of a rational education conic. (-vs?. to Russia, and given In its bosom, will be acknowledged with equal satisfaction and gratitude. In our country all the tea, o ll to honour, and the service of the State, are open to the Nubility. The administration of justice, the army, the branches it internal Government. all require able and active officers. May, therefore, ell classes of damns give the Government the same con. tidal= •In our empire, where love to the Sovereign and fidelity to the Thrtme are hereditary qualities in the people—where a vigor ous administration is united with truly national laws—a 3 the efibrts e the r.itked will be absurd anti unavailing. They may envelop toreeelve% in darkness, but when they conic into the light they are, crashed by the laws and the general indignation of the people. In loch an organization of the State, every one may depend on the s.atility of order, the seenrity of property and persons, and, with ea t fear for the present, look with hope to the future. It is not by t d ricetruet ire =imprint.% but gradually, that real ameliora ' non, are made, &recta supplied , and abuses remedied. In this pro.' rressive improvement, every wise wish for ameliuration—every t :might tending to consolidate the laws, to spread true knowledgc, real to develop industry. which comes to us through the legal ways r. hick are open to all, will deny, be received by us with gratitude, tar we have no other wish, and can hare no other object, titan to roe our country attain the highest degree of prosperity and gluey to a :deli Po‘vidence has destined it. Lastly, in the midst of this a-re:dent wish, which all our subjects share , and in the hope that : vii: be fulfilled, our parietalar care is again turned to those on ! spry families, whom guilt has deprived of some of their mem. 'oes•. During the whole course of these proceedings, we have par . scipatei in they affliction ; end we now hasten to assure them, tier it our eyes the bonds of family transmit the glory of the at•eestent to their descendants, but not the infamy of a single colon ,tai. Whoever should venture to draw from ft a ground of reproach, would violate the laws of the State, and, still more, the doctrines of :ere Religion of Christ. (Fi►med) Zelltojml3, July 25, Ilia% NICHOLAS. JAVA. Extract of a letter, dated Batavia, April 11, 1826 : " Java is at this moment in a most deplorable state ; its commerce is entirely ruined, and the finances are annihi lated ; the Government is, in fact, bankrupt. To make the state of affairs intelligible to you, I shall go back a little—say to the period of the arrival of our Commissione r the Viscount de Gezhigrie:4. Before that period, lowing to the heavy duties which had driven away all commerce, and the fall in the price of coffee, the revenues of the Government had decreased most alarmingly. These two causes acted doubly upon each other, and might be stated both as the cause and the effect. The high duties upon British goods put a stop to the importations, which, of course, took out of the market so much of the funds des tined to purchase coffee, which, partly from this cause, and from the great fall in Europe, fell in price accordingly. In consequence of the great fall in the price of coffee, the means of the growers were diminished, and they could not purchase, to the same extent as formerly, British goods or other merchandise. To aggravate the want of revenue, the Javanese war broke out (for which the Dutch have only themselves to blame), which has already occasioned an im mense expense. In spite of all these troubles, the old Government, at the head of which was the Baron Van der Capetian, still preserved an appearance of faith with the public creditor. Bad as the Baron was, and it is he who is to be looked upon as the original source of all our trou bles and misfortunes, his successor, the Viscount, is infinitely worse. One of the Viscount's first measures was to alter the state of the currency, which, regarded in itself, was a good one; and it could make no difference to any one into how many dolts (a small copper coin) he divided the rupee, so long as he gave one silver rupee for a paper one. As soon as the one and five rupee paper notes were exchanged for silver rupees, the latter immediately rose to a premium of six per cent., and soon finally disappeared from circulation. The only medium of circulation now is the promissory notes of 100 rupees each, and upwards, bear ing an interest of nine per cent. per annum. The next measure of the Commissioner was, to issue a proclama tion, reducing the interest upon the promissory notes to six per cent. from the Ist of April. This would have been all very well, if the holders of the promissory notes, who should refuse to accept a reduced interest, had been paid off as they are in England. I look upon this measure as an undisguised breach of faith. At Samarang, the Government issued a species of copper money called Bunks, or Bengals—pieces of copper of the size of your finger, and worth about two slivers nominally, but its real value not equal to one stiver. There was a very large profit on the issue of this copper money, which went into the pockets of the Government. The Chinese (ever alive to their interest) were tempted by the large profit, and immediately threw into the market a great quantity of bunks. In process of time these bunks formed the only medium of circulation at Samarang, and I do not believe the Government themselves knew the differ ence between the false and the real bunks: at all events, both were received alike in payment at their treasury. But lo and behold! out comes a proclamation, calling in all the bunks, not according to the rate at which they hail been issued, and at which they bad circulated, but according to a certain given weight. The result was, that the hold ers of the bunks lost considerably—some at the rate of 20 per cent., and others at 40 per cent., or even more. Can you believe a modern European Government guilty of such baseness, and living upon and deriving a profit from the distresses of the people? In consequence of the calling in of the one and five rupee notes here, which amounted to about three millions of rupees, and the silver having al most immediately disappeared, the only medium of circu lation left at Batavia is the promissory note of 100 rupees and upwards, which, however suitable for large payments, will not do to pay labourers and servants, or to purchase the necessaries of life. In consequence of the disappear ance of silver, every one has been anxious to get copper dolts in exchange: now, by the new regulation, 100 dons go to a rupee instead of 120, as before; and the Govern ment have most magnanimously and humanely stepped forward to declare that they are ready to oblige any one with copper dolts, at the rate of 100 to a rupee, in exchange for, the paper notes of 10 rupees and upwards. By this the Government gain clearly twenty per cent. at the expense of the community; and even before, when 120 dolts went to a rupee, they got a profit. Thus the paper money is fast vanishing, and, as I said, we have nothing left but the promissory notes, which the merchants are glad to exchange for dolts, at a discount of 5 per cens,, Here is a pretty state of things ; where it will enti I cannot say. Besides all this, the Government are indebted to a great many individuals in large sums of money for hire of ships, sales of goods, and loans of money made to them in the time of their trouble and distress, when they had nothing in their chest. And how do they testify their gratitude? The Commis sioner has issued a proclamation, offering the creditors, in lieu of their claims, an equal amount to be invested for them in the Syndicate fund of Holland. Ile says it is to be optional, but it is pretty well understood that they who do not caruply will have to whistle for their money, or, at least, remain out of it for a long time. With regard to the war here I have no particular news to communicate; but it appears very plain that the Dutch will not he able to put down the insurgent@ until they receive reinforcements from Holland. Upon the subject of the militia it gives me great pleasure to inform you, that all the British subjects here have at length become unanimous. We have to-day sent in a remonstrance to the Commissioner, but hardly expect lie will listen to it. Nevertheless, it will be a satis faction to reflect that we have done our duty as British subjects, and have not submitted to arbitrary measures until forced." ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. This Evening, WEDNESDAY, August id, will be performed the new Grand Serlo-Comic Opera of THE ORACLE t or, THE JNTERRUPTED SACRIFICE. The principal Characters by Mews. J. Bland, Perkins, J. 0. Atkin', H. Phillip', Saplo, and Thorne ; Misses Paton, Hamilton, and Goward. After which the new Melo-Drama of THE I.AST ocEitnILLA. The principal Characters by Messrs. Pearmen, Thorne, Bennett, Archer, Clifford, Salter, and Cooper ; Misses Hamilton, Coward, and Gray. ROYAL GARDEN% VAUXHALL. Under the'enreclal Pattotrime of Ms linfesty. IN HONOUR OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK'S BIRTH DAY. • ••••• • •• The Proprietors respectfully announce another superb FETE, which will tske place ft. Evening, WEDNESDAY, August 16, In honour of the Mirth-day of his Royal Highness the Commander-In-Chief, and on the same scale of grandeur which characterized the Entertainments on his Majesty's Gala. On the present Interesting Anniversary the Itoy,ll Gardens will be most splendidly Illuminated, and a succession of Enter tainments given during the entire Evening, commenting with the opening of the 1)0ors. The ILLUMINATIONS will Include the 13.040 extra Lamps, the same as on the King's Mahe, which are nuw to be formed Into appropriate Military Devi Les, Trophiee, &c. The CONCERT will intinde all the celebrated Wont In the Metropolis, els. Wm Traria. Illas Loy.* ' Miss Reline. Mr. lireliatn, Mr. Sinclair, Signor De Bennis, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Horucsatle, Mr. Robinson, Master Barker, and Mr. 'Finney. L eader of the Hand, Stour Sp ignulettl. Conductor, Mr. Bishop. The beautiful Moonlight Scene of the Ruins of en Italian Abliey, pro duced by the celebrated Mr. Stanfield. of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, will be naln exhibited. The Cambia Vednia, a aeries of changeable Views, by Mr. Cooke, with the light and shade iNfett of the Diorama... The Illuminated Grove will be open for the third time this Season. Mr. WILSON, on the rwur mom, will exhibit his surprising Evo lutions In a complete Change of Pr; f wmances, amongst which an entire novelty. callml "The Carnival of Venice, or a Masquerade on Two Tight Ropes," by Mr. Wilson, assisted by the Faun!' American, introducing Punchinello and Family, with Comic Dancing, &c. On this Evening, for the second time, will he performed a new Ballet, minded IL. CORONAM ESTE PELLA ROZIERE, Cemposed Mons. B. Vesta.; the Slink by Mr. G. 11. Bathed! ; the Seevery by Mr. Thorne. Principal Dancers :—Matinme Pauline Rosslg nol and Monsieur B. Veetris ; Mesdames Colson, Adelaide, and Bianca ; Monsieur Sullivan, end the Two Ridiways, who will Dance an entirely woW Grotesque Pao de Deux. Daring the Evening, Mr. BLACKIIIOIIE will exhibit his usual Evolu tions on the SLACK ROPE. A Mliitary Band will play at intervals, during the Evening, In the Orcbevtra. . . . . • __-• The unrivalled D'Ernst hex hail In preparation, many weeks past, 3tl itlchlbMon of FIRE. WORKS, which will, be pledges himself, exceed in brilliancy any ever seen In this kingdom ; and as he Is paid a large sum extra. the Public may enact a great treat In the Pyrotechnic Art on the present occasion. In the last Grand Piece the YOUNG AMERICAN will make his TERRIFIC ASCENT to the Moorish Tower, and Descend amidst Yoltnc4 of Fite. Doors open at Seven o'Clock.—Coileert begins at Ilalf-past Eight Adm'...sloa Js.. . . Additinnal Pollee are engaged; and the Public are requegted to order their Servanti to attend to the inatructioni revecting Cure Mgrs. Oiders will not be admitted, end the Free List cud Complimettary Cards ail: be in Tentitd on this Evening. THE BRITISH PRESS. PRICES ?1 , 201BIRITISH STOCKS YESTERDAY. Balm Stock 201 202 Lone Ann. 19* 3 16 II per Cent. Refl. 714 J A India Bonds 24 22 23 pm 3 per Cent. Cons. ;Si II i South Sea Stock Ditto Acct. 74 I i En. Bills 10001. 14 IS pas 11} per Cent. 87 801 Ditto Small 14 16 put 14 per Cent. Red. tiff 411 i. Ditto 8001. 14 15 pus 1 New 4 per Cent. tl4) i i Lottery Tickets 241. S. PRICES OF FOREIGN Bratlllas Bonds 59 CI Buenos Ayres Bonds 50 2 Chiilan Bonds 38.10 Colombian Bonds 30 110, Vanish Bonds (1825) 57 F•ench }toners 5 per Cent. lOW. Frcnrb 'ter ter 3 per Cent. GM. Greek Bonds k Iti2s) 13 STOCKS YESTERDAY. Mexican Hands 37 8 Ditto Mond. ;IRO) 44 II Peruvian Bonds 25 Portuguese Bonds 71 2 Prussian lion& 92 Russian Bonds Kay 4 Spanish fonds 10 Ditto Acct. lANGE YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Bahfa Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 day.' sight ... •• • Curk . leittorn 47 Genoa. Venice . .......... ... Naples 'IN Palermo . Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro .. ...... 1101.11014. PIS 0). d. Porlogal Gold. In eoln •0 0 Foreign Gold, In bars. 317 6 New Doubloons New Dollars Silver. In bars. standard 0 0 0 CHUMS Or EXCH . C.V. 12 !I Ditto at .ight ii i Rotterdam" 3U. 1 2 9 Antwerp Rambuigh .... . U. 37 11 Aliens - - 24 U. 113 • • . - Paris, 3 days' deg ...... PO Ditto 2 U. 28 6 ": ii is Bordeaux ..... . Berlin 2ranirfort on Maine Ex.ll Petersburgh, rbitt Vienna, effective 6.. .... 2 M.'lo 20 Trieste ....d0... lO 20 Madrid , Cadiz Barcelona ..... . Seville ..... . Gnats' inr -----.... i4i .• ••••• . Plitegi OP SHARES YESTERDAY. • MINIS. Share. Paid. Aneln.lifealeas ...... "..... ...... l6lOO 60 45 dls lia:Wan ........................ ...... lOO 14 16 pm Real del Monte.......eie 4OO 400 704111 Tlalptizahua ...... ....Iv • .`4..... .... ..... (Jolted Malaga ar.e.a .ird. • • ••••••• .40 22 k 10 dts ..•lII%k-...., : - ... ' ••• „ r„:"., WTIk 'A I tir , :-. 7 74a 1/16 ; cso k. __ rite Britioit Vrego. The BRITISII Pnv:cs commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1826. The evrit Ile corm ought perhaps to induce us to conceal the tricks of the newspaper trade; hut the case of the C'onstitutionnel of Sunday is an irresistible temptation. It seems that the Const itutionnel had procured a list of the Ministers appointed by Don Penao, and published them as those finally appointul by the Itegcnt Donna ISABELLA MARIA. he Eloile was alarmed at the early intelligence of the Constitutionnel, and drew many portentous conclu sions from it. As often happens, the whole resolves itself into a mere ruse in the trade of newspaper-making, and the calculations of the Eloile arc thus completely df:jout's. The following are extracts: — [From tbe Etoile, dated Monday, Aug. 14 1 PARIS, Auo. 13. We have the following news in a letter from Rome : " On the 23d July, his Eminence Cardinal River°ll, Legate of Ravenna, coming at half-past eleven at night from the Palace Rasponi, got into his carriage with a Canon attached to his service, when a pistol loaded with rifle balls was tired, and wounded the Canon at the same time in the cheek and the breast, so that he immediately fell. The shot was tu: int fir toe Cardinal, who mated, as it were, by miracle, haring, contrary to his custom, taken the left hand in the carriage. It is said that the assassin belongs to the secret soci:ties. This affair makes a great noise. The C.lrdival showed great firmness on this occasion. The Canon is not in danger."—Unir /sr.: Ga::effr ef Lywid. The King of Saxony has caused the Ministers of the several Christian forms of worship in his dominions to be desirtkl to ab stain in future, in their sermons and religious instinctions, from expressions offensive to the other comtnunions. Letters from Bucharest, of 22.1 July, say that too certain huh cations of the plague have filled that city with alarm. Seven persons with pestilential ulcers have already been taken to the Lazaretto. The Iloapodar has ordered the usual precautions to be taken. Admiral Ouintarla is appointed Minister of the Matins in Por tugal. The department of Justice is confided to Don Pedro de Mello, who will be succeeded at Paris by the Count de Villa Real. Sir Charles Stewart received on the 2,1 ordeis to return to London ; he was to set out on the Bth. There have been troubles in the province of Tras-os-Montes. At Braganea the 24th regiment of infantry mutinied, and 200 men, headed by Brigadier de Monte Alegre, deserted into Spain. There have been some disturbances at Chaves, in the province of A lentejo. On the 2d of August, at the taking of the oath, the 17th regi• meat of the line mutinied at Estretnos, and deserted into Spain with arms and baggage, the military chest, band of music, and corps of officers, with Brigadier !llagesae. From Villaviciosa 180 horsemen of the 2J regiment have deserted into Spain. A brigade of artillery attempted to leave Chaves ; It was surprised and cut to pieces. The troops that have gone into Spain have been received, but Ms armed. At the moment when these accounts are received at Paris, the Courrier Francais gives the following particulars respecting the new :Ministers of Portugal, which, sufficiently explain the move ments which we announce. M. de Almeytia, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, was Member _ . of the Cortes. Ile is known at Paris by his constitutional opinion“. Ile wrote, in the Memoirs of the Societb Philomatique, a very into. resting biographical sketch of M. Correa de Serra, a celebrated botanist, his fellow-citizen, and correspondent of the Institute. M. de Almeyda was named, under the GOVOIRIZIVOt of the Cortes, Mi nister of Portugal at Vienna, but the Austrian Government de clared that it would not receive him. fto great was the dislike of the Cabinet of Vienna to M. de Almeyda, that M. de Rczende, the Envoy of Brazil, having conic at that time to Austria with a Seem, tary named Almeyda, the Secroary was arrested on the frontiers, merely on account of his name, for fear that the Portuguese Envoyi might have taken the disguise, to enter the Austrian dominions. M. Sahlanha trOltvcira Daun, Minister of %Var., is the Governor of Oporto, whose rezort, sjyressed to the Princess Regent. we pub. halted a few days ago. He is io the illuittious Marquis de Pombal. M. Brauncamp, Minister of Finance, was member of the Cortes. He is one of the richest land-owns sin Pommel, and married w Paris the granddaughter of the Duchess of Narbonne.* Be has always protested attachment to constitutional principles. The Pormguese ministry is completed by the appointment of M. de Barradas to be Minister of Justice, and he is the only member of the preceding Ministry alto has retained his post. MILO, JULY 3. FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. " It is repotted among the Greeks, that the isle of Milo is an asylum for them, where they will be protected against the Turks by the French squaAron; refugees crowd thither, and the agent of his Most Christian Majesty is placed in an embarras ing situation with respect to the poor people, who arrive by hundreds, without any means of subsistence. It is to that place that all the produce of the subscriptions foe the Greeks should be sent to do any good." The Itfonikur is entirely filled wit . ' the efF.cial documents from St. Petcrsburgh. • The Courtier is mistaken: read, " of Count Louis de Nar bonne." The manifesto of the Emperor islictioLas about the inquiry at Petcrsburgh has now been published. There can be but one opinion concerning the fate which men like the Russian conspirators deserved. It is not by dark conspiracies that the state of nations can be ameliorated; but by the open and manly assertion of just rights. We confess that we should not regret the accomplishment of certain changes in the state of Russia, and we are per suaded that the diffusion of that spirit which has been s o grossly misdirected and so basely perverted by the Russian conspirators will speedily and quiet!v tffeet those altera tio:is, whi.:ll arc necessary to enable Russia to keep pace with other nations. If the conspirators had aimed at no• thing but the establishment of a defined system of law, founded upon the principles of justice and individual rights, their object would have been proper and avowable ; but to talk of a Republic in Russia, or even of a govern ment like our own, while society is in such a state as it is at present in that country, is highly ridiculous, not to say criminal. Too little attention is in general paid by those, who wish for the advancement of the cause of rational liberty, to the effect which the propagation of sound prin ciples has upon the individuals themselves who are placed at the head of affairs. It is generally supposed that Sove reigns cannot possibly have any feelings but those of hosti lity to the cause of the people; but the fact is, that Princes are themselves as much influenced by the state of public opinion as private individuals. Those who are sensible to flattery must be sensible to blame ; and even flattery at present cannot be administered with discretion, unless dashed with a sprinkling of liberalism. The descendants of the flatterers of Lor:ts XIV. would not praise his pre sent successor for his palaces, his splendour, his conquests, his absolute power, or any of those subjects which used to form the topics of pretended admiration during the old regime ; they would not praise his spirited conduct in going booted and spurred to dissolve the Parliament of Paris; they would not talk of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes as a measure of sound policy. If they did choose such awkward subjects of panegyric, they would miss their object, for such praises would be received as insults, as the bitterest of sarcasms, as proofs of their con tempt for the understanding of the person addressed. Flatterers at this moment, even in the Court of the GRAND SEIGNIOR, must in some degree be liberalists, and serve to imbue the minds of Sovereigns with those principles which will tend equally to promote the interests of Sovereigns and of subjects. In the Court of Russia, at no very distant date before the late reign, it is very certain that the most illiberal principles prevailed, and that the CZAR considered himself as the master of a flock of men, with whose lives+ properties, and feelings, he thought himself at liberty to do as he chose, with no consideration whatever but that of his own good-will and pleasure. The French Resolution, and the subsequent conquests of that nation, had one good effect—they made people and Princes more intimately ac quainted with each other. They forced absolute monarchs to listen to the language of a pstentate bred in the democratic school, and placing one great support of his power and ore great means of extending his influence in the effect which he calculated on producing on the minds of the multitude. The praise of the people (not that of courtiers) began then to be considered.by Princes as true fame, and not only as fame, but as power, and the only real power of Sovereigns. The proofs afforded by history showed them that monarchs are not finally estimated by the opinions of courtiers or of hired panegyrists, but by the unbought voice of the people, by whom and for whom Kings reign ; and they determined to trust for respect and power to them alone, as the real and the only source of their power. In these observations we do not refer to this country, whose Sovereigns have for more than a century uniformly identified themselves with the people. We refer to Russia, where, after a long course of despotism, the late Monarch began to labour studiously for the good of his country ; and the present testifies a still more decided inclination to attach himself to public opi nion, as the best guard and security of his throne. He has sbown this by his anxiety to give publicity to the facts which rendered the executions at St. Petersburgh neces airy, and by the g: ncral tone of his state papers on this subject. The Emperor Pact. would never have published a manifesto like that of the Emperor Nt c FOL.% S. CITY, TrESDAY EVEYINo. Consols openzd this morning at 7s l „ but it was some time before any business was done: they, however, went up to V•q, with a very heavy market. At this period the broker of an eininent individual in the money market made his appearance, and purchased largely, which sent them for the moment up to isi : a reaction, however, shortly took place, and they closed finally at 7Si. The report which has prevailed, for the last day or two, of it being the intention of his Majesty's Government to put an Act in force which was passed last year, for the prohibition of the entrance of ships into the ports of the British colonies of those countries who shall deny to Eng lish ships the most extensive privileges in their ports, is to-day confirmed. It appears that British ships frequent ing the ports of America have not been placed upon the same footing as more f..voured nations, and the Act in question is to be put in force from the tat of January next as respects American ships, which will not, after that pe riod, be allowed admission into any of the ports of the iVest India Islands. This proceeding on the part of his Majesty's Government is a moat necessary one, as, if the ' American Government are determined to impede the march of reciprocity, then Englan I must protect herself from the consequences resulting from such a mistaken and illiberal line of policy. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds are so plentiful in the market, that the former have declined to 143. and the latter to V2s. premium. Titis was settling day in the Foreign Stock Exchange, and was a Bear account. From the decline in Colombian gull Mexican Bonds during some days past, in consequence of She accounts received of the doubtful state of their fiOnces, and also of the disturbed state of Colombia from internal dissension, in addition to a probable attack on Carthagena by the Spanish force then in its neighbourhood, there were some very heavy accounts to settle; but it was understood that they went off without default. Colombian closed it 30 to 30; and Mexican showed a still further depression, bearing a quotation of 444 only. There has been little doing in Shares, in consequence of the more weighty business of the settlement. Brazilian are at 16, and Tlalpuxalma at 30. premium. Iu the course of exchanges there is no alteration. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. MOVEMENTS. The Earl of Sefton left town yesterday, for his seat, Stake Farm, Berks. The Earl of Rocksavage arrived in town yesterday, from a tour. Lord Molyncux has arrived at his father's, the Earl of Sefton's, sear; Crosteth-hall, near Liverpool, from a tour. • Lord and Lady Cranky left the :.;t. George Hotel, Albemarle street, yesterday, for their seat, Clandrin, Surrey. Lord and Lady Nugent have left their seat, Lilleys, Bucks, for Stove. Lard Folkestone has left his father's, the Earl of Radnor, Long ford Castle, for the ble of Wight. Lady Charlotte Seymour arrived In town yesterday, from a visit to Baroness Willoughby d'Ereshy,at herseat, Grim:4ol°qm Castle, Lincolnshire. The Hon. George and Lady Georgina Ellis have left Worthing, for Ramsey, Hants. Captain and Mrs. llnAey have left the Bath Hotel, Arlington street, fur the Continent. Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street: —Sir C. and Lad); Mill, from a tour; and Captain Beresford, from Windsor. Arrivals at Kirkham's Lower Brook-street :—Colonel and Mrs. Fordyce and family , from their seat , A yton- house . clerks ; anolidtoC3olimere has il Gray, ly,,,ft and Payne , for II eland. Bayne Esq. from Ireland. The Rev. Jahn Departure , ' from Thomas's Hotel, Berkcicy.square :—Mr. and Mrs. Wyndhsm, for their vat in Norfolk ; and T. West, Esq. M.P., for Brighton. Arrivals ;at Batty' lintel, Dover-sheet :—The Right Hon. the Earl of Lismore ; J. Williams. Esq. from Africa • Mr. and Mrs. G. Sara and family ; and 11. Nelson, Esq. Departures and . lrr. O. Thompson and family, fur Norfolk ; Mrs. Thcobahl and family, for Brighton ; Miss Heron., for ditto; 11. T. Thomp son, tar York ; r. and Mrs. Newsome, for Itamsgate ; and G. TOor.twall, Esq. for Ii ,min THOUGHTS ON OUR COLONIES. No. IL—INDIA. In a former Paper' it was stated that Great Britain p us , sensed in her Indian Empire almost inexhaustible sources of commercial opulence, as yct comparatively untouched; immense portions of waste territory, offering the r i c h est and most productive soil for the labours of her agficaltu. nista ; incredible abundance of raw material, capable of being worked up by her excess of manufacturing pop u l a . lion ; and immediate and profitable markets fur the tlit. I posal of fabrics so manufactured from the indigeno us pm. ; auctions of II indoostan. But it was especially contended, that the colonization of those beautiful though di stant regions by British subjects, offered " the best, and par . haps the only permanent, security for our Asistie p ow " land the most promising and honourable retreats for too; of our fellow-countrymen as are possessed of more spirit and enterprise than capital." And because such appe ar to he the natural course of these propositions, I shall bete reverse the order in which they have been stated; and en. deavOur to prove,—l. The absolute essential neeessGtv of our colonizing India. Of the conaiderations upon which that necessity must become apparent to all reflecting mind* , that may be directed to this subject, the most important ones are,—the prodigious physical disproportion of p ower ' between 80,000,000 of native subjects, and less than 60,000 foreign rulers, and the foreign troops and ire. ; mediate servants of those rulers; the importance of coon. teractine, the hostile spirit, which the pro . tracted resisianie of the Burmese is likely to awaken in the military tribe who skirt the whole of our Indian frontier; the iin . pesi eu expediency of making immediate provision for the Anglo- Indians, a Creole population rapidly increasing in its numbers, and at this moment in a most anomalous and dangerous relation to the British power in Area;—a t e lastly, considerations that respect the revenue derivable from our possessions in the peninsula of Ilindoastan. As to the difference between the numerical strength of the governors and the governed, it is evident that the pee litical importance of a mild, though firm and popular ins• tern of government, on the part of the former, increawa precisely in the ratio of the numerical excess of the latter, It were superfluous, therefore, to insist upon the duty in. ported on us of identifying our own interests with theirs; of establishing that community of benefits which shall ' render the continuance of our dominion among them as essential to their happiness and welfare at to our own ally vantage and grandeur. But this can never be the case, while between the few who govern and the millions gc.:, verhed there are no links of an intimate though graduated connexion ; and no communications but these which may suhsist between the master and the slave. The natives can feel little community of sentiment or of interest with those whose sojourn among them is almost avowedly for the purpose of accumulating, in the shortest possible space of time, the greatest attainable amount of their wealth, with which to return and settle in Europe. But every British Colonist who settles in India, with the views of a Colonist, enlarges the power of the parent state; increases the productive principle which is the source of that wealth; multiplies these links of connexion between the natives and their rulers ; and is a visible pledge to the former of the sincerity and security of that British protection, which they both participate. In his intercourse with them, and in that alone, can they recognise the important truth, that they are being gradually approximated from the condition of passive tools in the hands of a thousand despots, to the rank of freemen, the subjects only of a free and mighty state. And this moral conviction, to which they can in no other manner be brought, is destined, trust, to be that rallying point, that sustaining hope, which shall unite all the llindoos in fidelity and attachment to the only sceptre that has yet been stretched forth to protect them from plunder, anarchy, and violence. If this gnat lesson be not taught them—if this important confidence be not instilled into them—we must tremble for the cons& quences of that example which the Burmese and other nations will have set them. To a people fondly beliefs fog themselves the descendants of a God, and implicitly crediting the wildest fables of their magnificent Mytheloey and their romantic history—to a people easily wrought upon by the predictions of jugglers and pretended prophets— the struggles of a neighbouring empire against their own European Lords must impart a degree of satisfaction, the more intense us it is secret ; and of emulation, the more vivid as it may be excited by legendary promisesof reviving dynasties of llindoo conquerors. Such a people will want only leaders, whose knowledge, or talents, or es perience, may fit them to direct the energies of so many millions against the small, but intelligent baud, of their existing masters. And where will they fled these leaders? I answer—among those, whose actual con dition, as contrasted with their claims upon our consider*. tion, supplies one of the most amazing instances of neglect that was ever witnessed in the policy of a great and gene rous country—l mean the Anglo-Indians. This mixed race is descended of British and Iliaidoo blood. Diei tingished ft om the natives by their colour, in a land where honour and rank, humiliation and poverty, attach to differences of complexion, our own Government in India have theiught proper to confound them with the re tives in that sort of exclusion from all responsil le and lucrative offices, which shuts the door eve all native preferment. Incapable of promotion among the high-caste Ilindoos, by reason of the religious prjedice of the latter; and rejected from the;pale of British patron• age by the state scruples of the Indian Government; the Anglo-Indians are in this painful situati , n : he mural defect of their descent is precisely that which is calculated to give them most political consequence in the eyes of her Asiatic countrymen, and yet constitutes the very ground et that political nullity to which their British relatives reduce them ! Can any condition in society be imagined more cruel, more anomalous ? Can any species of political tIIP qualification be predicated, more obviously calculated to till the hearts of those who are its victims with shame, and indignation, and resentment, or te make them a perpetually increasing nucleus for ail the discontents and resentments of the multiplied tribes and states of India? It may be true that you could not, at present, admit them as eligible candidates for superior offices and trusts in the country of their birth, with perfect safety to our establishments there; and if so, however inexcusable our past supineness in tee Ted of these people, the plea may be a good one now, so far as it goes. But permit India to be colonized by Bri tish subjects, and all danger vanishes. The best effects might then be anticipated from the devoted aervicaneof the Anglo-Indians, who, being thus relieved from the balm of disqualification, would have attained every object they most thirst after, and would contially co-operate in the great work . of permanently consolidating the power of " beneficent Britain (as they would then indeed consider her) in Asa. The very presence of British colonists would check all the efferts of disaffection, strengthen theliands of Government , and secure the natural and lasting attachment of theAnstkr Indians. The considerations that respect revenue arc of two kinds: those which apply to the present meat extraordinary* , impolitic, and dangerous system, on which the hand revenue is raised upon the Ilyotwarry, or agricultural Petanaltry of India, and to the positive necessity of relieving the bitter without delay; and those which regard thepracticabilint of a better. more equitable, and generalizA system of tee ation, which, while it shall bear far more lightly than :le present one on individuals, shall realize a TCYCIIIIC to the Government, equal or superior to the existing revenue; and calculated to extinguish all those unequal and was-, sive exactions on the cultivators, which constit ute at this moment the most serious and extensive, and alarrrimg causes of the dissatisfaction and that pervade ?roe of the richest of our provinces. In discussing these poinit; it is by no means my desire to examine what degree 01 blame may or may not attach to the East India Comps . n n Y on account of them ; but it is certainly as far from my i- . tendon not to endeavour to show that ' the system I sPeti . k of is monstrous in principle, and odious , cruel, stud ie' structive in its operation ; a position, for which k coul d el : rectly quote the recorded authorities of such emin ent mutt as Moist.. Say, Sismondi, Tucker, Thackeray, and Storck, Pennant, and Verelst, Sir John Strachey, `u Malcolm, Lieut.-Col. Stewart, Mr. Mill, &c.+ nosy not be improper to inform the genera l read e r, that the revenues of the " Hon. Company's Govern ment in " See the British Pin; of the 4th inst. 51i i is Co cs til