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GERMAN' PAPERS. FROM Tilt FRONTIERS OF WHITE RUSSIA, MAY q t- .2.—8y an Ukase signed last month, and lately published, his Majesty had ordered the following reductions in our army : The 2d battalions of the.regiments of infantry of the second corps of the army shall be reduced as formerly in the first corps of the army, from 1000 to 400 men.; in the regiments of cavalry, excepting the 3d of Cuirassers, and the Ist and 4th of Dragoons, B men per company shall be reduced. In the artil. lery the horses of four pieces of cannon in each company shall be reduced ; all the corps of invalids which perform no part of the field duty, shall be disbanded. _ _ . There shall .likewise be discharged annually, that is to say, from the.lst of May.to the lst of October, 40 men per company of at the regiments of infantry. The reductions, however, shall not extend to the regiments of the Guard, the corps of Lithuania and Caucasus, nor to the troops that compose the military colonies. This measure will cause an annual saving of eighteen millions of rubles. ' S TO CKUOLM, MAY 23.—Yesterday a message from the King in favour of the publicity of the sittings was transmitted to the Diet. The pre sent Session, however, being so far advanced, this measure will not be carried into effect till -next Session. BRUSSELS, JUNE 4.—A great movement is :taking place among the troops composing the ; French garrisons of the northern fortresses, from Lisle to Strasburgh. Several regiments have al ready marched ; detachments of the engineers and artillery have set out from Donny, Arras, "Metz, and Strasburgh ; as well as trains of ar tillery, caissons, and waggons loaded with ammu nition and warlike stores of all kinds. It seems that the object of these measures is to form an . army of reserve in the south of France. On the other hand, the levy of conscripts, and the orga nization of the veterans, proceed with activity • COPENHAGEN, MAY 24.—The King has passed a decree, prohibiting all privateers, of any na tion, from abiding in the ports or seas of Den mark, only in case of evident danger from bad weather, or to avoid the pursuit of an enemy : they may seek refuge in a port where they may receive the assistance which humanity claims, but must put to sea as soon as the danger is passed. No privateer shall send prizes to Denmark, or sell them there. Every privateer forced, as above, to enter Danish ports, shall not unload -or sell their cargoes, either wholly or in part; and proclamations shall be issued, forbidding his Majesty's subjects, under the severest penalties, to purchase the prizes of foreign privateers. Foreign ships of war entering the Danish ports may bring their prizes ; but must take them away again, being in the same manner prohibited from unloading them, or selling them, or their cargoes, either wholly or in part. STUTTGARD, MAY 31.—1 n the Canton of Lu cerne, in Switzerland, the Convent of St. Urban, ,and the Ahree Convents of Nuns existing in the , Canton, have made a complaint respecting the contributions in money, which, since the permis sion again to receive novices, they have paid -towards the expences of the public schools in the ,Canton, and they have succeeded in obtaining a seduction. In the memorial which they have presented, they express their apprehensions that -in general far too much is done to instruct and .enlighten the people, the only effect of which is ,to bring up followers of Voltaire, who are so dangerous to the safety to the Church and of the State. They say further, that the country ,people are already observed to have a dangerous ,propensity.to.reading. TUE GREEKS. A STROS, AMU. :factions ar reconciled, and the Greeks begin to act unani tnously ; they are engaged in the revisal of the organic law of Epidaurus, and in the discussion of other mattersimportant.to the nation. Among the propositions under cousideration, are two very important ones, 'viz. - - " Whether those whose native country is still subject to the Turkish dominion, and those who are absent in other parts of. Europe, are to be employed in official situations, unless they have resided in the liberated countries, the first for five, and the se cond for three years ?" The Turks are at this moment near Zeituni, but the Greeks are not at all dismayed. The Greek Government has -appointed Captain Scourtis, a prudent and gal -Mat patriot, to the command of sixty Ilydriot ships. It has also ordered the - Hydrlot •and Psariot fleet to act against the Turkish, and the Spezziot against that of Algiers and Alexandria. 'Lately, the eight Greek vessels, which were .blockading Pares, being compelled to leave , their station for a short time, and to sail for Hydra, in order to obtain their arrears of pay, the friends of the Turks at Zante availed ,themselves of the circumstance, and sent 15 ves sels loaded with provisions to Patras and the , Gulf of Lepanto, the greatest part of which have, however, been taken, and carried into Meso loughi.-,-Amongst the transactions ,f the Con . Avess, the following are 10 he noticed , DFcarx :—Whereas the -partial Governments, such as ,Gerteihr, Areopagi, Stc. have been proved prejudicial to the „public welfare, the National Congress decrees that all those • Gove r nments shall be dissolVed, and that all the provinces of them" shall be dependent on the National Congress. " ItmsoLtyrtoxs :-1. The Government of Greece is cote. - posed of two parts, the Deliberative and the Executive, accord. in to the organic law of Epidaurus. The. National Congress will appoint a Committee to perfect this law ; but funda mental principles will be considered to be unalterabl7, and it will retain its primitive name of the'Law of Epidaurus. - " 2. Whereas the command of the land and sea forces be• longs only to the Government, the title of General in Chief either of Greece generally, or of the Peleponnesus, of the Dist or West Greece, of Crete, or other plaCes particularly, ix ,compatible with the nature of the Govern ment, and will never be allowed except in the case of an expedition. ",3. Whereas the situation of Greece makes military disei pline.hidispensable, the Commanders of its land and sea forces are required to select a military and naval code from those of civilised ftroPC. "4. The Niter-office will be composed of three military Officers, one from the Greek Continent, one from the Pelo ,ponnesus, and one from New Sparta (Maims). The Navy. lloard will, likewise, consist of three 'Members, a liydriot, a Spezziot, and a Psariot." • The oath of the Members of the National Congress is this " I swear, in the name of God and of my . . Country, true patriotism, sincere concord, and perfect disinterestedness." • The Ist March, 111:13, and tire. third year of independence. President of the Session, " The (Signed) PETROBEYS MAVROMIC HALTS. ljfere follow the signatures of the Members of the Congress.] The Chancellor of the Statz, &c. • c. Til EO & DORLIS NEORIS. That Jte above is a true copy of the original, • ,JOANNIS VIZOULAS. FROM THE TIMES. FRENCH FAITH.—( Punica Fides.) NOTICE OF THE FILEN,CII GOVERN- MENT. The present Ministers of his Most Christian Majesty have discovered that the most convenient mode of avoiding the payment of the debts due by the French Government, is to expel the cre. ditors of that Goverbment from France. This mode, which is as remote from ingenuity as from justice, was employed by the French Ministry towards the Spaniards on the 11th of May, 1893. The following are the facts authenticated by do cuments:— _ _ _ The Spanish and French Governments concluded a con vention on the 30th of April, by which the sums to be paid by each Government to the other for the liquidation of the . debts of their subjects, founded on anterior treaties were fixed. * The Spanish Government engaged to pay 84 millions of francs, which from the moment of the ratification of the said conven tion were left at the free disposal of France. The French Government on its part engaged to deliver to Spain an inscription on the great book of the public debt of France for 703,010 francs. But at the moment when this pay ment was to be effected, that Government imposed the restric tive condition that the inscription should only be disposed of by twiliths, and from month to month. This conditition was arbitrary, as it had not been stipulated for in the convention. It was unjust, because it delayed the payment of the debts due to Spaniards. It was not reciprocal, for the 'French Government did not im pose it until after the signing of the convention, and when the 8a millions allowed for the payment of the debts due to its sub jects were placed without restriction at its disposal. Accordingly, the Spanish Government repeatedly protested , ~ but always in vain, against this arrangement. It was then suspected, that the Minister who was the framer of the restrictive condition, had imposed it solely for the pur pose of delaying the delivery of the funds, in order that he might be able to sequestrate them in the case of a rupture—an event, which it was not difficult for biro to foresee, since he had long before planned and prepared it. With this view, the same Minister thrice paralysed the par tial transfer of the twelfths, after the period for their delivery. The last twelfth became transferrable on the Ist of May, 1823. The authorized representative of the titular holder of the inscription repaired to the public treasury, to transfer this last sum to the name of the Spanish agent, who was the depositary of all the funds belonging to the Spaniards. But the treasurer refused to allow the transfer, and stated that he had received orders from the Minister of Finance to prevent its being made. The Spanish agent then addressed to Viscount de Cheateau briand, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, the remon strance which we subjoin as the first document on this sub ject.—(No. 1.) We shall not analyze its contents ! It is sufficient to observe, that it will be found as energetic and convincing as it is mode rate; as strong in reasoning as in facts. The Spanish agent terminates his remonstrance to M. de Chateaubriand by enclosing a letter from the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affitirs, in which that Minister states, in the most positive manner, that the Spa nish Government will religiously respect French property, if France fulfil the convention of the 30th of April, 1822 : and that, in the contrary case, reprisals will, though reluctantly, be made. This remonstrance was delivered on the 9th of May, at fi in the evening, to the Duke de Batman, Head of the Chanceries of the Foreign Department ; and on die 10th, at the same hour, the Spanish agent received a notice to appear immediately be fore the police.—(No. 2.) The Spanish agent, suspecting that the object of this sum mons was to order him to leave Paris as the only reply to his representation, he wrote to•the Viscount de Chateaubriand on the subject in a way which was calculated to give no offence to his self-esteem, to make him sensible of the impropriety of such a design, and to enable him to avoid the odium which would attach to the French Ministry if it were carried into execution. (No. 3.) On the following day, the 11th, the Spanish agent having received no reply from M. de Chateaubriand, went at 1 o'clock to the police-othee, where it was intimated to him that he must leave France, and more particularly Paris, within 21 hours. tNo. 4.) A like order was intimated on the same day, and at the same hour, to the authorized representative of the titular holder of the inscription. On the 11th, at six in the evening, the Spanish agent re ceived a letter from M. de Chateaubriand, in which the Noble Viscount stated, that the orders of the police were not an an swer to the representation of the Spanish agent of the 6th, as he (Chateaubriand) had not received it until the 10th ; and be sides that, he was about to transmit it to the Minister of Fi nance, by whom the measure which formed the subject of the remonstrance had been adopted. (No. 6.) The first part of this reply is contra produccnteni. The Minister acknowledges that he received the representa tion on the 10th. Well, the Spanish agent was summoned to ,the police.on that same day, and on the 11th he was ordered to -leave Paris and France. 'This order was therefore posterior to the receipt of the re monstrance, anti a consequence of it. The Viscount de Chateaubriand should have proved the con trary. That, however, was not in his power; for it is not so easy to alter facts as to compose showy phrases. lie might, at least (for that was very easily clone), have sus pended the execution of the police-order until the remonstrance of the Spanish agent had been decided on ,• it was only thus that the real motive of the police-order could be doubted. In the second part of {his reply M. de Chateaubriand seems willing that the remonstrance of the Spanish agent should be taken into consideration, as he states that he is going to trans mit it to the Count de Villele. Wo are inclined to think that his Excellency must have had for his object in this proceeding to ascertain the ground on which M. de Villele had sequestrated Spanish property : for as the faith of the treaties formed one of the bases of the Spanish agent's representation, the matter di rectly regarded the Minister who had made the stipulation, and only secondarily the Minister of Finance who had ordered the sequestration. At all events the intimation given by M. de Chateaubriand to the Spanish !tgent, that he had transmitted his representa tion to the Minister of Finance, was useless, and even absurd, if that agent was not allowed to await the result ; and it certainly could not reach him, since he had been ordered off within 24 hours. On this account, and in order that it might not be said that he had abandoned the interests of his fellow citizens by not waiting for the decision, good or bad, which is always due to a representation founded on the interests of private property, by any Government that respects its character, the Spanish agent did .not hesitate to demand of the Viscount de Chateaubriand whether he was to await the result or to comply with the order of the police. (No. 6.) This demand was made on the 12th, and though it did not require a long reply, the Spanish agent waited for it in vain on the 12th, on the 13th, and on the 14th, till 11 o'clock in the evening. CoOsidering, then, that the silence of the 31 inistcr confirmed, in a positive manner, that the order to leave Paris within 24 hours, and immediately after France, was the reply to the re monstrance ; That this silence was a violation of the laws of decorum, which surely are not inconsistent with political relations; That he had already delayed his departure a day and a half, and that, had lie retarded at still farther, he would have ex. postal himself to fresh insults on the part of the French police, too well known by its conduct throughout Europe; That it was not prudent to furnish a pretext for a new alter cation, which would have been of no advantage to the rights of the Spaniards, which he had afended to the last moment, and unsuitable to his personal character, to the public functions he had to discharge in France, and to the country to which he had the honour to belong Finally, that nothing could be expected front a Minister who, while proclaiming that war was not to be made on Spain, at the same time sequestrated the private 'property of Spaniards; The Spanish agent left Paris on the 14th, after having ad. dressed to M. de Chateaubriand a letter. (No. 7.) That letter contains a protest. Time, the courage and the perseverance of the Spaniards, will render it effective, and * These debts atise out of sequestrations and confiscations reciprocally Lunde by the two Governments ; but it is to be ob served-.,- 1. That according to the stipulations of the treaty of Bale in 1795, and of that of Paris in 1014, the two Governments were reciprocally bound to reimburse the value of the seques trations and confiscations. 2. That before the war of 1808, the Spanish Government had discharged all that it owed to French subjects under the treaty of Bale. 3. That it also paid, in 1822, all that it owed to French sub jects under the treaty of 1814. 4. That the French Government, by frivolous pretexts, de layed the reimbursements due by it according to the treaty fur sequestrations and confiscations. 5. That the French Government sequertrattd and confiscated Spanish property in 1793, under the convention ; —it did the same thing in 1808, under Napoleon ; and the same thing again in 1 1 .122, under his Most Christian .11Jajesty Louis XVIIJ. . . iflra Bien grin r;ra le tkrpler—" lie willlaugh well wholaughs the last"—as the Count de Villele said ►n the Chamber of Deputies. The fact which gave rise to this protest proves that the pre. , sent French Government makeS the police an instrument for, getting rid of its creditors. Were an individual so to at, what name would he deserve ? DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT OP THE ABOVE STATEMENT. To his Excellency Viscount de Chateaubriand, Secretary of State for.the Department of Foreign Affairs. Chevalier de Machado, Secretary of his Catholic Majesty, Treasurer for the funds accruing to Spanish creditors of France, in conformity with the convention of A print), 1822. The authorized representative of the Chevalier de Noguera having presented himself at the Royal Treasury to sit. , ,n In my name the transfer of the last twelfth, which fell in on the Ist of this month, of the inscription of 703,010 francs renter delivered to Spain in conformity with the convention of the 30th of April, 182'2, for the payment of debts of Spanish subjects against France, he was informed that in compliance with an order of the Minister of Finance the transfer could not take place. This order, if' it exist, is a violation of the convention of the 30th of April, 182'2, and an act of injustice. A simple statement of facts will convince your Excellency of the truth of this assertion. The Spanish Government and the French Government con cluded on the 28th of March, 1818, a convention, by which the French Government contracted the obligation of paying to the Spanish Government the sum of 37 millions of francs, to be in scribed on the great hook of the public debt of France, for all the claims of Spanish subjects against France, founded on the treaty, and the additional article of the '2oth of July, 1814, and the convention of the 20th of November, 1815. It was likewise stipulated in the secret convention of 1818, that the 37 Millions should be divided into two equal parts, one of which was} lo be delivered to Spain at the same period which should be fixed for the payment of the demands of other powers against France,and the other was to remain in trust in 'the hands of•Conimissioners, appointed by his Most Christian and by his Most Catholic MAjesty, who were to receive the simple and compound interest of the money for the benefit of the Spa nish subjects, creditors of Spain, until the arrangement of the claims of French subjects against the Spanish Government should have been effected, and the means of paying them provided. The moiety of the 37 millions was, however, never denosited in the hands of Spanish Commissioners conjointly with those of France, notwithstanding it was earnestly and repeatedly.de manded by Spain ; and consequently one of the principal clauses of the 34 article of the secret convention of the 28th of March, 1818, was not executed by France. Commissioners named by the two Governments afterwards occupied themselves with fixing, in conformity with article 4 of the said convention, the basis of' a new convention on the de scription of the claims of the French subjects against Spain, and on their mode of arrangement and payment : but not being able to agree upon all the points in discussion, the two Go vernments agreed upon the difficulties which had arisen in the convention which their plenipotentiaries signed on the 30th of April, 1822. At this period the sum retained by France amounted in capital and interest to 23,819,000 francs in inscriptions on the great book ; and Spain consented to abandon eight millions of that sum to satisfy all the claims of' French subjects founded on the additional article of the treaty of July 30, 1814. France, on her part, engaged to pay to Spain the surplus of the whole sum which she (France) had retained. In fact, France delivered to the Chevalier Nogucra, the com missioner of his most Catholic Majesty, an inscription of 703,010 francs rente on the great book, but with this condition—that she could only pay it in twelfths from month to month. The Government of his Catholic Majesty repeatedly appealed and protested against this restriction, but always in vain. I will not speak to your Excellency of the difficulties which have been thrown in the way of even this mode of payment. I will merely confine myself to telling your Exce lency, that 11-12 the having finally been successively transferred from month to month, the last twelfth has been withheld by order of his Excellency the Minister of Finance—that is to say, it has been seiluestrated. This simple statement of facts will demonstrate to your Ex cellency that this order is arbitrary, and becomes a downright injustice. In order to make the truth of this assertion quite evident to your Excellency, I think it my duty to add some observations to the facts which I have stated. Ist. The inscription of 703,010 francs rente in the name of Chevalier Nogucra, is the property of Spanish subjects who are creditors of France. 2d. As' being the property of individuals, and even by its nature of inscription on the great book of the public debt of France, +-hat suns was not subject to sequestration according to the existing law. :Q. It signifies,little whether the inscription is in the name of a ftinctionary of the Spanish Uovernment, because that cir. cumstance changes in .no respect the nature of' the property. 4th. As soon as the inscription of the whole of' the rode took place,- the. lihvy of transferring the property became a neces sary conseqtrences Lat. Therefore' the restriction which was imposed after the signature of the convention of the 30th of April, of transferring the inscription only by twelfths, was the more arbitrary and un just, because it had not been stiputated in the said convention. oth. It is impossible that such a condition was imposed with any ulterior view, without Impugning the good faith of the Minister who dictated it. 7th. There exists a contrast between the conduct of the Spanish Government and that of France in this transaction. The Spanish Government paid all that it owed in one day. The French Government paid, in the course of 11 months, eleven twelfths of its debt, and it finally withholds the last payment. 13th. The suns allowed to Spain by the convention of the 211th of March, 18111, of which that of the 30th of April, 1822, is the complement to discharge the claims of private individuals against France, founded on common right, and recognized by treaties, is the only recompense which Spanish subjects have obtained for the innumerable evils which they suffered from an unprovoked war of invasion during s ix years. 9th. A part of that sum is intended for the payment of se questrations and confiscations of Spainsh property made by France in 1792. Ex ß c e el l i y e i n n c g y i:pon what I have had the honour to state to your I appeal to your good faith, and I hope that, tak ing into consideration the justice of this clatm, you will be now had the h i ono . ur to lay her good faith • and I hope pleased befuore ny your the r g e xreitrintildeensr sc whichyi Excellency, i tt e p d l i ) a ch t aa e lv l y teo . the intoe conventionconsi consideration, f i cu t i ci e s ; 117 0 il f l imme dtliinatte,ityakgiin‘g,e t o b r i d s e j rs ust o c ia la t u ill 2 as i 1822, shall illlahs been by eexecutetslill; and that France with eotnhscien samee cu t 1 scrupulous ness d farl e s o c b r s i t p a t c io le n w . arise to the transfer o f the last twelfth of the sub- Upon this occasion I have the honour of transmitting to your Excellency a letter which his Excellency the Minister Secretary of State to his most Catholic Majesty ordered nits to forward, in case the sequestration of the funds in question took place. To the contents of this letter I need add nothing ; end your Excellency will perceive in your justice, that his most Catholic Majesty's Government will be no way responsible for the losses which his most Christian Majesty's subjects may sustain in case the rejection of this claim shall compel his most Catholic Ma jesty to measures of retaliation. I embrace this opportunity of assuring your Excellency of the high consideration with which I have the honour to b e, m y Lord Viscount, your Excellency's very obedient humble servant, Paris, Otis Slay, 1823. (Signed) .1. DE MACIIADO. The following is the letter alluded to in the precetling , note My Lord 'Viscount—At the moment when, after the conduct pursued by the French Government, Spain feels herself cow. pelled to cease her diplomatic intercourse with France, I have the honour to address myself directly to your Excellency upon the subject of the stock ( mites ) belonging to Spanish creditors, 'by the treaty of the 30th April last • although I cannot suspect that his most Christian Majesty's Government would exhibit such an example of the violation of the most sacred laws and rights of nations. as to st t h e remittance of those rentes which are still in the power o f France, and of which the property no way belongs to the Government of Spain. Your Excellency's wisdom and perception will relieve me front the necessity of going into arguments to shew that neither the cessation of diplo. matic intercourse between the two Governments, nor any poli tical considerations, can have any thing to do with the affair in question ; that affair resting upon the laws of property, and upon the most solemn treaties. The Government of his most Catholic Majesty takes pleasure to believe that the Government of his most Christian 111aiesty will put no restraint whatever upon Spanish property, and that the convention of the 30th of April last will be executed in the amplest manner.. Under this persuasion, I feel it my duty to assure your Excellency, in the most positive terms, that Spain Will, on her part, religiously respect French property ; and that only in the 14nlooked for ease of a contrary course being adopted by France, will the Spanish Governtnent (and then with regret) be obliged to make reprisals upon French property in Spain. Praying your Excellency to excuse the trouble, and to ac cept the assurances of my high consideration, I r ani, &C. c)Signed) iiVARISTE SAN MIGUEL. Madrid, Fe . 23. To his Excellency M. de Chateaubriand. (Corm. --No. 2.) PREFECTURE OF POLICE, IST DIVISION, IST BUREAU. (Received the 10th, at 0 p. m.) Paris, May 10,1023. Monsieur Machado is requested to repair immediately to the 'Prefecture of Poheel he will do well to take his papers with him, and present himself at the office of M. the Chief of the Central Police. • (b. S.) .(Corn.)—No. 3.) To 'his Excellency M. le Viscomte de Chateaubriand, Chief Secretary of State in the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Chevalier de Machado, Secretary of his Catholic Alajesty, Depositary pf the Funds accruing to the Spaniards, creditors of France, agreeably to the Convention of 30th April, 1822. Monsieur le Viscomte—Yesterday, at 6 o'clock in the after noon, I remitted to 111. the Duke de Rauzan, Director of the Chancery of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, a letter addressed to your Excellency, in order to protest against the delay of funds belonging to particular Spaniards which are sequestrated by or der of his Excellency the Minister of Finance. To-day, at the same hour, I received an invitation from the Prefecture of Po lice to wait upon him immediately. 'Whatever difficulty I may have in believing that this can be the answer to my protest, I shall attend upon him. I pray your Excellency to accept the assurance of the high consideration with which 1 have the honour to be, your Excel lency's very humble and obedient servant, Paris, May 10, 1823. J. DE MACHADO. (Cory.—No. 4.) The Chief of Central. Police notifies to M. the Chevalier de Machado, in obedience to superior orders which he has received, that he is to quit France, and especially Paris, to-morrow, Monday, May 12. This 11th day of May, 11123. The Chief of Police, lIINAU. (Corn .—No. 5.) To his Excellency M. le Viscomte Chateaubriand, &c. The Chevalier de Machado, Secretary, &c. Monsieur le Viscomte,—lt is by the police that the French Government signify to me that I am to quit France, and especially Paris, in 24 hours, the second day after my remittance of a protest, solely and exclusively on behalf of the interests of certain Spaniards. This object compelled my stay in Paris. It rentals for me to pray that your Excellency will send me the usual passports .for London, including one or two for my domestics. I beseech your Excellency to accept the assurance of the high consideration with Which I have the honour to be, /ice. (Corr.—No. 6.) M. de Chateaubriand presents his earnest compliments to M. de Machado—he will have the honour to send him to-morrow morning the passports which he requires. Sunday, May 11, 1823. P. S. 31. de Machado is requested to fix the number and make known the names of the persons whom he would take with him. (Cory. No. 7.) Monsieur—l have to-day received the letter which you re mittted to M. de Itauzan, and that which you have done me the honour to write to me. The orders which you may have received from the Prefecture of Police are not an answer to the first of these letters. Ido not return my answers through any person. I shall transmit to M. the Minister of Finance the protest which you addressed to me against the measure which has been taken by him. On reading the letter from M. de San Miguel, it has been written about threemontlis, and in circum stances so different that I cannot suppose he will expect to re ceive any answer. I have the honour to be , Monsieur, your very humble and very obedient servant, Paris, May 11. 'CIIATEAUBRIAND. (Copy..—No. 8.) To his Excellency lie Viscontte Chateaubriand, &c. The Chevalier de Machado, &c. M. le Viscomte,—l have received the letter which your Ex cellency did me the honour to address to me, dated yesterday, in answer to mine of the 10th. As that rested upon facts, I shall not make any new observa ttliloen honour o t o o ur ti tor p E re x s c e e n ll t en o c n y b , e e h i a ri l i f e o r f u t p h o e n in th te e res pr t o s tes of t s w pa h n ich ish lhad sub jects, creditors of France, nor upon the step taken by the police twenty-four hours afterwards towards an agent in the employ of the Government of his Catholic Majesty, who has honourably fulfilled his public functions in France during tight years past. It does not belong to me to diccuss the motives which may have l e d y our Excellency to believe that you would dispense with giving an answer to the letter of his Excellency the 31ini titer of State of his Catholic Majesty. I confine myself strictly to demanding of your Excellency, if I am to conform to the peremptory term fixed by the police for iny departure, or to watt the result of the communication which your Excellency kindly informed me you had made of my protest to his Excellency the Minister of Finance. I entreat your Excellency to receive this new assurance of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, &c. Paris, May 12, (1123. (Corr.—No. 9.) To his Excellency M. le Viscomte de Chateaubriand, M le Viscomte,—The passports which 1 required, and which your Excellency had the complaisance to send me yesterday, being already inspected by tie competent authorities, 1 sin about to proceed for London, since the peremptory term fixed by the police has expired. I have not received the answer of your Excellency to the letter which I had the honour to address to you yesterday, though it appeared to me that the contents might deserve one. However, I hope still, that the for of your Excellency will do justice to my protest of the oth inst. But if, contrary to my hopes, that should not be the case, I ratify the contents of my protest before mentioned, in the manner as if it were inserted here word for word, and I protest solemnly against the assumed right, for all the injury te nse ie!) may result to the Spanish creditors of France, in conseque of the sequestration put by the French Government upon pro perty secure in its nature, its origin, and the circumstances which created it. .It only remains that I renew to your Ex. celleney the assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be. Paris, May 14, 1e23. SPAIN. THE GRANDEES WHO SIGNED THE ADDRESS TO THE DUKE OF ANGOULEME. • Villariezo—fle is only a grandee by his wife, and quite void of talents as well as consideration. • Puebla del Maestro—An old imbecile man. Punonrostro—An American, overwhelmed with debts, without talents or reputation. • Coude de Miranda—An old lunatic. . Castrotereno—An old , parasite of the Prince of Peace, and under trial for the conspiracy of the 7th of July ; escaped froui a prison. San Martin—An old courtesan and bigot, entirely.deprived of opinion in Spain ; he is scarcely known, having generally resided In Italy. He was made a Grandee four years ago. Albaida—A man of absolute nullity, and reckoned a pol troon. Never had any public .charge. Crbellon—Ditto, ditto, ditto. Villapanes, not Villafranca—lie is only an honorary Gran dee, an old lunatic, Ex-Secretary to the Inquisition. Montijo—A triple Girouette : Jacobin under the despotic system, and Ultra under the liberal ; never happy unless he has some intrigue at hand. Berwick—lt is very doubtful whether this Nobleman has really signed the address, as a few days before be was enthu siastically serving in the National Militia. Fuenticiso— Unknown. • hand -'A son of .a French emigrant. • Hariza—A Grandee by his wife . he was a subaltern officer in the army, and is not known at all. Sedavi—A boy. Villahermosa— Vide Berwick. Cerralba—Being a Councillor of State, and residing - at Se ville, he could not sign the address. San Fernando—A weak, though a good man, entirely in fluenced by his wife. Medinaceli— Vide Berwick and Villahermosa. Montlejar—An old imbecile man. Miraflores—Master of Ceremonies of King Joseph. Comtesse Mora—An old woman, exasperated against the Constitution, on account' of her sons having married, one of them an actress, and the other an inferior woman. Comtesse Cifuentes—A lunatic old woman, always confined on that account. Benavente—A Lady 72 years old ; an intrituante by irre sistiblo. inclination and inveterate habit. Alontellano—Duke of Fernan-Nunez's widow. Comtesse de Alcudia—A decrepit old woman, brought up in the Palace. Alas—A child. Coloniera—A child. Tamaines—A man ruined in his character, a professed gamester, overwhelmed with debts, and exclusively mixing with the lowest rabble : he served King Joseph. ,Valparaiso--A boy. , Those marked * were discarded from the Royal Household I on the 7th of July. r ( Times. ) SHOCKING BARBARITY.—The pinder of Skit ton, in Cleveland, having caught a she-ass upon the common, incarcerated the poor beast, with little or no food, in his pinfold during 11 days. In this period she foaled a fine colt foal, but, goaded by hunger, the ravenous mother actually fell upon and devoured her offspring.—(Doncaster Gazette.) PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY, which now stand in the 011DEU-Boos for the Present Week. Monday, June 9. ORDERS OF TILE DAY. I. Marriage Act Amendment Bill-Committee. 2. Registry of Vessels Bill-Further consideration of Report. 3. Usury Laws Repeal Bill-Second Reading. 4. Silk Manufacture Bill-Report; Petitioners against to be heard by Counsel. 5. Assessors at Elections Bill-Second Reading. 6. Chief Baron of the Exchequer (Ireland), Judicial Fees re ceived-Committee thereupon. 7. Great Sessions in Wales Bill-Second Reading. B. Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill -Third Reading. 9. Gas Establishments Bill--Second Reading. 10. Sale of Game Bill-Further consideration of Report. 11. Occasional Freeholders Bill-Committee. 12. Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill-Committee. 13. Transference of Securities (Scotland) Bill-Report. 14. Reciprocity of Duties-Report thereupon. 15. Beer Retail Trade Bill-Second Reading. 16. Recognizances Bill-Third Readin. 17. Juries (Scotland) Bill-Second Rea ding. 10. Beer Duties Bill-Report. 19. Feb de Se Bill-Second Reading. 20. Labour of Convicts Bill-Report. 21. Larcenies (Benefit of Clergy) Bill-Report. 22. Capital Punishments Repeal Bill-Further consideration of Report. 23. Felonies (Benefit of Clergy) Bill-Further consideration of Report. 24. Sentence of Death Bill-Report. 25. Capital Crimes Defence Bill-Second Reading. 26. Linen Manufacture (Scotland) Bill-Third Reading. 27. Irish Law Courts Compensation Bill-Committee. 28. Supply-Postponed Resolutions of 30th April to be consi dered. 29. Supply-Committee. 30. Ways and Means-Committee. 31. Commercial Credit (Ireland) Bill-Third Reading. 32. Barilla Duties Act-Committee thereupon. 33. Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill-Further consideration of Report. 34. Church Rates (Ireland) Bill-Committee. 35. Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill-Second Reading. 36. Distilleriee (Scotland and Ireland) Acts-Coniniittee there-, upo . n. 37. 3lenai Bridge Acts-Committee thereupon. NOTICES or MOTION'S. 1. Mr. Lushington2-Civil Contingencies, Printing, Stationary. and other Miscellaneous Estimator. (In Committee of Supply). 2. Lord % iscount Palmerston—To vote Estimates, Disembo died Militia. (In Committee of Supply.) - 3. Mr. Goulburn—rtentaining Irish Estimates. (In Commit tee of Supply.) 4. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Vote for a new Build ing for reception of his late Majesty's Library at the Bri tish 31useurn. (In Committee of Supply.) 5. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Lottery Resolutions. ( In Committee of Ways and Means.) 6. Mr. Creevey—To take into consideration the Petition from Barbadoes and the other Islands relating to the Four anti a Half per Cent. Duties. 7. Mr. Curwen—To refer Report on Captain 3lanby's Petition to Committee of Supply. Tuesday, June 10. NOTICES OF SIOTIOIkIS. 1. Mr. Lennard_Committee on the Middlesex County Court. 2. Mr. NVestern—The manner in which Juries are selected in England ; and to allow Leaseholders and Copylwlders to be summoned. 3. Mr. Hobbouse—Repeal of the Window Tax. 4. Sir Henry Parnell—Roman Catholic Endowments of Schools and other Charities. 5. Mr. Goulburn—Bill to regulate Vessels carrying Passengers between Great Britain and Ireland. 6. Mr. Berries—Bill to amend the several Acts for the regula tion of Vessels carrying Passengers. 7. Sir John Newport—Accounts of Church Property and Church Rates in Ireland. ORDERS OF TIIE DAY. 1. Land Tax Commissioners Name Bill—Committee. 2. County Courts Bill—Further consideration of Report. 3. Waste bands Improvement (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. 1. Combination of Workmen Bill—Second Reading. Lancaster County Court Bill—Further Consideration of Report. G. Tests Regulation Bill—Second Reading. 7, Tidies Composition (Ireland) Bill—Committee. tee. 1 91 1. : Test ((il Commutation Trade tt o t f i —uSecond) Reading. Lo. London Bridge 13111—Committee. L 2. Bankrupt Laws Bill—Second Reading. Wednesday, June 11. . NOTICES OF MOTIONS. _ _ 1. Mr. Western—Resumption of Cash Payments. 2. Lord Viscount Folkestone—Select Committee, to cashier the effects produced on all Contracts by the measures alopt ed for the resumption of Cash Payments, and by the Act 69 Geo. 3, c. 49 ; and also, the expediency of providing some remedy for the said erects, and, amongst ether thingi, the practicability of establishing an equttable ad justment of Contracts. OIIDF.ItS OF THE DAY. 'l. Bides and Skins Bill—Committee. 2. Confirmations (Scotland) Bill—Further consideration of Report. 3. Commissaries (Scotland) Bill—Further consideration of' Report. 4. Customs Duties Bill—Further consideration of Report i. Customs Duties (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of Report. . , 6. Slave Trade Consolidation Bill--Committee. 7. Elections (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading. Thursday, June 12. NOTICES OF )LOTIONS. 1. Mr. Alderman Wood—Motion relative to Crown Lease of Llanilechid Slate Quarries to Mr. Dawkins Pennant. 2. Mr. Fowell Buxton—Motion relative to the capture of the ship Itequin by CapL Ogilvie. 3. Sir Francis Burdett—Resolutions on the subject of the In quiry into the conduct of the Sheriff of Dublin.,; 4. Mr. Grattan-31(4km respecting Pipe Water and M e tal - Main Accounts in the City of Dublin. Friday; June 13. OItDEUS OF THE DAY. 1. Insurrections (Ireland) Bill-;-Second Reading. 2. Poor Laws Amendment Bill—Connuittee. 3. Quakers Affirmations Bill—Second Reading. _ _ NOTICE OF MOTION. Sir Henry Parnell—To move, as an Amendment on the Se cond Reading of Insurrections (Ireland) Bill, for ap pointment of a Secret Committee, to inquire into the ex tent end object of the Disturbances existing in Ireland. PRICE a Tin% DAy AT F STOCKS ONE OCLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 793 80 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 34 per Cent shut 9 714 4 per Cent. I New shu Nt 5 per Cents. 1787 Bank I ong Ann. 2q 7..16ths Imp. 3 per Cents. India Stock India Bonds 31k South Sea Stock — Ohl Annuities Ex. 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