The Sun. — London, England, 1824-01-24 00:00:00

BRAZILS. RIO DE JANEIRO, NOV. 1 9, IS23.—The poli tical occurrences which have lately taken place here are of such vast importance, not. only to this country, but to the commercial interests of Eu rope., that I apprehend a circumstantial relation of the causes which led to the very extraordi nary measure of the Emperor dissolving the As sembly, will be anxiously desired by the mercan tile.interests of England. I shall therefore give an account of these matters in the order in which they took place. Shortly after the distills:4ou or resignation of -Joze Bonifacio d'Andrada e Silva, and of his brother, Martin FranciscO Itibeiro d'Andrada, from the Ministry, two new journals,the Sentinella and Ow Tamoya, :were 'published. These jour nals laboured to vindicate the administration of . the Andradas, and took every opportunity of at tacking' 'the measures of the new administration -of excitiiig feelings hostile to 'Portugal and the European Portuguese settled in the Brazils, and of reprobating the principle of employing Euro- • pear officers or soldiers in the :limy. It is ge i erally. believed that many of - the articles in the, Tomplia were written by Martin Francisco, and his brother Antonio Carlos, both members of. the Assembly. In the thirtieth number of the Sentinella, published on the 3d instant, there appeared an anonymous letter, which, by certain officers of the horse artillery, was considered as an attack upon . - the whole of the captains of that corps ; and they, believing that David' Pamplona, a Brazilian apothecary, was the author, two of these officers, Europeans, went to his shop on the sth inst., and violently assaulted hiai ; and had he not escaped into - the interior of his house, would probably have murdered him. On the 6th a petition from the apothecary was presented to the Assembly, complaining of this attack lty Europeans upon a Brazilian, and placing the whole transaction in the light of proceeding from the spirit of a party. Some discussion took place upon presenting the peti tion, and ultimately the matter was referred to ;5e Commission of Criminal Justice. .On the Bth instant the Commission reported to the Assembly that the petitioner ought to pro ceed against the parties according to law (devil: vsar dos meios ordinaries). .But the .more vio lent Members of the Assembly opposed the re port of the Commission, insisting that there was more in this transaction than appeared at first sight ; and requiring that the matter should be fully discussed in the following session, Mondry, the 10th. During this interval, the Brazilian party were not idle, and managed to have a con siderable number of. their friends to attend the discussion —every part of the House assigned for strangers was crowded ; when Senor Alencar, vie or t. 4 Members for Pernambuco, pro posed that the people be admitted into the body of the House, which was agreed to, and presently : the whole of the space be hind the seats of the Members was filled. The Audradas violent speeches ; and white Martiii - rr'ancisco was speaking, a person immediatel y . behh4lll(ti; supposed to be an Lero pan, exclain4;,",:„.,ood your tongue, yon fool!" which caused the utmost confusion in the house upon which the President rose, and declared the session finished, although it was an hour earlier thaft.the usual time. While these matters were transacting in the Assembly, several of the Mem bers, dreading the result, retired. The Ministers tendered to the Emperor their resignation, which was accepted ; and a new Ministry was named. In the afternoon of this day a number of the offi cers of the artillery (Europeans) went in a body to the Emperor, and demanded satisfaction for the alleged insults offered to them by the Senti nella and 'the Tamoya. During the evening the Emprd r • 'Ordered the whole of the troops under arms, and marched them to St. Christovao, where lie commanded them in person. It was truly unfortunate for the country that the new Ministry, composed of Francisco Viliela Berboza, for the Home and Foreign Affairs; Clemente Ferreira Franca, for Justice ; Sebas tiao Luiz Tinoco, for Finance ; Joze d'Olivera Barboza, for the War Department ; and Luiz da Cunha Morreira, for the Marine, were not men of sufficient talent and experience to take charge of the State at so critical a period, and controul a Prince with violent passions, which have led him on various .occasions to she w a per fect disregard for the counsels of his Ministers. From what • had already taken place, every one looked with anxiety to the deliberations of the session of the 11th. A message was receiv ed from the Emperor, informing the Assembly that the officers of the army required satisfaction for the insults offered to them by certain public Journals, and desiring that the Assembly take the same into consideration : upon which Antonio Carlos de Andrada Machado proposed that the Assembly should declare their sittings perma nent ; that a deputation should be appointed to require from the Government an explanation of the motives for calling out the military ; and that in the mean time the message of the Emperor be remitted to a commission of 5 members ) which was agreed to.l. _ _ The deputation returned with an answer from the Government, informing the Assembly that because of certain violent proceedings which had taken place, the Emperor had deemed it pru dent to withdraw the troops from town, so as to allow the Assembly to proceed with their dis cussions without interruption. About two o'clock the Commission reported to the Assembly that the House ought to require from the Government information as to the num ber of officers who complained, and the names of the journals referred to ; which report was ap proved, and two of the secretaries appointed to present the same to the Emperor. The session remained in the mean time per manent, and it was not till early in the morning of the 19_th that the following ihessage was re ceived from the Government :—That as to the officers, they were a body representing the whole; that the Tamoya and the Sentinclla were the publications complained -of ; and that the three Audrudus were accused as the -editors of the first, Dud assistants to the editor of the se cond, of these publications ; and generally that these individuals were the chiefs of a seditious party in the State. . It was then protithed and agreed to that this message be retniifsE4 . to a special commission be named. „At eight o'clock, Antonio Carlos Andrada Miichada proposed that the Minister of the Interior be called, which was approved of; and about 10 o'clock the Minister • appeared and submitted to examination, when he declared that the assembling of the troops at St.Christovao was to avoid commotions in the capital, and to pre. serve the snbordination of the -troops ; that he did not know- the number of the officers who complained, but they were numerous ; that the troops had required the dismissal of the Andra das, members of the House; that he had advised the Emperor of the impracticability of such a measure ; that he conceived it would not be pru dent to move the troops from the encampment un til the Assembly had decided upon the measures to be taken ; that the Emperor had not given any orders to the Minister of Justice respecting the apprehension of the editors of the journals, but he had given orders for proceeding against the persons concerned in the attack on the apo thecary. The Deputy Montezuma proposed, that the interrogatories and answers of the Minister of the Interior be remitted- to the Special Commis sion, which, after considerable discussion, was approved of. • The Commission were preparing their report, when intelligence was received that the troops at St. Christovao were on their march to•town ; and about one o'clock a military .officer arrived with an open paper from the Emperor, to deliver_ to' the Assembly, which was received at the door of the house by two of the Secretaries, and bein. ; read, proved to be a decree di•solv-in; the As semhly. The house was now surrounded by the military, and after a copy of the decree was taken the members quietly retired ; but in going out, Antonio Carlos Andrade de Machado, Martin Fransisco Ribeiro de Andrada, Joze Joaquin] da. Rocha, Fransisco Go Acayaba Montezuma, and Nicolau Ferreira (le Campos Vergueiros, were made prisoners. In the afternoon Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva and Belchior Pineir de Oli veira, who had previously retired from the house, were also made prisoners, along with several in dividuals of less note ; the whole were sent in the evening to the miserable prison of the Laga, a small fort built upon a rock at the entrance of the harbour. After these scenes were concluded, the Em peror, accompanied by his staff, paraded the principal streets on horseback ; and being attend ed by a due proportion of idle Negro boys, they vociferated viva: as his attendants ordered, or gave the signal. I remarked, however, that there were very few respectable Brazilian inhabitants at their windows: it seemed as if they had sent only the Blacks and Mulattoes of their families to compliment their E m peror with viva: on his great victory. In the evening there was an opera announced ; but although the house was full, yet there were very few respectable families present. The au dience was chiefly composed ,of the lower classes of the European Portuguese. At night the ;no minations were general with the med Europeans, %Ilia see highly delighted with the proceedings of the day : so much so, that they have continued the rejoicings for three su ccess i ve nights. this As might be expected, very ill-advised meacure has caused a very unprecedented sensa tion among the people of this place, and it is im possible to foresee ;villa will b e th e result. Th e Europeans rejoice, and have no t b een spar i ng i n - demonstrations of their satisfaction, which has tended to make the Brazilians feel more acutely, and has roused in them sentiments of revenge• That the Emperor should have determined upon such a measure, is the more extraor dinary, as he well knows that Bahia and Pernambuco have, for some time past, been in a very unsettled state; and I have no doubt that when the intelligence reaches them, they will declare at once for a republic, and a general massacre of the Europeans may b e th e conse quence. Although several days have passed since the dissolution of the Assembly, the public mind seems as unsettled as it was ou the 12th ; and fears are entertained that the troops will not long remain quiet. It is well known that great discontent has already been manifested by the Brazilian soldiers, who form more than seven eighths of the whole army : and it is only in con-1 sequence of the measure adopted, of still keep ing them encamped at St. Christovao (leaving the duty of the town to the militia), that a counter revolution has not been effected. You may easily figure the situation in which the Government is placed, wl►en I inform you, that although the new Ministry named on the 10th was composed only of Brazilians, yet in consequence of two of the Ministers having re fused to sign the decree for dissolving. the As sembly (which measure was, notwithstanding, persevered in and carried by the signature of th►e Ministers of Justice and the War Department), they immediately tendered their resignation, ►chich was accepted ; and it was not till the 14th when the Minister of War also resigned, that the following Administration was formed :—Pedro de A ranja Lima, for the Interior; Luiz Jose de Carvalloe Mello, Foreign Affairs; Francisco Villela Barboza, War ; Pedro Joze da Costa Barros, Marine; Don Mariano Joze da Fonceca, Finance ; and Clemente Ferreira Franca, Jus . Lice. To these were added four Councillors of State—Antonio Luiz Perreiro da Cunha, Manoel Jacinta Nogueira da Gam, Jose Joaquin Car neiro de Campos, and Bara d Santo Amaro.— Even this Adtninistration did not long continue entire, for on the 16th the Ministers of the Inte rior and Marine gave in their resignation ; upon which the Minister at War, Francisco Villela Barboza was moved to the Marine Department, and Joao Severiano Macial da Costa and Joao Gornez da Silveira Mendonca appointed, the fQr mer for the Interior, and the latter for tl►e War Department. On the 13th, the Emperor published a procla mation, (which is annexed) wherein he says that he has called another Assembly, to H hich he %lin present a constitution for their approbation. But after the difficulties which have already been ex perienced (arising- from want of confidence of the people in the Government) before the deptities composing the last Assembly were returned, there is no hope that at any future period a sufficient number of deputies will be 'sent to Rio de Janeiro from the proiinces to con stitute another Assembly. It is much more probable that the northern provinces will declare for a republic, and _unite sending representa tives to a Congress at Bahia•or Pernambuco.— So fearful is the Government of the proceedings which may take place in the provinces, that all the posts have been stopped, and an embargo laid on all vessels, which is understood will con tinue till Sunday, the 23d instant, by which time a vessel will have been dispatched to the northern ports with the intelligence, and such documents as the new Ministry may, in the interim, pre pare, for endeavouring to soothe the minds of the people, and prevent the fatal results which will, I fear, certainly take place. These circumstances haVe put a stop to all business : no one will sell to Europeans on credit, and they cannot purchase largely for cash: The situation of foreign merchants is very critical.— The Europeans owe them large sums of money, and every one calculates upon a.re-action by the i3razilian troops; and should such an event take place, it is feared a great deal of money will be lost with the Europeans. On the 9th inst.' Lord Cochrane arrived here from Maranham, with the line of battle. ship Pedro Prinwro: he very prudently has avoided taking any part in the above. measures. Count Gestas, the French Consul-General, ar rived here on the I,lth inst. He is the bearer of the Grand Cross or .klie Holy Ghost and of St. Miguel, sent to the'Empet or by Louis XVI If., accompanied with .an autograph complimentary letter from tbat Monarch. Quwre.—h this with the approbation of the Holy Potentates on the Continent ? PROCLAMATION. " Brazilians !---One will unites us. Let us continue to pre serve our country. Your Emperor, your perpetual defender, will assist you as he has hitherto done, and as he will always do even at the hazard of his life. The extravagances of men, led away by pride and ambition, were on the eve of precipitat ing us into the most horrible abyss. It is necessary, now that we are safe, that we should be as vigilant as Argos. The bases of our felicity, which we are going to lay, are the independence of the empire, its integrity, and the constitutional system. By resting on these bases without rivalships, which are always odious, and which may. overwhelm this colossal empire, we have nothing to fear. These truths are undeniable. You know them well by your good sense, and unfortunately you were on the eve of knowing them better by anarchy. If the Assembly had not been dissolved, your holy religion would have been de stroyed, and your garments would have been drenched in blood. A new Assembly has been convoked ;'it will soon meet to de liberate on a project of constitution which I shall shortly pre sent to you. I should thi n k t h a t it will be so conform a bl e t o your op i n i ons , t h at, if possible, w e ought to be direct e d b y it as a provisional constitution. Be assured that the only ambition by which your Eniperor is inspired, is the desire of acquiring additional glory, not for himself, but for you and for this great empire, which will be respected by the whole world. The ar , r ests which have taken plade Will be considered by the enemies. of the empire as despotic. They are not so. You see tha they are measures of police, caleulatectto ii-voidanarchy, and to save the lives of the unfortunat e persons themselves--that they may enjoy theirs in tranquillity, and that we may enjoy ours in security. Their families will be'protected by the .Go vernment. The safety of the country which has been confided to me as per p e t ua l d e f en der of Br* , i s the supremo law W k iiielt requires it. Place your cOnfidenee in me;. as I place mine in you ; and you will see our internal and external enemies at our feet supplicating mercy. Let union, firmer union, bind Bra zilians. lie who adhered to our sacred cause—who swore the independence of this empire, is a Brazilian. " THE EMPEROR." FINANCES or BRAZIL. We have received what may be reckoned an important docu ment, respecting the financial situation and resources of Bra zil. It is a report of the Minister of Finance of that em pire, made to the Emperor on the 26th of September last, for the purpose of being, by his order, laid before the Le gislative Assembly. The following are the more important passages : " If, in 1812, in spite of intrigue and cabal, I dared to tear the thick and mysterious veil which covered the then Royal Treasury, persuaded that the extinction of patriotism, and pub lie disquietude, keep pace with the public distress, and that the ruin of States and the fall of Emapires, are the consequences of financial disorders, while there is never any cause. for appre hension as long as by a wise administration on the publicrevenue is sufficient to defray the public charges ; I now feel the rigor ous obligation, in this season of our independence and liberty, to give an account of the state in which I found the public treasury, when on the 21st of : July last I entered on my func tions as chief of that department. In doing so, I shall not con fine myself to a bare exposition of the state of the national fin ances, but, impelled by the desire of contributing to the public welfare as far as my talents and experience allow rne, I shall point out the means which sug:; - est themselves to my mind for extricating us from our present embarrassments, and for en abling us to raise this nascent empire to the strength, opulence, splendour, and consideration of which it is susceptible, and for which it has so many capabilities. The General Constitution al and Legislative Assembly- will afterwards have to deliberate on my report, and to adopt such measures as it may deem ex pedient. Nor ought the delay which has occurred between the 21st of July and the present time in presenting my ideas to ex cite surprise. My report embraces accornpts which I imme diately required of all branches of the Treasury. It was neces sary to learn the state of the receipts and the expenditure as far as it could be ascertained; the amount of the public debt, active and passive ; the extraordinary resources which had been provided to meet extraordinary demands ; but as no state ments had as yet been drawn up to favour the prompt execu tion of my order, notwithstanding the 'assiduity and the zeal of the officer.; of the Treasury, it is not long since I received the documents which form the necessary elements of my report. By this means I could not till now present to your Imperial Majesty the state of the Treasury of Rio Janeiro in the end of June, in any thing like a correct form, or detail the informa tion which the same Treasury supplies, respecting the public finances of the other provinces of the Empire of Brazil. " By the schedule of receipt and expenditure for the first six months of 1823, which appears under the head of No. 1, your Majesty will perceive all the expences of that half year, and the amount of monies that have been paid into the public coffers, he sum remaining in the Treasury at the end of June being 278,103 milreas. By the account, however, which is numbered 2, your Majesty will see that on the 30th of June, when the balance was made up, there was only in the Treasury a dis posable sum of 210,014 inilreas, comprising in that amount 132,658 milreas on the books of the customs, and deducting a sum of 70,000 milreas of the decirna, and of the interest of th e loan which was about to be paid, besides other indispensable and extraordinary charges. By No. 3, your Majesty will learn that the total proceeds of the loan, voluntary gifts, subscription for the navy, and sequestrations, up to the 30th of June, amounting to 596,304 milreas, there has been ex pended of these extraordinary resources the sum of 386,289 milreas. No. 4 will make known to your Majesty, that, according to the estimate of the various receipts which may be expected in the next half-year, we shall obtain from the ordinary income of the public treasury the sum of 1,767,000 milreas. By the estimate of the expences in No. 5, your Majesty will find the application to be made of this sum. By the estimate in No. 6, the extraordinary charges will amount to 900,000 milreas. The estimate No. 7, of the public debt, at the end of 1821, shows that the Treasury lay then under obligations for 9,870,918 milreas. " By the state of the public debt, presented in No. 8, your Majesty will see, that in June, 1822, this debt amounted to 10,176,580 milreas, being an increase of 305,662 milreas-in six :,ionths. " No. 12 shows, that by the end of June, 1823, this debt amounted to 12,055,582 milreas, to which adding the sum .of 100,560 milreas, when entered into the Treasury, as the pro ceeds of sequestrations, the amount will be. -12,156,145 mil reas, being an increase in one year of 1,979,565,mi11-cps. " By the acConipts No. 11, the income and expenditure of the respective provinces of Minas Geraes, Goiaz, Matto Grosso, Santa Catherina, Rio Grande do Sul, and S. Paulo, will ap pear. The annual deficit of Minas Geraes ' amounts to near 60,000 milreas ; that of Goiaz to near 20,000 ; that of Matto Grosso to 10,544 milreas ; that of Santa Catherina to 34,870; making in all more than 125,000 milreas. The other provin ces of Spirit() Santo, Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio Grande, Alagoas, Paraiba, Maranho, &c., are likewise in arrear. Santo Spirit() is subject to an annual deficit of 33,172 milreas. " By this simple and clear statement, your Majesty will per ceive that I have been placed at the head of a treasury, indebted at the end of June to the amount of nearly 30,400,000 of cru sadoes (or about 4,000,009 sterling), daily beset with its credi tors, who justly demand the money due to them, and without possessing any extraordinary resources to meet the extraordin ary charges, which at a moderate calculation amounts to 900,000 milreas. And from none of the provinces of this empire can we at present expect assistance. Nay ; we shall be obliged to extend assistance to them as has already- been done to the amount of 2110,000 annually. Notwithst a ndi ng t h e i r act i vity in levying the taxes, and an exact controul of the e xp ences i t h as been necessary to recur to loans, donations, forced co n t r ib ut i ons, and even sequestrations, that es t trati° nsyieldingin all a milli on o f crusadoes. It is also vinotwithstanding the hope of the happiest results from the systemof a dministration which the wisdom of the Gene ral Constituent Assembly will doubtless establish, these results will be sufficient for the payment of 30 millions of crusadoes, and at the same time provide for the ordinary and extraordinary charges necessary for the consolidation of an empire where every thing has to be created, and where it is necessary to extend a liberal and generous hand if we desire to establi s h our inde pendence, and be counted among nations of the fi rst or d er .— etqlnisieeqsuences of not p a yi ng i ts obligations are to states, b u t more espec i ally must they be Finally, terrible at the al so in the dangerous season of our political regeneration, when the public servants and the nation a l cre di tors. •` Leaving for ing which out of view th e p ayment o f t h e future ordinary wd distress st.r ought ess f r t o o a void creating di sgusts, an d ward off misery and m expence,provisi on w ill , no d ou b t, be made by the imposition of taxe s, I shall point to the oper a ti ons o f cre di t which I think indispensabl e i n our present circumstances:— Great resources are necessary to en a bl e th e C onst i tutional Chief of this rising empire to consolidate our independence, to defend us from our enemies, to promote instruction and public prosp:xity, according to the laws and constitution of the State. These means are offered us by the English capitalists, without our solicitations.. Like oth er nat i ons o f E urope, and Amer i ca, so hi g h isaliiitlei'which they form of the resources and ex uberant wealth ,of the new empire, and such if the interest they take in the estal?lishm en t o f B razilian independence. " in the propoial, N o . 13 , o p f ay 2 m ,5 e 0 i T0 10 0 0 1: 0 11 0 1 0 re l a . mb,eiaongd promised July, your Majesty will see the offer of a loan of the great sum c w o h n i d c i h t a l ons mr e requiredmonth foro n f ofi t r h v the ea prompt 2oth f sive months, as soon as the contract is sanctioned by the Ge neral Constituent and Legislative Assembly, and even before the whole systein of the . loan is definitively arranged in the market of London. When so concluded, the rest of the loan will remain at the disposal of the Brazilian nation. The conditions are so clear, that I think an explanation unnecessary. It is no less clear, that the Assembly may have at its disposal 20 million of crusadoes to employ in any way that it may think proper to support the independence of, and to develope the riches, of Brazil. Without means, and great means t oo , we cannot accompli s h so m i g h ty an undertaking. The United States and the old Governments of Europe have resorted to loans in critical circumstances like ours. Let us not succumb from distress or poverty in the country of gold and diamonds. Let us profit by our resources, let us take auvant age of the pre cious commodities w hi c h belong to us, to defend ourselves against our enemies. This being the first and most essential part of the opera tions, a prospectus of a loan has been prepared by an expe rienced London banker, adopted and proposed by Edward Oxenford and other English capitalists. According to their plan, 2,500,000/. sterling to be advanced by them, will be em ployed in the following manner : X 416,666 (The Bth part 0f3,333,333/. the sum in stock to be sold to obtain 2,500,0001., at 75 per cent.) to be employed as a sinking fund. 200.000 To pay the two first six months' interest. 1,883,334 For the public service of Brazil. £2,500,000 " It would be of great consequence to us to have this article altered in the following manner :-- £60,000 For sinking fund the first year. 200,000 To pay the interest the two first half years. 2,240,000 For the public service of the Empire of Brazil. £2,500,000 "his clear. that ifthe 416,666/., the Bth of 3,333,3331., is necessary fur a sinking fund at compound interest of 4 per cent. to pay up the capital in 54 years, the same effect would follow in 30 years, according to the above alt era ti on , by a n annua l grant of 60:000/. laid out at compound interest of 4 per cent. " It is likewise clear, that in the beginning of the 7th year, the sinking fund, by my plan, would reach 473,8961., which exceeds the 416,666/., reserved the fund of the London plan. " It is easy to perceive, that were this change adopted, with out altering essentially the terms, we should obtain an advan tage of 27 millions of crusadoes. " ItIANUEL JACINTO NOGUEIRA I).A. GAMA. " Rio Janeiro, Sept. 26." [From the above statement of the proposed loan, it appears that the contractors are to obtain 8 per cent. on the money ad vanced, though no part of the 2,500,0001. was reserved for a sinking fund and that, deductin g th e s i n ki ng f un d , t h e inte rest on their advances would be about 10 per cent. In addition to this high interest, they gain an increase of a fourth, by the conversion of their money into stock, at 75 per cent.] [ln looking at the tables referred to in the above report, we find some curious items, both of income and expenditure. Nearly 200,000 milre as or 50 , 0001 . o f t h e revenue of the Em pire arises from duties on slaves, or the slave trade. This is about the amo unt o f t h e various branches of the imperial civil list, or the sums expended in support of the imperial dignity, for the half year to which the table of expenditure extends. It is curious to observe with what minuteness the Mini ster states and calculates all the sums advances in support of the Emperor or his household. He does not, indeed, give us the price of " cock-turkies" for the Imperial table, (as Mr. Burke once required to be stated before a Committee of the House of Commons), but we learn from his account that the expences incurred at the christening of the Emperor's daughter amounted to 5,006 milreas (about 1,2001.); that there was paid for books and the charges of the imperial library, about 250/. (pray is the Emperor his own librarian ?); and that a new tiling to the Emperor's palace and to the adjoining houses cost the empire of Brazil 800/. Coronations, too, would appear to be cheaper in that new hemisphere than in our old Europa, probably owing to the unhappy circumstance of the Brazilian nobility being withoutancestors, and therefore having through them no claim to perform honourable services about the Em peror's person at the ceremony. Be that as it may, the Emperor Don Pedro's coronation cost only 67,200 milreas, or somewhat less than 17,0001. The sum paid for a coronation nearer home is almost equal to the sum total of the revenue of Brazil for i the half year mentioned in these tables.] PARIS PAPERS. (From the 2lfoniteur of Jan. 21.--( Nothing Official.) MADRID, JAN. 11.—By a decree of the sth,:. his Majesty appoints Don John Perez Villamil, Counsellor of State, to be President of the Junta, created for the purpose of favouring, by all possible means, internal and foreign commerce, the national manufactures, and in short every branch of public prosperity. Ills Majesty bein, informed by Count Boor- Wont that the French Government will pay for all the articles supplied to the army of occupa tion except meat, has ordered the Mayors of all the communes where the allied troops are sta tioned, to take care that the Commissaries of General Bourmont shall duly receive the provi sions of which they have need, and that all as sistance shall he given them in providing for the French army. The Minister of War, in an nouncing his Majesty's - intentions, exhorts the Alcades to take care that. no fraud is committed, and informs them that the articleS furnished will be paid for monthly by the paymasters of the French army,• • The Restaurador of the 7th contains an arti cle, dated Corunna, December 31, u hich says :- - " We think we have at length a remedy for all our evils, in • the new Captain-General whom his Majesty has been pleased to send us. He made his entry the day before yesterday, and was received with the military honoursdue to him. He arrived in his carriage, r - ccompanied only by the French Geheral, who -wept to meet him, followed by the carriages of the Municipa lity, &c. The French troops lined the way as he passed, and their General gave a splendid dinner, at which the Captain- General Contra.os, and the,other authorities, were present. " Nothing has yet transpirei respecting the measures which his Excellency will take; but we do not doubt that they will be very energetic, and such as the state of the province impe riously requires. We are certain that he knows very well how to separate the tares from the wheat." • BARCELONA, JAN. 7.—The Municipality has published a long Decree - for the preServation of public tranquillity, in consequence of an attempt • to create a disturbance (on the 4th), by insult ing an officer of his Majesty's armies. ' ( From the C"onstitationnel.) MADrtm, J AY. 8—( Extract of a Privatg Let ler.)---It has been said that the Superintentlant of Police, M. A rjona, had taken measures to pre vent the meetings at the Monastery of St. Francis, but this, it seems, is not true, and the Apostolical Committee continues its meetings. Father Cyril, D. Victor Eguia, Mata Florida, and Calderon, are among the most assiduous, and Ferdinand is said to go there sometimes incognito. They have busied themselves about the amnesty, and have hitherto prevented its promulgation.— The proposals for a guarantee for a loan were heard with great coolness by the Committee of Saint Francis; what was done in the war of independence and since was referred to, and it was stated that the revenues had diminished very much within the last fifteen years. All hope is not yet lost, and aarantees for a loan of fi fty mil lions are still talked r' of—but what can be done with so small a sum when our wants are so pres sing ? Reports, however, are spread that every thing is settled—that the amnesty and a plan of general reform will be published—and that the treasury is to be filled by the Clergy and the Mines of Peru. THE GREEKS (From the Journal dei Debuts.) PREVESA, DEC. `,23.—The destiny of Turkey is fulfilling, and t h e campa i gn which was to an!! nihilate .the Greeks has ended to their advan tage. Moustai Pacha, obliged to raise the siege of Missolongi, is in full retreat forJanina,.having failed in every thing he was ordered by the Porte to execute. This Government has long had the in tention to behead Omar Virone on account of the failure of the campaign in Etolia last year, and the defection of the Schypetars last May, which are attributed to him. informed of this, he has hi therto escaped by keeping himself far from Moustai Pacha in an attitude of defence. At length, seeing himself followed into Acarnania, at the moment of taking up winter-quarters, he had no other means of safety but to treat with the Greeks. After obtaining a safe conduct from them, he repaired to Maurocordato, at Missolongi, with his treasures, and baggage, declaring that his ancestors having - been Chris tians, he wished to live and die in the midst of the Greeks. Thus the last descendant of the Paleologii, Omar Vrione, who has played so con spicuous a part in Egypt, Epirus, Thessaly, At tica, and Etolia, is now seated as a supplicant on the hearths of the Greeks. On hearing- of this all the Toxids in Epirus retreated pre cipitately into the mountains of Mussache, and it is probable that the Albanians will, before long, separate from the Ottoman Government. Moustai Pacha may soon be called on to answer with his head for the failure of this campaign, which is attributed to him as unjustly as former failures were attributed to his predecessors. The Turks in Europe may still struggle, but they will meet the same fate as the Eastern Empire of the Romans. I BAYONNE INTELLIGEidE • BIYONNE, JAN. 15.—8 y an army courier we have received news from Madrid of the 11th. The Jouri contain several Decrees relative to the internal administratio!,, but it is to be apprehended Oitat they will produce no effect, Ls ' none of them are carried into execution in the Provinces. The King has just issued a•Decree, which, in the state of disorder in which the kingdom now is, must be considered as vain wo rds the object of this Dec ree i s to g i ve an i mpulse to commercc, agriculture, arts, and manufactures, %vitt:l-ms it is well known that even in peaceable times it is impossible to undertake any thing in that country. The Rectauredor is perfectly right in saying that these who are in the secret of the revolutionary movements, believe, adopt, and propagate reports, w hi c h it i s frequently obliged to contra dict. The following have not yet been contradicted :--10;000 men, armed and organized, composed of the wrecks of the Con stitutional Armies, nave united between Estremadura and An dalusia; parties of Liberals hover about Madrid, and even approach the gates. At the head of one of these corps is the brave Seller, already known for his having organized a free corps in the capital, with which he was obliged to yield to su :)erior numbers in La Mancha, and to capitulate. The French troops have been under arms every night for some time past. They have been forbidden to go into • the public-houses, be cause they run the risk of being poisoned. Since the Ist January above 150 Swiss have been killed. A Decree will shortly appear, to 'annul all the promotions made in the army since the establishment of the Constitution. The Deere.; of the King, approving the project of the Duke de L'lnfantado for the organization of the Royal Guard, will not be carried into effect. The Restaurador, in the last Number, says a great deal about the province of Murcia, which it confesses to be in a flame, and where all the men armed against the Royalists are protected by the inhabitants of the country. 'Madrid is pretty tranquil, thanks to the numerous patrols that are on foot day and night. At night-fall every one barricades himself in his house, anti always has arms at' hand. Travellers who come from that country affirm, that this state of things cannot possibly con tinue long. C G r an ( Ma 1%1 i i - n 1 1.4 'II( kiis, c..!l )c , (4 e c o l, the 4i ° 'tat of% sch, a V I rte () 1 (;) (1 ic,l'i 0 Riv,, l'il,,