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- - DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. (From the National latelligewer.) OFFICIAL PAPERS 07 OUR attATtoxeYelTH (MEAT BRITAIN. LOC umEN'TS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. (ACCOMPANYING • THE PRESIDENT ' S 3tESSAOT►.) MR. GALLATIN. TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. • LONDON, 22d 11/PM:MICR, 1826. I havt.the_lionour to enclose the copy Of my answer to Mr. Canning's note of the 11 - th inst., relating to the Order in Council if 27th.of July last • • -MR. GALLATIN TO MR, CANNING. ..., The undersigned, 'Envoy Extraordinary intl Minister .Pleni potentiary of the. United States of America, has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note of the 11th instant, addressed to him ; by Mr. Canning, his Majesty's principal. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in answer to that of the undersigned of the 26th 'ultimo-, 'on the subject of the Order.in Council of the 27th of, July. - .. . - The undersigned 'apprehends that the object of his note of the 26th ultimii, May not have been altogether understood. It was not his .intention to make on that occasion a full exposition, much less to argue in Support - of either his own opinions or those of his GOvernment, upon the whole matter to which the Order in Council relates. .. , „ • of . .. His opinion of the character the co l on i a l trade did not enter into tbe.view he was taking of the subject. He is not aware to have expresied that of his 'Government upon any other point than that of thipreference it gave to an arrangement by treaty, to re gulations respectively enacted by each country. The arguments ascribed to him Seem' to he rather inferences to which he might not have obicted, did be not feel bound to dis claim -any intention . on his part to have suggested what the British Government ought to have done; an expression applicable only to the case of : an alleged iiiolaticer of a positive or -implied obligation. - . . The...object drthe note of the undersigned was simply what it purported to be : to express his regret that, under existing cir cumstances, the Order in Council should have been issued ; and to avow his inability td discover its motive. . Thit has now been frankly and distinctly explained by Mr. Canning. And the prin cipal error which pervades the note of the undersigned, is, that he had supposed that the intercourse between the United States and I the Coionles of Great Britaiewaii still considered as beneficial to her; thiehe was wholly- unaware that the interdict on that inter course in''' American - vessels was founded in considerations of a general nature, and connected with an intention not to renew, at I least for the present, the negociations on this subject. It is true, that the undersigned had overlooked the fact, that, since the sth January, 1826, the indirect intercourse was allowed in American, and forbidden in. British vessels ; and to that extent his assertion of a perfect equality existing between the vessels of both nations was erroneous ; though in reality the want of equality in that respect May have been-compensated by other restrictions are! charges imposed nn American vessels. The undersigned has it not in his power to assign the reasons why the provisions of the Act of Congress, of 1823, relating to that indirect intercourse, have been continued in force, after the corresponding restrictione.of Great Britain had been removed, so far as related to foreign countries. It is not improbable that the attention of the Government of the United States having been principally turned to the general question, whether it was not most eligible,that the trade should be regulated by treaty, or by the re spective Imei - of the tWo countries, the fact that - this particular restriction had been thus itevoked by the Act of Parliament of 1825, rnay, have escaped its notice. The communication made in the latter part of Mr. Canning . * Note of the intentions of the British Government, would not seem, considered alone, to impose any other duty on the undersigned, than to transmit it to his own. Brit it is accompanied by various observations, one of which, at least, has almost the appearance of a charge against the Government of the United States, and it may not be improper far the undersigned to avail himself of the oppor tunity thus afforded, once more to state the view of the whole subject, which is entertained by the United States. Great Britain laserts, as clear and undoubted the right to give to the United States, or to withhold from them, the privilege of trading with her West India colonies, , to reserve to herself that tradec - and.generally to open _the ports. o 1 those colonies to Foreign Powers, or- keep„them. closed; as may twit her own convenience, wholly or - partially; nnt'onditionally or Conditionally, and if con-- , ditionally, on what conditions she pleases. • • Atan abstract andsfneral pfnifOsitiOn;• the right is not denied; but considered purely .as a matter of right, this, which is ari - attri bute of sovereign+y, - applies 'to `all' other territories as well as to: colonies. Every nation-has the abstract right generally, and not in refer we to her colonies alone, , to tio- or open her ports to foreign vessels or merchandixei and 'to grant the indulgence wholly or partially, conditionally:or unconditionally. This right has been, andmintinties to be, exetcised occasionally by every nation, in the shape of navigation, prohibitory, 'scut restrictive laws, operating_ waequally'On different nations. * - , . . The real distinction between - the:trade of foreigners with co lonies, and that With other territories, seems to consist - not - in a greater or lss complete right, but in a difference in the usage and ' practice. It has long since been found; that if c ommerce with , foreign nations %cal advantageous , it wa s n e cessar y , in order to ', enjoy it, to suffer them to participate in it. That an exclusive monopoly of the colonial trade was not the • };fit mode of preserving colonies, or of prompting their prosperity, , • is a resent discovery : but since the late final separation of the ~ greater part 91 the continent of America from the mother cont. tries, and now that more enlightened views prevail, as respects the remaining colonies; the former peculiar character of the co lonial trade is almost lost. The abstract right being the same, and the ancient system of colonial policy having been nearly aban doned; it is difficult to perceiVe any striking difference between the trade with the colonies, and that with the mother country. ' 'Thtsie are general observations; draw 4 from the undersigned by the repeated referencia to - an abstract right, which is not ques i. . ooned, and by the effort to oonsider still the commerce with co 'x, 1 or s ;:es as essentially differing - from every other. But the inter : e ntusel - mtween - the United States e.,nd the British West Indies, has, in fact, always been considered hy-Liagt parties as of a pe ''. mbar character, which diStinguished it from every ogler species . 1 of colonial trade ; and the declarations of the United Stales to t participate in that commeree, are of a much earlier date than Mr. Canning seems to have been awat'a of. As early as the year 1783, the Governm e et of Great Britain, ;4 , , deviating from thatpriociple of the colonial system, eeeerding to i t ' which her colonies were prohibited from trading directly with any o ' other country, allowed her West India Colonies to trade directly r with the United States of Anierica, in British vessels, This per '. rili*siOn. had been -continued almost without any interruption till , the yeii 1822, when a more extensive change in the colonial policy superseded - that partial measure. 'And timing the European war , Great Britai n found it convenient [not] occasionally, hut repeat edly, to open her West India ports to American Vessels; at the - . ' l said, time that.she was asserting- the principle, uniformly denied i; /,,, . t h e Uni . ted States, that a neutral was not authorised by the i'l lis . , f , nations to carry ottin time of war a trade with a colony it , we l e , t , he was not Had great I the intercourse h. permitted to participate iri time of peace. , Britain ; adhering to - her colonial system, interdicted. , together, andalWays, in war as in poace; in Bri tish as well as in An.:,"ie•ao veSsels.,ne claim : on AU subject would or could have been adv,:t l c . by - the United" States. But that trade having been allowed is Great Britain; it may be said, from the beginning, and at all times; ne:;,itne thereby so far assimilated tcrthat with her European don inioni,s,at the Ueited States did . , thittli" that they haft the same claim to a parilripation in both.— -, The serious difficulties in which they were invelved more than . pretensions of ' Great Britain to adhere t'a what hart once; by the ' Years' War, rendered 4' alto t been c a ll e d th e r ule of the S e ve n .; questionabl e w h e th e r it might n ot be better policy_tu reject, in , . time of war, a trade which Was not allowed in time "pf peace ; o r to claim iii tim e of p e ace, that which was al lowe d in t i m e o f w ar... The United State s always dill believe thst the compensation for as 4 boon, was found what Great Britain cons id ers as a corti:essig.Th , in the advantages resulting to her front the trade itself, . And tt m ust not be forgotten that s h,,. as w e ll as all oth er nations, parti cipates gratuitouly in - the 'trad e of countries Which, as colonies, were till lately closed to foreigners, w hi c h, had they (Allen into. V` 'ter hands, would.have still been 'considered as such, and whifht V s by their incorporation with the United States, have been t hrown $ open to the world. Indeed, had Louisiana he' longed .to any other I; countr y , and been its only colony, the admission therein of 13460 vessels and commerce, as contemplated by the Act of Parliament of 1825, would alonehave been sufficient to extend to such country the privileges offered on certain conditions by that Act. - . ' ' Taking all the facts and circernstanceswhich h ave b een stated : into consideration, the Unit ed Statee• have been o f opinion 'that they might, without violating the regard due to the usages and •', opinions of others, claim to treat on that subject a, is, that of any other commercial iutercourse, awl On the basis of equal and reel s proeal conditions. The claim "has accordingly been brought forward, and con e- sidered by both parties as • a fit subject f or negotiation, 40tn th e '. time v-hen any intercourse of a commercial nature first commenced between the two countries. " An'article on that subject Made part of the Treaty of 179*, i " hut was found so inadequate, and-was accompanied by such rer. . striefient and conditiOlie, 'as, to lance the United States to reject it, at the risk of losin; the whole Treaty. The 6th article of the unratified Treaty of 1806 stated, that " the high contracting parties, not haring been able to arrange at present, by treaty, any commercial intercourse between the ter ritories of the United States and hii Majesty's islands and ports in the West Indies,.agree, that, until that subject shall be regulated in'asatisfactory manner, each of the parties shall remain in the complete possesscon of its rights in respect to such an intercourse." A similar reservation of rights made part of the Convention of 1815, renewed and prolonged in 1818. In the negotiation of 1818, and in a very subsequent one re lating to the - colonial intercourse, the determination of the United States to conclude no arrangement, unless founded on a fair reci procity, has been distinctly avowed. The undersigned had always understood, that, Lawyer differing as to the extent of the inter course and other important points, that basis had not been objected to on the part of Great Britain. Every article, indeed, proposed then or since by her-bas the appearance of that character ; and the preamble of the counter project offered on the 4th of June, 1824, by the British Plenipo tentiaries, states,. that . 4 his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America being desirous to regulate, by mutual agree ment, and on principles of just reciprocity, the trade now open under their respective laws, between the tufted States and . the British Colonies in North America and the' West Indies, have," &c. &c. The ad. proposed article again declares it to be " the desire and intention of the high contracting parties to place the trade in question on . a footing . ofjust reciprocity." It is believed that the_ difficulties which have prevented an ar rangement satisfactory to both parties, have been wholly uncon nected with questions of abstract right ; that they may, espe cially at first, have arisen, in part, from a reluctance, on the part of Great Britain, - to depart too widely from her colonial policy; that so far from being due to any objection to the principle of re ciprocity, they had lately originated principally in a mutual ap prehension thidthespropOsals of the other party were a departure from that principle. The failure of an attempt to make an,ami cable arrangement, left each party to pursue its .:own. -- course. 'And the natural consequence has been„ that the measures adopted by either may not have been always satisfactory.to the other; that occasionally they may have been carried beyond what the occasion required. A discussion of all that 'his been' done in that respeet, on both sides, would, at present, be unpro fitable. The undersigned will . confine his observation,' to those enactment's which appear to have been most 'obnoxious to Great Britain, and are Co be foUnd in the Act of Congress of 1823. The first is the provision of that Act, whereby discriminating duties on British vessels and merchandise, coming from the British Colonies, were not to cease until it was ascertained that no higher duties were levied in the said colonies, on American vessels'and merchandise, than upon British vessels and like mer chandise imported from elsewhere, that is to say, from other British territories, as well as from other countries. That provi sion might appear unusual and objectionable, but might have been expected. The principle was implied in the article proposed by the Ame rican Plenipotentiaries in 1818, at which time the object was ex plicitly stated and discussed; and it was distinctly expressed in another article proposed by the United States, as supplementary to the Convention of 1818, and delivered on the 15th Juxe, 1819, to Lord Castlereagh, by Mr. Rush. Prior to the time when protecting duties were laid upon Ame rican produce, imported into the British West Indies, the United States had made proposals, intended either to prevent that contin gency, or tcr'reserve the right of countervailing the protecting by discriminating duties. After the protecting duties had been ac tually laid by the Act.. of Parliament of 1822, they did, on the same ground, continue those alien duties, which, on at-count of the other provisions of that Act, would otherwise have been re voked. That claim, on their part, was at all times considered as inad missible by the British Government. It was always said that every country had a right to protect its own produce—that Great Britain would - protect that of her colonies—that the demand of America was more founded in reasnn or usage than if the Bri tish Government should ask that the sugar of her colonies should he placed- by the:United States, as respected duties, on the same footing as that of Louisiana. To this it was answered, that . the general principle advanced by Great Britain was unquestionable ; .hut that, so long as she regu lated the colonial trade on principles 'different from those WhiCh she applied to the commerce with her. European territories, so long as she did not treat them.as integral . parts, but as dependencies of her empire, the United States...mint necessarily consider them, in a commercial point of view as distinct countries. Mr. Canning . has deemed it necessary to say, that it cannot be .supposed that ; ,Great Biitain had precluded herself from extend= ing to other nations the privilege of trading with the British West Indies, in.the first instance granted in effect exclusively to the United 'Stites ; a supposition which certainly never was made; .and he had added, that the question was now no longer as in 1820 oi 10.2, between.the United states and Giest - Britain but between her and all the : nations of the ~ Old and New World tO all of whom she bad tendered acc ess to her Celpniee. Whether this last measure Should produce any change in the policy of Gieat Britain towards the United States, is, of course, a ques tion for her to decide. .As - respects them, so far from thinking themselves affected by the opening of the British Colonies to other foreign nations, so far from considering this as interfering with their commerce, or, in any way, as a subject of apprehen sion, they have bailed that measure as an important step towards that entire freedom of trade, which it is their interest and their avowed wish should become universal. And •censidering that the British Colonies had been thus, in a commercial point of view, nearly aSsitailited•to the mother country, and might no longer be viewed as distinct countries, it became one of the prin cipal motives for authorising the undersigned to desist from the ground heretofore assumed, on the subject of the protecting duties laid by Great Britain on the produce of the United States, imported into her COlonies, and thereby to remove the principal obstacle which had, till then, prevented an amicable arrangement on the subject of the Colonial Trcde. It is hardly necessary to add, that the instructions which gave that authority were drawn at a time when there was not the least expectation, on the part of the GOvernment of the United States, that it was intended by that of his Majesty's to interdict the intercourse, and to decline the re newal of the negotiations pp that point. The other enactment of the Act of Congress of 1823, on which Mr. Canning has especially animadverted is ; that which forbids . . apy British vessel, unless having come directly from the British West India Colonies, to clear from a port of the United States to , . . any of those colonies. It is said that this right has been denied to Great Britainhy. the United States, not perhaps in contrad tion to the letter, but undoubtedly in deviatson from the spirit, of the frgaty,of 1815. Such wious charge the undersigned-is bound to repel, The argument adduced in support of that assertion, rests on the gratuitous supposition that the privilege which, before the Con vention: of 1815, British vessels, coming from other ports than the British West.lodis Colonies, enjoyed, to clear from a port of the United. States to those colonies, was a right instead of a per -mission; which, indeed, was not granted to them especially, but which they - had, in. common with all other vessels, from whatever port they mighthave come, The United States bad the undoubted right to grant or to withhold that permission ; and, in that,-as in every other case where the right was not restricted by treaty, to regulate the intercourse in foreign vessels between their ,qwn and foreign territories, of every description, as inited their' 'conve nience. AO this general right, which existed before 'the Con vention of 1815; was, by that compact, preserved expressly, and without exception, as respected the intercourse between the tnited States and the British West Indies. The indirect intercourse alluded to, is so intimately connected with the trade in general, that a reservation, whereby the United States, whilst allowed to forbid the direct intercourse, would have been bound to permit it to be carried on indirectly in British yes:. sell, lOW haVe been useless and nugatory. Since -British -having, lifthia'resipt, a decided advantage over American vessels, voyages which they may make from on account of the ctrcuitnnl nOarl to the United States and thence tp the West IDdia Colo.- flies, i; was precisely the branch of the trade against which it was most important for the United States to preserve the right. That right was actually enforced under the American Naviga ticn Art of 1813, without being objected to, or being made a bar to negociation.s, When the general restrictions of thiT. Act were repealed by the Act pf -1823, this particular provision was in sabstance retained; and the undersigned understands that his Majesty's Minister at Washipgtop objected to it, not as being a deviation frnin the Convention, but because he erroneously be lieved that it had opt- its' ponnterpart in the Acts of Parliament then in force. • In 1821 the provision app e ars t o h ave been ad verted tp by the British Plenipotentiaries, only for the purpose of rema rking that it confined British vessels to a dir ec t tr a d e , in the sa me manner as . American vessels were restricted by the Act pf Thirliament, and'even to a greater degree. It may be here observed, that neither this, nor any other pro vision of the Act of Congress of 1823, would, at this time, hav e intei . m g, a ny obstacle to the favourable issue of a negotiation between the United States and the B r iti s h But, as the preliminary condition, with ou t u rolon t ie h s e . Which the British Government cannot consent to. enter intp any Feriewfrd peioc iation on that subject, the undersigned is at a hots how to construe it. 4 cannot seriously be expected by his Ma jesty's Geyernment that the Pr4,tetl Stites, even if it had pot been mentioned as a preliminary condition, should repeal their restric= tinns on British vessels, when not only the intercourse is altoge ther prohibited in American shipping, but when they are with frankness informed that a removal of that interdict will not, as a matter of course, follow such repeal on their part. What renders that allusion to a repeal of the enactments of the Act of 1828, still less intelligible (it perhaps only affords au additional proof that both Governments may occasionally overlook some of the provisions contained in the laws of the other), is, that it is provided by the 6th section of that Act, that it shall cease to operate if at any time the intercourse in American vessels should be prohibited by a British Order in Council,"or Act of Parliament, and that, in such case, the Acts of Congress of 1812 and 1820 shall revive and he in full force. That contingency has actually taken place. As a natural consequence of the Order ire Council, the Act of 1823 ceases to be the law of the United States after the Ist of Decem ber next ; and the Act which Mr. Canning allows to have been justified will again revive. The intercourse, direct and indirect, will then he prohibited by the laws of both countries. Where there is no commerce, there can be no discriminating or other duties. The two coun tries will again be placed, as respects that intercourse, in the same situation in which they were before the Act of Parliament of 1822, and that of Congress of 1823. If there is any difference, it Will consist in this ; the right of Great Britain, both to decline to negociite, and to continue her interdict of the intercourse, even if the United States should ac cede to the conditions of the Act of Parliament in 1825, is incon testible. The undersigned begs leave, however, to suggest, that an• Act excluding the United States from a trade open to the rest of the world, is, as a permanent measure, of adifferent character from a general exclusion, of all foreign nations. The undersigned requests Mr. Canning to accept the assurance of his high consideration. ALBERT GALLATIN. Upper Seymour-street, Sept. 22; 1826. FOREIGN 'INTELLIGENCE. FR F,NC H PAPERS. (From the. Etat'le, dated g r uesday, Jana 9.) " MADRID. DEC. 29.,--The drought during the autumn, and :he intense cold we have had since the beginning of the winter, have caused a great, number of disorders, chiefly fluxions, diar rhceas, and measles. , For these three months past the mortality has 'been terrible. The Count de Puebla del Maestre, formerly Ambassador at Paris, has just lost his sister, at the age of twenty four years ; and..the young Marchioness de Villa Franca, daughter of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz, equally distinguished by . her beauty and amiable disposition, is in the greatest danger. " It is said that the Count d'Ofalia, who was intended to go as Ambassador from Spain to London, has declined that post, which is now of such importance, declaring that he would rather return to Grenada, to continue the superintendence of the Royal road from Andalusia to Madrid, and the canal from Motril to Grenada, as he has been ordered, to do by a Royal Commission. " His Eminence the Bishop of Chile, the capital of Chili, has just arrived in this capital, having been taken out of his bed and his palace at midnight about eleven months ago, placed with his secretary and an attendant in a carriage, and conducted to the port of Valparaiso. He was embarked on board a crazy dis- . masled vessel, and conveyed to Acapulco : he was conveyed from Acapulco to, the extremity of the Mexican States, without pass ing through Mexico or any other town, then sent to New York, and then embarked for Havre, whence he proceeded to Rouen, Paris, and Madrid, where he arrived a few days ago. This ve nerable Prelate is seventy-three years, of age, and has been a Bishop twelve years. He was born, brought up, and passed his whole life in Chili, but the revolutionists would not let him die there. " Our correspondent at Grenada informs us, that on the 14th there were several shocks of an earthquake, the first of which (a very violent one) took place between four and five in the morning, threw several of the inhabitants out of their beds, awakened them all, and made them leave their houses. This shock was followed at short intervals by five others legs violent, and tranquillity was restored ; but at eight in the evening there was a terrible one, which threw the whole city into consternation, and induced many persons to leave it. PARIS, JAN. 8. —The English journals of the 6th, received by express, bring the news of the death of the Duke of York. This event, though long anticipated, hae yet caused a great sensation in England.. . , , • . -" The post from-Lyons, whick,ought to haye arrived at Paris .on the 7th, at five o'clock in the rpgrning, did riot arrive till the Sth, at 1 L o'clock in the mornjng, . It was stopped' between Painhouchinand St. Semphorien.de-Laye by such a great falt of snow, that it was 26 hours in proceeding three leagues. " The Aristarque announces to : its subscribns, that it will cease to appear to-morrow. The subscribers may receive their :money hack by applying before the 1 stof February. (From the Constitutionnel. ) (PRIVATE MR.RESPONUENCE.) " MAnein, DEc. 28:—The negociations hitherto have been confined to' requiring our Government to agree that the Portu guese 'refugees shall tio longer be - received - in the Spanish territo ries, and that those who are Already there shaU be disarmed, and sent to the left banlcutthe Ebro. In the mean time England ap pears satisfied witioth6restilt of . the negociations, for Mr. Lamb, her Ambassador, has again appeared atCourt, *here his presence on Christmas-day excited considerable surprise. " The Swiss troops at Madrid have already received three pair of shoes each man, in order to be ready to march, and the baggage of this brigade is already packed up. " As to the corps of observation destined for the frontiers, it is much more numerous than was believed, for instead of 7,000 men which were at first spoken of, it will be raised to 16,000 men of all arms. Although General Rodil has already set out for the head quarters at Valencia d'Alcantara, his appointment is only pro visional, at least he is named ad interim in the decree ; but we are in the habit of seeing public functionaries appointed ad interim continue to hold their places for several years. However, it may be right to remark that General Sarsfield, who it is said is des tined to command the corps of observation, has been sent for by express to Madrid. " The troops for the division of observation continue in move ment ; six pieces of artillery of The guard were sent off yesterday, and a battalion of artillery of the line left Segovia on the 25th. " In general, it would appear' that the troops of the line must be employed in very small numbers as part of the division, which for the greater part will consist of corps of the guard and provin cial militia, to which this preference is given, because the troops of the line are of the same opinion's as the Apostolicals. It is this which make 4 Government fearful of concentrating a large body of them on one point. " The news of the disembarkiitien of the English troops at Lis bon arrived here on the evening . of the 'sth, and was officially communicated by Mr. Lamb"t6 M. Sairrion on the following day.. We are assured that when the fortner heard the circumstance, he cried out They. will not reimbark so.speedily.' " There are in circulation here manuscript copies of a letter addressed, it is said, by the Princess Regent to the Queen her mother, stating that she had been compelled by circumstances to accept the Presidency of the Government; but that in a short time the Marquis de Chaves wnidd deliver them - both from the restraint in which they were placed. Although it has been hawked about almost publicly, the 'police have done nothing to hinder the ciiculation of this apocryphal writing, or 'to discover its authors. 4, The folliiwing ritract from the Portuguese` Journal 1.11.4 pa r will serve to convey a just idea of the Apostolicals of whom the Marquis de Chaves is the iflstrument : " The rebels commit the greatest atrocities in Tras-os-pontes they brutally violate wives an&daughters, in the presence of their husbands and fathers, and afterwards assassinate the one and the other, Several unfortunate beings have been impaled.' " The officers and non-commissioned officers who have been made prisoners in Tras-os-Montes, .have been conducted into Spain, bound and fastened together like felOns. " It appears, however, according to the letters which we re ceive from the Portuguese frontiers, that these crimes are about to be concluded, for all the letters represent the army of the Mar quis de Chaves as in disorder, and as falling back on our frontiers. " The composer Nlercandante was robbed after leaving Tolosa, about seven leagues from France." " Paats, JAN. B.—Our Apostolicals are very angry with Prussia. They would have paidoned it the armed' invasion of two or three towns, which mu-sitbelieve themselves French; hut here is an act of hostility of a much more serious character. The provincial states of Dusseldorf having been consulted on the ques tion, whether it would be proper to restore to the ecclesiastical authority the keeping of the.registers relating to civil affairs; have answered is the negative by a majority of 79 votes against one.— Thus the system which a faction endeavours to introduce into France is the object of public reprobation in every rational country. " Th e petition addressed by the Count de Montlosier, to the Chamber of Pters was this day published at the same time with the justificatory memorial which precedes it. To the moment when the Committee ,of the Chamber shall think proper to pub lish its report, we refrain from all remarks on these two produc tions. Our silence in this respect will be a proof of our respect for, as well as our entire confidence in, the equity of this noble and honourable Chamber." (Prom the Quotidienne.) PRIVATE CO RILESEONDVNCE. "MADRID, DEC. 29.-- ,4 Mr. Lamb continues at Madrid, and potwithstanding his fruitless efforts to obtain a re-orkapization of the Ministry, there is no reason to believe that he will.spealilf withdraw from hence. The multiplied checks which this Minister ~~ t has sustained for some time past, and the patience with which he endures them, have put a stop to the reports of war. Knowing folks, however, are not deceived by the coolness affected by the British envoy ; they believe that this seeming tranquillity is owing to a change of character in his mission, and to his being no longer charged to prescribe what ought to be done, and to observe what is done. " Our Cabinet'gives itself little anxiety about what Mr. Lamb may communicate to his Cabinet; all finesse is henceforward superfluous with us, since our policy is open. To diplomatic craft, and menaces more or less disguised, King Ferdinand has replied by a profession of faith equally noble and sincere : Europe will know how to appreciate it. Moreover, it appears certain that our Monarch is about to expose the motives of his conduct in respect to Portugal, and his grounds of complaint against England, in a manifesto which, it is said. will soon snake its appearance. " The refusal of King Ferdinand to acknowledge Brazil as an • independent state, is a natural consequence of the protest which he has himself made against the emancipation of the Spanish co lonies, and against the acknowledgments proclaimed by England. The empire of Brazil having no existence in our view, we cannot express our adhesion to laws and institutions emanating from the Chief of that empire. Such a policy is more consistent than that which reproves in the Marquis de Chaves what it has already ap plauded in the Baron d'Eroles. • " In consequence of this frank system of policy, which forbids us to admit the flag of a state the existence of which we do not acknowledge, the authorities at Vigo, in Galicia, have obliged two Brazilian vessels to strike the unacknowledged flag under which they had entered the port, and to hoist Portuguese colours. We ate aware that this conduct is a sarcasm upon what occurred in your port of Havre ;- but the future will reveal to us, whether more is gained by deceiving friends and enemies at once, than by following, without disguise, a 'course of policy founded upon legi timate interests. It has been o ffi cially announced at Court, that the garrison of Almeida" has recognised Don 'Miguel as Kink of Z.Ortugal, and taken the oath of fidelity to him. Almeida is only three leagues from Ciudad Rodrigo; and this is the strongest citadel in Portu gal. Hitherto all the conquests of the Marquis de Chaves have cost no effusion of blood. The known character of this nobleman rendera bins hest adapted to the part he is called upon to fulfil. It is absolutely certain, that if all the powers would remain neuter, the overthrew of the new system would be effected amongst our neighbours without sacrificing the life of a single man if any blood be shed upon the banks of the Tagus, it must be:laid to the charge of English policy. - " The Royalist Volunteers, recently arrived at Madrid for the service of this capital, were reviewed op the 26th, at the Prado. This band was in the finest condition ; and Mr. Lamb; who Was present at the review, incognito, had an opportunity of remarking the martial air of our volunteers." (From the Journal des Debats.) " The journals have not reported correctly the words addressed on New Year's•-day by the Marquis de Birbe-Marbois, First Pre sident of the Court of Accounts, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux. These words of the Marquis, which deserve to he hereafter recorded in history, ought to be collected .by his eon - temporaries with scrupulous accuracy. We give a version, the fidelity of which we can warrant :-- '" And you, Monseigneur, who are as yet young, and on whose head reposes the future happiness of France, do you recollect that this fine kingdom of France requires also a good King—a King, who dislikes flattery, and who banishes from his presence men who deceive him. Will you, Monseigneur, remember that this advice was given you by an old man whose head was covered with grey hairs?' " The Duke of Bordeaux said Yes.' " 'i:our yes, Monseigneur,' replied M. Barbe Marhois, ' shall be entered on our journals. You will find it there at your. ma jority. In the mean time it will In to us the pledgeof a happy future.'" PRICES OF STOCKS THI Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 79% %isi 3 per Cent. Cons. 79% 8 ez div. 3,i4 par Cent.: B7 Ditto Red. 96 %% 4 per Cent. New 93 4% ex div. Ditto, 1826 951 { Bank L. Ann. 19 1-16 18 15-16 19 India Stock Ditto Bond. • PORTUGAL. LtsioN, Dec. 25.—The Session of the present extraordinary Cortes closed the day before yesterday, in the Palace of Ajuda, and the next ordinary Session prescribed by Art. 18. cap : 1. Tit. 4. of the Constitutional Charter, is to be.opened on the 2d of January. The following projet of a .law relative to the al lowances on .the civil list, was presented by the. Committee of Finance to the Chamber of Deputies, on the 21st instant. Ist. The allowances of her Majesty. Donna Maria 11., Queen of Portugal and the Algarves, as soon as she arrives in the king dom, shallhe fixed at two.thousand mil-reis per diem. Her Ma jesty, upon her arrival, will receive, in addition, the sum of two thousand mil-reis as an outfit. 2d. The Princess Donna Isabella Maria, present Regent of the kingdom, having no annual revenue, shall receive 500 mil-reis per diem. 3d. The Empress Queen, Charlotte liachina,, besides the ap panage from the Queen's house which she enjoys; shall receive an annual assignment upon the Treasury of 125,000 francs. -sth. Each of the other Princesses shall receive for their main tenance an assignment of 125,000 franca per annum. 6th. A similar sum is specially assigned, during her life, to the 1 3 &cess Regent, Donna Isabella Maria, as an act of grati tude'W. e Portuguese nation, for the eminent services which that Princesahas rendered to it. 7th. The Princess of Brazil, Donna Maria Brnedicta, shall continue to receive the annual pension which she holds of the Por tuguese Treasury. Bth. These allowances are not to affect in any respect the par ticular rights of the high personages upon whom they are confer red, nor their enjoyment of the palaces and other property that belong to them. coneDeputtoatiLonishooof Lisbon, to requestStudentsofotfhethperiUnenesiv4erßsietgyeonfr, Cwohimobrre_a have ceived.the Deputation at the Palace of Ajuda, that she would deign to direct arms to be given to the Students, that they might fly to the defence of their country. The young Brazilians who are studying at the different Universities of Portugal, 'have pre ferred a similar request; but, not being Pottuguese citizens, the request was addressed to the Minister of War, by the Consul-Ge neral of Brazil. reo'preheetifio)gllothweinagttias thaoeflaethpeoi‘rtiaorfqGoiesnoefra t he Chaves iiove Aa sfourqtis of An the passage eof the Tamego : " I have the satisfaction to eommunicate to , your Excellency (the Minister of War), in order that you may lay the same be fore her. Highness the Princess Regent, the reports of . Generals Mello and Claudino, which demonstrate the enthusiasm and ex cellent disposition animating the troops that defend the Tamego. Those troops, on the 14th, surpassed all eulogium, by their con duct. I immediately sent to Oporto the prisoners 'taken that day, with orders to have them conducted thence to. Lisbon. The whole of .the'iroops under my orders were engaged in this affair, and all of them conducted themselves so well, that I feel it im possible to point out any one as more distinguished for courage land discipline than the rest. " General Claudino a tt ac k e d t h e re b e l s w ith such iMpetuosity, that they were unable for a moment to keep their ranks. 4.7113. not omit. making one remark, 'which appears to me worthy of attention, namely, that many of the prisoners were armed with Spanish-muskets. As the rebels are concentrating their forces, I, on my side, have put in motion all those which 1 have at pre sent disposable. The Count de Villa Fiore, is approaching, and I believe that the whole of the division, part of which sleeps to night-8t Sornadas, will he here (at Amarante) to-morrow." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FROM LLOYD'S.-(THIS DAY.) • DEAL, JAN. 10.—Wind W.S.W.,,blowing strong:—Arrived, the 'Crescent, Pitt, from Messina ; Swan, APLeon, from the South Seas and St. Helena. Caine down from the River and remains, the Harriot, Kindley, from Bengal. - • RAMSGATE, JAN. 10.—Arrived, the orh, Postgard, from Cadiz. POOLE, JAN. 10.—Arrived, the Emulation, Scott, from New foundland ;Venus, Waldron, from ditto ; and Dolphin, Hampton, from Lisbon. PENZANCE, JAN. 9.—Arrived, the Mary, Harvey, from St. 'Michael's. • - BRISTOL, JAN. 10.—Arrived, the Heart of Oak, from Sicily. LivEarooL, JAN. 9.—Arrived, the lithe, Ford, from New foundland;- Olive, Murray, from Messina; Vine, , f rom ditto ; and Julia, Miller, from Lisbon. CLYng, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Rolla, M'Dougal, from. Nassau; Allen, Gil mo re, from St. John's, New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind blowing hard—Ar rived the Atlas, Reed, from Trieste, out 103 days ; William Nicholson, from London, for Messina; the North-America from Virginia. • His Majesty's ship Arachne went down the harbour, but. re mains a t Spithead, bound to Vera Cruz and Jamaica. JAN. 9.—Arrived the Lord Cochrane, Sutton, from Portsmouth for Corfu; Lowther Castle, Baker, from Lon don for Bombay. FALMOUTH, JAN. 9.--- , Arrived his Majesty's ship Royalist, from a cruize ; Isabella, —, from Newfoundland. GRAVESEND, JAW. 10.—Arrived the Sir William Curtis, Wittingham, from Calais ; Gannet, Martin, from Lisbon ; and Amelia, Fry, from Antwerp. Sailed the Mary Ann, Mozely, for Hayti.. DAY AT ONR 0 CLOCK.' South Sea Stock 98t Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 25 pi pm. Ditto 5OO 2d 25 2l pm. Ditto Small 2d 25 20 pm. Ditto Commercial Rank for Account India for Account Cons. fur Acct. soii% PRICES OF FOREIGN FU Austrian Bonds, 3 per cent livaillian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chaim Bonds, 6 per et. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 182.1. 341,,i 4 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds Ditto, 1826 Gustlush Mexican Bonds Do. 1825 fi*i 4N, 6 AIDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 182 - 4 Peruvian Bondi - Portuguese Bonds — arusslan, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. Spanish, 1821 131704 :823 French Itentes sp. c 6Bf. 25c. Exchange 525t. 50e. —3 per cent —t —c. Exchange —f —c. STOCKS, JAN. 8. St. Patrick Incur. (per share) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto , Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings ILS. PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock 4B2N Consola, 3 per cent 79% Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. ... 8174% Ditto, New B s 3i 4 per Cent 95%% 5 5% Gov. Deb. 3% per cent. Royal Canal Stock . 95% Grand Canal •Stock ---- City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. -- Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 ' 0 Guernsey/11.1m.y. 0 0 Brazil 0 2 Hamburgh 3 0 Buenos Ayres -0 - 0 Holland 0 O Donaghadee 0 0 Jamaica 0 1 Dublin O Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 O France 0 Gottenburgh 2 0 Waterford 1 HIGH WATER AT LOND(II,N,RRINGR TO-MORROW. Maiming 29 minutes after 1. I Evening - T , Jb e 4 - LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1827. It is confidently stated in the Ministerial Circles, that the Marquis WELLESLiY will shortly have a pro minent place in his MAJESTY'S Councils. The Paris Papers of Monday and the Etoile of Tuesday morning reached us last night. They leave us still in uncertainty with regard to the great ques tions now pending at Madrid. The Etoile publishes a letter from that capital dated the 28th, but it relates to the weather and state of health of the inhabitants— cautiously avoiding the mention of political subjects. In the Constitutionnel and Quotidienne we find private correspondence, dated the 29th, on the state o fd , public affairs, but no conclusive opinion can be form edl from thence of the intentions of FERDINAND. Mr. LAMB had formally communicated to M. l SALMON the landing of British troops in. Portugal. His endeavours to effect a change in the Ministry are said to have been unsuccessful, and according to these letters it was expected that he would immediately with draw himself from Madrid. A report prevailed in Paris on Monday that he had actually taken his de parture. The Swiss troops were making preparations ror their return to France.. The new law for the regUlation of the Press in France seems to occupy _public attention to an un usual degree ; but notwithstanding the decided oppo sition of the press itself to 'the 'intended measure, and the force of the arguments used, it is likely to piss. The Aristarqu' e, an ultra journal, has already antici pated signifying its intention to die the effect o defatthhealtao' by signifying instead of having its ex istence t i s tence terminated by the strong hand'of the law. The French Government have' been evidently di recting their attention f or some ti me past to . the state of their Navy, and the means of rendering the Naval a n atural ee departments more efficient. The official part of the Moniteur of Monday con tains three Royal Ordinances relative to their Marine: The first, after a preamble stating the reasons for the measures, decrees that there shall be a Maritime Pre fect in each of the five great ports of the kingdom ; the second appoints the five Piefects ; and the third, after stating that experience has shown the dispropor tion between the number of the Members of the Board of Admiralty and the importance and extent of their labours, creates Vice Admiral Count de GouRDoN, and the Vice Admiral Count de ANGIER, Members of that Board. We have inserted extracts of these Papers in another column. The French Funds con tinue steady. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, JAN. B.—Five per Cents. 99f. 50c. 45c. 40c. 45c. 40e. 45c. 40e. ; Three per cents. 6'7f. 90e. 85f. 80f. 83c. 90c.; Bank Stock, 2005 f. ; Naples Relates, 75f -90c. 74c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, ; Royal Spanish Loan, ; Exchange on London—One Month, paper, 25f. 40c., mow, 2.5 f• 35c • Three Months, paper, 2 5 f. 25c., money, 25f. - 2 20c.— Cours Authentique. The Mediterranean mail, which arrived yesterday, brought nothing new. "Montreal Papers to the 11th Dec. also reazted ,own yesterday, but their.contents are uninteresting. Various reports agitated the City this forenoon. One stated that the Earl of LIVERPOOL is going out of office; another, that M. VILLELE was about to re sign ; and a third, that Mr. LAMB had left Madrid. We continue in our Paper of this day the official correspondence between Mr. CANNING and the Ame rican Minister, respecting the trade of. the United States with our West India Colonies. In another column will he found a note from Mr. GALLATIN, dated Sept. 22, in answer to Mr. CAN NING's note of the 11th of that month, which we inserted yesterday. It is not our wish to make any invidious observa tions on this despatch, but we may perhaps be allowed to remark, without apprehension of it being said that national partiality has blinded our judgment, that our Right Honourable Secretary has greatly the advantage of the American Ambassador, both in the soundness of his arguments, and the style of expressing them.--' Mr. GALLATIN labours hard under the evident dis-, advantage of feeling the weakness of his cause, a nd being obliged to argue upon exceptions, rather than in opposition to general and irlefragable principles.l-7 We must, however, do him the justice to say, that he argues the question with considerable acuteness and r ability, and exhibits at the same time a very praise",