The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-26 00:00:00

VANITY SUPERIOR TO PAIN. (From Bkickwood's Magazine for July.) Every boy and girl have read of the woad stained bodies and tatooed skins of the long haired progenitors of the ...9.p-Dices and Cad walladers. But authors differ as to the im portant question, whether beauty ' or terror was the object of this barbaric finery ? What a sen sation would such a costume produce at a fancy ball ! A dance of ancient Britons, habited, or rather unhabited, in antique uniform, would secure the success of a inelo-drame—and, under the rose, I intend to try it myself in a grand spectacle, which I shall acknowledge when it has run thirty nights. One thing I will maintain, that this painted and sculptured nudity was neither more indecorous nor less becoming, than fifty fashions of later date. Towards the end of the 15th and commencement of the 16th cen tury-, the dress of our beaux was not only insuffi cient for the ends of clothing, but furnished with appendages which cannot be named, much less described, without gross indelicacy. The Cal lipygian devices of our fair ones have not es caped severe animadversion ; and the ladies seem but, lately to have discovered the just medium between too much and too little covering. Let it not be said, that these matters are too light for serious criticism, seeing that more than one Father has shown a most intimate acquaintance with the most sacred arcane of the toilet. Saints have declaimed against head-gear—the martyred Latimer preached 'upon caps and bonnets ; and the pious Baxter wrote a treatise on the " loveliness of Love Locks." As for the ques tion of taste, symmetry, and the beau ideal, were not the immeasurable trunk-breethes of the ca valiers, often containing stuff' enough for the poor of a parish—the various aggregations of false hair known under the name of perriwigs—the deep cuffs, long-flapped waistcoats, and other volumi nous absurdities of the old court, not to mention the pointed shoes buckled to the knee, which were restrained by statute in the reign of Richard IL—the stays and pillories of dandyism--and a hundred like monstrosities of mode, as irrecon cilable with the xe;:,ss as the serpents, ravenous birds, and ill-shaped fishes, which constituted the regimentals of a Silurian or Brigantine war rior ? The Lady-Britons, blues as they were, observed a distinction, which I would gladly see enforced among their lovely posterity. The skins of the matrons were embroidered with figures ap propriate to the dignity of wives and mothers— such as dragons, lions, suns, moons, and stars ; while the pretty persons of the young virgins were garnished all over with the effigies of fair herbs Ind flowers which (as a quaint old histo rian saith) could not but yield, though a strange, -vet no unpleasing aspect. Now this distinction showed good taste, and good feeling. It is a dire perplexity in modern times, that you cannot learn, without asking impertinent questions, whether any female you chance to meet in stage coach or steam-packet is maid, wife, or widoa— and a scandal to our manners, that a woman who is Slie mother of children, may dress herself as airily, as temptingly, as a miss that has to look out for it .husband. Now, though I am, by pre destination ae'd election, foreordained to a final perseverance ii celibacy, I think a wife and mother the most vetefTable thing on earth, and in consequence, bound, a i t.,sove every creature, to venerate herself. If we sholz.ld be offended to see an archdeacon in the costume Of a huntsman, or a parish priest in the undress of a hosaar,— much more justly may we censure any incon gruous levity in a female, whom the matrimonial and maternal character sets far above the sanctity a Bishop, Priest, or Deacon. Yet such is my compassion for the very frailties of the sex, that I would not, at least foe a first offence, refuse the virgin livery to such unfortu nates, as had loved not wisely, but too well.— How the Britons acted in these cases, we are not informed ; but their morals do not seem to have b e ,:en very austere. Their 44:5rifYing or tatooing seems to have been a very p ,sinful operation. We might be puzzled to accomist for such fortitude in the ser vice of vanity, whicci nevertheless lacks not its parallel in the annals of C.vilizetl fashion. Men, even men who in passive en a t :.rance fall far short of their sisters, have been known !o bleep or lie awake with a plate of lead on their foreheads, lest the lines thereon might slander them 4vith thinking. The tortures which many of both sexes have undergone for the removal of bodily defects, no way inconvenient, but only unsightly — might do honour to an inquisitor. I read not long since of an heroic dandy, who permitted his mis-shapen leg-bone to be filed and scraped by an ignorant quack, till his life was in imminent danger. Who does not know that the order of Jesoits owes its foundation (under Satan) to the persons! vanity of Ignatius Loyola, and his am bition to be like the Homeric warriors—belie ccreatus? Had loose boots, or cossack trowsers, been the fashion, Loyola might have died without the odour of sanctity—and the name of Jesuit had never been heard for reproach or for praise. To sucL slight occasions are mighty agencies debted for their first motion. The process of putting a.danAly shoe upon the foot of a gallant in the age of Loyola, is detailed in a very curious extract among the votes to - Southey's tale of Pa raguay, a book well svoTth purchasing,—were it 1 for the notes alone. This shin-galling mode seems to have extended to 1700a:1d—for it is mentioned among the accomplishments of Poins, that he wears his boot very smooth like the sign of the leg. Did it suggest to the facetious Lau derdale-and his colleagues in the Council of State, the punishment of the boot, inflicted on the poor 7vandering covenanters? Vanity, it seems, will make man endure almost as touch as seal. After such. instances of self torn-ions, it tray appear like an anti-climax to allude to the tight lacing of our gran d mot h ers, the diet and medicines taken to preserve the de licacy of compfelcion;--the painful twisting of the hair—" the paper-durance and double loads of lead," which tender virgins yet endure—the headache which must have assailed the " towered Cybeles" of the last cantury beneath thgtr tiers of curls and bushels of powder—the constrained attitudes—the sticks and back-hoards of modern boarding-schools--or the numberiese secrets never divulged to man, by which females in every age, and of every age, purchase imaginary comeliness at the expence of real comfort. Were it not unfashionable to moralise, I might here remark, how the very follies .and fopperies of mankind bear witness to the existence of a nobler immaterial principle, still urging them to treat their bodies as their slaves, their property, and not their very selves. For it• is not to be forgotten, that the vanity of person, the pride of fashion, the desire of admiration, the dread of singularity, or whatever else may have prompted these practices, however reprehensible in its excess, is still an intellectual, not a sensual prin ciple,. The Hindoo who reclines upon couch ; of spi}ce-3 ; the nun who wears sackcloth, and heds on Ofals that famine might cast the gorge •,wft*w-- WIPENOI lIIIIMIE at ; the poor enthusiast that spent his life on a pillar, or she who gives her tawny skin to be needled and flowered as if it were an insensible garment ; each and all display a spirit that is stronger than sense—a power that laughs at pain—a soul that tyrannizes over the flesh, as if it were something alien and of another nature. Nor do 1 doubt that nian—ay, and soft trem bling woman also—may exult in agony, and re joice with the joy of victory upon the rack. Do we not see the vilest malefactors jest with the gallows, and make merry with the lash Mountebanks and bedlamites would gash them selves for gain : Drunkards oftimes for mere sport or bravado. What toil, what privation, are not men daily imposing upon themselves for a trifling wager, and the praise of fools ? Need we refer to the gladiators of old—poor slaves, whom courage greater than all the boasted achievements of Curii and Dentati could not rescue from contempt ; who, (to use the words of the great Jeremy,) " when they were exposed naked to each other's swords, and were to cut each other's souls away in portions of flesh, as if their forms had been as divisible as the life of worms,—they did not sigh or groan ; it was a shame to decline the blow, but according to the just measures of art. The women that saw the wound shriek out ; and he that receives it holds his peace. He did not only stand bravely, but will also fall so ; and when he was down, scorned to shrink his head, when the insolent conqueror came to lift it from his shoulders : and yet this man, in his first design, aimed only at liberty and the reputation of a good fencer ; and when he sank down, he saw he could only receive the honour of a brave man,—the noise whereof he shall never hear, when his ashes are crammed into his narrow urn." Holy Dying, eh. iii. sect. 4. And can virtue be weaker than vanity ? Shall he " whom the truth makes free," be more coward than a stage-playing slave ? Shall the hope of immortality in heaven—the applause of j God and angels—the beauty of holiness—shall these l6ss avail to hearten the children of light, than the clamour of a theatre, or the shout of a rabble, or the envy of a ball-room,----the poor praise of a delicate hue and slender form, or the devilish renown of impenitent villainy, which have fortified the nerves of the frailest, or the worst of worldlings—of fantastic females, of half brutified savages, of miserable buffoons, and har dened ruffians at the gibbet ? (TO BE CONTINUED.) ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, ESQ. We are concerned to learn that Mr. Constable, our late eminent publisher, who had for some time suffered severely under a dropsical complaint, ex- 'red suddenly, at his house in Park-place, on the afternoon of Saturday. It is now somewhat more than thirty years since Mr. Constable began to at tract the notice of the learned of this city by his knowledge of rare books, particularly of those con nected with the early literature of Scotland; and, several years before his name became known to the world as a considerable publisher, he bad succeeded as well by the amenity of his manners, as by his professional intelligence and activity, in rendering his shop the favourite resort of all the more curious and aspiring spirits of the place. His views, how ever, were never limited to the collection of literary rarities,•or to a merchandise confined to the existing materials of literature. He had always longed to become instrumental in adding something of import ance to the stock of knowledge, and to enrol his name in the list of the more liberal and enterprising publishers of the day. Edinburgh fortunately 'pos sessed the means of gratifying this laudable ambi tion ; and he as fortunately appeared at a period when, without such a man, her native genius might hare been hampered In its flights, or damped and circumscribed in the ardour and range of its aspiring exertions. His fame as a publisher commenced with the appear elicit of the Edinburgh Review, which he had the ho nourofslahering into the world ; anti he long ministered to its success and its glory by a deportment towards 1 its conductors and authors as discreet and respectful as it was manly and liberal. Sonic years after the first appearance of this celebrated journal, he became the proprietor of another national work—The En cyclopadia Britannica, for which he paid a price that excited the surprise of some of the more timid of his brethren, but which was amply warranted by measures and results which his superior intelligence and sagacity had enabled him to plan and foresee. \\Then that important work became the property of his house, the printing of its fifth edition was too ler advanced to admit of any material improvements; but Constable saw very clearly that these were largely reqttiF.sd, in order to place it on a level with the knowledge, the warits, and the spirit of the age ; and hence he devised the pseptet of that Supplement which has added so much to its vaiee and celebrity. Many doubts as to the expediency of a supple mental publication upon so extensive a scale, were, we believe, expressed by those who pretended to experience and skill in such undertakings; but Mr. Constable's anticipations were folly realised by the signal success of this favourite design. During the progress of those works, his house was still further aggrandised by the publication of the writings of Mr. Dugald Stewart and Sir Walter Scott—the one bearing the most illustrious name in the serious, as the other does in the lighter branches of our national literature. His intercourse with the latter was mswb more intimate, varied, and extensive, and in many respects more remarkable, than was ever before exemplified between author and publisher.— The publication, first of the highly popular poems, and utterly of the still more popul novels of that extraordinary genius, raised his house to the acme of its fame. Tbc author of Waverley has himself borne honourable teatireeny, in the introduction to one of his novels, to Nr, Constable's , me rits; and we are satisfied, that what he thus proclaimed in the prolegomena of a work of fiction, he would repeat, if the opportunity shall occur, with perfect sincerity, and perhaps greater force, in a work of truth. How it happened, that with all the, splendid success so beneficial and honourable to our literature, whirl' attended Mr. Constable's undertakings, his publishing career should have closed so disastrously, we are not very able, nor much disposed at present to inquire. We firmly believe- that he proceeded onw ar d s t o that close, void of any apprehension of such an issue, and wholly unconscious of its near approach. He had just completed the plan of the Afiseellany, which bears his name, and was busied, seemingly, with well-founded hopes, in sanguine calculations of the returns which it would bring to his house. Its pub lication did not take place till after the failure of that establishment ; and we are happy to think that its subsequent success furnished some solace for his mis fortunes, us well as some alleviation of his bodily sufferings his final undertaking thus proving to be his last and orgy means of support. We are not writing a full or elaborate character. We have only detailed a few particulars, calcutated to justify the sentiments of grateful respect which we entertain for his memory, ae. by far the most eminent publisher that ever Scotland produf.!ed.—Caledonian Mercury. On Wedneoay a worthies; - fellow, 10i.o had committed some depresttion in Paisley, was traced to Glasgow, where he took refug:: is a work-shop. Seeing himself closely pursued, and just as the officers , vere going to lay hold of him, ha sprung to an open window beside him, and threw himself oat, but instead of letting himself fall, as was supposed, ho hung by the ]edging. The pur suers, thinking they had nothing to do but to pick tip his mangled remains, ran to the back of the house ; but he was no where to be seen—for the rogue proving an adept in his calling, no sooner found his manoeuvre succeed, than he threw himself in again, bolted down stairs, and got Clear off,•-.Glasgow Chir. iClr! LIBEL MADE EASY TO THE MEANEST CAPACITY; OR A COSTLY MODE OF VINDICATING CHARACTER, AS PRACTICED WITH GREAT SUCCESS IN THE COURT OF COM MON PLEAS, FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE PUBLIC, AND THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHOM IT CONCERNS.—DAMAGES—oNt LixTuL.au—Oß ONE THOUSAND POUNDS, ACCORDING TO THE QUA LITY.OF THE THING. The following are two specimens at Twenty-five Pounds each, as furnished by the Plaintiffs' Attor nies, on the much approved principle that a story is not the worse of being twice told, especially when another must pay the piper. N. B. The Defendant must also PAT his own Attorney. 0" No connection with any other shop. SPECIMEN THE FIRST. IN THE COMMON PLEAS. JOHN LOUIS POUCHRE V. GRANT AND ANOTHER. HILARY VACATION, 1827. s. d. Instructions to sue Capias and fee into Middlesex Two copies and services Letters and messages 0 3 0 EASTER TERM. Searching. for appearance Instructions for declaration Drawing same, fo. 24 Copy for Mr. Addison to settle Fee to him to settle Attending him 0 5 4 Engrossing same to deliver and warrant Entering on the roll and paid Rule to plead 0 1 6 Searching for and demanding - plea Drawing issue, fo. 27 Engrossing to deliver Entering plea on the roll and attending Warrants and docket Drawing placita and jurata Ingrossing record, fo. 31 Parchment Paid marking record and attending Paid passing record and sealer Fee thereon Venire Returning and attending Habeas corpora juratorum 0 9 6 Returning and attending Paid setting down cause Attending 0 6 8 Brief for counsel to move for a special jury 0 6 4 Fee to counsel to move 0 10 6 Attending him in court Paid for rule 0 5 0 Attending prothonotary for appointment to name 48 Two copies of rule, and appointment and ser vice on defendants' attorney and under-sheriff 0 6 0 Attending naming 48 0 6 Paid prothonotary's fee 2 2 0 Paid the under-sheriff 2 2 0 Paid for the list 0 5 0 Copy 0 3 0 Attending taking instructions to reduce the jury 0 6 ti Appointment to reduce copy and service Attending to strike the 24 0 6 5 Copy thereof Special habeas corpora juratorum Paid returning Attending 0 8 4 One subpoena 0 8 6 Copy and service on Mr. Lacey, a Commissioner of the Court of Request► 0 5 0 Paid him conduct money Copy and service on Mr. Mallison of the Stamp- Office Paid him conduct money 1 1 0 Attending at the Stamp-office to hespeak office copy of the affidavits filed by defendants, to shew they were proprietors and printers, and afterwards for same Paid for same Drawing abstract of the issue for the Chief Justice, by the desire of the associate, 2BS 0 13 4 Fair copy thereof 0 6 Instructions for brief 0 13 4 Drawing same, 8 BS. Two fair copies for counsel, 11 BS. Fees to Mr. Brougham with same and clerk... '7 15 0 Attending him Fee to Mr. Patteson and clerk Attending him Two copies of notice to produce to annex to briefs 0 2 0 Attending, searching, when cause was appointed, and informing the witnesses thereof Attending plaintiff 1 1 0 Paid the special jury l2 12 0 Paid court fees Paid the officer summoning the jury 2 2 0 Paid the sheriff's fee attending court 1 1 0 Paid coffee-house expellees for witnesses _ _ Clerk's attendance as a witness. Term fee, &c. o 10 ti 0 13 0 TRINITY TERM. Attending associate for postea ... 0 8 4 Paid certifying special jury Notice of taxing costs Bill of costs and copy Copy for defendant's attorney Attending taxing Drawing and entering final judgment on the roll 0 6 8 Paid 0 1 1 0 Attending 0 S 4 Term fee, &c. £76 10 7 Deduct 1 17 10 £74 12 9 Damages 25 0 0 £99 12 9 SPECIMEN THE SECOND. (AS LIKE EACH OTHER AS TWO COES.) IN THE COMMON PLEAS. EDWARD DIXON POUCHES v. GRANT AND ANOTHER. HILARY VACATION, 1827. Instructions to sue 0 6 3 Capias and fee into Middlesex. Two copies and services 0 10 0 Letters and messages 0 3 0 EASTER TERM. Searching for appearance. 0 3 4 Instructions for declaration Drawing same, fo. 24 Copy for Mr. Addison to settle 0 6 0 Fee to him to settle Attending him Ingrossiag same to deliver, and warrant Entering on the roll, and paid 1 4 0 Rule to plead 0 1 6 Searching for and demanding plea Drawing issue, fo. 27 Engrossing to deliver ~ .......... 0 9 0 Entering plea on the roll and attending ......... 0 6 4 Warrants and docket 0 4 4 Drawing placita and junta ........ • • 0 3 4 Engrossing record, fo. $1 Parchment Paid marking record and attending Paid passing record and sealer Fee thereon Venire Returning and attending Habeas corpora juratorum Returning and attending Paid setting down cause Attending Brief for counsel to move for a special jury •• • 0 3 4 Fee to counsel to move Attending him in court 0 6, 8 Paid for rule 0 5 0 Attending prothonotary for appointment to r name 48. Two copies of rule and :,ppointme4t, and service en defendants' attorney and under-sherig. 0 6 0 Attending naming 48 Paid prothonotary's fee 2 2 0 Paid the 4;1(1.er-sheriff 2 2 0 Paid for the list 0 5 0 . . . Copy 0 3 0 Attending taking instructions to reduce the Jury 0 6 2 Appointment to reduce copy and service 0 3 0 Attending to strike the 24 0 6 8 0 2 6 S C p o e p o Y ia t l h h e;. a e b o e f as corpora juratorum Paid returning Attending . One " Copy and service on Mr. Lacey, a Commis- X s. D. 'loner of the Court of Requests 0 5 0 Paid him conduct money 1 1 0 Copy and service on Mr. Mainsail, of the Stamp-office 0 5 0 _ _ _ Paid him conduct money Attending at the Stamp-office, to bespeak office copy of the affidavits filed by defendants, to shew they were proprietors and printers, and afterwards for same Paid tbr same Drawing abstract of the issue for the Chief Jus tice by the desire of the associate, 2BS 0 1$ 4 Fair copy thereof Instructions for brief 0 18 4 Drawing same, BBS 2 13 4 Two fair copies for Counsel, 11 BS. Fee to Mr. Brougham with same and clerk 6 11 0 Attending him Fee to Mr. Patteson and clerk 3 • 6 Attending him To copies of notice to produce to annex to briefs Attending, searching, when cause was appointed, and informing the witnesses thereof 0 18 4 Attending court, cause called on, and verdict for plaintiff Paid the special jury Paid court fees Paid the officer summoning the jury . 2 2 0 Paid the sheriff's fee attending court 1 1 0 Paid coffee-house expenses for witnesses Clerk's attendance as a witness 0 10 6 Term fee, &c. TRINITY TERM. Attending associate for postea Paid for rule 0 13 0 Notice of taxing costs Bill of costs and copy Copy for defendant's attorney 0 4 0 Attending taxing _ . Drawing and entering final judgment on the roll 0 6 8 Paid 0 11 0 Attending 0 3 4 Term fee, Fen. £75 19 7 Deduct 1 17 10 £74 1 9 Dainaps 2,5 0 0 £99 1 9 PORTUGAL. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. LISBON, JULY 6.—The English public, who have heard so much about a hundred or two of Spanish refugees of the better classes in London, and of the difficulty of procuring funds to support them, either from the purse of the nation or the benevolence of individuals, are not probably aware that there are in Portugal several hundreds of exiled Spaniards, of all ranks, in the same unfortunate situation. It was only persons in the higher and more exposed con ditions of life, who had sufficient motives, or could find sufficient means, to proceed to London; but persecuted individuals of all classes can pass the river, or the mountain, or the imaginary line which constitutes the boundary between the two States of the Peninsula. The is, that though no encouragement has been held out to desertion from the Spanish army, or emigration from the Spanish territory, a great body of Spaniards have fled into Portugal within the last ten months. They consist chiefly of military men ; but there are others, who have not been in the army, and the number is daily augmenting. About eight days ago, a party of 60 sol diers, with the Governor of one of the Canary Isles at their head, entered the Tagus in a Portuguese vessel, which touched accidentally at the island; and, in the beginning of the present week, a party of 60 or 70 additional deserters reached Santarem, from the frontier. About a dozen of officers have recently arrived from England ; and if passports could be obtained, or permission to disembark. given, more would follow. All these persecuted and unfortu nate patriots are distributed in depots in the capital or its vicinity. There is one depot at Santarem, another at Cascaes (a town some miles beyond Fort St. Julian), another at Belem, and two or three in clam aro, Qua rtwrort. The detachment of cavalry which deserted from Spain into the Algarves, at the beginning of winter, are in depot at Bonas Ares, along with the 'officer who then commanded them. I cannot venture to state the total numbers in these different places, but probably the estimate would not be too high at 500 or 600. They all receive support of some kind or other from the Government when in depot ; but their allowance is scanty, and their treatment often arbi trary. They generally, I understand, receive eight vintens, or about 9d. a day, without rations, while some of those who, for breaches of discipline or ima ginary offences, are placed in close confinement, are almost allowed to starve. Eleven officers who lately arrived from England were imprisoned at the Praca de Alcantara, because they came without passports, and but for the humanity of an Englishman who happened to visit them, must have been starved. One of them was married to an English woman, who insisted on going to prison along with her hus band. I have no doubt, from the accounts which have reached me, that the majority of these unfortu nate men are subjected to extreme hardships. In London they were left to starve out of prison : in Lisbon their severe destiny adds imprisonment to want. Yet the Government is not entirely to blame for their cruel treatment, on two grounds : in the first place, it is just as bountiful to them as to its own subjects in similar circumstances; and, in the second place, it has delegated the management and superin tendence of the depots to a mixed commission of Portuguese and Spanish Liberals, some of whom, it might be expected, would be more lenient in their punishments, and more humane in their attentions, from a remembrance of their own recent sufferings. The busine-sq ,f this commission is to distribute the refugees into the different depots, to watch over their conduct, and to provide for their wants. If an officer absents himself from the place to which their orders restrict him without leave, he is punish ed with incarceration. There are nine in the Castle of Lisbon, and some in the Tower of Belem, in close confinement, for this offence; and, strange to say, their fellow-sufferers are most frequently the informers. Oee of the officers coufiued in the latter fortress might have died of starvation, had it not been for the humanity of one of the turnkeys, who shared his meals with his prisoner, no inquiry being for some days made into his situation, nor any pro vision sent for his support. Dante transfers to Purgatory all the passions which agitated the characters of his i-umortal work in their " upper sphere." This is poetry ; but it is not a whit more improbable than (what is actually true) that the miserable asylum of the Spanish refugees in Portugal—the political purga tory of a Lisbon depot—should be agitated by fierce contests and ambitious cabals between rival factions, as to the form of government proper to be esta blished in Spain when Ferdinand shall be dethroned. One party is for a dictatorship, with General Mina at its head, tijl order is restored; another is for a re public at once ; and a third declares for a limited mo narchy, with a sovereign to be taken on good beha viour. The party of General Mina and the dicta torship is at present at the head of affairs ; and by having the ear of the commission, is said to lord it over the rest. It was one of this faction who, act ing from mere party malignity, informed against the officer who was lately put into the common prison, and against another' who is now in the Castle.— Nothing can be more distressing than to see such chimeiical differences and ridiculous anticipations, alienating from each other the victims of patriotism, and aggravating the evils of their common calamity. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de Pratte* dated Tuesday, July 24, CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 26.—Since the negative answer of the Porte, relative to the pacification of Greece, the views of the Divan dev elope themselves more fully every day, and there is every indication that the Sultan will oppose, by all the means in his power, the resolutions of the Allied Powers. A firman orders the Pachas of the provinces to form, as soon as possible, corps of troops, without distinc tion of religion ; a thing hitherto unheard of in the Turkish Empire. Another order, at the same time, enjoins the Commanders of Arsenals, the Directors of the Marine, and the Commanders of the Forts on the Bosphorus, to complete the number of men and materiel of the establishment in the shortest time possible, and to take care that the works which have been begun shall be finished as soon as possible. Particular 'Couriers have been sent to liedschid Pacha arid to Ibrahim, with a Hatti Scheriff of the Sultan, which orders them to employ, without loss of time, their advantages to put down the insurrec tion, before other circumstances occur which would support it. These are the very words of the Matti Scheriff. Happily for the Greeks, this order must remain nearly ineffectual, for they have so laid waste Attica and the Morea, that the want of provisions will paralyse the operations of the Generals of the Porte. The same will be the case with the meet. Cochrane is collecting at Poros, all the scattered Greek vessels, to make the long projected attack, and the movements of the Turkish fleet hitherto al most betray fear and alarm. Nevertheless we see the Sultan firmly resolved, not only to continue the war which is now going on, but to undertake ano ther, if it is necessary. Since the formal audiences, M. de Ribeaupierre lives quite retired, but he appears to be on the best terms with the Diplomatic Body. Tartars from Persia announce that the Russians have experienced a defeat, and that they are retiring towards Tiflis. MADRID, JULY 9.—The Government has just issued orders for the formation of eight new regi ments of the line, which, it is said, are to garrison our fortresses now occupied by the French, because, in consequence of a new arrangement between the two Cabinets, they are to be evacuated on the Ist of October next. It is believed that this measure, if it should be adopted, will have some influence on the affairs of Portugal; and that the English on their side will evacuate that kingdom. (Film the Moniteur of FRANKFORT, JULY 17.—(From a Private Letter.) —Letters have been received from the Bukowina and the Banaat of Temeswar, according to which nothing remarkable has passed on the Turkish fron tiers. Notwithstanding all the activity displayed by the Pachas of Nessa, Semandria, Silistria, and Rud schuk, in the organization of new levies on the Eu ropean footing, it does not appear that there has yet been any assembling of troops on the plains of Adrianople, as was said at Constantinople some months ago. In Moldavia and Wallachia every thing is on the old footing. The report was current at Jassy, that the Hospodar of Moldavia being injured by hi‘ se cret enemies in the opinion of the Divan, was on the point of being dismissed. Several Moldavian Boy ards are suspected of not being unconcerned in the intrigues carried on at Constantinople against the Hospodar. It was supposed that the readiness which he chewed at the time in the execution of the stipu lations entered into at Akermann respecting Mol davia, had displeased some of the great officers of the Porte. (From the Constitutioanel of Monday.) LISBON, JULY 7.---(Private Letter.)—Since the return of Dr. Abrantes into Europe, Don Pedro IV. has probably received several successive very serious advices, which will probably induce .him to proceed to Lisbon before the 25th of October next, in order to avoid great misfortunes, and a bloody civil war. New facts increase the proofs, already too numerous, and which allow us no longer to doubt that there is a great and fatal blow in preparation_against this epoch_ Gen. Saldanha had shown some disgust at not having been consulted as to the nomination of his new colleagues; and particularly on account of a want of perfect similarity of disposition among the Ministers ; they are not permitted to follow a firm and vigorous course. A number of enlightened and respectable individuals presented some days since to the Minister, Saldanha, as energetic and well weighed memorial, inviting him to preserve his situation, and profit by it. Lord Yarborough arrived here last night, on board the English corvette of war, the Falcon, which left Falmouth ten days ago. He presents himself as a mere traveller, with four of his friends. (Another Private Letter.) —The following is the diplomatic letter sent by Sir William A'Court to Don Francisco Almeida, requiring the expulsion of Romano Alpuente, the Spanish Deputy, from Portugal. " LISBON, APRIL l'7, 1827.—The undersigned Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary of his Britannic Majesty, has the honour to communicate to his Excellency Don Francisco d'Almeida, Minister for Foreign Affairs, that it has come to his knowledge, that a well-known individual, Romero Alpuente, has arrived in this capital, where he has been permitted to land, although without a passport from either Spanish or Portuguese Autho rity. As the presence of that individual in Lisbon at the present moment may have very grave conse quences, the undersigned considers it a duty both towards England and Europe, to demand that per son's immediate removal ; and he declares himself convinced that the British Government, by granting protection to Portugal, never intended it to serve as a centre for the discontented of other countries wherein to form their plans against the peace and tranquillity of the neighbouring States. " The undersigned begs his Excellency to have the goodness to present the contents of this Note to her Royal Highness the Infanta Regent, and to re quest of her an order for the removal of so danger-1 ous an individual. (Signed) " Mr. .4." MADRID, JULY 12.—(Private Letter.)—As to the re-eitablishment of the Inquisition, although not authorised by the Government, it has taken place in several parts of Catalonia,.such as the city of Verge, and several others : and the Bishop of Tarragona, formerly Grand Inquisitor, among the titles at the head of all the documents he publishes, never forgets to add that of Grand Inquisitor, accompanied by the word actual. The affair of the Pope does no t appear to b e i n so advantageous a situation for his Holiness as was thought; for among the fiscals of the different divi sions of the Council of Castile, M. Heredia having made a report less favourable to the rights of the King than those of the Pope, it was sent back to him with orders to review it, accompanied by a threat of deprivati on . It i s thought, that i n spite of all the changes lie cau make in it, he will not preserve his place, The nomination of the President of the Council of Castile is again in the order of the day, and the two most evident Candidates are General Castagnos and Father Velez, Bishop of Compostella. It ap pears undoubted that one of these two men, al though of opposite opinions, will become President of the Council of Castile. DUSSELDORF, JULY 16.--(Private Letter.) — The reforms projected in the Civil and Criminal Legislation of the Rhenish Province have been de ferred. Count Dackelmann, present Ministe r o f Justice, does not share the prejudices which his pre decessor, M. Kirehiesen, had conceived against the French Institutions : he is even convinced of the several essential ameliorations linrgnoettrey of aientdonng judiciaryi institutions. He has pro posed to blend together these different institutions, in order thus to satisfy the partisans of both. This is the reason, no doubt, why things will still remain in sti3pence for a certain time, until the labours of the Commission of General Legislation shall be ter minated, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, JULY 2& Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. BSU% Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 92 Ditto, New 4 per Cent. 100% Gov. Deb. 3% per cent — Royal Canal Stock St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) -" Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank l6 Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings Grand Canal Stock.... l2 City Deb. 4 per cent. dallaat Office Deb. 4p. ct. --.' lc- get ilia:, ‘ 44144„,....„ ~.: ~...,--s: ," ~ .....vz.%*-_,-m,,, - „..,, &..__ 1. ~..54.41f . trr, ti LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1827. We have been for some time at a loss to guess how the Opposition Journals have had the as surance to assert " on undoubted and respectable authority," that many mysterious circumstances have occurred, which upon enquiry, turned out to be the mere offspring of malignancy and falsehood. Low as we thought some of the party, we did not know on whom to fasten our suspicion, and upon the assurance of the old proverb, that " murder will out," we have quietly waited the issue, and patience certainly was never better rewarded. We copy the following from the New Times of this morning : " We are informed by a correspondent, upon whose ve racity we can rely, that his grace the Duke of Welling ton has discharged his principal footman, having ascertain ed that he was in communication with those papers which have lately disclosed several important State secrets, as well as certain private conversations of a very delicate na ture.—The man's name we withhold for the present. Now if this be true, we know not " what device, what starting hole they will find out to hide them from this open and apparent shame ?" Was there ever anything so base, so disgraceful, as for a public journalist to bribe a Nobleman's servants to reveal family secrets ? To quit the legitimate sources of intelligence, for one so despicable' in every sense of the word, is indeed calculated to sink the " Press" in the es timation of the country. But as nothing too strong can be said of such conduct, if true, so we will give the accused an opportunity of denying the charge. We may remark, however, in the mean time, as a singular coincidence, that a Morning Contemporary has this day discontinued com munications respecting the Duke of WEL.' LINGTON'S movements, and overheard conver sations, with which it has for some time regularly favoured its readers. We received last night the Paris Papers of Monday, and the Gazette de France dated Tuesday morning. The latter contains an article from Constantinople, dated the 26th of June, from which we learn that the SULTAN is deter mined to oppose, by every means in his power, the interference of the Allied Powers in behalf of Greece. His Highness .has given orders for the formation, d iff erent Province ; 01 corps,ttiZtioount' in he 1 of distin t i:tio/Rdigion, and alsO for the preparation of all the Forts of the Bos phorus. Couriers have been sent to IBRAt{IM anti Rnusc;taw YACIIA, to employ the advan tages they have gained, in pulling down the Insurrection in Greece before other circumstances occur which will support it ; and, in fact, every thing indicates that a determined opposition will be given to the measures proposed to be adopted by the recently published Treaty. The same letter announces that Tartars from Persia have brought intelligence that the Rus sians had experienced a defeat, and were retreat ing towards Tiflis. The Russian account of an affair on the banks of the Araxes, led us to ex pect that they had sustained a very considerable check in their operations against Persia. From Madrid it is mentioned that orders have been issued for the formation of eight new regi ments of the line, which, it is said, are to garri son the Spanish fortresses which are to be eva cuated by the French troops on the Ist October next. The month of October seems pregnant with important events for the Peninsula, but we very much question whether it will produce the with drawal of the French troops from Spain. We should rather be inclined to suspect that the raising of these regiments may be connected with the return to Portugal of Don MIGUEL, which is also to take place in October. Extracts of these Papers will he found in column. FRENCH FuNns.—Rentes, Five per Cents, 102 f. 95c. 103 f. ; Three per Cents. '72f. 55c. 65c. FOREIGN FUNDS.--Rentes Nap. Cert. Fal. '7Bf. 35c. 45c. ; Sicilian Bonds, 83f. 50c.; Spanish Rentes, 8 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 61gi ; Interminable Spanish Annui ties, 46 45g. New York Papers to the Ist instant likewise reached town last night ; they possess but little interest. The conduct of the Emperor of BRAZIL towards the Minister of the United States, seems to have roused all the indigna tion of the American Editor, who conceives that a threatening attitude is necessary to con vince Don PEDRO that the United States will not submit to indignities from " an arro gant and short-lived Prince." We subjoin the article : Nxw YORK, Jura.: 28.—The Emperor of Brazil, with a degree of arrogance, which might hav e b een expecte d from his vanity, and from his recent course towards this country, expresses himself in his speech at th e o p en i ng o f his Congress, in a very lofty, if not contemptuous, strain, on the late affair of our Minister. He says—" The de parture of the Minister of the U n it e d St a t es , so su dd e n, and so little founded on r ea s on , oug ht no t t o g i ve us even the slightest inquietud e , (kveviente inquietar), as I count on the prudence o f th e P res id en t o f th ose St a t es , and th e wisdom, justice, and impartiality of the North Americans.' The concessions, he takes it fir granted, are to be made by our Government, and from motives of prudence. As far as we know the circumstances of the case, we are firmly of opinion that any thing but A vigorous course, and threatening attitude, on the part of our Government, woo either o f just Qr otiafactory to the indignant feelisio of t but Pet rer, Agi equ pat, full Kai of hay pur mat whi reb& had FL MI re is zeal, rec 4 of 1 mei brini tion tion recru read) They Five built. vered pre ee Week Cant lity ment due t Bohe ionge - Or Cierrr feld. from Tb of the of a High, of the of 'GI, guttui Ai Unit pop' .A m with a del at a 1 whic pre TOR its a WA eight Min pose sort the TO W T