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DIPLOMATIC REMINISCENCE. The Journal des Debuts of Saturday last contains the follow ing observations relative to what occurred in Portugal *luring the embassy of M. Hyde de Neuville " A Ministerial Evening Journal expresses surprise at the pro position deposited by the Baron Hyde de Neuville on the bureau of the first Committee of the Chamber, and adds, 'deposited by' the man who conducted John VI. on board the English ship.' " The journal in question must then have ceased to be Mini sterial ; for how else would it, in a case in which facts speak so plainly, have ventured to repeat an absurdity with which the Mi nistry cannot fail to be offended? It was after the 30th of April that the King of France made M. de Neuville a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. " The King of Portugal made him a Grandee of his realm and created him Count of Bonposta (the name of his palace). Lord Beresford, a Peer of Greatßritain, who had done every thing to prevent John VI. from going on hoard the English ship, was sent away from Portugal by order of John VI. Sir Edward Thornton, the English Minister, who seconded the French Am bassador, was, on that account, dismissed b y Mr. Canning. Wkiat was it, then, that took place on board the British ship We leave the explanation of those matters to the Evening Journal. We merely observe, that it is rather maladroit to calumniate honour while it can speak for itself. "N.B. The above observations come froM a man well ac quainted with the events of the 30th of April." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Moniteur of Tuesday, Jan. 2.) " Manato, DEC. 18.—The whole of the Royal Family are in perfect health. Several detachments of Portuguese Royalists entered into Spain last week, in order to raise recruits, and penetrated as far as Viseu, and other villages of the Sierra, which are' in the juris diction of the Captain-General of the province of Seville. As soon as he was informed of it, he gave the most positive orders for the full execution of the treaties in force between Spain and Portugal, and, in consequence, addressed a circular letter to all the Governors, of the fortresses in his province, to disarm and dis perse all the Portuguese emigrants. As soon as the latter were informed of those orders of the Captain-General, they took flight aid returned to Portugal. " DEC. 21.—General Rodil, the hero of Callan, of whose ap proaching nomination to a high office we have already spoken, is just appointed second Commandant-General of the Provincial 31i litia of the Royal Guard, of which the Count de San Roman re mains Inspector-General, and first Commandant. M. de San Roman will especially command the battalions of grenadiers, and General Rodil the chasseur9. " The latter, which succeed the grenadiers, whose three years' service in the capital was expired, have just arrived at Leganes, Yicalvara, Caraniancheles, and letafe. " A very important piece of news was communicated to us yes terday. Our Government replied a week ago to the last applica tion of the English and Portuguese Governments, that it consent ed to receive a Charge d'Affaires from Portugal. We must con sider this concession as a kind of recognition of the Portuguese Government by ours. It is, at least, a tacit recognition ; for what matters it to the relations between two countries whether their agents are Charges d'Affaires, 'Ministers Plenipotentiary, or Ambassadors ? In consequence of this arrangement, M. de Casa Fiore!, our Ambassador at Lisbon, is going to return hither, and a Charge d'Affaires will be immediately sent to Portugal. " The Duke de l'lnfantado used to receive the diplomatic body three times a week, M. Salinon has received it only twice since be has been in the administration ; and he has just declared, ,that he can now receive it only on Sundays. His Excellency adds in his ..ircular that if any member of the diplomatic body has any thing urgent to communicate, that he cannot wait till Sunday, he is re quested to inform him of his intended visit the day before. What is the meaning of this regulation? Is M. Salmon already busy in making up his accounts ? It is affirmed that M. d'Offalia arrived at Madrid the day before yesterday, and that be did not come without being sent for by high authority. We know also, that M. Sobrado, formerly member of the Council of Castile, to well known for the exelantatiOn which escaped him at the return to the Council of most of the members who had been dismissed, " that he would not sit with Negroes,"—an exclamation which caused the King, who was justly irritated, to dis miss hire and banish him to Grenada. We know, we re peat, that M. Sobrado has just arrived in this city, and it has been generally reported since Tuesday in our Salons, that M. d'Offalia is going to resume the office of Minister of State, and that the Department of Grace and Justice will he given to M. Sobrado. Don Louis Lopez Ballesteros is also to have a successor, who :a net mentioned. In consequence of these nominations, M. Salmon, t is said, will have the embassy to Rome, whither M. de Casa Flores, now Minister at Lisbon, also much wishes to go. The Count de la Puebla, who was for a time Ambassador in France last year, has also come forward to obtain this embassy of his Majesty, These are the reports in the court and city ; they put all our place-hunters in motion. " PARIS, JAN. 1.-We have the following accounts from Madrid, Dec. 26 : " The Spanish Government has ordered a corps of troops to be sent to Estremadura and Old Castile : this corps is to be com posed of seven regiments of provincial militia, of one regiment of the Guard, and a reeiment of horse chasseurs, making 7, 000 or 13,000 men in all. "These troops will be under the orders of Ge neral Rodil, whose command will be independent of that of the Captains-General of those provinces.' " Accounts from Lisbon of the 20th of December say—' The students attempted a movement at Coimbra; but on the first de monstration made by the garrison, order was restored.' " At Almeida the refugees had summoned the Governor to sur render the place. When they came to take possession of it, the garrison made a sally, and put them to the rout. " They have also been repulsed at Amarante. " The refugees have not been able to advance beyond the line of the Tamego ; they have been beaten at all the points where they have attempted to cross that river. " The corps of the Marquis de Chaves is still at Chaves ; that of the Viscount de Montalegre at Villa Real; and that of Silveira in the environs of Braganca. (From the Etoile, dated Wednesday, Jan. 3.) " ST. PETERSBURCIf, DEC. 13.—The Post-office has just published a list of the foreign periodical publications which are not to be admitted into the Russian Empire in 1827. (Only - the names of eight German literary journals are mentioned in the Etaile.) " 'The sentence passed by the Council of War at Wilna, on occasion of the peasants of Sabelli, who had revolted against their =aster, induced the Grand Duke Constantine to ask the Minister of Justice whether the ordinance proclaiming pardon and amnesty of the 14th of September last, was not to be applied to these pea ._. 1300 as well as to the military, as they had been tried by a mili tary tribunal. The :Minister of Justice referred to the Council of Ministers, which thought the ordinance applicable to both cases, and asked the Emperor to decide accotclingly. His Majesty an swered, Very well ; however, , I desire the sentence passed - oh the guilty to be 1,1".(1 before me. Ministers, which thought the ordinance applicable to both cases, --- and asked the Emperor to decide aceoldingly. His Majesty General Weekly an- Bank- Insol. Price of Consols Average Price of swered, 6 Very well ; however, I desire the sentence p asse d - 0 h - rupts. vents. - • * Wheat. 1 the guilty to be laid before me." 1 Highest. Lowest. Highest. Lowest, 1 --- --,.. , s, d. s. d. The M'oniteur of the Ist says----" The responsible Editor of tits 294 41 82 3 / 4 7 9 %. .1 5 4 ' 59 5 e i u Courtier Francais ha s been summoned before the Correctional "ac'4'l4ri February Tribunal for the 6th of January, for having endeavoured to excite hatred against the Government, and for having insulted one of March 258 23 , 8 . 0% 75 3 / 4 58 2 54 11 293 17 79% 77% 61 256 5 the King's Ministers on occasion of the exercise of biz functions, Aril 'flay by publishing in its number of this day (31st of Decembe.) the , June ... 22 ,23 , 80. /8 '7B A t 57 554 ft article headed On the Project of Lau , on the Press." 124 20 '78% '76% 57 455 11 (From the Constit utionnel of )10nday.) August l2l 22 99% '78% 7755 8 (PRIVATE L ETTER.) September 124 17 81 7914 56 354 11 " 'MA DRID , DEc. 21.—Segeral extraordinary couriers, Arrived October l2l 81 , 13.4 6 so % 5:5 4 11 54 33t from Paris, hav e b roug ht us the King of Fra nce ' s s p eech on th.A. November opening of th e Ch ata bp rs , an d the piesaage of the King of En g - Derernber land to the Parliament. Siisce then tine guatest agitation pre- --,-- -----1 veils in men's minds, and the reports circulated a - a evally nume- 2 5 67 304 rous and contradictory. ~ The Generals who command the'Highest Price of Wheat dutiog the year. f Lowest. Whence the inva- • sion of Portugal was effected, far from being disgraced and put provinces . ~. This da is the Anniversary of the death pf Wm an their trial, as was said, not only continue in even one of them, General Longa, i5w..... w..... is far from being * noble, in their posts, but who has been deservedly designated the "Father of the Potteries." is appointed Gentl e m an of the Chamb er on service—a distinction Thirty-two years have ,eiapsed since that event ; and althou g h seldom granted to a Major-General. others less deserving of them, have received posthumous honours 6t As to the apostolicala, their exasperation is at its height.,— in abundance, yet to the memory of Mr. Wedgwood, no public Their constant cry is war, and they redouble their offers of money monument has been erected, no testimonial raised, expressive of for carrying it on. the pu blic feelings, his name and worth must excite. Durin g those thirty - two y ea r stbe d eath of statesmen, poets, and warriors, Dir. Lamb had made prepara tions f ‘ r hi s d eparture , but h e has had every thing suddenly unpacked, and 1a,,.. `" communications distinguished in the ample roil of fame, have been recorded, and with M. Saloum have become very frequent. Count d'Offalia, over their ashes, and to their memory, the nation has raised monu who arrived here two days ago, it is said, will succeed M. Sal- 'tents; but Mr. Wedgwood, who has been in an ernio,e4 dmree, •mon as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Though not yet invested the means of giving wealth to.the kingdom, and support to thou with any official character, he has already 1 - .2,1 ,-- Several conferences sands 4)f his countrymen, has been suffered to sink into the calm with Mr. Lamb. and quietude, and repose of the tomb, without having even the " The Rev. Father Cyrillo has just received a pew chAek. He simplest remembranCe rai,sed by the public, to record his worth. was on the head of the list for the Bishopric of Cuenca, v44glin It is true, " his Epitaph shall be his name alone," but common is the bast Bishopric in Spain, but was not appointed. This gratitude should surely impel the inhabitants of the Potteries to 'dic'ees* was given to the Bishop of Teruel, T. 711,0 was only second an f act that totht have been long since perfOrmed. We hope that •Ois the list. It is the invariable practice, that out of the list of this reproach will so T? ease to exist; and that when times he three candidates which the )Minister presents, the King a iwais come better, this deed, so long rnlected, but so richly deserved, i;booses the first name. But on this occeaion M. Calomarde had. )011 be Derformed.-Pottery Mercury of Wednesday. 0 the mortification to see his particular friend, Father Cyrille, pass ed over, and the Bishop of Teruel, whu is a far more moderate man, preferred. Nevertheless, this petty disappointment expe rienced by the Minister, may be the effect of some Court jots igue totally unconnected with politics. " A prison has just been appropriated to a sew description of culprits—namely, Alcaldes, who are brought prisoners to Ma drid, in consequence of the towns and villages under their jurisdiction not paying their taxes. These Alcaldes will pro bably he obliged to make good the deficiencies, for even bayoneis cannot make people pay taxes who cannot find money to buy bread. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) " ROME, Dec. 16.—The Treasurer Cristaldi has for some time past deposited large sums in the Treasury of his Holiness ; the taxes in the Roman State are considerable ; they are rigorously exacted, and nothing is expended for the good of the State.— Every one asks what can become o( this money ; for the College of Cardinals does not now permit Popes, as formerly, to enrich their nephews. Those who are the best acquainted with public affairs here, assert, that the Apostolics of the Peninsula have applied to the Roman Government for supplies of money in case of need. These supplies were promised ; and the payment of t-txes into the Papal treasury was afterwards actively pressed. The moment of need having arrived, the promises made have been car ried into effect ; vast sums have been for some time past drawn from the Treasury, to be transferred, it is said, to the hands of the apostolical Spaniards and Portuguese." (From the Quotidieune of Monday.) (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) " MADRID, DEC. 21.—King Ferdinand continues to resist the threats which have been again held out to hies by England and even by France itself. In order to declare his sentiments, his Majesty, it is said, waits for answers to the autograph letters which he has addressed to the Sovereigns of the North. .In the mean time our troops are assembling in Galicia and in Old Castile. General Despagne, who holds the chief command of a division of ihe army, consisting of 10,000 or 12,000 meu, has established his head-quarters at Zamora. It is probable that before long this army will descend to the south ; for the Portuguese Royalists ap -proaching towards Lisbon, and the fate of Portugal must be decided on this last point, it would be necessary that our t.oops should follow the movement along our frontiers, and marching in a parallel line, should approach as near as possible to the spot where the denouement of this important affair will take piece. " We have been disagreeably - surprised in reading the expres sions in which the French Ministers indulge on the subject of the troubles in the Peninsula. We have seen with grief that the French Government names England in the number of its allies/ and treats Spain almost as an enemy. Whatever may have been the secret motives which determined France to embrace such a line of policy, our Moriarch will not give way. Spain has less substantial force than England ; but she knows the energy of our nation. Indeed, no person liere is mistaken as to the wicked quarrel which the British Cabinet seeks with us at the present moment. After having revolutionised our colonies—after having failed in her attempts on our coasts, in order to assist our revolu tionists, she wishes, no doubt, to take from us the Philippine and the Canary Islands. If such be her design, it is probable that Europe will know how to compel her to give back the conquests which she would acquire by such scandalous piracy. " DEC. 22.—The most contradictory reports are in circulation here as to the determination of our Monarch. The whole diplo matic body is in motion. The French Legation remains here, notwithstanding the departure of M. de Moustier and M. de Viel castel, the Chief Secretary of the Embassy, is charged with all the negociations. He is quite au fait in Spanish affairs, as lie has belonged to the Legation since the time of M, Lagarde. He has frequent interviews with the Russian Ambassador, who appears charged with the support of the notes of the Cabinet of the Tui leries. " It is asked here every day if war will break out, and the af firmative, instead - of alarming, seems to rejoice the Spaniards.-- It has been remarked that Mr. Lamb, heretofore so blustering, has all at once become mild and conciliating ; instead of being full of sharpness in his demands, his notes have, it is said, become alto gether sweet, and even complaisant. " Every thing which may be effected by diplomacy is doubtful, but the daily increasing progress of the Portuguese Royalists is by no means so. Here is one of the last bulletins, in manuscript, which have been in circulation here for some days. I suppress the details, but the main points deserve credit, for the Spaniards are not idle talkers. _ _ " The town of Viseu, in Beira, which was the head-quarters of the Brigadier Asserado, taking advantage of an excursion which that officer had made in the mountains of Trancosso, de clared itself for the Royalists. The General being informed of this movement returned in all haste ; but the insurrection took place, in spite of his presence, amidst cries of " Down with the Constitution." Asserado, perceiving that the inhabitants were taking arms and assuming a threatening attitude, left the city that same evening, accompanied by some troops, in order to seek a reinforcement at Lamego. After his departure a corps of Royalists entered Visett, and marched immediately on 'l'ondella, on the right hank of the Mondego, and from thence towards Coimbra, a point on which it appears that other Royalist corps are also advancing." FrpgAcT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM SALAMANCA, DATED DECEMBER 22. " Collections continue in our convents for the benefit of our brethren in Portugal; the Monks traverse the mountains for the purpose of carrying contributions to the Marquis de Montalegre and the Marquis de Chaves. On all the roads the brave Royal ists are entertained by all classes. A remarkable fact, which well characterizes the people of this country, is the unanimity of opi nion which prevails against the English occupation : Constitutionalists, all repel with the same indignation the idea of a domination which now appears in the most odious forms. "Jon Antonio de Santa Fe, one of our most celebrated authors, is about to publish, under the sanction of the University, a cu rious dissertaior which he has read in several learned societies, upon the rights oi Don Miguel to the Crown of Portugal. —Don Antonio is a roa4 of learning ; he has searched the register of the ancient Cortes, ar,d when this work is printed, I will send it to you ; it is desirable that yo:i should disperse in France memoir, a copy of which is about to he sent, it is said, to to the King, a prisoner at Vienna, and which will be placed untie:. his observation. " PAnts, DEC. 31.-41. de Gabian, Ambassador from France to Brazil, it was said was to embark at West ; but we are in formed that the frigate appointed to convey him to his destina tion is .to touch at Lisbon, before sailing for Rio de Janeiro. —lt is, doubtless, hoped that our Ambassador will find the English at Lisbon. It woukl have been better to have sent him at once by the way of London." A TABLE, ahowing the NUMBER of BANKRUPTS and !NSW-- VENTS, the PRICES of CONSOLS, and the AVERAGE PRICES 01 WHEAT, for every Month during the Year 1826. PRICES OF STOCKS TNT Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons 3.Ye per Cent.: ll7 36 6?j Oitto Red. 96Fi% t per Cent. New Ditto, 1816 W 474 Bank Long Ann lB 5-16 'fi, India Stock - Wino Bonds 43 46 pm. DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities Nei Ditto Ex. Bills, gi,ooo 2d. 25 24 2G pm. Ditto 5OO 2d 2.5 2d pm. Ditto Small ...... 2d.: 25 26pm• Ditto Commexeial Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Acct. 9 0 31 si PRICES OF FOREIGN FU Austrian Bonds,s per cent. Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chilian Bonds, B pet rt. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 (Amish, 3 per cent. fJlj Greek Bonds Ditto, 1826 Guatemala Mexican Bonds Do. 1925 rNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds grussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. Spanish, 1821 1.2 , 7-. -- 1 1823 8 I ,i French ,entes, sp. c -f. --c -- Exchange —t. —e 3 per cent —t -r. --Exchange PRICES OF SNARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mexican Mining Company £Bo 57}4 Anglo Chili= Mining C0T11Pa11y...... Castello and EspiritoSantoßrazil Ditto 5 2% Pasco Peruvian Mining Company 2O SS. 3 ~, Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Assoc. PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS, JAN. 1. Bank 5t0ck..234 St. Patrick Incur. (per sbare ••• Goy. Stock, 3!-,', per cent 85! , ;, 5 Royal Irish Ditto — Ditto, New National Ditto — t per Cent. Coy. Deb. 3!-4 per cent Consols, 3 per cent Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine — Grand Canal Stock -- Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent. Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent, Commercial Bittldirnes — ' MAILS. Arrived.' Due. Arrived. Due. . 0 America 0 0 Guernsey Pe Jersey. 0 ✓ Brazil 0 0 Hamburgh O Buenos AyreA O Donagliad ee 0 0 Jamaica 0 I Dublin - 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 I France O Gottenburgh 1 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning l5 minutes after 7. I Everting ....... 41 minutes after 7, 4-1 " N. h a • it7l:4 Ili I LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, We lament that we cannot communicate any ac counts of a more favourable nature respecting the health of the Duke of YORK. To our inquiries, at a late hour this afternoon, we received for answer, that his ROYAL HIGHNESS was considerably worse. We have received the Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday, and the Etoile of Wednesday morning. Their contents, if not of great importance, are extremely inte resting, as containing information from Madrid, down to the 26th ult. This intelligence is of varied character, and does not enable us to come to any positive conclusion as to the course which FERDINAND will determine to adopt. On the one hand we hear of several detachments of Por- tuguese Royalists, who had re-entered Spain for the pur pose of raising recruits, having been obliged to return with hake to Portugal, in consequence of the measures taken on the occasion by the Captain General of the Province ; while on the other hand, it is positively stated that an army of observation, consisting of 7 or 8,000 men, is to be assembled in Old Castile and Estreniadtira, under the command of General RontL, who distinguished himself by the defence of Callao, and whose command is to be independent of that of the Captains General of the Pro vinces. In Madrid, and in the Councils of the SovEastoN, there appear to be incessant indications of the same va cillation and uncertainty. The most contradictory reports circulate, and receive confirmation by the conflicting events which daily take place. At One moment FERDINAND agrees to receive a Charge d'Affaires from Portugal, and to send hack to Lisbon M. DE CASA FLORES. At another he expresses his anger at the conduct of England and France, and postpones his determination until he receives answers to the autograph letters which he has addressed to the Sovereigns of the North. In the mean time his Majesty appears to contemplate extensive changes in his Cabinet, and M. SALMON will not receive Members of the Diplo matic Body on any other day than Sunday, except in cases of urgency, when one day's previous communication is requisite to obtain the honour of an interview. It is evident from all this, that at present FERDINAND has not decided one way or the other ; the Aposteli cal Party have evidently had sufficient influence if not to force him to the measures which they would wish him to pursue, to prevent him declaring distinctly for an opposite line of policy. They hoped that the Royalists would, in the mean time, gain some important advantages in Portugal, which would fix the wavering determination of the KlNG—but it remains to be seen whether the prompt arrival of British forces in Portugal will not at once in timidate his MAJESTY into .a course destructive of their hopes and expectations. There is no other news in these Papers. The liberal Journals are filled with complaints against the proposed law for the Regulation of the Press. • The French Funds are rather lower. NITe subjoin their closing price on Tuesday afternoon, and insert in another column extracts from the several Papers. _ FRF.NCH FUNDs.—Peuis, JAN. 2.—Five per Cents. 98f. 80c. 85c. 95c. 99f. 3.5 c. ; per Cents. 90f. 25c. ; Three per cents. 67f. 30c. 35c. 45c. tSfic.; Bank Stock 2020 f. ; Naples Rentes, 13f. 40c. 35c., 45f.; Rentes d'E►pagne, 12. ; Royal Spanish Loan 49 ; Exchange on London—One Month Paper, 25f. 35c. ; Money, 25f. 20c. ; Three Months, 25f. 30c. do. ; 25f- sc. do. The Santiago Gazette: to the 11th September have been repeiyed. The Gazette of the 9th contains a communica tion from the President of the Republic, Don MANUEL BLANCO ENCALADA; to the National Congress, announcing his resignation, on account of the alienation and neglect manifested by all parties towards the Executive Power. The resignation of the PRESIDENT was immediately fol lowed by that of the Ministers of the Home and Foreign Departments, on the plea of ill health. . .Both resignations were accepted by the Congress. We,subjoin the PRESIDENT'S communication, as con taining a general statement of the situation of the Republic of Chili, together with a Decree issued on the 2d of Sep tember, for publishing the ,proceedings of the Tribunals of Justice : " COMMUNICATION FROM. THE. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE NATIONAL CONGRESS. " SANTIAGO, SErr. '7.—When the Sovereign National Con gress did me the honour of investing me with the Presidency of this Republic, I was disposed to accept this important office, be cause I felt persuaded that my sentiments apd opinions, and well known zeal for the public service, would suffice to counterbalance the numerous obstacles and difficulties surrounding the admini stration of affairs, left, as they were, in a state so embarrassed and alarming, on the termination of the career of my predecessor, Don Ramon Freire. I felt convinced that Congress, sensibly alive to the critical position of affairs, and the exhausted state of the Trea sury, would lend their active co-operation, and unite in perfect harmony with the Executive, for the purpose of calling into ac tion all those indispensable resources and means that were so im periously necessary for meeting the urgent and daily necessities of the State, which, indeed, have been a source of unceasing per plexity to the Government, from the first moment of its installa tion.—What has been the state of the public Treasury, from that period to this, will sufficiently appear from the repeated represen tations made by the Executive to Congress. It is therefore, quite nugatory again to allude to the lamentable appearance it presents, which has been already submitted to the consideration of the Representatives, without ever producing effects that might reasonably be expected, and which were equally demanded by ne cessity, reason, and sound policy. " Compelled, therefore, by the sacred obligation imposed on me, by the office I hold—by honour, and by conscience, and desirous of terminating my responsibility to the nation, I request that the Sovereign Congress will be pleased to accept the resigna tion I now solemnly make of the Supreme Magistracy, protesting at the same time, that the cause that has induced me to take this resolution, is the alienation and neglect of all parties manifested towards the Executive Power, which has been left to the mercy of the attacks of public opinion, without aid or hope to steer its course amidst a thousand hidden rocks, which must ultimately be its destruction. Some other individual, more fortunate than he who addresses you, or more experienced in the science of making something out of nothing, may succeed one whose unhappy fate it has been to struggle with insuperable difficulties : at one time to oppose dacgerous innovations—at another to discountenance the most absurd and inexplicable theories—now to foil the in trigues of party—now to calm the ardour of passions neither ele vated nor generous. " I, therefore, solicit the Sovereign Congress to declare the Session permanent, until they shall elect an individual to succeed me in the Supreme Command. With this request I offer the Sovereign Congress the assurance of my profound respect. (signed) " MANUEL BLANCO ENCAL ADA." " DECREE. " SANTIAGO, SIFT. 2. 1826.—The Government, having con sidered that all acts of the Judicial Administration should be made public, because this publicity offers the best security to citizens against the inroads of arbitrary power, and, at the same time, affords Magistrates and others entrusted with the arduous office of administering the laws, with an opportunity of making manifest to their country the integrity and impartiality of their conduct, as well as their zeal for the prompt dispatch of legal business, which last circumstance, in the opinion of the most experienced juris consults, is of the first importance in promoting an amelioration of public morals, by virtue of the timely correction it affords, so essential in all punishments, decrees as follows : " I. The Tribunals ofJustice in the Capital, and all Judicial Courts in the Provinces, shall transmit to the Minister of the Interior, once in four months, commencing from the Ist of the present month of September, a statement that shall comprehend an extract of all criminal causes brought forward in those Courts, with a copy of the sentences pronounced. "2. These statements shall be published in the Santiago Ga zette, and in all other periodicals, whose editors shall receive a particular recommendation from Government to this effect. " 3. The Minister of the Interior shall be entrusted with the execution of this decree. (Signed) " BLANCO." Frankfort Papers of the 28th ult. have been received, but they contain no news. The followiNg is an extract or WO ELBEAFETS, DEC. 5. From a view of the goods imported by sea, through the instru • mentality of the Rhenish West India Company, to the dose of the navigation in 1826, the total value was 5,378,700 Prussian Rix Dollars, of which far the greater part was from the Prussian States, viz., from the districts of Mark and Westphalia, for 1,417,754 Rix Dollars ; and from East Prussia, Silesia, and the Grand Duchy of Saxony, 1,845,320 Rix Dollars. The exports from the kingdom of Saxony and the Duchies were 981,650 Rix Dollars. SWITZERLAND, DEC. 23. A circular note of the Presiding Canton acquaints the Govern. ment of the other Cantons of a diplomatic communication made by the Court of Russia, that Commodore Bellinghausen will go to sea solely for the exercise of the marine, with the Czar Constantine of the line, and Helena frigate; and when the sea is no longer tenable will winter at Toulon. We received this morning the Allgenteine Zeitung of the 28th ult. We have accounts from Trieste as late as the 21st, but they do not confirm the report of a conven tion having been concluded between the Turks and Greeks, as we slated yesterday on the authority of an Amsterdam Paper. The Egyptian fleet, consisting of seventy sail, with ammunition and provisions, had sailed from Alex andria, and arrived safe at Navarino on the Ist of Dec.:— BUCHAREST, DEC. S. The Marquis de Ribeaupierre hag not yet arrived here on his way to Constantinople. His suite is here waiting for him.— According to the last accounts from Constantinople of the 2d of thi.‘ month, no change of any importance had taken place there. Many people continued to he sent into banishment, but there were rather fewer executions. TRIESTE, DEC. 19. A ship has arrived here to-day in 22 days, from Alexandria, hut on account of the stormy weather we have not yet been able to speak to the Captain. According to letters from Canea, of the 15th November, the Greek Pirates had assembled at Carabues, and had lately attacked, with their Mistica, eight or ten European ships (chiefly French), and not only totally plundered them, bu* grossly ill-treated the crews. TRIESTE, DEC. 20. The captain who arrived yesterday from Alexandria, reports that the Egyptian fleet, amounting, with the European trans ports, to 70 sail,, with ammunition and provisions, but with out troops, put to sea eight days before his departure. According to letters from Zante, it was known there on the 14th that the Egyptian fleet had arrived safe at Navariu on the Ist of December. A French brig, bound from Marseilles to Alexandria, with 20,000 dollars and sundry mercbandize, bad been taken by a Greek pirate. TRIESTN, DFC• 21 • The frigate built far the Greeks at New York has safely ar, rived at Malta. The letters from Alexandria are full of Corn plaints of the stagnation of trade. VutNNA, DFc. 23.-Metalliques, 88 6 ; Bank Shares, 1,068 In. the observations which we made yesterday upon that part of the Message of the PRESIDENT of the United States which related to the topics of discussion remaining with Great Britain, we endeavoured to •hew the right of this Country to regulate the commercial intercourse of other Nations with her Colonies in such manner as she may .think At, and we Shall now endeavour tp enforce fur ther than we did yesterday that Great Britain has acted with perfect justice in exercising this right to the exclu sion of ships belonging to the subjects of the United States of America. The Act of the 6th of the KING for regulating the trade of the British possessions abroad, after reciting that " by the laws of navigation foreign ships are permitted to import into any of the British possessions abroad from the Countries to which they belong, goods, the produce of those Countries, and to export goods from such possessions to be carried to any foreign Country whatever," and that it is expedient that such permission should be subject to certain conditions, enacted, " That the privileges thereby granted to foreign ships shall be limited to the ships of those Countries which, having colonial possessions, shall grant.the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships : or which not having Colonial possessions, shall place the commerce and navigation of this Country, and of its possessions abroad, upon the footing of _the most favoured Nations, unless his MAJESTY shall in any case deem it expedient to grant the whole or any of such privileges to the ships of any foreign Country, although the condi tions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign Country," Great Britain, acting upon the liberal spirit of free trade which she had determined to adopt, thus offered to open the ports of all her Colonies to the ships of the United States, upon condition of her ships enjoying similar privi leges in her ports. The United States declined acceding to the latter condition, and consequently the conditional arrangement proposed to be made could not, in reason, be continued. His MAgsilY, therefore, although he was pleased to continue the privileges granted to American ships in the intercourse with his colonies in Europe, directed by his Order in Council of the 27th July last, in consequence of the non-fulfilment of the conditions on which they were granted on the part of the United States, that those privileges should cease with respect to the British possessions in the West Indies and America, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Dieman's Land. We cannot better explain this proceeding than in the words we used on the 19th of August, when we published the Order in Council in question. We then remarked— " That this proceeding, on the part of his 'MAJESTY'S Government, is a necessary consequence of the conduct of the United States. In acting upon the principles of free trade, His MAJETY'S Ministers reserved to themselves the right of withdrawing those concessions which, in the spirit of liberality, Great Britain had made to other coun tries for the purpose of bringing about that universal inter course which it was conceived would be beneficial to all the nations of the world, provided the Governments of other countries would act upon the same liberal principles. The experiment has been fairly tried with the United States, and as she does not chuse to act with perfect reci procity, his MAJEsTv's Government, with a consistent and due regard to the spirit on which the concessions were made in favour of American ships, withdraws the privileges which had been given to them—with a candid avowal of the grounds on which such proceeding has been taken. Unwilling, at the same time, to subject this country to any accusation of a sudden and unlooked for change of policy in her commercial regulations, and desirous of still affording time to the Government of the United States to re-consider the question, his MAJESTY'S Ministers have fixed a distant day for the commencement of the altered system of intercourse between British Colonies and America. It therefore rests with the United State. to obtain or finally reject the advantages which a reciprocity in trade must necessarily produce." The right of the country to regulate her colonial trade being admitted, and these acts of the British Parliament, and the Order of his MAJESTY in Council, above referred to, being promulgated to the world, it is as impossible to maintain a charge against Great Britain for having evinced a want of good faith or justice in the prohibitory measures she has had recourse to, as it would have been to prove that she had acted wisely if she had not resorted to them. The regulations for free trade proceeded en the principle of reciprocity, and the United States, declining to allow our vessels reciprocal advantages in her ports, could, neither in reason nor justice, claim the continuance of indulgences of which they were to reap the principal advantages. This point, therefore, we trust, we have completely esta blished; but, if we may judge by the general tenor rather than by the direct terms used by the PRESIDENT, we should be inclined to think that the United States will not abandon the claim which they, are impolitic enough to urge, not as a favour, but as a just right, to the re-opening of the colonial trade. Great Britain, however, will never yield to a demand urged on such grounds, and justly proud of the magnanimous example which she has shown•of her disinterestedness to promote the general benefit of man kind, in her adoption of the principles of free trade, she will refuse to concede that as a right which she would have freely and readily granted for the mutual advantage of the two countries, whose general interests are so closely connected. The omission of Commodore Sir JAMES BRISBANE, late commanding his Majesty's ships in the East Indies, and personally directing the operations of the flotilla on the river Irawaddy, from a participation in the honours conferred on the Military, Naval, and E of as s t ir ln j d A ia m C zs Tra an p d an t y: Officers, who distinguished themselves in the recent wars in India, has given rise to many observations, and an x i ou s inquiries as to the cause of such an unusual circumstance. i o t f e t a h n o o se nl w y hhoavheavacie arisen from known character and gallantry honourable testimony borne to his services during the the e that iist Burmese war, at once contradict the that the re ceived a mark of the Royal approbation, has been omission of his nam a e nd fro p m ro occa sioned by any cause derogatory to his honour or his cha frraocmtersoams aenroegufficlearti;on which militates against an officer of his rank, who hai already received the honour of Knight hood and the Companionship of the Bath, being rewarded by higher honours until he attains higher rank. Indeed, we have heard it stated that this is the sole cause of the a pparent neglect of Sir JAMES BRISBANE'S services. Being already, as before stated, a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and a Knight Bachelor, the next step of honour would naturally have been a Commandership of the Order, more particularly as that rank has been con ferred on the junior General Officers of the Army serving on the same expedition ; but a rule had been laid down some time since, that no officer below Th e rank of a Flag or General Officer, should receive that honour. Sir JAMES therefore being only a Captain of the Royal Navy, at' though holding the rank of Commodore during the opera tions, is not eligible to be nominated a Commander of the Bath. Why, however, some other public testimony o f approbation of his services has not been made, we a re unable to learn. In many cases, where officers had already received honours for previous services, a Baronetage has been conferred on a new occasion, and it is possible that it is intended to grant such h title to Sir JAMES BRISBANE. If it is not, and no fresh honour is to be conferred upon him for his services in the Irawaddy, when the Captains and Commanders serving under his orders have been m ade Companions of the Bath, we cannot help thinking that he will have just cause of complaint. If his reward is to be a Commandership of the Bath when he attains. the rank of Flag Officer, provided he should live to reach that rank, we must regret the existence of a regulation which sub , jects a gallant and deserving Officer to so mortifying a delay, and which, in our opinion, proves the impolicy of laying down rules from which no deviation is ever to be made, Almost the last act of the Duke of YORK, as Com• mander-in-Chief, has been one of justice and beneficence to a most meritorious class of officers—the Old Lieutenants-- - " who are unable to purchase promotion, and whose ad vancement may therefore be still very remote. The claims which these individuals had upon the service and the country, had long attracted his Royal Highness's at tention, and he never abandoned the subject until he had submitted for his MAJESTY'S gracious approval an an-ange" ment for their reward, which could not be objected to as entailing an unreasonable charge on the public. Our Readers will have noticed the General Order, dated the 27th ult., promulgating the measure which has received the Royal sanction, the nature of which may be thus briefly described. 1811, are to he rninoted The Lieutena n t s o f Regiments of the Lige now serving , at their option to the unattached whose commis s i ons are dated in or previous to the year ~, rz-