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UNIVERSiIfirINTELLIGENCE. , 7" . WAA KGLERS!: 1 Gordon( . Pet. 2 Turner 3 Cleasby Trin. 4 De Morrill , 5 Cankritt.,... Trin. 6 Yet. • Joh. 7 Hopkins Pet. Butterton 9 Tinklar 10• Thornion - Joh. 11 Peacock r Joh. 12 Vend 13 Stuart• - • Qu. • 14 Moore 15 Hoare 16 King - C. C. C. 17 Biley • " ' Clare 18 Charlesworth Trin. 19 Pinder 20 Cooper 21 Lewis . ' Trin. 22 Kelly Cdi. 23 Brooke 24 Colvile 25 Dodd C. C. C. 26 North 27 Kempthorne 28 Cams Trin. 29 Webster 30 Burnaby Cai. 31 Dawes - Cai. 32 Farre 33 Dobbs 34 Jarrett siNtow 1 Hervarateav 2 Beeaey i. 3 Eada Cai. 4 Cumbr C. C.C. 6 Holawtoca . Joh. 6 Job. 7 Bub& cr 9 (*Amick 4 EtrArt. -Triad C.C.C. 11 12 Row -1 IS Nedlriltd ,14' TANK( 15 16 Luard -' Job. B4mr, -juu • - Joh. ... • ' ▪ Petitb., 8A,C141-91W COMMENCEMENT.. CAMBRIDGE,, tO.-7,6" Senior. :Wrangler is a Hat Fellow ,C9binyiiej.; 'iridi ! i i k of, Sir • Willoughby Gordon, Bart., Quarter"Mastei General.' It is a circumstance un precedeote4,2kre;b4lisyg, io . this,U.niversity, that a Gentle-, man of ilr.:Gordair's - rank should attain the highest ma thematical honour of the year. - - I.TIIIXS. 19 Grose Clare. 20 Paull - Job. 21 Fosbrooke Pemb. 22 Deans -23- , Appletort `24:Spyers £5- Rees • Joh. 26 Deivilttey 27 Watford .. :. . 29 kennedy .1011. 29 tay 3O Dykes..ezi. Pet. 31 Sergeant, sett. C. C. t`. 31 0 -Johnsone .. . 3:3 Bocir - itoad ... .. Joh. 1 - :ooper 35 I.eitherclala - r artwrigh 2 Coiiyer ...... Trio. 12 Antrobu. 3 Kenrick 4 Chat4a/d, 14 Cartmel... ...... Petah. 5 Cottingisapi , :Gl ac q.. 1 15 Vinell ..... ....... Cath. 6 Malisp, ..„. Breynton Magd. ( 44. 1 713 nine • Trip. 8 Eassc . ny.„. . ' gaun t 18 :Woodhouse „ Sid. 9 S. 19 Appleyard ..... Cai. 10 Bernard ...... C. C. C. 20 Robson STANZAS O*".k.iILiOVEAT EVENING, JAN. 22, 1927, AT THE ROYAL COlilLißg THEATRE, ON OCCASION OF THE DFATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK. Heu quanto minus est cum reliquis versari, quam tui memintsse. The knell of death is hushed, the pomp is o'er, The deep slow dirge, the cannon's awful roar, The mournful music of the muffled drum, The hist . sad requiem,—all at length are dumb. A Ptince bath fallen—a native Chief bath died His foiman's scourge, his widow'd country's pride ; That. Royal soul where stainless honor shone, Blesidng; like - heaven, the land it beamed upon ; That-mind whose patriot intellect conceived Each act a kindred Wellington achieved ; tied at-hiiroei in pregnant stern repose, Yet-Nu - tied oar 13ritain's thunder' on its foes ; That heart which wept to see the soldier weep, Whitditirieied the'-visforts of his tented sleep; SunmitTh r is 6;11 ihonglits, ivhen;destined far to roam He bade farewell to happiness and home ; Thattbeirt so noble once, is gone at last the mighty dead of ages past. '• It thete a mother here who.frantic, wild, Rath hung in battle o'er a dying child ? Is thiri a vilfe—poOr sorrOw-stricken slave— hopes lie rnoultering in a husband's grave' Is there a elrild; whose inmost soul bath bled As niglttly dreanis gave back her father dead If sack' Be:here—oh, think how oft arose Thar bust:inns, father's prayer at life's last close, Fbr lim, - o'er whom henceforth the passing hours Unmarked must roll in WincLor's Royal Towers. His funeral pomp, majestically proud, Hath vanished now, like April's shifting cloud, But when, ye Britons, shall his memory die ? N/Mila bilittirth.;ight ETPINITY liVk to yon crash the trumpet's brazen throat, Roars in.hoarse chorus to the war-drum's note ; Loud peals the cannon's thinader, as on high When rolli the artillery of the embattled sky : The field is won : but Britain' yet must mourn fee; myriad warriors dead, their homes forlorn Here dank a parent, never more to rise, Therea rand husband closed_ his dying eyes ; Yet o'er their last sad hours hope deigned to smile— The guardian spirit of their native isle, The princely York hail heard each patriot's sigh, And blessed his poor deserted family. How oft when twilight's tears the landscape steep, When day's last breeze bath sung itself to sleep, The March-worn veteran freed from battle's strife, And bivouacked in some sheltered cot for life, (While the soft music of the village chimes Calls home hie happy family betimes), Shall bless the hand that bade his cottage smile, Hie garden bloom, life's autumn cease from toil, Teach his young flock to lisp their patron's praise, And evening hymns of thankfulness to raise, Then grieve while memory wakes a vain regret, To think so soon the sun of York has set. We mourn no Prince, such wee finds speedy end ; We Weep the patriot's boast, the soldier's friend ; We-weep thatsoul which, through its life's brief span, Fels every throb that links us man to man ; Which, bortimf Kings, was lowly, frank, and free, Fawned ARI from youth, yet prised sincerity, Which never-lost a friend,. nor caused a tear, Save new, when nation's weep above its bier, Which, born on. Britain's soil, ne'er sighed to roam, Bat thanked its God that ENGLAND WAS ITS HOME ! The King's letter to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, on behalf of the distressed manufaeturers, was read last Sunday in several. Churches in and round the metropolis, and appropriate sermons were preached. MEETING Or SHIP-OWNERS.—OII Wednesday last, a meeting o f the Ship-owne rs i n Aberdeen was held, to tak e into consideration the present depressed state of the shipping inte rest. The meeting was numerously attended—and after fully &mussing the subjest, was unanimously of opinion, that the en .couragement given to foreign vessels, and the advantages they enjoy over the British shipping, by the existing Navigation Laws, from the comparative low rate of wages, provisions and other chsxges, such as tuput all competition in most cases at defiance, was, if not the sole cause, yet a principal source of the present suns, and that a repeal or modification of these laws could alone rester* our saw:twee to prosperity. Resolutions, expressive of these sentiments, Ohre immediately entered into, embracing, at the same tine;- :state of the foreign timber trade, and the baneful -effects Irbi l & hen been produced, in particular by the i ß m r r t i s li k tie ca o dat n y i e f, ia ten wh a t i tittgaper load on that imported from the --- such a large proportion of our shipping faun,' employment. Upon a suggestion from the Trip ity- I Louse, London, the gentlemen Preem,„t a ged of one or two lights being placed in-tit. Swiar " a g uwe ' an 41 PPinenavigating in the night time in thatiangerouV passage, and-resolved that they would sup port such an improeinrent- by a reasonable toll or assessment. In coueltuden, the 4neeting , brought-into e i.„ l , L,.be proposed appli. c ation to Parliament for leave to bring in nur to alter the Peter heed Harbour Act, and allow the Trustees for he same into effect to have powers for extending and mu the t existin g ra t e s and duties on vemelcand , merchandise, to a ll the shippi ng' entering or taking shelter in the Bays of Peterhead. Thesip owners p r esent Were unanimously of opinion, that a meas ure fraught with more serious conemnences, of a snore oppressive na ture, or portentous character,'had never before been attempted, and that they amid not in terms too strong express their reprobation of the proposed measure, which they unanimously res i lved, if per sisted in, to oppose in every stage of its progress in Parliament. A Petition;in support "of the above Resolutions, is in the course of signature, aad, we understand, is now placed in the Athenwum (or that Purpose .—.. Aberdeen Journal. • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile dated Sunday, Jan. 21.) PARIS, JAN. 20.—Letters from Berlin, to the Eth Jan. say :—" It is reported that the approbation of the estate of the-Grand Duchy of the Rhine, of the abolition of the French code, has been received. It is added, however, that the code will not he wholly abolished, and that, among the parts which it is wished to retain, are trial by Jury, the publicity of judicial proceedings, and oral pro ceedings. It isalso believed that the Government does not intend to abolish those institutions where they have ex isted for some time." The Gazette Universelle, of Lyons, of the 16th, con tains the following article:— " The academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres. and Arts, of Lyons, has resolved, in its sitting of this day, that an Address should be presented to the King, petitioning his Majesty to order his Ministers to withdraw the project of law relative to the press. Some of the Academicians pro posed that the subject should be referred to an extraordi nary sitting, convoked expressly, but the academy judged the affair pressing, and appointed a committee to draw up the petition. The Commissioners are to lay the petition before the Academy, on the 25th instant, and a sitting will be speedily convoked, stating the object to be discus sed in it." (F rom th e Pilote of Saturday.) PARIS, JAN. 19.—Letters from Alexandria, in Egypt, of the 26th November, say, that the Pacha had laid an embargo, on the 17th of that month, on all foreign vessels: 'The embargo continued -4.8 hour* , after the departure . of :the.., het, which was not effected tiil after the lapse of six .days. ' Severaticcidents occurred; a brig laden with am munition was destroyed by. &el three Austtian transports were drivenagaioat arnck, and were, for tWo,days in great danger- _ • . , _ . - , . . . It is said that the Pacha has ordered the Admiral to re main at sex though the winter, and to follow the ol.deis 61Ibrahim Paella, in case the Jatter skuld be obliged to return to Egypt. . . . --;- -r ..ettera from Vienna sa , ', that Baron Cittenfels,.the"Aus triatkiaternnheitvat Constantinople; VAS' has been "iieryr4 7 served inleiv proceedings, relative to the negotiations Coln:. ;permed by - Enghtn&and - - France -in -favour of GieeeN i waiting for the arrival of M. de Ttibeaupierre, to leave - the instructions which he will bring with him, in Order to re-; gulate his conduct accordingly. The Afoniteur and the Etoge give, at considerable length, the commencement of the debate in the Chamber of. Peers, on the Report of the Committee appointed to examine the. petition of M. Moustier. The report itself is not given, but the Mortiteur announces that it will be inserted in a future number at full length. The report was ordered to be printed, on the motion of Count de Segur; but the proposal of the same Noble Peer, to defer the discussion till after the printing of the report, ' Was opposed by the Archbishop of Paris, and rejected by the Chamber. ...... (From Galignani's Messenger, of Jan. 20.) . . The pUblic curiosity was greatly excited on Thursday and yesterday, in consequence of the Report of the om mittee upon the Count de Montlosier's petition for the laws against the Jesuits to be carried into execution, having been brought to the Chamber of Peers on Thursday, and the discussion upon the subject continued yesterday. Count Portales, son of the celebrated orator who formerly spoke with such eloquence against the Jesuits, in disguise, under the name of Paccanarist, was Reporter. From what has transpired of the sitting, it seems that all the Ecclesiastical Peers that were in Paris were present, as well as the Prince de Polignac. The Report concluded by proposing to refer the petition to the President of the Council. The Reporter, it is said, spoke with such.mo deration and firmness as are above all praise, and developed, with much talent, the doctrines and principles which the Magistracy have avowed, in different memorable judgments. The Cardinal de la Tarre is represented as having bestowed high eulogiums on the institution of the Jesuits, and deeply censured three Ministers (de Pombal, d'Aranda, and de Choiseul), who contributed so powerfully, in the last century, to the expulsion of the Society of Jesuits. In conclusion, he called upon the Chamber,' in vehement terms, to reject the petition. The Duke de Choiseul felt himself called upon to speak; in consequence of allusions having been made to one of the members of his family, who had done his best to serve the - Monarchy—to the memory of a statesman of whom he had the honour to bear the name, and profess the prin ciples. The Duke de Fitz James read a speech, in which he ex pressed himself favourably inclined to the congregation and the company of the Jesuits. The Sitting was adjourned to Friday. In the Sitting of yesterday the Viscount D'Ambray spoke in favour of the Jesuits, but the speech presented nothing new. . . The — Viscount Laine replied, with much argument, to the opinions offered on the preceding day by the Cardinal De La Tarre and the Duke de Fitz James. M. de Bonahl delivered an obscure speech, which is said to have been against the proposition. M. de Parente spoke on_the opposite side. The Bishop of Hermopolis rose amidst cries of " Ques tion." His Excellency delivered a high panegyric upon the Jesuits, whom he represented as having rendered the most important services to education, at all periods, in every country. He maintained that the company of Je suits admitted into the kingdom by several Royal edicts, had only been expelled by police decisions, and that no new laws were necessary to authorise Priests to spread the Divine Word, and form youth to the practice of Chris tian virtues. Baron Pasquier answered the arguments of the Rev. Prelate with great force and perspicuity : after which the Order of the Day was proposed, and rejected by a majo rity of 113 against 73. Three points of the petition were then rejected, and the fourth and last, which related to the Jesuits in France, was referred to the President of the Council. (From the Journal des Debate.) LISBON, JAN. 3.—Letters from Oporto, of the 31st of December, announce dispatches from General Claudino, stating his entrance into Viseu, on the 28th, with the troops under his command, anti those of General Azeredo. The rebels evacuated the town the same day, and re treated in ,the direction of Mangoalde. Colonel Pinto, whe commands at Coimbra,had been requ e st e d,b y C ount 'l tie Villa Flor, to go to Murcella,* where the Marquis of Chaves must necessarily pass after crossing the Mondego. The British flag now floats in the Tagus, upon no less than thirty vessels of war, and a prodigious number of transports. Sir T. Hardy, who commands the expedi tion, has his flag on board the Wellesley. The day before yesterday, the troops disembarked, and were inspected by the Commander in Chief, Sir H. Clinton; after which they went to take possession of the quarters assigned them. The bands of the different regiments played Portuguese airs. The reception of the troops was enthusiastic, and garlands of flowers were scattered from the balconies upon the heads of our deliverers. It has been this day decided, that the Portuguese army shall be organized after a new plan; it is to be entirely re modelled. Marshal Beresford has just been named Com mander-in-Chief. A great deal has been said of the pre tensions, or, to speak more properly, of the demands of England upon Spain : they are of such a nature that war is inevitable, unless France will come forward as guarantee for Ferdinand VII. At this moment twelve sail of Eng lish vessels have just been telegraphed. P tas ' JAN. 19.—M. Michaud has this day publi s h e d in the journal of which he is a proprietor and principal editor, a letter relating to the dismission which he has just received. We consider it our duty to reprint it. It will add to the interest which a disgrace never fails to excite * Murcella is situated about five leagues east from Coimbra, and 45 leagues north-east from Lisbon, on the road from Guarda to Coimbra, whence it would appear that Chaves intended to avoid the latter town, and to march directly upon the eapital,—(Note of French Ed.) when it has been purchased by an adherence to the rules of conscience and honour. " His Majesty named me one of his readers ; he has just withdrawn that office from Me; I respect his will, yet may I not 'express some wonder - -that . the policY of Minis ters should pursue me' to the 'Very feet of the Monarch; where unfortunate fidelity so naturally' seeks refuge. Let me be allowed to quo t 6 upon this su bj ect a b eaut if u l ex pression of a King of old France t.. .‘ The house of a King is a temple, and his feet are as an altar.' What are the accusations which the Ministers have heard, which have led to the exercise of such official rigour ? lam re proached with supporting in the French Academy the pro posal of M. Lacretelle, yet that proposal, which set forth the alarms of threatened literature, was in reality, nothing but an eloquent and noble paraphrase of the ancient adage —lf the King but knew it ;—and the crime of the Aca demy, the crime in which I participated, was the expres sion of a desire that the King should learn the truth, and that he should learn it through those who were most in terested in making him acquainted with it. I was far from believing that the Muses of France who have re ceived such efficaelOus prptection from the King, should be deemed guilty of sedition, or of violating the. laws of the state, in imploring the justice and go o d ness o f th e i r august Protector. There is nothing in which religion-, is more intirnately , present than in prayer, when addressed to God ; and, similarly, there it :nothing in which loyalty •is more: manifest than: in a Prayer ad dressed to the King. Such were the opinions which guided the discussion in the Academy. Such were the senti ments of Messrs. Lacretelle and. Villemairi, who have been struck as well as . MYSelf. I invoke the testimony _Of my Hon. Friends, who differed from the_ majority. I seek not to defend either the feebleness of my talents or my dis course; but this T cartsay, that, as a man of letters, and as a man of loyalty, my conscience in no respect, reproaches rae, • Without either being proud or ashamed of what I have done, all I desire is, that the disgrace which affects me, may excite sympathy,only in such hearts as respond to mine ; and that, above all, -it may not serve as a pretext 'for those actions which agitate - our country. Our. :Minister& may learn that one misfortune in addition is ,but a small matter in my life, and that it will effect no change either in my feelings or in my opinions. Devoted ;to. the cause of royalty, and to that of literature; which is' als6 one of the glories of monarehy,'l shall ever remain the !awe; and, whatever may.ba done, nothing shall hinder me from loVing . a king; whom I have always served, and froth loving literature, which has ever been my consola tion. .(ignecl) •:" "MICHAUD, "Member of the French Aeaderny, and rolieeter of the Quaidienne." (From the Quatidienne.) PARIS, JAN. 19.—A Bordeint Journal, which at first denied the force of the Portuguese Royalists, and -after wards their success, now attempts to convert into a defeat, a movement which proves that the Marquis de Chaves was, on the 28th of December, in full march upon Lisbon. The paper cited says, ' The Generals, Claudino and Azeredo, entered Viseu on the 28th of December, and the Royalists evacuated that city on the same day, withdrawing in the direction of Mangoalde.' Colonel Pinto, who commands in Coimbra, had been invited by Count de Villa Flor to repair to Murcella, where the Marquis de Chaves must pass after having crossed the Mondego." The Mondego, on which the city of Coimbra is situated, crosses the road from Viseu to Lisbon. Since it is con fessed then, that the Marquis de Chaves had passed that river, it remains proved, that he was marching directly upon the capital. It is quite possible, that Azeredo and Claudino, may have really entered Viseu, after the depar ture of the Royalists ;..but as they did not attempt .to, dis turb in its march, the army of the Marquis de Chaves, it Is obvious that they had not - sufficient- troops for that .purpose. Besides, the news in the London Journals of the 17th, and the list of the public fends, prove sufficiently the ad vantageous position of the Portuguese Royalists._ _ The English, who form a part - of the army of General Clinton, do not dissemble, in their letters, the bad reception which they have met with at Lisbon, and the fears by which they are agitated. Every thing announces, that General Beresford will not keep one Portuguese soldier under his orders. Oie regiment-that has left Lisbon has deserted to a man, and the garrison of Elvas threatens to imitate that of Almeida. But the English do not complain of .the sad. disposition of the Portuguese soldiers; they accuse also the tardiness of the Constitutional Generals; according to them, Azeredo and Villa Flor have done nothing, which assertion is true enough, and proves besides the confidence to be reposed in these narrations, which represent the Con stitutional Generals as conquerors of the Royalist troops. In the results, the last news from Portugal appear to confirm the report spread abroad in London on the faith of certain letters, that on the 3d of January the Mar quis de Chaves and the army were already between Coim bra and Lisbon. As to Oporto every thing announces, that if the Royalists have not occupied it, it was only from an understanding between them and the Constitutional Commander of that place, that he should not allow Eng lish troops to enter it. This conjecture is so much the more plausible, that neither the Lisbon Gazette nor the English Journals have hitherto spoken of the disembarka tion of troops at that point. (From the Constitutionnel.) PARIS, JAN. 15.—The King of Spain has given orders to M. Recacho, Director-General of the Police, to stop the circulation of M. de Chateaubriand's letter against the new project of the law of the press, many thousand copies of which have been sent into Spain. It is evident that that project, more Spanish than French in its nature, is the work of the Apostolic Juntos. One would almost be led to say that M. de Moustier was still at Madrid. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JAN. 19.—Five per Cents., 99f. 30c. ; Three per Cents. 66f. 90c. ; Bank Stock, 2,000 f.; Rentes de Naples, 1 73 f. 10c.; Royal Spanish Loan, 49. I'rics quoted after closing time, 3 per Cents. 66f. 15c.— Quotidienne. t Louis VII. PORTUGAL. OPENING OF THE PORTUGUESE CORTES. Lissox, Jan. 3.—According to the 18th Article of the Con stitutional Charter, the Royal Sitting for the opening of the Ge neral Cortes, took place yesterday in the Palace of Ajuda ; and her Royal Highness the Princess Regent having been unable to open it in person,. ort accouotoix.sudden indisposition with3vhieh she had been seized, ordefed,-by the following Decree, the Bishop of N'iseu to preside in her stead : " Having been attacked by a sudden illness which prevents me from attending at the opening of the Cortes, appointed by the Charter on the 2d of Jan., but nevertheless, not wishing to alter the code of the fundamental law, I connuand, in the name of the King, that the Secretaries of State shall open the ordinary Session of 1827, and that the Bishop of N'iseu, a Peer of the Realm, and Minist er o f th e Interior, shall read this Decree, and afterwards send correct copies of the same to both Chambers, to be deposited in their archives." " Given at the Palace of Ajuda, Jan. 2, /82 7 ." When the Ministers in a body had been introduced to the Hall of the Sittings, the Bishop of Viseu read the above Decree, and afterwards made the following speech : " Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, Deputies of the Portugueie Nation,—After a short interruption, your cares and your labours for the service of the country are about to be resumed. Th e country calls you, through the medium of the law, .and it never appeals in vain to the Portuguese, who are prou d of bearing that AMP. tt You s h o wed in the last Session that you knew the evils which required to be remedied, and that you wished to apply the remedies promptly. You have commenced in the manner which circumstances permitted this work, no less difficult than import ant. The zeal and the prudence with which you have given proofs leave no doubt that it will be considerably advanced in the course of the present Session. " The necessity for those regulating laws which the Charter implies is urgent, and the operation of the latter would be im perfect without the former. As on the perfect execution of the Charter depend the political advantages which it promises, and on those advantages the respect and love which the citizens uught to hear towards the Charter, the surest means of obtaining that re spect and love is to create laws. The Princess Regent knows that such is your intention, and she hopes that you will execute it with that steadiness and that consideration which so important a business requires, and with the perfect concord of the two Chambers with each other, and with the Throne, a concord in which the perfection of Governrsents, where the • powers are di iided, consists. From the most remote periods, and even from the origin of our monarchy, the Portuguese•have shown that they are endowed with , a quick and solid judgment, and noble and courageous hearts. From these qualities have flowed an exalted love of country, and an intimate union of greatness in plans, prudence in council, and courage in execution. " The 15th century, and the middle of the 17th, are, for the Portuguese, glorious and memorable epochs, which the nations that now have most right to boast of their progress, cannot fail to adMire with astonishment ; and we may say to them, that these two epochs have not their equals in history. " The Portuguese nation, always few in number, has never theless performed great things by its courage, the wisdom of its councils, and its union ; and if it be true that it now is in num ber nearly as considerable as heretofore, it may, by its courage, its wise councils, and its union, renew its ancient high deeds. " It would be useless to try to re-animate Portuguese courage, for history presents no epoch in which it was lost or decayed ; and after a long peace, and from the bosom of tranquil habits of security—even of negligence, we have seen arise amongst us col diers, who wanted only to be disciplined to stand immediately on a level with those of the most warlike nations. " It is not, however, useless to speak of the want of union. Without the union of , citizen', political society ceases . to exist; as without the harmony of powers, the good government of the state is impossible. " A truth so essential and so evident cannot be unknown to the. Chambers, who, in their pure love of country, will not lose a moment to put it in practice. The seal and prudence which you have already shown, leave no doubt, and afford complete assu rance, that you will proceed united in the difficult path of a le gislation wise and durable, and calculated to meet the hopes of the nation. "The disunion which has been manifested amongst us had its origin in the perversity of some seditious men, and in the errors of inconsiderate persons. It is approaching its term; and her Royal Highness the Princess Regent hopes that the moment is not far distant when there will be but one opinion among true Portuguese, Viand that the false- brethren of this family will be obliged to leave it in tranquillity and peace. " Great Britain, with the good faith and promptitude which distinguish her, has declared her resolution to aid us in the csse of foreign aggression, and she hastens with generous rapidity to our support. The other nations of Europe recognize the in stitutions sinanated from legitimate authority, and applaud our , efforts ; and if any one among them has shown indecision, wiser counsels have at length removed its doubts, and it has recog nized that it was fitting for it to embrace and follow the com mon opinion. " Worthy Peers of the kingdom, continue with emulation the work of your ancestors, who, in the field and in council, were excellent instruments in the hands of our wise and great Kings. You have a favourable opportunity for imitating snub noble examples. " Deputies of the Portuguese nation—Your ancestors, in their love of country, and in their ambition for glory, answered to the wise and magnanimous hope of our Monarchs, and to the generosity of our Nobility. Follow, then, the path traced out to you by your ancestors. " Continue all in the path of virtue and honour; it is diffieult, but it is also glorious. Enter once more upon the exercise of the important functions of your mission. Enter thereon with moderation, but without discouragement—with weal for liberty, but without any of the excesses which lead to licentiousness. Be circumspect in your propositions--be wise and judicious in your deliberations. Emancipate yourselves from passions and from private considerations ; for it is only by thus acting that you will secure the magnanimous concession made to us by our King and Lord, Don Pedro IV., as well es the liberties and happiness of the kingdom. " You owe to his Majesty, and you owe to yourselves, the ac complishment of this great work, which her Royal Highness is confident yeu will complete with honour. You will, besides, show to this kingdom, to Europe, and to the world, which ob serves us, by your respect for the, religion which we profess, for the fundamental law and the rights it assigns to the King and to the Chambers, that the Catholic religion will always be ours, and that far from wishing to destroy, you only. endeavour to re vive, to ameliorate, and to consolidate, the ancient institutions of our country. In fine, you will prove that the Portuguese nation is still, as in the best days of its glory, as brave in under taking high deeds as judicious and steady in securing what it undertakes. " Having concluded the speech, the Bishop said, ' the Prin cess Regent has commanded me to declare that the Session for 1827 is now open." In the official reports published by the War Department, we find the following:— " General Azeredo announced, that the Lieutenadt-Colonel Gama had attacked the rebels in the Duo, that he had pursued them to the marshes of Mondego, and that, attacking them with a squadron of the 3d Chasseurs, he had made three-and-twenty prisoner., of which eight were wounded, and that all these pri soners belonged to the militia. and the 12th regiment of infantry. The Lieutenant-Colonel of the militia of Vizeu, was among these prisoners. General Azeredo was in communication with the Count of Villa Flor, who was at Folbadosa, and who wrote to him on the 29th, that he had disconcerted the plan of the rebels, which was to place him betw een th e f orces of the Mar quis Of Chaves and of Mageasi. The former of these rebel; was in full retreat on Celorico, and he was accompanied by two Spanish General-officers. Count Villa Flor was preparing to pursue him. The Marquis of Angeja writes from his head-quarters at Braga, that he had ordered General Mello to make some reconnois sauces on the roads leading to different points of the rebel line at Tamega. He afterwards states, that having re-passed the Douro, with the militia of Tras-os-Montes, and the enemy's sharp-shooters being extremely numerous, the movements of General Mello had not been so rapid as they ou g ht to have been ; in conse q uen ce of which the Spanis h Colonel Pereira had a pp roached R aga - Sece with the Guerilla which he commands. Some Spanish forces cavalryt i‘ c i li a , ri states, gu a iodfe .d t ihffaetet When lniet had advanced towards the frontiers of the province of Tras-os ifdiriao:mFuln%°"irite'sedliintboaynaothilleolet:loadsdisopo; Montes. i retiring n ii t ra . this General wished to enter Guarda, on the 24th, the militia of corps, wished to oppose his passage, but he beat them with a rebels General Lamegow er e n C i u A battalion of the Ist infantry, and a detachment of the 6th Horse Chasseurs. General Count de Villa Flor adds—" I have learnt to-day, that the fortress of Almeida has fallen into the hands of the mal contents, a disgrace which was owing to the illness of General Pego, but more particularly to the disloyal conduct of Colonel Eleziario, of the 10th regiment of cavalry. Aragessi is now at Almeida, and Colonel Jerdoa at Ansur. The town of Guardia remains almost deserted, the rebels having forced the , inhabitants of it to withdraw." Nothing is known exactly respecting the position of the troops of, the Marquis de Chaves in Beira. • The Receipts for " Catholic rent" have lately much fallen off in Ireland—according to Dr. Doyle, the Priests are getting tired of seeing their parishioners drained of money to fill the exchequer of the barristers and attornies belonging to the Association." A LISBON FRIAR.--The }ldalgo rode away, after bowing to a friar, the first of that class I had seen here; and whose portrait will answer you for every one of the same profes sion. The father wore a black three-corner hat, a great gown or cloak of coar se black stuff, wrapped in ample folds round his body, and on e en d th ro wn, like that of a mantle, on the left shoulder, where it opened into a wide border of red stripes. He also wore great strong shoes and white cotton stockings—giving, in contrast with the black gown, a vulgarity to the under part of the figure, not at all in keeping with the reflective character of the head. This friar passed along, neither noticing nor being noticed by the people. Ile belonged, I believed, either_ to the English or the Irish co nve nt, o f altogether not more ic l ovnh fo t iind afte rwar d s , on com i ng half o a m inin a g re preparing for the st w ehr h av i n c i :l es ox h ft e y r t h e ep a i er r i e . sco two us : rc (i )linnae at , f to know one of this body, that they have very little intercourse with the Portuguese, either ecclesiastics or laymen. They appear to dislike the country and its customs, and I believe, with a few exceptions, they do not even know th e l anguage . Th e i r revenu es are supplied by houses and lands, to which they have, as you call it in Loudon, a prescriptive right, which they imagine they can never he deprived of without a sufficient compensation. One establish ment, I believe the College of Instruction, has the additional re venue arising from a lottery. How the professors of piety can sanction public gaming is rather extraordinary, but I take it to be one good sign of the times, and of the influence of public opinion or public scandal, that the College is about to relinquish its right to this discreditable levy. The number of friars in Lisbon and its immediate vicinity is, as I am tohl,:about six thousand, of all sorts, nations, and milers, PRICES OF STOCKS TEI Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 76%%yro.iii 3;‘ per Cent. Sat 4 Red. 65% 65% 4 per Cent. New ... 94 SX 4?,‘ 3% Ditto, 1826 Bank Long Ann 18 15-16 % India Stock 234% Ditto Bonds 43 46 pin. DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old -- Old Annuities • -- New Ditto -- Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 21 22 25 pro. Ditto 5OO 2d — Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — Bank for Account — India for Account — Cons. for Acct PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. — Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chilian Bonds, fi per et Coknnbian Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish, S per cent. sB' Greek Boucle Ditto, 1826 l5 14% Guatemala Meziean Bonds Do. 1825 63N, 3:2U ANDS AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Urussian, 5 par cent. Ditto, New Russian, New, 5 p. c. SiNTi Spanish, 1821 — :tt3 French Rentes, 5 p. —t Exchange —f. —c. 3 per cent —f. —c. Exchange PRICES OF SPIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Mare. Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Assoc. Real del Monte Mining Company 4 ,00 Ditto New .300 Tlalpuxahua Mining Company l5O . ' 200 205 United Mexican Mining Company 27 16% 17hi MAILS. Arrived. ' Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 0 Guernsey. & Jersey. I 0 Brazil 0 0 Hambargh ........... 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 Donaghadee ...... ... 0 0 Jamaica 0 - 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon I 1 France 0 Gottenburgh 0 0 Waterford 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 23 minutes after 11. Evening ....... 0 minutes after 0. igar Our COUNTRY READER , : are Informed, that if they do not get the COUNTRY EDITION, which has the CLOSING PRICES OF THE FUNDS AT FOUR O'CLOCK, they should apply to their Newsmen on the subject. 1 4 J - • • , \ un LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1827, We have received the several Paris Papers of Satur- day and the Etoileof Sunday morning, but they do not add much to ourprevious intelligence from the Peninsula, and are destitute of other news, being principally filled with discussion s on the law against the Press, and the harsh measures resorted to against the three members of the Academy, who actively opposed the project of this law. The Journal des Debats, in an article from Lisbon of the 3d inst., describes the enthusiastic reception which was given to our troops on their landing. It mentions, also, that at the moment of writing that article, twelve sail of English vessels had been tele graphed, which must have been some of the cavalry transports. The Quotidienne attempts to prove that the Mar quis de CHAVES, after evacuating Vixen, was march ing upon Lisbon, having crossed the Mondego. It also asserts, that one Portuguese regiment, which had left Lisbon, had deserted to a man, and that the gar rison of Elves threatened to imitate that of Almeida. The latest account from Madrid is dated the 9th inst. No decided line of conduct had been deter mined upon by FERDINAND up to that date. It is said that the Council of State 'meets daily. Wh a t highest authority t o t h e l owest is decided one day is revoked on the next. Th e l as t corner is always in the right. This is the ca se f rom tahgeendtisploolfnati the ca diplomatists of ' the m arilla. It would a pp ear , h owever, that his M AJE STY has become still , more diffi cu lt on the subject of concessions , and that he has d ec l are d to the Council of State, that he would rather lose his life than make the least change in the form of Govern ment which at present exists in Spain. Can this indecisive conduct of the Cabinet of Madrid be permitted to go on much longer, when it is well known that throughout the whole of Spain active preparations are making, the object of which cannot be mistaken ? Surely France ; as well as Great Britain, if sincere in her professions, will not be thus trifled with ? The Etode mentions, that all accounts from Greece agree that REDSCIIID PACHA has raised the siege of Athens. A letter from Leghorn affirms that the SE RASKIER is surrounded in his retreat by the inha bitants of Attica, Epirus, and Thessaly, w h o h a y, risen against him. The public interest in Paris appears to be very much excited on the discussion , in the Chamber o f P eers on Count DE MON TLOS lER S petition for the laws against the Jesuits to be carried into execution. Some of the highest and most distinguished Peers of France panegyrized this society, but the Apostolical faction a ppear to have sustained a defeat by the rejection of a i N n T g o i inquiry y b y i n a t o n t i a h j e o rity chargesof 40. m a d p ag ro a p in o s s t al c f o o t r int st ivi opp o Saturday being the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI., was observed as a holiday in Paris, no business was therefore done on the Stock Exchange. The Funds on Friday evening, according to the Quo tidienne, left oft' at 66f. 90c. ; and after the close of business were done at 66f. 15c.; but we suppose the latter price must be a mistake as other accounts quoted it at 77f. 10c. Extracts of these Papers are inserted in our former columns. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from a respectable gentleman now in Paris, of which the following is an extract : " PARIS, JAL 19, 1827. " The funds, as you will have heard, experienced a consider able fall, but since Wednesday they are on the rise again. The fall was totally unconnected with politics, for whatever rumours are afloat, they have little or no influence on the prices of the Public Securities. A party, said to possess means, began a large operation on the Bear tack about five or six days ago, and inde— pendently of heavy sales of 3 per cent. for time, contrived to pour a large sum of money stock upon the market, and this caused the depres sion. As soon as the operation had been effected, the 3 per cents rose again—indeed the Sinking Fund, the ministerial ma noeuvres, and the support of a certain great capitalist, will cer tainly prevent a fall, unless something really serious should Occur. " In politics, generally speaking, most people seem to expect a war between Spain and England. The Court party here are more furious than ever, and supplies of every description continue to be sent to Spain. For what purpose? " You will recollect that I was here in the early part of the Spanish campaign, when the farce of Cordon Sanitaire was played off with so much dexterity. I see no difference between the aspect of things then and now. The same party was acting, and th e same duplicity was used to d e c e ly i Eng