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THE CENSORSHIP. (From the Constitutionr4el.) It isjast that France should accurately know—in, order that she may never forget, never doubt of— the nature of Censorship. We shall endeavour to show what it is. Let us begin by recalling to recol lection—for that, too, ought to be held in remem brance—that the last Censorship, which has just expired, and under the burden of which we have groaned for more than four months, was exercised in Paris by Messrs. de Lourdoueix, Deliege, Beaure gard, Joseph Pain, Berchoux, Leveque, Levacher Duplessis,and Sinai's, under the inspection of a Com e mittee of Superintendence, whose influence we have at no time experienced without its proving fatal. This Committee was compored of the Viscount de Bonalde, Peer of France, President; the Marquis d'Herbouville' Peer of France; the Count de Bre tenil, Peer of France; 011irier, ex-Deputy, now a Peer; De Blair, Councillor of State; De Frenilly, ex-Deputy, now a Peer; Count de Macquiller, ex- Deputy, now a Peer; De Guilhermy, President of the Court of Accounts. . ..•_ _ Under the rule of a Censorship thus organized, we were obliged to send every day previous to pub lication, to the office in the house of the Minister of the Interior, rue de Grenelle, St. Germain's, proofs of the Journal of the next day. They returned them to us, at all times, mutilated, torn, and, for the most part, those which appeared to us of the most im portance, were not sent back at all, which was as much as to say, that not a single phrase, or a single word, in those articles, found grace in the eyes of this censorial Areopagus. In countrip, where jus tice is exercised in the most despotic manner, in Spain, in Turkey, those that are accused are allowed to present their defence, or their justification. They do not, indeed, enjoy the benefit of publicity, they are deprived of the salutary asssistance of an advo cate; but at any rate they are not tried nor con demned in their absence. The inquisition of the rue de Grenelle followed another plan; they deli berated and tried with shut doors, without allowing the parties to be present. The sentence of condem nation was without appeal or review, and the pain of death Vas inflicted upon every one who refused submission. We are not at all exaggerating. A Journal, which, through inadvertency or otherwise, should have published not an entire article,not a para graph of two lines, but the smallest portion of the ar ticle or the piece of news, without the previous audio xity of the Censorship, became liable to prosecution; and the simple fact of a prosecution:being commenced against it, gave totheAdministration the power of inter dictingits publication until sentence was pronounced, and, for a newspaper, prolonged suspension is death. This was not all; we were menaced besides with the pain of death, had we, while struggling with difficulty, under chains the most galling, suffered it to be suspected that we were not in • the full enjoy ment of entire freedoM. Whatever was remarkable or striking in an article,. was erased without. pity.— Had we allowed those destructive mutilations to be perceived by the smallest spot left blank, or by a few suspensive points, the next day again, perhaps for ever, the whole of our proofs would have been re tained, and we should have found ourselves con demned, never to see the light again. On this head, due care had been taken - to give us all information ; we had been told in so many words, " the slaves of Algiers and of Morocco have every liberty of avow ing that they are no longer masters of their own ac tions," but that permission is forbidden to the slaves of Paris and of the whole of France. They are or dained to permit it to be believed, nay, every day to proclaim, that they are free. And what a slavery was ours—the slavery of the mind Such a piece of Machiavelism, an arrangement se diabolical, was unknown to the invisible tribunals of Germany, to the Star Chamber of England, to the expeditious justice of Constantinople. All' Paris must be aware of the revolting crime of Contrafatto—all Paris still dwells with horror on its enormity—all Paris shudders at the idea that such a monster should succeed in blinding the searching eye of the Police Magistrate. Yet, it was not until after twenty fruitless Attempts that it was allowed to give a hint in a very few words to the alarmed minds of the public,. that they might resume their confi dence, for that justice had recovered its power. — Such was the solicitude of the censorship for this infamous Contrafatto, that they redoubled their zeal in his favour, even when the condemnation of the criminal had been unanimously pronounced. — They did more, they took his part against his victims. The public was not admitted to the Cour d'Assizes; but according to custom, the doors were thrown open when the debates were finished, and the President summed up publicly. M. de Mont rnerque, with the honest view of leaving no trace of the most odious calumnies, described, in all their modest splendour, the irreproachable conduct, the rational piety, and: the virtuous example, which the mother of the unfortunate child had constantly ex hibited in her conduct, and in her advice to her family. The pitiless pen of Censorship erased the whole of the summing up of the President. At Versailles another ecclesiastic was guilty of the same m imes as Contrafatto. Justice inflicted on him the same punishment. He was pilloried and branded. Public indignation,—the outrage of-• fered tosociety, alike' demanded that the punishment of the criminal should be published as widely as pos sible. He too fouled protection under the wing of the Inquisition of the rue de Grenelle. The decrees of the Magistracy, the supreme decisions of justice, very • rarely found favour with the Censors. They were almost always mutilated, and the publi cation of many of therm was wholly prohibited, espe cially. sentences Of condemnation pronounced against the agents of police. It was worthy of the protec tors of Molitor and Contrafatto to fend their helping hand to robbers and to spies. It would be easy for us to multiply proofs of censoria l in j ur y ; we have enough in reserve to fill a hundred columns of the ,Moniteur. What would,be the ease, if, from parti cular facts, we went on to qubstions affecting our general policy ? ' On this head they finished, by shutting our mouths altogether. On the affairs of Spain, of Portugal, of Turkey, ofAlgiers,ofAmerica, our doubts and our arguments were, per advance r proscribed 1 Never, for example, were we allowed to inform the public; that the troubles in Catalonia had been fomented, kept up, and 'nourished, by the monks; and that hence it was that the rebels had inscribed upon their banners those terOde words-- " Viva P Inquisicion." At a future period we shall return to the discussion of these misdaeds. And it was in a country that is called free, under a Government that is called constitutional, , that citi zens were thus treated. It was in France, and in the 19th century, that men were found, who dread ed not to undertake, by the exercise of the most odious power, to strangle thought, to make war upon all generous ideas, upon all noble feelings, upon truth herself, upon that child or Heaven whom eight individuals have for the last four months banished from France. She has noW returned amongst us, we are allowed to invoke her GilL's.'• more, but with a reserve which is imposed upon every honest man, aad which will not allow us at all times to call things by their true names, even when we are dis cussing the works of Messrs. Safaris, Levacher plessis,Le ve'que, Berchoux, Joseph Pain, Peauregard, DeUge et Lourdoue.x. m .„ On Wednesday last the Duke of WELLI NGTO N I changed horses a,t the Bell Hotel, in this town, on his way to Bradby, the seat of the Earl of CHESTEUFIELD, where, we understand, his Grace intends to stop a short time. The noble host, to his credit be it spoken, desired the individuals who wished to see his Grace, to come into the house, where an elegant and sumptuous repast was set out, consisting of 'game and various sorts of wine. The Duke, while the compani were partaking of his Lordship's bounty, walked round the t4le, conversing with the seve ral individuals of the house in a kind and affable manner. While on this subject, we think that our corporate burly m ight take the opportunity of waiting on his Grace 1% ith an Address while he remains at Bradhy..—Leice.qer FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France, dated Thursday, Nov. S.) CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 13.—The Sultan does not seem to have yet come to any resolution re specting the orders which, he shall give to Ibrahim, and every thing indicates that the Porte is extremely uneasy, and that it will not carry into execution its threats of rupture with the Powers. A new cir cumstance has just added to its uneasiness. The Austrian Internuncio, who had hitherto refused, not withstanding the invitation of the Ambassadors of the three Powers to advise the Porte to/ accept the proposals, is said, in consequence of new instruc- tions from his Court, to have declared, in a note, that his Government acceded to the conciliatory proposals of Prussia. We are convinced that this step will greatly contribute to render the Divan more compliant. Independently of this circumstance, the vacillation of the Porte, since the transactions at Navarino, would be a sufficient indication of its weakness. OCT. 14.—.1t is now positively known that the Sultan has not recognised the armistice concluded by Ibrahim, and that orders have been sent to him to continue his operations against the Greeks. This resolution has spread consternation among the Franks, and the alarms, which have been calmed for these three weeks past, begin to appear again.— Augsburgh Gazette. PARIS, Nov. 7.--The last accounts from Zante, in the Angsburgn: Gazette, say that Admiral Co drington, after forcing the Egyptian fleet to retire to Navarino, had come back to Zante for a few days, and had sailed again for Navarino, where M. Rigny was to join him on the 12th or 13th of October. The Russian fleet passed Zante on the 11th, and was to join the English and French squadron before Navarino by the 15th, when the provisional armis tice was to expire. The Quotidienne seeks the cause of the dissolution of the Chamber, and does not see in it any crisis external or internal. It examines what the Cham ber was, which is now dissolved, and after say ing, that in the elections of 1524, the full powers of France were given almost unanimously to the Royalists, it attempts to show that the Royalist op position has faithfully fulfilled its trust. The Quo tidienne creates a power, independent of the King and of. the Chambers, a Parliamentary Ministe rialis in. After attacking the Chamber of Deputies and the Ministry, it concludes thus :—" At this moment there is something else to do than to ruminate on the past—it is necessary to secure the future. The spirit of decorum and moderation will therefore hin der us froth scrutinizing the electorial lists, to pursue those who have not participated in our opinions." , There is a general character which answers to all wants—a designation which can triumph without proscribing any thing—a spiritual virtue to he looked for in the new Deputies—this is disinterested and independent royalism. Every man possessing these 'honourable qualifications,—the rich endowment of i true Frenchmen—will be a good choice at present, because he would be a good choice at all times. The life of these Royalists has been, for nearly forty years, a combat. Let them not be wary; let them again, come forward, to give their votes and suffrages to their King, religion, and country. Cahn ilocl resigned, they will not have to serve the inte rests of a coterie, but to perform conscientious duties, ivhich they , will fulfil as they always have done. incere opinions must be neither puffed up by suc cess, nor depressed by reverses. The royalist opi nion will have strength and moderation in the dee- lions which are preparing; and, by seeking . in its choice disinterestedness and independence, it .is sure, it does not obtain a triumph, at least not to ex ose itself to have cause for repentance. According to the Journal des Debats there are ut two men in France—one is in office, and the ther not. This is. the cause of its vexation; these are its politics. All was well when they were united ; nothing will be well till one has taken the place of Ole other. It says so openly. The two proper names are even mentioned in. its article. This is the key to explain all its language. Accordingly, it no longer 6as any opinion, any party; and its appeal is to the Frenchmen of the ReStoration, to the Frenchmen af the Charter, and to the Frenchmen of honour nd probity. l It is useless to analyze the three revolutionary i l 4ournals, the Constitutionnel, the Courrier Francais, 1 find-the Journal du Commerce. It is the same lan guage, with their usual differences. which they adopted before the Censorship; that is, the Courrier ii more the Constitutionnel, and the Journal du Com liierce more virulent and violent than the Comrrier. 'heir language is warm in proportion as the num her of subscribers is small. That which has the fewest has the greatest need of making itself re- Marked, and there is, we know, a celerity attached t scandal. We shall dispense ourselves from repeating here that those Journals say. - The repose of the Cen stirship has not given them a new idea, or a new Mode of employing their ill-humour at all that is honourable in France. There are the same calum nies, the same means to inflame the passions. We shall, therefore, confine ourselves to replying to their false reasonings, and pointing out their false hoods :—All these Journals exclaim at having been taken by surprise by the ordinance for the convoca tion of the Electoral Colleges. Do they believe we hive lost our memory ? Could not we show them pamphlets written by their friends, and every num ber of them—collections, in which the word disso lution is printed at full length, in June and July ? Have we not seen all the appeals made by them to the electors on occasion of the law of the Jury ? And, more recently, their bitter and insulting re proaches to the electors, who had neglected to have their names inscribed ? Have they not been taken by surprise by the electors rather than by the Ad ministration ? It is not for us to pity them on this account. The Connie?. Francais does not choose to be obliged to a Royal Ordinance, for the liberty of which it makes such ample use this morning. It is to the law alone that it owes the benefit, it says. Be it so. But we will ask under what administration this law Was introduced into the Chamber—what Chambers voted it ; and, lastly, who proposes the law in France ? Whether law or ordinance, the Courrier strives in vain, it cannot escape a benefit of the King. It is surely enough to dispense itself from gratitude. The Courrier Francais forgets that a royal squa dron blockades Algiers till entire satisfaction is given ; that the King's tlar , and the French Marine are respected and loved in 'the Levant ; that France seems to have been the connecting link between England and Russia in the affairs of the East ; that the throne of Spain has -been delivered by our armies from a revolutionary faction ; that a French garrison is at Cadiz, the ramparts of which could not be approached in other times; and that the French nation to which its party has, during the last six years, made so many appeals, as fruitless as they were violent, answered in - the elections of 1814-, to the voice of its King, which it will be equally at tended to in 1827. LIES OF THE DAY. The Cmistitutionnel.—lndependently of the great measures published by the journals, a partial change in the higher branches of the Administration is de cided upon. Three Ministers are spoken of as about to retire. The Courrier Francais.—The Embassy to Naples has been offered to M. Chateaubriand. ELECTRAL LIES. The Courrier Francais.—The Ministers desire a perpetual censorship, the right of primogeniture, the endowment of tl►e clergy in land, the septennial budget, a new reduction of the Rentes, and the doubling of the Royal Courts. (From the ConstitutionneL) The Ministry which has governed France during * As the journals, since the liberty of the press, have recourse to the same means, it cannot appear a stonishing that we mime the .am arml—Note of the Gazette de France. six years this day addresses itself to her. That Ministry, which, at its outset, commenced the war of Spain, and has expended near four hundred mil , lions to re-establish the order we see, and to procure to as the influence we enjoy there; that Ministry. which, after the Spanish war, has endeavoured, in contempt of the Charter, to change the successive order of the elections, and, in order to sliare itself a little care annually, has had the improvidence to brave the result of a general election; that Ministry which, in its very first year, hastened to burden France with a thousand millions, and overturned her finance—which afterwards designed the laws of sacrilege, and the right of primogeniture—which at tempted an absurd law against the press—which it was obliged to withdraw ; and which punished, by an outrage on the citizens of the capital that joy which was excited by its defeats—which, at last, no longer knowing how to conceal its faults its awk wacdness;:and its reverses, has resorted to measures of Government shameful in its character, which at once insults and shews a dread of .public opinion; to the measure which has injured us so much in the eyes of our neighbours, in causing them to be lieve that we were worthy of it—in short, to the cen sorship; that is, the Ministry which to-day ad dresses itself to France, and asks a new Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber which has given to it the Septennial Act, the thousand millions, the three per cent., the law of sacrilege, the • right of primogeni ture, this Chamber, because it at last hesitated for an instant—because it once showed itself sensible of the public opinion: —because it did not suffocate the Press, so necessary to France, under a law worse than bad, under a law which could not be executed —because it took the liberty of declaring that a thing impossible could not be done, and that it mo dified some portions of a certain projet—this Cham ber is no longer held in esteem ? What is it that the Ministry can want, if it wishes for more than has been voted for it during the last six years ? This is a good hint to devoted Representatives ! This is the way majorities are treated when once they have got their ends of them. • It is not alone a new Chamber of Deputies that Ministers ask; it is a new Chamber of Peers which they wish for ; because, fortunately for us, they re quire two docile Chambers instead of one; because, fortunately for us, when they proposed the right of primogeniture and the law of the _press, it was the Peerage which interposed its wholesome Veto upon the complaisant sacrifice of all our rights and all our liberties. By making itself popular, through the adoption of wise decisions, by deStroying the pre judices which existed in France against the Aristo cracy, the Peerage has rendered a great service to representative Government; it has caused its ele ments to be better thought of, and has caused it to establish itself in our esteem and in our habits. But the Ministry, seemingly, has no wish that the Aris tocracy should be consolidated, because it might be come independent, wherefore, not being able to dis solve, they wish to depreciate it, and treat it like those Electoral Colleges into which hundreds of voters are thrown in at the last moment. Thus the Ministry wish at the same time for a new elective chamber, and a new majority in the hereditary chamber. For that purpose it braves, at once, France, deprived of elections for more than four years; and the Peerage, which they offend ; and the press, which has been oppressed for six months; they brave, in fine, not the cries, but the silence, which reigns every where, that at other periods would have resounded with respectful acclamations ! What then do they wish ? What is it they propose ? How far do they mean to go ? PRICFtS OF LRIS} STOCKS, NOV. 7. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. .•. -- Gov. Stock, 334 per cent. 931 s Ditto New 4 per Cent. 100% 1 Gov. Deb. 3% per cent.... 9434 34 Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent 9 7 34 gailait Office Deb. 4L. et - St. Patrick insur. (per sh.) Royal Iriih Ditto National isitTc; Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto O.. • A Royal Irish Mine ImpFrial Miue Mining Co. of Ireland Coihniercial Buildings; NGE YESTERDAY. COLT RSE OF EX CHA A msterdatit C.F. 12 31 Ditto, at sight l2 0 Rotterdam 2U. 12 4 Antwerp l2 4 Ilamburgh 2% U. 86 9 Altona 2% U. 36 10 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 GO, Bordeaux 25 60 Berlin Prankfort On Ma te, Ex. 1)4.1511 PeterAburgh, rhle... 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective 11. 2 M. 10 5 'Trieste do. Madrid 3 5 14' Cadiz 35% Bilboa 15, 1 ,4 Barcelona 14,4 Seville 35 Gibraltar 46 Leghorn 47% Genoa 25 55 Venice 46 Malta Naples 'lB% PalennO per or. 116 Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro 34 labia 4O Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork BULLION, PER 0? Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in b a r s 3 1 7 6 New Doubloons 0 - 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver, bars. standard 0 0 0 MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Du( 0 America. 0 0 Hamburgh...... ...... 1 6 Brazil 0 1 Holland 0 0 Buenos Ayres 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisboa 0 0 France 0 GI ottenburgh 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Guernsey & Jersey. 0 . 1 Waterford • 0 . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 1110rning...44 minutes after 6.1 Evening —JO minutes after 7. FIRE IN QUEEN-STREET, CEIEAPSIDE. BUTLER, HEYWARD, and Co. d es i re to return their grateful thanks to their Friends and Neighbours, for the assistance rendered to them in endea vouring to save their Premises and Stock from the devour ing flames; (communicated from a tire in the Manufactory of Mr. Hopkins, on the opposite side of the titreet), but which proved ineffectual, the whole of the Premises and Stock being consumed. Butler, Heyward, and Co. will, in the course of a few days, be enabled to resume their Business. . ' • ' 4. =414114 • LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1827. DESTRUCTION OF THE TURKISH AND EGYPTIAN FLEET. We have the proud gratification of this day recording in o u r co l umns as b r i g h t an achieve- meat as has ever graced the naval annals of our country. The whole of the Turkish and Egyp_ tian Navy has been captured or destroyed by the Allied Squadrons under the command of our gallant countryman, Vice-Admiral , Sir EDW. CODRINGTON. At an early hour this morning a Messenger arrived at the Admiralty with despatches from the Vice-Admiral, dated at Nara- rind, on the 21st of October, containing the details of this glorious event. They were immediately forwarded by his Royal Highness the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL to his MAJESTY at Windsor, and will be published in an Ex- traordinary Gazette this afternoon. We understand that Sir EDWARD CODRING- To , s, having learned that IBRAHINI PACIIA had landed the troops composing the Ex- pedition, in violation of tile Armistice, r bdlwas dealing destruction around amongst the Greeks of the Morea, the Vice-Admiral, with •-.0“; ' the combined squadrons, (the French and Rus sian Admirals having placed themselves under his orders,) stood in for Navarino, and found the Turkish and Egyptian ,Fleet lying there, being' moored in a crescent, and apparently ready for action. Having passed the batteries, Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON dispatched the Dart- mouth a-head, for the purpose of sending a communication to IBRAHIM, or the Turkish Admiral, warning him of the Iconsequences of his proceedings by bringing down upon him the vengeance of the Allied Squadrons. The Dartmouth's boat, carrying this communication, was fired upon, and we regret to add, that Lieut. FITZROY, and the whole boat's crew, were killed. This was the signal for attack. The British Admiral proudly led-in in the Asia, and placing her between the Turkish and Egyptian Admi rals, opened a tremendous fire upon the former. The Egyptian Admiral having sent a Message, declaring that he would not fire a gun, blr. MITCHELL, Sir EDWARD CO- DRINGTON'S Interpreter, was sent on board, but he was basely shot, and the Admiral imme- diately fired on the Egyptian Admiral. The action became general on both sides, and con-, tinned with great fury for four hours, when it terminated by the complete destruction of the whole Turkish and Egyptian fleet, consisting of 4 sail of the line, 15 frigates, 15 corvettes, 9 brigs, 3 fire-ships, and numerous transports, &c. The ships, which had escaped the fury of the attack, were run on shore by the Turks them- selves, and destroyed. This glorious atchievement has not been per- formed without a tremendous loss of human life. The Turkish Admiral's ship, had 650 men killed, and the loss of the others in pro- portion. Our own loss too, we regret to add, has been most severe, 'and amongst the slain we deeply lament to record the names of Captain WALTER BATHURST, Of his Majesty's ship Genoa; Lieut. FITZROY, before mentioned ; Mr. SMITH, the Master of the Nsia, and many other gallant Offi cers a nd • A , ken; making a total loss in the British Squa dron of 20 Officers, 21 Petty Officers, and, 213 men killed and wounded. We understand that . _ Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON speaks in, the ►ighest terms of the 'conduct of all the ships under his orders. Captain BATH UR ST, in the Genoa, arid Captain OMMANNEY, in the Albion, took their ships into action in the highest style. - Captain the Hon. FREDERICK SPENCER of the Talbot, and Captain DAVIES of the Rose, are also mentioned in the handsomest terms, and we are happy to add, that the French and Russian squadrons also did their duty admirably. Admiral de RIGNY had sixty men killed and wounded on board his ship. Our squadron has suffered severely in masts and yards. The Asia hacther mizen-mast shot away, and her main-mast severely wounded. These are the principal particulars of this glorious event, which has adorned the British Navy with such additional lustre. Its result proudly proves that the vigour, the undaunted bravery, and the skill of otir • Officers and men, have not been lessened by the long period of peace ivhich the country has enjoyed, and that they are the same as they ever have been, the most heroic of her sons. The despatches were brought to Marseilles by LOrd Viscount INGESTR LE, in the Gannet, where his Lordship was detained by the quarantine regulations ; but the authorities permitted the despatches to he forwarded by a courier. They will be published this evening in an Extra ordinary Gazette, which we shall endeavour to give in a Second Edition. Capt. BATHURST, who has nobly fallen in his country's service on board the Genoa, was a most respectable, zealous, and gallant officer. He was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, on 24th Oct., 1799. He was actively employed during the whole of the war, and commanded the Fame of '74 guns, till the termi na ti o n of it. For the last three years he has commanded the Genoa of 74 guns, the ship i n which he has been slain, having, though in bad health, de clined to leave her, on her being ordered to the Mediterranean. We received last night the Constitutionnei o f Wednesday, and the Gazette de France dated Thursday morning. The latter copies f rom the Angsburgh Gazette intelligence from Costantinople to the 14th inst., which, if it can be relied upon, is of high. imp9rtance, aid puts . an end to every hope of the PORTE being in duced to acquiesce in the proposals submitted to it. It is stated in the article to which we allude, dated Constantinople, Oct. 14, that it was then positively known that the SULTAN had not recognised the armistice concluded by IBRA HIM, and that orders had been sent to him to continue his operations' against the Greeks. It adds, that this• resolution had spread consterna tion among the Franks, and that the alarms which had been calmed for the three preceding weeks began to appear again. A preceding article in the Augsburgh Gazette, dated on the 13th from Constantinople, had stated that every thing indicated that the PORTE was extremely uneasy, and would not carry into execution its threats of rupture with the Powers' and as the general tone of that paper has been pacific, we fear, from the decided manner in which the article of the 14th states the deter mination of the SULTAN, that it derives this in telligence from an authentic source. If so., this day can * scarcely pass without our Government receiving a communication from Mr. STRAT FORD CANNING, and we look with consi derable anxiety for its arrival, and for the next despatches from Sir EDWARD Co- DRINGTON, which will, we apprehend, at once decide the question, whether IBRAHIM will at tempt to carry on his operations against the Greeks in opposition to the will of the Allied Powers. The extinction of the Censorship of the Parisian Press has enabled the Papers to resume political discussion : and, if we may form an opinion from the first day of freedom which the Papers have enjoyed, party feeling runs higher in France than before the establishment of the re gulation by which it was intended to be suppressed. The Constitutionnel, in a strongly written article, exposes the measures of the Ministry, and at tributes the dissolution of the Chambers to their not having been sufficiently subservient to the wishes of the Ministers in suffocating the Press. The Gazette de France feebly defends the Government, and reverts to its former mode of classing the reports of the other Papers, under Lies of the Day. In this mode it denies the r9orted retirement of three of the Ministers, and that the, Embassy to Naples has been offered to M. DE CHATEAUBRIAND. Extracts of these papers are given in another column, and we subjoin the price of the Funds on Wednesday. PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 7.—Five per Cents. 101 f. '7sc. 80c. ; Three ditto, 71f. 50c. 60c. ; Bank Actions, 2,000 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 77f. 25c.—Excl;ana ' e on London.—One Month, 251. 15c. money; Three Months, 251. money. , A Second Edition of the Gazette de France has been received this forenoon, announcing the destruction of the Turkish and Egyptian fleets on the 20th October. On the 'Change at Paris, it was reported that the Russians had crossed the Pruth.—Three per Cents. 71-20. A Brazil Mail has been received by his Ma-• jesty's packet Nocton; she sailed from Pernam. buco on the 22d of August, from pahia on the and'from Rio de Janeiro on September 22. By the Diario Fiuminense, we learn that the Emperor PEDRO had prolonged the Session of the General Legislative Assembly of Brazil. — The Diario makes no mention of the war, but Private Letters to the y 21st Sept. say that war still continued without any prospect of ter minating in peace. General .LE Cox had pre viously sailed with some troops to take the command of the army on the Rio Grande. The exchange.; was 32 per milrea ; sugar maintained still high prices, 3 milreas 600 reas. Every thing in a commercial point of view was dull and heavy. The Buenos', Ayres packet arrived the evening before the Nocton and there was a report current, that the Upper Provinces of the River ,Plate had refused to join Buenos Ayres, and make com- . mon cause with them against Brazil :-- MO DE JANEIRO, AVG. 28. In the sitting of the Chambers on the 22d August, a decree of his Majesty was read, by which the Session of the General Legislative Assembly is prolonged to the 15th of October. This decree was received with great satis faction in the Chamber of •Deputies, and it was resolved to appoint a Deputation to thank his Majesty. The official part of the Diario contains a Carta de Lei, by which the Civil List of the Members of the Imperial Family is fixed, according to Article 108 of the Consti tution : 1. That of the Emperor at 1,000 contos of reis, for all the expences of the Imperial household, repairs of pa laces, the service and splendour of the throne, excepting only the expenses of, the Imperial Chapel, the Public Library, and the acquisition or building of palaces which the nation may think sditable for the accommodation of the Emperor and his family. 2. That of the Empress at 100 contos of reis per annum. 3. That of the Imperial Prince, while a minor at 12 contos, and after he has completed his 18th year, at 24 contos. 4. That of the Prince of Grande, 6 coutos, until a minor, and 12 when of age. 5. That of each of the Princes and Princesses of the Imperial Family, 4 contos, 800,000 rein, while under age, and at 9 contos, 600,000 when of age. Ana. 29.—The Deputation of the two Chambers have waited on his Majesty to return him thanks for having prolonged the Session, and were mast graciously received. _ _ SEPT. 4.—A letter from Monte Video of the 16th July, states the arrival of a convoy with the exception of three vessels, which were taken and conducted to the Arroio de Rozorio. A force was sent to retake them, which succeeded. SEPT. 11.--The anniversary of the declaration of the independence of Brazil, on the '7th of September, was cele brated.as a public day of rejoicing. .The Papers contain no ;mention of the war, or of the affairs of Buenos-Ayres. The Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 3d instant, received this morning, contains the hollowing : STUTTGARD 7 OCT. 25. Th e Wurtemburgh Official Gazette contains the fol lowing Royal Rescript, relative to the publication of the poal Bulls, for the creation of Archbishopric of Fileiburg, and the Episcopal Church at Rottenburg, on the ?Acker :—" William, by the Grace of God, King of Wurtemburg. As the Papal Bull of the 16th of ,•%_ tis August, 1821, which begins with the words x 7 ° v i Solesque, and that of the 11th April, 18 274 ,• ginning with the words ad Domninici Gregie stoOLI so far as they relate to the formation of the Ecc )esie" Province of the Upper Ithinr, the circumspection, et 1, ment, and formation of the five Bishoprics belongit 4 s';r with their Chapters, as well as the appointment to „it Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the Prebends, '7 been accepted by us, and have received our sovereign afro , probation, but without allowing any thing to be way inferred from them that can injure or affect our of sovereignty, or be contradictory to the laws tithe )I),f, dom, the ordinances of the Government, the rig-Ms of Archbishops and Bishops, and the rights of the Po te r t s , Church, of which this notice is given, with the , roe ' . ; tion that further negociations will be made for Orl the same into execution. Stuttgart], Oct. 24, 1827. The Minister of the Interior, V. Schmidlin. wiLLIAA (By his Ikfajesty's command) et The Secretary of State, VELLNA 6 ' . VIENNA, oc • Metallignes 9ll Bank Shares 1,00 The reported election of Mr. DAviEs GiV t BERT to the distinguished station of Pres ide° of the Royal Society turns out to be u nfoun d We trust, however, that the report is only' pre mature, as no man unites in himself so mangy requisites for the Chair of the Roy a l Socie l Y Mr. GILBERT ; and if he were p m laced in it, °e have little doubt th a t h e wou ld suroot 11, only feeling Of his. na t ure w hi c h offers any qualification for it, and distinguish H i mse lf much for his splendid hospitality, as for his h 1 attainments in science and general knowledge.' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DO) ILLOYD'S. Lon p d E o A n i t hNeovß. 9. cr PROM rnd W .W— r A e rri h v d Clark; Cambria, C a s s y; and L es li e Ogilby t Q u i l o for Jamaica. A rr i ve d t h e Willi am , Broad, Naples and Pal ermo . a -- la Ferrier ~ S . 43e . ogte e o h i c : ° j A „.• ed PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Wind ' a ff n o d p m L F l : i le:e i n o tto n f i d , t , h N ß e o u l‘i v rk . a e r s y ,. — f A or w iln l i a n m O d a ' David, Davenhall, for Montserrat. FALMOUTH, NOV. B.—Wind S. to S.S. -6 * --- too rived the Sarah Wood, from New York ; and 1443 c he packet, from the Brazils, sailed`from Pernambuco t 22d of Aug., Bahia the 29th, and Rio the 2 .2( t ai l LIVERPOOL, NOV. B.—The Albion, from fle - u is reported to be off. 0 The Ada, Friend, from London to DemeraraAi spoken with the Bth inst., in lat. 49.35. long. 1 1/0 Ei ß ca. r s i . e . n E , .f_or sCaaillecdu; the Nocton Packet, arrived at Falmouth, from Janeiro. fallen in The Broom, from New Brunswick, was - t ile with the 27th ult., in long. 24., aband on ed: by crew, and with her main and mizen-masts gol n; its r, The Daniel, Harris, from Labrador to Gibr was abandoned by the crew the 20th ult., b° eight feet water in her hold. -.1 I 1 1 : THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TwEr.ri o 'Ca ct : This morning the English Funds have b een ' ll state of considerable agitation, and a fall in t he P ri th c i • e i of Consols has taken place of full per ce nt " ; :, g ,h as been occasioned by numerous rumours , a mble i others the demand of Government for a cons ide r number of steam vessels, to be sent to the Med ite t▪ ii -' ranean, an engagement having :taken place nv the Egyptian and Turkish fleets, which were tl iv r, destroyed by the English, French, and iins°' ll o r t squadrons; these, with other rumours, have the market in one continued state of fertnentgt.:. At the opening of the House-for busin e ss, " 5-15 commenced at 87i for money, and 87a for 13:1 count, and seemed firm at thes e rate's ; a sale 20,0001., known, or said to be, who is 'supposed to have good inforolation, had the the effect of creating a • complete Pan ic amon g and they went clown dealers—sell was the only cry, gradually to 861 and afterwards recovering to, 86i 87, went back to the f o rmer price, and are 88 i The Market r emains in afidgetty state, al i(1 . the least rumour has more than a reasonable actio on it. India Bonds are declining a little, from an opinion that the interest on these ecurities is lil‘ ef s o , e o x n i e c d a n le .. s . 6s by a persoo to be reduced. Exchequer Bills, on the c ont,l 6 , are slightly on the advance, and 59 60 pm. d , attention which has been paid to the English PP ken e to t C h o is lo m m o b r i n a i n n , g 2: of Foreign Funds to-day. Brazil Bonds are 601 1 1; Buenos Ayres, 50 2; Peruvian are higher, and 27 The only new observation in Shares is an advance 45i pm. in Brazil Mines. Ac' Three per Cent. Consols, 97/ j; ditto for count, 87 I; Three per Cent: Reduced, 86i the • I l ' re o e l. 3 l' a half per Cent. Reduced, 95 4 - 1 - ; Four pes C e nt., la - s„ Four per Cent„ 1896. 102 i ; India Bonds, 96 6 P t ' Bank Stock, 204104; Exchequer Bills, 59 60 ; Foes:tem.—Brazilian, 60,111 ; Buenoi Ayres, 5 " 1 ; Chilian, 251 61-; Colombian, 271 8 ; Danish, 60i Greek,l6 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 42i S ; Cent., 544 5 ; Peruvian, 27 8 ; Portuguese, do 3 Russian, 944 ; Spanish, 10. • • / dis.;.. Brazilian, fir, MiNrs.—Anglo Mexican, 6 5 Rea l Del Monte, Pa pm. ; Colombian, 4 6 per s bare; United Mexican, 24 dis. TwArp, o'CLocbite current report that t o This moment there is Egyptian and Turkish fleets at Navarino a re et . , longer in existence ; and that despatches to tbac fact have arrived at the Admiralty. It is also add' we have lost-one of our Captains. pneorticCeenttos.ll, I%;aesrYnogtreatTwo 0' CL O " l ' 0 The sensation excited in the City by the news fr ° . l e beenbu s t o the ex te e n ff: i c v t e price has been sq i, and they are now 80 4 "- ccount. , • FOUR O'CLOCK—CLOSING PRIC ES. Consols 86g Danish Bonds --- ~A . Do. for Ac. 861 Greek Do. 1825, l' l ,l l S. Brazilian Bonds 60 Mexican Do. 1 826 ' . Buenos Ayres Do. 50 Peruvian Do. 271 Chilian Do. Russian Do. 93i o N f a C va o r n in s ° ols is Colombian, 1824, Spanish Do. 10/ ;°llthetheloP,ol:e(lo6: Prince LIEVEN, the Russian Alliba SSß° llo` i co Prince ESTERUAZY, 'the Austrian Amhassa(l°% t he o nferences w ith t h e Earl of DUDLEY yesterday. itodi• office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affair's, in ;, 0 9° in g -street. The Mar q uis de PALM ELLA , the P0..,#15 en Ambassador, transacted business with the Noble -r": Thursday. Count lAIEVEN, kson of Prince LlEol4',,dgi Russian Ambassador), who arrived in town on Thn' morning, came from Florence. DV' The Earl of DUDLEY visited Viscount b° RICH yesterday at his residence in Downing-street. 00 The Duke of WRLLINGTON came to t bio yesterday mornin g from his seat at Stra.thfieldsaYe; g t 11; 4 G r ace transacted business as Commander - in -Chief, office in the Horse Guards, in the afternooP. (o'e 113e1 The Duchess of KENT gave a g rand on Thursday, at her apartmen ts in the King's Pilcebess Kensin g ton, to their Royal Highnesses the Duke a nd r • o ce of CLARENCE and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER- LiEvEN, the Russian Ambassador, and the Princess L i la the Princess CARLOTH, the Earl of DUDLEY, &C., honour of dining with the Royal party. Nc'' .ethe The Duke and Duchess of CLARE . 4 i t ea Duchess of GLOUCES TER , and the Princess Sbent,to ! th e, ' the Princess, AUGUSTA yesterday, at her resi dence in Kin g 's Palace, St. James's. LAW II) Sir e itu in tile matte of the acre Charl es eo course, and ; Prayer Sr . 4. 1 .~ w !~