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expect, that, with so many - powerful combinations, both with in and without, with so many elements of confusion as Por tugal abounds in, and besides such a number of willing in struments, anxious for notoriety, the first impression made' on a territory by the appearance of an armed force, greatly exaggerated, with pledges of foreign support and money to distribute, would be serious and alarming. But when it is discovered that the promises of foreign support are illu sory, the people Avill hardly enter warmly into the cause of a woman, who, although descended from a - Bourbon, in her private and public life has deser;ca only the contempt of her subjects. To a man, Portuguese know ° Le the late King's opinion of her. They are aware that, for, a num ber of years r" - • h e v ... ..evious to his death, he would not live under ...sae roof with her; and although, from motives or policy, during the Constitutional time, he sometimes appeared in public in her company, his very gestures and demeanour towards her whilst sitting side by side in the royal box, at the opera of San Carlos for ex ample, evinced his detestation of her, as well as the tor tured state of his feelings, whilst thus compelled to make a sacrifice for the sake of appearances. We shall not offend 'the delicacy of our readers by peeping into the Chronique scandaleuse, either of the Court of Lisbon or Rio de Ja neiro; suffice it to say, that the enlightened portion of the Portuguese community know well the real object of the present attempt to disturb the tranquillity of their country, and that the Queen Dowager is at the bottom of it. In the midst of their rusticity, and the isolated state in which they live, they are shrewd and alive to their own interests. These lead them to wish them a stable and protecting Government, such a one as will p reven t po li t i ca l convul sions, and enable 'them to repair the ravages of the late war. As a nation, they care little whether the Institu tions are derived from Pedro or Miguel, as long as they ere in accordance with their wants, and recognized by the States of Europe. The people, besides, follow, in most instances, the example of their Notes and men of in fluence, and these, with very trifling exceptions, they al ready see pledged to the present order of things, nay, even forming part of the Legislative Body on which it is founded. They begin, also, to be sensible that the Sil veira crusade is not the act of Miguel, and that his name •,; has been used as a mere expedient. They do not feel inclined to enter into the legal dispute, whether or not the Emperor Don Pedro, by remaining in Brazil, has lost his right to the Crown of Portugal; nor do they think it necessary to consult the Charters Lamego, or any . Arehives preserved in the Torre de Tonzbo on this sub ject. The Portuguese people, as well as their neigh bours, are tired of theories and changes. Since the first inroads of the French into the Peninsula, they have scarcely enjoyed a year's public tranquillity. The ruins with which their country is, as it were, covered, remind them forcibly of their recent sufferings, and will make them pause before they accept the invitation of a stripling or hair-brained adventurer, who thinks proper to league himself with a band of fanatics, and is able to obtain sup plies of arms and money, either directly from foreign Po tentates, or from cowled Apostolicals. What the Portu guese people have to expect from his coming, in such a cause as that in which he has raised the standard of rebel lion, they can already judge from what has happened at 13raganza, as well as along the line of march lie may have taken, whether to cross the Tamego or the Douro. The visit with which the elections for the Chamber of Depu ties were Conducted, and the readiness with which the -Nobles and Pr e l a t es h astene d to take the i r seats in the National Legislature, are presumptions against the success of the rebels. It must he acknowledged, however, that we, as e. nation, have many enemies in Portugal, although it does not, on that account, follow that the French have there more friends than ourselves, for we do not hesitate to repeat, that the present attempt of the Apostolicals is mote intended to strike at our influence and popularity, old at every thing which may have emanated from us, than any wish to uphold the rights of a younger brother to a throne secured to him by a title stronger than he can , find in either the records or traditions of , his couu a tenure infinitely more secure than the benedictions of the Apostolicals can make it. In the present contest, 'or rather war of opinions, the. reflecting part of the Por tuguese nation have held back, as it were, waiting for events, because they were unaware, in the first place, to what extent their country was undermined; in the second, bow far the efforts of the Continental Governments would be employed against their new institutions; in the 'third, what sums of money could be made applicable to the bribery of the regular soldiers, on whom they. Could place little reliance; and, lastly, how England, .as their ally, woidd act on the present trying occasion. On all these various points they are now enabled to Make up their minds, More particularly on the last, the most important of all; Many despaired when they saw the bayonets of a ineeeenary and - dissolute band of regulars raised up against them, more particular!): in the first moments, when they were unprepared to Judge how far the contagion had spread among the ranks of the other regiments, or to what extent the dreadful expedient of bribery could be carried. Others, again, almost desponded, when they re collected the earnestness with which the Constitutional Government in 1823 in vain implored the aid of the British Monarch, to shield them from the dreadful effects of a military rebellion, more extensive and better combined than !the present one. Appearances, nevertheless, would change from the momen t a B r iti s h f orce was landed on their shores. Nothing can be more conformable to our expecta tions than the facts stated in a Lisbon letter of the 10th Dec. copied from the French Papers in our columns of Satur day. It distinctly states, " that since the approach of British troops had been officially announced, the appear ance of things had changed in Lisbon ; the wavering had been fixed, the courage of the good citizens doubled, and the wicked made to tremble." This we do not doubt, aud the tremor will extend to Madrid. Money is, how ever, still travelling on to support the Peninsular Aposto lieals. A gentleman who left Bayonne only 12 days ago, assures us, that he saw chests containing two millions of francs on their way to Spain, for this special purpose, and he gave us the name of the Paris banker who had trans mitted them. The vicinity of both the eastern and western Pyrenees is now filled with Friars and secret agents pur chasing- military stores, in support of the Altar and the Throne. In the Lisbon letter above quoted, mention is made " that the Queen had several times attempted to escape with some of her confidants, and at last demanded in writing, of her daughter, the Infanta Regent, to with draw the guard set over her, being resolved to act at li berty." This roost probably is the case, but we will give a solution to this enigma. For some time - past, the Queen has seen under surveillance, the same as she- was during the life time of her late husband, and our readers will readily admit, deservedly so. The Government have long been in possession of ample documents to con vict her as an arch-conspirator, and as keeping up a treasonable correspondence with her brother Ferdi- nand an tier two 1 1 1 2 .(!fid, one - the wife of the Infinite Don Carlos, and the other the widow of a Spanish Prince. If possible, these two daughters have been more active than the mother, because lately they have been under his restraint, The latter, however, about three months ago, was discovered in a plot to bribe the regulars placed over her as a guard, having arranged a plan to escape to Spain under their escort ; and, no doubt, had she then succeeded, she would now have been in the retinue of the chivalrous and gallant Marquess de Chaves. Her project was, however, foiled, and her guard withdrawn in time. The Government then placed her in charge of the " Voluntarios de Comercio," a volunteer corps formed out of the principal merchants and shopkeepers of the capital, of course not liable to bribery. They are formed into one regiment of infantry, and a small body of cavalry, ac tually doing the garrison-duty of Lisbon, the main body being posted on the commanding height of St. George. With the exceptiLn of the British marines, landed from the men-of-War lying in the Tagus, and who cannot be estimated at more than 300, there were not above ninety Portuguese regulars in the whole capital, when the last picket accounts came away, and these were cavalry, intended as orderlies and expresses, the rest having been sent to Alentejo, Beira, and Algarve, to meet the enemy.. This is a tolerable. proof of the confidence of the Go vernment in a population exceeding 130,000 souls, though-we admit the Police Ordonnanee for the Dispersion of Assemblages might lead to a different conclusion.—Before we dismiss the sub- ject of Portugal for the present, we conceive it our duty to cor rect a malignant assertion in the- Quotidienne- of the 28th, stating, " that the Regency of Portugal had attempted to make a loan, hut had. found no lenders at London or in Paris." This is incorrect. Some time ago, a proposal was made by the Mini ster of I.lnances to the Chamberof Deputies, soliciting authority to raise a lo an . Th e proposa l was .referred to a Committee of Members, who made their Report on• the sth instant, recom mending the expedient of a loan for about 450,000/. sterling.— This Report is in our possession, and as it treats at some length of the public debt of Portugal —a subject in which our capital ists are deeply interested —we intend laying the result before our readers, more particularly as it suggests some useful information as to the best means to be adopted for the revival of public cre dit, and the means most applicable to a Sinking Fund. It may be unnecessary to add, that there has not been sufficient time for the Report to be acted upon, as regards a loan, either in London or Paris, and possibly the attempt will not be made in either place, for we have seen a letter of the 9th'fror2a Lisbon, written by and addressed to highly respectable parties, which says, that so great was the con fid ence en t er t a i ne d b y t h e Bank and great body of merchants, that in all probability they would themselves make a tender for the loan at a very high price.-11.forn. Chron. The efforts of Ferdinand and his Apostolics having been successful in lighting up the flame of discord in Portugal, and hitting armed, paid and accoutred all the refugees and mil-contents that could be got together, the former may now safely retire within the line of their own frontier, ex pressing great contrition for what they have done, and pro mising —very faithfully, no doubt, not to interfere again in the concerns of their neighbours. This will be true Je suitiud policy, and such as Mr. Canning's armament comes too late to prevent. It is singular, that a statesman of his keen and penetrating mind, should so egregiously have mistaken the Portuguese character as he appears to have done; more especially, considering that Portugal is the only foreign country of which, from long residence, he can be supposed to have any intimate knowledge. Mr. Canning's error seems to originate in the persuasion that j a spirit of freedom can exist under the dominion of priest craft. Of this, the history orthe world might, and, ought to teach him and every man the reverse; and that there ran be no such thing as political freedom where the Ro man Catholic Religion is predominant. Alike opposed to civil liberty, and to the spread of knowledge, the monks of this and of every age, bent only on their own aggrandize merit and selfish enjoyments, are anxious to keep down any tendency towards objects which must inevitably defeat the craft by which they, and- they only, are such great gainers. To talk, therefore, of giving a free Constitution to Portu gal,' or to Spain, under their present circumstances, is utter childishness. Nor, were it feasible, can we see what this country has to do with any such purpose. It is very well to talk of England as the cradle of liberty and of liberal ideas. So she is, and so we hope she will long be ; but it does not, therefore, follow that she is bound to set on .foot a romantic crusade, for the purpose of instilling those principles into other countries; still less can she be justi fied in interfering in the intestine divisions of other States, who neither want nor have any right to require her aid for such a purpose.—Morning Herald. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. PAM.% Dac. 26.—Many copies of the speech of M. Chateua briand, in reply to Mr. Canning, were circulated to-day in the Salle des Conferences. We have been fortunate enough to pro cure a copy, which we believe to be very accurate, and we hasten to submit it to our readers, being persuaded that the publication of it may tend to throw light on the actual deliberations of the Cham ber of Deputies, and that it must strengthen in every French heart the feeling of nation a l honour. " In the declaration which the Minister for Foreign Affairs has deemed it his duty to communicate to us, I have been surprised at the.silence which the Noble Minister has preserved with regard to the speeches lately pronounced in the English Parliament. I respect that prudencei though I cannot comprehend the motives of if ; but for myself, on whose head no responsibility rests, save that which rests on the head of every Frenchman,—l mean the responsibility for the honour of our country,—l will plainly de clare that which the Minister far Fnr.L..s_ .• - v.v. 'Ann,' Atb - .7 -- rou may perhips recaert, my COTTS; to nave seen me in this tribune repel as Minister the insults put upon the French name in the English Parliament. The gener ous victories of the Dauphin, answered in a nobler and a louder strain, than my vain words, the declamations of our adversaries. " Every thing at present is completely altered. In 1823, I had only to contend with the English opposition ; in 1826, I haVe to contend with the prime Minister of his Britannic Ma jesty, who outstrips in his career every member of that opposi tion. My task is painful. That Minister was my honourable friend. I admire his talents. I respect his character, but he will pardon me, if I endeavour to do that for my country which he has already done too ably for his own. " It is necessary, my Lords, that I should in the outset impress myself clearly respecting the grounds of the present transactions in Portugal. " I will never recognize in any soldiery the right of making awl unmaking political institutions, of proclaiming and dethron ing. Maus. Perhaps I like the Portuguese charter better than the English Ministers themselves, who speak of it almost in terms of derision, and who have deemed it right to recall Sir C. Stuart from his embassy, because he conveyed that charter to Li.bon. I thing that the imdependence of one nation supports the independence of another, and that one free people is the guarantee fur another. I believe that a generous constitution* cannot be overthrown in any part of the globe, without an injury being in flicted on the whole human race. " Having made this explanation of my principles, I enter boldly into the examination of the document which has come to us from the other side of the Channel. " The Minister of his Britannic Majesty has commenced a speech by an enumeration of the treaties which unite England with Portugal. He might have quoted more of them than he has done. He might have spoken of the alliance between the house of Lancaster, and the ancient house of Portugal. But in that case we might have told him that the house of Braganza derives its origin from the hou - se of France. Why should he speak with so much violence respecting our connexions with Spain, after he had made so pompous a display of the relations which had existed at all times between his nation and Portugal ? Have we not treaties which hind us to Spain? Without going, so tar back as the time of Queen Brunelhart, Charlemagne, and the mother of St. Louis. Have we not the treaty between King John and Peter, King of. Castile, in 1351, for the marriage of Blanch of Bourbon ? the treaty between Charles V. and Henry 11. King of Castile, in 1368 ? the renewal of the same alliance in 1380 ? the treaty between Charles VI. and John, King of Castile, made against England in 1387, and renewed in 1408 ? the treaty between Louis XI. and Henry, King of Castile? and Leon, 1439 ? Another treaty with Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile, in 1478 ? Louis XII: renewed that treaty in 1498. Germaine de Foix, niece of Louis XII., was pro mised in marriage to Ferdinand, King of Spain, in 1503, and hence another treaty of allianCea " The treaty of the 13th of Cktober, 1640, betiveen Louis XIII. and the principality of Catalonia, and the convention of Barcelona, on the 19th of September, 1641, gave us rights over Catalonia ; then came the famous treaty of the Pyrenees, of the 7th of March, 1659, the contract of marriage with Louis XIV. ou the 7th of November in the same year ; all the treaties which accompanied and followed the war of the succession, from 1701 to 1713, and the family compact in 1761, which by its eighteenth article declares, that the respective states must be regarded, and a. , 4 1 Ps if they eely made a single and identical power. That the family compact has been annulled by later treaties is true, up to a certain point, but it is not at all clear that these very treaties had maintained all the anterior conventions between Eng land and Portugal. " Besides, what is proved on either side by this diplomatic erudition ? Nothing at all. It no more establishes our new right to meddle with the affairs of Spain, than it confirms the right which England pretends to have to mingle in the "internal affairs of Portugal. Our respective rights are derived on one side and the other from our essential interests. Much has been said of a casus fcederis, which it is declared has occurred. A member of the English opposition has well auswered to this, by stating that he did not see how the revolt of two Portuguese regiments esta blished a cusus frderis. Eager search is made for the guilty parties. The Spaniards are at the bottom of the Portuguese in surrection. If the Spaniards are not, the French are, and why not the Austrians too? Is not Don Miguel at Vienna? In that country there is no great affection entertained for charters. Why then is not the anger of the English Cabinet directed to that quar ter? Why not, my Lords ? There are good reasons for it ; these reasons are the same which make liberalism wear the cap of liberty in Mexico, and the turban at Athens. " But whilst they are discussing the casus fiederis, suppose it It will be seen by three lines which we have. printed in italics what the Noble Peer means by a generous constitution.— French Editor. should happen, which is by no means unlikely, that Lisbon should fall into the handsi of the Marquis de Chaves, and that the Eng lish, instead of finding an ally there, should only find an enemy. Suppose• it should be necessary to enter by force into Portugal, is it not clear that instead of alliance, and occupa tion, there would- be conquest, and conquest upon the Portuguese alone. What, then, would become of the casus ficcleris? The political question would then be entirely altered to all Europe. " I am now come, my Lords, to that part of the speech which more particularly refers to us. I must quote the words of it : " I cannot but fear war when I think of the immense power of ; this country—when I think that the discontented in all the nations of Europe are ready to range themselve on the side of England. " 6 There were two means to be adopted in our resistance to it —one of them was to attack the French troops which entered Spain ; the other was to render the conquest harmless as far as regarded us, and valueless, or something worse, actually injurious to the possessor. I say then, that if we have for the present been dispossessed of any thing in our situation as forming part of the balance of power, we have been fully compensated. Was it ne cessary to blockade Cadiz, I say, to restore the situation of Eng land ? No, I looked at the possessions of Spain on the other side of the Atlantic ; I looked at the Indies, and I called in the New World t o redress the balance of the Old. This, then, is my an swer to the question—France has gained no advantage--obtained no power ; Spain is become to her a source of unpalliated and unmitigated evil ; I believe she would be glad of any thing which would help her out of the difficulty in which she has placed her self ; I believe she would be thankful to us for any interference which would tend to r e li eve h er o f h er unpro fi ta bl e accession ;' but it is our present policy to rivet her in her bondage, and make it with her a point of honour.' " I know that if into that war this country enters, (and if she do engage, I trust it will be with a most sincere desire to mitigate rather than exasperate, and to contend with arms rather than with the more fatal artillery of popular excitation), she will see under her banners, Arrayed for the contest, all the discontented and rest less spirits of the those who, whether justly, or unjustly, are dissatisfied with the present state of their own countries. The consciousness of such a situation excites all my fears; for it shows that there exists a power to be wielded by Great Britain, more tremendous than was, perhaps, ever yet brought into action in the history of mankind. But though it may be excellent to have a giant's power,' it may be tyrannous to use it like a giant.' The knowledge that we possess this strength, is our security ; and our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but by a par tial and half-shown exhibition of it, to make it felt that it is the interest of exaggerators, on both sides, to shrink from converting their umpire into their competitor. The situation of this country mty be compared to that of the Ruler of the Winds, as described by the poet : _ Celsa sedet ZEolus area " Sceptra knew; ; mollitque animas et temperat irai ; " .2Vi faxiat, mania cc terras ccalumque profundum " Quippe ferant rapid; secum, verrantque per auras." " This then is a reason--a reason the reverse of fear —a rea son the contrary of disability—why I dread the recurrence of war.' These words can only fill us with profound regret. It it is the first time that avowals so disdainful, that maledic tions so plain, have been pronounced from a public tribunal.— Neither Chatham, nor Fox, nor Pitt, have expressed against France feelings so painful. When Lord Londonderry gave to the English Parliament an account of the battle of Waterloo, what did he say in all the exultation of victory ? He said, the " French and English soldiers washed their bloody -hands in-the same stream, mutually congratulating each other on their courage." This was the language of a noble enemy. " Let England be a giant. I dispute not the stature which she assigns to herself. But this giant impresses, I think, no fear upon France. A colossus has sometimes feet of clay. Let Eng land be Eolus, I have still no objection. But has 2Eolus no storms within his empire ? There is no occasion to speak of the dissatisfied subjects who may be found in other countries, when you have at" home 5,000,0043 of oppressed Catholics, 5,000,000 of men whom you are obliged to keep down by a permanent encampment in Ireland—when you are under the .severe necessity of shooting every year masses of the working population who are in want of bread."--when you have poor rates perpetually increas ing, and so announcing distress increasing in the same proportion. It is a well-known fact that distress always occasions discontent. Well _then, My Lords, if the British standard is raised, we shall see all the dissatisfied spirits of the world ranging themselves around it. Is it France atone that ought to he disquieted by - "'iatisfied spirits in Italy, in Hungary, in Poland, and in Russia ? " It is a very sad thing to have to fear, as auxiliaries, the pas sions and misfortunes of men, to calculate upon the successes which may take their rise in the overthrowing of empires, to por sess such a standard as would he instantly chosen by discord. It is unfortunate to confess that one could find power in confusion and chaos. If the giant of England, in departing from his island, perceives that he can set fire to the world, does it not justify the continental blockade of another giant ? France, gentlemen, has other pretensions. If ever, which God forbid, she should he ob liged to re-appear in her defence upon the field of battle, she would rally around her standard, not the discontented of other countries, but all those who were faithful to their religion, to their king, to their honour, to their country—all those who were friends to public liberties in a wise and lawful manner. If we were even obliged to enter the lists with England, we should not attempt to excite in her bosom those millions of discontented per sons whom I have mentioned. We should never endeavour to obtain success by lighting the torch . of civil war in the country of an enemy. A victory, which was not purchased with our own I blood, would be unworthy of us. God forbid, gentlemen, that the English nation, which is so great an honour to.hurnan nature, should ever perish by the disturbances which one might possibly excite within her own bosom. The grateful world will never be persuaded to see any thing but talent, principles of liberty and of civilization, in the country of the Bacons, the Lockes, and the Newtons. The world will never believe that the British flag can possibly be the standard of those disorders which give rise to anarchy, and with anarchy, to that despotism which follows, and which punishes it. The English Minister boasts of having pre vented the consequences of a war in Spain, and of having taken advantage of the same, to emancipate a new world. In this boast there exists only a chronological error. It is forgotten, that, long before the Ministry of Mr. Canning, Lord Castlereagh, at the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, declared that England would, soonir or later, acknowledge the independence of the Spanish colonies. It is not then our war in Spain which has produced this recogni tion. The Spanish colonies were emancipated; the ports of England were open to their vessels for the purposes of commerce at the very time at which the Hon. Mr. C. was about to embark for India. Now this statesman has merely, followed events, as many other statesmen have done. We felicitate him upon it, for if he had foreseen the evils with which Spain has been overwhelmed for the list three years, and if he had suffered them to increase in the hope only of injuring France, by what name should we call such a policy ? The English Minister has declared that the Bri tish forces were about to occupy Portugal. They could, and they ought to do so, upon the terms of their treaties, if a cases fcederis has really taken place : we must, however, do him justice; the English Minister has done us the favour to. declare to the French Government, called to the bar of the English Parliament, that he is satisfied with it. Still, however, our sincerity was a little doubted ; actions, and not words, would have been preferred, but, as it was, all was satisfactory. France was little accustomed to he thus summoned by the Usher of the Black Rod. It is somewhat hard for France, which has still the best finances of Europe, and which, upon a single word of the King's, could as semble a million soldiers round the Dauphin. The occupation of Portugal by the English, which may have advantages under ge neral consideration, is, however, in particular, a very sad affair for-iti, inasmuch as it compels us to remain in Spain. Here is the cases fcederis of honour ! Never will Frenchmen refuse to abide by the expenses of it. For the rest, I . do not believe in a wit. between Spain and England.' England has no longer any thing to take from a despoiled people, not even their last garment. Of course, it is not imagined that we should deliver up to Eng land the ports of Barcelona and Cadiz. To take possession of Cuba, it would be necessary to make war upon the United States : England knows all that. I am not any more inclined to believe in the possibility of a war between France and England, of which we declare ourselves even at this very moment the faithful allies. What should we have to lose in a maritime war ? two or three rocks in two oceans. One hundred and fifty armed vessels, not united into a fleet, but dispersed over the seas of the globe, would do more harm to the immense commerce of Eng land, than all the fleets of England could do to the commerce, un fortunately too confined, of France. Upon the continent, where is the point of attack? The English, who would no longer have the population of Portugal on their side—could they make a stand there against us? Since England justly vaunts itself upon its power, it gives us the right of speaking of our own. It should not be forgotten that there is in France a superabundant popu lation, which sees what France has lost, and which it is more difficult to 'restrain than to let loose. It would be super latively impolitic to wound, by contemptuous words, the pride of a million of young Frenchmen, who throw their impatient eyes upon the vast field of battle, which is gloriously bathed in she blowd of those who have but ju s t p re ceded them. I am 'pot about to propose to you, to return in your address outrage for outrage Lthat would not be consonant with your dignity, and I dare aMrrn that such ii not in my character. But lam per suaded that you will think, as I do, that a grave, and even a severe tone, is that which becomes, at this moment, this Cham ber, which is the guardian at once of the lonour. of France, and of public liberty. Complaisance has already been carried to a very great extent ; whoever suffers himself to be humiliated, obtains shame and not peace. I try my utmost to convey ; in the word which I use, the moderation which circumstances require ; I haves not even recollected Ministers : we shall recover ourselves in the internal affairs of France. To-day the question is wholly of fo reign affairs ; upon the former there is no difference of opinion. We are all Frenchmen. Let us maintain the interests of our country, the majesty of the throne, and of France, If it were wished once more to fetter our opinions, if it were dared once more, by some miracle, to deprive us of the franchises which the charter assures to us, and which the oaths of onr kings gua rantee to us—let us at least save our honour; sooner or later, with honour and with glory, we should regain our liberty." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—About three weeks or a month ago, a member of the Society of Friends named Curtis, appeared before the Lord Mayor, to prefer a complaint against a hackney-coach man, for gross misconduct and overcharge. When the charge was taken flown, Mr. Hobler, the chief clerk suggested to his Lor4ship, that it would not be ad missible 'in point of law, unless taken on oath, being under the provisions of the 224 Geo. HI. cap. 56, which was a penal sta • tute. The Lord Mayor, on referrin g to the particul a r c l ause , coincided with th e c hi e f c l er k, and informed the complainant that he should postpone his decision until he had consulted with the city law officers on the subject. To-day, Mr. Curtis, attended by his Solicitor, came forward again to repeat the charge. The Solicitor submitted, that Mr. Curtis had only one motive in view—namely, public justice : as the offence committed by the coachman was one.of a very serious character. The Logo Mayon did not by any means question the purity of the complainant's intention in pressing the charge : and he (the Lord Mayorl would have no, hesitation in inflicting the fullest penalty, if it was sustained according to law; but, in this instance an affirmation would not warrant conviction, as the Act of Par liament specifically:required the complaining party to make oath in the usual form.—Complaint dismissed. Mr. Curtis signified hislintention of bringing the matter before a higher tribunal, by an appeal to the House of Commons. GUILDHALL.— William Cox Johnson, otherwise Henry Cods Johnson, was bro ug ht tip for re-exa m i n ati on on S atur d ay, before Sir PETER LAURIE, charged with stealing a valuable grey mare.—Remanded. William Harden, a lad about 14, and recently liberated from the House of Correction, was charged with stealing two pieces of silk from tke shop of Messrs. Gibbon and Evans, linen-drapers, in Mnrchmont•street.—Committed. WORSHIP-STREET.—On Saturday, two men, named John Taylor and Wrn. Hammond, the latter, a driver of one of the go-carts now in common use for the conveyance of passengers be . - twee,n the Elephant and Castle and Greenwich, were brought up, charged with having in their possession a large quantity of pro perty, supposed to have been stolen; and Samuel Benjamin, who lives' in Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, was,_ charged with receiving the same. . There are no less than five of the Benjamins, keepers of dif ferent houses in the neighbourhood of Whiteeross-street and Gol den-lane. Hammond and Taylor were remanded, o❑ suspicion of stealing the property; and Benjamin, on the charge of receiving it. On searching Hammond, a ticket was found for the Edgware Turnpike-gate. The only articles with marks were a pair of sheets with the initials J. D., and a table-cloth marked F. LAMBETH-STREE.T.—During Friday and Saturday, several confectioners appeared at this office for the interference of the Magistrates, to punish a swindler, who had been laying them under contribution, by the sale of a deletereous composition which lie called lozenges. _ _ The Magistrate, Mr. Wit Arr said, that he could not afford the applicants any assistance ; they had only their own credulity to blame, for if they had used the necessary precaution of examin ing the goods, they would have detected the fraud. UNION-HALL.—On Saturday, Mary Dunn, a genteel-look inngyoung girl, about 17 years of age, having an illegitimate child berlar ins was eharged with stealing sonic pieces of print from the shop_ of Mr. Tracey, a linen-draper, residing in the Westmin ster-road. On the 11th ult., the prosecutor missed the property in ques tion ; and, suspecting ,the prisoner, who was in the habit of using his shop, he went to several pawnbrokers, ,describing her person, and requested that they would detain her. if she offered to pledge the property, which he described. -He afterwards found that she had already pledged the articles at •a shop in the Borough, and requested the pawnbroker to detain ber when she next presented herself, which she did on Saturday morning, and was taken before Mr. Swabey, at this offic?.—LComznitted. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DlARY.—TnunsniT, JAN. 4.=-(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Keating, G., Waterloo-road, linen-draper-:--11 Lawrance, J., Park-place, St. James's, tailor-11 Smith, J., Hastings, mereer--10 COUNTRY DIARY, THURSDAY, JAN. 4. Astbury, A., Stone, Staffordshire—Crown, Stone-10 Bowker, .1., 13olton—:White's, Manchester—l 1 Gay, J., Bristol—Rummer tavern, Bristol-12 Gibbons, T., j un .., w e n s —Red Lion, Fakenham-4 James, T., Notti ng h a m—George IV. Nottingham—ll James, S., Nottingham—George IV. Nottingham-11 Major, R., Frome Selwood—George, Frome Selwoed-11 Maude, J., L. , Andover—GeOrge, Andover-9 Nogg, W., Wincanton—Ship, Mere, Wilts--10 Moorhouse, T., Sheffield—Tontine, Sheffield-2 Morgan, T., Bristol—Messrs. Cary and Co., Bristol-1 Powell, J., Worcester—White Horse, Worcester-10 Poole, T., Colwall, Herefordshire—Feathers, Ledbury-11 Sadler, H. and T., Oxford—Maidenhead, Oxford-10 Scholfield, J., Ontrington, Cheshire—Royal Hotel, Manche 3- ter__9 .Selden and Hyrule, Liver pool—George, Liverpool—l Shelley, S., Oulton, in Stone, Staffordshire--Crown, Stone—lo Shepherd and Haworth, ,Bury, Lancashire—White's Hotel, Man chester-10 Wheadon, IL, Beiminster—Ruuner. Tavern, Brietol-11 Whitehead, J. and J., Liverpool--LMr. Woods, Liverpool-1 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Jan. 4, at Nine. Abraham, S., Southwark, brass-founder Bassett, W., Deptford, oilman Broad, A., Brixton-hill, bricklayer Caswell, G., Barnet, coach-proprietor Evans, W., Corani-street, cheesernonger Grout, A., Lambeth, shopkeeper Hunt, W., Walworth, warehouseman Kiberd, G., Curtain-road, chair-maker Lancashire, J., Camberwell, corn-dealer Pelham, W., High-street, St. Giles's, carpenter Pickin, J., jun., Sidney, Salop, cattle-dealer Purser, J., Lambeth, carpenter Smith, W., Pentonville, hackneyman Stokes, D., Eagle-street, Bloomsbury, agent Townsend, R., Bristol, clerk Wall, T., Bradley, Staffordshire, grocer EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—A pig of the Chinese breed, belonging to Mr. March, the proprietor of the Angel Inn, Speenliamland, Barks, was missing from its stye about six weeks ago, and was supposed to have been stolen ; but on the removal of a quantity of horse dung, on Wednesday the 20th of the present month, the pig was discovered alive, at the depth of 20, feat. It is still living, and is recovering its former health.— Stockport Advertiser. _ . . . 616110 NA PARTE AND BERNADpTTE,7--Seeking oc casion to send him out of France, he one day announced to him his intention to appoint him Governor of New Orleans. The presence of mind of the General saved him from uttering a refusal which might have brought upon him some fresh disgrace:—" Sire," said he, " a Marshal governor of a province beyond sea, ought to have a military force sufficient to make his sovereign's authority respected, and a treasure to meet the wants of a considerable ex hibition ; your Majesty, in this case, cannot give- me less than 12 millions (francs) of money, and 12,000 men."—" Well ! " an swered Napoleon, "it shall be so. Six thousand men shall em bark with you, and 6,000 shall follow. As for the twelve mil, lions of money, a frigate shall meet you with thew in the latitude of ---." " And if I should fail to find the frigate in that latitude, Sire," rejoined Bernadotte, "what course would your lgajesty have me steer? " The parties perfectly understood one another ; and Marshal Victor was named to the command.. Ouvrard's Me moirs. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE• Our Cotton Market has continued rather brisk throughout the' whole week, and the prices of the inferior descriptions of Bowed have advanced P. and most other kinds about id. per , lb. upon our last quotations. The public sales went off yesterday steadily at the above advance : there were sold 720 Sea Island at 104 d. to 124 d. for inferior to fair ; 13d. to 15A d. for good fair to fine ; 45 stained Sea I s l an d a t 71,d. to 9d., and 40 Dcmerara at sp. to 9d. ; 5,320 Bowed, inferior to fair 6d. a 714. ; good fair to good 7p. a 73d. ; 690 Orleans 7d. A. Bid. ; 2,950 Mobile and Alabama 6P. a 71d. ; 50 Sea Island 12d. a 120. ; : 40 Stained ditto at 6id. a 7d. ; 210 Pernambuco At 9P. a ltd. ; 560 Maranham at 9d. a sp. ; 200 at Bid. a 93d. ;io Mi na Nova at 84d. ; 820 Egyptian 71d. a Sid. ; 10 Demerara/1i 8; 20 Barbadoes et lid. ; 10 Bourbon at sp. ; 130 Surat at sd. a 6d. ; 2 onBo Bengal at sd. ; ma ki ng a tota l , including those sold by aucti, of 1 2,100 bags, of which about 1,500 American have been taken on speculation. The arrivals are 7,223 hogs. Imported into Liverpool, from the 23d to the 29th December, 1926, inclusive, by 2 Vessels from Calcutta, 2 Demerara, 2 New York, 1 VirginG, 3 Charlestown, 1 Orleans; 1 Per nambuco, 2 Quebec, 2 Hatnburgh, 1 Antwerp, and I Rot terdam East India Sugar 2,936 begs, Demerara ditto 746 Mids. 4 tea. 1 brl. ; Coffee 12 casks ; Molasses 179 punchs. ; Pepper 954 bags ; Rum 211 punchy. 36 hhds. ; Brandy 30 casks; West In dia Cotton 56 bales, East India ditto 699 bales ; New Orleans and Mobile ditto 634 bales, Rest United States ditto 4,763 bales, Brazil ditto 1,071 bales ; Tobacco 216 hhds ; Rice 1,340 bags 72 tea. ; Turpentine 773 brls. ; Flour 1,627 brls. ; Foreign Wheat 300 quarters ; United States' Ashes 436 brls., Montreal ditto 1,3'20 brls. ; Salpetre 3,412 bags ; Safflower 247 bales ; Flaxseed 498 bags ; Munjeet 50 bales ; Indigo 56 cheits; Lac Dye 67 chests ; - Shell Lac 80 boxes ; Turmeric 413 bags ; Mad der 11 casks; Cow and Ox Hides No. 8,978. A further advance has taken place in Turpentine ; the trade • have this week bought very freely, the total sale being about 5,600 barrels at Its. per.cwt., the whole being from parcels ware• housed, except about 600 barrels ; the quality of part was very middling, making line worth 12s. 6d. to 12s. 9d. per cwt. In Tar nothing has been done this week. -Rosin has been in brisk demand, and several parcels sold at 55..9d. to 6s. 3d., the manu facturers now demand tis. 6d. without being desirous to press sales. The demand for Ashes has quite subsided, .only about 20 bar rels I'ot at 275. 6d., and the same quantity of Pearls at 275. 6d. to 285., with a few barrels of States' Pot at 305., are the only sales effected ; this is principally owing to the stock being disco vered to be much heavier than was expected, the quantity of all sorts being 24,900 barrels against 22,600 barrels last year. The transactions in Drysalteries have been very trifling, some inferior Campeachy .Logwood at Si., and a few tons prime at Si. 155., is all the business done in this article. In Fustic no sales., Some inquiry for solid Nicaragua Wood has appeared, and 15 tons sold at 19/. 10s. to 21/. per ton. Small parcels of fine Camwood bring 19/. per ton. Shumac A inquired for, and about 400 bags good Sicily sold at I Is. 6(1., being an advance of 6d. per cwt. ; holders generally are asking 12s. Verona is steady at Bs. to Bs. 6d. per cwt. ; in Malaga nothing doing. An import of 3,300 bags Saltpetre has been received ; till this is brought upon the'market, the price must be considered nominal. Valonia re mains steady at 181. for good Smyrna. Galls were yesterday more inquired for, but holders are asking higher prices, and no sales were effected. A parcel of American Bees' Wax was yester day offered by auction, only a small part sold at 11/. ss. per cwt. In Olive Oil, little has been done this week, the, prices remain steady.-.-Fish Oils a re l ess i nqu i re d f or, a parcel of 48 tons New foundland Cod, w hi c h h as b een wrecked at the entrance of the harbour, has b een so ld at QM. per ton, a regular import' may b e bought at 25/. 10 s . i n quant i ty, b ut only one parcel i s on the market. 'Pale Seal is very dull at 2'7/. 10s., and Brow n 24/. 19s. per toir.-In Paltrn Oil but little done this week, the price is steady at 27/. per ton.-Notwithstandits the advance in rough Turpentine, Spirits are dull of sale at 58/. per ton.-In Hides the only transactions are 200 inferior dry Brazil at 54d., and 1,000 ditto of good quality at 6d. per lb.-There is less inquiry for Carolina' Rice, the sales are only 57 casks at 20s. for middling, and 225. to 235. for fine, 70 bags East India have been 'sold at 235., duty paid.-There is but little doing in Hemp, the price remains steady.-Tallow has been less inquired for, and the price is 6d lower.. The transactions in British Plantation produce at -thin season ( nf e the year are }i. ah ateg,eneearaat but at fulliyf:w2i the prices. I ief i of Sugnarhave Foreign Sugar,notex ede,i 300 Molasses, or Ginger, nothing done. In Brazil Cocoa a small 1 ,.. -ca has been sold at 345. per,cwt. In Coffee, about 30 tierces of Jamaica sold at steady prices to the Grocers;, , In Pimento nothing done. In Bum the sales are only 20 puncheons Deme rara 25 0.1'., at Ss. 4d. per gallon-. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURIWG _LAST IVEZK. Barley, I Oats. P er Quarter . 54 :7 3 1 t7 6.... t a 4 : to s. to to " •a.a.to F. • Pease. Carlisle 5/ 31 38 40 25 66 50 4 37 - 4 - 02 33 2 - 4 s 83 4 82 48 54 _ 5 0 .1. - Romsey 50 70 36 38 26 35 50 58 56 Sunderland......... 56 60 Per Bushel • C Th o ri ve ni n n tr g y hani 8 7 -754.d . 4 6 , 7 7; d B 6 ' 5 356' 2 9. 1 6 8-7d 8 8. 1 ' 5 57d 0 6 6. 6 5—d 2 9" 1 6 7 1 ' B B7 d O . 7 6 15 d O B. 16 7 8.—d g 90 92 66 70 1 50 59 96 10 0 00 00 Nortliallerton 6 9 7 6 1 9 5 0 3 0 4 0 6 0 6 6 0 0 0 6 Penrith 0 0. 7 7 00 5349 Stafford 6 90-7 6 :80 56 6 • .6 ::90 00 00 70 7 8 5 0 59 3 0 6 3 6 8 80 89 99 Worcester 4 8 0 5 3 6 6 4 6 53 80 9 0 10 . 0 12 0 Per Boil. - 13arnardcastle 12 ohi o'll 0110 (i 6 6 015 1 3 0 Darlington 13 0 16 010 6 11 6 6 0 11 0 0 0 14.0 116 120 Durham__ 13 0 15 8,10 6 11 0 8 0 8 19 ° 100 11 ° 10 8 0 0 0 00 00 00 Stanhope,....... 130 13 9, 0 0 100 70 00.00 0 00 00 Atidov Hexha Aewea %Vinch 00 76 00 00 0 00 00 tstEtrlHer____l 50: 36 —•-• S w t_o o_ c i k4 n o g ii hani 1 32 0 3_1 6 3 . 6 ( 60 0 00 have again declined market, HADbINGTON CORN MARKET.—.Deg•. We had only a small supply of Wheat to-dao, of which a con y ' , erect' &Nom 815_ . f01107 . 7 -- o si n de t r h a e bl a e ve p r r a o a p e ot s t d io . n pe r i e . m b a o i l i l ie u d nd u e n r so l l a d s Barley and Oats, however, have risen, the former Is. the latter 6d. per boll. Beans U. 7s. 4d. 7.ths.--122 linsold-43 Grey. the same as last day. Peas none sold. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. IPailb First Second Od 00:1 Third There were 082 bolls of Wheat in market, Od s 04 4at It. B—SS at U. Ss. 6d.-- 109 a t 1 /. m.-143 at lf. 7s 6d —6 at .s. u‘d at If . os. Col.-51 at 11. 6s. u . 1 5, • Average, DALKLITH The quantity of Wheal sold heavily at loi ‘ v ‘ ' , e h r.p:le First 303 Od Second Third CORN MATti-CET7. t at this day's mi •DEc. 28. ket was large, and [ Barley. Oats.' Pease. Beans. 28s 6 c l 281 Od 995 Od 295 Od 263 Od 2 6 , o d 27 6 Od 275 (xi 24, Od 23, 6d 215 Od 245 Od ...._ _ MI NINO I NTELLI G ENCE. Tons. Cwt, Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Ruth last Thursday Average Produce ......................... ; .................. ; ... 7% 0 Quantity of fine Copper ................................... ........ . 248 3 Amount of Sale, £16,509 U s , "u .. Average Standard, £lO2 18s. Od. BUONAP.ZkRTE 1N YOUTII.—" At Madam e Tal . lien's house, he (Buonapar(e) was, perhaps, of all the persons who visited it, the least noticed, or the least favoured of fortune. I rae forgot, l d 0 imn Joined; -vas far from then, imagining that he would one day hold in his hand the destinies of the w or ld . P o li t i cs w ere the ma i n su bj ects o f conversation in our c i rc l e, b ut not the exc l us i ve su bj ect . Of ten, in the midst of the most an i mate d di4 c ussions, little parties w ere i f h in t d r saloon, d in isc t o b u e rsesßn uo who a ap te fri voln but when. he did so, it was with a sort of i n t ox i cate d i m p u l se — he was then peculi ar l y us conversations, th e grave matters . whi c h more common l y occu pi e d us . I n th ese gay, and full of viv ac i ous sa lli es. O ne evening he :dieted to t e ll the fortunes of the co m p any; took. the hand of Madame Talli en Oro '.Every bod y Rub , and uttered a. t h ousand w hi ms icalities.• miffed their. hands in turn to his examination.; but when Hoche came, a change seemed to be,prOdticed. suddenly in his humour. He examined attentively the lints of the hand ; and then said, in a solemn tone, but far &Um a benevolent one--‘ General, yon will die in your bed.' The countenance of li9 ehe.was..flusbed with anger for a moment ; but a sally from,llladame Talli en di ss ip a t e d the cloud, an d restore d goo d humour.' Otivrald'.4 MeMoirs. BIRTHS. • On the 29th ult., at Shriyenham, in the county of Berki, the lady of the Hon. W. K. _Barrington, of a daughter. On the 29th 'ult., in Queen's-square, the lady of W. P. Richards, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 29th ult. , a t A l l Saints, Southampton , by th e RE ,. . Richard Bracken, Alexander Young Spearman , Es q ., t o Jan , , younges t d a ughter of the late Duncan Campbell , Esq., of Bed. ford-square. On the • SOtn ult., at St. George's, llanovOr , square, by the :Rev. Richard Morris, A. 8., Jotieph Minors,' Esq., of Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, to Mrs. Winckworth, of Con naught-tetracee Edgeware.4oad. • . : . . ' - • . Printed anel Published by M. YOUNG, at she Strw-Oretcf, No. 112, STRAND.