The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-25 00:00:00

THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE. On Monday afternoon the Corporation "Com mittee for superintending the building of the New London Bridge, attended Mr. R. L. Jones, their Chairman, to the spot, for the purpose of putting in the key -stone of the land arch on the Southwark side, which is the first arch turned. • Mr. John Rens nie, the architect, Mr. Knight, and Mr. Holing worth, directed the operations. The key-stone was formed of a block of red Peterhead granite, four feet six inches deep by two feet three inches wide, 18 inches thick, and in weight about two tons. The Chairman, aided by other members of the Committee, gave the first blows ; the workmen were permitted to conclude -the operation, which they did in about an hour. The span of this first arch is 130 feet, with a rise of 25 feet from the high-water line. The span of each of the arches in Waterloo-bridge is 120 feet, with a rise of 28 feet from the high-water line. The' centre arch will be of 140 feet, with a rise of 30 feet from the same line. The largest arch in Eng land is the Pont-y-Prydd, the glory of tilamorgarts shire, of 140 feet span. The Pent de Neuilly ; near Paris, is considered the c4ef d'oeuvre of French bridge building. The chief pride a the conti nent is the celebrated Ponte del Trinnita, at Flo rence, which consists of three'arches of very nearly the same proportions. .T ) /te two arches on each side . of the centre arch of the new London-bridge be each of 140 feet span, It is probable t. l _, at had i t not been for the expe rience gained irOm the building of the Waterloo bridge, a e sd some others recently erected, the con struct on of arches of such an increased magnitude . vet. a wide, deep, and rapid stream, would not have been hazarded. It is unnecessary, perhaps, to state, that the longer the radius of the upper portion of the ellipse may be, the greater' is the pressure at the Point mentioned. At Waterloo-bridge where the versed sign was higher, the arches, opened consider ably more in proportion. These circumstances, therefore, are decisive as to the improved workman ship of arch joints, considering the radii of the curvature of the respective arches. The arches of the Pont de Neuilly sunk considerably; one of the land arches as much as twenty-two inches. The distortion of the curve which it occasioned is now perceptible to the eye. The construction of the key-stone of the new arch was much discussed, and it is considered to excel in science all which have preceded it. The foundations of the piers are deeper than those of enyknown bridge in Europe. The Corporation Committee expressed inuch sa tiefaction at the forward state of the works. All the Tesuidations are accomplished, except the foundation for the abutment on the City side of the river. The contractors are bound to have the bridge compbted by March, 1830. -On Monday a plan for grand ap proaches on the London side was laid before the :Bridge Committee, by Mr. John Rennie.: We hear shat it is to form an open square on the present site lof Crooked-lane, in the line of Monument-yard. The object of this square, in point of utility, is to relieve thucechurch-street of the immense crowd of waggons and carriages by which the road is obstructed and rendered dangerous during the hours of business. It-is intended to throw open the Mo nument, and make the architecture of the houses of a corresponding magnificence. The Committee entered heartily into the plan, but they always in these matters move slowly, having a proper feeling of awe for the responsibility which devolves upon them. The Fishmongers' Company, which is as liberal as it is wealthy, has begun to act with spirit. They have relinquished a plot of ground, 20 feet deep, to the City, for 20,000/., to enable them ,to form the necessary approaches to the new bridge in a better manner. This ground they considered to be worth, at the full value, about 30,000/. Their Hall is already dismantled in consequence, and in another Month it is expected it will have disappeared. On the part of the city, arrangements have been made for the Southwark side, to throw open St. Saviour's church for the public view, as an edifice worthy of the bridge and of the metropolis. But no corresponding exertions seem likely to be made by the parish of St. Saviour, which yet allows their church (acknowledged by competent judges to be the next sacred edifice in rank after Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's) to remain partly restored,, and partly in ruins. The sum requisite for the com plete restoration of the church is estimated to be about 20,0001. The rebuilding of such a work Would probably cost upwards .of 150,000/. The parish have productive estates and other funds to complete the work, but a party there contend that it ought to be considered a national work, and that the charge ought not to fall on the parish. The remissness with respect to this edifice is also, in some degree, attributed to the conscientious scruples of majority of active parishioners, who are Dis senters, and on religious grounds adverse. to aiding - in the restoration of a structure which has in some degree a cathedral character. THE SOLICITOR GENERAL. Some delay which occun'ed in the Hanaper Office, caused the swearing in of 'Mr. Doherty to be postponed until five o'clock on Saturday. 'We can state, however, authentically, that it then took place at the Chancellor's house, in Stephen's Green. - -It is said that Mr. Doherty is destined to dis charge judicial functions on the Munster Circuit. Mr. Doherty is longer at the bar than tho,e seem to imagine who speak of him as a very 'oung Barrister. He was called in Hilary Term, 1808, and he is, therefore, not very far from the completion of his third apprenticeship to the profession. He owes, of course . , his promotion chiefly to family or political connections—and who is it, we would be glad to know, who has found access to office through any other instru mentality ? Mr. Doherty has not had many predecessors more entitled to advancement than himself, on the ground of professional merit alone. There are united in him many of the very best, most useful, and - even most brilliant, qualities of the lawyer and the advocate. Here tofore he has more than kept pace with his com petitors in the most intricate- paths Of a Bar rister's career—and left altogethe r t o th e f orce o f hi s own energies, he would - soon have attained all the renown of the profession at least that office does not confer. Personal recommendation s are not, probably, to be introduced here—but it may he mentioned that Mr. Doherty ascends to official station with the good will of the whole profes sion. He is a straight-forward, single-minded, cordial, good-humoured, and unaffected man, and he enjoys the estimation which such qualities never fail to win, even from rivals and political opponents. Mr. Moore, M.P. for Dublin, took the oaths, as King's Counsel, also, on Saturday evening. A contrivance was made to avoid thevaeating of his seat for Dublin. In England, a gentleman who gets a King's Counsel's gown, receives the dignity " with the fees, profits, and emoluments thereunto belonging." These amount to forty shillings per annum, less by four shillings, pells and poundage. As the six and thirty shillings salary were of no great importance, even to a Dublin Corporator; and as accepting them would involve the vacating of the Parliamentary seat, it was resolved that Mr. Moore should dispense with them, and he was accordingly nominated to his new dignity without any mention being made of " fees, profits, and emoluments."—Dublin Monimg Register. FOREIGN INtELLiGENCE. VRENCH PAPERS. (tilem the Gazette de Prance, July 'IS.) 1 RTESTE, JULY IJ.--Privai letters from Ancona speak of a r'itettacre of -the Greeks and Franks who were at Smyrna, in the course of the la"st month. Even the Consuls of several Europenn PbWert were said not to have been spared. These accounts mutt be 'considered as false, and, besides, the details they give differ very much from each other. We have this moment received the last number of the Impartial Observer of Smyrna, dated June 16, in which we cannot find any indication of the troubles said to have broken out there. This Journal contains a circumstantial report by Major Corner commanding the Mei°, Austrian brig, of the events which preceded and followed the capitulation of the Acropolis. We observe in it that the garrison had provisions Tor fiVe days only, and this was but oats, which had been for two months their sole subsistence. LISBON, JULY 7.—On the 4th, the anniversary of the Princess Regent's birth-day, the two bat talions of the Guards, a brigade of Artillery, and cricueral Clinton, with his Staff; proceeded to the heights which command the country seat in which her Royal Highness resides, and, after having fired several vollies, filed off before the Palace of the Princess. .This politeness of the English produced a very good effect. Letters from Elves announce, that the authorities, of Badajoz have received orders to deliver passports to' all persons who may require them, for Portugal, leaving the communication perfectly free. • Two ships of the line will leave the Tagus for the Mediterranean, whither, it is said, they will be' followed by the other men of war in the Tagus, and that a regiment of infantry is coming from Gibraltar, and some cavalry from England. PARIS, JULY 22.—Almost all the Journals have published, this morning, a letter from Marseilles, dated the 14th July, which distributes commissions and instructions among the French squadrons in the Mediterranean and the Levant. We have not hitherto seen that the intentions of the Government, and promotions, have been made known by such circuitous means to the public, and to the persons most directly interested in them. The Sardinian vessel, of which the letter announces the capture, and which was to have been brought to Toulon, has since been released. The letter from Marseilles is, therefore, as incomplete in this point as it is incor rect in all the others. Rear-Admiral Jacob, V.laritime Prefect at Toulon, has informed the merchants at Marseilles, that there will be henceforth a convoy for the Straits once a fortnight, and for the Levant once a month; that for the Straits will arrive in the Marseilles Roads on the 10th and 25th of each month, to sail with the merchantmen ; that for the Levant will sail from Toulon on the 30th of each .month. TOULON, JULY 12.—The Marsouin and the Faune, brigs, have just arrived, the first from Alexandria, and the second from Algiers. The blockade of that port continues to be strictly observed. The two frigates from Brest, and the Bellona, had taken their stat:,n either off Algiei s or off Bona. (From the Journal des Debats.) PARIS, JULY 21.—Letters from Marseilles, of the 14th inst., state, that, a vessel had arrived at Toulon from Algiers, bringing dispatches for Government. All that we have learned is, that our squadron there has been reinforced by home frigates and corvettes, but that no ship of the line had hitherto joined it. A Sardinian merchant vessel had been captured by the squadron, and sent into Toulon. This vessel being under quarantine, we have not learned exactly what was the cause of its seizure. It is presumed,' however, to have been an attempt to break throu g h' the blockade, on the pretence- that it was' not notified at its departure from Genoa. The fitting out of vessels continues at Toulon, and the recruiting for sailors is prOsecuted throughout the fifth Arron dissement. Five French vessels left the port a few days ago, to pass - the Straits, under the convoy of the corvette Adonis, as far as Cape Spartel. Accord ing to common report, the French force in the Ar -chipelago, under the command of M. de Rigny, who is to be promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and to have two Rear-Admirals under his orders, will consist of seven line-of-battle ships, four frigates of 60 guns, six of 44 guns, with a number of cor vettes, brigs, and advice-boats. The fleet before: Algiers will be composed of three ships of the line,: four frigates, and several corvettes and brigs, under the orders of M. Collet, who is to be promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. According to common report, we may expect also the arrival of a Russian' squadron, which, it is asserted, has been seen in the straits of Calais, directing its course towards the Mediterranean. A letter from St. Petersburgh,which was read at a meeting here, mentioned the enthusiasm which the equipping of the squadron had excited in that capital. It was the subject of every conversa tion, and even in their sermons the Papas implored the Divine assistance in its favour, considering it es pecially destined to protect their fellow believers. The news from Alexandria continues to present an unfavourable picture of the financial resources of the Pacha. There is but one vessel in our docks on his account ; it is a vessel of 60 guns, the progress of which, at the present, remains suspended. The polacca La Fortune, Capt. Jacques, has brought back to this port 134 persons, who formed, the complement of the frigate La Guerriere, which was built for the Pacha. There remained but one corvette to fit out, and it has sailed. We know not if any more will be constructed in this port for that Sovereign. He finds, it is said, the building of them at Marseilles to be too dear, and that the quality of the materials is far from satisfactory. M. Drovetti,' Consul-General of France at Alexandria, is still under quarantine at Toulon. He will be liberated, in a few days, in order that he may, as speedily as possible, go to Paris. We think we may assert that he will return no more to Alexandria. Whoever be his successor, M. Drovetti will be regretted by the' French in Egypt, and by the merchants of Alex andria. Yesterday (Friday) Sheriff Franklin was handed an execution from the King's Bench, against a man of the name of Joseph Welch, who keeps a public house in Denmark-street (Limerick): about three o'clock in the afternoon Welsh was. pointed out to the Sheriff standing at the door, and was of course arrested. On being apprized of the circumstance, Welsh, with couch indifference, requested Mr. Franklin to walk into the shop, when the felloW deliberately stepped behind the counter and took up a large carving knife, with which he aimed a deadly blow at the Sheriff's breast: astonished at the fellow's conduct, Mr. Franklin retreated a little, when the villain followed up the attempt with another thrust of the knife at his stomach ; fortunately Sheriff Franklin had an, umbrella in his hand, with which he parried off the assas sin's stroke, and left the house for assistance. On being apprized of this outrage, Mr. Sheriff Watson proceeded with three of the city police, and, finding Welsh had left his house, searched an adjoining corn-store, where, upon the upper loft, he found him in an attitude of defence at the head of a narrow passage or stair-case, having in his hand a large sharp spike, fixed in a stick, with which he ' threatened destruction to any who should approach him. His threats, however, were of little avail, as he was quickly secured, but not not without a great struggle, in which he attempted to run a policeman through the body ; and the weapon he held was actually obliged to be broken in his hand before he would yield. He was conveyed to the city gaol, and informations have since been sworn against him before the Mayor, for this wanton outrage.—Lime rick Chronicle. The land-surveyor, named Faiseau, who a short time back entered the house of Mademoi selle Sophia D-, a schoolmistress at Cijunecy, and gave her a most violent scourging with a birchen rod, which he had been steeping in vi negar for some days previously, has been tried by the Correctional Tribunal of Clamecy, and con demned to three years' imprisonment, 300 francs fine ; and 6,000 francs damages. PRIVATE tORIttSPONDENCt. PORTtTGAL-OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY. " LISBON, JULY 3, THREE O'CLOCK Ylkt. " Don Miguel declines his brother's invitation to go to Bra2il; and iniisti upon lris tight to tome to POrtiigab hi tailing the latter cdtirSe, be professes himself desirous only to claim his rights under the Charter, and as the husband of his niece. He says that he is the first Peer in Portugal,—that he has an income already provided in the revenue of the Casa d' Infantado,—that he has taken the requisite oaths to the Constitution,—that if it is doubtful whether he be entitled to the Regency on his next birth-day, he is willing to submit the question to the Chambers in an extraordinary Session,—and that, as the Allies do riot profess to be his gaolers, he can see no reason why they should resist his return to his country with views so pacific, and intentions so laudable. Prince Metternich ,professes his per fect conviction of the Infant's sincerity, and declares that he cannot well refuse him passports. The Prince holds out, that his Royal Highness has very much improved at Vienna under his tuition; and that, having been relieved from his former as sociates, seeing the errors of his past . con duct, and surrounded with better councillors, he will make a tolerable constitutional governor. At any rate, he does not see what right the Allies have to detain him. The Government of France enter tains the same views and holds the same language; and if he is set loose on the continent, and gets through France into Spain, of what use is Don Pedro's ship at Brest, or an English squadron in the Tagus, to prevent his entrance into Portugal ? The Princess Regent and her Ministers have all declared their belief, that if he appears on the frontier, they could not command the obedience of a single regi ment—that if they were to convoke the Chambers, and to propose his exclusion from the Regeney or the kingdom, not one-third of the peers, and most likely not even a majority of the deputies, would support them ; and thus that there would be no other alternative but submission to his will. Such seems to be the alarming state of matters at present ; and this poor Government,with the best intentions in the would, but without knowing how to act, is wait ing the next packet, or the next courier, to learn the decision of their English and continental allies.— The Allied Powers, in order to get out of a diffi culty which seems to issue in nothing but a choice of evils, will decide to alto* his return to Portugal under a guarantee that he will attend to the rights of his brother and of the nation. The manner in which he and his partisans will interpret or observe that guarantee it does not require a conjuror to point out. A sudden re-action may certainly be prevented, but security to the constitution as it is, can scarcely be contemplated. In such a case, the presence of our troops in Portugal for the next six months, and the influence of our counsels so supported, may be of infinite service to humanity, if not to freedom. The old Queen declares, that she would. die satis fied with the enjoyment of, ower for a fortnight : her fortnight's interregnum might thus be postpoiled till the Prince has found that he can reign better himself, or till he be induced altogether to decline maternal interference. " In a previous letter I fully described the appre hension and punishment of a party of the 7th Regi ment whe had attempted to proceed to Spain. It is scarcely credible, but it is stated o n goo d autho rity, that on. the following day '2O more deserters effected their escape from the garrison of Lisbon. Last night a Captain of Militia was taken up in the great square, attempting to seduce the guards .on duty before the Custom-house. He wore his uniform and was decorated with the order of Villa Franca, or the . token of regard conferred by the late King on the party who enabled him to overthrow the last Cortes. When arrested, the fellow shouted vivas to Don Miguel, and was conducted to the Castle amid more popular vices to Don Pedro and the Charter. In the .provinces and Edon the Spanish line of frontier the greatest anxiety`is felt about an appre hended explosion. " I alluded in a former letter to the departure of 50 or 60 of the Spanish refugees towards Spain, with the professed intention of making a hostile in cursion into their own country. This party was to have been led by an active Spaniard from Estremadura, of the name of Barantes, who made his escape from the depot at Abrantes. He had concerted with four other officers to meet him, with their respective partisans, on the frontier, proceeding from different points, and to try the hazard of a military inroad.— The attempt was hazardous, as the Spanish army in repelling the attack, might in its turn pass the fron tier, and thus force our troops to move in defence of the Portuguese territory. The Minister of War, Saldanha, used all diligence to prevent such a result ; and having sent out couriers in all directions, gOt the refugees apprehended. You will see in the Gazette an order of the Princess Regent for dis placing the Governor of Abrantes, for allowing the escape of the chief mover in this enterprise. Though Barantes was apprehended, he has again made his escape, by swimming across the Tagus. "'The facts which I have given you in another letter respecting the Spanish refugees here and in the neighbourhood may be relied on, as I had it from one of the best informed and most respectable men amongst them. But a fact, at which you will be a good deal surprised, and at which the meritorious and faithful class of refugees in London must feel in dignant, still remains untold. I have heard, on the best authority (which I give you for your private satisfaction), that several Spanish officers have lately passed the frontier, pretending to desert their stand ards and to fly from persecution, who actually con tinue in the pay, and have entered Portugal as the spies of the Spanish Government. Some informa tion respecting the depots which they were .sending to the Spanish authorities has been intercepted. — There may be some forgery in this; but in another circumstance which I have heard there can be none —that two of them, who have been really suffering persecution for the last three years, lately, offered to give information to the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, if he would secure their pardon and leave to return home. The honourable men who belong to the class of refugees, both here and in London, must be more enraged at these instances of treachery than strangers. and I mention them only to put all parties on their guard. " Our squadron in the Taps has got orders from England to be ready for sea in twelve hours. The Admiral has already laid in provisions for three months. Neither the object of the order, nor the destination of the squadron, is known. It is sup posed to be destined for the Mediterranean, and that additional ships from England will be sent to the river to supply its place. " Count Villa Real, the new Portuguese Ambas sador to London, goes in the steam-boat at six o'clock this evening. " Count Palmella is anxiously expected by the next packet." _ " NEWS OF THE DAY, &r. " LISBON, JULY 7.—Ever since the rumour of Don Miguel's refusal to obey his brother's instruc tions was spread, and since his approaching arrival in Portugal was anticipated, the apostolical and ab solute party have felt new hopes, and begun to dis play additional effrontery. In the course of the week, four persons have been taken up, on different days and at different places, for publicly vociferating against the Charter, and in favour of the absolute Don Miguel. These men, who in general were too ignorant to have formed any opinion, and too poor to have any immediate interest in a political change, were no doubt employed by wealthier and more art ful knaves to try an experiment on the feelings of the public, and launched like pilot-balloons, to as certain which way the wind blew before the grand ascent is attempted. That I have not exaggerated the activity of the Corcundas or the dangers of the country is evident from an article in the Portuguez of Thursday, written several days after either of my letters, and confirmatory of both. This jour nal, which alcine may be called the public opi nion of Portugal, or which, at least, is the Only efficient organ of liberal sentiments in Lisbon, speaks of the distribution of seditious proclamations, of the spread of false news against the existing order of things, of the appearance of factious emissaries at the coffee-houses or places of public resort to sound public opinion, and of the Open gale of medals and other objects in which po litical sentitlienia dr piedileetions are embodied, as the common symptoms of the erisig: Most of these things I myself have observed and can attest, though I do not make so light of the matter as the Portu guese journalist. One of the proclamations I en close you ; and if your constitutional feelings, would not be shocked at the idea of wearing a ring adorned with the portrait of Don Miguel, or a representa tion of Our Lady of Me Rock, (who was so mainly instrumental in overthrowing the last Cortes, and who, I am afraid, has again begun to assume her po litical character), I would send you one of each, which I bought to-day, amid a crowd of other pur chasers, in one of the most frequented streets of this city. " We have not yet been gratified in the arrival of the packet from England which is expected to bring out the final resolutions of the British Government respecting the anticipated arrival of the Infant, and the relation in which, when he. comes, he is to stand to the existing Government of Portugal, to' the Charter, and to British alliance. Our Ambassador is therefore said not to have received his instruc tions; but, if report speaks true, the Envoys of the Holy Alliance have received theirs, and begun to act upon them. A note was in consequence written, at the beginning of this week, to the Government of the Princess Regent, by the Austrian Minister, sup ported by the French and Spanish, stating that as Don Miguel had declined his brother's invitation to go to Brazil, and had desired to return to Portugal to exercise the rights secured to him by the laws of the kingdom, their Sovereigns could not now re fuse him leave to depart from Vienna, nor the pass ports necessary for such a journey. The English Ambassador is reported to have declined any par ticipation in the object, and to have denied all official knowledge of the facts of this note. It was sent to Saldanha, the Provisional Minister for Foreign Affairs, who laid it 'before the Princess Regent in council. The consequence was a resolution of the Government to acquaint the Emperor as expediti ously as possible with the whole of the circum stances, and accordingly the brig called Treze de Mayo was dispatched on Tuesday for Rio, under pretence of going only to the Azores, though provi sions were put on board for a trans-Atlantic passage. As the Emperor's pride must be deeply wounded by the disobedience of his brother, his fears alarmed for the throne of his daughter, and his reputation as a legislator menaced by the dangers of the Charter, it is expected that he will embark for Europe im mediately upon receiving the intelligence of the state of things in Portugal, and thus cut by his presence the knot which diplomacy cannot untie. To all the motives of wounded self-love, parental affection, and legislative ambition, must be added a sympathetic regard for the safety of his faithful friends, whose very existence has been compromised by supporting his rights. For people at their ease, and at a distance from danger, may talk. of the guarantees which Don Miguel offers to the Allies, that he will do no mis , chief when let loose upon Portugal; but nobody who requires the protection of those guarantees, places the least faith in their observance. The Constitutionalists would as soon take the guarantee of a tiger in a cage, that he would not gratify his taste for blood when out of it, as that of the Prince at Vienna, that he would not exercise vengeance at Lisbon. Such of them, therefore, as have the means of living abroad, are preparing to seek an asylum in other countries, as soon as the Infant shall_appear in this. " You would see a curious decree in the Lisbon Gazette of Thursday se'nnight, forbidding, till a law of the press is promulgated, all discussion on the 92d article of. the Charter, or, in other words, on the question of the Regency. It is difficult to say against whom this decree is directed. The arrival of Don Miguel, who thieatens, at his next birth-day, if in Portukat, to submit his pretensions to the Chambers, wilt render such a prohibition nugatory, or at least only injurious to the constitutional party, whose cause is best promoted by discussion. " It has been suggested to the Ministers of the Princess Regent, that in the present imminent dangers of the country and the Charter, the Cortes should be convoked, and an exclusion bill proposed; but such a measure would appear to be impolitic. Don Miguel may have rendered himself unworthy to enjoy power by his vices and his crimes; but the time has gone by for making his character the ground *of his exclusion. Had his brother continued the sentence of banishment passed u pon him by his father,'his return. to Portugal might have been denounced as rebellion, and repelled with arms; but he has since been treated with as-an im maculate Prince, whose rights have never been im paired,—he has been called upon to take the oath to the Charter,—and, above all, he has had his offen ces wiped out by the nuptial benediction. Such arguments would not be forgotten in the House of Peers, who would infallibly reject the bill. The at tempt would thus irritate the Prince against indiyi duals, without attaining any 'security for the Charter or the liberties of the people. "P. S. I have expressed myself with reserve respecting the Austrian Note, because, though the report on the subject be general in the best informed circles, I have it not from any official source. That conferences in the sense of the reported note, and with a view to its presentation, have been held at the house of the Austrian Embassy, between the envoys specified, I have no doubt, and that the Portugues e brig has sailed with the result, may be relied upon as a. fact. " 1,151110 N, JULY 7, AFTERNOON.—We have no news and scarcely any rumours here to-day. The expected packet has not yet arrived from England, and therefore, as the British Minister has 'not re ceived his instructions, and the Marquis of Palmella has not decided on the course he is to pursue, all political matters are at a stand. LISBON, JULY 7.—So much hag been said and written lately about Don Miguel, the Constitution, and Apostolicals, that the people of England must now be'Sick of them, and I shall therefore allude to them, at least in this letter, as briefly as possible. Don Miguel has written a kind letter to his sister, the Princess Regent, informing her that he is in a bad state of health, that he is unable to go to', Rio Janeiro, and that he is about to set out for Carlsbad to take the benefit of the baths. A letter of a somewhat similar description was re ceived at the same time by the official autho rities, as I give you to understand in my letter of the 3d. Desertion, it is said, is again reviving in the army, and misunderstandings, as might have been expected, are breaking out among the new Ministers. The Bishop of Algarves, who, it appears, is a quiet, peaceable sort of a man, and wishes to avoid a war with Spain, is not altogether liked by the Minister of War, who would carry every thing with a high hand, whether he had men, money, Ministers, or means of any kind to support him ; and it is not improbable that the jugglers behind the scene may give the strings another double pull—remove the Bishop of Algarves, and let down some other Bishop in his place. Tri rfeso and Barradas are the chief jugglers who play for the benefit of Don Miguel and the Apostolicals, and no actors could have played better than they did on the late occasion. By frequent moves they convince the people that all is full of uncertainty and imleci sion, and at the same time contrive to get into office men that will second their purposes, and pave the way for another revolution. Several promotions haVe taken place lately among Judges and officers, bnt all are in favour of the enemies of the Consti tution. If the Marquis of Palmella accepts the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, he must either make a complete turn out, or be absorbed in the vortex of Apostolical politics. The packet from England, which is expected to bring the result of his resolu tion, is still due, and owing to contrary winds, will probably keep the people here some - days longer in suspeu6t. COURSE OF EXCHJ Amsterdam C.F. 12 3 Ditto, at sight l2 0 Rotterdam 2U. 12 4 Antwerp l2 4 Hamburgh 2% U. 37 0 A ltona 0 % U. 37 1 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 70 Bordeaux 25 '7O Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 111.153 Petersburgh, rble... 3 Us. 10 Vienna, etlbctive fl. 2M. 10 6 Trieste do. Madrid 34 Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona 33 Seville 34 Gibraltar 45 *IM apparent object can require. Indeed the Journal des Debats states, that the squadrol t in the Archipelago is to consist of seven ship s of the line, four frigates of 60 guns, and Eix of 41- guns, with a number of corvettes, I: 'rigs, &c.. M. de RIGNY, who commanch it, is tc) be' pro-• moted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, any to have• iwo Rear-Admirals under his order::. The- French squadron before Algiers, accordu tg to the same paper, is to consist of three ship a of the- line, four frigates, and several corvettes. If this statement is correct, we may rest assured. that the British fleet in the Mediterranean will' shortly receive a large augmentation. 'fwo line of-battle ships from Lisbon, and various other ships of smaller classes, have already proceeded into that sea, for the purpose of increasing the force under Sir EDWARD CODRING;TON, and. his MAJESTY'S Government will not b e backward in increasing the forCe under the Vice—Admires orders, in proportion as the scpr adro ns of other nations are augmented. We flave: stated for some time past that this course wovid be neces . - sary, and all our anticipations are noNtir, realizing. Extracts of the French Papers will be found in another column. We mentioned yesterday that acc mints had:' reached Lisbon, prior to the sailing of thepacket on the Bth inst. (not 18th as errojieo usly stated in all the other papers) that an insu rrectionary movement bad taken place in TrsF.c►s-Monies, under Brigadier General 0 RDA Z. N ' t) particu- tars had reached Lisbon, and our Government are consequently unacquainted with itsl results but, from the state of public feeling throughout Portugal, and connected, as this insurrection is supposed to be, with the expected return of DON MIGUEL, considerable anxiety is felt as to the probable consequences to which it may lead. The reduction of our Naval force in the Tagus, by some of the line-of-battle ships being detached into the Mediterranean, is said to have given additional confidence to the party opposed to the present Constitution, and it will therefore be probably necessary immediately to replace those• ships by others from England. Some augmentation , may also be necessary to our Army, but, unless the Government of Portugal itself acts with more energy than it has at present exhibited, the Constitution cannot stand against the active, as well as secret exertions of the apostolic al party. We have collected in another column, from our cotemporaries, several private communica tions from Lisbon, which give interes Ling ac counts of the state of the public mind, as well as of passing events ; and, from the general character of these, and all other letters which we have seen from Lisbon, we cannot but entertain very serious apprehensions that ignorance and superstition will prevail over and overthrow the liberal institutions of the present charter. His Majesty's packet brig Skylark has arrived with - . a Brazil Mail. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 20th May, from Bahia on the sth June, and from Pernambuco on the 13th June. By her we have received the Diario Fluminense to. the 19th of May inclusive. It contains documents of a totally different character, as might naturally be expected, from the Generals of the contending armies, each of whom, espe cially the Brazilian, dwells more on the affairs of his rival than his own. But as little depeudance is to be placed on the correctness of either in such cases we shall leave our Readers to draw their own conclusions, merely remarking, that . if " money, patience, and men, be the requisites for a long war," we think the Emperor tof BRAZIL stands as much in want of them as the Buenos-Ayreans do, in the opinion of the Im perial General Baron de VILLA BELLA MONTE VIDEO. RIO DE JANEIRO, MAY I 6• SIR-Frin the inclosed Proclkmation of the Governor of Canelone:, your Excellency will perceive the state of weakness to Avhiell the enemy is reduced. Nobody is exempted from the levy--not a single horse is left to the inhabitants; and, in short, the orders are so positive, that it may be called a levy en masse. Yet I suppose that the result will not be great; for 1 know that all the mountains are full of the inhabitants and deserters. Immense numbers of people have come within our line ; and I am informed that many more desire to come, which they have not yet done, because they have no means of subsistence. They raise recruits on the one hand, and lose by desertion on the z o aing ther o ; nisoortehattilmaT,oasosourmedentliriaatvesidnesceertthede from la a the ttlef army ltu - of Alyea, who subsist on the cattle they have stolen or con tinue to steal. The country is in a most distressed state, by being deprived of a ll the resources which . it derived from this place. Buenos Ayres is in a deplorable condition, having all the provinces against it, and having no currency but paper, all the coin having vanished. A Portuguese merchant, who has arrived to-day from Buenos Ayres, gives a most wretched picture of the country, a n d assures me th a t the loss of the enemy's squadron ou the 7th and Stb inst. was above 400 men, and those his best people; so that, but for the number of foreigners and pirates that they had, they would not have means to man their chips. This province is ours : we ought to preserve it, and maintain it for' the dignity of the empire, using all our ef forte, and employing all resources, since the empire is in no want of them, and the enemy have no means to obtain any; and where they are once deprived of the protection of those who have secretly supplied them, they cannot by any mean s subsist, and must certainly yield. Money, patience, and men, are the requisites for a long war. Money they have none ; the people they employ in the war are foreigners, the greater part of whom they have sacrificed ; patience is no part of the character of that nation, but rather pride, which is kept up without means. I beg your Excellency to c ommunicate this to the Em peror, that he may take such measures as he in his wisdom shall see good. Baron de VILLA BELLA. Monte Video, April 25. To hia Excellency Comte de Lages. THE DELEGATED GOVERNOR. OF THE ORIENTAL PROVINCE TO THE INHABITA2NTS. Citizens'.—The Imperial army, reinforced by some bat talions of slaves, is again preparing to measure its strength with the victors of Unibre and Ituzaingo, and the latter boldly expect them to fight with them for liberty or death. One day will shortly decide the fate of the country, and the Orientals will seal on that day the eternity of their destiny. The tyrants of our soil will expiate in a moment the crimes of 10 years, or we shall pay dearly for the courage with which we broke oar chains, and provoked the rage of the Brazilian despot. . Orientals country perishes if we do not hasten s :iors a sacrifice duty to the sum Orien you nom your off in the b The cot aband, the i g the te. , T' „ c Anomie 'your v hest tc prepay Orient has del Can do ' Mai Villa 1 armour themsi Mvea army unable is so I ; Prig neiro, ton con fi ster, Bus' co' .&e Aanv the fa "lets 'as b coast lintUr tr. wick and form: and f:,hest , unde parry' H. NINE Coci gers. , fotinc VICTUALLING OFFICE, Jump, 1827. riIHE Commissioners for Victualling His 11. Majesty's Navy, &c. do hereby give notice, that on 'rkiIMSIDAY, the 27th of September next, they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply to this Department of a quantity of IRISH SALT MEAT, equal to 11,000 Navy Threes of BEEF, and 10,000 Navy Tierces of PORK, all to be cured in the ensuing Season, and to be delivered four-fifth parts thereof in Tierces, and the remaining fifth part in Barrels, into His Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, ,Plymouth, and Cork, in such proportions as shall here after be required, one 10( thereof on or before the 28th '4lay of February, and the other half on or before the 31st day of May, 1828 ; to be paid far, as nem', by Bills, with out interest, payable at sixty days after date. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at this Office; or by applying to Mr. J. W. Dunsterville, Agent for the Victualling at Cork; to the Collectors of his Majesty's Cuitoms at Limerick, Belfast, Newry, and Waterford ; .and to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General at Dullin respectively. No Tender for a less quantity than shall be equal to SOO Tierces of Beef, or SOO Tierces of Pork, will be ad mitted, and each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed, and must be accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible Persons engaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the penal sum of one-third of the amount of the Contract, for the due performance of the same. The Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. .NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4B Genoa 25 69 Venice Malta Naples 38 Palermo per oz. 115 Lisbon 49 Oporto 48% Rio Janeiro 32 Bahia 42 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork BULLION, PEA OZ £ e. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons 3 13 9 New Dollars 0 0 0 Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 ~~ _, CIO LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1827. The boasted power and influence of the Ultras have really come to a low ebb, when the Duke of WELLINGTON'S visit to the KING is made a subject of such deep importance. These poor creatures indulge the delusive hope which such an event holds out, with as much pitiable self-de ception, as the devoted victim of the law clings to the hope of life. It is Useless to tell them that his Grace was not invited—they tell you they know much better, and we only wonder at their not asserting that the information has been ver bally communicated to them, either by the DUKE or by his MAJESTY himself. But supposine. • that the DUKE had been sent for, or were to be so hereafter—is it not possible that his Grace might even resume the command of the army, without having a seat in the Cabinet, or with out admitting into that purified assembly a single individual of the set so fortunately expelled from it ? Or might not his MAJESTY wish to see the DUKE upon fifty subjects, to discover which would puzzle even the acute Editors of the Opposition Journals ? • We at least can fancy the existence of such cases,—though it seems they can not. They are quite clear that the KING could Intve no other possible communication to make to the DUKE, but imposing his Royal com mands to form a new Administration. To their ears there must have been the music of triumph in the sound of his chariot wheels, an nouncing the overthrow, of their enemies, and their own advancement to power and place. Windsor Castle was to be carried by a coup-de main ; but his Grace is aware, though his • friends may not be so, that in such cases some thing more is requisite than aforlorn hope. It is certainly a strange system which these Opposition Papers have adopted to ingratiate their party with the source of honour and pre ferment in this kingdom. Not satiied with having presumptuously dared to impeach the honour of that Illustrious Individual, they now charge his MAJESTY with the most piti ful vacillation. Having placed the reins of Government in the hands of the most distin guished Statesman, of the day, and having had his Royal choice sanctioned by the two Houses of Parliament, and by .the clear unequiv oca l assent of his people, they yet shamelessly insinuate that his MAJESTY will upon light grounds (or rather upon no grounds at all, and with out any trial) upset the whole arrangement, and admit the Orange faction in the face of the country and of Parliament. But we have to apologise to our Readers for alluding so often to these dreams of the Ultra Party. They are in themselves too contemptible to mention, but the persevering unblushing con fidence with which the scribblers of the party cir culate such rumours, calls on us occasionally to put the public on their guard against them. As to the exulting tone in which one of these Journals alludes to the illness of Mr. HUSKIS SON and some other Members of the Govern ment, we hope that, though party spirit is strong, there are few persons in Old England who will not feel disgusted at the frame of mind which such language denotes. The Paris rapers of Sunday and the Gazette de France, dated Monday morning, reached us last night. Their contents are not important, but possess some interest as relating to the naval movements in the Mediterranean. The French squadron before Algiers contents itself at present with blockading the place, but the preparations at Toulon are going on upon a large scale, and it must either be inteialed to attempt to bombard Algiers, or to send to the Archipelago a much more powerful fleet than any Mow! ful ; great Fr SAS b tiers 1 -des . tr( , duc e i fax, f belon with se!, a after ; Cher a ver( the ti mend passel soner subtn .2, ‘, His. :North 12th advanc packet 5 per increas a short the con tors pr the eat Thi, Accoui 567 pi FOR ex. div 62i 3 Ditto.' 73i; . Win Pm- 70 die 21 20 Con B'7i 81 extensi great etninen New Rentes The 6 9il ; retrogt gold u 1 to ship this da gust, Fp Cow Do. Braz Bum Chili Colu Tw of a fa Their at 7ntbs C l 9 al , ‘'Qkrcu ~~~.