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4' '• •;: •• , A , 4 1 . • " st" my feeling at the memorandum which accompinied it was still more nopleasing_ ,, that I must try the effect of Vale," Ice , Without one observation at having deceived yourself, and, consequently, most fatally deceived me as to the period of time I might have returned to England, for the purpose, by myself of settling those domestic concerns which are of fir more importance to me than my pecuniary interests— then it was I sent for Mr. Gibbs ; I gave him the list of annuitants who bail signed the arrangement proposed to them. He expressed his satisfaction at its equity, and he distinctly stated to me his belief that all the annuitants had not signed, because they had not been properly applied to. He said lie might require information upon some points of detail. But I, being blind, and as unwell as a man could be ;Jive, dictated to him that letter, at which yan have chosen to take so much offence. _ _ 1 have, in silence, with the greatest forbearance, with the utmost degree of confidence that one man can place in another, risked my hopes and faith for months in you: and in return for this my propriety of conduct,,you adopt to wards me a mode of communication which no man of character and self-estimation can allow to be used towards him. . . ..... You must excuse my adding, your communications to me are of a nature to assume that I have placed myself nu tlet the most unbounded obligations to you; now, if I am willing to admit my obligations to you, I must observe, in justice to myself, as far as obligations can be reciprocal between a father and a eon, they are so between you and me, with the balance of advantage of real and substantial still standing on your side, as I wish to remain. • After all the disappointments which I have met With, ald • atter all the communications and conduct which you have deemed it expedient to adopt towards me since our last interview, my resolution is, to relieve you from that burden you complain of, and to request you will give up the trust you are engaged in. I could enter into mueli de tail upon various subjects which belong to my present com munication, hut as I am resolved from this date, never, with my free will, to seek the benefit of your experience and abilities in my affairs, I will not unnecessarily occupy your time. It will save time, Upton will be good enough to state to Mr. Yerbury your having given up the trust. COPY OF THE MICE OF WELLINGTON'S ANSWER TO MR. WELLESLEY ' S LETTER OF THE 21ST OF MARCH. London, March 24, 1827. My dear William—Your letter followed me to Windsor and back, and I received it yesterday. Since I received it, I have had reason to believe that you are still thinking and talking of making " disclosures," in case your recon ciliation with your father should not be effected. As long as you hold this language, you are deceiving yourself in thinking that you entertain a sincere or serious wish to be reconciled to your father. In expressing such a wish, you are led away by the feelings of the moment ; you would act upon a different feeling in the following week if the occasion should offer ; and even if the recon ciliation should have been effected, the heat between you and your father would revive, and would he more invete rate than ever. I really don't know what you can have to disclose about your father ; and my firm conviction is, that you have taken an erroneous view of your father's conduct towards you, as you have of other matters. .13nt if your father's con duct towards you had not been kind, affectionate, and me ritorious in every point of view, as I believe it has been, I could not recommend to him to be reconciled to you, while I should know that you hold out to others threats of making " disclosures," unless such reconciliation should take place. I entreat you. to consider this subject maturely. If you are in earnt, let me have a dear, distinct, disclaimer of these threats, and all groom! for them ; and I will then go to your father, and do every thing in my power to prevail upon him to be reconciled to you. Ever, my dear William, vour's most affectionately, (Signed) WELLINGTON. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Hall-place, March 25, 1827 My dear Duke,—l have never intended, nor have I hell out any threat respecting Lord Maryborough : I wish most sincerely to be reconciled to my father ; therefore pray go to him as you have promised, and attempt the reconcilia tion which I so sincerely wish.' Believe me, soy dear Duke, most affectionately your's, (signed) W. L. W. To the Duke of Wellington. COTT THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ' S ANSWER TO MR. WELT,ESLEY ' S LETTER OF THE 25TH MARCH, 1827. London, March 26, 1827. My dear AVilliam—On the 24th I wrote you as follows: If you are in earnest, let me have a clear, distinct, dis claimer of those threats, and of all grodnds for them; and I will then go to your father, and do every thing in ow power to prevail on him' to be reconciled. to you." Io answer you tell me, " I have never intended, nor have I held out any threat respecting Lord Maryborough. I wish most sincerely to be reconciled to my father ; there- Ibre pray go to him as you have promised, and attempt the reconciliation I so sincerely wish." Is this a disclaimer of " these threats, and of all ground,. fir them ?" Upon what groUnd then can you claim the performance of the promise which my Teter contains? But I will go further, and tell you, that since I wrote my letter to you on Saturday, the 24th, I bave seen a letter from you to another person, in which you distinctly state, that unless this reconciliation is effected, discussions of the most unpleasant nature must take place between you and your father. This is exactly the temper of mind which I have endea :roared to describe in my letter of the 24th. Aslong as it exist', there can he no solid or permanent reconciliation nvith your father. I should act unfairly by both parties, and particularly by your father, if I were to attempt it. Believe me, ever your's, most affectionately, ' WELLINGTON. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Hall-place, March 26, 1827. My dear Duke,—lf You will he good enough to refer to my original conversation with you, and ail my letters, you will not discover the scintilla of an expression which can bear the construction that I wish to hold out a threat to Lord Maryborough. I stated the consequences of my going into the House of Lords, urging my suit for the restitution of my parental rights, being at variance with my father, as being calcu. - lated to produce, as they must do, most painful, and, I fear s most scandalous expositions of family secrets; this is no, llireat! it is a consequenCe wh ich I a pp rehend, which it is soy duty to point out to my family, as one which will occur unless a reconciliation takes place between my father and myself. I really feet that I have acted in this correspondence tripi your Grace with all truth and good feeling towards 'Ay .sarents ; I have done my duty ; and if all hopes of a re „conciliation are at an end, I shall feel myself at full liberty to use every possible• means to explain and justify my conduct. I enclose you an extract of, I presume, the letter you allude to—one I wrote Colonel Slime; it was not worded as you quote it. Most affectionately your's, (Signed) W. L. WELLESLEY. To his Grace the Duke of Wellington. COPY OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ' S ANSWER TO MR wrt.trst.ry's I.ErrEr. 01' THE 26TH MARCH, 1827. My dearWilliam,—l have been at th e Lodge at Windsor, and otherwise !midi occupied, which has prevented rue *cm answering your note of the 26th. _ . There is no use in taking up your time and mine by the definition of a threat. You think That there exist family secrets as between your father and myself ; anti you point these out to your family ; and you state these disclosures as the consequenc e which must ensue, unless a reconciliation takes place between your father and yourself. Then you say, this is no threat ! Now, what I say is this—that as long as these supposed family secrets exist, there can he no solid reconciliation. I conclude that nothing trill prevent your appeal to the House of Lords from the decision in Chancery. In pro. seeutiug this appeal, the family secrets must come out equally, whether titers should be a reconciliation or not.— Even if I could believe, then, that these secrets relate to facts upon which you have reason to complain of your fa ther or your family, which I do not, as I firmly believe you are mistaken and misled, I could not advise your fa ther to be recorwiled to you, with the certainty, to my own conviction, that the quarrel must break out afresh, and must be more deeply rooted than ever. You had much better clear up the supposed ground of complaint—in other words, the family seerets—hefore you commence the recon ciliation. As you are yourself convinced that von have no reason to complain of your father, or, in other words, for given him, there will be no difficulty, I doubt, but in re conciling him to you. Believe me ever your's, most affec tionately, WELLING TON. P. S. When I wrote to you last, I had not before me the letter to which I referred ; but there is no material difference between the terms used by me and those which you used. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. London, April 2, 1827. My dear Duke—l perfectly agree with you that there is ipo use in taking up your time and mine in the definition of t 4 threat; my object; which I hoped I had sufficiently ex- plained, was this—that I was most anxious to be recon ciled to my father, has been sufficiently proved to you the letters that have passed between us : that reconciliation would of necessity have closed the door against any disclo sure of family secrets, because they would have been unne cessary, for the, House of Lords would have had 'one great and most heavy charge in my estimation and.the Chancel lor's, removed from their consideration, the main charge upon which the discussion was founded in the Court of Chancery—the neutrality, or the abandonment of me, by my family. That charge I could neither meet nor remove in the Chancery proceedings, because I could not anticipate the manner in which it could bear upon the mind or judg ment of the Chancellor : a reconciliation with my father would have put an end to that neutrality ; and hence, the necessity no longer existing, it would have been wholly unnecessary for me to have alluded to it. But if every effort to produce that reconciliation be fruitless—if my anxiety to effect it is to be frustrated by definitions and discussions upon phrases—if Colonel Shaine instead of taking the ST P.A so HT FORWA ILD course of present ing my letter to my father, deemed it necessary to secure your Grace's previous permission, which permission he could . not obtain—if, I say, my family; as I begin to ,fear, do not desire a reconciliation—l must then proceed to the appeal, under the unreMoved disadvantage of my family:s continued neutrality or abandonment. What task is, of necessity, imposed, upon me? What duty am I imperatively called upon to perform? Your Grace's sagacity will anticipate the answer. I must, and Twill, show, that the ground upon which my family take their stand is untenable ; that I do not deserve their dere liction, and that their conduct is unjustifiable. This I. am hound, in self defence, to prove : I feel I can do so, not by assertions, but by written evidence and documents. This may or may not he called a threat, but it is in the inevita ble nature and essence of these proceedings. As well might the accusation be brought against a man, who, having received notice of an action against him in a court of law, should declare, or THREATEN (as. you term it), that be would prove by witnesses and documents that the action could not be maintained. _ Thus, then, stands the fact : a reconciliation with my family removes from the case, or my appeal to the Lords, the main ground that was taken in Chancery by Lord El don, but which was not taken (and, indeed, privately al most promised to me by Lord Eldon, that it would .rot be taken) till the final judgment was pronounced, could not have been beat down or even answered by me. A refusal on their part of all reconciliation, leaves me only the choice of one of two courses ; first, to show that I•have not deserved to be so abandoned ; or, secondly, by abstaining from all no tice of the charge, to allow it to be inferred that it is well. founded. Now this /cannot, and I will not do; I owe it to myself; and, indeed, to my family, who ought not, from what theyaught to know of me, to wish, or to expect of me to allow myself by any act of theirs or mine, to be considered as 'unworthy of being allied to him. . . • Your Grace will, of course, conclude that nothing can prevent my appeal to the House of Lords from the decision in Chancery : because I think that decision unjust, and because I will not suffer my children to charge me here after with having had so little affection for them as to have neglected any means of restoring them to my paternal guardianship and care. Besides, the Chancellor himself has most earnestly recommended the appeal. I am compelled to be prolix . , becaUf . ie as it will, in all probability, be the last comsmunication I may have the ho nour .to make to your Grace, I am determined to leave no thing to doubt, or conjecture, but to place toy wishes and intentions in the clearest and strongest light. I lament that my father and myself have not had Justice done us, and are withheld from having an interview by letter, or in person, Which might have softened animosities, and probably have removed much of all that misrepreFen- Cation and misconception under which he appears to labour. Pardon me, if here (after having smothered many) I indulge in one feeling. Is it not strange that I (dime should be held np to popular odium, and- he, denied the 7ommon rights that behing to me as a father and as a son, whilst I feel and know myself to be as moral a man as any of the members of my family, who, if not arrayed against me, remain silent and unconcerned spectators ? When I waited upon your grace at Apsley-house, I wished to ascertain whether that which Lord - Fitzroy-- Somerset stated to Lord Auckland was true—that you had, or would, accept of the guardianship of my elSldren at the request of the Misses Long? Your denial to me at Apsley-house'of your having had any communication with the ladies (as you termed them) excepting that which you made me acquainted with at Calais, of course led me to be lieve that Lord Fitzroy Somerset had stated that for which he had no authority ; hut a similar rumour having again been mentioned to me, I must as%; the favour of you to in form me if you have any intention of permitting the Am.,. Long, or any one else, to name you as the guardian of these children, or in any way to impede or to effect any appoint ment of any guardian I may deem it expedient to name? I now take leave of your Grace with deep and bitter sorrow, lamenting that no reconciliation has been effected between my father and myself; for, if there had been, all family disclosures might have been avoided. And if lam ultimately to be visited by so heavy and unmerited an afflic tion as to have my parental rights limited in their exercise, I might, as I before told you, have given to my Children their next natural protector to myself. But as it is, my father not being reconciled to me, cannot be their guardian, and disclosures must be had recourse to, and, God knows, much against my desire. Believe me, my dear Duke, your's affectionately, (Signed) W. L. WELLESLEY. (No answer to the above.) TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WEI.T.INGTON! London, 12th April, 1827. My dear Duke,—lt becomes absolutely necessary that I should request the favour of you, without delay, to be so obliging as to answer the following paragraph of my letter to your Grace of the 2d instant. " When I waited upon your Grace at Apsley-house, I wished to ascertain whether that which Lord Fitzroy So merset stated to Lord Auckland was true, that you had, or that you would accept of the guardianship of my children lie request of the Misses Long? Your denial to me, Lpsl of your having had any communication • .11 'as you termed them) excepting that with iich " me acquainted at Calais, of course led me bar •-ord Fitzroy Somerset had stated that for -hick authority ; but a similar rumour having 7,ain t hieniioned to me, I must ask the favour of you o inform me if you have any intention of permitting the Misses Long, or any one else, to name you as the guardian of these children, or in any way t® impede or to affect any appointment of any guardian I may deem it expedient to name?" Most affectionately your's, - W. L. WELLESLEY. (No answer to the above.) TO HIS GRACE THE PUKE OF WELLINGTON. London, 17th of April, 1827. My dear Duke—l have learned this moment from Sir Philip Roche, with great regret, that you have taken offence at my last letter but one to you. I am sure, upon reflection, you will be convinced I never could have wished to give you offence : for, in, fact, nothing could be further, of course, from my intentions. I hope this will be satisfactory to you upon this pint. My object is, to obtain an interview with my father, for I have now seen enough of this melancholy business to be convinced that it is all bottomed upon misconception and mis-statements, which I.confidently trust a personal inter view, either in the presence of a third person, or alone with my father, will remove. I therefore earnestly entreat you to make an application to this effect from me to my father, in terms the , most re- spectful and affectionate. Believe me, my dear Duke, your's affectionately, W. L. WELLESLEY. . (NO answer to the above letter.) TO HIS GRACE THE DOKE OF WET.T.INGTON. Hall-place, May 4, 1827. My dear Doke,—Tly a communicat►on I received from my solicitor last night, I find that a proposal has absolutely been carried in before the Master in Chancery, by which your Grace and Colonel Windsor are to have the (lire and education of my boys, and the Misses Long that of my gill, with the maintenance to be paid to your. Grace of 1,200/. per annum, and to the Misses. Long 5001. per annum ; and in this, their proposal is stated to be the plan for their education, with the consent and sanction of your Grace; and that you have agreed, at the instigation of the Misses Long, to take upon yourself this appointment. After what has passed between your Grace and me, I of course cannot bring myself to believe this to be true;--I therefore once more entreat of your Grace to give me upon this subject that information which I have so frequently sought fur, in order that I may regulate my conduct. I am, &c. &e. W. L. WELLESLEY. Note. —When I received intimation of the intention of the Misses Long, I applied; as my letters show, to Lord and Lady Maryhorough to become the guardians of my children, . to " prevent family disclosnres." My honour, and my duty towards my children, make it necessary that I should oppose the nominatibn of the Duke of Wellington and the Misses Long to be their guardians, or in any way to interfere with their education, with my assent. Ipray God that I may not be driven to close this tragedy, by declaring, upon oath, that which will satisfy all manUmi, that my objections to the wishesilof the Misses Long are founded upon reasons the validity of which to parent dare dispute. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France dated Wednesday, July 18.) CORFU, JUNE 23.—(8y Express.)—lt is stated as cer tain, that the English Vice Admiral, Sir Edward 9slringtou, has sent the most pressing orders to the• Com manders of English ships on difThrent stations to 'PreteSed immediately to the Dardanelles, where they are all to unite. —Notizie del Giorno. PARIS, JUL'S' 11.—The Journal des Debah and the Constitutionnel published, yesterday, .the pretended basis of a Treaty between two great Powers, respecting the affairs of the Peninsula. We can .assure our rc4ders, that, it was a pure intention on their parr. An English Journal has been ill-informed in announcing that an engagement had taken place betweeit the French fleet and that of Algiers. We In not know where the Quotidienne got the news of the approaching Congress at Munich. • - (From the Constitutionnel.) TREATY RELATIVE TO GREECE. PARIS, JULY 16.-We shall reserve most of our obser vations on this subject to another period, and shall now confine ourselves to some general remarks. We think that this Treaty will not entirely answer the expectations of the friends of Greece, and particularly that it does not apply a sufficient efficacious remedy to its unhappy situation, and to the dangers which threaten it. We are afraid that much precious blood will be shed, and that irreparable disasters will ensue before the intervention has produced its effects. It must be expected, that as soon as the knowledge of the Treaty shall reach Constantinople, positive orders will be transmitted to Ibrahim- and Redschid Paella, to mite and strike a decisive. blow. Negotiations with the Turks do not impede their vengeance, and often serve to give it energy and atrocity. We suppose that thesPorte would have at tamed its object better had a truce been demanded without any delay, and had the resolution of the three Powers to put an .end to the calamities of war been notified to the Divan. We are not aware what reasons could have been urged against such a course of proceeding. By firmness and de cision alone can we restrain a fanatic and barbarous people, who sport with the most solemn treaties when it is for their interest. • We will not leave the subject without remarking on the influence of general opinion on Governments, and the pro gress it has made since the awakening of Greece. At the Congress of Verona tle Greek cause had few defenders; European policy only saw with regret a Christian people subjected to the most humiliating servitude: throw off the illegitimate yoke, and take lip arms to raise themselves to independence, and to elevate their religion to freedom.— The contest, however, was begun, and universal sympathy was linked to the unshaken courage and heroic exploits of the Greeks; Europe was roused, and succours of all de scriptions were sent to them. The King. of Bavaria was among the number of subscribers, and encouraged the enthusiasm of his subjects. Mere citizens, such as M. Eynard and Colonel Fabvier, devoted their lives to the Greeks. Now European opinion has triumphed, and the Governments are disposed to second it. Let us pray that their measures may not he too late, and that something more than ashes and ruins may be found in Greece,'when the Standard of the Creez.s shall again wave on the citadel of Athens. AFFAIRS OF POLAND. The Warsaw Papers contain the details of a process in stituted against a Polish Association, accused of having conspired to restore the independence of their country. By an Imperial Decree, this business is to 'be investigated by the Diet, as a tribunal under the Presidency of Count So bolewski, Alinister of State. The . iittings began on June 15, when the President, in an opening speech, told the MeMbers, that without being vigorously restrained by the Criminal Law, they were to pronounce on their consciences like Jurors. (From the Quotidienne of Tuesday.) LISBON, J nl.r I.—(Private Correspondence.)—The twenty-one soldiers of the 7th Regiment of Infantry, who were taken in the act of desertion, and to whom 200 ldshes (or rather blows with the cane) have been so liberally ap plied, were shut up in the prison of Mourn, from whence they are to be transported to Angola, on the coast of Africa. In consequence of this affair divers individuals were arrested, amongst - whom there is a Priest. These individuals are accused of fomenting desertion amongst the troops. 'the last change in the 7Nlinistry is partly owing to the influence of the Queen Mother. Although M. Villa Rite; who takes office as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is attached to the Constitutional party, the Queen preferred him to M. de Palmella, the head of the English faction. It was contrary to the advice of M. de Saldanha, and contrary to his own inclinations, that M. de Villa Real was called into the Administration. Thus, this appointment is cal culated to effect the twofold object of weakenipg the Anti- Royalist party by dividing it, and of neutralizing the in-• fluence of M. de Saldanha, the cleverest man of the Anglo- Liberal coterie. The situation of the Constitutionali s ts grows daily more embarrassing ; they owe their whole ex istence to the English; they' can do nothing without their support, still, whenever they engage in any transaction, where the English influence is perceptible, they find them selves simultaneously opposed by the Royalists, as well as the Anti-English Liberals. It is probable that the accession of M. de Villa Real to the Ministry will cause the removal of M. de Saldanha from it ; and perhaps this very thing is the sole object of this new combination. Supported by Gen. Clinton, but opposed by Sir W. A'Court, the Secretary at War may not be able to remain in a Cabinet where he meets with so power ful an opposition to his political system, and amongst other personal enemies M. de'Villa Real. The Queen Mother, whose character and abilities are known, commences to exercise a vast deal of influence upon State affairs. • All the personages of note, the Euglilb excepted, crowd around th a t Princess. The Charge d'Affaires of the King of Spain pays her frequent visits, and even very lately he bad a conference of four limns' dura tion with her. The Pope's Nuncio is likewise one Of the personages, who are frequently seen in the Palace of her Majesty. The 'Governor of the fortress of Abrantes has been cashiered, because be suffered a prisoner of State to make his escape. An officer and some soldiers of the Bth Regiment furnished this prisoner with the means of escaping. The officer is to be tried by a Court Martial. However, it is probable that the declining credit of M. de Saldanha may operate in favour of the officer under arrest, as well as to the dismissed Governor. The recruiting is suspended;' the obstacles which were found in the way of it are insurmountable : besides there is great lack of money, even for - paying the troops already in being, amongst whom great desertion prevails. The Constitutional Government stands sadly in need of SQMP accommodation or other to prevent its fall, but if, according to this arrangement, the English troops evacuate Portugal, as it is affirmed, the Constitution of Don will speedily cease to exist. -A merchant shin, which arrived three days ago. from Para, brings intelligence of an insurrection in that prol'in e ' against the Government of Don Pedro. The Republimn party has fermented this revolt. The insurgents have had a battle with the Imperial troops, and the nund)er of killed is stated several hundreds. However, the explosion has been got _under, and several of th e ringleaders have been arrested. STATE OF TRADE.—The bootmakers, it appears, have determined to keep up their prices for good Wellingtons. There is, however, one exception, which is SALE and Co., of 33, Strand, who are makin g the very be s t at One Guinea the .Pair. THE ROMANCE OF WAR.—A French sol dier, who accompanied the armies of Russia, con cealed a small treasure at the entrance of a vil lage near Wilna, with a view of takin g it with him on his return. After the defeat of Moscow he was made prisoner, and sent to Siberia, and only recovered his liberty at the end of last year. On reaching Wilna, he remembered his hidden trea sure, and after tracing out the spot where he had hid it he went to take, it away. What was his astonishment to find, in place of his money, a small tin box, containing a letter addressed to him, in which a commercial house was mentioned at Nancy, where he might receive the sum buried, with interest, since the year 1812. The soldier s upposed this was all a hoax ; he went, however, to the house pointed out, where he received his capital, with 12 years' interest. With this sum lie established a small business at Nancy, which enables him to live comfortably ; but he has ne ver been able, though he has taken some pains, to ascertain how his money was taken away and restored to him.--..C ou ,• r i er Francais.- NAVAL REGULATIONS. The following Circular, regulating the principle on which Flag and other Promotions in the Navy are to take place in future, has been issued by his Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral : Admiralty-Of f ice, July 7, 1827. His Majesty has been graciously pleased, by his Order in Council of the 30th of last month, to repeal all former Or ders in Council regulating the appointment of Captains who may be passed over on flag promotions to be superan nuated Hear-Admirals, and to direct that the following regulations shall be established in lieu thereof. let. Captains (if, by their characters and other qualifi cations, they are considered eligible by the Lord High Ad miral, or the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty) shall be deemed entitled to promotion as Flag - Officers of the Fleet, provided they shall have commanded one or more rated ship four complete years during war, or six complete years during peace, or five complete years of war and peace combined. 2dly. All Captains, who shall in future be set aside at any promotion of Flag Officers, may he appointed " Retired • Rear Admirals," with pensions equal to the half-pay of Rear Admirals of the Fleet, provided such Officers have retained an unblemished character, and have not avoided or declined service. Silly. Captains not entitled under either of the before mentioned Regulations to be promoted to be a Flag Officer on the active list, nor yet to be placed on the retired list of rear-admirals„ - shall be altogether removed from the list of officers of the fleet, and shall receive civil pensions on tte estimates of the navy equal to their half-pay as captains. And His Majesty has likewise been pleased to direct, with reference to the 9th and 10th Articles of the 311 Chapter of the Regulations relating to his Majesty'a.service at sea, that the periods of time required to elapse before a Lieutenant can he promoted to the rank of Commander, or a Commander to the rank of Captain, shall be actually served by such officers on board his 'Majesty's ships and vessels in their respective ranks. By command of his Royal Highness, J. W. CROKER. PRICES OF IRISH Hank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. & Gov. Stock, 3!•:, per cent Ol% Ditto, New 4 per Cent. 100% Ciov. Deb. 3% per cent 9234 !loyal Canal Stock grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent 13411.0 t Office Deb. 4 p. et - STOCKS, JULY Ifi. St. Patrick lnsur. (per siQ Royal high Ditto — National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto — Hibernian Bank — Provincial Ditto — Royal Wall Mine — Imperial Mine — Mining CO. of Ireland commercial Buildings — ijJ z ' LONDON, ' FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1827. We received last night the Paris Papers of Tuesday, and the Gazette de France dated Wednesday morning. The latter pronounces the outline of the Treaty stated by the Morning Papers of the preceding day as having been entered into between Great Britain and France with re spect to Spain, to be a mere fabrication. It al), peared to us to bear evidently the stamp of having been invented by the Parisian Editors. The accounts from Corfu mention", that Vice- Admiral Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON, the Com mander-in-Chief of the British Fleet in the Medi terranean, had sent the most pressing orders to the 'Commanders of the ships on the different stations to proceed forthwith to the Dardanelles. Amongst our extracts in another column will be found an article from tile Con - stitntionnel upon the subject of reaty relative to Greece, in which it expresses. an opinion that I BRAxrNI and REDgCHID PACHA will strike a - decisive blow ui.)Cii - tVat Coiiritiy . assoer: as the nature of the Treaty which the Great Powers have entered into is known. An article from the Qtoticlienne is also given, containing information respecting the Portuguese Ministry t6the Ist inst. It ap pears from this to be certain that VILLA REAL has taken office, instead of Count PALAtir.i.A and that a probability exists of the removal of SALDANHA from the office of Minister of War. FRENCH FUNDS.—Rentee, Five per Cant. 102 f. 80c. 85c. ; Three per Cent. '72f. 45c. 40e. ; Bank Actions, 2012 f. 50c. 2015 f. FORFIGN FUNDS.—RenteR Nap. Cert. Fal. 78f. 26e. 15e. ; Spanish Rentes, 9 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 61ii ; Inter minable Span. Annuities, 4514 ; Haytian Loan, 670 f. His Majesty's • cutter,' &amble, has arriv ed with a mail from Lisbon, but the papers brought by this opportunity are not of so late a date as those which we published some days since, received by the steam boat. - The follow ing extracts, however,,have not been before pub lished. It will be seen by them that the reports . which had been circulated of the probability of a fresh invasion being attempted from Spain by the deserters into that country, are declared to have no foundation ; and that the Princess REGENT had found it necessary to adopt regu lations-for « repressing the abuses of the Liberty of the Press." JUNF 23.—it is notorious to everybody that the Portuguese deserters, driven into the Spanish territory, were disarmed by order of the Government of his Catholic Majesty, which also ordered from the Spanish territory, not only the Marquis de Chaves, whose arrival in France we have before announced, but also the Ex-Viscount de Canel las, Sebastian Duarte da Ponte Negro, and others, who might be considered as the chief instigators of the plans so fatal to the tranquillity of this kingdom. " Some men, however, to whom the tranquillity of the people appears odious, endeavouring to spread alarming re ports, insinuating that the same deserters are preparing a new invasion of their country, it is our duty to declare po sitively and decidedly, the falsehood of an assertion destitute of foundation, and even incompatible with the dearest in terests of the neighbouring kingdom. The Government of his Most Faithful Majesty appreciates the religious observ ance of the most sacred principles of the law of nations, and has a right to hope a similar regard to them in other States, especially in that on e . whi c h, by its geographical posposition, is the nearest, and is more interested than any other in the maintenance of sincere and reciprocal harmony. We have reason to believe, that this hope, so dear to all those who value the happiness of the Portuguese nation, and the per fect equilibrium of the political balance of Europe, will not be frustrated. " OFFICIAL. " The law to repress: theahuses of the liberty of the press not being yet promulgated, without which it cannot have all the latitude expressed in the third paragraph of article 145 of the Charter, and it being urgent to provide immediately for a matter of this importance, on which the consolidation of the institutions, the dignity of the Crown, the good understanding with the Allied Powers, the public tranquillity, and the respect due to the attributions of the political powers decreed by the same Charter, mainly depend, I think fit, in the name of the King, to a pprove the instructions below urged by the Viscount de Santarem. Minister for the affairs of the kingdom, &e. (Signed) "' By the INFANTA REGENT, " The Viscount de SANTAREM. ce 6 Bemfica, June 20.' " INSTRUCTIONS, WHICH MAKE FART OF THE DECREE OF THY: 20TH OF JUNE, 1. The printing of no writing shall be allowed, which treats or analyses subjects, the interpretation of which belongs exclusively to the legislative power, by sec. 6 of art. 15 of the Charter. ic s 2. In the same manner no writing shall be permitted to be printed, which controverts the doctrines laid down in art. 92 of chap. 5, of the Constitutional Charter." '— Lisbon Gazette to July I. We have received New York and Washing ton Papers, the former to the 23d, and the latter to the 22d June, their contents are not important, but we subjoin a few extracts : (From the New York Advertiser; June 23.) Latest from Peru.—Letters have been received at Bal timore from Lima, as late as the 20th of February, which show that nothing important has occurred since our last dates. We see nothing to countenance a report which went through the Papers a few days ago, that the Colom bian troops had been imprisoned in the castle of Callao. On the'contrary,. the public opinion in the city and the country, as far as it has been ascertained, is said to be strongly in favour of the revolution of January last, against the Bolivian Constitution, which those troops bad so great an influence in producing. "The - new Congress was to assemble on the Ist May, to . form a new constitution and government. It is stated, that the remaining Colombian troops in Peru and Bolivia Would probably imitate the example of their countrymen ; L and that there was every reason to believe the Bolivian Con stitution would give way for a better one, without dis turbance or bloodshed. - ." There bad be....n no arrivals at Lima from the United States, from the 25th of December till February the 23d, and there was a great improvement in prices. There were not, at the latter date, 200 barrels of flour in market, - and the last was sold at 23 dollars en board. In spite of the new tariff of SO per cent., unbleaehed cottons, 33 to 36 inches wide, would bring It on board ; 300 bales, of on: quintal each, Virginia tobacco, 20 dollars on board ; 500 quintals Cuba leaf, of good quality, would bring 75 dollars on board ; 150,000 yards brown domestics would find immediate sale; invoice of ferniture, say 100 dozen back chairs, SO'dozen cane bottom ditto; 20 sofas, with backs handsomsiy finished ; 70 crates of blue crockery-ware : 500 ql. of good clean tallow, in marquetas of 12511►. each, 18 dollars to 14 ql. on board ; 300 ql. quicksilver at 100 dollars on board ; 300 boxes sperm candles, four to five is. per lb, ; 40( boxes Muscat wine, at 5 dollars on board ; German linens improving, last sale, platillas 13 to 16 dollars in this city ; estopillas 11 to 17 dollars per piece ; duty SO -per cent. on valuation of 9 dollars, &c. H A vAriax.--:fhe advice* from Havannali are to the 11 th instant, at which time, we regret to learn; there was much sickness, particularly among the shipping. It seems that the rumours respecting the appearance of a Colombian fleet off the island of Cuba are without foundation. They originated from the circumsta ice of two United States' vessels - of war having been mistaken for Colombians. _ _ " The importance of the commerce of the island of Cuba to the United States is strongly illustrated by the fact, that, out of 56 foreign vessels in the port of Ifavannali, on the 28th u1t..51 were American, 2 English, 1 French, and 1 Bremen. • " COLO3IBIA.—We have lately heard of several circum stances, which, if truly represented, cannot be taken other wise than as indications that the dissensions between the Colombian Constitutional Government and Gen. Bolivar are tending towards an adjustment. If it can be effected without the surrender of principle or security, we shall heartily rejoice in it. The Coagress had not yet assembled, but a decree was issued on the 10th April, convoking it at a new place, Tunja, on account of the sickness of a member detained at that place. " CHINESE TRANE.—From a table in the Philadelphia Gazette, of the exports from Canton, taken from the cus tom-house books of that place, to the United States, for the last four years, it appears that the total amount of teas imported in the Union in the year 1822-23, was 126,922 boxes of all sorts; in 1823-4, 112,816 boxes; in 1824-5, 154,995 boxes; in 1825-6, 146,086 boxes; in 1826-7, to latest date, Feb. 20, 45,989. "Of piculs cassia, during the same periods, 7,773, 6,457, 8,624, 9,023, 2,054. "Pieces of Crapes, ditto, 91,447, 55,616, 103,236, 46,703, 16,183. " Crape shawls, and dresses, and robes, ditto, 156,681 14.2,425, 220,635, 264,630, 93,831. " Florentines, do. 4,295, 3,846, 2,8'79, 1,025 -. " Sarcenets, ditto, 46,264, 45,384, 64,231, 62,662, 14,534. " Senchaws, ditto, 24,145, 12,302, 10,919, 7,740, 2,784. "Ponjees, do. 5,649,2,850, 2,967, 2,145, 2,150. " Handkerchiefs, do. 92,338, 37,887, 80,979, 90,985, 19,207. " satins, do. 8,150, 5,614, 7,884, '7,880, 5,734. " Levantitiv- en ti huistrings; - 113,91 - 4•4 8;645• 19,600 ; 6,280 ; 1,778. " Nankeens, ps. ditto, 1,070,707 ; 259,500 ; 765,000 ; 664,000 ; 188,225. "'Philadelphia had more of this trade than all the other towns of the United States; but it is a trade which must now sustain a sensible diminution. When the East India CoMpany made arrangements for the introduction of large quantities of tea into Canada, it was immediately perceived, by sensible men, that much of our'supply of that article would cane from that quarter. To this we may now add silks, which can be - smuggled across the line with great facility. The Canadians will, in this way, pay for the flour and other articles they purchase from the people on our northern frontier to supply the West Indies. The balance, if there be any, will be paid in British niL nufactures.'" " Joseph Lancaster, the celebrated founder of the Lan casterian system of instruction, arrived at Newhaven a few days since from the Island of St. Croix. lie has been travelling in different parts of South America for several years, and has attempted to introduce his schools in Came cas and other places in Colombia. His plans, we under stand, have not been successful, and he has left that country dissatisfied. Mr. Lancaster was to deliver a public lecture in the Centre Church in 'Newhaven on the 21st." " likvANNAri, MAN- 27.—Seven sail are now off. They are supposed to be the Colombian 'squadron, consisting of two frigates, one corvette, two brigs, and one three-masted schooner. They have been seen by the Argo and Eliza beth—the latter'only arrived this day. " Laborde, with five heavy frigates, is only waiting a wind to get out. We shall have, no doubt, an engagement before many days."—Baltimore Connizercial Chronicle. Letters have been received in town, this morn ing, from the Island of Ascension, to the 2d June, by his Majesty's ship Boadicea, which has arrived at Shithead from the East Indies. Lieut.-Colonel NrcnoLLs and his little'Garri son were all well. Brussels Papers of the 18th inst. have been received this morning ; their contents are parti cularly striking. The following are extracts : BRUSqET,S, JULY 14. The Feuille de Tournay announces that• the annual emigration has commenced ; for some days past, it says, English carriages are arriving in great numbers at our hotels, all on their way to Brussels. • The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affitirs, Prince Met ternich will not come to his seat at Johannisberg this year, because he is going to the baths of Ishel in Bohemia. JULY 15.—The official Journal of the 11th of this month contains a Royal Decree, approving a convention concluded between the Kingdom o f the Netherlands on the one part, and the Kingdom of Sweden and Norway on the other, for the reciprocal abolition of the Joa detractus. The same Jourt la! publishes another Royal Decree, ap proving a declaration, of which a copy is given, signed " 9 well by the Ambassador of the Netherlands at Stockholm, as by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway. By this declaration it has been agreed that the two Go vernments shall, reciprocally, deliver up any sailor or other person whatever belonging to the crew of a man of war, or a merchantman; of either of the two States, who shall desert in . a post situated in the dominions of the other, without distinction between individuals born in the coun try to which the vessel belongs, and those born in a third country. To avoid the loss of time which a diplomatic correspondencewould occasion, applications on this subject may be addressed directly to the chief authorities of the ports and towns in which the desertion may have taken place, their authorities are enjoined to attend to them. JULY 1'7.--For these two days past Brussels has pre sented a most animated and gay scene. The inhabitants -of the neighbouring villag-A have come from all quarters, the hotels, inns, and coffee-honses cannot find accommoda tion for the crowds that besiege them : the throngs of people in all the streets, the elegant dresses of all classes, the joy expressed in all countenances, the confused sounds of music, dancing, the general bustle, and the universal de light, excite the most agreeable reflections. • These musical contests, •these horse-races, these exhibitions of paintings and of flowers, are excellent political institutions, not from their apparent - object, but from the real effects which they produce. The musical societies. of the several cities and towns of the kingdom, which were candidates for the prizes, entered Brussels in procession on.the,lsthinstant. -The public contest took place yesterday in the Park, in which every preparation had been made for the festive oc casion, and which yesterday afforded a most magnificent and delightful coup d'ceil. The performances last from nine in the morning till eleven at night, with an interval of two hours. Their Majesties•and the Royal Famlly . were present for nearly three hours, and received both on their entrance awl departure the most enthusiastic expressions of respect and attachment. The people of Brussels never before witnessed so- brilliant a scene. A British and a Russian Cabinet Messenger have passed through this city, going fenin London to St. Petersburgh with despatchts. The astonishing versatility of Lord Chief Justice BEST's intellect reveals itself more beautifully every day. Having already expended much sagacious vituperation on the Press, and mystified the Law of Libel so effectually, that none but himself can comprehend it, he has now launched his thunders against the Free Trade system. We suppose the word " Free" alarmed the sensitive delicacy of his nerves, for what else could have induced him in summing up a tallow case, to expatiate. on the dangers, direct and in direct, of free trade ; as also to state, that he was an old-fashioned politician.. There is a character in SHAkSPEARE, who is much given to saying---" I am Sir Oracle, let no man bark when I do speak :" we suspect that the LORD 'CHIEF-JUSTICE has taken this gentleman for his model; if so, we would beg leave to hini, for his consideration, that an " oracle" is but too often a Dos et preeterea nihil." If, however; in the plenitude of his ambition, he has an eye to the Senate as well as to the Bar, if not content with being " a Daniel come "to judgment, yea; a Daniel," he must also thrust himself forward as a rival to Mr. Hos KISSON ; we can only pity the Protean talents that are never likely to be .appreCiated, except when they evince their professional ingenuity in confounding truth with falsehood, guilt with innocence, the law of reason with the law of libel. Let Lord Chief Justice BEST content himself with the honor of fostering every noxious reptile that can crawl and wriggle itself into Court, but let him not meddle with Mr. HusKissoN. Shall the dwarf presume to bend the bow of Ulysses? Commodore Porter arrived at Vera Cruz on the 18th of, May, a passenger in the sloop Greyhound, from Key West, the object of his visit was understood to be to . bring the Mexian vessels of war, viz, the brigs Guerrero, Vic toria, and Herntonia, then lying at Vera Cruz, to . act in concert with the Colombian squadron in pursuit of a *pa nish privateer said to be off Campeaehy. A Philadelphia paper informs its readers, that there are in that city about 400 billiard-tables, by which the science of gambling is thoroughly learned, and will doubtless yield a constant supply of subjects for the almshouses, gaols, and penitentiariei. Mr. Watts, our Charge d'Affairs in Colombia, has ad dressed a envious note, dated the 15th March, to President Bolivar, alluding to the dissensions in • Colombia, and " entreating. his return to Bogota, to save the country."— This request is made as the Representative of the Republic of Washington. It is presumed that Mr. Watts could never have been authorised by our Government to adopt such an extraordinary measure of interference with the in , - ternal concerns of a friendly Power. Fa°. JAmAicA.---A letter frpra Kingston, isms.itir , iratied the 26th May, to a house in St. Jag() de Cuba, states, that the Duke of Manchester has just intied an order to the collector of Customs, to lay the double duties on all articles imported after the Ist June. We learn that the double duties refer to American produce, coming friiin the Neutral Islands, as they continue to be called in com mon parlance. A measure of this kind was to he expected, and perhaps the introduction of American produce into the British Islands will be totally prohibited except by way of the Canada% and Liverpool. The Baltimore papers of the 15th ultimo, contain a long and horrible case of piracy and murder, on board the brigantine Cranford, Capt. H. Brightman, on a voyage from Matanzas, with a cargo for New York. She sailed on the 28th of May, having on board, beyond her crew, eight passengers, four of whom (a Frenchman and three Spaniards) rose on the crew and passengers, and in the night of the Ist of June, and slaughtered all except three, viz. the mate, the cook, and a French gentleman, one of time passengers. It is a matter of congratulation to find these monsters have been apprehended, awl will shortly expiate their horrid crime. The pirate captain (the Frenchman) had, however, before the guard could reach the vessel, cut his throat. ' The Paris Papers of the 17th inst. state that a privateer, supposed to be the General Armarico, was cruising on the 6th instant near Bilboa, for Spanish vessels expected from London with valuable cargoes. It is 5156 further added, they seem well-informed of the vessels trading in the English ports, and had good information of the time of sailing. Nothing can more strongly depict the wretched state of the Spanish marine than this proof of a small pri vateer of one gun and thirty men keeping the whole of the northern Spanish ports in a state of alarm, whilst two others place the coast on the south in the same deplorable state, so much so as to cut up even their coasting trade. Letters from Colombia of a few - days later date than those already received have come to hand, by the New York packet ship John Walls, arrived at Liverpool, their contents are of an unimportant character, and do not furnish any political intelligence of the least importance. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVIR O',CLOCK There is very little stir in the English market this morn ing-, and the little business effected has been rather lower in price ; Consols opened at 86 4 ex. div. for money, 874 4 t;nt account, and 87/ i for thg 29th August, but shortly after they became flat, and receded to 874 I; the neatest price is now 87!. The Exchequer market maintains its which °e m are ent heavy decline, ' price, the premium on Bills being 56 8, and for India Bends, 88 90. The Foreign Fu nds have be en extremely flat all the morning; the a rrival of his Majesty's ship Primrose, with a remi ttance of half a millio n of dollars far h seems to hav e a negativeceo lua c enifrtn: of ton the the quoted! at 684 4. Col om bi an rema i n w i t h the same dull app earance, at 32 4 4 ; in the other Foreign Securities scarcely any business has hith er to been done, no r has any alteration taken tcae o place. The Share market iti, if possible, worse than ever, and on several of the Mining speculations the heavy discounts at which they have for some time been quoted is upon the increase, in the mean time a ll seem sellers, and but very few buyers. Three per Cent. Consols, 86 ex. div. ; Ditto for Ac count, July 26, 874 ; and for August, 871 I ; India Bonds, 88 90 pm.; Exchequer Bills, 56 8 pm. Foarlow.—Brazilian, fi94 601 ; Buenos Ayres, 58i 94 ex. div. ; Chaim]; 28:It 9 i ; Colombian, 1824, 324 i ; Danish, 621 3 ; Creek, 16N ; Mexican 5 per Cent., 554 64 ; Ditto 6 per Cent., 6814 ; Peruvian, 26 8 ; Portu guese, '76 i; Russian, 94 4 ; Spanish, 104 ,i. 11 per Share ; Real del Monte, 80 60 dis. ; Tlalpiixahua, 60 dis. ; United Mexican, 194 A . l ; 1N Colombian,ESAngi° Mexican, pM 50 45 dis. ; Brazilian, par, 1 19 dis. ; Bolanos, 110 90 dis. Two o' CLocr: The Consol market for the last two hours has been nearly in a stagnant state, the only trifling alteration having been from 870 for Account within the last few minutes to 874, rat h er buyers; 4 per Cents. New, 1001 ; 4 per Cents. 18 9 6, 102/ ; India Stork, 252 ; Bank Stock, 2094. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols for Account, 8M I. • FOUR O'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICE S. Consols 86 Danish Bonds C 3 Do. for Ac. 87 Greek Do. 1825, II Brazilian Bonds Mexican Do. 1825 681 Buenos Ayres Do. 58 Peruvian Do. -- Cbilian Do. Russian Do. 94/ Columbian, 1824, 321 Spanish D 0..) 01_ 1