The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-06 00:00:00

MARSHAL. 01.113, KING. " Among the Portuguese," says the author, " who, from t; perversion of good feelings, or the original prevalence of be, ones, were open to corruption, persons were found to form the design which Soult had now formed of becoming King Northern Lusitania. Buonaparte's formation of new principaliti, and kingdoms for his brothers and faTourites, had made the gen— rats of this new Alexander suppose that his conquests would Le divided among them, and a petty kingdom under this tid e been carved out in the secret treaty of Fontainebleau. A depot. tied of twelve principal inhabitants of Braga, as they were reprt eented to be, waited upon the Marshal, and published in his g, zette an account of their interview with him, and an address i.i consequence to the Portuguese people. They assured their coun trymen that Marshal &tilt had conversed with them at greet length, upon the produce, commerce, and interests of the pro vince between the rivers, in a manner which funned a striking contrast to the conduct of their old government. 'That govern ment, they said, had been indifferent about all things except the raising of its revenues. The tlight of the Prince Regent amounted to a voluntary abdication of the throne, MA a happy ftiturity might tinw be anticipated under a better dy nasty. 'The House of Braganza,' said these traitors, no longer exists. It is tho will of Heaven that our destinies should pass into other hands ; and it has been the peculiar favour of Divine Providence to send us a man exempt from passions, and devoted to true glory alone, who desires to employ the force entrusted to hint by the great Napoleon only for our protection and deliverance from the monster of anarchy which threatened to devour us. Why do we delay to assemble round him, and proclaim I , :au our father and deliverer ? Why do we delay to express bur anxiety to see him at the head of a nation, of whose affections he has made so rapid a conquest ? The sovereign of France will lend a gracious ear to our supplications, and will rtioice to see that we desire one of his Lieutenants for our King, who, in imitation of his example, knows how to conquer and to pardon.' Such an tddress could not have been published in a journal which was under French superintendence unless it bad been in unison With Soult's designs. On another occasion, when he gave audience to a second deputa tion from Braga, and to *le civil, religious, and military authori ties of Porto, the °bee quious traitors requested that, till the su preme intentions t:f the Emperor should be ascertained, they might be aliv.ved to swear fidelity to his most worthy representativ-2, who bad so many claims upon the love, respect,. - an d grat i tu d e o f the Portuguese. The Marshal ex patiate d as usual, in reply, upon the felicities which were about to be showered upon Portugal under a French master. "As to what concerns myself," he added, " I feel obliged by the frank ex pressions which you have used relating to my person ; but it does not depend upon me to answer them." He had, however, depended so much upon realising this dream of ambition, that proclama tions were prepared, announcing him as King. It was fortunate for the parties concerned, that they went no farther ; for one of his staff, who was supposed to he a principal agent in the frame, was recalled to Paris, and Buonaparte, addressing him by name at a grand levee, said to him, " Take care how you draw up pro clamations! My empire is not yet sufficientl7 extended for cis' generals to become independent. One et-: p farther and I would have had you shot." Expecting no s'ach impediment to his hopes, the " worthy representative" of P:uonaparte proceeded, as his mas • ter had done in Egypt, to slY,, w his attachment to the religion of the people whom he ce.: me to govern.—Southey s Peninsular War, SPORTING IN INDIA. (From Keppers Journey from India.) The description of a horse-race at Bussorah merits quotation : On March Ist Captain K. states, " We went this after noon into the desert to a horse-race, an amusement of which the natives of Bussorah are as find as our own countrymen ; though I fear if an English jockey had been here he would have thought the profession disgraced by the exhibition. For our own parts, we were more amused than if the business' had been conducted according to the strictest rules of the turf. The spot selected was the Great Desert, which commences immediately outside the town ; a circular furrow of two miles marked the course, and the stakes consisted of a small subscription raised from amongst our European party. The five candidates who started for the prize were well suited to the general character of the scene. Instead of being decked in all the colours of the rainbow, a coarse loose shirt comprised all the clothing of the Arab jockey ; and the powerful bit of the country was the only article of equipment of the horse he bestrode. Thus simply accoutred, at a signal given, these half-naked savages set oft at full speed, each giving a shout to animate his horse. They arrived like a team at the gaol; the prize was adjudged to an Ethiopian slave. The scene was highly animated and interesting, though we had neither splendid equip . fi res, nor fair ladies to grace our sports." The middy; of the Alligator got up a race of their own, a la 'Jack, and furnished as much sport to the natives as they usually do at home when they man horses. From Bussorah our party proceeded up the Tigris, to Bagdad, in a large boat, with an Arab guard, &c. " Three of our party went out shooting in the desert, and had excellent sport. Hares, black partridges, and snipes, were in the greatest abundance. For my own share of the game, I claim a brace of partridges, not a little proud that nearly the first birds which ever fell by my gun should have been killed in the garden of Eden. Another of our party killed a hare, but the boatmen objected to our havin g it dressed on board, as it had not undergone the ceremony of being made hulaul (lawful). This is performed by repeating a prayer, and by cutting the throat of the animal, with the neck placed towards the tomb of Mahomet. Yet, according to the Jewish law, from which nearly all Mahometan prohibitions respecting food are taken, the hare is an unclean animal,' because he chewed the cud, and divideth not the hoof.' " • * * " At four o'clock we stopped at a patch of brushwood jungle, where nearly all the boatmen and guard went to cut wood for fuel. In the midst of this employment one of the party disturbed a lion that was sleeping under a bush. He was greatly frightened, and speedily commu nicated his terror to his comrades, who hastened on board. The lion stole away, and the trackers who had to walk through the same jungle, continued their work without makingany obj ec ti on . Ga me of every description is abundant throughout, which reminds us that we are in the ancient kingdom of Nimrod, that' mighty hunter before the Lord.' The spot we were now passing was 'quite living with the immense quantities of animals of all descriptions. At every step, our trackers put up pelicans, swans, geese, ducks, and snipes; numbers of hogs were seen galloping about in every direction ; a lioness strolled towards our boat, and stood staring at us for two or three seconds ; when within thirty yards, Mr. Hamilton and myself both fired at her, but as we were _loaded with small shot, we did her no in jury; the noise of our guns made her turn quietly round, and she went away as leisurely as she came. 'We saw this afternoon a numerous flock of small birds, which pre sented the appearance of a large whirlwind, and literally darkened the air in their flight. Both Mr. Lamb and Mr. Hart had seen the same in India, and told me t h at t h ey were bids of the ortolan species. Jubul Afees " is said to be coeval with the ruins at Filifileh and Sooroot. While we were examining these ruins, we put up great numbers of hares and partridges. We met also some men with greyhounds; these dogs are very beautiful ani ma l s , and are somewhat smaller than the English breed; the ears hang down, the tail is feathered, and both are covered with hair as fine as silk. The Arabs are very fond of this spe c i es • but the dog being an unclean animal according to the Ma hometan law, the Faithful are not allowed to touch it, except on the crown of the head, that being the only part of the animal which he is unable to pollute with his tongue. The owner of these dog s was rather an anomalous being for an i n h a bi tant of the Desert __ a young Arab dandy ; his turban and robes were ad justed with the greatest neatness, his eyelid s were stained with antimony, two or three rings gra ce d each finger, and he conversed with an air of the most amusing p uppy i sm. ” While the rest went up the river, Mr. Hamilton made a cut across the desert, of which he gives a very brief but lively account : " On the 18th Mr. Hamilton passed through several en campments of Arabs, from whom he experienced all those rites of hospitality for which those tribes are so cel e b rate d . lie desc ri b es the plain as being in some parts quite alive with numerous encampments and their attendant herds of ca mels,oxen, andhorses. At 9 in the evening he came to the bed of a very broad canal, the banks of which are thirty feet high. He saw vast quantities of birds, called bitterns, of which the Scriptures tells that Babylonia was to be come the nonession. He met an Arab Beg, attended b) four men, well armed and Mounted ; these carried hawks on their wrists, and were followed by several greyhounds. Mr. Hamilton drank coffee With his new acquaintance out of cups with gold saucers. The Aey \Vas very civil, and promised to spew him coca; good hawks on a future occa sion. He slept the first part of the night in the tent of an Arab, the father of two beautiful girls; A sheep was brought to the tent door, and milked by one of the fair hostesses ; a carpet, Was spread for him in the upper part of the tent-, a fire was lighted, and he Was regaled with pipes, coffee, milk, butter, and a Bhetp ttaSted whole. He bivouacked from one till three o'clock in the morning, to rest his cattle, On resuming the march, the cold was so intense, teat his party were obliged to alight from their horses and make a fire with some brushwood they folind in the jungle. The heat during the day had nearly been insupportable, and the opposite extreme at this time brings to mind Jacob's spirited remonstance with his father-in law, Laban, when in a similar situation :—" In the day the drought consumed me and the frost V night." They were all huddled round the fire, when a soldier gave the alarm of robbers. They were up in arms in a moment; but the enemy, on seeing their numbers, made off. On the 19th he saw the ruins of a circular building, which, from description, must have resembled that we saw on the banks of the Tigris. It was forty feet in diameter, and built Of red bricks fourteen inches square. Every flock of sheep that be saw in the eight was attended by three or four armed men, At midnight he reached another en campment, and met with treatment similar to that of the night before. The Arab, in whose tent he was breakfast ing, was told by a boy that a party had carried off some of his sheep ; he seized his sword and spear, snatched a mus ket from one of the soldiers, mounted his horse, bare backed, and in one moment was scouring across the desert. They resumed their march on the morning of the 20th, and reached Bagdad in the afternoon," Among the mighty remains of Babylon, he tells us— " Wild beasts appeared to be as numerous here as at the Mujillebe. Mr. Lamb gave up his examination, from see ing an animal crouched in one of the square apertures. I saw another in a similar situation, and the large foot-print of a lion was so ftesh, that the beast must have stolen away on our approach. From the summit we had a distinct view of the vast heaps which constitute all that now re mains of ancient Babylon a more complete picture of de solation could not well be imagined. The eye wandered over a barren desert, in which the ruins were nearly the only indication that it had ever been inhabited. It was impossible to behold this stenG and not to be reminded how exactly the predictions of Isaiah and Jeremiah have been fulfilled, even in the appearance of Babylon was doomed to present; that she should never be inhabited;' that the Arabian should not pitch his tent there;' that she should 'become heaps ;' that her cities should be a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness.' " The prophecy of Isaiah, that Babylon should be in habited by wild beasts, was fulfilled after the extinction Of the Seleucice; for their successors, the Parthians, turned the city into a park, and stocked it with wild beasts for the purpose of hunting, Amongst these the wild boar is enumerated. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEB. 3. FROM OUP. CORRESPONDENT.) Oh Wednesday last the Mansion-house was the scene of as cor dial a festivity as we almost ever recollect witnessing within its venerable walls. On that day a dinner party of between 50 and 60 of the most diatiegUished ladies and gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, were congregated, in compliment to the Hon. Member for Stafford, Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, Esq. who is at present en a visit in this quarter, and who, we are happy to say, looked remarkably well on the occasion. The worthy Chief Magistrate presided over the good things of the table with his wonted gay humour and affability, and every one seemed to par take of that pure spirit of enjoyment which flows from the heart when under pleasing excitement. On Thursday last, F'enham Hall, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the seat of James Graham Clarke, Esq., was a scene of great gaiety and enjoyment, Mr. Clarke having on that night given a grand Ball and Supper to about 160 ladies and gentlemen of the first distinction in the immediate neighbourhood. Amongst the company present, were—Lady Ravensworth and the two Honour able Misses Liddell, Mr. Beaumont, M.P., Mr. Ellison, M.P., Sir Charles Monck, Sir William Clarke, the Sheriff of Newcastle; Mrs. Mayoress, Mrs. Ellison, Mrs. Vernon, Mrs. William Lamb ton, &c. &c. The supper tables were a sample of the good " olden times," and literally groaned under the superincumbent weight of so many good things. Of the donor's polite attention to his guests it is impossible to speak in terms of . too high panegyric. Ma. Beaumozcr, M. P.—The town of Hexham, in North umberland, was a scene of great rejoicing and gaiety, on Friday last, on account of its being the day appointed for present ing a superb piece of plate to the Honourable Member for Staf ford, Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, Esq.- At an early hour in the morning the bells commenced ringing, flags were copiously displayed, and the people congregated in masses in the street, to partake of the hilarities of the scene. About three o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Beaumont was met by an immense body of people at some distance from the town. To say that he was received most enthusiastically, by no means conveys an adequate idea of the tumult of joy on which all classes indulged in greeting with " welcome" their excellent friend and benefactor. The four horses were speedily taken from the Honourable Gentleman's car riage ; and, amid the din of music and hurrahs, was he thus tri umphantly drawn into Hexham, where he addressed the immense assemblage collected to receive him, in a strain of eloquence and kindness that made every one happy that heard him. These pre liminaries over, the Honourable Gentleman, accompanied by a most numerous and respectable body of friends, repaired to the Black Bull Inn, where a noble entertainment was provided, and where the elegant piece of plate alluded to was presented to Mr. Beaumont by Colonel Mark Carr, of Beacon Hill, in a speech that was justly admired for its truth, delicacy, and point. Mr. Beau mont was not a little affected on the occasion, although, in return ing thanks, he delivered his sentiments with eloquence and feel ing. The day following (viz. Saturday) the Honourable Member attended another publie dinner, at Allendale town, where similar rejoicings took place, and where the homage of the inhabitants was presented to him in the shape of a costly gold vase. A LISBON HOTEL.--Reeve's hotel, in the Rua do Prior, at Buenos Ayres, is unquestionably the best. It is Eng lish in every respect—in the style of dinner, in its perfect cleanli ness, and—oh my gold moidore !—in its charges. It is, however, the only house to which 1 can safely recommend a passenger to go, directly 'on his landing. If he have sense, he will look about him, and, in the course of a few days, be able to arrange with Reeves for apartments on cheaper terms, or elsewhere for private lodgings. At present, he has no chance of bringing Reeves to lower prices ; for since the English officers have arrived, had he ten houses as large as his hotel, he could fill them all. There are now—long life to the Army !—no less than seven officers of rank sleeping on the floor, for want of beds and bedsteads. A single person will find the charge at Reeves's to be—for a sitting-room and bed-room, 4s. 6d. per day ; breakfast, Is. 6d. ; dinner, 4s. His wines are also dearer than in other places ; for instance—the Colares, a light wine like claret, which you get elsewhere at six pence per bottl e , h e p u t s y ou d o wn at fifteen-pence; and your Port, whi c h y ou i m bib e , where I will tell you presently,—the re gular bee's wing, and no mistake !—at fifteen-pence, he will de cant at three shillings. A LISBON RESTAURATEUR.—If you have private lodgings, you breakfast at home, and go out to dinner at the Cazo da Pasta, or eating house which answers to our tavern, or the Paris restaurateur.—The beet is over the cafe Nicolo, in the square of the Roscio, a place not far from the Exchange. It contains several small rooms, each havin g a l ong t a bl e , a t w hi c h the guests sit down indifferently, st ranger near stranger. Th e waiter brings you a list of dishes with the prices marked to each _you select, suppose, a soup with Iklacearoni, a boilli, roas t p or k (the best description of meat in Portugal), boiled tongue, and end with apple fritters and cheese, taking a pint of Lisbon red wine at dinner, and a bottle of the real supernaculum of as fine old Port as the Clarendon or Albion contain in London. I mean you and a friend do all this, for temperance is a necessity as well as a virtue in a warm climate. Dinner for two, with the wine, will amount to 2s. 6d. each ; the wine to a Londoner is worth the money. You then descend to th e cafe, and procure a cu p o f coffee with a glass of liqueur, for which you' pay sixpence, and you go away as happy as if the streets between you and your lodgings were strewed with roses and violets. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Journal (In Commerce of Feb. 3.) PARIS, FEB. 2.—Our letters from Hayti have been de livered to us. Several mercantile houses have had the kindness to communicate others to us: All affirm that the most perfect tranquillity ha's not ceased to prevail in the Island., §ettirig aside the uneasiness that might have been felt from the delay of the letters from France, from which country the Government of Hayti expected most interesting news; concerning various stipulations of the Treaty of Commerce, respecting which there were still some disputed points, and several arrangements proposed by that Government kt the fulfilment of its engagements. Thin Uneasiness has been alniost wholly allayed, as . we foresaw, by the arrival of the kebe corvette, widen sailed from Brazil on the 14th October, and carried back to Hayti M. Villevaleix, Commissioner of the Government. It arrived on the 29th November, and not the 18th De cember, as we yesterday announced from the Havre Paper. But the following are the most important parts of the correspondence which we have read, and the authenticity of which we warrant. The Government of Hayti had applied to 111. Ldthte, requesting hith to communicate his ideas on the consolida tion and amelioration of the credit of the Republic: M. Lafitte, having complied with this request, all his propo sals have been entirely adopted. M. Lafitte is appointed Banker of the Republic, and the care of carrying his own plans into effect is entirely con fided to him. M. Lafitte is also commissioned to complete the pay ment to the French Exchequer of the first instalment of the indemnity, amounting to 30 millions; he is also charged with the payment of the interest and the redemption of the first series of the First Loan of the Republic, The other part of the .plan of M Lafitte, for the erne lioration of the public credit, will be successively carried into effect. _ The funds , necessary . for their execution will be sent di rectly to M. Lafitte, either in bills of exchange on Europe, or in money ingots—a produce which will be conveyed to the house of Lafitte and Co. Havre. The following Proclamation of the President of Hayti was published at Port-au-Prince, Bee. 4 : " HATTIANS !—The circumstances in which the Republic is placed, make it my duty to accelerate the time when, according to Art 61 of the Constitution, a new election of the Members of the Legislature is to take place, to con voke you for 10th January, 1827. " It is for the third time that you are called upon to exercise the electoral functions ; make yourselves fully sen sible of their importance , Far be from you the thought, that it is sufficient if the greater number are present in the assemblies ; reflect that the absence of a single good citi zen may leave the field open for intrigue and ambition ; and recollect that the Constitution, when it confided to you the care of electing the Representatives of the people, intended that patriotism, united with ability, should alone obtain your suffrages." [The above intelligence from Hayti is inserted also in the Etoilc dated Sunday.] If we may believe what was related yesterday in the Salon of Paris, there has been a new insult offered by Count Ap pony to the Duke of Dalmatia : his Excellency addressed a note of invitation to Marshal Soult, studiously omitting his title of Duke of Dalmatia. The Marshal is said to have sent it back, expressing, in forcible terms, the senti ments he felt at this offensive omission. It was added, that the Duke of Dalmatia had imme diately given an account of the affair to the King, and that his Majesty had not disapproved of his conduct. It was also said that the chief officers of the army, and a great number of Peers, had resolved not to go again to Count Appony's. In fact, what Frenchman could, with out injuring his honour, present himself at the Count's ? It was, after being completely beaten by Generals Villa Flor and Claudino, in the province of Beira, that the Por tuguese rebels were forced to abandon Alineida and the whole province. The Marquis and Marchioness of Chaves, the Brigadier-Gen. Jordao, and the Government of Almei da, escaped with 800 men, and re-entered Spain by Aldea de Abispo. Eight hundrc4 men of the Spanish garrison of Cuidad Rodrigo marched to meet them, in order to dis arm them, but gave them time to repass the Douro and return into Portugal by the province of Tras-os-Montes. Mr. Lamb, the English Ambassador, being informed of this conduct, complained very seriously to the Spanish Government, and it is in consequence of this complaint that Gen. Longa, the Governor of Cuidad Rodrigo, and the Commander of the detachment, have been suspended from their functions, and are all three brought before a court-martial. This satisfaction, so promptly given to the English Government, proves that the positive demon strations of the British Cabinet have not been without effect on the Spanish Government, notwithstanding the rather haughty tone of its last circular. We learn also that the Marchioness of Chaves has re paired to Madrid, with the permission of the King, and that the Marquis remains at Salamanca wounded. The equipages and chief leaders have arrived at Madrid. After what has passed in the province of Beira, it seems by no means probable that the insurgents,who have sought refuge in the northern provinces, have been able to main tain their ground. The English troops are preparing to occupy the frontier fortresses of Portugal, in the same manner as the French troops occupy the fortresses of Spain. The London Journals say, that England requires, as security, the de livering up of the fortress of Olivenza, ceded to Spain by the last Treaties. The last fault of the Spanish Generals will be a powerful argument in support of the demand. The ilfedima French frigate sailed from Rio de Ja neiro for Valparaiso the 26th of October. On the 2d November the Diligente sailed for Brest; the Don John the Sixth, of the line, also bound for Brest, sailed the day before. This is probably the ship which has been seen off Ushant, and taken for the Don Pedro. It was said some time ago, that a Brazilian ship of the line was expected at Brest to take on board the Infant Don Miguel, and convey , him to Brazil. (From the Etoile, dated Sunday, Feb. 4.) PARIS, FEB. 3.—A letter from Constantinople of 31st December, says : " Extraordinary attention has lately been excited by the burying of a daughter of Mr. Stratford Canning, whose funeral was accompanied by a Greek Bishop, and who was buried in a Greek Church, though there are an English Chapel and burying-ground here. This event has been for some days the general subject of conversation among the Franks." LIES OF THE DAY. The Journal du Commerce.—England has required, of the Spanish Government, Olivenza as a security. The Courier Francais.—The President of the Council insinuated, that, under a preceding Administration, a treaty was made which authorised the proceedings of Count Appony (1.) The Quotidienne.—lt is not yet known what measures the Spanish Government are going to adopt with respect to the Portuguese refugees (2). . - - - (From the Gazette de France of Thursday.) Letters from Rio de Janeiro, dated 6th December, con tain no political intelli gence . Produce was very high. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Cartha gene, the 3d and sth December. " CARTHAGENA, Drat. 3-5, 1826.—We wrote you a few lines last night, by this same opportunity to which we refer. Since then we have seen that there will be sent down from Bogota, in five or six days, a quantity of bul lion to go to England topay the interest of the loan. Already Gen.Montillo has spoken to Capt.O'Brian, of his Majesty's brig Beaver, regarding the freight ; this vessel, finding matters all so peaceable, did intend leaving us on Tuesday (1) It was said, on the contrary, at the tribune, that there was no treaty, but that this affair had been regulated by diplo matic letters in 1814. (2) The Spanish Government has positively ordered the dis arming of the refugees.—Notes of the Etoile. next, for Jamaica, but now she will likely stop a few days. The amount is not known; but they say the Dictator has Ordered one million of dollars to be appropriated for this purpose. It may be well asked, where is all this to be found, when, at this mdmerit ; the troops are not paid ? It is said, he boldly replies, ' that they Inuit provide for themselves, but the debt to England must be provided fork' The bullion comes down in bars: The Minister Hurtado is superseded, and the office is to be tendered to General Montilla of this place. and, failing his acceptance, to General Soublette, Minister of War, now at Bogota.— The Libertador acted in his appointment as Dictator for a few days, when he showed them, in a decided way, what must be done. He has appointed Santander to act in his absence, and to be assisted in the same way by Revenge," A VALASC.;Iif',. LAUSANNE, JAN. 26.—We have rec9ived from the Valais, the melancholy news,that, on the night of the 17th of this month, the town of Biel, in the valley of . Conche, was, in a great measure, destroyed by an avalanche; which fell from a quarter where previously there never were any known. The number of unhappy persons who have fallen victitns, as well as the details of the calamity, are yet un known. Every kind of succour has been given, and already thirty bodies have been found, most of them shockingly mutilated, by the falling of the houses, about fifty df ithich appear to have been destroyed. Last week, another ava lanche fell at the , baths of Louesche, which covered up, and filled the empty space formed by the barriers erected for the preservation of the village and baths, so that great fears are entertained that on the first fresh fall of snow, or when the spring thaws commence, a second avalanche tumbling over the first may sweep away the village, and the whole of the bathing establishment.--Vouvell:te Vaudois. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Fr, 13. 2,— , -The following is an extract from the Report of the Committee appointed to examine into the accounts of the tank of Pratice, and laid before the Directors at their half -yearly meeting, on the 26th of January, 1827 EXTRACT FROM THE PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FROM THE 24T11 DEC. 1825, To 24rii JUNE, 1826. fr. c. I Cr. Disc. on 141X:1,075f. 35c. in bills upon Pa d., discounted at Paris 613,007 90 Ditto on 15,017,229 f Royal Bonds, dis counted at the Trea sury Ditto on 53,0'5,535f in bullion Dr. Salary to the Governor and Sub-Governors, including 3,000 f. for fire and lighting 63,000 0 Salaries for clerks, losses, &c., and all otherexpences incur red in the establish. ft. C. e 5,777 76 went. 402,963 91 Other incidental charges 19,301 6b 10,667 0 485,465 56 Discount on various ef. fects in hand, includ. ing the interest on de posits, to be carried to the next half year ... 557,995 8 677,452 65 Excess of last half ear's accou ...... To y gether with nt arrears 5,777 33 of stock, and ad vances made upon bullion, amounting in all to 4,244,033 50 1,013,260 64 Balance in profits 3,883,992 84 4,927,253 49 4,gt7,253 48 DIVISION OF TIIE BENEFITS. Francs. Cts. Legal dividend upon 67,000 shares in circulation, at 301— 2,037,000 00 Second dividend Reserve upon 67,000 shares, 9 E '611;100 00 3,870,200 07 13,1592 84 Carried to the credit of profit and loss in the new account 3,883,997 84 The expences from June 24 to Dec. 24 amounted to 975,173 20 Balance in profits 3,417,793 17 .4,392,968 47 The report further states, that the bills, ke., carried to a new account, amounted to 102,710,563 frs. 13c. The number of accounts current to 1,800. Bills on hand had increased to such an extent, that those falling due on the 31st of October ex ceeded 21,000, amounting to 20,500,000 frs., out of which 3,124,000 were bills still in arrears. On the 30th of November, the Bank had more than 20,000 bills to receive, amounting to 17,350,000 frs., out of which 2,571, amounting to 1,847,000 frs. were protested. On the 31st of December there were 21,560 bills, amounting to 24,885,000fre., out of which 2,865, equal to 2,854,000 frs. were not regularly paid, but have all been since taken up at the Bank. This short sketch may serve to give an idea of the state of trade and commerce in France. The manufacturing districts are at the summit of distress; and in Paris alone there are thou sands of workmen of all descriptions out of employ. Never was there a greater stagnation of all business than at the present moment. Andrew Cherry, the author of The Soldier's Daughter, once so celebrated, lies buried in Monmouth Church yard, without a stone to mark the spot. Ile died whilst he had a company performing there in 1811 or 1812. NEW INVENTION.— A Dr. Zimmerman, has lately invented a contrivance which, if it should answer the cha racter given of it in the German journals, will prove highly inte resting and important. It is a method, by the application of which to fire-arms, they cannot by any possibility go off, either by accident or carelessness, or in any way without the positive will of the person using them : at the same time, it does not im pede or delay, for an instant, the use of the arm when required to act. The inventor, we understand, has obtained a patent in some of the German States, and has applied to others for the same ad vantage ; and the details of his invention are, of course, w ithheld till he has secured himself against injury from imitations. ---Lite rary Gazette. A CATTLE FAIR AT LISBON.—The fair opens with a course on which the venders put their cattle to full speed, in order to introduce them in grand style to the buyers. On a tine Andalusian horse sits a Spaniard, whose darker eye and proud look exalt him a thousand degrees above the Portuguese. He wears a hat the most becOming in the world, though you will scarcely think so from my description : it is like a wooden dish turned up at the aides, with a crown puffed, more like a mushroom than any thing I know. How grace an d such a hat can be associated y ou are at a loss to imagine -- g et me but a y outh from Seville, with piercing eye, high nose, and haughty air under it, and I pledge you my word you will say it is the most graceful covering you ever saw. The Andalusian wears a short blue jacket, a crim son sash tied round his waist, and light blue trousers covering his boots to the instep. He sits as firmly on his horse, as if he and the animal were one—he guides it with a light hand, exciting and subduing its fire by turns. The horse—coal-black, without a speck of white, with a mane and tail trimmed but not shortened—as if proud of its own beauty, goes through its various paces, till his price amounts to sixty guineas, being half as much as you could have bought it about a fortnight since. With this horse come a troop of others, all guided by Spaniards, whose gay attire and manly carriage procures them the admi ration and respect which our Lancers are mush indisposed to pay to the native Portuguese. After these come a cavalcade of mules, each covered with an immense pack saddle, led by women or boys, or rode by men whose costume will beg gar Monmouth-street in variety and patches. On. has a hat wanting a leaf ; another a woollen night-cap. All, however, imitate the Spanish horsemen ; and instead of the perpetual cloak, e a c h wears a jacket as motley as you please, while his mule's head is adorned with red-leather straps and brass mountings. These mules fetch now 151. to 251. Before the English came, they were to be had for 101. Now rush in a beggarly group, clinging upon still more beggarly horses, whip ping and spurring, in order to get them into some little action. They cross, jostle, and overset each other. A wicked mule be gins to kick—a vicious horse answers it by a similar movement ; the Portuguese owners scold, swear, and stamp at each other. Two of them begin to fight with their legs and nails ; they are separated in a moment, and g ive w ay to a regular horse-dealer, who , wit h a cocked hat, a blu e jacket, and jack boots, glued to his sa ddle, s q uares his elbo ws , and fries to force ti longnhte country , into spirits sn ce failed b bites o h k i e ma n t. - d a o Ab w a n imt t ao r rf o c o iti p i e ne rgo " sub," u n d er or d ers t o go n p angler, and i s n e ar ly taken , whose leg s an d h ear t h ave in for 301., till the friendly hint of a Major of Dragoons, eaves the pocket of the junior, and sends the dealer in search of another youth as simple. Now horses, donkey-mules, Spaniards, dealers, Lancers, and Hussa rs, are mixed in one great body—all crowd, crying incgryintgogoeuthter. " FreshA wwaateterr,,,seallnedr the an mneaikghmin, his b w ra a y y in in g , empties his barrel at a halfpenny a glass. The dust rises, and makes another barrel welcome. Bargains are struck, and new trials are to be made. Every ten yards become a course ; busi ness thickens—the last word is said—the money is to be paid, __servants lead away the horses--dealers bless the times, as they said when the English were here before, " that God walks upon the earth," and go to the neighbouring wine-houses to drink pro sperity to the inventor of wars, and to the dread unknown of the Apostolic Junta, who make in one week a broken-kneed horse, • worth bl., be cheap at SO/. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1827. In a preceding column will be found further extracts from the Paris Papers of Saturday, and the Etoile of Sunday - morning, which contain some interesting mat ter. A note to an article classed under LIES OF TILE DAY in the Etoile, states distinctly that the Spanish Government has positively ordered the disarming of the Refugees. One account (in the Journal du Com mthat the Marquis and Marchioness DE c succeeded in re-entering Tras-os-Montes, while e n c A c v ) Sta tes , aEnshad oanother account says that the Marchioness has repaired to Madrid, and the Marquis remains wounded at Salamanca. We received yesterday afternoon files of Oporto Papers to the 18th ult. inclusive, being two days later than the date of intelligence received from that place by the way of Lisbon. They contain the following official bulletins of the military o perations in the Oporto district : " Head-Quarters of the Oporto District, Jan. 14. " General Mello, in his despatch of the 11th inst., dated from Villa Pouea, states, that on marching to occupy that place he ex perienced no resistance, the rebel militia having fled precipitately, soiree of them leaving even their arms behind them. " He also states, that a column of the squadron commanded by Poldorada, had overcome considerable obstac...es in . advancing to ‘Pv lN er l iv a se rqU e i ra l ' d r, e iwned A c after n u g d e i jin Villa Real on the who Mello R oi lustn ti t c 4e a a no d, killed where jaoni i n, t i ,1116oepostedadvancing rebels, en i Colonel Zagallo, supported by the 6th and 9th 7be ca aw v t a oui l u r g y n , dtehde. ,lcsotmh ,mtahnl:: ng et having d bridgedetached h o ed f A i m o a o r a b n a t ; , o n av e r t i s te t si o , u 12th, and had marched for that p ur p ose with p art of his force. occupy oceprC:dltaoitineeelpooSefsitrthriowen of Campeau, the detachment found already there Captain Anselmo, of the 16th infantry, in command of a detachment from Colonel Vasconcellos's column, which had esta blished itself in Villa Real, the rebel guerillas on the side of the Regoa being dispersed. The Military Governor of Oliveira de Azameis writes on the 13th, that the reconnoitring officer on the points of Manhuce and Gralheira confirms the accounts of numbers of militia guerillas and cavalry having deserted from the rebels to the division of Count Villa Flor, though the same rebels had been beaten in the neighbourhood of the Sierra da Lapa, while endeavouring to retire by Francozo, in the direction of the frontier. " GERALDO JOSE BRAACAMP, " Orderly Lieutenant." " Head-Quarters, Oporto District, Jan. 15. " The military Governor of Oliveira de Azameis writes on the 14th inst, that on the 9th, as he was informed by the officer recon noitring on th e point s of Manhuce and Gralheira, the division of Count Villa Flor defeated the rebels commanded by Telles Jordan in the position of Carutas, near the Sierra da Laps. The rebels lost in killed and wounded about 100 men, were completelyronted and dispersed. A n ` g ‘ e l i a t i i s n as c ertained a aa Real that the f G r o e n n li e 2 r L a tga Aiello joined nodtahnadtatil, the aendone abandoned remains t Marqui s qui s of eopfatrhtye militia of Arouca of the rebels. c, Thi s day the English troops were to leave Lisbon, and begin their march for different points. " SAAVEDRA, Orderly Lieutenant." " Head-Quarters, Oporto District, Jan. 16. "Marshal Moura, (Governor of Valencia, and Previsional Go vernor of the Province of the Minho) announces, under the 13th current, the complete rout of a corps of rebels 400. strong, 'con sisting of refugee Portuguese, Guerillas, and two companies of Spaniards. The action occurred on the 11th, in the position of Fiaes. Our troops were commanded by Major Antonio Vincenti de Queiroz, of the Viana Militia, and the rebels by the infamous Don Ignacio Pereiro. The rebels fled in disorder to Spain. H e besides states, that on the 12th another rebel Guerilla appeared ad vancing upon .Lindozo, with the intention of descending by the Amos; but that he detached a force sufficient to make the rebels abandon their project. He concludes with stating that not only the frontier towns, but all other parts of the province, are in a state of perfect tranquillity. " Colonel Zagallorthiailsitati;nsGmoivtteerndofrroomf 11 co lo i n En ial r e o gr , ei r u it ide f r ro th m e date of the 12th current, an account of the march of the troops under his command on Chaves. The rebels, from whom he ex perienced some resistance in the course of his march, sustained great loss. Ile states that Colonel Brito was in Roticas, having also beaten the rebels who attempted to obstruct hie march. Vi;e4uG,eunnedraelrid'iantet°4 the 12th, that he intended to return on the following day to Coimbra. 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