The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-25 00:00:00

UNITARIAN DISSENTERS. In adverting to the singular occurrence which tool. place at St. George's Church, Queen-square, the Sun day before last, the particulars of which have bees. already before our readers, it is by no means our in tention to give to that circumstance an importatee which it does not deserve, and which every feature ie the case clearly shews it was the connected design of all the actors in the scene to confer upon it. We recur to it only as affordin.o- an opportunity for offering some general remarks em the subject of the marriages of those who obi i ect to the formulary at present insisted upon as e':.sential to the legality of the marriage. No class of dissenters, except the Unitarians, or nrde properly the Ultra-Unitarians, calling themselves Free-thinking Christians, entertain any objections to the Church ceremony, or feel any wish to have the ceremony performed in their own Chapels—so far from it, that we have understood many of their Ministers decidedly reprobate the idea of their being compelled to officiate in such a rite, or being tied down by the restrictions, and being made responsible to the enactments of civil power in this respect. Most of he Sects of dissenters are beyond every thing jealous of any interference or mixing-up with their spiritual ministrations, anything of a civil or temporal charac ter. The Unitarians, then, and some kindred sects, are the only parties to whom the question applies ; they, as is well known, call out against being compelled to go through the Church ceremony as absolute per secution. The plea was by many thought a strong one, and a Bill, as our readers are aware, in a former Seaton of Parliament, passed the lower House but was thrown -out in the Upper ; on that occasion the Bench of Bishops was divided. It is, however, re ported, that since that period some changes of opinion haVe taken place, and we ha —! some ground for imagining that a Bill, perhaps somewhat modi fied, will be likely to meet with greater suc cess in the present Parliament. As to the princi ple of such an enactment, it certainly seems upon the general view to be fair; though when we come to look closely into it, there may, perhaps, be some difficulty in pointing out the precise necessity for it. The Uni tarian does not require any thing more than our cere mony to make the marriage complete. He thinks less would suffice. The rest then is, to his idea, a mere superfluity—a mere nullity ; which, ix consequence, we should suppose, would not be worth tile trouble of objecting to.- He is required to pledge his troth in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Unitarian does not deny that those words are actually the words of Scripture. He un derstands them, it is true, in a different sense from that in which the Church understands them ; but we really do not see what there is to compel him to put any sense upon them which he objects to. He may surely recite the words as Scripture, and understand them ac cording to his own interpretation of Scripture. Upon such considerations as these we feel some he- sitation in perceiving any strong necessity in the case, I and under these circumstances we imagine the measure must be very much swayed by practical considerations. If, for example, any material practical difficulty should present itself, we do not see that the case is of that im perative or important nature to induce us to put ourselves to any inconvenience to bring the measure about. The main practical difficulties which occur to us are those respecting the registering of the parties, and the pro bable abuse of such an enactment, for the purposes of clandestine marriages—for which, indeed, the existing laws afford sufficient facilities. As to the former of these points various methods might be pro posed ; but few that are not free from consi derable difficulty. If registers are to be kept by the Unitarian Ministers, how is their regularity and authenticity to be secured ? Who are the responsible and official persons whom the law is to recognize as those entrusted with this duty ? Where is the public depositary of such records to be ? If this office be turned over to the civil power, besides leaving it open to many difficulties similar to the last mentioned, this would be to introduce a novel and singular principle in law, requiring the interference of the civil authority in one instance and not in another. That some change might be beneficially introduced in the general regula tions for the registering of marriages, we do not mean to deny ; or, that the formal recognition of marriages by law might not be much better placed in the hands of the temporal than of the ecclesiastical authorities ; but such measures, we conceive, ought to be general measures ; and should bear a reference to the principle of authenticating the civil contract of marriage in the eye of the law,—whilst the religious contract should be left to be administered in such a manner as may ac cord with the religious principles of the parties. Upon such grounds, we conceive, some general regulations might be fram e d by which the necessary precautions for preventing clandestine or illegal contracts, might be secured by the provisions of the law, and enforced by the power of the Civil Magistrates, instead of being left as they are "at present to the wholly inadequate se curity• intended to be afforded by ecclesiastical regula tions—regulations, which together with the power by which they are at present supported, are extremely in efficient. This is a point which ou r present limits forbid our entering upon, but at a futur e period, we may, perhaps, recur to it. Any enact ment, h owever, upon such a general basis, as we have alluded to, will, we do not doubt, afford the double advantage of al lowing. all Sects to follow their own consciences as to the religious sanctions they may think necessary while the security and correctness of the civil contract would be provided for ill a really efficient manner by the legal regulations and forms required. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Constitritionnel, of the 22d of January.) (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER) " 1.1!;BON, JAN. 6.—The first sitting of the Chamber of Peers has been devoted to the proceedings preparatory to holding the ordinary session of the Cortes for the year 1827. " The Count de Mesquitella and the Marquis de Tancos were nominated Secretaries ; the Count das Galneas and the Count de Figuera, Vice Secretaries of the Chamber. " The President named the deputation, consisting of seven members, for the purpose of informing the Princess Regent that the Chamber of Peers was installed. The members named were, the Archbishop of Elvas, the Bishop of Beja, the Marquis of Abrantes, the Marquis de Vagos, the Count de Cea, and the Count de Parati. The President and Vice-President of the Chamber were to form part of the deputation. " The Bishop of Beja presented in this sitting his brevet of election, and took the oath of fidelity to the Constitutional Charter as a Peer of the kingdom. This prelate took no part in the busi ness of the Chamber during the extraordinary session. " The Marquis de Pa!tuella has written to the Chamber, expressing his regret that he could not join his colleagues, being still continued in the discharge of his duties as Ambassador to England. " The first sitting of the Chamber of Deputies was in like manner occupied with its preliminary arrangements. " M.M. Francisco Barrow) Pereira and Antonio Ribeiro Costa, were appointed Secretaries, and M.M. Antonio Vincente-de Car vaiho, and Francisco Xavier de Sousa Quiroga, Vice-Secretaries of the Chamber. " Aftewards the names were drawn by lot, of the members who are to compose the seven general sections charged according to the regulation with the examination and preliminary discussion of all the projects submitted to the Chamber. " The Chamber then confirmed the appointment of the special comniitt , 2e of finance and the other committees named in the last extraordinary session, which had not yet presented the result of the labours with which they were charged. " The titular Bishop of Coimbra being still indisposed, M. Guerreiro, the Vice-President, occupied the chair. " The Vice-President proposed, and the Chamber, after a slight discussion, resolved that it would be unnecessary to send a deputation to acquaint the Princess Regent that the Chamber was installed, as this Chamber was constituted in virtue of the Royal sitting of the opening of the preceding. " In the sitting of the Ith, the Chamber of Peers named the Committee of Propositions, which is to be composed of twelve members. The Marquis de Borba was named President ; Counts San Miguel and de Pente, reporters ; and, finally, the Count de Laps and the Count de Linhares, Secretaries to the Committee. " The Chamber afterwards resolved itself into a Secret Corn mittee, for the purpose of drawing up the Address, iu answer to the Speech from the Throne. "In the sitting of the same day, the Chamber of Deputies adopted the definitive digest of the project of a law of eight ar ticles for fixing the civil list, and the provision for the several members of the Royal Family. This project has experienced no alteration—the Chamber adopting altogether the proposition made to it by the Special Committee of Finance on the report of the Minister. " This project gave rise to a very interesting discussion. Tht Deputy Moraes Sarmento expressed the opinion that the Chamber should defer fixing the civil list until the period when Donna Maria 11. should be actually seated on the throne of Portugal, considering that Dou Pedro IV. had not yet ceased to be King of Po: fugal, and that in fact all the acts continued and would con tinue to be passed in his name until all the conditions which his Majesty had fixed for his final abdication should be fulfilled.— Among these conditions was the act of marriage (O acto do ca samento), which should not be confounded with the contract of affiance ( 0 contracto desponsaes.) The orator therefore con tended for the proposition that the present Cortes had no power to fix the amount of the civil list of the Queen, and that in so doing they would he usurping the privileges of the Chambers, which should be assembled when her Majesty eliould arrive in Europe, and be actually seated on the throne of Portugal. " This opinion was warmly supported by the deputies Maim, Cactano, Alberto, Macedo, and Machado, and opposed by the Baron de Sobral-Hermano, Minister of Finance, and by the de puties Mozinho, Soares, Carcalho, Fortes, and Magalhaes.— These last supported their opinions by this remarkable circum stance, that the payment of the Queen's dowry was not, accor ding to the first article of the project, to take place ' till the day of her Majesty's arrival in the kingdom, and that under this view the fixing of the amount should be regarded as conditional, as well as the abdication, though considerations of great expe diency could not allow the postponement of this measure.' " A great many members took advantage of this discussion to testify towards the Princess Regent the national gratitude. " The general sections of the Chamber have named the Com mittee of petitions, which is to be composed of the deputies, Mo raes Sarmento, Mozinho, D'Albuquerque, de Sousa Quiroga, de Campos, Viscount de Fante Arcada, Rebello, and Viera Tovar. " The same sections have named their presidents and secre taries. M. Gravito is to be president, and M. Fouesca is to be secretary of the first. M. Galva() Palma has been elected presi dent, and M. Costa secretary to the second. M. de Miranda pre sident. and MM. de Carcalho and Sousa, secretaries to the third. M. Pereira Coutinho, president, and M. Tanares d'Almeida, se cretary to the fourth; M. Guerreiro, president, and M. Barreto- Feio, secretary to the fifth ; the titular Bishop of Coimbra, presi dent, and M. de Magalhaes, secretary to the sixth ; and finally, M. the Count de San Palo, president, and M. Castel Branco, secretary to the seventh. " In the sitting of yesterday, the Chamber of Peers was wholly employed in the appointment of the several committees instituted by the interior regulation. " In the sitting of the same day, the Chamber of Deputies adopted by the appel nominal, by a majority of 55 votes against 24., the first article of the projet of law on the organisa tion of the Council of State. This article is to the following effect : " ' Independently of the councillors of state who may be named in virtue of the 112th article of the Constitutional Charter, there may be nine other councillors of state appointed by the King; they shall enjoy a salary of 3,200,000 reis.' " The 112th article of the Charter is in these terms : " Art. 112. The Prince Royal, as soon as he shall have at tained the age of 18 years, shall be of right a member of the Coun cil of State. The other Princes of the Royal Family, cannot form part of that Council unless nominated by the King.' " The discussion of the other articles of the project of law has been adjourned to Monday next. " A decree of the Princess Regent has made many promotion, among the higher officers of the army. MM. the Marquises d'Angeja, Stubbs, the Viscount de Beira, and the Baron d'Albufera, Major-Generals, have been raised to the rank of Lieut.-Generals ; Count Francisco de Barbocena, the Marquis de Torres Novas, and the Count de Villa Flor, Brigadiers of the army, with the rank of Major-Generals, have been nominated Major-Generals, &c. " Every day there enter this port large transports filled with English troops, of all arms, the disembarkation of whom con- ' tinues without interruption. There have been also landed '76 pieces of field artillery. This assemblage of British forces ap pears far tou considerable, if they are intended only to act against the rebels under the Marquis de Chaves. " The English auxiliary troops invariably receive, when dis embarking, a flattering and encouraging reception from the in habits of this Capital. " An English brigade_ is about to leave, in order to occupy El vas, on the frontiers of Spain. An English garrison has occu pied the castle of Foz, which commands the entrance of the port and the city of Oporto. " For several days past, bulletins regarding the military opera tions have no longer been published. Yesterday morning, at twelve o'clock, the English and Spanish Ambassadors had a long interview at the house of the Minister of Foreign Affairs with the Minister Francesco d'Almeida. It appears that new facts, of a very serious nature, discover more and more the bad faith and duplicity of the Spanish Government. Affairs seem to have reached a point, when a species of miracle can alone prevent a rupture. ." There is a report that part of the English fleet will leave the Tagus, to cruise in the Mediterranean before the Belearic Islands. It is supposed if war breaks out the English will occupy, as they did in the war of independence, this point so important in a mili tary point of view, since it f ac ilit a t es an d connects the communi cations between Corfu, Malta, Gibraltar, and Li s bo n . r " The English ship of war Romney, Captain Lockyer, the Pyramus frigate, Captain Sartorius, and the steam.vcssel Duke of York, Captain 3laule, left this port on the 4th to proceed to Gibraltar. Two other English ships of the line set sail Yesterday in the same direction. An English sloop of war, with troops on board, has just arrived. There is a signal flying for other vessels, which will enter the port to-day or to-morrow. " To night there will be an extraordinary representation at the theat re of San Carlos, to celebrate the arrival of the auxiliary troops. At the end of the first act there will appear the portrait of Don Pedro Iv., and the constitutional hymn will be sung. " It hai been reazarked that the military band of the English troop play in preference the air of this hymn on the march of the soldiers." (From the Quotidienne of Jan. 2.?..) (PRIVATE CORREAPONDENCE. " 'MADRID, JAN. 1.2.—1 n our present circumstances, every event possesses importance, and public attention is directed to, and arrested by, facts which at another time would pass by un noticed. Hence it is that the arrival of a Russian officer, with despatches for our Cabinet, is at present the general subject of conversation at Madrid, and the occasion of a multitude of con jectures. The most probable of the numerous on diis which are in circulation is, that our Sovereign, having invoked the inter ference of the Emperor of Russia, the officer despatched by this Prince brings (it is said) the most favourable answer that could be expected, which proves that there are yet in Europe Cabinets which know how to follow the revolution in the oblique course it has taken to reach us a second time. " In the night between the 9th and 10th General d'Arband Jonques, and the Charge d'Affaires of France, received by express despatches from their Government. They contained an order for the Swiss brigade to leave in three days. ":On the 10th, the Charge d'Affaires and the General commu nicated the despatches they had received, one of them to M. Sal mon, the other to M. de Zambrano. The two Ministers were at that moment attending the Council, at which the Infant Dor Carlos presided. They proceeded in search of them thither. The Prince, learning the nature of the communication, broke up the meeting, and his Majesty was immediately acquainted with the approaching departure of the Swiss brigade. " In the afternoon of the same day the Ministers re-assembled, and M. de Offalia, who has not yet quitted, was summoned to this council. " It is affirmed that the following night his Majesty had a long conference with the French General, in the presence of M. Salmon, at the close of which a courier was despatched to Paris. " The news of the departure of the Swiss has not produced any disagreeable sensation in Madrid; minds were prepared for it there. It was known that, since the 24th of last mouth, the order had arrived for the departure of this brigade; and, if it had been suspended, it was merely to wait the reply to a letter ad dressed by our Monarch to his uncle, the King of France. We place much confidence here in the good intentions of his Most Christian Majesty towards us; but it is presumed that M. de Vil lele will so manage matters that the step taken by our King will produce no effect. It is generally believed at Madrid, that there exists an undertandiug on the subject of Spain between the Prime Minister of France and Mr. Canning ; and that the French Minister, on this point has no other will than that of the British Minister. " In other respects the position of our Government inspires the Spanish nation with no uneasiness ; it knows that its Sove reign has acted, in whatsoever regards Portugal, with frankness and honesty; and it is prepared to second his energetic views.— We wait the result without any apprehension. General Cavajal repeated yesterday, that, at the first signal, 300,000 Royalists, well armed, would flock to defend the interests of the King and the independence of the country. Every mind swelled with in dignation, when it was known that the British Cabinet had the audacity to demand that Badajoz, Olivenza, Cindad Rodrigo, San tona, and other places, should be delivered up to it as pledges of our future conduct. It is England, not Spain, that owes gua rantees to Europe for its present conduct, and its ulterior projects. " It appears that the Swiss will quit Madrid only by divi sions: the first will commence its march to day, and the last will not leave till the 17th. " It is asserted with confidence, that Mr. Lamb waits only the return of a courier he has dispatched to Lonsion to demand his passports. The menacing tone of this Ambassador gave us reason to believe that he would have quitted Madrid as soon as he was certified of the disembarkation of the English troops in Por tugal. General Clinton is at Lisbon, and Mr. Lamb is still at Madrid. Why ? Because his removal would be the signal for the entry of our troops into Portugal : Cut expedition, already ao weak, already surrounded by numerous enemies, and possessing only the spot upon which they tread, would be subjected to some other embarrassments, if 25,000 Spaniards marched against them. This is what detains Mr. Lamb : he can see from Madrid wkat Mr. Canning has not perceived from London. " The day before yesterday, all the Inspectors-General, and Directors of the troops of all arms, were summoned before the Minister of War, to arrange the necessary means of putting in exe cution a royal decree for the levy of 24,000 men. It was decided, that only 12,000 men should be raised at first. The Royalist volunteers of Madrid are about to be completely new clothed. " The English army disembarked at Lisbon has brought out some Perkins's guns and some Congreve-rockets. The Portu guese Royalists do not possess, it is true, similar means of destruc tion ; but their number is 00,000. Since the arrival of the Eng lish, five regiments, called constitutional, have abandoned the party of tl , e Regency. This truly national army possesses a numerous artillery ; it is provided with every thing ; the whole population hails its march with applause; its success is infallible. " By a courier very recently arrived from Lisbon, we learn that the population of that capital had manifested great dissatisfac tion at the sight of the red coats. Several disturbances had been already on the point of breaking out. " Ps a, JAN. 21.—We stated come days since, that the va rious movements of the Constitutional troops of Portugal had for their object the concentration of these troops on Santarem, whero they would make a last effort to dispute with the Royalists the ap proach to Lisbon. Our conjectures seem to be realized. At least we read what follows in the Echo du Midi : " ' According to a letter, of very recent date, from Ciudad Rodrigo, written by a well-informed person, it is reported that the Royalists hare had a very smart action with the Constitutional troops near Santarem, of which they are masters, having been completely victorious. The same letter states, that after this victory, which is regarded as important, the Royalist troops, forming three divisions, were gradually advancing in the country.' " It is well known that Santarem is only 15 leagues from Lis bon, and that it is also the only military position which is found in advance of that capital. " ATTACK ON PRINCE TALLEYRAND. " Yesterday, at the conclusion of the funeral service at St. Denis, the Prince de Talleyrand, who officiated at the ceremony as Grand Chamberlain, left the church, and waited in a saloon ad joining, where the Princes retire previous to entering their car riages, when a man approached him hastily, and struck him on the bead with his closed fist. The violenc/- of the blow knocked the Prince down; the same man then gaVe him several kicks be tore the persons present could master him. The individual who has allowed himself to be guilty of these acts of violence is M. tic Maubreuil, whose name has made so much noise in the Courts of Law, by reason of a famous suit. "Monsieur, the Dauphin, was in the saloon at the same time, and his Royal Highness was one of the first persons who was en abled to assist Prince de Talleyrand. " M. de Maubreuil was arrested and conducted to the Prefec ture de Police ; he did not endeavour to excuse the act. Prince de Talleyrand was conveyed to Paris in an alarming state; he was bled twice during the night; this morning he was a little better. " P.S. We learn to night, that Prince de Talleyrand, after being bled for the second time, at midnight, became extremely weak; the weakness did not continue long. He slept well; the pains in his head, although more extended, have not become more severe. There is no fever." (From the Journal des Debate.) "MADRID, JAN. 11.—The movement for the departure of the Swiss brigade commenced to-day, and will be completed on the ttli instant. " The order for removing this brigade arrived on the 9th, in the morning. It soon became known, and it would be impos sible to describe the sensation it caused. I shall only observe that the two parties into which we are divided are equally well pleased at the departure of the French troops : —the Apostolicals, because they believe they will now be able to crush the Liberals; and the Liberals, because they reckon on soon settling their ac count with the Royalists, when the latter are no longer supported by French bayonets. _ " As to our Government, as soon as the French Charge d'Af faires officially notified the departure of the Swiss troops, the Council of INEnister s was immediately assembled, as well as the Counsellors of State, the Duke of Infantado, the Arch bishop of Toledo, General Castanos, and Count Benadito. Count d'Offalia was also summoned to this meeting, which con tinued during five hours without interruption. The object was to endeavour to stop the march of the Swiss brigade, and to - renew the negotiations for retaining it ; but the orders for the departure of the Swiss being quite positive, the negocia tions of M. d'Offalia, as well as the interviews of General d'Arband-Jougnes with the King, who sent for him several times, had no result. " The regiments of the Guards which remained here on the 9th, and which were to have marched next day for Talavera, have received orders to suspend their departure, and the Court, which was to have gone the day before yesterday to the Prado, is still in Madrid. " England complains that our Government does not adhere to the promises recently made in its official notes, and that on the let of January, the Governor o f Ciudad Rodrigo delivered to com missaries from the Marquis de Chaves, 10 pieces of cannon, with their cassoons and ammunition. " The Portuguese Government appears to direct a considerable ZOt LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1827. We received last night the Paris Papers of Mon day and the Etoilc dated Tuesday morning. The latter puts us in possession of the Manifesto of the Spanish Government, in the shape of Instructions to the Inspector-General of the Royalist Volunteers of the Kingdom, and the Captains-General of the Pro vinces. This famous document, of which so much has been said, and by which we were told that FER• DINA ND had manifested the most pacific and friendly dispositions, miserably disappoints the expectations of those who could bring themselves to believe that this weak and infatuated Monarch would be suddenly con verted, and at once abandon the system upon which he has acted without interruption since the first establish ment of the Constitutional Government in Portugal. On the contrary, we see in it no inclination to change either his policy or his tone. It avows his MAJESTY'S intentions to strengthen the military points of his kingdom, to reinforce his garrisons, and to support those garrisons with a Corps of Observation on the line of the Tagus. The objects of these measures, it is true, are said to be precautionary—to preserve his MAJESTY from personal danger—to maintain the dignity rtrid independence of his Crown, and the funda mental and legitimate order of the M o narchy, and to protect the int er i or o f th e ki n gdom from hostile con- tagion. It is also true, that FERDINAND instructs the any s e r h v o e s t u a t r e a t ty , r by - a o b i s ) t e a r o n g from a n n s t e G t fe c rge i i 7al inn o against Portuga l, so as not to compromise themsel ves with that coun tr y or with its Al ly , England ; but at the same time, it carefully repeats the assertion a thel to time desert se refersrt to t t o he t le nlaehi Portuguese ll a_ t that the first act of provocati on was on t h e part of Portugal , in having excited 115 men of a Re gimentteinorristo N i lich no'faS d pni Spanish Ca at samesmight be contrived in Gibraltar, in a manner not very decisive of a conciliatory disposition towards Great Britain. O n th e w h o l e, t hi s d ocument does not o l f ie: h v i o ng f s i2 b a u l t ter le i a n ye a s ny th d e egr qu e e e sti t o h n e pre c - c e o x r gding tostaotuer precisely where it was before. FERDINAND and his Ministers know that an abso lute Monarchy, such as that wlsich oppresses Spain,- cannot long exist, if a liberal Government becomes firmly established in Portugal. One or the other must therefore prevail over the whole Peninsula ; and, encouraged in his own views, by a bigotted and powerful party in the kingdom, he is evidently de termined, under ;Ile pretext of preventing the spread through Spain of principles subversive of those on which his own power rests, to organize the means of eradicating them from the soil of Portugal. Unl ess de terred by the threats and the demonstrations of Great Britain, FERDINAND will seize the earliest opportu nity t o overthrow a Government which, in his opinion, is as dangerous to his own power as it is hateful to his individual feelings. Mr. LAMB continued in Madrid on the 11th inst waiting, it was said, the return of a courier whom he had dispatched to England. The march of the Swiss brigade commenced on the 11th, and the last division was to depart from the capital on the 14th. A con siderable sensation had been created by the withdrawal of these troops. Both factions appeared to rejoice at it. The Apostolicals because they fancied they could crush the Liberals—and the Liberals because they calculated that it must be soon over with the Royalists when they are not supported by French bayonets. The French Papers also contain com munications from Lisbon of a more recent date, viz. to the 6th, but not a word is said of military movements. The Quoticlienne, indeed, asserts that the Royalist troops had had a sharp affair with the Constitutionalists near Santarem, which they got possession of, but this asser tion seems to rest on no good authority. The French Funds remain nearly the same, the Five per Cents. having closed on Monday evening at 99f. 30c. to 40c. ; and the Three per Cents. at 661. 85c. to 90c. We subjoin the circular to the Spanish Authorities, and refer for other extracts from the French Papers to our preceding columns. (From the Etoile dated Tuesday, Jan. 23.) "PARis, January 22.—The following circular has been vat no from Madrid of the 13th of Jan.:— " WAR-OFFICE.-I write what follows under the date of this day, to the Inspector-General of the Royalist Volunteers of the kingdom, and to the Captains-General of the provinces. " ''Your Excellency—The situation of our long frontier to• wards Portugal, which is immediately adjacent to the theatre of the civil dissensions which have unhappily broken out in that country, since the death of King John VI. of respectable and pacific memory, has seriously engaged the attention of the King our Sovereign. His Majesty, firmly resolved to preserve his kingdom from every thing that might expose to any attempt, or place in danger, his own safety, the dignity and the independ ence of his Crown, the fundamental and legitimate order of his monarchy, and sully the Spanish honour, has thought proper to order the internal measures most proper to attain so important fu* end, which constitutes the great intent of his sovereignty in the Government which Divine Providence has committed to his pa ternal care. Conformably to his sovereign intentions, the prin cipal military points of the frontier have just been reinforced, by sending to them the necessary garrisons, by organizing in a uniform manner every thing that is requisite for their defence, and by giving to those garrisons the indispensable support of a corps of observation, stationed on our internal line of the Tap!, and which, placed under the command in chief of Lieutenant- General Don Pedro Sarstield, unites in its ranks the military virtues of the recent campaigns of fidelity, and those of the sit years: war. 4" The King, not contented with all these measures, which are rigorously necessary, and purely preventive and precautionary, has thought fit in his august foresight, that it was worthy of the frankness and the probity of the Spanish character, to order me to make known that part of the instructions given to the Generals commanding upon the frontiers, which may have reference to ob jects of more general interest. " They are literally as follows :—That, in consepenee of these important considerations—those which have been mentioned above—his Majesty has the most lively desire to maintain the re lations of amity which unite him with his august allies, and en sure their inviolability, by means calculated to secure reciprocal confidence. " That of all these means, none is more indispensable than that of observing neutrality by abstaining from interfering in any hostile acts or co-operation against Portugal, so as not to compro mise himself either with that country or with its ally—England ; that to suffer any hostile force to remain assembled in arms on the Spanish territory would be acting in a manner contrary to those principles, and consequently hazarding the dignity and the con stant and proverbial good faith of the noble and elevated Spanish character ; to repress and chastise every revolutionary act, every analogous attempt which should manifest itself upon our frontier; to protect that frontier, and to observe the neighbouring corm try ; such is, in substance, the basis of the instructions com municated to the Generals who command there. His Majesty; therefore, uniting his wishes to those of his august Allies, is fully persuaded that the best means of rendering the benefits of a long peace solid and durable, consists precisely in the efficaciousness of the measures of precaution, which secure for the future, and will guarantee the tranquillity happily existing in the interior of the kingdom by preserving it from all hostile contagion. " His Majesty recollects, in fact, and he could not forgets that in the same manner as the first idea that we had in Spain of the establishment of a new Government in Portugal coincided almost simultaneously with the numerous and daily emigration of Portuguese corps, and of persons of different classes, who arrived by different points from that country, so as absolutely to exclude the possibility of any provocation on the part of Spain; so the first signal of the criminal attempts which the innovations in Pot tugal excited in the minds of rebellions Spaniards, was the act by which two officers and some individnals induced 115 man o f the 4th regiment of Light Cavalry seditiously to desert with their arms and horses to the Portuguese territory. " The numerous documents collected in the office of the de partment confided to me, and from which I have drawn the B arra' tive which his Majesty has ordered me to make of these events, would furnish the most fully convincing proof of the ardour and exalted sentiments of the e migrated Portuguese soldiers, which edly an interesting situation , in which the tire of despair might equalled, if they did not surpas s, tho se of their officerts—undoubt have been kindled by the very means that might have been con trived to attain a contrary result. His Majesty sees himself under the painful necessity of or • dering an active and strict surveillance in the frontier provinces; where dangerous thoughts and communications might be propa gated, and foment projects of revolt, and where, as in Estremadura and Andalusia, stronger repressive measures must be employecis because they are exposed to the double influence of the machine gl‘h, were ehe organised,contriyet I a , nd either from i Portugalnwhicwhich issued,or at t Gibraltar , hee ba od were destroyed almost as soon as they landed, i t m uo a sn y n coefs have hti sh p eA r o hj u e :d y of f o n rwe s whicheje;sh whplace otnui Tarifa. Altneira, and Guaaatuar. In consequence of these circumstances, the kind of tendenel , r oi i tt o i. : \ i v s t l ihi y iec a lv, nd constantly occupies the attan ,iepseerhtaoplga,bwoouurldtonopt rbeevent sufficientlyeonse to a state of moral hostility which changes effected in Portugal possibility s averted by the occupation of some points of Portugal by the English troops, by those troops which belong to so magnanimous a sovereign, and to a nation which, at an epoch still recent , participated in the dangers and the glory of the Spanish people, in combating a violent and illegitimate usurpation. His Majesty has also foreseen the extraordinary expenses which such measures r e nder necessary at the moment when he is exerting his constant solicitude in the reduction of the public expenditure, and the improvement of the administration. But if he has thought fit to order that these expenses should be confined to what is strictly necessary, it is his will also that this sacred principle should be borne in mind, that every thing insist yield to the honour of the monarchy, and to the d u ty of preserving the sentiments of fidelity and Castilian pride; for after sll the proofs we have given in recent times of our resistance .to different usurpations, and to revolutionary attempts, it would still remain to show what Spain could do, if, contrary to all expect' Cation, such an extremity should become necessary, what it could do, with the will of his Majesty, present at the head of his arMY and with the name of a patient, persevering, religious, and mo narchial people, which owes all its military glory in these latter times to the inspiration of its filial love for the august person of' onr sovereign and for his dynasty. And as it is precisely in the virtues of the Spanish people his Majesty declares this with plea" sure, that the balance of legitimacy now finds a powerful support against the irruptions of revolutionary power ! I address to you , by the King's order, this communication. I must add, that it iS his Majesty's will that I especially recommend to you, for the maintenance of internal order and tranquility, to have r eco urse to the Royalist volunteers, whose monarchial sentiments and at tachment to his Royal person inspire him with the greatest con' fidence. " ZAMBRANO.' "'Madrid, Jan.—, 1827. Amongst the extracts from the French Papers will be observed an account of an attack made on TAL LEYRA ND, as he was leaving the church of St. Denis on Saturday, after the performance of the funeral ser vice for Louis XVI., by a man of the name of MAU' BREUIL, who has, on several Occasions, made himself conspicuous since the restoration of the BOURBON& He made his way through the Guards, and struck TALLEYRAND a violent blow on the face, which knocked him down, and rendered it necessary for the Prince to be carried home and bled. The cause of this person's rage does not appear. The reports mentioned in the French Papers front Lisbon, that part of the British squadron in the Tagus would sail for the Mediterranean and cruize off' the Belearic Islands, are without foundation. The obser vations in the New Times of this morning, counter'. ancing the above reports, arc equally fallacious. The Romney, Pyramus, and the Duke of YorL steam-boat, appear to have sailed from the Tagus , o n the 4th, b u t they were to proceed to Gibraltar only, part of its force towards Spanish Estremadura. Accordingly, it is the divisi , rn advancing on that part of our frontiers which marches the most rapidly, and all the regiments composing it are already at their posts, or on the point of taking up their positions. In general every thing here indicates war. " An extraordinary courier, arrived at the General Intendeney of Police, announces that an old Constitutional band has re-ap peared, stronger than ever, in the mountains of Ronda, and that in the waters of Stepon and Marvella several vessels have been seen, which appear to intend to make debarkations. FRENCII FUNDS, Monday—Five per Cents., 99f. 40c. ; Three per Cents. 661. 90c. ; Bank Stock, 1,995 f.; Rentes de Naples, 73f. 50c.; Royal Spanish Loan, 49 )1. 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