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NTEL PARIS, DEC. 23. If people would keep in mind the only official publication which the Government have yel made with respect to the affairs of Spain—viz. that " Europe left to France the affair of inter fering or not with Spain," we should not see such eagerness in hoping or fearing a positive decision before France is in a situation to take a part — that is to say, before the result of separate and direct negotiations with Spain, the union of the powers of the state, and the preparation of sub sidiary means indispensable on the supposition of war, enable us to form a reasonable and well grounded opinion on this impcirtant question.— The question is no longer European; it is French : it no longer belongs to Congress, but to -the Councils of the King of France. It falls with in the jurisdiction of Parliament as a matter of finance,, and in a political point of view is an affair of ministerial responsibility. Those Journals which dream of nothing but absolute monarchy, announced decisive and hostile determinations before the opening of the -Session. It may not be now in the power of the 'Ministers to decide any thing but peace ; but the resolution for war is too. closely connected with the vote on the budget to allow of its being adopted before the meeting of the Chambers, -and before the ascertained certainty of a majori ty of votes conformable to such a resolution. We are far from fearing such a result ; there, lore we are very cautious in collecting that sort of authentic intelligence which certain Journals - lavish upon those who gape for it. All the fluctuations of the exchange, the facti •tious and temporary rises and falls, produced by the insidious circulation of mere rumours, are in face nothing more than the tricks of stock-job ,biog, by which cunning and party-spirit lay the •timid and the credulous under contribution. We cannot too earnestly warn the honest speculator, and above all, the quiet stockholder, against such ,deceptions, by begging them to consult, not the -newsmongers of the exchange, who, in two or -three hours, reap the fruits of the lies which they have spread about in the morning or the preced ing evenirw, but the spirit of our institutions — •the true interests of France—the wisdom of the throne—the silence of the Congress of,Verona— the attitude of England—the moderation of the .Spanish Government, circumstances which to all •reasonable men are -so many guarantees of a peace which can cause none to despair but the enemies .olcoutitutional monarchy.—(Journal de Paris.) We can warrant the news that a treaty of alli .ance, offensive and desensive, between Spain and .Portugal, has been signed and ratified. This news is official.—Constitutionnel. An English courier arrived on Saturday at the English Embassy for Madrid, and set orr imme diately for London. M. Jabat, who has been lately appointed Minister of Spain to the British Government, ar rived at Paris on Saturday evening. His Excel lency will stay here a few days. The Indicator of Bo' deaux of the 19th has the following paragraph :—" We announced, perhaps prematurely, the re-establishment of the health of M. de Lally-Tollendal: the Noble Peer had scarcely arrived •at the house of the Duke De Cazes, when he found himself seriously indisposed in consequence of a violent vomitino-; he had then an attack of fever. Being brought back to Bordeaux by his friend, M. de Lally is now labouring under a severe and alarming malady." The French funds left ot on Monday, for money, at 88. They had been lower than 88 1 in the course of the day ; and at four o'clock they were at 88. 10. fur the account. (From the Gazette de France of Monday.) The Revolutionary party commit the most horrible excesses. At Ronda, as well as at Man resa, in order to get rid of respectable persons who did not concur with them in their theories, they had the villainy to infer that they %sere con spirators against the existing Government. They were committed to prison, and afterwards with, drawn on the pretence of conducting them to the cities where they are to be tried. Scarcely had they proceeded a few leagues, when they were all inhumanly massacred. The reign of terror has begun here : it differs, however, from that which prevailed in France, inasmuch as our terrorists dispensed even with the revolutionary tribunals ; they do not give themselves the trouble to disguise their assassinations by legal formalities. All that they desire is, to allay their thirst of blood. Every communero is a spy, an informer, and, if need be, an executioner. In the secret societies the victims are fixed upon_; and some of the members undertake •to execute them. One of these cannibals lately proposed to massacre in the prisons, by assault, all who were in confine- ment for their political opinions. The Inqui sition, in its worst and most terrific era, never showed such a disregard for the laws as do these modern Inquisitors. The requisition for •horses is enforced with the greatest activity in the different provinces : two hundred have been ,collected at La Mancha. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 14. [EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.] A treaty of commerce between Spain and England is more than ever talked of. I possess very, certain information on this subject. it is have upon, and particularly on the Southern pro vinces, which derive great advantages from their commercial relations with Spain ; but if the po licy of France is hostile towards us, can we hesi tate in such a negotiation, and will she have any right to reproach us, for giving advantages to a Power which refuses to unite itself to our . enemies ? ► The Spanish Ministers have entered into a new contract with a foreign 'house, for the supply of ' 70,000 muskets. In the mean time, the mann . facture of arms in the Peninsula is carried on with the greatest activity. The following decree has been officially pub lished : " The Extraordinary Cortes, after observing all the formalities prescribed by the Constitu tion, decree as follows : " 1. All Convents and Monasteries which are abandoned , or which are sit ua t e d 'i n pl aces , t h e popu l at i on of wh i ch does not exceed 450 inhabitants, are henceforth suppressed. The Government will distribute the monks and nuns of the sup pressed convents among those which are preserVed, and will apply the revenues to the maintenance of public credit, in conformity - with the provisions of antecedent decrees ;—it being well understood that the said revenues shall still remain sub-' , ject to the judicial, civil, and ecclesiastical charges previously imposed upon them. From this regulation, an exception is made with respect to the Monastery of San Lorenzo of' the Escurial, until the Cortes can have time to take into considera tion the means necessary for preserving that magnificent edifice, and the purpose to which it shall be destined for the advantage of the nation. " 2. The fourteen frontier places which are proposed to be declared hi a state of war, cannot receive the present occupants of the suppressed convents, though their population should be more than 450 inhabitants." Several of the richest 'London bankers have sent agents to Madrid,' with full powers to nego tiate the new loan of 40 millions of reals vellon opened by the Spanish Government: Sir R. Cox is among the number. These gentlemen express the greatest confidence in the affairs of the Penin sula, and in private society readily state, that before they left London with the view of engag ing in this negotiation, they took care to obtain positive assurances from the English Cabinet that they might undertake it with perfect safety, as far as regarded the hostile intervention or England ; as to war with the other Continental Powers, we in no way fear it. There is a report that General Morillo is about to be appointed to the command of. an army of reserve, which is to consist of 36,000 strong. From the moment this rumour began to circu late, every one, at least all those who thoroughly know the part Morillo played in the affair of the 7th of July, naturally asked—Can the Govern ment have changed in any degree the plan which it seemed and still seems to follow ? has yielded to foreign inflttence ? Or has it bee► found necessary to make concessions to the party which previously held the reins of the State These are the questions 'generally put, but to which no one knows how to reply. This, how ever, is not one of those rumours which circulate merely i❑ some political coteries. The persons from whom I have it are by their personal rank, their political situation, and their influence pos sessed of the means of obtaining accurate infor mation with regard to the intentions of the Go- vernment. They have communicated to me wi so much confidence, that I am far from regard ing it as an idle report. The disunion between the Ministerialists and the Zurriagoists becomes more and more manifest. The real authors of the Zurriago, Pizarro and Jonama, have just been exiled—the former to Ivica, and the latter to the Canaries, in virtue of a dictatorial authority which the Cortes has given to the Government in certain cases: Every one is astonished that such a statesman as Pizarro should become a supporter of anarchy. Some people believe that the Espectador does not re gret to see the Zurriago the instrument of the party contrary to the present Constitution, and which has designedly exaggerated the new prin ciples, in order to excite regret for the ancient order of things. This was the plan suggested by l3ardaxi, when he was Minister ; but it will be difficult to make these manoeuvres succeed.— The publication of an order for the exile of Ro mero Alpuente, whom it is determined to remove from Madrid, is every moment expected. The ' factious' have intercepted a courier dis patched from Madrid to MM. Ardoin and Hub bard, at Paris, and took from him his dispatches because they conlained some journals. BAYONNE, DEC. 17. The insurrection is dying away in all the pro vinces of Spain; the band of Zabala is extin guished ; nearly all the officers and sub-officers have taken refuge in France, all the couriers from Madrid, and every other point of the Penin sula now arrive without delay. The 20th is the term on which the armistice granted by General Torrijos expires : we learn that a great number of soldiers who were in the band of Carlos O'Donnell, having been recalled by their parents, have returned to their homes. O'Donnell, alarmed at this defection, has made loud demands for their being replaced. A Ge neral, named Laguna, who has been here for some days, it is said is to succeed O'Donnell. The arrival of the Regency of Urgel is an nounced here. Some wicked jesters say that they come this way in order to be nearer to Madrid. PORTUGAL. LISBON, DEC. 6. " We take no illusory view of things. Portugal must entirely follow the chance of Spain. She must conquer with her, or bury herself in the same tomb. Consequently, she is ready to unite armies, and to form a holy and sacred alliance, against which all efforts will fail. If the treaty of Alliance between these two Powers have not yet been signed, we must rather consider it as owing to the incapacity of the negociators, than a want of will on the part of the Governments. All is, however, terminated, and very soon the two nations will be only one. The Kings of Europe will shortly learn that the Spaniards and Portuguese have sworn to live and die together." —(Le Reptlateur.) LVII 11-/ 11 %X 111 LI 1 A• [FROM THE NEW YORK. DAILY ADVERTISER OF DEC. 161 By a note extracted from the Connecticut Jour nal, a paper published at New Haven, it appears that an association has been formed in that city to discountenance duelling, and as the first step towards the accomplishment of their object, they have offered a premium of of fifty dollars for the best farce which shall be produced with in a year from the 7th of November 1822, founded upon the facts which have accompanied the late duelling transactions at the South. 'We hope some dramatic genius will do justice to this sub ject. The works, when offered, are to be sub mitted to a respectable committee, who are to decide upon their comparative .merits. As the names of the Members of the Association are not published, the respectable Editor of the Journal guarantees the payment of the premium to the successful author. [FROM THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL] DIJELLING.--The Editor of this paper is au= thorised by a few gentlemen in this city, who have associated themselves to discountenance duelling, to offer a premium offifiy dollars for the best farce which shall be produced within one year from the 7th inst. founded upon certain facts which have recently occurred,, and are of uni versal notoriety—the money to be paid whenever the farce is accepted by a Committee of three dis interested persons appointed by the Association. The Editor of this paper, therefore, holds him self responsible for the above sum, to he paid in compliance with the above terms. We wish this Association had extended their plan, and proposed another memorial of this celebrated display of the individual courage and high sense of honour which have been conspicu ous throughout the controversy, especially in its later stages. It has been customary to present very distinguished public benefactors, such as great Generals, great Philanthropists, and others, and frequently those who, by the exercise of uncommon presence of mind and the disregard of personal danger, have saved the lives of their fellow-men when imminently exposed to destruction, with pieces, of plate, ornament ed with appropriate devices and figures, cal. culated to perpetuate the particular events and atchievements which gave rise to the compli mentary tribute. Thus, the old Congress voted a bronze equestrian statue to General WsIIING TON in commemoration of his services in the War of Independence. The Duke of . WELLINGTON has received rich services of plate from different Governments, us tokens of their gratitude for the success of his exertions in the deliverance of Europe from the ascendancy of BUONIPARTE and the Insurance Offices and individuals in this city, within a year past, gave silver cans to the Captain and crew of the ship John and Adam, if we recollect the name right, who cut out the survivers from the wreck of the Sea Fox. Now we propose, that two brass plates should be provided for the purpose we have in view, on which shall be inscibed, in the fairest lines, an historical account of the circumstances preceding, accompanying, and following, th e d ue l s th a t h a v e b een attempted and 'failed, and all fit and appropriate emblems of transactions among the votaries of honour. We would particularly suggest the propriety of dis playing in full colours the preparation of the Red Oak Bark Decoction, the use of Cologne Water, the Lutestring Shirt, and the bend of the body, with every twist and turn, calculated to lessen the chances of a mortal wound, &c. When finished, we would propose that the plates be publicly exhibited, before they are presented to the parties for whom they are de signed, in the cities of New York, Boston, Phila delphia, Baltimore, Washington, &c., and when the public curiosity has been sufficiently gratified, that a committee of elderly females be appointed at the seat of government, to present them, in the name of the Association, to the Champions of Honour. .We would also take tl►e liberty to suggest, that this celebrated dispute would form a very excellent subject for the extraordinary talents of the distinguished dramatist now performing in this city. We understand that such is his won derful versatility, that lie can exhibit not merely one, but a group of characters. Now, if he will collect the necessary materials, which can easily be obtained, and undertake to fight these gentle men's battles over again on the New York stage, when he performs alone, he Will draw larger audiences than ever attended the theatre on any other occasion. YELLOW FEVER.—(Extract of a letter from New Orleans, dated Nov. ‘2.)—" Since I wrote to you last the fever and black vomit have, if possible, raged with augmented violence, and have been more deadly in their effects, baffling the skill of the most eminent physicians ; whole families have been swept away in the course of a few days, and in several cases absolute visible mortification has taken place before life has been extinct ; such is the dreadful putrfying state of the air at this place. The atmosphere is one mass of infection. Still, notwithstanding this, you see no alarm, no apprehensions for the con sequences. As soon as the breath is out of the body of a person, he or she is placed in a ready made coffin, hurried off to the grave, and when covered, you hear nothing more. Death, in fact, has completely lost its terrors, and business is totally at a stand.—The fever continues in Pen sacola ; but as that place has lost nearly all its American population, there are but few subjects left. Some French and Spaniards have died, and their children, generally speaking, have fallen victims. The principal part of those who are preserved consist of those individuals who fled to the woods for safety." ROBBERY.—Tuesday night some villai❑ broke into the coach-house belonging to JOHN IGGUL-• DEN, Esq. of Bloomsbury-square, which is i❑ Three Cups-yard, Bedford-row, and stole the coachman's box coat and two valuable plate glasses from the carriage. Information being given to Charles Read, one of the Bow-street day patrol for that division, he succeeded yesterday in apprehending a man of the name of Williams, on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery, and who now remains in custody for examination. RIO JANEERO. ADDRESS OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF RIO TO THE PEOPLE AND TROOPS OF THE CITY. " The Senate of the Municipal Chamber make known to the people and troops of this city, that, foreseeing it was the una-, nimous will of all to proclaim his Royal Highness the Prince Regent Constitutional Emperor of. Brazil ; and believing it to be of importance that an act which all Brazil calls for should not be precipitated, so as to appear the act of a party; and that on this account, and on account of its important consequences, it should appear to all the world invested with the most solemn forms, as the unanimous will of all the people—the proper Au thorities are employed in the necessary arrangements, to make, on the 12th day of this present October the anniversary of tha Birth-day of his Royal Highness, not only in this capital but in the other cities of this province, a solemn proclamation of His Royal Highness as Emperor. nese are good reasons for believing that most of the contiguous provinces will pursue the same course on the same auspicious day. And as it is of great importance to the cause of Brazil, and in relation to the success with which the great work of her inde pendence is prosecuted, and will be striking and gratifying to the expecting people, that the Emperor should on the same day, the 12th of this month, he simultaneously and solemnly pro claimed in all, or nearly all the provinces, Coustitutional Em peror, the Senate request the people and troops of this city to suspend the transports of their enthusiasm until that clay ; and, at the same time, they invite all to be then ready to unite with them in rendering so important a proceeding solemn, great, and glorious." STATE of MANNERS in ENGLAND before 1678. ( From a MS. of Aubrey's in the Ashmole Library, Oxon.) Before the last civirwars, in gentlemen's houses, at Christmas, the first dish that was brought to the table was a boar's head, with a lemon in his mouth. At Queen's College, Oxon, they still re tain this custom ; the bearer of it into the hall singing to an old tune an old Latin rhyme, " Apri caput dejero f "&c. Heretofore, noblemen and gentlemen of fine estates, had their heralds,. who wore their coat of arms at Christmas, and other solemn times, and cried " Largesse" thrice. In days of yore Lords and Gentlemen lived in the country like petty Kings ; had jura regalia belonging to seignories ; had castles and boroughs ; had gallows within their liberties, where they could try, condemn, and execute ; never went to London but in Parliament time, or once a year to do their homage to the King. They always ate in their gothic halls, at the high table or orsille, (which is a little room at the tip per end of the hall, where a table stands), with the folks at the side table. The meat was served up by watch-words : jacks are but of late invention ; the poor boys did turn the spits, and licked the dripping for their pains. The beds of the men-servants and retainers were id the hall. In the hall muninting and loaf stealing, and other Christnias sports, were performed. The.hearth was commonly in the middle, whence the saying " Round about our coa► fire." In the jlalls and parlours of the great houses were written texts of Scripture, on painted cloths. The first dish that was brought up to table on Easter-day was a red herring riding away on horseback : i. e. a herring or dered by the cook, something after the likeness of a man on horseback set in a corn sallad. The custom of eating a gammon of bacon at Easter (which is still kept up in many parts of England), was founded on this, viz., to show their abhorrence of Judaism at that solemn commemoration of our Lord's resurrection. - t * MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENGLAND. Monday, December 30, LONDON. No. 458. COUNTRY. Nos. 97, 227, 246, 3601 437, 524, 558, 597, 643 ' 707, 710. Tuesday, -.31, LONDON. No. 316. COUNTRY. Nos. 68, 87, 130, 285, 3- 10, 477, 592, 640, 649, 668. Wednesday, Jan. 1, LONDON. Nos. 35, 75, 220. Qua. terly Communication. COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 95, 124,139, 146, 207, 229, 339, 465, 487, 491, 505, 513, 526, 529, 543, 581, 535, 656, 711. 713, 725. -2, LONDON. Nos. 2V34, 61, 122, 239, 277, 325. COUNTRY. Nos. 51113,115 ' 171,18 2, - 234, 416, 453, 466, 469, 506, 555, 561, 599, 627, 657, 670. -3, LONDON. Nos. 10, 210, 399, 409. COUNTRY. Nos. 13, 30, ;,5,.58, 470, 538. -4, LONDON. No. 173. COUNTRY. * * * IRELAND. Wednesday, Jan. 1, Coax. Nos. 1, 41. Friday, ____ 3, CORK. • No. 3. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, ST. STEPHEN.—HoIiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Houses. PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, DEC. 26, French Russian Neapolitan Austrian Spanish Prussian Danish Chili Colombian AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Five per Cents. 89. . {Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) , 00. Ditto New 821. (" Five per Cent. Bonds, 76:1. 1 Scrip, 77g. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00 {Five per Cent. Bonds, 60. New Ditto, 541. Scrip, 104 disc. f Five per Cent. Bonds, 851. 1 Ditto New, 86. Five per Cent. Bonds, 91. 72. {Old Bonds, 00. Six per Cent. Bonds, 6S. Ditto Scrip, 00. New Loan, 78. (Bank Shares £2l 10a. j Six per Cent. 92-93. ) Five per Cent. 96:. kThree per Cent. 70:3. Peruvian American HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 40 minutes after 0. Evening, 6 minutes after 1. THE SETN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, , THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1822. Before the Reformation, there were no poor-rates ; charitable doles given at the religious houses, and the church ale in every parish did the business. In every parish there was a church house, to which belonged spits, pots, &c, for dressing provision. Here the house-keepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people came there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c.— ➢lr. A. Wood assures.me there were few or no almshouses be. fore the time of Henry VIII. That at Oxon, opposite Christ, church, was one of the most ancient in England. In every church there was a poor's-box ; and the like al great inns. The lawyers say that, before the time of Henry VIM, on e shall hardly find :In action on the case, as for slander, &c., once a year, (plod nota. At the parish priests' houses in France, especially in Lan guedoc, the table cloths were on the board all day long, and ready for what was in the house to be put thereon for strangers, travellers, friars, pilgrims, so it was here I have heard my grandfather say in his grandfather's time. A neat built chapel and a spacious hail were all the rooms of note, the rest were small. At Tomarton, in Gloucester shire, anciently the seat of the Itivers's, is a dungeon thirteen or fourteen feet deep : about four feet high are iron rings fas tened in the wall, which were probably to tie offending villans to ; and all lords of manors had this power over their villans (or socage tenants), and had all of them no doubt such places for punishment. It is well known all castles had dungeons, and I believe so had monasteries, for they had often within themselves pOwer of life and death. Every baron and gentleman of estate kept horses for men at-arms. Some had their armories sufficient to furnish out some hundreds of men. The halls of the Justice of peace were dread ful to behold : the skreen was garnished with corslets and hel mets, gaping with open mouths, with coats of mail, l ances , pikes, halberts, b r o w n bill s , an d bucklers. Public inns were rare, travellers were entertained at religious houses for three days together if occasion served. The meet ings of the gentry were not at taverns, but in the fields or forests, with their hawks and hounds, and their bugle-horns in silken bawderies. In the last age, every gentleman-like man kept a sparrow hawke, and a priest kept a hobby, as Dame Julien Barnes teaches us (who wrote a book of sports in Henry the Seventh's time.) It was a diversion for young gentleman to man sparrow hawkes and morlines. Before the feast; or wake, of the dedication of a church, they sat all night fasting and praying, viz. at the,eve of the wake. In Easter holid a ys w as th e c l er k' s a l e f or hisfloenefit, and the solace of the neighbourhood. In these times, besides the jollities mentioned, they had their pilgrimages to several shrines, as to Walsingham, Canterbury, Glastonbury, Bromholm, &c. Then the Crusaders to the Holy Wars were magnificent, and gave rise to the adventures of I knights errant and romances. The solemnity attending pro cessions in end about Churches, and the perambulations in the fields, were great diversions also of those times. Glass windows in churches and gentlemen's houses were rare before the time of Henry VIII. In my own remembrance, be fore the civil wars, copyholders anti poor people had none. In Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Salop, it is so still. About 90 years ago the gentlemen' s an d noblemen's coats were of the fashion of the beadles and yeoman of the guard, (i. e. gathered at the middle). The Benchers in the-Inns of Court still retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. Captain Silas Taylor says " that, in the days of yore, when a church was to be built, they wa t c h e d an d p ra y e d on ie vigil of the dedication ; and took that part of the horizon when the sun arose for the east ; which makes that variation so that few stand true except those built between the Equinoxes." Mr. Dugdale told me that, about Henry the Third's time, the Pope gave a bull, or patent, to a company of Italian archi tects, to travel up and down Europe to b u ild c h urc h es . The use of your humble servant first came into England in the time of Queen Mary, daughter of Henry the Fourth of France, which is derived from " Votre tres humble serveteur." The usual salutation before that time was GOD keep you, GOD Le with you ; and among the vulgar, How d'ye do, with a hearty thump on the shoulder. Till this time the Court itself was unpolished and unmanner ed. King James's Court was so far from being civil to women, that the ladies, nay, the Queen herself, could hardly pass by the King's apartment without receiving some affront. [PROM A CORRESPONDENT.] STOCK EXCHANGE, Half-past Twelve o'clock.-- This day is a holiday at the Bank, but the Stock Exchange is' open Consols opened this morning at 80, sellers, but afterwards were done at 80 to -1. Four Expresses arrived from Paris early in the morning with the French Payers and Private Letters of Tuesday afternoon, six o'clock. The French Funds left off on that day at 80f. 30c. Spanish 55, but were done at 56. The private letters from Paris continue pacific.— The article from Toulouse in the French Papers corresponds with the private information received this morning from the above Capital. FRENCH FuNns.---New Spanish opened this morning at 54, but got up again to 54k, after it was known that nothing of a decisive nature on War had arrived from Paris. The fall of the French Funds is owing to Stock Jobbing specu lations at Paris. The fact stated in the news from Bayonne, :hat all the Couriers from Madrid and other parts of the Peninsula now arrive in regular course, without interruptions or delay, proves mere forcibly than any thing else could do the contemptible condition to which the Spanish in surrection is at length reduced, notwithstanding the pompous details which some of the Journals have endeavoured to represent the Royalists as still possessed of c ons id era bl e force. Previous to the successful operations of MINA, the com munications were frequently im7eded by the Army of the Faith ; and the facility, therefore, with which Couriers now traverse Spain in all directions, affords conclusive evidence that the triumph of the Constitutionalists is nearly com pleted. The Treaty of Alliance which they have negociated with Portugal involves the latter Kingdom in all the consequences of a hostile• at tack upon Spain, and increases the perils of t he enterprise, if evil Councils should still prevail in the French Cabinet. The Cons/du/tonne, o ne of the best informed Journals on the Continent, affirms, on official authority, that the Treaty of Alliance, offensive and defensive, between Spain and Portugal, has been signed and ratified. The Constitutionnel treats all the fluctuations of the public funds as the effects of mere stock-jobbing manoeuvres, for laying the credulous under con' tribution, and says that " the spirit of our (the French) institutions,—the true interests of France —the wisdom of the throne,—the silence of the Congress of Verona,—the attitude of England,-"" the moderation of the Spanish Government, —are circumstances which to all reasonable men are so many guarantees of a peace which can cause none to despair but the enemies of constitutiona l Monarchy." 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