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st: CIIINESE E‘IBAsSY. (From the liadra.s. Coar'er of Nlay 20, and there extracted frum the Penang Gaz.ette of March 22.) C II I N A. CF.REI\IONY OF DELIVERING TILE EMPEROR'S LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY TDB BRITISH AMBASSADOR. An Imperial Edict was issued on the 15th day of the 7th Aloon of the 21st year of Kia King (6th Sept. 1816), addressed to the high authori ties at Canton ; : in which, amongst other political natters, they were directed to have an interview with the British Ambassador ; and the 7th of Ja nuary, 1817, was appointed for this occasion. About noon, an intimation being made to his Excellency that the Vicernt awaited his person in the imperial Hall, he repaired there, accompa nied by the Commissioners (Sir George Staunton and Mr. Ellis), and the gentlemen of his Staff, together with such others as were induced by re sp( ct or cut iosity to join his train. His Lordship was preceded by the guard, with colours flying, and the band playing a march. On reaching the step of the Imperial hall, the guard formed in two •lilies, through which his Lordship and suite passed' into time presence of the repre sentative of the Imperial dignity. The Viceroy at!vanced - a. step or two, and presented a letter from time Emperor to the Prince Regent, enclosed in a bamboo about four feet long, covered with cloth of the Imperial yellow. The Viceroy in giv ing the letter held it higher ban his head, and Lomdship'received it inlike manner, and then handed it •to his private secretary,' raised his hat, a nd bowed slightly to the Viceroy. After• this Lem entony, his Lordship, accotnpa niud by the Viceroy, proceeded to another apart ment, where the seat of honour was yielded to his Lordship opposite to the Viceroy, who sat on the right. Sir G. Staunton and Mr. Ellis were placed on his Lomdship's left, so as to face the Poo-Int:lr and iloppo : no one else was seated. Time following we believe to be a correct report of the conversation which took place : Viceroy.—When did you leave England ? Ambassador.—ln the Ist moon of the present year. Viceroy.—How far is it to England? Aulhassador.—About 50,000 lys. Viceroy.—You have had a great deal of trouble. Ainbassador.—We were perfectly satisfied with the con- duct of the Legate. Viceroy.—l hope you enjoyed your health on your journey The Ambasiador replied in the affirmative. Viceroy.—l beg. to know your age;—and repeated the ques- tion to each of the Commissioners The ambassador asked a similar question of the Viceroy, of Cie Fuo-yuen, and of the Iroppo, Vieeroy.—You have traded. here, through the favour of the Emperor, upwards of an hundred years. Ambassador —That trade has, no doubt, been equally to the ;ivantage of both nations. Vieuroy.—Yon de rend upon tra•?e ; we do not. Am;)assador.—We depend no more upon trade than this country. China derive 3 as much benefit as England from the commerce of Canton. Viceroy.—Well, let us converse upon subjects mutually agr,..ca!)le. The peopk ut :Al countries stand in need of trade. 'fl Emperor has remitted the duties upon the cargo o the tril.inte ship. [Hon. Company's own ship General Hewitt, Capt. Walter Campbell.) .Ambassador.—So I have been already informed. Viceroy.—l hope our nations will long continue in liar- Amhavidor.—Such is my earnest wish. I know it also to be the d't s u•e of my SovereiBn. dui ing the short eonversation, refreshments were °tiered, consisting of a sort of milk tea (used only on occasions of great ceremony), some almond soup, and lastly, tea. On the Ambassador's rising, the Viceroy drew his attention to the feast which was laid out in the opposite apartment, saying, that it was a present from his Imperial Majesty. His Lordship requested the Emperor might be .:banked for it ; and then walked back to a brisk tnn4:, and was soon afterwards followed by the 3n:perial feast, which consisted chiefly of fruits amt •ix‘ectmeats. i 4 remarkable, whatever be the cause, that the Viceroy did not go through the ceremony of taking leave. It may be considered that, after this hasty sketch, something should be said of the Viceroy's deportment on this important occasion. To those acqnainied with his character, it will be unneces sary to say any thing of - his appearance, further titan to state, that it fully answered the expecta tions excited by public reports ; and though this too freyiently leans to the erring side in relating the dark qualities of men, it letti not, in this instance we believe, done him moe in justice. There was a mixture of timidity and ferocity in his countenance, which gave it mull interest ; his eye was piercing and insolent, and his look, though sullen, had an air of high command in it. It was evident that the presence of an equal was not to him an ordinary occurrence ; there seemed a powerful internal struggle between his naturd disposition, and . his sense of duty and pro priety ; a desire to preserve his wonted character in the eyes of the Public, and yet to avoid insult itie the thitish Ambassador. It was some time brfore he gained the confidence of manner which w e look for in men of his rank : whether this pro ceedied trout the awe inspired by the presence of the British Ambassador, the thrilling sounds of martial oitisie, or the brilliancy of polished bayonets, it is difficult to say, but it is certain he seemed ill at ease. The other two Mandarines, wbo accompanied the Viceroy, were oldar men than himself; they were all clothed in dark for pelisses, and wore the honuct. The crowd of inferior• mando lines, soldiers, and followers, was very great. A Hunker of miserable men appeared in this group, whose singular ferocity of mien, and untoward costume, were very striking. INtauEsT.—Last night, an Inquest was held at the. Bine Last, Broadway, Blackfriars, on the body ot William Thomas, a person whose singu larity of dress was greatly noticed, and a shoe black • for many years at the bottom of Hughes's coin t, Water-lane, when it - appeared, that the de ceaed lodged at a house belonging to Mr. Juler, Highland-yard : on Saturdaylast,,abont 2 o'clock, be tent home, complaining of being ill, and on nmday, about the same hour, be was found dead in bed.----" Died by the visitation of God." CONSPIRACY AT LISBON. (CoUtinued from our Paper of yesterday.) It appears, as tar as concerns the accused Ma nuel Monteiro de Car valho, that he confesses to the last charge, and deposes on oath as far as re spected the third in his replies to the first tines t :oas of the Appendix'No. 12, to the existence of the society, his knowledge of it, and his being as sociated widi it by being introduced into it by Ensign Jose Ribeiro Pinto ; t hat the society be ean about the end of February iti the present year, and that the said Ribeiro was the person who in conviqsatiou disclosed to him the plat) about the subversion of the Government ; th a t the accuse d joined it without taking an oath, and only by giving his word of honour, the principal author of the plan being the said Ribeiro Pinto ; that Francisco Antonio (le Sousa was one of the asso ciates, being invited by the said accused, likewise wifbout an oath. nijor Jose Francisco das Nives associated likewise by the said Riheiro Pinto, without any formula, Jose Join - faint Pinto da Sil va, invited by Itibeiro Pinto, Henty Jose Garcia associated by the same accused, and by the said Jose Ribeiro Pinto, who gave the use of the house which he possessed in Sr. Binto to the meeting of his associates, and for the printing press : being certain that they conducted their operations in the same house, and that there likewise was as sociated JoseCampello, and an individwal Manuel invited by Jose Ribeiro Pinto, who took the oath, the said accused being present, together with said Ribeiro Pinto, Major .Nives, the said Ribeiro Pinto being president, and Henry Jose Garcia, master of the house, being secretary; .that like wise there were initiated Antonio Cabral Cal helms, and another, the former sent as a com missioner to Santarem, and the latter to the pro vince of Beira, who received in the library of Francisco Antonio da Sousa, architect, at two different nights, their .confidential instructions, tablets, and other papers, the following persons being present at the delivery of them ; namely, the accused, the master of the house, Jose Ribeiro Pinto, who brought them along with him, from whose hand they passed into that of the accused ; that there was no President of the society ; and that the denmeination of the Regenerating Council was a fiction, Jose Ribeiro Pinto being the author of all the papers which were the ground h of the accusation ; that the said architect agreed with the accused that the delivery of the credentials should take place at his house, because it was better than that of the accused ; that the Regenerating Coun cil never existed except in the imagination of the, said Jose Ribeiro Pinto; that the plan-was to surprise the Governors of the kingdom and the Marshal-General, and on the following morning part of the troops being scattered, and part unit ed, would call for a General, who should name a Provisioaal Government to prevent disorders, which Government should administer public af fairs till the convocation of the Cortes, by which should be elected a constitutional King ; that the General meant was Gomez Freire ; that the press should be arranged by the said Antonio Cabral and Joe Ribeiro Pinto; and that in the house of henry Jose Garcia, in the street of St. Benedict, should be printed 180 or 280 procla mations. In his replies to the second interroga tories he declared, that Ribeiro Pinto was not the first who notified to him the society, but Joaquin] Pinto da Silva first, then Campello, and, thirdly, the said Ribeiro Pinto; that the first interview which he had with Pinto da Silva took place in January of this year, the accused then being in disposed ; the said accused denied that he spoke first to the two persons Pinto and Campello, but that they, as he formerly said, mentioned the as sociation first to him, and took him to it ; be al lowed that lie communicated to Lieutenant-Gene ral Gomez Freire the. plan for the change of the Government, and mentioned the society formed with that object ; to which the General replied, j that prudence and mature deliberation would be necessary ; that he did not offer himself for that purpose ; that lie introduced to the said General Gomez Freire, after Easter of - this year, Major Jose Francisco des Nives and the said Ribeiro Pinto as associates; that the latter read in the pre sence of them all, a Proclamation which be brought along with him, and which was afterwards print ed with some alterations, the said General Gomez Freire giving it his approbation, particularly in what related to the Marshal-General (Beresford), in respect to whom be said any machination was justifiable, as he was a despot who arrogated the power of contending with the Government ; that lie communicated to the said Gomez Freire the mission of the two emissaries to Santarem, and the province of Beira, who replied to the ac cused that the mission with such papers was bazar- - dous, if confidence could not be placed in the par ties tnteasted with them. In the replies of the accus— ed to the 51 set of interrogatories, he declared that he bad invited Pedro Ricardo de Figuriro, who did not take the oath, but that he was cog nizant of the greatest part, it not the whole of the papers of the association; that the meeting foracotiver sation took place in the Promenade, the Itocio, and other public place:, and that the house for the reception of the associates was that of Garcia, in the street of St. Benedict ; that the printing press before being carried to this house was in that of the accused for two days and a night, being ordered there by . Jose Ribeiro Pinto. In his answers to the fourth set of interrogatories, he declared that Gomez Friere was acquainted with the whole conspiracy, but that he had not him self joined it ; in this be agreed with Francisco das Nives in being confronted with him, but was contradicted by Antonio Cabral in saying that the Regenerating Council was chimerical, and that the enumeration of the persons pointed out by the said Cabral was false. He ultimately declared, in his replies to the fifth interrogatory, th a t b es id es the associates already mentioned by him, there was an officer of the flying artillery introduced by Pinto da Silva, and that he had been defective in his answers on the first interrogatory' in not de claring that on the occasion in which Manuel Ig nacio de Figiwiredo was introduced, Maximiano was likewise introduced, being invited by the ac cused, to whom he explained the object of the society, to which the latter entirely lent Himself, °Wet ing forthwith four moidores, which were not received; that tile state of despair in which the ' accused was suffering for want of the means of subsistence as an officer discharged by the des potism of the Marshal-General, while 31 months' pay were due to him, and he was borne down by a wife and family, gave him power to conceive projects against the author of so great evils, and , that the architect and Pedro Ricardo were scarcely privy to the society. It appears that, as to the accused Gomez Freire de Andrade, he confesses and declares on oath, in his replies to the questions which form the ap pendix No. 15 (in which replies there are contra dictions and inconsistencies), that he knew Col. Manuel Monteiro de Carvalbo, with whom he was on visiting habits without any particular in timacy, and that they conversed together on affairs, and against the English ; that he knew Ribeiro Pinto, Antonio de Sousa, and Baron Eben intimately : that he was entirely unacquaint ed with the existence of the conspiracy, although he allowed that he was a freemason ; that he had no knowledge of any papers ; that he avoided appearing in public in military uniform, because he was afraid that some soldier might cry out, •` There goes our General." He goes On to reply to the second interrogatory, that he was visited in April last by Colonel Monteiro, who introduced to him Major Francisco das Nives, and Ensign Ribeiro Pinto, whom be received into his private cabinet ; that Ribeiro Pinto came a second time to his house, and that Colonel Monteiro and the said Ribeiro Pinto came to him to talk of the plans which the accused had in his house, as likewise of a tnantisclipt proclamation which the said Ri beiro Pinto brought with him on ()need . the days of April. They then spoke of the misfortunes of their country, saying, that there were good Por tuguese, that they endeavoured to prevent the ruin of Portugal, and represented to the accused the favourable opportunity ; to which the latter replied, that the affair was difficult, attended with much risk, and required mature deliberation, but soon afterwards requested to know to the' bottom the project they had in view for the ac cused, provided a sudden explosion took place, and provided his popularity could give it a useful direction, to preserve the kingdom to the Sove reign, to prevent anarchy, and to save his coun try ; that be knew other coy spirators against the Royal authority ails' the public tranquillity, 118111- ' ing the Marshal-General (Beresford), because he had before him a protest which he made against his Majesty, with the proofs of it ; that till now he had not declared what had been said to him on ' that subject, perhaps from too much delicacy and humanity, seeing that the accused were arrested, and could not do any mischief; that he had not denounced them, because - , having countenanced their projects, to learn more certainly'the number awl qindity of the persons Who supported them, and by that means expecting to get better infor mation from them, as they were the only persons who spoke with him upon the subject ; that Baron Men knew nothing, as t lie accused believes ; and that the proclamation - entre in' a printed form into the hands of Colonel Monteiro, who was in ig norance of who printed it ; that he knew of no plan agreed upon till the day of his apprehension; nor had the accused given it for the purpose Of exciting an insurrection, or popular tumult ; but that the conspirators went on making the neces sary arrangements, Ribeiro Pinto undertaking to proceed into the provinces, and there to take the proper steps to promote the proposed insurrection; that the accused is ignorant of the Regenerating Council, but that he suspects that the root of the whole proceeds front the Spanish Liberates, on account of having seen and observed many revo lutions in Spain. On the third interrogatory the accused replied, that Colonel Monteiro, after the day in which he came to his house along with Major Nives and Ribeiro Pinto, to invite him to take part in the rebellion, assured him that the Commandant of the 16th regiment of infantry called upon hint to ask him his motive for his de lay in the city; that the printed proclamation was the same, he believed, which had been shown him by Ribeiro in manuscript ; that he saw the parchment which Colonel Monteiro presented with the appended seal and riband which was to be the sign, and that he disapproved of the words vengeance and union ; that as to the plans which he allowed he sawn in his house, he now declares, that he never afterwards saw these plans ; that they referred to a project for a general revolt of the nation, and for inviting the accused to parti cipate, who had seen no partisan, nor any instruc tions for a constitution, nor any - arrangement of the society relative to the said plan ; for when • Col. Monteiro requested to appear on the event of the explosiou to give his orders, the accused re plied, that his appearance was not necessary, that the confederates should come to look for him at his house and quicken his motions ; for that such dispositions were like those of a battle, which, although concerted with as much skill as possible, might tail in the execution. That the accused thus remained ignorant of the day and the hour of explosion, although he believed that it might . be very near; that stich — wgi . his impression, several times in the night, hearing a noise, he started, thinking of the event ; because he was doubtful whether the conspirators had come to call him, every thin being ready and they wanting nothing else but the presence of the accused. That Colonel Mouteiro was the first person who spoke to the accused about the conspiracy in the be ginning of April last. That the 'above named conspirators spoke to him on the same subject on the Gth of that month, and that Colonel Monteiro was the channel of communication between the accused and the society ; that the project of the accused was to appear if the explosion broke out, and if the associates came to invite hint to join them, and that lie expected success through the absence of the Marshal-General, who was said to be going away on the Gilt of April; that in this case the accused expected by means of his popu larity, if he combated at the head of an armed force, and thus succeeded in bringing about some political arrangements, to see himself in a situa tion to convoke the Bishops, the Grandees of the kingdom, and the - Nobility, to compose thus a kind of Junta of the three States to regulate the affairs of the nation, provided the existing Go vernment were annihilated by the conspirators, and then afterwards to give his Majesty the bene fit of this success ; baiting meditated also for pre the proposing of venting anarchy, a Council created provisionally, in which there should be deputies from every one of the provinces ; that, by this form, partial Juntas might be prevent ed, as dangerous to good government ; but that the Matshal General ha'ving delayed, and it be ing impossible to obtain - with promptitude the accession of a force necessary to accomplish the premeditated explosion, the conspirators had communicated to the accused that it would be necessary to seize on all the civil and mili tary authorities of the State, to which the-ac cused assented, as he did to all their other pro posals, that he might gain a inure complete know ledge of their projects; and supposing the said captures had been made, and the tumult which they were promoting had taken place in this se cond case, the accused would have come forward • to make the same arrangements for the organiza' tion of the kingdom as in the first. Being asked if it would not have been more easy to free the Governors and the constituted Authorities of the kingdom front chains and malevolent projects, than to establish a new Government at his own arbitrary pleasure, he replied, that on that point he hod to consult circumstances and the national temper. If the people, on account of their dis.. contents, should reject the continuation of the existing Government, the project of creating.a not Junta was necessarily to be executed ; if the pet)• ple should insist on the continuation of the Go vernment, and should not oppose this measure, the accused would then be obliged to re-establish it on its fornier footing ; that in that case, his conscience told him it would be no crime to over. torn the Government, as he thought it titould be the only means of calming the popular tumult; that he committed no violence in entering into this piao ; that he never communicated it; that he invited no person to support it ; and that . tra never obtained any certain knowledge as to who .were the Conspirators, except Colonel Nlonteiro, Mai ,r Nives, and Robeiro Pluto, nod that he only presumed upon the Architect's being one his being the friend of Monteiro. In his r,,-phoi to the fourth interrogatories he said, that BaroO ..Eben communicated to him in his own house the receipt of an anonymous letter, which had come to him by post, containing a seditious Proclama' lion ; brit not appearing. to be cautious with it, he advised hint to show it to nobody, and to . burnit, because if he did not it might be thought critni , sal : that the said Baron Ebert showed him no other paper, and only spoke to him in invectives. which appeared to him to be derived frotnalne Conspiratios ; that the Accused is a Freemason, and holds the chief honoars in his Lodge ; that tha principal members of- that society are in Bra Zit.. He. declared finally, in the replies to the fifth ire terrogatory, that Baron Ebeo asked if there wai reatly a society of Conspirators, and that he, the Accused, denied to the said Baron that there was, It appears on the examination of Henrique Jose Garcia de Moraes, to be found in No. 22 of the Appendix, that he was a Sergeant in the 4th Re' giment of Infantry, and that be was initiated into the Society by Colonel Monteiro, whose house he frequented, and whom he often heard declaitnin i l against the want of pay which the army expel.? enced, the expellees incurred by a too nwtteroui staff upheld by the General-in-Chief, whose enar mous pay would be sufficient to support 411 the retired officers, and to defray other indispensalAe charges. To remedy such evils, which were so pernicious to the nation, and weighed so hcavl ou all classes, some interference of Providence was necessary, and such interference alone couliJ rescue the people from their sufferings and dis' grace. The cause of all these evils was the Mar' shal-General. After preparing him by such re' presentations to join in a plan of relief, the Colo' nel disclosed to hint the Conspiracy, and invite 4 him to join in it. The Accused then deposed_ to facts stated in the course of the other examine' Cons. (To be continued.) Monday night a post chaise was stopped ogl Sydenham Common by a single high wavinatt , well mounted, who robbed a gentleman in the coach of about 30s. but refused taking any moue from two ladies who accompanied him, saying !t$ never robbed the fair sex. As Mr. RiOard Peck, of Aidgate, was witnese ing a fight in Stepney-fields, on Sunday morning last, he hail his pocket picked of a hunting wate4 and appendages, as well as a two-pound note atri some silver: COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Tt•EsHAY, Nov. 4. Amsterdam • 37 8 B. 2 1.5 1 " Ditto, at Sight Anistei dam Ditto, at Sight ll 8 Rotterdam Antwerp • 11 12.Ex.Montf Hamburgh 34 10 24114. Altona , ..... Paris, 3 Day's date Ditto Bourdeaux; ditto Frankfort on the Main Madrid Cadiz Seville 374 Ellectii ° 37 Bilboa 37i Giliraltar 32 Leghorn Genoa... 46 ; 1—Venice .. .. 27 Malta... ..47 —Naples—. 42 Palermo Lisbon Oporto .... Rio Janeiro Dnb1in.........84..... C0rk..... 84 per Cont. Agin (lithe Bank on n0i1an4.1.... 2 per Cent. Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.4 0 0 per 0 1 ' Foreign Gold, in Bars 4 0 0 New Dollars Silver, in Bars _,o, BIR'T'HS, On Thursday, the 30th October, at Palienham Hall, Ire: land, the Countess of Longford was safely delivered of a se' and heir. Yesterday morning, the lady of John Adams, Esq. of GOO James-street, Bedford-row, of a son. MARRIED. 4 , Yesterday, at Gr eenw i c h, Li e ut e nant J o h n Whit e , R.' to Miss Smith, daughter of Richard Smith, Esq. On Tuesday, the 28th of October last, at the British 10r. bassador's Chapel, at Park, Thomas` - W,i Warn Dickinson, 0 1 7: to Lucy Anne, only daughter of the late Henry Tonge, Est of Devonshire-street, Portland-place: s -•••' - DIED. On the 29th ult. at Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, Maj General Hadden, of the Royal Artillery. LONDON: Printed by J. 13, CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Gr. 4 Ormond-street, Queen-square; and published by Wm, / SCRIPPS, of No. 7, S o uth M o lt e n-street, at TUB S',;„ Oilier, N. 12, Strand; where • Advcrt isetnents, I4tters, &c..':(Nost-paid) must be addressed. - • F 7 I hIAD That °ll WE VClodi t ~~a►''pa 1)1 ~'' t ~~ t rk:lt~ That ITOci TwL 4tiary., Arid twtt "'edzlt ~~ 4. )t.in 4) -M ik 1 C; 4 4 s "flew 1 4,ure flit B i7C K m . tl tb iii t • • I•latIc tl ;il tt t 1 10 gud i'Vo Atd , • Prin 'llldu 1. T. P s t. , I t I ;td (31 'rite; t, l'ri~ "Wick Af PI