The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-07 00:00:00

~~._~~, TiriE LONDON PRESS. THE DUTCH WAR. On Friday, the first blood was shed in Lord Grey's atrocious Dutch war. Happily it was the blood of the aggressors—of Frenchmen—of our allies—if the TimeB and Globe please to remind us of our shameful connec tion; happily none of the gallant Dutch have yet suffered. At day-break on Friday morning the citadel of Antwerp was summoned to surrender—General Chasse answered by a notification, that if the French presumed to continue the prosecution of their hostile works after the noon of that day, he would fire upon their working parties. His notice was disregarded, and with strict punctuality, at twelve o'clock, a- single discharge of grape shot. swept away a small detachment of our worthy allies, engaged in the task of preparing batteries against the citadel., 'ThiS kind. of admonition was repeated through* day,, as 'often as our allies shOwed themselveS in the trenches. It .does not appear how far the French . have 'answered the fire of the citadel, and as Chasse!s, fire • was directed to -meet a-particular object, of but occasional occurrence, it iwas - extreinely slack.' Tlie Dutch hake succeeded in in undating a great part of the adjacent country, and frcm :the course. affairs are taking,_ it is,plaintliat nothing but an Orargeist insurrection in Brussels, which is not impro bable, or a retractation of the insane-policy of 'England, of which there is less hope, can save the city and" ni4ig-h -bOurhood of AntWerp froth utter desolation. Tlie,Fiench had begun:to ledge them'selves in the city, from which they must be expelled by. a bombardment, and every, day Was•addiug , ta the extent of champaign country laid under water. It is indeed manifest that if France gains, the citadel, she at the expense of a kingdom's 'ransom, to the Belgi ans and to herself—to,say nothing caf English.loSses and cost, and there is even ground to hope that all this monstrous sacrifice will not ensure the purchase. We say to hope, and we say it with a full re- Collection that the expression of such a hope has been called by the Times high treason, and by the Globe a proof of " wanting a national spirit." As to the "treason" blockhead, we need say nothing more to him, thus. con victed of ignorance in the commodity which has, for - so tnany years, been the staple of his trade; but we must say a word of remonstrance to the Globe. We pray our respectable contemporary to say in what, if not in na tional interest and national honour, can national spirit sympathise ? And having answered this question, as our contemporary must, by saying that, by national interest alone, and national honour, is the patriotic spirit of a nation properly engaged, wO would again request our contemporary to say in what respect are the interests or honour of England concerned in the success of the attack upon the King of the Netherlands ? But then the glod-v Of conquest—could we wish to rob. England of that ? The glory of conquest! ! The glory of conquest, where sixty millions make war upon two millions—the glory of conquest, in a struggle to which the war terminated - by the destruction of lie armada was a game of complete equality. Oh, no; these are the wars in which the event can never determine the meed of glory—that is awarded at the commencement: all the glory to the devoted regis ters- of oppression7---infamy to the powerful aggressors, greater or less in proportion to their success and their perseverance in crime. The direction of a national spirit of patriotism in England, therefore, must now h.: to hope, by whatever means it can be brought about, that the harvest of disgrace to which Lord Grey has intro duced us may be the lightest possible and of the short est dur,ation.—Standard. Ina popular assembly a minister has a difficult part to play. It often happens, that in. defending himself against the attacks of one - party, he lays himself open to the at tacks olanother: Thus, for instance, M. Thiers latljust before been dwelling on the difficulty which; after the revolution of JUly, the French government had 'had in inspiring foreign governments wiih confidence. "They dreaded . (he' says) lest France should give way to the love of conquests, and the disorders of anarchy. Appre hensione were entertained lest the French revolution should become an .universal convulsion. - What was the duty of the government ? It was bound to prove to fo reign powers that it would conduct itself like a ,regular government ; that is to say, that it was not fermented with the love of conquests, and that it would recognise existing treaties, instead of tearing them asunder, as it was wished it should be driven to db." But immediately after this argument to justify the inactivity of Fr ance , comes another to justify the government against those who contended that the interests of France had not been attended to in the case of Belgium. Here M. Thiers an swers, " France had• beside tier a kingdom which was alWays in a state of hostility, a kingdom which, in all pericds, hadbeen organized to arrest her ambition." Well, then, without war, by the eject of her negotiations alone, this hostile:.kingdcm has been broken ; in place al this hostile limit', atriendly kingdom has been created, [de nials-at the extremities.] Yes, a friendly kingdom has been created, by her and, or her, without having recourse to the means of arms. i ask, if ever, at any period, such results were obtained by negotiations ? I ask if ever there has been seen the breaking up of a kingdom, and the creating.. out of it another kingdom e without war; and if it can be said, that a nation which obtains such- oSultSby its diplomacy is a nation humiliated, and with out influence in Europe,? (Agitation ?) 'This chuckling over the triumph of Fren c h dipl omacy , -in haVing succeeded in breaking up a kingdom always opposed to French ambition, and erecting out of that kingdom- another kingdom friendly -to, France; is not likely to prove very gratifying to the allies of France, nor very tranquillising with -regard, to suspicions: of French ambition: "It.has been said," adds M. Thiers, " that the nego tiations would terminate in war, as the powers were in terested in preventing the division of the kingdom of the N,etherlands. We have continued the negotiations till the moment in which we could make them bear their last fruit ;..but.then came a moment in which we could no longer consent to the uncertainty of Belgium, and the uncertainty of our position in front of this new kingdom ; and,,,therefore, from that time we have claimed the exe cution of the, treaty, and we, have claimed it, with force, and with the disposition to obtain_ it."—Morning Chro nicle. It will be.seen, from our report, of the county meeting at Hertford, which appears in another column, that Lord nacre,. aided by several .partisans of the present govern ment, succeeded in defeating a resolution against the Ditch war. • Never was a question . argued` more distinctly upon party , grounds than the question of peace or war .vas ar gued, upon thiS occasion, by his lordship and th e , speakers who followed him on the same side. If the proposition had been, "Will - you prefer a Tory to a Whig; will you turn out a referming., administration, or will you rein state your Old'adversaries in power ?" the arguments ad duced by the noble. , Mover of - the amendment, and his friends, could not have been more plainly directed• to those topics than they . were upon the very different pro position of interfering ,to prevent hostilities against holland. Theinanceuvre answ_erelthe,purpose4br .vilvichit was resorte d to. The old prejudice of Whig and Tory, the recent conflicts .of reformer - and-anti-refOrmer, were all pressed into the service. o f „ A m ster Jo 5 y, their adherents; and the deCiion of the meet ing' - WaS rn corißiMity with their . recommendation , that, because of considerations which had nothing to do with the matter, it was es.pedient to leave Holland to its fate, and the ministers to fair career of aggression and war. But, though this resuit may be fairfir enough appealed to as a proof" of the strength of Whig influence in the county, it will scarcely lzta regarded as a set-off against the great city meet-i2g, Where commercial and pratical' men of all parties carried a resolution similar to that which was lost Hertford shire. There still remains the opinion of Parliament, and of the nation, and a little time will show whether the approbation vouchsafed. to minisqers, from Hertfordshire and other places, bears any proportion to that which the public in general are prepared to reclt)g.nize i4l their osirn. —Morning Herald. rA r 7, 7-7 , A iai ILA p THE NEW CONSTITUTION The point at. which we stand is a must important one in 11w history of our *country,.and pregeant with reflection to all thihking men. As was well observed, in a late speck of one of our cunservative candidates . (11Ir. Peach, as we remerriber,) "we are embarking upon our voyage, apparently subject to all the vie-. fence and caprice of those elements of which we have already had painful e. , Terience; and we are also em barking on an vinkie,nin sea, where shoals, and rocks, and eddies unforeseen. may render, the influence of the fickle and angry elements more inevitably fatal." This eloquent figure', which our paraphrase has, - we feel, man pled' even tamely expres••es the political position of the col:Intl - T.' We are going; under,a new constitution,—.lew, not merely aarespects the structure of the House of Colli inons, but new also, as, giving to that 'Muse an ,absolute monopoly -of the sovereignty. The - constitution Upon which we-shall enter in 1;33-is wholly untried in 'Eng land; and nothing like to it had eYer exlStedin. the world. It is a,representative democracy, with a nominal monarch and nominal-senate ; this monarch and senate, holvever, not having- that- affluence which the . circumstance o' their appointment gave to the president and Senate of' the United States, or any other influence to supply its.place, and neutralise the invidiousness of their position. The institutions by which, according Co the letter of the old constitution, the demoeratical power had been balanced and checked, have been rendered powerless, and exhi bited almost mockingly in their imbecility; and, at the same time, the House of Commons, the sphere of democratic action ; has been altogether purged of that vir tual influence of the other orders; by which the progress of the democratical principle was moderated, if not re tarded. This.may be a desirable change,, or the reverse, —upon that point we say nothing at present; we merely wish to impress it upon our readers, that the change which we , describe has taken place, and to remind them, that a wholly new position of public 'affairs deinands a change of policy adapted'td it. . The country, in fact, is no longer. to be governed - by orders or institutions; it must, therefore, be governed :by party. It is impossible to disguise the truth, that iVe are entering upon a republican form of &fovernment, of nearly the most popular kind; and, whether we wish to avoid the nuttier advance to a pure democracy, or to escape those errors to which de,mocratical governments are subject, or to restore the efirciency of those institu tions and orders, the forums alone of which are permitted to linger, not, perhapS, to be permitted long,—whatever we mean to do, must, be done by the sole means which the republican polity allows of; that is, by party. The course to be taken is bold and decisive, and one from xvliich the timid, and the selfish, and the tardy of this world may well shrink ; but it arfords the only passage of escape from ruin. kly e have, indeed, full warning, that if we prove inac tive, no choice remains between standing on the reform bill as a .final measure, and an ulterior revolution. No thing, then, but the formation ,of an adequate conserva tive !party can impede the progresa to anarchy. Can such a party be formed? e assert that it can; ,and that the circurnstatees ofthe titne, otherwise perilous; are highly favourable to its formation. The party to be formed must be a conservative party, but it must be a *na tional party also,—itspontceria must be co-extensive with the limits of the empire, and the several conditions of Men, embracing all men in all places and ranks, who wish to save their country from anarchy; or, if excluding any men of conservative principles, excluding only those who are too haughty or too wise, or too selfish to co-operate upon terms of equality (poleet equality it must be,) even for the salvation of their country. As Men are not, however, to be held together by vague abstractionsisome thing more than the name "conservative" must supply the bond ol'union. Common objects and 'common prin ciples to unite conservatives exist, heaven knows, in pro fuse abundance. The safely of the church, the protection of native agriculture, native conrineree and native manu factures, the improvement of the condition of the poor, the cultivation of peace abroad, and morals and religion at home e —these are all compatible, essential, and strictly conservative objects. If distinctly and unequivocally avowed - as the basis of the party union; the party, is al ready made, and already comprises an overwhelming ma jority of the people. True, some, who are, perhaps, in part sincerely conservative, will be excluded by- such a canon of principles. Friends to. the church may be in fected with the doctrines of political economy, or enemies to secular revolution. may see. no _objection to treating. "church property as public property." The 'very prin ciple.of party action, however, renders necessary the sa crifice of-sueli allies, if they ;will not compromise their 'capricious singularities for the general g00d... Neither the church, nor the landed interest, nor the coniinercial class, nor the manufacturing class, is strong enough in itself - to stand against the revolutionists, nor can all these united interests stand against the " movement," nor ought they to stand if they neglect the interests of the poor. If, on the one side, no man ought to be counted upon as a conservative who may not be expected to stand by the church, the land, native commerce, native Inanufae tures, and the interests and rights of the defenceleSs classes; on the other, none ought to• be rejected from whom we can•safely hope•a concurrence in these several particulars. No matter whether the man has been a whig or a reformer: if we feel that he now is a conser vative, whatever his whig notions may have been, or that he intended and still intends, reform as a final measure, it is a sacred duty to receive and even to invite and sup port him.. Never-let us forget, that by party the coun try Must now be governed, and that in whateverdegree We allow a conservative party to be weakened by the effect of our Self-seeking, or our less sordid Iturnogrs - We are betraying our country in the same degree:- When We say that whigs and reformers•are to be received into our ranks, we, of course, assume, that they are' honest wings and honest reformers. With the dishonest of any party we must, if we would be safe, have no communion.. Persons like Lord Grey and Lord Durham, and the env nibus clique in the ministry, must be rejected loathingly; not because they have been wings or reformers, but be cause they have never been honest men, and would now affect,couservative -principles solely, in order to *ore ef . - fectually betray them: The elections are at hand : we implore our readers Ito think deeply: upon the new, wholly new position in- which they are placed, and to remember, that, in such a crisis, our duty to our country and to our God, demands, .of every man, the most devoted and di sin, terested exertion of which his spheiT aihriits.---Standard. The Chairman of the Joint Library Committee of Congress of the United States has-thankfully aelinowleciged:the;reteipt of a copy of the Records of Great Britain, and presented to the li brary of our House of Commons in return a copy of the Legis lative and Diplomatic Documents of the United Stater, FDGN 3,17 T :ILL:LT: E CE. PItANCL , . In the C%ambe-r of Peers the address was adopted on Wed naiy a minority 018! lhe business of the session has begun by the submission of the budget, or the estimates, of 1833 to the Chamber. The new ini:Aer of Finance (M. lIUMANN) seems to have shown great activity in arranging the necessary business of his department so soon after his appointment. -„ ' • - • The estimates for next year require an extraordinary expen diture of 166,009,000 of francs, or more than £6,500,000 sterling. The ordinary supplies amount only to 966,000,000 of francs, or somewhat more than £37,500,000. The interest of the public debt absorbs 339,000,000, or about £14,360,000 sterling of this sum: In the collection of the revenue nearly £5,000,000 ster ling are expended After allowing 17,000,000 of francs for the civil lit and penSions, there only remains. about. £18,000,0(X) :slerlint: for ad the ordinary supplies of the year. Of this sum the Ministry of Trade and Puolic Works '(furmerly that of the Interior) receives about £5,500,000 sterling. The expenditure for the army, ordinary and. extraordinary, is estimated at 316,000,000 of francs, or more. than £12,600,000 sterling. The navy gad other branches of the public service are less onerous for the country. The whole produce of the annual taxes, com posing the ordinary ways atameans to.meet this great expen diture, is estimated only at 966,630 , 000 francs, or £47,640,000 sterling. About 167,000,000 of francs, or nearly £6,700,000, will therefore require to be provided by loans or b. - the sale of the national foreSts. 'The immense armed. establishments of France thus impose upowher finances burdens and embarrass ments which have increased` every year since the late revolu tion, and which it ought to be the policy °flier government to lettuce by endeavouring to disarm herself; had by persuading her neighbours to follow her example. *BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. Hostilities seem, at length,. to have commenced. The. fol kiwing particulars of the military operations at Antwerp are. given in the private correspondence' of the Times ANTWERP, FRIDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 30.—NiNt O'CLOCK. --The important moment .has passed : the summons has been delivered to General Chasse 'for the evacuation of the citadel : he has refused. The cannons of the citadel have been directed against the French soldiers while working in the trencheS, and several have :been killed.' The details of the delivery of the summons, as I have been enabled to obtain them, are, that at live o'clock (some other accounts name seven as the hour;) a French officer (Lieut.-Colonel Auvray of Marshall Gerard's staff',) presented himself with a flag of truce, at that part lead ing to•the citadel from the burnt arsenal, and bearing a de &Tech for General Chasse. He was refused admittance, but his despatch was taken to the General, and he was promised an answer. The following is a copy of the summons: " SUMMONS " Made in the naine of France and England, by Marshal Gerard, Commander-in-Chief of the Freneh army. ` TO CENERAL ciLtssr, COMMANDANT OF THE CITADEL OF ANTWERP. Head-quarters, Borgcrhaut, betore Antwerp, Nov, 39. ." General: —I have arrived before the citadel of Antwerp, at th e head of a French army, Commissioned by.. my Government to de mand the execution of the treaty of the nth November, 1831, which guarbillees to On ningof the Belgians the possession of that fortress, and also that of those - forts dependent upon it' at both sides of the Scheldt, I hope you are disposed to admit the justiee of this de mand. If it should be otherwise, lam commanded to acquaint you that I shall employ the means which are at my disposal to get posses sion of .the citadel. of Antwerp. r " The operations of the siege shall be directed against the external sides of the citadel; and, notwithstanding that the weakness of the fortress on the side of the city and the shelter of the houses offer me great advantages of attacking on that suit', I shall not avail myself of them:- I • have, therefore, aright to- hope•that- conformably . to the laws of war and the usages generally observed, you will abstain from every kind of hostility against the city, lam now in the occupation of a part of it, with the sole obleet of preventing that which might expose it to the lire of your artillery. A. hoMbardment (of it) will be an act of ussless barbarity, and a. calamity to the 'commerce of all nations. _ • • - If, notwithstanding these considerations, you fire on the city, France and England will exact an indemnity equivalent te the damage which may be `done by the tire from the citadel, from the forts, and also - from the vessels of war. It is impossible that you yourself' should not be aware, that in that case you will be personally responsible for the breach of a usage respected by all civilized people, and for the evils consequent thereupon. I welt your answer. and I expect that you will agree immediately to enter into negociations with me for delivering up to me the citadel of Antwerp, and the forts dependent on it, Accept the assurance of my consideration. " The Marshal Commander-in-Chief of the army of the North, " Count GERARD," At half-past eleven o'clock the answer of Chasse arrived, in which he is understood to have stated, that he could not sup pose his country to be at war. with England or with France, and that he would not yield until his means of defence were ex hausted, or until he 41 the orders of the King of Holland to surrender the fortress; and as to the neutrality of the city, he proposed several conditions, which have been considered as in admissible—such as that the Scheldt" was to continue free for all communications to the citadel, that the forts on the left bank were not to be attacked, and that no use should be made against the citadel of the batteries erected in Fort Montebello, and within the compass of the city. The officer brought back the reply to Marshal Gerard, with an intimation, that if the French persisted to work in the trenches after mid-day the citadel would fire upon them. As the works were continued, the firing counnencednt a quarter past twelve o'clock. The French worked during the vhight, yet not a shot was fired at them, and at mid-day they had completed without injury what they had expected to have cost 2,b00 men, if an active resistance had been given. At 10 o'clock last night the Belgian postS were relieved all round the citadel, as well in the town as in the country. At midnight several vollies of"musketry were fired off from the citadel, in 'order to clear the atmosphere and to al low the garrison to see if the enemy was near. The French, though under arms, ready to begin their work, preserved a.striet silence. The garrison: went ',to sleep," until the summons ;awoke them from their slumbers, and they saw the French•sol diers at work within hail ; the soldiers and 'officers continued to look on impassively until mid-day. During the day the Dutch troops at the. 'Fete de Flandres blew up a portion of the dike opposite the citadel, in order to throw obstacles, by inun dation, in the way of the' French soldiers who had.arrived in the mornino'at Burcht, in order to attack that fort.. • The following are extracts from the private correspondence of the Morning, Herald ; ANTWERP, Nov. 30.—Eleven o'clock.—Marshal Gerard 'has just despatched Colonel Anyray to General Chasse with the pummons. , Half-past EleveU.o'clock.—Colonel Auvray has returned with Chasse's answer respecting the neutrality of Antwerp : it is considered unsatisfactory, and Marshal Gerard has written him a second note, demanding a categorical reply. I understa n d. that Chasse declared that he WoUld'tommence' firing at twelve o'clock this day. Tweive-o'clock.—The cathedral clock is now striking twelve, and Chasse is firing from the: left wing of the front bastion. The Lunette Saint Laurent is also firing. The guards at the trenches' have just been released. One o'clock.—The firing limn the citadel has been kept up for the last hour, and with very little mischief. Not a shot has been fired against the city. 1 have just heard that Chasse has sprung-a lock on the side of Fort Burghl, for the_ purpose of in undatmg as much of the country as he can. The roaring of cannon Was been heard from the left bank of the Scheldt; it is supposed that Sebastiani has commenced attacking the forts. Eight 'o'clock:—General Sebastiani has summoned - Forts Burghl and St. Hilaire to surrender; Colonel Caradoc, in a British Uniform, accompanied by . a dragoon, is to be•seen ac tively engaged at all parts of the city. I have just heard that Chasse declares that he will respect the city, if the French do not attack the 'fete de Flandres. It is reported that an En giishman, and a colonel of the French stall, have been killed. Ten o'clock.—The citadel has ceased firing. ANTWERP ' Saturday, Dec. 1 . — Ten o'clock.—Chasse has re commenced firing. The Frenchmen cannot make out why he permitted them so near quietly all the night. They suppose he intends springing a mine as soon as they arrive near enough the citadel. It is reportecito-day that Chasse gave the follow ing answer to the summons of Marshal. Gerard:—" Tell the Marshal that I intend burying myself in the rnins of the cita del. As to the neutrality of the town, I make no promises; it will depend on circumstances and 'events." Half-past Eleven.—Chasse continues firing. There are very few either killed or wounded. It is reported - that General Se bastiani took Fort St. Marie yesterday evening. It is said that he is now firing on the Comet frigate. Three o'clock.—The firing coutinues . at intervals. The French continue their works, and are making great progress. It is repotted that Colonel aradoc has protested against the occupation of the gates of Antwerp by the French. Bausgr,s, Saturday, Dec. I.—lt appears we have -not suffi cient Frenchmen in. Belgium yet; 80,000 men are too few to take pnssession of the country, and some 25,000 men were ordered to pass the frontiers without further delay. The accounts - from Lido, state that the ofith regiment of the line were to enter Belgium on Sunday or Monday next. A' ren contre with the Dutch is considered inevitable,_ and all the dis posable trrops are ordered to the frontiers. Two battalions of the Ist regiment of theaine leave. this day for Lierre, and two squadrons of the guards march to-morrow. We are still beat ing up for ministry, but without success. M. Fallon refuses, and it is more than prokible the old ones will be compelled to remain as ad i n t e rim minister s . The m ili tary sc h oo l i s go ilt i Antwerp to watch the progress of the storming of the eitscle'' 0 Seven o'eloek in the evening.—Eight th ousa nd l ti , French l D of the army of reserve. have entered s ; they will re ad brussels on Monday. Contracts have signed f or the Pr'', visioning of the at my of reserve. ---. e s ere are nearly 100, 0 Frenchmen now in Belgium. , . . Antwerp, Saturday Morning; 10 o'clock, The French have worked all night, notwithsta n di ng the rSt e ' and have already c ompleted a battery in th e gar d en ca ll e d P i Harmony, between the Forts Montebello and St. L a ure l ; During the night the darkness did not allow the Dutch to s. the men at work. Few guns were heard after 10 o'clock I t he s asserted on the best authority, that the French works will ;' l l ready for operations in full to-morrow. The wet weather vor' it is feared, do the troops more injury than Chasse's fire. . 1 One o'clock.—l have seen a military gentleman who has i' i : e returned from the trenches, and his report is as follows:—',„1, French have. pushed forward zig-zag approachesfrom the par Id formed yesterday, of which the heads are now un d er m usket fire; and to their amazement, none has been opened as ):,,B upon the workmen. This parallel was formed within 430 y'a'; of the citadel; the approaches are consequ en tly muc h neart; and during this night their last parallel wi ll, it i s expected, b 1 completed. The platforms were at mid-d a y l a id or raying ' l3 , nine batteries, which with the Montebell o fort, will turn' te`; for 70 pieces of artillery, that are expected to open to-morr s , morning. Those batteries are designed to enfilade the luristl St. Laurent, the ravelin, and the bastions i n th e rear . Ofiel e those batteries of eight heavy guns is to fire on the angle Of lunette. PORTUGAL. Lisbon Gazelles to the talth ult. have been received., That °C . , the latter date contains the, following official.- pnblication D?, ViscOunt de Santarem, - Don' MignePs minister. idr foreign e fairs, 'of the correspondence which has taken place between ' 4 ', British Consul at Oporto and the officer commanding the 1 - n t° ' lish naval force in the Douro and the Lieutenant-General Cour mandei-in-Chief of the Army of Operations against the reb el , in consequence of the, river having hinder e d th e E ng li s h cut" Raven from entering. " OPORTO, Nov. 19. 0 f General,—Your excellency's batteries. erected at the entrance 0, the Douro fired this morning on his Britannic M a j es ty' s cu tt er belonging. to the squadron in the Douro, (which went out a few day' since to take on board th e d es p a tches of three packets a rrived f)T h e England and Lishou,) not only w h en it a pp roac h e d th e entranc e 0, 0 river, but even alter it had been o tli ge d by your fi re to ret i re ..,• the bar. • " Under these. circumstances, it is our duty, formally, to prof amainst this act, of.whieh we shall not fail immediately to inform; -7 ernment of his Britannic 'Majesty and the Admiral commandl G ov o the English squadron in the Tagus. NVe reque s t y our exce ll en cy accept the assurance of our distinguished respect. " THOMAS S. SOUELL,, ‘• Lieutenant-Colonel and Consul' " WILLIAM NU GENT GLASCOCK, " Commander of his Britannic Majesty's ships int° river Douro. " To the most illustrious and excellent the Viscount do Santa Martha." ANSWER. " Gentlemen:—l have received, to-day c: rotest al.7a.inst the a by which the batteries erected on the south of the Douro'hindere Britannic Majesty's cutter Raven from entering the river, and I, the y„ fore, find myself again obliged to draw your attention to its conte: a ., and to invite you to examine it with the sincerity and frankness per to officers in the service of a neutral nation, and which valuo self on its respect for the rights and independence of others. of " After the circular which my government addressed on the 4111ro July, this year, to the consul of his Britannic Majesty in Lisha°,', o t which is the foll Owing passage As soon, the re f ore , as the e` t ie shall take plate, which is anticipated in th e sa id d ecree, of the ~, e ration of the State of siege of all the sea-ports. and coasts. of i ll o v kingdoms, all means shall be employed which may prevent couo°,.„o- cations with the enemy, all and every communi ca ti on being• w'dgf• diately prohibited with the places and districts In a state of siege ~01 ing the presence of the enemy,' , —the general, my predecessor, " se occasion, at tunes, to reiterate this declaration, r eceive d b y your pl vernment, and I continued to do the same till,:on the Bth inst. the honour to inform' vou, that the siege was going to be renc e o , more effective by Watering any ship. Whether merchantman or o 'e it : of-war, from entering the Douro ; acting: in this conformal*. P l fro o laws of nations and of war, and hoping irony your honour an. e ie the dignity of the English nation, that, strictly adhering to the 1 2„yi trality which you have so many times prot es t e d , you wou ld id" r r respect all the legal means employed by the forces under my i r ye d mand tnannoy the: rebels; and to enforce .a m easure w hi c h is emplo y , against every vessel under whatever flag. This proceeding, c ° pt. quent to the declarations and principles received by your govi;rni l3° , o , and which has hitherto had your tacit asse n t, su ff ere d, h owev er, aZice dification with respect to you, for the commander of the naval '4ll in the Douro having said, that he wanted means to communicate 5 1p the packets, and proposed, for this purpose, the use of boats wi th in; English colours, my government, always ready to facilitate eveilt f i' o r necessary for your correspondence, an d the servic e o f th e ships i anchored in the Douro, gave the re qu i s ite orders on th e 16th nt o r which I communicated to you on the followi ng day, by w hi c h le o , ships should be free to go out, and the method of communicatio n oe posed by the said commander p erm itt e d, as I now agr ee, tha t icn Echo steam-boat shall henceforth be employed on that service, iir_' are r the consul affirms to be only to carry lette rs , w ith ou t b e i ng the be of anything for either of the belligerents. a si' d "The entrance of all and every vessel being th us p ro hiblte the mode of your communication with the ships that may brior o ic h ters for you being agreed upon and determined the act against you protest appears to me to be legal, being the measure whic Ai icli been so long intended, with which you were acquainted, and 6 0 1 your Government has admitted in its quality of a neutral powe, e 'pre , as such a mere observer of the rights of my na ti on ; an d , the.,,iic 3 judging your complaint to be unfounded, I am o bli ge d to 1 ' counter-protest. ' at "n On this occasion, I must inform you, th a t w h en th e IZas 'e tempted to enter the Douro, the Castle of L a F ez, occup i e d by ,b e a lso hels, fired on my batteries, which it was necessary to hinder, to disperse troops of individuals who collected on that occaso - 7, our who appeared to wait for the interpositio n o f th a t s hi p b e twee batteries for some object._ " I have file honoiii to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant , " Viscount de SANTA MAIM " To Mr. T. S. Soren and Captain W. N. Glascock. " Head-qub.rters, Agoas Santas, Nov. 19: " Department of Foreign Affairs, Nov. 23 ' " In the absence of the superior officer, • " ANTONIO X. D'ABREIT C AST E LHO BRANCO Lisbon Gazette, Nov. 24, the latest date received. TURKEY. - • A letter from Smyrna of the ISth of October expresses' t i r e opinion that the Turkish Government is by no means since,_ in entertaining the late propositions Made for an accommo'e, lion with the Pacha of Eppt; that Sultan feels, in reality , u s i, graded at being reduced-by circumstances to take part ostello, bly in. such negociations, which he will only listen to with t he hope of being thereby enabled at some future time to punish Jo r rebellion of the Pacha. It is said that a Turkish Ainbassa'h, extraordinary, Namish Pacha, who speaks very good Fr,e p t e be is about to be sent from Constantinople to London, W it!' hut understood object'of negotiating on the affairs of Grecce,wer, in factthat his mission-relates to the settlement of the di,!: 0 1 ences with Egypt. Smyrna was tolerably healthy; a few of cases of plague had occurred some days previous to the dat e be the letters, but the disorder app'eared subsequently te checked. MEXICO; The political news from the republic of Mexico, broug'— o is H.M.S. Hyacinth, which left the. gulf on the 6th Octe ld ifig quite of the same complexion as heretofore, one general r l s ur against another, and each assuming the sway when he l ao to eessful. At the departure of the Hyacinth, Generals P„ as t; Anna and Montezuma were in possession. of the whole C` c i de two-thirds of the states were in their favour, and they ha hi' cided that General Pedraza, who had been recalled from banishment to the United States, was the legal president• beet neral Guerrero, who usurped the president's chair, Ilad d 10' driven out of Mexico by General Bustamente, who ha a l, shot by sentence of military law, and then himself assura% ascendancy instead of recalling Pedraza, and to maintlio own authority he marched upon Montezuma, and gave ,„ total defeat in the neighbourhood of Potosi, driving hinl,',.c e l sea coast; the consequence of this defeat is, that the pro', iota the mines of Potosi, Botanos, and Zacatecas, is prevente u bich being brought to the sea-side for shipment, a benefit .beds these companies enjoyed while Montezuma and his 1 100 E: could keep the roads open, as through his influence dollars had been embarked. Bustamente has with him a a ri' old Spaniards, the aristocracy, and the elite of the soldier} , ur tY he is in possession of Mexico , but he was opposed by ', li d tc' fifths of the population.. Montezuma had re-assembled a " n t organized his defeated party at Tola. Santa Anna was k e ' cheek by Calderon, at Orizaba. SPAIN. Letters from Madrid, of the 23rd ult., received on 1 : 11 7;1 0 state that the ex-Minister Calomarde is to be impeac C O tried for high treason. General Cruz had been appointed 5 CO,t mander-in-Chief of the Royalist volunteers, w hi c h corps l o rk be re-formed, and their arms deposited in the respeell e cte e l j nance stores of the provinces. This corps, it will be ren n ' os was the chief reliance of the apostolic party. It was c° vir o se chiefly of tradesmen, was nearly 2110,000 strong, an d is suPP to have cost the Spanish Government £1,000,000 sterling', 0 nually. It is proposed for tie future to abstain as 11 “1,l e e :t possible from the employment of this force. The Duke °l.i/ diva Celi, and twelve other grandees, who had been &Pi. lib ( ' of their gold' rings vin constence of-their manifestation guilt ral principles during the existence of the constitutiona l s ell r ya have been restored to their honours, and have been alb s s ' still' ceived by the King. The liberal an 4 able Marquis