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BAYONNE PAPERS.

BAYONNE, AUGUST S.
We have received the following accounts from
Spain:—
Madrid, August I.
_ .

Our situation is still the same: no Miiiistey, and,
we may say, no Government; for the Permanent
Deputation, on which the patriots had placed their
hopes, has lost public confidence since the late
events in this capital. In fact, it is reproached with
temporizing with the King, and of shelving an
apathy not becoming iii present circumstance..
On his part, his Majesty still eludes the choice
a a Miiiiiitry such as the party now prevailing
at Madrid desires. It seems that the Council of
State has propooril to him men truly liberal for Mi-
nisters, but that the King has rejected these proposals
for fear of the consequences. In short, then, only two
Ministers are named, blitz Banos and Calatrava ;
the nomination of Sancho, which was announced as
certain, has not taken !dice. Several oilier per.ons
have been spoken of fur the new Nliiiistry, who
would not fulfil the wishes of the patriots, and
whose nomination would excite still more irritation.

Meantime we observe great activity in the nightly
meetings of the Communtros; the national guard
of Madrid is increasing as well as that of the Pro.
violets, sod every thing seems to prepare the long-
projected revolution. The masse of addresses which
we continue to receive from the Provinces, both on
the events of the 7th, and on the King's delay in
punishing the authors of the mach,' atioos against
the system, and in naming a Ministry such as the
general opinion desires, indicate the views of the
Liberals.

Salv.adar Gabsrdo, a soldier in . the guards. one
of the accomplices in the murder of Lieut. Lands-
burre. was executed yesterday in the public square.
All the garrison was under arms. He wished to
harangue the people from the scaffold. but the
priests would not allow it. The crowd was im-
mense and generally pitied the victim, whom they
would willingly have delivered if they could pot in
his place the principal persons whom public opinion
designates as the authors of the plots.
The King had given orders for the regiment of
ii Almara to be incorporated with the divisiou of Em.
pecinudo, which excited the indignation of the pi.
idols who protested to the Permanent Deputation
against the departure of these defenders of the pub-
lic liberties. The Deputation sent this remon-
strance to the King, who revoked the order and
the effervescence was calmed.

Majesty, as the Spectator of to-day slates,
lima not returned a satisfactory answer to the desire
of the Pestnaaent Deputation to remove the Patri-
arch and some others from the Palace. He requires
that the reasons of their dt.manditig the removal of
these persons may be stated, which, says the Spec.
tutor, would only serve to lengthen the dispute to
the iirejudice of the Kii.g himself and of the Con-
stitution,_which he has sworn to maintain.
it is affirmed that palisades are going to be plac-
ed on the heights (Viottilas), and even that several
cannon will be placed at different parts of the
capital.
There is no truth whatever in the report brought
by the mail before of the yellow I,ver haviug
appeared at fiercelo.na and Csdoz. The official re.
ports of the health of both ate perfectly satisfactory.
The :spectator of the Ist says, that it has goo.l
grounds fur believing that France is an insuperable
barrier to the designs or the great Northern Power
which desires to interfete in the affairs of the Pe..
nisisula, and likewise that Austria is agreed with
France, nut to stiffer sty irruptions from the North
into the South of Europe, so that it seems we shall
have only to do with France if we suffer ourselves
to he governed by Quesaild, Warn Anton, amid
who are the Marshals hitherto in the pay of
the Pusißan Marian and the Cola thoit.

The news front the provinces are much the same
as by the lust moils.

Of the new ministerial arrangements consequent
upon the lamented death of the Maiquir of LoNDOM-
Dgagir. nothing certain is yet known. It is now
stated, that the Marquis WELLirst.EY will succeed
to the Foreign Department, and that Mr. CAN-
stria, instead of going to India, will also have a
high ministerial appuintment at home. Among
the rumours of the day, Sir CHARLES STUART
has likewise hren mentioned, ail she probable sue-
censor of Lord LONpoNYERRY•

LONDON,
THURSDAY, AUGWIT 15, 1822.

We communicated to our readers yesterday •
copy of the letter sent by the Duke of WELLING-
TON to Doctor BANKREAD, a few days previous to
the death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, ap-
prising the Doctor that the Noble Marquis was
labouring under a mental delusion, and required
the immediate assistaoce of medical skill. It is
way understood very satisfactorily, that the Duke
of ‘Vai.t.tttotoN had not alone marked the aberra-
tions of his Noble Friend's mind, but that in par.
ticular the KING had been alarmed by the vague-
ness of his conversation at his last audience; and,
in a note to Lord LIVERPOOL, had urged the fleece-
Pity of observing precautions in guarding against
danger. The unfortunate Marquis appears to have
conceived that he was constantly beitt by assassins,
and that his life was threatened by • conspiracy, in
which some of hiss most intimate friends were sup.
posed to be engaged. He also laboured under the
painful delusion, that he was not sufficiently re-
garded by the several members of his family ; and
although the Marchioness was indefatigable in her
attendance upon her Lord, he frequently complained
with much bitterness of her continued absence. The
public are we presume aware, that however the pres-
sure of public business, accompanied by the unceas-
ing excitement of parliamentary warfare, might have
irritated and disorganised his mind, this is not the
first instance of mental derangement which is said to
have occurred in his family. It is said, too, that even
the Noble Marquis himself had evinced at the close
of the preceding Session of Parliament symptoms
of this distressing malady, not much less marked
than this recent affliction which has been attended
by such fatal results. We can easily sympathise
with the wishes of his family to conceal, as far as it
was possible, so dreadful a visitation; yet they could
not have been fully aware of the terrific character of
the malady, when, after such a warning, they
should yet permit the Noble Lord to sustain the
load of public duty which had been already found
too dangerously burdensome.

It is painful to think that the Marquis of.
LONDONDERRY was himself occasionally conscious,
during the last day of his existence, that his mind
had sunk under the pressure of his malady.
We find in the evidence taken before the Coroner,
that he asked his servant whether he hod spoken
nonsense to Doctor BANNIIRAD, and cannot but
be painfully affected by the sense of humilia-
tion which he most have experienced at the moment
of making such an inquiry. It is observable that
in desiring the means of self-destruction he did not
complain of the removal of his pistols and hi.
razors, but with the art and dexterity that uni-
formly distinguish the acts of persons in his un-
happy condition, when brut upon destroying them-
selves, applied himself directly to the only iostru-
meut within his reach, and inflicted a deep wound
in his neck with a little knife, which from its in-
significance had unfortunately been forgotten by
his attendants.

We presume that no exertion will be made by
the colleagues of the Noble Marquis to supply his
place in the Cabinet until the return of the KING
from Scotland. The death of Lord LONDON.
MIRY at this moment leaves the Ministry exceed-
ingly wanting in an active and efficient manager in
the House of Commons. This was a duty to which
the peculiar qualities of the Noble Marquis emi-
nently fitted him, and in looking through the ranks
of the Treasury we cannot see any individual who
deserves in this particular to be named as his suc-
cessor.

The Foreign Department has happily ceased to
be the most important branch of the public service,
and the duties of that office are, in this time of ge-
neral peace with the world, so simple. that any of
the Under-Secsetsries would probably be suf-
ficiently qualified to assume the port and bearing
of Foreign Minister in managing oar relations with
Foreign Courts. But the manager in the House of
Commons must be • kind of general Minister;
his mind must in some degree pervade every
branch of the public service; he must be well
informed upou every topic of passing interest ; he
must possess great facility and dexterity of ex-
pression, coolness of temper, and calmness of un-
derstanding—above all, he must enjoy the confi-
dence of the House, with the reputation of moral
dignity and consistency of character. Mr. CA r 4
X INX is by many degrees the ablest speaker on the
ministerial beaches, and can command the atten-
tion and respect of any auditory in the empire,
but he wants the means of inspiring the House
of Commons with confidence in the purity of
his views and the sincerity of his professions.
Mr. PEEL speaks well, and certainly possesses
much of the moral dignity to which we have
alluded ; but his exertions always smell of the
lump, and neither the character of his mind nor
his manner of expression would suit him for the
internal conflict which • manager must have to
wage in conducting the business of the Govern-
ment in the House of Commons. Sir CHARLES
STUMM wwald be wholly incompetent for such •
situation. It has, however, often been found in life,
that " the situation will m•ke the man," and that

an individual qualified for office was never yet seri:.
ously wanted to undertake any occupation or em-
ployment whatever.

A rumour prevailed very currently throughout
the town yesterday afternoon that the Duke of
WELLINGTON had fallen under the hands of the
son of the late Marshal NET. We hope very 6111.
cerely that there is no truth in this statement. For
our own parts we do not believe it, but are inclined
to attribute the report to the high degree of ex-
citement which the public mind has experienced
by the appalling circumstances that have marked
the death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. The
Duke of WELLkricrrox has visited the Continent
for the purpose of inspecting the fortidcations of
the Netherlands; but if an assassin had predeter-
mined the murder of the illustrious Duke, this
visit would offer no better opportunities for effecting
his diabolical purpose than might have been found
any day in the unreserved intercourse of his Grace
with society in London, and in his almost daily rides
about the town and its environs. The son of Marshal
NEY had on one occasion challenged the Duke of
WELLINGTON to single combat, on account of the
supposed influence which his Grace's construction
of the Treaty of Paris had in causing the execution
of that gallant soldier, but the Duke very properly
declined so insensate a mode of deciding the ques-
tion. The young man is said to have professed an
undying hostility to the Doke, but we fervently
and anxiously hope that he has not been wade the
victim of a furious in.

It becomes this day our painful duty to announce
the sudden death of another distinguished indivi-
dual. The melancholy event is communicated in
a letter from our private correspondent in Dublin.

" DUBLIN, AUGUST U.

" It is with sincere sorrow I aimounce to you the
sudden death of Sir Samuel Auchmuty by • fall
from his horse, while riding yesterday in the Phoenix
Park with Colonel Thornton. It is suspected that
he was subject to fits, and that having been seized
with one, he fell from his horse. He Rea carried to
the Royal Hospital, but without any signs of life :
he was dead. Sir Samuel Auchmuty succeeded
General Baird as Head of the Staff in Ireland, the
office of Commander in Chief, held by Sir David,
having been abolished. He was previously in good
health, and attended the theatre on the preceding
night (luring the performance of the tragedy of
Othello. His death has cast a deep gloonv over all
this city. Preparations had been made for the ce-
lebration of the anniversary of the King's birth-
day, his landing here, &c. with • review in the
Park, &c. this day; but I suppose they will
be all suspended by this melancholy evt nt.—
This lamented hero was one of the most gallant and
di.tinguished officers in the service. He was
equally esteemed and beloved in professional and
private life. lie was Knight Grand Cross of the
Bath, and Colonel of the 78th, regiment of foot.
The East Indies and. South America were the
principal scenes of his military exploits."

We have received the Paris Papers up to Monday.
The King has returned from his country Palace of
St. Cloud, and taken up his residence at the Tui-
leries. The trial at Colmar is not likely to come
soon to a close. These Papers contain an horrible
case of the murder of a young woman. The Cole
of Quentin-sur-Isere is suspected to be the per-
petrator. The limbs of the unfortunate victim
were cot off and scattered. The bust was found
six leagues from St. Quentin. The Core fled to
Savoy, was apprehended, and is in prison in Cham-
bery.

Bayonne Patin to the 7th inst. have arrived.
They bring intelligence from Madrid to the 9d inst.
A new Ministry had not been appointed at that
date.

Sir COLIN CAMPBELL. and others of the
household of the LORD LIEUTENANT of Ireland,
left Dublin for Scotland, via Donaghadee, on Fri-
day night, to meet the KING ■t Edinburgh. His
Excellency will not visit that city.
Letters dated the Ind of April have been received
from Valparaiso, which confirm the previous ac-
counts that the port of Callao ■nd other places on
the Pacific are blockaded by two Spanish frigates.
These vessels, it appears, are the Prueba and Vex-
gone°, the same which were formally surrendered
to the Government of Guayaquil, by • conventioa
signed by their commanders. The affair is now Ns-
Grilled to have been a stratagem on their part, for
the purpose of obtaining water and provisions, of
which they at the time stood in great need. The
Governor of Guayaquil had no vessels at his dis-
posal of sufficient strength to punish the violation
of the convention.

By the Brasil packet, letter. from Rio de Ja-
neiro of the 4th, from Pernambuco of the 9.6t1i, and
from Bahia of the 41st of June have strived. Tho►e
from Rio de Janeiro being only one day later than
the sailing of the Bearer ship of war, do not couvry
any additional intelligence. In Pernambuco every
thing was tranquil. They had elected the Mem-
bers for the Cortes or General Assembly at Rio,
who were about to repair to that capital. Bahia
was also tranquil. It appears that the accession by
this province to the measure of convoking a Gene-
ral Assembly at Rio, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the sentiments of the Provinces respecting the
continuance of their dependence on Portugal, will
not be much longer Withheld. Arrangements (or a
public declaration to that effect was secretly making
by the authorities, and it was expected before the
end of the month an intimation would be given to
the Portuguese troops, by which they had been so
long ovtrawed, that they must either allow the
general opinion to declare itself freely, or embark
for Portugal.