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London, England, 1824-02-06 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Last night we received the French Papers of Tuesday,
from which the following are extracts :
Wrom the CorulitNtionseeLl
GERMANY.

MAYEWCE, JAW.
There was brought here some days since a student of the Val-
, versity of Heidelberg, that he might be examined by the Central
Commission of Inquiry. We know not yet positively what le the
crime that has given place to this measure.
[From the Coarricr Fraitosiv.]
lONIAN ISLES. _

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CORTI?, JAW. 4.
According to the latest news from Tyne, the Greeks have in-
vaded Clasomenes, and have since intercepted the Great Caravan
from Angora, when on its way to Sinful'. Letters from Hydra
confirm this intelligence, and at the same tine state that there have
beer, some very alarming movements at Constantinople. 1
Colocotroni briskly carried the siege of Patters, the resort of every
adventurer and fake reporter of the measures of the Greeks. who,
in their correspondence with different nations, were continually ea.
lumniating them. Several of these wretches had already escaped
from Patras to Lepanto, where Jussuff.Pachs afforded them his
protection.
We now know what it is that occasioned the great displea.
sure of the Iliirh Commissioner, Lord Maitland, who governs
with so much loftiness and severity these our isles. lle ban pub-
lished, in the privileged Gazette, a kind of manifesto against the
Greeks, in which his Grace affects especially to treat the Chia,
Alexander 31auroeortlato, with superb disdain. Wle had some days
since a difficulty of knowing what infraction of the law of nations
IManrocordsito was able to have tolerated, and differst "tortes were
circulated respecting it, when we at length learnt that his mime
consisted in the following circumstance :—After having defeated
the Barbarian squadron, which was cruising off Missolunghi, the I
Greeks pursued three Algerine ships, which ran on shore open the
coast of the little inhabited Isle of Imams. The conquer.% being In-
formed that one of these ships had the sum of 400,000 piastres so
board, did not hesitate to land upon the island, where they released
the Turkish ships, alter putting the crew in irons, and immediately
again set sail. lataeos is said to be very high. and a roe* more
thinly inhabited than any other island under the dominion of the
Noble Lord ; who, instead of considering this island as a piece of
loose and unappropriated soil, open to all navigators, has not only
declared that the Greeks have, under the orders of one Mamma-
date, violated the British lonian territory, but he has also put un-
derlnteirna7l
severe quarantine the two islands of 'Lance and C tillage,
the inhabitants of which are the objects of a severity
on his part quite singular. Far a long w ile the martial
law reigned in these Isles ; now the laws of quarantine, equally
severe, have succeeded them. We hope, however, that these ruin-
ous and vexatious measures, as well affecting commerce as the whole
inhabitants of the neighbouring Isles, will not be long endured.
MADRID, JAN. 21.
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There is much talk in this capital of the ordinance which relates
to the permanent councils of war, and it is asked where is the public
force that will be charged to had their efforts in executing the
orders of the Council ? For it is most notorious that there are in-
surrections in all the provinces, and that it will be very difficult to
make the people return to that state of passive obedience from
which jt iv always so dangerous to rouse them. We do not
think it belongs to the privileges of the French troops to be-
come the executors of these military commissions; and, as we
hare not (we may almost say) any national troops, it will be
absolutely necessary to require a certain class of eitirens to sup-
port these new authorities. For, in recalling the troubles which
exist in the Provinces, it is certain that they are very serious in
part
,of Andalusia, and especially in the environs of Valencia.—
At kspinas there has been a rising among the Canooniers, which
evinced itself in the districts there. They not only hoisted the pa-
triotic colours, but they were heard to cry. "Meere k Roi !
(Death to the King), and vim la Constitution I The National
forces have been directed upon this point to suppress the tumult,
There arrived here yesterday a strong convoy of French sick and
wounded, who had evacuated the military hospital at Seville. The
detachments (which were composed of men whose time of service
has expired), are also arrived in this Capital ; they return to their
native homes with a gaiety of heart of which it is impossible to
form an idea, happy in quitting a country where anarchy is at
its height.
We still look for some event that shall at length put an end
to the deplorable state iu which we find ourselves.—L'Orech de
Braga-elks. . . _

[From the Constitritiosseell
PARIS, PIZ. 3.
The Circular of the Keeper of the Seals is snti-constitutionaL
The Charter has guaranteed the individual liberty of the French ;
their admissibility to all employments; and liberty is certainly
violated if the right of election is not free. The equal ad.
miss bility to place is unknown, if the people are prevented from
using that liberty guaranteed by the laws of the State, and from
exercising a right which those laws confer without distinction.
Resides, it cannot be too often repeated to the Minister for Foreign
Attitirs—without freedom of election there is no Charter, no rep e.
sentative government.
But die functionaries (the journal of NI. the Keeper of the Seal
tells no, me bound to the Minister who employs, mipporta, and
pays them. They are certainly bound to the Government,. but will
the Government less subsist under the administration of M. Barbi/
Marbois, than wider that of the Count de Peyronnet p Ys the
Dynasty connected with the ministedal existence of such or ouch
a person ? ft is not the money of the Minister, it is that of the
State; it is that of the taxed persons who are proxies for the dec.
torn, which is destined for the provision of the functionaries and
officers.

The Journal of the Seals makes us the following strange reply :
" Suppose," it says, "that those who are employed on the Coastits-
&rend worked against its interests, that they endeavoured to deprive
it of its subscribers, would you continue to employ them in your
office ?" No, certainly we would rot; but the CoNstitetionnel is a
private property. There is not a banker, for instance, who would
not turn away a dal( that robbed him. But is the 3linistry, then,
the property of tl,e Count de Peyronnet ? The tipstaffs, the
avowals, the notaries--are they the tipataffs, the avowees, the
notaries of M. the Count de Peyronnet ? And when they shall
vote for Deputies, of whom there will be such a majority that the
seals will peel into other hands than those of his Lordship, will
they have conspired against the Monarchy P Will they have ex-
posed the tranquillity. of the State, and the repose of Europe?
Will the course of justice be impeded ? It emanates front the
King, and not from this or that Minister.
The Gdvernment of the King employs you, my the fanatics ;
you are bound to uphold it, and would you work its destruction !
The Charter has defied the Government of the King: it is com-
posed of the King and the two Chmtbers. You are the Minister
of the King, but we cannot oppose you without attacking the Go-
vernment itself ! Truly the Government will be weak indeed, if
its duration and firmness is to be dependent upon the stability of
the Minister 1. . . .

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In sh.irt, the threatening circulars on the elections are at ones a
violation of the laws lied the sanctuary of the conscience. But such
menace' are illusory—they can furnish no ground tor alarm, because
it is impossible to affect every body—they are therefore only signals
of distress on the part of men who know that authority has ;owned
away from them ; and in fact, they warn all those who would pre-
serve thek places that they should not vote for men who will infal-
libly lose their power.