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LISBON PAPERS.

[From the Listens Cesare.]
!derma, (MT. 14,
On the I arti instant, the anniversary of his Catholic Aunty
Klee Heavy tile Duke of Villa Ilerniusa, Ambassador Truro tt,k
Sovereign, raid his respects to the King our Sovereign. IN
celleney, on this occasion, wore hoe the first time the grand cr.y
of the illustrious Order of (.holes the Third, which his tatia4,,
.Majesty conferred on him, as a testimony of his Royal approbatioa
of his noble conduct in maintaining the rights of the Ku. as
Sovereign.
On the :alt of this month, at two o'clock, his Majnity rare s
public and soleniu amlienee to his Excellency Sir W. A (hurt,
Anibaasador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary frum he
Majesty the King of Great Britain.
1!'.1 Excellency Conde de I eavallinat„ in one of his Majney's
carriages, went to fetch the Ambassador from his residence, ma..
panial by four couches of die Royal Household. and several
Noblonen's reneges. The whole Court was invited in the mind
Them to be prevent at the reeption of his Excellency. ( M the ar.
rival of the Anibasaatiur at the royal palace of Rempoce,
guard was drawn up, and paid his Excellency *semi military
honours. Within the palace the Royal Guard was drawn up ia
two lines, and his Excellency was introduced by the Conde d'..V.
mada, and the Marquis de Belles, Captain of the Royal limod.
, the audience.chember, with the mistianary ceremontei, when his
I;acellency addressed his Majesty id a speech suitable to the mei.
sion to which his Majesty Inside an appropriate reply. Afie
which, the Ambassador was :o,l4lw:ted back to his residence in thi
same manner. _

On the jilt of this month was opened the Coarse of the Natiorg
School of Mutual instruction, at which the Marquis de Pala:Clo,
Secretary of State, and many persons of distinction were pew!,
on the occasion Senor Joao Jose Le Cory, the Director, molts
speech, in which, after dwelling on the fatal consequences 14 4.
norauce, and the advantages of a well.direcied education, Meade!
on the easiest means of acquiring the elements of knowledge, aid
tin the good application of religious and moral principles, N pro.
ceedol to demonstrive the superior advantages of the teemed of
mutual instruction both to youth and to the State. it burg talcs.
tided that eighteen months are sutßcient to learn what in the mud
metluid takes feu, yeses. The Lancastrian plan Pal telllTlplltd Orr
ricer attack, and was atlinit e h in all civilized t ail .1 e ; only pow.
tugal had been hitherto prevented by wars and toner eunimstaarts
' from introducing this useful improvement. nut the foreign enemy
' being conquered, peace re-establislied, the .11totarch remand to
the Mother Country. and civil dissentients app,..ase.l, hat Majmy
hail been able to turn his attention to public instruction, the arts,
and the new establishments ret.dereel necessary by the progress of
science and civilisation in other couutries. With this vim &
School of Natural Philosophy sad Chemistry was opened under the
direction of a Portuguese. whose talents were tbrieerly admired oe
the banks of the Seine, a::d a Royal Lithographic Printing-odor
cs ablished. " To-day, we hate another proof of his Majesty's
het.evoleot intentions in the opening of this school, which his Ms.
jesty has long designed to give you." The Director then stunt
that he had been sent by his Majesty to Paris to make himself
fully acquainted with the •yment ; on his return lie was ordered to
establish a school on this plan In the Real Casa l'io. which gni,*
serve es a model to the pupils of the Nornial school. His Maj.sty,
he added, was resolved to give every encouragement to this net
institution, and be exhorted the pupils to study application sal
good mural conduct, which are so necessary in those who are to le
the teachers of youth.
These papers have so recent news front South America.

Letters received yesterday front Carthagena atate,thst
the law permitting foreigners to transact their own business
in Colombia, woukl pass ill the present S:•ssirin of Con gets.
A series of the Cadiz Diatio has been received to the to
instant, and private letters to the '2d. It was known it
C'd z on the former date, that an Algerine squadron had
sailed from Alderson the 19th antl2oth ult., having trot"'
on b rd, with the intention of cruising against Spanish
I vessels : and, it was 'eared, landing and plundering such
parts of the cots: as were tound unprotected.
Extract of a letter dated Maur:t.ue, April 16 :--ge It it
impocable for you to form an idea of the deplorable Men-
tion of this colony. Ou the 23t1 of February, we exper!•
creed a most tremendous hurricane, wh:gh did incalcu-
lable injury, and on the loth and I Ida inst. we were visitri
by another severe hurricane, which put the finishing stroke
to our distress a, and You may b,• assured, that no plate
was ever in a more deplorable situation."
Extract of a letter dated Maranham, S..pt. 19 :—" No
settlement has yet taken place, and when it may no one
can tell. We lola ses•el up from Pernambuco last nth:,
which brings accounts of the blockade of that town hein;
again rased by Lord Cochrane, who has landed 1,300 sol-
diers, and they will b!ow the town down if they ell DO:
give in. All the vessels are coming here to see and or
cargoes; but they will be obliged to be to the West In-
dies. Several chartered vessels have gone home in ballast,
and others must follow, as there arc not suo bags (of cot-
ton) in the place, yet five utiles up tit.: country thee art
upwards of 10.000 bags."
We noticed last week the arrival of the Speedy flem
Suite Martha, laden with hides and tobacco, being the
first vessel that has arrived front Vonibia since the Irititi
Conrad reached Bogota. A difficulty not foreseen by the
shippers. though arising from a revenue regulation well
known in this country, has prevented the dis :barge of the
vessel, which is in fact at present in a state of detention.—
By one of the Acts for preventing smuggling, toltatca can-
not be imported in packages of less weight than 4.soibt
The tobacco on lewd the Speedy, consisting of baler
weighing only Itilbs. each, has, therefore, bee; detained
until the Lords of the Treasury shall give directions at
the enforcing, or suspending the operation of the Act. Td
convey tobacco from the interior of Spanish Aim rice to the
coast, its !Packages of the weight required by the Act. r
wholly impracticable. The tneiehandise transported froth
Bogota to Santa Martha, is carried partly on moire, and
partly by porters—anal by law, the weight of ever)
is limited to Llollts. This re suit! • originates in the
narrowness and general imperfection of the roads, which
a-e described by Ilumboldt, as being set narrow in many at
the passages across the mountains, that horned cattle re•l
with difficulty, and the portent, a numerous and powered
class, have invariably opposed the formation of good loads its
South America, as leading to the deslruction of their loony
poly, which is so peoduttive, that, as a body, they are
wealthy. With us. the impetration of to!iacco, in snail
packages, is prohibited, with the express view of ditninist •
nig the facility of transport to the interior; while in Cobol.
bia the package is by law restrieted to a certain weight, to
the purpose of giving that facility of transport, which, for
the protection of our revenue, is rendered petial.—Brt...
Mtrellcr.

Died, in Dublin County, North Carolina, America.
the tat ult. 111 r. Jacob Alattliews, aged los yearn. up,
a. few montlia bethre his death, he retained almost 11•.
vigour of youth : his sight w:.; wrfee.t, and hr cook' w 31..
ten or fifteen miles a-day. Seven years ago hit wife dial
aged lot) years; they laid been married about et) years.
I.l.l4eTilay a Callri of Directors w:in held at the East in-
ilia House, when the following Captains were sworn wt`'
the command of their respective ships. vii.—Copt. Thoitoo
ilaviside, iVintlsor, for Bombay and China ; and Captain
Alexander Nairne, General Kidd, for Bengal and Chula.
'flue project of erecting a chain pier at Southampton lo
b.:en laid aside for the present.
It is worthy of remark, that the number of church
in the diocese of Exeter (of cows,. including Ihion ,"j.
Owns-all) was last )tar seven 111111111 A and one, and tl?.
the number of thit;••l ting places of worship was t sae
the sainc.—Eretcr .Iye•ed.
El ickfriars-bridge was re-opened yesterday morning. 0
the gre it joy of the Surrey stle_te coactinien. inAny of slu;
sit ce its being under repair, have upon the average Pr i'
78. 6d. a day for toll at Southwark-bridge.
We unilers•atitl that several men are in custody
ed nn the
charge of having been concern in die murder of I% illl3ll_
Welch, a 'seaman of the Nevi:tit/re Service, at 11:111111,°'
the ttid Septtaubt.l.—ilaidslaar Guaette.