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TRENCH PAPERS.

Last night we received the Paris Journals of Tuesday,
with the Muffle of Wednesday's date. The following are
extracts :

!From the ftfortiteur.l
PARIS. JAN. 20.

A private letter from Rio de Janeiro, dated the 211th of Nov.,
contains the following :
" A dispatch from Comte de Sublime to Comte de Ilia Major,
prblishell here, induces us to think that the King of Portugal per-
sists in believing that Brazil does not desire to be separated from
the mother en ry ; and the recent conduct of the Emperor him-
self res.dirs his attachment to the cause of Brazilian independence
doubtful. Since the last changes in this colony triuujuillity has
been much disturbed; and we wait with anxiety intelligence from
the other provinces."
Mere follow the names of the Ministers, and the letter adds,
" All the Ministers are Brazilians."l
To-morrow, being the anniversary of the death of his late Ma.
testy, a solemn service wilt be performerl at the Church of Notre
Dame ; and service will be 'celebrated is all the other churches of
the capital. The Exchange, Thanes, and public offices will be
closed.

TCHIP, Nov. 15.

Colonel Ponsonby has recently arrived here. to demand the
Greeks who had been taken on board an English impel ; but the
lky has refused, on the ground that the treaty agreed upon with
ixtrd E x ..... uth only related to European slaves, and not to the
subjects of the Grand Seignior. The Dry has presentA the Vire-
Consul with a line horse, and Colonel Ponsonby has returned with.
out accomplishing his object.
There is now in our Roads a Swedish vessel which briny Greek
MThThe Swedish Comm, has received positive instructions, and •
penal law against Swedish subjects, who will be treated as slaves.
At Tripoli all the (Irak slaves have been liberated.
Incur the Cetirekr l'ancals.)
VIENNA, JAN. R.

The Arstrian Obsen.er gives news from f'onstantinople, but of
a date rather old, 10th lkeember. The substance of the
genes is, that thepttsonelarna had returned with glory, and that
he lad never ex tbs legit cheek • and all the accounts
published by the remit*, French, sod Italian joumals of the pre.
tended sucerases of the Cheeks, ars a tissue of -falsehod ; the bad
weather alone retarded his manse: For the remainder, the 06.
server builds its support for theta accounts upon an undeniable
authority, that the Spretstre• Orkstof, of Smyrna; and this
latter promises to give its readers the history, and not the romance
of the Greek revolution.
! ts:pata, . J•,‘ 1 .

A traveller, just arrived from Alexandria, in Egypt, states that
at the moment of his departure salvoes of artillery were announcing
a great victory gained by the army of the Viceroy, over the rebels
of Shandy ; and on the very spot where his eon was cut off by
treason on the preceding year. Six thousand prisoners, and
amongst them the entire family of the Chief of Shandy ; and ae-
mrding to some aeopunta, the Chief himself, had fallen into the
Viceroy's paws. This victory establishes tranquillity upon ,h:.
frontier of Upper Egypt, and travellers and merchants are saved
horn all inquietude. The Europeans cannot sufficiently praise the
Government of klahointsi .11i, for what he has already undertaken,
and dons, to improve the situation of the Inhabitants. Ile gives
particular encouragement to industrious foreigners, who bring to
Ngypt the tribute of their understanding and talents. In no other
country of the Urine, do the Franks enjoy so much liberty land
respect.

PARTS, .1 AN.I9.
The Knights of Malta are constantly speaking of themselves;
they knock at every fluor to pronounce the miracle of the resurrec-
tion of their order ; and they do not wish to recollect, that times
arc utterly changed. We art far removed from that period, when
everything not noble was estimated as worthless. Armed monks
may reduce those who wise to become members of their order, to
the necessity (little anntortable to Christian meekness) of proving
their paternal and maternal nobility. The founder of our religion
was not so exact to the choir of his Apostles. The time is gone
by when the Turks were the terror of Europe; we have oo longer
anything to feu from them ; and as to the other barbarian powers,
they never littlisted a lighter injury upon Christianity, than when
they dispensed klessieurs the Knights, for we can most easily dis-
pense with their scevices. But even supposing that it was actually
necessary to wage perpteual war with the Infidels (sod the auppo-
shine is meet shown!), how, in their present financial embarrass-
meats, am the States of Europe (even if they were an disposed) to
pay so en tly a soldiery as these Knights. tine hundred of these gen-
Amite 'Mild ismastetempensive than an entire regiment, and they
would not be snore serviceable than a single cempany of grenadiers;
* It ha, been demonstsatiol that the hasmborn peasant can bestow
ill heavy a rehire blow, as the best gentleman by lather and mother.
'e are no hewer, (led be pralmd,an age of chivalry i the ruling
;Fia
DM* paten t yrs is that of calculation ; and it would he
ant aelansidna Shush, head of each miscreant killed, or tiken by
thine Knights kb 1787, cost the Catholic States of Europe more
than $6•00. franca EVI.Ty one must think this rather dear, except,
these Knights, their relatives, and friends, who may, perhaps, ham
gino, that-high and Dolga monks cannot be too well paid. They
will, perhaps, Nowt. that Europe never paid the Knights. It did
what was of tows importance; it erneferred upon them immense
estates, which polsined large Stearn t let us pay now genit-
or neither le lAN, nee hint* natere will engage for thole erodr.
raignauort, ,
We gleeribs worth of the decree .of which sonic of the journals
of the south have liven the substance, and upon which the French
tool Spanish fanatics ground their hopes of the speedy restoration
of the Inquisitkut 3
D6CREE,
fern ON Till lire Or TWO column'. MONTH TO Till

DIIILLIMOiIkaIIiNZIAL OF ?UREIC CREDIT.
The King, wishing so peasant untouched, under the wort appro-
priate administration (that is to ray—in the hands of the tea al-
astir appointed on purpose), the property of every description be-
lagging to the tribunal et the Holy Inquisition. comprehending
pensions and rents of prebends, orders that the Public Director
should cease to have the management of them, and that they should
be traneferred to a Collector.lieneral, who twill give an exact ac-
coont of thin, and who will take care to make thou prosper ; and
that those individuals employed in the otliter of the Inquisition re-
' main in the officer of Public Credit ; and the Collector Deneral is
to employ himself in the allotment of these funds for the payment
of those in the employment of the above-nseatitmsd tribunaL
From the Jowrsal do Drotilv.l

CONsTAXTINOPLE, DFC. 10.
Letters from Smyrna draw a melancholy picture of the situation
of many Philhellenists, apparently from (lemony, who, reduced
by the Mattering account given ut the country. hastened to the as-
sistance of the tirceks. Thew arc in a deplorable situation, far
troni the country they wilted to defend, destitute of everything,
plundered even of the little which they posacased ; they are re•
diced to the estreme of misery, and they perfimn the most me-
nial offices for the puryose of prolonging a wretched existence.
Smyrna, and the other pert( of the Levant, where they have
taken refuge, witness their frightful situation, which excites the
compassion of all the friends of h ttttt anity, and more specially of
the fellow-patriots or therm unfortunates.
Fit t:steu Ey stns.—Pants, J• 74. 20.—Five per Cents. opened
at 241. 10c. • closed at 11.11. 24e. punk Stock, 1,64. if. Neapolitan
Five per emits. 811 f. Rental il'Esp. 2-11 f. Lot-lunge on Lou.
dots—l month, 241. 44f.; 3 1111 l nths, 25f. 34c.—Cours Atiflumti-
que, Jam. :V.