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LONDON, SATURDAY, Jm 5, 1824.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday reached to yesterday
evening. The Etuile contains the proceedings in the
Chamber of Peers in the sitting of the 2d, on the new
finance law for the reduction of the /genies. An amend-
ment was proposed by one of the Piers, which was sup-
ported by M. Roy, and opposed by the Duke de Narbonne
and the Minister of Finance. Upeit a division "ea
scrvitin" taking place, the umbers ran m close, that it was
lost by a majority of only two-112 voting for the amend-
ment, and 114 against it. Another amendment was then
proposed, which the Chamber was to dime; on Thursday.
The mode in which this great financial operation is to be
carried into effect is stated as follows:
The operation shall be successively e'er* by fifths, upon each
portion of renter ; each fah may be appropriated to the convmion
or liquidation in the quarter which fdkws that is which the opera.
tlon shall have been effected, for another llth.
To provide for the liquidation of each fifth, the Minister will
open a loan upon the new funds, in 3 per amts. sad 4 pa cents. by
the medium of public bidding.

The 6 per emits. will be reeet.ved in payment at par, and by pre-
ference au faux dradjsdicalkm,
The surplus of the fund will be supplied by tip capitalism ad-
mitted by adjudication, to charge themselves VIII the payments
which may be required:

The Elude is still harping on South America. It states

that the accounts from Mexico to the 20th February, re-
present that capital, with the whole country, to be in com-
plete anarchy. Lohat's troops (according to this journal)
had threatened ta pillage Mexico, if their arrears were not
paid. Two hundred thousand piastres were given them,
furnished by British residents, on which this banditti
wen. again tranquil. Various bands of other descriptions,
it adds, were roaming about the country, and had pillaged
a courier, who was the bearer of so,tiuo piatres, escorted
by merchants of the United States. Campcachy, it con-
cludes by saying, disobeyed the orders of the Executive.
Little reliance can be placed on these statements of the
Etoile, and they are utterly contradicted by the last ac-
counts from Mexico, which came direct to this country.

The Allgemeine &dung of the V7th of May rtaelicd our
office yesterday. It contains the Austrian Emperor's no-
tification from Prague on the 19th, appointing Count Na-
dasdy President of the Aulic Chamber, to the provisional
direction of the Finance Department, vacant by the death
of Count Stadion. This Joutnal states, that the Ottoman
fleet passed the Dardanelles, on its destination against the
Christians, on the 213:i. of April. Under the head of
Trieste, to the 18th of May, it is stated, that the Pacha of
Egypt's armament continued at Alexandria, but not a sol-
dier had been embarked. The plague was raging in the
viciwty of Cairo, and among the Pacha's troops, in a dread-
ful manner. We may now consider the Egyptian expedi-
tion as at an end. The wily Mahmoud had no idea of
affording the Porte any effectual aid from the commence-
ment ; he has other vies a, and looks to his own security
too closely, to strip Egypt of his armed followers and send
them into the Mores, from whence he knows they would
be likely never to return.

AUSTRIA.
His Majesty the Emperor having received notice of the death (on
the 15th May) of his Excellency,rount Stadion, Ministtr of State
for the Department of the Finances, has been pleased to address the
following letter to Count Nadasdy. President of the Imperial Antic
Chamber, respecting the provisional direction of the Finance De-
partment :
My dear Count Nadasdy—l am moat profoundly afflicted by the
loss which the State has just suffered by the death of Count Stadion.
In the expectation that you will proceed in the path laid down by him,
which I hereby impose on you as a duty, I confide to you the provi-
sional direction of the finance department, while you at the sante
rime retain your functions as President of the Antic Chamber, as
I have very much at heart the maintenance of the system of finance
as it now exists, and the execution of the preliminary measures re-
quisite for the completion of the plan that has been adopted. You
will have most strictly to follow the regulations which have been
approved and ordered by me in the management of the affairs of
the department of the finance.
" Prague, May 19, 1824." (Signed) "FRANCIS.
TRIESTE, MAY 18.
By a vessel which arrived here yesterday, from Alexandra,
which place it left on the 25th April, we have not received any fur-
ther intelligence respecting the events at Cairo.
At Alexandria the !Niche's armaments continued, but up to that
day not a man had been embarked in the vicinity of Cairo, and even
among the Pitches troops the Plague raged in a terrible manner,
iu consequence of the confusion occasioned by the fire.
KRONSTADT, MAY 10.
The relations of the Boyar, Pillar°, have just received positive
information that he has at length been restored to liberty. At the
same time we learn from Constantinople that the Ottoman fleet
passed the Dardanelles on the 28th April.

The Lisbon Gazettes of the 22d and 24th of May, which
we received yesterday, present striking and melancholy
details of the monstrous excesses committed in Lisbon by
the insane and profligate Don Miguel and his partisans,
during their short possession of unrestrained power. The
documents contained in these Gazettes will be found in
our columns. From them it will be seen, that several
most respectable and tmoffending individuals, partners in
British commercial houses in Lisbon, had been suddenly
torn from their business and families, on the mandates of
the vile Miguel, and flung into dungeons. The British
merchants resident in that city had presented a strong re-
presentation to our Ambassador, Sir Edward Thornton,
who immediately addreaed a Note to the Marquis de Pal-
mella on the subject, expressing his hope that the
King would give the most positive orders to put an
end to these illegal arrests, and adding his wishes
for that regular and legal administration which had
for so many years happily consolidated the interest all
the subjects of Pcrtugal with those of Great Britain.
The French Ambassador, Baron Hyde de Neuville,
much to his credit, bad also protested most strongly
against the monstrous proceedings of the Portuguese Prince
and his armed followers. His Note of the 6th of May to
the Marquis de Pahnella (who was himself arrested by the
orders of this boy), states the alarm felt by the French
resident then in Lisbon, from the extraordinary events, of
which they, with the Ambassador, were witnesses; and he
then asks, whether such a state of things was to continue?
His Note also adds, that should it not cease, he would de-
mand passports for many families, who would rather em-
bark for France, and abandon every thing, their commerce
and their fortune, than live in the midst of tears and
anarchy. A declaration from the Ambassador follows this
Note to the Justice of Peace, Joao Antonio Meyer, re-
monstrating warmly on the outrage committed by him in
the violation of the French Church of St. Louis, and the
illegal arrest of the Chaplain who was attached to the
Embassy. This declaration makes the Portuguese Officer
of Justice responsible personally for that illegal act, and for
the neglected state in which he left the Church and its
treasure, which was in the care of the imprisoned Chaplain.
The Ambassador adds, that lie has caused the seals to be
affixed, by the French Consul, for the safety of the valu-
able articles in the Church, and to save it from profa-
nation. This Gazette contains the Marquis de Palinella's
circular letter, thanking the Foreign Ambassadors for
their spirited conduct in the late fearful transactions. had
it not been for the firm ksondaet and judicious atice 9i,
the diplomatic corps, the timid Dan John would have
sunk under the menaces of his profligate son and wife,
and Lisbon to this day would have been a scene of anarchy
and alarm.

fhe Vittoria, from Jamaica, has brought letters and
papars from that Island to the 20th of April, and Co-
lombian papers and letters to the 9th of March. The
British Commissioners hail, it appears, arrived at Bogota,
and they met with the most cordial reception. The Go-
' vernor of the Province of Marequita entertained Colonel
Hamilton and Lieut.-Colonel Campbell at a dinner, at
Honda, at which toasts of respect for the British Sove-
reign and nation, and for the Government and people of
Colombia, and their independence, were severally drank,
' with the utmost feelings of cordiality. The gentlemen
appointed Consuls or Commercial Agents from this coun-
try to the ports of Guayra and Carthagena, had also ar-
rived, and met the most friendly rect ption, and the
Executive Government at Bogota hail approved of the
d!wonstrations of respect and friendship shown by the
Magistrates of these departments to the Commissioners
and Co►►suls. It appears, that on the night of the
10th of April, at a few minutes before ten o'clock,
one of the severest shocks of earthquake experi-
enced for many years, was felt at Kingston, and in
several other parts of the island of Jamaica at the
same time. The shock was preceded by a rushing wind,
and lasted more than thirty seconds, accompanied by a
subterranean rumbling roise. A few houses were destroyed
and injured on the northern side of the island, but happily
no lives were known to have been lost. Several =anis.