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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAscu 9, 1826.

The French Papers received last night contain rumours
of a contradictory nature that have been in circulation re-
specting Russian affairs.
The Duke of WELLINGTON is supposed to have reached
Warsaw, where he was not expected to remain more than
forty-eight hours before he resumed his journey for St.
Petersburgh. The Report of the Commission charged with
the investigation of the conspiracy at St Peteraburgh, with
a list of the conspirators annexed toil, has been laid before
the EMPEROR by General Di satTsen. His Imperial
Majesty was extremely deprt:ssed on account of the severe
measures which it will be necessary for bin. to take upon
the occasion. The Extraordinary Council which he con-
vened to deliberate upon the subject, after considering the
Report of the Commission, gave it as their unanimous
opinion that the soft ty of the State rt (prima the prompt and
exemplary punishment of the conspirators.
The private Correspondence from Spain, if any credit can
be attached to the facts stated in moat of the Prench Jour-
nals, is filled wi►h accounts which indicate the approach of
a crisis in that country. The danger which is now said to
menace Ft ItDINA ND is from the Apostolical party, and a
second revolt, similar to that of BEsst sass, is suspected
to be in preparation. The ecclesiastics and others of this

party who surround FE N• HD, in concert with the Coun-
cil of State (who are desirous of re-establishing the I nqui-

sition, and of carrying into efil.ct several other measures
calculated to rekindle the flumes df civil war) have attempted
to persuade him to diminish the numbers of the regular
' troops, on whotu alone he can place r.ny dependence for the
safety of his person, and to increase the Royalist volunteers,
who are in general favourable to the re-establishment of
the Inquis4ion—the great object of the party. 'file
Minister of War presented, on tke 24d of February,
official documents to the Council of State, which had been
transmitted to him by the Captains-General of tlw pro-
vinces, unanimously asserting that the existence of the
Royalist volunteers is incompatible tith public tranquil-
lity. The production of such documents, which even in
an official form were considered by some Counsellors as

being of a calumnious tendency, prcduccel a great deal of
disturbance in the Council. The KING has given enters
to the difil:rent Ministers to withhold all affairs of lin-

portance from the consideration of this body, which, con-
stantly opposed as it is to the Government, must soon either
perish entirely or become all-powerfitl.
A troop of thirty horsemen lately sppearod in the nehtb-
bourboad of Cora, near Segovia. They gave out that they

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were a band of mounted Custom-hone officers; and it was

not till after their departure that the Alcalde discovered them
to be insurgents. lie could not determine whcthtr they
were Carliqs or Constitutionalists ; but the conduct

of the Royalist volunteers sent in pursuit of them pivis
reason to suspect that they were not Constitutionalists.
It is well known that the Cure Merino has a great numl.•er

of partisan'. in Arragon, Catatonia, and Avila, who only
wait for a favourable opportunity to rise at the first signal 1.
from their leader. In spite of the vigilance of the police,
incendiary proclamations in great numbers have been
circulated in Madrid, all terminating with " Vhas to
V., the Inquisition, and the Council of State,'
assertir that V en NAND is Unfit to govern, and el.:m-
ing that he has lost on several occasions the opportunities
that had presented themselves to him for securinr, tia
presperity of Spain on a stable foundation. The KING
is will acquainted with the authors of these proclamations,
as well as of their motives; but he accins to be afraid of
discovering the whole truth, and punishing the rca
aut:iors of all these intrigues.

Itscacno, accompanied by two Strangers, supposed to
be important pol:ce agents from the Provinces, bad inter-
'ince with the KING on the 21st and 22d of February, •
both at the Frado and at the Palace of Monclaa, at Madrid.
It is be ieved that the circumstance which occasioned these
interviews was a report which had reached FeunisaNJ)
that MINA was in Spain, which Ilse acn o, who was con-
sulted on the sutject, immediately pronounced without
foundation—proving by documents that he was in England
at a date so recent that his arrival in Spain could not pos-
sibly be known in liptrid at that time. But RECACIIo took
occasion at the same time to observe that an attempt might
soon be expected on the part of the Constitutionalists.
FLRDI NAND did not come to any decision in these inter-
views ; but eight expresses were despatched in consequence

to the cap:tale of the tlifretcnt provinces. Although the
Superintendent-General of the Police was with the KtNo
almost the wholz of the 22t1, RECACuo remained with him
at the:Prado (luring the night. Another fact worthy of no-
tice is, that General Lows, who is said to belong to the
apostolical party, and who had been appointed Captain-
General of Old Castile, a few days ago, on calling on the
Captain-General of Madrid, that ocer, Instead of the
passport which he demanded, and the letters patent for his
new employment, delivered to him an order of his MA-
JESTY forbidding him to leaie Madrid. It is raid that the
New Bessierians, as the French Journalists denominate
them, are at no pains to conceal their intentions, and have
proposed, by way of accommodation, to appoint the Infant
Don Ca }mos Generalissimo of the Land Forces. The Go-
vernment of Spain, while it continues to talk of expedi-
tions to the Havannah, has been obliged to shut the work-
shops in the arsenal of Carthagena for want of money to
pay the workmen.

(From the Etoile, dated Tuesday, March 7.1
Ancu 6.
A Journal of Liege says, that fresh troubles have broken out at
St. Peteraburgh, and that the Emperor Nicholas retreated to Riga.
Meantime the English Journals repeated a horrible invention of the
Edinburgh Observer.
We have this moment received a letter from the Russian capital,
dated 20th, and the Journals of the 19th, which we hasten to lay
before our readers :
" The most perfect tranquillity prevails at St. Petertburgh, and
in all the rest of Russia ; the investigation of the affairs of the in-
dividuals implicated In the tumult of 26th Dec. is proceeded in
with care and activity, and ail necessary publicity will be given to
the sequel of these important proceedings.
" We have news of the arrival of the funeral procession In the
ancient capital of Russia. There is nothing remarkable but the
sentiments of affliction and respect which the people manifested on
seeing the coffin of their adored Sovereign.
" St. Peteraburgh is at this moment full of illustrious foreigners,
who have come from all the Courts of Europe to compliment the
new Emperor. The Duke of Wellington is expected in a few days
Marshal Weede will arrive to day. His Imperial Highness the
Archduke Ferdinand will leave us at the end of this month, and
consequently will not be present at the obsequies of the Emperor
Alexander.
`• The Prince of Orange will protract his stay, In order to pay
the last duties to the great Illonarch, who was not only his relative
but also his friend.
" The Emperor, notwlthelanding his multifarious ooeupatioas,
is happily in good health. He takes advantage of the fine weather
to drive about with the Empress in a traineau without any attend-
ants."

(The extracts given by the Phil's from the St. Petersburg)
Jusroul are the same as in the llamburgh Papers.]
The famous process relative to the pretended assassination of the
Avoyer Keller, of Lucerne, is now neatly terminated. The
Special Commission of Inquiry sitting at Zurich have just declared,
I. That 111. Keller was not assassinated.
2. That his dtsappeacance cannot be attributed to any external
cause.

3. That the depositions of the banditti have no foundation.
4. That in consequence of all this the innocence of Messrs.
Plyffer and Corrogioni Is perfectly demonstrated. Time will
doubtless reveal the secret of the horrible plot against two such re-
spectable Magistrates.
Fresh shocks of an earthquake were felt on the 11th of February
in the kingdom of Naples, and in the same places. The Com-
mune of Tito, which suffered the most on the former occasion, has
had all the buildings, which were ouly shaken the first time, coos-
*telly overthrown.
Yesterday one of the Commissaries of Police of the City of
Paris* went to the Museum of the Fine Arts, of C. Rouy, '
Galeria Vivienne, to esetutt a mandate issued by the Prefect of
Police, In order to search after all signs and symbols destined to
propaga•e the spirit of rebellion, or to disturb the public peace.
Ile seised an enominue quantity of busts of Napoleon, in every
point of vlekr and of all dimensions. (The Constitationissi has a
lung article on ills subject.)
(From the Jourteal de Paris of Sunday.)
FitANSTORT ON THE °DEL FEB. 26.
EVery thing is perfectly tranquil at Warsaw ; a report which was
spread here that the Emmet Nicholas would come to Poland after
his coronation, which is to take pbtec in the month of May, hes
caused great joy both among the people and the army.
It seems that his Imperial Majesty will also visit Finland. The
Governor of that Grand Duchy, General Zaelraewsky, ilea arrived

at St. Petensburgh, and has been extremely well received try the
Emperor. This General, who eNpect:-.1 w1:1 become Minister'
of War, has had s verAl conferences with General Diebitsch, who is
in high fawns with the Emperor Niaohts.
The Duke of Wellington must by this time have reached War-
saw, where by order of the Grand Duke Constantine every thing
was prepared for hisreceptinn.
It was afErnied that the Duke would stay only 49 hours at War-
saw, and proceed without stopping to St. Pctershurgh.

gITRACT OF A raIVATE T r.TTF.9 Fao3: rETSR9BCROLI,

ILPIIL'ARY 14.

A Report of the Commission eh:viz:Al with the investigmion cf
the conspiracy 'at S. retersbutgli, was on the 9!li of the month 1
kid before the Emperor alone by Gener4l
To this Report was ennexecl a Est of the conspirators. pointing '
out also the greater or less degree of their guilt. The Emperor
appeared eztretnely &parsed on tbrt day. The mildness of
his character recoiled at the measu:e4 of extreme screri.y seitich
the circumstances require. On the 10th, however, his 3l:.j::sty
called an Extraordinary Council of his ;11inistera and cornniuni.
cated to them the Report in qutstion. The Council was unani-
mously of opinion that the safe:y of the State tlinismled prompt
juatice and exemplary punishment of the conspirators, especially
of those who were talten with arms in their !muds.
FILYNCII Ft:xi/S.—PAINS, 31 ARCH —Five pc, Cents. opened
at (iv. 75c.; highest, oar. FlOc. ; lowebt, !fa. 24e. ; cicsed, Bat. 40,:.
Three per Cents. GM rale. Bank Stock, 1..00f. Neapolitan
Rents 7lf. 60c. Royal Spanish I.Dan 4 If. Eschanrc, on Lon-
don p--One womb DI. 50c. Three months 2,1 f. 2,sc.—C'ours .4 u-
thentipt.

We have received American Papers of the 13th, 1-Ith,l
and 13th February, some extracts from which we have
given in another column. It scams Mr. JI:FTERSON, Who
has always been considered so bincerL, a friend to his
country, has not experienced much gratitude from his fel-
low•citizens; for, after a life devoted to the public serviet4
he is, at a very advanced period of it, compelled to ask
permission of the Virginia 1.'1; is;sture to obtain a fair
value for his estates by means of a lottery. The editor of
the Commercial Daily AJtartiser, as if be were appreben-
sire that we on this side of the Atlantic might charge the
Republicans with ingratitude, aims the first blow at us, by
calling to our recollection the financial entbarra,;nnents
of Mr. Prrr and Mr. For, and in his anxiety to relieve his
country from the disgrace of Mr. Jr.rr sasoss insolvency,
and at the same time to attack our national generosity, he
gays on to say that even Mr. Buns s would have died in-
solvent had it trot been for the rigid system of economy
pursued by a mast exemplary wife.
The Mexican Government is pursuing a steady course
of policy for the internal itnptovement of the State as well
as for the extension of its commercial relations. The ex-
tract from 'le National Intelligenrer shows that education
is eccupying the attention •+f the Mexican Executive.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Mr.

flcsaissox brought his Bill last night into the House cf
Commons, to apply the law of merchant and factor to any
goods on which the Bank had advanced money. The
measure appears to us both just and salutary--just towards
the Bank, that ought to he placed in as good a situation
as any other creditor; and salutary, inasmuch as it extends
a system from which great good was anticipated upon its
first introduction into Parliament, and which has fully jus-
tified in its operation all the cxpectaticns entertained from
it at the time.

Those who may be inclined to it.spond as to the revival
of our former prosperity, and who fear that, great as arc
our coltnnerce and our capital, they will never again com-
pletely recover from the shock they have recently sustained,
would do well to revert, not only to the various periods in
the history of our own country in which it has had diffi-
culties far more overwhelming to encounter, and which, by
the force of its own innate energi,:s it has completely stir-
mounted, but to turn to the history of other countries,
which furnish illustrations equally striking of What the re-
, sources of manufacturing skill, combined with the spirit of
enterprise, can effect in changing the most dispiriting aspect
of its affairs, and triumphing over embarrassments, which,
at the time, were regarded as insurmountable.
The following extract from the North American Rel.-1m
for July last will be read with interest, from the very sin-
gular parallel which it presents between the situation of '
Baltimore, the capital of Maryland, and our own mercan-
tile condition, with the remaining distresses of which we
are at present contending. After tracing the series of
events which affected the commercial interests of Balti-
more, and showing in what manner they led to its unex-
ampled prosperity till the year 1815, he proceeds to show
that from that date their action became too violent; that
the impulse of mercantile activity excited an ardour of
speculation among merchants and trailers, which was rot
suited to the real state of the times ; that they did not take
into account the revulsions which a five-and-twenty years
sanguinary war in Europe would necessarily occasion ;
that they did not anticipate the new state of things growing
out of it; and that, owing to all this want of knowledge
and of forecast, the very fervour of enterprise, which in
other times had wrought so much for public and private
good, now opened a broad road to disaster and ruin.
' " But the greatest evil," says the American Reviewer,
" which'afflicted Baltimore, and one to which this excess of
commercial activity may be at least partially ascribed, was
that in which the banks had the chief share. The origin
of the mischief has already been hinted at; we will now
pursue the subject into some other of its branches.
" We have seen, that before the war terminated the
banks mere unrestrained in their issues tf,vairer, and to
accomplish this end they granted almost tunlimited advan-
tages to merchants. This practice increased on the tem-
porary revival of commerce after the war, and by this en-
couragement an alarming system of accomthodation, an it:-
terchange of responsibility, took place between individuals,
the fatal tendency of which was not anticipated while the
banks themselves were not pressed. The high price of
provisions in the interior for the supply of the army dur-
ing the war, and the creation of a vast number of minor
bunks in every quarter, had diffused through the country
an excess of circulating medium, which enabled country
merchants not only to pay up old arrears in many cases
considered desperate, but also to make new purchases, and
thus to establish a credit, which they used to its full ex-
tent. Meantime there existed between those places which
hail what was called a metallic currency, or in which
specie payment was made at the banks, and those in which
a paper currency only prevailed, a large difference of ex-
change, or discount, which operated as a serious embar-
rassment to every kind of business. This difference be-
tween Boston and Baltimore was at one time from fifteen
to twenty per cent. in favour of the former, which dif-
ference increased as you approached Baltimore, and again
as you proceeded south, though in a less ratio. The dif-
ference extended in various degrees to the country banks,
in proportion as they lost their credit; traders in the in-
terior were constant losers by the depreciation of the cur-
rency around them, and were unable to pay their debts
contracted with the wholesale dealers, except in a currency
I 1 which had fallen many per cent. in value since the time of
the purchase.
" At this crisis an equalization of (mercury throughout