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FOREIGN 11VTELLIGENtE.
• FRENCH PAPERS.
Yesterday we received the Paris journals of Saturday
monting and evening. The following are extracts:—
From the Ettik, dated Sund
Pitts, Juana 19.
The King this morning heard nuns' in his apartment.
At half-past eleven o cluck, the Duke de Deja (the Infant Don
3liguel), accompanied hy the Portuguese Avnbersatior, the Seere.
t try of the Embassy, and an Interpreter (his Royal Highnesa does
not speak French), was introduced to an audience with the King,
by 31. the Baron de !Alive (IstroJactcar des Anitossuglrros), and
31. Dui-niers (('ourt Secretary). The Prince, on approaching the
King, manifested the deepest emotion; the King embraced his
Royal Highness- and convened with him during three quarters of
an hour. After the audience with his 31ajesty, the prince was
received by the Princes and Prineenes oldie Royal Family. His
Royal Highness M ted in the uniform of a Colonel of the
Portuguns light infantry;
he wore the Blue Cordon, which was
conferred upon him by the King afore the overthrow of the re-
volutionary government of Portugal. On Sunday next, his Royal
Ilighnese will dine with the King and his august family. • ,
The King will have the Tuileries for St. Cloud on 31ondsy.
The Dull de Meese, Ent Gentleman of. the Ki ig's Bedchamber,
and his family, will forthwith proceed to occupy the Pavillion of
lireteuil, during his Majesty's may at this Royal residence.
M. the Count Pozzo Boer; the Russian Ambassador, yester-
day despatched ah extraoidiralry.aeorier to St. Petersburg.
A superb service of plate has just been completed by I. Cattier,
the King's goldsmith at Paris, which is destined re a present from
the Emperor of Russia to his brother, the Grand Duke
the MiTchael.
This service has been deposited in the blue saloon, at uile-
ries, revidludy m its transport to Russia, and was this evening
viewed by the King, who deigned 10 express his satisfaction, and
to encourage this new chef d'ourre of French industry, of which
foreigners will yet be fee a long period tributaries. This service is
valued at l francs (51,0081. steeling).
iFirtera Gisartvers Me:armor of Saturday.l
SEOEI Lice ANCE, FIVE o'CLocx.—The long stinstion of
business upon 'Change, peoduced no little anxiety to-dity. At
half-past three o'clock, a rumour prevailed that a loan of twenty
millions of Stock would shortly be negociated, half at three pee
cent., and half at four pee cent. ; in consequence of whieh, the
rift gave way 80 cents.
.Many persons are still of opinion, that
the Compose who had printracca with Government fur the trim-
Imminent ot the 5 per saps., will not throw much Stuck in the
market, in onlet that nt iirious decline may take place.
Fauwest Ft: it ne, Juts. 19.—live per Cents. opened at 102 f.
Ik. and closed at the same price. For the end of the month,
182 f. SAN. Neapolitan, lki, for the erd of the month, 894.
The effect iroduced on the Exchange of Frankfurt by the news
of the rejection of the law for reducing the rennet was the most vio-
lent. The funds fell from 15 to 20 pet cent. san k bills of Vienna
hare fallen from 1,460 to 1,31 M. Dutch bills fur the of
ree
were sold at St, which a few hours before were bought at 7i. Cash
of Austria, as well =paper, at 5 per cent. fell less in proportion;
they remain at 92.--ConstihnionveL
'The roods to Makid are infested with robbers. Lately a emevoy
of money going frem that city to Burgos, was •attacked by a ban-
ditti, and out of eigbt chaos/ems that escorted it, one was killed and
several wounded. M. Ouvrard, coot from Cadiz to Madrid,
was completely stripped by these brigands.
The Intesdant of Police has lately succeeded. in arresting the
famous revolutionary Colonel, Don Josef Quintannla, who himself,
on the 7th March, MM. with a poignant in his hand, forced the
King to swear to the Coostitution of 1814: he was immediately
sent to Madrid to rake his trial.—Drapeaa *lame.
Council of 31inisters trtransactede
Yesterday, at five o'clock,ted busiaesa wit his Excellencyh die Kim' the President of the
,
Juxs: IR.
An order of the 17th has appointed Count Charles de llamas,
Peer of France, First Gentleman of the Bedchamber, in the place
of the Duke tie laChartre, who es the honorary title, and
continues to enjoy the honours that service.
The King of VPurtemberg re
houses exed daily at Marseilles to use
sea bathing. Several country have been already hired for
his Majesty and suite.
The Duke of St. Carina, late Spanish Ambassador at Paris, is
appointed Vice Roy of Navarra
A letter hum Madrid, June 9, nays, that it is reported that the
household of Don Ca dos is to be enured y changed ; that the Prince
has proposed to travel for some time in Europe. That the follow.
tag persons bays been arrested as free Masons, or at least wishing
to 'establish the two Chambeen :—The liaTqUie de COCO° Verde,
Den Jeer. Marion, Den Antonio Zareo del Voile, Don Felippe
2doreno, Don T. tie la Cruz, Don Juan Onindalaine, Don N.Carde-
mae, Don Bias Tons, 1)oo N. Duchene, Dun Jose Torts Don
Almelo 111 *, Counts Commute and de Theba, lion. s'.
Boris, Generalseep
Placentia, Don Felippe Caza Maior, Don Jose
Monte, Flores, Den Manuel Dews, and many others, whose
mamas I cannot recollect from the difficulty of their pronunciation.
All I know is, that those who waited the effects of the amnesty at
Cadiz mode a precipitate escape for fear of being arrested. General
Capons, who in 1814 presented the Constitution to the King, has
bum arrested at Cadiz, sad sent to Madrid.—eurinitetiumta.
(By Extraordinsty Despatch.)
AI satin, JUNE 10.
The King anti Royal Family continue to inhabit the Palace of
Aranjoys. Public attention is more than ever fixed on the Spanish
womessiorn in South America. An official Gazette has just pub-
lished the details, which give a pesMve idea of the state of nEtirs
in that country.
Letters from Oneaquil place. the critical position of Bolivar be.
yond a doubt. M hat has finished the entire discouragement of
this Chief after Ms defeat, is the conviction he has before his eyes,'
that an immense majority of the inhabitants of Peru is fully de-
voted to King Ferdinand and the august dynasty 'of the Bour-
bon.. The Vicerey IA Serra is in pursuit of him, at the head of
11A00 excellent troops. The corps of Ike Chain army has en.
tirely abandoned Bolivar, and returned, by forced marches, to their
own homes. Letters from Monte Video, of the 27th February, not
only minima the total defeat of Bolivar, but veld that the greatest
dismal. and confusion reigns among the Revolutioeary Authorities,
and that the appearance of &single rased (the Asia) was sufficient
to become master of all the coast.

It has been rumoured that troubles had again hnilten out in
Spain. Nothing is more Cold of fbundation ; the mom perfect tran-
quillity reigns in every part of the Penhuula. • The amnesty has
been executed without opposition. The attempt of ('a tape wholly
failed ; be could but ratite 40 men to his standaul ; he has been
arrested and taken to Madrid to be tried.

PORTUGAL.
RESTORATION OF TITiItr;MNT CORTES-ACT OF
AMNESTY.

Yesterday we received Lisbon Gazettes to the 10th ins
On the Sth, the Anniversary of his Majesty's return to
Lisbon. after resuming his absolute authority, the follow-
ing Proclamation was put forth in a Gazette Extraordinary :
OFFICIAL DocumENT.
" Don John, by the Grace of God, King of the United King-
dome of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarve, &c. &c, bra, to all
to whom these presents shall come, greeting.
" The Junta appointed by my Royal Decree of the 18th of
June, last year, for the purpose of drawing up a plan of a Panda-
mental Law, having represented to me, that, considering it as a ,
sacred duty, not to adopt other principles or other bases, for the'
foundation of the new Fundamental Law, than those which I
deigned to indicate and declare in the Ileac* fur its convocation,
and considering, in the first place, that one of the most jusfita-
fens for which I rejected and declared null, do facto and at jure,
the monstrous Constitution of 11b22, wasits bring incompatible with
the ancient habits, opinions, and wants of the Portuguese. and
moreover, at variance with the Monarchialprinciple, conceived that
the new Charted Carlo) should be conformable to the indent usages,
opinions, and habits of the nation, and regulated by the soundest of
public and private laws, on which is established pure and indepen-
dent Monarchy, moderated by wise and just laws, according to
which justice may be administered, the rights of every person se-
cured, crimes punished, and the lawsuits between individuals of all
dames be decided by means of Judges and Tribunals, in which
truth and justice may prevail, and the laws be administered ; and
as only deluded or corrupted heads, can possibly think of calling
Nigh a Monarthial Government, arbitrary and despotic, or that
the expression of absolute King. who governs his people in this
manner can have any other meaning than that which it always had
arm indepeneant King who acknowledges no superior on earth ;
and observing in the second place, that I declared, in the same
Decree, that the new institutions, or new Charter or Fundamental
law, should restore to the throne, on which the Almighty placed
me, the grandeur and respect which belong to it, and that no
!Jiangs should be introduced which might eclipse its splendour or
lower its dignity and greatness ; that in the third place, observing
that in the said Decree, I manifested the intention that the Charter
of the Funduanintal law should be accommodated to the
form of the Representative Governments established in Europe,
and to the mutual relations of various parts of the Portuguese
Monarchy, it Kmearedl that there must be a national re-
presentanon, but that this ought to be such that it might
be in harmony with the preceding principles, mid that its
being accommodated to the form of other Governments does
riot mean that it is to be identical with them ; that meditating
with the most mature reflection on an object of tech importance,
observing also that these were the principles which foram(' the
ancient Portuguese Constitution, in which they. were found in the
meat wonderful concert, and the wisest combination, the cape, fence
of many ages having shewn the incalculable advaritages which re-
sulted from it to the Portuguese nation, and it being certain that
neither greater nor even equal benefits arc to be expected front new
and different institutions; reflecting finally that according to the
1211111i11111 of the most esteemed politicians, no form of Government
can be useful to a nation which is not cunfomiable to its character,
education, and ancient usages. and that it is extremely hazardous,
and almost always impracticable, to attempt to introduce such a
one, and to reduce to one general form the customs peculiar to mach
nation ; judging that it was not propel: to demolish the noble and
.rnapectable edibce of the ancient political Constitution, consisting
of VIM laws, written and unwritten, confirmed by the oath which
the Kings of those kingdoms took, and which I took myself, to
maintain the rights and privileges of the nation, that di: plan of a
Constitution which it (the Junta) was to submit to my Itoyal ap-
prohation, could be no other than to propose to me that I should
be plowed to declare in vigour the ancient Portuguese Cortes, com-
posed of the three estates of the kingdom—the Clergy, the Nobi-
lity. and the People, which had not been convoked fa more than
a century; that they might be convoked and might assemble when
I thought fit, conformably to the ancient Kactice, privileges, and
usazes of the nation, in outer that, answering to the various ob.
vets far seiich I should order them to be opened, they might place

'before mT Rval joesenet, ln theithaner praciiied ikall the pre.,
I ceding Cortes, the deliberatione (Cepflains et Confabs) on the',
:public wants. the public good of my subjects, the eke of their I
rights and privileges, the adminintration of justice, the *remedy of!
public or private grievances. the peosperive and welfare of the
monarchy, by which I should prove to the whole nation how de- I
simile I am of confirming and preserving its tights, and would
enhance in all respects my beneficent intentions, since by invok-
ingthe ancient Cortes, and maintaining the ancient Constitution,
it was evident that I should preserve the old habits, opinions, and
,usages. of the Portuguese nation; that the Majesty and great.
Hess of the throne, and all its rights would be inviolate ; that the
• said Cortes contain a true national representation, in which the peo.
pie are represented by their Procurator, the Clergy, and Nobility,
and by those of their Members who have votes in them; finally,
that the public felicity would be promoted, not by uncertain,
new, and dangerous ways. nor by means of precipitate and destruc-
tive reforms, which easily lead to the most fatal disorders, as
• experience has unfortunately proved; but by wars already known,
and by progyessive ameliorations in the administration of the
I State; that it was the deceitful promise of convoking the an-
cient Cone., that the rebellious and disorganising fricti?n con-
trived to delude the Portuguese people, having only in view the
destruction of the very inatittitions which it proclaimed, -and to
'object the nation to the shameful yoke from which I have happily
freed it ; that it being evident that the Portuguese tuition attained
such pre-eminence among other nations, was great, respected, and
happy, with its ancient political Constitution. I should, by its
entire restoration, indisputably complete the glory with which I
have covered myself, br destroying the revolutionary, monster, and
should most amply fulfil the royal promise, which, from the im-
pulse of my generous love to my faithful subjects, 1 was.pleased
to make them, to bless them with a good Constitution ; it being
known besides. by the general opinion manifested in various ways
on occasion of my restoration to all the right); of sovereignty, that
no other could be so satisfactory, or more suitable to my people,
than that by which those kingdoms were made so respected and
happy ; that it would also be proper, that after convoking these
inn Cortes, i should be pleased to determine the periods of their
convocation, that they might be regular, according to my &ree-
-1 reign rights, and with a view to the public wants, without its being
to be interred that 1 deprived myself of the inalienable right to pro.
'rogue or convoke them, betore the appointed period, when the
general good of my people should require it ; I, therefore, taking;
• into consideration these, and many other judicious arguments, en- I
forced by the Junta with so much wisdom and prudence, bearing
also in mind the opinions of many persons fearing God, rid faith.
rut to my service, and zealous fur the good of my kingdoms, con.
sidering the evils that have always resulted from the introduction of
' innovations, founded on vain theories and Constitutions hastily
drawn up. and generally rejected by experience, convinced that the
duties which I contracted when, by the Divine mercy, I ascended
the throne, demand that I should respect and preserve, untouched,
the ancient foundations of the monarchy • and seeing that the
ancient Portuguese Constitution contains all elements necessary
for the reservation of our holy religion,. of the majesty of the
throne, and the security of the individual rights of all my subjects, ;
and of good order in the administration of justice ; that it is con- !
firmed by the anontancous oath which I and all m august retie. ;
moon took on our elevation to the throne, and that hnally. it is
desired by the great majority of the Portuguese, and is conse-
quently the only one that can fulfil my royal promise ; with the
advice of my Council of State, I have resolved to declare, in full
vigour, the ancient political Constitution, convoking the Cortes of
the three estates of the kingdom, in order that, hearing them in the
• prescriptive limits of their privileges, according as I am pleased,
they may represent to me in their consultations,. in the form an-
ciently practised, according to their rights and privileges, what is
' suitable to each branch of the said estates, the common good of my
I people, the aggrandizement of the monarchy, which each and all
• of them is bound faithfully to maintain, reserving to myself to take
I into consideration, in the first Cortes which I shall convoke, the
observations of the Junta respecting the fixing of stated periods for
their meeting, as well u the other measures which may seem to me
essentially necessary foe the good administration of my kingdom,
and the consolidation of its internal institutions ; and my Council
of Ministers, assisted by those persons whom I have thought fit to
name, is charged immediately to proceed with all the preparatory
steps to make the convocation, which is to he regulated accord-
ing to the usages of these kingdoms, proposing to me also such
measures as may be necessary, that the said convocation may be
duly erected.
Wherefore," tk.c. Mere follows the order for publishing this
Decree in the usual form, and in the most solemn manner, that it
may be generally known to all persons concerned.'
The Gazette contains various other Decrees ; as—
" 1. Dissolving the Junta appointed to draw up a plan of a
Constitution.
" 2. Creating a Junta for preparing instructions for the convo-
cation of the Cortes.
3. Declaring that though every thing proceeding from the
Cortes is null and void, in point of right, yet it is judged
proper to retain some of the new institutions and regulations,
which are therefore continued. Among these is the Bank of
Lisbon.
" 4, The Junta for the Revision of the Laws and Innovations
proceeding from the late Cortes, is dissolved.
", 5. Another Junta is crested for the revision ofcertain laws.
This Junta is etpeeially charged to proceed immediately to draw
up a project of law for the trade in corn.
" 6. Proclaims oblivion of all past political offences, and pro-
nounces a general pardon for all those who have been accused, al.
ready pronteutni, or may be so, as followers of the perverse poli-
tical opinion), up to she fah of June, BM. All Tribunals and
Magistrates are commnded not to proceed agninst them for such
offences of which they' are to be held acquitted.
Excepted are-
1. Those who since that day have plainly shown that they
follow. the same opinions, maintaining and propogning them, who
ate to be prosecuted, as disturbers of the public tranquillity.
" 2. Those who contrived and aided the infamous conspiracy
which broke out at Oporto on the 24th of August, 11129. Yet even
these are to he free from the heavy penalties attached by the laws
to such horrible crimes, and are only to be banished from the
Portugsies:: dominions.
" 3. The Commanders of corps and others, who ere proved to
have been the instigators of the revolution in Brazil, obliging me
to accept and swear to the Constitution, as made by the so-called
Cortes of Portugal.
" 4. Those Members of the Cones who, exceeding the lim'ac of
what may be called opinion, were guilty of insults to my Royal
person, and to the Queen, my beloved Consort; and others who
in their speeches gave evident proofs of the most scandalous
immorality. It is understood that none are included in this
article but such, as for those just reasons, his Majesty orders,
like those in the preceding article, to retire to the different dis-
tricts, and who, impelled by remorse, have voluntarily left the
kingdom.
" Those who are to enjoy this amnesty, and who are suspended
from, or deprived 'of, any office, civil or military, cannot he re-
instated, without a new grant from his Majesty ; the Ecclesiasticn
cannot enter on the exercise of their parochial offices, till the
Diocesan have judged them admissible to that important duty.
" Palace of Bemposta, June 5, lint"
Another Decree denounces the severest penalties against the
members of secret Associations.
The lint Ses6lon of the preparatory Junta for calling the Cones
was to take place on the 10th instant, and every necessary arrange.
Inert was expected to be completed by the end of this month, or at
latest, by the lath of July. The Cortes are to meet about the
middle of October or beginning of November, as the elections and
the harvest could not, without the greatest inconvenience, allow
them to assemble earlier.
The following is the description riven of the effects reduced by
the promulgation of the above Decree, upon the Portuguese
people. It is, however, from a quarter very likely to exaggerate
the matter :
" The important news of the fah was transmitted to Oporto by
the steam-;oat Restattrador Lusitano, which left Lisbon at 3 P.M.
after the King's brilliant Levee, anti reached Oporto on the Oh,
at I r.x. Rejoicing was expressed all over the town by the saint:
of cannon, firing of rockets, &c. in which every one joined in the
best manner lie could. No Prince can be more revered and be.
loved than King John is by the Portuguese, and the proofs he
daily meets with are the most convincing. On the Bth, the King
and the Princesses were present at a splendid dress ball and supper
given to them lby the subscribers of the Portuguese Assembly
Rooms. It was crowded to exerts, and the royal pleats remained
till three in the morning of the 9th, and in the afternoon of that
day, his Majesty and his daughters were to go on board the Genoa,
Sir T. Livingstone, and in the evening to a select party on board
the Windsor Castle, to celebrate the month's vett= of the day he
went on board the same vessel to put his Royal person in safety
and full liberty."

Ltsnox, MA Y_3l,

The Gazate contains letters from the Ambassadjirs of Spain,
Russia, Austria. and Denmark, and the Pope's Nuncio to the
Marquis Palmella, in answer to his note to the diplomatic body,
expressing their gratification at the flattering {manner in which his
Most Faithful Majesty had been pleased to convey to them his
satisfaction with their conduct on the late occasion.
The Gazettc of the 4th instant contains a very long article excul-
patory of the conduct of Prince Miguel, in wafering himself to be
led astray by evil counsellors.
The following vessels were at Lisbon at the date of the above
, advictst—fiettoa, 17, Sir T. Liviagstone; NVintlsof Castle, 74,
Captain Dashwooti ; and Primrose, Captain Stedart. The French
84 Santi Pori, Rear-Admiral Heron Des Rottrars, and a brig of
I war. The French vessels were reported to intend to sail In a very
I few dayi for Cadiz.

A Belgic Journal mentions that mere his lately been a
dreadful bail storm, which has caused irreparable damage
in different parts of that country. A Southern Journal,
in repeating this event, adds, the hailstones were as large
as pigeon s eggs; another Journal, on the borders of the
Garonne, announces Cud they were as large as the egzs (g*
an ostrich. When this news has past the bridge of Hour-
deans, God knows to what dimensions these hail stones
will have attained. We know that a snow hall gathers as
it rolls; but it appears, that in the South of France hail
►tones have the same property of increasing their magni-
tude, u they proceed from one Journal to another.
Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, dated 14th April,
give a most distressing account from Delagoa (a Portn.l
guese settlement on the coast of Africa). A detachment of '
the natives Lad Surprised the Govtrnor, and his escort of
40 men, the whole of whom were Weltered in the most
inhuman manner; and such was the agitation and alarm
at Delsgoa, at the time the accounts carte away, that it
i was believed it woud be entitely evacuated, and the fort
destroy ed.