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London, England, 1826-01-17 00:00:00

THE VIGO BAY COMPANY•

If the details transmitter Correspondent from
Spain be correct, as we have reason to believe they are,
they wilt produce as much disappointment to the share-
holders of the Vigo Bay Company in England as to the Spa-
nish Government. According to the letters lately received
from that city, the parties engaged in the researches in
Vigo Bay have lost all hove of recovering the motley sunk
in the galleons. It appears, that the undertaking was
commenced a little too hastily on the faith of the re-
presentations of William Cox and some others. But
after some attempts, suspicions were excited that these
representations were not exactly correct; and recently a
manuscript has been found at Vigo which has dissipated
what trifling hope remained. This manuscript, which is
written with no elegance of style, but which bears the
stamp of truth, is said to be the production of a mere me-
chanic, a joiner, who was an eye-witness of the battle be-
tween the English fleet and the Spanish squadron. Ile re-
lates that the Spanish Admiral, finding himself attacked
by the English at the very entrance of the port, landed
all the money he had on board the galleons, and
.ordered it to he conveyed in wagons into the interior of
the country. After having taken this precaution he set
fire to the galleons, to prevent them from falling into the
hands of the English. They, however, having leanied
the direction in which the treasure was going, made a
descent at Redondela, attacked the escort, and captured
the greater part of it. The rest was pillaged by the pea•
-sentry in the neighbourhood, who were drawn to the spot
by the expeota6On of booty.* Our correspondent adds to
these details, that time manuscript in question hae appeared
so important and authentic, that the Government has offi-
cially demanded it frOm the authorities at Vigo.—Courrier
, Francais.

FRENCH PAPERS.
•
• [From the Etuile dated Sunday, Jan. 14.1
PARIS, JAK. 14.
A letter from St. Petershtirgli, of the 2,Jth. adds to the details
which we gave yesterday of the events of St. Petersborgh.
We will not dissemble how much these occurrences are to he
deplored, and, we need .not add, how much they have affected the
Emperor.
But those who witnessed the noble conduct of this Monarch,
his magnanimity, his calm anti immoveable serenity ; those, too,
who admired the enthusiasm even of the troops and of the old
Generals ; those who rethuted on the conduct of die Grand Duke
:Michaels which led to such successful results ; those, in fact, who
consider that the rebels remained four hours in a public square, all
the avenues to which were for a long time open, and that they re-
ceived, by way of reinforcement, oitly drunken soldiers and some
of the lowest class of citizals, in this same state of drunkenness ;
that of all the regiments of the Guards some few companies were
seduced, or hurried along, but that no one corps in mass took any
part in the seditious movement ; they, we say, who reflect upon all
these things, will admit that we have experienced a momentary
crisis, which has only traded to show in stronger cs lours the
clieraeter of the Russian nation, the ardent fidelity of the army,
and their general attachment to the august person of their legiti-
mate Monarch.

In fact, the spontaneous confessions of the principal culprits—
the promptitude with which the mutineers were dispersed at the
lirat attack—the sincere repentance or the soldiers, who hastened to
return to their barracks, and to deplore their error—all, in one
word, proves, that it was not these pawns who-ought to besceused
of the add occurrence; and that the wishes expressed in favour
of the Grand Duke Constantine, with the obligation of an oath,
annulled by the irrevocable determination of his Imperial High.
news, was only used as a mask to cover the real designs of the'
promoters of the revolt, whose object it was to excite a movement
which might have plunged the liussiau Empire into all the horrors
of anarchy.
The regiments which bivouacked during the night round the
Imperial Palace have returned to their barracks. They were re-
viewed On the 27th by the Emperor.
During the four hours that the conferences lasted on the 26th, it
was repeatedly declared by the' Emperor that a pardon would be
granted to the soldiers, but none to the officers.
Count Ki.xlisof is appointed Military Governor of St. Peters-
burgh, in place of tie brave and unfortunate Milaradowitch.
Letters from %V arsaw of the 2d announce that the Grand Duke
Constootine had caused the oath to be taken by all the regiments
in that capital (it Poland), and had sent the same order to all the
corps throughout the kingdom. The oath was taken according to
the following formula :--" To the Emperor Nicholas, and his
legitimate heir, the Grand Duke Alexander."
The repen which was circulated at Berlin on the 6th, of two re-
giments having refused m take the oath, and of the Grand Duke
Constantine having caused several officers of those regiments to be
shot, is without foundation.

The Emperor Nicholas succeeds to the Imperial Crown of Rus-
sia, and to those of the kingdom of Poland and the duchy of FM-
land, in consequence of the two spontaneous renurciations of his
august brother, the Grand Duke Constantine, the last will of the
Emperor Alexander, and of the hindamental law of the order of
succession to the throne. In the conduct thus pursued by the Grand
Duke Constantine, it may be re narked that he did not wish the
throne to remain vacant a single moment, which would have been
the case had he recognised the proclamation which was made in
his favour at St. Petersburgb. It was in his character of Grand
Duke, therelow, that he renewed his renunciation of all his
rights.
Private letters announce that the plague has broken out with
great virulence in Wallachia and Moldavia.
A courier from the Pend' Embassy at St. Petersburgh, which
left that capital on the 29th of December, arrived this day at
the Foreign Office. A courier has also Arrived at the Russian
P/Abair)... , . .