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London, England, 1824-05-17 00:00:00

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MADRID, MAT b.
A general amnesty bas been pnbliabedbere. The principal cheep.
dons are,
I. The chiefs of the insurrection of the tide of Leon.
!. The members of the Cones who proclaimed the deposition of
the King at Seville.
3. The chiefs of the military insurrections in the ditlireet parts
of Spain, at Madrid, and other cities.
4. The assassins of Venom, the Judges of Elio, and the au_'
then of the massacres in the prisons of Grenada.
The amnesty concludes with an address from the King to the
Spaniards, exhorting them to sacrifice their resentments for personal
injuries to the union and peace of the kingdom.
It is dated Aranjues, May 1. 1824.
[From the Etude of Friday.'
Pasts, MAY 11.
'.l great plot has been discovertd at St. Domingo. The Spanish
part meditated a declaration of independence. President Boytr
has shot four of the heads of the conspiracy, but the exasperation
has only become more violent among the colonists.
Ai It) the French part, Boyer turns all his attention to the (yin •
tattoo of the land. Ile causes all persons in the towns, who have
no means of subsistence or occupation, to be seized, and sent to la-
ouur in the sugar and coffee plantations.
STOCK Excttar)E, I'AR IS, MAT 13.—The G per Cents.
opened at 1041. stk.. tOr Money, and closed at the dune price ; for
the Account, 104 f. Mc. closed at the same price ; Bank Stock,
1995 f. ; Neapolitan, !t6 ; Spanish, 173 ; Exchange, one month,
2.5 f. 20c.; three months, itif. Sc.—('ours Anther:ague.
I From Gitligxerars Afearrager.)
In the sitting of the Chamber of Peers, on the I I th, the fhtler
of the Day was a scrutiny of the law, relative to the amelioraion
and divers modifications of the Penal Code, which article's were de-
liberated upon in the sitting of yesterday. The project was adopted
by a majority of 152 out of 156 voices.
The division of the army of observation commences its entrance
into Spain en the 6th of May. The Ist battalion of the Ist regi-
ment of the line arrived on the 4th at Bayonne ; the 2d battalion on
the sth ; the 11th regiment on the 6th, and len on the Bth ; the
12th regiment arriveil on the Bth, and left on the 10th ; the 29th
regiment arrived oil the 10th, and left on the 12th. These three re-
giments are destined for Saragosa. Ts o detachments of foot ar-
tillery, of :4 sub.affiura and privates, It ft on the 4th instant for
Spain, 94 for St. Sebastian, and 30 fat Victoria.
'Viscount Mgt= has arrived here from Paris. but departs im-
mediately fur Madrid as Commander-in-Chief of the army of occu-
pation in Spain.
A detachment of the 7th regiment of foot artillery left on the Gth
to join the division of the Haute Ebro normal,.
The two lonlships of I woniet and IVrokanka, in Austria, which
are to be disposed by superior authority, in lo s, are advertised in
the Juarnul de (.111Ilaterre of today. The former, situated in I.:alb-
eit., is valued at 1912.071 florins, the latter at 173,838. The drawing of
this lottery is to take place on the 10th of June next at Vienne.
Each number twenty francs.

AUGSBU•G, MAY 7.
IPRIVATE LETTERS.'
M. de Zeallemimixt, 31iniater Plenipotentiary and Envoy
Extraordinary front the King of Spain to the Emperor of Kasai.",
has arrived at St. Petershurgh..

M. de la Perrerays, the trench Ambassador, was preparing, at
the departure of the last courier, for his departure from that city
for Paris, where it is said he will pass the summer.
A
Thesinister of State, Count Nesselnxte, has received letters
from M. Minziacky, respecting the commercial relations be-
tween the two countries. It appears that the Turkish Minis.
ten finding that the English and Austrian Ambassadors re.
new daily their demands, have made a promise that the mer.
chant vessels of Russia which enter the Turkish ports shall
meet with sec y and protection: and that Russian vessels passing
the Bosphorus need use no other Hag than that of Russia : hitherto
they were obliged to use French or English colours, to prevent
vexations from the Turks. A letter received from Belgrade ob.
serves, as positive, that the Ottoman troops who were to follow the
Pacha of Widiten into Thessaly, have received orders by despatch,
from Constantinople, to take a concentrated position on the right
Lank of the Danubc.—Joi ru. tit Paris.

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31.111:11lID, MAY 4.
The Madrid Gazette of the 29th ult. contains some of the ar-
ticles of a convention entered into between the Governments of
France and Spain, relative to the tmops of France who remain on
the other side the Pyrenees. Article 11 declares that the equip-
tont' and clothing, provisions, and other objects necessary for the
service of the French troops, may enter and circulate through
Spain free from all duties. The 13th article enacts, that all military
persons, or individuals tztached to the army, who are joining the
corps, and those who leave Spain. are free front the visits of the
custom officers, for all erects for their personal use. This arrange-
ment will open a free trade fur France, to the exclusion of England.
Letters from Valencia state that daily arreetations take place in
that city, where thee wait the arrival of a brigade of French troops,
composed of the 15th and 22d regiments of infantry of the line, who
have left Madrid for that purpose. It is hoped their arrival will
calm the agitation and disorders which reign in that country.
At Victoria eighteen individuals have been arrested, merely on
the pretence of their having constitutional principles, and been sent
to a place a league and a half front that town.
CIIA3IIIEII OF IM:PIITIES, May 11.
The order of the day was the continuing the deliberations on the
registering and stamp laws ; among the latter it was proposed as an
amendment by the commission, Lid adopted, That the tine fixed
by the 2fith article of the law 0z43c1 Nov. 1798, at 39 francs, in re-
gard to bills and promissory notes, under 6410 franca, written on un.
stamped paper, should be taxed in future at one twentieth of the
atuotmt of the bill or note given, but in no case to be leas than
franca. NV hen any bill or promissory note is given on a stamp of
less value than the sum of the obligation requires, the fine shall
be levied on the sum exceeding that which ought to be expressed
on the stamp employed. After this discussion was over, it was
proposed to takeinto consideration the proroguing of the monopoly of
tobacco.

From the Courtier Ft anais.l
The departure ot the Court for st. Cloud, it is said, it adjmmcd
until the middle of June.—Jumnial de Paris.

A new comedy in pro►e appeared yertenlay nt the Odeon, en ti-
tled Orriku, which name in all the rage; there are half a dozen
pieces of the same name. Thin pioce had but en ephemeral tnist-
met it rose from its cradle only to descend to its tomb. Ourika was
sacrificed without retnor,e, bring condemned baore she was even
beard.

• A letter of the 19th March, observes that the military Governor
of Maragnon, tearing the establishment of' a republic, arrested the
Members of the Government, but the Brazilian troops hat in; re-
fused to obey his order, he was in his tarn arrested, and thrown
into prison, and afterwards sent to Rio Janeiro.
On the Bth inst. the annual procession in commtrnoration of the
delivery of Orleans by La Pucelle (Jeanne d'.lrc) wok place in
that city; the National Guard, the troops of the garrison, and
gend'artnerie, were all under arms.
The charnel-house, near the Place de Greve, has for some time
past been crowded with bodits fitunel in the Seine.

A literary Journal announces that the wife of a Boyar(' volaoue,
at Bucharest, was lately brought to bed of two male children united
by the spine, but otherways iterfirtly firmed; that the Boyird,
having tar his friends, a Turkish and a Greek Failwr (or
pope), to avoid quarrel with these priests of diffirent
he has had one of the children circumcised according to Turkish
rites, and the other baptised, after the ceremony of the Welk
Church.—Se non a ecru e ben trirvaiul

RomE, APRIL 22.

A 'Feat part of the legacies of Napoleon are still unknown to the
public, yet some have been known recently from the particular
circumstances, that all the family he. lately received the portions
which the chief of their family has left. To bin mother,
for whom he had always the greatest respect, he left the
night lamp which he made use of till his death ; and Prince
Jerome has received the sword of Francis the First of France.

BA RC EL ODi A, h 1;;. 1.
The excesses committed in diflerent parts of this province be..
come daily more alarming lately the Itegidors visited the small
village of floapitalet, a short distance from the city, to demand
the arrears of the contributions agreeably to the King's orders ;
they were, however attacked by a number 0f persons who call
themselves vigilowl, and who have served under the Baron
'D'Ero les. who illtreated the Regidors, and at night having provided
themselves with sons, they nuked in considerable numbers, and
declared their resolution of resistance to the last extremity. The
Assessor having appeared the following morning, he seized a
number of the mutineen, and the others took to, flight. In the village
of San Vicent de Iloilo, a batallion, into which had been introduced
a number of serjeants, who had served in the revolutionary army,
the battalion refused to obey the orders of one of them, and calling
hint Negro, he com;,lained to the Commandant, who ordered them
to be all arrested; but as soon as this was known to the other
soldiers, they proceeded in a mutinous manner, and liberated doh
comrades from the prison. In several districts the same spirit of
insubordination is observed, because the people will not sutra the
prisoners who have been sent home, to return amongst them, some
of those unfortunate people have been murdered. I'he news film
Valencia is not more satisfactury.—l'ilote.

A letter from Paris states, that Sir Charles Stuart,
our Ambassador in that capital, has received instructions
from home to facilitate the return to England of the Eng-
lish workmen now in France. In consequence of these
instructions, Sir C. Stuart has issued the following notice,
which is expected to have all the effect desired :—" Notice
is hereby given, that all the British workmen employed in
France, will, upon application to his Britannic Majesty's
Embassy, receive every facility to return to England."
There can be no doubt that this very proper notice has
been issued on account of die evidence taken before the
Artisans' Committee of the House of Commons, by which
it appeared that by a collusion between the Masters and
Police, ninny English workmen in France, who wished to
return to their native country, were prevented from doing
so by difficulties thrown in the way of their getting
passports.
The Fourth Livraison of Napoleon's Historical Memoirs
may be expected in a few days. This new Volume, we
understand, concludes this important Work, which em-
braces the Political Ilistory, not only of Europe, during
the period, but of the world ; for there was scarcely any
part of it that was not, in some degree, influenced or af-
fected by his conduct.
Madame Pasta is to sing at Mr. Vaughan 's concert.