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FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Etude, dated Wednesday,. Nov. 17.1
MADRID, Nov. 11.
BY EXPRESS.
The King and the Royal Family are still at the Escurial.
A Royal Decree, published in the Gazette of Madrid, contains
the following regulations :
" Complaints being continually made of the conduct observed
by the I Mem who made part of the revolutionary army, notwith.
standing the benefit of the amnesty of the lit of May this year,
his Majesty orders :
" I. The Captains-General shall take nut of the hands of the
said Officers all horses fit for the service of the cavalry of the art.
tillery, which have belonged to the army called ConstitutinnaL
" 2. All articles of equipment and barna' shall be taken with
the hors's.
" 3. These regulations are not applicable to officers who have.
known means of subsistence, and whose lawful property the horses
are...

I Another decree of his Majesty regulates the plan of instruction
in the seminaries, under the direction of the Bishops and Arch-
bishops. The ecclesiastic discipline is to be re-establithad according
to the precepts of the sacred ('ouncil of Trent.
In the Chapter de Refitrniatione public instruction has been the
object of his Majesty's special attention. By his decree of the 11th
October he has just laid down the bases of the general organization
of the system of study in the whole kingdom. It Is the result of
the labours of the committee appointed for that .purpose, by the
Ring. in the month of July last. His Majesty has ordered this
new plan to be printed, that every person qualified to give an opinion
00 this important subject may do so in proper time.
NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, SIPT. 10. '
A Moreot, who has fled front the ships of Mehemet Ali, has ar-
rived here, and gives the following account :
Ibrahim Pacha, Commander-in-Chief of the Viceroy's forces,
wrote final Rhodes to his father a letter, in which are the following
" Our friend, M. Coccini, of Zante, has given us wrong
:19,111!foralii on respecting the Akin of Greece. It is not true that the
Mainotes have separated from the rebels, or that the Greeks are
divided by dissensions. On the contrary, I find them more united
and firm in their resolution than I could even have thought. They
have respectable forces both by sea and land ; and I am convinced
that, instead of our doing them any injug, they will do us • great
deal; and for that reason I beg your Highness to give me the neces-
sary instructions, either for returning to Egypt, or fur any other
movement which you may think suitable in our present situation."
Such, then, is the result of a year passed in immense prepare-
I ;king, and of six months employed in bringing an Egyptian fleet
I to the Archipelago.
The world will say what a people can do that combats for its
religion, its independence, and Christendom.
PAII/11, Nov. 16.
Several journals relate to-da all they pretend to know of what
passed in the Cabinet Council held by the King on Sanday.
According to the Journal as Commerce, this Council agreed on the
bases of a project of law for the indemnity ; six hundred millions
of annuities at I per rent. redeemable from year to year, beginning
from 1836.

The Courier affirms, that the Spanish Government. having re-
quested that the evacuation should be deferred, the Council deli.
berated on this application.
The Quaidlame says, the evacuation and the indemnity were
discussed: that the President of the Cuenca explained the subject
of the deliberations, that his 31ajesty put the questions, that each
member gave his opinion singly, and that the King said, " I thank
you, gentlemen • I will examine."
The incoherenle and the contradictions ofall these accounts suffice
to prove that the Journals do not know what passed in the Council
of State. In fact, they ought not to know it.
The Austrian Observer at length thought fit to give, in the
Number of the Pith November, an extract from its letters from Coo-
@tendon* of the 100 and lath.
On the Bth and oth about sixty small vessels, said to have been
taken from the Greeks at Ipsara, were shewn under the walls of
Constantinople. This sight did net produce the effect on the sol-
diers and people that was expected, because reports of most terifie
defeats were spread at the same instant, which were soon confirmed
by the unexpected return of the Capitan Pasha to the Dardanelles,
(The Observer says the accounts were so vague and contradictory
that it was very difficult to discover the truth.]
The battles of the Isth and 17th September, which it was at-
tempted to mrke pan for victories of the Turkish and Egyptian
fleet, were of very little moment, and it may be affirmed that
nothing important happened from the 10th of that month till the
day when the Illuminist :a abandoned the bay of Boudroun.
It was en the 17th (others say the 10th) September that the Capi-
taa Pasha quitted that anchorage with all his fleet, reinforced by
forty Egyptian vessels with several thousand troops on board. Ile
immediately meditated a new attack on Samoa. The 24th he cut
anchor at Miooni, and remained stationary the whole of the 2rith
on the 27th a violent tempest overtook him between 3liconi and
Maras. On the 28th lie entered 3litylene' with only six frigates:
those that the tempest had dispersed joined him afterwards.
What his since pissed is not so well known. For instance,
we absolutely know nothing of the reasons which have induced the
Capitan Pachx to leave 3litylene and return to the Dardanelles.*
It is perfectly well known at least, that on the 6th of October
he met the Greek fleet between Mitylene and Scio. The same
day a Russian Captain nw 100 Turkish vessels, and 60 Greek,
and on the. following night he saw, on the distant horizon, im-
mense columns of tire, which were followed by loud explosions.
It is therefore to be presumed, that the Turkish or Egyptian fleet
met with disasters that night. According to an lonian Captain,
they are less than was at first said, and the lose of the Ottomans is
reduced to sue frigate and a brig burnt by the lire ships, and eight
or ten tnttJperts driven on the coact.
A Consul writes from Tenedoe, that the Capitan Pasha could
not have been in person in the action of the oth and 7th, since lie
saw him at that very time at Penedos with several vessels. It is
certain that the Turkish Admiral had retreated to the Dardanelles
on the 7th. There is still more uncertainty respecting the Egyp-
tian fleet, of which a considerable part seems to have remained in
the bey of Boudroun, and the ether to have parted from the Capi-
tan Pasha An European Captain met on the 7th October, off
Scio, 44 Egyptian vessels steering to the south, probably to return
to the anchorage at Co., if the Greeks did not prevent them."
]The Austrian Observer concludes with the following paragraph,
which is the more remarkable, as it confirms an assertion Mien re-
peated in the Etude.)
" Whatever detail' we my still receive respecting these events,
it is sufficiently proved for the Porte that the naval campaign of
this year must lae considered as terminated, without having pro-
ducal any essential result.fi
[From the Caurrier Francais of Tuesdal.l.
Vivrours, Nov. 7.
Couriers either going to, or returning from Paris, pass frequently
through our town.
The Royalist Milida is considerably increased in one province of
Alava. The volunteers are already 7000 strong, which is nearly a
tenth of its population.
letters, which we have received from Corunna, mention that an
expedition of 3000 men is preparing, destined for .Iwerica, and
that it will sail in the course of the month.

The following is the latest news from Madrid :
In this place, as viii as in the rest of Europe, the departure of
the French troops creates a strong sensation, and causes much ap.
prehension. Many families have already applied tur passports to
France.
Many carriages anti mules are put in requisition for the convey-
ance of the baggage belonging to the French army. The invalids
will commence quitting the capital on the 6th instant ; the cavalry
will follow next; then the infant!),; lastly the Swiss Guards. In
short, by the 13th or the 20th, the Quartermaster-fieneral will
have quitted Madrid. Such at least are the orders which have been
issued.

If the evacuation affects in any degree those Mho are the friends
of order, or those whoahave any thing to lose, there are others who
rejoice at it, and what, as we hear, have already begun to evince
their joy. Among the letter we reckon Adam (called Cl Lambe>
liessieres, Elaine, the Trappist, and some other Generals of the
Army of the Faith, who are now ut the Escurial or in the environs.
A great number of prisoners aro about to be brought here. all of
them rich into, accused of plotting against the safety of the State.
l'aa is, Nor. I&
We arc misfired, that In the Cabinet Council held yesterday, they
were ptincipelly occupied with tit: affairs of Spain. There has
been tune to receive at Paris the answer of the Spanish Govern-
ment to the notification which had been made to it relative to the
departure of the French troops, and we understand that it was on
this answer that the Council was deliberating yesterday. There is
no doubt but that the Spanish Govertituent desires, by concessions,
and also by promises, the prolongation of the stay of the French
mops in the Peninsula. it was probably the journey of the cou-
rier rrhu wee the bearer of those propositions that gave rise at
Bayonne to the report that the evacuatiou of Spain would be again
deferred.

[Front the Constitaitiou mei of Tuesday.]
Pants, Nov. 1..
The organization of the French troops, which are to remain for
sense time in come of the garrisons of the Peninsula, is decreed.
These troops will tone three divisions as follow :
The divilion at Cadiz, which will he coarananded by Lientenant-
Genets( Count Guilin: it will be from nine to ten thousand
strong, and will nut occupy any post beyond the lsle of boon and
Cadiz.

7 lie division of Barcelona, commanded by Lieutenant-General
Renal : it will be composed of about 5.1100 men, who will 11)1111
Grarriaon along the line of Figucirasand Barcelona.

The division of P.uopcluna, which will he equid to that of Bar.
celon.i, will occupy acme h.rtrcinc in Lavane and Iliseay.
Theu will be no llencral-in•Chiel. Each of the Generidi coln-
tuanilini; the three divisions will communicate immediately with
the 31intater of War.

It is calculated that the 20.000 men who are about to return to
France, will reduce alnuot one half of the capinses occasioned
by the Army of Occupation, which arc es, 'mated at 2,0U0,0011 a
month.

k nExcit FV!AZ)I. PMl's. Nov. 16.—Fire per Cents. opened at
1012. %ie.; dotted at lull. ; blank Stack, ; Neapoli-
tan Five pet Cents. (Falconer's rertiticates), ; Itente
d*EspAgne, 184; Royal Simnish Loan, 1323, til.—Exchange on
Loudon, one mouth, 25E; three ditto, 2.1 f. 85c.—Coors Audits-
ague.

• These reasons are very well known at Paris, viz. the complete
defeat of Korrbes Pacha on the 19th of October, and the positive
orders of the Sultan, commanding the unfortunate Admiral to
come to Constantinople.—Note of the Doile.
t The Greeks will not agree to this; the result is for then/more
than curnti.a; it is dccisire..sklote of the Ettik.