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FRENCH PAPERS.

Yesterday we received the Papers of Monday, with the
Dude of 1 uesday's date :
From the Elaik.l
MADRID, JAX. 17.
The King has appointed Brigadier-Gt.:nerd Don Juan I►onuie,
second in command an Andalusia, in consideration of his loud
services. 1). 1. de Freyles is appointed Governor of Ciudad
Rodrigo.
A decree has been issued, regulating the system of military
accounts.

The statement of a decree condemning Alesldes, under the Coe.
stitution, to the galleys, i. incorrect.
[Crum the Cow rice l'ranenis.l
JAW. IS.
Gen. Atif Der Maur, who first announced hi. imention of offering
his services to the King of Spain, has changed his mind, and he
now tenders his service% to the Ktng of Naples.
It appears that the project of recruiting in Switzerland, for the
latter putter. which has been already discountenanced by the Can.
tons, will be again produced, with some modifications. We know
that at the Congress of Verona it seas proposed to the high powers,
that the Austrian troops who were to retire front Naples, should be
replaced by Swiss regiments ; as the Swiss were in the pay of the
country the odium attaching :n a foreign occupation would be avoidei
At the close of the sitting of the Congress, the Minister of the King
of the Two Sicilies accredited to the Confederation, an
arrangement for:1,000 men, and his demand was strong7sZlefted
by the Ministers of France, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. It via
not, however, assented to. The Cantons replied, tint the ave.
ments already existing with France and the Low Countries took
away a greater portion of the population than ought to be in the
service of a foreign Power. After this peremptory refusal it was
not imagined that any other proposition would be made; but since
the arrival of the Duke de Cairene, son of the Prince of i'aatelei.
cala, front Pans, and who is the bearer of urgent letters signed
by eminent persons, in which the utility aid mutual advantages of
an agreement been SwitrerlarJ are insisted on, it is sup that
' the affair will be taken into coosideratioa. The Duke Ca' Ivens
isonly charged to settle the preliminaries of the treaty, and when
theee are arranged, a new negotiation will be signed in the name
of the King of Naples, and the system of recruiting will ha cow.
menced. Many persons, however, think that these effosts will
not be attended with success. Foreign service is no longer popular
in our territories : it is also not a little extraordinary that the Powers
persevere in seeking amongst our mountaineers, and in the bosom
of a republic, for guards to encircle the thrones of their Princes,
whilst writers paid by the Ministers of these very Princes constantly
represent us as Jacobins and revolutionist's, an our country as the
certain factious asylum of all the traitors of Europe- _

PrAIITS. JAIN
It was yesterday announced tti the Gardes du Corps, that the"
companions quitted Madnd upon the 9d of February. Twitted&
drtd Spanish Garde* du Corps newly raised and appointed, will dig
the interior duty of the Palace of Madrid, together with two Swiss
battalions of the Royal Guard of France.
We read the following in the Belgian Journal published at
Brussels :

" If we can attach credit to a report circulating in the nordurd.
provinces, esnetially at Amsterdam, where it seems to be believed.
the Prince Frederic will repair to Batavia, where lie will reside in
quality of Viceroy of the possessions of the Low Cuntries in the
I ndies."

If this he true it cannot fail to make a great sensation in Rag.
land. We know the bonds of fr:endship as well as of relationship
which unite the two Sovereigns of Prussia and the Low Countries.
Under existing circumstances, the departure of the Prince with
the title and power of Viceroy would, without doubt, be regarded
by the Cabinet of St. James's as an event of extreme importance.
The Ministerial Papers heap culogiums upon the Miaistn for
his conduct respecting San Miguel, the Spanish Ex..'Minister. The
part' (say they) whom the French anns have enabled to triumph
in Spain, dernarded the head of San Miguel, and, in the expects.
tion of receiving it, they raised a scaffold ter him by the side of that
of the unfortunate Riego, whose Chief of Efot Major he was during
the famous excursion from Leon ; and, notwithstanding it tithe
French Minister—that very Minister whom he had insulted is those
diplomatic notes which have been circulated through Europe., and
the object of which it is even less difficult to justify than the
former;—it is this Minister who has rescued him from the fury of
his enemies, and has saved him by claiming him as his prisoner.
This is certainly carrying adulation very far, to present, under
so imposing an appearance the simple observance of the laws of
war, with respect to a prisoner wounded upon the field of battle.
To bestow commendation upon such acts is an insult upon that
national character, and the Minister' to whom such felicitations
are addressed ought to feel but moderately flattered at them.
These things ,•erify the adage, that nothing is so dangerous as as
injudicious friend ; a sagacious enemy Is preferable.
Roam. JAIL it
The Apostolic Nuncio at Vienna will be replaced by M. Serra
Cassano.

The Jesuits have been established in the possession of dye
Universities.

The Tribunal of Forli has condemned three atrocious robbers far
murder: the first will be beheaded; the second only in effigy, as
he has escaped ; and the third is sentenced to the sallies for life,
The people say that these wretches were emissaries of the Car.
bonari. PAIIIS.
The American Theatres have given benefits for the Greeks.
Subscriptions have been opened in various parts, and even in the
colleges. That of the college of Yale, in Connecticut, amounts to
500 dollars.

The population of the Prussian moniuthy continues to increase.
By the census of DM, it was 11,494,173 souls. In 1819, it wag but
10,799,954. Thus, in three years, the increase has been 619,219
souls.

Iltrom the Colutitntiosprell
%awed, Dec. 17.
Upon the 9th of December, the Grecian squadron passed our Ca.
nal. directing itself upon Missolonghi„ under the command of Ad.
miral 3lisoulis in person. After some advantages pined in the
roads of Voles over the Turkish fleet, this Admiral, whose expe-
rience and skill fill the Greek sailors with confidence, continued his
voyage with fifteen sail, in spite of the violence of the north-easterly
wind. The fleet succeeded in its object, the raising of the blockade
of Misaolor.ghi. The presence of Maurocordatos, who WAS on board,
animated them highly. At his approach the Turkish squadron r.-
treated Pith precipitation from the roads, and took refuge in the
Gulf of Lepanto, where it remains blockaded.
The Paths of Scodra is in full retreat upon Arta. Before rat..
ing the siege of .Miasolonglii, he embarked on board Austrian
vessels the most precious of his edicts, but abandoned in the
neighbourhood Ilia artillery and the greatest part of hi. ba;arage.

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[Prow the Allgonrine Zeitattg o. JIM. 20.
BreIIAREsT,IDEC. 30.
Al. Minziacky, whom we have an long and impatiently expected,
has been received on his arrival here the night before last with
great distinction. lie immediately paid a visit to the llcspodar,
with whom he had a long conference. It is now univerml/y af-
firmed that the l'aehas of Silistria and Widdin. who comnutad
along the Danube, had only waited fot the arrival of M. Alincisay,
to propose to the Sultan the evacuation of the principalities, which
would be a great step towards removing the differences with Russia.
M. Al intiarkv proceeds on his journey to Constantinople the day
after to-mormw.

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FRENCH FUNDS.—PAIIIII, Jaw. 26.—Rentes 93f. 30e. • Bank
Stock, 11,600 f. ; Neapolitan, bltf.; :Spanish, 241 f. Exam:Nit on
London-1 month, 23f. 45e.; 3 ditto, 23f. 31c._Corr: Art/Kr-
fiver.

CHARLESTON PAPERS.

Charleston Papers to the 23d Dec:mber har•e been rz-
(Tired ; the following arc extracts:—
_ _

CHARLESTON. DEC. it.
By the schooner Sally, arrived from Jamaica and Ilmannah. we
hare files of Kingston papers to the 18th November. The bill to
repeal the Regency Act was brought into the House of Asembly
on the 13th, and met with nearly unanimous sumswt. Gene.
ral D'Evereux and his suite nailed fro.n Carthagena for Europe,
on the 4th October, in the firi!ish sloop of war Scout. Commo-
dore Sir Edward Owen was about to return to England, from his
command on theJar.otica station ; and public meetings were to be
held to express the favourable opinion caterutized by We las-
bitants of his official conduct.

Letters from Tampico of the 29th October, received at New
Orleans*, vtate that the fever was raging with greater widow than
ever known.

MADAME Dl' CA YI. A.—A letter from Paris of a recent
date contains the following paragraph :—" The brother of
Madame Du Cayla is about to he raised to the peerage, and
to marry into an ancient family of the high noblesse. This
favourite of an illustrious personage has taken advantage
of the high favour with which she has been honoured, both
to raise her family snd to amass a large fortune. She had
received as a present the chateau of St. Oven, the fitting
up of which cost the civil list two millions of francs. She
resoid it to the donor fcr 1.300,000 of francs; and this
sum she shared with her brother. After this, the illustri-
ous donor conferred upon his favourite possession for life
of the property which be first gave and afterwards repur-
chased. Happy the age which thus sees the restoration of
legitimate monarchies, the power of the Jesuits, and the
gallantries of the Court of Louis XV. !"
QI'AR FRS AND JESUITS CONTRASTI.D.—The Quakers
of North America and the Jesuits of Paraguay have et-
hibited a new spectacle to the world. The former soft-
ened the rugged manners of the savages bordering on Penn-
sylvania ; they won them to instruction by the mere
force of example, without making any attempt upon their
liberties, and procured them new conveniences of life, by
bringing them acquainted with trade • the latter indeed
made use of religion to deprive the inhabitants of Paragnay
of their liberties ; but, on the other hand, they
them, taught them to be industrious, and succeeded in
governing a vast country in the same manner as a ern•
vent is governed in Europe. l'pon inquiry it will be
found that the Quakers acted the most justly, and the
Jesuits the most politically. The former considered the
attempt to reduce their neighbours under subjection in the
light of a crime; the latter made a virtue of Nahanni
savages by mildness and instruction.

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