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LONDON, MONDAY. Damns* 13, 1814.

Last night we received the Paris Papers of Friday. The
French troops arc beginning to move towards the frontiers
u: Spain, and simultaneously the violence of the furious
Royalists begins to break forth in fresh acts of outrage on
:he defenceless supporters of the Constitution. Lists of
proscri,otitin are forming, and it is expected that when
the French are withdrawn, the kingdom will be "purified"
by a general massacre of the 'ley; ros. One expedient of
the Council of Canine to Pinkish supplies for the Royal
Treasury deserves to be noticed. It is proposed to con-
fiscate the property of all those who, to ensure their per-
sonal safety, have latch emigrated from Spain, unless
they return and deliver dictum:lees up to their persecutors,
who would immediately condemn them to death without
even the formality of a hearing.
The nmstitutionnel, at the conclusion of an article on the
late Royal Order, respecting the French army, remarks
that " the dismissal of a third of the present number of
Csenerals, one half of those of the army previous to the
restoration, is, whatever the advocates of the measure may
say of it, an act too extraordinary in its nature not to con-
ceal some political after-thought. The coincidence of this
measure with the project for indemnifying the emigrants,
r.arks no design friendly to France, or favourable to
Royal: y."

In the Private Correspondence of the Juttrnal des betas
there is given, front Lisbon, a sl►tch of the intended orga-
citation of the Portagnese Cortes. We know not what
credit is doe to this article. We hope none; for we are
sore that so empty a sbailow of Representative Government
eon satisfy no clams of people whatever. If the subjects of
JOIEN VI. arc not to enjoy any of the benefits resulting
from the spirit and knowledge of the age, let them ■t
/east have the undiminished advantages of their an-
c•ent institutions. It may be true that there arc not many
risotto in Portugal qualified fur the duties of legislation-
The reason is, that they have never been called upon to
exercise them, and, until their disability is removed by re-
presentative institutions, the same reason nay be urged for
rya to deny them a free government. The Portuguese
Monarchy is already sufficiently weakened by its political
veers. It must fall, like the Spanish, under them, if the
°sample of FERDINAND VII. Is to he preferred to that of
Louts XVIII.

The Dutch and German Papers are filled with accounts
of the calamities produced by the late dreadful storms and
floods. Throughout the North of Europe the mischief is
immense and incalculable. The city of St. Petersburgh
has been visaed by the united violence of wind and water,
1.1 its most appalling form. While the sheet-iron on the
roofs of the houses was rolled up like leaves of paper, the
flood rose to the height of nine and ten feet in the open
wefts. Vessels were wrecked in the centre of the city,
which was strewed in every part with fragments of ruin.
Even the neighbouring villages were swept away, and
their entire population destroyed ; the public distress
is., of comae, extreme. No business was done on the Ex-
change, and the pour were famishing for want of bread.
All these horrors, insupportable in themselves, were aggra-
vated by the commencement of winter, amidst the general
destitution of all classes of the cititena. At Stockholm the
alarm, though nut equally violent, was productive of co-
t-naive mischief. The haws sustained in other places will
nut, we apprehend, be lies severe than at these cities; but
from the obscurity of the sufferers, and their consequent
debility to make known their situation, we shall probably
h left iu comparative ignorance of the depth of misery to
which they have been suddenly precipitated. We trust
that their more fortunate .:ountrymen will be shamed by
itritish genero►ity into ample contributions fur the relief cf
these numerous and molt fitting objects of public cum
passion.

Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York.
Ye: terday the Princes.; Fv.slort. attended divine s.•rrice
at the [Oval German Chapel, and heard a eennott by the
r.sr. Dr. "Kuper.
On Friday night. after the breaking up of the Cabinet
C.n.tririh a king's Mt saleter %VI II sent off from the Foreiioa
(Ace, with despatches for St. Petersburgh.
On Thursday Mr. Crotch. the King's ►lessenger, arrived
&Li town from Paris.

air Charles Bagot, our Ambassador at the Court of the.
:Netherlands, arrived at 11m:relit on the Gth instant.

The Governor and the Deputy Governor of the Bank of
liagland, the Chairman of the West India Dock Com-
piny. and the Chairman of th.• East India Company, had
tragamt interviews with the E irl of Liverpool during the
J•aw week, at his house in Whitehall.
The renunciation of the pretensions set up against the
Netherlands by the Dry of A Igirrs• and hiscow:ent to ratify
Ards the peace• concluded in 11416, has been of an-
Doomed at lituAsels. _

The Austrian Authorities at llernsanstailt have %natl.
I.rown to the I;nvernment that the ravages of the plague in
Wallachia diminish in a sensible manner.
'the King of Swaim has recently made • considerable
promotion in his army.
it is asserted, that in the city of Turin, during the last
see years, there has never been a dwelling-hoax, or any
tuber building, destroyed by tire ! There arc no insurance
o$ :es in that capital.