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London, England, 1825-12-24 00:00:00

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LOVI)ON, S kTURDAY, DLCEMISCR 24, 182.5.

The accounts of tli: E nperar A LEX.% Nn a's death in the
Paris Pipers received yesterday arc not very clear or
satisfactory. It is certain that he died after a short illness,
bora who nature, nobody seems exactly to know. The
Moat pays, it was a bilious fever succeeded by a quinsy.
M. D'Assavv, the Russian Minister to the German
diet, has, however, it appears by the Conslitationnel, given
" positive statements" of a different kind. According to
M. VA Nst.evv,! his Imperial Majesty' died of the
erysipelas in his head. The Courtier Francais publishes
an article descriptive of an alleged quarrel, about twelve
months ago, bctncen the late Emperor and the Grand
Duke CONSTANTINE relative to the Greeks. The
latter in warm terms, it is represented, urged his
brother to march at once to Constantinople. Aux-
•NPF a, it is said, reminded the Grand Duke that his suc-
cession was endangered by his second marriage, and it
is insinuated that measures were in progress to set Cow-
. me aside, and declare NICHOLAs the heir pre-
tumptive to the throne. The inference is, that Aieszaw-
nea's death was the result of a treasonable conspiracy.
Great agitation has been produced in the money market
of the Continent, in consequence of the uncertainty pre-
vailing as to the accession and policy of the new Emperor
of Russia. The French Funds continue to decline.
IFron3 the Slone dated Thursday.]

PARIS, DEC. 21.
It is now known that the Emperor Alexander di a of a bilious
fever, in addition to which he was lately attacked with a quinsy.
The ()rand Ditches.; of Weimar, the 'Princess Maria Paulowna,
had received news of the illness of the Emperor her brother. It
was on the lAth November that the fever was announced, and
on the Ist December that death, unattended by great suffixing,
terminate.l the glorious career of this illustricnut Prince.
A courier was despatched from Warsaw. on the VI inst. with
the news.

The Urend Duke Michael set oa'oa the ilth for St. Potersburgh.

At Vienna, on the II th Dec. the news of the death of the
Emperor Iris quire unknown. At that period the Austrian Cabinet
expected • courier, which was to have been sent thither directly
trots Tanganrog. It was then believed that the Russian Monarch
had arrived at the headquarters of the Army of the South. In
Beesorabia every thing was prepared foe his reception, and the
Moldavian Boyars, wanted by the linspodsr to proceed to com-
p:intent the Emperor ■t Bender, expected hourly their orders to
parts the frontier.

(From the norstitatioarel of AVeilnes.'aar )
Oar Frankfort Correspondent writes us the following lettersdated
IM l&

" Yesterday evening, couriers despatelmil from iKarsair and
Aulim...B4dtesse.d to the lAvations of livarda. Frances and EngWA,
hosaght the news of the death of his 31ajoity the Emperor Alex-
ander of Ruda. This M march died on his journey to Bessarabia,
In omsiesitsenee of an erysipelas in the bead, which put s period to
his life, after only two days suffering. M.l)'Anstett, Minister
from Russia to the German Diet, has himself given positive state:
menu es this subj•?cl, to the persons of distinction who waited upon
Rim during the cows* of the dry. to ask hint for ia!Vmtation.
" Our Exchange has been in great consternation All the
funds in circulation suddenly fell several percent. The Austrian
Metalliques were offered at VI ; the Sham of the Bank of Vienna,
for I,llli, &c. A panic tenet has 'cited our speculators, These
rerph-aities were still further ',creased, %ben they learnt by the
L.: snail from Holland, that the news of the Empenn's death was
probably krawn there ea the 11th, became on that day one of the
most considerahle &MIA had sold 1180 obligotions Aletalliques),
and denounced all its sales for date. so that recarir suddenly rose
Caere to 8 pie cent. The house of Ro:hsiitiW here was, it is said,
informed of it two days before the Awl minden. They even go
as for as to say that the death of the Emperor had been kept a
secret at st. Peursburgli foe several days, in order to give his
sucze.vor ?line in make the necessary preparations for taking Os-
cepa,' of the PAW, of tiovernment."

Ipcmcw Evsus.—Pmlis, livr. 21.—FiTe per Cet Is. melted
at 23i. 2k.. Three per Cent*. opened in Got. ;9c. g loneet 29c Stk.
closed at nat. tue.: Bank stack •200* ; Hal eg de Nark,. ;OE
;k.; Royal tipen..h Loon, lila, ; Esehaitqe o❑ I /1111(1011--
une month, ..... ncy, 2io. Y,ic. ; three mon;h4, paper, 34E. 91k._
Comm Anthem:iv:le.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

and commerce in Great Britain, as to avoid sacrificing
the one and utterly destroying the other.

The Times Journal, anxious to show that the stream of
its malignity is by to means titled up, had recourse yes-
terday to a singular means of re-exciting, if possible, that
alarm, throughout every provincial town in the kingdom,
which has been productive of so much distress in the
BANKING districts, and the influence of which in the,
metropolis has been attended with such lamentable con-
sequences. It sends forth, into all quarters, the following
appalling intelligence, " The BANK was yesterday sea-
itOUNDLD SY TIIE CIVIL AND MILITARY FORCE, which
had been recently thought nesessary.". And to give better
effect to this vague insinuation that the sword was likely
to be unsheathed in quelling some apprehended attack,
it subjoins, with an affectedly pious regard to the pub-
lic tranquillity--" 11" e non the serenity of the sacred
season which is now at band, will not be metrcaasn
by this display of the secular power." To this devout
hope, no doubt, all the alarmists in every town and
city at a distance from the metropolis will say Amen.
The Bank surrounded by a civil and military force ! !
What a dreadful state of things! will the affrighted country
people exclaim ! An insurrection in London is, no doubt,
expected ; and then, what's to become of all the rest (f the
COUNTRY BANKS? What's to become of the BANK itself
if the Guards should get the worst of it ? All these
inquiries, and ten thousand more, this terrifying in-
telligence will naturally tend to beget. But to calm all
these rand terrors, and at the same time to expose and
defeat this wicked attempt to inspire them, we can as-
sure all whom it may concern, that the fact is neither more
nor leas than this—the immense quantity of bullion at pre-
sent in the Bank bullion-room, and the vast amount of
sovereigns daily delivered in from the \lint, render it
matter of prudent precaution that the Unlit:el-guard of
the Bank should for the present remain on duty doting
the day, instead of coming, as at other times it does, in the
evening, and remaining only through the night. All this
description of the Bunk being surrounded by a civil and
mildary force is fabricated out of this simple fact ; the
purpose it is intended to answer is sufficiently manifest,
but the attempt will not pass.
The rest of the article is on a par with the former, it is
penned in the same bad feeling. We quote it merely to
show the spirit of the party of which this Journal is the
organ, and the rooted hostility which it bears to all Bank-
ing Establishments of the country, and to the BANK of
ENGLAND particularly, as being at the head.
" We said at the beginning of the late confusion, that
the Bank had to look to its own proprietary, and to the
guarding themselves against ruin or absolute loss. The
duty of the Directors was confined within these bounds.
It is with regret, therefore, that we hear it as-
serted, that the value of Bank Stock is increased. Indeed,
it would be a great reproach if, during a crisis when all
the other banks and all other capitalists had sustained
great injury, and barely escaped a bankruptcy, a Bank
calling itself national had alone enriched its partners, and
increased the value of its stuck. We hope the Bank ofd
England will look to this."

The public can readily believe tbat the rise of Bank
Stock is a source of deep regret to the faction that has been
so actively seeking ti areciate its credit, and to degrade
by every sort of caltdnoy the character of the Directors.
That it should now on a sudden make the prosperity of its
finances a matter of reproach, after having failed to bring
it into suspicion, as being involved in embarrassments, from
which it in vain implored Government for relief, is an ab-
surdity so gross that we might stop to remark upon it, had
not this journal already rendered its readers familiar with
such malicious inconsistencies, that the recurrence of them
excites no surprise.

CITY, foliar EV2IIIIIO.

The price of Stocks improved this morning, and confi-
dence is evidently gaining strength. The London bankers
appear again upon as firm a fuming as ever although coin-
mercial difficulties must of course be severely felt, pare.
cufarly in the country. Consols this morning were done
at one time as high as 811; but the principal business
in them was at 1301 81. Reduced Stock was 80, and Ex-
chequer Bills 1$ dia. India Bonds were IS dis.
The Foreign Market is atoll inactive, and the quotations
were without variation. Colombian Bonds were 364 ;
Mexican 6 per Cents. 61}; Russian Bonds 77; and Spa-
nish Bonds Iv.

The following publio notice has been issued by the
Bank :

.* At ■ Court of Directors of the Dank of England, 22d Decem-
ber, 1823. . . . . _ _ _

Resolved—That the Discount Office be kept open on Monday
With, to receive biUs of exchange for discount, although it is a
holyday."

Extract of a letter dated Vera Cruz, October 10.—" The
Mexican General sent a flag of truce to the fort of St. Juan
d'Ulloa by Julia Welch, who was received very politely by
General Coppinger at the Castle, and declared that he
would not bombard Vera Cras any more, and that he only
waited for adviees from the Havannah to capitulate."
Accounts from Angostura, of the 30th of September,
state that there was a great bustle respecting the election
of members for the Colombian Congress. The steam ves-
sel from Liverpool, intended » navigate the Oronoko under
the contract between the Government and Colonel Hamil-
ton, had not arrived. These letters mention that two steam
vessels were expected, which would greatly facilitate the
trade of that important river, or rather inland sea, as it
may well be called, for it runs for smooths up the country,
anti fur the other 6 months pours the drainage of America
into the Atlantic in such tuantities, that the fresh water is
frequently apparent twenty miles from land.
It is certainly a remarkable circumstance that no official
and circumstantial detail of the death of Alexander has yet
reached this country ; and we are the more surprised at
the circumstance, from leaving received copies of mercan-
tile letters from Odessa, sted up to the 27th ult. Odessa
is about 300 miles from Taganrog, where the Emperor is
stated to have died on the Ist of December. They com-
pletely put at rest the question of the previous health of
.tha-dautaerat,as ciao Governer of Odessa had just returned'
from paying his respects to his master. The Emperor re-
gretted he could not extintt his tour to that city; that be
was about to return to St. Petersburgh ; the Governor
would again visit Taganrog previously to his departure.
On inquiry we find these letters from Odessa were re-
ceived iu London (in the direct course of post) since iVed-
nesday. It is remarkable that the intelligence from the
same quarter should reach London in the common course
of conveyance, up to the 27111 of November, and that the
event of the decease of the Emperor, which took • place
only a few days afterward:, should not have reached Lon-
don, or even Paris, except by indirect reports through
Berlin.

Succession TO TOR Russian TIORONIE —The law of
succession, the most important act of the Emperor Paul,
was published in 1797, at thei time of his coronation, and
was declared the constitutional law of the empire. By the
law of succession, the Crown belongs to the oldest son-of the
Emperor, and to all his male posterity. In default of male
issue, the second son and his male posterity are calletl to the
Throne; in defect of male issue altogether, the female de-
scendants have a right to it according to their proximity.
If the heiress possess a foreigs Crown, she is compelled to
renounce it before she can receive the Crown of Russia.
If ab is not of the Greek religion, she is required to em-
brace it. On refusing to subscribe to those conditions, the
Crown passes to the next in succession. In case of a
minority, the reigning Monarch will name a Regent to his
successor ; if he should not nose one, the regency belongs
to the mother of the young Scivereign ; or, in the event of
there being no mother, to the nearest relation. The majo-
rity is fixed at 16 years of age.—Etoile.

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most important question, but of two questions still mote
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to the 27th of October inclusive, arrived at our of!lee ea_ of so combining that policy with the interests of agriculture
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