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LISBON PAPERS.
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Lissom, Fem.2o.--In the sitting of the Cortes on
the 14th, M. bloura read the Report of the Com-
mittee, on the motion made by him respecting the.
defence of the kingdoms.

The Committee-observc 'lett they had to consider
of hour points:-Ist, the organisation mad increase
of the army; 2tl, its subsistence; 3d, strict al.
Hance with Spain; 4th, means to preserve internal
tranquillity.
The Committee propose to unite the Ist and 2d
line of the army, and have the first part ready as
soon as possible, to march to the frontiers; and in
this case, le orFaniae a national guard at Lisbon
and Oporto. lo provide for the extraordinary ex.
pence!. by direct and indirect tuxes, which, without
burdening the indigent classes, may form a solid
security for the loan, which the Government is au-
thorised to contract. The Committee propose to
adopt it as a principle, that au invasion of the
Peninsula for the purpose of destroying or modifying
the political institutions of Spain, shall be considered
as an invasion of Pertugul. • It does not appear to
the Committee that any extraordinary measures will
be required to maintain internal tranquillity. The
Committee propose, in conthrmity with these ideas,
the following
PROJECT OF A DECRVE.
The Cortes, &c. costsidering that it is absolutely necessary to
maintain we national independence, and roast otery. +stoups of
(oreigainvasion, on account of the aligratioas and changes which
the nation, by its tepresentatives, has legally made m our poll-
I:cal ilystein„ decrees as follow :
L. Every invasion of the Peninsula, made for the purpose of
destroying or modifying, the political institutions sitoptedbl
Spain. alien be considered as• a direct aggression of Portoip
The whole force shall be immediately asstmWcd, and postal in
the positions proper to resist such aggression.
W. The recru,tung shall be carried on with the utmost diligence
to raise the army of the first line to tio,oou men, at least, or all
VMS.
3. The corps of militia shall be raised to the:r full comple-
ment, and the Government shall organize them in a manner
suitable to the service which they arc to perform.
4. A. national guard'shall be formed in Lisbon and Oporto.
6. Those soldiers who Kaye received theii discharge shall be,
invited to serve doing the war, and a bounty shall be offered
them.
The following articles relate to various imposts
proposed by the Committee.
lie project was declared urgent by above two.
thirds ut the Deputies; read a second time, and sub-
matted to discussion.

M. At all times, and especially un-
der present circumstances, it is proper to strengthen
the union between this kingdom and its ancient and
faithful ally, Great Britain, and I therefore judge it
imperiously necessary, that the diplomatic commit-
tee should give, as soon as possible, its report on the
business which has Item repeatedly brought forward
by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in order that
the Government may be relieved from all the astir
cies which may impede any negotiation which it is
so necessary for us to conclude with our faithful
ally, Great Britain." This was generally supported,
and the President directed the Committee to give its
report with the least possible delay.
In the sitt.ng of the 19th, the order of the day mu
the debate on the report of the Committee. On
this occasion all the Ministers of State were intro-
duced, and having taken their places, the President
addressed tit= u fellows t--
•4 Gentlemen,—The importance of the subjects of
the present sitting, and the urgency 'midi which they
are to be discussed, have induced the Cortes to invite
tsll the Ministry, that each of your Excellencies way
give, M. his department, the explanations asked ui
him; and your Excellencies may give your opinion
tot each of the articles of the project which is going
to be discussed, and fur this purpose ask leave to
speak when you think proper."
The debate then commenced on, the preamble and
the first artiale.

M. Mount spoke first in support of the project,
hewing the injustice of the lima on Spain, and
that Portugal was indisputably equally an object of
their aggression.
M. Buyes Carneiro made a. long speech against the
uly Alliance, whose pro'ession.ot faith, he said, was

to be found in the declaration issued at Laybach,
from which he Voted several passage., especially di.
reeled against the Spanish Constitution, as anarchi.
cal and revolutionary, its establishment in Naples as
a conspiracy, and in, Pied.nont as a. most odious re-
bellion. Se feral other members spoke, all of whom
riAreed that the invasion of Spain must be considered
as an aggression against Portugal, but some disap.
ittoved of the Ist article us part of the deetee, and
on the motion of M. Manmit() d'Axevedo, it was
revolved to include the Ist Article as. far as the word
l'ortugal, in the preamble.
'Ae debate was then adjourned.
l'he expedition to Unlink, consisting of abort two
thousand men, sailed on the 15111 of February.

%V.., learn by Ow Vic*. that the new constitm.
bad been accepted. at St. Michael's, on • which
occasion the place was braiantly illuminated,. awl
the King's etijgy burned. The property of those
who were not in favour of the cliange had been
cunfiscAtutt the ktew crop was large and good,

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TAR 14.AnONAL REGISTER

M. MANUEL. ' •
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. The following is the protest of the 60 Members
of the Chamber of beeuties, against the exclusion
of M. Manuel, the reading of which was put to the
vote in the sitting of Wednesday last, and rejected.
Among the signatures were th►rse of MM. Delessert,
Lading., Gen. Fuy, Latour Dupin, tent—
° We, th? undersigned Members of the Chamber
of Deputies of the departments, declare with pro..
found grief and indignation, that we feel it to be
our duty to proclaim before all France, the illegal
act, which, in hos►ti:ity to the charter, the royal pre-
rogative, and all the principles of representative
government,, has attacked thu integrity of the na-
tional representation, and violated, in the person of
a Deputy, the guarantees assured to ,1l--.the rights
of every elector and every French citizen.
" We declare, in the face of our country, that by
this act the Chamber has overstepped its legal pale
and the limits of its authority.
" We declare, that the doctrine Professed by the
Committee which pnmersed the exclusion of one of
our colleagues, and on which that measure is thund-
ed, is subversive of sll social order and of justice;
that the monstrous confusion of the functions of le-
gislauw, accuser, reporter, juryman...end judge, is
an outrage unexampled except in that trial the re-
, exembrance of which has served as' a pretext for
annulling the powers of M. Mandel ;I'
" That the principles set forth in the report of
the committee, as to the unlimited and retroactive
►ruthority of the Chamber, are no other than the
anarchical principles which led to the most odious of
crimes; That the protecting forms with which the
law shields the most obscure person under accusa-
tion, and even the appal nominal, which on an im-
portant occasion can alone guarantee the indepen..
dence of votes, have been rejected with a frantic and
turbulent obstinacy.
" Considering the resolution adopted yesterday,
the 3d of Match, 1823, against our colleague, as
the first movement of a faction desirous of placing
itself violently above all forms, and breaking through
all the checks imposed on it by our fundamental
compact;
" Con ringed that this first step is but the prelude
to the system which conducts France to an unjMst
war aimed, in order to consummate the counter-re-
volution at hone, and to invite the foreign oceupa-
lion of our territory;
" Unwilling to become the accomplices of the
misfortunes which this faction cannot tail to draw
on our country, we protest against all the illegal and
unconstitutional measures lately taken for the exclu.
sion of M. Manuel,. Deputy of La Vendee, and
against the violence with which he has been tent
from the bosom of the Chamber of Deputies."

FROM SATU'RDAY .VIGIIT'S GAZETTE.
CROWN OffirCE, Masai. 8.
MEMBERS returned to sorra in this present PARLIAMENT.
Rorough of Colerainis.--Sir John Brydggs. in the loom of Sit
John l'oe Beresford, hart. who has aceeptW. the face of steward
of the Manor of E.ist Hendred.

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Town and Port of Rye.—Cobert Knight. of Barrels, in the
county of Warwicit„ and of Grosvenor Square, in the county of
Middlesex, 15sq. in the room of John Dobson, D.C.Lorho has
accey.ed die Chiltern Ilundmls.

BANKRUPTCY SUPFRSKDED.
J. Gina, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and J. Green, Sauer-
leytoa, Sußhlk, brick makers.
BANKRUPTS.
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S. Steel, Rotherham, Yorkshire, linen draper. Solicitors,
Messrs. King and go. Castle Street, Holborn.
J. oidetid, Edgware Road, coachmaker. Sots. Mews. Rice
and Co. Great Molloorough Street.
F. Martin, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, wine merchant. Sol.
Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's inn Fields.,
J. Bunting, Edgeware Road, carpenter. Sol. Mr,. Carlon,
Hies Street, Marylebone.
T. Sweet, Frith Street, Soho, carter. and gilder. Sol. Mr.
Wade, Somer's Town.
J. Barlow, Merton, Surrey, millwright. Sol. Mt. Deykas.
Thavies Inn.

W. Franklin. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, fuller. Sols. Mesas.
Ikrkele7, l.incoln'alnn.
W. Simons. Birmingham, brush maker. Sols. Messrs. Slade
'and Co. Redford Row..

B. Lambert, Manchester, manufacturer. Sole. Messrs. Ellis
and Co. Chancery Lane.
B. and T. Barrow, Liverpool, corn merchants. Sol. Mr,
Chester, Staple Inn.
J. and It. A, Browning, Belvidere Wltarf, near Waterloo.
Bridge, umber merchants.. 101. Mr. Waits. Finsbury Place.
S.. Boyden, Chapel Street, Pentonville, beast salesman. Sul.
Mr. Cole, Southampton Street, Blooinsiuty.
W. Beast, St. Enly, Cornwall, hen burner. Sol. Mr. Ales.
ander, Larry Street.
DIVIDENDS.

March 49. J. Steele. Liverpool, map and chart seller-49, R.
Wry, Leicester Square, linen draper-29,A. Taylor, lent Road,
melt roaster-29. R. Simpson, Crown Court, Threadneedle
Street„merchant-29. W. Abbott, Windham Place. Middlesex,
merchant—u 7, W. Stawpert, T. ltidley, and J. Brown, Soutn
Blyth, Northumberland, common brewers... 49. H. Mullion,
Liverpool, merchant... April 4, J. Thurtell and J. triiodens,
Norwich, bombazine manufactuterii-4, Wi, E., and R. Willett,
Thetford, Norfolk, bankers-23, E. Pritchard, Liminess,
Denbighshire, shopkeeper.
CERTIF 'CATES to be granted March 49.
J. Heins, Cliester,,grocer—J. Marshall, Battersea, tunncr. T.
Lea. Liverpool, grocer—J. Butterton, Drayton in Hales, Salop,
money pa isener—J. Bagnall, Staffordshire, plater—W.
Swipe, Cheadle, Statfur&hiez. great-4. Patk,Blackhextb
Lent, carpenter..

A number ()f nidividualasse cabled on Saturday.
at the Crown and Anchor, for the purpose of taking
such measures as are most likely to promote the
cause of the Greeks.