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LONDON;
• WEDNESDAY; AUGUST 2, 1820.•
We have received Paris Papers of Saturday
last. The Muni/ear contains a Royal Ordisiarice,
confirming the intelligence which we communicated
yesterday. respecting the imposition of a tonnage
duty of 90 francs; with an additional 10 per cent.
thereon, per too, upon all American ships enter-
ing French port*, which shell have sailed from a
harbour within the United Sates since the 15th of
June last. The dispositions of this Ordinance are
to cease from whatever time the intelligence shall
reach France of the repeal of the Act of Congress
of the 15th of May, respecting the duties payable
by French vessels.
A second ordinance of the King promises • pre-
mium of 10 francs upon every 100 killogramtnelof
American cotton imported into France in French
vessels, either from the French Colonies or other
places not in Europe.
The latest intelligence contained in these Papers
from Naples is of the 11th of July. The soldiers,
it seems, take sdvantage of the present moment
of relaxed authority to desert their ranks nod
return home, so that a principal part of the mi.
litery duty of Naples is performed by the Na-
tional Guard. A Committee has been appointed
for translating the Spinals Constitution of 1912,
for which the troops mid people of Naples have de-
clared 'themselves ; but some doubt appears to be
entettained respecting the probable wishes of the
Sicilians upon this subject,•whether they would de.
sire the Constitution of the Cortes or that which
had been given to them by the English Govern-
anent in 1810, and which. war suppressed in 1817
by a Royal decree.
The proceedings of the Spanish Cortes are brought
down to the 18th inst. The proposition for restor-
ing to their rights Den FRANCISCO DC PAULO and
the Ex-Queen of ETituaiA was adopted uneni-
mously. In the decree for carrying this propoeitio•
initn eNetct, no mention is made of the Ex-Empress
of France, MARIA Louts*, excluded by the dr-
cree passed during die late wit. A tribunal of 30
members had been appointed to try the 69 mem-
bers who had advised- Fannie sun to subvert the
constitution in 1814. During the election of the
Members who are to constitute this tribunal, a de.
poly, VILL4muEv4, expressed an opinion that Er.
clesiastics might not be choice. The President,
who is an Ecclesiastic, replied, that there was no-
thing to prevent Ecclesiastics from being elected,
bat that prudente required that they should not be
chosen.

A preposition was made by Senor CEPIRO fore
general amnesty in favour of all thooe who rosy have
committed errors of opinion from the loth of May,
1814, to the 9th of March, 1120. A petition from
come manufacturers of Awgsbargh for permission
to proceed to Spain, to establish manufactories of
printed cottons, was referred to the Government.
The Minister at War Fetid several report. received
by the Government, respecting the assassination of
• sentinel belonging to the gourds on the night of
the Bth instant, and announced that the judicial
proceedings were currying on with the greatest ac-
tivity.
The French Funds are 5 per Cents. 79 f. 45c.
Batik Stock, 1,385 r.

Nothing could prove more satisfactorily the ne-
cessity of an immediate change in the form of
government in Spain, than the expositions made
to the Cortes by the Ministers, each in his reapec-.
live department. It is impossible to imagine a
country more depltirably neglected in every in-
stance, affecting not only its respectability but
even its security, than Spain was since the return
"of the Kinn loin his captivity, and at this mo-
ment there is not, we will venture to affirm, any
State In Europe less cslculated, from the nature of
its disposable strength. to maintain its rank among
nations. 14 every department of the State ap-
pear the ague confusion and emharraisrnent, and
what must certainly excite the greatest surprise,
the army—to which, as the ibstrument of power in
e despotic government, it might be supposed that
every thing was sacrificed—the army manifested, as
it would seem, even * seperior degree of neglect ;
fur of a nominal force of 88,000 harlotry and 7,000
cavalry, not more than a few regiments were non-
firrenly clothed Ind aimed, while the far 'greater
portion divplayed a picture of nakedness sad des-
titution, which the derfcription of lidstqff'eragged
,company alone could equal. One regiment
ita-
*aded•intt'ees•weee so destitute of clothes. es 'to '
watiik to hive their getirters. There were in
whole' wrmy 07)000 'muskets, of -which
Wes 'Wettest. Slid "the "teltalnder were 41
**core. Inc fienyesees' meow 1•16-smisy:
''`44alve. li*lstlie'Witittlegy VairoMMW
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which ought to belong to it. With this subject the
state of the finances is ittlistintel7..connittasap. sod.
we tied in the itepget-of thy Fiiinnee Minister, that
in tlits-departosent there existed neither regal:any

nor credit. Su little confidence tbd the public re.
pose in the faith or solvency of the Government,
that of the loan sought to he negociated some time
since, to the amount of forty millions of reals. oos
even the Mmluceineut of a promised interest of:
10 per cent. could produce sulncriptions to a higher
amount than fir millions of reals. The errors and
abuses of the previous system seem to be understood
by the present Minister, and from this may he elL-
pected an immediate improvement. No doubt the
exister.ce of abuses will militate strongly against
the.establisliment of a sound state of finances. and
among these abuses the privileges of certain classes.
as the officers of Government in every department,
the clergy, and the nobility of Spain, cannot fail of
operating most injuriously ; but however plausibly .
men may talk upon this point. and upon the ad. •
vantages of peculiar systems, nothing is more cap
tali tain than that the state of the finances of a comae,
must depend upon that of public opinion, and aria
the confidence entertained by the people in tho
.good faith and wisdom of their Government.
The total !minimal force in the Peninsula. emu..
prising the militia, amounts to 87,779 infantry and
6,938 cavalry, for which the estimated expenses are
352,607,000 rem's, or about 3,673.0001. sterling.
The War Minister remarked in his Report, that
the islands of Porto Rico. Santo Domingo (the
Spanish part), and Cuba, enjoy a state of perfect
tranquillity; that in Mexico there existed only a
few preilitory bands, nut sufficient to excite appre-
hensions; but that the war still raged iii thesouthern
provinces of America. It was impossible. the Mi-
nister remarked; to give an exact account of the
military farce employed in these provinces ; but he
stated, that since 1815, troops had sailed from the
Peninsula to the number of 42,177 men, of whom
5,000 were at Porto Rico ; the forces in Cuba.
comprising militia, amounted to 10,996 men, and
977 horses ; sad. lbw in South America to 41,036
men, infantry and cavalry. occupying an extent of
82,142 square miles. The general estimate of
all the Spanish armies employed in the trans.
marine provinces amounted to about 96,578 men
and 8,419 horses; a force which proves the extent
of the resources of Spain, and clearly indicates how
very formidable that country must become should
her energies be mooed by the spirit of freedom, and
be directed by • wise and active Government.
The melancholy details of the present imbecility
and wretchedness of Spain presented by the several

Reports of the Ministe►s, produced, it is said, a very
lively impression upon the Corks, and also upon
the inhabitants of the capital. It was expedient,
at the conantencement of the new era, to place the
actual situation of the monarchy plainly and strongly
before the Representatives of the nation, shewing
them at once, in the liveliest colours, the miseries
and dangers which they were escaping, and the
absolute necessity of making the most unremitting
exertions to co►rect the errors of the former Govern-
ment. The Corks have to undertake the work of
' regeneration under very unfavourable swims, and
it is very possible that their sanguine adherents ex-
pect more from their exertions than it will be phy-
sically possible for them to perform; but even to
check the rapid course of evil is an absolute good,
and if the Cortes be honest and the Kits sincere,

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the monarchy cannot foil .of again assoustug its pro-
per 'station among the powers of Europe.

A Dutch Mail has arrived. with Papers from
Brussels to the 28th last. Apprehensions are en-
tertained in that city that the Neapolitan Re-
volution will make the tour of the Italian States.
Advice. from France state. thnt the Ultra-Royalists
in Paris entertain hopes that France and other
Continental States will interfere to arrest its progress.
Several persons have been arrested at Milan by
-order of Government.
The Algerine squadron which bitely put to sea
is said to have lost four men by the plague.

The Royal yacht was towed down from her
mooring at Portsmouth to Spithead about one
o'clock on Monday. The =trine band of music was
on board ; and a great number of pleasure boats,
filled with Ladies sad Gentlemen, accompanied her.
in her course. She goes round immediately towards
Brighton, the beach of which not being very pod
for embarkation, it is supposed his MAJESTY will
go on board her at Shoreham. Should the wind
prove unfavourable, his MAJESTY is expected to
embark at Portsmouth on Friday.
Monday evening his MAJESTY left town for his
cottage in Windsor Park.
Yesterday the Doke of Yost held a levee at
Ms office in the as Commauder-in-
forty officers.
leR •

_ Hoess-Geards,
Chief, which was weeded by •bout
After the levee his goys' ighosss
°Wands.

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at tiled in Ressiao and try to penes* the peopip day. The payment, of the troops was wholly in-
to found .s new German -cutesy' seer; 04saia..—
,adequate fur their seypptt, so that it.is not
A coiseidereble numbrr of persons; bath from these. 'surprising that they stiosuld- stonily feel the
parts and adjseetit districts of •Wirtetnberg, have necessity of some Amiga which would raise their
ai.nowi scrillOn arnt to leave' their homes country from such ■ stole of contempt and poverty,

°Woods.
!eking '•is *oaths yestudiy since the death
-of .the lots ttatt, the ling moots of the _di&
recant brooches of -the Rept' Family left off *air
otouvaiug, sod ai) pamed io their Ennio.