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No. 1,312.—V0L. XIV.]

SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1821.


FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
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ROYAL ORDINANCE•

die Austrians are not the less masters of that ram-
part of Piedmont. There has been a talk of a num-
ber of executions which were to take place there in
consequence of the sentences of the military com-
mission.

PAIIIS, JULY 9 —Louis by the grace of God,
King of France and Navarre, on the report of our
Minister Secretary of State of the finances;
Having heard our Council of State, we have or.
dered, and do order, as follows
article I.—Our Minister of Finance is authorised to proceed
to the sale, by public competition and sealed tenders. to the com-
pany which shall offer the highest terms, of the 12.314,220 francs
of realer (stock) in the S per cent. Consols belonging to the
Royal Treasury, and proceeding from--
1. Balance of the loan of 16,600,000 francs of
reviles opened for the bervitt of 1818, by the laws
of the 6th and 13th of May, 1818, and made ap-
plicable to the service of 1819, by the law of the Frawcs.
28th of May. 1820 1,674,300
I. Portion of the loan opened by the law of the 6th
of May, 1818. made applicable by the 3th article
of the Convention of the 9th October, 1818, to the
payment of the 100 millions, and restored the Ist
of June, 1820. in execution of the Convention of
the 2d of February, 1819 6,615,944
S. Stock redeemed 1818
4. One-third of the loin of 3.831,31/1 franca made
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NUREMBERG, JULY I.—The Gazelle of this day
contains the following article relative to the affairs
of Moldavia and Wallachia:—" When Ypsilanti
received intelligence of the events which had taken
place in Moldavia, he immediately dispatched a corps
of 1,000 men thither, under the command of Prince
Cantacuzeno, to restore tranquillity. The Prince,
who was formerly a colonel in the Russian service,
arrivA at Jassy on the Ist of June, and published
the subjoined proclamation
" The Seraskier has attempted no further enterprise since the
occupation of Galata.
" The isolated corps of Turks which advanced as far as Bacen
are not of his party, and the engagement which took place at
Fokschan was between one of those corps and the Greeks ; but
the result has been fatal to the inhabitants, the greater part of
whom are ruined. The accounts of the issue of this action are
very contradictory. This is certain, that the Greeks lost more
men than the Turks, the former having 20 killed and a much
greater number wounded. The conli %ration by which the town
was consumed is imputed to the Greeks, who set fire to the con—
vent of St. James's, where the Turks were shut up, and from
which quarter the flames spread."

applicable to the paying it of annuities by the law
of the Ith March, 1881. to liquidate the two But
sixths becoming due in 1821 and 18i! 1,294,776

Total 12,514,220
" Article 11. Our Minister of Finance is charged with the
execution of the present ordinance, which shall be inserted in
the bulletin of the laws.
" Given in our Castle of St. Cloud, the Bth of July of the
year of grace 1821. and of our reign the 27th.
(Signed) " LOUIS.
(Countersigned) " ROY, Minister of Finance."
From vatious preparations making at the hotel
purchased at Paris by the King of Prussia, it is
supposed that this monarch will shortly visit this
city.
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MADRID, JUNE 26.—Accounts from Cadiz of the
16th mention, that dsepatches have been received
from Lieut.-Col. P Viver, commandinithe detach-
ment in pursuit of the insurgent Z.tldivar. In the
first (June 12), he states that he had received infor-
matien of a band of 100 smugglers, near Tariffa,
and had not then been able to come up with them ;
but in his despatch of the following day, he states
that he had proceeded with all the local militia of
the district, and had taken 44 beasts of burden,
15 loads of tobacco, and 42 peasants, whom he
detained as prisoners, till he received the instructions
of the Political Chief of the province of Cadiz.
Accounts from Seville of the 19th gives the de-
tails of the conspiracy discovered in the province of
Andalusia.
The plan of the conspirators seems to have been
communicated to the Political Chief of Seville by a
courier sent by the Minister of the Interior, who
arrived at Seville on the 15th. The police was ob-
served to be very active, the judges assembled, and
the Political Chief with some troops went to the
hotel in the street called Ancha de la Feria, where
he arrested Don Isidore Mir (chief of a conspiracy
supposed to be currying on at Xeres, Cordova, and
this city), and Don Juan Dato. These two persons,
with their papers and effects. were conducted to the
convent of St. Anthony, where the battalion of Cat-
talonia is stationed. On being examined, Dato
made a long deposition, in winch he discovered the
nature and extent of the conspiracies in the three
cities, their plans, their ramifications, and the per-
sons he knew to be implicated in them. At mid-
night the examination of Mir was begun, who
appeared to be a chief leader of the conspiracy. In
tact, after imploring the benefit of the amnesty
offered by his Majesty, fur himself and his accom-
plices in these infamous idols, refusing to vonfess on
any other condition, he disclosed every thing relative
to the conspiracy and the persons ciii;aged in it.
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It appears certain that Bunnaparte completed his
memoirs (which he commenced on his arrival at St.
Helena) a short time before his death. Several
copies, it is said, were made of his work, two of
which were delivered to General Bertrand and M.
de Month°ln. The manuscript will perhaps make
about three volumes.

The conspiracy of the East, which occupied dur-
ing 15 days court of assize of Riom, has been
decided on. The accused have been declined not
guilty by the jury on all the 24 charges.
HANOVER, JUNE 25.—One of the preparations
making for the reception of the King is the demo-
lition and the construction of the town gate, which
opens on the road to Herrenhausen, over which a
grand triumphal arch, embellished with trophies, is
erecting. It will henceforward be culled the Wa.
terloo gate. The King will be the first who will
pass under it ; until which, it is notified that the
passage Is prohibited. The expenee is estimated ut
8,000 crowns.

VIENNA, JUNE 28.—Commercial letters received
in this capital announce, that from the Bth to the
Oth inst. some very bloody battles had been fought
between the Greeks and Turks in the vicinity of
Tergovista. The latter commenced by attacking the
entrenched position of Prince Ypsilanti ; but bring
repulsed they beat s retreat. We await 'lather
details with great impatience. It appears that Jassv
is again in the powsr of the Greeks, where, it is
affirmed, they have have established a provisional
administration.

Ctuasuctor, JUNE 30.—For several days past a
report :ias been in circulation in this province that
the King will not come to Piedmont, and that a
part of the kingdom is to be subjected to the Aus-
trian government. This rumour spreading amongst
:01 classes ot the inhabitants, and particularly among
the troops( f the brave regiment of Savoy, has caused
a general feeling of discontent in that corps, which
was carried so fur that the soldiers had bullied the
design of returning altogether to their homes with
their arms and baggage.
This plan was to have been put in execution after
the rejoicings for the celebration of the festival of
St. John ; but the Governor, and the other autho-
rities of the city who had inthrmation of it, took
such measures :as defeated to, plot un that very day.
Subalterns and soldiers to the nuraer of sixty have
Len arrested and conducted to the citadel, wher.:
thry will be interrogated. Government entertains
ti:e expectation of being able to discover the I...aders
by the declarations of the soldiers under arrest.

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In consequence of these deposnions many other
persons have been arrested. Gen. Dim Pedro Gri-
malest, as it seems, was to place himself at the head
of the conspiracy, together with Brigadier Genera;
Mir, with the titles of the first and second com-
manders of the Army of the Faith. Their meetings
were held at the abode of General Grimalest, who
furnished the money, but, us it seems, very sparingly,
for the necessary expences. Their plan was most
absurd : they were to seize the horses of the depot
of a regiment near the town of &woos, to rele.lbe the
innocent pri.oiers confined ut Xeres, which respect•
able three was to serve us the u acleus fur that which
they fancied they could assemble. . _

Notwithstanding these arrests the discontent
continues. The presence of the Austrian troops in
Piedmont fur un indefinite period s...ems to be the
of it. It is well known that the keys of Ales-
s.indriu have been sent to Kit Charles Felix; but

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prevent all error, we think it our duty to say th...t
we have blfitre us a proclamation of the Captsin.
General of that province, in which he states that
some malicious persons, taking advantage of the
right, discharged a petard, which led the citizens to
believe that cannon had been fired front the citadel,
and that Geiteral Elio was going to be set at liberty.
Hence a great agitation naturally ensued, which,
however, was happily calmed by the prudence and
firmness of the Political Chief and the other
authorities.

JUNE 27.—The draught of the penal code which
the Cortes are to sanction, has been printed, and is
at present on sale. This work, though partly copied
from the French code, has not answered the expec-
tation of enlightened men. The preliminary title,
which embraces general notions, begins with a cies-
sification of infractions of the law, which are divided
into crimes and faults (cu/pa.) But this division
is not afterwards perceptible in the course of the
work ; so that, besides being inexact, it is useless.—
Punishments are divided into corporal, non-corporal,
and pecuniary. Among them are found-Ist, death,
always by strangulation, occasioned. by the pressura
of an iron collar (cravalte de fer)-2d, perpetual
labour, with branding-3d, triansportation-44h,
perpetual exile-sth, public labour-6th, presidi.)
(the galleys-7th, reclusion-Bth, exposure on tic
pillory (Carcan)-9th, exposure during the execu-
tion of a sentence to death-10th, imprisonment in a
fortress—l Ith, exile from a particular district-
12th, perpetual exile from a particular district.—
Conspiracy against the Constitutional regime, against
the Convocation of the Cortes, or against the per
manent Deputations, is punished with death.—
Conspiring against the life and person of the King,
his authority, and his prerogative, is also punished
with death. The same punishment is applied to
those who conspire to establish ira .spts;o any rcli
di, frring from the Catholic, to the chiefs and orga-
nizers of rebellions and insusurrections, and to va.
hintary homicides with premidiiation (smirch r.)
Highway robbery, false coining, arson, and furgary,
are not punished with death. Adultery on the pail of
the wife is punished by reclusion for as long ki period
as the husband wishes, provided it dues nut exceed ten
years; her accomplice is to undergo the same
punishment, and exile besides. Adultery by the
husband is punished with infamy. In general the
code is sparing of the punishment of death, but there
are puerilities iu it, material omissions, useless repe-
titions, and very little exactness in classification
and definition.
The Cortes demand from the King their extra-
ordinary.con vocation by an teldrrss presented by a
committee of deputies. His Majesty received these
representatives of the nation with peculiar gracious-
ness. Ile replied to them, that desiring only the
happiness of. the Spanish people, and the consolidation
of the constitutional system, he would immediately
convoke the council of state, and presid ut it (a cir-
cumstance that rarely occurs), to hear its opinion oa ;in
Aliir Si) important. This took place on the .:16tim.—
The council of state we; convoked, and the Ktng, crt
opening its deliberation, said, " I have said that I
wish to be the first coostitutiunal monarch of II oropv,
and I shall maintain it." Tile whole Gtuneil was of
opinion that the C;rtes aught to be convoked ex-
traordinarily. The King. said Eh,: he slioull comi-
tim.in for time 2d of Joiy. Tilere will thus Le
no suspension of their sittings.

Trangailticy has been th;turbel at Limo!. t. A
report was circulated there that General
hail left Madrid at the head 0.4,000 men, and Lad
gone to unite those w•itlt the fort:v*4 Merino. The
.S'elvilett instantly began to triamp'a, and forced the
I.iberas to hide themselves ; me error was sotni
lifter dtae•ipited. The courier ti-ani Madrid cuLtra-
tneted the news, told order and tranquil:icy ottu
restored,

The insurgent Zuldivar engaged to reinforce this
great army nith n body of partizans, and fiiruur
,ompanies of his at the time lie to:umanded a
Marty of Guerillas is the French war. All
done, which was to be accomplished without money,
for they had none, they were to proclaim the King
absolute, to overturn the monumental stuae.; of the
constitution, and to come to !feville to join tl.eir
companies there. Several persons welt: arrested,
and several fled, is search of whom the 1:13-ii active j It is rtimourtd that as a recomi;el;ce for the event
measures are adopted. of his Loh") d'e,sui, Sir Fratibuit Lone is to be ap.
It is reported to-day (25th) at Madrid, that there piloted to the Guverum;:ut of C0,.1 ua
had beet: a terrible ectum..ti::: first va.:alicy.

i he trial is proceeding of the 11. st emispiney at
heiiiletl Ly (it:omitls Giiimiiest mid Mir,.—.
Without umney,kola 1"*0
popularity, or intidence, piopose.l to destroy (ire
einistitutioaal system, aiml ill rit-estao.isli .11,4u.ute
regime. 11,ey wil. be very seveettly puitis!ied.
this will probably he the last LIM% tit Ulu ibtlitt that
we shall witness

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