The National Register.
London, England, 1823-02-24 00:00:00

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- LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24.
Three o'clock, p.m.

The Paris Papers, received last night, meadow
that the most active preparations are making for
war, which is considered inevitable. The Dods
announees that Rear-Admiral Hamlin has sailed
with a squadron from Brest ; and it is also men-
tioned that the Cortes had authorised the issuing of
letters of marque, and upwards of forty bad beets
already grunted to persons who had applied for them.
A private letter from Paris, written by a friend to
the cause of the Constitutionalists, reluctantly con-
firms the previous accounts of Beasieres being at the
head of 15,000 insurgents, and discredits the re-
reports in the Courier Francais, that this bead of
rebels had been dispersed. Shotild llessieres get to ,
. Madrid, it was expected it would produce a counter-
revolution, but not to that extent which would sa-
tisfy 'lassie, and the other Holy Confederates, and
therefore it is-believed that war will be immediately
declared by France against Spain, to accomplish a
counter-revolution destructive of the liberty of the
Spaniards, to obtain possession of her fintresses, and
t ) subjugate the country in the same manner that
the Neapolitans have been dragooned by the Aus-
trians. ,If the Spaniards were in possession of the
real objects of the Bourbons and the Holy Alliance,
every man of them would unite to repeal and to
crush the invaders. In the event of Abisbal not
having sufficient force to protect Madrid against
Bessieres and his rebel force, Ferdinand will be re-

moved, but not, we believe, to Cadis, but to Portu-
gal. In such case, if the French should penetrate
to the Spanish capital, and make any attempt upon
Portugal, it will inevitably involve this country in
mentioned in the Paris Pip= that the
departure of the Duke of Angouleme for the army
will be much sooner than was expected. Russian
politics are no doubt actively at work, and the pre-
sent French Ministers are their dupes; but the peo-

ple of France, with the exception of the Ultras and
Buonapartists, are for peace. The latter foresees the
consequence of war, which will produce results con-
trary to the despotic expectations of the Bourbons
and the confederated Sovere;gns.
The French Funds have declined two per cent.
They were on Friday at 79 f.

We regret to state, that his Royal Highness the
Duke of Sussex is indisposed, at Kensington Pa-
lace.
Un Saturday last Mr. Jackson arrived with des-
- patches from Madrid, and in the afternoon a Cabinet
' Council assembled at the Secretary of State's Office
•for. Foreign Affairs.
The Bishopric of Meath, vacant by the death of
Dr. Beirne, has been offered to the Hon. and Rev.
G. V. Wellesley, D.D., brother to the Viceroy of
Ireland.
His Majesty's ship C'onway arrived at Portsmouth
on Thursday last, in 49 days from Bahia, at which
place the Portuguese Bag was still flying on the 2d
of Januar/. The town was closely hemmed in by
the Brazilian forces, under the command of Labs-
tour, and the usual intercourse with the interior so
of cut off, that the city was reduced to the
greatest privations for want of fresh provisions, ve-
getables, and fruit. The garrison of Bahia is said
to consist of three thousand regular troops, a slum-
ber, however, not more than sufficient to defend it ;
for the nature of the ground is such, that the invading
force can, without inconvenience to themselves, vary
their attacks on different points, so as to harass the

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