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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1830.

Despatches were received at the Foreign
Office this morning from H. ASHTON, Esq.,

the British Charge d'Affaires at Rio Janeiro ;
and from the English Consul resident at Buenos

Ayres.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 26th Dec.
contains an account of a splendid entertainment
given by the French Ambassador to the Turkish
Authorities; but it does not seem to have passed
off with such eclat as that given by Sir ROBERT
GORDON :

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.
On the 22d instant Count Guillemenot celebrated

the Saint's day of the King of France by a grand
ball and supper in the hotel of the Legation, which
was splendidly illuminated. The entertainment was
in every respect brilliant, and the difference between

this and the celebrated fete on board the Blonde
was so remarkable, that it must not be passed over
in silence. The Turkish great men, Ministers and
guests, were not mixed with the European ladies,
as on board the frigate; they kept in a room by

themselves, and there conversed with the Ambas-
sadors and Ministers. Sometimes one or another
went alone into the drawing-room to see the dancing.
Their attendants were wholly separated from them :
A room was set ap art for smoking. No Mussulman
took part in the ball, except Arend Bey, Aid-dc-
tamp to the Sultan, who danced a cotillion in Eu-
ropean shoes. When supper was served up, the
Turkish grandees and Ministers were conducted by
the European Ambassadors to the table (for seventy)
prepared for them, and so placed that an European
Minister was seated among three or four Turks, and
an interpreter. The ladies took their seats altoge-
ther, its the centre of the table. No Turk was
asked to drink wine, when a toast was proposed to
the health of the Sovereigns, on which every one
arose. Sherbet was presented to thern, but some
preferred Champagne. The Mahometan guests
were Silihdar, Bekir Aga, Caliwedschi Buschi (a
Colonel of the Sultan's Guard), his two Aid-de-
Cainps, Aroni and Ahmed Bey (two of the Sultan's
Chamberlains), the Seraskier Dewlet Naziri, the
('apitan Pacha, NUM Pacha, the Kopyrbaschi,
General of Artillery, the Reis Effendi with his Pri•
sate Secretary, the Moklubdsch, Secretary of the
Grand Vizier, the Chief of his Office, and Terch-
nifaldschi Effendi, or Chief Master of the Cere-

monies.

The entertainment will now soon take place which

the Sultan is preparing to give to the European Mi-
nisters, in the Grand Hall of the Divan, in the
Arsenal. According to all appearance the Sultan
himself will be present to witness the diver-
sions and European customs, and then to determine

how far the permission and introduction of them is
compatible with the Mahometan law; for many
irregularities that took place on board the Blonde
must be highly displeasing to the orthodox suc-
cessor of the Caliphs. It cannot be denied, that if
the steps taken to promote civilization are to be
useful, it cannot be effected at the expense of mo-
rality and of their religious sentiments, which corn.
mand reverence among every people not wholly
degenerated. The example of decorum and tem-
perance set by the Europeans would undoubtedly
have a favourable influence on the minds of the
Orientals; whereas, the charms of temptation, and
the transgression of a law consecrated by long and
strict observance, must lead to consequences inju-
rious to morality.

Adrianople was evacuated on the 20th by the
Russian troops, on receipt of the news of the giving
up of Ghuergevo. It is said that the Russian head-
quarters will be for the winter at Bow gas. Adria-
nople is to be occupied by regular troops, under
Alisch Pacha; the Pacha of Scutari, with his Alba.
nians, being ordered by the Sultan immediately to
return home.

Count Alexis Orloff and M. Butenieff, Russian
Charge d'Affaires, arrived here to-day from Ro-
deilo, on board the Turkish steam-boat.
Accounts from Smyrna say, that M. de Ribeau-
piere is now at Napoli, as well as the President of
Greece.

The following are extracts from Buenos Ayres
Papers to the 10th October inclusive :

BUENOS AYRES, SEPT. 26.

The news from Patagonia continues to be very
distressing : the Indians ►had taken away cattle, and

threatened the town of, Del Carmen. The inhahl.
tants were in a state of great alarm.
General statement of all the debts owing by the
Province of Buenos Ayres to 31st Aug. 1829 :

Dollars. Beals
Floating Debt 15,415,464
Six per Cent. Stock 10,817,541 0
Balance of the English Loan, Pounds
Sterling,
The Bank notes at present in circulation amoun
to about fifteen millions of dollars.

OCT. 10.—Our columns of to-day contain various
Government decrees, &c. issued chiefly with the
view to raise the credit of the paper currency, and
the effects thereof are sensibly felt.
Ounces, which during the week were done at
120, are now at 92.

The decree inserted in our last, rendering time
bargains in specie and in the public funds illegal,
unless for value received, will impede if not entirely
put a stop to speculations in that way. The for-
mation of the sinking fund, and the capital for its
support, is a bold important measure, and must
assist the currency, by taking so much out of cir-
culation.

OCT. 3.—We understand that Mr. Parrish has
received by the packet the most complete approba-
tion from the King's Government of the steps he
took, in the month of April last, to resist the at-
tempts of the delegate authorities to force the
British residents in Buenos Ayres to take up arms.
On the 27th ult. Colonel Parkew, with thirty
men, attacked a party of 300 Indians, two leagues
beyond Roses, and succeeded in taking from them
about 3,000 head of cattle which they had driven
from the different estancias on the left side of the
Saloadillo.

BUENOS AYRES.

The Government has resolved that the sum of
100,000 dollars Six per Cent. Stock, voted to the
late Governor Don Manuel Dorrego, is in strict jus-
tice a debt due by the Republic to his family, and
has passed a decree ordering the mode of payment.
The widow of Dorrego, acknowledging the re-
ceipt of this decree, states that her unfortunate hus-
band, in the short period that intervened between
his sentence and the execution of it on the fatal 13th
December, had devoted his thoughts to his country,
and desirous of alleviating the urgent wants of the
province, and rewarding an army which had just
returned from gloriously combating for the rights
and honour of the country, he had enjoined her to
place at the disposal of the Government a third part
of the said 100,000 dollars. That an injunction so
sacred, on account of the moment in which it was
made, renders it her duty to overlook the situation
of his two orphan daughters, and she therefore re-
quests the Government to accept this portion to the
said stock.

The Government has, however, declined to as
cept this generous sacrifice.

The following letter has been received from

the Agent to the North and South American
Coffee-house, dated Buenos Ayres, Oct. 11 :
" The Government of this province, since the
termination of the civil war, is almost solely occu-
pied in efforts to restore public credit, especially
that of the paper currency ; new taxes have been
imposed, and other expedients resorted to, and a
sinking fund established for the gradual redemption
of the bank-notes. These circumstances, and the
probable continuance of peace, have had a corre-
sponding effect upon the money market. Doubloons,
which were at 120 paper dollars, have fallen to 92;
and exchange upon England, which was at 7}d. per
dollar, is now Sid. The other markets have like-
wise improved. The new Ministers have a diffi-
cult task to make head against the poverty and
desolation which the late domestic war has occa-
sioned. The provinces seem disposed to act in
concert with the present Government of Buenos
Ayres, and there are prospects (distant, perhaps)
of returning prosperity. The Gaucho troops of
Don Juan Manuel Roses have in greater part re-
turned to their homes. Lavalle's military have been
discharged or dispersed, and Lavelle himself has
quitted Buenos Ayres ; such has been the result of
the revolution of December last. The party now
in power is composed of what may be termed the
moderate federals. Garcia, the Minister of Finance,
has considerable talents, and is withal an excellent
courtier, and can make promises with all the since-
riiy, and refuse favours with all the grace, of gentle-
men of that class. The Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Don Tomas Guido, is a sensible, clever man. We
have, however, an Ultra Federal party, who exclaim
against the lenity shown to the Unitarians, and call
for punishment upon those who put the late unfor-
tunate Dorrego to death. The Unitarian party are
quite chap-fallen, many of them hare left the
country, fearing mishaps. The public prints now
speak of Governor Dorrego as an illustrious vic-
tim or martyr,' the pacificator of the Republic,'
&c. Posterity will do him justice. The new Go-
vernment of Buenos Ayres is in some respects
stronger than that of Dorrego's, it is not so exposed
to the bitter rancour of party as was the latter's,
and it from necessity possesses greater powers ; be-
sides, misfortunes have tamed the nsore violent
spirits—the talisman is broken, and events have
proved that the Federals have had a more correct
knowledge of their own country than the opposing
party."

We have received the following this morning
Prom our Paris Correspondent :

" PARIS, DEC. 30.

" No further indication of the line of policy

to be pursued by the French Cabinet in the
approaching Session has been allowed to trans-
pire since I last wrote to you. All Paris, in
fact, from the King to the lowest of his subjects,

is at this moment engaged in such a round of
feasting and visiting, that there is little time,
and not much inclination, for engaging in poli-
tical or party discussion. It is natural, however,
that those who are dissatisfied with the existing
order of things should be the first. to break
silence ; and from these, accordingly, we have
occasional attempts at a renewal of the system
of agitation which has been so incessantly pur-
sued since the accession of the present Ministry,
on the Bth of August last. A refusal of the
Budget, under certain modifications, appears to
be the weapon on which the opponents of the
Ministry are to place their chief reliance in the
approaching Session ; but, in the mean time,
societies continue to be formed in all directions,
for the ostensible purpose of resisting illegal taxa-
tion. These societies appear to me to have
acquired an extraordinary degree of importance
in the eyes of the public, from the mere opposi-

Lion they have received at the hands of the
Ministry. That opposition has necessarily im-
pressed the public with the belief, that some de-
sign had really been entertained in the Cabinet
of levying taxes by unlawful means, since other-
wise it was not easy to understand how any ne-
cessity could have existed for the violent and ex-
traordinary measures adopted by the Ministry,
for the purpose of impeding the circulation of
the obnoxious resolutions, and afterwards of

?unishing the individuals by whose means the
circulation was effected. If the Cabinet had
really entertained no such intention as that
against which the projected associations were in-
tended to provide, it might surely have afforded
to disregard all the acts and resolutions of such

• associations, as undoubtedly they would have been
in England, under any Ministry whatever. As
' the Minister has exposed his sensibility to these
attacks it was not to be supposed that any
indication of weakness would be overlooked or
neglected by his numerous, watchful, and well-
organized antagonists. A new system of agi-
tation has accordingly been put in motion, in
the form of an application by the electors of the
Departmental College of the Seine and Oise to
their representatives in the Chamber of De-
puties, Messrs. Berard, Bizemont, Bertin de
Veaux, de Jouvencel, Charles de Lameth, the
Baron Lepelletier d'Aulnay, and the Baron
Oberkampf. The object of the application is
to request the representatives of the department
to hold a consultation together, on the subject of
the expediency of a refusal to pay a tax
unauthorised by law, and afterwards to
advise their constituents on the subjects. Al-
though not all belonging to the same political
party, nor sitting in the same division of the
Chamber of Deputies, the representatives of this
important department, after consulting together,
have concurred in addressing a joint and unani-
mous letter to their constituents, in which they
express their opinions on the subject submitted
to their consideration in strong and pointed, but
temperate language. The conclusion of their
letter is to the following effect :
" Every tax exacted without having previously
" I obtained, in terms of the Charter, the consent of
" the two Chambers, and the sanction of the
" King, or without having been discussed in a
"' Chamber of Deputies elected according to the
" ' forms prescribed by law, is an extortion forbidden
by law, arid liable as such to be repressed. It is
"' the duty of every Frenchman attached to our
" institutions, and to the august family by whom
" ' they have been given us, to refuse such a tax,
" ' and to pursue the receivers and collectors of it,
" ' or such as would attempt to levy it, before the
" Tribunals. The exercise of this right is the legal
"' arm which we are authorised to employ for the
" purpose of arresting the progress of any guilty or
imprudent Minister who should wander from the
"' line of honour and duty, and who should show
himself unworthy of the Prince who has chosen
" ' him, forgetting that the Charter is a pledge of
" ' peace to France, and a monument of glory to the
"' House of Bourbon.'
" You are, no doubt, aware that the bar of
this country, as I believe it to be in each of our
own three kingdoms, is, in the best sense of the
term, an association of liberal-minded individuals.
This is a result which seems necessarily to arise
from the exercise of a professsion which, if
it does not require the highest mental powers,

demands, at least, an intimate acquaintance with
human nature, when successful appeals are to be
made to juries selected from the great mass of

the people, and a degree of general knowledge
and intelligence beyond the mere technicalities
of the profession considerably above either of
the other professions, which are usually distin-
guished as the learned or the liberal. The bar
of Paris have lately done themselves the honour
of electing the elder Dupin to be the Batonnier,
or head of their order, and I do not mean to
exaggerate the compliment I propose to pay him,
when I compare M. Dupin as a skilful advo-
cate, a powerful speaker in the Chamber of
Deputies, and a man of great and al-
most universal knowledge, to the gigantic
intellect of Henry Brougham. On the
occasion of his election the new Batonnier
pronounced an inaugural discourse, intended
chiefly for the benefit of his younger brethren,
which, as it appears to me, would not have been
unworthy of the man to whom I venture to com-

pare him. I shall take the liberty of extracting a
single passage, for the purpose of affording you
some idea of the mind from which it emanates.

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It is from the peroration :
" ' Gentlemen, and dear brethren, let us love our
" ' profession, it is the surest means of finding suc-
•• • cess and enjoying happiness ; nay more, let us
" endeavour to honour our profession, and with
" ' that view let us never fear to form too high an
‘" idea of it. This sentiment can never be im-
" puted to us for vanity, since it only engenders
" fresh obligations. To eialr it is to say that we
" can only attain with difficulty all the duties and
" the sacrifices it imposes on us, and all that it re-
," quires of application of capacity and devotion.—
" ' If, after this, the modern remains inferior to' the
" ancient bar, it will be our own fault, for great oc-
" casions of acting and of speaking will not be
" wanting to us. In our days, in fact, tke pro-
" fission of an advocate has acquired additional
" importance in the developement of our institu-
" ' tions, by the establishment of a representative
" government, by the publicity of debate, by the
" liberty of the Press, and by that national tribune
" which, by varying only the forms of language and
" ' discussion, is to us a mere continuation of the
" profession of an advocate, since it gives us an ad-..
"' ditional cause to defend, the cause of our country.
" A Constitutional Government is eminently
" the government of law. The word legitimacy,
" ' in its widest application, has no other meaning,
"' and however railed at by the factious, it will
" ' always be that which is most holy and most re-
" ' spectable in our eyes. Interpreters of the legis-
" lature, we will know how to watch the terms
" with which we ask its support, the friends of
" good order and of rule, and therefore the irre-
" concilable enemies of arbitrary sway, every
" ' offended law will find in us defenders. Faithful

"' to our oath to the King and to the country, the
" ' steady organs of justice and the laws, and cape-
"' cially of that fundamental law, which we have
" sworn, like the King himself, and with him, to
" obey, it is not to be doubted that public law and
" ' private right will find us ready in every emer-
" ',gency for the duties of our profession.
" It is in the bosom of our order that the type
" should be found of that civil courage, which, in

" ' the great trials of social life, makes man capable
"' of the most generous efforts, and the most

" ' rigorous sacrifices, to obey his conscience and
" remain faithful to his conviction. This kind of
" courage does not require vigour of body, but
" only strength of mind; it rests on fixed princi-
"`plea, of which it renders a good account; it gives

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" an accurate view of the rights to be exercised,
" ' and the duties to be fulfilled, requiring the firm-
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K' nags of virtue and the consistency of wisdom,

'" which no reverse can shake or overturn.' "

Our Correspondent, Mancuniensis, is quite
right in saying we are not to be held responsible
for the opinions of our various correspondents
on Church Reform, nor to be considered as
adopting the views of the several writers of
whose books we have, in general, spoken fa-
vourably. We recommend the friends of the
Church to he extremely cautious in the alterations
they propose in reference to making the Church
independent. Great changes are required un-