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London, England, 1837-12-28 00:00:00

circumstances, but in the highest degree disgraceful to
the Spanish Generals and the Spanish Government. In
scarcely any instance did either of these parties keep faith
with Colonel EVANS. The troops were enlisted at
the instance and on the earnest application of the
QUEEN'S Government, and engagements were made
by which they were to be paid, and fed, and clothed, in
the same manner as British troops of the line. Scarcely
had they arrived in Spain before they were seized by
an epidemic disease, which was brought on by cold
and want, and which carried off many hundreds. Not-
withstanding their wants and sufferings they were re-
solved to perform their part of the contract, and at the
request of General CORDOVA attempted, in con-
junction with a Spanish division, to penetrate
from Vittoria into the provinces. They were
driven back by the forces under EGUIA ; and
CORDOVA, in place of assisting them, retreated
to the town, leaving them in the most perilous situa-
tion, and they were saved from total destruction only
by the rapidity of EVANS in escaping from the
snare. They received the same support in their
attack on the lines in the front of St. Sebastian, and,
but for the timely succour of Lord JOHN HAY,
would in all probability have been driven back with
great loss. The battle of 16th March was only a repeti-
tion of these scenes, except that it terminated more un-
fortunately, and decided the fate of the Legion. Since
then there has been an uninterrupted train of
bad treatment, and the Spaniards have con-
cluded the scene by depriving the few remaining
troops of their arms, and leaving them in a state of
destitution, and not even secure against the attacks of
the armed peasantry. Our Government has at last
been obliged to interfere, and provide vessels to con-
vey them to England. The recital of these facts re-
quires no comment ; but Colonel EVANS will not do
his duty (and he may now speak out without compro-
mising his men), if he does not lay a full statement be-
fore the public, pointing out the real causes of his failure,
and the exertions Lord PALMERSTON made to bring

the Spanish Government to a sense of something like
humanity and good faith. The number of unfortunate
victims of this policy that now wander through the
streets will be increased by some hundreds, and will
force on the public—if not on the Government—some
attention to their bad treatment and sufferings. They
went out under the protection of the British Govern-
ment, and if they can get no redress from Spain, they
have a right still to claim that protection, in order to
obtain their arrears of pay, and the fulfilment of the

original contract.

A Morning Contemporary states with amazing
pomp and emphasis of manner, that at a Conservative
meeting lately held in Aberdeen, Mr. Ross, of Rossie
—who, like our Contemporary, was once a Reformer,
and is now a Tory—made a deep impression on all
who heard him, by the manliness and eloquence of his
remarks ; and adds, that at the next election, he will
no doubt be the successful candidate. Now, in
answer to this, we may observe—and our authority is
that of one who was on the spot at the time—that
when Mr. Ross's name was mentioned on the hust-
ings at the last election, it was received with a loud
burst of laughter, even from his own friends !

By the arrival of the City of Canterbury steamer
a: Falmouth, we have received advices from Lisbon of
the 20th inst. The Cortes were discussing the merits
of a new Treasury scheme, which was in bad odour
with most of the large capitalists. In the expose of
of the Finance Minister the following passage occurs
relative to the debt contracted in England :

" The Government using the authority conceded to it by
the law of the 15th of July last, ordered by a decree of the
14th of October last, through the intervention of the finan-
cial agent in London, the creation of Exchequer bills to the
amount of one million of pounds sterling, bearing an
interest at the rate of 31d. per day for each 1001., in order
to meet the payment of the dividends, and to redeem
70,000/. of bonds at 5 per cent. held (in pledge only) for
advances made by Rothschild, Goldsmid, and others.
" The 400 contos of reis with which the Junta of Public
Credit was to be additionally endowed in conformity with the
decree of the 15th of July, and which the Cortes have voted,
is pledged for the payment of the interest of these new bonds."

Portugal was apparently tranquil. We have no
intelligence respecting the intrigues of the Court, or
the movements of the Royal family.

The French Journals of Tuesday have been re-
ceived. During the sitting of the Chamber of Depu-
ties on that day, 111. DUPJN was re-elected President
for the ensuing session. Three hundred and forty-
eight Members voted, of which votes two hundred and
thirteen were given for M. DUPIN—a large majority
when it is remembered that the remaining votes were
divided among, not three, but several candidates, of
whom only two had as many as twenty votes recorded
in their favour.

A ccording to the Augsburg Gazette, the Duke of
NEMOURS is about to proceed to Germany on a

matrimonial speculation.
The Siecle has the following paragraph relative to
the civil war in Lower Canada :
" A number of French volunteers propose forming them-
selves into an auxiliary legion to go to British America and
assist the Canadian patriots in their resistance to the domina-
tion of England. The French, who love liberty, remember
that these insurgents are Frenchmen by origin—that they
were given up to England by the good pleasure of Louis XV.
and that the treaty of 1763, by which they were delivered over
to that power, has never been ratified by the people of France."
M. JACQUES LAVITTE, of banking and republican
notoriety, but who recently disgusted France by his
conversion to Conservatism, stands a fair chance of
being yet elected a Member of the new Chamber of
Deputies, and once more occupying the seat which
his old associates had resolved to consecrate to—
Vacancy I The following account of a preliminary
step to a consummation so ardently desired by :AI. LA-
IITTE'S friends, leaves little doubt as to the result of
such a display of French gratitude :

The electors of the first arrondissement of Toulouse have
charged M. Belmontel there to put into M. Lafitte's hand the
following letter, in which he is requested to come forward as
candidate in the room of Marshal Clausel.

" Sir—Your presence in the Chamber is necessary for the
honour of the France of July. You are the most honourable
personification of the revolution of 1830, and your exclusion
from The national representation is an outrage to it. We, in
consequence, request you to accept the offer we are so happy
to make you, in case Marshal Clausel should accept his return
at Rhetel. Toulouse will prove itself more just and more
grateful than Paris.
" Toulouse, December, 1837."
This letter is signed by 213 names.
All the electors in Toulouse at the time signed. The ma-
jority for M. Lafitte, it is said., will be at least a third greater
than that for Marshal Clausel. No candidate has yet been
found to stand against the honourable banker, and nearly 100
legitimist votes are secured to the majority. It is even said
that M. Lafitte will be elected without one dissentient voice.
The place left vacant in the Chamber will consequently not
long be left so.
There is no other domestic intelligence in the Paris
Journals worthy of notice. The following extracts
from them are, however, of some interest :
" It is affirmed that the French Government has offered to
the King of Prussia its mediation in the affair of the Arch-
bishop of Cologne, that autograph letters have passed between
the two Sovereigns, and that a great lady, who has religion
much at heart, has written to King William, expressing her
anxiety on account of the disgraced Prelate. The Prussian
Government, in reply, has merely related the string of com-
plaints it has against the Archbishop ; among which is one of
having excited the younger Clergy to rebel against the Ar-
chiepiscopal authority, by a rigorous exaction of discipline
no longer in accordance with the manners of the ay."—
Bon Sens.
" The rich American banking-house of Messrs. Welles
and Co., in this capital, on occasion of the late commer-
cial crisis received assistance from the Bank of France, as
our readers will remember, on the guarantee of Messrs.
Welles, and also of some great capitalists at Paris,
Lyons, and Marseilles, to the amount of 3,200,000 francs.
The sum offered to be lent by the Bank of France was
4,300,000 francs ; but of this Messrs. Welles availed them-
selves only to the amount of 2,375,000 francs; and on the
21st instant, they repaid the whole of this sum to the Bank,
and thus effaced the last vestige of the temporary shock sus-
tained by their house. On occasion of this Count d'Argout,
governor of the Bank of France has written to the persons