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London, England, 1825-06-27 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(i'rons the Courier Franais of Friday, June 24.)
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
-LISBON, J.DNE B.—The influence of the English policy is
more and more telt in our council', and produces in the acts of •
our Government results advantageous to our commerce and our
manufaCturers. Our Cabinet has just taken the first 'step to •
renounce the system of absolute - prohibition which kept from
our ports a great part of the ships of Europe. A duty of 30.
per cent. is established in the room of complete exclusion, in
a vast number of articles the consumption of which has become
iridispensable, and which could not be prscured except by
smuggling.
Such are silks, ornaments, tissues, worked with gold or sil-
"ver, laces, false stones, and beads of all colours, cloths and stuffs
lof all countries, except those of England and Holland. Hence-
fotward competition will be open to all nations, and the con-
sumer will gain by it. These measures, brought into harmony
with our new relations with Brazil, cannot-fail to raise our cern,
merce from, the state of stagnation, or rather of nullity, to which
it is reduced.
The preamideof the edict, which introduces a more reason-
able system, deserves. to In.quoted, as it is calculated to show
the new spirit which animates the Government : it is as fol-
lows :
" 1, the King, make 'known to all those who shall see the
present edict, that considering the inconveniences which result
from retaining laws the enactments of which were salutary when
they were adapted to the usages, customs, and circumstances of
the times of their publication; but which have become incom-
patible with the new usages and wants which the course of time
has introduced into society, think fit, and order the following to
be observed:"
This is assuredly the same doctrine that has lately been as-
serted in the House of Commons by Messrs. Canning, Peel, and
uskisson.
The several articles followe—The Ist recapitulates the pro-
hibitory laws and ordintnices c in the 2d are excepted some ar- •
ticles comprised in those laws and ordinances, among which
are sword-canes' packet-piitols, and all 'kinds of spirituous li-
quors. Article 4th is thernost important. The same articles,' it
says, • which were prohibited, and which are at this moment ad-
missible in the two ports ief -Lisboa and Oporto, shall pay the
duty on import in' the ports in which the shall enter, accord-
ing to the regulations laid down to that effect at present (30 per
cent.) or which•shall be in force in future. The duties shall be
paid according to the estimates made of the price on the day
when they were dispatched from the Custom-house ; or by an
auction, whichanay be made for the greater security and regu-
larity of the payments.'
Article 5 extends to the Azores, Madeira, and the Cape %rerd
Islands, theregulations laid down for. Lisbon and Oporto.
Another edict of the same date suppresses the duty en the
exportation of salt by Portuguese vessels, and reduces it to 200
rzals (Tees) per rnoyo, instead of 500.
The export duly on wine is reduced to one half.
It is useless to observe, that this edict has been issued imme-
diately after the departure of Sir Charles Stuart for Brazil.—
Most certainly, before his arrival here, our Cabinet would not
have published such doctrines upon commerce, and would not
have failed to extend any measure that it might have thought
fit to adopt, to the ports of Brazil which no longer depend on
Portugal, as well is to the other colonies which are still in its
.1 possession.

(From the Etnile, dated Saturday, June 23.)
MILAN, JUNE 13.—The Emperor of Austria having stayed
at Genoa, till the 7th, has passed the Bondelta and visited some
small towns between that chain and the Po, and is arrived at
Pavia, His Alajesty is expected here immediately. Prince
Metternich, the. Marquis of Carman, M. de Tatischeff, Sic
11. Wellesley, and Prince Hatzfeld, have returned froM Genoa..
We do not know whether Count Latour, Sardinian Mimister
for Foreign Affairs, who had many conferences at Genoa with
Prince Metternich, will come here. It was said his Sardinian
Majesty would visit the Emperor as soon as he returned to this
city.
Faaxctt I? t.l rms.—Pants, JUNE 2-I.—Pive per cents.
102. t;3.; 3 per Cents. 73. 110.; Bank Stock, 2,200 f.