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London, England, 1823-12-23 00:00:00

fold. England might have expressed some alarm
at a prospective occupation of two or three years,
which would have placed the ports of Spain in the
hands of the French. Governmenyand made the
Peninsula a kind of French colony; and Ferdinand,
relying too much on the protection of his allies,
might have shown himself less accessible to con-
siderations of prudence. By the present arrange-
ment, on'the contrary, the state of Spain, and the
expediency of its military occupation, coming
under review at short intervals, France places
herself under the necessity at each separate re-
newal of treaty of satisfying her neighbour that
a farther interference is necessary, and gains the
advantage of being able to threaten Ferdinand
with a premature withdrawal of aid, ifs by ob-
stinately persisting in measures of irritation and
tyranny, he should render himself unworthy of
it. The theory is plausible—let us attend to
the practice."

LNEw rntEs.l
An Express was received yesterday from Paris
with, the closing price of the French Funds,
92f. sc. on Satutday. The French Papers are
barren of intelligence. The private accounts as-
sert, that there continues not the slightest pros-
pect of uny arrangement being concluded with
respect to the Spanish Bonds. The prices in
consequence were yesterday so low as 29,1, for
the Bonds of 1821, and for those of 1824, 181;
the former subsequently closed at 26H. We are
assured, from very good authority, that there is
no foundation for the report of the Austrian Go.
vernment being in negociation for another Loan,
or to increase the amount of the one just com-
pleted.

[stoexrxo eos.r.]
French Papers to the 21st inst. reached us
last night by express. They notice the arrival
of Messrs. Baring and Rothschild in Paris, and
throw some light on the object of their journey
and the nature of their proceedings. This ob.
ject is said to be the negociation of a new
Spnnish Loan, and not, as it had been re-
ported, the settlement of some differences which
had arisen in the late arrangement with Austria.
Whether the recognition of the Loans to the
Cortes formed one of the conditions of that
now proposed (and it ought to be the first) is
not mentioned ; but it is stated that the negotia-
tion was not likely to be brought to a speedy
conclusion, as the securities required by Messrs.
Baring and Rothschild were ecclesiastical pos•
sessions in Spain, to be administered by agentsof
their own under the guarantee of France, and
Ferdinand neither liked nor dared to touch
the property of the Clergy. The. French
Government also conceived that it had made
sufficient sacrifices for Spain, and felt little
disposition to become a party to any arrange-
ment of which it might have ultimately to bear
die %vhole responsibility: Such were the difficulties
attending the transaction, and though they may
not prove an insurmountable bar to its success,
they cannot fail to create considerable delay.
There is no doubt that under the pressure of the
moment, and in order to be relieved from a state
approaching to absolute want, Ferdinand tvoulti
agree to recognize the Loans or the Cortes, if he
were not deterred by the threats of the
Royalists, who declare that i: he " had the
misfortune to do so, a new explosion would imme-
diately take place." The influence of a power,
which can no longer be known by the denomina-
tion of Northern or Eastern, for it extends be.
neath three quarters of the Heavens, and is now
stretching itself towards the West—the influence
of that Power, which has set itself in declared
opposition to the advancement of the human mind
and the progress of Constitutional freedom, has
also been used to overawe the wretched Despot,
who, if the Cortes still existed, and he fell
into their hands, would immediately pronounce
himself liberated from captivity, and would an-
nul every Decree now issued, as the work of fo-
reign dictation. No doubts are entertained that
Count Pozzo di Norge has postponed his de-
parture from Aladrid with no other view than
that of watching the King whilst the hour of
temptation passed by, and preventing him from
sanctioning measures which Russia considered
likely to encourage future revolutionists.

[MORNING lIERALD•j
A. letter from Castile states that the Constitu-
tionalists have been driven,, by the excesses of
the Royalists, to an absolute state of despera-
tion. Guerilla bands are forming in every part
of that province, for the purpose of plundering
the Royalists, and destroying the Servile priests.
Soanet, an officer in the Spanish militia, and a
man who has hitherto borne a high character for
milness and humanity, being driven, by the per-
secution of the priests, to take up arms in self-
defence, has formed a guerilla band in the
the neighbourhood of Valladolid, that is
making dreadful havoc among the Servilea.
—This Rum states, in a letter to a reli t-
tion in England, that he sees he must finally
fall a victim, to the ferocity of the Royalists, but
that he is determined not to perish without de-
stroying as many of his and his country's enemies
as may fall in his way. Accordingly, he and his
band entered a little town near Rueda, in the
beginning of the present month, where they
found assembled thirty-four. Priests, whom they
put to death, and afterwards withdrew to another
village, for the purpose of hunting down
more Churchmen. Another letter from Vittoria
states, that a Priest in one of the Churches on a
festive day, addressed his congregation to
the following effect :—that he was surprised that
they should have so little steal for the service of
God to suffer the revolutionists to walk unmo-
lested in that sacred place, and insult by their
presence the Church of Christ. He called upon
[them to avenge the rights of their God and their
King; and finally 60 far excited their evil pas.
sions as to cause them to go to 4the house of a
highly respectable Liberal, whom they stabbed in
a thousand places, andlifter dragging him through
the public streets literally tore him to pieces.'We
are also informed. by a letter from St. Sebastian,
that the French and Spanish troops are constantly
quarrelling, and that numbers of the French are
assassinated almost.every night. in the mean

tiro the guerillas, in considerable bands, are
threatening the town, while their numbers are
daily increasing by deserters from the Royalists
of St. Sebastian, who fear the retaliations of the.
French.

[BRITISH P Est.]
The festival in Paris for the degradation of
Spain Is still prolonged. New fetes and banquets
succeed each other daily. The civic Me-
bration at the Hotel de Ville was to be suc-
ceeded by a military banquet, at which Angou-
leme was to be present, this day, the 23d. Three
hundred and sixty covers. were to be spread
out, and the Duke's procession from the
Tuileries was arranged amidst illuminations and
all the glare of a conqueror. The King had
granted a pension of a thousand francs to Honein,
the father of the young man shot on the first day
of these tinsel festivities. The unhappy cixcum-
stance produced a deep effect in Paris, and there
is yet some fear of public indignation even in
that capital. Accounts from Madrid to the 11th
December state, that Irujo's Ministry was any
thing but popular with the Royalist party ;
they call the Foreign Minister a Freemason,
Ileredia an difrancesado, Salazar a Communero,
and Cruz a Postelero. The epithets of these
men are of very little value ; but it skews
the spirit existing among the ferocious tribe.—
Ferdinand appointed this unstable Ministry from
compulsion, and was almost instantly so dis-
'satisfied with them, that but for the same foreign
interference, the tyrant would have dismissed
them in 24 hours. The Memorial Bordelais, a
furious Ultra Paper, asserts, that the diplomatic
corps are deeply mistaken if they hope to form a li-
beral Ministry in Spain; there is, this paper asserts,
no room for them. The two parties, of Royalists
and Liberals, are so utterly opposed, that there
never can be any amalgamation amongst them.
This is a happy and encouraging state of things,
promising long happiness and tranquillity toSpain.
By forming round the King a liberal Cabinet, he
will lose (the Bordeaux'Paper asserts) the sup-
port of the clergy and the people—that is, of the
monks and the rabble. To quiet Spain, the Ultra,
Journal prescribes no mode but restoring every
thing to the state they were in previous to the
revolution. The Brussels Oracle states posi-
tively that the celebrated Order of the Knights.
of Malta is to be re-established, with all its for-
mer privileges, by general consent of the confe-
derated Monarchs.

INTREPIDITY OF A 80y.—.4 Robber Shot.—
On Monday night an attempt was made to break
into the dwelling-house of WILLIAM HERRICK,
who resides at a lodge near Enderby. It ap.
pears, that as the eldest son (a boy about 15)
was returning home from the village about eight
o'clock in the evening, he observed two men sit-
ting upon a stile, who inquired of him the way
to. King's Stand, saying they understood that Mrs.
King,had parted with the servant man, and they
were going after the place. When the boy got
home he, told his father of the circumstance of his
meeting two ill-looking fellows, and as the house
had been once attempted before, the boy, without
taking any notice, took his gun, which had long
been usefully employed in frightening sparro.VS,
and got it ready to give any one a warm reception.
On going to bed, and looking through his window,
to his great surprise he observed the same two men
making towards the house. with a hay-fork ; he
ran down and alarmed his f►►ther, who slept in a
room on the first floor, and instantly returned to
his window and shouted to the men, who were at-
tempting to force open tha door ; one of them
(a tall lusty man), on hearing this, presented a
pistol, which only flashed in the pan ; the boy,
nothing dism►►yed, pushed the muzzle of his gun
through a pane, fired, and severely wounded him.
A great quantity of blood was discovered in the
morning to have been shed on.the road, particu-
larly near a stile which the marauders passed
over. Notwithstanding the indefatigable exer.
tions of C. L. Smith, Esq. and the principal in-
habitants of the village to discover them,, they
have not yet been taken. It is a singular
cir-
cut»stance that a large mastiff, which it was sup-
posed no stranger dare approach, never once
barked, but was found tied by a halter to the
wagon hovel.—(Leicester Chronicle.) _

SANGUINARY AND FATAL Dure.—The fol-
lowing is an extract from a letter just received
by a respectable Gentleman in Liverpool ; it is
dated Charleston, S. C. Nov. 8. After speaking
of the rancorous spirit excited by the electtons,
the writer proceeds thus :—" Our Newspapers
teemed with abuse, and several instances oc.
curred of personal collision ; one of these I was
in a measure compelled to witness, the most
tragical and heart-rending in its result. In
consequence of some expressions used by Mr.
E. P. S. (a Member of our Bar, and who
you recollect married a daughter of ), a
challenge passed between him and. Mr. G. C. G.
youngest son of General G. A meeting 'took
place on the morning of the "fith ultimo. Four
shots were exchanged without effect, except the
balls passing harmlessly through their clothes.—
At the fifth fire, Mr. G., after receiving a wound
through both thighs, shot Mr. S. in the abdomen.
Thelatter died the next day in the most luirrible
agony, and leaving a wife and two or three
young children in rather a dependent state;
whilst the former is still confined with his
wounds, with the probability of being seriously
injured for life. I never witnessed a duel before,
nor should I have gone to this, had I not been
earnestly desired by Mr. M. to accompany him
as one of his friends. The scene was awful I
—My head absolutely reeled under the sus.
pease and anxiety of mind during the interval
between the firings; and at the lust dreadful
moment, when both lay stretched upon the
ground and weltering in their blood, within a few
feet of each other, my feelings were unutterable.
But a little before they were laughing and chat
tins; with their companioos on the ground, and
summoning all their energies for the deadly com-
bat. The transition of one moment prostrated
them helpless before each other. The sensation
produced in the city was prodigious, as the
ters on which they were brought from Port John-
son were carried through the streets to their re-
spective residences. The crowd almost blocked
up the streets."—(Liverpool illercurN)