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nients :

" Spain, naturally fertile and advantageously placed for
,commerce with all nations, ought to be more rich and more
aernero_
7us in Population. I have resolved to create a Junta,
composed of persons zealous for the good of the country,
which shall
Weald PaY strict attention in regard to the public
t and commerce. This Junta shall also examine
all the laws, and prepare every means which may con
tr.ibute to augment the territorial produce, and the in_
dustry of the arts, commerce, and navigation. They shall also
examine if it shall be necessary to establish a general Junta for
commerce and Produce from the mines.

(Signed) " BALLESTEROS."
LislioN, DEC. 28.-Our commerce to the Bra-
zils has received tho last death blow. Cochrane
Las taken seven of our ships.
(Prom the Messenger of the 20th of Jan.)
To morrow being the anniversary of the death
of his late Majesty, a solemn service will be per-
forated at the church of Notre Dame, and ser-
vice Will be celebrated in all the other Churches
of the capital. The Exchange,Theatres, and pub-
lic offices will be closed.
AG

entleman who has just arrived in Town
from Paris, and who had access to well-informed
Political circles, states, that some of the dispatches
received by Government from General BOUlt.• MONT contained very unpleasant intelligence, and
excited a great sensation. In the last he
states, that the
long present system of things cannot
endure, and threatens to resign his command,
unless a force of thirty tholsand men is in-
stantly sect to him.

• e l!ad only time yesterday, after the arrival
of our Express
om Paris, to throw out a suspi-
cion as to the reality of the pretended misunder-
standing between the French and Spanish Go-
verunneuts, which was adverted to by the Madrid
Correspondent of the Etoile :---." It is thought

here by every person (said the writer of the ar-
ticle), that things cannot remain long in their
present state between France and Spain." Is it
the intention of France, then, now that she
is in possession of the capital and of all
the fortresses and sea ports of Spain, to
pick a quarrel with her victim, and at
once to indemnify herself for the expenses of
the conquest, and to gratify her spirit of ambition
and aggrandizement, by wresting some provinces
from Spain, and permanently incorporating them
with the French monarchy ? We have good au-
thority for asserting, notwithstanding all the pro-
fessions of the French Ministers to thecontrary„that
it was their intention, before the actual commence-
ment of the war, to indemnify themselves in this
way, in the event of their arms being crowned
with success. The views which subsequently
presented themselves respecting South America
may have diverted them from the execution of
their original project ; but if it be true that their
transatlantic schemes have been relinquished in
consequence of the threatening and formidable
attitude assumed by the United States, and
of the well understood and still more alarm-
ing intentions of Great Britain, it is not impro-
bable that they may have resolved on returning
to their original design, and of preparing the way
for its accomplishment by requiring from FERDI.
NAND that he shall accede to measures which

, he has not the power to carry into execu-
tion. France will then say that she has faithfully
observed all her promises as to the war under-
taken for the liberation of the KING,—that she
has required from Spain no sacrifices in return
for her past services,—that she has contented her-
self with liberating FERDINAND from his thraldom,
and has even generously left him a French army
for the consolidation of his authority. She acted
disinterestedly as the delegate of Europe, for
effecting the great work entrusted to her by the
Congress of Verona; and in her triumphant set-
tlement of a war undertaken for the promotion of
European policy, she remembered that every thing
was for Europe and for Spain, and that by her
conquest she had not gained the right to seize
any acquisition for herself! In a new
quarrel,
however, undertaken wholly in her own
cause and
for her own purposes, she will boldly allege that
there can be no reason why she should be
equally
disinterested and romantic as in the campaign of
1823 !—lt would, to be sure, be the blackest and
most unheard of act of baseness and perfidy ever
recorded, if France were to take advantage of
the deplorable state of helplessness, anarchy,
and humiliation, into which her friendship has
plunged the Spanish nation ! We da not venture
to say that so monstrous an atrocity is really
contemplated by her. We only surmise the pos-
sibility that some such design exists, if there be
indeed any foundation, for the allegation of the
Madrid writer to the Etoile. It is ridiculous, on
any other hy pothesis,to say that matters cannot long
remain in their present state between France and
Spain, when it is notorious that the latter country
as well as her Government and Royal Family,
are actually in the custody of a French army,
and that France is able to dictate to tier KING
every measure that it suits her interest to re-
quire, and with which he has the means of
compliance. On the other hand, the intended
march of an additional French force for the
Peninsula,—the measures taking to send the Spa-
nish military away from Madrid, and thus to
place the Capital and the King and the Govern-
ment entirely in the hands of the French,—even
the dispatches and demands of General Bowl-
MONT, are all calculated to strengthen the suspi-
cion that some nefarious design is meditated.

CITY, Tas o'Clock.—Consols opened at 89,
this morning, with some business doing, and a
brisk Market ; they soon afterwards rose to 894,
at which price they remain steady up to this
hour. The Expresses from Paris this morning
bring the French Rentos at 95f. 10c. Money—
Time 95.30.--Spanish 25.

FOREIGN MARKET.-Spanish Bonds opened at
248 z, at which price they remain steady. There
is a good deal doing in Russia, Austria, and
Mexican Scrip this morning. Mexican Scrip t
to 1, Premium.

We have received New York Papers to the
'2 4t h ultimo. They contain the particulars of
the taking of Puerto Cabello by the Colom-
bians. The city was carried by assault on
the Bth of November, in so decisive a style, that
nearly the whole of the Spanish troops were kill-
ed or taken prisoners. CALZADA, the commanding
General, was among the latter. Advices from

llavannah of the 3d, had brought intelligence that
a report was in circulation there, of the surrender
of the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa to the Mexicans,
but this account is, we conceive, premature. It
appears by Mexican papers of the Sth of Novem-
ber, received at Philadelphia, that the new Con-

gress assembled on the preceding day, and was
opened by an address from the President of
the Supreme Executive Department, to which
a reply was made by the President of the
Congress. Reports were then submitted from the
four branches of administration, in all of which
the affairs of the country are represented to he in a
flourishing condition. The domestic intelligence
of the United States possesses no interest. The
report of the administration of the navy had been
submitted toCongress, but this document contains
little worthy of notice, being chiefly occupied
with the arrangement of the United States' squa-
drons in different parts of the world. The prices
of American Stook are quoted as follows :-6 per
cent. of 1812, 1021 ; 6 per cent. of 1815, 103 ;
per cent., 791.
( From the Boston Paper of the 22d ult.)

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IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON, DEC. 15.
The most important fact which I can to-day communicate is, that
the Committee on Foreign Affairs is summoned by the Chairman,
Mr. Forsyth, to meet immediately after the House adjourned this
morning. I can do to more than mention this circumstance.
On the foregoing, the Association of New York remarks :
" We have little doubt, from information obtained from other
sources, that the extraordinary call of the Committee is in con-
sequence of a formal proposition having been made by the Bri-
tish Government to our Government to unite in defence of the
South American States against any efforts of Spain with the
Sovereigns called the Holy Alliance."

BAYONNE, JAN. 13.—Our accounts from Ma-
drid of the Bth instant speak of the King's resolution to pre-
serve all the property of the Inquisition entire, and to entrust
the management of it to the Collector-General d'Espolios. This
resolution is looked upon as a proof of an intention to re-esta-
blieh that tribunal on the first favourable opportunity. The
King has declared that be will not have the Rertattrador sup-
pressed. This Journal accordingly loses no time in showing
itself worthy of the favour, by composing articles in favour of
the counter-revolution. Several of the Archbishops and Bishops
who alleged illness, have suddenly recovered their health, and
set out on their return to their Dioceses. It is certain that ad-
ditional French troops are going to enter Madrid, to supply the
place of the Spanish troops who are sent away. We learn from
Sian Lucar, that Don Santiago Sudeno, formerly Member of the
Cortes, and Bishop of —, had died in the hospital of that ,
town; and that it was with the utmost difficulty that a priest
could be procured to afford him the consolations of religion.—
They write from Hermitan, that the Royal Volunteers cannot
be assembled in the province, because they manifest more and
more Constitutional sentiments, and that the Tragala is pub-
licly sung ; but it must be added, that the country is occupied
by the regiments of Algarve and Burgos, which are not very
Royalist.—The accounts from Saragossa are not good ; assas-
sinations, even of the French, continue.—We expect every mo-
ment the order of the Tribunal of Commerce to sell the cargo
of the Minerva, belonging to M. Ouvrard, for the benefit of
Messrs. Assiar and Co., to whom he owes a large sum.—lt is
more seriously contemplated than ever to commence the great
works, which will make this place a fortress of the first rank.
What is certain is, that the Guards of the Artillery and Engi-
neers, who are to be employed on these works, are to receive
from this moment an increase of pay on that account. All the
mules and horses of the train belonging to the division which
remains on our frontiers will be retained by the several corps.

D,KAIII OF THE BISHOP OF LITCHFIELD.--
Di") at Richmond, on Tuesday, the 20th
universally respected and lamented, JAMES, Earl
CoaNwALLts, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry,
and Dean of Durham, in the 81st year of his age.
He is succeeded in his title and estates by his
only son, JAMES MANN, Viscount BaoME, now
Earl CortN'wALLis.

By the Hamburgh Mail,
via Holland, letters
were received yesterday from Stockholm, dated
the 2d instant. M. d'OuvEntA, late Charge
d'Affaires from Portugal
to the Court of Sweden,
had unexpectedly returned to Stockholm. After
,raiting some week; at Ystad, in expectation of
a favourable wind for his
passage to Stralsund,
he received
an order from his Court not to pro-
secute his journey to Rome, but to return to
Lisbon. M. d'OrAvEntA, consequently, was
preparing to embark at Gottenhurgh for Har-
wich, with the intention of taking his passage for
Lisbon by the Falmouth packet.
Letters of the 10th inst., received yesterday
from Copenhagen, announce the death of M.
ROSENCRANZ, Danish Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, on the night of the 6th, after only a few
days' illness. He had occupied that situation in
the Ministry from the year 1810. The depart-
ment of Foreign Affairs has been confided ad in-
terim to Count SCHIMMELMA.N, but Count lkonm,
Ambassador at Petersburgh, was intended to be
the successor of Count ROSENCRANZ. Should his
Excellency, however, of which there was some
expectation, decline the office, it would then be
conferred on Count EyssEx.

The Dutch Papers say that the rumour obtains
at Court that his Royal Highness Prince FRE_
nurucx is betrothed to the Princess Fecomucti.A,
(laughter of his Majesty the King of Paussti.
The anniversary of the decapitation of Louis
XVI., was observed yesterday at the French
Catholic chapel in London. A solemn High
Mass was read, at which all the Priests belonging
to the chapel, dressed in splendid vestments,
assisted. The chapel was hung with black cloth,
and brilliantly illuminated with lamps and wax
candles. The chapel was crowded to excess in
all parts, and many distinguished characters,
both Catholics and Protestants, were present
during the ceremony.
On the death of Mr. GASCOTNL, on Saturday
night last, an express was immediately forwarded
with the sad intelligence to the Marquis of Salis-
bury, at Hatfield House, where he was with the
Dowager Marchioness, enjoying the company of
a few select friends. The ►neesenger arrived at
an early hour on Sunday morning ; when the
Marquis and Marchioness being informed of the
melancholy news, her Ladyship swooned away
and remained in the most distressed state during
the whole of the day. On Monday forenoon the
Marquis arrived at his house in Park-place, St.
James's, where his Lordship was waited on by
the solicitor and agent of Mr. Gascoyne ; when
he repaired to his house in Great Stanhope-
street, in order to inspect his private papers, &c.
Yesterday the Marchioness, accompanied by the
Dowager Marchioness, arrived in town in a very
weak state.

W• learn with satisfaction that the cotton-
works in Renfrewshire are again at work : The combination
among the workmen to force obnoxious individuals upon their
employers has been broken up.—( Glasgow Chronicle.)