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London, England, 1824-07-29 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPIRS.

Pita's, JULY 26,--The Madrid Gazetle)wltich
we have received up to the 22d, contains on y
the following article of the least interest :
" Ills Majesty, yielding to the wishes of the Count
d'Ofalia, has relieved hint from his charge as first
Secretary of State, and appointed in his place
J)on Francisco de Zee Bermudez," &c.
if we may believe a rumour which is in circu-
lation, a Royal ordinance is about to appear, to

prorogue till December next the Session of 1824.
It is added, that the Session of 18e5 will open
on the 6th of Jannary following, so that there
will be an interval of only a few days between
the two sessions.

Colonel Gauchais, who was recently acquitted
by the Court of Assizes at Toulouse, of the
charge of bearing arms against France in the
Spanish campaign, is to be conveyed to Poitiers,
in order to be tried US sue of the accomplices of
the late General Berton. The 16 prisoners who
were discharged have orders to quit Toulouse
within a fixed period.-
A few days ago a Colonel of the Belgian
Light Horse, in garrison at Malines, sent for the
Lieutenant-Colonel and the two Majors of the
same regiment, and after stating that he intended
to retire from the service, withdrew into an ad-
joining room and blew out his brains.
PARIS, JULY x6.-,-We have letters from Lis-
bon to the 10th inst. They do not say any thing
respecting that city being made a free port. The
public mind is much occupied about the con-
vocation of the Cortes, which does not, however,
prevent the circulation of conjectures respecting
the solicitation which has been made for British
troops.-.-(Journal du Commerce.)
MADRID, JULY 16.—King Ferdinand has just
lost a faithful and zealous servant in the person
of the Count de -Miranda, -who died suddenly
four days ago. During The revolution the Count
was persecuted by the Liberaux, who compelled
the King to remove him from his household ; but
as soon as his Majesty escaped from the hands of
time Revolutionists at Cadiz, he called M. de Mi-
randa near his person, and restored him to the
post of Intendant of the Royal Household, which
had been given to the Marquis of Santa Cruz.—
(Drapeau Blanc.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 25.—The French Am-
bassador, Count Guilleminot, has received from
all the Ottoman Ministers the most distinguished
attention.

For some days past it has been rumoured that
the Marquis of Ribaupierre will arrive here
shortly, as Ambassador from Russia.
Since the re-establishment of friendly relations
with Russia, several Greeks, who had taken re-
fuge at Odessa, have had the temerity to return
to Constantino
rested and
.conducted to the prison of Mousour
pie. We learn that they were ur-
Aga, which is appropriated to debtors.. It is
hoped, that when they have flischarged what
they owe to the Porte, they will be released.
The Captain Pacha is still et anchor under
Mitylene. According to advices from this Con
mender, he meditates an attack upon Ipsara.
( From the Conaltutionuel.

Jui.sr 215.---" The men (says the Jour-
nal d*. 14. bat•) who et, about whispstinic that nt. tie Chateau,
wand lira accepted ocwadisssy, ere' may the ',gents of M int-
, sten." " Does not this Insinuation announce the rupture of
the negociatlon which it was supposed was going on between
the expelling and the expelled Minister ? One b tempted to
suppose this on seeing the return in the Journal des Debate, of
that lively resentment which flowed through its first articles,
when its noble Editor new cast down from the Ministerial
Throne." It is now exclaiming, as et first, " flow, after hav-
ing been at the head of affairs, can M.tle Ckateaubriand demean
himrielf to accept an inferior station ; or receive orders from
those to whom he hits given them, and nil this out of conde-
scension to M. de Villele, who dismissed him like a common
clerk?" We are for from advising this condescension, though it
would be very Christian like, in the illustrious author of the Mar-
tyrs ; but let his friends beware: we have already cautioned
them, there are complaints without dignity, and comparitions
destitute of nobleness. Comparing the disgrace of a Minister
to the-dismissal of it clerk, is, undoubtedly, of this number,
however barbarous might be the circumstances by which it was
accompunied ; and itsi not without surprise, nor without re-
pugnance, that we observe it reproduced the third time in the
Journal ties Debuts.
We have been Informed that the heat is so great In the Moja
(Old Castillo) that almost all the corn is burnt up. At Bayonne
a workman in a refinery was suffocated by the heat, which has
caused a number of people to fall sick.
(From the Courier Irraneais.)
13 Alt", J6f,Y 20.—A question of the greatest,
importance at Nit moment occupies the attention of Europe—
that of tile recognition of the American Colonids which have'
rendered themselves independent. The English Journals tell'
us that France has shawl' the best disposition towards the Re-
public of Colombia—that it has invited the' Colombian Com-
missioner to Paris; at the same time, we know that negocia-
Hone are going on with the Commissioners of Saint Domingo.
This is all very aatisfactory, but who can believe It? At this
moment meitsures of proscriptinn against free men of colour in
our colonies are sanctioned...at this moment they have. chosen
to defend from the Tribune, and in the Ministerial Journals,
the monstrosities of our Colonial system. After this, how is it
possible that the emancipated colonies, with which we are trying
to come to eh agreetnent, should have confidence In the since.
pity of the intentions displayed towards them ? Our relations
also with the Peninsula possess the same kind of want of har-
mony which reignS in the acts of our Ministers. Moderation
has been preached to the Spanish Government, and praise and
favours heaped on the men most opposed to moderation.
pretend to wish that Spain had institutions, itntl they give a
triumph to that party which will have no otlfbr establishment
than the inquisition. It is high time the-state of the Pentaula
was remedied. Europe can never regard itself as tranquil while
that unhappy country is given up to disorders, which only our
Ministers can see with a stole's eye. Every body it so sensible
of the consequences of sucke-state of things, that an event,
very often Ora triffingnature, is sufficient to make us believe In
a 'rile mere report of sanding a corps of '
igat:
has created alarms of war in all Europe,
which have been reeated in the Journals of England, Holland,
nnoevrearli
adittror tat
Lisbonncc .
and Germany. These alarms and reports are undoubtedly ex-
aggerated; but they prove the unquietness and the general
uneasiness, and to us it ill-Tears that a Journal, formerly Alin's,
terial, has pointed out the true cause.
The Jesuits have re.appea„d their old 'followers are close
lit hand. It is a long lime since we had any of the Illuminati
amongst us, ont'llnw we huve one six or *even years old, who
talks with angels, hel
in heaven, as if he wenrithere, And is ready toimpart his know.
m and understands all which 'is going on
ledge to the earth. The following fact is not an extract from
the general history of: people labouring under convulsions,
but Report recently made by M. Appert, .Alan..
bar of takenthe
eef7lll.lttee of Prisons and of Charity, and of the so-
ciety of Christian Morality, on the present state of prisons, hos.
pitals and schools. nl, Appert visited the schools of Soissons,
and among others diet of the Doctrine Chretienne. to I was
going away hem this K 11001," he siays, when the Superior
most extraordinary bleu. Ile eels, for example, that he has
presented a child about seven years of age to me, who had the
been sent by God to be a Priest ; that he hears celestial voice!,
eoin of the resignation of Jesus Christ in his suffer.ritlgix:dhinegliad JIM'
his
eyes always fixed on a prayer-book, The
head of this boy is so deraogodlhat Ifear for his mjad. It
was in the middle of the other scholars that lie was made to
tell of his visions and his hopes, and repeat the conversation
that he said lie howl held with the Angel of the Lard." Only
a blind , and ill-directed zeal could encourage this, boy in his
delusion, and at the same tittle offer him as as example to the
.other boys. If men appointed to teach children religion respect
them so little as to favour ouch an abuse, we may soon expect
to' sec people possessed, and exorcisers. Fortunately for us
they will not exorcise with us,as the Irish Priest performed dila
operation, who munlered the possessed, to be more sure that

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the devil should not escape. Ihe 'Report in which the above
circumstance is mentioned merits our,attention on several ac-
counts. It is full of interesting, but sometimes afflicting de-
tails, on the'state of the Hospitals and Prisons, what melio-
rations are required in those of Saint-Quentin, Cambray, Va-
lenciennes where the dungeons are damp and infected, and
where youths under 18 years, guilty only of smuggling, are
mixed with persons sentenced to the gallies. How is it, for
example, that in a town like Lille, 15 persons are made to
' sleep is one bed, which is only ten feet wide ? Some prisons
are in a very different state. When the good is before us, why
is the bad allowed to exist ? Mr. Appert's Report has been
presented by him to the Duke of Orleans.