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London, England, 1823-07-10 00:00:00

Mit. INP.N AGHTEN.

Bnw-STRET.-11'llat. singular anti nnfortun:lto,
man, Mr. Archibald M Naghten, who WAS formerly Deputy
Quartermaster-General to the Peninsular Army, from which
tuation he was dismissed by Court-martial, and who, bar &years
ago, was :to often " in trouble" for his violent conduct at 'OW d
of the hetels at the west end of the town, was brought up in th
custody of Wnoton, charged with asSaulting a soldier on duty i
lyde Park. .This once affluent man was attired in a mitotic,
that indicated the most extreme poverty, and there was alio a
singularity in his whole appearance that cold not fail to aurae,
the particular notice of all whn sow him. He wore 4 tattered
plaid jacket, a cravat of the same material, trowsers turtian
and full of holee, and had only one shoe; and no stocking,
lin, head is bald in front, but he had watered the hair behind
to 'grow to an enormous length and thickness, and part of
it he had woven into long strings, and brought them over hi 4
forehead, where they were tied together in an ingenious awl- •
ner, the rest of his hair hanging behind in one huge mass.
his beard had also grown to a great length.
Ile saluted the Magistrate with a dignified how on approach-
ing the table, and on being asked his name by Richmond.
the Clerk, he answered " Prince Wislaghten.'
It appeared that some of the troops had a field day on Tuesday
in Hyde Park, anti the defendant placed himself pi front Of
them, and gave the word of command in a voice of such Sten-
torian powers as to drown that of the Colonel in command anti
produce some confusion. Afterwards, when the troops were
marching In line, he placed himself in front of them, and on'
one of the'soldiers'aftempting to remove him from that Aiwa-
tiOn, he struck him.: lie also thing, his fist into the hoof the
Comwanding Officer,. who advanced to speak to bias. ,
in defence he said in a haughty time--" I ant a Field
she' in the British Army, consequently was the !WWII' (Uhler
in the field, and had a right to gtve the command." He de*
nied striking the soldier.
`Mr. HaLts--I must require you, Sir to give bail.
Defendant—Bail, Sir ! Oh dear no .1 bail is out of the ones.
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts
,froin the Morning Papers, July

[THE T1111:5.].

The news from
. Portugal stiYl eontintres to be

interesting. The proceidthgs ret Lisbon since
tilt! restitution of the old Giovetnurent are given
in the last arrivals of journals and Petters. The
King and' Queen had a solemn procession on the

'341 ult. to the cathedral, to return thanks to the
King of Kings, an* the Queen of heaven (a title
of which we Protestants are happily ignorant)—
" the Queen of Heaven!" Humph ! Other
fetes and rejoicings followed. But in the mean-
time, great pains, we obs'erve, are taken to sup-
press secret societies in Portugal. Now, if the
party at present triumphant were really preva-
lent in power, what would it have to dread from
secret associations? Secret associations may de-
vise the means of petty mischief; but the very
secrecy implies weakness. They cannot conjure
np a power to overthrow an empire. The per-
sons employed on,. or deputed to, foreign. mis.
sions, are men of high respectability. Marialva,
Souza, anti Palmella, are names well known and
highly esteemed' in the capitals of the French
and. British kingdoms. Gomez is appointed
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Spain ; and that
Court is, we believe, considered to reside at
Cadiz.

It may be said that every man who subscribes
to the forthcoming French loan prepares the
means of efeectually destroying the credit on
which he tisks his capital,. If. the Bourbon GoLi
virnment should happily,. destitute of fumf
tb carry on the war, it must withdraw the army
from Spahr, and may speedily, by a return to.
pence and moderation, recruit its finances; and"
preserve its credit unhopired. The existing,
debt, the interest of whitch amounts to nine or
len millions a year, might, in' that case, be consi-
dered as resting on a solid security.. But if
money he supplied, and the war protracted, an-
other loan becomes inevitableond another, under
vircnrustances which perhaps may endanger the
whole fabric, of the present monarchy. Encou-
raging prospect this, for Englia'h sublicribers to 'a
French loan of 1 3,000,000/. sterling !—(lbith).

LAIORNI/MG
Alonday/s Paris Pa pers reached' (is last night by
express: they contain no fresh intelligence from
Spain. The dissolution ..of the Constitutional
Regency,' and the restoration of the exetutive
power to Yerdinand is fit ir.ngtlr acknowledged
by them, though no doubt known some days be-
fore to the French Government. It appears to
filive been a most unwelcome piece of intelligence
at Paris. Had the Cortes-deposed Ferdinand it
would 'have been heard with at least secret' ex-
nitatiow This would have given the French
Cltras a theme for declamatory horror,• upon
plausible, if not justifiable grounds. But the
Cortes have disappointed them, and are on that
account the more keenly assailed with invective
and calumny. To all reasonable and impartial
periolo, however, the declaration of the tempo-
rary incompetency of King Ferdinand, and his
roteration to the head of the Government, when
his CO' disposition could no longer prove fatal to
the country, prove two' thing3—first, that the
Cortes are determined upon the maintenance of
the Constitution.—.next, that they are equally de-
termined upon the maintenance of the Monatchy.
The Cortes, at Seville', when Verdinand refused
to move,. evidently with' the intention of
falling intlethe hinds of tin enemy, indeed, con-
fessedly on his part, with that intention, must
necessarily have adopted one of two courses,--
either submitting to the invaders—or transferring
the person of the Sovereign mid the Legislature
to a place capable of defence. Let it be fairly
considered whether they could have' adopted the
finmer course without incurring the odious re,
preach of treason, or, what would make them
not may odious but despicable, of the meanest
pusillanimity. They were then under a moral
necessity of adopting the alternative, as they have
done. It is true the Cortes are charged iii the
French Journals with having offered unnecessary
violence and disrespect to the Sovereigw., But
there is not an atom of evidence that this is true.
On the contrary, therris every Presumption of
its falsehood'. Have they permanently usurped
the power which the Constitution itself, as well'
as the clear necessity of the case, vested in them
for a specific purpose ? They certainly have not.
By the speedy dissolution of the Regency as soon
as its purpose was attained, they have prevented
all reproach (us already observed) by the re-
storation of Ferdinand to his functions,, at a mo-
men t the mostlaveurable for setting him aside for
ever—they have' given the best answer to the
charge of their being intent upon the abolition of
Mottatchy,. The fallacy in all the tirades on this
subject is, that the mere naked fact of controulling.
the sill of King is cried out against without
cousideriug the circumstances or merits. We
speak of 14 limit. c 1 Mooarch, without, however,
giving any opinion upon the political justice or
olitietgrty of controutling tut absolute one. In tin
case, then, or limited Monarchy, the main goes-
tion is, which of the parties to the compact limi-
tation' infringed ? ho Constitution of the
Cortes may not he, and most probably is not, the
best and wisest in the world. But Ferdinand
has ssi urn to maintain it—and the other party
has its right to enforce him to observe his con-
tract and his oath. It may be said', that the res-
toration of the old Govermnent would be better
for Spain. Reasoning would be thrown away
uron those who are so infatuated its to thiok., or
so hypocritical as to say so.

istoazirNra rovo.l
We received last night, by xpress, French
Pripet: , to the Bth inst. They are remarkably
barren of military intelligence : the only article
apprvimating to something of that nature is a re-
port in the,,Quotidienne that General BerdesoUlt
bad written a letter from Puerto Real to the
Duke of Angouiemevin which he boasted that he
would enter Cadiz on the Ist or Id inst. The
Quoildienne has however the prudence to add,
that it does not guarantee the authenticity of

rtliis news. E'en the Ulttath begin' fo perceive
that, the conquerors of Spain have as yet done
more tsiith their pens than with their swords ;
and that' when the case must end with downright
fighting, it is not quite safe to predict an uninter-
rupted series of triumphs. The Journal des
Debuts confirm the factor Ferdinand VII. hav-
ing been replaced in the enjoyment of all the
prerogatives of Royalty immediately after his
arrival at Cadiz, and declares that it is more in-
dignant at this restoration than it would have
hem had the, dethronement of that Monarch been
completed; because it shows still less respect for
the Royal authority.,

[NENV TIMES.]
That memorable instance of folly, the Spanish
Minty Bill!, has actually netted thctprOdigious
sum of Three Hundred and Seventy-two Pounds
Six Shillings! It was to mark the dal, the en-
thusiasm of the Whig Nobility 'of "Ebgland, in
the cause of a gallant and oppiesied People—and
it has netted 3721. 6s. It 'to re6ltiit the ex-
hausted tteasnry of the I):..ltiOtkihit•--to buy
shirts for the shirtless, and brrches forthe Suns-
culottes—it was to raiseAirmie's, lo purchase
cannon, to store Magazines, in line, to build
chateaux en Espagne----and it he* netted 372165.
We said that the Ball would be perfectly harm-
less. We knew it would not hurt the French
army, nor the loyal Spaniards ;. and we had a
shrewd slapicion that it would not much injure the
fortunes of the wealthy Peers andPeeersses who
gave it theh' poWerful support—but we really
did think it would, net something more than
3721. 6s.—ln the Quarterly Review, just pub-
lished (No. 56), a circumstance is mentioned as
a specimen of the spirit in which this nonsensical
affair was conducted. " The profits of the Ball
Were originally destined to the general support
;of the Spanith cause. The legality of such re dis-
'position of money was questioned ; its prudence
and decency. more than questioned ; and the
future profits'became very doubtful ; when lo!
11:fiy days before the Ball, the public was in-
formed that `‘ the profits were now destined to
the relief of. the wounded Spaniards, an' exercise
of Christian charity to which no one could ob-
ject, and to which both Whig and Tory ought to
Contribute.' We need not observe (pays tl\e Re-
Viewer) on the falsehOod and meanness of this
Shift ; but its abstifikrity is too ludicrous to be
passed over. At the time this advertisement was
put forth, it was not/
we believe, known in Eng-
land that one single Spaniard had takers so much
interest in' the Constitution as to be wounded in
its defence."

••••••-
[l3ltatSll PR VAS.]
A' Lisbon Mail arrived yesterday, bringing
Papers from that Capital to the ‘2Bth of June.—
The faction of the Queen and Don Miguel are
now, through the aid of a faithless and ferocious
soldiery,: triumphant in Portugal. All traces of
the recent COnstitution are sought to r,e abolished,
avid the despotism of' the old regime is every
Where introduced.. The Queen, Ferdinand's
iitabe,. had returned to Lisbon on the 18th ; end
the rebel Amarante, on his arrival in the capital
on the 2.4thf was received with great distinction
by the Infant Don Miguel., An inilated account
is also given in these Pipers of. icsolemn procession
to the Church. of SantwMariii, to return thanks to
the " King Of Kings; and Queen of Heaven," for
the ineffable favour bestowed on the Portuguese na.
lion, by its recent deliverance froin an impious
'and execrable government ! What intolerable,
'blasphemy this is !—a perjured tyrant and his
vile associates and janissaries,.insultiug the Al-
mighty, by offering; thanks ..for the .ensVaveinent
and degradation of his creatures—approaching
his thrOne to offer up their unworthy homage with
lips yet reeking with perjury ! On the I tith the
former servile Senate' wive restored, the constitttH
donut Camara being abolished. To this has
been added a decree, Suppressing all' secret
communeros, and carbo-1
societies—freemasons,
nevi. Tyrants are al ways suspicious, and'
sleep in hourly apprehension. 'The members
of these societies still meeting after thii decree,.
are subjected to tim mild punishment of exile to.
Attica, for at least five years, and a tine of 100.
vollrees. 'Ferdinand, the Portuguese despot's'
brother An-law, sent Arguelles and his victims
also to Africa, to work in chains on the ramparts
of' Ceuta,:, beneath u burning sun. Our private
accounts say, that revived tyranny was surround.
eel by universal gloom and 'distrust in Lisbon.---
The s'oldiery who had caused the counter-revo.'
lution were feared by the. Court, and discontent
was known to be general. The permanence of
despotism in that: country will depend on the
fate of Spain.. alf her patriots succeed in pre.
serving, their liberties,. Portugal will again he
free.

[MORNING CIIRONIGLg.]
The Journal des Dads seems greatly chagrined
that Ferdinand has been allowed to retain his
head. " Monarchies (observes this Journal) are
in more danger from these derisory attempts,
which at once degrade misfortune and the Mo-
narch, than by the serious crimes which leave to
the King his grandeur, and to misfortune its dig.
nity." This most loyal- Journal would wish to add
a third to the list of Royal Martyrs, that legiti-
macy might triumph in Spain in its Ferdinandyas
it did in England and France in its Charles and
its Louis.• We question howeverrwhether Ferdi-
nand views matters in this light—whether he does
not think that snug lodgings in the Custom House
at Cadiz are, after all, to be preferred to the.
honour of mounting the scaffold for the good of
his successors.—The Historians of England have
taught the important lesson, that the execution of
our own Royal Martyr threw a veil of oblivion
over his misdeeds, and greatly injured the oppo-
nents of Monarchy in the pubtic mind, and the
effect produced by the beheading of Louis the
Sixteenth wilt not soon be forgotten. Judging
from the language of the French Journalist, it
would seen' that the lesson has not been lost
on the 'partisans of legitimacy, and that they
would have reconciled themselves without much
difficulty to the martyrdom of Ferdinand, in
the hopes of reaping Advantage from it.—The
solute Royalists at Madrid are quite indignant at
the indulgence of the Regency. In the Courier
Francais there is a paper, said to be in profuse
Circulation an over Spain; with the title, "'Clues.

iion or a Royalist---Whitt has passed at Madrid
since the pitiful retreat of the very humane
Zayas?" in this loyal production it is said,
" Some individual; who called themselves Gran-
dees, because their ancestors bore this title on
account of the virtues which they themselves-
have not, hope to cover their opprobrium by a
compromise between the Throne and its ene-
mies; they solicit' and demand audaciously that
the Sovereign should be forced to recognize the
Code of 1823, as the Riegos and Quirogas
obliged them to swear to the Constitution of
11812, and they present themselves gratuitously;
to occupy the convenient seats of the Upper
Chambers The. French will have something to
do ere they settle matters at Madrid to the satis-
factiotv &Call parties.