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HOLDERS of the BONDS which are to be ex-
'flanged on the Ist June next, or on any subsequent day, are
reittested to send in the Numbers and Amounts of their Bonds,
bne day previous to their calling for the same, to the Counting-
house of Messrs. HERRING, GRAHAM, and FOWLES,
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BRIDGB TO-MORROW.
Evening, 42 minutes after 3.

'Tae following extract of a letter from Naples
was this afternoon posted at Lloyd's:—

" NAPLLS, MAT Majesty's ship Naiad
captured an Algerine frigate off Gergenti on the
lit instant, after a severe action of one hour."

Just as we were going to press, we received
the third Number of the Greek Telegraph,
established at Missolonghi, under the auspices of
Lord ByaoN. It is dated Missolonghi, 15th
April, and contains intelligence very favourable
to, the Greek cause, which we will insert in TILE
SllO of Monday.

There is a most ridiculous report in the City
this morning, purporting that Prince POLIGNAC
has gone over to Paris for the purpose of pre-
Paring to attend a Congress at Frankfort. We
are authorised to give this absurd rumour the most
unqualified contradiction. Prince Pow GN
AC
has gone to Paris for the sole purpose of giv-
ing his vote in the Chamber of Peers in favour
of the Project of Law for the Reduction of the
'tellies. The report which we have just con-
tradicted renders it necessary, perhaps, to re.
Pala, in the strongest terms, the assurance
that we have already given the Public, viz.,
that no Congress whatever is contemplated,
--and that the Financial arrangements of
the Continental Powers render the mainte.
Hance of peace so much the interest of all the
States, that there is not the slightest danger of
the interruption of European tranquillity.

Letters have been received from Lord BAGOT,
at St. Petersburgh, giving the most satisfactory
insurances of the pacific views of the Emperor
ALEXANDER. The Noble Lord, however, states,
-that the Russian Cabinet have formally complained
of the misrepresentations of the views of his
hiPERIAL MAJESTY, which have been given by
the public press both of France and England.
The reduction of the interest of the Public
I)ebt of Russia engrosses, almost exclusively, the
attention of the EMPE►LOR and of his Minicters.

A Private Letter from Lisbon received
by the last conveyance via Paris, states that
Lord BERESFORD is in point of fact at the
head of the Portuguese Army, having been
Prevailed upon to accept the command, as
Lieutenant General under the KING. The letter
goes on to state that Lisbon is perfectly tranquil,
hod that the prospect of preserving the internal
Peace of The kingdom is considered certain, in
.COnsequence of the QUEEN and the Infant Don
llauEr, having been completely deprived of
all power to create future confusion. The mer-
Audio interest of the Capital now feel the
most perfect confidence, and are renewing their
Correspondence with this country in language
truly gratifying.

We have received the Paris Papers of Wed-
nesday and the Etoile of Thursday. We extract
the subjoined additional documents, illustrative
of the recent events at Lisbon, from the Journal
(kr Dl:bats. We also subjoin the joint note of
the great Bankers, Alessrs.RoTnscill LD, BARING,
and LAFITTE, relative to a singular mis-statement
H n the Report of the Commission of the Chamber
or Peers on the reduction of the Rentes, and to
Which the Dodo of the preceding day referred,
in its report of the proceedingsof the Chamber :
PROCLAMATION of the.: KING to the NATION.
FROM ON BOARD THE WINDSOR CASTLE.
" PoßTuGuisE!—Your King does not abandon you. He
only seeks to deliver you from the terror and anxiety which
press upon you ; to re-establish the public tranquillity, and to
tear the veil which still conceals the truth from you, in the cer-
tain hope, that at his call all this loyal nation will unite to
support the throne, and to put an end to the shock of exalted
'pinions and passions, which have produced such a fatal
anarchy, and menaced the Government with a total dissolution.
" My son, the Infant Don Miguel, who covered himself with
glory a short time ago by the heroic action which he performed,
Is the same who now, drawn aside by sinister inspirations, and
deceived by perfidious counsels, has proceeded to commit acts,
Which, if just and necessary, should alone have emanated from
iy sovereign authority ; he has committed an outrage against
the Royal power, which admits of no division.
" In the morning of the 30th of April, all the troops of the
Capital appeared under arms, and my son was seen to leave the
Royal Palace, to place himself at their head ; and to order,
Without any authority of mine, the arbitrary. arrest of an im-
mense number of individuals of all classes, invested with the
chief powers of the state, in whom were comprised my own

Ministers and some of my own household. The palace which I
inhabit was seen surrounded with an armed force, or rather was
transformed into a prison, and all access to my Royal Person
was barred during several hours. Then. were observed proceed-
ings so violent, that in the latter days they amounted nearly to
open rebellion, while all the representatives of the Sovereigns
of Europe thought it their duty to protest formally against the
violation of my Royal authority.
" A resolution so rash, and which threatened to lead to con-
sequences the most fatal—such an abuse of the confidence
which I had placed in my son, have found no other explanation
or excuse than a supposition of a conspiracy, which, even if it
had any foundation, could not have justified such unheard-of
proceedings.
" Meanwhile, as I desired, even at the price of the greatest
sacrifices, to preserve the public tranquillity and the harmony
that reigned among all branches of the Royal Family, I was
pleased, by my decree of the 3d instant, to order that judges
should be appointed to proceed legally against the accused,
and to pardon my son for the excesses of jurisdiction which he
had committed, in the hope that the just course of the laws
being thus re-established, revolutionary measures would cease,
and good order would gradually re-appear. I obtained nothing
of that which my paternal heart desired with anxiety. On the
contrary, the arrests continued, as likewise the orders issued in
the name of my son, and signed for the most part by obscure
individuals, who have no share in the Government.
" Determined to put an end to this public scandal, and to
the degradation of my Royal authority—outraged to the ma-
nifest detriment of my faithful subjects and finding no means
of making known my Royal will, because I was surrounded
by the factious persons who deceived my son, and who, on the
30th of April, had deprived me of my liberty, 1 formed the
resolution to avoid a struggle of which the issue could not be
doubtful, considering the known fidelity of the Portuguese
nations, to go on board a British line-of-battle ship at anchor
in this port, (where I have been followed by the Representa-
'fives of the Sovereigns of Europe), in order that I might frankly
make known to my loyal subjects my situation, and call them,
if necessary, to my defence.
" Having heard the counsel of my Ministers, of persons of
wisdom, fearing God, and actuated by a zeal for my service, I
have resolved to resume the authority of Generalissimo of my
Royal armies, and to dismiss the Infant I)on 3liguel from the
command-in-chief of the army with which I had invested him;
forbidding all the authorities, and all and each of wiy subjects,
to obey the orders of the said Infant, or those given in his
name, under pain of being treated as rebels to the Royal power,
which appertains, by the grace of God, to me alone.
" Portuguese !—Such are the first measures which I took.
I then employed myself in giving proper orders to set at liberty
the innocent who are involved in these arbitrary proscriptions,
as well as to punish those who may be really culpable as im-
plicated in the manoeuvres of secret associations, against which
proceedings shall be instituted according to the existing laws.
Thus virtue and loyalty will be set at liberty, and crime will
be punished.
" Soldiers !—I do not reproach you with any thing which
you have done. You have obeyed the voice of the Chief whom
I placed over you, and in doing so you have only performed
your duty. That Chief, without experience, has been involun-
tarily led astray by perfidious Counsels, entirely against his
natural character and his filial obedience. I have taken from
him the authority which perverse intriguers, without any public
character, had led him to abuse. 1 order you to acknowledge
only my Royal authority, in virtue of which I enjoin you to
make no use of the arms intrusted to your fidelity but in my
service, and in obeying the Chiefs which my Royal will has
confirmed or appointed.
By this proclamation, I confirm in the exercise of authority
those who are invested with it, so far as I do not order the con-
trary; and I command all and every one to chew the strictest
obedience to whatever shall be prescribed in my Royal name by
those who may henceforward command you.
" Subjects of all classes, observe order, and hope from your
Sovereign the re-establishment of public tranquillity, of justice,
and security.
" Given on board the English ship Windsor Castle, in the
roadstead of the Tagus, May 9, 1024.
(Signed) " THE KING."

DECREE.

" Taking into consideration the youth and inexperience in
public affairs, which have led my dear and well beloved son
into steps contrary to his duty, and which have been suggested
to him by the counsels of turbulent and ambitious men, in
usurping the Royal power, which, by the grace of God, belongs
to me alone—not only on the days of the 30th of April, the Ist
and 2d of May, but even after the Royal decree of the 3d of
May, by which I had pardoned the transgressions of my autho-
rity to which he had proceeded—l have resolved to confirm that
pardon, extending it to all the arbitrary acts committed in this
interval, and resuming the power of Generalissimo, I discharge
my son from the
.post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army,
with which I had intrusted him.
" The authority of the Generals charged with the military
government in the provinces is re-established. They shall re-
ceive my orders through the medium of the Secretary of State
for the War Department, with whom they will correspond
directly.
" The functions of Chief of the Staff, and of Military Secre-
tary, are united in the Minister of War.
" The Council of War shall give the necessary orders for the
execution of the present decree.
" At the Palace of Bemposta, May 9, 1824,"

LETTER OF THE KING.
" Infant Don Miguel,—My dear and well-beloved son, I,
your King, greet you as one whom he most highly loves and
esteems.

" Having thought it necessary to the tranquillity of the
capital, and the welfare of the kingdom, that you should come
in person to receive my sovereign orders, I order that as soon
as you receive these presents, you repair immediately, without
delay, and without excuse, on hoard the ship where I am ;
and I renew to you on this occasion the assurance that I par-
don you all the excesses of jurisdiction which an indiscreet zeal
has led you to commit. This I communicate to you that you
may execute it conformably to your duty.
" On board the Windsor Castle, May e, 1824."

CIRCULAR TO TUE COMMANDER OF THE GARRISON

OF TliE COURT.

" His Majesty orders me to send immediately to your Lord-
ship the enclosed copy of the Decree issued this day, by which
the situation of Commander-in-Chief of the Army is taken
away from the Infant Don Miguel. You are forbidden, under
the most severe responsibility, to execute any order which
should not be transmitted to you by the Viscount de Veiros
(charged with the command of the troops of the Court and the
Province of Estrernadura), or sent to you direct by the Mini-
ster Secretary at War. Besides this, his Majesty renders you
responsible for the subordination of the garrison and the good
conduct of the troops under your orders. May God preserve
you during many years.
" O❑ board the English ship, Windsor Castle,
moored in the Tagus.
" The Marquis of PALMELLA."