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London, England, 1834-05-22 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS OF TUESDAY.

( From Galignani's lifessenger.4,
DEATH OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE.
With unfeigned regret we announce this melancholy
event, which took place at a quarter to five o'clock
this morning. The improvement which was percep-
tible in the symptons of his fatal malady yesterday
evening, and which inspired his friends with a hope
that his valuable life might yet be spared to them,con-
tinned until about two o'clock this morning, when a
change took place in his breathing, which announced
the approach of dissolution. A blister was about to
be applied to the chest, but he faintly expressed his
dissent, and these were his last words. The venera-
ble General was born on the Ist September, 1757,
and, consequently, wanted little more than three
months to complete the age of 77. The wondrous
scenes in both the New World and the Old, in which
the name of Lafayette was prominently distinguished,
are among the most remarkable in the annals of man-
kind ; and we safely aver, without entering into ab-
stract opinions on political doctrines, that history doe's
not in all her records possess a name which has passed
through the searching ordeal of public opinion, even in
the darkest and most tempestuous times, more pure and
unsullied than his whose death his country is to-day
called upon to deplore.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-MAY 19.
- - LAFAYETTE.

M. Dupin, President, in the chair.
The President, in the course of the day, took advan-
tage of a pause in the public business to address him-
self thus to the Chamber—" According to a wish ex-
pressed by several deputies, I feel no doubt but that
the Chamber will authorise me to send, in its name,
to make inquiries relative to the health of our illustri-
ous colleague, General Lafayette. (Numerous cries
of Yes, yes.') I have already (added the President)
sent in my name."

After a short lapsftof time, the President again ad-
dressed the Assembly, and read the answer to the in-
quiries made in the name of the Chamber relative to
the health of General Lafayette. It was as follows :

" Mr. President,—All my family feels grateful for the
interest the Chamber has so kindly taken in my father's
health. I have the satisfaction to inform the Chamber
that there is a slight improvement in his situation. Have
the kindness, Mr. President, to present the homage of our
respectful gratitude to the Chamber—and accept for your-
self the assurance of my very high consideration.
(Signed) " GIEORGE LAFAYETTE."

SITTING OF MAY 20.

At half-past twelve o'clock M. Dupin, the Presi-
dent, took the chair. _ _

After M. Ganneron had read the proces verbal
of the preceding sitting, the President rose, and in a
moved voice, said " I have the affliction of announcing
to the Chamber the decease of the hon. General
Lafayette. He died this morning at five o'clock. I
shall now proceed to draw the names of the members
who shall attend his funeral, but I have no doubt but
a great number of his colleagues will consider it a
duty to accompany his remains." The President then
drew the names of the deputation.
M. Francois Delessert rose and moved that the
President be invited to write a letter to the illustrious
General's family, expressive of the profound grief felt
by the Chamber for the great loss his colleagues and
the entire of France had experienced.
The motion was, of course, agreed to.
The sitting was then suspended for an hour, when
the chamber resumed the discussion of the budget of
receipts.

(From Galignani's Messenger.)
Letters of the 12th instant, from Madrid, confirm
the former accounts, stating that the expedition into
Portugal, under General Rodil, meets with great ob-
stacles. Being obliged to weaken his small army by
sending detachments through Castile into the Basque
Provinces, he is forced to observe the utmost circum-
spection in advancing in an enemy's country. The
submission of Almeida to Donna Maria, insures a
basis for the movements of the Spanish division, which
are about to he combined with those of the Duke of
Terceira, for driving the Miguelites from Coimbra.
It is stated that an interview took place on the 4th at
Mengualde, between the Duke of Terceira and Gene-
ral Rodil, in order to act in concert against Coimbra
from both sides of the Mondego, the Spaniards de-
scending the left bank of the river, and Don Pedro's
troops the right. To insure the success of this
operation, the general who commands at Oporto is to
march upon Vouga, Admiral Napier is to effect a
landing at the mouth of the Mondego, and the Por-
tuguese vrbo 111,A at Leyria arc to advance towards Lou-
rical. The Miguelites were engaged in throwing a
bridge over the Tagus at Abrantes. Public opinion
at Madrid is becoming daily more and more irritated at
the uncertain proceedings of the government. It
decidedly will not listen to any proposals for acknow-
ledging the Cortes' debt. Foreigners expected that
the constitutional party would, as soon as it obtained
the power, hasten to consolidate this debt, which its
chiefs had sanctioned and voted, and which none but
an absolute government could disown ; but on the con-
trary, the ministry of M. Martinez de la Rosa will not
even carry into execution the conversion offered in
1831 by Calomarde himself. It is feared, moreover,
that the Cortes when assembled will refuse their sanc-
tion to every plan of finance which is not founded on
the reduction into 3 per cent. consols of all the debts
of Spain, including the mass of the deferred bonds of
the internal debt. The division between the ministry
and the council of government is most decided on the
question of the finances.
A letter of the 13th inst. from Madrid, received by
express, says—" The government has just received the
news of the entrance of the Duke of Terceira into
Coimbra. A change in the ministry is spoken of.
The Ministers of the Finances and of War are said to
he about to be superseded. If this change do take
place, they will he succeeded by men whose opinions
are more in accordance with those of the public. The
Council of Ministers decided yesterday that the con-
vocation of the Cortes shall be published on the 22d
instant. They are to meet on July 25, it being the
fete of the Queen's Mother."

A courier arrived yesterday from Constantinople
with the answer of Admiral Roussin to the despatch,
announcing his appointment as Minister of the Marine.
The Admiral entreats his Majesty to permit him to
retain the embassy at Constantinople. In consequence
Admiral Jacobs has been appointed Minister of the
Marine and the Colonies, and last night took the oath
in the presence of the King. The ordinance by
which the above appointment is made appears in the
Moniteur of this morning.
The Indicateur of Bordeaux of the 17th inst., an-
nounces, after a letter from Bayonne of the 15th, that
as the conditions for the loan did not appear accept-
able to the Queen, a banker of the capital has offered
25,000,000 f. to her Majesty at five per eent.
The Republicain Suisse affirms, that M. de Wer-
ther, the Prussian Minister at Paris, has formally
disavowed in the name of his Government the state-
- inent of the King of Prussia- having -authorized the
separation of Neufchatel from the Swiss Confederation.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 16th inst. contains
the following extract of a letter of the sth, from Rome :
—" The Pope returned to his capital on the 14th.
He was received everywhere with enthusiasm ; the
peasantry came out and lined the road along which he
passed, and the poor were bounteously relieved. At
Tivoli each labourer working at the new cascade re-
ceived a dollar and a medal by way of encouragement,
and the directing engineer was richly rewarded. Se-
veral letters, written in cipher, have lately been re-
ceived here ; they are supposed to come from the pro-
paganda in Paris. They have not been deciphered
vet, being written after a system not yet known here."
The Gazette states, after a letter from Frankfort,
dated the 11th inst., that "judicial proceedings are
going on relative to the late disturbances, which are
now quite at an end, tranquillity and confidence having
again returned to this prosperous city." This jour-
nal has the following from Vienna, dated the Bth inst. :
—'6 The quadruple alliance has now been officially made
known here, Admiral de Rigny, as Minister for Foreign
Affairs, having addressed a circular to all the French
Envoys, directing them to make the same known to
the several Courts at which they are accredited, and
clearly to
of Spainodemo andnstra Portugal.tethatits Willohjeetis tot
effecteffect
thispacification
object? That is the question. The character, habits,
and institutions of the four nations are so different,
that we are not very sanguine in our hopes as to the
benefit Spain and Portugal will derive from this new
treaty. There is, however, a general desire throughout
Europe that bloodshed should cease in the Peninsula,
aid that peace should be again restored to it; whoever
contributes in any degree to the removal of civil war
deserves the thanks of all well-disposed persons."
The Berlin State Gazette of the 14th instant quotes
prussian 4 per Cents. 991 99i.
The Suabian Mercury gives letters from Constan-
tinople, announcing that Mahomet Mirza has been de-
clared to be heir to the throne of Persia, and that
Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan has been sent to St. Peters-

burgh and Lontron to obtain from those Courts an ac-
knowledgment of the prince in that quality.

(From the Private Correspondence of a Morning

Paper.)

PARIS, MAY 20.

In simply announcing to you the demise of General
the Marquis de Lafayette, I believe that I do all in
my power to give interest to the statement. The ve-
nerable patriot and heroic soldier was in the 77th year
of his age, having been born on the 6th of Sept., 1757.
He expired at his house in the rue d'Anjou this morn-
ing, a few minutes before five o'clock.
Had this event occurred six weeks earlier, it might,
and I think would, have been followed by others of
very serious import. The recollection that General
Lafayette had incurred the local attack which even-
tually terminated in his death, by following on foot to
the cemetery of Pere la Chaise the remains of M. Du-
long (a patriot himself, and the nephew of our still
more celebrated Dupont de l'Eure), and the remem-
brance that the life of M. Dulong had been taken in a
duel by the champion ( I suppose I must call
him) of the Court, General Bugeaud, would have pro-
voked more of public indignation than it can or will
now occasion. A sentiment of grief will now super-
sede that of rage. The revolt, or whatever other
name shall be given to the affair of the 13th and 14th
of April last in Paris—the insurrection at Lyons--the
attempts of a similar kind made elsewhere—the mas-
sacres, and the innumerable arrests that accompa-
nied and have succeeded to them—the trials of the
prisoners now impending—the granting of all the real
demands of Government by the Chamber of Deputies
—and the tone of despair taken by the Opposition—
have all contributed to throw a damp on the spirits of the
people, of whom, with all his weakness, Lafayette was
the idol. The consequence will be, that his remains
will now be interred with pomp certainly, but unac-
companied by any movement of an insurrectionary cha-
racter.

King Louis Philip is unquestionably the spoiled
child of fortune. Death seems to strike with peculiar
energy for him, and even the frailties of human nature
appear to develop themselves but to serve and pro-
mote his purposes. Napoleon the Second, Lamarque,
and Lafayette, are numbered with. the dead. The
empire and the republic have succumbed with them.
The cause of Henry V. was lost by the occurrence at
the Chateau de Blaye.
It was reported this afternoon that government
agents had repaired to the house of the late General
Lafayette immediately on being apprised of his de-
cease, and that they had seized on and sealed up all
his papers. It was false. Nothing of the kind, except
the usual form, will take place. Nothing like joy,
triumph, hostility, or contempt, will be displayed by
the Court, nor by any connected Kith it. A single
spark will serve to illume the combustible matter which
now lies dormant, and to supply that spark the Court
will carefully avoid. The funeral of General Lafayette
will be a splendid—it will be an interesting--even a
touching:spectacle, but it will not be productive of
great consequences. Orations—numerous orations
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mids 'erthe grave of his rest," and Lafayette will
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repose among the great and the unfortunate already
entombed in the square of Massena (including Ney,
Davoust, Massena, Lefebvre, Suchet, St. Cyr, &c. ),
and the people will disperse, and the fate of France
will remain for some time longer undecided. Peace
to his manes !

Several days since I announced to you that Admi-
ral Roussin had refused the Ministry of Marine.
That announcement you will find confirmed by the
Moniteur of this day, in the appointment of Admiral
Jacob to that department. Admiral Roussin accom-
panied his refusal of the proffered office by a represen-
tation to his government of the necessity for their
having at Constantinople, at a moment like the pre-
sent, a diplomatist acquainted with the policy of the
Porte au fait at the intrigues of Russia, and (for a
Frenchman will always be a Frenchman) an Admiral
whose experience and local knowledge would insure
advantages to France, as in the event of hostilities he
would only have to shift his flag from the hotel of his
embassy on board a ship of the line, in order to give
his country the benefit of all his acquirements and
talents. _ _

In my letter of the 20th inst. I mentioned to you,
and I had learned the fact exclusively, that some mat-
ter in which the name of our own Sovereign was mixed
up had created an uneasy sensation at the Tuileries.
The reason or the cause of this occurrence has not
transpired, for I reject the villainous Stock Exchange
rumour of yesterday. It is said to have been created
by an autograph moral lesson on the subject of go-
vernments, read or written to the Monarch of the
barricades by his Majesty King William INT. of Eng-
land, brought and enforced by the Duke of Richmond,
who, in addition to his being a Cabinet Minister of
Great Britain—had, in his French Peerage of
D'Aubigny, a hereditary right to tender his counsel
to, what shall I call him ?—his other royal master.
Here I shall leave the affair, for I am yet unable to
inform you of the real cause of the effect in question.
I shall know it, however, and will, if worth while.
communicate it to you.

FRENCH FUNDS.--FANIS, MAY 19.
Five per Cents., 106 f. 1051. ,Occ. luef. 10c.
Fourier Cents., 9:1. 40c. :30c.
Three pert eats 7t'f BM. (15c. 80c.
Bank Actions, 1,825 f.
Re.ite de Naples 971 40c. CPC.
Roman Five per Cents., 97.
Rente il'Espagne, Five per Cents , 28N ":9
liente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., is
twv,, spools!) Loan, 844 y.
Rente Perpet. d'Espaole Five per Cents., 71%
Belgian Loan, 1841, Five per Cent., 99%.
EXCDANDE ON LONDON.
(Die month, paler, 25f. 35e. ; money, -f. - c..
itree months, paper, 251. 25c.; money, --f. -c
- o AuMentique.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Pakts, 111,tv 20.
Fiv, per Cents. Ititif; 1051 9°c 1, 61.
Four and a Half per Cent, ROE
Four per Cents., WE -.tic.
Three per Cents. 79f. 80c. 73c. 8.5 c.
Bank Actions, 1,825 f.
Rente de Naples, (11. 6*,c. 60c. 55c.
Roman Five per Cents., 97%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 30 804.
liente d' Espagne, 'Three per Cents., 4414.
Royal Spanish Loan, 81.7,
mt... Bevel d'Evagne, Five per Cents., 74%.
Belgian Loan, 1531, Five per Cents , 993,4.
EXCHANI:F. O'S LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. :15c. ; money, -1. -c.
Three months, paper, 2." if. 25c. ; money, -f. -c.
-Coors Authentique.

It is well known that Dr. Dalton, whose
splendid discoveries in chymistry have at length re-
ceived that appreciation in his own country which they
had long enjoyed in others, is a member of the Society
of Friends. The University of Oxford did itself high
honour in conferring on the septuagenarian philoso-
pher the degree of Doctor of Civil Law. The inha-
bitants of Manchester, proud of the distinguished
science united to the high personal character of their
townsman, have subscribed 2,000 E fora. statue by
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of the view taken by his friends, and attended the
levee. The King received the philosopher very
graciously, and most kindly relieved the little embar-
rassment of such an unusual position, by addressing to
him several questions respecting the interests of the
tosVii of Manchester. This condescending attention
on the part of his Majesty will, we have no doubt, be
equally gratifying to the learned body to which Dr.
Dalton belongs, to the intelligent society of which he
is a member, and to the enlightened manufacturers of
his native town.

DUTIES ON IMPORTS.—We have con-
stantly noticed the discrepancy that exists in the acts
relating to the protection of the British Colonial
Trade, and the evasions that foreigners have recourse
to, even under the present liberal legislative system,
adopted for their advantage, to embarrass the opera-
tions of British merchants. We are led to make this
remark at present in consequence of having noticed
the importation of St. Domingo mahogany from Turks
Island. This island, as the public are aware, is a
British possession, and the course adopted by the ma-
hogany growers of St. Domingo is to ship their pro-
duce to Turks Island, and then reship it in a British
vessel for a British port. By this reshipment the dif-
ference in the import duty to the foreign merchant is
in the ratio of 1/. 10s. to 71. 10s. Foreign mahogany
pays the latter duty, colonial the former; conseque,,ily
the St. Domingo and other foreign mahogany growers
take especial care to naturalize their produce by a re-
shipment of it in English vessels.