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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1832.

We have news from Portugal to the 6th inst.,
and all favourable to the cause of freedom.
The accounts from Lisbon are to the 4th, giving
the details of the battles on the 22d and 23d,
in Which of course Don MIGUEL claims the
victory, but it is clear that he had not much to
boast of, as no mention is made of any very
material advantage having been achieved.
The intelligence from Oporto reaches to the
6th, at which time Don PEDRo was busily em-
ployed in fortifying the city and organising his
militia. Daily desertions were taking place from
Don 1111GuEE's army, and from 100 to 200
soldiers daily joined Don PEDRO, whose force
amounted to about 13,000. On the other band
Don MIGUEL Was fortifying Coimbra; but should
Don PEDRO be able to leave a force sufficiently
strong to protect Oporto for a fortnight, he might
transport the major part of his army by sea and
land in the vicinity of Lisbon with every
prospect of success. It is said that I'IIGUEL'S
squadron had put to sea to attack Admiral
SARTORIUS, who was lying at the mouth of
the Tagus, in his own ship, evidently to decoy
Miguel's vessels out to sea. On their appear-
ance, he immediately slipped his cable—stood
away, chased by iliguel's squadron. SARTO-
RIGS led them out to sea till he joined his own
"ssels, when he turned round to give the enemy
battle. A cannonade was heard, but no result
was known. SARTORIUS recalled his ships
from St. Übe's, and with his united force there
is every probability that he will give a good ac-
count of MIGUEL'S ships, as the wind blew fresh,
which would be as much in favour of SARTO-
RIGS and his weather•beaten sailors, as it
would be against the giddy- headed and slippery-
footed landsmen of MIGUEL, who could hardly
manage their crazy vessels, far less fight them in
a gale of wind.

Should SARTORIUS succeed in capturing
MIGUEL'S squadron, we may make quite sure
of the war being brought to a speedy termina-
tion, for Don PED rto could then have no opposi-
tion in landing his army in the immediate vicinity
of Lisbon. That would be at once a death-
blow to the tyrant-usurper.
We have given ample extracts in another part
of the paper.

....--
The LORD CHANCELLOR visited Earl GREY
this forenoon at his residence in Downing-street.

, Orders have been this day forwarded to the
C°lllrnissioners of the Metropolitan Police to
'flake the necessary arrangeMents connected with
the force for attending the prorogation of Par-
l'ament on Thusday next, when his MAJESTY
will go down in person.

The French Papers of Saturday have been re-
ceived, and extracts from them will be found ,in
another column. The marriage ceremony a
Compiegne passed off smoothly. The two Kings
conferred together on the affairs of Belgium, and
the answer to be given to the Conference. We
suspect now that King LEOPOLD has a friend
°o Whom he can depend in case of need, that
the Belgian question will be settled forthwith
either by fair or by forcible means. The King
of HOLLAND will not be any longer tolerated
In his jesuitical obstinacy. He must declare war,
or submit to the treaty of the twenty-four articles
48 subscribed to by King LEOPOLD.

'utch and Hamburg papers have been re
eeived this afternoon, from which the following
are extracts

tihVIIIIISTIA.NIA, JULY' 31.—Nis Majesty the King ar-
tited here on the 28th in good health, and was received at
tie Palace by the Members of the Council of State, and
le Military and civil authorities.
~.,COPENtIAcENT, /inc. 4.—An English steam-boat,
woich accompanied the Talavera and Cronstadt, returned
f oqthe 29th with Lord Heytesbury and family. The
'calcivera arrived here yesterday.
2 4,AIENINGEN. JULY 29.—Our States met again on the
times to continue the Session, which had been several
'pines adjourned. Among the new elected deputies is Privy
'-'nnsellor Von Stein, who quitted the ministry last year,
404,1 Was justly regretted by all patriws. The news of his
linetisn had immediately a favourable effect on our
ageett, and revived the courage cf most of the Deputies.
1 confidential bitting on the 27th the budget was vio•
chtlY attacked. The Committee of the Estates was blamed

STOCKHOLM, AuG. 3.—The Board of Health has de-.
dared all England and Scotland, with the dependent
islands, to be infected with cholera.
ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 4.—The Moscow Gazettes
give the following particulars of the Imperial army :
" General attention has been much excited by the full
length portrait of the late Emperor Alexander, on both
sides of which the Polish standards are placed in the form
of a pyramid, with the following inscription :
" The Emperor Alexander 1., the benefactor of Poland,
honoured his Polish army with these standards. His
generosity was rewarded with treachery. and the Russian
army which conquered Warsaw, and spared the city, took
the standards back.' Under the picture bang the keys of
Zamosc, and on the ground is the case containing the
document rel itive to the privileges granted to the
kingdom of Poland in the year 1815. These things
are constanstantly surrounded by numbers of persons,
especially merchants, and truly patriotic sentiments are
frequently heard. On the 9th July the crown and sceptre of
Poland were added, and a long sword which was used at
the coronation of Nicholas at Warsaw.

HAMBURG, AUG. Io.—Wheat continues slowly to de-
cline in price, the few purchases in the market being al-
most exclusively for consumption.
In other sorts of grain very little doing.

Rix dollars.
Wheat, Anhalt, white
red ll2 to 120
Magdeburgh
- Monks ll5 to 122
Mecke gh lnbur
112 to 122

- Holstein, red

During the week 325 lasts of wheat were imported,
189 exported, and there remains stock on hand 700 lasts.
Discount 21 per cent.
End of August.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 66%
Anglo-Russian Loan 96
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto, 1831
Polish Bonds lOB%
Prussian Bonds ' 100!
Austrian Bank Shares 1140
Ditto Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents. 76
—Hamburg Reporter. _ _

LEYDEN, AuG. 7.—On the sth, two persons were
seized with sudden illness, which proved to be Asiatic
cholera. Notwithstanding every care was taken, they
died. Two others were seized yesterday, one 9f whom is
dead. Up to 12 o'clock to-day, we have had no more
cases

AMSTERDAM, Auc. B.—The authorities of Dusseldorff
have issued regulations for ships coming up the Rhine from
Holland, to prevent them bringing the cholera.

The cholera has broken out at Gosda.

BREDA, Au°. B.—The Commander-in-Chief has pub-
lished an order of the day to the army, in which he states
that the King his father has given him the agreeable com-
mission to signify to the troops his Alajesty's satisfaction
with the exce:lent condition in which he found them, and
the manifest improvement in their evolutions.

DUTCH FUNDS.—Amsieitoam, AUG. 10.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 44 to 44%
Amort Syndic, 4},i, per Cent. 73% to 744
Ditto, ditto, 3j per Cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per Cent 9ly6 to 92
Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent. 834 to 84
Exchange on London, one month l2 20
Two months l2 15
THE CHOLERA.
New Cases. Deaths. Recoveries.
SCHEWNINGEN, 6tl' to 9th Aug. 24 14 62
THE HAGUE, ditto 38 16 12
ROTTERDAM, sth to Bth Ang.... 71 25 47
—Dutch Papers, Aug. 11.

We perceive by the Frankfort Papers received
this morning, that the sensation caused by the
publication of the odious edicts against the liberty
of the press has already produced beneficial effects
in Berlin, where it is now stated that free .discus-
sion is not meant to be prohibited, and that as
a law is only a human work, it may have defects
and disadvantages which may have escaped
the Legislator, who must be glad to have
such pointed out to him ! This is conceding a
good deal already, and we may shortly expect to
see the Edict totally repealed.

Accounts from Constantinople state that
the Greek boundaries have been satisfactorily
settled :

CASSEL, AUG. I.—His Majesty the Electoral Prince,
Co-Regent, in order to give his dominions immediately
the relief which was the object of :he proposal submitted
to the late Assembly of the states, to reduce the army to
the amount of the contingent for the army of the Confe-
deration, has been pleased to carry this intention into
effect, by an Order of the My, of the 29th of July, by
which the military force is to consist of four regiments of
infantry, each of two battalions, and two light battalions,
in all ten battalions ; two regiments of cavalry, each of
four squadrons and three batteries of artillery, one of them
horse artillery, and a company of pioneers. The now su-
perfluous cavalry horses, about 200, are to be sold.
The Hanoverian Journal announces the following
strange plan, under the head of Petite July 22 • Duke
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and six pieces of cannon, to march on the Weser r
the
Elbe, and hopes, in two or three days, to reach his Duchy
and reconquer it. Ile is in treaty with the Polish Ge
Y-
neral Uminski fur the levy and command of this corps.
Eight thoueend uniforms are said to be made in Bordeaux,
and 8,000 muskets purchased here fur these troops.
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 16.—The principal of a corn
Inert:jet' house here (a Russian subject) has lately been ar-
rested and banished to Asia ; it is said, that his European
correspondence betrayed a tendency against the Porte.
The negociations respecting the Greek boundaries have
ended successfully. The contents of the treaty are not yet
published. It is said that the Porte will receive for its
assent a reduction to the amount of 50 millions of Turkish
piastres in the sum due to Russia. Ibrahim Paella con-
tinues to advance in Syria; 16,000 Egyptian troops are
said to be already near Aleppo, and to threaten that city.
BERLIN, JULY 31.—1 t was to be expected that the late
resolution of the German Diet would be exposed to
censure. Free discussion is not prohibited, and nothing is
required but that the discussion be supported by argument,
and carried on within the bounds of decorum, to he en-
tirely permitted ; for a law is always only a human work,
and may have defects and disadvantages which have escaped
the legislator, and which be himself must be glad to have
pointed out to him. But there is a kind of cen-
sure which, by its violence and exaggerations, manifests
the inferiority of the source from which it springs. We
are shocked that, on this occasion, so many voices in Ger-
many should be mere echoes of French opinions. Are the
majority of the Germans still insensible that the French
look on German interests solely as they affect the inte-
rests of Fr ince, and that no party in France, though it
may speak for us, has ever meant honestly by us. The
union of the German States, for the consolidation of their
strength, is what makes the French dissatisfied with the
late resolutions of the Diet, and German journals join
them and exclaim about the oppression of the middle and
small States ! Do not reasonable men in Germany be-
lieve that the resolutions of the Diet have any such ten-
dency ? Most certainly not. And the sequel will prove
that the people have been alarming themselves with imagi-
nary dangers.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug. 6.
WEIMAR, JULY 27.—The Government Journal of to.
day contains the promulgation of the resolution of the
German Diet, of the sth of July (respecting the Press).
The Grand Duke, in his rescript, publishing these
resolutions as a 11Iember of the Confederation, and which
it is the more imperative on the several Members to do,
as the act of the Confederation positively states that the
main object of the Union is to preserve the secu-
rityinternal
of Germany, and to maintain the several States in the
inviolability of their constitutions ; and as this object can-
not be obtained if factions can with impunity raise their
standards, and by all the arts of seduction and calumny,
excite the people to the greatest crimes ; observes that his
duty to his own subjects calls on him to testify openly
that they have in every particular conducted themselves
with such respect to the laws, such attachment to himself
and the Gland Ducal family, as to convince him that
though the late measures of the Diet ate absolutely peers-
sary.to. secure the tranquillity of Germany, yet in his
dominions nothing can be found to call for them. In

The conduct of the Clithero Magistrates
affords another proof of the tnadness cf the
Anti-Reform party, and the mercy which the
people might have expected at their hands could
an army have been found three months ago
strong enough to attack them. The candidate
who was the cause of all the disturbance is a
rank Tory-- all the Magistrates who took a part
in the proceedings were of the same sect, and
we have no doubt those officers who acted with
such violence towards the people, were animated
by similar feelings. This occurrence must make
every human mind thankful that during the awful
crisis on the rejection of the Bill in the Lords,
the people and the troops did not come into
collision, and still more thankful for the jealousy
always displayed by Englishmen of a large standing
army in time of peace. Had England possessed
an army like that of Austria or Prussia, the
contest between the nation and the troops,
headed by the Anti-Reformers, would have been
of the most frightful description, and though we
have no doubt that the spirit of freedom and the
energy inherent in the British character, would
in the end have led to a favourable result, it
would have been with a vast loss of human life,
and with a total alienation of the people from
the higher classes of society. Nothing, in fact,
but a large standing army was wanting to com-
plete such a scene of destruction. The majority
of the Peers were ready and willing. The Duke
of WELLINGTON would have formed in two
days a Ministry prepared to carry their wishes
into effect, and all the friends of corruption and
misrule throughout the country would have lent
their aid to trample down and destroy the people
for merely claiming their rights as British sub-
jects. The affair of Clithero, atrocious as it was,
can be called only a sham representation of the
battle which the vengeance of the party would
have waged throughout the land, and will natu-
rally put the people only the more on their guard
against their enemies, and confirm them more
and more in their hatred of standing armies.
The sayings so often repeated during the crisis
about the staunchness of the army, and the ease
with which mobs could be dispersed, were not
made without a meaning. Thanks to the firm-
ness of the people of the United Kingdom for
the misgivings of their enemies when on the point
of drawing the sword. Let us trust that this
disgraceful scene will be thoroughly examined,
and that the subject will be taken up in the
Commons on Wednesday in a very different
spirit from that displayed when Mr. IR VING made
such a miserable attempt to exculpate himself.

We have read with great satisfaction the ad-
dress lately delivered by Mr. ABERCROMBY to
the Edinburgh electors, in which the Right Hon.
Gentleman makes a full confession of his politi-
cal faith. This confession is of the right cha-
racter, being wholly unaccompanied by reserves,
generalities, or equivocations. It glances over
all the great topics of public interest, and records
a decided and most satisfactory opinion upon
each. We subjoin Mr. ABERCROMBY'S com-
ments on the subject of Colonial Slavery—the
Corn Laws—Taxes on Knowledge—Retrench-
ment—and Foreign Policy. " The next ques-
tion to which I shall beg to refer is one upon
which I shall say but a few words. The ques-
tion I mean is Colonial Slavery. I trust we may
say that the time is arrived—it cannot be beyond
the next, or at least the Session after the next—
when this question must be finally settled.—
(Loud applause.) And if I should have the
honour of a seat in Parliament, I shall be proud
to be enrolled amongst the most zealous and
foremost friends of that great work of justice.—
(Great cheering.) 'There is another question to
which I will allude—one of very great importance
to the great mass of the people—l refer to the
Corn Laws. With respect to this question,

I know not one occasion on which I have
not voted on the side of the consumer.—
(Loud cheering.) I have voted in very
small minorities on this question, as on many
others—(Laughter)—and I am happy to say I
have lived to see these small minorities convert-
ed into very great majorities.—(Great applause.)
Is it necessary for me to say that I shall always
be an advocate for economy and retrenchment ?
If otherwise, I shall fail in my first duty as a re-
presentative of the people.—(Cheers.) No-
thing else presents itself to me but one point (I
may be wrong), but it is the main ground on
which I should venture to solicit your confi-
dence. It is this : I can truly state to you
that I have always been a respecter of public
opinion.—(Applause.) That is not a mere
idle word. So conscientiously and zealously
do I entertain this feeling, that I shall always be
favourable to every measure for the advancement
of education and for the diffusion of knowledge.

I shall be favourable to the remission of those
taxes which bear on the cheap publications,
which, while they amuse and instruct, at the
same time form the judgment and improve the
morals of the people. With respect to foreign
policy, I know not if there is anything at pre-
sent particularly to state. Two incidents, how-
ever, I should beg leave to hint at—one which
has recently occurred, and the other we have the
most sanguine hope will soon occur. Who can
look to the fate of Poland, and the infamous
conduct of NICHOLAS, and not feel that his
heart is animated with the strongest detesta-
tion of such a character, and to regard with the
warmest sympathy the sufferings of such a
magnanimous people.—( Enthusiastic applause.)
It is gt eately to be deplored, though
it was inevitable, that the means did not
exist to give aid in time to the unhappy Poles. It
is but small consolation to them to know that
they have the cordial sympathy of every true
heart throughout Europe. Their sufferings have
been of the most poignant description, and we
must bitterly lament that we could not afford
them help. God help those who had the
power, and have withheld it.—(Great applause.)
The other transaction to which I allude is occur-

ring at pi esent in Portugal ; and who does not
sympathise—l do not mean with Don PEDRO,
for he is but little known to us—who would not
be readS, to enlist on his side when his object is
to dispossess such a monster as Don MIGUEL.
—(Loud cheering.) I conceive that the success
of Don PEDRO is a matter of great and general
interest, as affecting the cause of liberal opinion
throughout Europe. The single other observa-
tion which I shall make with respect to foreign
policy, is the importance of maintaining an alli-
ance with France, with which we are now closely
associated.—(Cheers.) Because France is free,
France is aasociated with England, and because
England is free, England is associated with
France.—(lmmense cheering.) And while free
France and free England remain united, no
man need despair of the liberties of Europe."
Mr. ABERCROMBY then proceeds to allude to a
pension, or compensation rather, which.he holds
in consequence of the Scotch Exchequer Court,
—of which the Right Hon. Gentleman was
Chief Baron, having been abolished by Parlia-
ment. He states, that as respects this compen-
sation, if a proposition should even be made in
the House of Commons for " a revision of all
pensions, sinecures, and compensations," he
shall most decidedly vote for it. Nothing can
be more frank, manly, or disinterested than such
a line of conduct, which deserves to be recorded,
if only for its novelty. When a candidate pro-
mises to vote, even against his own pecuniary
interest, we may be pretty sure that he is in
earnest in the good cause. We trust the Edin-
burgh electors will have the good sense ade-
quately to appreciate the value of such a repre-
sentative as Mr. ABERCROMBY.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.