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London, England, 1832-09-05 00:00:00

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 5, 1832.

At five minutes past two o'clock this day, his
MAJESTY came to town, from Windsor Castle,
accompanied by Sir ANDREW BARNARD, the
Equerry in Waiting. The Royal carriage
was escorted by a party of the 14th Light
Dragoons, preceded by two outriders, and
as the cortege proceeded, his MAJESTY
was much cheered. Shortly after his arrival,
he proceeded to hold his last Levee for
the season, which we never before remember to
have seen so thinly attended. A Guard of Ho-
nour, consisting of a troop of the Ist regiment of
Life Guards, was stationed in the Palace-yard,
and their band played several enlivening airs du.
ring the proceedings of the Court. His MA.
JESTY will return to Windsor at half-past five
o'clock.

We regret to state that the Marquis of PAL-
MELLA has not yet been able to find an officer
of sufficient experience and reputation to be en-
trusted with the command-in-chief of the Por-
tuguese army, who is willing to accept the offer.
Negotiations, however, are now on foot with a
distinguished individual in France. The dis-
appointment of the Marquis in this respect has
contributed mainly to delay his return to Oporto ;
but his remaining here now is chiefly to be
ascribed to indisposition. It is satisfactory to
add, that the preparations for reinforcing Don
PEDRO have been in no wise impeded by the
efforts of M. SAMPAYO. They are proceeding
with great activity, and no doubt is entertained
of the reinforcement arriving at Oporto in suf-
ficient time to contribute successfully to the de-
fence of the city. The loan which Don MIGUEL
is attempting to raise in Paris does not proceed
very well. The intimation of a probable change
of Ministry, by which a party more friendly to
Don PEDRO, even than the present, is likely to
take place, has thrown a great damp over the
Miguelite speculators.
The Marquis of PALMELLA had a long con-
ference with Viscount PALMERSTON yesterday
at the Foreign-office, which continued till late
in the evening. His Excellency then took his
leave, and is to depart to-day for Oporto, accom-
panied by Senhor BARBOSA, with very important
despatches for Don PEDRO. It is positively
stated on good authority that the British Go-
vernment has at last consented to acknowledge
the legitimate QUEEN.
An express was sent off last night to Paris
to Lord GRANVILLE, and one from the Mar-
quis tie PALMELLA to the Marquis de LOULE,

'he negociations on the subject of the Belgian
treaty have at length been renewed. In conse-
quence of despatches from our Ambassador at

the Hague, a cotnmunication has been made by
the Conference to the Belgian Minister here,
and it is expected that by the next meeting of
the Conference that gentleman will have received
instructions from home to enable him to assist in
its deliberations.

Major LAWSON, one of the officers who went
out with the expedition to Oporto, has returned
to this country in consequence, we believe, of
some difference with Colonel HODGES, the
Commander of the British division, but totally
unconnected with any cause of dissatisfaction
towards the EMPEROR; or any despondency as
to the probable result of the expedition, prot ided
energetic and proper means be used.

Most of the letters from Paris, received this
morning, speak of probable modifications in the
French Cabinet. Without pretending to predict
what may take place on this subject, we think it
right to state upon authority, that no account has
been received either at the French Embassy or
at the Foreign-office tending to confirm the
statements made in the private letters from Paris
which are published by our Morning Contem-
poraries.

An express has been received this morning,
from Paris, bringing the Papers of Monday, and
the Messager des Chambres, dated yesterday.
They contain no news of any political interest.
The energetic Address of the States of Hanover
to King WILLIAM IV. against the abominable
Edict of the Diet of Frankfort, is the subject of
many remarks in the Journals, as it is expected
that it may be the means of rousing the feelings
of the people of Germany against their tyran-
nical oppressors. The news from the South of
France is rather of an alarming nature, as the
Carlists are trying every sort of intrigue to create
disturbances. At Montpellier, Marseilles,
Toulon, and other parts, some severe contests
have taken place between the Liberals and the
Chouans, so much so, that the municipal au-
thorities have been obliged to act with great
firmness in repressing them.
The meeting of the Chambers is decidedly
fixed for the 15th of next month; and bythat time
the settlement of the new Ministry will be con-
cluded. The KING has held several Cabinet Coun-
cils and parties, at which Monsieur DUPIN has
always attended : he appears to be the great
favourite with his MAJESTY. An important
telegraphic dispatch had been received late on
Monday afternoon from Bayonne, bringing in-
telligence from Oporto as late as the morning of
the 25th ult. Don PEDRO had been for seve-
ral days making strong preparations to meet the
threatened attack of the Miguelites, promised
for the 24th, but they had not made their ap-
pearance, and little fear was entertained by the
inhabitants that they would risk such a rash
attempt, as defeat would be certain, Oporto
being at this present moment nearly impregnable
by land. There were only two armed vessels off
the harbour ; the others were with Admiral
SARTORIUS, who is blockading the port of
Lisbon, looking out for an opportunity to
attack the Miguelite squadron as soon as
it might venture out, as he has been
reinforced by three vessels. The best spirit
existed among the troops, who were wishing to
meet the enemy. Supplies of ammunition,
arms, provisions, &c., were daily expected from
England and France. Colonel MURAT, son
of the late King of Naples, had been appointed
to the French battalion. The Miguelite party
in Paris is trying every manoeuvre to raise a loan
for their worthy master, but as yet without suc-
cess, although offers had been made by two
houses, but .at too high a premium. Queen
Donna MARIA and the Duchess of BRAGANZA
continue to enjoy excellent health, and have yet
great hopes that the contest will soon be con-
cluded, if promises that have been made by a
high personage in Paris are performed.
The capital remained tranquil.
The Express brings the Cours Authentique
of Monday, with the French prices. Five per
Cents. 991. 50c. ; Four per Cents. 82f. 70c. ;
Three per Cents. 69f. 40c. ; Loan of 1832,
100 f. 50c. ; Spanish, 121 ; Belgium, 774 79
781 By the above prices, the French Three
per Cents have advanced 60 cents, owing, ac-
cording to a private letter, that the affairs of
Belgium are now on the point of being settled.

A Morning Contemporary says :—" The ac-
counts received at the Foreign-office from Lord
DURHAM are said to be quite as satisfactory as
Lord PALMERSTON expected them to be ; and
the amendment in the conduct of NICHOLAS
towards the French Ambassador is ascribed en-
tirely to the bold tone which Lord DURHAM
has assumed. It is said, also, that the EM-
PEROR has expressed himself more reasonably on
the Belgian question ; but we do not hear that he
has given our Ambassador the slightest reason
to believe that he will observe a more Christian-
like course towards the Poles. On that point
NICHOLAS seems to consider all interference
as amounting almost to insult, and will listen to
nothing in the shape of remonstrance, or even
advice." If we may credit this paragraph, it
should seem that the only point which our Am-
bassador had chiefly in his mind's eye, when he
was despatched to the Court of St. Petersburgh,
is the only point which has proved, as we
suspected it would prove, a total failure.
—NICHOLAS will be reasonable on every
question except on that which Lord DURHAM
was sent expressly to negociate with him.
Here he will listen " to nothing in the shape
of remonstrance or eve❑ advice." He holds
out only on that point which the dearest in-
terests of humanity are concerned in seeing
rightly adjusted. He takes it almost as a per-
sonal insult that a British Ambassador should
endeavour to prove to him the inexpediency of
enacting the part of NERO in the 19th century.

At the London Sessions, which commenced
this day, the Recorder, in the course of his ad-
dress to the Grand Jury, observed, that he was
sorry to say he could hold out no prospect of an
early termination of their labours. It was a me-
lancholy circumstance that in less than two months
the commitments on the London side amounted to
89, a greater number than he ever recollected
to have appeared in the calendar during
.the
many years he had sat in this Court, excepting

during the riots in the year 1780." This is
indeed a melancholy circumstance ; bu t
we have little doubt that one of the chief
causes of it, is to be found in the
very absurd character of many parts of our cri-
minal code, which, in some instanpes, is as
much too severe as in others it is too lenient.
Were the punishment in every case duly propor-

tioned to the crime, we should not see, as we
now daily do, criminals committing offences
on the mere speculation that, in consequence
of the unreasonable severity with which such
offences are punished, Juries may decline to
find them guilty.

The States of Hanover have addressed some
observations to his Majesty King WILLIAM
the FOURTH, on the subject of the late pro-
ceedings of the Germanic Diet at Frankfort,
which are conceived and expressed in a cour-
teous, respectful, but spirited manner. They
repudiate the idea of the interference of the
Diet with their own legislative matters ; at the
same time observing, that the Legislature of
every country should have due regard to the De-
crees of the Diet, when confined to their proper
limits. " But the States of Hanover," they go
on to say, " must declare that the Diet cannot
hinder his MAJESTY from confiding the ma-
nagement of the interior affairs of the kingdom
to them ; and the word petition in the reso-
lutions of the Diet is, therefore, syno-
nymous with proposition. They are, there-
fore, convinced that the Diet had no intention of
interference with their deliberations, which,
beside, his MAJESTY would not permit. The
States of Hanover have the perfect assurance
that this method of viewing the resolution of

he Diet of the 28th of June is the true one—

they think themselves the more justified in
making this supposition, since it reposes on
the fundamental laws of the Diet ; and the
communication of the KING'S Ministry of the
16th says expressly, that in acceding to the reso-
lution of the Diet of the 28th of June, his Ma-

jesty the KING has at heart the good of his
country, as also of its rights and liberties, and
which he cannot better prove than in placing be-
fore the eyes of his kingdom, three days after
his adhesion to the resolution of the Diet, the
principles he wishes them to follow in forming a
Constitution."