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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1832.

The accounts from Oporto, received this
l'loruing at the Embassy and at the Foreign-
°pee, are not, we understand, by any means so
couraging as those which appear in the
\l'
"lorning Papers. Those which we have seen
a 4e%cribe the prospects of Don PEDRO as still
I,tileering, and attribute the resignation of Col.
"°oGEs to a very different cause from that
‘'lllict the correspondents of the Morning
1,
Ihalers have assigned. It is stated by them
tr
.4 the Colonel was disgusted with the neglect
the men under his command, and that
4\lng applied in vain for clothing and other
beeessaries, he had no other course before him
14 resignation. We are assured that the
`)°l:'s under the command of Col. HODGES
as well provided with necessaries as the
4 of the army, and that the real difference
'ween him and the Regency arose from the
'lt of the latter to have the French brigade
Led under the command of a French officer,
that as considerable reinforcements had
'e out from England, it should not be con-
ed that Colonel HODGES was to have the
tnand of more than would be sufficient to
igthen the force immediately under his
'rs• It is also stated that the Colonel had
tered himself very unpopular, not only among
Portuguese but also with his own troops by
everity of the discipline which he had in-
i'teed without its being tempered by the in-
ellees necessary in a service, such as that in

which he was engaged. Whether this statement
be true or not, we have no means of judging.
At any rate, it is;litmourable to the character of
Colonel H0w:341'40 know that he cannot be re-
proached with, a laxity of discipline, and when
we consider dist- many of the men who were sent
out to him- were persons of a very loose descrip-
tion, we must allow that he has not had an easy
task to perform in bringing them to any thing
like order.

No further accounts have been received this
morning, either at the French or the Belgian
embassy from Paris. They are, however, mo-
mentarily expected.

There are no letters from Sir JOHN MILLEY
DOYLE of a later date than the 10th inst., at
which time he had been appointed to succeed
Colonel HODGES. The fact of his having been
subsequently superseded for General PINTO, is
not officially known at the embassy. There
appears, however, to be no reason to doubt it.

The Tories are again at work at their old
trade of fraud, lying, and cajolery. These men
have, at least, one advantage over every other
faction, that they never know when they are
beaten. One would have supposed that the
Reform question would have giveti them a
quietus for, at any rate, a dozen years ; but no ;
they are up again, cackling and braying just as
noisily as ever. " Born a Goddess," says POPE,
" nonsense never dies." The Tories seem re-
solved that this great truth shall not be falsified
in their persons. Their speeches set the immor-
tality of nonsense beyond a doubt.

At Leeds and Huddersfield these men, after
the fashion of the Conservative Club in London,
have had the incredible fatuity to attempt to get
up addresses against the Government, on the
pretence of a love of peace ! Yes, the men who
were the means of plunging us into a war, the
effects of which we still feel, and shall probably
continue to feel long after every trace of the ex-
isting generation has vanished from the face of
the earth ; who built us barracks and gaols in
every town, and then churches, by way of puri-
fying the neighbourhood of such nuisances ; who
treated John Bull as Dr. SANGRADO treated
his patients, that is to say, bled him to within an
inch of his life, and then bid him uplift his
voice in gratitude for his miraculous cure ;
the very men who have done all this and more,
are now just discovering that war is a great
curse, a still greater expense, and that it is mon-
strous to think of burdening the nation with such
a calamity ! !
This, we say, is now the cry of the Tories.
But what is their motive for such an Irish howl ?
Why, neither more nor less than, under pretence
of tranquillity, to create confusion ; under pre-
tence of peace, to promote war ; under pretence
of non-interference with Government, to oust
them from their places and mount the vacant
saddles.

The Tories tell us, forsooth, that to interfere
with the rights, as they call it, of our old and
amiable ally the King of HOLLAND, is to
hazard a European war ! Why, this interference
is not a Whig but a Tory measure. It was the
Duke of WELLINGTON himself who first de-
clared in his place in Parliament that Holland
and Belgium could never be reunited ; who
played fast and loose on the subject, putting
words into the KING'S mouth at one moment,
which he did not hesitate to falsify the next ;--
it was his Grace himself at the head of the
Tories who did this ; and the Whigs are now
only trying to turn the legacy of blunders which
he bequeathed them, as if out of spite, to a just
and reasonable account. In a word, they are
merely endeavouring to act conscientiously,
where their predecessors meant only to shuffle,
perplex, and delay.
If we be now on the eve (which we trust may
yet be averted) of a European war, it is the
Tories we must thank for the blessing. From
the first to the last mooting of the Belgic ques-
tion, the King of HOLLAND has been a mere
puppet in their hands. They have been the
showmen who pulled the strings that set Punch
a capering ; theirs were the voices which set him
a squeaking ! Even the invention of the Pro-
tocol is theirs—that glorious invention, which
proves how long great statesmen may trade on
one idea ; how lengthily and learnedly they may
write, without once coming to the point, or ex-
hibiting even the slightest glimmer of meaning.
The prime object with the Tories now is,
to get up a general confusion. If they
can only succeed in this, they ►hink that
in the bustle and perplexity that must inevitably
ensue, they may slip back unnoticed into office.
To effect this grand aim they will stick at no-
thing. Truth is no stumbling-block in their
way. For instance, they 'will tell their country-
men—by-the-bye, they have already done so—
that the interference with Holland will not fail
to cripple British commerce—omitting to state
at the same time, that the Dutchman's obsti-
nacy is of their own creating—the legitimate
offspring of their own loins. But what mon-
strous impudence in these men to blame the
Whigs for crippling our national commerce !
Do they forget—or do they think that the
country forgets—their own protracted, unprin-
cipled opposition to Reform, by which they well
nigh destroyed all public confidence, and anni-
hilated our domestic trade ? Do they imagine
that the Bankrupt Gazettes of last year have
slipped clean out of mind ? That the beggared
tradesman—beggared by the general stagnation
of trade, brought about by the factious Anti-
Reformers—retains no vivid recollection of
their conduct ? If these men really think so,
then indeed, are they " duller than the fat weed
that rots on Lethe's wharf."
But let them think as they please, or act as
they will, one fact is certain, that they or theirs
shall never again sway the destinies of Eng-
land. The chief cause of Whig popularity is
hatred of the Tories. One looks perfection by
the side of the other. White never looks so
white, or black so black, as when the two come
into direct contras..

We try the Tories as we try the Whigs, or as

we should try any other party, or individual, by
one and the same standard—not by what they
say, but what they do. The Tories, under the
pretence of promoting peace, are now stirring
heaven and earth to oust the present Cabinet,
and to bring on a war, to prevent which (or, at
least, to prevent which) the Whigs are pledged
to their utmost body and soul. Wherefore, we
say, trust them not. They can only prove their
patriotism by labouring at the oar, and pulling
in the same galley with the Whigs, who, having
already redeemed their first pledge, Reform, will,
we doubt not, be equally zealous in their endea-
yours to promote the two next—Peace and Re-
trenchment.

We have advices from Naples of the 3d
instant, which state that the marriage of the
KING with the Princess of SARDINIA had at
last been decided on, and Prince SCILLA was
to set out to receive the young QUEEN, who
was expected at Naples by the 17th iretant.
The Queen Mother was to retire to Rome.

Our City Correspondent says, 44 There has
been a meeting of the merchants of Amsterdam,
for the purpose of voting a resolution of thanks
to our merchants here, for their petition to the
KING, to prevent a war with Holland. Their
vote of thanks has been received in London."

It will be teen by the following foreign news,
as well as that in other parts of our Paper, that
Prussia continues to strengthen the troops al-
ready assembled in her provinces of the Rhine ;
but she, as well as every other despotic Power
of Europe, has such a paramount interest for re-
►naining at peace, that we shall not believe her
mad enough to go to war till she has actually
declared her intention of doing so.

BONN, Nov. 15.—Extraordinary movements of troops
are taking place in all Rhenish Prussia. Soldiers are
daily hastening to the Belgian frontiers, and the people have
notice to prepare to have a great many troops quartered on
them. The cavalry of our garrison has already marched
out and the Lmdwehr is ready for action. Prussia as-
sembles an army to which it is not easy to find an equal,
and which can meet any enemy. In a week a large
Prussian army will be assembled in this Province, of
which their will be a general review at Cologne.
FRANKFORT, Nov 15.—The Leipsig Journal con-
tains the following private correspondence from Berlin :
" The presence of the universally respected Queen of the
Netherlands is not likely, considering the firm character of
our King, to have much influence on the affairs of Holland
and Belgium, respecting which so many fables have been
spread, so much written backwards and forwards, that it
' seems to be time to wait patiently.to see how the pro!lem
will be solved. The Hamburg Correspondent particulraly
distinguishes itself by news from this city (Berlin)which are
almost always idle fables, and one is often tempted to be-
lieve (so p ilpahle are the lies) that the narrater intended
to mystify the journalist. There is a report that the cir-
culation of two journals is to be prohibited in the Prus-
sian dominions, as the editors are not to be dxtarred, by
repeated warnings, frwri proceeding in a manner that can-
not he tolerated, without participating in the insults to
foreign states which daily occur in them.
WURZBURG, Nov. 13.—The Polish Captain Kurowsky
(from Rhenish Prussia), who bad the misfortune to lose a
foot in the memorable battle near Warsrw, had been living
here a long time to get an artificial foot made. There
were some reasons for suspecting him, and accordingly a
domiciliary visit was made, and papers have been found,
which led to his immediate arrest. After being arrested
by the police, he was conveyed to the prison of the circle.
—Frankfort Papers, Nov. 17.

It is stated in one of the letters from Oporto,
that Sir JOHN CAMPBELL has been ordered to
Lisbon. This worthy individual, when in-
formed by the British naval officer who went to
him after the affair of the 29th, that Sir John's
old friend, the Governor of Oporto, had lost an
arm, observed, " So much the better ; I wish
it had been his head."

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

STEPHENS V. RENNIE AND OTHERS.

Mr. GianuisTort, jun., was heard till one o'clock, in
opposition to this pat•t•heard motion to dissolve an =-
parte injunction, obtained by the plaintiff against the de-
fendants, to restrain them from further publishing a work
called, A Conspectus of the Moths and Butterflies in
Britain, on the ground of its being a piracy of the plain-
tiff's work of a similar nature.—At the conclusion of the
Learned Gentleman's argument leave was obtained for Mr.
Pepys to reply at the sitting of the Court to-morrow, he
being then engaged in speaking in the Vice-Chancellor's
Court.

ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

IN THE.MATTER OF THE ACT FOR ASSISTING PERSONS

WHOSE ESTATES WERE DESTROYED BY THE INSURREC-
TION IN JAMAICA.

Mr. BURGE stated that the case came before the Court
upon the petition of Sir S. H. Clarke, praying for a refe-
rence to the Master to inquire whether it would be for his
benefit to borrow a sum of 15,0001. under the Act of
Parliament for assisting persons whose estates had been
destroyed or injured by the late insurrection in Jamaica.
His HONOUR observe I that there was an informality in
the petition, as it was not entitled in the matter of the
Act ; the order might, however, be made subject to that
amendment.