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The Journal des Debats, on the authority of a
private letter from Madrid, states that a courier had
arrived in that city on the 30th ult. from Majorca, in
seven days, bringing the news of an English squadron
having appeared off' that island, consisting of a ship of
the line, two frigates, and two brigs, the object of
which was to support certain demands made of the
Court of Madrid by Mr. Lwafa, the Minister of this
country, and to take possession of the Balearic islands,

if those demands were not acceded to. The Eloile
declares this statement to be false in every particular,
and also denies the reports of the movements of troops
at the camp of St. Rock.
The accounts from Lisbon reach only to the 26thspf
August, and contain nothing but what we knew before.
From Odessa private communications come down
to the 20th of August, which state that all the letters
from Akermann announce that the issue of the eon-
ferenceB between the Russian. and Turkish Commis-
sioners is expected to be unfavourable. The restitu-
tion of the Asiatic fortresses will be the stumbling-
block to the adjustment of the long pending differences
between these countries.

Letters from Corfu repeat the statement of. 'BRA-

PACHA having suffered repeated attacks of fever,
brought on probably by fatigue and the mortification
of his recent check. In other respects the Greek
cause seems to be nearly in the same state as former
accounts communicated.

FILINCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Stn. I L —Five per Cents. closed
at 98f. 70c.; Three per Cents., 66f. 25c. ; Rentes de Naples,
73f. 40c. ; Spanish Loan, 461 f.

If we might believe the accounts contained in some
of the French Papers from Madrid, an approaching
change of the policy of the Government may be looked
for. The Ministers are said to be willing to retrace
their steps, and disposed to make some concession to
public opinion. But the acts of persons in authority
in Spain belie the statements given in these Papers;
and prove that the Government are as fully determined
as at any former period, to maintain
." things as they
are"—as far as their power (if it may be so called)
will allow them to do so. An instance of this deter-
mination is afforded by the Circular, which General
O'DoNNEL, the Captain General of the Provinces of
Valencia and Murcia has addressed to the Officers
under his command, and to the Chiefs of the Royalist
Volunteers.

This worthy instrument of bigotry and ignorance,
after noticing the innovations sought to be introduced
into Portugal, and the orders given in consequence by
his Royal Master, states that he has directed the Pro-
vincial Authorities to pay the utmost attention to the
language and conduct of such persons as are suspected
of partiality to the new order of things, and to pro-
secute not only such persons, and all who attempt to
disturb the peace, with the, utmost rigour of the law,
but all who manifest pleasure at the progress of the
Portz gicese Revolution .I—and he then calls upon
the military to aid and assist the Civil Power in en-
forcing these instructions. ,c Spain, however," he says
" is satisfied with the absolute Government of its well
beloved Sovereign."

Our Readers must judge for themselves of the blind
obedience required by this tool of arbitrary power, who
Nuvpisohleisthtoe
apirreLesntoft.haeneoxtriererssion of an opinion, even
Kingdom, and we there-
fore publish his address at length. The human mind
can never be kept for any length of period in the state
of subjection which the Government of Spain finds it
necessary, to endeavour to enforce, in regard to its sub-
jects, for the preservation of
its weak and precarious
authority.

" (Amon.** OF tIENTRAT. o'DONNEN lIAPTAIN-GENERAL OP
THE PROVINCES or VALENCIA AND HURCIA, To THE orricsus
LINDER. His COMMAND, AND ID Tilt CHIEFS or THE ItoYAEisP

VOLUNTICIMS.

" The innovations which are wished to he introduced
into the forms of the Portuguese Govervanant, in seriously
cortrotnisingthe ttittluillity which Portugal enjoyed, have

occupied the whole attention of the King, our master, who
has transmitted to his subjects several orders anti decrees
addressed" to the military authorities, and has ordered the
Governor of the Council of Castile: to communicate them
to Ayuntamientos (municipalities) of the kingdom.

" These instructions and decrees have been addressed to
me in my quality of Governot of these provinces. They
have all for their object the maintenance of the tranquillity
which the absolute and paternal Government of his Majesty
has established, and which the King recommends to their
support under their personal responsibility. The justices
of the kingdom must excite the greatest surveillance over
the conversations and conductof persons marked by public
opinion for their zeal in favour of the disorderly and
criminal system which they call constitutional.
" The same instructions recommend to justices to watch
over travellers, and over all persons Who leave their domi-
cile without a motive sufficiently proved, which persons
are to be arrested and prosecuted conformably to the rigour
of the laws.•

" The justices are likewise to show their rigour, not
only against any person who should endeavour to disturb
public order by any means whatever, but against every per-
son who may testify any joy or pride in consequence of
the late events in Portugal, considering such person by
that act alone to be revolutionary, because by such demon-
strations he evidently shows a criminal though impotent
desire to see Spain made a prey to the disorders which
distract Portugal, and from which we shall ilways be pre-
served by the wisdom of our Government, and by the
docile loyalty of Spaniards, who remember what they had
to stiffer during the late revolution.
" It is an incontestible principle that the zeal of the su-
perior authorities is powerless if the subordinate authorities
do not contribute their assistance in displaying the greatest
energy in obeying and punctually executing the orders
which they receive. As for myself, lam firmly resolved
to overcome every obstacle opposed to• the service of the
King, to compel every person to fulfil his duties, and to
punish promptly and severely every one who may show a
criminal indolence in the execution of .the sacred duties
imposed upon him.
" It is with the view of making this known to you that
I address to you the present circular, by which I likewise
command you to maintain a perfect understanding with the
civil authorities, to aid them in all that depends upon you,
and to communicate to me every fault or negligence which
you may remark in the authorities, that I may adopt the
measures with regard to,them that the service of the King
requires.
" You will cause to be known to all, that notwithstand-
ing the projects which revolutionists may form, the tran-
quillity which we enjoy will not be ,troubled, because the
Spanish nation is satisfied with the absolute government
of its well-beloved Sovereign, who has deigned to tran-
quillize his faithful subjects by declaring solemnly that be
will never permit the introduction of Chambers or other
institutions contrary to the manners and laws of Spain.
" The five provinces of Murcia have at all times furnished
an example of the purest loyalty; but if disturbers should
dare to show themselves in any part of them, I have un-
der my command four squadrons, eight battalions of troops
of the line, and 26,000 royal volunteers, ready to sacrifice
themselves for the King, and to obey my voice, which will
always guide them in the path of honour.
" Valencia, Aug. 18. (Signed) ".1. O'DONNE.L."

The Allgemeine Zeitung to the 7th instant, reach-
ed us last night. An article dated Trieste, Aug. 31,
states, a Captain who has arrived there in twenty-eight
days from Samos, reports that the Turkish and Greek
4ets were still cruising off Samoa in sight of each
other. Nothing was known in the lonian Islands of
the movements of Lord Coc If RA NE.

A Liege Journal states that it has accounts from
Rio de Janeiro, according to which the Diplomatic
Agent of the Netherlands in that city, had no favoura-
ble prospect of concluding a commercial treaty with
Brazil, because he had frequently disregarded the eti-
quette of the Court. For example ; he rode to Court
in a chaise, instead of a state carriage ; presented to
the Emperor the insignia of the 'Order sent him by the
KING, without first pulling off his glove; put on his
hat again alto the first compliments, &c.
We subjoin an extract from the Austrian Observer,
giving accounts from Constantinople to the 10th Aug.
according to which the severe measures against the
Janissaries were abating, and business by degrees re-
viving :

" The rigour hitherto exercised by the Government to-
wards the adherents of the Janissaries and all persons who
had been noticed on preceding occasions for their partici-
pation in rebellion and acts of violence—a rigour which
showed itself in numerous executions and sentences of
banishment, combined with measures of police usually re-
sorted to only in times of great danger, has now in a great
degree abated; the executions have almost entirely ceased.
The coffee-houses and taverns are gradually opened again,
and freedom in trade and business is on the same footing
as before. The uneasiness and discontent which latterly
had been pretty loudly expressed, are dispelled, and the
inhabitants of the capital are convinced that urgent neces-
sity alone obliged the Government to employ such severe
measures. The hope, however, that the standard of the
Prophet would be taken down, and the camp in the Court
of the Seraglio be broken up, has dot been fulfilled, even
at the beginning of the month of Moharrem, the commence-
ment of the Mahometan year. The most satisfactory ac-
counts continue to be received from the provinces respect-
ing the manner in which the dissolution of the Janissaries
and the introduction of the new order of things has been
effected. This is especially the case at Aleppo, where
the most opposition was expected from the numerous
Janissaries."

Van Dieman's Land Papers to the 15th of April,
were received yesterday. They contain nothing
interesting, except accounts of the final extermination
of the Bush-rangers.

Some alleged delinquencies on the part of the local
authorities are discussed, as well as certain opinions
advanced in a letter of the Lieutenant Governor, in
which he asserted that the outrages of the Bush-
rangers, had been excited by the licentiousness] of the
Colonial. Press.

The erection of a' Scots Church on the Macquarrie
was in contemplation, and it had been resolved to
endow it with a stipend of 100/. per annum, for its
Minister. Wheat had fallen to 7s. per bushel.

It appears by the French Papers, that the recent
gales have raged with great fury along the coasts of
Normandy. The storm of the 6th and 7th occasioned
several shipwrecks at Dieppe. On the ►tight of the

7th and Bth, part of the basins of that town were de-
stroyed, and the town itself was under water. The
tempest also was very violent at Havre. Some vessels
foundered—and large trees were torn up by the roots
on the road from Havre to Rouen.

Dutch Papers to the 11th inst., have also come to
hand. They contain advices from Java to the 24th
March, at which time the war still continued, and it
was supposed would continue until a reinforcement of
3,000 or 4,000 men, at (east, from Europe should
arrive. The mass of the population, however, remained
faithful to the Government. These Papers also con-
lain the following extraordinary account of the pre-
servation of a child from the attack of a ferocious
wolf, in Croatia

" On the 14th of this month a little girl named Barbara
Dusek was employed in tending a herd of cattle near the
village of Ivanezi, about a league from Agram. AU at
once the child was attacked and-bitten by a hungry wolf.
A very remarkable circumstance, or rather a wonderful in-
terposition of Divine Providence, is the manner in which
the child was saved from the wolf, to which she seemed
already to have fallen a prey. The cows and oxen grazing
in the meadow all ran to the spot, attacked the wild beast
with their horns, and thus delivered the child from certain
death. Its cries, and the extraordinary commotion observ-
ed among the cattle, attracted the peaaanta at work in the
fields.to the spot. They immediately went in pursuit of
the wolf, and had the good fortune to kill it the day fol-
lowing. A skilful surgeon being immediately called in, it
is expected that the child will be speedily recovered."

The Consul of the United States for Vera era
and Alvarado, has published in the Vera Cruz Pape
a notice requiring the Masters of American ships of
war and merchantmen, not to receive passengers on
board without the permission of the Commandants of
the respective ports.

It is said that upon the death of Lord GI FFO"
being announced to the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Lordship felt so deeply affected that he inunechately
tendered his resignation, which was refused by the
Government. The letter of refusal on this occasion,
it is mentioned, but we attach no importance to the
circumstance, came from the Minister,—
and not from
a higher quarter.'

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was yesterday ill CO'
ference with the SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. TIN"
DAL for two hours, and it was confidently expected,
both yesterday and to-day, that the ATTORNEY-6k'.
NERAL would have been sworn in as Master of the
Rolls. The delay on both days has been occasioned, as we
are assured, not by any demur or difficulty as to the
substance of the intended arrangement, but simply
from the circumstance that some necessary documen"
could not be prepared in due time.

Among the on dits of the day, it is positively state°
that the Lord Chief Baron ALEXANDER will he
appointed Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords'
but not elevated to the Peerage :—that Sir C.
WETHERELL will ultimately succeed to the Chief
Baronship ; and that Mr. TINDAL, after filling the
office of Attorney-General for a year, will be advanced
to " THE SEALS" in Ireland.
Such are the rumours current in the legal circles'
The Courts of Law being now silent, the blaineles!
garrulity of the respectable persons who are in the habit
of attending them, appears to be indulging itself in the
speculative creation of future tribunals, whichyi
doubtless, afford them abundant opportunities for the
more regular exhibition of their oratorical power'

The " grim ghost" of another swindling saw,
was yesterday dragged into light, and adds, if any mere
proof were wanted, its share of iniquity, to the Pi°
Stock attempt to obtain money under false pretences'
The more we see of these worthies, the more strongly
are we convinced of the propriety, nay, .the abs°lute,
necessity, of proceeding against them criminallP '
indictment ; not only to satisfy
to protect the public from being robbed aglnli bY
referring
similar set of impostors. It will be seen by
to our report that the Clay scheme 09 t' leave
ai which
operated on a bit of ground worth 1.-" 11
sews yl
.the conjurors soon magnified to 2,1001.) snd
sold to the deluded shareholders at that Price
But there's no end to the in uitY t'l. man,
gen (Awe
and no language sufficiently strong to ter-- 6.
such infamous practices. One of the Speakersts:, into
introduceo
her
ported to have said that the scheme was
the market for the purpose of ~ a rig "--in °t ii,
the ends of justice, bill
words, to
.pick pockets in the monied crowd °I. al).1) it,
cants for shares in joint stock speculations. but is
ij
fair when minor depredators are brought to josticton s.
punished, to suffer the perpetrators of valainY world
large scale to escape—and remain loose on the
i,
the
insensible to shame, because they are, reekless.i° dila
loss of character ? If so, it may well be salt 00r.
there is one law for the rich and another for the I)

The observations which we made some weal° °'
on ,
For-hunting
appear
to
have
given e
great offence
t°

some gentlemen fond of that diversion. tbe
No such effect ought to have been produced
observations in question, which' were drawn from ising I's
reference to a particular cage, and were directed as
the evils resulting from the excess of the anmsenout'
not its moderate enjoyment. its
We never denied that it had many arguments ,
favor ; and it is very possible that they greatly Nun.
balance those evils, which we unfortunate Edit° °
Papers, confined to our private room, and stl-rounded
with dusty piles of old papers, may have pictured.oil
With this sense of our incapacity to fan' P° 5
an opinion on this subject as Fox-bunters themseice '

and with
.a wish to act with. that perfect impartiality
on this, which we endeavour to evince on all other
subjects, we inserted in our columns of yesterday,
a Letter from a Correspondent, answering our article
before alluded to. We admit the force of many
of his observations—but to ascribe the principal
cause of the superiority of our Cavalry to Fox-
hunting, appears to us to attribute to this diver-
sion an effect which can hardly be produced by it.
In fact, on the same principle, we might consider the
excellence of the British Artillery to result from the
recreation, general amongst certain classes, of Partridge
shooting. Our Correspondent's remarks on a recent
article of ours on the subject of Poor Rates, shall
receive some notice in a day.or two.

• The.alarm occasioned by the non-arrival of the Sir
Edward Banks steam-boat, from Hamburgh,
been considerably increased to-day, and fears are en-
tertained for her safety,. or that some accident to her
machinery has happened, and that she has put back to
Hamburgh.

Accounts have been received from Napoli di Ro-
mania to the\end of July : it does not appear that any
fighting had taken place in that quarter between the
Greeks and the Egyptians.

It is with considerable surprise 'that we look back
at certain proceedings which took place at the Police-
office, in Bow-street, on Tuesday lait, and which
were recorded in our paper of yesterday.
It appears that a gentleman, moving in a highly
respectable sphere of society, was pronounced by the
Bench to be the father of an illegitimate child, by a
connection with the wife of another person, and was
adjudged to pay the expence of maintaining the infant ;
and that the only evidence on which the worshipful
Magistrates arrived at their decision as to the fact, was
the testimony of the guilty mother.
It appears further, that all this was considered as a
very familiar and ordinary course of procedure. One
Magistrate affirmed the duty of the Bench on the
occasion to be " simple and straight-forward ;" and
another described the case as " quite a chandler's shop
concern,—quite a matter of debtor and creditor."

Something surely must have appeared to the Magis-
trates, which has not found its way into the public
prints ; for, speaking of the proceedings with all
deference, the conclusion that glaringly arises
on the face of the report is that this
simple and straight-forward affair,—this chandler's
shop concern,—was, indeed, disposed of much more
according to the legal skill that might have been ex-
pect4;il to prevail in a chandler's shop, than agree-
ably to the Law 91. England.
No principles, as we have always understood, can be
better established than these two ; first, that, though a
married woman, seeking to illegitimatize her child, may,
from the necessity of the case, swear to the fact of her
having had a criminal intercourse with a person, other
than her husband, yet she shall never he allowed to
prove the non-access of her husband ; secondly, that
unless the non-access of the husband' be strictly proved,
he, the husband, and no other, is in law the putative
father of the infant. These principles are fully re-
cognized, we
,believe, in every book of authority on
such subjects; and they were conclusively established
by the unanimous opinion of the Judges in the case of
the 'Banbury Peerage.
Yet, in the proceedings in Bow-street, the woman,
Confessedly a deep offender against the marriage vow,
i 5 allowed to prove the whole case,—non-access—
illicit intercourse,--and all ; and, when the person who,
on her single oath, is to be charged with the offence
both civilly and morally, attempts by cross-examination
to extract from her the fact of the husband's access, he
is told that he is labouring to no purpose,—
that the husband's non-access need not be proved
at all ; that it is enough that the lady affirms him,
the person charged, to be the h 'that
in inverted rule is to be adopted,—for that he must
,Prove non-access on his own part,—he must chew
tint he was « beyond the seas or elsewhere,"--before
he can exonerate himself from the effect of the accusing
testimony !

Surely the law on this subject is hard enough, in con-
clusively subjecting any individual, however undis-
putel his resectability, to loss of money and cha-
racter, on the unsupported evidence of an unmarried
woman, avowing herself a •participant in the im-
propriey which she imputes, unless he cats -fortu-
nately prove a negative. But to break down the
limited protection which has hitherto been afforded
against such a charge from a married woman, who
begins by stating, on oath, her own infidelity,._._.
to allow her to violate conjugal confidence, after
faithfulns, by judicially de-
ing violated conjugal
es
Poaing to a fact which in seemliness and decency, she
Ought never to be heard even to. allude to—the fact of
her absence from her husband's society ; and when she
proof of the fact, then, to
find** in her attempted

"own the whole matter by striking out the considera-
tlen of it altogether, and implicitly accepting her
Finturnery designation of the person whose purse and
Whose fame shall be responsible for her admitted mis-
deed this appears to us to be as monstrous in the
!Ye (Treason and justice, as we believe it to be utterly
Inadmissible in the eye of the law. Whether such a
"lase of proceeding, indeed, be legal or illegal, is in
(41r view immaterial it cannot, we conceive, Le per-
mated to sulmist. - If it be unauthorized practice, let
per-
meated practice be forthwith abolished. If it be este-
"lied law, let the law be forthwith repealed.