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London, England, 1828-07-25 00:00:00

FEMALE JESUITS.

PARIS, JULY 19.-=-A letter from Angers, dated
the 15th July, contains some curious facts relative
to a convent of female Jesuits, which exists near
that town.—" For the last two years a convent of
Jesuitesses, under the title of the Sucre Crew-, has
been established at &place called Maison Rouge, a
quarter of a league from Augers. Sixty thousand
francs were paid for the premises ; and building, to a
considerable extent, has been, and is still, carried on
there. Whence the purchase-money came is not
accurately known, but it is strongly suspected that
the late Ministry furnished it; but the expenses in-
cident to the improvements and construction carry-
ing on there are in part provided for in the follow-
ing manner :—Every two months, and even oftener,
it is announced from all the pulpits in the diocese
that there will commence, on a certain day, a re-
treat in the convent, sometimes for the men, some-
times for the women ; at other times for the young
girls, and then for their Schoolmistresses. When the
female retreat is announced, you may see crowds
of women hastening to the convent from all
the parishes in the diocese, to the number of five or
six hundred, though in ,the present state of the build-
ing it is not capable of accommodating more than
400. The. abandonment of their houses and families
by these women (luring the eight days of the retreat
'rives rise to numberless qaarrels between them and
their husbands. To give more importance to this
retreat, dirring which Jesuit preachers hold forth
twice or thrice a day, the Bishop frequently repairs
thither in his pontifical robes, and heads the 'maces:-
sions.which take place within the walls of the con-.
vent. It is calculated that each of these retreats
brings about 3,oooTrancs to the convent. With re-
gard to spiritual matters, all the penitents who pre=
sent themselves receive a pretty equal portion or
pious instructions, benedictions, and indulgences ;
but with regard to temporal matters--viz, bed and
board—the case is different : the penitents are di=
vided into four classes—the first class pays 25 francs
for the eight days of the retreat.---the second pays
16 francs—the third mine francs—and the fourth
three francs. Those of the first class have .a
well-served table, with coffee and litiueurs, and
a separate bed each; those of the second have a
very plain dinner!without coffee or liqueurs, and sleep
two in a bed ; those of the third get neither wine,
coffee, nor liqueurs, and have but a single mattrass
for two to sleep on; whilst the fourth get nothing
but a little bread and soup, and sleep on pallets.ou
the. ground. To these latter, if they have money,
are sold the remains of the other tables and wine—
as, during these repasts, a Jesuitess walks about the
corridors with a large pitcher of wine, crying " who
wishes for wine ?' Upon this wine the
.convent
must have a considerable profit, as it charged six sous
the litre, whilst in Angers the usual price is five
and four sous, after payment of the excise duty, ant
tifteen francs a barrel entry—from which charges the:
wine sold by the Jesuitesses is exempt, the convent
being beyond the limits of the Octroi. The speou.
lotion is, no doubt, a thriving one—for three Je-
suits have just taken a nine years' lease of another
house, in the Fauxbourg Bressigny, a short distance
from the convent above-mentioned. The school of
mutual instruction, which had been abolished some
years ago at Angers, has been reestablished in the
course of last month, to the general satisfaction of
the inhaltitants. A report is in circulation that tliftr
children who frequent this school will not 11 ads
mitted by the priests to perform their Easter duty,

A singular phenomenon occurred in Wolver-
hampton on Wednesday afternoon. At four o'clock, a
mass of electriC fluid descended the chimney of a parlour
at the Noah's Ark Inn, bringing with it a couple of bricks,
and filling the room with a sulphureous smoke, it escaped
in a moment into the open air by forcing two panes of glasi
out of one window and a complete casement put of tbo
other, some of the lead of which was melted. Se,,rut
gentlemen were sitting in the room, who fortu7,ately sus-
tained no injury.—Hereford Journal.

SINGULAR PR0V1DENCF,,,.......-Mr. DYER, a
cooper, hearing the cry of a child, about eight years old,
which bad alien overboard at Eastport, Maine, jumped
into the water, and was bringing it shore, when a boat
from the English brig Nimrod came to hint when he was
nearly exhausted, and relieved Lim from his burden. He
returned to his work, and when the lad was brought to iife,
soon after, he was informed that it was his own son.—
American Paper.

An ingenious plan for increasing the power of
the voice has been carried into execution at Attercliffe
Church, Sheffield, by erecting a concave sounding-board,
to act as a reflector behind the read;:ig-desk and pulpit,
with the speaker's voice near the focus of the concave.
The effect of this reflector increases the power of the voice
five times beyond its ordinary volume.

The brain is larger in man than in any otiw.
known animal. Its general Weight is, accordir r
M SOEMTRINO, from Qlb. sAoz' 811). 3ao, to
weighed several at 411 L The brain of the I have
(without its membranes) weighed Gib, Lord Byliox
more medullary substance than "s and enntained
Essay on the Formation of Man, ar!"---Dewharst's
The following are a few of
the Expences of the Ornam, the Estimates of
in sr. .himes's Park 'awl parts of the New Palace
ornamental watex, b,ara_n
"
E'ernal m 4111111.0 , &:e
it
• to nouse

A pa;qu'letrtlel
11104ue'rYs-,Pliene(ll:id floors, &e,
exclUsive of stnarble
Mate-lerotzit:ouirstl ainladn:loors in the King's apart-
ments;.,. ............ ~
The cost of toarldeimportrql and on the sea
grand stairs and gallery,
Brass
,gatrv. awl railitig instead of iron Bran handrails to great *taircase instead of irui, gil ....................... .' . .
Enrict hing ctiliug to kitchen and state x I
3,600
apartments
Ditto in eight pirate rooms to flower
1,800
garden '
Ditto to picture gallery
Ditto to hall and staircase
3,009
3,000
Ditto to the two galleries

16,425
18,970
12,681

4,400

MahrigaiiySilutters and plate glass to all the state
rooms to answer doors
Scagliola dado to all the state rooms
Scagliola walls to staircase, hall, and lower gallery
Framed wainscoting for hangings in all the state
rooms, &e
For new lodges and entrance arch to the palace
glans from Piccadilly; with sculptLre;

2,967
19,800
6,900

3,000

22,300

4,200
3,000
4,000

3,55 S

34,58 g

EXPEDITION OF THE CONSTITUTION-

ALISTS TO OPORTO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir—The lively interest taken by the great majo-
rity of the English nation in the cause of the defend-
ers of the legitimate throne and charter of Portugal
—a cause which your Journal has always nobly sup-
ported—gives reason to hope that you Will not
refuse insertion to the following observations, which
will perhaps contribute to enable your readers to
form a right opinion of the events which have just
occurred in Portugal, which appear the more disas-
trous in consequence of the result being diametri-
cally opposite to that which there seemed reason to
expect, when intelligence was received that the
standard of legitimacy had been displayed in Oporto.
The disappointment which this contrast could not
fail to produce was partly occasioned, it must be
confessed, by the rather exaggerated reports received
in this country as to the consistency acquired by the
new Government of Oporto, and of the military
force at its disposal. The fact is, that the troops
forming the garrison of that city (with the exception
of one regiment of cavalry and a battalion of in-
fantry), as well as the greater part of those stationed
in the Minho and the Beira, declared at once for the
good cause, and that this burst of zeal encouraged
the 'hope that their example would be folhwed by
the rest of the array. Unfortunately, this hope was
not realized, either because the measures taken for
communicating the news of what had happened at
Oporto to the more distant corps were not suffi-
ciently prompt and active, or that the changes
made by the arrest and dismissal of all officers who
were considered unfavourable to the Usurper had
greatly increased the difficulty of obtaining the ge-
neral concurrence of the army.

The Portuguese troops were then divided; but
the superiority in numbers belonged indisputably to
those who obeyed the Government of Lisbon, and
who, besides, by having at their disposal the arsenals
and establishments of the capital, possessed facilities
for equipment and organization
.which were totally
wanting to their adversaries. •
It would require me to enter into details of a more
extensive nature than the limits of this letter will
permit, were I to attempt to give a complete idea
of the state of opinion and the real situation of par-
ties in Portugal, at the moment when the insurrec-
tion broke out. There doubtless exists throughont
the whole kingdom, and particularly at Lisbon and
Oporto, among all the more respectable classes, a
decided feeling of attachment to the legitimate So-
vereign and of gratitude for the Charter which he
has bestowed. It is also certain, that the gross
usurpation, effected in the face of the world, in vio-
lation of so many promises, and in disregard of all
the Governments of Europe, excites still more in
Portugal than any where else hatred and disgust
against him who seems to hold out to the country
the mere exercise of his tyranny as a sufficient in-
ducement to acquiesce in his treason. But these
sentiments, natural as they are among the respect-
able and educated classes, are far from being gene-
sally diffused through the population, and, in the
provinces especially, have made little progress. For
the great mass, which is composed of the most nu-
merous, though certainly not of the most worthy
part of the Portuguese nation, all the considerations
of legitimacy, of superior title, of liberty, and even of
;merest become almost null, and appear effaced, by
the simple fact of the presence in Portugal, 'of a
Prince invested with all the fascinations of royalty,
and to whom there is nothing to oppose but the
acknowledged and legitimate rights of other Princes,
who, being absent, do not present to the idola-
trous tendency of the people any visible and mate--
rial object.
The insurrection of Oporto was, then, a mere
military movement, accompanied, it is true, by the
efforts of the greater part of the , inhabitants of "that:
town, AS well as the zealous good wishes of the
people of Lisbon ; but it did not present that union
of national will which cannot fail to be exhibited
when once the country has sufficiently experienced
the effects of the tyranny imposed upon it.
Notwithstanding these circumstances, and not-
withstanding that the unanimity on which so much
hope was founded did not take place in the army,
it is certain, that if the troops faithful to Don Pedro
had marched without delay on Lisbon, they would
have been received there with open arms, and the
Government of Don Miguel would have been in-
stantly crushed. I am far from reproaching the
worthy patriots who formed the Junta of Oporto of
not contributing by all their means to the success
of an enterprize with which they were identified-;
but it cannot be denied, that, with some eminent
exceptions, that Jtinta did not exhibit those elements
of distinction and talent which ware capable of shed-
ding around it the lustre which was necessary to en-
able it to exercise an influence over the vabole king-
dom; and besides, it is impossible to disguise the
want of impulse and of activity in the first military
operations, under its direction, which was the main
cause of the unlooked-for failure that marked the
termination of this noble enterprise.
When the Portuguese in L6fidon received the
first news of the events at Oporto, they without
hesitation determined to join the, standard of their
legitimate Sovereign, and embarked ay Plymouth
on board the Belfast steamer exactly ten days after
the receipt of the communications addressed to them
by the Oporto Junta ; and the manner
.in which you
have expressed yourself, Mr. Editor, as well as most
other English journalists, on the fate of the persons
on boa that vessel, has not failed to excite in their
breasts sent'
,rients of the wsrmest gratitude. In-
stead of arriving; as they hoped, at Oporto, on the
20th of June, they lid not land until the 26th in
the evening. Our that Yery day the retreat of the
only considerable corps wherh the Junta had as-
sembled commenced. That co,rps, which on the
24th, two days before, had sustained a pretty vi 7
gorous attack in front of Coimbra, batting itself in
danger of being out-flanked by superior f,orces, fell
back, as was said, to approximate the centre ef its
operations on the river Vouga, the only good miiis
tary position between Coimbra and Oporto.
This unexpected intelligence could not fail to
astonish the persons just arrived from England,•and
to give them reason to apprehend very disagreeablo
consequences ; for a war such as that e.oratneaea in
Portugal, required success in the outset to raise, the
spirit of the people, and experience affords too
;natty proofs of the difficulty of stopping,,ou like
occasions, the wheel of fortune, if it begin by turn.
ing the wroaz way.
On the 29-tit, two days alter their arrival, the
Generals appointed by the
Junta to take command
of the troops which were expected to be found on
the Vouga, set out froth Oporto; but they, had not
got farther than four leaves from that city, when
they received information thii!inn action had taken
place that morning, on the bridie or the Vouga, in
consequence of which (though the A1igi14.44 hoops
had not forced the bridge) the Commaoder. 'this
Constitutionalists thought it necessary, to fall back
and abandon that advantageous position. There
reroained, then, no course to Le taken beforoU
enemy superior in numbers, than that of
ing to retreat to the suburb of
Oporto, inetrth
is
built on a hill to the north of the Douro;
Ivid *high
is separated from the city only by that tier.
Such was the situation in which the individuali
arrived from England found themselves owed on
the 30th, that is to say, on the fourth day after
their arrival. •
The corps which had thus retreated consisted ef
about 3,000 good troops of the line. With these
3,000 men, about 1,000 to the north of the Douro,
and perhaps 1,500 Oporto volunteers, it was re-
quired to make a stand against double the force in
troops of the line which were on the south of the
Douro, and at the same time to defend the city
against from 5,000 to 6,000 troops of every descrip-
tion, which were only at three leagues distance, On
the north of Oporto, and were advancing against
the town by three different roads at once.
In the retreat from Coimbra to the Douro, all the
militia corps which were attached to the Constitu-
tional army left it and returned to their homes; and

though it is impossible to do justice to the good
spirit of the greater part of the soldiers of the line,
as well as of most of the officers, it must be owned
that desertion, the usual- effect of retrograde move-
ments, did not fail to occur, particularly with re-
gard to one ilf* the regiments sand a battalion of
chasseurs, on which sufficient reliance could not be
placed. Finally, it must further be stated, that for
the reasons above given, the greater part of the pea-
sants of the country were so blind as to take the
part of the Miguelites, and thus to forget their duty
as well as their interest.

However, notwithstanding these disadvantages, it
would not have been impossible, nor perhaps even
difficult, to have attacked the Miguelite army in
front of the Oporto corps, and to have gained an ad-
vantage over it; but even on the supposition of the
most brilliant success, the corps of 3000 men, which
had no, means of recruiting itself, was not suffi-
cient to- take advantage of a victory, and to leave
behind it a garrison to defend Oporto against the
attack with Which it was threatened on the oppo-
site' side. •

On the contrary supposition—the case of a re-
verse—these troops had no means of retreat except
across the river behind them, and they would have
been surrounded by enemies who would have at-
tacked a town without fortifications or means of
defence against such a saperior force.
Nevertheless, all the considerations which have
been stated above would have yielded to the just
desire of 'attempting a last effort for the honour, if
not for the triumph, of the legitimate cause, had not
the moath of the Douro been blockaded by four
ships of war from Lisbon. This last circumstance
contributed more powerfully than all the rest to ac-
celerate and complete the catastrophe of Oporto,
for it impressed upon the minds. of most men the
a
idea that they were shut up in trap, from which,
in case-of disaster, there was no means of escaping,
and that they would ultimately be delivered up to'
'ate vengeance of an implacable faction. It is thus
that the permission granted to Don Miguel to main-
fain, under the pretext of his-being Prince Regent,
the blockade of a city against which his hostilities
were directed only because it refused to recognize
him a.s King,—it is thus that this condescension
has, more than any thing else, contributed to the
ruin, for the present, of the cause of the legitimate
King of Portugal, the ally of England ; and which,
by a coincidence which all good Portuguese consi-
dered most fortunate, was also -the cause of the
friends of moderate liberty. But a time, it is to be
hoped, will arrive, when this involuntary error will
be repaired; and saying this,.l believe I express the
best wishes of England as well as of Portugal.

The details into which it has been necessary to
enter, sufficiently prove that the Constitutional
troops could not maintain themselves on the banks
of the Douro, and that. there remained' for them
only the alternative to defend themselves in despair
in the town of Oporto, or to evacuate it, and, unit-
ing in one corps ail the disposable troops, to cut
their way through the enemy on the north of the
Douro, in order, as a last resource, to gain the fron-
tiers of Oallieia, since they were no longer able to
maintain themselves in the Minho.

On the morning of the 2d of July the Govern-
ment Junta assembled. Having heard the opinions
of the General appointed to command the troops to
the south of the Douro, and of General Stubbs,
commandant of the town, they decided that it was
necessary to adopt the latter alternative. The Junta
was consequently dissolved ; all civil and military
authority being previously delegated to a committee
composed of two of its members, and the General
who was to take the command of the troops, in or-
del' to effect the evacuation of Oporto, and conduct
them to the Spanish frontier.
The Members of the Junta, and the other indi-
viduals who did not intend to follow the army, and
yet could not remain in the town, immediately em-
barked. The only chance they had for escaping the
blockading 'hips depended, upon taking advantage
of the night which would elapse before the entrance
of the enemy's.troops. This resolution unanimously
adopted, the only one which, fortunately, remained
to be taken, in the disastrous circumstances in
which they were placed, was, by an-increase of mis-
fortune, partly frustrated, and a momentary misun-
derstanding having taken place between the Ge-
neral who was to take the command of the army and
the Chiefs of the different corps which composed it,
the General thought it impossible to execute advan-
tageously the 'operation with which he was charged,
and which demanded for its success prompt and de-
cisive measures which he was no longer in a condi-
tion to undertake. The dissolution of the Govern-
ment, already effected by the embarkation of the in-
dividuals who composed it, and the confusion which
resulted from such an operation in a city blockaded
by sea and land, may, if they cannot justify the de-
plorable result, at least diminish the astonishment
which has . been felt at it, and explain how the
retreat of this small body of defenders of the legi-
timate cause has been partially effected, instead of
being executed as it was projected, in a body, and
in good order.
The length of this letter prevents me from adding
observations which I reserve for a future opportu-
nity, if you will allow me to occupy a place in your
columns. S.

CONVENTION OF FRIENDSHIP, COM-
MERCE, AND NAVIGATION,
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA,
♦XD THE SENATES OF THE FREE AND HANSEATIC
CITIES OP HAMBURGH, LUBECK, AND BREMEN.

Me Ratifications of this Convention were exchanged at Wash-
ington, on the 2d of June, 1528.

The United States of America, on the one part,
and the Republic and free HanSeatic city of Ham-
burgh, the Republic and free Hanseatic city of Lu-
beck, and the Republic and free Hanseatic city of
Brennan (each State for itself separately), on the
other part, being desirous to give greater facility to
their commercial intercourse, and to place the
privileges of their navigation on a basis of the most
extended liberality, have resolved to tix, in a manner
clea:, distinct, and positive, the rules which shall be
observed bPtween the one and the other, by means
of a Convention of Fnendship, -Commerce, and Na-

. .
vigation.
Pof the attainment of this most desirable object,
the President of the United States of America has
conferred full powers on Henry Clay, their Secre-
tary of State; and the Senate of the Republic and
free Hanseatic city of 11aniburgh, the Senate of the
Repuhlie and free Hanseatic city of Lubeck, and
the Senate of the Republic and free Hanseatic city
of Bremen, have conferred full powers an Vincent.
ikanpff, -their , Minister Plenipotentiary near the
United Slates 'of America, who, after having ax-
changed- thair• said full-powers, found in due and
proper form, have wiled to the following articles :
Art. I. The Contracting Parties
agree, that what-
ever kind of produce, mannfattive, or merchandise of
yth?be, ' from time to time, law-
United States, in their own
vessels, intoun tr
law-
fully Foreignimported
ofqe o
he also imported in vessels of the said
free Hanseatic .!t.eP44/Ps of Hamburgh, Lubeck,
444 Bremen, and that
no higher or other d •
duties
of the vessel
upon tha tonnage or cargo o4an 40
:le,.
vied or collect,-..Av whether the importation be madg
in vessels of the Vpiod States, .
or of either of the
said kfenseatic Republics. And, , like m manner, that
or merehan '
whatever kind of produce, manufacture, _
can be from time to
dise of any foreign ppuntry, . 7 .
of the sai4
time, lawfully imported into either . .
Hanseatic Republics, in its own vpseJso may DP, ajs9
imported in ves,s_els of the United States ; atm that
no higher or other duties upon the tonnage or cargo
of the vessel shall be levied or collected, whether
the importation be made in vessels of the one party
or of the other. And they further agree, that what-
ever may 1)Q Lawfully exported or re-exported by
one party in its own vessels, to any foreign country,
may in like manner be exported or re-exported in the
vessels of the other p4rty. And the same bounties,
dutie9, and drawbacks shall be allowed and Aollected
whether such exportation or re-exportation be made
in vessels of the one party or of the other. Nor
1 shall higtia or other charges of any kind be im

posed in the ports of the one party on vessels of the
other, than are or shall be payable in the same ports
by national vessels.
Art. 2. No higher or other dudes shall be impos-
ed on the importation into the United States of any
article, the produce or manufacture of the flee
Hanseatic Republics of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and
Bremen, and no higher or other duties shall be im-
posed on the importation into either of the said Re-
publics of any article, the produce or manufacture
of the United States, than are or shall be payable on
the like article being the produce or manufacture of
any other foreign country : nor shall any other or
higher duties or charges be imposed by either party
on the exportation of any articles to the United
States or to the Free Hanseatic Republics of Ham-
burgh, Lubeck, or Bremen, respectively, than such
as are or shall be payable on .the exportation of the
like articles to any other foreign country : nor shall
any prohibition be imposed on the importation or
exportation of any article, the produce or manufac-
ture of the United States or of the free Hanseatic
Republics of Hamburgh, Lubeck, or Bremen, to or
, from the ports of the United States, to or from the
ports of the other party,'whiCh shall not equally ex-
tend to all other nations.

Art. 3. No priority or 'preference shall be given,
directly or indirectly, by any or either of the con-
tracting parties, nor by any company, corporation, or
agent acting on their behalf, or under their authority,
in the purchase of any article, the growth, produce
or manufacture of their States, respectively, imported
into the other, on account of or in reference to the
character of the vessel, whether it be of the one
party, or of the other, in which such article was im-
ported, it being the true intent and meaning of 'the
contracting parties, that no distinction or difference
whatever shall be made in this respect.

Art. 4. In consideration of the limited extent 'of
the territories of the Republics of Hamburgh, Lu-
beck, and Bremen, and of the intimate connection of.
trade and navigation subsisting between these Re-
publics, it is hereby stipulated and agreed, that any
vessel which shall be owned exclusively by a Citizen
or Citizens of any or either of them, and of which
the master shall also be a Citizen of any or either of
them, and provided three-fourths of the crew shall
be Citizens or subjects of any or either of the said
Republics or of any or either of the States of the
Confederation of Germany, such vessel, so owned
and navigated, shall for all the purposes of this Con-
vention, be taken to be and considered as a vessel
belonging to Hamburgh, Lubeck, or Bremen.
Art. 5. Any vessel, together with her cargo, be-
longing to either of the free Hanseatic Republics
of Hamburgh, Lubeck, or Bremen, and coming from
either of the said ports to the United States, shall,
for all the purposes of this Convention be deemed to
have cleared from the Republic to which such vessel
belongs : although, in fact, it may not have been the
one from which she departed; and any vessel of the
United states and her cargo trading to the ports of
Hamburgh, Lubeck, or Bremen, directly or in succes-
sion, shall, for the like purposes, be on the footing of
a Hanseatic vessel and her cargo, making the same
voyage.

Art. 6: It is likewise agreed, that it shall be
wholly free for all merchants, Commanders of ships,
and other citizens of both parties, to manage
themselves, their own business, in all the ports
and places, subject to the jurisdiction of each
other, as well with respect to the consign-
ment and sale of their goods and merchan-
dize, by wholesale or retail, as with respect to the
loading, unloading and sending off their ships; sub-
mitting themselves to the laws, decrees and usages
there established, to which native Citizens are sub-
jected, they being in all these cases to be treated as
Citizens of the Republic in which they reside, or at
least to be placed on a footing with the Citizens' or
Subjects of the most favoured nation.

Art. 7. The Citizens of each of the Contracting
Parties shall have power to dispose of their personal
goods withiii' the Jurisdiction of the other, by sale,
donation, testament, or otherwise, and their repre-
sentatives being Citizens of the other Party, shall
succeed to their said personal goods, whether by
testament or ab intestato, and they may take posses-
sion thereof, either by themselves, or other acting
for them, and dispose of the same at their will, pay-
ing such dues only as the inhabitants of the country,
wherein said goods are, shall be subject to pay in like
cases : and if, in the case of real estate, the said
heirs would be prevetitei from entering into the pos-
session of the inheritance, on account of their cha-
racter of aliens, there shall be granted to them the
term of three years, to dispose of the same, as they
may think proper, and to withdraw the proceeds
without molestation and exempt from all duties of
detraction, on the part of the Government of the
respective States.

Art. 8. Both the Contracting Parties promise and
engage formally, to give their special protection to
the persons and property of the Citizens of each
other, of all occupations, who may be in the terri-
tories subject to the jurisdiction of the one or the
other, transient or dwelling therein, leaving open and
free to them the tribunals of justice for their judi-
cial recourse, on the same terms which are usual and
customary with the natives or Citizens of the coun-
try in which they may be ; for which they may' em-
ploy in defence of their rights such advocates, soli-
citors, notaries, agents and factors,as they may judge
proper, in all their trials at law, and such Citizens or
Agents shall have as free opportunity, as native Citi-
zens, to be present at the decisions and sentences of
the tribunals, in all cases which may concern them ;
and likewise at the taking of all examinations and
evidence which may be exhibited in the said trials.
Art. 9. The Contracting Parties desiring to live in
peace and harmony with all the other nations of the
earth, by means of a policy frank and equally friendly
with all, engage mutually not to grant any particu-
lar favour to other nations in respect of commerce
and navigation, which shall not immediately become
common to le other party, who shall enjoy the
same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on
allowing the same compensation, if the concession
was conditional.

Art. 10. The present Convention shall be in force
for the tent of twelve years from the date hereof,
and further until the end of twelve months, after
the Government of the United States, on the one
part, or the free Hanseatic Republics of Hamburg
Lubeck, or Bremen, or either of them, on the other
part, shall have given notice of their intention to de-
terminate the same, each of the said Contracting Par-
ties, reserving to itself the right of giving such no-
tice to the other, at the end of the said term of 12
years; and it is hereby agreed between them, that
at the expiration of twelve months, after such notice
shall have been received by either-of the parties
from the ether, this Convention and all the provi-
sions thereof, shall altogether cease and determine
as far as regards the States giving and receiving
such notice, it being always understood and agreed
that, if one or more of the Hanseatic Republics
aforesaid, shall, at the expiration of twelve years
from the date hereof, give or receive notice of the
proposed terMinatien of this Convention, it shall,
nevertheless, remain in full force and
ne
iopeprauttiloirns
oras
far as regards the remaining Hanseatic
Republie, whiph may net have given or received
Sach notice,
Art. 11. The present Convention being approved
and ratified by the President of the United States,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate
thereof, and by the Senates of the Hanseatic Re-
publics of limptmirgii, Lllbeck, and Bremen, the ra-
tiifipe:itinio:ost4s
shall be
the date
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sible,

faith whereof, we, the Plenipotentiaries of the
Contracting :Parties, have signed the present Con-
vention, and have, thereto, affixed our Seals.
Done in quadruplicates, at the City of Washing-
ton, on the 20th day of December, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred aud twenty-seven,
hi the fifty-second year of the Independence of the
United States of America,
(L. S.) (Signed) H. CLAY.
' (L. S.) V. RUMPFF,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Messager des Chambres, dated July 22. )
PARIS, JULY 21.—According to the Augsburgh
Gazette, the Emperor of Austria has received in the
most distinguished manner Lord Heytesbury, Ex-
traordinary Ambassador from England to the Em-
peror of Russia, who is on his way to the head-
quarters. The Emperor of Austria having learned
that his Excellency had ordered a tent at Vienna for
his use when with the army, sent him a very splen-
did one as a present. His Excellency has had seve-
ral conferences with Prince Metternich, and it is in-
ferred that he has made very important communi-
cations;

A letter in the Phare du Havre, written from St.
Louis, in Senegal, dated May 20, contains the fol-
lowing passages :---
The Government is making preparations to begin
a war with the Moors (les Maures trazas). For
these four years past we have endured the exactions
of these barbarians; but the audacity which they
have shown within these few days in coming to at-
tack 100 negresses belonging to the island, who
Were employed in washing, within cannon-shot of
the town, has caused the new Governor to resolve
to take vengeance for all the atrocities they have
committed, though they pretend to be at peace with
the Christians.

. The last attempt of the Moors was not very
successful; they stole some combs, and pulled off
the ears of a woman to get her ear-rings, but did
not take . any captives. The sentiment of a just
revenge was so unanimous in the island, that in a
moment above 300 negroes, both free and slaves,
were in arms, and had crossed the river to pursue
the Moors. They followed them in the desert for
three days ; but having neither water nor provisions,
they returned, bringing with them camels, sheep,
and some guns which they took from the Moors,
who escaped from them during the night.
This war, which cannot be of much
_injury to
trade, is looked upon with satisfaction by every body,
and it is expected that it will produce in future great
advantage.
The Gazette de France, dated Wednesday, con-
tains no foreign news.
FRINCH FUNDS....PARIS, JULY 22.—Five per Cents.
1061. 106 f. sc. 106 f. 106 f. sc. 1061. 106 f. sc. ; Three
per Cents. 721. 60c. 65c. '7oc. 65c. 70c. ; Bank Shares,
1890 f.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY laid on the table
a copy of the 19th Report of the Commissioneri
appointed to enquire into Public Charities.
The Sugar Bill, and the Welland Canal Bill,
were read a third time and passed.
Mr. Waller, from the Office of Woods and
Forests, presented a copy of the lease granted by the
Crown, of the manor of Eltham, in Kent, together
with copies of the Reports received by the Com-
missioners relating thereto.