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LONDON.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1828.

Lisbon Gazettes and letters have been re-
ceived to the 20th August. On the 10th, the
expedition to Madeira had sailed, as we were pre-
viously led to understand. The news in the
Gazettes, as emanating from tyrannical authority,
is entitled to little notice, but our private letters
state that the most serious misunderstanding
continued to exist between Don MIGUEL and
the precious old QUEEN. In fact, it is said, so
great has been the animosity between them, that
MIGUEL has acted with personal violence towards
his astonished mother. The dispute is said to have
been materially heightened by the I)oN's refusal to
be immediately crowned—a piece of self-denial
which we should not have been disposed to
give MIGUEL credit for—especially as he did not
seem over nice in usurping his Brother's rights.
While these hopeful doings were carried on in
the Palace, the subordinate workers of iniquity
were not idle cut of doors—for arrests conti-
nued to be persisted in openly and secretly to a
very alarming extent, and great enormities were
understood to be still perpetrated with impunity.
We hope, however, that the day of retribution is
at hand :

LISBON, AUG. 10.

. Yesterday everting the expedition for the islands of
Madeira and Terceira, nailed from thin port, composed of
the following men-of-war, under the command of Vice-
Admiral Heurique da Fonseca de Sousa Pregnu, viz.—The
Don

John VI., of the line ; the Princess Royal and the
Prince Don Pedro, frigates; the 3faria and Princess
Royal, corvettes ; the D. Sebastian and Gloria brigan-
tines, and the Galatea and Orestes transports.
Besides these six vessels, the Lealdade frigate, and the
brigantines the Neptune and Trete de Maio are employed
in the blockade of Madeira.

A uo. 12. —The Gazette contains a decree of bis Majesty,
in which,after some remarks on the importance of instruction,
to qualify subjects to perform their duties to God, to their
Sovereign, and to society, his Majesty declares his de-
sire to raise this important branch of public administration
from the low condition in which it now is in these king-
doms; for which purpose his Majesty has been pleased to
order that both the inferior schools, and the univer-
sity of Coimbra shall be henceforth subject to the
direction and inspection of a person whom he will
appoint with the title of Reformer-General of the schools
of the kingdoin.--.(EP Geral dos Est:ales de
.Reino.)

A Rescript dated 9th August, addressed to the Bishop of
Vizeu, confers the above office on him; he is to propose to
his Majesty such measures as he thinks calculated to answer
the object in view,

OPORTO, A I: G. 8.
By letters received from Epila, in Spain, dated 25th
nitimo, we learn that orders had been received by the
Captain-General of the District, to give passports to the
Portuguese Royalists who are still there, and this in divi-
sions of eight men, that they may return to Portugal.
Some officers intend to leave that place on the 7th or Bth,
and to conic to Braganza.
AUG. 14.--The Gazette contains the official statements
of the receipt and expenditure of the Treasury for the

month of July. On the 30th June the balance in hand,
in paper and money, amounted t 0... 165,367,105 milrees
The receipts ordinary and exttaordi-
nary in the month of July were... 470,026,058

Total 633,393,163
Expellees in July

13alanee remaining in the Treasnry
31st July

Our City Correspondent informs us that Go-
verment have opened a credit at Constantinople,
through the means of a Turkish merchant now
in London, for Lord HEYTESBURY. Should
this information prove correct, it may be inferred
that our Ambassador is going to proceed to
Constantinople as a Mediator between the Rus-
sians and Turks. He will have ticklish work
of it. Indeed we should not be surprised if
Lord HEYTESBURY were to succeed beyond his
own expectations, and bring down the Turkish
Government on his shoulders, as he enjoys the
singular, and, let us hope, the unrivalled distinc-
tion of having witnessed the downfall of every
liberal Government to which he has been accre-
dited. He is a thorough Constitution eater.
We trust he will be suffered to wend his weary
way to St. Petersburgb to do the needful there,
after having given the finishing blow to the Grand
Turk.

•
The _Prangfort Journal of the 29th August
contains the following :
CAMP BEFORE SHUMLA, ALIO:
To facilitate the tnovements of the army, part of the
Imperial Comp has been removed to Bazardjik, till the
Emperor's return. Flis Majesty has ordered one of the
ships of his fleet to he stationed at Kustendje, for the use
of the Foreign Ministers, who have accompanied his Ma-
jesty in this campaign, and who may wish to go for a time
to Odessa.

Extracts from the French Papers will he
found in another column. There is no posi-
tive news from the seat of war, but if we
are to believe some accounts from Constanti-
nople, the situation of the Turks is by no
means desirable, either on the frontiers or in the
capital.

The Nuremburg Correspondent of the 28th
August gives a more favourable view of the
Russian operations than any other of the Ger-
man Journals. The Emperor NICHOLAS, ac-
cording to its account, is desirous of peace, but
will nevertheless prosecute the war. When the
divisions on their march join, he will place him-
self at their head, and storm Shumla. In the
meantime the fortresses on the Danube will be
kept in check by a division of the army of
Poland, but not invested :

L'ItOM THE DANUBE, AUG. 23.
All the unfavourable reports spread on 'Change at
Vienna, respecting the visit of the Emperor Nicholas to
Odessa, are as groundless us they are absurd. The specu-
lators on 'Change, who find it an easy matter to cut to pieces
whole Russian armies every day, @hew but little geographical
ant military knowledge, when they speak of a retreat from
Shnmla to Odessa, followed by.an armistice concluded from
necessity. The truth is, that the Emperor wishing to give
a fresh opportunity of his consistent moderation and love
of peace resolvod (though considering tke infatuation
of the Divan, the fruitlessness of each a step may
easily he foreseen) resolved to address a new repro-
serttation to the Sultan, and in doing this, to make
use of the councils and co-operation of Lord Heytesbnry,
the Duke de Montemart, anti other diplomatic cha-
racters, who were invited to Odessa with this
view. The military opeta*ons, however, will not be
interrupted for a moment ; on the contrary, the presence
of the Emperor at Varna and Odessa will only accelerate
the siege of the former, and the advance of the troops now
on their march through Bessarabia. As soon as
General Witt's corps of thirty thousand men has
arrived at Bazardiik, the Emperor will put himself at the
head of it, and return to Shumla, anti by the aid of this
reinforcement, it will be possible to attack a position, the
conquest of which must decide the fate of the campaign.
At the same time 20,000 chosen troops will reinforce
the corps besieging Silistria and Varna, and a re-
serve of three divisions, (consisting, it is said of
Polish troops and guards) will enter the Princi-
palities to observe Rudschuk, Ghiurgero and Widdin, which
it does not seem necessary to besiege in form at present--
The chimerical hopes of peace, and with them the high
prices of the funds, have been checked on the Exchange of
Vienna, to which the warlike accounts from Constantinople
contribute.

Lord HEYTESBURY arrived at Odessa on the
9th of August, and had a formal audience of the
Emperor NICHOLAS. •

The Lisbon printed Shipping List, received
this morning by the packet, shows the miserable
state to which the trade of Portugal, the above
port in particular, is fast advancing. It appears
that on the 15th ult. the whole of the foreign
vessels in the Tagus, consisted of only 15 sail, of
which six were Brazilian, one French frigate,
(T/emis), three Swedes, one Sardinian, two
Russian, one Netherlands, one Austrian, and
not a vessel of any description under the Eng-
lish flag. What a picture does this exhibit of
this once famous port.

Our readers may recollect that soma few
months since a whale was cast on shore near
Ostend. The skeleto❑ of this monster of the
deep has been very carefully and curiously pre-
pared, and exhibited to the Public at Ghent and
Brussels. It is now, we understand, at Rotter-
dam, and after being exhibited at Berlin and
the intermediate towns, will, in the ensuing
spring, be brought to London for the gratifica-
tion of the curious. This whale is one of the
largest of the species, 96 ket in length, the tail
24 feet in width, and in the body, between the
ribs, a complete orchestra has been fitted up, in
which a band of 24 musicians perform.