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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1827.

We received last night all the French Papers down
to Friday, and the Etode dated Saturday morning.
They are still chiefly filled with the discussions on the
Law on the Press, and do not contain anything im-
portant from the Peninsula. The Quotidienne describes
the appearance of affairs at Madrid as extremely war-
like. Reviews and military exercises daily take place
under the eye of FERDINAND, and have become
popular spectacles with the Citizens. It is also said
that the Governor General of Gallicia has marched
to the frontiers of Portugal for the purpose of en-
couraging the Portuguese Rebels.
The Etoile contains accounts from St.Petersburgh
down to the 12th February, furnishing intelligence of
the successful operations of the army in Georgia to
the 24th January.

Extracts from 7.3iese Papers will be found in another
Column. The French funds have again improved.

FRENCH FUNDS.-Five per Cents., 101 f. 55c. ; Three per
Cents. 69f. 40c. ; Bank Stock, 1990 ; Naples Funds, 75f. 85c. ;
Spanish Cortes Bonds, 11i ; Spanish Royal Loan, 53i. Ex-
change on London—One month's date, 25f. 25c. ; three months,
25f. 15c.

We mentioned in our paper of Saturday, the receipt
of Madras Papers to the 15th October. We find in
them advices from Calcutta up to the end of September,
but containing no news of importance. Earl AM-
HERST and his family were making an excursion up
the Ganges. His LORDSHIP'S health was consider-
ably improved. The whole of our possessions in India
continued to enjoy perfect tranquillity.

We received yesterday Lisbon Papers from the 19th
to the 24th February, but their contents have been in

a great measure anticipated, and they do not furnish
us with any farther accounts of military operations.
On the 17th ult. a letter was read from the Minister
of the Interior, relative to the Papers taken from the
Rebels, which Papers accompanied the letter.

Senor AIAGALHAES moved, however, for some ad-
ditional Papers, and for copies of those taken in the
baggage of the Viscount MONTEALEGRE, and after
some opposition the motion was carried.
A Convention between Great Britain and Portugal,
signed at Brighton on the 19th January, and ratified
by the PRINCESS REGENT on the 6th ult. for the
maintenance of the British Troops, so long as they
shall remain in Portugal, was read in the Chamber of
Peers on the 16th February ; it consists of nine Arti-
cles, but they are not given.
We subjoin a few extracts :
(From the Gazette of Lisbon.)
CHAMBER OF PEERS, FEB. 16.

Ltsaos, FEB. Q.—The Marquess of 7 ances read a letter from
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who sends to the Chamber by or-
der of the Infanta Regent, conformably to sec. 8, of Art. 75 of the
Charter, a copy of the Convention signed at Brighton, the 19th
January, and ratified by her Highness on the 6th instant, for the
maintenance of the British troops, so long as they shall be in Por-
tugal. The Convention, in nine articles, was read; and on the
motion of the President, ordered to be deposited in the Archives
of the Chamber.

CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FEB. 17.
A letter was; read from the Minister of the Interior with the
proceedings of the Municipalities, and other papers coming from
the rebels, which he had been asked for, on the motion of Senor
Magalhaes. The Minister said they were all he had in his office.
They were referred to the Secretaries of the Chamber to be exa-
mined. Senor Magalhaes moved for other papers of the same
description, and also for copies of those taken in the baggage of
the Viscount de Montealegre, and, after some opposition, it was
agreed by the Chamber to apply for the production of those
papers.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Peers, on the 21st, the Pro-
ject of Law on the endowment of the Royal Family, was opposed
by 33 votes to 2. The Articles were discussed separately in the
following sitting, and all approved. In the Chamber of Deputies
the discussion of the Project of Law on the inviolability of the
house of the citizen took place.
The Gazette to the 24th February inclusive, contains no far-
ther news of the operations of the army ; only a letter from
Major-General Azeredo, dated head-quarters at Lamego, 17th
Feb., gives an account of the good conduct of Senor Ber-
nardo Antonio Soazes, who had been entrusted by the Marquess
d'Angeja with the defence of a bridge. This individual, a
landowner, had made great exertions among the peasantry, and
collected boats at his own expence, and kept the inhabi-
tants of the district in their olaedience to the Government-
General Azeredo, finding him so zealous, had named him pro
tempore Captain of his district, and the General of Tras-os-
Montes furnished him with some ammunition and arms. Thus
encouraged, he did considerable service to Gen. Azeredo, fur-
nishing him with information respecting the movements in the
North, guarded thet passage of the Douro, and having recei-
ved an addition to his force, attacked and defeated some Guerillas,
and on the 15th expelled them from Mezaofrio, where he re-
established the legitimate Government, desiring no recompence
for all his services, except that the facts might be made public.
A project of law on the rights of the authors or editors of

printed works, engravings, &c. was read in the Chamber of
Deputies in the sittings of the 20th,—Lisbon Gazette, from the
19th to 24th Feb. inclusive.

We regret to observe, that some of our totem-
poraries are endeavouring to excite a strong feeling
against the Corn regulations proposed by Mr. CAN-
NING; and unhesitatingly advocating the unrestricted
importation of foreign grain, without its being subject
to any duty whatever. We have invariably contended
for the application of the principles of free trade to
corn, but we have never advocated a measure so ruin-

ous in its consequences to every interest in this
country, as the importation of foreign grain free of
such duty as might be a protection to the Landed In-
terests up to a certain remunerating price.

We cannot conceive for a moment how any person
can be found weak enough to argue that such should
be the case. He must be a shallow calculator of
what the inevitable consequences of free importation
would be. The ruin of the Landowners and Occu-
piers would be followed by the ruin of every descrip-
tion of traders ; and the labouring classes, in the
diminished means of employment for them, and the
reduced wages those who still found employment
would receive, would soon perceive that their situa-
tion was not benefitted by any measure which was in-
jurious to their employers. A time of agricultural
distress has been always followed by one of commer-
cial difficulties ; but the consequences in this case
would be more serious than in any former period of
national distress. Two-thirds of our annual expenditure
is the interest of money borrowed by our forefathers
and ourselves, for the payment of which the faith, the
honour, and the resources of the country are pledged.
How can those engagements be fulfilled if the land,
from whence sprihg the great revenues of the country,
is thrown out of cultivation, or rendered, by the reduc-

tion of the price of its produce, barely capable of paying
the expenses of its culture ? And surely a violation
of those solemn engagements will not be contended
for, except by the unprincipled and the destitute, who
have nothing to lose bythe overthrow ofthe most sacred
obligations. If they are to be fulfilled, taxes now drawn
from the land must be charged on other property or in-
come, if the price of the produce of the land should be
reduced in the degree which it must be, without an ade-
quate protecting duty is put upon corn imported into this
country. That such a duty should be charged on it,
therefore, seems both reasonable and necessary ; and

the only question is, what ought to be the amount of
that protecting duty ? If the amount of duty pro-
posed by Mr. CANNING appears higher than had been
expected, still it should be remembered that the prin-
ciple on which it is regulated is sound, and may here-
after admit of further modification in its details ; that
the consumers will not be subject to the occurrence of
seasons of extraordinary high price, as the tendency
of these measures will be to. keep prices steady ;
and that by degrees every existing bargain in the
country will be regulated by the price of Corn thus
fixed at or about a given price. On the whole, we
trust, that Mr. CANNING'S resolutions may receive
the sanction of the Legislature, and we have little
doubt that the public at large will soon be convinced
that both in principle and operation they are sound
and just.

German Papers reached us last night to the end of
last month. They mention that instructions had been
sent by the French, Austrian, and Prussian Courts, to
their respective Ministers at Constantinople, not to
support the applications of the English and Russian
Ambassadors to the PORTE, in favour of Greece.
It is added, however, that those orders came too late,
as the Ambassadors in question had previously com-
mitted themselves with respect to the PORTE, by unit-
ing with Mr. STRATFORD CANNING and the Mar-
quis DE RIBEAUPIERRE, in the measures which had
been already taken for the pacification of Greece.

Brussels Papers of the 3d inst. have been received
this morning. The King of Sweden opened the
Storthing, at Christiana, on the 12th ult. By an ex-
tract from his speech, it will be seen that the affairs of
the Kingdom are in a prosperous condition. The po-
pulation has advanced one-fifth in ten years :---
BRUSSELS, EEB. 28.
On the 26th of this month above 350 students of the Univer-
sity of Liege signed a declaration to the following effect :
" That they are deeply afflicted at the disorders which
took place in consequence of the putting in force of the ad-
ditional statute, dated 10th of December, 1826 ; that they
distinctly disapprove and disavow all acts of violence and
insult which a sudden effervescence may have occasioned, and
collectively express their regret to the professors who were the
object of them ; that it never was their intention to oppose the
orders and regulations legally proceeding from the Academic
Senate, only reserving to themselves to make their respectful re-
presentations to the proper authorities. ' We hope', say
they, that this sincere profession will satisfy such of our
Professors as have had reason to complain of some inconsiderate
acts, and will testify to the Government the good spirit that
animates us.' "
His Majesty having been solicited to declare the cities of Brus-
sels, Louvaine, and Ghent, places for the landing of salt► has been
pleased to comply with this request, ordering, however, a great
many precautions to prevent any fraud on the revenue.
BRAyssELS, MARCH 1.