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in, and when the,battle was over, Clough said to
Heys, " Now, Tom, I'll give thee a go." Heys
declined fighting, but Clough would fight ; and at
List Heys pulled off his coat, and they had a round.
Clough's mother jumped upon the table, and said,
My son Torn shall fight Heys for a sovereign of
my money." Some of Clough's friends came up,
and made a wager. Heys was unwilling. I have
known Heys above live years. He was always a
quiet peaceable lad. We were of the same trade,
4nd worked together. After the engagement to
fight, he kept at his work every day till the fight,
v,bieh was postponed to the 21st of May, in order
to train Clough up. A great deal of money was
betted upon him. Heys never one day quitted his
work, end wished to let the fight drop.
Cross-examined.—Heys is a baker. The fight
was for 3/. a-side.

Thomas White, a friend of Clough's, was at the
Peel's Arms on the 30th of April, and confirmed
Wakefield's' testimony. Clough on that day told
witness he would beat Heys. Clough's mother
wanted the fight to go on, but Heys wanted to avoid
it from first to last. I saw the fight. Clough's fa-
ther was there, and betted money in the ring.
Clough's mother said at the Peel's Arms her son
should fight Heys for a sovereign of her money, and
she'd he -- if he would not lick Heys. The fight
was a fair stand up fight.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY.—The blow given was, in
law, the blow of all who encouraged the fight : it
was the blow of the seconds and bottle-holders of
each party, and of all who stood round and en-
eourEiged them.—Verdict.--All " Guilty."
His Lordship said he should consider about it :
the betting made it a very serious case.
The Attorney-General (Sir James Scarlett) has
just arrived in the town. He is, we understand,
specially retained in the cause of " Heathcote against
Fletcher," relating to the Irwell and Mersey navi-
gation.
,John O'Connor and Patrick
.Cain were indicted
;'or a burglary in the dwelling-house of Robert
Roskell, at Gateacre, five miles from Liverpool, on
the 27th of June last, and stealing thereout a quan-
tity of plate.—Verdict—Both " Guilty."
Josiah Sutton and Patrick C'rayton were indicted
for a burglary in the dwelling-house of John Jenkins,
at Tonge-with-Haulgh, on the 25th of July, and
stealing thereout a cloak, a sheet, a pair of boots,
And several other articles ; and Ann Boardman was
Indicted for receiving the goods, knowing them to
be stolen: --Sutton pleaded " guilty."
THe' servants of Jenkins proved that the house
via.; made safe in the evening, the nursery-window
was open in the morning, and the things were gone.
They were worth from 201. to 25/. One of the
servants was alarmed in the middle of the night by
the barking of the dog.
Verdict---,Crayton " Guilty ;" Boardman, " Not
GuiltY."

SWALLOW ACAINST HARRISON.

Thi4 was an action for goods sold and delivered.
Mr. Sergeant Canss stated that the plaintiff was
a manufacturer of twist at Oldham, and the defen-
dant was a merchant at Manchester. They had had
several dealings—the defendant buying and the
plaintiff selling twist. Early in the present year,
;be defendant suggested it would be a good specu-
2ation to send twist to Hamburgh : and he offered
to sell twist at Hamburgh for the plaintiff on com-
mission. On this footing a consignment was made,
and the twist was sold at Hamburgh. The plaintiff
Then sent the defendant 300 bundles more, to be
consigned to Hamburgh; but the defendant after-
wards informed him there was bad news from Ham-
burgh; it WOuld not be right to send the twist there
and he had better take it back. The plaintiff accor-
dingly sent his son, who received 200 bundles, but
was told that the defendant had disposed of the
other 100 bundles, and was desired to make out an
invoice for them at 15d. per lb., and informed that
he should be paid if he called in 14 dayg.
Joseph Swallow, son of the plaintiff, delivered
300 bundles of twist on the 12th of March, -at the
defendines warehouse, in 'Manchester_ Ha watts-to:
get them Ixtck on the 18th of March, and received
bundles, iJie defendant telling hip that he (the
defendant) had disposed of the other 100 bundles,
and that the plaintiff must make out an invoice at
15d. per lb. The plaintiff made out the invoice,
And witness delivered it. The amount was 31/, ss,
Verdict far the plaintiff—Damages, 31/. ss.
James Rayner was indicted for stabbing Joseph
Burette% the overseer of the parish of Ashton in
2•Takerfield, with intent to kill or do him some
grievous bodily harm.
Mr. COURTENAY, for the prosecution, called
Joseph Bnrchell, who said he was overseer and
special constable of the township. On the 22d of
April last he was at the house of Henry Byrom,
where there had been the letting of an estate, and
saw Lawrence Harris and the. prisoner. He had
been betting the examination of a young woman, to
get aT► oi:der of affiliation against Harris. The pri-
soner said, witness had made himself —4-- busy
about it, and e., as a scamp and a scoundrel. Witness
replied, he had aOY done his duty. The prisoner
again called him a ses.mp and a little scoundrel, kept
I
s
repeating his abuse, anoaid he would put witness
out of his office. Witness ti..-dd him it was not in
his power, for he was not a lay 1-2 ayer, and bade him
sit down and be peaceable. The iririsoner would
not sit down, on which witness stood s::), and a
man named Hart separated them. The p,:isoner
shortly afterwards got up, and gnashed his teeth At
him, and pushed him. 'Witness pushed the prisoner 1
in return, and he fell upon some person's knee. He
got up and made at witness, who caught hold of
him by the collar, and threw him down. Witness
then founds himself cut under the left eye, and hurt
in the right win. Witness called out, "I am killed,
he has rinirdeies4 me," and swooned away. On
corning to, he fourLd himself sitting on a chair, and
_some persons washing' his eyes. Witness demanded
the -instrument he had been stabbed with. The
prisbner said he had given It to Mrs. Byrom, who
would keep it till it was wanted. Witness has re-
cnvered the use of his arm, but the sight of his eye
was completely gone, and the sight of the other
much injured.
Acquitted on the indictment, thOugh answerable
on a different charge.

it large tank 1= lately been excavated out of
the solid rock at Dover, on,
for tliep
containing
bee
premises of Messrs. Rutley,
Jekens, and Co. brewers
used in t:l2 NOM of vats, and capable of holdingto upwardsbe
4SO barrels. We understand it answers extremely well.
—Xentieh eltrouirle.
01355 being a non-conductor of lightning, it
is suggz.sted that were furriers to put only an inverted
broken hoi;tle ou the conical top of their hay and wheat
stacks, fewer ,instances of their being destroyed by lightning
would occur.--oath Chronicle.
In the village of Brihovo, county of Agam,
there is at present, a young peasant girl named Anne
Szopchich, aged 19 years, who is not taller than a child of
two years. Her height is two feat seven inches, and all the
parts of her body have the regular proportions of a child of
the above age, except her face, which is %Tinkled like that
of an old woman. She never speaks except when questioned,
and then slowly, and in a low tone of voice. Her
,;Lvort-
xneut is that of a young child. Although she eats very
little, she enjoys perfectly good health. Size has not grown
a single line since she was seventeen. At her birth she was
an ordinsry si'aed child.—French Paper.
SRA iCSPEAUE's CHAMBER.—StIeh is the
idolatry manifestedforthe chamber wherein Shakspeare
tersvt inhaled the breath of life, that its walls are literally
o tteleld.tlaroughotit with the names of visitors, traced in
pencil by their own hands. "the surface of the apart.
meat 15
Zely whitevvagZied, laid on about twenty years
back, d
t which time the ceiling, saes, projecting
chimney, 1
written over4,°r,, t, every portion of the surface has been
ezhibit all the that a list of the signatures would at moo
of itself a singuit, ter and genius of the age, and prose
gi.stered are those curiosity. Among the names thus re-
dist:nguished tragedian,
and Scott, the poets, with the
a the. bard, is 4,0 nitLlC.:Enble and Kean ; and in honour
vtginature of his present gracious
Majesty, ;,...hen Regent, r
to
w„..7
that of his Royal Brother,
the Duke of Clarence
Home. which 11,,t7l'itYbe added, those of at
least half the tn.°
partkut,,ament, arld numerous
ana,lhe Austrian foreigners of the higlies dlatinetinn,
tif Lucien Buonaparte, Princes.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Sept. 5.)
PARIS, SEPT. 4.—We lately published the result
of a comparative view of the number of vessels
from foreign pests, or from the colonies, which en-
tered the ports of France daring the years 1825
and 1826. To-day the ilftmiteur gives the list of
the vessels that have sailed, so that the reader may

judge of the whole extent of our maritime commerce
during these two years.
We see, by this table, that the exports by sea to
foreign countries, during the year 1826, exceeded
those of 1825 by one-fourth only, whereas, the ex-

cess to our colonies is nearly ore-fifth.
Comparing this table with that of the imports,
we find that the increase of importation has been
chiefly advantageous to our great towns, Bordeaux,
Marseilles, Havre, and Nantes ; whereas, the in-
crease of exportation has chiefly taken place in ports
of the second order, such as Bayonne, La Rochelle,
Brest, Cherburg, and Abbeville. This circum-
stance seems to be not indifferent; it shews, in fact,

that our great trading ports preserve all their im-
portance by the increase of the importations, and
proves, at the same time, by the more active part
which the secondary ports take in the exportations,
that there is a great improvement in the industry of
the country about them.
Recent accounts from Constantinople announce

the return to the city of General Count de Fernig,
brother-in-law to Count Guilleminot, his Majesty's
Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte. General

Fernig, who arrived there with him last year, has
returned from traversing Egypt to the Frontiers of
Nubia, the isles of the Archipelago, and Greece,
where he had the grief to witness the fall of the
Acropolis, and the dreadful cruelties perpetrated by
the barbarians on the Philhellenes who fell into their
power. Returning to Smyrna in a French vessel,
he passed through Natolia to reach Constantinople
by way of Brussa. At the moment he was entering
the port he had the good fortune to save the life of
a Turkish girl, daughter of a person of eminence,
who had just fallen int• the sea and was carried
away by the current. This act of humanity made
the stronger impression on the Mahometans, as
Count Fernig himself was exposed to great danger,
but it did not astonish the Europeans of different
nations, who recollected that the same French Ge-
neral, when Governer of Barcelona, in 1816, threw
himself, almost alone, when the sailors refused, into
a slight boat, to save a Sardinian ship that was on
the point of destruction, during a violent tempest.
The Notizie del Giorno says, that the Turks and
Arabs are constantly observed and harassed by a
small Greek corps, which occupies the defiles. Ibra-
him Paella has been obliged to retire to Motion and
Coron. As he was in want of provisions and am-
munition, he resolved to buy some at Zante, and had
sent for that purpose two European officers, with
several Egyptian ships of war, to guard the convoy.
This is the flotilla which Lord Cochrane attacked.
The few details of the action, and the capture of the
corvette and schooner, agree with those we extracted
from the Austrian Observer.
(From the ConstitutionneL)
(FXTRA CP OF & PRIVATE LETTER.)

LISBON, Aua. 18.—The Dictatorship pursues its
lostile march. The Government Gazette published

the day before yesterday (the 16th), 1. -A
decree
of the Regent, pronouncing the resignation of the
excellent Bishop of Algarves, a Peer of the Realm,
from his place of Minister of Justice and Ecclesias-
tical affairs. The retirement of this good man has
not been accompanied by those benevolent expres-
sions of consideration which, in Portugal, are usually
given to Ministers who retire. The vacant office
has been given, ad interim, to Don Antonio de Car-
vallio, Minister of Finances. 2. Another decree,
which dismisses abruptly, and with disdainful bre-
vity, Don Antonio Manoel de Noronha from the
functions of Minister of the Marine, which has been
confided, ad interim, to the Viscount de Santarem,
Minister of the Interior. It was• imposSibliLta. -
don the .thshOp of ArgiiVes and M. de Noronha, for
not having suppressed the expressions of their grief
for the disgrace of General Saldanha, and for having
more recently, in unison with the minority of the
present Council of State, maintained that it was
proper to respect, and cause to be executed, the
decrees of Don Pedro I V.

(PRIVATE CORRESPM,IDESCR.)

BARCELONA, Ace. 27.—Although the administra-
tion of the police has passed into the hands of the
Apostolics, yet the wishes of our warlike Catalo-
nians are not yet satisfied. They say that they will
not lay down their arms until the Government shall
have re-established the Holy Inquisition, and ba-
nished all those who filled any office under the
Cortes. Jep del Etangs is besieging the fortress
of Berga ; and it has even been rumoured that he
has succeeded in getting possesSion of it. Our au-
thorities have not, however, received, that I have
heard of, any dispatches on the subject of so im-
portant an event. They are not, however, ignorant
that this chief of the rebels has raised the moun-
taineers as somatenes (companies of armed men,
raised by a province for its own defence). More
than 3,000 men, armed and unarmed, already sur-
round the town. Our authorities have also learned,
that the commandant of the fortress, in order to in-
crease his forces, which are insufficient for its de-
fence, has taken the precaution of arming all the
inhabitants, who formerly served as national militia,
under the banners of the Cortes. It is certain that
if the 'place does not receive speedy succour, the
garrison will be forced to open for itself a passage
by force, if it be at all able to pierce through the
ranks of the enemy.
• I told you lately, that the manufacturing town of
Tairasa had been put in a state of defence. Gene-
ral Romagosa has just made a representation against
the measure. That General thinks that the remedy
may prove more dangerous than the evil itself, see-
ing, sap he, that the inhabitants of that town for-
merly showed so great a devotion to the cause of
the Constitution, and that from such a measure may
flow most disastrous consequences.
Sapires, better known by the name of Caragol, is
making progress also every day. The check which
he sustained on the 16th instant near Piera, by the
movezble column of the 10th of the line, under the
orders of Don Julian Losada, instead of weakening
his band, seems to have given it new strength. The
loss of men killed and wounded in the melee, has
been repaired by an accession of two hundred fresh
recruits. From the environs of Vich to those of
Barcelona, nothing is seen but a crowd of small
bands scattered abroad like so many swarms of bees.
A company of the 3d regiment of infantry of the
line, which was marching yesterday to Grepellers,
had several of its men wounded on their route. This
recalls the disastrous times of the war of independ-
ence ; for it was thus that the French columns, vho
in this province traversed -the roads in every sense,
saw their. soldiers fall, without discovering the
aggressors, who, concealed behind the bushes and in
the forests which bordered the roads and wherever
they could escape notice-, sacrificed their Victims with
impunity. At Olet the rebels are organising, at
this moment, a numerous baud, with the most per-
fect security. It appears that the horses of the
which have been up to this date re-
sdpile;gcteendcet)s; the rebels, are no longer secure from their
attacks. -Yesterday they carried off a relay of six
horses. The day before yesterday the third light
regiment directed its march towards Gerona. in
Arragon, on the side cf Huesca, an individual named
Tena is scouring the country, haying under his
an Catalonia. On the side of
which he has organised on the
orders two bands,
same footing as those
Segorleo, in the Kingdom of %nleticia, there is also
_another band. As these two proviacea have been
left without defence, by the absence of troops, it is
p
feared, and not without foundation, that these bands,
which augment every day, may renew in these ro-
vinces the disorders and excesses which afflict
Catatonia.

(From the Quotidienne.)
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
BARCELONA, 'AUG. 27.—Three columns of 600
Men each, infantry and cavalry, are organising at this

moment, and will speedily march in pursuit of the
rebels. General Manso will go at the head of the
first corps, and the two others, which will act under
his orders, will he commanded by Colonels Baza and
Torres, the former of the 3d Regiment of Light In-
fantry, and the latter of the 10th Regiment of the
Line. The day before yesterday some troops of the
first of these Regiments took the route of Gerona.
Jeps del Etangs is with his band in the environs
of Berga. That rebel Chief is anxious to get pos-
session of the town ; but, though he has called to
his assistance a number of the mountaineers of the
environs, yet, up to this date, his attempts have been
fruitless. The efforts made by the rebels to get into
the town of Tarrasa have all been useless. They
have been repulsed in every case ; that town is in a
good state of defence. The Captain of the 3d Light
Regiment, M. Velin, having lately fallen in with the
band of Ballestra, near Calella, that rebel retreated
to the mountains, although Captain Velin had none
but his company with him.
(From the Constitutionnel.)

General Gourgaud has addressed to the Editor
of the Constitutionnel the following letter, in reply
to what he alleges to be certain calumnious -re-
flections upon his character,' in the work of Sir
Walter Scott:—

"'I was travelling," he says, " in the south of
France, when intelligence of the odious imputations
which are directed against me by Walter Scott, in
his last romance—the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
—brought me hastily to Paris. I have read with
indignation the pages in which an endeavour is made
to sully my character. If I reply to them, it is be-
cause calumny is not always effectually oppciiiit with
the silence of contempt.
Selected, I know not why, as the chief victim of
an infernal conspiracy, the perusal of the chapters
relative to the captivity of the Emperor Napoleon
at St. Helena, has disclosed to me the object of the
author, and the plan which has been traced out for
him. The general exclamation which burst forth in
Europe against the atrocious treatment exercised by
order of the English Ministry towards the greatest
and the most honourable of their enemies, has made
them feel the necessity of endeavouring to get rid
of the odium which attaches to their acts.
The author of Paul's Letters has been instructed
to prove to the world that all the rigour exerted
against the illustrious prisoner is excused by the ne-
cessity of preventing his escape.
These projects of escape, and the absurd means of
executing them, related so complaisantly by the
apologist of the English Ministry, are a fiction. The
Emperor Napoleon never had a design of flying from
St. Helena. If he had ever really entertained such
an intention, his conduct would have been altogether
different. He would have sought to conciliate Sir
Hudson Lowe, not by promises, or honours, or
money, but by his seductive manners, the charm of
his conversation, and the irresistible power with
which genius is endowed. The interest which the
captive hero could have inspired into his keeper,
would have given birth to confidence, relaxed the
severity of precaution, and multiplied the oppor-
tunities of escape; courage and fortune would have
done the rest.

The desire of surreptitiously leaving St. Helena
possessed Napoleon so little, that he never even
amused his imagination with forming projects of
escape. Entirely occupied with the idea that the
force of circumstances would in the course of time
recall him upon the scene of the world, he employed
himself in calculating upon the probabilities of it,
without foreseeing that death (and what a death !)
would so soon prevent its realization.
Napoleon, in order to show his resignation and
submission to the humiliations and quirks of a restless
and tyrannical supervision, pointed out himself to
Admiral Sir George Cockburn the most effectual
means of dissipating the apprehensions which his
flight inspired. It consisted in forbidding the de-
parture of any vessel until the presence of the Illus-
trious captive at a certain point of the island was
. •
ascertained.

strated, I return to the infain—ous charges of the Ong
lish author. He represents me, not in the precise
language of an honest and conscientious writer, but
with the reservation and the insinuations of an ex-
perienced calumniator, as a man who put the Eng-
lish Government upon tracing the numerous means
which the prisoner had of escaping, which was the
indirect cause of the rigorous system adopted to-
wards him.
I shall not condescend to inquire what interest I
could have had in manifesting such an excess of in-
gratitude towards, that great man, whose regard for
me constitutes the glory of my life. The best refuta-
tion of such an odious supposition will be a full die-
closure of all that passed.
During the whole of my sojourn at Longwood,
nearly three years, I never had any intercourse what-
ever, direct or indirect, with Sir Hudson Lowe; it
never happened that even upon a single occasion
exchanged a word with him. During these three
years, the system of surveillance in regard to the
Emperor, appeared to him to have reached the
acme of cruelty and outrage, especially in 18162
upon the removal of the Count de Las Cases. It
is therefore positively false that any indiscreet com-
munications of mine could have given rise to the
oppressive measures established in 1815.
My departure from St. Helena was occasioned
neither by a desire to see my family, nor by the state
of my health. The alleged liver complaint was but
a pretext on my part. I had dedicated to the un-
fortunate Napoleon all nip affections, all my inte-
rests; and at St. Helena my sole ambition war to
die for him. But no matter what was the reason of
my depar ure, I quitted Longwood on the 15th of
February, 1818.
It was at this period only, and during the prepa-
rations for embarking, that the Governor and Mr.
Sturmer talked in my presence concerning the Em-
peror, who interested every one there, and was the
great subject of conversation. I know not the par-
ticular turn given in Sir Hudson Lowe's despatches
to the matters which I had to state or reply to in
these conversations : but I find their meaning dis-
gracefully
mispresented in the extracts which have
appeared by the English romancer. Although I was
placed in a situation of as much delicacy as difficulty
—although I was condemned to negociate (a des
menagemens) with those to whose entire discretion
the illus-
triousiTti surrendered : yet I never, as Walter- Scott
insinuates, purchased my safe return to Europe by a
word unworthy of me.
It being the well-known in-
tention of Napoleon not to escape, it was natural for
opinion of
upon
f
the
inutility of
captive; but neither Sir Hudson Lowe, nor
me
ee
te e
x declarecessi%e franklyprecautions iny
l
any body else, had the opportunity of extracting from
my expressions the inferences so treacherously made.
At London, I neither saw Lord Bathurst, nor
any other of the Ministers. I was only suMmoned,
as I ought to have been, before Mr. Goulburn, the
Under Secretary of State. It seemed as if he did
not expect to get much out of me, for I WWI sent for
wily two or three times.
These were all my communications with the Eng-
lish Government. Soon after, that Government,
applying to me, with an atrocious severity, the alien
bill, caused me to be taken from my lodgings, seized
my papers, and threw me into a corner of the Con-
tinent. There, placed as it were, in a state of social
interdiction, repulsed in turn by the Russian, the
Austrian, the Belgic, the Bavarian, and even the
Danish Governments, I vegetated for two years, first
at Hamburgh, afterwards at Frankfort, until the
tears of my aged mother opened for me a passage to
my native country.
I now defy any person whatever to produce my
writing, a simple note, or a single line, from me,
which is not impressed with' the sentiments of fide-
lity, of devotion, which I owe to the great man who
deigned to honour me with his esteem and friend-
ship, and to continue his benefits beyond the tomb.
Of what avail, in the face of a life enthusiastically
devoted to him, are the miserable insinuations, the
perfidions suppressions,
of a foreigner, the mad and
implacable emery of France and Frenchmen t Does
he hope to procure the-absolution of posterity for

tesobr

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1827.

In another column we have inserted extracts
from the French Papers of Tuesday, and the
Gazette de France of Wednesday morning. The
insurrection in Catalonia is daily increasing in
extent and importance. The rebels declare that
they will not lay down their arms until the Go-
vernment shall have re-established the Inquisition,
and banished all those who filled any offiee under
the Cortes. These conditions will probably be
readily granted by the KING, surrounded as he
will now be in his Cabinet by the most zealous
Apostolicals.

The intelligence from Greece is rather of a
brighter complexion. IBRAHINI PACHA had
met with a further check, and REDSCHID
PACHA had effected nothing.

By an extract from the St. Petersburgh Ga-
zette, it appears that the Russians claim the ad-
vantage in an action with the main body of the
Persian forces on the 17th July, commanded by
Prince ABBAS MIRZA in person.
The success of the Russian army is stated to
have been complete, and Te Deum had been
sung in the Emperor's Chapel, in honour of the
victory.

FRENCH FUNDS, SEPT. 4.—Fiveper Cents. 104 f. 80e. ;
Three per Cents. 73f. 15e. ; Bank Actions, 2,0071. 50e. ;
Neapolitan, 79f. ; Spanish (1823), 63if. exchange on
London—At one month, paper, 251. 25c., money, 25f.
; at three months, money, 25f. 10e.

We copy from the Constitutionnel the follow-
ing Article, relative to the intention of Don
IVIIGIJEL to proceed to Portugal for the purpose
of assuming the Regency under the title of his
brother's Lieutenant. Whatever guarantees this
Prince may give to maintain the Charter, it
cannot be doubted that if he becomes actually
the Regent of Portugal, all liberal Institutions

will shortly Expire, and ignorance and supersti-
tion recover their full sway.

It can he no longer doubted, that the infant Don Miguel
proceeds to Lisbon, to assume the Regency there, without
the consent and authority of his brother Don Pedro. This
news, at first uncertain, has been gradually confirmed by
the details published in the English Journals; but it ap-
pears that Don Miguel, in proceeding to Portugal, will
have the title of his brother's Lieutenant ; and of course
he has received other instructions than those which the
Apostolic party would wish him to follow ; for that party
invokes absolute power solely with the view of exer-
cising it itself.
One of our Correspondents in Austria who, when he
wrote to us, could not be aware of the last news that
arrived from Rio at London, says, in his last from Vienna,
on the 29th of August :
" The unexpected turn which affairs in Portugal are
about to take, causes the greatest astonishment to all those
who know the circumspect and temporising policy of our
Cabinet. We could not have believed, that out of predi-
lection for a party, which has hitherto been protected only
to be made use of, M. de Metternich should allow so de-
ciiive a measure to be carried, one which must compro-
mise with a Cabinet (in case it do not have its concur-
rence), which at all times has been a powerful ally of
Austria, and which at this moment, more than ever, it is
our interest to please.
" From these considerations, it must be presumed, that
it is in the sight and knowledge, and with the consent of
England, that Austria is about to constitute Don Miguel
Regent of Portugal. One essential fact comes in to confirm
this conjecture. It will be recollected that M. Neumann,
on his return from his mission to Brazil, was accompanied
by an English Diplomatist. This circumstance, to which,
at the moment, no importance was attached, may give us
now a key to the strange conduct that we are about to adopt.
" Besides, the young Prince, towards whom the eyes of
Europe are at this moment directed, did not follow the Im-
perial Family to Persamburgh. He is atill at Baden (near
Vienna); and it is said he will remain there until the time
of his departure, which is fixed fur the end of September.
It is added, that he will embark at Trieste in an Austrian
frigate, which will carry him direct to Lisbon."
Our readers may observe that these statements are cor-
roborated by the intelligence from Lisbon, which says that
Sir W. A'Court:was no stranger to the negociations carry-
ing on to procure the return of Don Miguel to that capital.
It must not be forgotten also, that it is to London that the
messenger, bearing the powers transmitted by the Emperor
Don Pedro, first repaired after his arrival from Brazil.
From all these facts we may safely conclude that England
assents to the changes which are preparing to take place in
Portugal.

An Express has arrived, this forenoon, from
Paris, by which we learn that the Funds had
again rather advanced. The three per Cents.
closed on Wednesday evening, at 731. 45c. ; and
the five per Cents. at 104 f. 55c.

Letters from Constantinople to the 10th ult.
were received yesterday. Implicit dependence
cannot always be placed on information of a
political nature, received by private channels, and
what has reached us on this occasion is of so
contradictory a nature, that we must wait the ar-
rival of the next dispatches to learn distinctly the
intentions of the SULTAN with reference to the
treaty respecting Greece. At the date of these
letters, the substance of the treaty was fully
known, and had at first occasioned great conster-
nation amongst the Franks: Two or three days
had, however, passed off tranquilly, and their
fears were subsiding. The determination of the
SULTAN not to comply with the demands of
the Allied Powers was, according to some of the
letters,„ fully ascertairiedi_while other letters,
that it is not quite certain that his
NESS will entirely reject their proffered
interference. One letter, which we have seen,
states positively that Mr. STRATFORD CAN-
NING was about to quit Constantinople, while
another mentions that he had previously taken
the precaution to request the Admiral to send a
frigate up to the Dardanelles for his reception,
but that that request had been subsequently
withdrawn. From thence the writer concluded,
that the Porte had manifested a more conciliatory
disposition. These letters again repeat the state-
ment of a Tartar having arrived with an account
of a great victory having been obtained by the
Persians over the Russians, on the 17th of July,
and of the retreat of the Russian army ; but the
accounts from St. Petersburgh seem to prove
that the victory belonged to the Russians.

By the accounts which reached town yester-
day, from Calcutta, we learn that the opposition
to the New Stamp Duties was rather increasing
than diminishing. A petition against their in-
troduction, addressed to the Vice-President, had
been prepared for signature, of which the follow-
ing is a copy :
To the Right Honourable the Vice-President in Council,
The humble Petition of the British and Native Inha-
bitants of Calcutta.

That your petitioners respectfully, but most earnestly,
entreat the attention of your Lordship in Council to the
stamp regulation lately promulgated, and which has ex-
cited the greatest apprehension and alarm among the Bri-
tish and Native inhabitants of Calcutta.

2. In the preamble it is stated to have been passed by
the Vice-President in Council, under the powers vested in
him by the 98th and 99th sec. 53 G. 111., c. 155, and
with the sanction of the Court of Directors, and with the
approbation of the Board of Commissioners for the affairs
of India.

3. Your petitioners have always understood that the
Statute adverted to, as vesting this power in the local Go-
vernment, was limited to duties and taxes connected with
customs, and was passed for the express purpose of obvi-
ating difficulties arising from the imposition of such duties
and taxes, within the jurisdiction of the King's Court is
India.

4. Your petitioners cannot think that the Legislature
intended to give to the local Government the right of un-
limited taxation. They
i humbly submit, for the considera-
tion of your Lordship n Council, that if the Legislature
had intended to bestow any general power of taxation be-
yond the subject matter of customs specifically mentioned,
such power would have been introduced by a suitable pre-
and wouid have been strictly defined as to its extent. Your
the expediency or exigency of the measure,
pametbitlieo,nreeresiteinagnnot think the Parliament would heedlessly
bestow the dangerous power of unlimited taxation, by ge-
neral expressions, unconnected with the subject matter,
and of dubious construction.

5. Fourteen years have nearly elapsed since the enact-
ment of the 53d Geo. 111., embracing periods of great
public difficulty, when the country was engaged in ex-
pensive wars, yet no tax had ever been imposed under the
authority of that Statute ; and your petitioners pray that
a power which, if it exists, has thus slumbered since its
creation, may not be called forth at a period of public peace
and tranquillity, when they hope that the exigencies of the
State cannot require its exercise, and in times of commer-
cial pressure and difficulty, when individuals are ill able to
bear it.
6. Your petitioners, in thus drawing the attention of
your Lordship in Council to the legality of the regulation
rid principle which it involves, cannot be
misunderstood. They disclaim any wish or intention to
question the power or authority of Government ; they are
only desirous of respectfully conveying to your Lordship in
Council their opinion upon a subject of the greatest mo-
ment to their present and future interests.
7. With respect to the operation of the regulation, your
petitioners are unable to express to your Lordship in Conn.
is
utnhdee importantstood.

oil the public inconvenience, embetTassrunt, and actual
distress that would inevitably follow its enforcement.
S. The native Shroffs, in particular, have already taken

the greatest alarm, and contemplate abandoning an occu-
pation which they could not pursue without ruin, under
the provisions of the stamp regulation.

9. In every country such a tax must produco great in-
convenience in its operation, and be attended with great
vexation in its collection. But, circumstanced as this
country is, your petitioners avow their belief, that if the
regulation should be carried into effect, commercial dealings
would he impeded to a degree affecting public credit, and
that money transactions would be wholly suspended.
10. Your petitioners have often experienced, and ac-
knowledged most thankfully, the considerate attention al-
ways paid by Government to the opinion of the commu-
nity, when respectfully urged ; and they entreat the at-
tention of you: Lordship in Council to the respectability
and number of the signatures to this petition, evincing
that it speaks the sentiments and opinions of the British
and Native inhabitants of Calcutta.

11. Your petitioners abstain from troubling Govern-
ment by going in detail through the regulation, and point-
ing out the evils likely to ensue from each provision. They
do not believe that human wisdom could devise any regu-
lation of the same general nature and character that would
not, in its consequences, be injurious to the public and to
Government; and the prayer of their petition is, not for
the modification, but total abolition of the measure.

12. In conclusion, your petitioners declare that no
measure has ever been passed or proposed by Government
which excited such general 'alarm and dissatisfaction ; and
they earnestly pray that your Lordship in Council will he
pleased to allay such feelings, and restore public confidence,
at a period of known commercial embarrassment, by an-
nulling and abolishing the regulation in question, and your
petitioners shall ever feel grateful.

Jamaica Papers to the 19th July have been.,
received. From the Courant of the 16th July, we
learn that his Majesty's ship Druid had arrived
on the 15th from Carthagena, having left La
Guayra on the sth, with the Liberator BOLIVAR 2'
on board, and his Excellency ALEX. COCK..
BURN, the British Minister. BoLIVAR wad
landed at Carthagena, where he was received
with every demonstration of joy and respect,
His Excellency the British Minister arrived here
in the Druid. His Majesty's schooner Union
has also arrived here from Nassau, having
25,000 dollars on board. By the letters received
from the agent of the packet, we understand she
was detained for the purpose )f conveying a com,
munication from his Majesty's Ministers, direct-
ing that on the question of the Custom-house
duties, the course adopted by the Duke of
MANCHESTER should be sanctioned until the
next Session of Parliament ; and it is presumed
that instructions to that effect have been forwarded
to the proper authorities. In consequence of the
receipt of this pleating information, a letter hae
Ibeen addressed by the Secretary of his Honor to

the Clerk of the Commissioners of Accounts, re-
questing him to lay the despatches before the
Board with as little delay as possible, on the

subject of replacing the subsistence and expend
of the army on the same footing as before the
Ist of June. A meeting for that purpose hid
been called for Monday.

We have received this forenoon the Age-
. 1434.0
fort Papers of the same date, from which w.
make the following extracts. It appears by- in,
formation from all quarters, that the ,_'ULTAN
has fully determined to protest against every in-
tervention by other Powers in favour of Gmeee:.—

BUCHAREST, AUO. 17.

Aecording to accounts from Constantinople of the 9th.
of this month the Porte has again declared, in the most
positive terms, in reference to the treaty concluded at
London, between the Courts of England, Frame, area
Russia, that it protests against every intervention or media-
tion in favour of the Greeks, and will not listen to any
farther proposals of this kind. The Reis Effendi has
declared himself in very energetic terms on this subject
to a Dragoman of the European Legation. All eyes are
now turned upon Constantinople.

VIE WAS AUG. 26.

The Austrian army, which may certainly be proposed As
a model in respect to its internal organisation, to which it
was indebted, in the most unfortunate times, for its preser-
vation, and in which it will always find an indestructible
rampart against all the contingencies of war, is to be com-
pleted in the course of next month by a new system of re-
cruiting, which appears to be more suitable both to the
service and the country than that hitherto followed. The.
reserve, which afforded the soldier no advantage in his
active service, the time that he was in the reserve not
being reckoned as a part of the time of his service, is
wholly abolished by the new ordinance. The liability to
serve, which formerly commenced with the 20th year, and
ended with the 40th, is now to commence with the 19th
and end with the 90th, by which the army obtains an
addition of men in the prime of life, and hands, rendered
skilful by many year' practice, will not be withdrawn front
the occupation of industry. The many exemptions whisk
have hitherto been attained, and through which hardly any
but the peasantry and artisans were called upon to form
the army, are very considerably diminished ; thus, for
instance, only those students are to be henceforward exempt
who distinguish themselve by application and progress i►s
their studies. These are the principal novelties of the
new system which will be carried into effect in the month
of September, and according to which a levy of 18,000
men for the active service is ordered.

WURTZBURa, AUG. t 9.,

His Majesty the King of Bavaria has approved the en..
conditional renunciation made by the Prince of Leinengen,
with the assent of his family, of the exercise of the admi-
nistration of Justice and Police in the second instance, by
means of a Chancery of Government and Justice. In can.
sequence of this determination, the Chancery of Justice
hitherto existing at Amorbach will be dissolved, and the
members of it employed in the immediate service of the
State.

The following is an extract of a letter received
at the North and South American Coffee-House,
from Captain HOLDRIDGE, of the ship Silas
Richards ; it is dated—
" Off Cork, lid September.
" I have arrived thus far, after beating against an easterly
wind since the 18th ult. We left New York on the Bth.
—The Robert, Fulton, from Belfast, was going in. On
the 13th, lat. 43. 30. lon. 55. 10. passed the ship Alex-
ander, Baldwin, for Philadelphia; 19th, spoke ship De-
pendant, from Liverpool,' for Quebec. We have passed
within the last week about 30 sail beating in, five of
which appeared to be West Indiateen.
" Passengers per the Silas Richards.—Mrs. Bastible
and son, the Rev. Mr. Yates and son, Messrs. Lamphear,
Passet, and Green."

MAURITIUS, MAY 24.—The Etoile colonial
brig was lost during bad weather, off Bourbon, and only
two of the crew saved.

BATAVIA, APR IL 2.—The Julie, Hentzes,
from Hamburgh, sprung a leak off the Gallopper, on the
15th of November, which increased on the 25th to 20U
buckets per hour, and continued till she' arrived here on.
the sth ult. She has been hove down and repaired, end
will proceed the sth inetau, for Siocapore.
Mr. HERRIES vacates his Parliamentary Seat
for Harwich, in consequence of his acceptance of the office
of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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county has been very keen, and we are assured, upon the
moatrespee
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