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which you have taken so much interest, and given
yourself so much trouble. —I have, &c.

(Signed)

" F. A. HASTINGS.

" To Edward fllhe, Esq."

To give even an outline of the correspondence
which followed between the Deputies—alarmed,
mortified, and indignant, at the cruel delays
which they encountered—and others to whom
they could not. fail to attribute those delays,
would carry us beyond our limits, and our
readers beyond their power of endurance ; suffice
it to say, that from November, 1825, when the
vessels ought to have been placed under coin•
mand of Lord Cochrane, to September, 1826,
they wrote, and remonstrated, and reasoned, and
repined, in vain. To this day, September, 1827,
it appears that only the, Perseverance, ordered
first by Mr. Ellice, and the Enterprise, one of
the four which formed the subject of the con-
tract between the lticardos and Galloway,
27th August, 1825, have been (and that, afer
various abortive trials) sent to sea ; that there
have been promises, and boastings, and ex-
cuses, and evasions without end—alterations of
plans,. and accumulations of expence without
mercy—denials of responsibility, intermixtures of
account, dissuasions of intended and well-me
rited proceedings against those who had broken
their engagements—deprecations of publicity—
all for the sake of Greece! and, in fine, such a
medley of avowals, inconsistencies, and contra-
dictions, which ought at least to be known, if
they can be visited with no other retribution,
that we must refer to the little pamphlet itself,
which will amply repay, by the spirit and truth
of its contents, the trouble of the most ',diligent
perusal. M. Luriottis, who supplies the mat-
ter, appears to have been an able and zealous,
however unsuccessful Minister, of the unfortu-
nate 'Government which employed him. The
following paragraph concludes the present pub-

[cation :

" The preceding letter closed the correspondence
with Messrs. Ricardo on this subject, and it remains I
only to add, that out of the five vessels ordered by
them, and which, according to their contract with
Mr. Galloway, were to have been completely sent
out to Greece in November and December, 1825;
one only, the Enterprise, has as yet left this
country. The numerous failures which-retarded her
departure, and the great additional expense incurred
before she quitted the Thames, and subsequently
repairing her at Plymouth, must be too fresh in the
recollection of the public to require any notice here.
Of the remaining four, one (the Irresistible) was
said to be completed in May, 1826 ; the other three,
it was represented, wo4ild be fitted out and leave the
river soon after that month ; but, unhappily for
Greece, and unfortunately for her creditors, the same
lamentable delays which had occurred prior to that
time, have attended this ill-fated expedition ever
since; nor does there appear to be any probability,
even now, of there being made available for the ser-
vice of Greece."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TRENCH PAPERS.
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(From the Quotidienne.)
NEWS FROM MADRID.

Letters from Madrid, which arrived in Paris yes-
terday by estafette, confirm the news that his Ma-
jesty King- Ferdinand had appointed General the
Count d'Espague, Captaba-General of Catalonia
(see the Madrid article), and that two regiments of
the Royal Guards had left Madrid for Barcelona.
These letters add, that on the Princess Regent of
Portugal having officially notified to the Spanish
Cabinet the nomination of her brother the Infante
Don Miguel to the Regency, King Ferdinand had
immediately ordered the Army of Observation to
break up. The regiments are consequently about to
return to their respective garrisons, with the excep-
tion of some corps which were to be sent to Cata-
lonia. _ .

It is added, that the notification of the Princess
Regent of Portugal has produced. the greatest satis-
faction in Madrid.

(Supplement to the Madrid Gazette of Sept. 11. )

OFFICIAL ARTICLE.

The King our Illustrious Master has, this day been
pleased to address to the Dean of the Royal Council
the following decree :
" The disorders which threaten to trouble the
tranquillity of one of the most important provinces
of my monarchy, have awakened my solicitude.—
With children misled by alarms, which are perhaps.
the offspring of an unenlightened zeal, it seemed to
me proper to employ mildness and instruction rather
than force and menaces. •
" The provisional measures which I dictated with
the view of putting a stop to the disorders of Cata-
lonia were in conformity-with these principles; but
the events of which the towns of Vich and Mauresa
were the theatre, in the last days of August, have
given to the 'movements in the principality a cha-
racter which it is impossible longer to misunder-
stand ; and now, as King, I see sedition, where, as
Father, I before saw only blindness.
" The pretexts with which it is attempted to
excuse, and even to give a legitimate character to
the rebellion, are so absurd,—the idea of the cap-
tivity in which I am supposed to be held is so inju,
riorts to my person,—the, injuries caused to many
of my subjects are already so great,—and those
which might occur, were the disorders to continue,
would be of so serious a nature, that if the remedy
which so great an evil calls for were longer delayed,
the dignity of my Crown and the most important
interests of my people would be compromised.
" I have, therefore, given the necessary orders for
causing the bands of rebels that infest some districts
of Catalonia to be dispersed, which they soon trill
be, if they refuse to submit on the first notification.
A strong division of my army is ordered to execute
• this measure for the protection of public tranquillity.
Let the Council take cognizance hereof, in order to
its immediate publication.
(Signed) " THE KING."
(From the Madrid Gazelle, Sept. 11.)
OFFICIAL ARTICLE.

His Excellency the Minister for the War Depart-
ment, under date of the 7th of September, commu-
nicated the following Royal orders to the Captain-
General of Catalonia
" The King, my master, after seeing your Excel-
lency's despatches of the 31st of August, and the
abominable papers which have been published, one
under the title of manifesto, signed by the munici-
pality of Manresa, and the other under the title of
Proclamation, signed by the traitor Saperes, has de-
creed as follows :
" Art. 1. The General commanding the troops
on service in Catalonia shall forthwith direct pro-
ceedings against those, who, by a criminal connivance
with
m
the rebels,
of Manresa. Those individuals
silsigned the pretended manifesto of
shall be tried by the laws of the kingdom.
" 2. In the same, manner shall be tried by a short
and summary process, according to the royal decrees
of the 17th and 21st August, 1825) and by the laws
of the kingdom, all the instigators of the insurrec-
tional movement of the town of Manresa ; also those
who have made common cause with the rebels, and
those wbo may, in any ways have afforded them
succour and protection.
" 3. The battalion of Royalist Volunteers of Man-
resa is dissolved.
" 4. A Council of War, constituted in confor-
mity with the martial law, shall immediately examine
the conefuet of the Governor of Manresa, and the
Chiefs of there invent of the Queen's Infantry, and
of the 2d of the Lit 4, who were in that town when
support was given to the insurrectional movement.
Tbgy will summarily inquire, according to the mina tart ordinances, whetter the said Governor and
officers 'did their 'dirty in guarding against surprise,
• and defending to the last extremity the coloUrs of
his Majesty,
rs This I communicate to you, in virtue of a royal