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London, England, 1827-05-17 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1827.

COMPLETION OF THE MINISTRY.

We have this day the pleasure to communi-

cate the gratifying intelligence of the complete
formation of his MAJESTY'S Government—an

event of the utmost importance to the country, and
of disappointment to the ex-worthies who fondly
but delusively flattered themselves, that a Minis-

try could not be formed without their sovereign

will and assistance. It was but this evening,

that after many laborious efforts to make them-

selves, if possible, still more ridiculous, they

threatened to make a ti ial of their strength in the

House of Commons, and behold! this evening

the Ministry, already too strong for them, is to
he still further strengthened by the accession of
Lord LA NSDOWN, Lord CARLISLE, Mr.

TIERNEY, Mr. ABERCROIVIBY, and Sir JAMES

MACDONALD.

The following, we have authority to state, are
the appointments of the new Members of his

MAJESTY'S Administration :

Lord LANSDOWN is to be in the Cabinet, without
eke.
Lord CARLISLE is to be First Commissioner of his
Majesty's Woods and Forests, and in the
Cabinet.
Mr. TIERNEY to be Master of the Mint, and in the
Cabinet.
Mr. ABERCROMBY is to be Judge Advocate.
Sir JAMES. MACDONALD to be one of the Commis-
sioners for the Affairs of India.
The writs will be moved to-night.

It is also probable that Mr. CALCRAFT will be

appointed to some .ofEce, though it is not yet
determined in what department of the Govern-

ment.

These appointments will, we apprehend, super-

sede the necessity of Mr. BEA UNIONT'S motion,
which our Readers will see has been postponed
till Tuesday next. If the Ultras had really

any doubts as to the stability of Mr. CA NNI NG'S
Administration, these doubts will now, like

heir own power, vanish in smoke, and leave

them to chew the cud of repentance, rendered
more bitter by the splendid opportunity which
they have thrown away, with the sad cer-

tainty that it can never be regained. But we
will not press too hard upon their sensibility
at this moment—sufficient for this day is the

evil thereof !

The Paris Papers of Monday, and the Etoile,
dated Tuesday morning, reached us last night.
These papers are filled with various rumours
from Madrid, which are deserving of little credit,
if we judge of the whole by one of them which
is given in a very circumstantial manner by the
Journal des Debats, but which our later intel-
ligence from Lisbon shews can have no founda-
tion in fact. According to this story, the
General Officer commanding the van-guard of
our Army in Portugal, in patrolling the frontier
line, had accidentally advanced into the Spanish
Territory, but immediately retired when his mis-
take was pointed out. General SARSFIELD,
however, not satisfied with the apology made,
sent a flag of truce to demand satisfaction. The
English General having replied that he could
make no other apology, Spanish troops to the
amount of 1,800 men, were ordered to advance
into Portugal. They were, however, immediately
attacked by our troops, and repulsed with con-
siderable lois. SUch is the substance of the ac-
count from Madrid, and we may infer from this
specimen how little dependence is to be placed
on nine-tenths of the reports given in the French
Papers, from that capital. The same Paper also
states, that M. SA LMON had again promised to
withdraw the Spanish troops from the Portu-
guese Frontier.

The Etoile contains a copy of a letter, said
to have been addressed by Mr. STRATFORD
CANNING, to the Committee of the National
Assembly, at Egina, which will be found with
our other extracts in another column.

We observe, under date of Lille, the great
exertions which are making to prevent the im-
portation of our cotton yarn. The finer de-
scriptions of this article are altogether prohibited,
and it is intended to extend the prohibition to
the coarser sorts, as the progress of their own
manufacturers enables them to do without yarn
of those sorts.
FRIn5Cil FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 14. —Five per Cents.
100 f. 40c. ; Three per CPAs. 70f. 25c. ; Bank Stock,
2,025 f. ; Neapolitan, 77f. 85c. ; Spanish Loan, 56i.
Exchange on London—One month, 9.5 f. 40c. ; Three
months, 25f,

We mentioned yesterday a Proclamation,
signed by SANTANDER) said to be in Town, and

to prohibit the payment of pensions or salaries,
in order that all Public Money might be appro-
priated towards the payment of the Foreign
Debt of Colombia. We give in another column
the Proclamation in question, but it does not go
the length which reports assigned to it.

Mr. BEAUMONT had given notice of a mo-
tion for this evening, namely—" That the Ad-
ministration, as at present constituted, is nct en-
t itled.to the confidence oftheHcuse or the country,"
but for some reason or other, the Hon. Member
thought fit last night to postpone it till Tuesday.
Mr. BROUGHAM complained of the delay, and
put it to the candour of the Member for
Stafford, whether it was fair treatment to hang
over the heads of the Administration, a motion
of this nature but Mr. BEAUMONT persisted in
the course which he had adopted.
We are glad to see that the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON does not stoop to taking a part in the
factious Opposition offered to the Government
by some Noble Peers. Instead of throwing
any obstacles in the way of the new Corn
Bill, his Grace observed, that in reading it a
second time on Friday, the House would be
only admitting the principle of the Bill, and that
the details might be afterwards gone into,
when they were acquainted with the parti-
culars of the Bill for regulating the averages now
before the House of Commons.

This is conduct more prudent in the " Great
Captain of the age" to adopt, than lending himself
to a harrassing warfare like that which was at first
threatened. Any man disapproving of the pre-
sent Administration has a right to put the
case to issue in a general action, but the
Hero of Waterloo will not add to his laurels by
joining the firm Of LETHBRIDGE, VANE, and Co.
in a frivolous and vexatious hostility, admirably
suited, no doubt, to the capacity and skill of
those leaders.

We received last night Dutch papers to the
15th inst. inclusive. The Subscriptions for
forming an Entrepot at Amsterdam, were filled
in a few hours.

HAARLEM, MAY 14.—Just as we were goinc, to press,
we received news that the negotiation for the Entrepot at
Amsterdam, which was opened to-day, has already been
closed ; and that, at two o'clock, the amount of 3,400,000
florins had been subscribed, though the sum wanted is
only 1,600,000.

Official notice to this effect is given in the Amsterdam
Courant.

MUNICH, MAY 7.—ln order to provide for the wants
of Divine Service and Education, the King has resolved on
the re-establishment of the following Convents :
First, that of the Scots at Ratishon, which, according
to the terms of its foundation, is to be iLliabited by Scots,
and to be a seminary for young Scotsmen; secondly, the
Benedictine Convent at Metten, in the circle of the Lower
Danube.—Mr. Pronath, who is now in possession of it,
voluntarily gives the buildings necessary for the purpose ;
thirdly, a Convent of Nuns at Dillingen—the Magistrates
of that town agree to give it 600 florins per annum.

The following is an extract of a letter with
which we have been favoured, dated City of
Mexico, 29th March :
The two accomplices of Arena (the priest who was
some time since arrested on a charge of treasonable prac-
tices), and who he has denounced as accomplices,
are General Negretti (a man highly respected 'here),
and General Echevares, who have been arrested and sent to
Acapulco, to take their trial. It is much to be regretted
that the violent republican party go to too great a length ;
but it is to be hoped that General Vittoria, the President,
-will act with coolness and deliberation, although, I am
sorry to say, he is too much led away by the ultra-repub-
licans. The treaty is now lying before the Senate, but
will not be ratified in time for the packet, and will go
home either by H.M.S Primrose, now at Vera Cruz, or
the Acasta, by which M. Rocafuerte will sail.

We have received the following from our Cor-
respondent in Lisbon. A report was currently
circulated; this afternoon, in the City, that the
PRINCESS REGENT had died, but we could
not trace it to any authentic source :

LISBON, MAY 5.

This packet will, no doubt, convey the intelli-
gence of the dangerous illness and apprehended
death of the Princess Regent, and the arrival here
from Cartaxo of the brigade of Guards, and of the
Artillery from Villa Franca. It was feared, that in
the event of the demise of this Royal Lady, who
has shewn much spirit and great firmness in sup-
porting the Constitutional cause, that some at-
tempt might be made by some men who, in the
present unsettled state of matters, are on the
watch for every opportunity which may occur,
to change the Government, so as to suit their own
purposes—the clergy, who wish to have all the good
things of this life to themselves, promising great
benefits in the next to those who go without, are na-
turally favourable to the old system—their money
and spiritual influence will consequently keep alive
a feeling on the same side, and now and then it will
shew itself as it has done within these few days at
Elvas, but they are only sparks that can soon
be extinguished as this one at Elvas has already
been. I understand that all the Portuguese troops
in and about Lisbon are going up the country, leav-
ing the duty of the capital to our soldiers. At pre-
sent the brigade of Guards occupy the barracks of
the Val de Pereira, and Campo d'Orique; the Ar-
tillery, Belem barracks. Head-quarters are still at
Leiria, although General Clinton is here at present,
the first brigade under Sir E. Blackney, is still at
Coimbra; the 2d under Sir T. Arbuthnot, at
Thomar, and the cavalry at Torres Novas; whether
any change will take place in their quarters on ac-
count of our coming here, I am at present unable to
say, although I suppose it likely. The scandal of the
day is, that the Princess Regent was in aninteresting
way, and that she had taken medicinepto prevent
nature taking its course, which acted too powerfnlly,
and if her life can be saved, I understand that it is
more than is expected—it will not do however to say
directly that this has been the cause of her illness.
Since writing the above, 1 have learnt that the
Princess is better, and that head-quarters are on
their way here.

The letters from Mexico of the 28th March, do not at-
tach any importance to the arrest of the three Spanish
Generals, but state that trade was improving. The Go-
vernment had reduced the duty in cotton to the old tarif.
The Primrose was waiting at Vera Cruz, to take more
specie for England.
We have this moment another account on Change, from
Mexico, stating that an insurrection had broken out in one
of the provinces, said to be of a very serious nature.
The Governor-General of St. Croix, Baron von Schol-
ten, arrived here from Copenhagen, leaves town on Satur-
day for Falmouth, where a Danish brig of war is waiting
for his Excellency to proceed to St. Thomas's.
.CRONSIA DT, Amur. 29.—The ice is still floating in
considerable quantities in the Gulf, extending from Siskar
to below Hogland.