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be eonsideethim as a prisoner, 'd that: ' snowed Note, though not yet arrived, *ill be re.
nnaand•void all theDocrees whit have be/ISliftlei -,ceived. la that case, what ought to be the reply of
or shall in future be made. for Stasil by the Ilettes •or Government is in our opinion perfettly clear--
ot. Lisbon, which he calls by the epithets of 4lsie.; i Din you, Gentlemen, understand, by what you call
dons," horrible, machiaveliant disorganizing, ?Adieus. the deploraabulde
disorders
ofcathuaesSdpiannithsheMPLanariaccethy,
ate.
pestiferous."
The journals contain numerous' Addretses and Pro-1 ajontaintijr France by those who have revolted against
clamations of the Municipalities of various Cities and the existing institutions sworn to by the Kingored
Provinces, relative to the declaration of Independence. by all Spaniards after his example? Then you have
1 His Majesty has ordered a change to be made in only -to desire France not to collect, superintend,
the Arms and National Flags, to adapt Omit to the equip, arm, and maintain, the factious rebels. Ate
present state of things. you sorry that there are among those calling diem.
selves Liberals, a party who make war oa the great
body with even mote bitterness than the enemies of
our institutions? Then do not light up the torch of
discord among the Constitutionalists, nor alarm tke
friends of liberty by commercio-diplomatic stock.
jobbings, or base intrigues. Do you complain of the
abuse of the liberty of the Press, or take for the opi-
nion of Constitutional Spaniards that which is ex-
pressed by only a feeble and well-known faction?.....
Then read the Journals which have with the greatest
zeal defended liberal institutions against the attacks
which have been constantly made, and still ate made,
upon them both by the Absolutists and the Modi-
fiers,- and from them you will learn what is the real
opinion of all the Constitutionalists of Spain men
equally resolved to defend their country against the
despotism of an absolute Monarch, and that which
any faction, by whatever means it should attempt
to overpass the law, might attempt to exercise.
The real Liberals will never abandon the work-
manship of their own hands to enemies of the country
of any class, for the nation and the law are the idols
of those who broke the chains of the Spanish peop:e.
If the wise men of the Congress are acquainted with
a mode4hereby laws can, suddenly and without tl:e
natural gradation which belongs to all other things,
obtain that vigour which time, education, the pc-
gess of new ideas and habits are usually supposed
to be alone capable of giving, let them point it our,
and we shall be glad to adopt it; but there must n' t
be included in their admonition any propositions f::.
modifications, or amendments of any sort o hatever,
to be made in the fundamental law of the Skate ;
since, in the defects which they are supposed to at-
tribute to it, we find no inconvenience, and we have
no desire for any improvement. At all events time
is necessary to think of that. In the meantinte,a het
we want is peace; and, when we shall have eNp,
rienced the advantages or the disadvantages of our
Constitution during the eight years in which it is to
be in force precisely as it is, and without altering it
in the slightest iota, we may then, if it suit us, ask
the advice of Publicists ; and, if not, we will not
trouble them."
These Papers contain several lout official dispatches
and reports front Mina's army ; the principal facts in
which have been anticipated by the French Papers.

Such of the French Journals of Sunday as had
not been received by express, have reached us by the
ordinary conveyance. The only article of much im-
portance, was that in the Journal des Debats, which
we gave yesterday. The on dits and speculations of
the other Journals are of no value, after so decisive
a declaration on the part of the French Government;
for though not avowedly official, there is no doubt of
its having proceeded from the Ministers ; even the
Moniteur, which represents the Ultra portion of the
Ministry, has spoken in such a subdued tone, and so
candidly acknowledged the annihilation of the Army
of the Faith, and the moderation of Mom, that there
seems little reason to doubt that France has aban-
doned all idea of a war at present. It is true the Army
of Observation is still kept on the Spanish frontier,
but if such an army was deemed necessary to keep
out the plague, it can excite little surprise that it
should be maintained now that civil war has come
so close to it. Spain certainly might have demanded
from France some explanation on the warlike and
menacing attitude she assumed, but while the Spa-
nish Government is actively employed in putting
down insurrection, and restoring tranquillity at home,
it spews the utmost respect for foreign Power!, and
an anxious wish to give no cause of provocation.
Kith such firmness and such moderation in her
councils Spain has nothing to fear.

The French Papers of Monday reached us this fore-
noon, by express. The Moniteur has adopted the
pacific article which appeared in' the Journal des
Debots,withoot the least comment—a pretty satisfac-
tory proof of its having been authorised by the French
Government, and consequently a confirmation of
what we have elsewhere stated, that all idea of war
with Spain it, fore the present, relinquished.

The Etoile has another warlike article, but it is the
weak attempt of the Ultras to provoke what common
sense would teach them to avoid—war, which, what-
ever other results it might produce, would certainly
be their utter undoing. These Papers do not contain
any news of importance.
The French Funds suffered a depreciation on Mon-
day, in conseluence of the arrival of several expresses
from London, giving an account of the fall of our
Funds.

The French 5 per Cents. which were at BSf. 90c. 88f. 60c. on
Monday, left oft' at 881. £sc. Spanish 55e to 56. Neapolitan 77.

By letters from Vienna, dated the 26th ult. we
learn the arrival in that city of Colonel Wnrour,
from India, by the overland route of Persia and
Georgia. The Colonel is bearer of dispatches to the
British Ambassadors at the Courts of Vienna arid
Petersburgh, from Persia,, where, notwithstanding
the unfavourable appearance of affairs towards Great
Britain, the Colonel was most kindly received and
treated by the King of PERSIA, and is no doubt
possessed of the sentiments of that Monarch on many
important points connected with the political rela-
tions towards Great Britain, in the present absence
of a British Resident in that country. During the
time Colonel WRIGHT was at Tabriz, the Court of the
Prince Royal, ABBAS MIRZA, that destructive dis-
order, the cholera morbus, was raging in the city,
and numbers of inhabitants were hourly carried off,
and the town nearly deserted by the inhabitants.—
The war between the Persians arid the Turks was at
a stand in consequence of the above disorder being
among the Persian troops. Nothing if suffered to
transpire at Vienna, on the subject of the affairs at
the Congress at Verona. General YERMGLOPP, the
Russian Governor-General of Georgia, arrived is
Tiflis, the capital, in the month of September : they
were under apprehensions of a visit, in that city, frcrn
that pestilence the cholera morbus, in the approacl:-
ing summer, as it seemed to be extending itself the-s
from Persia. All was quiet in the provinces of Cir-
cassia and Georgia, where the Russians have a force
of troops little short of 100,000 men. The King of
Persia, in the month of July, was at his summer re-
sidence, at Sultania, where he had an army of 80,000
men encamped on the plains. Matters were 'fel-
quiet between the Russians and Persians.

Madrid papers to the 3d inst. have been received
by express.

The report in the French papers that the King had
refused his assent to the law on the patriotic socie-
ties, appears to have been unfGunded. In the account
of the sitting of the Cortes on the 27th ultimo, we
find it stated, that " the law respecting patriotic
societies, sanctioned by his Majesty, was read and
passed."

In the sitting of tke Cortes of the Ist instant, the
Report of a Committee on the Memorial presented
by the Secretary of Finance was taken into consi-
deration. The report, which consists of three articles,
in conclusion proposed a grant to the Government of
442,478,117 real: vellon. The estimate'of the Mi-

sister was 784,896,332 reals, making an excess of
342,418,214 reals in tne opinion of the Committee
over and above what was necessary. The Finance
Minister supported the estimate, and stated that there
was an actual deficiency in the revenue to the amount
demanded. The Committee had supposed that the
revenue could be collected in the provinces occupied
by the army, but that was not the fact. A town
which the factious had plundered could not be ex-
pected to contribute anything. In the province of
'Tarragona there were not above IS towns which had
uor been occupied by the factious, and the situation
of other frontier provinces was similar. He trusted
that the Cortes would grant the whole of the sum
which had been asked.
Senor MURO desired to know the date of the dis-
patch, from which it appeared that there were only
thirteen towns of the province of Tarragona unoccu-
pied by the factious. The Secretary of Finance said,
he had not the paper with him, but he believed it
was dated about six weeks ago.

We have received Antigua Gazettes to the 26th 4
October, and St. Thomas's Papers to the 2d ult. The
latter contain a Commercial Decree of the Gove-n.
ment of Venezuela, dated the 10th of October, mid
signed by General SOUBLETTE, by which all me:-
chant vessels, national or foreign, which enter tee
ports of that province, are enjoined to present to t!,i.!
Captain of the port, at the time of their vi,it,,
manifest, expressing the marks, number, and cl.ts of
the packages they may have on board, the persons to
whom they belong, or for whose account they sere
shipped, and to whom they are consigned. By the
second article, it is enjoined, that the Captain sbould
remain on board till such manifest be drawn up. 11'e
third article says, that in 21. hours after the arrival
of the vessel in port, those interested in its cargo, and
residing in the place, are to present themselve) at the
Custom House, with a corresponding Manifest. 10
the consignees, who do not reticle in the saw: poet,
as iu Caraccas, 48 hours will be given.

The two first articles of the Report were agreed to,
and the further consideration of the third postponed.
The reports of the proceedings of the Congress at
Verona, and the menacing tone assumed by the French
Ultras, form subjects of indignant comment in the
Spanish Papers. The Espectadoe of the 2d inst. a
Journal which is understood to be intimately con-
nected with the present Government, notices a report
in the English Papers, that the Congress at Verona
had addressed to the Spanish Government a Note,
expressive of their dissatisfaction at the actual state of
the Spanish Monarchy. " We have no knowledge of
any inch Note (says this Journalist) having been re-
ceived by our Ministers." He then proceeds :
" But let us for a' IROMORt suppose that the 1111.