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FRENCH PAPERS.

FROM THE ETOILE, DATED SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
MADRID, NOVEMIsIiI 13.
On the dismissal of M. Zea, a certain party sheaved
extraordinary joy. It was already announcedihat the
first step of the Duke del Infantado had been to desire
the recal of the French troops, and that the French Ca.
binet demanded the payment of the sums which are
due to it by Spain. There was not a word of truth jn
all these suppositions. People are much mistaken if
they suppose that a Royalist like the Duke del Infan-
tado, who has given incontestable proofs of his fidelity
and attachment to his Sovereign, can take precipitate
resclutions contrary to the interests of his country; and
they are equally mistaken if they fancy that France has
no policy in Spin but such as is attached to indivi-
duals. Facts daily piove the falsehood of such suppo.
sitions. We are sure that the Duke del Infantado has
declared to the allied Courts that the Spanish Govern-
ment has for its basis principles, not persons; and that
these principles, founded on justice, and profoundly en-
graven in the heart of the King emanate directly from
his Catholic Majesty. He says that though circum-
stances, and sonic very serious reasons, require some
personaltliange, there is no change of the system, and
that to suppose otherwise would be an insult to the ele-
vated character of the King, and wound his delicacy in
the tenderest part.
The Spanish Cabinet has manifested at the same time
that his Catholic Majesty, penetrated with the most
lively gratitude, and animated by the purest friendship
towards his august al irs, does not desire to impair, and
Will not itipair the strict ties which unite them, and
that.his foreign policy is invariable. It is added, that
the King. placed by Gr D at the head of the great family
which composes the Spanish Monarchy, and in a situa•
tine to 'know better then any other person its wishes,
its true interests, and the remedies to the evils which,
have so long harassed it, thinks it. useless to affirm, that,
the King will never derart in • the exercise of its sore-
reigniy, and the adMinistration of his kingdom, horn
that path pointed out by those motives which are, ai.d
alWays will be, the sole guides of his conduct.
This importan: declaration, drawn up as it is said on

PARIS, NOVEMBER 19.
The Constitution:lel and the Aristurgue tell us to-day
the Cabinet secrets of the Ministers and r:f Kings. The
first knows that a mysterious personage has been intro-
duced to the Minister of Finance, and th.-t his name is
the Marquis de Livren. The secord informs us of the
questions treated in the last Council, and one of these
questions is the dissolution of the Ch ;tether (of Depu-
ties). What well infoinied Journals! We have only to
wish they may ti id readers to believe them.
Accounts lion Arequipa, Upper Ps tr, inform us
that the Ange Gardien, Captain Piguin Blanche, dis-
p itched from Bordeaux at the b of January,
1825, arrived at Qui!ca between the 6th. and 10 It of
May following, and that Bolivar caused ship and cargo
to be seized ; declared the, crew and all the passenger
prisoners; and tha: a sentence passed 'at Arequipa con-
demned the ship and cargo as go' d N r fat ther
details are give,' of the cots quinces of this ireeguiarity.
Burdclais.
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Fanat THE QUOTITHENNE.
P.% It TS, Novinsuz
A J urnal mentions, alter letters from Fhirence, that
*imie mi,iin.'erstanding has "nisei) betiveen the Arch-
due! e•s Maria Liuisa, Duchess of Parma, and the
Austrian General Count Neipperg, her Cavalier d'Hon-
neur, who corn SiAlldb the troops of the Duchy.

DUTCH COLONIES.

111 GUR, Noviagara 17.

Tne Project of Law for providing for the wants of
the East India poss ssions proposes to open a lcan to the
amount of 20,000,000 of flot ins at the utmost. For the
paymetit of the interest and redemption cf the princi-
pal, a sum of 1,4.00,000 florins shall be annually set
apart f..r the colonial service, commencing from the Ist
of January, 1826. The above sum of ,400,000 florins
shall be guaranteed as far as necessai y by the State, for
the period of thirty years at the utmost.
In a Memorial accompanying the Project of Law, the
causes of the ex;sting embarrassments are stated, the
extent and the nature of the guarantee of the mother
country explained, and 14stly, the means pointed out
which the ctionies possess to pay the debt without bur-
dening the mother country.
The causes of the embarrassments ate the too great
mass of p iper currency, the payment of large sums for
goods taken by agreement from the British Govern-
ment, the loss of ships laden with pi oduce, Ste. the
missing of a ship from Japan with a rich cargo, the
great expenses incurred by the erec ion of military
works, and of a colonial marine. We find, however,
that tho:e burdens would not have produced the pre-
sent eifficulties, had not sesictits disturbances in the
Moluccas, Sumatra, Celebes, and elsewhere, woken out,
which rendered expensive military armaments necessary.
To these were added the failure of the crops, and con-
tagious diseases, which carried t if several thousands of
the natives, so that many tr acks of land remained un-
cultivated.

Till 1821, says the Nlem.nial, the dist.ess was
ascribed in India to tempotat y c.wsec. With this ilea
everything was done on a large scrip, and even coiisi•
derable doinains alien-IN/ in tinnier years had been re-
purchased; but in that year a considerable fall in the
price of coffee taking place, reduced at once the large
stock in the bands of Government to one hall of its
value, so that a great ernbal rassment ensued, which
rendered it n.:ces.sary to i:sne paper bearing nine per
cent. interest, in order to support the paper curreacy.
All these tircimlstances produced in October the
conviction that it WAS necessary to make Eleat retrench-
ments, and it wars resolved to negotiate a loan in Ben-
gal, a project which was regulated by the Government
at home, partly cin account of the high interest (pro-
bably eight per cent.), and partly because it was feared
that the produce might go to foreign mei chants, to the
detriment of the Netherlands._

'rtie rejection of this loan in Bengal naturally brought
with it an obligation to give assistance from the mother
country, and that for the sum he proposed 15 millions
of sicca rupees (20 millions of florins), a sum by means
of which it is hoped to re• establish the finance. of India,
where nine millions-of paper currency are already in
circulation, and specie becomes more and more scarce.
Respecting the sec,nd point, the Memo, ial states that
the annual sum of 1,400,000 &tins will suffice, at the pre•
sent rate of interest, to pay off the 20 millions in 3J years,
if not earlier. Respecting the third point, it is obs-rved
that the guarantee of the mother country is requited
oily for the satisfaction of the Indies, but that it is to
be confidently expected that the Indian Treasury will
be able to provide for the annual sum of 1,400,000 flo-
rins for the payment bf interest and capital. From 1817
t 01824, the revenues amounted to aboutls2 millions, and
the expenditure to about 151 millions. The estimate lot
1824 was 27 millions for the revenue, and 'Ai millions'
for the expenditure; but by the falling of the prices of
coffee, there was a deficiency of nearly a million and
a halt in the fit st six mouths of 1824.
Till 1819, the revenue (-se eft d the expenditure : at
that time the troubles is Polentbang and the cholera
tuorbus had a visible efl c t, the establishments remained
on too expensive a looting, and the expenses were too
great. When the causes are removed, to which end
his Majesty has adopted energetic measures, the effect
will ceas.:. These measures are the determination of a
quinguennini budget f.,r'lndia, from which no deOat.
tote shall be made ; the suspension of public works f
five years; the abolition of expensive boards for civil
works, Stc..sirrtplifications of the adminstration ; dimi-
nution of persons employed in most of the offices, and
withdrawing a number of payments; limitations in the
appointments of office's, of whom no more are to be sc.'
hum home till they are asked for from India.
It is calculated Nut the Boats! of Works costs
annually 800,000 of 900,001) florins; that the interest
of the public currency, which is to be called in. was
400,000, su that the saving of these two branches will

FROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE MADRAS GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE, JULY 12.
His Majesty's ship Liffey, from Rangoon, the 16th
ult. has anchored in the Roads since our last report. •
Our intelligence from Rangoon, by the Liffey, is
similar to that received in Bengal—operations v, era
suspended, but no prospects of peace. There was a
report that Sir Archibald Campbell was about return.
ing to Rangoon for a short time. It was also said that
300 hackerres and the it cattle had been captured ; pos-
sibly the oil tern which had reached Calcutta. The
Nerbudda icg considered out of time, two ships had
been sent in quest of her.
A report it appears had reached Calcutta, that Sir
Arc' ihald Campbell was leaving Prome, with same
light Irvin, in order to effect an interview with General
Moir ison. •