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'THE COLUMBIAN 'REPUBLIC.
• IaiXCLUSIVE of the Account of NAPOLEON'S
LA West, LAS CASS!' JOURNAL' and numerous other Articles,
the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, for January 1,
contain a luininous Sketch of the Political Carter of &mom Bo-
urke, the President of the Republic of Columbia.
Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. Conduit4treet.
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afford the assistance that Spa&eoNro to clooriblt
North-east Provinces from that:qds that infest thorn.
to establish the custom and prohibitory systein on the
frontiers of France, and establish tranquillity, not-
withstanding
the protection which the Defenders
of
the Faith may find in France. English manufactures
will be received into Spain on payment of a duty of
fifteen per cent. It is also said that several English'
vessels, laden with merchandize, will shortly arrive
at Bilboa and St. Ander° ; and it is positively asserted
that the intercourse betwen the first port and Eng-
land will be so constant, that it is intended to estab-
lish a communication by packet-boats."
Travellers from the Peninsula say that Memo, with
80 horse and 150 foot, entered Reynosa on the 11th,
and committed great atrocities : he shot three or four
of the richest inhabitants of the town, well known for
their attachment to the Constitution ; he also dis-
armed the National Guard, ill-treated several pet sons,
and raised heavy contributions. Two Constitutional
columns are in pursuit of this robber, who will pro-
bably end his career like ZALDIVAR.

FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1822.
ST. Joint's Dar.—Holiday at the Bank.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCH AN HALF-PAST TWELVE.
Owing to the pacific accounts from Paris, the market has ra-
ther improved this morning—Consols opened at SOL and went
up to a 4; and, up to this hour, they ate BO}.
Wednesday being Christmas-day, of course there was no Ex-
press with the French Funds, but It is said that a private Ex-
prL,s is in town of that day, which states that the Parisians
have become tired of the many reports which have of late pre.
veiled, merely for stock.jobbing purposes. •

VOREIGN 74AILICIT.
There is not much doing in the market this morning. Spanish
opened at 54k, and up to I.
Current Prices :—Civilian ill, New Spanish 54 ;, Old 61, New
Prusgian 86, Old 85i, Russian 85, Danish 91, Colombian 68fr,
Peruvian 771, Neapolitan 'nil, Spanish Scrip 9i dis.

This forenoon we received a German Mail, with
Papers to the ‘.22(1 instant.' The following are extracts:
FRANKFORT, DF.CF.MBER 14.
As the decision of the question respecting peace
and war is to be expected from Paris, where it is well
known t'.►ere is a powerful patty disposed to war, it

L; no wonder that the Funds of vat ions States are so
unsteady in our Market. It is now affirmed, in let-

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t,.:s from Vienna, that the new Loan, which has been

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I : equenLiy doubted, will however be made, and that
th:: Cony actors are the houses of Rothschild, in
Frankfort; Gaymuller, in Vienna ; and Parish, in
Hambutgli. The amount of the new Loan to be 30
millions of the standard (..f. 201losins, or 36 millions
of the standard of '2l florins. New Metalliques will
be created to this amount. Mr. Lamb, late British
Minister to the Diet, who is gone to Vienna, and
thence to Verona, does not re: urn here in the same
aaracter, but goes to London. Ile had furnished
his re,idence in this city at a very great expense, for
the reception of the late Marquis of Londonderry,
who was to pass through.Fraukfort on his way 'to the
Congress. All the furniture is now selling off.
AUGSBURG, DECEMBER 17.

We have received from.high authority at Paris, the
following account of the situation of France, with
respect to the question of peace or war with Spain :
" The King of France is decidedly for peace:—
Monsieur and the Duke of Angouleme are now
known to entertain the same pacific views. Even the
Duke of Montmorency, the supposed champion of
the war-party, professes to have no warlike intentions.
How, then, is it, you will naturally ask, that the ques-
tion is not at once set at rest by some decisive decla-
ration ? The fact is, that all the hesitation and delay
is to be ascribed to the difficulty of getting well out
of a scrape. France feels that she has committed
herself, and does not know how to extricate herself
from a situation bordering on the ridiculous: she is
therefore waiting for some opportunity of backing out
gacefully. A Lew facts will explain this matter fully :
Montmorency, at Verona, expected at first to find the
Allies unanimously ready to make war on Spain.—
The Duke of Wellington used such forcible argu-
ments against such a proceeding, that the French
Ambassador abandoned all hope on that point : but
he obtained the Recognition (already published in the
Moniteur), that France had the right of herself to
make war, and that she might do so if she pleased.
Montmorency pressed hard fur something more ; and
after long discussion it was agreed that Russia, Aus-
tria, and Prussia would, under certain circumstances,
withdraw their Ambassadors from Madrid, provided
France did the same. Montmorency pledged his
Government to this arrangement, and the Congress
broke up. M. de V allele, however, refuses to ratify
such an agreement : he argues, that if the question
is left to France, she has a right to settle the affair
in her own way, and ought not to be required to co-
operate with other Governments in measures which
may defeat, instead of expediting he: objects : that,
especially, she ought not to be called upon to take a
step which, by cutting off all negotiation with Spain,
would probably preclude all possibility of a pacific
result. Montmorency, however, felt his personal
character involved, and obstinately adhered to the
incautious pledge which he bad given.
" Such was the state of the French Cabinet when
the Duke of Wellington arrived at Pal is. The case
was stated to him ; and before he gave his opinion,
he requested to be informed whether there was any
intention of going to war with Spain? He then learns
that the King, Monsieur, the Duke of Angouleme,
and the majority of the French Cabinet, were decided
against war; nay, that M. de Montmorency himself
meant to be content with the recall of the French Am-
bassador from Madrid, and had no idea of hostile in-
terference with the Spanish Government. hoitified
with this knowledge, the Duke of Wellington asked
why the French Government, seeing that her inten-
tions were pacific, should have recourse to a mea-
sure which was at least offensive, and which could
hardly tail to lead to ultimate hostilities. The King
of France and the Princes of the Blood yielded to this
reasoning; and the French Minister will remain at
Madrid. The natural result of such a decision seems
to be the dismissal of Montmorency from the Cabi-
net; for the difference between him and M. de Villele
is too great, and, what is of more consequence, is
considered by the former in too personal a light, to
admit of their acting together. The Kieg of France,
however, feels a justifiable hesitation in disgracing a
respectable servant, and the instantaneous dismissal
of ,Montmorency would have that appearance. Mat-
ters, therefore, will probably remain as they are, till
the meeting of the Chambers, when Villele, who is
certain of a majority, will carry a motion in appro•
bation of his own view of this important question.—
Montmorency must then yield, and he and his Ultra
coadjutors in the Cabinet will make room (it is to be
hoped for ever) for more moderate and wiser Coun•

The new Gas Tile of Zurich, after giving an as
count of the sailing of the last expedition to Greece,
which quitted Marseilles on the 22d of November,
adds—" The expedition had to contend with many
difficulties; not only were there among the persons
engaged several individuals whom it was necessary
to exclude, on account of their bad characters, and
ho, angry at this, endeavoured to mislead others;
rot only did certain persons at Marseilles succeed in
persuading some of the ad, enturers to join the Spa-
nish Defenders of the Faith, instead of going to
Greece, but the representations of several Officers who
returned 1.1 um G. ecee excited despondency in many.
If these Officers, in the moment of general alarm, when
the Greeks, attacked on all sides, fled from the valleys
to the mountains, considered the causeof that unhappy
people as desperate, and returned home, who will
blame them ? If they painted the moral, the military,
and economical state of Greece in gloomy colouri,
who will accuse them of falsehood, since we know
that despotism everywhere, and consequently in
Greece, tends to debasement? But that some of
these Officers did their utmost, and used the basest
means, to turn aside the assistance which it is to be
hoped will contribute to make the Greeks free, and
consequently more moral, is inhuman and unchris-
tianlike. All these difficulties were at length over-
come, by tic good sense of the better disposed, and
the indefatigable exertions of the Committee, consist-
ing of Messrs. Kephallas, Sieceking, Hoffmann, Cap-
tain Dittmar, and Deutsch. It is true, only 130 men
ember ked, out of the 200 that were intended ; but,
hc.wever, the wheat was thus separated from the chaff.
—Tc Ile great joy of the expedition, it was joined
by five of those who had returned, and who are con-
Nis.cel :hat a corps well provided with all necessaries,
and well organized in every part, may be of infinite
service in Greece. if preceding expeditions were not
so well organized, it was not owing to a deficiency
of good will or of judgment, but of money. How-
ever, the exertions of the Societies for the aid of the
Greeks have been so successful in this respect, that
at the beginning of next month aucthcr ship will be
dispatched for Greece, which will have some men on
board, but be chiefly laden with arms and stores."

The late base and wanton outrage on the Loan
LIEUTENANT Of IRELAND, has afforded the better
part of the Irish station a new opportunity of ex-
pressing their loyalty, we do not mean that loyalty
which consists in Orange processions, decorating the
statue of King WILLIAM, or throwing bottles or
watchmen's rattles at those who have the courage to

oppose such factious proceedings, but that loyalty
The Paris Journals of Tuesday reached us by the which shews itself in respect towards the 'Wm's
ordinary conveyance. It will be seen by the extracts REERRSENTATIVE, and in accordance with his avowed
from them in a preceding page, that the yell of war wish to allay all party feelings and animosities.
which the Ultras have sounded, is now no longer The Address, voted by one of the most numerous
beard in the capital ; and that it is also dying away meetings of the inhabitants of Dublin ever collected,
in the departments. Accounts from Bayonne to the was presented to the LORD LIEUTENANT on Tuesday
20th, state that the reports of peace become daily afternoon, and was attended by the LORD MAYOR,
more positive; and the news both from the frontiers the Duke of LEINSTBR, the Protestant and Catholic
and from Paris, give asswance that the peace be• Archbishops of DUBLIN, the Earl of WESTMEATH,
tween France and Spain would not be interropted. Sir Roma SHAW, Messrs. GRATTAN, CYCONNEL,
A dozen vessels laden with snilitaxy .stores had I &c. &c, The Address expresses a just abhorrence of
arrived at Bayonne, but even this circumstance did the late Orange outrage, but we think it goes too far
not lessen the confidence in pcaq. • when it states that the peace of the country was en•
Intelligence froth-Madrid of the 11th, received at dangered by it. We should also Levi dOilbted that
Bayonne, positively states-that a Commercial Treaty ;there was any premeditated design against the life
concluded between England and Spain ; and it is :of the Nome Marquis, bad not some of the rioters
added in die Bayonne Papers, that " England will been committed on the charge ; a circumstance which

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