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tration, and your patriotism. the extension of the
bonds of union among all the friends of liberty, will
shed an additional lust?e on thcise eminent qualities,
;which to Spain and myself are the surest pledges of
your prudence. All good men will rejoice to behold
you once more occupied in "providing for their hap-
piness, and the evil-disposed .will find in the Na-
tional Congress a barrier impenetrable to their cri-
minal projects."
His MAJESTY having concluded his Speech, the
PRESIDENT of the Cortes rose, and spoke as follows :
" Satioa—The present Estraurdinary Cortes, called
to provide for the urgencies of the State, to rid the
nation of the bands of factious which infest the vari-
ous points of her territory, to make arrangements
with foreign Powers, and to place the military laws
and the criminal code in harmony with the institu-
tions. by which we are governed, will seize the op-
portunity of manifesting their seal in favour of these,
important objects.
a The principle on which depends the security and
even the preservation of aily political society is, that
it must be defended by an assernb)ed force against
`any public insult or violence ; and since we are in a
situation to repel the attacks made on the tranquil en-
joyment of the liberty which.we have sanctioned in
our social compact, it is just and necessary that we
should place the nation in the requisite state of power
and activity, for repelling aggressors, putting down
rebels, supporting our rights,.and rendering respect-
able the public voice, and the fundamental law which
that voice has restored. Fortunately, the heroic
virtues of patriotism and valour form the character
of our warriors, and render them conspicuous wherever
they are employed for the safety of the country.—
The augmentation of those warriors, and the acquisi-
tion of resources, will finally raise us to that power-
ful situation, which, by tendering victory undoubted,
will obviate bath the necessity of attack and the pre-
caution of defence.

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she ight be threatened with _.. ine ge-
neral interest remains whith Europe has not to tole-
lerate Conititutions which annihilate Royalty. This,
it appears to us, is the only possible basis of a treaty
against the Cortes of Spain."
The Constitutionnef contains an article 'hewing to
what an extent the hostility.of 411 French Govern-
ment is carried against those who_clare to think for
themselvei :—A venerable ecclesiastic,who for e)Oen
years had been Curate of a small commune in Alsace,
was ordered some time ago to appear before one of
his superiors, who informed him that the order ema-
nated from a higher authority, and that he was ac-
cused, first, of not having done his duty during the
last elections; secondly,with being on terms of friend-
ship with Liberals, patticularly the electors of his
commune, who did not vote agreeably to the sense
of Ministers ; and, thirdly, he was charged with read-
ing the Constitutionnel. His defence was, that he
never meddled in political affairs ; that the men of
his commune, with whom he associated, were esti-
mable citizens, whose friendship and beneficence af-
forded him the meatis of living comfortably, not.
withstanding the small salary he received from the
Government ; and that one of his friends,. who sub-
scribed for the Constitutionnel, was accustomed to
send that paper to him after having read it. The
superior dismissed him after a warning, accompanied!
by menaces; and a few days after the Curate received
an official notice to go to another parish, and was'
obliged to quit a place. where he had been cherished
and honoured.

• OTOCK ItItCHANGE, 'WWI LVE O'CLOCK.
Thbiebeing pay-day,-the principal busineos doing is settling tho
differences of accounts. Consols 82i e for Money, and tiai for
the Account.

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TO RRION . MA RIM.
The business in •the market this morning is chicly in New
• SPinish:Bonds. The New Peruvian Bonds seem not to go off
freely.at present; In all other foreign securities the market re-
stuiln steady.
Current Prices: Chilian 86, New Spanish 74, Old 86, New
Prussian 90, Old 891 1, Russian 891, panish 911, Neapolitan
831 81, Colombian 941 95, Scrip 95,.Peritylan 871.
STOCK EXCIJANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
The market, remains at 821 fpr Money; and 821 for Account.
CURRENT PRICR.S:
Bank Stock 246 247
3 per Cent. Reduced 81% %
per Ceut. Consols 821,E 3/4-8% per Cents. 983
4 per Cents. 9914 34 ex, div.
4 per Cent. New 1021/8 %
India Stock 2541/2—lndia Bonds 545. 565.
Exchequer Bills (C 1,000) ss. 7s.
Ditto small, 7s. 10s.—Consols fur Acct. 82% qv

The family struggles for the Governor• Generalship
of India are at length terminated, Lord AMMERST
having received the appointment. His Lordship, we
believe, had little family or political influence, and
therefore may be supposed to have gained the situa-
tion from his merit : but . though the WELLESLEY
interest has not succeeded in procuring this exalted
situation for the Master of the Mint, yet the interests
of that family have not been neglected, and Sir
HENRY WELLEELF:Y is to succeed the Marquis of
LONDONDk:RRY as Ambassador to Vienna.

FUNDS a: PAU OCT. 14...F1110 per Cents. 93f. 3Se.

Letters are in town, which announce the arrival of
Lieutenant FRANKLIN, and the other Officers of the
North West Land Expedition.

Harnburgh Papers to the 12th inst. fully confirm
the previously received intelligence of the successe“S
the Greeks. The evacuation of the Mor.ea by the
Turks is stated both from Vienna and Constantinople ;
accounts from the latter place state that the Persians
have gained a signal victory over the Tulks near
Trebisond. They even go so far as to say that the
Turks lost 50,000 men. The following are extracts.:
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CONSTAXiIXOPLE,

Madrid Papers to the 10th inst. have been received.
They contain an important document on the subject
of Spanish Finance, and an account of the opening
of the Sessions of the Extraordinary Cortes on the
10th inst. by the limo in person; and it is worthy of
remark that the QUEEN, of whose bad state of health
we have heard so much lately, was also present. Her
MAJESTY was accompanied by the Infanta Donna
MARIA FRANCISCA DE Asis and the Princess of
BEIRA. After the preliminary 'ceremonies were gone
through, the KING, having taken his .place on the
throne, read the following speech :
" SENORES—Circumstances truly important have
induced me to draw around me the representatives
of the nation, who possess so many claims to its con-
fidence. My own is revived on beholding them thus
assembled in this sanctuary of the laws, where they
are about to apply an immediate remedy to the urgent
necessities of the country.

" The Cortes, guided by the sublime and benevo-
lent Weds of producing the common advantages of
mankind, and impelled by the political principle that
to place in full force the spirit of international right
and commerce, and of mutual and reciprocal assist-
ance, is labouring for the welfare of the nation, will
concur in making arrangements with those States in
which are to be found the guarantees of our national
dignity, and of the bonds of social bodies. -

6' The Cortes, in their late ordinary Session, de-
voted a portion of their labours to the regulation of
the army, being convinced that the military law
should be made to correspond with the fundamental
law. This conviction, seconded by the just claims
of the armed citizens, will speedily put a period to
these pending labours.
" Judicial power, -though it be that which most
firmly secures subordination, legal obedience, and
even loyalty itself, may at the same time, by perver-
sion, become the most terrible of all things, particu-
larly when it decides on the honour, the liberty, and
the lift of the citizen; and since this power is consti-
tuted in guarantee of their rights, it will necessarily
follow that the reform of the legislation in all its
parts, regulated in the spirit of fundamental princi-
ples, must concur to complete the work of our happy
restoration. With this view the Cortes will consider
attentively the code of criminal procedure in order to
the better and more speedy administration of justice
in that department.
The,Cortes, Senor, rejoice to receive from your
Majesty the testimony of your confidence; and rely-
ing on the energy of the Government,, and on the in-
timate and harmonious union of all lovers of liberty,
they concur with your Majesty in predicting the ter-
mination of the misfortunes under which the country
is labouring, particularly as the sentiments which
your Majesty has just expressed are indicative of that
virtue and firmness which are, no less in Monarchs
than in political bodies, the only sure guarantee of
the public prosperity and happiness."
In the Sitting of the Bth, an application was made
by the Secretary of State for the War Department,
for an augmentation of the Army, in consequence of
the present state of the country. According to his
communication, the present force of the Army is
51,000 Infantry, and 6,500 Cavalry, to which the
Government is desirous that the Cortes should make
an addition of 57,956 Infantry, and 7,637 Cavalry,
to include the replacing of the soldiers retiring after
the completion of their period of service, which had
been decreed by the preceding Cortes. This measure
was stated to be necessary, not only for the important
services the Army has to perform, but also for the
public advantage, and the consolidation of the Con-
stitutional System.

"The enemies of the Constitution, employing every
means which can be suggested by a passion as bar-
barous as infatuated, have succeeded in enticing into
the career of crime a considerable number of Spa-
niards. The misfortunes which the disorders have
produced in Catalonia, Arragon, and other frontier
provinces, weigh heavy on my heart and on yours.
It. is for you to apply an efficacious remedy to such
lamentable disasters. The country demands the as-
sistance of numerous and vigorous arms to restrain
at once the audacity of her rebel sons ; and the brave
and loyal soldiers who are serving her in the geld of
honour call for vigorous and effectual measures to'
insure the happy success of the enterprises in which
they are employed.
" Nations mutually entertain a respect for each
other in proportion to their power, and to the energy
they are capable of displaying under peculiar circum-
stances. Spain, from her situation, the advantages
of her coasts, her productions, and the virtues of her
inhabitants, merits a distinguished place in the poli-
tical fabric of Europe. Everything conspires to secure
to her that imposing and vigorous attitude, which
must obtain for her from other countries the consi-
deration to which she is justly entitled. Everything
combines to point out the necessity of forming new
relations with those States which know how to esti-
mate our true riches and resources.

" I need not call to your attention the glories and
the merits of die Spanish Army, the model of disin-
terestedness and patriotism. The heroic sacrifices it
has made for national independence are well known ;
all Europe is acquainted with the services it has ren-
dered in the cause of liberty and the country. Those
citizen warriors call for the establishment of military
• ordinances and regulations in harmony with the fun-
damental code, and the improvements of the art of
war. The ordinary Cortes were occupied during their
late meeting with this interesting subject, and its con-
tinuation is one of the objects to which your attention
must iu the present Session be directed.
" As we are already in possession of a Criminal
Code, and as the promulgation of so necessary a work
relieves those who have to administer justice from the
immense fatigue of lOoking for it in the innumerable
•olumes by which it was formerly obscured, it be-
comes absolutely necessary that the code of legal
procedure, modelled in the same spirit, should com-
plete the removal of the ob.tacies which are still op-
posed to its prompt dispensation.

After some conversation, this application was re-
ferred to the consideration of the War Committee.

We have received the French Papers of Monday.
They are full of speculations on the probable mea-
sures of the approaching Congress, according to the
party views of the respective Journals : the Ultras, I
however, do not seem quite so arrogant on the sub-
ject
as they were a shott time ago. The Journal des
Debar, inliscussing the right of other Powers to is-
teller* with Spain, says—" It is France alone, which,
bordering on Spain, has a right to decide,iithether

" Those, Senores, are the important subjects to the

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passer from the PlNCidep dOteilit
returning home across the Atlentid
of Gibraltar, has been effected
months, a celerity not common even
ustorned to such long voyages...
•uvantageof Iso se7tostlettitteorith our
own vessels, expeditions to such :emote countries, is
one I the benefits wkiels areprocored us by the free.
dom which our flag enjoys.: 3,
A French brigantine his also arrtvell,.vetish sane,'
on the 7th of September from Calamata, in 11:e
Morea, where the Insurrectional Guvernment of ch.,
Greeks for some time rtsided : this vessel confirms
the bad net: respecting them which we have already
learnt from the public Papers, and adds that magi
of their vessels are now dispersed about those seas.

The Turks, Raped on all sides, have again suf.
rendered the Citadel, of Corinth, Aere they had co
Artillery but,a.,dozen field pieces.

Vsznna, Orr. 11.--;-bletalliques 83 5-16; Bank Sha.-cs Pen ;.
Oct. 3.—Metalikines 83 7-16; Bank Shares 964 i.—Oct. 4
.sletalliques 85 15-16; Bank Shares 872 9-10.

New York and Philadelphia Papers arrived this
morning to the 21st September. In the Philadelphia
Paper of the 17th is a long Pr,,clamation from Prc-
sident Boyar, dated the Republic of Hayti, 19th
August, addressed to the People and Army kinceri;
ing the death of General ROUAIN, but not of interest
enough to be copied.

FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY ADVERTISER, SEPT 19.
His Britannic Majesty's ship Iphigenia, Commc-
dore Sir Robert Mends, arrived yesterday in elevoi
days from Havannah, on her passage to. England
from-the coast of Africa, which she left on the 2iith
June.; called at 13.Arbadoes on the 17th July, and
arrived at, amaica 9n the 25th August :. left the
United States schooner at Sierra Leone. Whilst on
the coast, the Commodore lent a Lieutenant and 25
seamen to the Augusta, for the purpose of cruizing
against the slave traders, and they succeeded in cap.
curing one vessel under Swedish colours, which was
condemned by the Mixed Commission at Sierra Lone,
it having been proved she was in reality Spaniql,be-
longing to the Havannah. The Iphigenia will sail
in a couple of days for England.
The Boston Avertiser states that Mr. llatl,ews has
arrived at Providence, and proceeded to Boston. I:
appears from the Philadelphia Gnzette that Mr. Ma-
thews is to make his first appearance in Bahiurore.
The Theatre opens on the 23d instant.
The deaths in Charleston, from Cie Ist to he Sth
of September, were nineteen; of this number, four
died Of the bilious fever.

Private letters frOm New York of the 20th Sep-
tember, received this morning,. state that the tradenf
New York was carried to Philadelphia, owing to
lever still raging with great violence.

BRITISH NORTH WEST EXPEDITION.

MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER

In addition to the communication which appeared
in the Montreal Herald of the 17th ultimo, relative
to the Arctic Expedition under the orders of Li:lite-
nant Franklin, we are happy to be empowered eto
state, upon the authority of more recent art ivals, that
the Expedition had arrived at the Factory in Hu&
son's Bay, and was about to embark for England. It
appears that the toils and the sufferings of the Expe-
dition have been of a most trying description; and
that, if they do not exceed belief, they were at least of
such a nature as almost to overcome the stoutest
heart, and deter all future attempts of a similar ten-
dency. It was fitted out in the summer of Isl 9,
and in the course of the following year the Expedi-
tion was enabled, by a liberal aid and reinforcement
from the North %Vest Company, to advance to the
shores of the Great Rear Lake, which we think is
situated in about 67 degrees north latitude, where it
encamped and wintered. In the ensuing spring it
approached the Copper Mine River. In forcing their
melancholy way through the untravelled wilds be-
tween the Copper Mine River and the Great Rear
Lake, they fell completely short of provisions, and
were for many days under the necessity of subsisting
upon sea weeds, or a powder produced from pound-
ing the withered bones of the food whica they Lad
already consumed.

Tuesday, the KING visited Windsor Castle. His
MAJESTY passed through all the alartments, and
seemed minutely to examine their state of repair.—
His MaJame appeared in most excellent health.
Lord COMBERMERR arrived yesterday evcnin7 at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Paris. her
Ladyship is still there.
The Duchess of PORTLAND and the Ladies BEN-
TINCK left town this day, for their seat, IVelbeckt
The .Marquis and Matchioness of CHOLISONDELEY
are shortly expected in town from their seat in Cheshire.
Earl SPENCER left town yesterday, for his seat,
Althorp, Northamptonshire.
The Earl and Countess of *STAVIOPE are shortly
expected home from the Continent.
A daughter of the Countess of SANDWICH is to he
shortly married to Mr. BARING, eldest son of Mr.
ALEXANDER BARING. The young Lady is 17 years
of age, and Mr. BARING 22. The match was Dude at
r Rome.— Southaotptom County Chronicle.
The Countess of SANDWICH artived yesterday at
her hotise in Dover-street, from the Continent.
Countess BEAucliAmr left her house in St. James's-
square yesterday* for Paris.
Mr. Ow EN, the philanthropist, arrived en Satur.:t.iy
in Dublin from Belfast, and dined at 41orrison's Ho-
tel, with a few liieuds.

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