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London, England, 1823-01-10 00:00:00

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• •44 rents, JANukai ,
• a Withlhe published news of the day .1 shall not
' trouble I,44fiut.. there is tattch of insportant Matter
to comenotikate; arlakbilOir*Vir the jeutnalS &rein.
sert.....Lmoseeeigeli*Yourtitat the King is again
very his Majesty's maladies have
increased; *tate assumed- most alarming appeasanc
io.anuch io,lndeede,•aa' terehder Ki4.thisOltitien at an'
early dayesisremely•pkOhable4 01 this. the rest of the
ROYarfattfilly
.and the Metistoers.of theLGowernmeut
are. so futlenwe're, that, itineetzweetee, active mea-
,,..1, .• •. • . .
mea-
sures. are.,4a-progress for.neseinocrelling the whole
system, civil and milk*, preciaratlO to the demise
of the Crown. Thus you and numerous dismissali,
and that uniftinilY the:.persentiappointed to fill the
vacant
,places-are the creatures or partizans of Mon-
*time. Ore King's brother). For example-General
Wall tartlrishman), who is first Aide-du•Camp to hjs
Royal- Highness, has been appointed Governor of
Paris; and a strong contest has taken place .in.the
Cabinetirelative to the appointment of a successor to
the Viscount Chateaubriand, in the Embassy to your
Court. The extreme advocates of legitimacy support
Count Jules Polignac, who, all the world knows, is
son to Monsieur.
Abethe'rlegitireizte Feld& tokhe honourable and
lucrative situation of Anthassador to the Court of
Londtat, Is found in the person of the Dec de Fite.
lames (brother-in-law of Bertrand), hut it is believed
that the Royal personage, the offspring of the Baur.'
bons, will.triumph over his august opponent the de.
stendant or the Smartt. To return to Monsieur, a
report has been in cisCiliation for some days, that..hts
Royal Highness intends to abdicate immediately after
his succession to the CroWn, for the wise purpose of
placing it on the head of the Duchess d'Angouleme—
for of the Royal Duke, her spouse, no one speaks
or even thinks. Be this report %tell Or ill founded, a
melancholy future-awaits France. The Duchess d'An-
gouleme is a. truly pious and zealous Catholic, but
that she is a Sovereign calculated to render France
ham's, and respected, her warmest admirers will not
assert ; that she is popular with the infidel portion, as
they a* Called, of the French (about twenty-eight
out er:thitfy Millions), no person will maintain—on
the ca ratty, she is not less obnoxious to the fanatic
pefitiehm thee to the 'equally fanatical atheist; you
*ill, therefore, agree with. me, that the prospects of
Fritteletefrightful to contemplate.
*4l( lasinontradiption, to.nsy wow of the King's
illness you may refer to the Auto* in which it is
stated that. his Majesty held .a drowing-sooin, &c.
1k twit Inisied by. this, or similar patagraphs;• it. is
wire that the gentlemen and ladies of his Court hay,
defiled before him, but of „their presence the Xing
was scarcely. sensible. The Orleans. party is net idle
during this season of Preparation& and yet) willbayo;
seen an article in the Drapeau Blanc, of last Sattpairey,
in which the Duke of Orleaps Eat:slily treated by
one of the Duchess of Berry's partizans fot having
received General Foy the preceding SandikL,'
upon it the Orleans party is incessantly aCtive.7Fteiy
step likely to render him :popular is taken by Chi
Duke. • His sons. go daily its M ikergeolsej, to
school of .Henri Qtiatre tbehind the church of St.
Genevieve), and are bioughe thither anti backngain
by the Puke. and Duchess tdternatelf. not`
mean te-insinuate that it is the intention of his RoYal'
highness to set tip his claim rer • the-Crown on the
death of Louis XVIII. but participating in the ex-
pectation 'of a convulsion on that event, he gets
wisely in making preparations for securing permas
tent possession of the throne, . should fortune be
buckled on his back.
" Naave alluded alsti to the incapacity of the Du.i.
des d'Angouleme to sway the sceptie-of this king.
dom, in its present state of dyeradation. How are
the mighty fallen ! That nation, which ten short'
years since, .dictated laws to the whole European
Continent, is now incapable of rendering itself re.
spected by Powers of. the third class. Where is that
mighty French army; where are dime...soldiers who
marched to victory with as much .confidence as if
really irresistible? Dead—denounced—destituted—
despised.—Where is that military spirit that once
pervaded France ?—Flown. You saw in the Journals
of last Friday an account of the dismissal of one Chef
de Battalion, a Captain of Grenadiers, and four other
015e.ers of the 18th regiment. of the .lipe at Per-
pignan—where were these iedivicloals.on:the arrival
of their destitution at .head-quarter; fit en,. .
' « What caused the numerous and Sanguinary &kis
that t know hive been fought in that regiment within.
the last four months.? The assertion
.by pee party,,
and the denial'hy the other; that, the Spaniards %%tee
tight in choosing their own form of Goeermisent,
and that France ought not to intetfere. with them.
Such are a few of the incidents that haveeccurred' in
this celebrated regiment since last August.; but
another, much more formidable' (because generally
imitated), happened the week-before last, Eeety
diet and sub-officer who would become-entitled to hie
discharge on the Ist inst. demanded and obtained it.
To this I lately alluded; but the extent of this indiss
position to serve, is almost incredible to au), person'
acquainted with the military propensities of the
'French. So many as 360 quitted the 18th ; an equal
number left the 32d; and perhaps every other regi-
ment in the service.- ..Thus in one week, a full sixth
of the French army—and of the oldest soldiers, too—
have been
,put hors de combat; an affair of no small
importance to the Spaniards, in the event of war,
which is this day very probable."

The Pyrenees form a long chain of mountains,
which extend between France and. Spain, over x dis-
tance of 90 leagues. The principles established by the
ancient Commissioners of the two Crowns, for fixing
the limits of their respective territories, was the divi-
sion of ground, according to the flowing of the waters.
They agreed that all the vallies and plains in which
the waters flowed to the south should belong to Spain,
and that all those in which the waters flowed to the
north should belong ito Prance. Notwithstanding
this arrangement, the valley. of Aran has, by theeffect
of as ancient marriage, alwayscontinued in the pos-
session ,of Spain, whose manners are common to
the inhabitant* ; but the basin of. Cerdagne,
which is eitosted in . the Eastern Pyrenees, in
the middle of the highest eminences, and which
ought to belong wholly either to Spain or France, is,
however, divided between them.