Star.
London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

ABBAS SIIRZA.

FROM THE /TOILE 07 WEDNESDAY.

We have received by an extraordinary Cour'er, nor
correspondence from Lisbon to the 2,1 of November. In
the first Sitting of the Cortes, after the Secretary of State
for the Home Depal meat, Francis ManuelTrigozo, had
announced in the name of her Royal Highness, that the
Session (lithe Chambers was opened, and that each of
the Chambers should meet on the 31st October, at nine
o'clock in the morning, in •the place appropriated for
them; the President of the Chamber of Peers ap-
proached the throne, and presenting to her Royal High-
ness, the Missal which he held open, the Infanta pro-
nounced before him, wih aloud voice (the whole Court
standing) the oath appointed by the 97th Article of the
Constituti •nal Charter.

Count d'Alva writes from his head-quarters at Tavira,
on the 26 h October, that he entered that town, on the
24th, where 'he had been joined by the division of the
Minister of War, who came lions Castro Marini. The
heads of the insurrection have been arrested, and are
about to be given up to the laws. Amongst the number
of those who deserted to Spain, was the Governor ol
Villa It .r-il, who caused all the artillery of that place to
be spiked before he left it.
The Nlinister of War himself writes, that the Portu-
guese Refugees have been sent by the Spanish Authori-
ties of Ayamonte towards Ecija, in Andalusia. The
Battalion of the 7th Regiment of Chasseurs, which de•
se; ted from Chaves with a detachmait of Cavalry, have
marched upon Ginco, in Galicia.
The first sitting of the Chamber of Peers, took place
yesterday, at halt-past ten in the morning. At the re-
qitest of the Chamber, the Duke de Cadaval, the Presi-
dent, n,:minated as Secretaries, the Marquis de 'Fiances
and the Count de Mesquitella. When their appointments
were being approved, the Count d'Arcos aikeit if the
Marquis de Cliavts, ci-devant Count d'Ausarante was

According to the Parisier Zeilung, the business, re-
lative to the free navigation of the Rhine, has been in
no respect advanced by the recent ordonnance of the
King of the Netherlands, in which he agrees to consider
the Leck as the continuation of the Rhine in the Bava-
rian teraitory, where it is well known the Rhine alto-
gether disap, ears; -first dwindling into a petty brook,
and then into a mere ditch. The only important ques-
tion still remains to be decided—through what channel
is the ire navigation of the Rhine, as far a: Me sea, to
be carried on? IVithout that liberty all the rest is Mu-
' sory. On that point the- Government of the Nether-
lands gives no explanation. The Leck terminates at its
junction with the Meuse, and the Meuse is a stream en-
tirely Dutch and Belgic. On the other hand Prussia,
on pretence of the delays occasioned by the conduct of
Holland, retains in her hands 14 millions of florins,arising
out of the duties levied upon the navigation of the Rhine,
which she ought to share of right with Nassau, Ba-
den, Hesse Darmstadt, and other small states. These
German Courts addressed Mr. Canning during his stay
at Paris; but it appears that England, although she up-
holds the principle of free navigation, cannot interfere
in the distribution of the duties levied on the Rhine, in
the interior of Germany. It is said that the small Ger-
man Courts iittehd to summon Prussia before the Fede-
ral Diet. Although Holland should be literally and
geographically in the right on this. question, we should
,say to the King of the Netherlands, with all the respect
and esteem which his political principles and personal
qualities inspire, that, according to our view, it would
,be the interest of his kingdom, if well understood, to
extricate the diplomatists of the Congress of Viepna
from the snare into which their heedlessness has made
them fall. They apparently had forgotten that the
Rhine on the Dutch territory does not flow into the sea.
To open frankly to the navigation of Germany, the
Yssel and the Wall with the Meuse, whose natural
windings form the true issues of the Rhine, would at-
tract, we think, to 11,41 and, so immense a commerce
both from Getmany and trona France, and Switzerland,
that ever so slight a transit duty would produce a very
great revenue. The King of the Netherlands, who him-
self as an able engineer, has traced the beautiful canal
of the Ttxel, possesses all the knowledge necessary to
appreciate this opinion, and we flatter ourselves, that
entertaining the same views, he hesitates to adopt them
only with the design of obtaining greater advantages for
his country.

At eleven o'clock, in the Chapel of the Ch iteau, a
requinn was ch.mutetl fur her late Majesty of Savoy,
Queen of Fr.ince, and Spouse of Louis the 18th.
By an ordotinanc.? of the King of the 12th Nov. the
Count de Stint Cricq, Minister of State and Member
of the Chamber of Deputies, and Presidi nt of the Com-
mittee of Commetce, and the Colonies, is appointed
a Councillcr of State.

/DOD Tat JOURNAL DES DEBATS OF MONDAY.
LISBON, °cross* 30.
SETPLEMENT TO THE OAZETTS.-OFFICIAL.

It is with the greatest satisfaction that we transcribe
the dispatch of the Ambassador of her Iklajesty, at the
Court of Vienna, giving the important intelligence that
his Highness, the Infant Don Miguel took the O.►th to
the Constitutional Charter of the Portuguese Monarchy,
on the 4th current.

" MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND EXCELLENT SIR,-.After
the return of his Majesty the Emperor from Schoenberg
to this Court, not only the arrears of business, but, in
additir.ii, the presence of his Imperial Highness the'
Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the other Princes of the
Imperia Family, who happened to be here at the same
time, prevented that Monarch from enj'ying an imme-
diate interview with the Infant Don Miguel, with re.,
specs to tl e oath of his Highness. At length the inter-
view has taken place, arid in the Bdr/ices which his Im-
per ial Majesty gave to him, upon that subject, we have
had the consolation to perceive his own intentions, which
were to conform himself to' the sovereign will of the
King our master, cJnfirmed by so wise and prudent a
Monarch. In consequence the Infant Din Miguel, on
the 4th of this month, took the oath, simply and uncoil•
ditionally, to. the Constitutional Charter, decreed and
granted by the King, our Sovereign, to the Portuguese
n ition, on the 29th of April. That oath, written and
signed by the hand of his Highness himself, has been
deposited in my hands, in presence of the Viscount de
Rezenda, Minister of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil,
whom his Highness wished to constitute a witness of,
this solemn act, reserving to himself the direct trans-
mission of the act of the above oath to his august brother,
since it was our King and Lord who demanded it of
him. Immediately after, his Highness, so far as lie was
concerned, and myself, in my capacity of representative
of the Queen our Sovereign, Donna Maria the 2d, ad-
dressed his Holiness for the purpose of obtaining that
dispensation for the nearness of kin which exists between
that august Princess and the Infant Don Miguel, that
we might proceed to the celebration of the espousals,
which will take place as soon as the required dispensa-
tion shall arrive.

" GOD preserve your Excellency,
(Signed) BUDD D 1 VILLA SECCA.
44 Vienna, Oct. 6, 18x6.
44 To his Royal Hisbneu Francisco de Almeida."

FROM THE ETOILE OF TUESDAY.
MADRID, Om st.
The famous monk of La Trappe, known under the
name of the Trappist, a Guerills Chief, who, during the
campaign of 1823, commanded in Catalonia and Cas-
tile a corps of 1000 or 1500 men, died. in his convent
on the.9th of this month, whither he returned in 1824.
Brother Anthony, which was the name of the Trappist.
died in the most edifying manner. On the Bth current,
in spite of the violence of his malady, he rose trim his
bed, and was carried to church, supported by two of
his brethren ; he these received the sacraments w ith
pious fervour, and returning to hit cell, and being laid
upon his wooden bed (for the Trappists sleep only upon
plank), he disposed himself for death. On the morning
of the 9th, while they were about to place him won
cross of ashes, according to the manner in which the
Trappists are laid when dying, he raised himself up,
although he had then lost the use of speech, and was
almost insensible, in a last effort to throw himself upon
the cross, which hadbeen traced for that purpose. About
an hour and a half after making this effort he expired.

PARIS, Nov. is.
Our Nuremberg Correspondent states that, indepen-
dent of a division of infantry, and 20,000 Cossicks, who
marched at the lint news of the Persian invasion, seve-
ral other corps of the first army, under the orde:s of
Genrral Sackers, put themselves in motion to match to
the theatre of war.