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London, England, 1828-07-10 00:00:00

THE ENGLISHMAN IN CALAIS; '
AN INCIDENT AT THE 's SIIIVER LLO.N."

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T Calais, some months since, perhaps two or three,
The Lion Argent, in much feign'd politesse, .
A traveller met; 'twas Mi Lor, then, Anglois,
Array'd in each ornament tasteful of dress; -•
The Jet, above all, set his Hostess a staring, -
For full in each Boot shone her dark image glaring!
The Maitre d'Hotel, with obedience profound, '
And dreading the visions, Mi Lor thus address'd,:—
" Monsieur, very sorry mine house should abound
" Dis day and to-morrow, vid numerous guest, • • "
And so otter terns, but to-night, 'pun mine vord, •
" Dis how, Sue, at present, can no ting affurd !.' ,
His dress to arrange, an apartment he gain'd,
And there .Mi Lor Anglois determined to keep ;
Mine Host, pertinacious, his point too ulaintain'ti,
In " Lion-Argent" that no Devils should seep !
He Emceed the room, but in vain urg'd his plea, .. . .
" Hue sleep," said Mi Lor, "both my Two Friends and me!
" And here, Monsieur Maitre d'Hotel, we shall sat,
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" Myself, and these tiny dark friends in my Boots!"
A Priest is the house, o'er a soul-cheering cup,
The Host now applies to—" Begar, Sate ! it suits
I' Mon Pere, vid your functions so ghostly," he said,
" Dese Imps to exorcise, mine house who ireade !"
The name of the Priest, sure, was Father O'Leary!
Addressing our traveller—" Sir, I presume
" To welcome to Calais each Garcon or Fairy, •
" So finely that sport in your Boot's jetty bloom.!"
Did Lor And mine Host, the Garcons and the Priest,
United, and Maitre d'Hotel gave the feast;
The visions explain'd, now the fai rite penchant
Is, Wausau's fine Jar at the " Lion-Argent."
This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Pivoted by

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FRENCH PAPERS. ss
ifbita IBS CAR2TTE DE FRANCE, JULY 8.
• z ; VIENNA, Joss 28.
We hater received. from Crenasier the news that his
Excelleam the Cardinal Archduke Rudolf is much,
betty.. He was considered yesterday in a state of con-
valescence. •
MataUlques, 921 ; Bank Shares, I,oki, 4
'• • BERMANSTADT, JuNs 18. • •
The accounts from Bucharest, dated the 15th, say
that the Governor-General,.Count Pahlen, has demanded
a contribution of three millions cf.piastres, which the
Divan to, raise by means of loans. Requisitions in,
kind . for an army of 80,000. men have also been de-
manded, and the fugitive Boyards have been invited to
atom home.
A Colonel of, Cossacks has arrived, with sixty men,
at the defile of the Red Tow,er.
PARIS, JULY 7.
The .mractiation of. Cadiz 4 certain. It
.will take
place -br soilut-: The folloWing regiments, namely, the,
9th
.Infamfy, the 1541, 27th, and 54th of the
iiiee 404*. iptk•l4 chmseuts, and part of the
seinen.- West,„ The 95th and
Wil,haerriapjvirdA -Nitlk the resnaieder If the artillery.
The engineers, direitaif, commissaries, &c. will go to
Touton.
PROM TUX itiallAtjak DU CHAIM'S, JULY 7.
• -PARIS, Jinx s.,
According to official accounts published by the Board
of CUstOms, the general result of our foteiga commerce
has been as follows :

A!LIIIVID.

3,350 French ships, measuring together 553,102 tons, Fs.
with cargoes of the value of . . . . 230,140,293
Under foreign flags, 3,959 ships, measuring 408,873
tons, value of the cargo . . . . 111,626,559
480 Tiers, measuring 60,636 tons, value . . 24,415,448
By land .. • ... . • . ' 199,621,926
Total • . • 566,801,226
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SA ILXD.
Frenehrs, 3,522, measuring 3,046,370 tons, value
of the rgoes . . ' . . ' . 235,129,680
Under foreign flags, 4,141, measuring 346,733 tons,
value of cargoes . . . . . . 167,728,165
1,180 Tiers, measuring 93,109 tons, value of cargoes 42,776,086
By land • •• ' • . . • . ' . 156,767,385

Total . . . 602,301,276
,The amount, of 'Cara could not be precisely calculated. As far
as could be cullectitt4 the result was— Vs.
Imported •• . . . . . • • 68,2c9,018
Exported . . • • .- . • . 31,471.931
Fatima FiritasPlro pis Cents. 1051. 60c. Three dittp. 751.
I,A¢=-Bank Stock, loaf. trOc.;-.-Neapolitan; 76f. 2.sc.—Spanish,
72ic• Exchange oh' Ltindon-one month, 25f. 30c. three months,
251. Iloc.

BRAZIL..

II
Extract of a fetter dated Rio de :Janeiro, May 17,
received yesterday
I have just arrived in the packet from Buenos Ayres
aod Monte Video, and as I shall be obliged to stay here
for some weeks, I hasten to give you 'the news of the
.clAys In this secluried spot our sphere of politics is not
a vety.;l-arge anOliiersifiediane.; ,of course,
,My range
will not be ,vride... 'LI 're choweyerf.,twO topics
which affect the Breziliaos,more immediately;Undthese
are, the affairs of PoitugaJ, and -the wfetwTtlißuenos
A yreis To theoloaysitasark s will be cislitikvaty, con
fined.
The affairs of Portugal, n,:twithstandlng the deep in-
terest the Emperor and his family have in them, as
well as so many of the .inhabitants, on account of their
' origin, are by no:means treated as.a national question
here. By the body q( the people they are treated in a
manner similar to that in ,which the affairs of Hanover
were at the time the French seized' on the hereditary,
clominions,of the Bruiswjek family; wher;if you re-
collect, half the peopled England rejoiced 4 theeverit,
and thought it a good riddance. Portugal,tliereforesis
quite a P4lace question, and by no means one. of State.
The Brazilians, as, a body, I must again distinguish, are
in factjealous of the Emperor clingingto his hereditary
dominions, and feel afraid of his attention being called
away, or,the resources of the country slieot in a distant
quarrel. Hetsee,is it that he has been obliged to give
every possible satisfaction to the Brazilians, by pledging
that.he will not quit them; Mince it was that he pub-,
fished his first Act of Abdication, so early as May,
1626, and repeated it on the 3d of last March. As
you will see by his speech at the opening of the present
Session of the Chambers, this was entirely done to tran-
quillise the minds of the Brazilians.
From what I have above stated you must not, how-
ever, conclude that there is no interest' telt here on the
affairs Cf Portogai. The Emperor feels as a man and
as a Prince, prood of his origin, and anxious for the
welfareof his own family and countrymen. His senti-
ments are, Moresor less, shared by all those Portuguese
and Bra.ialians whose parents originally came over Irons
Vosiogal, and °l ionise* they constitute the most power-
ful and enlightened class in thit couEtrf. Numbers of
the rire Brazilians also respect and feel for the Euro-
pean Portuguese, and would be glad that they were
equally a's happy and prosperous as themselves ; 'hut
they do not wish that it should be done with any risk
to praz 1. They dread the magnet of attraction, because
they are senlible that if the Emperor was to quit them,
their country would become a prey to designing ad.
veilfurers, and be replunged"in anarchy and confusion,
perhaps eventually dismembered, or converted into a
second St. Domingo.
• Such is the precise' state of the Portuguese question
till now, when it assumes another aspect. By the Im-
poitador,•in-forty-four days from Oporto, we have
learnt the first symptoms of the Regent's infidelity and
his mother's intrigues, and these unfavourable accounts
begin to be confiimed froin other quarters. 'We find
that be reached Lisbon on the 2d February, and, very
soon. after assuming ttke reins of doiernment,,begin to
show the cloven foot. The .Erisperor is aware of the,
money supplied by Rothichild, his own banker, being
sent back to London by orders of.. Sir F. Lamb--of the
discontinuance of the'Constithiloital Hyma.,,,of the in-
sults offered to persons Atiown fof theAr liberal opinions
• —that the Chamber of Deputies had been dissolved,
and that the monks had illuminated in compliment to
the event—that the- Regent was styled his Majesty—
that the men known to be in Don Pedro's interest had
been dismissed and, in short, that Miguel was ad-
vancing rapidly toward* sovereign and absolute power.
All Ibis has created a-strait impression on the Em-
peror's mind. Those.who have conversed with him on
the subject represent him as being frantic with rage.—
Ile hal not,,however, been altogethef deceived. He
ttiveitaa muchtopficlince in Artitielisnd less in the
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mother. . His appointment as Regent was the result Of
over•persuasion from Austria and el:es:here. He has
often been heard to say thithe should rue the choice ;
and almost by the next packet sent orders to his repre-
sentatives in London to be on their guard, forwarding
at the same time conditional pbwers and instructions.
He now prides himself on his foresight, and tauntingly
'banters a few of the members of the corps.diplornatique,
on whose assurances lie unfortunately placed too much
reliance. Knowing matters only in an indirect manner,
of course he must wait for official accounts, When,
doubtless, he will act with his asual promptitude,—
Fortunately he requires nothing from the pockets of the
Brazilians, who are coming round, and feel for the pre-
dicament in which he is placed.. In own right he is
rich, and he will not spare-money or pains to repel an
act of injustice and ingratitude, doubly poignant.
You are anxious to know whether the lingering war
with Buenos Apes will soon close, a topic •on which
you say most European politicians are puzzled.
really do not wonder ai It. You are puzzled at the
state olthings in the gent World, because you had
tor med such extravagant notions from the beginning...
and had besides been the dupes of delusion. But I will
give you a main answer to a plain question, and td this
I will add the result of some experience. I think the
soar will cease, and soon—nay, much sooner than they
imagine here, or in England. My reasons are these.—
The war in the Banda Oriental did not originate with
the natives as a body, but with a few agitato:s, seconded
by the late Buenos Ayres Government. The natives
themselves are tired of war—they endured it long
enough under Artigas, and thereby lost all their herds.
Buenos Ayres, as usual anxious to domineer, impelled
them on, and they find themselves now as far advanced
trwards their object as when they first•set out. Buenos
Ayres has made _ her last effort, and it has been
!ruitless. She cannot po on further, because* the
other provinces do not concur, and will not contribute.
Of herself she cannot command a dollar. The people
also begin to open their eyes. Whit, they openly
ask, have we gained by our Quixotic expeditions, but
the sacrifice of our own resources and credit ? 4.11
these undertakings have served only to enri:h a few
individuals at the expense of the Stag. It was this train
of argument that drove out Rivadavia and his party,
and raised the opposition into power. Were the war to
linger longer, the new men, in their turn, would be
driven out, and a terrible confusion ensue. Matters in
Buenos Ayres are very loosely kiiit together, and the
mercantile di,tfess is dreadful. They therefore feel
compelled to lower their pretension!. They cannot form
an union with the Eastern Bank ; nor can they pay for
the expenses of the past occupaiioa; on which the Em-
peror insists. The latter will not ague to its being in-
dependent under a Republican form of Government,
even if all the other difficulties were removed, and be
dreads any thing like, the interference and influence of
the British. What then is to be done? He has devised
a scheme, and already subrinitted it to the Buenos, Ayres
government, as a kind cf..isitirriatuns,, as he
,himself
Annnunces in bis spends to, the Chamber of Deputies.--
He proposes to make the Eastern 13‘nk a separate.and
independent principality.' svdii.:a Chatter,, and Con.
•
stitutional and, RepreventatiVe- Gqvernnlerit, Insstowed
by himself, and governed by
.a /tigencyintil hi, second
son shall be old enough to act forksielt. ,This is the
basis of the pre.ent plan, as far ai it can.benscert4ined,
and it remains now tc. be wen how it will be relished. at
Buenos Apes. It is thought that the fitter sill agree
X). the proposal, in order to get out of the woe, and
trust to future events during a long miunrity:. As fir
as I was able to judge at Montevideo, the scheme :woad
he palatable, as it would restore peace, and thejsecHplai-
of the East tn Bank are not speculative. or theoretscal
enough to quarrel abOut the fent of krOvertneni.tinder
which they are to live, as long as it is firm ati*substan-
tial. The form proposed would,in fact suit theni•better
than any ether—they aremcnt accustomed to R. They
know nothing of republics, and have a prejudice against
them, as you will recollect was the case in Buenos
Ayres, when they wished. to erect:in ,throne for the
Prince of Lucca. I know not bow thn,plan may be
liked in England, but, I repeat, Buenostlitres. will be
obliged t' agree, and the people of the Eastena•Bank
will jump at it; they want no more Buenos .Ayrefena-
braces, or fraternizing plans. it)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. Juti 9.

The Longitude Premium Acts Repeal Bill, the Comtibulary
Acts (Ireland) Amendment Ball, and the New South Wales len-
provment in Justice Bill, were read a second time, and ordered to
be committed to-morrow.

Several private Bills went through their respective stages, and
the House adjourned.

PROTEST AGAINST THE SECOND READING OF THE
SCOTCH •ND IRISH SMALL NOTES BILL.
• DISSENTIENT-1. Because this Act will materially
abstract the necessary intercourse between the inhabi.;
tants of the English borders and the neighbouring mar.
ket towns in Scotland.

2. Because it is a wanton extension of our Pen%l
Code, already overcharged, by which many will be
injured, and nobody benefitted. •

' • (Signed) CARNARVON.
PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE
• SCOTCH AND HUSH SMALL NOTES BILL.
DISSENTIENT—Because, to a wealthy and commer-
cial 'state, encumbered with a great debt, 3 paper cur-
sency, measured by a metallic standard; is the safest as
well as the moit,advantageous cironlation.
It is the Vest, because, in time** of panic, or of ad-
verse exchanges, arrietillic currency is the first to Is-
ap'pe.ar and the 13-st to return. • !
It is the most adikitageous, because, in a State so cir-
cumstanced, art, ezeißed currency is an esiiiik ial part
of the machinery necessary for production ;, an . ' zoos-
-4)
pel th'e producer. to MAJ. more-cos!ly,, iaitOictof 4
cheaper circulation, 'in theissarne-AbitteM effect is, to
prohibit the use of improveckillaChinery in Masiltstii
tures or husbandry. n ~ • • , -
(Signed) FERRI/MS. -
Mot
COMM -CARNARI/ON.r
HOUSE OF MOlNgii. -•
There being only sixteen Members preserhe uir .o'clock' the
Houk was adjourned till to-morrow. ' -.. r,4 .' ..

Jut), 9.

As a proof of extraordinary instinct, it hai,been re-
marked of the hen ostrich 'that she will toll a few eggs
some disunite from the nest; hrid 'Crack the shells rtht,e,
by the time: her young- tome forth; being' filled-w.ith
maggots and other' 'osects, forttillsofinrterisetiter
inrnai brOod."-. • 4g!..,ef

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