Star.
London, England, 1826-12-26 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

" Tile day after his arrival at Madrid, the King
reviewed all the Spanish troops who were in that capi-
tal. The Marquis of Zambrano, Minister of War, was
at the head of the Cavalry of the Guatd. The satis-
faction his Majesty enjoyed at the sight of this fine
troop was remarked by all the attendants. I. is to
M. de Zambrano that we are indebted for the brilliant
state of the Royal Guard, and of the army in general ;
lie has achieved this prodigy in spi,e of the embar-
rassed state of the Royal Treasury. With respect to
the Militia, thanks to the efforts of M. de Sin Roman,
they are cornpetely organised, and ready to march, in
case of necessity. This troop is composed chiefly of
veteran Officers and soldiers of the army which fought
fur independence, so tbk it aright easily be transfer med
into a regri!ar troop.
6. Many regiments have been marched towards the
frontier of Po. tugal, to form there a military line. It
appears that it is the intention of our Govetnreent to
have tipo.i this p hit a body of 10,000 men, of whom
3,000 are f the Gu rd Royal. These forces will form
two di shio is, of which one will garrison the frontier f
the kirgdom of Galicia, and the other the frontier of
E.t•eo.adu a Generals Espatoie and Saedfield are de-
s7gtied oil the curia:rand of th se two divisions.
.4 The last news see received from Portugal confirms
the acc•ruut of the victorious march of the Marquis de
Chives upon Oporto. Tire Royalists have experienced
t.o • ther r .sistance beyond that which was opposed to
them at Br aganza. We learn that th it number in-
creases every day ; at their approach every cou try
rises en masse; the peasantry arm themtels es ; tl etc
only teiriain old men to guard the houses. The weak
detachments of Corioituttonali,ts, which are not rallied
under the hanners of Don Miguel, find themselves cut
off fr• m t. treat, and edged in between the royalists and
the at rued • easaint y. Such is the ceivcel position of
Genet als Clareiinir and Correa Mello, who, n the ear' y
part of D...cember, wandered with some soldiers (lion
the ris hi bank of the D uro, without the means of
cros,i.•g it, the inhabitants of the left bank having
i licit ir eery means of embarkation. All retreat
urn o,rot to being impossible on account of the haul..
sections of 'lie inhabitants, the two Constitutional Welt
must cecessai Hy lay down their arms.
" According to accounts fom Lisbon th it capital
was, on the 6th, in the greatest confusion. Every one,
dreading the future, was endeavouring to quit a city
which in a few days might become the scene of 11 e most
terrible catastrophes. ' The Princess Regent had for-
mally ref used the asylum which had been offered to her
on board the English vessels; she had even declared
her formal intention of retiring to the Empress, her
mother. I c.ll confidently predict that the defection
will be general in the army, and even in the Cortes, as
soon as the Marquis of Chaves shall have arrived within
!2.5 o. 30 leagues of Lisbon. Then we shall see renewed
the scenes of 1813; every one will endeavour to treat
will him, except, perhaps, the men who, too openly
attached to the E•"glish party, have so far compromised
themselves as to be necessitated to leave the country.
"Some menacing words which, it is said, escaped Mr.
Lamb, lead to the belief that England wishes to profit
from the pto iotic ardour of the Portuguese, by attri-
buting to us its cause and its consequences; but we
;ersist in believing that the French esovernment, the
ttatural ally of ours, will not deceive itself upon the too
visible inteations of the Cabinet of St. James's. If
England persists in tendering us responsible for what
passes in Portugal, your Gover n tow (at least so we hope)
would assist us to reply to our common and perpetual
enemy. it will not forget, that, in more than one cir-
cumstance. Spain compromised its own interests by re
maining faithful to those of Trance. Europe knows
that, for these three years, we supported patiently all
the political insults of which it pleased England to
render us the victims. To annoy us she recognised the
independence f our colonies, after having furnished
succours of every kind to the insurgents of those coun-
tries; expeditions prepared on her soil, and paid by her
agenv, invaded our coasts ; it is to England that we
are indebted for having seen the flag of anarchy wave'
over us, when no act on trur part had provoked such
hostilities. Not only we did not complain, but our
Government pretended to be ignorant of the real cause
of these attacks. What, then, can England allege
against our 3.ivereign, whose conduct has been so noble
and so forbearing? Will she reproach him for having
wished to preserve us from the evils which the political
revolution of Portugal might bring on Spain? but
since, in 1823, England gathered upon her vessels and
upon her soil,Mina and other Spanish revolutionists,have
we not a right, in our turn, to give an asylum, in 1826,

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1826.
ST. STITIIZT7—HOLIDAY AT Tilt Base.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 801, and got up to 801 a for the
Account, and it was expected that, According to the information
contained yesterday in the French Papers, from Spain and Por-
tugal, that Consuls would have experienced a further rise ; but the
report from Bordeaux, of the taking of Oporto by the Insurgents,
hive impeded their rise. The Public are anxiously waiting for
direct informat. from Portugal, but which has not arrived up to
the present time. Since the opening of the Cansol market, they
have become heavy, and may now be quoted at 80i to I, with no
business of consequence transacting.
The Foreign market is very inactive, with little or nothing
doing, and most of the prices are nominal at present.
Current prices: Old Spanish 14, Mexicans 64b 65, Colom-
bian 341, Chilian 36 38, uvian 30 32, Portuguese 70 71, Hue-
sian 844, Danish 571 1, Greek 17 IL

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
Conank, which were In the earlier pert of the morning at 80',1
for the Account, have since kept steady at 801 to * during the
morning, with little or nothing doing.
The defeat of the Insurgents in Portugal in the Alemtejn has
been received at Paris, by the Telegraph from Madrid of the 18th;
and it is the opinion there an Expedition will arrive in time to pre-
vent further mischief.
Nothing doing in the Foreign Market of the least consequence.
FORKION TWo ircl.tock.
Colombian Bomb., 6 p Ct. %lex. Ronds.s per Ct. 531
De. Bonds, 1824,34 e Do. Acct. 54
Do. Acct. 34 Mex. lids 11425, f. p. Ct. 65 4/ /
Danish l'ontla,3 pet. 58* Do. Acct. 65 644
I 'o. Acc. Portuguese gds. 5pC 70
Greek Bonds, 5 p Cr. p t:.
Do. 80nd5,18'45,5 p C. 17/ 17 Ditto Acct. 84e
Do. Acct. 171 Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 12/
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHAMES, TWO O'CLOCK.
Anglo Mexican 100 80 51 50
Colombian 100 15 13/
United Alexican 40 27e 20
Protector Fire 20 2 1e
Canada Company 100 10 12/
EXCHANGES.
HAMBURGH, Dec. 19.—0 n London, 36. 2i. 2M. 35. 111.
Sr. PITIMSOURGII, Dec. B.—On London, 9 13-16.
WALLIN, Dec. is—ths London, 3 M 6. ti7e.
Ylgtoia, Ditc. 9.—Ott London. 2 M. 10. 2.

The French Government has been singularly unfor-
tunate in the choice of its late diplomatic agent in
Spain, as will be seen. from the official pieces we give
this day, and which were originally annexed to the Re-.
port of the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs.—r-
From the whole of those documents, it is clear that the
French Ambassador had scandalously abused the con-
fidence of his Superiors, and departed in the most
audacious manner from the spirit of their instructions.
It is, therefore, to be hoped, that a punishment, fully
equal t, the offence, will be meted out to him, as
otherwise his employers will be considered as either
lax in their political morals, or extremely wanting in
the firmness which their situation requires of them at
this time. His mere rtc is-evidently an inadequate
penalty; and should the French Ministers remain sta-
tionary at this point, they would inevitably subject
themselves to a suspicion, that their disavowal
of his conduct is not merely the effect of indignat7on,
as they are anxious that the world should believe.
—lt is the more necessary that they should free
themselves from all taint of secret connivance, as
they cannot possibly get over the charge of gross
negligence, in suffering such a man to remain s
long at a post, where the highest honour, integrity
temper and skill are necessary. How woefully de-
ficient he has been in all these requisites it is un-
necessary to say ; and yet he would have probably
retained his situation till now, had not the remon-
strances of the Portuguese Government recalled them
to a sense of their duty. Had not that Government
interposed with promptitude and energy, this diplomatic
firebrand might have involved Portugal in• an unextin-
guishable conflagration, and assimilated that kingdom
to enslaved and benighted Spain. Though the Fretie'r
Government might lament the pernicious example, it

would hardly fail to turn the event to its advantage
and it is the-m Ore incumbent upon it now, to set itself
right in the opinion of...mankind, by placing upon his
trial the person who dad all but reduced it to the di-
lemma.of having to chine between duty and selfishness.

In the mean time the safety of our oldest Ally is
not a problem, the solution of which depends any
longer upon a struggle between the wishes and duties
of the French Cabinet. From the favourable state of
the wind, a part of our armament must before now
have reached a theatre already immortalised by
British gallantry. The appearance alone of our brave
troops will be sufcient to put down this infamous
rebellion, and to scour the country of the rabble, who
disgrace Religion by the horrible excesses they commit,
and compromise legitimacy by the burlesque their motley
appearance throws upon it. As soon as theßritish stand-
ard—the signal of victory and freedom is seen proudly
fluting on the Portuguese territory, such of the inha-
bitants as are able to appreciate the advantages of their
present Government will rite to a man in its support.
At the same time, the army will be soon put ified and
reorganised; when reparation will be exacted from► the
Spanish GovernMent upon its os‘n territory, should it,
in reliance upon the sympathy of its Ultra friends in
France, or upon its own trickery, put it off so long.

Hamburgh Papers to' the 20th instant have arrived)
this morning, but their contents, in a political point of
view, are upon the whole uninteresting. They contain
intelligence from St. Petersburgh, which, besides other
matter, announces that the Russian Government is
assiduously employed at this time in introducing im-
provements into the administration of justice. It is
also states!, that General KUTASOW has resigned his
office as Director General of all the Military Schools,
and that General DEMIDOW succeeds him. Count
ARAKTSCHAGEFF, to whom, we believe, the colossal
scheme of the military colonies is due, and who had
superintended them from the egg till the development
they had attained about the time of the death of the Em.
peror ALEXANDER, is expected to return shortly from
his travels. These was a great deal of importance,
at the time, attached to his departure, and the cause
is still involved in much mystery. It will be recol-
!ected that a report fn m him on the subject of the
Military Colonies arpe.ased soon after the accession of
the present Emperor, in which he strongly recom-
mended their suppression. Whether it was drawn up
at the instance of the late Sovereign, whose confidence
he enjoyed in a presemineot degree, or of the present
Ruler, we have not heard ; but his resignation, and the
announcement of his intention to set out on his travels,
almost immeJiately followed. As he returns after
so short an absence, it is probable that he is restored to
entire favour, and that his administrative talents, which
are said to be of the very first order, will be again put
in requisition, lir the benefit of she empire. This last,
however, is only a sus mise of our own. There is no
news from the army in Georgia, and no other reference
to its operations, which the season has probably long
since suspended, beyond the statement that General
BENEKENDORFP has set out for that army, with a
special commission from the EMPEROR; but whe her
the mission is military or dplomatic undertaken

for the purpose of carrying on the war upon a
mine extended and vigorous scale, or terminating
it altogether, is not mentioned, though we should
not be surprised if the latter were the case,as the expenses
of a campaign in that wild and inhospitable region
must outweigh any advantages, in point of territorial
acquisition, that can accrue from the most un'n-
terrupted course of success. Besides the employment
of the Russian arms, in that remote quarter, must,
in some degree divert the attention of that Power

from objects of far greater interest, particularly in the
present circumstances of Europe ; and moreover, war,
by encouraging the independent spirit, which is
known to prevail in the army, cannot be very
agreeable to a Givernment, whose very existence
but very lately, was endangered by that spirit.—

A circumstance, however, is mentioned, from which it

would appear that Ressia, so fir from being intent on
circumscribing her ambitious views on the side of Per•
sia, is desirous of giving them a wider scope, having
already founded several Cossack villages on the Steppes
of the Caucasus ; and, it is added, that these establish-
ments are likely to prosper.

Jamaica Papers to the 24th of October. Several
warm debates have taken place in the Colonial Legis•
lature, upon the proposition of the British Ministry to
meliorate the condition of the Black population, which
met with much opposition by the islanders.

Mr. LAMITON has arrived at Naples; and according
to the latest accounts which have been received from bim, Lady
14011111 A Lamwron and the Wilily are quite well, while his own health
continues in a state of gradual improvement.
If a competent force of Cavalry is ordered from Ire-
land to yortugal, the command will, it is said, be confided to Sir
Coetausibus GRANT.

CONK ELECTION.—State of the Pall at its close on
Friday night—Mr. HUTCHINSON, 9121.111*. CALLAGHAN, 849
Majority, 63.
Sr.PETERSBUncIi, Dec. 9.—ln tl-e night of the 25th
ult. a dreadful murder was committed on a foreign
merchant, of the name of HOPPE, who has been estab-
lished here miny yens ; the perpetratuis are not yet
discovered.—The navigation is still open—the weather
is damp and mild.

A letter addressed to his Grace the Archbishop o:
CANTERSU EY, by his most gracious Alastar, directing his brace to
conimutricate to the Ilisimps in his diocess, that ft is the wish of
his MAJESTY that charity sermons be preached in all the parish
chtirches, for the aid of the manufacturing districts, which are re-
presented to his MAJESTY as still suffering the most severe distresses.
.—Oxford Herald.
WEbiTWORTH AND CO's LATE BANKINCHHOUSIL—
These extensive and valuable premises, situate in Low Ousegate,
Yorkshire, were submitted to the hammer on Thursday. There
was not much competition, and although they are said to have cost
£9,000, they were finally knocked down to COOK Coons TAYLOI,
Esq. for £3,550.
This is the anniversary of the birth of THOMAS GRAY,
the poet, 1716, and deaths of Dr. JOHN FOTHERGILL, physician,
1780, and Lord Kunz; 1783. Yesterday was that of the birth of
Sir IsAAc Newlin:, 1642, cud death of Sir MATISIItt• MALI, 1676.

VIE XMle

WIVDSOR, DFCFIIIIIM 25.
.

Yesterday, Sir WlLrisxi Kulat-and \lr. WATEos arrived at t! I•
Royal Lodge, on a visit to his t;
This forenoon, his NlA:ntsvr, attended by the Duke of Dos:ET
Sir Vio'st.tiast KIKPIPIL, Mr. WiasoN, with hi. household atteudert,'
heard Divine Service, at the New Chapel Royal. The il:shop
CrucHarrsa, assisted by the Dean of SALISBURY, officiated. otter
Divine Service his MAJZITY descended from his pew to the alt,„
where he received the Sacrament. administered with the uitt..i
solemnity by the Bishop df Cancun/KR.