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war against Spain, the latter would march an arm
into Portugal; and the five or siz thousand soldiers at
General Cl,nton, would, in that case, have to combat,
in addition to 40000 Portuguese. who will soon be
under the walls of Lisbon, 90,000 Spanish troops. Mr.
Lamb has felt that such a •struggle would be by no
means an equal one.
Although M. de Casa Flores, the Spanish Aml
sador at Lisbon, has beets received by the Regent.
departure of M. de Villa Real for Madrid has b
impended.

FROM TOR JOOSNOL Ras OMITS or MOOT.
MADRID, ..TAx. I.
Oar VATB CORRZSPOWRZNCE).
M. Calomarde was slot received by the If e,
today or yesterday. It appears, however, that.
displeasure of his Majesty towards that Minister ds
not proceed from, bis conduct in his department, la
Oat tais disgrace cumulates from the circusastanee.er ,
great number of the original orders which welt sent*
the captains General commanding she Provieces as
the ffontiers of Portugal, as well as meestresuida of the
rensaiader having fallen into the hands of Mr. Lamb.
One thing is certain—by whateier hand they have been
furnished to him, that Minister is loaded with authentic
*consents to prove, if need require, the conduct of our
Ministry, and there is no doubt that suspicion attaches
OD the noployes in the Department of Grade and Justice.
ler the whole of the subaltern Officers of that Depart
meat have been dismissed,
_and the Secretaries them-
selves are obliged to perform the whole of the duty ;
and, as an additional security, they are pl. ced in
such a way that they cannot communicate with each
other, that they may be kept in ignorance of one ano
ther's labours.
'Exclusive of the troops that have already set nut feu
the Frontier, from Akantara, under theordets of Majo
General Rodil, the 2d Regiment of Infantry of the
Guard, and another regimeut of Provisional Grenadiers,
are about to set out in the direction of Badajox.
Two companies of Artillery have left Seville for the
sate quarter, and other corps that are scattered up and
down that part of Andalusia, have received, it is sad,
Milers to march thither also. According to public re-
port, the command in chief will be committed to Lieu.
tenant General &infield, one of the best officets iu the
Spanish army.
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run wit COMITOTIONNOL OF rua&Y.
MApRID, JANUARY 1.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
The departure of the two Swiss regiments is positive,
and those troops, whose preparations for their niarcl.
are complete, will set out about the 21 st inst. It is
worthy of observation, that upon the arrival of a French
Cabinet Courier, who came here on the 29. h ult, a re
port spread abroad that our Government and yours,
were agreed upon cettain points, which would prevent
the departure of the Swiss. This report, however, which
originated amongst the persons whp visit General
IYArbao4l Jouqeek and the Military lutendant Oh
-Brigade is utterly without foundation, and haslbeen
circulated with a-design ; for those who know the con-
ditions upon which alone the Swiss can remain at
Madrid, also know well that our Government will never
agree to them, and of consequence any letigthened so-
journ of these troops is quite impossible.
The • garrison of liampeluna, we hear, is also to be
withdrawn; but the departure of the Swiss will ap
parently give rise to a question altogether new: for it
is affirmed that our Government,when it was threatened
with the withdrawal of the Swiss, replied, that in the
event Of these two corps leaving Spain, the French'
Government must, of necessity, also withdraw its gar
resorts from the fortresses. While waiting the solutio
of this question, which every day becomes more com-
plicated, our Government has thrown itself upon the
royalist volunteers, and as all its hopes rest upon that
force, they have been enrolled for general service, like
the troops of the line. This measure, however, is very
ill liked, and the. volunteers of Madrid, although the
most ultra in the kingdom, will not, any more than the
rest, sign an agreement, which would convert them into
real soldiers; for in assuming arms, they had, ip
general, no other object but to clothe themselves with
a uniform, which might permit them to gratify their
hatred, and their revenge, reserving always to them-
selves the power of throwing it off whenever fatigue o
danger should be the consequence of wearing it. Th
result of this disposition of mind has been that, when
the volunteers were summoned to the house of Mr.
Villsmil to carol their names; a great many refused
and renounced a uniform which circumstances in future
might make it dangerous to wear. •
The whole of the disposable troops both of the guar
and of the line, have been ordered to the frontiers of
Portugal, but the desertion in these corps is frightfu
and especially in those of the guard ; some of which,
the very second. darof their march, had already foul
third part of their effective strength. A great many
people affirm, that these pretended deserters join. the
Marquis of Chaves, and that means have been cons
trived, by this trick, to send him prompt and efficacious
succour, without the possibility of objection being Made
by England or Portugal. It was in this way that the
squadron of cavalry that left Campo Mayor, contrived
to join him.
PARIS, JTAROART 11.
The English Journals of the 9th January, which we
have received by Express, announce the sudden and un-
expected departure for Paris of the Prince de Polignac -
the French Ambassador. This is generally attributed,
to political causes of the highest import. It is said,,
that his absence will not be longer than fifteen days.'
A private letter from London, written by an English-'
man, whose place in society gives him opportunities of
being well informed, was communicated to us yesterday.
It states, that from the turn that the internal affairs of
Franey appear to be taking, and from the evident pre-J
dominance which the Apostolics of that country possess
over the Councils of the Ministry, but little confidence
is reposed in the outward protestations of the French
Cabinet, Tor the maintenance of peace, and that what is
at present going on in Paris, is regarded as the evident
result of a secret connivance with the Spanish and Poe-
tuguese Juntas. England, adds the letter, canna,
o bile the state of affairs is thus flagrant, remain in a
continual state of uncertainty with respect to the inters•
lions of the French Cabinet ; which, while it yields to

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