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London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

VIF.NNA, OCT. 22.

The following are the contents of the Decree of the Fourth Na-
tional Congress of Greece, dated 13th August, respecting the civil
list of the President, and the answer of the latter :

Considering that his Excellency the President, as well before as
since his arrival in Greece, has devoted to the service of the coun-
try the remains of his property, amounting to above a million of
Turkish piastres : considering farther that his Excellency, in con-
sequence of the deficiency of the public resources, has not accepted
the 12,000 tallaris (Spanish dollars) which the Parhellenion of-
fered him for his annual disbursements : sensible of the necessity
of furnishing bii Excellency with the indispensable means to main-
tain the dignity of his station, and to defray the charges of his
household :
The Fourth National Congress decrees—

Aar. 1. There shall be assigned to his Excellency the President,
J. A. Capo d' Isuias, for his annual expenses, the ►um of 180,000
pbeenixes in the national coin (30,000 Spanish piastres) from the
public treasury.
Aix. 2. The present Decree shall be inserted in the Codes of
the Decrees; and, after being confirmed, to be transmitted to the
Government, to be printed and carried into effect
Argos, Aug. 15, 1829. (Signed)
The President of the Assembly, SISSINI.
The Vice-President, G. MAUROMMATI.
(Here follow the remaining Signatures.)
ANSWER OF THE PRESIDENT.
Argos, Aug. 16, 1829.
" The Decree No. 9, of 13th August, which the Congress has
transmitted to me, fixes the income of the Head of the State.
" In the same decree the Congreu has regard to the little which

we have been able to do personally, in order to prove that the

Greeks should raise themselves by eacrilices, and not by personal
advantages, to the rank which the national independence and liberty
promise them.
" We esteem ourselves happy that we were allowed to deposit
the remainder of our swan property for so sacred a cause, on the
altar of the country.

" We are very far from not hoping that the nation will one day
be able to make it good to us; but till that time shall come, we
shall.carefully avoid burthening its finances by requiring the re-
payment of the sums advanced by us.
" We shall also decline to accept now the sum assigned for the
disbursements of the chief of the State ; and so long as our private
property shall suffice, we shall abstain from touching the public
• money for our wants.

" if the entire failure of our resources should compel us to it, we
shall have recourse to the public treasury ; but burthen it with
those expenses only, which the exercise of our functions renders
necessary.

" We have hitherto practised the strictest economy, and shall
continue to do so ; for we could nut prevail on onrse;ves to pro-
cure even those comforts of life, which suppose a state of prosperity,
while we stand amidst ruin, and are surrounded with whole classes
of population languishing in the profoundest misery.
" You, Gentlemen, participate in these sentiments, and have just
given a proof of it, by serving the nation in the character of its re-
presentatives without any retribution.
" We flatter ourselves with the hope that those smog you, who,
in the provisional administration, take a share in the Government;
as well as other citizens who may be called to such functions,
will ,perceive with ns that the public officers under present
circumstances, cannot receive salaries commensurate with their
rank or their services; but that such salaries must be strictly regn-

I.ted according to thepecunlary means which the Government can
, command•
(Signed)?. The President of Greece.
J. A. CAPO D'ISTRIAS.
VIENNA, Om 18.
The new loan at 4 per cent. was yesterday contracted for by our
Government with the houses Rothaildkl, Geymuller, Arnsteia,

Estelle', and Sins. The amount is said to be 25 millions of
florins currentine money. The primitive price is stated to
be 86 per cent. with the advantage of the coupon attached
to the obligation; so that the contractors do not pay more
than 84 1-3 d per cent. Notwithstanding this, and though 88 were
immediately offered on 'Change, the holders would not part with
any. It must be acknowledged that circumstances are extremely
favourable to them, as the rising of the 4 per Cent. bonds of Bith-
man, as well as the interest of the holders of Bank Shares, Ste.
nsu,t be favourable to the new paper currency ; for the higher that
is, the more will all other stock be likely to rise.
FRANKFORT, OCT. 27.—Exchange on London, 154—Frank-
fort Papers, Oct. 28.

The Hamburgh Papers to the 27th ult. contain the
following notices :

HAMBURGH. OCT. 26.

According to the last Bulletin .f the Physicians, of the ?Mb
his Majesty the ring of Sweden was so far recovered. as to be able
to apply to business as usual.

HAMBURGH, Oc.r. 27.
Borsen Hale, Four o'Clock.
A great deal has been done in Funds since Friday, and at higher
quotations. There were more sellers, &c. than buyers at the prices
below. Discount, 51 money : End of October.
Anglo Danish Loan, 5 per Cent.
Anglo Russian Loan
Hamburgh Ditto 961
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares
Austrian Metalliques
=CYAN/3U 0$ LONDON.
HAustratur, OCT. 27 —l3 11 ; Two Months, 13 91.
Lursw, OCT. 25.—Three months, 61!
Baum. 24.—Three Months, 6 271.
Pwrzasauests. Ocs. 13.-10 11-16ths.
STOCIMOLM, OCT. £O.-90 D. 11 40.—Ilomb. Papers, Oct. 97.

The recognition of Don Mu; UEL by his uncle PER-.

DINAND, for which we were prepared by the late ac-

courn s from Portugal, has been officially announced in

the Lisbon Gazette, of which we gave an extract yester-

day. Having frequently expressed our opinion on the
probability of this incident in the infamous drama

now passing in Portugal, its announcement occa-
sions no surprise. The Lisbon Correspondent of
the Journal desDalats, dated on the 17th of last month,
says that ASSEC A'S last despatches intimated to the
usurper that the example of Spain would soon be followed
by England. It is added that DA PoNT A—the emissary
of M isL at Paris—holds out the same hopes with re-

Bard to the French Cabinet. Not satisfied with
crediting our Ministers for their yet unavowed inten-
tion to follow the example of recognition thus

exhibited by Spain, whose natural tendency is
to make common cause with an ally like Mi-

GUEL, it is very generally asserted, both at Paris and
London, that the Cabinet of Madrid has been secretly
urged to the recent act, by the apostolical portion of our
government—the better to justify, at the proper period,
the course on which themselves have resolved.
Such is the substance of the reports in circulation.
Now, while we offer it as our sincere conviction that the
Duke of WELLINGTON, Prince POLIONAC, and Lord
ABERDEEN, are most anxious to follow the example of
Spain—not merely in her recognition of the monster whose
crimes we have held tip to the world's execration, but in
every other measure, having for its object to extinguish
freedom—we shall not give credence to the designs now
imputed to them, till the fact actually takes place.
If it be asked on what ground our opinion is formed
—our reply is, that the public feeling—both here
and in France —is too strongly opposed to such a
measure, to render its adoption compatible with their
continuance in power. Tnat the Noble Duke and the
Noble Earl are prepared to make any sacrifice for such
a consummation, their voting in favour of Catholic
Relief, after having been so long its bitterest opponents,
is an astounding proof.
With regard to FERDINAND, we are con-
vinced that so far as he is personally concerned in the
act of recognition, it has been no more his, than it has
been the Great Moo yr.'s. Depraved as his other pro-
pensities may be, is it in the nature of things, that
a man who knows and feels, that his own Crown
may ere long be usurped by a brother, would sanction
a measure which so fully justifies the project of
placing Don CARLOS on the throne of Spain ? It
is notorious that King FERDINAND has no power
whatever beyond the precincts of his Palace : nor need
all those, who are at all acquainted with the state of the
Peninsula, be told, that the recognition of the Usurper is
purely and exclusively an act of the Apostolicals.—
Knowing, as they do, that the establishment of
Donna MARIA in Portugal, would interfere with their
nefarious projects —if indeed it should not totally
upset their power—what wonder at their anxiety to pro-
long the sway of their tool and creature at Lisbon ?

Little more than a week has elapsed since we

drew the public attention to an article in the
Times, which represented the recognition as a mat-
ter of State necessity, and called for by all the " inte-
rests of commerce." Having on that occasion—as our
read#rs can attest for us—triumphantly demolished a
doctrine in every way so worthy of IGN ATIUS LOYOLA,
we were not unprepared for some such passage as the
following, which we find mixed ap with other matter
this morning :
"THE EXAMPLE OF TILE COURT OF SPAlN"—says
the Times—" MUST BE FOLLOWED BY OTHER
STATES, if nothing happens in the interval to inspire
hopes of the better cause and the superior title of the
young Queen. Nations cannot be excommunicated for
the crimes of their Princes; and so long as the relations
of business are to be kept up, we must maintain the
usual channels of diplomatic intercourse." But, one more
sentence : for it is characteristic—more than any thing
which has yet fallen from his pen of the morality of our
Contemporary—" Usurpation, by long undisturbed conti-
nuance, is purged of the vices of its origin, and be-
comes, so far as national intercourse is concerned, legi-
timate authority."
In all the Miguelite Journals, who notoriously draw
their subsidies from AssEcA, we have not met with any
thing so flagrant as this. They maintain the legi-
timacy and the virtues of MIGUEL ; but this
writer—admitting that he is a blood-stain e

usurper, a perjuror, and a foul oppressor—compounds
with the ROYAL FELON, and votes honour and recog-
nition to crimes which disgrace humanity ! Verily he
merits—in a degree far higher than he for whom it was
destined—the diamond cross brought home in the Sand-
wich Packet by CARLOS MATIIIAS, for a much less
downwright advocate of blood and tyranny.
But while the Portuguese Patriots—both in London
and Paris, and throughout Portugal—are loud in their
cries agaiast the abandonment of their cause by the Times,
we entertain no apprehension for the consequences. We
only lament that such a prostitution of high talent and
contempt for public principle should prevail, at a moment
when the dearest interests of our country more than
ever require that both should be unsullied and co-operant.

A private letter from Paris states, that the Countess
VILLA FLOR is about to join her gallant and heroic hus-
band at Terceira. The Countess is to be accompanied to
the port of embarkation by the Marchioness DE
LOULE, sister of the Usurper. Our correspond-
ent further dates, that the Marquis of PALMELLA
has been most favourably received by the Prince
DE POLIGNAC, who has treated with his Excel-
lency as the official representative of her Majesty
DONNA MARIA.

CITY. TwitLys o'CLock.

Consols, which left air yesterday at 91 for Money, and 91 to I
for the Account, opened at the same price this morning ; but at
present may be quoted a shade higher, 91i to * for the Account,
with little doing as yet.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing u yet.
CITY, HALF-PAST ONE.

We are still without the arrival of the Harnburgh or Dutch

steamers, consequently we have no intelligence from the Continent
to communicate. This being a holiday at the Bank, no money
transactions are going forward in the Funds; but Consols are
steady, and improving. Consols, which were in the early pan of
the morning at 91i for the Account, may be quoted at int buyers
and 91+ to for money.
Our Foreign Market is void of interest, with not much doing:
but there is a small improvement in most of the Foreign Securities:

We have received Jimmies Papers by the Packet to
Sept. 8, this morning.—(From the Courant of the 3d : )
We understand it to be the intention of the Lords
of the Admiralty to join the North American and West
India naval station, under the command of a Rear-Admi-
ral. Bermuda to be the head-quarters; but as the dock-
yard there will not be ready until next year, it is re-
ported that Admiral Fleming has had the option of
remaining for 12 months longer, but has declined. The
command of this station was offered to two distinguished
Admirals, both of whom declined ; the principal objec-
tion made by these officers, was the ruinous state of the
Admiral's pen, which induced the Lord High Admiral
to direct, that the present naval Commander-in-Chief
should not make a permanent residence in any particular
island, so that the benefit which Jamaica has hitherto
exclusively derived by the residence of an Admiral, will
now be shared by the other islands."
CUROACOA, AUG. 29, 1829.—The Barham will be
ready for sea by the middle of next month. The Mer-
sey came in from Antigua and Martinique two days ago;
she is going to Trinidad with the Grasshopper. The
Kangaroo goes to Maracaybo, for documents required by
the Kingston merchants, and will proceed with them to
Jamaica. The Icarus takes this. She has been over to
St. Thomas's to enquire after the pirate that plundered
the Admiral Benbow in February last. It is reported
that the vessel which committed that outrage returned to
Guadaloupe two months ago, with a cargo of slaves,
and from there went to St. Bartholomew, the recep-
tacle for all such ruffians. When the Mersey
was at Martinique, the new Governor, Admiral
Freissenette, arrived there, and was very well
received. After th 3 High Mass at church he is
reported to have thanked the people for his flatter-
ing reception, and told them that he was sent there to
bring them back to the obedience of the laws, and re-
minded them that although colonists, they were still
French citizens and must obey the laws of that country in
the same manner as if they resided in one of the depart-
ments. He is reported to have ordered the Procureur
de Roi to confiscate all the slaves not registered, which
will amount to about five thousand. If the penalties are
exacted they will amount to an immense sum of money.
The Governor of Guadaloupe is likewise recalled. If
the French will put down the Slave Trade in earnest the
Spaniards and Portuguese will soon give it up, and the
commerce of the world will be free from molestations to
which it is now subjected, from the demoralized marauders
engaged in that infamous Lraffic.
FROM TILE JAMAICA COURANT, AUG. 27.—We
are happy to learn that the whole of the officers of 33d
regiment, with one exception, who have been for several
months past under arrest, have been released. Two of
the officers will he sent to other regiments ; and we hope
all that has passed will have the effect of restoring har-
mony to a regiment remarked for its gallantry in the
field, and for its orderly conduct in quarters.
We understand, that in consequence of the interference
of Mr. Watts, the British Consul at Carthagena, Mr.
Miller, who was sentenced to death, has received a free
pardon from Bolivar, and to quit Colombia.
MONTEGO BAY, Ave. I.—Wednesday, about two
o'clock, this town and neighbourhood were visited by a
sudden squall, accompanied by rain from the North east,
which broke down several Maringo fences adjacent to this
office. The vessels in the harbour sustained some injury.
The brigantine Ranger broke adrift, and the Mary Ann
was damaged ; almost every vessel started from her
moorings.
FROM THE ADVERTISER OF TII E 3D.—We understand
the Law Officers of the Crown have given opinions that
some of the Islands not having complied with the terms
of their charters, have lost their right to them ; but hav-
ing been given by the King in Council, the difficulty will
now be as to the mode of Parliamentary interference.
The Jamaica Mail does not bring any further accounts
from the Spanish Expedition in Mexico, that we have
already given to the public.
A vessel has arrived from Bengal with dispatches,
sailed 9th of June. This is not so late as after arrivals,
which we have previously announced from that quarter ;
and on this occasion we do not find that there is any news
of importance from the East.
LIVERPOOL MARKET, Nov. 2.—A very fair business
continues to be done in British Plantation Sugar; the
sales this week amounting to 900 hogsheads, at ready
prices, besides 300 bags of fine white Bengal. Nothing
has been done in Foreign Sugars. We continue to
experience a very good demand for Cotton, and prices
keep steady, except for lower qualities of American,
which have been rather forced on the market, at a de
cline of a halfpenny per lb. There is little doing at
present in Indigo.

TABLE TALK,

HISTORICAL. POLITICAL, LEARNED. mid HUMOROUS.

Pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, auda-
cious without hnpudeney, learned without opinion, and strange
without heresy."—Susismas.
AN EXEMPLARY CHIEF JUSTICE.—Sir EnmuND
ANDERSON, who was made Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas in 1582, was a very strict lawyer, and
governed himself entirely by the statutes. We have his
express declaration that he neither expected precedents
in all cases, nor would he be bound by them where he
saw they were not founded upon justice, but would act as
if there were no such precedents. In the Reports of hi.,
time, published by GoLDEsBoROLIGH, we find the fol-
lowing: —" The case of RESCAIT was moved again; and
SiIuTTLEwoRTII said, that he could not be received,
because he was named in the writ ;' and added, that he
had searched all the books, and there was not one case
where he, which is named in the writ, may be received:
What of that ?' said Judge AN DERsON ; shall we
not give judgment because it is not adjudged in the book.:
before? We will give judgment according to reason ;
and if there be no reason in the books, I will not regard
them.' "
ORIGIN OF THE SPINNING .JENNY.—" Sir RicH AR:,
ARKwRIGHT raised himself from one of the humblest

stations in life to opulence and rank. He began the
world as a penny barber at Manchester ; and by un-
common genius and persevering industry, he perfected a
system of machinery for spinning cotton, that had in
vain been attempted by many of the most eminent and
skilful mechanics of the 17th and 18th centuries; and
which, by giving perpetual employment to many thou-
sand families, was productive of great commercial ad-
vantages to W.s country. The machine is called " The
Spinning Jenny." In 1786 he served the office of High
Sheriff for the County of Derby, and was knighted on
carrying up an address to the king. Sir RICHARD
ARKU RIGHT left behind him property to the amount of
half a million sterling."
It would be well if those who mistake personal vitupe-
ration for political opposition, and resent the measures of
the Minister by invidious and ungenerous allusions to the
origin of the man, were to emulate the example of public
utility and honourable industry which they affect to
despise. It would be well for ENGLAND, if amongst
her" monied men" she could boast of more such characters
8S Sir RICHARD ARK W RIG lIT and SirROBERT PEEL.
CHIVALROUS COMPLIMENT.—When Lord ANSON

commanded the Channel Fleet in 1747, he captured six
French men-of-war and four East Ind;amen. Of the
ships of the line which ho took, one was called " The
Invincible," and another " The Glory ;" and when the
Commander of the first came to surrender his sword, he
thus addressed the victorious Admiral—" Monsieur, yetis
avez vaincu l'lnvincible, et la Gloire vous
CLERICAL COURTESY, AND CANDOUR.—There is a
pleasant story related of LA UNCELOT Au DREW A, Bishop
of Winchester, in the life of WALLER, the Poet, who,
going to see the King (JAMES I.) at dinner, overheard a
very extraordinary conversation between his Majesty,
the Bishop of Winchester, and NEALE, Bishop of Dur..
ham. These two prelates, standing behind the King's
chair, his Majesty asked them, " My 'Ards, cannot I
take my subjects' money when I want it, without all this
formality in Parliament r The Bishop of Durham rea.
dily answered, " GOD forbid, Sir, but you should ; you
are the breath of our nostrils." Vhereupon the King
turned, and said to the Bishop of Winchester, " Well,
my Lord, what say yon ?" " Sir," replied the Bishop,
I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases." The
King answered, " No put offs, my Lord ; answer me
presently." " Then, Sir," said he, " I think it lawful
for you to take my brother NEALE'S money, for he
offers it.—"

MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTs.--Princes usually
make wiser choices than the servants whom they trust for
the disposal of places. I have known a Prince more
than once choose an able Minister ; but I never observed
that Minister to use his credit in the disposal of an em-
ployment to a person whom he thought the fittest for it.
—SwIFT.— Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Any ANTAG ES OF SATIRE.—Such productions of wit
and humour as have a tendency to expose vice and folly,
furnish useful diversions to all kinds of readers. The
good or prudent man, may by these means, be diverted
without prejudice to his discretion or morality. Raillery,
under such regulations, unbends the mind from serious
studies and severer contemplations, without throwing it
off from its proper bias. It carries on the same design
that is promoted by authors of a graver turn, and only
does it in another manner. It also awakens reflection
in those who are the most indifferent in the cause of
virtue or knowledge, by setting before them the absurdity
of such practises as are generally unobserved, by reason
of their being common or fashionable : nay, it sometimes
catches the dissolute and abandoned before they are
aware of it, who are often betrayed to laugh at them-
selves, and upon reflection find that they are merry at
the:r own expence.---` Freeholder,' No. 45.
LITERARY SYCOPIIANTS.—Some authors, rather
than not flatter, will commend a man for what he ought
to be blamed.—Tom BROWN'S Short Amusements.'

By the Jamaica packet we have received letters from
Bogota, of the 14th Aug. which confirm the peace be-
tween Colombia and Peru, and the public place full con-
fidence in the liberator Bolivar. The internal state of
the country is daily improving. Application has been
made to Bolivar from the Mining Company, for leave to
export ore to England, which has been granted.
An association similar to that of Paris and other places,
for offering legal resistance to the levy of taxes not voted
by the Chambers, if such an attempt should be made, has
been formed in the department of the Aube, under the
denomination of " Association Troyenne."
BRIGHTON, Nov. 2.—Lord HOLLAND occupies one
of the largest houses on the New Steyne, where the
hospitality peculiar to this amiable and excellent Noble-
man is constantly sustained, and Lady HOLLAND is every
evening "at Home." What are called the Whig Nobi-
lity and Gentry are here in great force—The Duke of
Bedford, Earl Jersey, Lord Nugent, Lord Glengall,
Earl Dudley, George Tierney, But. M.P. James Bar-
nett, Esq. the eminent banker; Ralph Bernell, Esq.
M.P. Marquis of Bristol, Stewart Rose, Esq. Colonel
Craddock, Mr. Mandeville, Lady Lyndhurst, the Mar-
chioness of Downshire, Lady Dudley, Lady Burdett,
Countess of Jersey, and Lady Holland, were all on the
promenade this morning.
A decision of the Minister of the Interior, notified to
the directors of the theatres, informs them that they are
not to perform pieces in honour of the King on the day of
his fete.—Messager des Chambres.
The eldest son of General BLUCHER died on the 10th
of October, at Koepenick. This officer held the rank of
Major-General. He died after protracted sufferings, in
consequence of the dangerous wounds he had received in
the campaigns of 1813.
Friday the Special Commission at Cork terminated
without any further trials. Those persons untried are to
remain in prison until next Assizes.