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London, England, 1827-05-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

FROU TUB BTOILZ, DATZB SATT/RDATt 1.415.
PARIS, MAT 4.

Letters front Trieste, of 21st of April, say that a vessel
arrived in nine days from Syria, has brought the sews
that Lord Cochrane is chiefly engaged in persuading
the two assemblies of Egina and Castri to meet together
at a third place, and that he has represented that it was
necessary) above all things, to concentrate all their forces
Ito deliver Athens, and then to act against Negropont,
in order to become masters of Romelia. Every thing
possible for the execution of this plan was immediately
offered. The Candiots, who have been dispersed in the
islands, have been summoned to repair to the Isle of
Zea. The Greek steam-boat has captured two Turkish
merchantmen, laden with provisions

Letters from. Leghoro say, that the Bey of Tripoli
demands of Tuscany 4000 Spanish piastres for the re-
cognition of M. Rossini, the new Tuscan Consul. Two
Tuscan vessels having sailed some weeks since for
Tripoli, which were not commissioned to deliver this
p:esent, it is feared they may have been detained, and
hostilities commenced.
MADRID, Arm 23.

The Marquis ani Marchioness of Chaves have ar-
rived at Irun, where, it seems, they will remain till far-
ther orders. The Captain General of (3uipascoa had
them arrested as they passed through Hernani.

The English Government ha! caused some smuggling
vessels to be disarmed, which were under the British
gag, but were manned by Sardinians, Genoese, and
Spaniards, and had long cruised on the coast of the
country of Niebla, in Andalusia. One of these vessels
having attempted to avoid the execution of this measure,
has been brought into Gibraltar.
His Catholic Majesty has just given permission to a
merchant at Cadiz, to import four steam-engines manu-
factured in England, to facilitate irrigation, on payment
of a duty of one per cent. on the invoice price, under
whatever flag they may be imported. This measure
will be henceforward extended to all machines of the
kind, and to all instruments useful in manufactures
and agriculture, till they can be manufactured in the
Peninsula.

An inhabitant of Estremadura has just been authorised
to found a town by the name of St. Amelia, a desert
place,which has hitherto been the retreat of banditti.
PARTS, Shy S.
1111011 Tilt CONS fITUTIONNIM OW SAIDA!.

POLITICAL Raveata.—No one could imagine the
mission with which the new Spanish Ambauador at the
Court of England, who has been here for the last
month, has been charged at the French Court. Who
could conceive that the Spanish Government has ima-
gined an arrangement by which Portugal would be re-
united
to Spain, while by way of compensation,Mezico,
Guatimala, and other independent States, would be
ceded to the Emperor of Brazil? Do not imagine, that
previously to taking into consideration this senseless
project, either England or the Republics themselves
were consulted t the opinion of the Court of Madrid
was the only one by which M. Offalia came supported
to solicit the French Ministry's countenance. What
opinion are we to form of pretended Statesmen to whom
people dare to address such extravagancies ? And all
those fine projects were formed previous to the Ordi-
nance for the disbanding of the National Guard 1 The
love of justice cad love probably inspired the Camarillo
of Madrid. It is a remarkable fact, that M. Offalia ar.
rived here almost at the same time as M. Camacho,
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Envoy Extraordinary
from the Mexican Republic, and both stopped at the
same hotel. Another singularity is, that M. de Villele
is talking of the incredible project of giving Mexico to
Brasil, at the same time that he is negotiating with
M. Commie concerding the acknowledgment of the in-
dependence of Mexico.
The Moniteur, in its official part, publishes the Royal
Ordinance, countersigned by the President of the Conn-
ed, by which the resignation of the Duke de Doudeau-
vale is accepted. The portfeuilie of the King's House-
hold is conferred, par interim, to BATOIr de la Bouileries
Intendant of the King's Treasury.
Viscount Sosthene undoubtedly continues in the De.
partment of the Fine Arts.
There is no longer any doubt of the retirement of
M. de Chabrol.
Count St. Romanus, Peer of France, whose Monar-
chical principles are certainly not suspected, addresses
to-day a letter to the Quotidienne, signed by him and
all the officers of the Bth Legion of the Ex-Naiional
Guard, of which he was Colonel. He protests warmly
against the remarkable ealsounks, and the odious allega-
Ism circulated against this honourable Legion: " I
should despise them as far as they concern me person-
ally ; but I repulse them, and my former comrades do
the same, as far as the honour of a body, whose me•
mory will be ever dear to me, requires."
ELECTION or M. BIGNON AT ROUEN.—As we foresaw,
M. Bignon WAS declared, yesterday evening, at five
o'clock, by a large majority, as the Deputy for Seine
Inferieure, in place of M. Stanislaus Girardim. The
total number of voters was 967: in the first scrutiny,
M. Bignon obtained 760 votes. M. Duvergier de Ha-
manne, the other Constitutional Candidate, obtained 163
' votes ; seven votes were lost in consequence of the name
, of Bignon not being clearly written. Thus the Minis-
try were only able to obtain 87 votes. This, then, is
' a specimen of the majority of which Messrs. Villele,
Carbine, Peyronnet and Company, may boast. Let us
pray that the Electoral College of Mamers, imitating
that of Rouen, may send M. Dupin, sen. to sit at the
side of M. Bignon. Certainly all independent and Con•
' stitutional suffrages unite iii favour of that celebrated
' advocate and eminent orator.

IROM TIIR JouavAL RR FARM RP FRIDAY.
MADRID. Auu. 3.
(PROM A PRIYATR LLTTIR.)
"The Council of StAte has just proposed to his Ma•
jesty to appoint a Cotn,niitee sif win versed in the law,

from among the Members of the Council of Castle, to
draw up a new code for the practice .Of the civil tribu•
nail. This proposal of the Council is oldie highest ita.
pdrtance, for we have only one code, more voluminous
than that•of the Roman's before the time of Justinian,
composed of regulations almost contradictory, which
renders all causes brought before our tribunals inter-
minable.

" An officer who has lately arrived from the Havan-
nah has been sent with orders for General Vives. He
will embark at Cadiz

The Governor of the Council of Castile has just sent
a circular to the authorities of the kingdom, announcing
that a great many persons had come from Lisbon to
Spain, to excite troubles and disorders ; and his Excel-
lency calls on them to exert themselves to arrest these
persons, aid send immediately to Madrid those who
may be taken.'

• LISBON,• Aran U. •

• •

PRIVATZ LITIIIIL

',The alarm lately excited respecting public tranquil-
lity sad the safety of the new Order of things, by the
dangerous illness of the Priam, has now entirely sub-
sided. . General Clinton has by this time re-occupied
his snug quarters in the Bishop's Palace at Leyria—.
every regiment of the British Army remains in its former
cantonments. The. Queen has already heard of the
narrow escape which the Constitution made from the
blessings of her maternal kindness. She had got the
text of the charter ready ti produce in support of her
claims. The following are the articlus alluded to ; which,
had the aunt of the late King, Donna Maria Francisca
Benedicta, refused to act as Regent, would have left the
Ministers no other option respecting the Regency than
rebellion against the charter, or submission to the Queen
Dowager. 4 Article 92.—During the minority of the
King, the kingdom shall be governed by a Regency,
the right of which belongs to the nearest relative of the
King in the order of succession, and who has attained
23 yens of age. 4 Article 93,—1f the King have no
relative uniting these qualities, the kingdom shall be
governed by a permanent Regency named by the ge-i
neral Cones, composed of three Ministers, of whom
the senior shall be President.' Article such
a Regency be elected, the kingdom shall be governed
by a provisional Regency, composed of the two Minis-
ters of State, of the Interior and of Justice, aad two of
the senior Councillors of State, presided over by the Qaeen
Dowager; and in default of her, by the oldest Coun-
cillor of State. Don Miguel not having yet attained
the requisite age, besides being out of the kingdom, and
his two sisters residing in Lisbon being still younger,
there could, consistently with the Charter, have been
no ether alternative but a provisional Regency, with
the Queen at its head.

" I have seen a letter'fronean Officer in the Spanish
Guards at Causes, not far from the Portuguese fron-
tier, addressed to his brother at Elvas. This letter
states that a party of the Guards had been sent by
forced marches to Spanish Estremadura, and that an
additional force had been accumulating on the southern
frontier for some time. There is no question of the
fact. The Spanish Government, when peremptorily
required by that of Lisbon to give an explanation of
such conduct, after the pretence of an armed rebellion
on the frontier had been abandoned, stated that this
movement was entirely to be ascribed to the precau-
tionary policy rendered necessary by the advance of the
English army to the Tagus, and the concentration of
a Portuguese corps near Viten. The allegation was
flimsy; but the justification was received- The only
change in the position of the British army which
could be alleged, was the march of a squadron or two
from Leyria to Thomar. If this movement was not an
arragement of mere convenience, it was one occasioned
by the previous conduct of the Spanish Government.
The Portuguese Ministers, however, acting no doubt
by the advice of their allies, have professed their satis-
faction at this excuse; and it is to be hoped that they
will have no reason to repent of their continued for-
bearance. When one of the Governments in a dispute
adopts the Quaker-idea that the patty who gives the
blow is not to be blamed for the quarrel, but the party
who resents the insult or repels the aggression, nations
are in a fair way to realise the peace of the millenium.
Meantime it is reported in some diplomatic circles here,
that the insurrectionary proceedings in Catalonia not
having yet been subdued, and the difficulties of his po-
sition appearing to multiply, Ferdinand has of late been
listening with somewhat more of favour to those who
counsel a change of system.
" The packet which arrived yesterday from Fal-
mouth brought London papers to Saturday, the 14th.
Br them we have received the glorious intelligence of
die change of Administration. (here is but one feeling
here among Englishmen, of satisfaction and delight at
the triumph of Mr. Canning, one expression of admira-
tion at the noble firmness of the Kings•-and one prayer
that his Majesty may be able to sustain himself and his
Minister on the approbation of the country, against
all opposition."
LISBON, APRIL 24.
" Yesterday being the King of England's- birth
day, was celebrated here with the greatest en-
thusiasm, occasioned in part by the knowledge of the
courage which his Majesty had displayed in resitting
an aristocratic faction. All the British ships of war in
the river fired a salute at one o'clock, the Portuguese
vessels joining in the compliment, as it is the habit with
ours to join theirs on similar occasions. The merchant
vessels displayed their colours. The English Ambas-
sador gave a dinner to the Noble Admiral and to the
Naval Captains on this station, to the Consul General,
and to several other English Officers and private Geo-
tlemen who are now residing iu Lisbon. The pleasure
seemed to be general at Mr. Canning's success. In the
evening, the Opera was more numerously attended than
usual, owing to the same cause.
" The Commission apFointed by the proprietors of
the Batik to import into the policy of agreeing to the
measures of the Government for the loan, and giving
their op nion respecting the proprl.ty of increasing the

capital of the 'establishn
port. It decides posit'
creased of their capital,
decision of taking the
according to their view
Ifor such an operation. _

" Count Villa Elor

would see in the Lisboa

the Portuguese military force, which ma—de the wirild
amount to 50,000 men, and gave 211,000 for the regular
troops. The list is a gross exaggeration, and almost it
wilful perversion. The fact is, that if the Government
had 12,000 or 18,000 troops, sch as those formed by
Beresford, they would be quite sufficient, with the 8,000
or '7,000 English, to defehd the country against Spa,n,
and even to march to Madtid, if necessary, and if the
French. were away.
P.S. There. are papers from Oporto to the 21st
insCadte. Nothing of importance had occurred.
• • . . latielaTitY 01 .IrUsTtCl.
" The Princess Regent, In the name of the King, orders
to be sent to the Corregidor of the Comarca of °garde
(department) the enclosed copies of the decree of the
13th of June, by which her Highness has thought pro-
per to grant to all Portuguese subjects inculpated for
their political opinions or seditious act!, committed
from the 21st of J9ly last year to its publication, an
amnesty and general pardon, with the exceptions men.
tioned in it; and for the prompt and entire etecutinA
of the same, she orders all the Magistratt s and Judget
of the staid Comarca, in which there may be any
processes connected with individuals comprehended
in the dispositions of the said decree, to delver up with.
out loss of time, and in conformity to the laity all aca
cured persons, namely,—those of the militarf erdet
present, to the military authorities;, and those not mia
Wary, or military absent, to the Supreme Court pf the
district, that they may be competently tried.
" And that the spirit of perverae ingratitude and ins
fidelity may not be able lo make an abusive em-
ployment of this act of Royal clemency, to prepare
and perpetrate new crimes of sedition and revolt with
the hope of impunity, her Highness likewise orders;
that if any individual or individuals Int the future
dare to propagate 'editions opinions, or to perform any
act tending to excite to rebellion, and to tette., the hoes
tors of civil war, the Magistrates and Judges of the rea
spec:ive districts, in preference to all the other objects
of their charges, shall begin competent trials In the-
shortest space of time possible irons the perpetration of
the offence, and shall send them, along with the a:cused;
before the military authorities, or a competent criminal
tribunal, the said Corregidor being charged to commua
nicate promptly the decree above alluded to, and the
present order, to tire Magistrates end Judges
marca, and to watch over its faithful obsery•ance, giving
an account of the whole to the Seetttaaidrip of Sate.
Mined) " INFANTA KEGENTIL
" L }LDS MOURA CABROWI
" AMA, April 91.11127."