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This morning dispatches were received at the Foreign
()thee, in Downing-street, from Lord STUART DE
lto Fussy, our Ambassador at Paris; and from his
Excellency Sir CHARLES .BAOOT, our Ambassador at
the Hague.
This morning, also, dispatches were received at the
Colonial Office, from Lieutenant-General the Honour-
able Sir G. L. COLE, Governor of the Cape of Good
!Tope ; and from Lieutenant-General DARLING, Go-

vernor of New South Wales, whose dispatches are dated
the '6th of June.

The Constitutionnel—in an article upon Eastern mat-
ters—says that the Journals in this country are resorting
to misrepresentation when they speak of the treaty of
Adrianople, ". for the purpose of saving British honour,.
which has been compromised by. eirery late event in the
East." He goes on to remark, that if the Western Ge-
nerals—of whose reported insurrection we hear no emir,
1i: illation—adhere to the conditions of that treaty, &g-
-1 ut(' may see the moment when her influence shall cease
;n the Levant. We are but too convinced of the accu-
r tey of these opinions ; nor have we relaxed from pressing
Gcra upon the consideration et 'Ministers day after day
—riot merely since the arrival of that extraordinary do-
cument in this country, .but throughout the whole pro-
.c7res3 of the Russian successes, pari passu with their
alarming development.

The Briton, 46, Captain the Honourable WILLIAM
Go ituoN, arrived at Spithead on Wednesday, in twelve
days, from Lisbon. She brings the same everlasting
account of misery and disorganisation from that unhappy
country. The treasury of the Usurper is bankrupt,

and yet —in proportion to the failurd of his
resources—he seems to be' redoubling the ferocity
of his persecutions. More than twenty-five thou-
sand of his victims are now groaning in the dungeons:
even for those who are at large there is no security;
either for life or property ; but rape, robbery, and mur-
der devastate the capital nightly. The Briton carried
out Mr. MACKENZIE, who was lately nominated onr
Consul at Lisbon. When she anchored in ',the Tagus,
she saluted the Portuguese flag with nineteen guns, and
hoisted the standard of Portugal at her ritizen. This
act of customary courtesy—which is an understood
compliment to the nation, whose hospitality the entering
ship receives—Don MIGUEL'S vanity, or that of' his
parasites for him, interpreted into an intimation that a
royal salute would not be withheld from him. He em-
barked, accordingly, at Belem, in a beautiful state barge,
with the standard which belongs to Donna MARIA
hoisted proudly at his main ; and crossed the river
is one of his country houses, amid salvoes from the
Portuguese ships and batteries, itassing—as if to pro-
voke a like homage from the Briton—almost close
alongside her in his way. But the decks of the British
vessel exhibited no bustle—not even one detectible sign
that she had cognisance of his approach: the brother
of Lord ABERDEEN, with all his officers, kept below,
and the marine sentries with hands instinctively
placed upon their firelocks stared at him from the
desert gangway. His rage at this reception is stated to
have been unbounded : that the brother of the Noble Earl
--his main support in England, and sole source of all his
hope to be recognised in Europe—should have put upon
him such a public insult, he could hardly bring himself
to believe. The cause of this conceited monster was
never at so low an ebb as it is at present : the spirit
manifested at Terceira has communicated itself to all the
mass of intellect and patriotism which has been so long
smouldering in Portugal, and the lightest incentive
now may ignite the materials into explosion. In propor-
tion as the perfidious tyrant's unpopularity increases, the
adherents of Donna MARIA multiply, and gain daily
confidence. Yet, it is at this juncture, that we receive
intelligence to-day of his RECOGNITION by the Kura of
Spain, and the preeentstion of their credentials at the
respective courts, by the ministers of the congenial
despots !

The UN N AT U RA L, whom it is forbidden to particularise
among Journals--provoked by the statement which appear-
ed last week concerning the sixty-eight thousand milieu
-has not been able to keep the secret of his own bribery.
He protests that not a shilling of Assac A's money ever
found its way into his office. This is very possible ; and

yet, notwithstanding all that he says, there is no doubt
that much of it thund its way.into his pocket. The re-
gularly recurrent Arapenlogy every Sunday, proves that
he is even yet on full allowance; how else can we account
foi his calling Assac.e. Exoeltency: and Micmac
" King"—when he knows, as the iiVected Addresser
has it, that be is " telling two lies in one broth" by doing

so ? How else can we account for his rancorous hosti
lity to all that is noble, generous, and unfortunate ? How
else for his unfainting perseverance in courses which are
so detestable and detested by all right-feeling persons, as
his courses are ? No ; it will take a cleverer logic than
that of which he is master, to persuade us that his deserts
have been so neglected by the perspicacious emissary,
whose soft ears he tickles with the title of Ambassador.
But what could the UNNATURAL be thinking about,
to challenge attention so unnecessarily, by putting this cap
upon his head ? The paragraph in the Timeswas a random
paragraph, without any individual direction, till the guilty
blockhead started forward, and gave it a personal application
to himself. Milreas cannot be mentioned in his hearing,
but straight his accusing conscience flies in his face, and
suggests that they must be the Milreas which he received
—when in truth some of our Morning contemporaries had
as good right to wince as he, though none of them have
done such dirty work for the money ! On what fair
characters has he not left the toadstools of his malignity ?
Into what pure bosoms has he not struck deep—
for hire—the dagger of his assassin calumny ? Well
might he put in his title to pre-eminence of bribe,
as he does, by reminding us of his pre-eminence in vil-
lainy. ASSECA—he says—could, not have omitted to
offer some of the " Milreas" to ti Im, if his habit had
been to pay for' panegyric, since his was the first and
only paper which vindicated a cause too damnable for
others to take up, until they were encouraged by his foul
gains and foul example. That such a slave as this should
talk about repelling a falsehood, and disproving venality,
when it is notorious that he is a retained liar and salaried
slanderer in the cause of crime and usurpation—that he
should affect squeamishness, when mendacity and jouraalr
prostitution are made the objects only of general allu-
sion—does but illustrate the tyranny of conscience over
natures even completely diabolised

Suspicion always bunts the pilty mind—
The emu dotb fear each bush in Corr.

Accounts brought by the packet just arrived from Rio
Janeiro, represent the . commerce and public credit in a
state of progressive improvement. Great preparations
were making to receive the Imperial Bride as well as
DONNA MARIA. As to DON PEDRO, his sentiments
with regard to the Usurper of Portugal had undergone
no change, and not a doubt was entertained of his deter-
mination to espouse the cause of his daughter in a manner
somewhat more persuasive than by Manifesto and State
Papers.

We have received German Papers this morning, but
they:do not contain matter of much public importance.
By the Frankfort Papers of the 12th instant, it would
appear that the country of the Grisons has been devastated
by such anotheiflood as lately laid waste so great an ex-
tent of surface in North Britain. The Allgemeine Zei-
tung of the 13th gives an interesting account of certain
improvements in naval tactics by the CROWN Pat xcE of
Sweden. The following are our selections:

FINANCES OF DON MIGUEL.
LISB—VI77Ocr S.
I have before informed you that the Tobacco contract
was fanned for the years 1836, 31, and 32, for three
millions of cruzados (D 50,000). The contract was to take
effect in 1830, MIG UEL'S Ministers having first insisted
on the payment of one year's rent in advance for the expe-
dition against Terceira. Five weeks had,however, scarcely
elapsed when a quarter's rent of 1831 was insisted on.
Apprehensive that similar demands would follow, the con-
tractors are attempting to raise a loan of two millions
sterling in London. For this they offer the whole of the
tobacco duties, and their personal property as a guaran-
tee for the payment of interest, &c. The idea of such
a fraud, still worse than that of Aguado and Guebard in
behalf of FERDIN•ND of Spain, is worthy of the per-
sons who could enter into a contract with the present
ruler of Portugal. It was on condition that the contract
should be continued for twelve years that the parties
took it up. There is every reason to believe that no
English capitalists have been found quite so soft as to listen
to the proposal. If there should be such, it is as
well to inform them, that the revenues on the to-
bacco thus offered, was pledged for the payment of
the loan contracted in 1823 !—They should also know,
that any contract made with the Usurper is null and void,
before his recognition. It is almost needles" to say, that
one of the first measures of the Legitimate government,
will be a total abrogation of all his acts: and it will be
well for those who have upheld his tyranny, if they only
lose their property: !
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
CADIZ. OcT. S.
One of the most extraordinary- acts connected. with "
the system of Government adopted by Ferdinand, is the
converting this place into a free port. Do notimagine,
however, that it has arisen from any feeling' f liberality.
It originated solely in the rapidly increasing poverty and
decay of a city, which was once the great emporium of
Spanish commerce.' Indeed, had not this measure been
resorted to, Cadiz would soon have become a heap of
ruins. As you may well suppose, the new privilege has
already infused new life into the inhabitants, nor can it
fail to produce consequences highly favourable to the
developement of those elements of prosperity and free-
dom. which Spain possesses in a more eminent degree
than most countries of Europe.
With respect to the general state of the country,. it_ is
wretched in the extreme, nor can it be otherwise with a
.despotism in which the government and priesthood are
so closely united for the purposes of oppression and
plunder. Had it not been for the French invasion, one
of the most iniquitous aggressions of modern times,
Spain would have made rapid strides both in civilization
and commerce ; as it is the determination of all classes to
shake off the present yoke is unalterable : if they
assume an apparent resignation, it arises from the fear of a
second attack from the same quarter, and a conviction that,
as in the former case, the Ministers of England would
look on with the same indifference as they did before,
and tamely suffer all the great principles of justice and
public law to be violated with impunity. From inquiries
made in the best informed quarters relative to the way in
which the crusade against the Cdnstitution was con-
ducted, I am enabled to declare that the success of the
invaders was alone due to bribery on the one side, and
the influence of a fanatical priesthood on the other.
I have been told, as an undeniable fact, that in every
town attacked by the French, large sums had been
previously distributed, and a party gained. It is
notorious that the Trocaderawould never have fallen, were
it not for the large mitre, aided by the machinations of
the priesthood, of whom there were always great num-
bers attached to the invading forces. It was the inva-
riable rule of the Prince Generalissimo, as he is styled,
to be preceded in his entry into all the towns by a reli-
gious procession bearing all the usual symbols of super-
stition and fanaticism. A more effectual mode of im-
posingonamignorant multitude could not well be deVised.
With these facts before me, it is not a little amusing to
reflect on the bombast which we heard of the gfolious
feats of France during the Liberticide war, and above.
all, on the Generalissimo, calling himself the Prince of
Trocadero ! It is hoped that the day of retribution' for
such crimes and follies, is not far distant.
You have heard much of the prosperous state of the
Spanish finances. A more palpable absurdity could not -I
well be spread. It is true the French took care to pay
themselves by the plunder—under the form of an ar-
rangement with the traitorous minister of FERDINAND
—of nearly all the brass cannon in Spain, and that a
small indemnity had been paid to the English creditors.
But I must inform you that, with the exception of the
troops—who keep the system from destruction—all the
public functionaries, and the whole of the navy which
is not employed at the Havannah, never receive
more than half their salaries. At this place, there are
great numbers in the public offices and arsenal, who have
not received a farthing for more than a twelvemonth.
While such is the treatment of by far the greatest por-
tion of the civil employes, it cannot be denied that money
is found to maintain the expences of the Count ; but as
the Priests and Monks are fully aware that their very ex-
istence depends on the maintenance of the present regime,
they continue to make large pecuniary sacrifices for the
Crown.

Catalonia continues to be torn by all the miseries of civil
war on one side, and cruel persecution on the other.
The Carlists are still in arms, while D'ESPAGN E
omits no opportunity of wreaking his vengeance on the
constitutionalists. It is generally believed at Madrid,
the breaking down of FERDINAND'S carriage was not
the effect of accident, but caused by the friends of
Don CARLOS whom they are determined to place on the
throne, as being a more willing instrument for the apos-
tolicals than the " beloved."
No accounts have as yet been received concerning
the expedition against Mexico. Its failure is, how-
ever, regarded as certain. It is indeed the general
wish of the nation to see the New South American
States recognized, convinced that as in the case of
North America, such a measure would be highly advan-
tageous to the mother country.
Despatches continue to be sent very frequently to
Cuba; and a Frigate and Brig of war sailed a few days
ago, having a Russian Merchant Ship under convoy.
This vessel was taken up as a transport and had six hun-
dred men on board. It was remarked as a very singular
circumstance, that the Government should have pre-
ferred the Russian to the English flag on such an occasion.
Until very lately the appearance of a Russian ship at
Cols was extremely rare; but now we have eight or ten
balite harbour.
The Sardinian and Hans Towns Ministers and the
Rjght Honourable STRAT10111) CAN NI N troutacted
business, on Saturday, at tho dice t f the Secretary of
• State for Foreign Affairs.

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