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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
THE FRENCH MINISTRY.
PARIS, FEB. 15.—The Journal de Paris of last nigh
was wholly silent as to the state of the ministerial ar.
rangements.

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Tt was rep9rted last night, That the King had asked
the Duke de Broglie to relieve Messrs. Guizot and niers
from the engagement which they had contracted with
him, not to enter into any ministry unless the duke
should be a party, and that the Duke de Broglie, with
his usual honour and spirit, had immediately acquiesced
in the application.

NEWS FROM SPAIN.
A letter from my private correspondent at Bayonne,
dated 11th inst., states that on the evening of the 9th a
column of 4000 men and 50 cavalry of the Queen, com-
manded by General -Aldama, and by Leon Iriarte,-left St.
Cuarte and Villaba, to proceed to the valley of Esterebar,
five leagues from Pampeluna, on the road which conducts
to Bastan. On the same-day another column, composed
of 6000 men, 50 cavalry, and 2 pieces of light artillery,
which occupied Cezur Noain, situate about a league from
Pampeluna, had proceeded to Olague, Etalain, Brintain,
and the valley of Anne, on the principal road to the Bas-
tan. It was reported, that on the 10th these two columns
were to proceed to the Bastan, in order to put that and
other neighbouring valleys in a state of defence as far as
Civico Villas de Echalar and Avaraz, which are border-
ing on the frontiers of Guipuzcoa. On the Bth instant,
the Ist and 3d battalion of Navarre, under the Brigadier
Don Jose Antonio Goni's command, took the direction
of the valley of Ulzama, where were, on the 9th instant,
the 9th and 10th battalions, and that of the Guides. It
is very probable that when the columns of, Cordova were
ascending the Bastan an engagement took place. The
positions occupied by the Carlists are very strong. Ten
battalions of Carlists, with eight pieces of ordnance, left
Durango, and proceeded towards Bilboa. They are un-
der the Major-General Villareal's command.
On the 10th instant the Christinos of St. Sebastian
and of the castle directed a very vigorous firing on the
Carlist batteries, which besieged the place. The Car-
lists were obliged to remove their batteries. At about
eight o'clock Leon Iriarte made a sortie, and repulsed the
Carlists as far as Ernani. The latter had been reinforced
by a battalion in Ernani ; yet they were forced to retreat
in the direction of Toloso. Iriarte returned to St. Se-
bastian. The loss of the Christinos was 80, that of the
Carlists 160 men killed and wounded.

NEWS FROM AMERICA.
We have received by Havre the journals of New York
of the 27th Jan. They were brought by the Poland,
Captain Anthony, who performed the voyage in 16 days.
M. Pageot, the French Charge d'Affaires, was one of the
passengers. These journals, of course contain man y a
ticks relative to the differences with France.. Those
which are the organs of the government of course ap-
prove, without restriction, the measures proposed by
General Jackson to the Chambers, as dictated by honour
and patriotism. The opposition prints, on the contrary,
attack it with great violence, saying that in this act the
President has sacrificed the interests of the country to a
senseless desire for war; or, what is worse, that he thus
wishes to maintain himself in power, and-be for the third
time elected to the presidency. The American papers
likewise publish some letter which have passed between
the two governments; but all the material facts of the
dispute have been known for a long time—and at present
the only real question is, to what point, and to what ex-
tent, will the American Congress support the proposition
contained in the message ? Upon this point the journals
say nothing. The committee charged to examine the do-
cument had not made its report; and it was very likely
that the mediation offered by England would reach Ame-
rica
before the Congress has decided anything, and thus
change the whole aspect of • affairs. The bilifOr the re-
lief of the sufferers at New York passed the Chamber of
Representatives on the 23d of January. The bill au-
thorised the banks of New York to discount certain ne-
gotiable paper, &c. in addition to loans, which were like-
wise authorised.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Court has gone into mourning for twenty-eight
days on occasion of the death of the Queen of the two
Sicilies. The Court has likewise gone into mourning
eleven days for the Grand Ducbess of Hesse d'Arm-
stadt.

The Nouvelle Minerve says, that the King has the in-
tention, in the beginning of summer, to visit the south
of France.

LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT IN AMERICA,

(From e Times.)
In one of the last filesth
of papers from New York we
find a long account of a personal outrage on Mr. John
Howard Payne, well known by his residence here, as
well as his literary character, to which it is not easy to
furnish a parallel in the transaction of any civilized na-
tion. Mr. Payne has drawn up the account. himself, and
has entered in very full detail into the brutal treatment
to which he was exposed. It appears that he wag travel-
ling in the state of Tennessee, in the course of a very
long journey, to explore the southern parts of the Union,
and had entered into a conference with some chiefs of the
Cherokee nation, desiring to give the history of those re-
markable tribes, now fast disappearing from the Ameri-
can continent. While thus engaged, a nondescript slap-
dies of civic force, called the Georgian Guard, came
across the frontier, which it was illegal for them to pass,
into Tennessee, and made Mr. Payne a prisoner, toge-
ther with one of the Cherokee chiefs. They were car-
ried to a guardhoUse within the Georgian limit, and de-
tained in custody thirteen days, without the least in-
formation respecting the nature of the charge against
them. A set of more brutal wretches than the " Georg-
ian Guard," allowing for some natural exaggeration in
the description given of. them by Mr. Payne, never ex-
isted. His situation,. under such circumstances, may,
therefore, be more easily imagined than described, and,
in addition to the indignities he had to undergo, his life
'was repeatedly threatened: Part of his property was ac-
tually taken from him. At length, when wearied out
with their ill treatment of him, he was placed on his own
horse, with his clothes and property huddled about him,
and ordered to leave the Georgian territory instantly, on
pain of death. He had no one to guide him,- .and with
difficulty accomplished his retreat into Tennessee, hay,
ing been more than once in danger of his life from the
country people, who had heard that he was an abolition-
ist—a term which, in the. excited stateof• that territory
on the slave question, is.sufficient to cause a man to be
hunted and shot like a mad dog. These incidents oc'-
curred in the latter end of November last. In, many of
the places where they had become known they appeared
to have produced the most indignant feelings. in Knox-
ville, Tennessee, a public meeting was held to express
abhorrence at these proceedings, and memorials were to
be presented to congress on the subject, as well as to the
state legislatures. The Congress of Georgia had passed
a resolution condemning the conduct of. the Georgian
Guard, on the mere knowledge of the arrest of Mr.
Payne, and without .being aware either 'of ,his long de-
tention cr of the indignities heaped upon him. These
demonstrations have lost, however, much of their value
by its subsequently appearing that they were followed
up by no active measures for the capture and the punish-
ment of the offenders; and it was even understood, if a
civil process were resorted to as a remedy for the wrong,
that no one would venture to serve it—so dangerous was
it considered—on any member of the Georgian Guard,
who were likely, therefore, to escape all further conse•
quences of their conduct. This is a state of society diffi-
cult to comprehend with respect to a country so free in
its institutions as the United States. The solution seems
to lie in the contests of the partial parties; and .the anx-
iety of all for the success of their favourite candidate in
the approaching election for the Presidency, which
makes them afraid to speak out against Georgia, lest
they should lose the support of that province. A letter
from New York, commenting on this state of things,
and on the different view that would be taken of such an
outrage in England, says—" That the solemn and vital
claims of personal and political freedom should have been
forgotten, or feebly vindicated at best, through the ma-
nceuvres of party ambition, is'a sad state of things. for
the great cause of liberty. England certainly would not
consider the mere expression of disapprobation an atone-
Rment for so aggravated an injury as that inflicted on Mr.
avne, and if my countrymen can be roused from the
-lariorixing interest which belongs todomestic politics,: we
should be certain to hear the reaction from thence on
•tb 114 affair. There is no lack of proper notions among.
6'e People, if they can be touched in the proper way,
and it cettainly is a matter of sacred duty far the patriotic
every where not to suffer a jealousy of the rights of the
citizen's cast'e' and the sacredness of his person and pro-
perty, to grow
America, to iriguid, es
look for refu which peciall in a country like'
t6O many nationsy have looked and still
ge.-
George Colman, the (Ira
was dining one' day with
Georg. the Fourth, when Itemah",
„The discourse happening
to turn upon the respective 4,e,noti
licenser of plays. "
Majesty observed to the newly_appo'ille Parties present, his late
thing, George, you and I are nearlZtedfsthe same age ; hut I
think you are the older nf the two; what
TAP liberty of coining
ghness3, wasthe'"younger"
martthink I con'i have taken atT., George Col-
into the world before your It oyal Hi
Colman's courteous reply.

On Saturday night the King transacted business with
the Count de Montalivet and M. Thiers. Yesterday
Count D'Argout and M. Thiers both saw the King. No
one else was received—no one else' was sent forand
even the illessager had very little to inform us last night.
The Chronique de Paris (which is now
.the
.property
of M. de Balzac) says, that the peerage.would not accept
office with M. Dupin, and that this is the reason why a
Dupin ministry could not be formed. It adds, that M.
Mole was on Saturday night again ordered to wait upon
the King; but that in all the conferences which. have
taken place, though M. Mole was consulted, he .was not
ordered to form a new ministry, • - •