The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-29 00:00:00

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o rt. r.: GN INTELLIGENCE.

MARU 23.—The demand of a supplementary
credit made by M. de Rigny, in the sitting of the Cham-
ber of Deputies of Thursday, for the service of the French
marine in the Mediterranean, has excited some attention;
the sum demanded is not considerable, being 730,50
francs, not quite £30,000 sterling. M. de Rigny, in de-
manding this credit, observed, that an unexpected event
had rendered it necessary. Now this observation is
strange if it refers merely to the arrival of the Russian
fleet tiefOre Constantinople, for that was certainly not an
event unexpected, but probably the French government
bad relied upon its previous efforts to arrest the march of
Ibrahim, and as it considers itself all powerful in Egypt,
it may have felt much disappointment in not obtaining its
object at Once.

The Madrid Gazette, received by post this morning,
brings a decree by which the Princess de Beira is allowed
to return to Portugal, and the Infant Don Carlos is al-
lowed to accompany her. This can be nothing more than
an exile.

It appears that Al. de Cordova was charged by his go-
vernment to negotiate this affair with Don Miguel, and
his success has contributed perhaps as much as anything
to the admiration he has evinced since his visit to Braga
for Don Miguel. This Sovereign has certainly the ta-
lent of attaching to him the persons with whom he meets.
I received this morning the following letter from Lis-
bon:—

" LISBON, March 9.—Many reports have been spread respect-
ing the battle which took place on the 4th instant. I was told
by some Royalists that Don Miguel's troops had attacked the
Foz, and that they had finally succeeded in taking a small fort
near the Foz, but that this success had 'cost them dear. It now
appears that they certainly attacked the Foz, but far from gain-
ing any advantage, were repulsed. This is, I believe, the right.
version. Fresh troops are sent up the country. Yesterday 1.
saw a regiment of 1200 voltiguers depart for Oporto. They left
in high spirits, giving many cheers for Don Miguel.
" A curious circumstance took place the day before yester-
day. An English vessel came into the river, and gave a signal
of distress. The captain stated that he had a great number of
convicts on-board, and that he was in want of water, medicine,
and, I believe, provisions; and that, moreover, three or four of
the men had been taken ill of the cholera morbus, and that two
-had died. The assistance required was immediately afforded,
but with every necessary precaution, and a brig of war was sta-
tioned at a certain distance from the infected vessel, to prevent
any communication with the shore. As soon as the articles
required were received, the ship received orders to sail. Since
its departure it is confidently stated, among the English mer-
chants, that this vessel was carrying men to Don Pedro but.
was unable to get into Oporto on account of the bad weather.
Feeling the want of water the captain came into the Tagus, and
asserted that the cholera was on board, in order to keep the
people off and thus avoid being detected. It is said the men
he' had on board formed a detachment of the recruits Col. Cot-
ter has Leen raising iillifeland. This:Colonel Cotter was in
Lisbon about a year agA, for the-purpose of offering his services
to Don Miguel, but the government refused to accept his offers;
he then joined Don Pedro, in whose service he had previously.
been, but with whom he had bad some misunderstanding."

GENERAL JACKSON As A POET !—ln one of the recent
debates in Congress, we perceive that a Mr. Kennon, of
Ohio, took it upon himself to make an unmanly attack
upon Ex-President Adams. The following is an extract
from the record :

" Mr. Kennon, of Ohio, in the course of some remarks made
in opposition to it, (a resolution of Mr. Adams' under debate, )
said, among other things, that if he were now, or ever had been,
unfriendly to the gentleman from Massachusetts, his desire
would have been—Oh, that he might write a book; that that
hook might be a poem ; and that that poem might be called
" Dermott McMorogh."
[Here the speaker called Mr. K. to order.]
We have long been waiting for some of President Jack-
son's partizans to attack the Ex-President's poem, that
we might find a fitting opportunity of proclaiming a fact
as yet unknown to the public, viz., that President Jack-
son himself, not content with filling the big national mea-
sure full of martial glory, aspires also to the garland of
poesy. His opponents have charged upon him all the
vices extant, and his partizans have attributed to him all
virtues known and unknown in this mundane sphere.
But that " the old Jin'ral," in addition to everything else,
was, likewise, a maker of metre, is a fact hitherto without
the ken of "the most enlightened people in the universe."
Even the nine sisters, who firstdanced around Apollo, are
as yet ignorant of the fact, since President Jackson's in-
spiration is derived, beyond question, from the 'Tenth
Muse, who was never seen or heard of until Dr. Hers-
chell discerned her one evening when looking into his
newly-discovered planet. Listen, then, ye nymphs of
Helicon, and all the universe besides, while we rehearse
a strain of President Jackson's poetry, written with his
own cunning hand:—
" Let wischim all my actions guide,
And God with me always reside,
May no wicked thing dwell with me
Which can provoke thy jealousy."

Kind reader, there is no joke- in this matter—nor in the
metre either; it is in sober truth General Jackson's ins-n.
Let his friends take counsel, lest we quote another stanza.
—New York Paper. •

Docx POLICE.—The dock police will very shortly be placed
under a similar discipline and management to that of the me—
tropolis, under the superintendence of Mr. Dowling, of Lon-
don, who has been engaged to fill that important and highly
responsible situation by the trustees of the docks.

FREE TR A Mi.—We understand that foreign ships are posi-
tively engaged, at the present time, to bring timber from Memel
to Liverpool at 13s. 6d. per load, and one from Dantzig at 155.,
having return cargoes of salt, at Gs. '1 he freight on timber
from Menial to Hull is I9s. per load. Now Nye should be much
obliged to our enlightened advocates for fete trade and the
"reciprocity system," to inform us how any reduction of the
duty on Baltic wood can operate to the advantage of this port ; ;.
as it is manifest that the merchants of Liverpool, having the .."
opportunity of shipping return cargoes of salt, can frequently '
import wood from Prussia on lower terms than ports situated
ou the east coast, where no such facility exists. It may also be
mentioned as a curious fact, showing the nature of the " reci-
procity" encouraged by the continental potentates, that the
King of Prussia, who possesses a monopoly of salt in his own
dominions, allows none of that article to be imported into his
kingdom except in Prussian bottoms !—hull Packet.
Palissot once said -to Madame' Coraneoz, '' Since I have read
Racine, I have given up the idea of writing tragedies. I shall.
now write a comedy.' "Then you hay,: not read Moliere,"
replied the lady.
.
Sir Robert Peel occupied the house for some time on Tues-
day night, at the expense of Sii Edward Codringtou, upour„ • • ,„,
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whom he lavished more immortality than even the battle tuil C- '''
Navarino will ever produce. The gallant admiral mad the.‘,, .:..-' .;.--•
same sort of appearance as before the court-martial. li irsiis . . ~
he bottled up his wrongs for a reformed Parliainent—hearnelt ...
case we may answer him that he has brought his fish toeafine •
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market. The time of the house, after all, ought to be tqii-yo,::. ~1.,.
luable to waste about Sir Edward and his misapprehenskOns:, c - ,;.

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