The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCF..
(enosi storcignon• or grEspAT
The Official part containalre Royal'i.ltdinaneee-•••
The first orders that the Minister of Finance shall tans,
so be presented to the Court. of connts, e
operatievery yeao r,
rime the lit of Joly, a general v Act of thns
enmprehrtoted in the several accounts rendered by °the
Receiver Orneral of the Finances.
The second. On the representation of the Minister .of
inant'r, that in eonseqttioce.of the close of the 'accou• ts
n arrear one paymaster will suffice to discharge the
1.1 is di.bursecorut if the interior of the Treasnry, and
that the *fonetion of Direeto,s of the Expenses may b.
Kivu to the first Clerks of the Finance department ;
ith-
anal
al licit a rednction will cause a considerable saving. w
out any injury to the public services orders that the place
.1 Director of the Eipenditure; and the two places of
princiai Paymaster shallstippressed from the Ist of
Januapry, lAN; and the di.bursements payable in the
interior of the Treasury he discharged by one officer, who
iball hare the title of Paymaster of the Central Expenses
of the Treasury.
• The third appoints 111. Delafontaine to this las•namrd
The
.fourth fixes the Initialler of the officers, called
lusyct,trs-eneral of the Indirect Taxes at four; and
thtte of thefi officers, administrators of the same branch,

• ith
The fifth names M. Deret. first cleric of the Finance
f)Part so •n t, to the office of Administrator of the Indirect
'lases, in tharoom of NI. Dutremblay, deceased.
(tion•official Part.)
Marten), Dec. 114.—Tbe (government being eddied to
p ive it, whole attention to to the affiirs of the Peninsula.
seenis to relax in its preparations against the independents
'1 the eolonies. Some persons pretend that some answers
'rem foreign Cabinets are expected, before our operations
Ise v nod the Ocean are. concerted...
There is a report that the loans of the Cortes will he
re -cognized with some modifiration; this recognition is
tie,:ame indispensable to maintain our credit.
Da! Paris papers are chiefly filled with the report of the
r by a Court Mat tie'', of a Soldier named Simon, who,
s .sid he recollected, was accused of having shot a young
tool named llonein, for having attempted to scale the gall
of the Tuileries Gardena, on the 24 of December last, the
,ray of the Doke of Angouleme's triumphant entry after
his return from Spain to Paris. The Coon Nlartial was
omposed of a Colonel, who acted as President, a Chief of
Batt Ilion, two Captains, a Lieutenant, Sub-Lieutenant, soil
a Serjeant Major. The soldier admitted the fact of shoot-
ng the man, bat appealed for his justification to the strict-
ness of his orders, which were on no account to let any
person scale the wall, Ir.:LI also to the provocation he rnerie-
i4 from the young man, %Ito, though frequently entreated
to desist, and even threatened if lie should persist, • my
insulted him, and being encouraged by the populace, called
by some opprot fons names.* to of which as a socchaat
e mocrit, which so fired the anger of the soldier. that tic
could no longer sultane his passion, and shot the young.
man. fn the opinion of the Court this was a sufficient
platitiration. and the soldier was acquitted by a majority
of six to one.

I.I4AAV. Decembei 11.—The Gn:clte of yesterday and to-
(I? e mtains a long extract from the Padre Amara, No. 31i,
rrlited iu i.OllOOll, on •he fantastic of Brazil, the es-
t •,...lisliment of which is ascribed entirely to the Freemasons.
I • support of this assertion a very long doett.nent is inserted,
ich was printed in June this year. at Rio Janeiro, under
e title of " A Defence of Citizen Dominjos Alves Bratu:o
Barret°, acsinst an imaginary crime, for which hews
-:u,tly sentenced by the Judge Francisco de Franco Ili-

In this kind of defence he has particularly in view a letter
i • No. I Ice, of the Mario of Rio, signed by a Friend of Order.
'l':e folio% ing is the passage in which the mason. 111onix Bar-
r•or:, defends himself for bring such, because (by the fault of
Ki.al or wicked Ministers) the order was not only tolerated,
bet approved there; removes all doubt of the separation of
It aril, began or instigated by the masons of the Cortes. was
propared anti accomplished by the masons of the Brazils :
'• I eatinet. (:says the author) fear to appear criminal in any
geemaition, even were it for being a mason, since not •being
s',le to d ny that 1 was s member of that society ; its exist •
etwe sees so notorious that nobody was ignorant that it did
at in this capital-,-not only tolerated hut approved ;
stilt
kes sos it a secret that the same body had. among its members
nil the Nfluisters and Councillors of State of his Imperial
miest v. except one. and that it was presided over and guided
by the judgmeta• patriotism, and probity of its President, the
i•-,sl Excellent Senhor Jose Donefacio de Andrada e Silva, in
whose presence all matters were discussed tending to the pros-
verity of Brazil. its independence, and the proclamation of the
*lngest Emperor ; and that the whole was effected by the assi-
duous labours of that Society, constantly directed by its illus-
trious Grand Master, and with great expense to the general
Treasury, not only for the lustre of the glorious day of •thtt.
PI, including five triumphal arches, but also for the emissaries
who were sent to all the provinces, both on the coast sod is
ski interior, that on the satne day Senhor Dan Pedro 1. 'Might
i.e there proclaimed Emperor of Brazil, 1 commission which
Pbilanthropic Assembly also confided to Ceneral Lehatut
as Arc of its members, when lie was on the point of mitbark-
ing fur the province of Rabin, presenting a valuable sapid.
upon which he promised and swore before the Masonic Assem-
bly t 3 fulfil it, and by his well known valour and skill in war
so expel the Lusitanian Vandals, and to unite that province
'wit's this capital."
be Gazette then quotes a very long speech made by • ,
C.lptichin. Francisco dc Sampab, one of the members of 'I
`Cie lodge the "Grand Orient." in which he itts!ities him-,
self before the Sot erelerts. Masonic .4.,senably for Laving
insected an article contrary to the opinions and doctrines
which it wishes to see universally prevail. In this speech
tile same ideas are proditced. "if in this oration (says the
Getrefle) we see an august Prince implicated in this ilete.ta
ble. sect, we age eevaiin that it was a profound policy which
pled him intOitao fathom the secrets of that Society of dad:-
'itoss ; and that the same Jose Bonefacio; the Grand Master
df the Braiillae Mann% as a faithful subject, gave him tie
elite cif Arisdae, by which he might one day tied his way
ent of thit labyrinth, and filially destroy that den of 'Cams
(a liste spina 'Freemasonry has already been published
there)4s actors' cirlotititanes s' shOuld 'permit. Notbinr
4cCe....reaboresptited.fiaro. the religion. the miff iii•ancl
frontless-0 the,. Vries,. destined.: by Heaven te tie one
elay the Ire* of -the throat: of his august and virtuous
littler." •
• • . . Lisbon. Dec, 19.
' . The Casette contains a Decree, ordering the farmernof
the duties on tobacco- SO soap (which are mortgagrd for the
jaYezent of.the principal snit interest of the loan of 4 poi
liosisterlicit. cootracted with the Louse of li. Colnacnil.
modem, in IJoadon) to pay the amount into the Bank od
Tillsen,Piag-it to beat the disposal of the Presidenif
of the gop Treasury for the time being, to be employed
in the loannerdirartedinAhe general Hood signed Isy his
Mijosty. dated 9th Oct.. this year. Ice.
• Another Decree orders that• the duties on tobacco,drc.
brief mortgaged (es above,) his Majesty. desiring to give
voacsers Oittolos).coefirraing said mortgages, declares that
the certificstecof tke said duties, approved and sigoed by '
Jose Lopes .de Qiiviers, assistant of the Clerk .of the
ltogal Tromarp. sotherised to this effect by the Conde de'
Pones. Minister of Pittance tad President -of the said
Treasury shall serve as emteben of the mortgage of the
said duties. •• , .. • •
TiseCoaat de roves is: ordered to seed this decree tot
London, to be added to the timid of October 9. and • also
to have authentic °vie, made. to be delivered to thin
whom it • may mows, fee the due sadeastaudiug_sed.
twee** • 'tits gu.itastee •
. . • (Slimed by his Majesty.).
• IBetopoets.. December 45.1M3. •
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Tuarit. Det. 2001144i.—Nothieg partioalswltuoicorrodl
for the bat two dtr tespectiog the health of bit litsjoity