The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-07 00:00:00

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going to the Congress to try the egi.ciains
limitations and persuasions. Arretigements, it is also
understood, %sill be proposed by the Congress, to
settle the difference betoeen &Italia and !Wen....
This has been obtained, it is said, b) the intertentios
of Austria.

If the statement be tree, that the Meeting firths
Congress will b. short, it is not at all improbable that
Parliament will be assembled considers I) sooner
Ilion usual, in order that the preliminary forms of t
new House may be gone through before lie ray.
'ornery time. So early a Session as is sprikatt
of, would certsiol) be contrary to fhb esperta.
'inn felt some weeks since by Members, who are
likely to hate known the intention of Ministers, but
the latter may bale reckoned upon a longer sitting of
the Congress et Ail la-Chapelle than appears now
probable. It is obvious, that a short sitting, to
pedite some of the Election Petitions, m Jet b.. de.
sirable. The declining state of her MA.rivvre
bea'th is also likely to render a speedy emoushtemet
.aegiessary ; end Lord ("„asTs.ustr.tca may .61
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what impatient where he Is abutst the pre gnalow
his Windsor pillars. •
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Among the few occurrences worthy of take 1,1
the French Papers, which have reached as to this
4th instant, is en order cf the King for transferring
the National Guard frees the Military to the Civil
Authority. This is a pacific symptom. It would also
seem to indicate that the Government has not much
reliance to place in the National Guard, thoLgh
Monomial is their Commander. It is truly laugh.
able to perceive the compliment paid to this Body is
the following words :—" The National Guard,
which, under the command of our reel beloved bro.
(her, MoNstsan, has rendered brilliant LI vices to
France, will find in our support, and in his kind.
tress, equal motives for emulation."—They are,
therefore, ordered back to their municipal instils.
lions. They are to have no higher officer than a
Commandant of Commune, or ,Canton ; but Mos.

emu, who was appointed their Colonei•Geoe.
ral, soon after the King's return, is still to
enjoy cams military honours. Probably, the new
organization is intended to give some relief to
the French Treasury, as well as to indisilloals.—
The preamble to this Ordoenauce is remarkable for
noticing laws, passedoome during the Revolution and
some during the Uvorpation—in 1790, 1791, and
1805, which the King' acknowledges to be still in
force, except as far as their enactments may be con.
trary to the Charter, and to the Institutions which
have. followsal it. Another Ordonnance postpones
to the 26th inst. the period for convoking the glee.
tore, College of the Deportment of Finisterre, in con.
sequence of eemmercial affairs requiring the absence
of many of the Electors. The owe of things *ill
the Court of Rome doe. not seem to be definitively
; and it is asserted, that long'confereo CPS Ire
continued between Count PORTALS' and the Caiditol
GONIALVI.
On the 20th ult. the POPE was to have canonized
a new Spanish Saint. An agreement is stated to
have been made with the Court of Brazil, for the
establishment of a Swiss colony in that country. It
is now ssserted, in the accounts from Madrid,
that the disgrace of the Ez•Ministers did not alive
from Court intrigue, but is to be attributed solely
to the displeasure of the King, whose political
opinions were opposed by them in the Council *hick
preceded, by a few hours, the notification of their
dismissal. This version of the story is not very pro.
bable, as it respects the Minieters; bey even it
true, it does not represent the K►ing's c►ataeter,
either for wisdom or generosity, in a, very ilattet,ll'
light. A wise King would pot be derplused with
faithful servants for expressing their opinions be•
neatly sod freely ; and a generous one, even to re•
moving them from his Councils, would not hat
them from his capital in the manner that the vie•
dictive minions of this prieit-ridden tyrant have pone
sued poor GARAY and his Colleagues. The plot., we
are informed by better authoritylwas brought aboatby
the higher Clergy, supported by the Inquisition, and
the Bishops of SANTtAGO, JAZZ, *lnd
aoyiA, secret enemies, who ere directed by Csitee
OsToLAZA, supposed to be acting according to the
views of the infant Dox CARLos. A number of
Officers in the Army and Navy have been. wetted
and conveyed to the dungeons of the Inquisition,
accused of being Free-masons, and implicated )n
conspiracies. With ell the support which he receive,
from the Holy Tribunal, it appears that FaRVIZAaD
is in a precarious situation.

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Letters from Russia state, hst Count ROMANZOVIN
Chancellor of the Empire, hes again thereHy tnq
solved to send the Rurirk, Lieutenant !Contra*
ship, upon another voyage of discovery. A isor
days since we presented our Readers with a very in'
teresting account of the result of Lieutenant KO'
"BUE'S former voYaste. The possibility of dia.
covering a Northern Passage, if such be the object of
the projected expedition, will, we expect, be decided
by the English expedition long before the Rurict
can be In a state to undertake her task of exploring
the icy regions.
The Jorneics Papers repeat the story,, whit!' big
been already discredited here, of a number of British
subjects having been murdered by
the Spaniards,
after capturing the vessel in which our countrymenhad sailed from Grenada. We trust, for the saki of
humanity, that the statement is nattile.

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