Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-03-22

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MADRID, Jan. 27.-Our Government, af-
ter great labor, have perfected plan of Repre-
SENTATIVE Government, suited, it is said, to the
state of knowledge in the Peninsula and To the
! extensive AriStocratiCal elements which exist
there. / can tell you nothing of my own know
dse of the contents of this PROJECT, but once
more assure YOU III Its existence; and can
ecu lly assure Won copies of il have been given
to the French Russian, Austrian, and Prussan
Ministers, that they may transmit them To their
respective Courts, To be examined. can add
TO what have just told you, that persons who
are intimate with our Ministers, and who are in
the habit of reading their thoughts, pretend that
the new plan is nothing more than the renewal
OF a project of the Auic Council which
agitatcd six months ago, with, however, few
Insignificant notifications.
PORTUGAL.
Advices from Lisbon, to the 21th of January,
announce most important change IN the Pog-
tuguesc Administration, and that a new Consti-
tutonal code was daily expected To be issued,
more favorable To the liberty of the subject and
freedom of political opinion, and which, il hou-
eNtly persisted in and carried into effect ii is
pected will go great way towards uniting the
contendIug parties of that nIs-gov cincd country.
The same well-infurmed writer's also state tie
important fact, that the Portuguese possessions
IN the Rrazlis are separated forever from the
tier country, upon the broad principle of the in
dependenCe OF those States, with the privilege
to the Hing of Portugal to make favorable trea-
~ between the two countries. The new Portu-
g'ics GOvern;nt N had ex pressed wish thai the
late Br,ts!i Ambassador al Paris (Sir C.. Stuart
shJuld accompany other commissioners TO the
Brazils, 10 assist them in eifecting this desirable
object. The Portuguese had no ships of war in
a t state for the voyage; il was, therefore, ex-
Inc. toll i,offh . 1,
vide the necessary suitable conveyance.
Madame de Genlis is about TO publish her Me
mors forwhch, it is said, she is to receive &C, 900
francs; the largest sum she has received for any
of her works.
cunt Montholon has recovered, as the exc
cutor of Napoleon, by verdict, 3,2.l3 .5OOC.
rom La Fitte, tine celebrated banker which
that gentleman had acknowledged to be in his
hands, but hich the French government had
restricted hm from paving over before.
a company has been formed at Manchester,
Tor making navigable ship canal fum the Irish
sea, at the mouth of the Dee, direct to Man
| chester.
paragraph from Brussels. Jan. 81, confirms
a previous statement that Prussia is one of the
states of the Continent which cndeavors to es-
tahl!>h an intercourse with the South American
states. and has appointed NJ. John Eschenberp
10 the office Of Prussan Consul AZ iSuenos Ayres
/ Denmark IS SAID also 10 be manifcsting like
! disposition, and the Danish merchants are ell
ga%ing IN the commerce Of South America
| we observe some speculations in the English
papers as TO the cause why the King did not open
the session oiparliament in person, since he WAS
In gid health. Tie dublin Freeman's Journal
how ever, affords some clue to the question:
! That paper states the following as being men
| toned IN private circles as the reason. Ii is
SAID That when the dFaught OF the speech was
LAID before his Majesty he did not approve the
passage respecting Ireland. and that although
MmStsT5 made several attempts 10 modify it.
| still they could not frame it TO his satisfaction
50 that he could feel pleasure in delivering il in
person On the same subject the Leicester
Journal says, the King had alternative but
me adoption .. the speech or dissolution ofthe
Ministry The latter was iInpractcabe. He,
therefore, rs matter of necessity, suffered the
spe Oh TO be delivered bv a Commission, but he
wouid not give II the countenance of roval reci-
eaton. ": y. Com. .4dU.
.4derman Co.. eeaina Kcan
ihose WHO have scanned the entire of the open-
ing speech in this cause must have rema.k ed sim
gna maths IN IL, viz: the mode in which Mr. r. Al
bion Cox came to the know ledge of his wife infd.
MY. From the tenor of Kean latter epi,tlcs tits
pretty e;ident tnat the warmth of Mrs. Cox's pas
SION mad begun To wax cold; aud the fact is that
this lady had admitted rival, MIR, Wadmore
VINO had Tor some time been glued to her husban d's
desk but who had left the drudgey of the counting
mouse lor the much more acinaiing delights ola la
dys boulder. The youthful figure of MIR. Wad
more so charmed Mrs. Cox, that she felt no Ionper
the same pleasure III the company of Mr. kean; and
'h' conquest OF the former gentleman did not, like
that OF the other depend on stolen interviews but
was secured by his being admitted to the house as
the iavourcd lover of Miss WicksteaG Under this
tpIE he flrA,, It,.I
Is understood that long Kean was appraised Of
the hcklene>s OF his mistress a very endearing cor
rtNpondenCc mad subSiSted between Mr.. Wadmore
'nu MIS-. Cox When the truth, however, came to
MS ears rage aud jealousy stung him to madness:
ana IN order t"revemgc himSefnn the aithless Char
"'te' ne prevailed on two glrlso the pre- vious-
Iy intoxicated, to Chaunt a bacchanalion melodv
un.ief the windows of Mr.. Cox's Louise The awk
ward illusions IN these lyrics were extremely an
moving to Mrs Cox and she was, possible more
alarmed when they were apprehended by the Dor
berries OF the night, for disturbing the public peace
TN the morning, they by tire vigilance of tin.
lazy released, III order to prevent them from bIab
o'"g' Mean resolved To repeat the experiment a |
second time. Mr.. Cox from home on the first |
occasions; but the second evening he arrived AZ
Ills residence Just as the two drunken choristers had
poured out their first notes. They were aran dis
patched 20 the watch house, and on enuuirin0 tbe
Cause OF these unusual sounds, Cox was told that
lhey mad been despatched thiticr by Mr. Keau
and that they had been well rewarded for their trou
BILE. ''''
lbe explanation naturally surprised the Alder |
man hean being ranked among his most conf len
hai friends al the time. It had the effect however
OF awakening his suspicious which were augment |
ed by observing messenger or servant issuing out
OF MS house ea'y the succeeding morning, with let
.e' III pef nahh.-Cunosity prompted him to track |
the steps of the bearer, who arrived AZ tbe ABIDE ~
Mr.. Wadmorc He Immediately possessed himself !