The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-05-23
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New York, May 16.
FOREIGN NEWS

BY the packet ship Florida, Capt Tux
ham, the editors of the Statesman have .e-
ceived London papers to the 10th, and Iiv-
erpool to the 18th ult.
! ENGLAND. The Duke of Wellington
had resigned his station as Commander in
Chief and Master of the Ordinance, gas VOL
as MS SedL III OdUIneC. Fins lIUWcV-
er, was deemed a matter of necessity after
his previous succession; for, asks the New
Times, how could he present himself be-
fore his sovereign to receive his commands
upon matters of official business connected
with the army, after having made common
cause with his late colleagues in the gov
eminent to ntcrpose what they, no doubt,
considered insuperable obstacles to the
free exercise of the royal prerogative? -
The Marquis of Londonderry, who in the
late combined withdrawal, had resigned
his place as one of the Lords of the Bed
chamber, had, it was said, written an i'm
pudent letter to the King on the subject, in
which he Extensively adyerted to a domes-
tic transaction of a delicate nature. The
papers, as a matter of course, are full of
speculations as to the filling of the vaean-
cies in the ministry. Some arc for Goa
lition with the wings, and give out be-
lief that it will take place. Others dislike
such a movement, and express a conf
dence that Mr. Canning will not make it.
LONDON, April Is.
The city yesterday afternoon was the
seat ofthe greatest anxiety, the rurnors re-
speeding the new administration occupying
the attention of all. Upt this afternoon
it is known that the Board of Admiralty
will be abolished, and that the Office Of the
Lord High Admiral, in the person of the
Duke OF Clarence, will be revived.-The
Duke of Wellington retires completely
from office, and all who have taken office
under him go out with him. Brougham
will, it is reported, have the seals rendered
to him-also, that the Marquis of Lands
down has been solicited to Join the new
dministration-and that the Marquis of
Anglesea has been offered the appoint
ment of Commander in Chief; other reports
say the Duke of Cambridge. It is said
that his Majesty received the designations
OF the seeding with tone and manner so
decisive, that more than one repented he
~ az o.. ~f's1sS before rendering so fatal
called has; and Mr.. Peel, it is rumored,
would probably be open to explanation
The King, according to our best advices,
appears to have been Justly indignant at
the moral conspiracy among those he trust
cd, and to have resolutely resolved that no
difficulty should make him again take to
his confidence men who, from personal hate
to highly gifted individual would take
steps by which the government ofthe coun-
try, himself, and his really stedfast SER
wants were embarrassed, and the affairs of
the kingdom thrown into confusion. Far
ther as regards the list of MI. Canning,
nothing is yet known, but the public mind
is decidedly in favor of the measure adopt
cd by the sovereign.
PORTUGAL. 1t is said, in n priyate
letter from Madrid Of the Cd Kpril. that
the general opinion was that Chaves would
re-enter Portugal before the end Of the
month part of his troops had not been
disarmcd. 1t is also mentioned that Mon
tealegre had already returned into Portu-
gal, disguised as peasant, to endeavor to
organize, by himself, a rising in Tras-os-
Monies and Beira. All apprehensions from
the movements of the rebels had ceased at
Lisbon; whatever steps they may take,