Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-05-09

BY THE NEW-LONDON LINE.

We were politely furnished by Colonel J. d.
Wood, with the New-York Gazette Of Monday,
from which VIC copy the following items f;
VERY LATE FROM FRANcE.-The pack
ct ship Henry Nv. Capt. Skiddy, arrived here
Yesterday morning in the remarkable and un-
precedcnted- passage of nineteen days from
Hare, having sailed on the 18th ult We
have seen by her Paris papers to the l4th in
elusive, which contain London dates to the
10th. Nothing had ye: been definitely deter
mined on respecting the reformation oil the
British cabinet Mr. Canning declined in the
most peremptory manner, the terms which had
been proposcd TO him, as conditions of his ele-
walton to the post ofprime minister. His manly
refusal had created lively sensations of pleasure
among the liberal class of politicians.
In consequence Of dispatches received by
Gen. Don. Governor of Gibraltar, he mad re-
moved from st. Rogue, and carried all his
furniture into the garrison which was to be
put in a complete state of defence. The Cath
olcs of Ireland have decided to petition for a
rehearing of their claims immediately after
the recess.
Lord Liverpool continued TO 60 on well.
In the contemplated changes in the British
Cabinet, Lord Grenville, is to have an impor-
tant Office, and another noble friend of Mr..
J., Z
Earl Bathurst was spoken of as the Premier
but the King was supposed to be in favor of
Mr. Peel for that station.
In tho House Of Lords on the 9th, Lord King
made some severe remarks on this delay in fill
ing up the vacancy in the cabinet. He also
alluded to the reports ofthe dcfalcation OF the
revenue.
BY the last quarters return Of the British
revenue, ending 5th Of April, it appears that
there is a decrease of E469, 54S, making de-
icioncy for the year Of fl, 709 S97. .
A sale of $500 cases indigo commenced in
London on the 9Th, on which day 664 cases
were sold at previous rates. On the second
day, prices rather advanced Accounts from
Calcutta to Dec. 27, stated that the crop
would be 100 maunds less than that of the
preceding year.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool for the
week ending the 7th amounted to l3, ,24l bags,
at a small decline, including 6S04 Upland at
6 to Z; 342l Orleans 6 IA to Z 3-4; 365 AL
ALBANIA 6 to 6 3-s; and 572 Sea-Isand IL to
I7l-2.
The mission of the Cougt d'Ofala to Paris
and London is, it is said, for the purpose of ar
ranging with France and England the time
and mode of the evacuation Of Spain by the
French troops.
The Romney sailed from Plymouth for Lis
bon April S, with detachments for Lisbon.
The French ship Peruvian arrived at Bor-
deaux on the 2sth Of March, from voyage
round the world, and last from Bourbon, hav-
ing been absent only twenty one months.
M. Bousquet Deschamps had sailed from
Marscilles for alexandria, on an expedition to
the interior Of Africa.
The Greeks had provisioned the Acropolis
afresh, having driven the Scraskier a league
from Athens. Omer Pacha had experienced n
great defeat at Distomo. Nothing further had
transpired respecting the interference of Rus
sia and England for the pacfcation of Greece.
The Reis Eficndi had not answered Stratford
Canning's note of the 5th Feb and the two
ministers had agreed upon certain day to
make final and energetic attempt to bring
the subject to close. 1t is stated that the
French, Austrian and Prussian ambassadors
had, informally, advised the Reis Efcndi TO
accept the propositions Of the other powers,
except those of Russia and England 1t was
also presumed that the courts of Vienna and
Berlin had already or would accede to the
terms proposed
Notwithstanding all this, it was confidently
asserted that the Porte would not assent to any
proposition, the Refs Efiend having verbally
declared that the proposals were inadmissible,
being contrary to the rights of the Sultan and
human reason.
The troubles in Upper Catalonia, says let
ter from Pcrpignan, continue and increase {:
armed bands scour that part of the province,
dragging at the horses tails the portrait of
Ferdinand VII. and also crying Long live
Carlos Vr' The motto on their colors is
Death to Ferdinand VII. Long live Carlos
v. and the Inquisitions - At Perpignan the
expectation Of gunpowder has been prohibited.
At Rarcelono affairs wore a threatening as
pect.
At Figueiras, in an insurrection, two or
three persons werc killed