London, Wednesday, Februa...
The Times, 1824-02-18T00:00:00

lVe last night received the Paris pape s of Sunday. The most interesting article of intelligence which they contain, refers to the news from Matdrid which we yester- day communicated. It will be socni lhat a paragraph in the officia! part of the Mlfoniteur confirms our statement. I t would have been well, for the credit and good sense ol FERDINAND, if inistead of having his decree conveyed b3 telegraph to Paris, he had evinced a little more expeditioni in issuing it. It is now only a symptom of weakness, and a sign of a too lateand useless repentance. He nmight aswellde. clare free the trade with Gibraltar, as with Soudi America In a letter from Corfu, we ate iiformed that a representa. tion had been made by the Buropean Consuls resident a Smyrna, to the authorities of the Isle of Ipsara, request. ing thta to give orders to their fleet to abstain fron attacking the city of Snoyrna, or any part of the coas along the Bay. Trhese representations are said to V signed by the Consular agents of England, France Austria and the Nether!ands. The Greek islandlers are lk,uestne to announce thleir intentions on this subject by a proclama. tfoII addressed to the officers of the Greek marine, and like.. wise to the corsairs. The object is to save the Europeat j Christians who are established oil this part of the Whores o Asia Mvlinor; and the precedents quoted are that of thr Al Russians when at war with the T'urks in 1774, and ti' condutct of Admiral DteCKWORTII durinlg the last. varx the Porte. To this inyitation the Senate of Ipsar 'i replits, that though willing to do every thing wvhitc might protect the commerce of Europeans, and prev.rt thm dangers which threaten their persons from a Ftate of hos tilities, yet that the dutty which thej owe to their counn try vill not permit them to refrain from exercisin- th rights of war against their encmies (the Turks), or pur: suing them along all the coasts of their dotrination- They add, that the precedents of the English and the Rus,-- sians in their wars wvith Turkey do not apply to thos whom the SULTAN claims as subjects,' and who earry on national resistance to it; that -they will fespect the Erog pean name, and will make no attack except where they perj ceive the Turkish flag; and that there is only one way escaping their vengeance-bv agreeing to pay them tributt This is slipping at once into the place of theSuiTAN, wh yolke they have thrownoeff, and whose tyratsy 4iey heVa for three yeirs successfully resisted. t It ii stat4d in thbe papers that the bealth of the FrinCe of CVoE is daily becoming -worse, that she has lost all 1eColieetioll, and that her life is despaired of The following are extracts (Frorathe itfonifcu- of Sunday, Feb. 15.-Ofllcial Part.) " PARIS, FEB. 14. A telegraphic despatchl from Miadrid, addreased by the Ambas- sador of'France to the Minister for Foreign AfFairs, dated the 10th of this rmonth, announces that the King of Spain has just signed a dec,ee, which grants the liberty of dirmet trade of the Spanisb co. Ionies with all nations, on the footing of an equality of cluties." (From the Etoi&,, dated Monday.) ' "PARIS, FER. 15. A treary has been made with Spain for the free commerce of all tations with the colonies. (See the telegraphic despatch.) The 34 milliors due by Spain to France ate recognized; and the treaty for the occuspatioa signed. It is said that the .larquis de Talaru -il have the Blue Riband. 'tThe arival of the Marquis de llataflorida at Paris is an- nounced, who is going to Turin as Minister for the Kin,. of Spain. "The Ist Regiment of Infantry, whichl is in garrison at Mont Loots,has received orders to enterSpain: it is going to the Seu d'Urgel; and the battalion of the 40th of thle Line, whichi is in the Latter'place, goes to reinforce the garrison of Figueiras. " MADRID, FEn. 0. 5We are arssured that the decree of amnesty wiUl be published, and it is necessary that therc may be a fixed law of Government, but with the medification wlhic1i the restoration requires. The men who were faithful till the force.l oatlh of hlis Majesty, and afterwards behaved in a prudent manner, will obtaih his Majesty's clemency, and be restoredl to favour. " The convoaztion of the ancient Cortes is spoken of. This na- tional representation is not to the taste of our Libe,als. Its sole right is to grant or to limit the subsidies which the King asks: in othe respects the King is !cgislator. TheC.ortes have only the faculty ofr re.-,.esting hin, to issue s;uch or such a law, to make suclh or such a necessary reftrrn, &c The nath of the (lrand Justiciary of Arragon, and so tm-ny 'other things wnich the democrats have vociferated tD give strength to their popular sovereignty, were only vain fbr-s. The Crtes made laws, and even regulations, but according to tho rill of the Sovereign. '; To prove that there was nothing popular in the Cortes, the most ancient of which we have any knowledge -were composedl only of the chief n(bility and superior clergy: t,iey rnade the civil and eccde- sietical las s. Such ewere the Coces intder the Gothic Kings. The imtrodcrion of the representast'tes of cities is of more modern date; Lnd this right of represen.,atiou was possessed by somc cities only, j to which the kings haSt granted this favour witlh a view to counter. barance the Po5cr of the other two branches, wvhich went too far, and wanted to eclipse the Soverei5n." LONDOAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 18?4.