London, Friday, May 7, 18...
The Times, 1824-05-07T00:00:00

We receired las, night French papers of Tuesday, and letters from Pzris of the same date. Tbe journals contain a continuation of tha discussion, in the Chamber of Deputies, on the project of law for the reduction of the rentes bat as a considerabl6portion of the time usuaUy allotted to the business was on Monday. spent in the ceremony of congratulating Louis XVI1I. on the anniversary of his retum, the debate made very little pro- gress, and was adjourned to the following dav. If we may take thc impatience with which opposition speeches seem to be heard, and the decided nanner In which amendments are re- jected, as tests of the feeling of the Chamber, we can have no doubt that tbe measure will be carried by an immense majority. The only other article of intrcst in these papers is the contradiction given by the Journal des Debats to the rumours afloat in London at the end of last week, respecting French annaments on the coast of Bra- zil. Thoagh, arter what has been already said, another contradictory statement may appear tho labour of "'slaying the slain," the in- portance of the v.ubject may be some apology forquoting what in this case must ba looked upon as the official explanation of the French Govetnmmnt. " The most absurd reports," says that journal, ' are circulr.red in London respecting a pretended fleet of 18 ships, 'great cant, small, which have all at once cast anchor in the port of Rio Ja- neiro. Our naval force at Brazil is composed in all of five vessels; viz., the Jcan-.art, of 74 gun%, the frigate La Alagicienne, the corvette L'Echo, and the brigs L'Inconslant and Lc Faune. It may be that the frigates La Metric Therese and La Dili- grante, which are despat.hed to the South Seas to replace L'Auazont and La Clorinide, and the corvette ta Pamone, which Adrniral Roussix brought home last year-it may be, '- say, that these frigates, on their passage, have touch- ed for a moment at llio JaAeiro. La Thetis, which goes to 'China ard the Indian seas; L'As'rce, which returns to France, and which has been replaced at Brazil by the Jean Dart; La Circe, 'wcich cared out Ml. de GESTAS, and which also returns to France, inay have also appeared together for a few days in the waters oF Bra- atl; rlnd thenne all this trasb of a fleet that never existed. We re- peat it, we have only five vessels on the coast of Brazil, and they are not too mnany to protect our trade and our countryimten on coasts in.Fhteti by privateers and pirates, and on which internal revolutions threaten daily the property and the lives of his Mlajesty's subjects." Our private letters inform us that tberQ is a report current in the Srst -political tircles in Paris. of a Congress to ge held at Prague on ne affairs oi Spain and Turkey. As we shreivdly suspect that this species of Royal and Imperial click finally gave in the resignation of its functions at Verona, it does not at all advance us in the belief that it willUesm e them, by teUing us that the scene chanced first from Vienr.: to Paris, then from Paris to St. Petersburgh, and lastly, from IMIuscovy to Bohemia. h.c Mfadrid Gazelics to the 27th ult., which we have received, de not contain a word of news. FnESC1l Fusrns.-Ptsns, MAar 4.-Five per Cents. opened at 103. 75..; closed at 104.; Loan of 1823, 17J.; Bank Stock, 1,980.; Neapolitan Rentes, 95. ; Royal Snanish Loan of 1823. 62^. Ex- change on London, ono month. 25. 20.: three ditto, 25. 5. 1.0YOUx. FRIDAY, AtY 7, 1824.