1824] 
(On the back of the €odicil is written )— 
This is my codicil or act of my last will, 
the execution of which I recommend to my 
dearest wife, the Empress Marie Louise. 
(L. S.) NAPOLEON. 
6th Codicil.—Monsieur Lafitte, I remit- 
ted to you, in 1819, at the moment of my 
departure from Paris, a sum of 5,000,000 
of frances, for which you have given me a 
receipt in duplicate. I have cancelled one 
of the receipts, and I charge Count Mon- 
tholon to present to you the other receipt, 
in order that you may pay to him, after my 
death, the said sum, with interest at the rate 
of five per cent., from the Ist of July 1815, 
deducting the payments which you have 
been instructed to make by virtue of my 
orders. It is my wish that the settlement 
of your account may be agreed upon be- 
tween you, Count Montholon, Count Ber- 
trand, and the Sieur Marchand; and this 
settlement being: made, I give you, by these 
presents, a complete and absolute discharge 
‘from the said sum. I also, at that time, 
placed in your hands a box, containing my 
cabinet of medals. I beg you will give it 
to Count Montholon. ‘This letter having 
no other object, I pray God, Monsieur 
Lafitte, to have you in his holy and good 
keeping. 
April 25, 1821. NAPOLEON. 
7th Codicil.—Monsieur le Baron Labouil- 
lerie, treasurer of my private domain, I beg 
you to deliver the account and the balance, 
after my death, to Count Montholon, whom 
f have charged with the execution of my 
will. This letter having no other object, I 
pray God, Monsieur le Baron Labouillerie, 
to have you in his holy and good keeping. 
April 25, 1821. NAPOLEON. 
The French ministry have thought 
proper, in the midst of the present poli- 
tical calm, to renew the censorship on 
the journals. 
SPAIN. 
The hostility evinced against the 
French is increased and increasing, and 
is infinitely greater in the provinces than 
in the capital. After the publication of 
the Decree of King Ferdinand, which he 
has called an Amnesty, but which was, 
in truth, a List of Proscription, a great 
nuiaber of disorders and acts of tyranny 
occurred in Valencia, which excited the 
‘indignation of the people. This discon- 
tent subsequently increased, and the con- 
flict of parties soon plunged the city into 
the greatest confusion. To quell this 
alarming spirit, the French troops form- 
ing the garrison of Carthagena were sent 
for, and the latter place was then le% in 
charge of two remnants of what were 
called the Faction belonging to Eroles 
and Chambo. After this occurrence the 
Royalists who had sallied forth from Va- 
Political Affairs in August. 
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lencia, were beaten by the new insur- 
gents in Requena, although they were 
supported by a detachment of French. 
These contests have since placed the 
whole province of Castello in commo- 
tion, in consequence whereof one of the 
last mails going from Valencia to Ma- 
drid was intercepted. The saine letters 
also state, that the principal part of the 
French troops, forming the garrison of 
Madrid, had marched off towards Bada- 
jos, together with several officers of En- 
gineers, and seven pieces of artillery. 
The object of this movement is said to 
be the formation of a Cordon Sanitaire, 
on the frontiers of Portugal, as a preli- 
minary step to the military occupation 
of that kingdom by the French. The 
Paris papers describe avery serious afiray 
in the Spanish capital, between the 
French and Spanish soldiers, which end- 
ed in the loss of several lives on both 
sides, and proves the existence of the most 
rancourous enmity between the Spaniards 
and the French. 
UNITED STATES, 
Letters from New York mention that 
great preparations were making to re- 
ceive the Marquis de la Fayette, who 
was about to take his departure from 
France, and that a portion of the United 
States troops had been styled the La 
Fayette Guards. This eminent person 
has left France for America, to escape the 
persecutions of the French Government. 
GREECE. ' 
The Porte having fitted out a grand 
armament against the Greeks, -aided-by 
troops from the Pacha of Egypt, com- 
menced their. operations against the 
small island of Ipsaria, and have been 
too successful, as appears by the follow- 
ing letters: 
Smyrna, July 5. 
Tpsara was taken by the fleet of the Cap- 
tain Pacha on the 3d instant, at six o’clock 
A.M. The fleet appeared before the 
island on Friday, and the Captain Pacha 
sent in two flags of truce before he com- 
menced the attack, promising a free and 
full pardon to the island if they would lay 
down their arms. The first was sent back, 
with 4 message that sooner than submit, 
every man was determined to die. The 
second fared worse, and was sent back with 
his beard half shaven off, and with a mes- 
sage that they were waiting his attack with 
anxiety. The attack commenced at four 
o’clock A.M. on Saturday morning, on the 
west of the island, when about 14,000 men 
were landed, whilst a feigned attack was 
making on the batteries in the port on the 
other side of the island. The fight became 
general about six o’clock, and the Captain 
Pacha, seeing himself completely master of 
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