1826.] 
Glasgow particularly, and Paisley, in their 
manufactures ; but the clouds are breaking, 
and! iii a’ short’ time will be entirely dis- 
sipated. Taus, much with respect to our 
domestic policy : the foreign is more satis- 
factory. - Fraiice goes on pretty much after 
the ustial fashion, that ‘is to say, improving 
—if not in esséncé—at least in the externals 
of devotion, and giving preference solely 
to the Jesuits. All this is done at. the 
instigation of Charles the Tenth, who, re- 
lying on the truth of the old adage—‘ the 
greater simmer the greater saint,”’ is spend- 
ing the latter part of his life in atoning for 
the Gelinquincies of the former. Doctor 
Squintum, in Foote’s Minor, called this 
good logic; for “ there is nothing,’ says 
that exemplary ecclesiastic to Mrs. Cole, 
“like committing a few swinging follies in 
one’s youth ; because then ,you see, a body 
has matter to repent on.”’ Unlike France, 
at present reposing on its oars, Portugal is 
ail restlessness and activity. A few weeks 
sice, Spain made some verbal resistance 
to its measures with respect to a Regency ; 
but the country of the Braganzas, backed 
by the influence of England, spiritedly 
resisted all foreign interference. It seems 
that the infant and presumptive heir to the 
crown has resigned all claims to it, pre- 
ferring a limited monarchy in the new world 
to bigotry and despotism in the old, in 
consequence of which resignation -a~Re- 
gency, headed by the Queen Mother, has 
been appointed; but asits measures and 
its own stability areas yet undecided, we 
cannot do more than speculate... Of Spain 
we haye little to observe, and that little is 
condemnatory. It continues fixed only in 
its anarchy, and its determined opposition 
to the intellect of the day, which giant, 
as it is elsewhere in, influence, has here 
been paralized, as if by the touch of the 
torpedo. As the jesuits in France, so the 
monks in Spain carry all before them. 
Ferdinand himself is a monk, a genuine 
one, and we know not that we can say any 
thing worse of him. Te is perpetually 
changing his ministry, one of whom has got 
undue but sovereign influence over him, by 
the masterly skill with which four months 
SUnSE, he hemmed a silver petticoat for the 
firgin, The affairs of Turkey resemble 
those Spain, in their, wild and lawless 
chat cer The Sultan—a, spirited ,,and 
deci ed monarch—appears , to have been 
somewhat premature in his destruction, of 
the Janissaries, as detachments of that. for- 
midable. POY aRetiesesl throughout the 
country, and particularly, in, Aleppo, Da- 
agcus, and Smyrpa, haye, announced their 
ntion. of rising to, reyenge, the slaughter 
Of their fraternity. Should this, be) really 
tie case the Vicar of Mahomet, will,do 
os “all to, look. to his, own, head,, or it.may 
hance to keep company svith those) of his 
sf tony ahissacies onthe highest pinnacle 
“ot the Mosque of Saint Sophia.:, It seems, 
“Wideed, but too likely that a civil war will 
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break out in Turkey. . The numberless 
executions that have taken place. during 
the Jast_ two months throughout ,Constan- 
tinople haye diffused terror and subordina- 
tion solely within, the , sphere.of , their 
action ;_ without, that. sphere, from, one 
end of the empire to the other, the unani- 
mous cry is “ Revenge.” Should this be 
so—and our modern, politicians, one and 
all incline to it as a certainty, what an 
opportunity will open upon Greece! The 
wrongs of upwards of four hundred years, 
from the period when Mahomet I. entered 
the gates of Constantinople over the bleed- 
ing bodies of Paleologus and his heroic 
subjects, up to the massacres of Scio and 
Missolonghi, will all be terribly. revenged. 
Unaided by the sublime Porte, Ibrahim 
Pacha and his wild Arabs can obtain no 
permanent footing in the Morea... He may 
indeed persevere for a time in his work of 
death; but the spirit of the country is in 
arms, and though split into factions and 
divisions, will at least be unanimous in one 
opinion—hostility to an Egyptian despot. 
Besides, Egypt itself is too far distant for 
its Viceray to be enabled to make foreign 
conquests without the assistance of ‘Tur- 
key; and she, crippled by the Janissaries 
on one side, and her own. persevering: 
bigotry on the other, can do nothing. With 
respect to Saint Petersburgh, all is pros- 
perous-and pacific. The Emperor has 
successfully eluded the late dangerous con- 
spiraey against the lives both of himself _ 
and his deceased brother; and by behaving 
with, moderation to the guilty (few of 
whom. have suffered the. punishment of 
death), has won all, hearts to his cause. 
Among the number of foreign nollemen 
lately presented at his levee, in jorder to 
congratulate him or his escape. from, the 
conspirators’ daggers and his accession to 
the throne, Marshal Marmont, and the 
Duke of Devonshire, ambassadors. from 
France and England, have rendered them- 
selves conspicuous by the splendour and 
greatness of their display.. It is reported 
that they will remain at Saint Petersburgh 
(or rather Moscow). until the coronation, 
which they will of course attend as. repre- 
sentatives of their respective nations... In 
the two Americas, South more, especially, 
a few political disturbances ,haye , taken 
place... The government; of ,Bolivar. in 
Colombia, has been. objected..to,-by a, Mu- 
latto General, named Paez; but an amicable 
arrangement has since, we are happy to,say, 
been, effected between-the two, contending 
parties, In North America. the principal 
public occurrence | has, been, the deaths, of 
_ those celebrated Ex~presidents, Adams and 
Jefferson—the former. at the adyanced age 
of ninety, the latter/at eighty-two,, Adams, 
itmay perhaps be remembered, was the illus- 
triousriyal and friend of Washington..While . 
the one fought. his country’s battles inthe 
field, the other upheld her independence in 
the cabinet; and by their joint exertions, 
