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Jan. 13,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1814. 



unday last in the h year of his age, at Sti i in 



raatihire, the resid< e of -ge Bank K UP. 



metal /'.parte' ■ intends it is repo »rt!y to 



Islinds, and commandedSC»pri>l». -vas attacked and 



taken by th< Fren . He was ahout 70 yeers of nge. 



Death of the niral of the Fleet.— Sir ( h ulcs I 

 Nugent, the Senior A' tral on the Navy I 1 on 



Sundav. i r y be re >ered that the gall officer 



broke his leg last year by slipping off the curb-stone 

 whilst he was ir ing the monument. Prom 



the effects of this accident he never re overed, and expired 



on 

 Dorsetshire 



General n$p* 



leave E land, tad to take lence in Brussels. 



The eminent however 1 not receded as yet 



any ii »n of t rat's intention. 



The J Lie I of Ik is vacant by the re- 



signation of the Duke of rafto has resigned in 



consequence of bi creasing infirmities and advanced age. 

 The \i .'iiqueti of J -' mad aa hi! !uc< 



The He *#v— reveum turns for the and 



qua. ling Jai L »ere pnblisl lay. 



The to d Inc if the ^«r waf ',071 ing an 



Inmate on t\ ms year of! "• T i: ' ,e 



iico losedofthe ostomsj . : /.; 



, ii U. ; • ' ■ ,; . ; ,xe »' 



4J ,1 !/.; I >m »I9,2 "»«»/.; Post otti /.; 



• r.>wn Lands, M >00/.| Misce! >eou«, 1 i.711/. ; 

 Imprest and oturr moneys, lb'8\528/. } nti of 



Ivances, .7. ; making a total of 171.91 Tl 



a. for i year ll v an increase in the Kxci .• of 



; [no tat, 4 4/. ; Mite sneous, 



1,03 ; to v. ir uat be addr ,1 R« of 



Advain making a toi I inornate of 6,2 < 



Th is a decrease I Coal «s of amps, 



1,9 ; i I - ,1067. ; Poit.ofticc, 13,000/.; Crown 

 Lands, 15,500/.: I ■ wh must be stand 



other m rs, 342 ■'./., making n I d dei ease of 



U bi deducted from t ease of 



6 res an increase on the yenr, as stated «l 



of 3,7l The rati s lor the Quart, r show an in- 



creaie In the I at - Excise, 8763/.; 



Income Tai, 197,203/. j P ffice, : 0/. jRepn nts 

 of Advar. /., aaaking a told inereaf 58/. 



On the other iiand bow a bi *»o in the Stamp! of 



38,10!/.; rai( . U. ; Crown L la, 10,00"/.; 



Misceilaneons, 9 I/.; Imprest and other moneys, 

 1/., unkmg a total 4 -Tease of 131, 11. ; which 

 being deducted Irom the increase of Si 7,1 l/. f gives an 

 increase on t! Quarter of 725,670/. 



The National D*bt* — 1 .idsof'heTn ury having 



certified to the ( nsmissi ners for t '. Kednction of the 

 National I > bt that the actu I sun lus revenue of the 

 United Kmgdi vond the actual penditure for the 



year ending the i h C ober, I ■ >. amounted I 



11/. 11*. 9{ the N at i I ■ (' miationera 

 have given not thst the sum of 227,135/. 7*. \\\>l. 

 (bcintc one- fourth of the said surplus of 908,5 1 1/. I \s. f» l r/.) 

 will he applied in the quarter e the 5th April next 



to the followii pui viz.; — To the jr. hase of 



stock. 7,1364. 7s. Ill to the purchase of Exchequer- 

 bills, 2 



The ( mies, — I . General Sir Peregrine Maitland, 



K.C.I'.., GovemOf and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape 

 of Go >pe, left town on Monday for Portsmouth to 



embark for that c dony.--In consequence of the death of 

 the Hon. J. 11. Morrison, the Rev. I irlea Gutzlaff has 

 been nominated by Sir U. Pot linger to the vacant situation 

 of Chinese Secretary of Hong Kong, and Mr. S. Majort- 



banks has been confirmed in the m.-dical charge of the 

 Consulate at Canton ; bo'h appointments however being 

 subject to the confirm ktioa ot the Home Government. — 

 The Q ieen has been pleased to appoint William Fish- 

 bourne, Esq., to be Magistrate for her Majesty 1 ! settle- 

 ments in the ikland Island!. 



Church of Scotland. — The Queen has been pleased to 

 present the It v. R, Stewart to the church of Auch -trade, 

 Argyll, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. H. 



M'Diarmid to the pari I Callander, uui ae. The 



Rev. K. Keid to the church of Lochs, Ross, vac-mr by the 

 transportation of the Rev. R. Stewart to the parish of 

 Aucharacle, Mull. The Kev. J. Gillsn to the church of 

 Altonl, Aberd. , Tenant by the death of Dr. Farquharaon. 

 Dr. J. Crombie to the church of S vth, vacant by 



the transpor n of Rev. J. Craik to a church at 



Glasgow. The Rev. H. Taylor to the church of Went- 

 rather, Bei k, vacant by the resignation of tic Rev. J. 

 Croabie. The Rev. W. Lou to the church of Lochlee, 

 Forfar, v nt by the admission of the Rev. A. Tod to the 

 church ot Monitit >un<.lee. 



Fine Arts Commh n. — Her Majesty's Commis.-i met! 

 have given notice that the decorative i ks intended for 

 exhibition, according to the not s published in June and 

 July last, are to be sent to No. 20, King-strtvt, St. 

 James's (late the St. James's Bazaar), between the hours 

 often and five on any day, unday excepted, during the 

 firsi week in March next, when agent! will be in attend- 

 ance to receive them ; but no work will be received after 



the 7th March. 



jfofttgft. 



France —On Monday, in the Chamber of Peer!, tl 



Due de Brogl read the draft Ol ess drawn Dp 



by the commission in reply to the King's speech. The 

 principal passage, and the one which most directly con 

 cerns this country, was the following: — ,4 Peace reigns 

 abroad, and there is every prospect of its duration. The 

 relations between France and the foreign Powers are on a 

 benevolent footing : we congratulate your Majesty on 

 that result. A sincere friendship unites you to the Queen 

 of Great Britain. A happy understanding has been 



established between your Government and hers ; in pre- 

 sence of the ev* nt! now passing in Spain and Greece that 

 harmony was desirable. Our policy with regard to those 

 tw.) countries his ever been generous and disinterested ; 

 it must not be altered. We entertain for them a real 

 (fection ; m they after so many convulsions, enjoy 

 tranquillity and or.i r ; may royalty find in those friendly 

 n is, and in its alliance with public liberties a new 

 le of power and stability." The address made no 

 direct allusion to the Due de Bordeaux, but after the Due 

 de Uroglie had concluded, the Due de Richelieu rose and 

 entered into some explanations respecting his late visit to 

 the ncc in London. He was, he said, a peer in 1830 ; 

 he took the oath at that time to the new Government, ai 

 bad never violated it. If he had gone to London to pay 

 hisrespec's to an unfortunate Prince, he merely considered 

 that he was accomplishing a duty of honour, and rejected 

 with in nation all Ide >f having been influenced by any 

 rimi d intention. M. deBoieey nextascended the tri- 

 bune, and spoke of the right of search, and asked M. 

 Goisot if he had obtained satisfaction for the violence 

 offered to French fishermen by English cruizers 

 who hi I fired upon them and killed one of them 

 without giving them any previous notice? Al.de 

 Uoissy next challenged M. Gniaot on the supposed in- 

 tent! u of the Ministry to present a dotati n-bill, which 

 he had reason to know had heen decided on in the Council. 

 M. Gntzot replied that a French fisherman had been 

 actually k d at Newfoundland by a shot fired by an 

 Ingltsh officer ; thai this unfortunate occurrence had given 

 rise to a long negotiation, nnd that the English Govern- 

 tent on Inquiring into the circumstances which had occa- 

 oned that deplorable event, had found that the officer 

 w:ii to bla , and had granted a p< anion to the family of 

 the deceased. M. Dubouchage and M. tie Veyrac after- 

 wards addressed the Chamber. "\ latter presented the 

 dication of the ,000 or 3,000 Frenchmen who had 

 visited the Due irdei amidst the murmurs of 



the assembly. M. Guizot .stated that the Government had 

 for several years kept a watchful eye over the movemen's 

 of the Due de Horde I ; that when the young Prince ha. I 

 repaired to Vienna, Dresden, and Berlin, u here France 

 had ambassadors, remonstrances had been made again 

 his presence there, which \ e immediately attended to by 

 the Governments of Austria, Sax >ny, and Prussia. When 

 the Duke pro. .to England, M. Guizot was aware 



that in a country enjoying lit* rtj and publicity to such an 

 extent the Government had not the same means of re- 

 pression as elsewhere. He nevertheless had addressed a 

 note to the I h Government, by whom it was received 



in a nner that respond to his expectation. The 

 Quetn of England refused to receive the Duke, and thus 

 gave him a signal mark of her disapprobation of his visit 

 and sojourn in her dominions. ] :ouraged however by 

 the toleration they experienced in that free country, the 

 timstists had indulged in scandalous scenes which 

 excittdthea' tionot French Government. It again 

 applied to the British Cabinet, who protested its regn t 

 at not being armed with sufficient legal means of repres- 

 sion, but at the same time it manifested its displeasure 

 in unequivo terms to the authors of those scenes and 

 left nothing undone to convince them of its dissatisfaction 

 at their o inal proceedings. The speech of M. Guizot 

 was most, favourably received by the assembly. M. de 

 Boissy who spoke next, compared the emigration of M. 

 Guizot to Ghent in 1815 with the recent visit of the Le- 

 gitimatists to Belgrave-square and pronounced the former 

 to be far more criminal, inasmuch as it had taken place in 

 time of war and on the eve of a battle that had proved so 

 fatal to his country. When he had concluded the Presi- 

 dent announced that the general discussion was closed and 

 read the first paragraph of the address which was adopted 

 without opposition. The second paragraph was voted 

 after a few words from the Minister of Finance, who 

 assured the Chamber that it was not a mere promise which 

 the King's speech held out, but a positive assurance that 

 the receipts and expenditure v\ould be balanced in the 

 budget of 1845. M. Segnr Lamoignon having asked M. 

 Guizot if I b had opened a negotiation with England for 

 the revision of the right of search, M. Guizot replied 

 that when he deemed the moment opportune he had di- 

 eted the attention of the British Government to that 

 subject and after much difficulty had succeeded in inducin 

 it to consent to a re-examination of the treaties of 1831 

 and 1833. The negotiations were still pes , but he 



id every hope of bringing the matter to a satisfactory 

 conclusion. M. Dubouchage asked M. Guiz.t if it was 

 true that e English had taken pos sion of the harbour 

 of Diego Suarez on the coast of Mac wear ? M. Guizot 

 replied that no information on the subject had reached h 

 department or that of the Marine. Af era few words from 

 M. de sy on the affair of the Marabout slave-ship, 



the third paragraph was carried, with r.n amendment in 

 ! tvour of Polish nationality. The remaining paragraphs 

 were afterwards agreed to, and the address was voted by 

 a majority of 115 to 1 1 —The Chamber of Deputies will 

 not comm e the debate on the address till the 

 loth. M. Sr. Marc (iirardin is appointed to draw 

 it up. — An incident occurred on Saturday in Paris 

 which at any earlier period would have ciused alarm. 

 A body of students amounting to 500 or 1000, for their 

 number is variously estimated," repaired in procesi i from 

 the School of Medicine to the house of M. LafBtte, when 

 •ey complimented him in the name of " the schools" n 

 the " patriotic" speech with which he had marked the ter- 

 mination of his accident d presidency of the Chamber of 

 Deputies, on his conduct during the're^toration, and his 

 successful efforts to overthrow it. &c. M. Laffitte returned 

 M an appropriate reply," on receiving which the students 

 proceeded to the residence of M. Beranger the poet, at 



(r 





ine of conduct which they ought to pursue under existisj 

 :ircumstances. They acknowledged the right of tin 



I Passy, delayed on the way by a row with the police »w 

 arrested some of the most tumultuous of the body. ' vj* 

 poet being abroad, another row with the police tookalj! 

 and fresh arrests were made before the students were |? 

 persed. — Accounts have been received from Ci 

 nouncing the reception of the French Mission 

 Count Ratti Menton by the Viceroy of Wauipoi. ^Sw 

 the usual ceremo' s the French Consul presented tofc 

 Imperial Commissioner a letter from M. Guizot, reqit*. 

 ing for France the same advantages as had been grmw 

 to England. The Imperial Commissioner replied rer)*a» 

 that as the Chinese Government had acted so gtnerosS 

 towards England, notwithstanding their ancient andre©3 

 difference-, the Imperial Government did not think k 

 could be le amicable as regarded France. 



SPAIN. — We have accounts from Madrid to the i* 

 inst. Mr. Bulwer had just had his first interview «to 

 M. Gonzales Bravo, and the friends of the new MioutM 

 affirmed that the result had proved satisfactory to boi 

 parties. He had also had an interview with the Quepntai* 

 presented his credentials. The arrival of the Qa^ 

 Mother was much talked of, the general belief being uj^ 

 she would venture to return to Madrid next month. Tsi 

 capital was tranquil, and no unfavourable tidings had sj 

 yet been received from the provinces. On *.he 31st t*t 

 Government promulgated a decree, regulating and re. 

 organising the Ayuntamien os or corporations throughoa 

 the kingdom. This is the same law which in 1810 dro* 

 Queen Christina from Spain, and against which 1 

 petitions were presented. From that time no Minute; 

 has ventured to reproduce the law in the Cortes; bit 

 General Narvaez and his Cabinet have enacted it by 

 royal decree, without consulting either the legislature « 

 the country. The Progresista Deputies, 71 in nui her,hsi 

 adopted a series of it solutions, proposed by the committsj 

 they had appointed to submit to them its opinion upon the 

 1 



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Government to suspend the session of the Cortes; bit 

 were determined at the same time to keep a close witch 

 over the ulterior proceedings of the Ministry, and iee 

 that the Constitution was faithfully executed. They ic- 

 cordingly wished to impress on their constituents that the 

 first guarantee of public liberty consisted in not pajisf 

 any tax or contribution which was not authorized by i 

 vote of the Cortes. M. Martinez de la Rosa had been 

 officially appointed Ambassador at Paris, and was toleiTe 

 for that capit.il on the 7th or 8ih of this month. On the 

 28th in the evening some of the individuals most impli- 

 cated in the attempt on the life of General Narvaez es- 

 caped from prison. The soldier on guard at that hour ii 

 stated to have been arrested. — Advices from Barcelona of 

 the 5th inst. announce that the capitulation of the fort of 

 Figueras was agreed toon the 30th ult. between the Baroi 

 de Meer aud Ametler. The terms of capitulation are 

 reduced to three articles :— The soldiers and the free 

 corps to serve for eight years in the army ; the chiefs to 

 re.>ign their military character ; and all damage done to 

 private property by the fort to be paid by the insurgents. 

 It appears that though these terms were sent to Madrid 

 for the approbation of Government, the Captain-Genera* 

 thought it afterwards desirable to accept them on his own 

 responsibility in consequence of a dispute among the in- 

 surgents themselves, which gave him a favourable oppor- 

 tunity of taking possession of the fort. 



Portugal. — The annual ceremony of opening tie 

 Cortes took place on the 2d inst. by the Queen in persoe. 

 After the usual etiquette was gone through her Majesty 

 delivered the following address from the throne: — "It u 

 with delight I behold reunited in this honourable place 

 the representatives of the nation, who by the fundamental 

 law of the realm are invested with the noble character fli 

 the legitimate interpreters of the wishes and opinioniof 

 the nation. Impressed with the desire of becoming 

 rquainted with the necessities of my people, I left t« 

 capital for a few weeks accompanied by my august spouK 

 and two of my children, on a \isit to the principal towal 

 and places of Alemtejo and Estremadura ; and I trua 

 that this digression will have been of utility towards tw 

 furtherance of the happiness of the people of those dis- 

 tricts, of whose love and respect for my Royal person 

 am delighted to be able to give in this place a public tef* 

 timony. Since the solemn opening of the last legist*"/* 

 session, Providence has been pleased, by the birth ot 

 Princess, to grant a still further security to the throw 

 of these realms. I have the satisfaction to announce » 

 you that I continue to receive from all nations ( J 

 allies) the most undeniable proofs of friendship, and 



am fully confident 

 Holy See will be 

 of the Crown held 

 Lusitanian Church 



that 

 shortly 

 sacred, 



the negotiations with the 

 terminated, the privilefJJ 

 and the necessities of tw 

 It is moreover wi» 



attended to. _- __ 



the greatest delight that I am enabled to assure T 

 that the public tranquillity has not suffered the sligntenj 

 alteration in any part of the kingdom. In the organisation 

 the land and naval forces you will bear in mind the intere 

 honour, and security of the nation. In conformity with ^ 

 constitutional charter of the Monarchy the budget for »J 

 future economical year will be presented l0 J 0XL }J*^^ 

 this important object, as well as upon other dine * 

 branches of the public service, my Ministers will fu r 



you with such proposals as may be judged mostconv 

 and which experience will have shown are most nece 

 I have the highest confidence that these Chambers ^ 

 give every a-sistance to my Government. I arn , ,- c 

 expect this from their zeal and interest for the p 

 welfare."— ScSor Oiozaga arrived in Lisbon towards 

 end of the last month, and was residing on the 1st in 

 of the suburbs of that city. The late Ministerial crisis ^ 

 terminated in the refusal of the Queen to accep 





