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IMPORTANT FOREIGN NEWS.
. . * WAR IN EUROPE!
The Packet Ship New York has ar
rived at New York, bringing the impor
' tarit News, which will be found below.
Opening of the Session of 1823.
" Paris,' Jan. 28.—His Majesty, the
King of France, having remained uncov
ered for a moment, delivered the follow
ing speech:
“Gentlemen; The length ®of the two
last sessions, the short time which they
have left you unoccupied, would have
made me wish to be able to put off, for a
short time, the opening of* the present.
But the regular vote of. fhe-expenditure
of the states is an advantage of which
you have felt all the value; and in order
to preserve it, I'liave counted upon the
same devotion which were necessary for
me to obtain it.
“ The situation of the interior of the
kingdom is improved—the administra
tion oi justice, loyally exercised by the
Juries, wisely and religiqusly directed by
the magistrates, has pjut an end to th,e
plots and attempts at l^volt which were
encouraged by the hope of impunity.
“I have concluded ■ with the Holy See
those conventions which were necessary
for the formation of the new diocess of
which the law authorizes the establish
ment. . *
“Every where the churches will be
provided with their pastors'—and the
clergy of France, comp3etely*organized,
will bring upon us the ble'ssings of Pro
vidence.
“T have provided by. ordinances, as
economy in our expenses required, regu
lar order in the accounts. My Minis
ters will submit to the sanation of the
law the account of the expenses of the
year 1821. They will furnish you with
the statement of the receipts and expenses
effected in 1822, and that of the charges
and resources to be expected in 1J324.
“ It results from these documents, that,
all prior expenses being liquidated—even
those which the military preparations
have rendered necessary—we enter upon
the year 1823, with forty millions of ex
cess upon the accounts open for this
year; and that the budget for 1824 will
present a balance of receipts apd expens
es, without requiring the employment of
this reserve..
“France owed to Europe the exam
ple of a prosperity which a nation can
hot obtain but by the return to religion
-to legitimacy—to order—to true liber
ty. That Salutary example she now gives.
“I have done every thing to insure the
security of my subjects, and to preserve
Spain from the extreme of misfortune;
the infatuation with* which the proposi
tions, sent to Madrid, have been rejectedf
leaves little holies of fteare.
“I have ordered the recal of my Min
ister, and one hundred thousand French
men, commanded by a Prince of *n,y fa
mily, whom it delights my heart to call
ray son, are about to march and invoke
the God of St. Louis to preserve the
throne of Spain to a grandson of Henry
IV. to preserve that fine kingdom from
ruin, and to reconcile her to Europe.
“ Our stations will be promptly rein
'orced wherever nfaritime commerce re
quires protection.. Cruisers will be sent
out on all parts of the coast which may
he menaced.
“ If war be inevitable, I will make eve
ry effort to confine its circla and limit its
•duration. It will only be undertaken to
conquer a peace, the attainment of which
■he fire-sent state of Spain renders impos
sible. Let Ferdinand VII. be free to
give his subjects institutions which they
can only hold from him, and which, by
insuring their repose, dispel the just dis
quietude of France, and* hostilities will
from that moment cease. 1 here, gentle
men, before you, make this solemn en
gagement. It was incumbent upon me
to submit to you the stale of our exteri
or relations—it was for rne to deliberate ;
I have done so maturely; I have consult
ed the dignity of my crown, and the se
curity ol trance ; we ^;'e, Frenchmen, and
we shall be always united in defence of
such interests.”
OFFICIAL NOTES.
'■'ote addressed by the Prussian Minister
at ttye Court of Madrid, to Senor San
Miguel the Sjianigh Secretary of Po~
reign Affairs.
The observations which the undersign
?d Ch'arge <PAfFaires of His Majesty the
Ling of Prussia had the honor to submit
on the 6th current to His Excellency
Senor Col. San Miguel, Secretary of
State to His Most Catholic Majfesty, hav
ing.becn replied to in a manner far from
conformable to the wishes of his Court,
finds himself under the necessity of exe
cuting a very peremptory order of the
Ling, his master, by declaring to the
^Spanish Minister, that his Prussian Ma
jesty. can no .longer maintain with Spain
relations which, in the present circum*
stances4, would be as httle confo'cmable
o their object, as to the sentiments of
friendship and interest which the King
has invariably manifested towards His
Catholic Majesty. •
In obey mg this order, the undersigned
has ui’so to jiiafce his assurances, tbsft the
King, his .august sovereign, will never
cease to put up the 'most sincere prayers
for the happiness of a nation which His
Majesty, with the deepest sorrow, per
ceives to be in the road to ruin, and
•plunged into all the horrors of anarchy
and “civil war. *
I have the honor to* request that your
Excellency will be pleased to transmit
me ihe passports necessary for my Iea*v
ing Spain; and I renew the assurance of
my high consideration.
ANSWER.
♦I frave received the note which your
Excellency transmitted to me under the
date of the 10th, and, contenting myself
with stating, in reply, that the wishes of
the Government of His Most Catholic
Majesty for the happiness of the Prussian
states, are not less ardent than those
manifested by His Majesty the .King of
Prussia towards * Spain, I transmit to
your Excelldh£j&,* by royal order, the
passports foY.which you have applied.
(Dated, the Palace, January 11, 1823,
and signed with the usual formalities^)
EVARISTO SAN MIGUEL; - ■
THE RUSSIAN NOTE.
* The’unoersigned, Charge d’Affaires of
his Majesty the Emperor of all the Rus
. sias, has seen with real pain that the an
swer of his Excellency Senor San Mi
guel, to his .verbal communication, made
on the 6th o£ ^his month, is very far fi-cfm
fulfilling the Wishes of which he was the
medium.
To place in a still clearer light the jus
tice of the cause which he has sustained,
and to cause the benevolent intentions of
Russia to be appreciated, I have the.ho
nor to address officially to his Excellen
cy Senor San Miguel, a copy of a des
patch which I presented to him.
. The facts therein recorded are of gene
ral notoriety. No reasoning can change
them, and, consequently, the undersign
ed can have no motive for altering his
first communication.
That communication is about to be
published to Europe, and Europe will
judge between the Powers who are ani
mated by the noble desire of doing good,
and a Government which appears to her
resolved to fill up the cup of the misfor
tunes of Spain.
With respect to the determination an
nounced iiythe note ofhis Excellency Se
nor Miguel, all the responsibility will fall
on the heads of those persons who are to
be considered as its sole authors; and
while the same persons deprive their le
gitimate Sovereign of his liberty—while
they deliver up Spain to all the evils
of a-sanguinary anarchy, and'by means
of Keeping up a culpable understanding,
endeavor to extend to other states* the
calamities in which they have involved
their own country, Russia can maintain
no relation with authorities which toler
ate and even excite such disorders.
The undersigned has therefore the ho
nor to request that his Excellency Senor
San Miguel will send to him his pass
ports, adding to them passports for the
persons who compose the Imperial Le
gation at the Court of his Most Catholic
Majesty.
The undersigned avails himself of this
opportunity to renew to his Excellency
Senor San Miguel, the assurance of his
most distinguished consideration.
The COUNT DE BULGARA.
Madrid, Dec. 28, (Jan. 9.)
ANSWER.
I have received the very insolent note
which your.Ex-cellencjf transmitted to me *
yesterday/the 10th inst. and limiting
myself for my sole reply, to stating that
you have shamefully abused (perhaps
through ignorance) the law. of nations,
which' is always respectable in the eyes
of the Spanish government, I transmit,
by order of His Majesty, the passports
you desire, hoping that your Excellency
will be pleased to leave this capital with
as little delay as’possible.
I am, &c. EYARISTO SAN MIGUEL.
Jan. 11.'
THE AUSTRIAN NOTE.
The Allied Sovereigns, assembled at
Verona, have been of opinion that they
could no longer remain silent on the mis
fortunes and disorders which desolate
Spain. Their duty and their consciences
oblige them to speal?, and the undersign
ed Charge d’Affaires»foi* Austria has had
the honor of making known to Colonel
San Miguel, Secretary o£ State for Fo
reign Affairs to bis' Most Catholic Ma
jesty, the sentiments apd wishes of the
Emperor.
The reply which his Excellency gave
to this verbal communication proves that
the intentions of his Majesty have been
misinterpreted, and hi scoffers undervalu
ed. The undersigned* will not descend
to the point of refuting the calumnious
insinuations by which it has been endea
vored to distort his real meaning. Very
soon Spain and all Europe ivill b*e enabled
to judge oi this. But the Court of Aus
tria is of opinion .that its disapproval of
the causes of the evils which oppress a
noble and generous nation, forwhich.it
professes so much esteem, and for which
it feels so much interest, would not be
sufficiently .declared if it continued to
maintain, diplomatic relations with the
SogMsh government, In execution of
his order's* the undersigned, therefore,
informs* the Secretary" of State tor fo
reign Affairs that his mission is termi
nated ;* and requests that his Excellency
will have the goodness to forward to him
his passports. ; .
On this occasion, the undersignet, has
?he honor to offer to his Excellency the
homage of his high consideration.
COUNT BRUNETTE
Madrid, January 10.
ANSWER. *
I have received the note which your
excellency was pleased to remit to me,
dated yesterday, the 10th, and having^
now only to say that the government of
his Catholic Majesty is indifferent whe
ther it maintains relations or not with
the Court of Vienna, I send you, by Roy
al order, the passports which you have
required. I amf See. •
EVARTST0 SAN MIGUEL.
Madrid, Jan. 11.
Cofiy pf a letter addressed by the Count
De Bulgari, the Russian Charge d'Af
* /hires, to M. San Miguel, dated Mad
rid, Jan. 13.
Sir: I have received the note which
your Excellency Jratfsmitted to me, dated
the day befo.re yesterday. The respect
which I owe to-the forms and principles
admitted fcnd consecrated by all civilized
nations, prevents me not only from re
plying to that note, but even from mak
ing its contents known to my govern
ment. I hasten, therefore, to send it
back to your, Excellency, for the eyes of
the Emperor, ihy tna&ter, must not be
disgusted by the pe'Tusai of*.a production
•which I abstain from characterizing, and
in which his Imperial Majesty and Eu
rope would look in vain for the slightest
evidence of a government which knows
how to respect itself. I have the honor
to be, See.
Paris? Tuesday Evening.—Thg speech
of the.Krtig produced a profound impres
sion upon* the assembly. The wishes of
all good Fr*enchmen are realized; a King
of France speaking to Frenchmen «f the
honor and safety of France, will be heard.
Ere long, we may say again—-Iln’ya
plus de Pyrenees
(By a private letter.)
Paris, Jan. 28, 2 o'clock, P. M.—This
is the most important day in the history
of France since the restoration.—France,
which owes every thing to a revelation;
her legislative assemblies, her code of
laws, the internal organization of her go
vernment, the divisions of her territory,
the titles and offices of the civil function
aries, her system of education, the very
structure of her society, and even many
terms of her language—France* which
hears and sees nothing but what is the
creation of a vevolution, because, with
out imitating her excesses, she has follow
ed her example.
Private Correspondence.
Paris, Jan. 21.-—It is pretty evident
that some interruption to the harmony
subsisting between the French and Eng
lish courts* .lias taken place. The rejec
tion of the proffered meditation with re
gard to Spain is one cause assigned f but
I find other explanations curtent, of
which I give the following as a speci
men,-without vouching for its.authentici
ty. Sir Charles Stuart, it is said, in
consequence of having observed that fre
quent communications were made from
the Russian Ambassador to the French
government, Respecting which great se
crecy was maintained, complained to Mr.
Canning of this ' reserve, as leaving him
-entirely uninformed of the policy Rus
sia was pursuing on the great question
in agitation. Mr. Canning, in reply,
gave positive instructions to Sir Charles
Stuart to press the French Ministry, and
to demand an explanation on this point;
when it was disclosed to;our Ambassa
dor, with some reluctance, that Russia
had been urging the French government,
in the strongest manner, to undertake the
invasion of Spain; and, to remove all
pleas of weakness for the enterprise, had
offered to support France, if thought ne
cessary, with a force of 400,000 men.—
Mr. Canning, it is added, was so indig
nant at this want of frankness at the time
when the offer of England's mediation
was under consideration, that he des
patched a messenger to overtake Lord.
Fitzroy Somerset, who had just quitted
Londo'n, with, instructions to him, imme
diately on this arrival at Madrid, to pre
pare the basis of a treaty of alliance,1 of- .
ferjsive and defensive, between Spain and *
England, to be acted on in the event of a
declaration oi war by France against
Spain.
London, Jan. 30.-—The* Eioile of Mon
day evening contains t&e following news $
I he Duke of Angoul&me, General
issimo.of the French Army, is to set out
m a fevy days, hi D’Oudenarde will
command the Body Guards which will
accompany His Royal Highness. The
Marquis of Lauriston sets out in tliree
days. Vv e are assured that the Duke
oi ban Lorenzo will not assist tbs roy
al sitting. The Regency of Spain is to
enter Catalonia before the French armr;
Generals.Canuel and Donnadieu set off
last, night for the Spanish a,w \ve
.are assured that‘the manifesto'of the
Spanish govern men* ?o Europe, has-ar
rivco. i dviSi ii is -Seim to qc tubl ot*
wisdom and dignity.”
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SELECTED ITEMS.
A vessel arrived at Malta on the 16th,
of December, which left Napoli di Ka
ro an ia on the 9th of December, states
that that important fortress was at that
time in the hands of the GrAks. The
Turks capitulated, and were allowed to
take away,the .third part of the consid
erable property that they had amassed
there. . *
The probability of a war between Ai
giers^ and . Sp*ain increased—the former
considering it lawful to capture every
thing encler tbe’fiag of the latter.
A Jetter from Persia, date Taberiz,
Sept. 20, gives the particulars df a great
battle between the Persians and' Turks,
in which the army of the latter, amount
ing to 52,000 men, was totally defeated.
* *Mr. Canning has resigned his place in
the House of Commons as Representa- .
tive for Liverpool. He has done this
from a conviction that he cannot dis
charge his duties to his constituents, and <
at the saipe time his duties as administer "
•THE LATE NEWS
Had considerable effect in the NewYork
market—Exchange on London fell on
Tuesday morningt(l 1th) to about 8 per
cent, and the principal quantity of Rice *
in market was bought at an early hour, in
some instances at an advance of half a
dollar per cwt. from the prices of Mon
day.—\_Balt. Chran. . . j
■Wjij.i.1— i or**. y
CATALOGUE OF HORRORS.
. Natches*, (Miss.) Nov. 5.—The steam
boat Tennessee, commanded by Captain
Campbell, bound for Louisville, with a
valuable cargo, and about 120 deck, and
18 or 20 cabin passengers, on the night
of the 8th ult. at about 10 o’clock, struck
a snag some distance from the shore,
which caused her to sink in a very few
minutes, consigning to a watery grave
THIRrIvfr of her passengers. An occur
rence of this kind, involving such deep
distress, and in which so many lives were
lost, has never before taken place on the
Mississippi. The boat and cargo were
estimated at $150,000.
Baton Rouge, (Lou.) .Feb. 8.-—The
steam-boat Alexandria was lost on her
way up from New Orleans, on Sunday
morning lasjt. About 11 o’clock on Sa
turday night, she ran foul of some float
ing'wood, which knocked off a part of her
sheathing, and went down in a few hours
afterwards. The loss cf property, we un
derstand, is very considerable, but the
passengers and crew were saved.
Petersburg, Va. March 10.—On Tues- 1
day nighlrlast, about 10 o’clock, the houseu'
of Mrs. Polly Temjile, widow of Joshu^
Temple of Prince George, was visited h'j£
the ravages of fire. It is supposed, the’**
family jvad not retired to bed over half an 1
hoar, .when, the house was enveloped* in ■
Jflajnes; and what is most distressing to ^
tell* two of her daughters, one nearly 15, ;
and the other 7 or 8 years of age, who oc- ,*f
cupied a bed on the upper floor, fell vie- k
tints to the fames. The widow and two i
other daughters, who slept below, barely ■(
had time to make good their retreat. U
Four houses were lately burnt atWheel
ing. The loss of property was consider
able. Mr. Reuben Spencer, a last-maker,
from Baltimore, unhappily perished -in 3
the flames. He had escaped, but return- 1
£d for- his trunk—and fell through a floor to
into., the flames. His heart-piercing iff
shrieks and groans were heard for several :4
^minutes.
By the arrival at Philadelphia, of the S!
ship Caledonia, from Canton, information :i!
has been received, that a dreadful fire oc- ■■■■)':
curred at that place on the 7th of Nov. -
last, by which upwards of Ten Thousand R
Houses were consumed. The English fap
tory and most of the others were destroy-* fet
ed. , J k
•MU)MCI
Henirifce.—^Take sage and salt, of each ]
a like quantifcf, arid pound them together. i:
then bake tlje .mixture till it be hard, and !l!'
make a fine powder thereof, then here
with rub the teeth, evenings and morn- ;iv
ings, and it will take away ell yellowness.. -1
\ . DIED,
J n Maryland, near this place, on Sun
tlay last, after a very short illness, Mrs. v
Elizabeth Best, at the advanced age of Jl
pO years. Ip
On the 11th inst. after an illness of but
a few days, Mr. Ignatius JamesoiJ, aged :!l
!>2 years. He was a wealthy and highly
respectable citizen of Frederick coupty, ■
Md, He has left a large family to lament : -
the loss of a tender and affectionate, pa- jp
rent. • • ■'■#&»
WEEKLY' ALMANAC.
MARCH,
1823.
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