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Misccilaueous idxtr.icts.
7Tie yo.i/i Mapolean. —The 15th June,lS3l,
the prince was mUMd lieutenant colonel, and
♦•>>k tiic command of a hattallion of Hnn-
Kims infantry, then in garrison at Vienna.
His ev*n><*o-* m ihc discharge of hiv.iew duties,
in addition to his previous occupations, appear
to have nude the progress of his milady, which
Imd till now proceeded secretly, visible both in
his appearance, and in his in icilitt to hear fa
tigue. lli.s voice became Hoarse, h ; was sub
ject to coughs and attacks of fever : h” had shot
up to a prodigious heigh', and his appearance
bore many marks of the germs of the terri
ble phthisis, now breaking out into activity.
“Frequently,” says hi.s physician, Dr. Nal
iatii, “ 1 have surprised him in the barracks in
a state of dreadful lassitude. One day, among
others, 1 found him stretched on a sofa, exhaust
ed, powerless, and almost fainting. Not being
able to coo-'eal the wretched state in w hich I
found him, he said, 4 1 abominate this man
rs ‘r.’ 4 lt is indeed provoking, 1 answered,
•that your Highness cannot change your per
son, as vou do vour horses when they arc
tired; but permit nie, Monseigneur, I conjure
you, to remember, that you have set a will of
iron in a body of glass, and that the indulgence
of your will cannot prove otherwise than fa
tal".”
“ Ilis lile was, in fact, at that time undergo
ing a process of combustion: he slept scarcely
lour hours, though, by nature he required a great
quantity of sleep; he scarcely ate at all. His
soul was entirely concentrated in the routine
of thj manage and tile different kinds of milita
ry exercise; he was, in fact,never at rest, hecon
timied to increase in height, grew wretchedly
livid. To all ray questions he answered, 44 1 am
perfectly well.”
Malfatti at lenghth considered it necessary to
present a representation to the Emperor on the
state of the Duke’s health. Both the patient
and tiie physician were summoned to the Impe
rial presence. Malfatti repeated his statement
The Emperor then turned to the young prince,
and said, “You have heard Dr. Malfatti; you
will repair immediately to Sehcebrinui.” The
Duke bowed respectfully, and as he was
raising his head, he gave Malfatti a glance of
excessive indignation. 44 It is you then that
have pat me under arrest,” he said to him in an
angry tone, and hurried away. He was placa
ble, however, and soon forgave his amiable
physician. The air and quiet of Schcenbrunn
were extremely beneficial; he began again to
sleep and to eat; the first return of vigor was
ihe signal for exertion. He commenced hunt
ing, as the next best thing to war, in all weath
ers, and with a recklesness that, joined to simi
lar exposure in vlsitiing neighboring military
stations, soon re-established the malady. Phth
isis assumed all its horrible power, he gradually
sank, and after dreadful suffering, and all the
rallying and resistance which a strong will can
sometimes effect against disease, he fell a vic
tim to it on the 22d July, 1832, at Schoenbrunn,
on the same bed, in the same apartment that his
father had occupied as the conqurer of Vien-
m.
ills mother w. 19 present ounngnis latter uays,
nnd seems to have suffered alia mother’s pains.
The Einperior, whom all degree in describing
as an excellent and amiable old man, was great
ly affected; a very strong affection subsisted
between them; and, on the part of the duke, it
was evident, that the Honest, straight-forward
character of the Emperor, joined with his pa
ternal kindness and evidently honest intentions,
Lad made a profound impression on the mind
and heart of his grandson. On the opening of
the body the opinions of the Duke’s physicians
were fully confirmed; one lobe of the lungs was
nearly gone; and while the sternum was that of
a mere child, the intestines presented all the
appeatance of decrepid age.
As he laid on his bier, his resemblance to his
father, that resemblance so striking in the cra
dle, became once more remarkable. It might
have been detected in life but the flowtng blond
hair of his Austrian mothei, and his tall form,
would naturally mask the resemblance. His
manner was graceful and elegant—the expres
sion of his countenance somewhat sad; he was
reserved till he fancied he had found a friend,
when he became confidential, communicative,
and even enthusiastic. He appears to have
been universally beloved; no one can recollect
-an offence—much less an injnry; he was full of
kindness and consideration for every one about
him. But one passion appears to have been
developed—that of miltary ambition. The pre
sent with him was but a preparation; in fact, he
lived in a future, which for him vns never to ar
.rive. Lookng at the in‘eresu of Europe, it is
impossible to regret his death; looking at him
self, it is imposssible not to fe.-. ■ great interest
in his lile; had, in truth, his various qualites and
dispositions been more generally known during
his youth, it is very proba’ V that the popu
lace of France would have nice deeply Sym
pathised in his fate. He was never regarded
otherwise than as le fils de Phom.ns, and assuch
let him rest; a last victim to to ; turbulent am
bition of Ids own father.
Geological Course of Cholera. —Mr. Boubee
has made some researches into tle geology of
the countries through which th; Cholera has
passed, from which he remarks, that this epi
demic has spread most speedily, ’ and with its
greatest intensity, through those districts where
the territory and alluvial earths are the most
extensive, whilst it appeals to h ive < been prop
agated with great difficulty, or have lost its in
tensity. and even to have been extinguished iu
these parts where the older and particularly the
pnmaidial formations predominate. This coin
cident of the course of the cholera with particu
lar geological districts, agrees with the obser
vation pretty well established, that the circum
stances of humidity and evaporation favor the
development 01 this disease. In fact tertiary
and arrival earths have, to a remarkable degree,
the property of imbibing water, which bein'* I
again yielded by a prolonged evaporation, pro”
l ices a humidity of the atmosphere entirely de
pe,Hunt on the nature of tho soil. The older
fornvdions, on the contrary, compose ordinarily
compact rocks, which being impermeable, can
neither absorb moisture nor present it to the at
mosphere by evaporation. Sometimes the old
formations and volcanic deposition, present
rocks, that arc friable or decomposed in particu
lar places, in which case they will resemble the
more recent ones in obsorbing and affording
moisture, and this circumstance may explain
some of the exceptions to the general rule of the
cholera adhering in its progress to the modern
formations. -Jour. du. Chimie Mul.
A curious Hirer.- In the province of Anda
lusia, in Spain, there is a liver culled the Tinto ,
from the tinge of its waters which are ns yellow
as topaz, it possesses the most extraordinary
and singular qualities. If a stone happens to
fall in and rest upon another, they both become
in one year's time perfectly united and con—
glutinated. AH the plants on its banks are
withered by its waters whenever they overtlow.
No kind of verdure will come up where its wa
ters reaches, nor can any dishes live in its,
stream. The river rises in the Sierra Moreiia
mountains, and its singular properties continue
until other rivets run into it and alter its na
ture.
A Hoax. —At a court of sessions which clo
sed a few days since, at Hackensack, N., J., a
hoax was played off, which, for its singular au
dacity and success, deserves to be recorded.—
The perpetrator had been a long time in prison
at Hackensack, awailing his tiial upon a charge
of perjury. The evidence against him establish
ing the offence was known to lie of so conclusive
a character, that nobody doubted lor a moment
that the proceeding against him would terminate
by his imprisonment in the state prison. A liv
ing dog, however, is better than a dead lion, as
was shown by the issue of this man’s case. It
appears that a few days prior to the time appoin
ted for trial, when every expedient which his
fruitful mind was capable of devising seemed to
be exhausted, in the vain hope of an escape from
his perilous situation, he hud a severe par
alytic stroke, by which one entire side was ren
dered powerless. In this feeble and helpless
condition, insisting upon his trial, he was con
veyed upon a bed from the prison to the court
room. The spectacle of an infirm and afflicted
fellow being, on the verge of the grave, being
on trial for a perjury, had a powerful influence
upon the sympathies of the jury. They, never
theless, felt themselves bound, under the weight
of evidence, reluctantly to return against him a
verdict of guilty. While the tri 1 was in pro
gress, the prisoner became so faint that the
court was under the necessity of granting a re
cess, to enable him to be re-eonveyed to his
apartment in the prison for revival. On this oc
casion he was again removed upon his bed, and
sa strong an appeal was made by this distress
ing exhibition of the helpless prisoner, that the
prosecuting Attorney, Mr. Campbell, and his
associate Mr. Todd, benevolently lent a hand
in liis removal thence and back.
The Court, upon his conviction, felt no little
embarrassment in coming to a result, as to the
degree and character of punishment they should
award atyaino* Kliv fi,r ♦!- QortA.< nn.l :.,c,
crime of which he had been found guilty. Be
lieving, however, as they said, that he could not
live long—that his capability to commit harm,
even ifhis inclination to do so continued, was in
a great measure destroyed by the afflicting par
alysis under which he then labored—that if sent
to prison he must remain there a public charge
without rendering any adequate service in re
turn for his support—but above all, that he was
likely, according to every reasonable probabili
ty, of so shortly answering for his transgres
sions before another and higher tribunal, they
came to a conclusion that all the ends of public
justice would be answered in his case, by impo
sing upon him a fine. They, therefore, more
ou* of regard to the forms of law, than any de
sire to exact its collection, imposed upon him a
1 fine of five dollars.
The brother of the prisoner who manifested
for him during all this while the most fraternal
solicitude, advanced the line, and with a one
hoi sc wagon in which he uad placed a bed, drove
off with him from the prison.
One ol the prosecuting council having busi
ness in this city on the following day crossed
the ferry at the foot of Courtlandt-sireet, but the
extent of his surprise and astonishment may be
better conceived than described, when almost
immediatly on landing, he ran plump up against
the dying maxi, who was hastening towards the
ferry with the eagerness and speed of a flying
Mercury. I’he counsel of course expressed
his amazement at this singularly unexpected
rencontre, to which the culprit replied, chuck
ling at the success of his ingenious expedient,
and proud of the deception he had practised by
the inimitable manner in which he had acted out
the character of a cripple—Oh !lam a great
deal better to-day than I was yesterday. Then
with a knowing wink and a hearty laugh, he
dropped his arm and contracted his leg,to prove
the identity of the paralytic cheat, and recove
ring himself immediately, turned hastily upon
his heel, and made the best of his way to the
ferry, leaving the counsel to gaze with wonder
at the miraculous recovery of his locomotive
p owers, of which but the day before he had
been seemingly deprived, and also to reflect up
on the credulity of those who had been so suc
cessfully duped by an arch impostor.—JV. F.
Courier <Sf Enquirer, 22 d ult.
Extract of a letter firm a citizen of the U. S.
in Europe —“ At this moment every breath of
news from the U. 8. is most eagerly sought af
ter. The present critical position of our dear
country has excited the deepest interest from
j one end of Europe to another. The different
j impressions produced on the different politi
cal parties of the Old world are remark
able enough. The party who has been accus
tomed to the consolidation of power in one fam
ily—the party who are so anxious to hush up
the slightest whisper of free principles ; and in
their desperate struggle against the progress of
all liberal institutions, catch at overy thm * t: M |
is calculated to buoy up their hopes—have b. ; n
indulging their diabolical jov over the “ fatlin
Republic.'* TheHbeial party, on the contrary,
who have watched our onward pi ogress in the
great principles of free government, though they
deeply regret the unfortunate state of things that
prevails in our country, still look with admira
tion on the firm, but temperate measures, which
the President has pursued, and take pleasure in
comparing bis able address on the administra
tion of our affairs, with the weak, yet pom
pous exposes, which the Sovereigns of Eu
rope are in the habit of publish ng. I have had
manv occasions to speak of the liberal means
which the Aristocratic Party in this quarter have
adopted to arrest the dissemination of free prin
ciples. They have seen that our government
was a most striking example of the Republican
Constitution, and they had hoped, that by lower
ing the U. States in the scale of nations, they
. would effectually nip in the bud the sacred right
! of man.—Not content, then, with misrepresen
ting the action of our great political machine,
they have laid before the People those works,
I whose sole object is to slander our domestic ha
bits and private virtues. Look at the number
of infamous books on American customs, which
have issued from the English Press and been
zealously reprinted on this side of the Channel.
Examine into the character of those,who encour
age the authors. You find them Tories in the
strongest sense of the word. They really hope to
gull the People by confounding the public and
private character of our countrymen —and thus
disguising the eyes of the public,
44 Let us confess, however, that our horizon
is at this time not a little overcast. The pre
sent consequences of South Carolina opposition
are not much to be dreaded. It is the example,
that may afford a dangerous precedent for a
greater number of States, placed in similar po
sitions, and adopting the heresy of Nullification,
hereafter. How long think you, can we calcu
late on tiie public tranqudity, when we know,
that every state of the 24 may thus openly brave
the Union and threaten the whole edifice with
dissolution? Do, write me, what is your opinion
on the present crisis.”
(The crisis has past—and it is hoped, that
the People may soou awaken to the dangers
which they have escaped —carefully guard
ing against all such dangerous remedies for the
future.)
From the Georgia Coustitutionalisf.
As an act of justice to Mr. Lane, we publish
the explanation he gives of the circumstance al
luded to in the article which we copy from the
North American Gazette. We received Mr.
Lanes letter on Monday last, but our paper be
ing altogether taken up with the Bank returns
and new advertisements,we could not make room
for it. The Editor of this paper has known
Mr. Lane for many years, and no young man
has begun the Mercantile business with more
industry, honesty of purpose, and attention to
moral duties thanJMr. Lane; and if now he is
at the head of a considerable mercantile estab
lishment in Milledgeville, lie had a right to ex
pect it by h : s upright conduct and an unblem
ished reputation. The editor of this paper
knows also Messrs. Marlow and Tucker; their
reputation for uprightness U too well established
♦n Up injured bv the circumstance which has
produced these remarks.
Milledceville, 4th May 1833.
Air. Benjamin Brantley, Augusta:
Sir —A friend has just handed me your paper
olthe 2nd inst. containing your remarks rela
tive to a box of Brass Filings, addressed to mv
care, and which by accident, was broken open
in Augusta on its way to this place. I regret
exceedingly that this circumstance should have
given you the trouble of penning a large editorial
article, cautioning the public against the use
which you have gratuitously supposed was about
to be made of these Filings; and I must be
permitted to assure you that you have, for
once at least in your life ‘‘Barked up the wrong
tree,” to use a back woods phrase. It is not
true, as you state, that this box, “ The contents
of which has wrought such a fever upon your
brain,” was sent to the western part of this
State, or that there is any “doubt about the pur
pose it was intended to effect.” It contained
nothing more nor less than a preparation of Sol
der, ordered by Messrs Marlow & Tucker, of
this place, for some work they were about to do
upon the State House, purchased by me of Mr.
Solomon J. Isaacs, of New York, and shipped
for this place, together with the copper, for the
same work. This was the purpose it was inten
ded to effect,and this the place of its destination,
though your exceedingly quick editorial acu
men has dignified it with another destination
and object. Surely, sir, it would have occurred
to any one whose intellect was not in such
conditon as to make hint a fit subject for a
strait jacket, that if these filings had been inten
ded for the purpose you insinuate, they could
have been procured in sufficient quantity here,
without going to New York for them. This’
thought alone might have saved you much trou
ble and the public, the apprehension which your
caution must Lave created, against being tricked
with brass filings for gold. As my name has
been coupled with this transaction, I ask, as a
matter ol justice, that you publish this explana
tion in your paper.
Respectfully,
WM. G. LANE.
Girard College. —The Treasurerer of the
Girard Trust, has acknoweledged by letter to
the City councils of Philadelphia, the the receipt
of two millions of dollars from the Trustees of
the Girard Bank, to be appropriated to the erec
tion of the Girard College.
I he architect of the College has estimated the
expense of the plan adopted for the buildings at
ings at $9,000, 7,000 ol which will be expended
on the principal building, and two hundred thou
sand on the out-buildings—and that six years
will be required to complete it.
It is further estimated hy the Committee, that
there will probably be no necessity for oncroach
tng upon the capital of the fund for the erection
olthe buildings. From the gradual progress
of the work as projected it is believed that the
“inual interest will be nearly, if not quite suffi
i nt for the buiklings,
The erection new College will he njo
i Celled after the Banking IloUsC ot Mr. Girard
—the old United States Bank—and the whole
building will, in the opinion ol the committee,
44 remain a lasting monument of his fame, as well
as a model of architectural beauty.”
■
Memory. —Painful, and even melancholy as it
oftentimes may be,how frequently does the mind
love to turn back upon the scenes that are gone.
How often are the thoughts drawn, insensibly as
lit were, from the darkness ol the future to the
twilight of the past —to scenes that but faintly
i glimmer through the cold and sombrous lapse of
days and months and years! a pleasing melancho
ly comes over the full soul, as the green spots
on the desert of life come up before the eye of the
imagination, and tics as strong as those of“first
love” bind us unconsciously to scenes where
once centered all our joys. Such are the remin
iscences of childhood and youth ; such al e the
forms pictured upon the sunny surface of the
past—when the heart heat jealouSiy—when
; ever/ path was strewed with flowers—when
all above was cloudless sky—and when all
; mound us was sunshine ! If ever man enjoys
happiness, it is in the spring time of life, when
his hope first begins to bud and blossom. To
his illusive eye the future appears bright as the
visions of an elysian dream. But soon the frost
of disappointment comes, old age “steals along
with silent tread”—and all but the recollection of
enjoyment perishes.
Still memory like every thing else connected
with our wordly enjoyment, has its pleasures
and its pains—its joys and sorrows. The
latter too often hold a melancholy predomi
nance.
Memory’s page is the record of events which
have marked our chequered course ot life. It is
that “simple, unvarnished tale of truth,” which
reminds of the joys or sorrows that are pas
sed—
“Of Slopes deceived—
Os faded dreams of bliss;
Os joys we vainly had believed
Were in a world so drear as this.”
It tells of the time when pleasure “led us cap
tive .at her car,” and when youthful hope, 44 the
music of the mind” turned to all its charms.
The tenor of our past life may have been almost
unvarying, yet moments <f-sadness have some
times interrupted its evenness, and the memory
seizes upon us like a dizziness upon the brain.
Some objects around which our hopes clustered,
may have vanished when almost withinour grasp.
YVe felt the keenness of disappointment, and
even now the remembrance brings sadness to the
soul. YY’e may have seen the grave close over
those whom we loved, and seemed
the sepulchre of ourhopes! It is human nature —
it is venial weakness.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
There seems to be a strong disposition in the
Convention, merely to determine the number of
Senators and Representatives, and leave the ap
portionment of them and other details, except
the one fixing a member to each county, &c. to
the Legislature at its next session. This is de
cidedly wrong, and exhibits a shrinking from
that responsibility which very justly and proper
ly devolves on the Convent’on itself. The duty
-c.ce. - .oXuotion first devolved on the
Legislature, by the voice of tin: people ami that
body evaded it. It was evident that it was
opposed to reduction; and to remedy the evil,
the people determined to take the matter into
their own hands. They made arrangements lor
a Convention, and the Legislature finding that
their object would be effected in that way,
made a virtue of necessity,and took upon them
selves the calling of the Convention, that they
might hereby restrict the wishes of the people
and confine their action, as far as possible, to
their own views. The Convention has been
called,and it is evidently expected by the people,
that it will present to them an entire plan, com
plete in its detuils, upon which they may vote
altogether understandingly. But it is conten
ded, that it will be difficult, and the numerous ne
cessary sacrifices, in the details, to render any
system satisfactory, if fully presented, to a ma
! jorily of the people. We believe so, too; but no
matter, the people ought to be folly prepared to
judge, and reject, also, if they shall think proper
to do so ; and oven if they should be disposed to
make an improper rejection, those who fear
this, should contend against it, by an open,
straight forward, candid developement, and
honest appeals thereon, to their patriotism, rea
son, arid good sense. It is always an unsafe,
as well as highly improper course, to act on
a doubt of the people ; and particularly a de
ception of them ; and what is the plan alluded
to but a decided deception, designing to in
duce them to vote for a plan which they fear
would meet their rejection, if presented in
all its details—aware, too, that after they have
sanctioned the general arrangement,of the Con
vention, they will afierwards have no choice on
tire details, however obnoxious they may be ren
dered by the legislature. For ourselves, relying
always on the will of the people, and conscious
of their right to decide for themselves, wi h all
the information fairly before them, and to suit
Ihemselves, however we or others may differ
from them, we protest against this course as
unjust, unfair and deceptive—unworthy of their
representatives—and calculated to lead hy the
jealousies, doubts, and suspicions it will proba
bly excite—to the very opposite result, to the
one desired. Ihe people and the Legislature
have differed decidedly on the subject. In con
sequence of this difference, the former resorted
to a Convention. And for that Convention to
throw this duty now. or any part of it, upon that
Legislature, would be a shameful abandonment
of duty and responsibility.
A letter from the junior editor of the Boston
Courier, dated Smyrna, Feb. 15, says: We
expect the Egyptian troops here— perhaps hour
ly—they are within a day’s march. There is a
perfect apathy in the city on the subject. There
can bo no resistance, for the inhabitants will re
ceive the Pacha as they have overy where.else;
•ina the whole I urkish force here is only eight
hundred ineffective troops, who are as l.kely to
hght for one side as the other. We can give
ou no -01 fainxiews. There is a “journal ’’pub
lished ostensibly every Sunday, but it appears
with no regularity, and most commonly in the
middle of the week. Their can be no such
thing as a price current of such a market—The
country is entirely unsettled. There has not
one large caravan entered the city for three
months, the camels being all employed by the
armies, nor have any products been sent from
the interior. Business is entirely ata dead stand
still. There is nothing doing.”
FOREIGN.
The editor of the Courier and Enquirer recei
ved lost evening London journals up to the Ist
April, and Liverpool of the 2nd, brought by the
Liverpool packet ship South America, Capt.
Marshall.
The Irish Coercion Bill has passed the Houso
of Commons, by a majority of 259, and in con
sequence of the amendments made to in that
body, is returned to the house of Lords. It will,
no doubt again pass there, and its provisions bo
immediately carried into execution. The num
ber of troops kept in Ireland by the British gov
ernment, appears, from the debates, to be no
less than 28,000 men, or about one fourth of
their whole standing array.
A change has taken place in the British Cab
inet, though it will not probably be attended with
any change in its policy. Lord Goderich, who
was Colonial Secretary, has become Lord Pri
vy Seal, vacated by the resignation of Lord
Durham. Mr. Stanley succeeds Lord Goder
ich : and Sir John Cam Hcbhouse succeeds
Mr. Stanley as Secretary for Ireland.
On the important subject of Slavery in life
YY’est Indies, the Premier, Earl Grey, in replv
to some questions put to him, said, “that to de
clare immediate emancipation would undoubt
edly make short and easy work of the matter;
but he confessed that that was not the way in
which he wished to deal with the question; and
he was glad to hear from his noble friend’s ex
planation that the word “ immediate” was not to
be taken as meaning immediate, but the earliest
period at which emancipation could take place
with safety to all the interests concerned. He
(Earl Grey) was anxious for the abolition of
slavery, but he was not prepared to declare for
immediate emancipation, without considering
the consequences might flow from such a meas
ure.”
The news of the passage of Mr. Clay’s, Ta
riff Compromise Bill, was received at Liver
pool by the Britannia, on the 29th of March.
From France there is nothing important.
The situation of the Duchess de berri is still
the cause of a good deal of debate. The Car
lists arc clamoring for her immediate liberation,
and affirm that her health is greatly impaired
this is denied by the friends of the Government,
who say that her health is as good “ as can he
expected.” *
No change is perceptible in the conduct of
the King of Holland; he continues to reinforce
his squadron in the Scheldt, and in an interview
with his late Ambassador in London, Zuylen
Man Nycvelt has expressed his determination,
not to submit to conditions which he considered
unjust.
Some doubt still hangs over Turkish affairs.
It does not appear to be positively known
whether the Egyptian troops have advanced to
Smyrna or not; still it seems placed beyond a
doubt that the intervention of the great powers
will prevent any further hostilities between the
Porte and the Pacha.
The St. Petersburg Gazette contains a re
port of the proceedings adopted by the Empe
ror towards the Ottoman Empire, and of their
results at Constantinople. The Sultan is re
ported to have been highly gratified by the
splendid proofs of the exhalted regard of his
Majesty the Emperor, for the interest of the
Ottoman Empire,” and has made arrangements
to avail himself of the aid of Russian should
events require it. The Russian squadron was
lying in the Bospiiorus, but was to repair to
Sizeboli, in the Black Sea, with the first fair
wind, where it will be joined by the land forces,
now upon their march for Turkey. From this
place the united forces will advance to the de
fence of C onstantinople, should it be requisite
to do so.
The King of Wurtcmburg has desolved the
Legislative Chamber of his dominions abruptly
and some of the Journals look forward to a seri
ous resistance to his will on the part of the peo
ple. We will endeavor, at an early day, to
give the particular 9*
The most interesting news is from Oporto,
where two fresh attacks have been made hy the
troops of Don Miguel and successfully repelled.
We fear the Constitutionalists will finally Le
compelled to retire. They have already been
ten months in Oporto without making a sin
gle step in advance, and now it will seen
that the dispute with Admiral Sartorious, pla
ces new and serious difficulties in the wav of
Don Pedro.
The Communications bet'.vcen the East In
dia Company and the British government have
been made public. They were laid before a
meeting of the East India proprietors, held at
London on the 25th of March. They contain
the terms on which the government proposes to
settle the various questions relative to the trade
and political administration of India. These
are embraced under the following heads.
1. The China monopoly to cease.
2. The east India Company to retain its po
litical factions.
3. The Company’s assets, commercial and ter
iitorial, to be assigned to the crown, on behalf
ot the territorial Government of India.
An Annuity of .£630,000 to be granted to
the Company, payable in England half yearly,
‘lO be charged on the territorial revenue of Eng
land, not to be redeemable before the 25th oi
April—^—, and then to be redeemable at the
opinion of Parliament, on the payment of £IOO
for every £2 5s of annuity.
5. The revenue of India to bo chargeable
with all the expenses incurred on account of
that country either at home or abroad.
6. The new annuitants to retaiti their char
acter of a Joint Stock Company, the qualifica
tions and right of voting to remain as at pre
sent.
7. The number of the Court of Directors to
be one-fourth, going out in rotation ever'’