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From what is stated in the French pa pers, it appears that the King's health is continuing rapidly to decline, and that it is not probable that he can struggle much longer with the accumulation of diseases under which he labours. Notwithstanding his deplorable situation, however, he is represented as performing with regularity the fatiguing duties of his high station, in so far as these consist in attending public ceremonials, holding levees, and giving audiences. It argues no small degree of fortitude to make even such exertions as these ; and it is impossible for a moment to suppose that his Majesty can at present interfere with or control the measures of the government. Indeed this unavoidable, and, we are convinced, most unwilling relin. quishment of his more essential functions, seems to afford the only feasible means of accounting for the increasing disregard shewn by his Ministers for the con stitutional principles, such as they are, which exist in the theory of the French government. The King is known to have been uniformly moderate and liberal in his views; and his whole reign has been a continued personal struggle a gainst those members of his family and government who have for their object the complete re-establishment of the ancient order of things. In this struggle, though he has frequently failed, yet he has sometimes been successful: and his name will go down to posterity as that of one of the most virtuous and patriotic of the French Monarchs. Unhappily, however, his personal influence must now be at an end. His Ministers are beginning to look towards the rising sun; and the character and politics of the presumptive heir to the throne are sufficient to account for the present policy of those individuals, who must speedily depend on his pleasure for a continuance of their power and dignity. SPAIN.-Spain, far from being in a tranquil state, is still the scene of se rious commotions, and in different quarters, the adherents of the constitutional party are carrying on a desultory warfare against the French troops. On the 3d, they surprised the fortress of Tariffa, and spread alarm even to Seville. Their success in this quarter, however, was not of long continuance, as it appears from the following official dispatch from General Digeon, that Tariffa was retaken by storm on the 19th. "The fortress of Tariffa was taken by storm on the 19th, at five o'clock in the afternoon, by the French and Spa nish troops. The rebels, who retreated into the island, were attacked the next morning, at day-break, by the landing of French troops of the 34th regiment of the line. One Chief only escaped in a boat; the rest were killed or taken. The prisoners have been delivered up to the Spaniards, to be tried according to the laws." But Tariffa was not the only point where the Constitutionalists gained a footing. Another party landed at Marbella, but no mention is made of its final destruction or capture. This movement is taken notice of in the report of General O'Donnel, as follows: "Merconchini, who had come out of Gibraltar with 150 smugglers, hoped to land at Estepona, but he could not succeed, and therefore could only disembark at Marbella. He levied 50,000 reals, but had scarcely collected seven, when, seized with a panic at the report of the approach of our brave mountaineers, hẹ hastily re-embarked. He attempted to return to Gibraltar, but the English would not let him." Detestation of the French seems to be the universal feeling among all classes of Spaniards; and the most likely effect of persisting to keep military possession of Spain, will be to unite all parties in a simultaneous attempt to drive out the invaders. The Spanish King has issued a decree declaring free-masonry, and all secret societies, high treason against God and the King! And all persons who harbour such societies are to be subject to the penalties of treason. GREECE. On the 3d of July, the Turks, under the Captain Pacha, succeeded in surprising the island of Ipsara, and obtaining possession of it, the troops on the island, and many of the inhabitants, escaping by flight. One fort, that of St. Nicolo, alone held out against the infidels, and latterly the garrison, consisting of about seventy men, nobly sacrificed themselves, for the sake of vengeance on their invaders. They blew up the fort, and thereby, it is said, destroyed about 20,000 of the Turks. In the mean time, the Ipsariots, who had been obtaining succours from Hydra, returned, and, attacking the Turkish fleet, obtained a decisive victory, destroying the greater part of it. They afterwards landed and re-took Ipsara, cutting to pieces the few Turkish troops who had been left upon it; and it is said the Captain Pacha himself only escaped their fate by a sudden flight. No regular narrative of these proceedings has ap peared in any official or connected shape, and two of all the numerous statements that have been given as veritable accounts of what has taken place, agree with each other in the particulars. We quote the following account of the recapture as having the fewest features of exaggeration about it, and being the most intelligible. It is from a letter dated Constantinople, July 26.-" Some of the Ispariot ships which had escaped by flight the catastrophe of the 3d July, did their utmost, when they reached Hydra, to obtain assistance, from which they might expect some advantage, because, when they left Ipsara, two of the strongest forts were not yet taken. The Hydriots, in fact, put to sca with all expedition, with thirty armed vessels, landed at Samos, took on board Albanian and other troops, and appeared on the 16th before Ipsara, when the fate of the unfortunate island had been long decided. The Cap. tain Pacha had left behind only six or seven hundred men (according to his own account only three hundred,) some boats for removing the booty, and a couple of gun-boats. The Hydriots having destroyed these, and cut the Turks to pieces, immediately retired." Other versions of the story say that the Greek fleet attacked and defeated the armament of the Captain Pacha with very great loss, immediately after the disembarkation of the Turks, and that, having driven the barbarians to take refuge at Mitylene, the Greeks returned and put to the sword all the Turks they found on the island. ASIA. THE BURMAN WAR.-Private letters from Calcutta mention, that a force under Colonel Bowen, in an attempt to storm a stockade, was twice repulsed, and in the evening had to retire with the loss of 150 killed and wounded. The following casualties are mentioned : 10th regiment (native infantry,) Lieutenant Armstrong killed; Colonel Bowen severely wounded; Ensign Barberie ditto, lost a leg. 23d ditto, Captain Johnston severely wounded. The total of the force under orders for the expedition against the Burmese, amounts to 20,000 men, namely, 12,000 from Bengal, 6000 from Madras, and 2000 from Bombay. Captain Canning accompanies the expedition as Political Agent, and was to embark at Calcutta on the 10th of April. The Diana steamboat had been purchased by the Government for 80,000 rupees, in order to proceed with the expedition. Sir Edward Paget, the Commander-in-Chief, returned to Calcutta on the 22d of March from the interior, and had been unremittingly employed in facilitating all the arrange. ments for the expedition. AFRICA. CAPE COAST.-Dispatches, dated the 5th July, have been received at the Co lonial Office from Sierra Leone. Accounts of the 16th June had arrived there from Cape Coast Castle; and at that period nothing material in the way of military operations had occurred between the Bri tish and the Ashantees. By the arrival of the Owen Glendower from Cape Coast Castle, however, we learn that the King of the Ashantees was advancing towards that settlement with a considerable force; and it was understood that he had brought with him one hundred thousand ounces of bullion and gold dust, in the expectation, that, by paying readily for provisions, &c. he would insure a better supply for his troops. It was apprehended he might do injury to the Negro Town, but no fears were entertained for the safety of the Castle, as it could resist any force, however great, that was unprovided with a battering train. Six officers and 150 troops had arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, but many had fallen victims to the unhealthy state of the climate. Colonel Sutherland was carrying on active measures. Several skirmishes had lately taken place in the bush, under the command of Captain Blenkarne, and the loss of the Ashantees was supposed to be great. They had surrounded the Fantee country in immense bodies. ALGIERS. By dispatches from Sir Harry Neale, commanding the British Squadron off Algiers, we learn that peace has been again concluded with the Dey. Sir Harry's dispatches are dated the 26th of July; he states, that having, on the 24th, placed his squadron in their proper positions for an attack on the town of Algiers, he was about to commence the action, when a negociation began, which terminated on the following day, by the Dey's submitting to all the conditions proposed by the Admiral, and signing the declaration which had been transmitted from England. A few shots and shells had been fired, but no lives were lost. On the signature of the declaration by the Dey, peace was restored, and the blockade raised. you an official account of the defection of the Spanish General Olaneta, who, it appears, has put himself in communication with some Buenos Ayreans on the frontiers of Upper Peru, which will act as a powerful diversion in favour of the oper ations of General Bolivar on this side. "A general engagement was expected to take place in Peru in all this month. The appearance of a Spanish force on the other coast has prevented the arrival of some troops here, destined for that country; but, notwithstanding this circumstance, I am not apprehensive of the issue of the campaign. General Bolivar has a force of upwards of 10,000 good troops with him, well clothed, organized, and disciplined, and far superior to any thing, from what I can learn, that can be brought against him." Other accounts have been received from Panama, stating that Bolivar had again made himself master of Lima, but this wants confirmation. BRAZIL.-An alarm at Rio Janeiro, that the King of Portugal was upon the point of sending out to Brazil a strong armament, for the purpose of attempting the re-subjugation of that country, has given occasion to two proclamations of Don Pedro, which, if they speak his sentiments, show that he cherishes no intention, as it has been sometimes insinua. ted he did, of replacing his dominions, when a fitting opportunity should present itself, under the dominion of Portugal. These proclamations manifest the most determined resolution of offering resis tance to whatever measures Portugal may undertake against the independence of Brazil. The people are called upon to take arms in the defence of their country, in order to prevent, as far as possible, the enemy from landing on their territory, and should that be impossible, to retire into the interior, leaving the country desolate behind them. A promise of pardon to all deserters who should rejoin their standards, has also been issued; such as were liable to serve, and yet failed to join the army, have been impressed, and the same activity was displayed in fitting out the navy, the vessels employed in the blockade of Pernambuco being recalled. All these precautions, however, seem needless, and we can hardly conceive how they should have been thought otherwise; for Portugal, we well know, is not in a state to make the attempts which are dreaded. PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-May 4.-The Earl of Lauderdale obtained leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the "Spitalfields Acts," which was read a first time. The object of the Bill is to remove all restrictions on the Silk Trade, which his Lordship said would be more beneficial to local and general interests than the partial repeal that had been adopted. The Marquis of Lansdowne then moved the committal of the Unitarians' Marriage Bill. The Bishop of Chester opposed the law, upon the ground that it would amount to a surrender of the doctrines and discipline of the Established Church. The Right Rev. Prelate concluded by proposing as an amendment, that the Bill should be read that day six months. The Bishop of St. David's expressed a doubt whether opinions, plainly repugnant to the fundamental doctrines of Christianity, were entitled to so much consideration. The Archbishop of Canterbury supported the motion. He professed to set no value upon the insincere and reluctant conformity extorted from Dissenters by the existing Marriage Laws. The Marquis of Lansdowne defended his Bill at great length. He asserted, that it professed nothing more than to restore the Unitarians to the privileges which they enjoyed before Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act; which Dissenters still enjoy in Ireland, and which are now freely indulged to Quakers and Jews in this kingdom. The Lord Chancellor opposed the Bill, as inimical to the supremacy of the Established Church, which Church he venerated, not only as the purest in her doctrine, but as the great bulwark of civil liberty, and the only security for a permanent toleration. The details of the Bill, he said, went to degrade the Church to the condition of handmaid to the Dissenters, and therefore he should oppose it. Lord Holland supported the Bill, and ridiculed the exaggerated strain which, he said, had been used in canvassing a measure so limited in its operation and probable influence. The Earl of Liverpool, professing the most devoted attachment to the Church of England, nevertheless supported the motion, which he thought only a reasonable concession. The House then divided on the amendment.-Contents, 105. Non-Contents, 66. The Bill was in consequence lost. 13. The Earl of Liverpool moved the second reading of the Alien Bill. Earl Grosvenor, the Earl of Carnarvon, and Lord Holland, opposed the motion, which, on the other hand, was supported by Lord Calthorpe, the Earl of Westmoreland, and the Lord Chancellor. On a division, the numbers were, for the second reading, 80-Against it, 35. 14. Lord Gage proposed to add to the Alien Act, by way of rider, a clause providing that no Alien should be deported to the dominions of his lawful Sovereign without his own consent. After a short debate, the clause was rejected by a majority of 25 to 13. The Earl of Lauderdale's bill for the repeal of the Spitalfields Acts was read a second time, after a very brief discussion, and a division, in which the supporters of the bill amounted to 23, and its opponents to 8. 17. The Earl of Liverpool obtained a Committee to inquire into the state of the disturbed districts in Ireland, similar to that which was appointed in the House of Commons, upon Mr. Goulburn's amendment of Lord Althorpe's motion. The Marquis of Lansdowne complained of the local and limited field of inquiry suggested to the Committee, and contended that the state of the whole kingdom should have been made the subject of investigation, challenging the Earl of Liverpool to name any one county which might not be the scene of disturbance before the termination of the year; and comparing the conduct of Ministers to that of a Turkish physician in a harem, who is required to fix the pathology of every disease by a single symptom-the state of the pulse. Lord King called Ministers empirics, quacks, &c. On a division, the motion for a Committee was carried by a majority of 50 to 20. 21. Upon the order of the day for the second reading of the United Gas Light Bill being read, the Earl of Lauderdale warmly opposed the motion, and moved, as an amendment, that the Bill should be read that day six months. The Earl of Limerick defended the Bill, and expressed great surprise that a measure proposed so long ago as the first of February, should now, for the first time, meet with opposition. The Earl of Rosslyn oppo sed the Bill. The Lord Chancellor spoke at scme length. He condemned, gene rally, the principle upon which many Joint Stock Companies had lately been incorporated, as taking them from under the wholesome superintendance which the Crown exercised over Companies in. corporated by Charter. The promoters of the Bill before the House, he said, had taken very good care of themselves, but they appeared a little indifferent to the security of their creditors, to whom they appeared to have left no remedy but a process against the gasometer, or a distress upon the inflammable air. The Noble and Learned Lord gave, in his speech, a reading upon the nature and policy of commercial incorporations, well worthy of the attention of political econo mists. The amendment (throwing out the Bill) was carried without a division. The Earl of Lauderdale then moved the third reading of the Spitalfields Acts Repeal Bill. The Lord Chancellor op posed the motion. He said that he did not approve of the principle of the Spital fields Acts; and that were they now pro posed, he should vote against them; but he thought some delay due to the apprehensions of the weavers. The Bill (repealing the Spitalfields Acts) was carried by a majority of 61 to 55. 24. The Earl of Liverpool brought down Bills originating with the Crown, (as by law such Bills must,) to reverse the respective attainders of the Earl of Marr, ancestor of John Francis Erskine, Esq.; of the Earl of Kenmure, ancestor of John Gordon, Esq.; of the Earl of Strathallan and Perth, ancestor of James Drummond, Esq.; and of Lord Baron Nairne, ances tor of William Nairne, Esq.; and to restore the above-named living representatives of the attainted Peers to the honours forfeited by their predecessors. To these restorations, which the noble Earl described as spontaneous acts of mercy and grace, the Royal proposition added another, which, with equal truth, the Earl of Liverpool called an act of strict justice, namely-the reversal of the attainder of the Earl of Stafford, the innocent victim of Oates' perjury. The Earl of Liver. pool's motion for the first reading gave rise to some observations from the Earls Radnor and Lauderdale, and Lord Belhaven; against which the noble mover remonstrated, as being quite unprecedented upon a first reading in the House of Lords. The Bill was read a first time. The Marquis of Lansdown, then moved the second reading of his two Bills for granting the Elective Franchise to the English Catholics, and allowing them to hold the same situations in England as their brethren of the same persuasion do in Ireland. The motion, however, was |