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Marshal

THE French government has of late seemed anxious to conciliate the old army; an ordinance was recently issued, by which the officers of the revolutionary army on halfpay are, without distinction, to be gradually introduced into active service. Davoust, who, since Bonaparte's second expulsion, has been in disgrace at court, had lately an audience of the king, and was by him presented with a marshal's baton; and General Debelle, whose sentence of death was commuted to ten years' imprisonment, has now been restored to liberty. These measures seem to indicate an intention, on the part of France, to place her army once more in a formidable attitude. They will at least have the effect of making more secure the allegiance of the old troops, who, without their officers, are not always to be depended on; an example of which occurred on the 18th July, when a detachment of the line, attending the execution of Captain Oudin at St Genies, who had been ordered to be shot for being concerned in a former insurrection, wheeled about, and refused to fire; for such alarming insubordination, they have been one and all dismissed the king's service. Captain Darillon, who commanded them, has also been cashiered, and is further to be tried by a court-martial.

Five soldiers of the Royal Guard have been brought to trial for a conspiracy, in April last, to murder Monsieur and his two sons. The chief, a non-commissioned officer, named Desbans, and another, were condemned and executed; a third is to be imprisoned for three years, and the other two were acquitted. The conspirators were all under 25 years of age.

Five English soldiers were convicted of a robbery on the 3d of August, at Valenciennes, and led out to execution; upon which occasion the inhabitants were so interested for the unhappy sufferers, that they followed them to the place of execution, crying Mercy, mercy. Two were executed, and three received a pardon; after which the inhabitants wreaked their vengeance on the person who had been induced to officiate as executioner. He was in consequence compelled to take refuge in the prison.

In the Concordat entered into between the Pope and the King of France, it is agreed, on the part of the latter, that the bishoprics shall be endowed with lands as well as with annual stipends, and the same principle is evidently intended to be adopt.

ed, whenever circumstances may permit, in the endowment of the Chapters, the Rectories, and in short, the whole Church establishment. M. Talleyrand Perigord, grand almoner of France (now appointed archbishop of Paris), M. de la Luzerne, formerly bishop of Langres, and M. de Beausset, formerly bishop of Alais, have been created cardinals. Several new appointments to archbishoprics and bishoprics

are also notified.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

The Pope has issued a bull, authorizing the King of Spain to levy an extraordinary subsidy of 30 millions of reals on the property of the national church.

A letter which appeared lately in the foreign journals, written by the mother of the Emperor Alexander to the King of Spain, expressive of the esteem and friendship entertained by her son for the King of Spain, and communicating the Emperor's desire that her Majesty should wear the decorations of the Order of St Catherine's, has given rise to much speculation on the particularly good understanding which appears to exist between the Courts of Madrid and St Petersburg; and rumours, for which there seems to be no good foundation, have in consequence been current, that it had been agreed upon by Alexander to furnish Ferdinand with a naval and military force to assist in the subjugation of his revolted colonies.

Letters from Lisbon, of the 9th August, state, that Baron Eben, and about thirty other conspirators, having been found guil ty, were expected to be ordered for execution. The proceedings on their trials have been, withheld from publication, for the present, from prudential considerations. It was generally understood at Lisbon, however, that the Government there felt so perfectly secure since the late intelligence from Pernambuco, that the danger of giving full