London, Monday, April 19,...
lYe received last night the French lpapers of Frilay, in Which wve find no intelligence of importance. The Journal des Debats itforms us, that on the 5th inst. the French Government caused it to be notified to the Spanish officers at Bourges, wvho wvere prisoners in the last ivar, that they had it in their option either to return to Spain, to stay in France, or to seek a residlence in some otlher foreign cou11- try. If they returned to Spain, they would receive pass- ports; but they must detertnine by that part of the frontier they wvished to enter; if they wished to remain in France, they must justify their rmeans of existence ; and if they chose any other country for an asylum, they were likewise bound to declare by wlhat part of France they desired to take their departure. It is needless to deseribe or to men- tion the hardships of these sincere friends of national inde- pendence, whlo, if they returned to their country, wvould meet with imprisonmnent or death-who, if they remained in France, must starve because they could not " justify "their means of subsistence;" and who, if they came to England, must hear by the next mail of the persecutAion of their families, and the confiscation of their propertid6. The following are extracts:- "FRANKFORT, APRIL 10. "The Grand Duke of Baden has granted fulllibertv to the Catho. lics of Pforzheim, for the exercise of their religion. Hitherto their worship was only tolerated, but the conduct of the Catho3ics has in- duced the Prince to Liue a most honourable decree in their favour. He hopes, he says, that his Catholic subjects will see in this mark of favoar, a new reason to distinguish themsdves by their religious sentiments and by the practice of every vir- tue. Other Protestant Princes show dispositions favourable to the Catholics. A Catholic churchl is butilding at Coburg, and the Catholic parish there will have a resident clergyman. Churches for the Catholics are building also at Bremen, at St. Goarshausen (duchy of Nassau), and at Darmstadt the Grand Dukes of Hesse and Nassau contribute to the expenses of the two latter. A Catholic church ahd tschool are building at Pirna, in Saxony. The Princess Ciunegunda has left 8,000 crowns towards the expense of the latter. At Hamnburgh the Senate has just decreed that the Cxtholics shall he,nceforwvard be eligible to all offices as well :S tLhe Protestants; even the officeas of Senator and Burgo. master shall be open to them. The dty of Frankfort has inade an amicable arrangement with the Catho.lics, represented by Nlessrs. Schosser, brothers, who were themnselves formerly Pro- testants. In several places, the Consistories have adopted om6 pric- tices of the Roman form of worship. The Consistory of Saxe-Mei- ingen Eais~ js'restored .the priyer. for the &cad; and a geterat ~~te willhe bcelebrated-rn thig iieW in aU the churchles in the mon'th of NoveiWber -: -.f f n-';-Ithe~prncipalLutlheraal chu-ch at Berlin, the statues of the twe1ve Apostles have been placed, snd on the altar is a crucifix with wax t~auers, and the Book of the Gospel Mri. Harmn, a clergyman of 10el,e shajustified the sign of the cross in a sermon whi& he has published, and Mr F4ndcn, Professoi at Jena, has made a yery f,nee,uogium on the Papal power in his listory of the Middle Aget. "PARIS,, ArnIL 15. A "A telegraphic dcspatch from Touloti, dated the 14th instant, announces, that at 10 o'clock in the moming of that day, the Forvii- dable, of 120 guns, had been lauTiched writhout any accident." - FRENCcH FuNDS, PARIS, Ap]ril 16.-Five per Cents. opened At 101. 80.; closed at 101. 85.; Loan of 1823, 16.; Bank Stock, 1,900; Neapolitan 6 per Cents., in ducat_s, 965; in francs, 9W. -75; Rente d'Espagne, 17.; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 63. Exchange on London, onemonth, 25.15.; three months, 25.-Cours Aathentiqte. LOADON, MOADAY, APRIL 19, 1824.