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The French letters and papers are divided between conjectures re-

garding a change of Ministry, and complaints of commercial stag,na- bon. The rumours of change in the Ministry have been strengthened since it transpired that the Prince de Polignac has had a long private audience of the King. The King, it is said, does not intend to visit the provinces this year.

The last arrivals from Oporto state that out of twenty persons ordered to be arrested, fourteen had escaped; the other six had been sent off to Lisbon. A dreadful fever rages on the banks of the Tagus.

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