Isturitz, the late Spanish Premier,- having contrived to escape from
Madrid with a false passport and in disguise, arrived at Falmouth on lIrednesday, in the Government packet from Lisbon.
The ellorning Chronicle gives the following anecdote of Louis Phi- lip, Talleyrand, and the new French Premier, Count Mole.
" After the Revolution of July, Mold was appointed nominal Foreign Mi- nister; the presiding genius being then, as now, Louis Philip. Talleyrand was sent as Ambassador to the English Court. All despatches of any im- portance were directed to the King ; those sent to the Minister containing nothing but speculations—profound, no doubt—upon the variations in the prices of silks, cottons, sugars, &c. The diplomatic talent of Mole aimed at something higher than the mere framing of a tariff; and he complained to Louis of the insignificance of the despaches from the Embassy at St. James's. ' Que voulez vous, anon chere Mole, Talleyrand baisse ; ii ne s'occupe qu'a faire de l'esprit dans les salons Anglais,' was the satisfactory reply of the King. Having discovered the truth some short time after, Mali left the Ministry. For the truth of this account we have no better authority than Count Mole himself, who, in IS32, told it, as we have told it, to Lamyette ; adding the pithy CO kkkkk ientary ' La faussetS et la duplicite du Roi des Francais est telle qua j'aimerais :theme servir le Sultan que redevenir Ministre de Louis Philip.'"
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