Letters from Lisbon, of the 1st instant, desevibe AliGuE.T., as
having quarrelled with his prime confidant " and barber," the Count de Qum. He was arrested on the previous Sunday, and sent on board a vessel, to be conveyed, as rumour said, to the Cape de Verd Islands as an exile. The cause of the royal displeasure is unknown. The little Prince's pranks cause very small sensation in England, no*- withstanding the rather ill-judged efforts of his friends to keep his name before the public. But they " have their reward:'
A vessel which left Terceira on the 21st September, and which landed some troops there, brings word that the greater part of the hasps taken prisoners in the late attempt on the island—indeed all of them that could he trusted—have been incorporated with the Con- i,ittitional troops. There is a story current, which speaks more for tee patriotism than the discipline of Mioulit.'s soldiers, that when they landed, they purposely put the wrong end of their cartridges downwards, to prevent their muskets from going off. There were atl four vessels blockading the island.
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