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I- SPAIN. MADRID, JANUARY 21. There is much talk in this capital of the Ordonnance which relates to the permanent councils of war, and it is asked where is the public force that will be charged to lead their efforts in executing the orders of the Coun-' cil? For it is most notorious that there are insurrections in all the provinces, and that it will be very difficult to make the people return to that state of passive obedi ence from which it is always so dangerous to rouse them. We do not think it belongs to the privileges of the French troops to become the executors of these mi litary commissions; and, as we have not (we may almost say) any national troops, it will be absolutely necessary to require a certain class 6f citizens to support these new authorities. For, in recalling the troubles which exist in the Provinces, it is certain that they are very serious in part of Andalusia, and especially in the environs of Valencia. At Espinas there has been a rising among the Cannoniers,which evinced itself in the districts there. They not only hoisted the patriotic colours, but they were heard to cry, " Madre le Roi !" (Death to the King) and " Viva la Constitution !" The national forces have been directed upon this point to suppress the tumult. There arrived here yesterday a strong convoy of French sick and wounded, who had evacuated the mili tary hospital at Seville. The detachments (which were composed of men whose time of service has expired) are also arrived in this capital; they return to their na tive homes with a gaiety of heart of which it is impossi ble to form an idea, happy in quitting a country where anarchy is at its height.—French Paper. The following is an extract of a letter from Madrid, dated January 23, 1824: " The last letters received from Cadiz announce that the most perfect security and tranquillity reign there. Num bers of persons are seen in the streets wearing the uni form of the national militia; it is not even rare to see children dressed in the same costume. In various parts of the town are to be seen inscriptions of Viva /a Consti tution I and as the immense majority of the population is known to entertain liberal opinions, there is no oppo sition, either in words or actions, given to these things. In a word, the city is precisely in the same state in which it was in the month of August last year, except that the stone of the Constitution is no longer seen in the square of St. Antonio, and that the guards are mounted by French instead of Spanish soldiers. Here, with us in Madrid, there has been nothing of any great importance for the last few days. "Yesterday, an unfortunate man was put intoChtte/*, who had been formerly the terror of the Rastro air ing served in the militia, he was taken up with several others, merely on suspicion, and thrown into a dungeon. During the general visit of the prisons on Christmas eve, this.man, irritated by long confinement, and despairing of release, indulged in invectives against the King. These ravings of despair were made the grounds of an accusation, upon which he was tried, and condemned to the gibbet ; be is to be exectted to-morrow. There will, no doubt, be a full attendance of the populace, to exult in the death of one whom they formerly dreaded. Indeed it is supposed that the gratification of this feel ing has not a little contributed to his condemnation; as the people must be gratified in some way, and as there is no money to give them, some other means must be tried to keep them in good humour. " A reinforcement of French troops to the garrison here, is now more confidently talked of than before; there is one thing certain, that the Municipality has already made preparations for lodging them. The most absurd reports are in circulation here; amongst others, that England is on the point of declaring war against France. At Saragossa, there has been a tole rably warm affair between the Royalists of Capope, and these of Mimics, some men were killed, and se veral wounded, on both sides. The Authorities have been obliged to send one band to the village of Cali. nena, and the ocher to Cinco-villas. A few days back, at'Toledo, as they were conducting to prison a poor man, who had been porter to Alarconchini, ex-political chief of that city, the populace, who have a mortal hatred to any one, however harmless or innocent, who ever belonged in any manner to the Constitutional Go vernment, assembled, and notwithstanding the efforts of a strong detachment of troops, by whom the prisoner was surrounded, they succeeded in inflicting upon him two stabs with a poniard. The man was almost dead, from loss of blood, on his arrival at the prison. " The officer who commanded the troops received two violent blows on the head, from stones thrown at him,- which, but for the resistance of his helmet, might have promoted him to a command on the banks of the Styx. At Toledo there is not a single Liberal to be faund in his own house; they are all in prison, and though re peated orders have been sent to the Corregidor to libe rate all persons confined merely for their opinions, he has not been able to obey, as the populace oppose the execution of these orders. The Corregidor informed the Government of this, and at the same time requested permission to resign ; but this has been refused him, and he has been again ordered to execute the orders of Government, under a penalty of 1000 ducats. The faction at Toledo, who urge on the populace, is headed by five ecclesiastical canons and an advocate. In Toledo, when a child cries, he is menaced with Marconchini, as formerly, with the Coco, or raw-head and bloody-bones:' • The three days preceding the execution, the culprit is kept in what is termed a burning chapel —a room hung with black and fune ral emblems, and lighted with a number of tapers, when he prays, oris supposed to pray, and receives th e sacrament. t Mastro at Madrid is the same as Monanuutli-street in Lon . clot, iaasdtecfar old clothes, lathe neighbourhood of which reside the dirty of the people. Since Mr. Stvzwarcitr contracted for this Lottery, the demand for Whole Tickets and the higher descrip tion of Shares has exceeded all former precedent ; and it is observed, many applications arc made for Four si milar Shares of different Numbers: this arias from there being more than three out of lour of all now sold entitled to receive back more than half the money, after having had the chance of not only the Seven Prizes of £20,000, but of the Two Sterling Capitals of £20,000 attached to the first-drawn Prizes; making an average value of nearly AS per Ticket more, independent of the floating Capitals, on the first day. These advantages prove the very cheap rate at which a person may ad. venture, whilst, should he be unsuccessful, he will have the chance of Ftvz £20,000 Prizes afterwards, which is nearly twice as many as the whole number in the pre. ceding Lottery. The recent Publication of the very interesting Life of the celebrated Florentine Artist, Bastrzotpro Crum; has in. creased the general favour towards Historical Biography ; it i s ; therefore, with much satidaction we observe, that a Work on t h e Life and Timm of Sat VATIIS ROS► is announced, from the pen of that distinguished female, Lady Moscow, who will no doubt egg. bit her powers to great advantage in this Popular species of writing. la%Mi JAMAICA. The following additional particulars of the meditated , insurrection in Jamaica, have becn received at Glasgow and Liverpool. The plot, it is said, was discovered only thirty hours before the time fixed to carry it into effect. GLASGOW, FEBRUARY 3. We are extremely sorry to say, that letters to the 24th December were received in Glasgow yesterday, from Jamaica, stating that a diabolical spirit had shewn itself among the Negroes in the parish of St. Mary's, and that their object was chi destruction of the white population. Fortunately the plot was discovered before carried into execution. The militia turned out and seized the ring leaders, eight of whom were hanged. So much were they alarmed for the general rising among the Negroes in the Island of Jamaica, that his Grace the Governor issued an Order, commanding that a Captain's Guard should be mounted, in each parish, during the holidays, from 24th December until the 4th of January. EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED THIS MORNING. “ MONTEGO BAY, DEC. 19. " My friend Mr. S. has just rnformed me, that he heard the Negroes, on Unity Hall estate, in the parish of St. James (he being behind a hut) enter into conver sation respecting their intention of rebelling at Christ mas, and they were only waiting for ten more esfates to join them, when they would set fire to the trash houses, overseers houses, &c. and, in the confusion murder the white people, as they were informed the King had made them free. Colonel Lawson has ordered a guard en board the Hall at Great River, and the Artillitry,at the fort commences this evening." POSTECIIIPT TO A LETTER DATED KINGSTON, DEC. 24. " The people are all on the alert—all in arms this morning, in consequence of the execution of eight negroes for insurrection, and sitting fire to a trash house, in order to entice the neighbouring white people to the place, as is usual in cases of fire, and then to put them to death."—Glasgow Courier. The following extract of a letter, dated St. Mary's, Jamaica, 20th December, 1823, received by a respect able mercantile house in Liverpool, appears in the Li verpool CoUrier. You will, of course, hear muck by the packet of the intended insurrection of the slaves on the north side. As my residence ad joins Frontier Estate, St. Mary's, the plantation that is supposed so hay.t taken the lead in the diabolical attempt in this parish, and having all day yesterday attended the trials of three of the conspiratura, who were found guilty and sentenced to be hung, what I relate ate absolute facts taken from evidence. From the anxiety of one of the party (who had a sou living with a Gentleman on Port Maria) to get his child out of the way of harm, he advised him, on the full of the moon, to leave his master's house and hide, as the negroes would rise that night and set fire to the trash-houses and works of Frontier, and, as the white people came out, immediately destroy then; that, upon the fire of Frontier being discovered, the other estates were to follow their example, and then proceed in a body , . and spare nu one. The boy, it is supposed, anxious for his master s life, begged him to go on board ship to sleep that night, and take all his papers and money. So strange arequest front the boy made his master question him more particularly, when he named seven of the above-named estate's negroes, as ringleaders, which being corrobo rated by other evidence, they were, before dark on the 18th, taken and lodged in irons on board the different ships in the harbour." THE EVENING sTAtt. LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1524. THE FUNDS. STOCK RXCHANGE, TWELVF. O'CLOCK. Consols opened thie morning at 90a, e, with a great deal doing; soon afterwards they got up to with a brisk market. Several good purchases were made. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish opened at 24/, a, to I, at which price they remain steady. Colombian has experienced a rise. Current Prices ; New Spanish l6i, Old 24/ a, Colombian 70/, Austrian .q to 5, ChiHatt 78 to Russian 90/ to I, Old Prussian 92, New 90, French Scrip 8, :Mexican Loan 51, royals 51, 4. VII ICF. OF sTocKs AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 238 1 4, 238 3 per tent. Reduced 90/8 91 1 A 3 per Cent. Cons. 90% jis % 4 per Cts. Old 102 1 / 8 I A-4 per Cts. New 106 1 / 4 $/s IA Bank Long Anus. '2'2 l / 2 9-16—Imp. 3 per Cts. 90 1 / 4 India Stock 2i4—lndia Bonds 83s. 80‘ 82s. Exclieq. Bills of 1.:1,000, 551.535. 5.55. Consols for Account 90 1 / Ys % 7/s• This forenoon we received the Monaca?. of Wednes day, by Express, the morning and evening Papers of the preceding day having previously reached us by the ordi nary Mail. The Moniteur, in its official part, contains two Royal Ordonnances ; the first relating to the Bank of Deposits, and the other regulating the admission of Candidates for the Royal Marine and Polytechnic, schools. On Tuesday the FrenchFunds,which, like our own, have long been on the advance, were, for the first time, at par, and the Rentes were even purchased at a premium for the end of the month of March, at 100 francs 10 centimes. In a preceding page we have given some intelligence from Spain which shews the distracted state of that country, notwithstanding the assertions to the contrary in the Spanish Journals, which represent the Royalist Army as rapidly reorganising. It is said that the Gardes-du-Corps of King FEnritNargo VII. are to resume their duty about his person on the sth February, being the anniversary of the fatal sth of February, 1821, when the Revolutionists besieged them in their quar ters. One would have thought that they would not have been very anxious to perpetuate the memory of that day. Private letters from Spain state, as a curious fact, that in consequence of orders received from Madrid, the Officer in Estramadura entrustei with the organi zation of the new army, in a placard which he posted on the walls of 13adajoz, stated, that as his MAJESTY could no longer trust to the existing army, he was induced to invite his faithful subjects to enlist in the new corps about to be formed. As soon as the contents of these placards were known to the French Commander, he ordered one of his Officers to pull them all down. The letters add, that there is a Guerilla party of 100 men in the Province of Estramadura, who lately entered Zafra, a rich town, of about 1,000 inhabitants, whets they levied a contribution, and remained for several days. The Commander's name is Corta.o, formerly a superior Officer of Cuirassiers. In the neighbourhood of Badajoz there is also another Guerilla party of 80 men; commanded by Sums, a we ll•k nown p erso n age . The French have been unable to pursue these patties, in' consequence of the want of cavalry, as they have only with them, in Badajoz, the 35th Regiment and a com pan), of cavalry. In several parts of Spain there are also other Guerilla parties moving about, which bid defiance to all authority emanating from the KING. All of them are well mounted, and their partisans increase. It is said, on the authority of private letters from Bar celona of the 24th ult. that great discontent prevails in Catalonia, and that the Army of the Faith are now as much the enemies of the invaders of the Peninsula as they were a short time ago their friends. According to this account the Baron d'EaoLis, on receiving the ap pointment of Governor-General of Catalonia, encamped, as has already been stated, at Sarria and Gracia, with an army of six thousand Spanish troops, when he de manded admission for himself and for his soldiers into Barcelona, and, .at the same time, produced the order addressed to him, to enter this city with his Spanish troops. The French Governor of Barcelona refused . _ permission to the Baron to enter that city with his army, for such he alleged to be the orders which he had re ceived from the Ministers of his Most Christian MA JESTY, and a great deal of irritation between the Baron and the Governor had been the consequence. It is mated, in a private letter from Coruima of the 16th ult. that a large guerilla party had appeared in Gallicia, and two days before the date of this letter an attack had been made on a convent about three leagues from Corunna, and thirty-two obnoxious Priests had been put to death. The following extracts are from the non-official part of the Moniteur of Wednesday: PARIS, FEBRUARI 4. Yesterday, after Mass, his Majesty transacted business with Comte de Villele, President of the Council. In the evening there was a Council of Ministers held at the house of the Keeper of the Seals. NAPLES, JANUARY 15. On the 12th inst the birth-day of the King wat cele brated with enthusiasm. The illumination was general, and the King honoured the Theatre of San Carlos with his presence. The Chevalier de Medici, Councillor and Minister of State for Finance, &c. gave a diplo- matic dinner of forty-two covers. The Prince of Baden, and the Prince Gustavus, son of the Er• King of Sweden, were present. VITTORIA, JANUARY :: 4. We have for some days enjoyed the utmost tranquil lity, in consequence of the severe measures adopted by the Authorities to suppress the disorders of the lower class, particularly of the es-national volunteers. It appears by letters received from Saragossa to-day, that a serious dispute had arisen between the Royalist troops. The corps of Capape and that of Mirales had actually engaged with each other, when several uersons were killed and wounded on both sides. In consequence of this affray, the corps of Capape was sent off to Cari nera, and that of Mirales to Cinco-Villas, both towns at some distance from Saragossa. BAYONNE, JANUARY 27. The Spanish prisoners of war in France are about to return to their Government: they will pass through Bayonne next month, in different detachments—the one consisting of the militia, and the other the soldiers of the line. This morning we received the following intelligence from Madrid, of the 25th ult. via Bayonne, a rather suspicious channel we confess, though there is an ap pearance of truth about it : BAYONNF., JANUARY 29. The accounts from Madrid are of the 25th. On the 21st of this month, at ten o'clock in the evening, a part of the inhabitants of Villalcaner rose against the armed force sent by the Intendant of the Province. The Alcalde took all the measures in his power to preserve tranquillity, hut his efforts were in vain, and in the end the whole Commune rose, and put the Commandant and some soldiers in prison ; the re mainder of the troops escaped. 'The Commissioner of Police took energetic measures, such as ordering the Officers of Justice, with the aid of the peaceable citizens, to bring the rioters to trial, to publish the laws against tumultuous proceedings, and in case there should not be a sufficient force, he would send for the Royal Volunteers from the neighbouring Communes. Meantime infor mation of this affair has been sent to the Government. The question of the Law of Amnesty is again agi tated, and it is affirmed that it will shortly be published. But little credit is given to this assertion, though it must be allowed that without the adoption of some measure of the kind, it will be impossible to organize the army ; for the Constitutional system was so gene rally adopted, that almost everybody is implicated, especially the young Men fit for service. It is also affirmed that all the capitulations will be punctually carried into effect: this would be a very happy circumstance, for it may be truly said that, with the exception of a few fanatics, all the Spaniards of every party desire to see an end of the persecutions which afflict their unhappy countrymen and desolate the country. On the 23d a man was hung who had cried, " Death to the King, and the Constitution for ever." He re mained firm to the last moment; he told his judges that they were ignorant, and executioners, and that he was happy to die for the Constitution. Notwithstand ing the rigorous laws that have been promulgated, the robberies continue, because custom is a second nature, and because the distress daily increases. The thieves put on embroidered clothes to prevent suspicion when they aim at committing robber ies of some importance. The s.reets and the houses are the theatre of these depredations, which have drawn the at tention of the King to the best means of putting an end to these disorders. His Majesty has in consequence de. creed that those ma'elactors shall be brought befo re t h e Executive and Permanent Military Commitsion esta. blished by a Royal Ordonnance of the 23d o f t hi s month, and that they shall be subject to the law s w hi ch pronounce the penalty of death on every person, of whatever class or condition, without any excepti on, who shall have committed or attempted to commit a robbery, of whatever kind and in whatever manne r it may be. It seems that the house of M. Rothschild % ill make here the payments for the Army of Occupation. The return of all the Spanish prisoners to their own count, is generally spoken of. It is reported that two Ftelic:: divibions are going to enter Spain. This morning we received the Brussels Papers of the 3d instant. It appears, by an article from Warsaw, that the President of the Policehas published an Inifserial Decree, by virtue of which the Jews in that city are to leave their habitations in the principal streets, and to remove to the less frequented quarters, by the 14th of October next.—That such intolerance should mark the conduct of any Government is a foul blot on this en lightened age. The following are the only other al tides worth quoting from the Brussels Papers: BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 2. Several Journals have announced that M. Falck was to succeed the Ambassador of the Netherlands at Lon don. We learn by a private letter from the Hague, that this news is still unconfirmed, and we therefore hope to retain that enlightened Minister in the eminent post at the head of the Public Instruction, Arts, and Sciences, of which he is the worthy Necenas. FRANKFORT, JANUARY 29. M. Fellurhard, who was arrested at Ilanau, as we have already mentioned, by order of the Hessian Go verusoent, has been removed, ssith a strung escort of Hessian gendarmes to Cassel, where he is confined in the citadel. It is affirmed that rigorous measures have becn adopted towards him, and that he is not only pro hibited from writing and receiving letters, but that even the use (.f books is denied him. SCHAFFHAUSEN, JANUARY 21. AU the Cantons interested in the capitulations of the Swiss Regiments in the service of the Netherlands, have now ratified the Convention relative to the 31st Regi. ment, respecting which there have been such long ne gociations with Count Licderke, Minister of the Nether lands to the Swiss Confederation. New York Papers of the 18th January, with other Journals from various parts of the United States, reached us this morning. The very mention of a coalition be tween this country and the United States still continua to excite the utmost intetest, and the result of the motion in Congress, calling en the PRESIDENT to lay before the House any information in his possession on the subject, is looked for with the utmost impatience. The Mercan tile Advertiser of the 12th ult. states, that Mr. Rusa had several interviews with Mr. Secretary CANNING, and that the latter wished to ascertain the views of the American Government, but that the Ambassador could not give a decisive answer. A Richmond Paper contains accounts from Deme rara, but not so late by one-and-twenty days as the in telligence given in a preceding column. THIS KING. BR!GIiTON, FES. s.—The answer to inquiries at the Palace to-day is a pleasing repetition of that of yesterday: " His Als.issTr continues better." His MAJESTY has given £lOO for the benefit of that excellent Institution, the Sons of the Clergy, in Edinburgh. Doyager Countess CARDIGAN has arrived at her house in Seymour-place, from her seat, Richmond. ViiCODllt CARLETON, M.P. has arrived at his house, George-street, Hanover-square- Departures from Long's Hotel, Bond-street:—Copt. LATHAM, R.N. for Portsmouth; and J. LUCAS, Esq. for Brighton. ARTHUR STANHOPE, Esq. had a dinner part/ yester day, at his house in Tilney-street. Mrs. BENTON entertained a party of fashionables yes terday evening, at her house in Grosvenor-square. Sir Riciman CARR GLYN and family have arrived at their house in Arlington-street, from their seat in Dorsetshire. _ _ Lord WILLIAM STAMFORD has left Gould's (late Red dish's) Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Oxford. The Marchioness of TAVISTOCK arrived on Wednes day evening, at her house in Arlington-street, from her seat Oakley House, Bedfordshire. The Marquis of CHANDOS arrived on Wednesday evening, atßuckingham House, Pall-mall, from his seat, at Wouon. The Marquis and Marchioness of SALISBURY left town yesterday, for their seat, Hatfield. The Countess ST. ANTONIO has arrived at her house in Hanover-square, from Brighton. The Count is daily expected from Paris. M. BLOIS VON TRESLONG, Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy of the Netherlands, died at Amsterdam on the 26th uh. aged 69 years. This brave seaman had lost his right arm in battle. Lord ERSKINE has arrived at his house in Seymour place, from a tour. Sir THOMAS and Lady FARQUHAR have arrived in town, front their seat, Roehampton. Colonels HENRY and EDWARD LYGON, M.P.'s, and Lady Louisa Lvaox, have arrived at their house in St. James's square, from their seat in Gloucestershire. Colonel RUSRBROOKE has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from his seat in Suffolk. JAMES WILLIAM STEWART, Esq. has left Blake's Hotel, St. James's-street, for his seat, Sunning Dale, Berks. The Earl of ESSEX and the Hon. Miss KEPPEL have arrived in town, from their seat, Cashiobury Park, Herts. Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE BYNG and family have ar rived in St. James's-square, from their seat, Wroth= Park. Sir Joint BEND, Bart. arrived in town yesterday, from Twickenham. The Marquis and Marchioness CAMDEN arrived on Wednesday, at their house in Arlington-street, from their scat, the Wilderness . , Kent. The LADY MAYORESS gave last evening a splendid Ball and Supper to a party of nearly two hundred. The Supper was in the first style of elegance. After Supper dancing was re sumed, which continued with great spirit till early this morning. Yesterday the Court of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers gave an depot Dinner to a large party of Gentle men, amongst whom were 11r. Hums, Aldermen Woos, Timor son, &c. Ste. It appears by a letter from Long Island, New York, dated the 19th of December, that the Rev. Mr. COLTOW, about whose disappearance there has been so many silly reports, has arrived in the United States. II r1i1.1....