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r polkieal *Malice contcted with the members of the secular and regular Qergy, is produced by ivvolts tionary predilection, we ‘ought to behold in it the de. filbrable result of that opinion, just or unjust, but fatal in its consequences, by which the ideas of religion and ignorance, of monachism and fanaticism, are associate.] _• in the minds of the people. It is unhappily true, that the Catholic. Clergy is no longer anywhere at the Inrighiof its authority, and that if it has lost its influence, * • it is to be attributed rather to its faults, than to the - philosophy and the doctrines so artfully expounded by revolution. Let us come, however, at once to the Monastic Go• ♦ernment in Spain. It is possible that it may be vicious in many respects. In consulting the History of the Church, we see that in the best and noblest periods of its existence, it felt itself bound to work a complete re • form in the religious orders, which had been corrupted, • • and had forgotten their destination in a long repose. It was thus that Sr. Bernard re-established discipline in the majority of the monasteries of his time. A similar revolution produced by the church itself is always salu tary. It prevents men of religion from Falling asleep in the forms of their creed, and obliges them to pene trate into its spirit. The monastic life is the highest degree of perfection to which man can exalt himself.— It realises, in a Christian sense, that to which the Py thagoreans and Stoics of Pagan antiquity had aspired, although imperfectly. Frivolous Minds can alone mis take the sublime virtue and ideal beauty of these insti tutions. The most tyrannical illiberalism can alone , undettake to disperse, by violence, men who have wished to meet together in the bosom of prayer, and to practise abstinence in common. We admit, that when these institutions do not fulfil the objects for which they were created, they no longer de.erve either consider*. Lion or esteem. It is not to fat Canons, nor to Monks wbo have grown corpulent in undisturbed indolence, that we can pay a veneration which is due to virtue atone. We have e'en to defend the Monastic Government, both against the false doctrines of utility, entirely mate rial, which are erculated under the title of industrialism, and again t the administrative maxims of ministerial • bureaucra y; in short, against the attack, of Protestant. ibm and democracy. But at the same time we•cannct sefiain from pointing rut the great abuses which have been introduced into this very Government. These , abuses will draw down its ruin eves in Spain, the very Catholic ; even in Portugal, the very faithful ; even in • the midst of the triumphs of the monastic cause, if it does not work out its own regeneration, if the Sovereign Pot t ff does not take into serious consideration the actual situation of the tegular and secular Clergy. There is no medium for the Priests ; either they will be the first of men, owing to their sanctity, combined with all the light of intelligence—owing to their evangelic simplicity, combined with all the capacity of mind; or they will • be the last, if they compromise their creed and their re ligion by their ignorance, by their mere externals of faith, by a disgraceful indolence. The misfortune of the Monastic Government in the • Petiosula is less owing to the rust which is attached to it, to the abuses which have been introduced into it, than to the skill with which a patty of the political ft tends of absolute monarchy have displayed in trumpet tng i;s virtues and its faith. This party, which has every thing to lose and nothing to gain, is scarcely composed of any thing ease than courtiers, or lavoureis of the ancient regime. Constantly defeated by revolu -604, because it rests upon no social principle, and be cause it only seeks its pea sonal advantages, its momenta, y alliance with the Clergy has given it ae name of " Apostolic." Placed in the very face of lkeralism. and ..rniel eutitefy with its system of absolute monarchy, it will not under s'and that 4 n aaminittatiee ord. r might procure to it an ephemeral existence. It sepal ates it• lions Miiii,taialism, whit': would give it some consis tency by means of fi•caliti. This latter patty finds itself thus reduce) to fight against the ancient regime, with . out being . Ale to conciliate revolution. It is equally impossible lot it t , ) make common cause e ith the Clergy, 10 whom at has attached in vain, for the scient e of States wen turning only in the sphere of an order founded upon finances, armies, ani police, cannot form a union . with an order r 111101 al and religious ideas, which belong to a social composition different from that of the age. A J urnal has called the raising of the buckler of the Matt:pis de Chaves an intrigue. It has been with re•tson rr marked, that it is a singular intrigue which couli arm the anti revolutionary party of the Peninsula against the revolutionary party. The affair, connected as it is with the in,titutions, and the ideas of a whole nati n, re , ents,itaelf under too important an aspect to come • under this denomination merely. There is, doubtless, itutigue in all that passes in Spain and Portugal, but it is that pet petually existing intrigue by which courtier, • and statesmen endeavour, respectively, to raire them *elves to power. The statesmen, on their part, have their it tions of order, economy, and good administra tion: they can tench!. a nation materially strong and • powerful, but they will not go beyond that, and will not permit any action upon the mind of the people, because their political lever is not sufficiently poised upon na tional manners and institutions. A thousand obstacles embarrass them, a thousand contrarieties vex them, which they have not been able to foresee, from want of a sufficient knowledge of the sources of public right, and for want of having sufficiently fathomed the moral and intellectual movement of mind. This is the result when it is attenvted to make good order consist only in eke regularity of administrative mechanism. Witb respect to courtiers, or the advocates of absolute power, tittle is no compensation for the danger of the agitations which their influence may produce is a State. With them there is no settled political doctrine. They pursue a system of favouritism, ill.disguised und e r the pompous denomination of absolute monarchy, and make a vain declaration of the pripciples of legitimacy, gelid* do not go to the bottom of things. Assuredly a. throne cannot be surrounded with too much eclat ; bout at the same time, 4t cannot be encompassed by too much power. Real power, however, cannot arise from fanaticism ; it grows, as in England, oat of an ancient Peer age, seek of spair still possesses in the magnificent itistitutioas of bur grandees, however it may be cnavated . by favousitism, and tbeuneertainq of a system of Aso lute monarchy. A King is strong m the full strength of his tubjeets, and ttot in their gradual decay. It is necessary to know how to distinguish things, and especially to avoid declamation, which cannot fur• nisllkany solid instruction. Let us not rise up blindly qefmst the monachial regime of the Peninsula ; there is it a real force, a moral capacity worthy of respect. Let us not, however, allow ourselves to be led away by a frivolous enthusiasm, for after the cruel mistakes we have experienced, we should rather feel that er.thesiasm, Wis, but profound, equal, and less impetuous, which is the best /Alpert olds akar and the throne. PARIS PAPERS. REIXIVICD 3T MIMS ?(41$ scoatatats. CHANKIIIKW FERIIB-4174:1;10 OF TUEBfIAF,Ofit. Witco' Or tux rouges Vinistasi Nollait Flatas—The discussion about to be opened to you, imposeeon us the obligation of making known to you the actual situation of our relations with . the States whose interests are more particularly connected with the late events. This is tbe_duty which I come to fulfil before you. N At the time of the , entry of the French Army 1100 Spain in 1823, the English Government demanded and obtained from France, the promise that no hostility should be committed with respect to Portugal, and declared that it would consider itself obliged, by former treaties, to come to the aid of that Power if it were attacked. " At the time the late troubles broke out in Por tugal, a similar declaration was made by England to Spain, and communicated to France as well as to all the great Powers of the Continent, and it was agreed that Spain should undertake nothing against Portugal, and that on her part England would watch that .Por tugal committed no act of hostility against Spain. We owe it to truth to say, that England has ful -1 pled the obligation which she took upon- her:44 and that on their part all the Powers have not ceased to act with a common consent . towards the Cabinet of Spain, to induce that Power not to furnish to Portugal any subject of compla7nt. " However, at the very moment when that Cabinet gave its assurance th,t the arms takeri - from the re fugees shoirld-be given up to the Portuguese Govern ment; at the moment when orders were given that the refugees themselves should be removed from the fron tiers, these men have entered Portugal in arms, and this sudden attack has been ac:ompanied by circumstances which leave no doubt as to the co-operatiCin of some of the Spanish authorities, who luad been charged with the execu ion of the order to disarm and dispels:: the refu gees among the interior provinces. " France, which had the greatest r ason to preveni all hostilities on the part of grain, --France, sel3cll had the most right to b: listened to,-.France, whose intervention should have inspited Poitugal and Eng land with the greatest security as to the fulfilment of the engagements of the Spanish Cabinet—could not remain indifferent to events. which made appear in a manner so evident, either contempt fur its counsels or the impotence of its influence, and the King's Govern ment had immediately to testify its disapprobation by recalling its Ambassador froit: Madrid. France does not contest with England the tight resulting (*tom its duty—the right imposed on it by a long bet ~f treaties to go to the aid of Portugal. It will continue its efforts to prevent the renew al of acts which have authorised the measures taken by the Brit;sh Cabinet - it will omit nothing to prevent st rupture baween . Spain and Portugal, and it hopes to succeed ; it has alteady taken with regard to the Cabinet of Madrid, iu concert with all its Allies, steps :he most likely to attain this object. It continues to receive front the British Cabinet the mast positive assurances of its entire co operation. Nothing which has taken place up to the latest events authorises the• King's Government to raise any doubts on the sincetity of these assurances : on then part, the Ministry: of the King are-firntly determined to advise his NJ ajesty to refuse his support to tie Spa nish Government, it, by its own' fault, it puts Portugal under the necessity of assuming a hostile attitude! towards it. • " France cannot, then, be reduced to renounce the arivantages of peace, except by circumstances which we are far from foreseeing. Her good f . aith a .1 tier dignity would not permit tier to support so unjust and pas. %innate acts, which 'have only taken place in contempt of counsels which hive been given, And ',manses which base been made. ' It is by thos following the rules of justice—by respecting the faith of treaties, and the rights of other Powers—that France preserves al her advantages for sustaining her own rights, and even those of Spain, should she be unjustly attacked. d ' It was by defending the principles of order and legitimacy, that England came out victoriutis from the long and sanguinary contest which she sustained against the French Revolution. The same success will attend us e if ever we should, in our turn, ls,called upon to defend the same principles." •• f.. /SON TIM 101111NAL DRS Main ikW•WIDVISDAT. It is reported, that yeiterday, in, the discussion on the Address, the Minister fur Fore* Asks made to the Chamber of Peers a declaration on the subject of Spain. In this declaration, the Minister for Foreign Affairs complained, as England has done, of the conduct of Spain towards Portugal, and officially announced the recall of the Marquis Demoustier. It is said that Baton Pasquier spoke, and that Viscount Chateaubriand delivered a very energetic speech on the speech of Mr. Canning. But the Chamber having decided be fore hearing the speaker, that no speech should be printed, the public will unfortunately be deprived of the knowledge of this debate, which, however, it is so important to them to know. As it appears by the offi cial bulletin, the result of this debate was the sending back the Address to the Committee, which will, at two o'clock this day (Wedue,day), present another project to the Chamber. TRUK THE arms, DATED TIEURIDAT. • The discussion yesterday in the Chamber of Peers engages uni versal attention. The Minister for Foreign Affairs declared yes terday to the Chamber of Peers, that the French Government had recalled its Ambassador from Madrid, in order to testier to the Court of Spain its formal disapprobation of the suriport which the Spanish Authorities bad given to the enterprise of the Portuguese refugees. The Minister tuned himself to chew that France had acted on this occasion, with respect to Por tugal, In the same manner that England, in 1823, had acted with respect to Spain. England then prevented all aggression in favour of the Spanish Consdtutionalists, oo the part or the Ports. 'tune. His Excellency finally declared, that the Zing's Govern ment bawd that the snzasures adopted by it, and by Ertglandowonld bast a happy result for the pacilleallon of the Pee!nada, iied De concluded or saying, /bat Francs weld aleriVa set as England had dope for a long time Rut, against Ilevolulianktbd'lLivolutionlies. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1826. STOCK EXCHANGR, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The arrival of Baron Dssrus's Speech has caused a great con. fusion in the City, particularly when it was ascertained that the Three per Cents. French Rentes were printed at 70f. 50c. which is a gross mistake, as they left off in Paris at only 68f. 10c. and in the Pails of yesterday, they are marked Three per Cents. 67f. 80, 75, 67, 75. Consols, which left off yesterday in the house at 79/ to 80, opened this morning at 804 for the Account, went up to 804 4, and afterwards receded to $O4, at which price' they on* may be quoted. A great deal of business was done in the earlier part of the morning. Consols have just gone back to 80 to a. In the Foreign market scarcely a bargain has been done. Current prices : Old Spanish .19/ 13, Mexicans 644.;,. Colom- 1 bian 33/ 34, Russian 801, Portuguese 69 71, Greek 171. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The Speech of DAYAII, Minister of Foreign Affairs at Paris, has not had the effect on our Canso' Market as was expected; instead of improving the British Market, it has acted on the contrary. COD sols, which were at the opening of the Market at 110 i 4, may now be quoted at 1101 to Although the Speech is decidedly of a pa. dile description, the Bears form a different opinion, and say that it is ambiguous. Reduced 79.—N0 news front Portugal. Voltam). Ms.anwr.—Owing to the Dutch Funds coming higher this morning frog► Holland, and Danish also having improved 2 per cent. at Amsterdam, all the Northern Securities have also improved. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 199 1 % 3 per Cet.t Red. 79 1 / 4 %. 79 1 / 4 per Cent. Cons. Shut. 3,1 per Cect. 85 3 4 3/4 5/8 • 31 per Cent. lie I. 85 1 / 2 14 85% 4 per Cent. New Shut. 4 per Cent. 1826. 94 7 / 8 % 14 . Lon. Ann. 18 1 ,2 • India Bonds 30 29 32 • Old Annuities 79 • .1.1,000 Excheq. Rill, 13 15 13 £5OO ditto 13 15 OW and Lttia) ditto 17 19 (Nis. for Acct. 80% % 80 1 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Milan Bonds, 6 p Ct. 37 I Portuguese Bds. 5pC 71 Col bian Mold.. 6 p Ct. Truss. Eds. Sp C. 921 Do. Bonds, 1824,54 35 Rubs. lids, 114%2, r p 655 Do. Acct. 34 5) Span. Bonds 5 p Ct. 121 Ponds,s pCt 575' I `o. Acc. Greek Honda, S p Ct. Fr. Hentes, 5 p C 98150 c Do. lioncts.lB'o,s ry C. 171 Exchange, 25f 50c Alex. lids 1825, s p Ct. 65 45 5 French Brutes, 3 pC. 67f 50c DO. Acct. 62 b 41 5 4 Exchange, 251 50c BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK. {MARE. PAID. Arigna Iron and Ciml 50 12 4 Z'Arlombian 100 15 15 14 13 Genera' Mining Any). 100 5 4 Putrid La Paz and Peru. Ass. 50 S £2 13s. £2 12s. .Marine Alliance 100 5 4/1 AUSTRIAN FUNDS, VIENNA, Dec. 9. lUctAliques 90j. Rank Shares 1110 i. This meaning we have received by Express the Paris Papers of Wednesday and Yesterday's Etoite. They solve the problem of peace or war, as will be seen by the substance which we give of the Speech, delivered by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the Chamber of Peers,, on Tuesday last. The disclosures, sihich he made on that occasion, fully acquit his Government of having instigated, or even connived at, the attack upon Portugal; whilst, in speaking of its authors and abet toi s, hi% language is as strong and indignant as that em ployed by our own Ministers. It is clear both from the matter and manner of his discourse, that the Spanish Government must not count upon the sympathy, much less upon the protection of that of France, should it pursue a reckleu course of policy at this mo j ;bent, and prefer defiance to reparation. It is also certain that the French Cabinet fully concurs in all the measures taken by our own with respect to Portugal ; an it would further appear, that these measures were taken with the approbation of all the other great Powers. Whilst N e rejoice at this concurrence, we are persuaded that it is a tribute to the enemy, as much as to the , wisdom and justice of those proceedings; and if we are correct in this opinion, it shews that half measures are not only unsuitable to the dignity, but detrimental to the interests, of this country. By their promptitude and deci sion in the present instance, Ministers will probably stifle a most alarming cause of danger at its birth; whereas, had they adopted a temporising policy, the evjl might bare gone on increasing until it would require an im mense expense of blood and treasure to put it down. In the meantime, it is confidently expected that the immediate effect of those proceedings will be to bring the Spanish Monarch to his senses ; and it is highly probable that he till sacrifice his present Ministers to his own jpersonal convenience ) and to the hope of saving his fa vourite scheme of government. It is also very likely that she Governors-General,who supplied the Portuguese rebels with arms, will be disgraced, and, perhaps, punished, it being a sound maxim in Spain, to throw the agents overboard, when their conduct has placed the Master of the State Vessel in a perilous dilemma.— FiRDINAND may thus obtain a respite for the system he has established ; but that such a scheme of government shall last much longer, it is pre posterous to suppose, and, in fact, the supposition is inconsistent both a ith the guarantees that will be required by Portugal, and with the existence of her liberal institutions. It is impossible that despotism can co-exist in One country, with liberty in the other ;nor, indeed, is it possible, that the two Powers can cultivate friendly re. lations with one another, unless their institutions assi• milate in some degree. There can be no pledge of solid peace for the Peninsula, and no security for the rest of Europe, until the Spanish Monarch be induced to re. model his Government; and as circucustauces fit lION 'emniefttly• favourable to such 'a purpose, In us that they will not be neglected. The follctiting Private Letter was received in io wti this morning: PARIS, 'Zebuboar, D. 20, Tulare o'CLoo tt . The discussion last night in the Chamber of Peers did not ter. tulnate till half.past six o'clock : it was, consequently, too b ite te dispatch to London its result, virisliony chance of arriving on the following evening, in time to be useful. Its result was of the ow n ' pacific tendency. The French Ministry predett the utmost zeal in their eadeatrim to prevent hostilities betwedn Ranee and England. News are. anxiously looked for ever, moment from Madrid. Pa French Ministry entertain the full expectation, that as soon as hostile declaration of England, backed with the indignant ten 'trances of the French Cabinet, shall have reached that capital, Camarilla will be thrown into consternation, and Feanision wg endeavour to appease the storm by sacrilcing to it bi. intriguing oilers. Even this may not be sufficient to evince the sincerity ey his future intentions, but it is probably all that he can do in ti c fin/ instance, as an atonement for his past conduct. As a condition of the zealous co-operation of France in protecti:i Poifugal from the hostile aggression of Spanish fanatics, the Pre.. c a Cabinet has required of the English Ministry that they shall not i, % , upon the coast of the Peninsula thiexiled Spanish Coneirutionali•ts Tbdi, in order that General Lonna, that the Captains-General sib„ aided the insurrection of the Marquis of Octets, that the tow t h u . rities of Aymonte, who encouraged the rebels of the Algarves, and that the Governor of Badajos; who supplied arms to the to. aurgentsof Alentejo, may be dismissed, or punished by their owa Government, Alms, Tannings, Qutactoo, and their friends, m not be sent to overturn the existing Government of Spain, ors, niche disturbances which must compromise the safety , of the French Army of Occupation. I shall make no reflections on this fact. Pout o'CLoce.—l have just seen a Gentleman, who has gives me further details of the discussion of yesterday. Dastas bey.s the sitting, by declaring that France was in perfect under,tand:i.g with England on the affairs of Portugal and the arrangentents of Spain. That a certain faction in Spain bad, by its cuipable intrigues, fomented disturbances in Portugal, which nobody more desired to see terminated than himself, and that his Most Osmium MA. : lISTT, being dissatisfied with M. in MONSIIIRS, his Ambassador at the SpanishCourt,bad recalled alm.This declaration Is now printing. M. Baron de Ras/aunts defended Mr. Camino; and the Eng. Usti Ministry, in their language respecting France, and the con. sequence of the French invasion of Spain. If any thins war too strong in Mr. CANNING'S speech, it should be ascribed to the beat of debate, and the hurry of extempore speaking. —When M. no CHATEAU/GUANO was about to ascend the tribune, with his speech in Ids hand, M. Di Ponrecont.aor, a Member of the Liberal Opposition, rose and asked the Chamber to decide that their speeches should not be published. He assimilated the met:. ing of the Peers to discuss the address to the secret sitting of the Chamber of Deputies. M. CHATEAU/INLAND objected to this cot cealment, but submitted that his light should b.: put. under a bushel, and read his harangue as he bad Written it. It was to the following effect : —He said that the declaration of tte Minister for Foreign Affairs was, in his opinion, pne 'of !Iv strongest diplomatic documents which existed, perisaps, in the whole word. Ile declared that the enterprise of CHAVES was real rebellion, and the overthrow of the Portuguese Charter would be a great calamity. The declaration of the Minister DAMAN he said, justified all the vehemence of Mr. Cansomo-'s Speech. It accused the Spanish authorities of perfidy. In fine, it would give England the right of making war on Spain, if England thought such a war useful to its interests. Mr. CANNING might declare that war, and support Its justice,on the Speech of a French Mi n i st e r , If England invaded Spain, FasansaND might tell the French 'Geneeals that a French Cabinet had sanctioned such invasion; that the French Cabinet had recalled its Ambassador; that it had train. mitred severe notes to Spain, might be well. But why let the public into aft these secrets ? In short. whatever may be the wrongs aid blindness of Spain, has FELD/NAND ceased to be a Bourbon, and have we shed our blood and spent our gold In Spain to ',nide ourselves to be the denunciators of FtIiDINAND the Address, as , drawn up by the Duke Da Levis, was entirely 'clanged'. The paragragh about the Press was entirely rejected. The paragraphs about Spain and Portugal, and "our Allies,' were likewise struck out, or completely altered. In short,,this poor Addrese was so mailed, that it was thought better to make a new one than to mend it. It was, therefore, sent to the fittreasii. with an order to draw up a new one. This one was presented aklay. It's fate I have not yet heard.--rrensess This morning we received Sc. Petersburgh Journals to the Sth instant, and Dutch Papers to die 20th instant. The former contain only matters of local interest; and the latter present as little attraction for thj n f: n neral Reader. It is stated Wider the head of Brussels , that el Snivw, who resided there, had re. cvived orders to return to England, his Regimens forming part of the expedition destined for Portugal We learn from Munich, that a new rude of regulations has been just published in Bavaria, which are said to be favourable to the trade of that kingdom. We have great pleasure in stating that there is a con siderable improvement in the receipts of the Revenue of the present Quarter. The improvement has rapidly continued lately ; and there is the most cheering pros pect, that when the accounts are finally inade up, on the 10th of next month, that they will afford infinite satisfac tion, and show that the returning prosperity of the coun try is likely to speedily terminate our present distress. As a proof of the improvement, the receipts in one week of the Quarter were greater by 1100,0001. than the corres ponding week of last year. The improvement is not confined to the Excise, but it is also considerable in the Customs. The intelligence from the manufacturing districts would seem to warrant the conclusion. that theindustry of the country is returning rapidly to its former state, and that the prosperous state of the Revenue is sympto matic of a general prosperity. There has bcen lately discovered in the interior of Brasil, a tree, the young branches of which drop water is a manner almost approaching to a shower. The election of a Verdurer of the,New Forest is ap pointed to take place, at Winchester, on Wednesday, the 57th inst. PLYMOUTH, UEC. 19.—Major General Macaw! was this day returned Member of Parliament for the Borough of ltash, near this place: SALISBURY, DEC. 20.ALIXANDER POWiLL, Esq 'of Hardcott House, was elected on the 19111 inst. Member of Par liament for the Borough of Downton. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 20.—Our Cotton Market remains steady in demand, and prices the same as last week. The sales ars about 6,000 packages, including to-day. Sunday last, Mr. WriBht, a tespectable tradesman► residing in the 'Camberwell-road. left borne for the puerile of at• tendin( worship at Mr r . Ranciall's Chapel, in Beresford-street, worth. •lie had scarcely been ten minutes in the Chapel, when he was oberved to fall forward in the pew that be wt• sitting in• ,Some of the Congregation observing the circumstance, ran to his assistanse, un approaching the unfortunate man, he was disco verd to be a corpsr. It apprarvaritat he had wit bonne in his aims/ state of good heayls and spirits. Au Inquest was held on the body, s and a verdict of . " Died tty the visitition,of Gen" fetuMcd.