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••• ROYAL • CORRESPONDENCE WHICH PRECEDED THE SURRENDER OF CADIZ. No. I. MY DEAR BROTELER—*ND-- declares tions which I- made to your Royal Highness in my let ter of 'the 21st of last August. have not ‘ haOlaygletl. had reason to expect, and in despite of them itunicent blood has been spilt on both sides, which might have been spared. The obligations - I am under as a King, and the sentiments by which I am actuated as the father of my subjects, impel me to take another step in order to put an end to the disasters of the present war ; and, filly convinced that your R syal Highness must be anis, mated by a similar desire, I propose to you a suspen sion of hostilities, even though it should be without pre. jt:clice to the blockade, in order that,in the mean while,it may he possible to treat of a peace decoroos to both nations. Lieutenant-General Don Miguel Ricardo de Alava, the bearer of this letter, goes authorised by me for the purpose of conferring- with such person as your Royal Highness may be phrased to name, if you should so think proper. In this manner it will be possible to ob tain those reciprocal explanations which are so neces sary to create an understanding and facilitate tilterier measures ; and if j our Royal Highness, as I have every reason to expect, should think proper to agree to my proposal, the abovementioned Commissioner is also fur nished with my authority at once to agree to and sign an armistice; or, should it be deemed necessary, I will confer upon him my full powers in due form. . God preserve your Royal Highness, my dear Brother and Cousin, the many years I wish you. I am your Royal Highness's affectionate Brother and Cousin, Cadiz, Sept. 4, 1823. (Signed) FERDINAND. No. IL—TRANSLATION. • MY DEAR BROTHER AND COUSIN.--I received this evening your Majesty's letter of the 4th, which you had entrusted to the care of Lieutenant-General Don Miguel de Maya. I have the honour tcereply thereto through the medium of Major-General the Duke de Guiche, my rst A ide-de-Cam p. I can treat of nothing but with your Majesty, alone and free. When this object shall be obtained, I will urgently press your Majesty to grant a general amnesty, and to give of your own free will, or at least to pro mise, such institutions as in your wisdom you may deem most suitable to the manners an'd to the character of your people, in order to insure their happiness and their tranquillity,and which may serve as gurantees for the future. I shall esteem myself extremely happy, if, in a few days, I am able to lay at the feet of your Ma• jesty the homage of that profound respect with which I am, my dear brother and cousin, your Majesty's most affectionate brother, cousin, and servant, (Signed) , LOUIS ANTOINE. From my Head-quarters of Port St. Marys, this sth Sept. 1823. No. M. MY DEAR BROTHER AND COUSIN,...—I have received the letter of your Royal Highness of this day, which has just been delivered to me by Major-General the Duke de &riche; .and as your Royal Highness declares to me that you can treat of nothing but with me, alone and free, I hope that, in order to be able to determine so important a point, with-all the necessary information before me, your Royal Highness will be pleased to tell me what is requisite for me to be considered as free, and, in this case, in what manner you propose to treat with me. As soon as I receive this explanation, without which I cannot make up my mind, I will reply to your Royal Highness, pledging myself, in the meanwhile, that hostilities shall not continue. God preserve your Royal Highness, my dear brother and cousin, the many years I wish you. I am your Royal Highness's affectionate brother and cousin, (Signed) FERDINAND. No. IV.—TRANSLATION. MY DEAR BROTHER and Cousiw—l had the honour., to receive the letter of your Majesty of yesterday. France does not wage war either against your Majesty or against Spain, but against that party who keep your Majesty and your august family prisoners in Cadiz. I shall not consider them at liberty until they are in the midst of my troops, either at Cadiz or at Port St. Mary's, as your Majesty may prefer. If, before even ing, I do not receive a satisfactory answer to this letter, and to the Note which I have caused to be communi cated to General Alava, concerning the liberty of your Majesty and your Royal Family and the occupation of Cadiz by my troops, I shall consider all negotiations as being broken off. I am, with the most profound respect, my dear Brother and Cousin, your Majesty's most affec tionate Brother, Cousin, and Servant, (Signed) . LOUIS ANTOINE. Port St. Mary's, this 6th Sept. 1823. No. V. MY DEAR BROTHER AND - COUSIN--.--I have received your Royal, Highness's letter of yesterday, and from the explanation you give me in it, I see, with deep regret, that your Royal Highness shuts all the doors against peace. A King cannot be free by going from among his subjects and placing' himself at the discretion of foreign troops which have invaded his kingdom ; nor does a Spanish fortress, then within it there are no trai tors, ever surrender unless when honour and the laws of war justify the act. I nevertheless wish to give to your, Royal Highness and to the world every proof that .1 fail in nothing, in order to spar-6 the effusion of blood; and since your Royal Highness refuses to treat with any one except myself, alone and free, and I am ready to treat, our two selves alene, and at free liberty, either on any spot, at an equalled and proportioned distance from the two armies, and with all suitable and recipro cal security, or on board of any neutral vessel, under the faith of its flag. Lieutenant-General Don Miguel Ricardo de Alava returns, commissioned by me, in or der to deliver into the hands of your Royal Highness • this letter, and I hope from your Royal Highness a more satisfactory answer. Gov preserve your Royal Highness, my dear Brother and Cousin, the many years I wish you. Your Royal Highness's most affectionate Brother and Cousin, (Signed) FERDINAND. Cadiz, September 7, 1823: The answer to the above Note was brought back by General Alava, and in rendering in an account of his mission to the King and his Ministers, he informed them " that lie had, on the preceding day, delivered the. King's letter to the Duc d'Angouleme, who positively refused to agree to an interview with his Majesty and his Royal Family in a neutral vessel, because France did not wish that any other Power should interfere in the affairs of Spain except herself, and that he named Generals Bourdesoulle and Guilleminot to trett with hint respecting the most suitable means which could be devised, in the Actual situation of things, for an early termination of the war, The inclosed memorandum," he added, " was a copy of the proposals made to him by the aforesaid Generals, and he regretted that he had only- been able to obtain a more ample explanation re- specting the secona paragraph, and the modification of the fourth, as contained in the aforesaid memoiandum." In the explications respecting the second paragraph, he stated, " that he had been assured, in the most posi tive manner, that 4$ hours after. his Majesty should have airiied on the other side of the bridge (the Suazo bridge is meant) he would issue a Proclamation pro mis►n to it' a - Constitutional Government, which should be in harmony with the enlightened state of the age, as well as the wants and welfare of his people. The interest of France," lie was assured, required that this kind of Representative Government should be esta blished in Spain for her tranquillity and repose, which cannot be indifferent to France, and he was also assured that his Majesty would publish a general oblivion of all the past. No other guarantee," it was added, 4 , is ne cessary for this than the confidence which the well known scrupulosity and probity of the Duke d'Angou leme in fulfilling his word, ought to inspire. It was established that the foreigners who were in Cadiz should be allowed to withdraw to whatever country.they might prefer, as long as that was not their own, and for this purpose the corresponding passports should be granted to them. With regard to the genes a 1 oblivion, it was a settled point, as well as the cancelling of such confisca tions as had alrea4 taken place, and that these should henceforward be prohibited. Every Spaniard who should wish to withdraw to a foreign country, including France, shall be allowed to do so freely, and the neces sary passports shall be granted to thew. The provisions which are in La Isla may be conveyed to Cadiz, but not the ammunition." He added, " that the Duke d'Angouleme had totally rejected the proposed conference on - neutral or interme diate ground between the two armies, because he could, not consider the King as being free as long as hii family continued in Cadiz, and because he did not see that such a conference could lead to any result." He also added, that it was a settled point, " that the Represen-1 tative Government was not to be the ,Cortes by estates, but those formed out of an equal representation of all the provinces." [The preceding Report was given in by General Alava on the Bth of September, as the result of his conference, and as containing the ultimatum of the French.) TRANSLATION Of THE MEMORANDUM ASIOVI AL LUDED TO. • I can treat of nothing until the King is free. Let the King and Royal Family repair either to Chiclana or Port St. Mary's, as his Majesty chooses. I will use the whole of my influence with his Majesty, in order that he may promise and grant, of his own free will, such institutions as he shall judge to be suitable to the hap piness, wants, and tranquillity of his people; and in or der that he may announce that he forgets the past. All those who wish to leave Spain may withdraw wherever they think proper ; and in consequence thereof, orders shall be given to the Admiral. A French division shall enter Cadiz, for the purpose of maintaining order there, preventing re-actions, and protecting every one. The last paragraph was modified in the following manner The French troops shall occupy La Isle de Leon, as far as and including the Cortadura 'and Fort Puntales. The ground between these two points and the town shall be neutral. The armistice with the town shall be' for two months. The commercial relations shall be re-established." IRON TILE JOURNAL DES DEBATE. PARIS, OCTOBER 11. It is natural that the public should be desirous to know the results of the great events which have just passed in Spain; but one should be reasonable enough to reflect that facts could only be developed in gradual succession. The telegraph may transmit the news of a victory, but it cannot forward the articles of a treaty. Sr can it be imagined that a few day's after the tailing of Cadiz all the affairs of Spain can be arranged? What we can already assure our readers is, that the Councils of the King and those of the Prince have ob tained a happy influence, and have produced consoling results; it is, that the decrees of Port St. Mary, Xeres, and Seville—decrees imprudently conceded to passions which the Revolutionists had cruelly provoked--have already been modified by the counsels of a more calm and generous policy. The convention which is.to regulate the military. re lations between France and Spain is now in the course of arrangement. This convention, dictated by common interest, will be circumscribed as to time, and regulated as to manner, so as to indicate beforehand its object and its termination. The conditions, without being burden some to France, will be so ad vantageous to Spain, that our liberated neighbours will only see in it an addi tional benefit. We have already said, and we repeat it, the example given by our King will not be lost ; it will procure for Spain a solid and tempered Monarchy, the maintenance of honour and of public good faith, the re-establishment of -order, and consequently the revival of the credit of the State. After having tranquillized the honourable impatience of those who wish for the happiness of Spain, we shall refute the impostures of those wire create alarms in order to give birth to discord. Certain persons affirm, for example, that England had recognized the independence of the Spanish Colo nies, and had even notified this recognition to all the European Powo s. In the first place this is not the fact. The English Ministry, after a long deliberation, may have perceived the necessity of having agents in the chief ports of Spanish America, to protect the very ex tensive commerce which British subjects there carry on; but wishing at the same time to avoid what might be interpreted as a recognition of States independent de, Facto, the English Ministry employed in the credentials ' given to its agents this formula— ,4 To the persons hav ing power and authority at Mexico, Buenos Ayres, &c." lbw:, not only has there been no notification of it; but the recognition itself has not taken place. And how could it be believed that England would suddenly cut short a question of such importance, since the formal admission to the rank of Powers of five or sir new Sates, containing 17 millions of inhabitants, must con siderably change the weights in the political balance between nations? A man must be quite estranged from affairs—must be ignorant of the close connexion between all the Cabinets of Europe, to believe that a State would singly pronounce on a question which in terests all, which will certainly be the object of a so lemn discussion, and in which Spain must of necessity be first consulted. As to the very inconsiderable expedition prepared in England, it has evidently no other object than to carry two or three regiments to the English colonies, particu larly Demerara, where the revolt of the negroes is not less dangerous in itself than alarming from the ramifi cations it seems to have in the Antilles. The hopes of expiring revolutioalfre train. The peace of Europe will pot be djturbed. Never was the agree-1 ment among Governments more perfect ; never were the motives of union better perceived. The singlellafte which ravages yet the east of Europe, far from extend ing itself, will be circumscribed : the difficuhies which existed between Russia and the Porte, relative to Wala chia and the commerefof the Black Sea, seem to be removed. Russia: being thus placed, with respect to Turkey, in the ratiusde of a friendly Power, nothing will any longer prevent Cliiiitiad-EurOpe, with a com mon accord, intervening In - favour of the Christians of the East, without, compromising its internal concord and its own tranquillity. In this case a new career of glory opens before France, whose flag is already, in the seas of Greece, the terror of pirates, and whose agents, by their firm and noble conduct, have acquired the respect and esteem of the Greeks and the Turks. As to the little emotion of warmth which the removal of an honourable Minister has produced amongst us, it sill not be slow in being extinguished. The Ministry will not change its principles ; it will continue to walk firmly in the ranks of the Royalists, and will doubtless avail itself of the new glory of France to .consolidate. more and more the throne, and to give us v. hat may yet, be deficient in .our institutions. COLOMBIAN LOAN. rfiHE Contractors of this Loan having received seve ral inquirieslin to the precise meaning of the communication made by the Vice-President of the Republic to their Agent at Bo gota, that the Government recognized the'' 20 per cent. Discount on the Loan," 'desire to state, fur the information of the Bond. holden, hat this expression refers to the contract price of the Loan. The Loan was contracted at the rate of £BO for each £lOO Bond, payable at certain fiied periods at par; and it is the recogni tion of this agreement that the Executive Government declares, by stating that it recognizes the 20 per cent. discount. Freeman's -court, November 1, 1823. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1528. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 82 1 , and got up to 831 to owing to several large sums being purchased for money. The Speech of Mr. CANNING, at Plymouth, has excited much interest in the City, where ft is highly spoken of. A good deal of business has been done early in the morning in the above Market. • FOREIGN FUNDS. Little doing except in Spanish Bonds, which opened at 9.01. The insignificant article of Poyais Bonds was declining rapidly this morning; but owing to the Contractor coming to the Alley, and giving notice that the Dividend would be paid to-day, this manoeuvre got them up to o—before they were offered at 2 pre. ' New Spanish 22 ex. div. Old 29t ex. div. Colombian 11 es. div. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 222 1 %—.3 per Ct. Redu._B2 l / 2 IA 1,6 S per Cent. Cons. 83 34-4 per Cents. Old 4 per Cents. New 10334 sic Bank Long Anns. 2015-16 Ys India Stock 265 264% 265 1 / 4 —Old Annuities 82% Exchequer Bills (ELM) 38s. 425. Consols for Acct. 82% 83,4. This morning we received accounts from Bayonne to' the 26th ult. bringing intelligence from Madrid to the 22d. The King of SPAIN,. it is . said, will pass the autumn either at Toledo or"Arinjizez, and norreturn to Madrid until the end of the year. The report of the Due D'Aecioutassa disapproving of the conduct of the KING is revived. The evacuation of Spain by the French troops has already commenced, but it is said 30,000 will remain ; 15,000 or 16,000 of which will go into cantonments on the Ebro. The fortresses are to be provisioned for eight months. Orders have been given to station troops to escort the Duke in his way to France. A letter from Madrid states, what we have heard by another conveyance, that the brave but ill-fated RIEGO was found poisoned in prison. Several liberal Journals have been excluded from Spain. The following is the only article in our Bayonne news not mentioned yet : " His Majesty the King of Spain has just nominated General Marquis de Campo Sageado, President of the Council of War; General Carojal, Captain General of New Castille; General Cam, Captain General of Gre nada ; and M. Leon de Cairo, Corregidor of Madrid• Three hundred prisoners, who were already on the way to Trance, have suddenly received orders to stop. It is said that they will be divided into three classes— , the first, including all the Constitutionalists who are called .xaltados, will continue their route to France; the 2d will be composed of those' whose conduct , requires to be watched ; they will be placed in a depot : the Sd, will be formed of all the young men who are supposed to be misled from whom nothing is to be feared, and who will be sent to their homes. Accounts from the environs of Caceres say, that General QUBSADA has hid that town summoned to sur render, but that the Governor has replied, that he can not obey the orders of the King - whom be considered as a prisoner in the bands of foreigners. Badajoz also does not seem disposed to surrender, and the Go vernor-General CASTEL nos Rios has caused all the decrees issued by the KING Since be left ;Cadiz :to be burnt by the public executioner. In general Es:. tremadura is not tranquil, and troops continue to be sent to that province. It was reported at Madrid, that the city and province of Carthagena had declared itself independent, and that the Ex-Deputy Rost caoALetrawros had been proclaimed Consul. This seems a very ytlrb-; ordinary piece of news, though in a time of revolutfon everything is possible, and it is probable that Spain will be long in a state of agitation." It is stated in the ;toile of Friday evening, the% Barcelona has capitulated. Although this intelligence may be premature, yet it is'scarcely to be expected that MINA should hold out when there is so little iational hope of his example being followed. Happily he was; in sufficient force to exact honourable ' term; from the:. besiegers. It is r i said, that the fortresses of Hostal ich and Tarragona are included in the capitulation:, In another column we have given an article from the L Journat des Debate on the future policy of the Leitch Cabinet, which may almost be considered as deaii-ofEa cial. The most important fact it mentions has already been anticipated in the STAR, namely, that the Decrees issued at Port St. Mary, Xeres, and Seville, have bee n modified. A week ago we stated that they had bee suspended, and were confident that they.would not be carried into effect. The French claim all the tacit of producing these « consoling results"—if there is any merit in dissuading a Sovereign from a system of policy which could not fail of being ruinous. We suspect, how. ever, that it will be found the French have not been 11l only advise's of FERDIRAND. It will be seen from this declaration that an Army of Occupation is to be left in Spain ; and certainly, unles t France was prepared to' abandon all that she has done, and to leave the country in the same state in which she found it, she could ,not,do otherwise. The parties in Spain are too violent and too nearly balanced tcLexpee; that they should be at once reconciled. Whethei the presence of a French army will contribute anything to. Wards such an end is doubtful, but it may at least pro. tect the existing Government. In another part of our Paper we have given the Cot. respondence which took place between the King of SPAIN and the Duc d'ANcoutzum previous to the sur- render of Cadiz. From the letters of his Royal High, ness, it will be seen that lie could not have done other wise than oppose the intolerant Decrees of the KING, since he stands pledged to recommend a general am• nesty, and to persuade the KING• to give, or at least promise, liberal institutions to the Spaniards. It was to be expected that the manly and eloquent speech of Mr. CANNING at Plymouth, when the Corpo ration of that town presented him with its freedom, would be honoured with the abuse of one, at least, of our contemporaries; in this, however, the Morning Chronide stands alone. 'The Times, with more candour, acknowledges that it is " a happy display of just tea• seming and accurate description, enriched by magni ficent language and splendid imagery." The Chronicle calls it 4. a piece of pompous declamation, which may please fools, but will deceive nobody." In the latter observation we perfectly agree;—it will deceive nobody; for he that runs may read init a fair and open expOsitien of the conduct of Administrafon at a crisis of great de licacy and great difficulty. Let France enjoy her triumphs over a divided coun try ; a nobler boast is that of the British Minister who, preserved the country from war, and hos been lessening its burdens, and augmenting its resources, while our neighbours have been exhausting theirs, in schemes where victory gives no glory, and success confers no benefit. Well might Mr. CANNING, after remarking on the policy of our not engaging in the war, ask ‘. Is there a man that does not, now see what would have been the extent of burdens that would have been cast upon this country ? ,Is there any one who does not acknowledge that under such circumstances the enterprise would have been one to be characterised only by a term borrowed from that part of the Spanish liter rature with which we are most familiar—Quixotic—an ' enterprise romantic in its origin, and thankless in the end?"--Yes, there is one—and that one the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. The Lord Lieutenant has appointed Sir Sr. Vi Went COTTON, Bart. to be Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire. Tuesday, Mr. Wirtra, the President of the Board of Controul, bad the honour of introducing Cueuvoruca Pintas, Esq. to an audience of his MAJESTY at Windsor Castle, previous to his leaving England, to assume the duties of the Lord Chief Jus ticeship, at Calcutta, in the place of Sir Hearty &nue; deceased. His Maasvrr was graciously pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon the Learned Chief Justice. Yesterday, about three o'clock, the Duke of Witt arrived ha town, from Cheveley Hall, Cambridgeshire; *here his Royal Highnessisas been on a visit to the Duke of Runsint.- Saturday afternoon, .at four o'clock, the Duke of SATZ WEINAIL left town for Rusher Park, the residence of the Duke and Duchess of CLASEN= We are glad to learn, by the fallowing extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated the 9th of October, that several Members of the Spanish Cones and Goren ment have escaped from Cadiz : 11 GIBRALTAR, Ocr. 9.—Since the departure of King Ferdinand from . Cadiz, there have arrived.in this Bay upwards of 200 persons of different descriptions from that placer many Deputies of the Cones (among whom sat - Arguelles, Savedra, and Galliano) five Generals came in to-day, in a boat, put tatl board by the French Admiral; one is Valdez, and another. Alava--the latter' two, it seems, were to have been arrested by an order from Ferdinand, as well as Quiroga and Wilson (also in this Bay) but notice was privately given them by the French General in Cadiz. Wilson and Quiroga took the hint immediately, and got on board the steam-packet. Valdez and Alava said they would not quit, as they bad committed no crime, when the French General went hi person, and succeeded in persuading them to accom• pany him on board the French Admiral. AU, intact. who have been prominent characters, are letting of from Spain. It is hinted that the French will garrison Ceuta: they have now three large frigates at Aigesifos. and one brig of war here. An expedition, composed d 10,000 French, and a like number of Spaniards, for SoUth America, is also spoken of. What a pretty . float the Spanish Constitution has had ! I was right, you will gee, in my conjectures of its fall, but I miscalculated k ***ration. Ferdinand, I think, has learnt nothing, and wkspiare nobody. I trust England will look to he own interest, and beware of the French." • Accounts from Bogota of the 9th of Augist steel that •es Bolivar had not departed for -Peru. The Cow gresi has terminated its Session ; but, the Deputies re main here till the 2d of, January next, to beready for the next Sitting. They 'receive during the interval, the allowance prlscribed by the Constitution, the same as if,they were in Congress. Senor klurtado, a man of wealth and respectability, and a Member of the Senate'', k appointed Minister to England, to supersede M.Ravene He goes - by way, of Panama, and takes his wife , sod family with him. ' • BOYERS. Dick Defoe, the Westminster Champions, is about to be tidelhod..._ against Ned Turner, for £lOO a-side. The money is ready. . 1 7 man* in point of weight and science, is thought 13 Ire ,squlds being about 11 stone; though some fears are entertained that . 4sv• may ban &greeted his stamina by copious libations of illutruisi. E