Star. — London, England, 1823-02-05 00:00:00

against that which had been done. It appeared that a hisodeiedi thousand Frenchmen were ready to march to make Wal oft Spain. But they did not march to make war against Spain alone, but against every independent State, against every free Consti tution. He therefore thought that every free State ought to op pose the designs of the Allies. He •could not help feeling din posed to inquire what instructions had been given to the English Ambassador at Verona. and what countenance he bad given to the project, when told that the three great Pawed were about to march against Spain, because she had committed the crime of framing for herself a Constitution? He should like to know what answer had been given by the Representative of Englasd se the congress. when this communication was made to him?— Sorely, the Plenipotentiary of a country like this ought to have insisted that the Spaniards should be allowed to exercise those rights, which were the common rights of all mankind. He was of opinion, that if a remonstrance on the part of this coun try had been strongly pressed, that that Sech which had been delivered to the French Chambers by the King of France would never have been made. If it had been stated in the Congress that England would consider an attack upon Spain as an act of aggresfion against herself, it was probable that France would not have persisted in the course which she was pursuing. This ought to have been declared, for could Ministers shut their eyes to the fact, that to make war on Spain was in truth an at tack on England ? lie hoped, upon this subs , the opinion of that House would be unanimou s ly expre ssed. The details of these measures which public economy required, those of the Treasury, and all the facts connected with the severe suffering of a most important body in tke community, must all come before that House; but beds, first moment of their meeting be thought it would be well that all these should be put aside for the moment, that the Commons of England might at once prove themselves prepared to go any - lengths in defence of the independence of Spain, and do 11l is their power to repel the blow about to be aimed at the heart Of Mir country which was her nearest ally. He had not foreetteu the Lin - page held in 1820 by the Emperor of Russia on the subject of free institutions, which ought only to emanate from the Throne ; his conduct h ad been consistent with the principle then avowed. When Naples was overran Piedmont fell the next victim, and he had stated at the time, though be was rebuked for doing so, that if opporturilty . served Spain would be the next object of attack. It ought nosf to be remembered that firmness on our part might save - Spain. but any wavering on the part of England would cauglier ally to be lost for ever. The question was then put, and agreed to Shassiniass/y. A Committee was appointed to frame the Address, purimaiii to the Resolution just voted; and at lhlf-past Eight the House adjourned. 1 Mi. EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5. IS TUE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE- The bustle and confusion this morning in the above market was very great. At the opening of the Consols the prices varied considerably, they were done from 751 to 11 1. The speech of Lord Livearoox has caused a great sensation on 'Change. pending negociation, on our part, between France and Spain, as well as the reported stay at idzslrid of the French Minster, ha s had the effect of raising our Funds from 751 to 761 1. Expresses from Paris bring the French Funds of Monday 3 per Cent. higher. They were u high as 82. FOSEIGH IrUNTS. • New Spanish Bonds opened at 31, got up to 38, 37i 373 37}. A good deal of business was doing in the above Bonds this morning. Current Prien:—Chilian 68i, New Spanish 7,7 i, Old 41, New Prussian 74. 01179, Russian 74, Danish 80, Neapolitan nothing done, Peruvian nothing done,Colombian 46, Spanish Scrip 274. Plt ICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 239 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Reduced 76 3 / 4 77 76% 77 % + 3 per Cent. Consols 75 3 / 4 76 1 / 4 3 per Cents. 88% 89 3 / 4 4 per Cents. Old 95 1 / 4 Vi 05 4 per Ct. New 95% 3 / 4 —Bank Long Ans. 1978 20 India Stock 240 241—Bonds 295. 325. Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 12s. 14s 15%. • Consols for Acct. 75 1 / 2 % 1 /s %a 1 ,4 763/4. An Express arrived this morning from Paris, with private letters of Monday, stating that it was con fidently reported in the above Capital, that the Bri tish Ambassador at Madrid had succeeded in bring ing the Spanish Government to an amicable arrange ment with France. When this intelligence was made known at the Stock Exchange. Consols - rose to 76',4 ; and Spanish Bonds to 39. If, like some of our cotemporaries, we were to boast of the priority of our intelligence, or the cor rectness of our views, we might appeal with confi dence to the Speech of his DlAJerrv, as fully con firming what we stated had been, and n ould be, the line of policy adopted by the British Government.— . Even at the time when we were told that our Envoy at Verona boa not sufficiently exerted his influence, or had failed' in rendering it availing in preventing .war, we contended that the Duke of WELLINGTON had succeeded in preventing the Holy Allies from attacking Spain ; and when war was declared by all our cotemporaries as inevitable, we said that it was still doubtful. But to come more immediately to the KING'S Speech, we would refer to the STAR of Saturday, in which we distinctly stated the view it would take of the 'efforts the British Government had made, and was stilt making, to preserve the peace of Europe. Those efforts are such as to give great confidence in the new Administration (for so it may justly be termed), and to raise the character of this country in the estimation of every friend to liberty and huma nity. While the Holy Allies have been, and are now planning how they shall crush the last spark of free dom on the Continent of Europe, how gratifying is it to learn from the Throne that " his Masam de clined being party to any proceedings at Verona, which could &deemed an interference in the internal concerns of Spain on the part of foreign Powers." This is a distinct and explicit disavowal of any participation in, or approval of the iniquitous crusade aga inst Spain, and it was re-echoed by the Ministers and by all parties in both Houses of Parliament. — Bat this is not all s his MA.I ars declares that " he has s i n ce (that is, since the Congressof Verona) used, and coatinwes to . 14 4 his Met Mafia' endeavours and good offices to allay the irritation unhappily subsist ing between the Reach and Spanish Governments, • Ind to wart, if pciadisle. **auk of war between France and , Spain." A stronger ten* than irritation, and a marked re probation of the eanduct - of France, which is the sole aggressor in the quarrel. would have better charac terised the conduct of that Government, but it would Gertainly have endanger - id our chance of being suc cessful in our mediation if we bad positively declared ourselves on either party. No Speech from the Throne ever gave more satis faction, and the utmost unanimity prevailed in both Rouses, with the exception of an - ill-timed amend ment respecting the interminable su4ect of Agricul tural dittreu, :moved_ by Earl STANHOPE, and very properly negatived by a majority of sixty-two to i three. All parties agreed in condemning the outrage' meditated against Spain. The Earl of MORLEY, who moved the Address, said, he would maintain the right which one nation had to regulate its own affairs, without any right of interference on behalf of any other nation:" and stated the measures taken by our Government to prevent such interference. Earl STANHOPE talked of nothing but agricultural distress. He was followed by the Marquis of LAMP. DOWN, who, in an able speech, very properly observed, that there was that in the present crisis of Europst which should alone arrest their Lordships attention. - His Lordship regretted that the Speech did not' strongly reprobate the conduct of France, a conduct which had been induced by our " restoring that driesty to the Throne which was now totally un 'mindful of the right we claim to protect the inde ,penence. of other nations." Speaking of the league which the Holy Allies have funned against the liber ties of Europe,And its results, his Lordship said, the history of the world proved that " the worst perfidy and slavery had grown out of inch armed interference as that now thteatenedP !le further declared his conviction, tit tt there was not.a Statesman in either House of Parliament, or a man in the country who was so base as to defend the conduct of France, or approve of the system upon which the concerns of the G: eat Powers of Europe were conducted.. The Earl of Ltveneoot., in a manly and ingenuous speech, defended the Speech, as being sufficiently ex plicit, and gave the most positive and decided con tradiction to the Notes of the Allied Powers to Spain, particularly that of Russia, as to the charge of her seeking to extend her principles to other countries,— " Spain," said his Lordship " never wished to dis seminate her opinions; so far from this, she had of fered the most ample guarantees to the. contrary ; and her Revolution had been conducted with less violence than any other. Whatever objections," continued his Lordship,. " might be offered to, and whatever dab fects might exist in the Constitution of Spain, yet there had been, and he sincerely trusted would I* a less taint of b100..1, mime, and violence, than was sacred by almost any °thee example of similar Revo lution thit had °centred in modern history." Another part of his Lordship's speech recommends itself strongly to the public attention, and ought even to make the llovrtsoss, mad and infatuated as they are, pause before they rush into a contest which must terminate in their total ruin. On the question of thel policy of the war with which Spain was threatened,l his Lordship said, he probably felt more strongly than the Noble Marquis (LAssDowN)—be meant with refer ence to the probable effect of war, not on Spain only, but on France—not on France only, but on all Europe. For much as he dreaded and deprecated war, as af fecting the interests of Spain, he had no hesitation in saying that he dreaded and deprecated it still more as affecting the interest of France, and through France of all Europe." Tbis sentiment of his Lordship was loudly cheered by the House, as was ancther obser vation of his Lordship, " that if unavoidable circum stances presented no alternative to this country but that of war, we were in a situation to meet it." Lord ELLENSOROUGH wished that our Govern ment had declared itself more decidedly against the despotic power of the Continental Sovereigns. • In the House of Commons the Speech gave rise to a very animated discussion, which was conducted with singular unanimity. The Address was moved and seconded by Colonel cHILDE and Mr.Wsurscan. They were followed by Sir Jusren YORKE, who de precated the attack on Spain as impolitic and unjust, and one which must Ultimately involve this country. Mr. BROUGHAM, in one of those forcible and elo quent speeches which great occasions call forth, took an able view of the political state of Europe. Hs branded with severe but just terms the infamous conduct of the Holy Alliance-Land expressed a hope that all would express abhorrence, unqualified abhor rence, at the canting and hypocritical efforts and pro ceedings against Spain, when men, with the sentiments of religion and humanity on their lips, sought to pio. mote their own base views, and to introduce their own uncivilized, or halkivilized, hordes into the contest. He exposed, in manly eloquence, the inconsistent con duct of the Holy Allies, who had declared the Cotter of Spain legitimate, and now condemned them. 7 Those " armed critics," as he termed the Sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, be said,. a did not like free institutions, even in this country, and it therefore behoved free States to resist the- princi ples of this Holy Junta." The whole Speech of Mr. BROUGHAM was listened to with the utmost attention, and made a strong impression on the HoOtep Sir FRANCIS BORDSTT felt so assured that MT. Brougham did but echo the general feeling, that be did not enter at large into the question, but conga- _.. • • 'tohited the Mese that there NouliPtiowle ki - titsited i tarbament as•well as an united People. 6, *0 Secretary Peat. said that, *ben AS iimar-for explanation came, it would be fodiid that the English (government had sustained the, national character by l an observance of the principle that every State was the best judge of the mode of reforming itself, and of the course necessary to be adopted for its permanent security. He said there was no adequate grounds of interference even stated in the speech of the king of France, and expressed a hope that peace world be preserved. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH strongly reprobated the conduct of Louts XVIII. whose Speech he said was nothing less than a declaration against the character of the People of England—a slander against his Met• Jewrys . pretensions to the Crown—a denial of the pretensionsof WILLIAM the Third to the Sovereignty, and of the rights and privileges established by Magna Charter. He said he was ashamed to acknowledge Sovereigns capable of such conduct as allies of this country. Mr. DENMAN followed in the same strain of indig nation-against the conduct of the Holy Alliance; and there never, perhaps, was an occasion on which a great public question was discussed with such cor 7 diality ; all parties concurred in- condemning that ;odious doctrine promulgated at Verona, of the right of interference in Foreign States :and all felt that it was the duty of this country to resist it. On some other p3ints the KING% Speech is highly satisfactory. On the subject of the Piracies in the West Indies, Spain has engaged to make a satisfac tory reparation. An arrangement has also been made with the Governments of Spain and the Netherlands for the more effectually erasing that horrid blot on humanity, the Slave Trade. The diminution of expenses, and the increase :of the Public Revenue, enable his .MAJESTY to give the assurance of a farther considerable reduction in the burdens of the People. That reduction will, as we stated, be in the Assessed Taxes ; and here we cannot but contrast this assurance with the declaration of the Marquis of , LoNnownsuev, in the early part of the last Session, when he asserted that retrenchment and reduction had been pushed to its utmost extent; and even threatened to resign if it was attempted to carry it any further. Yet, in that very Session, the Noble Marquis was compelled to repeal about three millions of taxes; and, after that relief, his %veiny now promises-a farther considerable reduction. The only part of the Speech that somewhat disap points us is the allusion to the affairs of Greece and Turkey, on which the Speech says, " In the East of Europe his MAJESTY flatters himself that peace will be preserved." For ourselves, we see no middle course that can save the Greeks, who appear to have no alternative but independence, or a return under that despotism which will increase its severity in pro portion as it has been resisted. It appears from an observation that fell from Mr. Pen., that the new Chancellor of the Escheqeer, Mr. Rosismos, will not delay his Budget to near the end of the Session, like his predecessor, but that on his return as a Member, he would take the earliest opportunity of giving a general exposition of the financial state of the country, in order to explain those details of reduction and remission of taxes which were intended to be made, and which he (Mr; Prat.) was sure would meet with the warmest appro. bation. He further observed, that .a considerable part would apply to a diminution of the Assessed Taxes. This intelligence will, we are sure, be found highly gratifying to the country; for, of all the taxes that are levied, there are none that are-so sensibly felt by the middle classes of society as the Assessed Taxes. Several notices of motions were given, and one on this subject by Mr. MARERLY, though at so distant a day as to afford Ministers sufficient time to make their Expose to the country. In another part of our Paper we have given ex tracts from the French Papers of Sunday, relative to. an affair between the Constitutional forces and the rebels in the neighbourhood of Madrid. The ac counts come through so perverted a channel that they must be looked to with suspicion. Luckily for Spain the Royalists are divided, and a new Regency has been formed, which strongly censures the former one, and from which(D'EaoLga, QUESADA, and O'Dot►sat. are excluded. They have issued a Proclamation, which is as clumsy a docu- ment as ever was fabricated, and proves that there is not a man of ordinary intellect: in the new Junta of five Memberii. -~.. • . . This forenoon 'wit teeeteedilt 'Braille' Mail, -with Rio Janeiro Papers to 44th pea s ib - a. contain a long account of the Germaine of tote new Emperor, on the Ist of December, which was. at tended by the Consul of the United States and several European Consuls. , r „ .. We are ettreMelrOrryrto lett' that his MAJBSTY has not yet been • a ble to leave his room ; and it is feared that he it not :a well as he Was. a few days ago, The Date of Yofek yesterday said* be going , . srett :• :* 112i.;WiLsiiiroics, Op hii way to his b Ouse, Brorpp-• ton Grove, in his chariot yesterday, had a very_ nar row eseaperthe hfirsei becoming restive, set of on si gallop; and he in k Out of the Citriit'ge. We are happy to state that he sustained no very se rious injury. 11 1 , 6 , DO I'ER, FEBRUARY 4. The French Mail, which ought to have areveal yes. M a y 2f, ternnon, has not yet made its appearanee (eight °V. , e Oalthough these has been no bad weather to prevent it. The last arrival front the other coast was the Medusa steam-vessel, which left I Calais about eight o'clock yesterelay naortelng,siameepligif * en t has been no intercourse from the Continent. - , NAVAL INTEL LIGENCE,.."7- = 7-7_7 The SZAMNIATATAIMI and Ranwnto wens to malm yelterday the. West Indies. They have had a hasty • The Castle Forbes Oats which sailed froni Leith- milli settlers, for Van Dieman's Land, arrived at Syclticy, from fie last-mentioned place, on the 14th of August. Fatanurn, Fan. 3.—Wlnd N.N.W..—Arrived the Vela% Mats from St. Michael's—sailed the 21st ultimo; Indunty, Lou, from Seville; Nestor, Tammuz, from Bombay—sailed the 15th September, and front St. Helena the 2d December; and Sandwich packet, from Brazil—safled from Prtnamblzeo the 234 November, Bahia the 27th, and Rio the 17t6 Derembtr. Sailed the Rising Sun, for St. Michael's ; and Printruse, Lae. coca, for Antwerp. Pz.rmourn. Fes. 3.—Wind N.V7.-.-Arrited the Trusty, Wit; taxer, from St. Michael's, with loss of rudder and tomnastil also the Liberty, Jane, and Matilda, from ditto. SAHA the Louisa, Mersey', for Cape Coast Castle; the Norfolk Han, and Flower and Blossom, for London. Pornmourtt, Fri 4.—Wind W.N.W.---Sailed the Mor o retba, for Amsterdani. Dem., Feu. 4.—Wind W.—Arrived this mornirg, and oiled for the River, the Adonis, Buzau., in 56 day. from Afries; William, Perm, from Terceira; Blossom, WILLIAMSON, from Trieae ; Shipley, Momearar, from New South Wales ; Unifiue, Maize, from Palermo; Susan, HAMILTON, from Bengal; King. iron, Urns front Demerara; Fortitude, Borates, from B ar . badOes ; Lady Keonaway , Beams from Bengal ; and the Mary, Roan; Cape packet, Carla. • Emma, Guttivaa, all from the South Seas ; John Howard, Cara.; front fc,bobec ; Salamander, ' Youao, from Messina. Came down from the River, the Duckenleld, WEIR, for Jamaica; Asia, DATZT, fur Gibraltar, and remain with the Britannia and Indian. Alto arrived, the Glory, Moaoata, from Demerara. SPORTING IN% ELLIGENCE. BOXING. Yesterday the fight between Hall and Wynes, for 25 guineas , a-side, took place on Wimbledon CoMmon. A regular turn out of the Fancy took place—nothing ese hit the downright ring -rot, who never miss anything, good or h td, in the nsilliug way, the " bow-are-you sort of coves;" the sta.4fc were wanting; but lots of fighting men were present. Cuter, Seroggins, Cur tis Halton, Masco, Cooper, Abbot, Brown, Actual, Oliver, Purcell, &c. assisting to keep out the ring. It.tadad, Serieg, Belcher, Cabbage, and Neat, were also on the ground the ring was tolerably dry, but all round it was under water, and of those spectators who could not boast of water-proofs:am/tits. it is ten to one but many may be hereafter rewird:d far their temerity by a fit of the ague. But the Lids of the Fancy :AM game enough to resist the attacks either of wind or wat,r, at least they chef so. At one o'clock, Hall, attended by his w cunds, Josh Hudson and Arthur from Birmingham, threw his hat into the ring, and shortly afterwards Wynes, waited upon by Shelton and Savage, repeated the token of dt•fiance. the colours, yellow for Bristol, and spotted red for Birmingham ; were tied to the stakes. Wynes went up in the most trieudiy manner, and shook hands with Hall. It was a long fight of one hour and sixteen minutes, occupy. log 58 rounds; but it did 'not develope those points which the amateurs f eel any interest in dwelling upon. Hall won it front condition; be had attended to the advantages of training; while, on the contrary, Wynes, a sawyer, held an opinion that he could not do better for himself than attend to his work. Wines was decidedly the best fighter, and in numerous instances had the hest of the rounds, and also in throwing his opponent; but he is not an effective hitter, and could not reduce the boring qualities of Hall. Neither of them rank high as scientific men; yet at times several good stops were made on both sides. Ilan nob was severely peppered, and the mug of Wynes was marked more than a little from the handy-work of his opponent. The , Bristol Youth at length grew so weak that he resigned the caw test ; and on shaking hands with Hall, observed that he nil not hurt, but so exhausted be could not fight any Langer. SECOND FIGHT. This battle, for a subscription purse, made up on the smolt was between Ward and a high.couraged Countryman. Ward ma seconded by Halton and Ab. Belasco ; the Countryman by Csa tee and Abbot. 'Ms was a prime battle, and Ward s h e wajd his milling talents in great style; and although his superior aW tics enabled hint to finish the rounds almost as he pleased, yd the countryman proved bbnself as good a bit of stuff as evil pealed. Ward received some heavy blows in the body, and tli on his neck ; but the nob of the Yokel warn conipktely train: formed; not the space of a t(„wy escaped punishment. He wadi not give in, he was so completely game ; but his second indeed be shield cut it, as he had not a shadow of chance. Toasty rounds were fought In 19 minutes. Ward, from the severe lir son be received upon a former occasion, says " be will never Is Leandro./ say more, but endeavour to recover the 'proved hth lest by the meal attentive and honourable conduct towel** Amateurs." The judges look upon Ward as the best I$ man in the ring. 1 • ROYAL HUNT. _ 41'4. ______ On Friday last his Ilasestes gag hounds turned am a lio deer, near liver Heeth,-for the day's diversion; there isms neweerous Reid of Sportsmen, considering the sodden thaw ad lost et the Thames. The deer showed great spelt far upwards barges, taking through thi inelasures by Sir Robert Han vey% Bob, towards Stoke Green, snaking a double back Wins Where he was taken, at George Green, near Langley. Tar Where huntsman and hounds were obliged to return home through Ims and Windsor; the bounds came over the New-foot-brads% mi . the huntsman and horses came over she Ferry. 'There is eerie i from Datchet, round the wall to Windsor ; the avail w 1 deep that the whole of Windsor Lower Park is covered wig ' water. Nothing can be seen from the Terrace to Makkehsei dike and Chertsey but water, the meadows and fields Wag 01110111114 right and left of the Thames, for many spiel. Tkl Seeds have abated a little today. ' • •• i , PRDESTRIANISIL '. -'•'''•,° .. • u Wright, the veteran pedestrian, who, it is :44i most surprising man of his age in exigence, is tutu (what is seemed fair heel and toe walking), Best, item &e an idog Ram London, to on, the North road, and prehilliellail ilosate of 1114 Miles, in 32 successive boors ; eseend,loll ( Crown and Bartey.show, Gray's inn-lane to Centerbeefi eel return, a distant* of. 114 mites, in Id ho ur.; and thirdly, 141 • idles, in 24 successive !loon, to choose its own grossed. Ili whole three matches to be done before • the gist of April, la& %km days notice to be given before startiog. . • POACH • A murder was perpetrated on Friday night last, by digtir 1111dee poacisera, on Join L.ardoo, *lir ccoorederate in a al", t galo i a y to . J. Poop One , Ist u in te Wil m a Litt!e ' Ports p = end apprehended at Haley, in' Norfolk, sod c a rets lodged let Psi en Saturday evening, and two cacti taken up under warrino • • - Blear= or Ma. 8111716--Yestestly being the day appolowi ter the mexandiadom of the picas inspected of harrow seemed in the atrocious ts.- - 'Coogan were brought Greenwich, w tint twelve °Week gated cardlge, - wined of persons, escapee to pin a milkers, and Pr , into the Justice-room as to what they . the prisoners declared if the transaction. weft Involved in ail dace, the product= be discharged tor • CORN BICH) Stnrceliinif !"-- . mess doing in the a suiptions of Grain tuavint of at kbetts , Peas and Beans LONDUNi -- teweiwtwarder •Triro ; eb. slime a Saadi al Disakestesammillb" 'deck die Oilmen raelowillt the dot 'b sato* suartied.seill ffeadauffoils Wks' . w" sus, sod ceadilenbie.latarese piweeiled A ussie n a view of shwa.. Tbe.priewass andeis sentinr_ roister a elifewiriebt. 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