Star. — London, England, 1822-11-16 00:00:00

i,, i / • • µ ' y .~ „ %; 14,VF,N1N14 STAII. LONDON. ~ ~. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1522. THE FUgDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There seems to be but little business doing this morning in the market. Consols, up to this hour, 32 to i. POILIGN MAILKM Very little business has been done this morning in any foreign fee :rides.; New Spanish Bonds, up to this hour, arc 62 to 4, Old about 74 ex. div. Colombian 82, and Spanish Scrip I l to 2 dis. All other foreign Stocks remain at the same prices as quoted yesterday. We observed this market rather thinly attended this morning, but the cause is obvious : a great number of Job bers, of all descriptions, made their elit yesterday towards the close of the market, not being able to pay their differencee . utlsongst whom, it is said, there are three or four Brokers. rIIICES.OF srocl:s AT ONE O'CLOCK. per Cent. rteduced Si% 1 / 1 per Ccnt. Consols 82A S 2 4 per Cent. 98 5 / 3 -7 /s .4-4 per Ct. New 102 3 / 4 lh Rank Long Annuities 2 0 11-16 3 4 India Stock 256 3 4 I ,4,—lndin Bonds 425. 435. EKcliequer Bills (L 1.000) Gs. S►.--Small 9s. 7s. Cons. Can Account S 2 Vs. The French PI pers of Wednesday have reached us. and the Journal des Detals, which has observed the most solemn silence ever since it put forth its 'warlike article, has at length ventured upon something like an explanation. If, however, we had no better gua rantee against ‘var than the wishes of the French Mi nisters, nor a mole satisfactory assurance that tran quillity will be preserved than that of the Journal des Dehats, we might still have some fears on the subject. The article in the Journal des Debats possesses an official character, and is very cautiously drawn up. ix commences by stating that .4 the grand question cf war with Spain still remains undecided." This paragraph is a very satisfactory refutation of the assertions of some of our contemporaries, that war was never meditated, and that the whole was a mere stock-jobbing rumour. This slims that France, at least, did contemplate war ; and in the next paragraph we shall find that she entertained hopes of being supported by the Con gress. .‘ Our private letters from Verona," says the Editor, " dated die sth instant, affirm, that up to that day nothing had been decided at Congress re lating to Spain. No declaration had been resolved upon ; no ultimatum sent to Madrid." Here is an assumption of authority—the Congress have not met to consult with the Representatives of Spain (for Spain has no Envoy at the Congress) on the state of the country and the best means for re storing it to tranquillity, but assumes the right to -dictate what terms they please ; and the first intelli gence that Spain is to have of their meddling with her affairs. is an ultimatum. This word, so much used in diplomacy, has lately, however, been stripped of its ominous import. _ _ How long was the Russian ultimatum bandied be. teen Constantinople, Vienna, and Petersburgh ? These ultirnata even seem like last sills and testa. 'tents, tc have the privilege of succeeding and super seding each other, notwithstanding the solecism in language. la the course of the late negotiations in the East, at least three ultimata are said to hive been administered by the Emperor of ResstA to the Divan. We need not observe bow long that negotiation was protracted, and that the matter of it is still undecided ; and if Spain is only true to herself, and Great Britain continues firm in resisting all interference with the Peninsula, the ultimatum of the Congress will be as harmless as that of Russia to the Ottoman Porte. The Journal des Debats, while it states that the question of war is undecided, acknowledges that its commencement is delayed. The alleged pretext for attacking Spain was the dangerous -situation of the Royal Family. The Editor, who had excited a false alarm, now pretends to dissipate it, by stating that the more recent advices from Madrid are « of a less alarming character as regards the Princes of Spain:" less alarming certainly than the Editor of the Journal des Deliats had represented them ; but the fact is, that there never appeared the slightest evidence that it the intention of the Spanish Government to place the lives of the Princes in jeopardy. We have next a sort of assurance that the death of FERDINAND is the only case in which France would think herself entitled to attack the Peninsula. "We have said," says the Editor, " that the violence alone of the preponderating party in the Cortes could force France to a was against Spain. The revolutionary axe raised over the head of a Boone" would not allow a Royalist Ministry to calculate either the in terest, or even the chances of success. Honour, that supreme arbiter, would imperiously require a sudden effort, which would at least testify our firm disposi tion to oppose ourselves to the crime, even though we could not successfully accomplish the object.— Who, on seeing a brother thus surrounded by assassins, on the point of perishing by their poniards, would not fly to his aid, without calculating whether the pro ceeding might not accelerate the fatal blow ?" If we may judge from this official article, for so we must consider it, there are far different reasons for, the change in the policy of the French Cabinet, than those alleged. Perhaps the French Minister found at the Congress that the terms on which the Holy Allies would assist in the crusade against Spain were such as to put even France under some. restraint ; for it is idle not to believe that the real ob, 1 jeet of Fratice inputting &set liberty k Spain, WM to crush it at home, and to make sne general league against liberal institutions and constitutional Govern ments, wherever they might be est. blisl ed . We ate borne out in this opinion by the following paragraph r "There is another special interest for France which' is, the preservation of the sceptre of Spain in the hands of a'dynasty allied to the blood pf our Kings, and naturally disposed to cultivate those relations of friendship between Spaniards and Frenchmen, which their reciprocal situation renders so beneficial. States. men will understand us when we say, that the aimed intervention of the Powers of the Nottli t and of the centre of Europe, in the affairs of the Peninsula, might, perhaps, lead to chances still less favourable to the maintenance of the Bourbons on the Throne, than the present•state of things. Fears may be en tertained of combinations, of events which would in duce a Spanish party to call in a foreign dynasty, whose establishment at Madrid would change th'e equilibrium of the South of Europe, to the particular detriment of France." This is a new light broken in.upon the French Mi nistry. We have long ago stated, that a war with Spain would end in hurling the 800 RISONS from the thrones of both countries; but we really did not an , - ticipate that the French Government would so soon agree with us in this opinion. What can all this mean? What new jealousies have suddenly sprung up in the mind of the King of FRANCE, and in those of his Ministers, respecting the views of the Holy Al liance, and of Russia, the chief of that body ? France is at the point of attacking Spain; she suddenly de sists, and for fictitious reasons; and then she turns round to the members of the Holy Alliance, and with the utmost apparent terror urges to them the pro priety of adopting the same course, declaring that their interference can only have selfish objects in con templation, and that it will be the ruin of the whole. BOURBON race. . Does the French Government really believe this ? or is it to be classed with the other fictitious reasons which they give for the sudden suspension of the hostile attack on Spain? The improved condition of the Spanish Royal Family, an almost general am nesty, and the disgrace of the Fiscal who had at tempted to bring certain persons to trial, constitute those'pretended reasons; and all these are proved, by the extracts we have given in another place from the Madrid Papers, to be utterly groundless. We have now done with tbe official and laboured article of the Journal des Dads, which we should not have noticed at such length had it tot been for the positive assertion that there were no'grounds for supposing that France had ever intended to go to war with Spain. How far we were right in assum;; , g that such was once the intention of the French Cabi net bas been fully proved, not only by the first hostile article which appeared in the Journal des Debars, but by the one we have just noticed, which is nothing but a sort of apology for a change in the avowed policy of the French Government. The following are further extracts : PARIS, NOVEMBER is. A Council of Ministers was held to-day at M. de Villele's. When the Council broke up, a messenger was dispatched to Verona. The revolutionary journali announce to-day as a thing nearly certain, that some changes are about to take place in the Ministry : they even go so far as to mention the Ministers who have tendered their resig nation. It is obvious that these absurd rumours are intended merely tu aTect the - elections ; but, doubtless, the electors will not be the dupes of the manoeuvre, which is too palpable to deceive any one.—Monitenr. Our private letters from Verona, of the sth inst. assert, that up to that day nothing was decided on by the Congress, relative to Spain. No Declaration was agreed to—no ultimatum sent to Madrid. There was no aQpearance of an approaching dissolution of the Congress. It is said that a document has been presented to the Congress at Verona by Prince Metternich, com prising five principal objects. The first two relate to the affairs of Naples and Greece. The third ap. plies to Spain, and is said to offer to that country cer- tain modifications conformable to the French Charter, l or any other Constitution with two Chambers. In case of the Cortes refusing their consent, an army of 250,000 men will enter the Peninsula. The other points turn upon the Secret Societies, and the re strictions to be laid on the Liberty of the Press. 2,IADRID,'NOVEPdBER 1. The day before yesterday has been a day of terror to this capital. A plot was formed to rescue from prison the veteran Political Chief San Martin, as well as the Officers of the Guards, and cut short the pro cess of the law by strangling them. The ardent friends of the Constitution assembled for this liberal enterprise with the cries of " Long live Riego !*'— " Long live the Republic !" The measures adopted by the Authorities frustrated the project. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BAYONNE, DATED NOV. 7. " Twenty-five transport ships arrived in our lion yesterday, filled with warlike stores, the unloading of which commenced to-day, so that in a day or two our glacis will be covered with artillery of every de scription. Fifteen or twenty more, similarly laden, are yet expected. " 13eside• the supplies of ammunition which are now in this city, the arsenals are actively empldyed' in fabricating -many field-pieces. Two regiments of ( atrAtiy are expected on the ISthinst:-at Mont tie Marsan, and 800 borsekwill come to Bayonne. 4 . The news received froth the different ptints of the frontier agree in saying that allTrenchmenvhc have; not resided ten years in Spain will be obliged to leave IN Strict orders have just been given at the port of Ilidassoa not to let any. Frenchman enter Spain, not even as far As Irun. h —Quotidienne. Ftnans AT PA RIT, Nov. 13.—Five per Cents. opened at aor. 55. closed at 881. 9bc. Madrid Papers to the Bth instant have been re ceived by Express. They are chiefly filled with the Debates of the Cortes on the law lately proposed for punishing conspiracy and insurrection, and on a re monstrance made by GARELLI, one of the late Mi nisters, relative to the judicial proceedings instituted against him and his colleagues. On the Ist instant, as soon as the routine business which takes place at the opening of the Sittings of the Cortes had been gone through, a letter frem the Minister of Grace and Justice was read, stating that Don NICOLAS GAntttt, late Secretary of State, had addressed a Memorial to the KING, praying that his MAJESTY would be pleased to refer the same to an Extraordinary Cortes. " In this Memorial (says the Spanish Papers) Senor Garelli states, that he has learned, as a public and notorious fact, that it has been resolved to imprison him and the other Secretaries of State who were in office with him, in the latter end of June and the Ist of July, in virtue of the precautions considered ne cessary by the Fiscal, who directs the investigation into the affair of the rebel Guards, who left their quarters and entered hostilely into the capital on the morning of the 7th of July ; and that the pretence for this intended imprisonment is founded on the con duct observed by the said late Secretaries of State on those occasions. He also observes, that, far from fearing the result of any process, he is most desirous that his guilt or innocence should be clearly and dis tinctly manifested : but the Constitution has pointed out how and when prosecutions are to be carried on against Secretaries of State before the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which are duly to take place when the Cones declare that there is ground, as in other criminal causes, for instituting a process. " His Majesty has thought fit to submit the above Memorial to the deliberation of the Cortes Extraor dinary, who are expressly authorized to take the same into consideration." The Secretary having asked Wit was intended that the Memorial should be referred to a Committee? Senor SANCHES thought it unnecessary to appoint a particular Committee, as the Memorial might with propriety be referred to the Committee already spe cially appointed on the affair of the ith of July. After some debate, it was ordered that the Memo rial and the letter of the Minister of Justice should be referred to a Special Comniittee. On the 2d a document in justification of Senor Garelli, presented to the Cortes by his wife, was re ferred to the above Committee. In the sitting of the sth the Committee made their Report, which is of great length, but the following is is substa;:ce : " After recapitulating the grounds of Senor Ga relli's complaint, and the particulars of the proceed ings for constituting him prisoner, the Committee state the principles of the law respecting infractions of the Constitution to be that the Secretaries of State shall be accountable to the Supreme Tribunal of Jus tice, but that it is necessary that the Corte should previously declare that there is reason for instituting a process. "It is now asked whether, when a person who has been a Secretary of State is put upon his responsi bility for acts done in his Ministry, the same ;trims are to be observed as if he were still in office ? This admits of no doubt. The accused, under such cir cumstances, must be proceeded against as if he were actually a Minister. "The Criminal Code enacts various penalties against Public Officers for neglecting or wilfully delaying the execution of the laws, and also the redress which the public interest requires (Articles 451 and 507). In , various other Articles penalties are inflicted for not prosccuting delinquents, and against those who preju dice the public cause—against those who assemble to concert the means of opposing the laws, or who resist their execution, or take measures to frustrate them. The Minister who may have conspired against the security of the State, or the Political Constitution of the Monarchy, however slight and however con fined to himself the designs, must be guilty of all the above enumerated offences and many others besides. From these premises the Committee deduce these several axioms : " 1. That to require the responsibility of a Minister, or of a person who has been a Minister, it is necessary that the Cortes, before any proceeding whatever, should declare that there are motives for instituting a process. c. That the Supreme Tribunal of Justice ought to take cog nizance of the charge. " 5. That the same Tribunal has to take cognizance of all cri minal causes relative to persons exercising the duties of Secre taries of State. " 4. That the crime of conspiracy in a Public Functionary , and more particularly in a Minister, never can be regarded as cohnuon and private, or considered separate ficom the questions which his official situation involves. " Finally, the Committee confine •themselves suggesting, -fur the deliberation of.the C,ottes, as the ultimate result of their opinion— " That the documents be referred back to the Go- temenefit, in order that the doubt which It is eipedect the Cortes should remove may be more reguls.rlt stated, and more explicitly expressed ; or that, if t 1 .t papers be not referred back according to the nakurd of the case, that the Fiscal shall conform strictly to the Constitution and the laws, from which it is clearly to be deduced-Ist, that a former Secretary of Sta, 4l ought, in the case of his being put on his responsibi• lity, to be. tried in the same manner as if he were exercising his office. 2dly, That a Public Functionary can never be proceeded against for the offence of con. spiracy committed during the period of his holding office, except in the quality of a Functionary. " The Cortes will ire pleased thus to resolve, or in such other manner as to them may appear most proper."—Madrid, nvember 4. On the motion of Senor GALIANO, the Report was ordered to be printed. The law project respetting the disposal of incur{ gents or conspirators who may be apprehended, was still under discussion on the 6th, but the most im portant articles had been agreed to. The power given to the Political Chiefs to hold persons in close custody thirty days, without instituting legal pro ceedings against them, was warmly debated. It was contended, that in the critical circumstances of the country this power was necessary, and it was observed that some of the Committee who had approved this Article, knew themselves, by experience, what the effect of thirty days' close confinement WAS. In the Sitting of the 4th, a discussion on the Naval Budget was interrupted by the arrival of one of the Secretaries with a dispatch from. Mina, which he im mediately read. It was as follows; " ARMY OF OPERATIONS OF THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. " Being in Calaf, actively preparing for operations consequent on the taking of Castelfollit, at nine in the evening of the 25th, I was informed by Colonel Don Francisco Miranda and Corn mandant Don Manuel Garrea, that Baron de Eroles, with the forces be bad been able to collect from Mequinenza, Balaguer, Seo de Urgel, and other points, had, in the evening of that day, formed a junction with the Chiefs Romagosa, Romanillos, )li rales, and Jep dell Estans, in the town of Viosca. On receiving this information, I ordered my troops to march, and arrived at. half-past two in the morning at the station of the aboge7ineo tinned Colonel Miranda, Commander of the columns which had been under the orders of Gurtea and 'Montenegro. " At day-break on the 26th I ordered an allowance of brandy to be distributed among the troops, and then took a position in tke mountains of Auretuos and the acclivity of the Caseta de Balaguer, leaving the town of Aguda occupied, in the expecta tion that the Baron would attack me, as be seemed et! to do. Accordingly, at half-past ten on the sama day, his scouts began to fire on our advanced posts, who were stationed on the hill of Aguda, and who, after dexterously availing themselves of all the advantages offered by the position, were obliged to fall back on the town of Aguda, in which were stationed 10C men the regiment of La Corona. " Finding chat it was not the Baron's intention to engage in general action, I began to descend from my position with the corps of Toledo, Hostalrich, Corona, Orderes, and the provin cial corps of Siguenza and Logrono, and to reinforce the Gue rillas, hoping by this means to bring hint to the actiou he ,ougi•: to avoid; for which purpose, and in order to inspire him wilt greater confidence, I left in its eosition the column ender the or ders of Montenegro. My expectations were realized ; aril with this small number of troops I succeeded in driving the enemy from his important position, dispersing his force in every direc tion, and filling him with a degree of terror from which lie will not easily recover : the Cavalry contributed to the routing of the enemy, cutting numbers to pieces, and pursuing them to the town of Sanahuja. " This victory, perhaps one of the most glorious for the Spa nish nation, would have been complete if night had not inter rupted our pursuit of the rebels, and if the country of which they left us in possession bad afforded us the means of subsistence; as it was, I was under the necessity of retnrning to this point. " I cannot at present give your Excellency the details of this glorious action, which, however, I shall communicate as soon as I receive them from the Commanders of the respeetiVe columns. I confine myself to assuring you that our loss is very trifling, and that the enemy's is very considerable. The valour, enthusiasm, and intrvidity of the brave men whom I have the honour to command exceeds all praise. " From a prisoner of the battaliokof Valencia, who has just been brought in, we learn that the number of the enemy ex , ceeded 5000, independently of parties brought from several towns which are within sight of us. We are assured that the enemy fled in such consternation, that the fugitives are not likely to stop .till they reach the Seo de Urgel.—lizavzs presava your Excellency many years. " FRANCISCO ESPOZ Y MINA. " To his Excellency the Secretary of State for the War Department. " Head-quarters at Toras, Oct. 27,1822." New York Papers arrived this morning to the '2sth of October. The following are extracts: NEW YnRK, OCTOBER 24. FRONI CURACOA.—Curacoa l'apers have boen re• ceived to the 29th ultimo. These Pipets speak of the report of General Morales having entered Maracaibo on the sth ult. liut give no credit to it. The Spanish corvette Maria Francisca, the ketch Hymna, and five transports, with 15(X) men, specie, and provisions, from Ilavann3ll, had arrived at Saii,t John's, Porto Rico. The troops were landed for re freshment, and were to proceed to Paerto Cabello, under the command of General Calezada. UNION OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA. The friends of this project had a meeting at Mont real on the 14th inst. the lion. John Richardson Iva.; in the chair.. A Committee of eleven was appointed to prepare a Petition, and to correspond with the dif ferent townships on the subject. Twelve Resolution; were passed, the first of which was— " itesolved—That in the opinion of this Meeting the geogra phical situation of the two Cauadas, In respect to each other. and the relations which N.tture has established between them, render their union under one Legislature irdispensable. g , Revolved—That the experience of thirty yeses which hare elapsed since the disisloa of the Lite proviuce of got:we into