Star. — London, England, 1821-03-13 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1821. THE FUNDS. Various reports have been circulated this morning, but evidently many of them arise from stock-jobbing purposes. Consuls opened at 72 7 / 8 for the Account. PRICE Of STOCKS TDIS DAY AT 014 a O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Cons. 72 1 / 4 5 /s 1 / 4 5 per Cent. Navy 106 5 Vs India Bonds 475. 50s. prem. grche q uer Bills 3s. ss. pre.—Omnium 5 7 / 8 pre. Consols for Acct. 72% 3 4 73. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morn ing. From these we are enabled to all up with some interesting details, the brief sketch which we gave yesterday of the important turn which affairs have recently taken at Madrid, and also to lay before our Readers the Speech delivered by the KING at the opening of the Cones. It appears that, after the KING hid resumed his customary promenades, he was again obliged to ab stain from them on account of insults which he re ceived from some abandoned individuals among the populace. These insults were conveyed to him through the medium of what is called an atrocious song, with which they assailed his ears, against the Bourse°Ns. The Ministers took no pains, it is said, to impose silence ou the factious, much less to punish them. Neither on Saturday the 21111, nor on Sun day the 25th, did his MAJESTY stir from the Palace.l On the 25th the Cortes held their last preparatory Committee, after which a Deputation repaiied to the Palace io announce to his MAJESTY that the Cortes would open its Sitting on the Ist of March,. and to engail - e whether the KING'S intention was to be pre sent in person. His MAJESTY received the Depu tation with his accustomed kindness; and answered that he would be present at the opening of the Cortes on the Ist, at ten in the morning; but he hoped that the Cortes would take proper measures to prevent the scandalous outrages to which the KING had been on some occasions exposed. The PRESIDENT said the Cortes knew how to appreciate the goodness of his MAJESTY in promising to be present in person'' at the opening of the St:;siOn ; but, as to the object specially pointed out by his MAJESTY, the Congress • was not charge.] with the maintenance of public order; yet, in fulfilling the duties which belong to it, every means in its power would be most eagerly contributed to satisfy completely the just wishes cf his MAJESTY. Previous to the opening of the Session, ARGUELLES, the Minister of the Interior, presented himself before the KING, for the purpose of treating of the Speech which his MAJESTY should deliver. Ilis MAJESTY answered, that it was ready! On the Ist of March, the KING, attended by a strong escort, repaired to the Hall of the Cortes, and opened the Sitting in the following Speech : " GENTLEMEN DEPUTIES—In seeing myself sur. rounded, for the second time, by the worthy Repre sentatives of that heroic Nation which has given so many proofs of its love and its attachment to my Royal Person, my rat:Sul heart cannot be prevented from rendering thanks to the ALMIGHTY, who has re established me on the Throne of my ancestors, by the valour and the constancy of my faithful subjects, and who has deigned to consolidate it, by giving for its basis the Constitution sanctioned by the Cortes Ex traordinary, and to which, comformably to the wish of the Nation, I have spontaneously sworn.— The welfare of the People whom DtVINZ PROVIDENCE has 6:maded to my cares, which is and will always be the object of my most ardent wishes, has alone de cided me in adopting a system which the Nation de sires, and which the lights and progress of the age, besides, imperiously demands. Indeed, everything has answered to my hopes, and I have seen with the greatest satisfaction the loyalty of Spain surrounding the throne of its King, manifesting everywhere, by testimonies the most unequivocal, its adhesion to new institutions, which, by establishing its grandeur and prosperity, are at the Same time the best support of my Throne, and shed lustre on my Crown." After thanking them fcr the measures taken in the last Session, his MAJESTY proceeds :—.4 I know well, that in spite of every effort, the wounds of the nation are only to be healed by time. The general disorder and overturn occasioned by the war, the disasters which followed in its train, the destruction of im mense capitals, the confusion produced by the clash ing usages and customs of provinces, the want of re quisite regulations, the vices of Administration, and the necessity of meeting without delay the expenses of the State, have not yet permitted the establishment of such an uniform system of finances as I desire, and as analogy to the new regime which we follow re quires. I trust that the Cartes will, in their present Sitting, direct their attention to an object so essential. The perfection of such a system must be the woi k of time ; and to carry it into execution, the Cortes may reckon on my invariable co-operation, as I feel well assured of their's." Ms MAJESTY then announces that the Minister of Finances will lay the Budget of Expenditure for the ensuing year before them; and congratulates the Cortes on the rapid revival of all the arts of peace_ on the restoration of credit abroad—lon the cessation of hostilities in America—and the prospect of the colonies being reunited to the mother country as in tegral parts of the same - Empire. _ _ -4' But," continues his Majesty, " it is not to be dissembled, that in the midst of the satisfactiop which effects so salutary as those which the Constitutional regime has produced ought to cause, in the midst of the universal consent of the Nation to that regime, and of their resolution to defend it, the attempts of some malcontents, encouraged by the illusions of such as are at all times ready to cherish chimerical and criminal hopes, have occasioned a momentary alarm for the tranquillity of some Provinces, and of the Capital, which has caused my heart the most profound affliction. " I hope the Cortes, in fulfilling their important functions, will be persuaded of the necessity of taking prompt measures to repress the audacity of those who, encouraged rather than awed by moderation of system, dare to trouble the new order of things, and that they will at the same time give to the Execu tive Government the necessary force which public tranquillity demands under existing circumstances, and without which it is impossible to heal the evils which have for so many ages a(Hicted the Nation. " The state of our diplomatic relations with the other Powers continues as it was. We happily pre serve with them those relations of amity and good faith which existed at the period of the preceding Sitting. " The ratification which Fhave thought it proper to give, with the authority oldie Cortes, to the Treaty for the cession ofthe Floiidas, and the fixation of the limits with the United States of America, has taken place within too recent a per iod to allow of this Go vernment having, as yet, had any advice of its being' received. " The fears- which there seemed reason to enter tain with respect to the hostile intentions of the King dom of Algiers against our Crown, have not as yet been realized—thanks to the vigilance of the united divisions of the National Marine and that of his Ma jesty the King of the Netherlands. " The resolution taken in the Congress of Trop pau, and continued in that of Laybach by the Sove reigns of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, of interfering with the change of political regime established in the Two Sicilies, has excited all my selicituie, as well from consideration for the Royal Fancily of that Kingdom, united to mine by the ties of blood, as from the interest which I feel for the welfare of the people of the Two Sicilies, and because it imports much to the independence of States, that the sacred rights of nations and their Princes should be regu-- larly respected. I have thought it indispensable to the honour of my throne, to the dignity of the great nation which I glory in governing, to make it known, through the proper channels, that I will recognize nothing which may be contrary to that 1-ositive public law, upon which are founded the liberty, inde pendence, and prosperity - of nations; apr inciple which, on her part,Spain will inviolably: espect towards others. I have the satisfaction to announce to the Cottes that the Allied Sovereigns, according to all tile communica tions which I have received up to the present mo ment, have, and are agreed, to repect this principle, in as far as regards Spain." Such being the different objects which the Kis° hopes the Cortes will take into their consideration, his MAJESTY proceeds, after some complimentary expressions, to allude to the insults offered to his Royal Person, and the attempts made to seduce the credulous into a belief that he entertains at heart views opposed to the existing system. " I have taken the oath," he says, " to the Consti. tution, and I have always endeavoured to observe it, in as far as depends on me. Gon grant that every one would do the same. The outrages and instils of every kind committed against my dignity, in con; tempt of the respect which is due to my person, as Constitutional King, have been public. I have no fears fur my life or my safety. Gov, who reads my heart, will watch over both ; and they will also be the care of the greater and sounder part of thz nation. " I must not this day, however, conceal from the Cortes, as principally charged with preserving the inviolability which it wishes to be observed towards a Constitutional King, that these insults would not have been repeated if the Executive Power had dis played all the energy which the Constitution pre scribes, and which the Cortes desire. The want of firmness, and the inactivity of many Authorities, have caused the renewal of such excesses; and if they con tinue, it will not be astonishing should the Spanish na tion be involved in evils and misfortunes innumerable." Ills MAJESTY concludes by an wisest exhortation to the Cot tes to co-operate with him in consolidating that system of things which they had proposed to' themselves, and to which he protests, in the face of the nation, his resolution to adhere. The PRESIDENT replied according to custom, in vague and general terms. After the departure of the Ksno, Coent Tonneno proposed that a ,Committee should be named to draw up an Answer to the Speech of the KING. It was necessary, he said, to satisfy Europe and the Nation on the points which his MAJESTY had treated of; it was necessary that all the world should know what the National Congress thinks of the events of Na ples and the Congress of La y 6a ch. A Committee of five Members was accordingly appointed. On the same evening, the whole of the Ministers, with the exception of the Minister of Marine, sent is their resignations; and the Principal Clerks, who were charged par interim with the different porte feuillcs, also sent in their's next morning. The latest accounts of which we are in possession represent the conflict between the Austrians and Neapolitans as on the immediate point of com mencing. An article from Rome, of the 25th of February, in the French Papers, mentions that it was supposed in that capital that the advanced posts of General PEPE, behind the Tronto, must by that time' have got sight of the Hungarian Hussars. The Aus trian force which has defiled under the walls of Rome is estimated at more than fifty thousand strong, fol-j lowed by a considerable artillery. _ _ . The •ther Army, which matches along the Adria tic sea, is said to be the same strength. The two Armies are to form a junction at the heights of Foligno. An article of Milan says—" A Proclamation to' the Army by the Prince Regent has come to hand ;, it is quite simple 1,, its style, but patriotic and noble: I know (says the Prince),•that the Throne which I have ascened is a Throne of iron.' Sicily is calm. The British squadron keeps its station off the island ; it is decidedly only one of observation." From a Neapolitan Journal, of the 20th ult. we have the pleasure to learn, that a ship cf the line, a frigate., and other vessels, were announced to the Spanish Am bassador as being shortly to arrive in the Bay of Na pies; and by the courier who brought this dispatch came the further inte3ience, that 5,000 Catalans had (aired themselves to bear arms against the invaders. In the meantime bold and enterprising foreigners have found, in this great contest, an oppintunity for tempting the road to honour or to furtune. Many of the Spani-11 and French military, out of employ ' ment, liave asked and re i ceived commissions in the service of Naples; and even some Officers of English merchantmen have obtained letters of marque from the Constitutional Government, to. cruise against Austria in the Adriatic. By accounts received at Liverpool from the Brazils, we learn that the Revo:ozion which has been so hap pily effected in the Goveromeitt of Portugal, is rapidly extending itself to the whole of its Colonial possessions. We had the other day the pleasure of announcing the accession of Madeira ; and we have now to add that of Grand Para, the.most northern Captainship of the Brazils. The event is thus detailed in a private letter from Para, dateJ January 4 : " On the Ist of this month a Revolution was effected here, without bloodshed. The Colonels of the Ist and 2d Regiments of root had been sent for, the night preceding, by the Governor. They repaired to the Palace, accompanied by 50 or 60 of their Officers, and were interrogated as to certain rumours which had prevailed respecting their intentions; they declined to give a satisfactory answer, and the next morning, at nine o'clock, the InfAntry declared for the Constitution, arid were shortly after joined by the Cavalry and Artillery. A/en-de : joie was fired, and a Provisional Government was formed. All this was done in the name of the King. For three nights the town has been illuminated, and everything is perfectly quiet." The following Proclamation was issued hiIIARIZANTS or PARA !—This day we break the fetters in which despotism, viclence, and ignorance, have bound us; the moment of our felicity is at hand, and it is time that all should contribute to it. Until now, the will of our superiors was our law ; from this day forward the law will rule both high and low ; thus it is that we shall be enabled to prosper. The Con stitution alone can make us happy. ' " Inh.tbitants of Para !—Our brethren in Portugal have shewn us the example ; and we, in following it, shew that we are of the same family. Let us still continue to shew it : may the great work of our political regeneration continue ever under the auspices of peace ! Let us respect the Authorities; let us forget all personalities; let us confide in the Constitutional Govern ment ; and let us shelter ourselves always under the shield of public opinion ; it i is the obligation of every one to work at the vast edifice of our regeneration. No complaints, no hatred ;- be all quiet, all peace. Live the Constitution! Live the Cortes ! Live the King, Don John VT.! Live the Provisional Consti tutional Government ! Live our Religion! Live thy People and Troops of Para! liva! Vita! " A similar attempt had been made as early as the month of November, in th' Province of Pernambuco; but, after some loss of blood, the existing Govern ment succeeded in maintaining its ground, though not without giving an assurance to the people, that the KING had determined to sanction the Constitution adopted by the Mother Country. Of these proceed ings at PernambOco we had received some indistinct intimations through the Anerican Papers; but in the subjoined extract-of a private latter from that place will be found the first detailed account of them.--' As Para is e 2 degrees North of Rio Janeiro, and 16 West of Olinda, no sudden step can be taken against it, even if the KING thought it wise to do so. The peeple will thus have everywhere time to declare themselves, and we have no doubt that this event is tt.e forerunner of a declaration in favour of the Con stitution in every other Settlement of Brazil. Extract of a letter from Pernambuco, dated De cember 12: " About the middle of last month, the Command ing Officer stationed in the neighbourhood of Bo nito, a small village, wrote to the Captain-General of Pernambuco, to send a battalion of regular troops, to assist in quelling an insurrection of matulas (pea sants), who had taken a fortified and strong place, on the side of a large mountain of rocks ) aqd had ammunition to defend themselves with. vs. e i. pal part of these men wer e labourers, join Pr ac; ed by a great number of deserters from the Army, , n , amongst them was a Priest, who deceived the p eo , pie with an image of a S a i nt . R e held nigbei meetings, informing them the t i me had arrived f.O, them to be free, and persuad e d t h em to give ham. in case they shoul d be Attacked by the King' s troop, Men, women, and children n o t ten years old, pre , pared to die and not to surre n d er . I n consequenct of this information, the Captain-G eneral of Pam bucto ordered two battalions of C a ll a d ores, °be bat. talion of Militia, stud several co mpan i es of Artillery, to march under the command of Mat slial &d u i ? " They attacked the abovernentioned place, a w l severe engagement took place, in wW I t h e troop from Pernambuco lost about sixty mot in bile' ar l wounded. The rnatulas were &fon (•,1, nith the! of eighty killed. On the 2Gth Nov em b er, , ttmsri; racy was discovered against the life ut the Captain. General ; and on the very night it was to be carr i ed into execution, eight of the rineipal per soa s elisw Here arrested, and confined in units. Their ham. Lions were to seize the richest nietchants; 21 „1 pm then: under heavy contribution, and to s en d b e , ties to Lisbon, ap F t oving of the Revolution tilt% Amongst them were two Cowniandets, Majne•F, and Colonel Caramite, of the faithful hatt.tltuey‘ t Algavoi, who fought in most of the !battles in S pa i ; is now under alms at the General's hott,e, w i t h aural pieces of artillery. Major Sa is at present caur ie j , 1 1 and in irons, on board a Portuguese brig. ___ " Postscript.—Dcc. 13.—We have just heard roll Rio Janeiro that King John has agreed in the vies: of his subjects in I'ortugal, and intends to sac. 'Lion a Constitution for his dominions similar to din of the Spaniards. This news has diffused much jnj and mutual congratulations in this place:' The proceedings in the House of Commons, Luc night, presented 1 curious display of Parliamentaly tactics. A minority of the Members, di.appointed io receiving from Alinistets that satisfactory informa. tion which they conceive the public interott dernanris, with respect to our Military Expendittne, had re. course to a mode of proceedi ng al plicable rimy toe t . treme cases, and which ertreme necessity alcvleeau justify. The House being in Cc mmittee, cividedon motions for reporting progress no less than fifteen times; and a , . last, by wtty of variety, nn ;immix by Mr. LAMBTON, at five o'clock in the morniog, that fresh candles sh9dld not be brought io!—The Ministerial side . at I,i.ave way, the Chair man reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrqw, when the same sort of vurfa l e may, and will pi-oh-4131y be repeated, uuless Ministers will consent to the investigaticii demanded. THE All:bli. his not, perhaps, generally known, that the detailed Servicts, dates of Commissions, Sec. of AU the Officers of the Army, down 1 to the Majors inclusive, are recorded in the Revd ililgary d. kndar, a Third Edit on of which is just published ►y Sir J. Pxrut+• mar, in five vols. octavo, pric; s. to,. to Subscribers, for allot time ; after which the price will be rain .d. to thii Work walk found the principal Military Events of the last Ctntsry, and de Official Accounts of all V.crories, for which llonor.u - y it* dons have been conferred on Officers. The Work may be bd at Mr. F.GESTON'S, Whitehall. NAVAL lATELLIGE\CE FALMOUTH ; MARCH 10.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Nstlist ham, Hu.zatan, from London for Gibraltar; Dolph* IL. GIESSEN, from Copenhagen tor Naples, leaky; and Marthild Elizabeth, STUART, front Amsterdam far Curacoa. Poarsuotrrn, M ' ascir I2.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed jetty's ship CHANTICLEER for the Mediterranean; and &lama Dutch Soutbseaman, for the Texel. The Charles Grist la. man is gone out of harbour, and, with the Kent, willpsmills soon as the wind is lair. DEAL, MARCH 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Came down ha tie River, the William, exam& ; 'and Loyalty, Assents, heir maica ;• Louisa, ALISANDER, for Oporto; Archimedes, hook for Cadiz ; Lady Keith, Born, for the Canaries ; aid Ca amt., for Lisbon—they all remain. I I A MA'Reli 12. Arrived the Princess C from Heligoland ; sailed the 7th instant. She repasts t: Elbe was full of ice, and that she could not ream Calms. The Light Vessels stationed at the entrance of the dssal Fyder, with the two in lieligrland lkiads, and that sf tie Weser, left for Norway on the sth inst. NORTH SHIELDS; Maatit 10.—The Jane, ing to sea, got upon the Herd Sand, but was got strained and leaky.—Yesterday. the Amity, Daum% PIP the In-sand, but was got off again, much strained, ad willibr maintop-backstays broken. Cuszom-Ilousz. MARCH 12.—Ships Entered Inwards: lbe James, front Limerick ; Rose, front Waterford; Richodoill2 Demerara; Willianina, front Port au-Prince; hick" 4 Stangate Creek ; Intrepid, from Bahia ; William, from lam' I.ittlehampton from Seville ; Grace, from St. Ididaill 4 Louis, from C aen; Eclair, from Smyrna; Lirk, from CIA; Glory, from lkmerara ; Candidate, from Rio .14neirol Mm e terranean, from blogadore ; Union, from Wells; %BOK from Waterford ; and Alpha, from Belfast.—Enterod wards : La Caroline; for Cacn ; F.arl Clancarty, for Riaidloli William, for Elsineur ; Tennent, for Belfast ; Aid, for 2118 101 Ann, for Sierra Leone ; Friends, for Quebec; and Ni 111 4,. for Buenos Ayros.-a•Cleared Outwards : The Emma, 0 111 "'" tut; Two Brothers, for Lisbon; Francois, for Baose Alf" and Graces, for .Harnburgh. Yesterday, the Duchess of GLoucarrsz and the Duchess of KENT visited the )uchess of tlatsoct• Their Royal Highnesses remained with. the Duch between two and three hours. Countess MoNsusel tcc. also visited the Duchess of CLARENCE. BRIDGE WARD.—The Election of Mr. °ARLO% as Alderman of this Ward, was yesterday formal declared by the Loan . MANOR, amidst the cheering. The Monument was illuminated ill* evening, in consequence of Mr. GARRATT'S welt' a circumstance which has not occurred for Wit? of forty years. of ik COVENT-GARDEN TIIEA Tftn.—The trage- I Y Life and Death of King Richard the Third, after , 1 1 ' text of SHAKSPEA RE, was produced last nig ht " much success. Mr.. NIACREADY sustained the 97 - ratter of Richard wi.ll g reat effect. The other ca:, ratters were well filled ; and the announcement.. the Play for repetition on Monday, Was rece ived,'' the applause. DIED. Oa Sunday last, the 11th histaat, at hb bow, square, Robert Dalrynicle, Esq. LONDON: l'rinted and published by Limit ROT% P 661.M . Deco, Temple-bar. I. g i ii 4 : P di 111. : •:1 a l e • "9 1 r. LI •—Ships Entered Inwards: The rons Waterford ; Richard, Ins Port au-Prince; Richard. fro a Bahia ; William, from WO; Grace, from St. Michads;lL rn Smyrna; tark, from W s ; date, from Rio Janeiro; lnion, from Wells ; Watethri, from Belfast.—Entered O Earl Clancarty, for Bo:m* 0 i for Belfast ; Aid, for Ebbw; rads, for Quebec; and Natio; utwards : The Emma, for a tt. ; Francois, for Buenos Al" ; Of GLOUCESTER and the he Sucltess of CLARIsa emained with. the Duchy' lurs. Countess Moms ss Of CLARENCE. llection of Mr. Cimutin 3, was yesterday formallf Ayon, amidst the loudest it was illuminated to tbe f Mr. GARRATT'S success, not occurred for up ` a . TRE.—The tragedy of Ile ichard the Third, after the produced last night *ilb :READY sustained the tbP eat effect. The other chi and the announceme nt , • Monday, was received ED. staut, at his house, 111 • • lished by Levet. Koff MO I-