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NEW SPANISH CONSTITUTION. /MOM THY CONSTFIVTIONNEL. PA RIS, SEPTEMBER 25. For some time past a pretended project of a Consti tution to be given to Spain has been circulated at Paris. A copy has fallen into our hands, and we give it with out vouching for its authenticity : CONSTITUTIONAL ACT' OF SPAIN. TITLE 1.-Olf RELIGION. Art. 1. The Catholic Religion, Apostolic and Roman, is, in Spain and all the Spanish possessions, the religion of the King and the nation. .1. Ecclesiastical affairs shall be regulated by a National Council. L TITLE 11.-OF Till PrtrnocATivot OF THE KWH. Art. 1. The Kiug shall enjoy the same rights, prerogatives, and titles, as before the Revolution of 1820; but he shall concede to the people their ancient liberties, ameliorated by the following conditions 2. The Crown of Spain, and of the other Spanish possessions, shall nevor be united to another Crown upon the same bead. 5. In the event of the King's minority, the Supreme Council of Castile and the Indies shall nominate the Regency. 4. The King shall have around his sacred person a Ministry, and a Council of Sate, charged with the different branches of the Co ♦trnment, and responsible for their councils and administration. LT —OIP 711 E su rite= COUNCIL OF CASTILE AND TUE INDIES. Att. 1. The Supreme Council of Castle and the Indies shall be the depositary and the guarantee of the present Constitution. It .sitall bz compas , ed, Ist, of the Infants of Spain who have attained their 18th year; 2d, of 20 Grandees of Spain, one half Archbishops ur Bishops, and the other moiety of the high Nobility ; 3d, of :Members selected from among the Councillors of State, and the Captains-General of the Lana and Naval Forces, the Ambassadors, the Lawyers, or Rectors of Universities, and Citizens who have de served well of their country. 2. Each Member of the Supreme Council, except the Infants, . must be forty years of age, and shall be nominated for life. In ease of death or resignation, the Council shall select a successor from three candidates, taken from the class to which the former member belonged, and presented to its choice by the King and the Cortes ultimately. 3. No change shall be made in the Constitution without the con. sent of the Supreme Council, formally expressed by a Senatus Consultum. 4. A Junta of seven Members, nominated by the Council, and chosen from its own body, shall form the High Court of Justice, the President of which shall bear the ancient title of Justiza. This Court shall have the supreme inspection of the Tribunals, shall no. ininate the Censors of printed works, shall judge offences of the Press, and offences against the safety of the State, and the sacred person of the King. It shall have the power of suspending all ar. Ltrary acts exercised against individuals • and in cases of disagree ment between two or several bodies of th e State, sanctioned by the Constitution, it shall pronounce its decision, as the Supreme Inter preter of the Constitutive Laws, upon those differences by a Sena tus Consultum. 5. In case of an armed rebellion, or of a conspiracy which shall threaten the safety of the Kiugdom, the Supreme Council, on the proposition of the King and the information given by the Ministers, may suspend the Constitution for a time in the disturbed districts. 6. The remuneration of each member of the 3d class shall be paid out of the national revenues. TITLE Ilr.-•-01 , TEE COITL'S. Art. 1. There shall be a Cortes, or an assembly of all classes of the Spanish nation, divided into three benches, viz. the bench of the Clergy, the bench of the Nobility, and the bench of the People. The first shall be composed of the Bishops and Prelates of the Church of Spain and the Indies ; the second of the Nobles; the third of the Deputies of the Universities, of those of the great commercial towns, of the agricultural cantons or districts, and of the General Deputies of the provinces and kingdoms composing the Spanish Monarchy. A project of law shall fix the amount of the annual receipts and expenditure of the kingdom. This law, like all other projects of law, shall be submitted to the deliberation and approbation of the nes by the Council of State. S. The Cortes shall lodge their complaints against the conduct of Ministers, their denunciations or accusations of offences against the safety of the State Or of the King, before the High Court ofJustice, for investigation. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1825. TILE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at tin, I, for the Account, with little doing. FOREIGN FUNDS. This being settling-day for all Foreign Securities, there is very little business doing, except in settling their accounts. Up to this hour we do not hear of any defaulters. Current Prices :.--New Spanish 271 to 28, Old Spanish 34*, Co lombian 55* to 56, French Scrip 24 nominal, but nothing done in any other Foreign Security. MAXIMUM, Sept. 23.—Exchange on London, 57. li. 37.4 i. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 83 IA V 4 4• per Cents. New 102 1 /2 % 5 / 8 Indus Bonds 6Ss. 645. Excl. Bills (01,000) 355. SBs. pr.— Small 365. 38s. pr. Consols for Acct. 83 1 A 3/8. This forenoon we received intelligence from Bayonne to the 23d instant, with accounts from Madrid to the 'jar. It would appear that some of the Constitu tionalists in the capital do not consider their cause as hopeless even if Cadia should fall and the KING be given up. The following is the substance of our Bayonne intelligence : BAYONNE, SEPTEMBER 23. The mail from Madrid brings letters of the 18th, which do not contain much news, but are chiefly filled with statements of the opinions entertained by the ad vel-se parties in the present state of affairs in Spain, and their probable result ; as they seem to be fairly stated we give an extract from them, though we cannot of course guarantee the authenticity of these facts, and some of them, namely, whit is said of Riego and Ballasteros, now appear to be erroneous.—" The opinion of the 'Royalists, of the friends of arbitrary power, and of the. .French, that the war will be speedily terminated, gains ground daily, so that on the slightest rumour of the ar rival of a Mail, or of an Express from Port St. Mary, crowds of people hasten to the Post-Ofiice, to inquire •whether Cadiz has not submitted ; whether iris not all over ?" In fact, we might be tempted to think their hopes well founded, if we did not hear what the other party say. The Royalists say., their adversaries being destitute of srpport, both at home and abroad, without .troops to keep the field; without the assistance of the people, who aTe entirely governed by the Priests and Moilks, are re duced to a few fort, esses, which, for want of relief will fall one after the other. 4 , When Cadiz is taken and the king•free, all will be finished," they say : and this they expect from day to day, and from hour to hour-Ist, from the great force by, sea and , laad, which the French have collected there ; mod, because there is a great difference of opinion in the Cortes; sd, because the hoops of the garrison are very discontented, and 'have' already . detrainded the head of Valdei and other revo- . lutionists ; and 4th, because the inhabitants of Cadiz will never suffer thlltt fine City to be bombarded from the foolish resistance of a few violent men. A report has been again spread here, that negotiations were on foot, under the mediation of England, but the agents of the Regency immediately contradicted this news with contempt. The Constitutionalists on their side say, that the war would not be terminated even if Cadiz had the weakness to submit, and to &liver up the King, which they will not believe, because they say Cadiz possesses too many means of making a good resistance,:and nobody will vote for submitting, not even the inhabitants, the majo rity of whom are devoted to the good cause, and form part of the national guard, which has always been the bulwark of the Constitution in that City. Besides, if Cadiz were taken, there are still Alicant, Carthagena, Badajoz, and Ciudad Rodrigo, which are in a good state of defence, especially the first three: in Andalu sia there are Riego and LI illasteros, who have resumed offensive operations, and several guerillas, which will increase at the approach of winter in Estremadura, there arc Lopez Banos and the Empecinado, who have just obtained a considerable advantage over Quesada : and if all this should fail, we have, say they, Catalonia, which will be the bulwark of Liberty, where the army of Mina becomes the rendezvous of all the fugitives and military of all ranks, who disapproving what they call the treason of Morillo and others, repair to Cata lonia, in spite of a thousand obstacles and dangers. Thus, on the 9th of this mouth, says the Saragossa Garette of the 15th, two hundred men of the army of Ballasteros arrived at Lerida, and the Constitutionalists even fancy that if King Ferdinand were restored to .liberty their ranks would be swelled by numerous fugi tives, who might have reason to fear the vindictive., spirit which would probably animate some of his impo litic advisers. The number of persons who are destitute of employment is very great, so that recruits will never be wanting : the French may, therefore, prepare fresh troops and more treasures, to continue the war, but the end of it is not so near : the Constitutionalists, beaten at one point, will recover strength in another, and all the success hitherto obtained has not brought us nearer to the main point, the pacification of the country. General Boarcke is on his way to Madrid with 2500 men. The Duke of Reggio is still here. Our garrison con- sists of only 2,500 French, and 1,200 men of the Army of the Faith. O'Donnell is still in the environs of Ciudad Rodrigo, but does not blockade it. It is said, that on the arrival of General Bourckei a corps will be sent on an expedition to Estremadura, and that 3,000 Portuguese are to blockade Badajoz. The correspondence with the Cabinet of Lisbon is very active, The garrisons of Alicant and Carthagena come into the plains as they please. The provinces of Murcia and Andalusia are not more governed by the Regency than the Constitutionalists: they are in a state of anarchy. SEPTEMBER 21.—We have just learned that. O'Dod nell, the Governor of St. Sebastian, has returned a nel gative answer to the summons of Marshal Lauriston to snrrender the place; he aspires, doubtless, to the honours of a siege. The French squadron cruising off the port had been obliged to retire by the bad weather. It is thought that Pampeluna might have made a longer defence: no blame is attributed to the Governor, San chez Salvador ; but his soldiers, it is said, were afraid of sustaining an assault. The troops of the Faith are not satisfied at the French having occupied the Citadel. We are still without the details of the capture of St. Petri by the French army before Cadiz, and the French Journalists occupy the interim with discussing the im portance of the conquest; which, however, they estimate very differently. The Journal des Debats asserts that the consequences of the reduction of the fort of Santi Petri are immense—that, as it is situated at the mouth of the river Santa Maria, the passage of which it de fended, the troops were prevented from penetrating en that point of the Island of Leon. Besides, it was under the protection of this fort that Cadiz was continually re-victualled by the small boats which slipped into the river Santa Maria. Now, the French grin-boats can penetrate into the river, defend the flying-bridges which may be thrown over it, and afford the troops all the means necessary for invading the Isle pf Leon. Thus reasons the Journal des Debuts. The Quoti dienne goes still farther, and declares that the position of St. Petri is of so much the more importance, as from hence the French army may proceed straight to Cadiz, without fearing the batteries of Puntales; and the Ori fluntme sees, in the capture of the fort, that the French are masters of the river, by which small vessels arrive at the Isle of Leon, and that the possession of the Isle of Leon makes them masters of the road, and enables the artillery to batter down Puntales, and consequently to get Cadiz. The Courier Francais, ridiculing the hop, skip, and jump way of taking one of the strongest fortified towns in Europe pointed out by the other Jour nals, states truly, that fort St, Petri is on an island, si toated to the eastward of the Isle of Leon, and at the mouth of an arm of the sea to which it gives its name. —4 , This capture," says the Editor, 4' only makes us masters of the entrance of the river, and puts us in a con dition of firing on the boats that enter, but it does'not' make us masters of the river altogether, which extends from Saint Petri beypnd the Caracca, where it unites with the bay of Puntales. To make us masters of the river, it is necessary to send a flotilla up from St. Petri, which would-force the Spanish flotilla to retire towards theCaracca; then, indeed, theymay begin to suppress the .enemy's fire, and endeavour to pass tire river. Everything 'Mintasrices that this will be the manner of proceeding. The Isle of Leon being taken, we shall not be instantly "=r= masters of thezoad, for we shall still have to take the works which defend the Cortadura. The following is the natural progress of the operations :—RenderaNem selves masters of the river of Saint Petri by means of a flotilla ; employ the fire of this flotilla, and of the bat teries built on the other shore, to silence the bat teries of the Isle; force the passage of the river; chase away the corps which occupy the Isle of Leon ; advance on the road as far as the Cortadura, make themselves masters of this fortress, turn Puntales, and endeavour to reduce it; finally, begin the works of the siege be fore the front of the fortifications of Cadiz which look towards the road. Such, in few words, is what re mains to be done, and such is probably the route which will be followed, at least, if some extraordinary circum stances do not authorize a deviation from it. The dis embarkation of which the Journals have spoken as likely to be effected between Puntales and Cadiz, or between Puntales and the Cortadura, may be attended with more speedy results, but it would also be much mere dangerous." Private accounts from Madrid, of the I.sth inst. state, that the bombardment of Cadiz had been delayed from motives of delicacy to the QUEEN, who was in a very de bilitated state of health, which, it was feared, would ter minate fatally; and besides, ft was expected that, by some delay, the Cortes and their Ministers would sce the necessity of yielding to the terms offered by the Duke D'ANGUULEME. Much disunion . was stated to exist in Cadiz. It was very confidently reported in Madrid. that QUESADA'S troops had been severely beaten by LOPEZ BANOE, on the other side of Talavera. It is said 1400 or 1500 were killed, and put hors de combat. It was the advanced division,who, being young uninstructed troops, were easily mastered by the superior numbers of the Constitutional infantry and cavalry. A French column arrived just in time to save them from entire destruc tion, and obliged the others to retire. QUESADA himself was three leagues off, with his rear division. It was likewise reported that some of Mo RILLO'S troops had revolted—three regiments in Santiago—and replaced the Lapida ; this was believed to be a fabrication. This forenoon we received Hamburgh Papers to the 24th inst. The accounts they contain from the island of Candia are again favourable to the Greeks, who have, it is said, 34,000 men in arms there, without reckoning Sphac- kiotes, who form Guerillas. The principal fortresses of that island are again strictly blockaded by the Greeks. The complaint of the general stagnation of the trade with the Levant continues to increase. Some of the rich Greek houses in Italy, hate contributed large sums towards the expense of fitting out the fleet, and to stop the murmurs of the sailors, who were dissatisfied by their pay being so much in arrear ; so that it may be ex. pected that the fleet will act with more vigour than ever Accounts from Berlin state, that arrangements were making for assembling the 'States of Brandeaberg and Lower Lusatia, as well as those of Silesia and the West ern Provinces, though the time is not yet fixed. ;Gibraltar Chronicles to the Oth instant hart been re. cased. The following are extracts: GIBRALTAR, SEPTEMBER s. . . _ An explosion of a number of cannon cartridges took place yesterday, at about half-past one P.m. in the Green Island. It is stated that several . persons have been hurt by it, and some damage done to the buildings and walls. It is reported that French troops are to embark on board their ships, to make a landing on the island of Cadiz. SEPTEMBER s.—The Tribune is just arrived hole , from Malaga. General Count de Loverdo, commanding a French divisiOn, entered and took possession of Malaga yester day morning, without the smallest resistance, He was received is the most joyful manner by the inhabitants. General Riego fled the preceding night, about• half-past eleven o'clock, at which time his flotilla sailed from the harbour with some soldiers of diWerent corps. Late on Wednesday evening, the Sd of September, some cavalry and infantry retired by the road to Velez Malaga; and yesterday morning the French cavalry pursued the rear-guard, and took the whole of the re giment de Rey prisoners. It is known that Riego had embarked a large sum of money and a quantity of church plate melted down, General Ordonez, with part of the garrison of Tarifa, is stated by pecyle arrived from Algesiras, to be in the neighbourhood of the latter town, and about to enter it. SEPTEMBER B.—A Veßezuelian privateer is cruising at the entrance of the Straits. The American schooner Agenoria, Crow, from Porto Rico, was forbid going into Cadi; by the blockading squadron. We have received another file of American Papers, and make the following extracts FROM THE NANTUCKET ENQUIRER, AUGUST 20. FROM SOUTH AMERICA. A change, bordering on a revolution, has lately taken place in the Peruvian Government, as the late Govern ment had been entirely superseded by the, new one. Long has the blood of the Patriots of this most inte resting portion of the South been wantonly shed—rsince the commencement of San Martin's administration, down to the present time—through the per6dious cabals and intrigues of a set of Buenos Ayreans, who have held the reins of government. These unhappy people font'. nately have now applied a remedy to the evils which they before experienced, in the sacrifice-of their armies, in detail; in the-insulting expulsion of their allies, the Colombians, from their aid ; and, in beholding the keys of. the gates of Lima, the last dependence of the Peru, vians, with her exhausted Treasury, and her inhabitants in the utmost consternation at the approach of a 'nerds) Less enemy, in the hands of infamous traitors and !as- Bally priests; WALKING Tile STREETS OF LONDON. TO ThIE EDITOR OP THE STAR.. SIR-The difficulty of walking the streets of this os ; City of London, with any degree of comfort, has is, creased, is increasing, and will increase, so long as th l obstinate errors of its inhabitants are persisted in. T 4 know the seat of the disorder, all medical men admit 1 4 be the first step towards its cure. The first evil I complain of is, that the shorter people are the more pertinaciously and stupidly do they endeavour to lilt their umisreily 4 above their taller fellow creatures in rainy weather. know of no radical care for this, but the having rt,sort of turnpike-gates on the foot pavement, through v,hi4 only the five feet people should pass, say from nine t 3 ten o'clock ; and regimental taller ones from ten to eleven, and so on in alternate hours through the dap, or as lori as the shower lasts. The nett glaring evil we compl,, N of is, the rude impudent style in which at least ar ea dandies abreast, locked arm in arm, force their way through the town, shoving some into the slope, ;nc i others into the kennels, to say nothing of the exhilarao ing music of their iron heels, The remedy proposed is their being ordered by the constables and street-keeper ; to march in single file, and to have cos k soles to the ill, finite variety of boots and shoes they wear, The next on the list is the consummate art recnire4 to pass an old woman, who, as often as you make the attempt, yaws to that side of the pavement yen thought might warrant the experiment. The art of- man c:tti point out no cure for this: a week at the treading-mill might be tried as an alterative. Caricature shops, which subject you to the loss of handkerchief, watch, or both, if you stop, or the muddy plunge into the kennel gym; go on. Charming, delicious alternatives! for which I seq no remedy but that of their admitting all sorts and sins of spectators into their shops, to study, look at, and pure chase their amusing publications. The agreeable pi, quant wipes you occasionally rece ive from the swing., swaog lashes of the draymen and carmen's whips across your face: the wearing of masks is powerfully recom, mended. The spring of an innocent lambkin seeking with mud, from Smithfield, against your immaculate white benjamin, or We terrific shove you may receive from the flanks of the true Leicester,hire breed, grate, ful it was not from their branching horns. To avoid these tender salutations, I would advise the issuing your cards " At home on market-days." Your agreeable ruminations while waiting to cross the way in Cheapside, when the pavement is up, and only one string of carriages can move at a time; so . that if you have not the agility of a Oronaldi, to effect it st the moment that another string starts the opposite way, and jostled at the same time by a hundred stronger competitors than yourself, by which you may lose youp dinner, or, what is worse, be too late at the banker's to receive the amount of your draft. No remedy but that, on the days you have business in the City, engaging dr; day before a bed; taking special care the hotel is on the same side of the way your business lies. A poste of country Gentlemen and Ladies going to the Bank to receive their dividends, in full clack, and obstinately insisting on taking the wrong side of every one they meet. I leave the removal of this grievance in the hands of the pickpockets, and the industrious mut enlightened swindlers. Boys with muddy hoops, enlivened by their favourite yell, song, or laugh:—making them laugh on the wrong side of the mouth might be found efficacious, Nursery-maids with their male and female cronies, and • the neglected children, each with some toy tied to; string,. or some other tormenting mis,ile. To punish these flirting beauties, I would mention their conduct in the characters given them ; and hope the mothers of those interesting prattlers may have their elegant morn! ing dresses torn and bespattered, merely to see how they would like what any olive•hranchest:pt their own would : be flogged for. Chimney-sweepers not to be seen in the street alter nine o'clock, except the philanthropic agree to furnish them with clean linen and a smart suit salute sweeping hours. Punch and Judy only alloived to amuse the old, the young, and middle-aged, in the broad * questered street, or still more ppen squares. PERIIATETIPU4 NartniED.--Sunday, at the Grange, HUMPHREY Ef t Joint Mammy, son of the late Sir HAMM Sr. JOHN Mtrarrars Miss BAZINCI, eldest daughter of ALKIANDZZ &arra, Esq. Id. P, Yesterday, the Sheriffs for the ensiling year enterej upon their office. The LORD Mayon deviated from the custom of drinking to Gentlemen as Sheriffs, who, it was known, would bug rather than serve. His Lordship first ascertained what Geatlemea were willing to serve, and then proposed the real and efficient can: didates for the choice of the Livery. The Government of the Netherlands is about to 43: move from Brussels to the Hague, which is, with ;he ramie! 091 alternately itp seat. The collections at the Gloucester Music Meeting amounted to £759. 145. 3d. being £71.185. 7d. nißre ihaP was lected in 1229, • ST. JA4 4l 44's PA NN.—The cleaning of the eastern end of the Canal, in St. James's Park, is prosecuted with increased at:* why, Fifty years have elapsed since a similar operation was per: formed. The accumulation of the mud on that via, in that long ir: tenet, was so great, the force of the current had become almost eat tirely broken. While the workmen are employed on the bed of the .Canal the water is drawn off by a steam:eagirsc, erected on the northern bank, and thence conveyed by a cut through the Park into the new sewer constructed betorfen the Canal and the Ham Guards. The draining is now nearly completed. It is inteaded tg run a dwarf wall along each bank of the Canal, to prevttu!KTl from bathing in it in future, The Will of the sight Hon. ANNA MANIA, COUAtc>4 of Dinmonatn, wife or the Right Hon. Aantmaxo, Earl of Dcs notiaLts, was proved in the Prerogative Court, in Doctors' OM: mons, on the 23d of September, by Joint Wittpirr and Tn0:441 noaars, Esqrs. two of the etecutpra, power being reserved for OE same purpose to the Rev. Clear= SIMONS, b. the other ere: cutor, the Earl consenting to the administratiop. The pepol, estate was sworn under three thOusand pounds. The Will is slat., the 9th February, 1812, and bequeaths all her Ladyship's prolietif to her mother, Mrs. Mauritz. Puiwnor. - ' • New Msrons.—Roar-Admiral Glynn, Laqnceston ; eal4ath Lockyer, It. N. Plymouth: George Chitty, jun. E.sq. Shaftesberri Edward Hoskins, Esq. Newbury, pn which occaidon nearly OM hundred Gentlemen pal-took pf his hesPitahly ; Orchard, Poole; Alderman W. C. Newland, Chichester; Dr. Jolliffe, M,l, Newport (Isle of Wight); Samnel Sharpe, Esq. Romte7. It is a singular fact, that - during the summer the theft mometer l in the open ale. has only once then to summer-heat, of 76 degrees, which was op the Ist of June. The maximum tern; perature of the air is the shade last summer was 27 degrees, and 1 . 1 the summer of 1818, it was 91 degms. Thursday evening the Triton steam -packet, fro'i Havre, was seized by the Customs, for one mon having two bladder) of brandy on board ; the man is taken to Southampton jail. After the Ist of November, a considerable teductinti will take place In the expense of marriage license+, in cpmequaa. o / of the ditty rasing on thht day. The duty is 2a,. There is now residing at Topsham WndFliougg , woman called Ellis Bing aged 107 years, in full possession of all bet faculties, reads withopt sectaries, and can eat the hardest mac. The klerk of a retired Parish in a neighbor!rirl County, during the late heavy rains, inquired of his Recto! , avi: dently piquing himself upon • his own intelligence. Wham"' S e : Swithip's 'Day was nut the ows,iverarq o f MINING TELocipacq.-.—coet.er ores sold gt TrlPit on Thursday, 1783 tans. Average produce Bi,. Quantity o f ll4 F copper, 157 tons, 4oh Apto4pc of ask ? 4•11:,;,5y, 3s. Id. Male atandard, zit*. ph, • • • -r E