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nier—• , ^ wry _ „,,yr• flatOnalt tatOt if, _ - . l . Our Sing, it on6titution, antir %AO. • r ' - • :• . • No. 1,415 —VoL. XVI. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1823. PRICE 9Ja. LISBON PAPERS. a half. The Duke de Belluno, Mini-...yr of War, . being indisposed, was not presant. It is asserted that 4,000 trove of the guarder e to the march forthwith, arform the nucleus of an army of his „ eerie. . • 'er - A trovoller who laik Lisboa elms tiers ar, who tte" has seen ail the'Porttaa r igk asserts , that th is" away is one of the - equivalent**. cut best disposed to suppose sisweittissal honour, that t "e has been seen for a long *se: • the It appears that this year Generals are not the i" only persons who perform eels of prowess. The wife ne- of an officer of high rank is mentioned who lisrl the at courige to maintain herself alone in a house which the her husband had abandoned, and who, by an ener- -1 1 7, getic defence, had succeeded in defending lie place. one The siege was raised on Monday. We learn from Vienna, that the Austrian troops, nal which have left the kingdom of Naples, and were on es- their march for Austria, have received orders to and. ColitTE3.---itorst. SITTING, MARCH 31. Itljesey hewing been introdnord with the •• *la elliestkinica, and having taken his seat upon his •Slimma, amid the mitinssisstic .salutations of the per sons vibe filled th t" e h i b eZ: profound silence intc omileit, tint • 11111 follows r— • lo t " GiNirs.zermi labours of the present legiqlature being to cease to-day, according to the • Constitution, I come to rejoice with you at the • wisdom and patriotism which you have ohewn the legislative measures which you have judged ne cessary for the execution and progress of the Consti tution, or far the PCcurity of civil liberty, and the re-establishment of order and public tranquillity which the spirit of faction dared to disturb in one of the extremities of the kingdom. • " This circumstance, so alheting to my paternal heart, affixed, at the same time, an irrefragable tes timonyof sire pw i ty o f the 6„,,;;:::t1 9 ,iil snirit : and of the patriotism of the greater part of the nation, as well as of the spirit and firmness with which the representatives answered to the confidence of their constituents. • Yes, Gentlemen, I owe it to the nation, to its worthy representatives, and to the whole world, the just and consolatory declaration that the great ma jority of the kingdom is faithful to the oath which it took to the Constitution, and every Portuguese, who is worthy of the name, that in the same man tier, as his King would rather lore his life than dis regard the sanctity of his oath, and the dignity of Ins character, so any one of his subjects who should fail to follow his example, would be the object of his certain indignation. " I &Asa far that the criminal attempts of in . - I and to impress up In the French Government, at • moment, wiles, for their sake end at theit desire, we are suggeetinglo Spain, in a tone of friendly counsel. nheralions similar to those whieb Frauc• is propoifitig as the alternative of Losti• • lake. (1NC...06MM IN No. th) Keimanadm by the Doke of We /into F.itumef Iloisersatr—Vllstroer, London, January 6, HIS& It is important to make the Spaniards feel, that • King being necessary fee the government of their country, and • Immo( their system, as established by themselves—it rolloos, as • matter of equal necessity, that the powers and prerogatives assigned to the King in the system, should he such as to ensile him to perform his duties, sad each as, is reason, • King-ought to be satitled with. If the situation of the King is not whet it eight to be—if,he has not the power to protect hilmelf, end those employed under is the performatice of their ditty is the service of i dhe ; and if the Kiug has not reason to be satisfied that the power allotted to him by law is suet:lent ; the etientry will never be in a state of tranquillity, be the syskein of govern sent whet it may. There will be perpetual, successive, Royalist Insorreations io one part of the country or the other; and the King and his cOvcroment will be the objects of never ceasing jealousy and distrust.. "Thos, then, those Spa/tie:do who really desire the pew sad welfare of their country, must look to en alteration of their Constitution, which shall bare for its object, to give the King the power of executing his °See. I confess that Ido oat see any objection to this alteration. The Spaniards Mil see that all the sources of the prosperity • of their isometry are nearly destroyed; and that the eery foun dations of social order and goeernment are in a state of risk. There is no trade, no private or public, revenue, the national Property cannot be sold : the interest of the 'anima/ debt cap , not be paid ; nor can the army, or any of the public servants or establislinseuts ; sod an money can be borrowed. happened to know that the principal inward people in En rope will not lend their. money to Swain, itll they shall see a • system prevail in that oesetry, which shall. afford some hops of the re-establislimest and permeative, of pesos and good order. If all this be true, if It be trete, besidei, that the boot chance I that Spain his M 0011114111 to some arrangement with her mo nies, is m todrood is some settlement of her interest dissen tious and dimmatioes, it is impossible that say reseunably Spaniard mss doubt that the time is come to effect those alters nous, which the Solomon sense of mankind pinta out to bo necessary. Mr. Secretary Canning to Sir Charles Stoart.--(Ketrael.) Foreign 011ioe, January 24, ma.. A precipitate removal of the Royal Family from Medriet would be instant awl infallible consequence of the meek of a- French army serum the frontier. If the amendments in the • Spanish Conalitutios are 'lmbue!, rieconsery, and it is hope less to bring about those amendments otherwise than by arias, bits the French Government chalked out to itself lb. course by which a successful invasion is to be made to lead to the de a•red result' The occupancy of Madrid, as repeated experience • shows, is not the dominion of Spain. Th. King anti the Cortes will he established elsewhere, and what is them to follow but a continuance of civil and foreign war, spreading wittier, and devastation over the whole kingdom. These conalJerations your. Excelloacy will suggest to Mon sieur de Cfiateaubriluid, in a tone of perfect amity and good will, Flamm and any other ohjeote of the same sort. and with the same temle.n.y, , we are now, after the clear and practical prrols which we have given of our indisposition to claim any thing sie • of right, or to cohere any thing by unlace, fur the amend ment of the Spanish Constitution, werranied w rreonmeoll, with all ate r.suesturss which is prompted by our tried (Mind. ship for the Spanish nation—by our experience of the 'tractive of free gosernnient ; and ny our conviction of tile oulleriuga awl the • perils which roust be derived to Spam and to Europa from a war. So long as onr voice might have been confounded with !boom of other Powegs, who took a different measure of their right of interference—or wills that of France, whose esdiartetititi was accompanied with denunciations of hostility, we abstained from ',leasing. rather than incur the imputation of attemptinti to controul. But, now that the possibility of such sentations is at an end, we cannot see the obvious dangers to whic the present course of Sdimisli altairsis leading a breve and :silent people, and be uncut ; without abundoning the duty which is prescribed, no less by the obligations who& interim tional law imposts upon friendly States, than by the peculiar ties which cuunect Greet Britaiu with Spain. Mr. Secretary Canning to Sir Charles Stuart. (Extreet.) Foreign OMlnc, Feb r 3, IWO. We can consclentionely reetiminend to Spain to In dify her Constitution of 1812. The Law of Nations warrant the sug gestion from one friendly Power to seethe!, of counsels for 114 sinelioistion of internal ipvtitutions, provided that suggestion be made in good faith, and not in a spirit of dictator.° : provided it be not attempted to he wapported by the British Competent noold not advise • in.( changes however beneficial, to admit (according to this latter construction) the of France would be understood to pretoribe • principle which strikes at the root of the The French army will not ems; until the corps of Marshal Moncey and of Gen. Molitor have entered, the one into Catalonia, the other into Amigon. Marshal Moncey will not commence moving until the 23d. A report of the capture of Pampelusin was this day circulated ; Government has received no official notification of this circumstance The 4illowirig is _ . The— the probable origin of this _ garrison being informed that a division of the French army was marching on 'Nirvanas, retired into the citadel amid the hissesof the whole popuLtce, mid universal shears of "Vire Ferdinand!" The Duke of Belluno has remained the Portfolio of War. It is asserted that be immediately recalled M. Paretood, who had :aligned as the appointesent rottilsegaicewsst "'Tem. it a protaMe that M. Co etaloquet will resume his plate. his not said whe ther Messieurs Tabaree, Denie, and Decaux will retain the functions to which they were assigned by the royal ordinance. An evening ministerial paper cites a letter from Tolosa, according to which the French army has been ret.eived in that lowa in the midst of general enthusiasm and the most brilliant illumination. It is said in this letter that St. Sebastian may hold out fur sumo time, as 8,000 of the worst subjects in Spain are shut up there. Nevertheless, adds the writer, the heights which crown St. Sebastian cost 5,000 men in the last war, and here we only lust 20 killed and wounded! --- s enere - 1 willtbiitation. I rektia - er, that the shortness of the time, and the accumulation of business, have hindered you from passing tiutse organic laws relative to the Court of Justice, the Finances, be. ou which the progress and the conso lidation of the constitutional system depend. r 4 " I, therefore. under these circumstances, consider it necessary that the national representation should be speedily united round the throne, in the form de termined by the Constitution, since the public secu rity and the perfection of the system require it. " I have now, Gentlemen, only to promise you, as well as the nation which you so worthily repro. sent, a co-operation in the cause of national liberty,' as faithful and efficacious as my sentiments are pure, of which I can offer you nu better pledge than my conduct and my character.." The enthusiasm of the spectators burst forth in the loudest transports at the conclusion of this speech, with cries of " Lang live the Constitutional King—The Cortes--The Constitution—The Roman Catholic Religion—The Suverciguty of the Nation —The Portuguese Army—and, The Portuguese who prefer death to slavery!" Silence being restored, the President returned a suitable answer, which especially complimented hix Majesty on the firmness and character which he had displayed under the difficult circumstances in which the kingdom had been for some time placed. He alluded to the revolt of the Prince Royal, and spoke of the state of Brasil, the conduct of France. in at. tempting to overthrow the constitutions of free na tions, as if it desired to destroy social order in the whole Peninsula, to have the barbarous pleasure of Mating over slaves and ruins; and he also spoke of the attempts of a perjured faction in thy kingdom itself. He expressed, h.mwever, Isis confidence that the cause of the Constitution would finally triumph over all its enemies both at home and abroad. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. The Papers laid before both Houses of Parliament respecting the late negotiations, occupy 63 folio pages; the following are extracts. 2.—Mr. Secretary Cao ing to the Doke of Wellington. (Extract.) Euseign (Mice, Sept. 27, 11522. If there be a determined pri,ject to iuterfere by fur, e or by menace in the present struggle in Spain, so euerinecd are his Majesty's Government of the uselessness sod danger of any au :at interkrence—so objectionablo does it appear to them in principle, as well as utterly i upraoticable in execution, 411 At when the necessity arises, or (I would rather say) when the orortunity oflers, I am to iostroct your Grace at once frankly sod peremptorily to declare, that any each interference, coma what way, his Maycaty will not be a party. No. 4.—MEMORANDUM. Entrant from Ammer of the Duke of Wellington to the Ques tions of the French Plenipotentiary. :lerone, Oct. SO, 1822. Brea revolutionary madness could not calculate upon the success of a serious attack by Spain upon France, under any circumstances which it in possible to suppose to elitist at pre neat in the latter kingdom. But the attention of the Spanish firovernment is now occupied by a Civil War, the operations of which certainly justify the formation of a Corps of Ob lion in Fran** ; nud it is not very probable that they would, at this moment, desire to break with France. Neither is it to be believed that, in their present situation, they would not desire still to enjoy the advantage of that noun tenant,* to their system, which the presence of the French Am bnuedor at the spat of Government must abed theta. PARIS PAPERS. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. BAPONNE, APRIL I.s.—Pumpeluna is closely invested. The head-quarters were 011 the 14th at Villa Franca; they will be on the 17.11 at Vittoria. Tito two corps of the army will be the same day on the Ebro." PARIS, APRIL 17.—The King presided yesterday At a c.mucil of Ministers, which Listed an hour and No, 14.—Mr. Secretory Canning to Sir C. Stuart. (Extract.) Foreign (Ace, Jao. 28, 1823. We disclaim for ourselves, and deny for other Powers, the right of requiring any change' in the internal insanities. of Independent States, with the menace of hostile attack in ease of refund. The moderation alma demands in no degree jus tifies in our eyes such a mode of ent.reine, them ; sod this distiattion it is the .or important to keep ateadey a view, The Lord Chancellor yesterday of his Majesty. .1 • • I its drit of dietsti7.;; sod ported by fame lint oily people. iti the prineipiooo, obi* he Speech or Ups allgc lbe them. It is iod1016:44) ie &dish Coned ; etc; Y An t 4%; • t' 61ript, S • O ~ Ai t ' . )o.rasis•". • •