The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

tHE STATES: rm.— - . SPAIN. • -.• I etnintr Y• Thu is so athasibly felt. by the adherents lof despotism, that ere hive already been able to Ilie Gseetteextraordinary of Madrid of the 9tn in c° ll-1 show, by their own writings, • bow active they has a Decree, by which the King, have been in Pilaw. 'to prevent the contagion • et his determination to swear to the ob -11"111.11d th e Constitution of 1813, and until it example,_ hitd .. to calumniate what they straw b, ee imaly renewed, in a legal foim, before - the , l e g i o r : 1 0 . cis t und o. Their auc'aeit increases with their s ew bi l d Co r tes, names a provisional Junta, consisting 1 a . ar pews , p os sessing the confidence of the people, to 1 Li m . of the C ort e s a s i n e fficient; they now at- i n. They began lay representing th e C,onstitu y r ,,,; s i his oath. This Junta is composed of the Prince "soil de Bourbon, President ; o f the Lieutenant-lien. tack the Revolution itself, not for what it has 11 ,,, Fascia liallasteros, Vice-President :of the Bishop done, but for what it will do. In their prophetic 443 .1„fid ; of Don Math. Valdemoras ; of B. !Manuel wisdom, they pronounce, that the more temperate v 34 y ageipo ; D. Man. de Lardisabel ; D. Vincent its course has been, the more violent it will become. tr ksColooel of the Army of Fortification ; Count de pretending to do justice to " the heroism, the Msedal ; D. F. Crespo de Texada ; D. D. Tarring ; gravity, and the generosity of the Spani s h chime aAp.is orasures of bloyernment,until the period of the l Marla. ter," they d ec l are t h at i t w i ll, nay, that it must, ll shortly sully it se lf w i t h bl ood. And on what o ,,,dit e poe• al installation of the Cortes, will be ilelibe „dm' i re sad published - with the consent of this Jima. grounds do they so scandalously libel men whose - 4reersl Ballasteroi is nominated General of the conduct has not only been a model of patriotism :,,, sr ot the Centre, w hi c h i s f orm i ng i n New Castile; but of moderation? Not because the least symp tom of a reven ge f u l s pi r i t h as b roken out amongst t . CiptaisMentral of thr military force in the capital m d t h e suburbs. A Supplement of the same day pub- them—this is not even asserted : but because they li•fes another Decree, .uy which the King announces lo re _ b een for year* the victims of Me most ea ?l ij i he has taken provisionally the oath prescribed by reien _. n er, i. it g p . era icra ; and whatever they may the Constitution. A siagle word at the bottom of the .. /sill G a zette deserves to he noticed—viz. printed at sil. or do can no t, we are to ld , h ave any other object in vi ew th an t h e most signal *ole o Netroerst, instead of the Iluyst Printing-office, as Weedy. The Provisii nal (li. eminent is organized.: once. " The composition of such an nstembly," Ile Constitution is in lull vigo ir. The Cardinal de (the Cortes), snys The Gazette de France, sosfbon was Member of the tiegenry of hl4, and of “ under present circnmstancea can easily be fore .,, p er e a ti,, n which went to Valencia to receive the I seen : and if we wish to know the spirit b* which it will b e an i mate d , we h ave only to I ,ith of Oddity of the king to the Constitution. Since riot period he has been altogether disgraced. M. Bal. lest what has been th e con d uct o f t h e K i ng toward . mteros had rendered himself illustrious by his resist- tif, e _ ton..fl . du t ._. I.onalists. The blood of th e L ase **, 2017 to the appointaimit of the Duke of Wellington as l o sers !i s simo, and also by his eminent military services: I the PoRUERS, and o f more t h an 200 consp i rators, martyrs to the caus e w hi c h now tr i ump h s : the he was railed to Velladolid. The Bishop of Valladolid i 4 a man of clear understanding. The other persons persecutions, the State dungeons, Me exiles, the On form the Junta are b e tt er known by their liberal galleys, which the heads of that party have en- dured for four year s •i n th e same cattse : all these i'.ear than by the enjoyment of anterior dignities. M. o revs Tettada belongs to the higher class of merchants. sufficiently apprize us oft he calamities which threaten 'Reelections are gibing forward in all parts of Spain. • . devoted Spain ! The dispositions q . Me Members of ri., electoral system is adapted to localities, which have their Assembly cannot therefore be the object of any miens! the two degrees necessary. This part of the tosstitutional compact will bare need of some nioditlea- 0 1 0.161." Thus men must be wicked, because they two: the article rrhtive to the Catholic Religion was have been oppressed! Persecution not only de. seserersion to rircninstances. A General Amnesty in . stroys fortune , health , a n d even lif e, it must also) iest" of all delinquencies arising from difference of infallibly annihilate virtue' . 'Fhis is, indeed, car ass is daily expected to he published. All expatri- ming . its power to an unlimited extent. It is in selerseas are returning rspid!y to Spain. wading the attributes of Hell itself, after exercising ac - its tortures! The RusaLbra and the Bvortzre, Private letters from Paris, to-day, bring Hants that Barcelona declared for the Constitit- had they survived the tyr ann y w hi c h th ey assa il e d , tc,nales on the 9th nit. I must therefore have become robbers and assassins' It *v now eight years since the Constitution of , the Cortes was first proclaimed at Cadiz. During that period we know full well what has been the I I fate of its authors. Exile, prisons, the rallies, per. seention. and death, hare been the recompense of those, wbo,.at tom. expeuee of their blood, peened j and the pntriots of every age, whose blood be dewed the soil which they vainly sought to liberate, must have sunk, had they succeeded, into sanguinary MARAT 3 and ROBERSPIERRES ! This is not a libel on the Spanish nation alone, but on human nature: and, under the circumstances of the times, with living evidence _at its falsabood before us, kis ao. common libel, no petty. hesitating calumny. It is as daring as it is unprincipled. It is u sting, be cause it must have been written and published with n fuH consciousness that it involved the total sacri fice of character on the part of its author. It is tin pri tici pled,because it is in direct opposition to fact, end seeks to deprive real merit, not only of its praise, but of its due influence over individuals and nations, on a charge of contingent criminality which rests on no other ground than a corrupt or diseased imagina tion. But let it he disguised as it may—let it issue from a shackled Press, or be uttered by a Congress of Sovereigns, whatever be the channell and autho rity of its birth—it is the hull erg of expiring Dee patient throughout the world.—No wonder then that it should be one of disgrace and despair. their country from a mo s t formidable invasion, 1 and conquered, in defence of independence and of liberty. The surviving victims of a cruel despotism. are now recalled by the voice of the nation ; the martyrs of patriotism are now rferated from their dungeons and their chains ; the slims of those who perished like criminals receive now the honours of national apotheosis ; and the proscribed and persecuted Cortes once more re gime the functions of legislators to their fellow ritizetrs. while the imperishable monument which they have erected, forms equally the shield of the Prince and of the People. New York Papers arrived, this morning, to the 2Gtti of February : WASHINGTON, FED. ID. The Ho't* of Repreventatives have, this day, had a respite from the qiiestimi on which it has, for thee* hit nineteen sitting days, been in Committee. Yestev day the Senate returned the Maine Bill, with amend ment*. This day. at an early hour, the amendment. were read : on which, Mr. Taylor named the theme do not comm.: Mr. Scott moved the 14111 be committed to the Committee of the whole. On the Missouri Bill, aye, 70, noes 107. On a motion to lay on the table, 17 ruse for, awl 06 against. A motion was made to post pone till Monday, and lost ; Mr. Siu;bins proposed to postpone till Tuesday, which was carried, and the House adjourned. PROCEEDINGS IN CONIMISS rROR TIIE PAPER 111 THE 21ST or filllte•RT. Tb, Senate on Thursday terminated its debate, at halt as the present celebrated Missouri question. A relies Mudd the following clause was carried : " Aad be it further enacted, that in all that territory redid by /ranee to the United States, under the name 1 , 1 Loniiiana, excepting only such part thereof as is in cluded within the limits of the State, contemplated by this .let, slavery and iweirluotary servitude, otherwise thee in the punishment of edema, whereof the party shall have been duly cooriesed, shall be, wad is hereby fur ever prohibited." THE QuiEN.—Letters 'have been received 'in town from the Queen, dated Rome, the Vitth of February, and oth of March, in which her Majesty speaks positively of her intention of returning to England. and of having ordered persons to meet her at Calnis. Her Majesty expresses much indig- nation at the Omission of her name in the Liturgy of the Church of England, and mentions those per sons whom she supposes to have been the instiga gators of so gross an insult. Notwithstanding this interdiction, her Majesty expresses her hopes that the people of England will still pray for her in their hearts; and sbe assures them she is well, and sensibly alive to the sasebinations and plots of her enemies. Yesterday morning the Duke of York, the Doke and Dochesi of Clarence, and the Duchess of Ohmmeter, visited the Princess Augusta at her apartments in the King's Palace, in St. James's Park. A umber of the Nobility and persons of distilled.' called in the coarse of the day to pay their dutiful reopen to her Royal Highness. Yesterday the Princess Augusta and a *elect party dined with the Duke aad Nelms of tileacester at Oloacester Hos*. It was rumoured in the aty yesterday, that as express had reached London, bringing dispatches from Madrid of the 10th hut., which staled that an entire change had taken place in the Spanish Ministry. It was said that Apr, late President of the Junta of Cadiz, had been appointed President of the new Conseil of Ministers. O'lnte, who served lb the Arm in stance under Ostaeral Blake, and subsequently under the Duke of Welliagtoa, la the Peninsala war, was nominated Minister of War, and darer Mishear of iiesa t , Finance. It will be reeelhoild. he field *b limp lion a short time aft,. hi ghe Cabinet NM aaad, it is stated, has adepled step, in order le' Ante his empalitet Ms aes t te I ntl the Constitatlee of 10111. Oh aimed Om rernment hare Ones di rseftes for the telress I lltate prisoners, emend In dilitreat eltuatioos. The public ;twilit Wag called to the glorious Constitution of tt i , estabtished . loy the ew he an fa ieu . It is woe * Arit i, that Its &tails may lloed in Th e 'b ot h*, toe for December. leis. Oil January, 18141 mil t t them namben ammill as Ma ofdre boolmellera (FllOll rag sort,. sem) Owvnta.--The death of the King of the Sandwich Wasik is conhroied. This event has occasioned so inset diwention moo( his successor's and Officers, as to threaten a revoletiou and civil war. The old King " °row& of 136.000 dollars in specie. (room yea mom:aut. astaime or Tit 12T1 FIB.) UMW CANADA PAIIILIAMINT.—His Excellency the Gorenior ef Upper Casads he.. by Proclamation, been pkmed t.-coavoke the Parliasseat of this Province to 16 21st instant, for the dispatch of business. If we devote so much space to the consideration of the Spanish Revolution, it is not on account of ill *Orton= no a political phenomenon, bat be-1 rum it is intimately connected with the great apissllasvf Rehr., and public liberty, in every at die LRICESTER. (ftectvzo ruts mctima.) Weeoasesv, Five e`Ci.eira. The trial of Sir Francis Burdett, Which amid on to-morrow matting, at the Castle, at nine o'clock, is the entire triple of conversation net only in this town, but it mites an interest, as far we have been able to collect, for lei round tkii, part of the country, of an unparalleled description. The eharacter of Sir Francis is well known through out Leleestershire—the people are no stranger tp his virtues—and his truly Englishman-like dial*. sition, renders him beloved by all rank' and 'classes of society. In the various traits of landlord, muter, a good neighbour, and the common friend Of man kind, few public men can stand in competition with the worthy Baronet. It cannot be a matter of sur prises then, that the trial of the above steady, firm, and intrepid advocate in the rause of liberty, and the defender of the rights and privileges of Eng lishmen, should excite sech an unusual degree of interest! Who, is thus styled, in the information filed by Sir Robert Gifford, Knight, the King's Attorney-General, as" Being a seditious, malicious, and ill-disposed person, and unlawfully and ma liciously devising and intending to raise and excite discontent, distauction, and sedition, among the liege subjects of ceir Lord the present King, and particularly amongst the soldiers of our said Lord tiiit King, and to move and excite the liege sub- ; jests of our said Lord the King, to hatred and didike of the Government of this Realm, and to insinuate and cause it to be believed by the liege subjects of our said Lord the King, that divers of the said liege subjects of our Lord the King bad been inhumanly c ut d own , ma i me d , and I haled, by certain troops of our said Lord the King, heretofore (to wit), on the twenty-second day of Aegust, in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, (to wit), at Loughborough, in the comity of Leicester, unlaw- Rally and maliciously did compose, write, and pub lish, and caused to be composed, written, and pub lished, a certain scandalous, malicious, and seditious libel, of and concerning of the Government of this Realm, and of and concerning the said troops of oar said Lord the King, according to the term and effect following. (that is to say)"—[Here the Ad dress to the Electors of Westminster is inserted, which appeared in the public newspapers, written I:inte ll :raucisßurdett.]--The information also eon ' counts. ftX stronoy reported here, th a t out CI th e tie -four Jurors, svliu have been reduced to at tend upon this most important trial, that so great a delicacy exists upon the subject, that bets bare' been offered, the Oflicers of the Crown will be compelled to pray a lake. We have also learnt with surprise, that some insidious enemy of Sir Fraueis Burdett 412.1 sent a printed circular letter to all the Jury, threatening them with vengeance if they do not acquit the worthy Baronet. So much at ease does the mind of Sir Fntnc's appear upon the subject, that he has been hunting all the morning with the hounds; and his arrival at this town is expected every minute. The hounds, we understand, hunt the days every week in this county. Great numbers of the neighbouring gentry have been coming in all the day ; and the amide to morrow is expected to display such an assemblage of rank, beauty, and fashion, never be ore wit nessed. Several persons from Manchester and also from York are on the road to attend the trial, as witnesses in favour of Sir Francis Burdett. It is also said, that a legal objection will be taken by the Counsellor the lion. Baronet, which-, if not over-ruled by the Judge, will tend to quash the in.. &closet altogether. But if the numerous docu ments are read, which,it appears, are highly essen tial towards making a justification of Sir Frascis's liintior, and the body of evidence gone into, it inlintality must prove a long trial. There are abfryies a great many legal points to be argued ; asuil • ease in which the liberty of the press is so wok comerned, and also the right of commenting peblic events, taken jaw consideratioo, it will be a trial of such test import to Englishmen in' general, as to be perused with the most in teresting anxiety. Tots 4:ecru'. LBICISTBIL The Hon. Sir Wm. Draper Best, Knt. has here occupied the whole of the day in the Crown Court open the trials of various prisoners, of no public ieterest whatever he reed their locality, eteept the foll•wieg usee•oetrago• es, cad diabolical attack upon htunamity, iu the' alum *traps. comudttcd by Joseph Scott, a chimney-weeper, aellikelf. in this county, upon a female child (Ally Aiglillikjeteshy four years and .-half obi. The particulars *Sass torrid and disgusting, that a mere outline is al `fsst toe mech. Tile chili is of The most leterestiog ollawriptioa ; and, notwithstanding her very loader years. 4gisieged so mach senor, that the Learned Jades, wills- Wag beeitadoo, let her take her oath. He wee COW *aid ea tie clearest evidence; end a *eke case Dever appealed In a Court of Justice. &atm: of death was ilesndlauld, pronounced on him in the most irapsisoirc imolai *hem the prisoner tried sat, "'Poll', af lan k" fart' re sae this time!" The Judge told Ma he met _,•~-_ '••• • t Not . to hither Oribenal for aserey. He was taken from , the bar introit . agony. He is a b ou t fl years of age. AO iisterelear rifv.r 1 rylisfir at afe, Mary frrod• was bind for settillig lire la bee Reamer's bogie, kr. She war ac ndi iii tke icore of srcitlent. Tit GUILIMA LI.. At this Sack W. 0104 (King's Counsel) sat as 1W 36dge, attadded by the Mayor and Aldermen, dressed in their &bee, to try those prisoners confined in the Borisigb Gaol. The only one containing any degree of intsrieit was the ttfal of Oliver Colston rod lVid:iuns StuNykral, charged with breaking into the warrhoise of Meffsfs. ToOne and Frisbey, in St. Margaret's parish, and stealing 37 dozen pair of hose, 5 dozen of half-hose, &e.—The above prisoners were convicted upon the evi dence of a notorious character of the name of Jowph • 8011, a seff.acktowledged thief (and, by whose eve. deice, a few months since, two other men were also convicted); hnt u hose deposition was confirmed by several reUpectable persons, who apprehended the above prisoners. The Jude, in a Most adrr.i..able charge to the Jury. cautioned then of giving any weight to the testimony of the accomplice without proper confirmation. In son tencing (iulston and Stableford to seven years' traos loortation, he informed the prisoners, that it was higMy neeessiry latch a gang of depredators should be brake.i, and tbalthey oust be sent aural the country. It od••• bewertor, very fortunate for them that the wareiscnse was not'coetteeted with the dwelling of the prowentOrs, or else their lives must hare been forfeited. The finildhial is a building of treat reignity,rad in a very conspicuous situation. Among several Onr traits is dearly a whole length likeness of the late RiAt Hon. William Pitt. Both of the above Courts of Jai lice were crowded in the extreme, but particularly fellales. NAVAL INTRLLIGRNCE. The Elizabeth, Ostler, from Madras, for London. put into Vigo the Ist inst. with damage to her rudder a sails. She sailed oh the 10th October, and has no board a Lieutenant, and 34 soldiers of the 40th India regiment ; five females, and two male passengers. hisacu 12.—Arrived, and sailed fur the River, .the Severn, Low, from St. Michael's.—fame down from the River and sailed, the Keptnne, M.Kissock, for X• w South Wales; Barbadoes, Kinsby, for Ilalif.ix ; henry Clay, Carns, for Virginia; Alhed, Triot. Tor 'Folago Arno, Robertson, fur Genoa; Lady Ford, Strong, Ca Leghorn; Elizabeth, Mather, for Lisbon; and Mercury. Ladd, fee Messina. Also sailed the Trephie, Brandford, for Barbadbe. PORTSMOUTH, ItNalco 22.—Arrired the John, Lath•r. ingtoo, from Shields, for Gibraltar and Fiume; Etre., Cadee, from Weymouth ; Dart, Tranch, from Dartmouth ; IA Union, tiaujae, and La Sugelle, from Cherbourg Passed by the Cicero, Kelly, from the South Seas, fur Lottdon. I elsip Manley, htsat 22.—Sailed the Earl Leicester packet, ror Holland ; and Lady Nepean ditto, for Cux haven, both with Pawl ower, Mamas Spartan, for !rebind and Lisbon. LivitarooL,Ascii 41.—:Arrived the Darien, Wilcox, from Savadaah ; Minervatimith, Bennett, from New York, sailed nth Feb.; sad Halcyon,Weoster, from Charleston, sailed 'lBth Feb. FaLmotrru, MARCH W.—Arrived the Julius Cesar, Luchie, from Demerara in 60 days, for London ; Ciiii i i Skiddy, from New York, in 25 day., for Havre; and Bliss, French, front Virginia, for London.—Arrived of the Lizard, the Georgians, IVarren, from Berloire, for London. On the 21st alt. in lat. 38.40. N. long. 38.3. W. she was *track by lightning, which splintered the main mast. The master's-mate, and three men, were al4o amok by it, but did not receive any injury. Penzance, MARCH 20.--Arrived the Ann Elizabeth. Owen, from Newry, for Poole, with loss of hewsprit, having been run foal of off the Lizard by a large ship, supposed to be an Indianian. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. -,..........._ IN I DDT.EBE X. BUTZ OP Tat POLL THIS PAT AT HALP-PAST le 0 CLOCK.. . DAT', POLL. TOTAL. Arica Wm. Mccusit • 146 WRSTMINSTF.R. lITATS OP TDB POLL ?dill DAT AT OMB O'CLOCK. DAT"! POLL. TOTAL. Sir F. BVIII Dl= lO7 4/306 Mr. If °Brom' The lima. Una.— 210 -SIXtH DAT A RAW-FAST IL 1171 COl. LOWthOt • •• 1071 1147 I ~•- ~- , . tare Lowther . Breitgbask - - - _. • • The present contest Ibr Weetininster is become • sporting one . ; and large sums are depending, not only_ upon the issue, but also upon eac h d ay ' s po l l. The contest for the county , of Sussex, terminated yesterday by the resignation of the Hou. Mr. Cavendish; in consequence of which Sir Charles Burrell and Mr. Cartels were declared duly elected. Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, in do amuse of the day of his election, had his paint Oohed .of hii pocket-book, at Chelmsford, and deo Ida.Trafalgir medal ; but both have since been sent On Ida. M. Bertrand, father of the celebrated eseeral of that name, lately died at the advansult age of 76 years. . The bill of indictment, paalband lasi *lilt, at D er by A s sizes. toot two peer moo au*. =l4 Beltiugton (Step a Reiner amid Ilenjastka er . e i e bi e . gr i e a rn ), tor an alleged wilful aid csobel. m , ••• bangles et lesebbsery," as it was called v woe throw* ' si k : asw a nest respectable and iatelligent tinted Jary.-e . < Iris.) .• is a large bollbw oak-tree now standing on • the taws Pane, war rent-y-pool, the property , of t-apei shobory yob. Beq., the sanity of which is larg; ..• 11666011,111111111111e1y costaintri two gentlemen's bars , gob ; ow shim retie ie. tortoni Ws hone eased. and amborseg. widiebdissessatiag. Mr. Williams. the pm 'smut mast. bagst aolbtqwestly fed six or serewraiere is it, is the wilder. _a t.c~., 0 111 . • 1 1 .0 V .1 ► ift ti r t N. I i 'i ,