The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-15 00:00:00

t" . r FRENCH PAPERS OF SUNDAY. (Fr.nm TIII KTOILIO DECREE OF THE KING OF SPAIN. ~.. The scandalous ercesaes Which preceded, arcomeanied, an.l followed, the establishment of the Demoeratical Consti tution of Cadiz, in the month of March, 1820, have been made public, and known to all my subjects. The most criminal treason, the most disgraceful baseness, the roost horrible offences against my !Loyal person—these, coupled wuili violence, were the means employed to change essentially the paternal Government of my kingdom into a democratical code, the fertile source of disasters and mis farmoo". My',subjecte, accustomed to live minder wise and moderate laws, and such as were conformable to their manners and customs, and which, during so many ages, constituted the welfare of their ancestors, soon gave public and universal proofs of their disapprobation and contempt of the new Constitutional System. All classes of the State experienc ed the mischiefs cursed by the new institutions. Tyrannically governed, by virtue and in the name of the Constitution, secretly watched in all their private concerns, it was not possible to restore order or justice ; and they could not obey laws established by perfidy and treason, sustained by violence, and the source of the utmost dreadful disorders, adios most desolating anarchy, and of universal calamity. The general voice was hoard from all sides against the tyrannical Constitution ; it called for the cessation of a code null in its origin, illegal in its formation, and unjust in its principle • it called for the maintenance of the sacred religion of their ancestors, for the re-establishment of our fundamental laws, and for the preservation of my legitimate rights—rights which I have received from my ancestors, and which my subjects have solemnly sworn to defend. This general cry of the nation was not raised in vain. In all the provinces armed corps were formed, which keg ued themselves against the soldiers of the Constitution: sometimes they were cooqu.amrs—sometimes they were conquered ; but they always remained firm to the cause of religion and of the monarchy. Their entbusiam io the defence of objects so sacred never deserted them under the reverses of war; and preferring death to the sacrifice of those great benefits, my subjects convinced Europe, by their fidelity and their com a ancy, that although Spain nourished in her bosom some unnatural children, the sons of rebellion, the. nation in general was religious, monarchical, and passionately de voted to its legitimate Sovereign. Tile whole of Europe—well aware of my captivity, and of that of all the Royal Family, of the deplorahle situation of my loyal and faithful subjects, and of the pernicious doctrines which Spanish agents were disseminating on all aides—resolved to put an end to e state of things which constituted a common reproach, and which menaced with destruction all thrones and all ancient institutions, ha order to substitute impiety and profligacy. France, intrusted with so sacred an enterprise. has triumphed in a few months over the efforts of all the rebels of the world, collected for the misery of Spain upon her classic soil of fidelity and loyalty. My august and well beloved cousin, the Duke d'Angou leme, at the bead of a valiant army, a conqueror through out all my ten itories, has rescued me from the slivery in which f pined, and restored me to my constant and faithful subjects. Replaced upon the throne of St. Ferdinand, by the just and wise hand of Providence. as well as by' the generous efforts of my noble allies, and the valiant enterprise of my cousin the Doke d'Angouleme and his brave army. desirous of applying a remedy to the most pressing necessities of my people, and of manifesting to all my real will in this the first moment of my recovered liberty, 1 have authorised the following decree:— " Art. I. All the 'Acts of the Government called Constitu tional (of whatever kind and description they may be), a sys tem wolf* oppressed my people from the 7tk of Msroh, 11420, volt the 21st September, 1823, ace dec ared null and void, declaring, es I now declare, that during the whole of that period I have been deprived of my liberty, obliged to sanction laws sod authorize orders, decrees, and regulations, which the said Government framed and executed against my will. " Art. 2. I approve of every thiug which has been decreed and ordered by the Provisional Junta of Government, and by the Regency, the one created at Oyarsuo. April 9, the other, iy 21t, in the present year, waiting meanwhile, eutil suffi ciently informed as to the wants of my people. I may be able to bestow those laws, and adopt those measures, which shall be best calculated to secure their real prosperity and welfare, Vie constant object of all my wishes. Yon may communicate this Decree to all the Ministers. (Signed by the Royal hand) " Port St. Mary, Oct. I. " D. VICTOR SAEZ." (PROM THE JOURNAL DRS DREIATII. NWT ST. MART. Oct. 2.—The French Ambassador has presented his letters of credit to the King, and experienced a reception particularly gracious. To-morrow the King proceeds to Xeres: he will afterwards pass eight or ten days at Seville. and thence will repair to Madrid. His Majesty has retained provisionally the Minister of the Regency. Ile has jest issued a decree, in which he declares, that being re-es - Wished in the plenitude of his royal prerogatives, he desires that Cadiz and the Isle of Leon may to-morrow he plat •11 under the command of the Duke d'Angouleine. The decree was sent to Cadiz this morning, and we do not yet know how it has been received.° [ flue Jourmal des Debate lias a long article which com mences by quoting a remarkable passage frotnthe King of France's speech at the opening of the last Session of the Chambers, in which he said that Ferdinand should be free to give to his people institutions which they could only • receive from him. The journalist observes that the Royal words ore now accomplished. Eulogies are lavished on the conduct of the Duke d'Angoukme, and the following boast is made :—" The victories of the Revolution are not effaced; but their recollection no longer exercises a dangerous in. Asence. Other victories are interposed between the throne of the Bourbons and the Usurper."] • The telegraphic despatch of the 3d informs us, that on that day the French troops entered Cadiz. Thus Cadiz must have surrendered without conditions, and on the simple order of his Catholic Majesty.—Note by the Editor of the Journal des Dcbals. The harvest is nearly concluded on an the farms io the neighbourhood of Arbroath ; sod notwithstanding the cold na tare of the land in the parish of Caretyllie,sheaf lag commenced there about eight or ten days ago. As an evidence of the healthy invigorating air of the braes'of Angus, it may be meotioaed that a man, who was barn in Nay, 1740, has, daring the whole harvest, been binding corn in the parish of Tanoadice, sometimes to the amount of thirty-four flatlet., begiunieg after eight and finishing before six o'clock. In the same parish there is a man receiving the usual allowance of meal and milk, and his yearly wages, as a compensation far his labour, who wu on Culloden•vouir in April, 1744. James Duke, a native of the above place, and whale life was published by Sir John Sinclair, died in that pariah lately at the age of 102 years. Among the singularities of this summer, is the long sojoprn of the cuckoo. The note of this bird is rarely heard in this district after June ; but on Saturday last the well-knows cry was repeatedly beard on a farm five miles above Bellingham. and on Sunday la Ravensworth woods.—(Neweastle Co rant.) The weather is still so uncertain, that, altbougg we have little grain uncut, a considerable portion remains in the field.. Prequestly we have one good day, but rarely two in nacemeion, so that what the stooks gain the one day, they ahaostuniformly lose the next. This is very taming. peadeatly o the loss it occasions by the frequent binding *ad sabinding of the sheaves. The frosty mornings have merely bat the effect of checking the growth of the pet*. toes. Our market for wheat is completely at a stand.— Prices aosinal.—(Dwrilics Cosritr.) _u :~, THE STAT. COLLECTION OF PICTURES. TO RE SOLO BY AUCTION, Ity Mr. WILLIAMS, At the Auction Mart, Bartholomew Lane, TOMORROW, October IS, 152 J, at Twelve o'clock, by Order of the Exe cutors of the late ROBERT JONES, Esq., of Old Ford, Middlesex. AVA LUART,E COI LECTION of PAINTINGS, among . which will he found several Rare Specimens of the .Aticient and Modern Schools, in an excellent state of preser vation. To be viewed on Wednesday preceding and Meriting of Sale, and Catalogues had at the Mart, and of Mr. WILLIAMS, Throg 11100C111 Street. MA All 9. DUE. I I •• • Dobiln 0.... Water 2 I ...G J ersey 0 0.... Heron 0 I ...Guttenberg PRICE OF STOCKS TII Basakstock . . . 3 per Ct. lied 82i i 3 p. Ct. Cons SI per Cent.. 96111 4 per Cents 9941 New Fours .......... 103ali Long Ann Imp. 3 per Ct Stf TEM Kittatiminan. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1823. Ez STOCK-ECCHANGC, 12 o'CLoca.—ln consequence of the presses from Paris this morning, which brought a greet de dine in Spanish Bonds in the above capital, a great pan;c took place in our market. No other stock was thought of, and all was bustle and confusion. Spanish Bonds opened at 331, 316, 3?.1, 231, 29, 31, 29, at which price they are at present. Cn fortunately for the greatholders of Spanish Bonds, it is settling day, and a great quantity of the above article is to be deliver ed. Consols opened at SSj. and are now 63 to I. FUREIGN NIARCET.—LittIe is doing this morning except in Spanish Bonds. The new Portugal Loan is very heavy, A great number of failures is expected in this market. New Spanish, 23—01 d Spanish. i9l—Colombia, b7l—Rus sic, 811—French Scrip, 2 to I—Pays's, 141. We have reeeived to-day, by Express, Paris papers to yesterday morning, of which the following are extracts:— (vacm 771 E ETOILB OP MONDAY, OCT. 13) GRIND HEAD Qt; IRTERS, Port St. Mary's, Oct. 4. The troops will be place a on the road to Madrid. for the return of the King and his Royal Highness to that capital. His Royal Highness expects to set elf on Monday. The Royal Guard will disembark in the Bay of Cadiz, with General Ambrugeac. who is on board the Venus, The King has issued a Decree, by which he has granted an amnesty, in general, to the guilty. The first authors of the Revolution are not excepted. The first division com manded by General Oben has entered Cadiz, and was received with great joy. The Duke d'Angouleme ordered that the Red Flag only should be hoisted, but the inhabit tants hoisted the White Flag with it. It is assured that the Guard will embark to return to France. His Royal Highness will depart on the 7th. The King is expected at Madrid the end of October. MADRID. OCT. B.—Riego has been condemned, but his judgment has been sent to Seville. The Constitutional troops who have evacuated the Isle of Leon and the town of Cadiz, Lave gone for the cantonments assigned to them The French entered Jamora on the 30th September, under the command of General Buurck Miranda, Lopes Bsynos, and Marlos, have submitted. Head Quarters. Del Gordo, Oct. 1. THE GENERAL IN CHIEF OF THE 110‘AL ARMY, DON VINCENT QUESA.DA, 10 11IE 'SINISTER OF WAR. This morning I received a letter from my aid•de-tamp written at 11 o'clock at night, by which he informs me tha the enemy were marching on Almaras, and that General Larochejaguelin had ordered the four companies of the tluipazcou to pursue the enemy, who had formed in order of battle with 3 pieces of cannon. General Larochejaquelin charged twice the enemy's cavalry, and put them to Bight . I shall send the details of the affair to your Excellency when I have received them. (PRO)1 TM , . l'ilote OP TUIR 14TH,-TUERDAY. NEWS FROM TILL FRONVERS OF SPAIN. Sco, OCT. 4.—Yesterday at two o'clock in the afternoon Colonel Vigo, Governor of the fort of rrgel,was is advance, occupied in examining the Batteries which were constructed to batter the place. A ball struck him and wouoded him above the thigh. It is feared he is mortally wounded. They speak of a letter which Mina wrote ou 12th of lad month, two days after the landing of the column,whichwere taken at Llors, to the Governor of Figueroa, San Miguel, which he complains of the defection, which took place, and exhorts hint to be true to the cause of liberty. As to him. self, if he should be entirely deserted,he will remain faithful to the oath he has taken. lie also states, that he can answer for Milan., Lloberas, and Rotten. A column of prisoners of the Garrison of Figueras has marched for Montpelier ; the second has set off this morn ing, and the third will depart!to morrow. (flto3l TUC JOURNAL DES DKR iTS OP iIONDAT, OCT. 13.) MADRID, Oct. 7.—Count Bordesoulle to the Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs:— _ . have the honor to announce to your Excellency, that the French troops have taken possession of the forts of Puerto, Suazo, Portazge, la Cotadora, Puntales, and the Land Port, as his Majesty ordered. This morning the Garrison of the Isle of Leon And Cadiz, have taken their cantonments at Arcos, Medina, Sidonia, Akala de les °smiles, Chiclane and Puerto Real. The militia of Madrid and Seville have been disarmed, and will set off for San Lucar, where 1 1 they will receive passports to go home. All passed with the `greatest tranquillity. I LS. I ARR. DUE. 0....H011and 0 o....Hansbro 2 0.... France 0 0 ...Flanders 0 0....Ma1ta ...... 0 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock .......... Ditto Ronda 73 72 'SLUM ( "41 pm. 10001._ ---500/ •.• 39 41 pm --Small.. —s 40 42 pm Lottery Tickets l7l. 19s. Con. for Acct...." 03411 foussa cos's. MATASO. OCT. s.—;Several Regiments are entenisig Vara toils. It Is assured, that a part of the troops who were AN. - befu when place. Maral Duke Cooegliano bat been for several days at 31atarobat is going to leave for Armes del Mar, where he wilVe near the bathing place. Sinstbe last military events, the garrisons of the places bkiak#d, remain within their walls, and are not anxious to disrb our troops. Frich Rents,e at Paris, 90.43.—Spanish Bonds 33. lampehtna, are going to be joined to the 4th corps, e sieges of the places not surrendered will take Thbenefit of the restoration of the ancient despotism in Spain is likely to be soon felt by the monied interest of this entry. Ferdinand has proved himself of the " right " ro)i breed," and, in a s►►eeping decree, he annuls " all " Owlets of the government called constitutional, of what. " e kind and description they may be, from the 7th "of larch 1820 to the 31st of October 1823." This is a disavirbil of the loan contracted in the first instance, as well I that more recently maileoind leaves the bond holders no dim upon the finances of Spain. The knave of the New Tina who has always been canting about the restoration of th royal government, as the only means of securing the i n teresof the first class alluded to, turns round upon his dupes, if thre were any,and says that as long ago as August 1822, he led declared that no loan would be recognized by a Roplist Government What he said is of no conse quence ; hut what the slave wiNhed is evident—a rest°. Felon of the old de.potism—of the inquisition—and that Spain should be thrown into the arms of France. These were the wishes of this Bourbon hireling—the darling oljects of the prostitution of his pen. For this, he odeavoured, at every period, to throw obstructions in the May of the Spanish Constitutionalists; and for this, when be could not prevent the loan from being obtained, he was engaged to lull the feelings of the fund holders, by pointing to the Royal Governmentas the only adequate security for , their interests. There is, however, a question of still greater importance arising out of this proclamation. Ott the 12th of March, 1823, a convention was concluded with the Spanish Government, for the payment of certain British claims. Of course, this convention is also annulled. 11 may be reaewed ; but the previous negotiation with the Courts had occupied much time in discussion, and the cla'ms, it * is believed, were only at last admitted, from the necessity of having a good understanding with the English Callum ; and not from any conviction on the part of the Spaniards, that our claims were well•founded. The Royal government will have no such► motive for concession. On the contrary, it will be beyond measure, irritated at the refusal to receive the ambassador from the Regency, the acts of which Ferdinand formally acknowledges. in his recent decree. France has gained the ascendancy at Madrid. The finances of Spain will not be improved by the expeoces of a Court; and it is but fair to conclude, that Ferdinand will be as reluctant to discharge such claims, as the Emperor of Austria to pay his debts. The Note Time, affects to bluster on this subject ; and to say we shall maintain our treaty, even by a war. But the slave knows that we shall do no such thing. Indeed, a war with France, Spain, and Portugal, is a matter notoriously beyond the power of England to maintain. %Ve might have supported the Con stitutional party in those countries, as Elizabeth supported time Hollanders against Spain but since Spain and Portu gal are united, in effect, to France, it would be absolute madness to affect a warlike attitude. England must in future be content to beg through all the Courts of E arope. One chance of stopping the progress of the Holy Alliance was afforded us, but we have thrown it away; and, now, we .may for ever furl our national banners, and be satisfied with► existence as a nation upon the terms which the Holy Alliance may think proper to prescribe. On the Continent we can link for no alliance, but on the condition of establishing a Royal government, and abolishing all those shows of freedom which have hit h erto distinguishes} our institutions:—ant) to contend, single•handed, against the host of continental despots, is quite as impassible as it was far the Cortes of Spain to contend with the superiority of France. All our powers must be limited in future to mere self-defence; and the cost of inch a warfare would destroy our finances in a few years. We know not with what face the Ministry may present its " beggarly account" on the next meeting of Parliament; but we have no hesitation in telling them that their difficulties arc but now about to begin. They will now see the folly of having left the freemen of Spain to fight their own battles. Cadiz is to be put in the possession of the French. This is a necessary result of. the late war. (Wiz is the most devoted to the Constitution. At Cadiz It was first developed:— at Cadiz it revived—and at Cadiz it would be still cherished : —but a French garrison will be able to keep it down. This single possession identifies Spain with France.OnrMinisters may remonstrate; but they will be answered as Lord Castlereagh was answered when he ♦entured to remonstrate against the ocenpation of Poland . by ltussian troops. They may blaster in the columns of the New Times, or the Courier ; d7,t they dare Not go to mar—they feel a total incapacity for any exertion. They cannot redeem the country which they might have saved. Spain, Portugal, and France. have become united under one Government ; and that the most bitter . enemy of England—the house of Bourbon. The French are, with reason, proud of their triumph, not over Spain, but over England. It is at oar interests they have been striking ; and, by conduct which would have led an English Mioister to the oraffold in a •better age, they have struck us in a mortal part. Those who deem the Spanish question st an end, as affects Europe, whatever it may be with regard to Spain, are credulous dupes indeed. It h krown that the invasion of Spain was the dictation of the Holy Alliance. Will success, and success, too, so nom greeted, induce the impious league of tyrants to pause, while any of their objects remain unaccomplished? nay have proscribed the very name of liberty upon the Conti nent; and will they suffer even the name to beard them in England. for a moment longer than they tan prevent . it ; when they have such well-nishers in the British Cabinet—such advocates in the English Newspapers— and with English money ready to be lent them —or, to speak more properly, lent to them already, to organize' their myrisds of slaves against the freedom of which we so vainly boast! If there existed any thing . like Ministerial responsibility in this country, f a t a l would the consequences be to the members of the Cabinet; who have seen our best bulwarks abroad occupied by our mortal enemies, without an endeavour to prevent it. There would be some consolation in the idea that the future hostility of the Holy dillies would destroy the usurpation of our boroughmongers :—but, in such a case, the nation might fall with the corruptions that disgrace it—for although some of our tongue-valiant heroes, censure the want of courage in the Spanish Liberals, we have some fears that English liberty might be as in. differently defended, if attacked at once by force from without, and by treachery within. The insurrection at Demerara, whirl] Las so much alarm ed our West Indian interests, appears to have been but an ordinary tumult, raised, probably by some individual out. rage, operating upon the discontent that must always pre vail among those whose condition cannot be made worse by any change. These revolts are attributed by some to the debates of the British Parliament : hut, unluckily for this argument, they existed before humanity to negroes was mentioned among British legislators. We will give these reasoner. a better clue to the insurrectionary feeling—the situation of St. Domingo. It is currently known, through out the West India islands, that there is one, where the i lash has been snatched out of the s la v e driver ' s I hands—where the black is the equal of the I w hit e —where a free state exists, composed of ne• groes who have broken their fetters, and enjoy liberty and authority among men, as the price of their own exertions. Thousands of slaves know this, who do not know that there is a British Parliament ; and as their knowledge of this example must every day be spreading, the white inhabitants of the islands where slavery exists, must prepare themselves for its effects, in insurrection after insurrection, until either slavery be abolished, or the slaves exterminated. The whites may retain their advantages, if they will, by meeting these circumstances; but if they persist in maintaining the system of slavery as Lug a they can, they will perish with it at last. Sir William A 'Cou rt who had orders to attend the person of the King of Spain when at liberty, bars bet out [rum Gibraltar for Port Saint Diary.—(l tolle.) It is now reported that the declaration of the King of Spain will, for the present, suspend the actual appointment of Consuls to the various States in South America; but that it is probable Gentlemen will be deputed to report the present state of those countries to our Government. A letter has been received from Bogota, dated June 20, which stares that the son of our gallant countryman, Si, Robert Wilson, who went out some months ago to join the Patriot standard, was presented with a Captain's Com mission the moment be arrived in Bogota, and would depart in a few days . to join the Liberator's Staff at Guaiquil. The character of the present Pope is thus given in a French Paper :—" The Cardinai Sella (lenge is not a man after the hearts of those who sigh for the reviv@l of the vigorous adininistration of the days of Pius Vl. The name of Leo, which he has sissnmed, is at once an index is his testes, and a guarantee of his future conduit. It is his boast, that upon all subject*, lie feels precisely as Leo did, and that he will reign by the arts, and for Italy, if possible. We all remember the ineporant mission upon which he was sent to Paris in ISM which was to explain some parts of the extraordinary Concordat of hill, awl the reason for which he was chosen for such a mission, was, that no other man was equally capable with Motor discharging the important duties of it. Ile remained at Paris during the hundred days. Upon another occasion he was sent to the Rhine with a view of conciliating the interests of the Catholics and Protestants. In one word, of all the sacred College he is the most modern man, and best acquainted with the causes which led to the present state of things in Europe. His library is said to be the finest at Rome. Sir William !agility, Bart. of Kettlethorpe Park, it is ex pected, will walk over the coarse for the vacant seat in the representation of Lincolnshire. We are told in The History ofthe French Recolution,by ANTOINE F A NTIN-DESODOARDS, that FERDINAND of Ns plea •first acquired the useful arts of reading and writing under the tattion of his Royal Consort. ItIRETING AT TUB GUILD OP Itrectrosrs,Duntisz.—A: Meeting of the friends of Charles Thorpe, Esq.. late WO Sheriff of the City of Dublin. was held on Saturday, at the Hall of the Guild of Merchants, pursuant to Advertise ment. The Meeting was called for the hour of one o'clock, and the advertisement stated that it was "on business Terj im portant to the Loyalists of Dublin." Towards two o'clock. about thirty persons assembled, some of whom retired to a closet, the door of which was kept by one or other of the party; and the remit was, the posting of a notice in the Hall,llist the Meeting was ad journed until a future day.—(llublia Morning Post.) RESIGNATION OP A SCOTS CLERGP3IAN r 11.031 Cots sciaNce.—On Wednesday se'nnight the resignatioa of the Rev. Wm. Shirreff, Minister of St. Ninians, came before the Presbytery of Stirling. After some pr eliminary pro ceedings, Mr. Shirreff rose and stated that he still adhered to the sentiments expressed in his letter of resignation. Tne scruples which the Rev. Gentleman entertained were relative to Infant Baptism. The Rev. Dr. Knox, after de precasting all persecution in the Church or State, made 11 motion to the following purport:—' That on account of the sentiments contained in the letter of resignation gives in by Mr. Shirr' ff. he is considered no longer a member of the Church of Scotland, nor hosing a right to perform any of the functions of a Minister of that Church, nor to receive a cell to any Church in connexion with the Church of Scotland, until be be reponed by au act of the Genets( Assembly of the said Church.' - An attempt was !We by one of the members to obtain an addition to the 'notice, rendering the sentiments of the Presbytery somea bat milder; but after some discussion, Dr. Knos's motion two put and adopted by the whole Presbytery, with the rut?' don of Dr. Mylne, who dissented, and complained to the Synod. 'Mr. M'Oahan was then appointed to preach oa 19th of October, and to declare the church want. Mr. Shlrreff being thus freed of his charge, his forcer brethren shook hands with him", and wished him happiness wherever Providence might direct his steps; and be sinew diately left the Meeting. On the Sunday following, Mr. Shirred' preached three Sermons in the Baptist Chapel, Albion Strad, Glasgow. I OW 1 1 Tht the Ile tion A i ISth bad bi and tt gatin• creed G4,t tkat tt frettit that t urrl than with Gove morti lions TI Vok tl4 left flee sar• t at to :I lard tli•U IL/1 ph, Udi fur 1 04 Mil 11): 'lOl