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

ARRIVAL OF TRIP. KINO OF SPAIN AT PORT ST. MARY'S, THE DUC D'ANGOULibilleit HEADAUARTZEII. .-........... (EXTRACTS FROM FARM PAPERS or TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND YESTERDAY MORNING.) Paris, Oct. 8. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. The Duke of Aniroulenie announces that the King of Spin and tl.e Royal Family arrived at. Port Sain t Nlary s on the let October. at eleven o'clock in th morning. (PROM THE MONITEUR, OCT. 7.-.-01 1 1PMAL PART.) . ' ARMY OF THE PYRENEES-4th Corps. REPORT Or Tilt BURR pa CONEOLIANO TO MIS OIFELLANCY 1116 lIIII4ISTOR Or WAS. • Mauro, Sept. 30. My Ulm—The allied troops hive taken . possession of the Fort San Fernando de Figura.; the galloon, prisoners a war, has been sent to France. I have the honour to transmit to yeer Excellency a fiat ...le the French and Spanish officers and sohliers whom the Baron de Dumas notices as having particularly diiitioguish ed themselves in the actions of Llaolo and Llers. . (Signed) Le Marshal Duc de Conegliano, MONCEY. /Hero follows a long list of officers and soldiers who dis tinguished themselves, &c.] VICNNA, SEPT. 26.—The report that the affairs Of •• Thk e y w ill be discussed during the interview of the twa Emperors. is confirmed. After leaving Csernowitz, where they isill sojourn for a week. The Emperor Alexander will return to St. Petersburg, and the Emperor Francis will direct his course to Italy, to visit Milan. Rome. Sept. 17.—The Ex-Emperor Ittirbide is now at Pisa ; it is thought that be will settle himself at Rome.— ] t is said that he has brought considerable riches with him. His suite is very numerous. The Cardinal Albani has been appointed Ambassador to the Conclave by the. Emperor of Austria. • MADRID, OCT. 3. —(lty an Extraordinary Courier.). — The attention of all the inhabitants of this capital, inces santly directed towards Cadiz, was diverted for an instant yesterday by the arrival of the too famous Riego within our walls. - So early as half past 5 in the morning, extraordinary shouting announced the appearance of the hero of the Tragala ; and in the midst of an escort of the Royal V.. lunteers of Argaillos, to which was joined a detachment of Spanish troops, and some French soldiers, advanced a cart, upon which was seated the author of all our disasters. The escort entered by the gate of San Bernandino, where be was delivered to the guard of the Count de Torre Alta.--• All the adjacent streets were immediately occupied by de techinents of infantry, and they were patrolled by parties of cavalry, which did not permit any person to approach the I prison. One of our Journals observes, on this subject, that if the Constitntionalists had basely a -inated the Cation Vinnesa, whilst in chains, it is only the stronger motive for the Royalists to display their superior moral principles; by leaving to justice the task of punishing the guilty. Towards evening beds were prepared for the four pri-1 goners. Riego told the keeper of the ptison that he ! pected to be treated as a General. " What!" replied the gaoler, "you a General! Do not you know that every thing is now on the same footing in which it was before your 7th of March of 1620?—D0 you think that we will acknowledge in you the price of your treason ?" It has been decided that Riego will be treated as a simple Officer, at the same time impressing upon him that even this was an act of pure generosity on the part of the Royalists. He went to bed without replying. • The following are extracts from our letters from Port St. Mary of the 2Stit and 29th Sept.: it is certain that Count Comes had carried a letter from the King to His Royal Highness, in which his Majesty, considered himself so sure of his liberty, that he begged the Prince to state by that route he should go to meet him at his head-quartets. His Royal Highness had already answered, that the shortest way was to cross the bay, and disembark at Port St. Mary's. The following particulars we have gleaned from persons worthy of credit at Cadiz:— The propositions of the delivery of the King, which were made under the conditions of the 27th, are now be to use a motive of studs exaggerated dernands,that they have been rejected indignantly by the Duke of Angouleine, and AI iva, the bearer of it, forbidden to present himself again with other than pure and simple terms of submission of Caziz. We are assured thatAhe condition set on the King's liberty, was the possession during two months, under the dominion of the Cortes, of the Isle of Leon, the City of Cadiz, and all the strong places still in the power of the Constitotionalists,and that they may be permitted to traffic,. and hold communication with the rest of Spain and all other countries. The madness of the revolutionists goes as far as to require the dissolution of the' Regency of Ma dri so incompatible with the liberty of the King, the sole legitimate Government. The opposite parties in Cadiz are on the point of cutting each other's throats in this unhappy city. There is in het no effective Constitutional force here, except the militia of Madrid. Those of Cadiz consult only their repose and the resumption of their commercial occupations. They ridicule and disobey the exaltados officers who had beet, placed over them without disguise. The Commandant of the parish of Saint Martial had assembled his battalion before the sacred stone, and had declared to them that he was going to set out to reconquer Santi Petri. At those words all the troop cried out, " Then go alone, and the devil take you!" immediately after these brave militia returned to their houses, and the Commandant did nut dare to interrupt them. Twenty similar iusurrections led to the events which happened on the 27th, of which the most remarkable, without doubt, is the voluntary dissolution of the Cortes. The Commandant General of the Isle of Leon has signified that in consequence of the spirit displayed by his troops, and the dispositions which the French had made, it would be impossible for him to defend it, and that be would therefore retire forthwith bellied the Rio The Municipality of San Fernando has announced its intention of capitulating with the French in order to avoid the horrors of an assault. At the same time Valdes stated to the Cortes that the Constitutional flotilla could make only useless efforts fur the defence of the city. A frozen consternation succeeded the revolutionary exultation. The Cortes held a Secret Sitting, in which were only discussed the means of coming to an understanding with the Government as to the safety of the compromised individuals. A public sitting immediately succeeded this, in which a message to the King was decreed, supplicating him to deign to open negotiations with the French General, on whatever terms he should judge proper. The King replied, that he could not enter into any tie gociation. 'filen followed a second Meeting of the Cortes, and a second message to the King. The Fame answer was i given to this. There was a third Meeting. On this oc casion there were present but five Deputies ; the rest were concealed, or were wandering about, peradventure search ing the means of Dying. The most complete anarchy was soon established; however no violence was committed. At length, the five members, composing all the Cortes, and the Ministers, ac companied by setae officers of State, go to the King ; they rely upon th e clemency of his Majesty ; they declare to him that he is re-established in the Integrity of his Royal power, and conjure him to write to the Prince Generalissimo of the French armies. • This lies between the city of Ban Fernando, and the Torreaords. _. .. •~t .> ~ ; THE STATESMAN The (Aunt de Conies immediately repaired with a letter from the King. It was observed that on the morning of the Stle, the militia of Madrid bad put off.their uniform, and were covered with riding coats, that they should not he known. These details are authentic, but the account goes no further.—(Efoile.) littamsx, SEPT. 29.--Some persons who pretend to be well informed upon the subject, affect to say, that the interview of the two Emperors ',on the frontiers of Poland, has for its object the concerting% of means to diminish the influence of England in the States ulthe Porte and of Persia; a first step having been.crowiell with success in Spain and Portugal, where (treat Britain has failed in its' project of being accepted as a mediator in the differences between. the Peninsula and Prance, the Potentates of the North, they say, have a grand plan of detaching altoge ther the European Lontinent from English preponderance,. which will be a prelude to thi extinction of that power in India. These persons to wisoto we allnde found their opinions, ou the one hand, on the effores• of Russia to extend its relations in . the New World.; its desire to . ,•found new Colonies on the expeditiou of Captain Kotzebeci and on the other, on the measures of England, to place 1 1 bounds to the ambition of Ittissis, as may be soeigstrom its . care in establishing pegor between Persia and . the Prides and by the proteetton which it has afforded to the Greeks and the Parini of Egypt---(Mereure de Soualie.) : French Rents% 91 ,i 0 buyers ; : Splash 41 8 ditto; Scup 3 to I pro. Al puss. * I LAIIIIMIQCS, September 116.—Mr. Settee, a lawyer, formerly an officer, when the Censorship of the Press was introduced in the Canton of Vaud, gave up the Editorship of " The Friend of Truth" to-his publisher, and commenced about a month ago a new political and literary journal, called "The Faithful ' Friend of Truth." This journal, as well as " The Friend of though-under a very strict censorship, has jest been ashamed bye dectee of the Council of State of the Can ton of Vaud . 14 these terms : • ••• . • Cobsidering that the Journal printed at lasimulne under the.title . of the Faithful Friend of Truth,' is written as far .as concerns the past,' historical news,' in an imprudent spirit, dangerous in the Brenta eireutastances, and which may injure the Canton in its political relations, by virtue of the powers given to the CoeociLof State by the Decree of the lath day of May, 1823. • 'Tile Journal called the " Faithful Friend of Truth" is sup-, pressed as a PoliticalJournsl, for the part called "historical news" and notice shall be given to M. 11. Segue accordingly.' For some years past, Messrs. Gautier and Despinasse, ex 4 cooventionalists, enjoyed like many Other exiles, a hospitable asylum in Switzerland. Last Friday the Council of State of the Canton of Vaed; was obliged by a diplomatic note, that came from Berne; to communicate to these Gentlemen, an Order to depart for the United States of America. This Decree was like a clap of thunder to these old Gently- Wen, who hoped to live in peace to the,eaCof *Mr worth career, amidst their family and (deeds,: Baron Nils Oyllenstierna has presented a formal claim to the Diet for the sum •of 468,1419 rix dollars, Prussian currency, which he affirms to be due to his family for the Crown of Swe den. King Charles VIII. had en original bond of the city of Dantzig for 16,000 marks in silver. This King was the foun der of the family of Ciyilenscerna, In whose possession the bond remained from father to son. Bat Charles XII. lighting money to pay his troops, gave a written order, dated 28th hlvy, 6 1704, to receive this bond from Lieutenant Col one l B ar on Nil s • Genesee Gyllenstierna ; and lien compelled the city of Dant elfj;by the threat of military execution to pay him the princi pal and interest, with the sum of 66,437 rix dollars, formally promising that the family of Gylleustierna should be repaid oat • of the public treasury. This claim has pow increased to the above mentioned sum. • ' Sr. PETERSCUO. SEPT. 10.-It is said that Count Wessel rode will hare a personal conference with Lord Strangtordwo I the affairs or Turkey. It Is supposed that the whole empire will be divided into Go. .yersioents, each containing four Governments, as has been lately done wish the Baltic Provinces, and with White Russia. After two contradictory despatches from the Duke d'An. gouletne r at third bas arrived, stating that the King of Spain and the whole Royal Family, arrived at Pori St. Mary's, the French' bead quarters, on the lit, inst. For what purposes or on what terms, it is not stated; and we are left entirely in the dark, both *as to the events which prevented Fer dlnand from leaving Cadiz on the 29th, and as to what afterwards enabled him to go to the head quarters of the French on theist iust. That he left Cadiz as the negotiator ‘ I for the Cortes is not at all probable; and it is not easy , to define•the motives which have led to Isis liberation. We 4 must wait for the next arrivals to explain these matters; l and in the interim, spatulation will not be idle, as to she 1 1 possible fate of the authors of the Revolution. It is possi ble, though we confess we have no great hope it will prove so, that the Cortes in liberating the King have no iusmedi. • ate lutention of surrendering Cadiz. As an individual, it is of no moment where the King is :—and we are by no means certain that it would not have been the wisest plan to have left him at Madrid, and to have declared him a prisoner in the bands or the invading army. At the head of the furious and rat..tic Royalist faction, he would ere this have been quarrellin g w i t h hi s f ore i gn frit nds ; and even now his presence will ... g o more to distract their councils, than to tranquillize the contr.,. Th e New Vince- hopes that he will be counselled by France England to adopt prudent measures; and a proclamation lon Lis liberation from the custody of Napoleon is referred to, in which he declares that " Liberty and serurity,l individual and royal, shall be guaranteed by laws which, while they insure public tranquillity and order, shall leave to all my subjects the enjoyment of that rational liberty which distinguishes a limited (loverament from a despotism." The paper above quoted adds, that " upon these principles, Europe has a right to demand than the " Government of Spain shall now be established." Upon these principles, however, Europe has no inclination to act. This proclamation, be it remembered, was published during the existence of the Constitution which it is now proposed to destroy. The sentiments were never the sentiments of Ferdinand, but of the Constitutional sninisters. The words were 'put into his month by such men as Quiroga and Ittiego; but they could n ver be itn planted in a heart replete with hypocrisy, ingratitude, ferocity, and revenge. He soon set aside the prin ciples of this ,proclamation of 1814; he substitituted his will for the law ; and instead of a rational liberty, and a limited government, he exhibited to the world a sys tem of royal caprice, and fiendlike cruelty. The very authors of the proclamation, for which the New Times finds it convenient to praise him, were banished, imprisoned, and some of them even put to death. And if Ferdinand could act in this manner towards us4n who had redeemed his kingdom, and preserved him a throne, in what manner may he be expected to treat those who have curbed his fury; who have put the bit into his mouth, and reined in the royal madness? They must be objects of hiS bitterest hatred; and in the restoration of his authority, instead of the country being tran q uilli ze d, , it will be the scene of horrors, to which all past expe rience of royal mischief will be trifling. We may also ask whether the sentiments of that proclamation are recognized by the Potentates of Europe? Do they raise the standard of limited governments ? France is nominally a limited Monarchy; but it is in fsot an absolute tyranny. No one pretends Om Austria, Russia, ._and Prussia, are limited gnveromfmts. This proclamation {LB. Lit. DYi. U . o .llolland 1.....Vunbr0 0 o.... France 0 I ...Flanders..: 0 • ....0 PRICE OF HTOCKS THE 3 perStoek 3 per Ct. Red• • • •••• • • •.• • 3 p. Ct. Cons • • • Ani 34 per Cent.. t per Cente " . _ _ DAY Al' 01411 C O'CLOCK. India Stock .16bL $fl Ditto Bondi 68 67 Bali 91.2 d, 39 38 40s pto4 • 10001. ... 30 3S 40 ins —Small . —s 34) 41 pa Latteryrickets. . ill.l9s. C*o. for ... • Nrw F 005.::..:.: eil Long 'Ann. ..a. Imp. per Ct..... Sn Che Sbtatetottan. " FRIDAY. EVEN INO. 061OBER 10, 1823. Svocx Excita'Noc, 12 O'Ct.ocu, l -2Coneols opened this win fog at 83 fur the Account, Rod fephiosey 83L with very lit tie business doing, as the public are *Siang for•the account of tee !Amender of Cadiz. An Express has arrived this morning from Purls, bet It if supposed it only brought the Papers of Wednesday evening. which are already anticipated. FOREIGN FuNos.—The most bnifne , s doing is in Poyals, Colombian, and Spanish Bonds. All other securities ara no minal. New Spanish Bonds, 27U—Old Spanish, 314 to S —Russian 814—Poysis., iiii--French Scrip, 2/1. By the arriv4l of an Express to-day, we are enabled to add to the intelligence inserted in a preceding column, the following extraLts from the kdoile of Wedaea• day. GRAND HEAD QUARTERS. PORT SAINT ARV'S, SEPT. 29.—We are now returned to Port Saint Mary's. The, whole of the day we were in expectation of seeing the King arrive. The Spaniards abandoned themselves to the greatest joy. At a (planer of an hour after twelve 'O'clock. we saw coming into the port, a ship with a flag of truce, sent from Cadiz. All the population, both French and Spanish, ran towards the port. They thought it was the King; but Alava, and the Cunt Torres landed. Our soldiers were fusiouiel that they were not perni:tted to attack the Island of Leon yesterday; and on coming to assist the landing. of the Flag of truce, cried out, " Where is the King?—the King, or • the assault!" Never was an army • seen that displayed more enthusiasts. His Royal flightless would not receive this new Envoy, and we set off again fur Chiclana. PORT Sr. MART. SEPT. 29 . —His Royal Highness arrived here at 9 o'clock in the morning, with all this Staff. Yes terday he ran the greatest danger. His Highness entered in one of the trenches, which were open on the side of the Bay of Santi Petri. The enemy perceiving him with a numerous Staff, immediately tired a shower of balls and grape shot. A ball passed over his Highness's head, as he was traversing the parapet of Sand. The Monitcur contains the following, which Las been addressed to the Ambassadors of the ,Maritime Powers : " 1 have the honor to announce tp your P.Oellency, that the Government of the king has given orders to raise the blockade of the Spanish Ports of Conlon*, St. Sebastian, and Santona, which have surrendered. Neutral vessels will be admitted without difficulty. (Sig►xd) " CHATRAUBBIAND:' By the Flanders and Hamburg Mails. which have arrived this morning, we have received Brussels papers of the 7th instant, and Hamburg of the 3d. From these we have selected the following extracts : FRANKFORT, September 0.--Her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa of Prussia, is destined in marriage to the young Duke of Brunswick. The Priticgas is lb year, of age ; future consort IA. Letters from Aleppo of the 4th July, have been received at Smyrna, in which it is said, " The earthquakes have not yet ceased, but the shocks return ouly at long intervals, and are but slight. What, however, still keeps us uneasy, is that violent shocks continue to he frequently felt about Antioch and Alexandretto. The Porte has sent hither a Capidgi Banta to take possession of the property of the victims of the Ca tastrophe, who have left no heirs. STUTTGARD, September 98.--Franee having refused to • . allow the Greeks to pass through France, who come through Germany to embark fur their owo country, the Government of Wurtemburg has given orders to send back all those who shall henceforth present themselves at the frontiers of the kingdom, because their passage through Wurtemburg would net facilitate their object of returning to their country. The Swiss-Milton' adopted the same measure some time ago. According- to the report of those last arrived, 130 were to arrive title autumn Id the South of Germany. . , :, . ♦u. .I...,Dublin 1....)Materf0rd..:..0 0..al k J ersey• 0 o.... Lisbon 2 0 ....eoti•nbers I Is therefore as hostile to the docrines of the tlo'y Alliance, as the Spanish Constitution itself : and instead of demanding that Ferdinand should govern upon such principles, they will assuredly demand that he shall govern upon principles directly oppo. site to these. The Regency cry out aloud for an absolute King. The Holy Alliance proclaims that all Kings shall be absolute : and if England should demand the establishment of a Go►ernmeat that should be a little more rational, that demand would be laughed at by the magnanimous Allies. But there is no great danger of our interference in behalf of just principles of government. Th. affection of our Ministry fur absolute power is as g reat as that of any other cabinet iu Europe. The selection of the moment when the Kin s of Sp. iu and Portage' had newly *claimed th. mselves despots, for the presentation of the orders of the garter, by our gracious Monarch, sufficiently shoves the disposition of his advisers, and the nature of the system they would Ti k e to see re-established in Spain. They will not, however, thank the Spanish Royalist Faction for openly avowing the principles on which they act. They would prefer' wearing a mask, and affecting to be very moderately inclined : bat they would arrive at the same conclusion iu reality, and make form the stalking horse of deception. Another case equally itrocious with the committal of Mr. Watts, sod more detrimental in its consequences, has been reported by a cotemporary journal. A poor barge man guilty of the same .offence with Mr. Watts, in conse quence of sudden indisposition, was Lid hold of by a Con stable in Hyde Park, committed to prison by a Marlborough Police Magistrate, and detained in custody nineteen days. The consequences were the loss of a constant place of co -1 ployment, and the degradation and personal inconvenience I.of this unjust punishment. It is really time that a public lesson was read to these gentlemen oho misuse their authority so abominably. We must impute no bail motives to them ; but if these acts are committed in ignorance, they ought to be instantly removed, and more competent per. sons put into their places. If they err through mere care lessees., and a neglect to inquire into the particulars of the cases which they are called to decide upon, we suspect they are liable to actions for damages, on the part of its Ate who are injured by them. The nanaber of the Courier Francois, containing* trans lation of the doeument which appeared in The Chroxick of the 2d October, along with the letter of the Duke d'Angou- leme and Frrdinand's answer, namely, the " Extract of a Letter known to contain the sentiments of the Spanish Government, and the leaders of the popular cause," bas been seized. After so many measures of the French Government of a similar character, we ought not perhaps to be surprised, that the Bourbvn Government should be mean enough to wish to s►►ppress the statements of the Government with which they are at war. The Constautionnel contains an article on the issue of the late negociations between Russia, Turkey, and Perim. That Persia has been a puppet in the hands of Russia, in making war and peace. without any ostensible reason for either, will be easily believed by all who have paid say attention to the affairs of the East. The motive, however, for the sudden change in the policy of Russia, affords room for some specnlation. We have always said that the lode• pendence of the Greeks was the very last thing that Russia wished for, and that consequently nothing could be more painful to her than their successor. If die Turks had succeed. ell in bringing them again under the yoke, the scenes which took place in the Afore& wh. it Russia formerly stimulated them to rise, and which took place latay in Solo, would have been renewed, and this %mild have afforded a pretext fur Russian interference, which it would have been difficult for any third Power to resist. Fortune however has, on the contrary. declart d in favour of the Greeks, to an extent which very few anticipated Rand the ohjert of Russia ran only now be answered by setrmg the hands of the Turks at liberty. Letters were received yesterday frog Vienna, dated the 25th ult., stating, that it had been linally sgreed on by the Turkish Government to refer all the rein ring points in dispute with Russia, to the arbitration of v.ngland and Austria. Th e Duke of Bourbon met with a serious accita n t while "ntl.-y, on Monday last, in the nrigbbourhood a Chen• tilly. 1i was thrown from his horse, and the conset neoce of the fall the fracture of his thigh hone. The Redwing coop of war, which arrived at Portsmotq i on Wednesday from t.l...diz, is reported to bring despatche► from Sir %V. il'Uourt. It was known at Lloyd's eeteorday that Government wish to contract for 1.000 tolls orshipiAng. for the conveyame of aninitinidon and warlike stores to tsrfu. The appointment of three PatleuieT as C ons ol s to the Republics of Chili, Mexico, and Buenos Ayers is expected to he officially announced in a few days. It Is also expected that they will art out for their respective destioatioos by the end of t'm present month. The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser to the 2‘ith of July, arrived yesterday. On the 24th of July the Royal Commission, empowering J.l'. Bigge, Esq. and W. M. G. Colebrook, Esq. to inquire into the state of the laws, administration, &c. of the Cape of Good Hope and of the Mauritius and the island of Ceylon, was opened in the f resealed of his Excellency the Governor, in the Hall of the Court of Justice at Cape Town. The Gazette of the 29th contains a comparative statement of the Exports from the Cape for the years 1821 and 1822, which affords most sails factory evidence of the rapid progress of the Colony la Commercial prosperity. Accounts from Port-au-Prince state, that a law had recently been adopted in the Republic of Hayti, for the establishment of a uniform system of weights and met sures, and of the method of effecting sales. The law enacts, that there shall in future be but one mode of sellwg the productions of the island, and various of them which have heretofore been sold by the vert, shall in future be sold by the hundred. Molasses are in future to be sold per quintal. The new law also enacts, that any violation of its provisions shall result in a confiscation of the property of the offender, tile one-half of which shall go to the Goya* ment, and the remainder to the informer. BARON Vote Boreal/oz.—We understand that an appli cation was made in the King's Bench Chamber on hiondafr before t heir Lordship". for the discharge of Baron Von Hoffman; arrested at the suit of an American Jew, aid confined on the affidavit of Mr. Cooke. the Attorney. (W readers will recollect that the Baron was twice brought IP before the Commissioners at the Insolvent Gout, when hi was heard in his defence ; at the last hearing the farther consideration of the case it as postponed until a reply slid', have time to come fron America tooching sonic points o f the subject. After bracing Counsel yesterday in support of, a nd against the applicators for 'his discharge, then Lordships seemed inclined to admit the Baron to his liberty on his own recegniaance, bat have taken a little time for consideration.—(Dublin Morning Post ) NOM fro . f . ; • tO cosOttY. f r :p , ?• be, 'pop fl OP!WWII giontly , Cape . I Th ebesnal same, I This su Lattakl guess t L - -they ioten t ik TI taken these . rh jo. Gazer/ loderau etnnee igd•ot .found t . Earop lottfitri • /Wive joicin; . • lOUS, . with • . uounti • our , very Ai • Ore ‘ 4 ll ants I they ii 1011tiorl they • wreck •4;rtfre • 1 whom • • this t thwir they • wit.irl) tLr,ll • need) aireac severe they i ]Us[. Chief .thew evenii awl t glutei them their succo or Kr count guide ' • lity tli when Becht .will L are ea an Oh i;as6l :by tin Unit They *rem IVP all of 11 the i they well the I Chil as Ii it w is u S?g CA,