The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-09-24 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS OF SUNDAY. (From the Moisiteur of Sept. 21.—Official Part.). TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. MARSHAL LAURISTON TO THR MINISTER OP WAR. " Orcoyen, Sept. 15,1523. " Tomiorrow morning the French troops will enter the 'tevrvielPaerpelena; the citadel was taken possemion *Mgt night. The Legitimate Muncipality will also enter an lionr . afterwards, escorted by the French toops,j94 tw9 companies of Spaniards." The Journal des Debra* contains intelligence from Port St. Mary's to the 12th inst. Up to that penal no other attempt had been made to annoy the Constitutionalists, and the grand attack on the Isle of Leon seethed to bare bees suspended. The.same paper announces the receipt of •very satisfactory, intelligena respecting the malady at Passage; in proof of whisk it is observed, that most of the patients had resevered; that only a few had died; and that on thel7elethe number of the sick was 27, of whom only 2 cases appeared to be mortal. The Journal de Toulouse contains the following letter, dated Perpignan. Sept. lb:—"The Marshal continueswith his ton the side of Vale, and no new attack has yet taken, Tarragona against the Constitutionalists. Oar form are scarcely sufficient to blockade at the same time the Stu, Figeeras. Hostalrich. to restrain the garrison of %regions and to combat Milan. M. Maignan, Lieutenant-Colemel of the 60th of the line, who is to pro ceed to Paris: arrived at Perpignan yesterday evening, and will continue his journey to that capital without' delay. It is presumed that be is employed to make tlovernmeat acquainted with the *de of the 4th corps of the. army. • Seme timeirreinforeements have arrived; as for instance, the 600 men of whom es base already spoken. awl after wards about 900 for• varlons regiments, but it is easy, to • perceive that these will sot suffice. To-morrow all which is disposable in the depot* of this town will depart. The Journal de Perpirsan says—" A letter from St. Fries du Lobregat, of the sth of this month. mentions that a band of eight or ten Spaniards and Frenchmen had been traversing the aeighbourlag villages, where there were no troops, and levying coatribations. The inhabit ants themselves arrested these plunderers, and took them • ta• the head quarters. They -Were sentenced by a Court ifikrtial to the ponies:meat due• to their crimes, and were consented near St. Feleu on St. Augustine's Day. CORRESPONDCNOIS Immesh TIM DURK or RILOGIO +AND TUE SPANN' ILICOSSICIr. SERUM Stn—After the verbal assurances which veer Serene Highness gave me that the insolent Address of the Army of NILTSTTO should not see the light, I have been ex tremely sorry to learn that at this moment it is printing at the printing office of Called°. In consequence of this I have taken the necessary measures to stop the whole im pression, and to prevent the publication of any copies which may be struck off. 1 am about Umiak* every possible in quiry talears the sourer of this Map proceeding, and to . punish, very severelv,these who any have been guilty. • Madrid, Aug. 20:18'2.3. • EXCZLIANT Sit—Tbe Regency has received, with pain. ful aitonisliment.theletter which your Excelleney addre.ted to it this day. It repeats, * writing, those assurances it gave yen verbally, viz. se legitimate authority mold give, and is fun has not Oren. the pensissies necessary to .have the dosumeut hi mission printed. The Regency has, how everoaken aiessures. to knew how all this has happened; and although he agents have found the printing office of Cailado surrounded by French gee d'arntes, ;cif the Logi-I imam Governineat of Spain had not a sufficient number of public foactionaries, the Regency,bu learnt that the rimier. deceived by sour oaknowa person, expected every mea...t to receive the permission to print the Address, and had in consequence, began. the work. The Regency begs that your Eecelleney will emu the papers seized t o . be put into the hands of a Judge of the First Instance, in order that the tribunals may punish this excess. God preserve your Breelleney. Madrid, August 30. SCRIMS have the honour to transmit to your Highness herewith a copy of the written penededee; virtue of which the printer at Callado's thought hisaeolf authorised to print the insolent Address of the Army ef Navarre. lit fabt he was 'authorised, for I am informed that the signature .. .it the bottom of the permission is that • of the person appointed by your Highneirs to eierche, a Ceetonhip over the 'prose. 1 shall send an exttsofdipiry testier to his Royal Highness the Doke of Anemias,. `giving him an exact account of every thing lehich has rued, and demanding from his Royal Highness the neces.l sary authority for preeeding similar excesses in future • from opposing the paternal views of my august Sovereign with regard to Spain. In the mean time. without passing the limits of the authority' with which I am invested, I shall know how to . pot - a•stop to the effrontery, the spirit of discord, and th, Insolence of certain Spaniards.. I have the honour, fie. Madrid, Sept. 1, 1823. RIGHTS OF SEPULTURE. men— , . An opiates has been obtained from Mr. O'Connell on this question, which, as it is one of very deep, as well as exciting interest, we lose no time in laying **fore the public " There is no Statute Law preventing a Catholic Priest from pl•aying for a decraieffeatbelic in a Churchlard. The mistake on this subject originates in a misapprehension . (frequently a wilful one); of the Statute of the 21st and 22d of the late King, cap. 24. sec. ff. But the section contains no . prohibition. ft Is not. in itself, any enactment of a positive or affirmative nature. It operates merely by way of exception. and it simply deprives such Catholic Priests as may offi ciate at a funeral in a Church or Church. yard, of the benefits conferred by that Act. "Now, no Catholic Priest does. at present want the benefit of that Act at all. It is, in truth, now a dead letter, remaining with much similar lumber on the Statue, Book, creating no lights, constituting no privative, unless in its enactments, nugatory in its exceptna. " next question asked me is, whether the prayli for the Dead by a Catholic Priest at a Funeral or in a Church-yard is prohibited by the Common Law?? My answer is, that it is not. The Catholic Religion had pre existence in the Common Law; it was adopted into the Common Law as part and parcel of that Law. So the Law continued until what is called the Reformation, in the reign of Henry VIII. The Catholic Religion being thus part and parcel of the Common Law. it follows, necessarily. that praying . von the Dead could net be prohibited either at Funerals, in Church-yards, or elsewhere. On the con. trary, it was at Common Law part of the duty of the Priest, and be was hotted to pray for the Dead at Funerals or in Church-Teri.. And it was reciprocally one of the rights of the Ring's Subjects at Common Lay to haie prayers said for the Death ripaelic Priests arFenerais, and in Churchyards. --- " Thus, such prayers Mt befog prohibited, Mit, on the contrary, being enjoined at Common Law, and there being no Statute to forbid such praying, it follows, as a matter of coarse, that no Catholic Priest can be legally prevented from praying for a deceased Catholic. at a funeral in a Charebiard. • • Tbeitezt question turns upon the mode of redress, should a Catholic Priest be prevented from thus officiating. As to tkat, lam of opinion (bat with some doubt that as actiois would lie at the suit of the Executors of the • person who prevented a tigbolic the Churchlard over the li'ody , as I am unwilling to advise be avoided, I think the best la the peaceful but determined Let the friends of the deceased Priest and the body during the ser• which may arise come from the pre. _ u WEDNESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 24, 1823. STOCK EXCHANGE, 12 O'CLOCK..--.COOSOIS' opened this morning at 83k looney. and 83/ to /, for the account, with a good deal of business doing. The Expresses from Paris bring the french Reines 90. 30, and Spanish, 42k. Poulton. MARIKET...... Spanish Bonds opened at sq.— Colombia, 531—Russia, 831 to 81—French Scrip. 2 toi— The moat business in the above market this mores, is io Spanish and Colombian Bonds. We have to-day received Paris papers of Monday. and of yesterday morning, from which we select the following in teresting extracts : (PROM Vir ETOILZ, lIIPT. 22.) GRAND HEAD QUARTERS. POET SAINT MARE'S, SEPT. 13.—The Major General has arrived, preceded ihy the Duke d'Angouleme. .The preparations are pursued with rigour at Rota, Port Saint hariev, and Chiclana. It is positive they bare spread re ports at Cadiz that BaHasteros had defeated the French, and that all that was said about his capitulating was false. They also report that the Et:valued° had published aProcla- Nation, statiag that the Duke d'Argonleme caused himself to be named King of Spain. The Meilitia have disarmed two argil:seats of the line, in whom they could not plane cosedence. Cannon have been placed in the streets against the inhabitants, as we wrote you yesterday; and they were obliged.to cause the King to appear to calm the people. MADRID, SEPT. 17.—The following is from Cabra, in the kingdom of Graancla, of the 11th Sept.:— • Since the 44th of August the troops nader Ballesterns ere cantoned here, aod it 'Sestina. Leona. and Priego. Riego, hoping to. Oa deem ever to the Revolutionary cause, having abandoned Malaga to the French, marched en the cantonment with. 3 to 4 thousand infantry, and 7 to 8 hundred horse. Yesterday about 9 o'clock in the morning be appeared at Priego in the front of Ballasteros, who was in a defensive position en the road to Granada, while the division of General Ignace Ralanzat occupied the right of Calvaire Priego. Immediately the fire of the tirailleuts commenced, and Riego demanded a suspension of arms, to come to a parley. Ballasteres accepted an interview, and it was agreed that both parties should keep their posi tions. All appeared as if arranged. whet the escort of Riego fell unperceived on that of Ballasteros, and 4siis armed them, and held the general as prisoner in the boss. in which he was at Priegs with Riego. General Ralarsalt, informed of the treachery, harangued his troops, sailon mediately made dispositions to act against Riego; and.; corps which are here are marching (mike same point. ;:illfl ' expect to hear of a battle. P. S.—At the critical moment, the French commanded by General Borenemain. appeared and attacked the corps of Riego, petting them completely to the route. and the Revolutionist Chief was pursued.—(Elßataurador.) Quiroga it is said, who landed at Gibraltar, has succeeded in getting into Cadiz. L'Empecinado, whose band has been reduced to 300 men, bas dared to summon Placentia on the 10th, and de manded a contri►ution of 60,000 reels, which, if net com plied with, be threatened he weald reduce the town to ashes. Letters from Rabid of the 19th Sept. announce that Riego, who wished to save himself with three officers, after the destruction of his troops, has been arrested by the pea sants of Carolina. A telegraphis despatch announces the arrival at Rome of the Cardinal di Clermont Tonoere on the 10th inst. The Captain General of Old Cutille, has ordered several squadrons to march on &jar and Placentia. We leers at the same time that the Count Laruchejaquelie, with his whole brigade. has marched on Truzillo.—(Restanardor.) The Monitear of the 22d September, contains a long balletin aired " Onilleminot," giving an amount floe Molitor, Commander•in•Cbief of the 2d corps, of the afralr Priest from Pa i n t of their TestaZ g litigation wbere it say remedy would be (Allied eseertioe of , the •rigtt. L peaceably surround the Pei vise, Lot soy *Om wb THE ST, seating parties, and tips ,the tedbriduals to veliiiluillat violence may be used will have a distinct right of or, may ,proceed by indictment against the p 4 hini who .V., AMW.,, counties th em May be the na iind-it nal a Ann that the Magistrates tinged (te Te!k incqlto r o.ob Otlage. not dp edict justita to the Catholics en at vcosiqn qf tins sort, its every. case thelaßtottinCis soon as found, should be rem* by certiorari into the . King's Bench, *here every body ours of meesiorgiespaseise•inseloe. -If Grand lilies, action, on a similar had feeling, throw out the Bills of indictmeoti the Conrt of King's Bench, upon making out, by . affidavit, a proper case for that purpose, will greet a criminal infor mation. " Thus it will be found that there are abundant means for the Catholics to maintain this their undoubted right. I am decidedly of opinion that it ought to be asserted. Tbo Catholics may as well at once abandon the tombs of thsk fathers and relatives, es submit to the petty and tyranoieal bigotry which now seeks, unjustly and illegally, to deprl them, at moments of the greatest and most bitter aorrow,4l the awful but melancholy coneolations of their Holy Religion. " l therefore repeat my decided opinion, that the Catho lics have a right to these prayer'. and that such right should be exerted with determination, but peaceably and without any illegal violence whatever. . 4 DANIEL O'Coxrcasa.." • 11A118.. 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It is said he will replace Reggio. The Mari ner Tilers has set off for Port Saint Mary's. The accounts received from Baron de Retonrs. Rear Admi ral before Cadiz, states, that during the month of August, the French fleet stationed at the manna, of Santi Petri, under the orders of TAeuteneurrtotet, has taken. sunk, and burnt Illivessels of different sizes; most of them laden with corn, destined for Cadiz. [FAOM TIM PILOT!, Seer. 23t1.] Two different reports were spread on Change. One a.- saved us that Riego bad got into Cadis ; the other the eon trary, and that that General was made prisoner in the moon• tains of Rends; but the first report seems to be more credible, because it agrees with what has been said In the Foreign Journals. The rentes hare experienced a decline, owing - perhaps to the opinion that we will not treat with the Cortes. M. K•l 4 , who had done a great deal in Indigo, on 'Change, bag blapia out his brains this morning. [raise TIM NILOTIC,/ TESTOSODAT.] ROPORT OP LIEUTONAriT CISSERAL ROTTONBOURO TO TOO MINISTER OP WAIL.--(AOSTRACT.) PERPIGNAN, SaPT. 17.—8 y my last report informed your Excellency of the dispositions I had made to succour the troops of the 9th &fish's of the 4th corps.— Having learnt as certain, that the enemy, who made a feint to march in Urge!, had gone for Fi• gueras, immediately gave orders to General Areauld to join General Dumas, to reinforce the blockade of ?ignores, if he should find the enemy escape our troops byforced marches. After a sharp action on the lath, at Llardo, which terminated on the 18th at Llers, all the remains of the enemy's column of near 90 A men, which disembarked on the night of the 9th or 10th, between.hlason and liongat, coming from Bareelona. surrendered to General Gums. This brilliant affair does hi nour to General Dumas, whose troops were inferior to the enemy. . . - We have today again an arrival from Bayonne, which brings us the following nails : B TONVE, Sept. 16.—The Commissioners of the Board of Health, who. have been to examine on the spot the state of the pestilential disorder at Passage, and to arrange all the necessary means of precaution, returned to this City the day before yesterdat. There seems to be toe mach reason to fear that it is really the yellow fever, though several agents of Government have endeaveured to persuade us. that it is'a typhus or hospital fever, which will not extend Its ravages beyond the spot where it originated. However, a respectable cordon, has been finned in part by the troops of our garrison, and we may hope that the disorder. which is at Passage. will not be communicated. Only one thing is to be feared, and that is, that the space of six weeks having been suffered to elapse, before the adoptiOn of measures of precaution, time may have been given to the contagion to spread ; for we know that all the population of Passage has quitted it, with the exception of some bnideed individuals, who, are too poor or too sick, to think of seeking their safety by Bight. The Lazeretto of Sekobis is going to be retstabfillsed, and another formed beyond the Bidaasoa: We have no official news, and the consequence is, as usual, the circulation of numberless unanthentiented re. ports, inconsistent with each other; some quite absurd, and others evidently false. Thus we are told • that the Spanish General Lorelei& has entered Malaga; that Ballasteroe has defeated General Molitor, who was nearly made prisoner; that Lopez Banos has entered Toledo, with a respectable forge ; that a mud. my has broken out in the garrison of Cadiz, and that one regiment has made itself masters of the King's person ; that the fort of Panudes has been .blown up by the Governor, who was bribed to perform this service.—Accounts that are mere worthy of credit, being derived from letters of a recent date from Port St. Mary, say the story of the blow ing up of the Fott Pontales has no other foundation than the burping of some (wines, which were used in the con• struction of some advanced batteries; and the mutiny in Cadiz is confined to partial quarrels between the soldiers who have returned from the Trocadero. and tbeitt wbee Item the garrison of Cadiz. . ' Our letters from Madrid of the lith, are sot quite sodality). tory respecting the state of public opinion in that city ; be- i eause the Regeeey shows ae implaeacable hatred . to the parti- las of the revolution, as meth as the revolution itself. The agents who left Madrid some time ego, were charged with a 'secret mission to get addresses sent from all qoarters against lie establishment of a constitutional system, all such Innova tions being the work of thedevil, the distractloa of Religion lioin et the laws. Numerous petitions have already arrived.— Therefore of an amicable arrangement still matinees ; bet in I general little confidence is placed in it. The troops that were at Madrid suddenly marched away in the, night of the letk, and their destination not being known. It Ira aid they were going to attempt to get possession of Bantu and Coined Rodrigo; while others assert that they did at take that AI- I radon, but marched on the road to Barre. General sound[ was expected every moment it Madrid with some troops.-- It was said that helves to take fora time the place of the Duke Reggio. wholtavlng received an express en the 11th, was ring to place ralitlf et the bead of a aim" for some very As hostilities are palmated, the number elmeeetlioi le the lielipillits surmises, a, that it has bees me weary to einsittr — Ma — deli for a apply Ofeargeoas. It should helm that there- it a volt /Mabee of sick at Vittoria,. for Neigh the hospital le thst chyle very large, It li reported that *woad Is gots; to 'be established. We hear that toe Moth fteglmencnow adlordeaux, is to emu iriguut here for our garrison. . • Our paper of yesterday contained the Spanish account the operations of the force under General Milans, agar. the invaders, on the 28th nit. in which a candid carrat is given of a most obstinate encounter, in which the P were at last defeated. by 9 char of bayonet ala their' wbo~e ' line. It is impossible to read thi is prop! Ipanish courage, and deyotion to the liberties of vithout being astonished that the light which so brilliantly here, should be so feeble and uncertain i s other portions of the same country. The invaders s not merely held in check in Catalonia; but they Re met in the field, and combatted hand to hand ; nor is it too much to say, that in that'quarter they have been compler e i, out-generalled, and disappointed.sThe names of Mina asr; Milan stand in bold relief from the host of fools and ini. ton who have betrayed the cause of their country in of districts ; and it is not without the limits of possibi;ity that they may be able ultimately to save their country from foreign dictation, should Cadie fall like Corinna, aad, Pampeluna. The conquest of the latter place must haw been owing either to the fears, or to the treachery of it officers. The citadel could not have been taken by assault sithout immense loss on the part of the assailants ; and tb Spanish soldiery have gives ample proof that they are is unwilling to perform their duty. From Cadiz thereare so further arrivals. This is enc raging; but we trust that we shall shortly hear that grand attack has been wade, and defeated. Sacb as II would form an epoch in the contest ; and the reettif would hare a favourable influence on the filar* operaties of the war. We are told that there are two parties in Cadiz ; and that one party wishes for a capitulation, but that tf other is the strongest for the present. This is ail true, se tare say,te the very letter. It would be very strap there were not a few blockheads, or mercenary knaves among so large a population; but as fear, er isterek, rules the pacific party. these motives keep quiet, and though they may wish the &emelt to Ahey are not likely to render them any effectual &Will I•ence. to order to excuse the delay of the grand attack, we are told that the French deer, havi4 been fitted ea hastily from differeut ports, is not capable of plowing is part to the murderous drama. This, however, mast bee been known before; and, again, how is this disinter to be remedied. Must the ships go back to French ports to be refitted, and prepared for this new service ? The same wawa, in its anxiety to find abundance of reagens fer, delaying to oonquer the last refuge of the Cortes, says that the Duke d'Angbuleme is waiting the arrival the new Admiral, who will be there en the 16th a 20th. inst. In the interim, we have no doubt bat Ow the French are actively employing the mere elide strtillery of bribery ; and the veal CSILS• of the delay, is to be found in the hope thatch* virtu* of the Cortes ml be subdued, and the gates of •ho reposed b, s guides key. We are enabled to state, on good authority, that Bra ten have received information of the recommencement 4 hostilities on the 9th instant before Cadis. This mat of great importance in assisting us to specalate with respect to the Issue. Indicating as it does a transmit the part of the Conetkutiusalima, we are warranted is it. femng that 'they have good snood for dour confidence.— (Monti*, Chimmiek.) it was stated in a morning paper of yesterJey,tbstfk 'Robert Wilson was at Gibraltar on the let of the mold. We have occasion to know that our gallant countryman. really in Cadiz, and that be took an wive part in the ae gomations which preceded the recommencement of bueili• tees.—(Morning CAremicle) Mr. O'Connell bat given so *pinion, which we lase inserted is .aiosther column, that Catholic priests bass a right teread the funeral sertlce in Church-yards; and W recommended, as we did, that instead of going to law to assert the right, the Catholics should go la a body I. protect their priests frees interraption, if any sbeald be offered by the opposite party. ACCURACT or Gascairriow.—A morning paper gives, letter from the Cape of Good Hope, in which as nut it described as taking place, ",two Isimdred mike is hied I Lateakoo _ . The nutnber of Prosecutions in Great Britain for Libel, Blasphemy and Sedition, from 31st December, 1812. to 3k December, 1822. tea year*, appears, by an ot6ci•l retire, to amount to TWO 'MUNDRIO AND BVVINTT ! Au enduring - - - - monument. observes the Scotsmen, to the memory of Imai CARTLIRII66II. A surveyor it win lows of all inhabited hoes.' is new being made in this city by order of the Board of Tales. — Having given up half the duty, the Commissioners seen deter mined to make the most of what remains —(Ezeite Paper.) We understand it is the opinion of the hoard of Team that Victuallers are not entitled to exemption ander tie Act of Geo. IV. cap. 2, for the windows in their bars et parlours.—(Hanspedire Telegraph.) We are informed by passengers who have leaded bees from the West India Islands, that the • predate of Seer and Coffee has bees very great this season. At Trinidad. there were not enough.shipping to load it.—(Portrareati Paper.) The harvest in Sweden is nearly finished ; the first pea was cat on the Bth August, near Elsinberg. The ways both in Sweden and Denmark are abundant. The weather is now is now fine, but there has been much thunder aed lightning at Copenhagen this summer. Commerce is eta low ebb, and agriculture quite as low ; land selling for a mere tritle.—(piabstegh Couraid ) ORIGINAL YORTRAIT OF COLVAIIIINL--(FrOfll the Na reek Daily Adeertiser.)—We are highly gratified to state. that by the last arrival from Spain, our country' is pail possession of an original end celebrated liketiess Columbus. Its more particular history has bees forwarded to Washington, wheat the picture is destined to add It those already ia the Capitol. By a certificate from the Presideat of the National ikIONPIIII2 of Seville, verified la the *lice of the Political Chief of that city, and with is attached to the canvas, we observe that it is identified is all its.parts as an original, and by the same muter wln produced the fall length likeness of Columbus which still in Seville. The certificate further states, that thick the same that was In the Cetinje. It is presented to do natio. by Wargo Bartell, Esq.. United States Coati at Malaga, aeeured the possession of it at Sevilleshf the aid the Prior of the Carta a , when that institidal suffered suppression. The painting itself manife-ts ths head of a master, and is well reserved; but its 6 4 value consists in its being an orig i nal and true likeness , Columbus: as such, to Americans it must be dream' valuable acquisitioa. and to the votaries of palailad triumph of their art. which possesses thus a faculty is rob from the grave that portion of its terrors which is derives from oblivion. H. I. 1