The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-07-22 00:00:00

ff. • ' :4 f 4. OPEXINO OF THE SPANISH CORTES, AND !CLAW'S SPEECH. Every preparation preparation bad befit made for the opening of the Cortes on Sunday, the 9th of July. and t h e King had fixed the hour for ten in the morning. His 3lajesty at that hour left the Palace, accompanied by the Queen and the other Princes of the Blood, at tended by a most magnificent escort. The King and Queen acre received et the door by two deputations, corsisting of twenty-two members each. The King was seated On a sumptnens throne, and near kiwi his Royal relatives. The Queen and the other ladies oc cupied a gallery prepared for them : in another were the Corps biplomatique, Ministers, Councillors of State. Generals, &v. The King proceeded to take the vati.. prescribed by the Constitution, in the hands of the Pr..sitlent and Secretaries.-1 he Archbishop of Seville, H. Josef Bspiga. as President of the Cortes, tho.l addressed the King as follows : •"19te Cortes, in times less refined, although marked with grt•st and sublime virtues. preserved the fundamental laws of tie kingdom. the glory and splendour of the throne, as well a• the prosperity of the nation: but an institution so wise, united the king and people by elevated and noble sentiments of love and loyalty. gradually declined.eventually e l- buried la oblivion, and the nation became the theatre of enriitien, and the king the instrument of bad men. Your siti.ties4 It birth-day was the dawn of the restoration of Svain. when more than thl millions of inhabitants beheld in a young Prises the worthy successor of Mt. Ferdinand. T..ey already congratulated themselves on the flatteting Lopes before them, when, at the very time, in the bosom of the nation, a sacrilegiovs project to destroy the sacred rights of yuir Majesty was formed; a vile impostor, with the hiackest perfidy, introdeeed his hostile armies among us, and tore our beloved Sovereign from the arms of his faithfui Spaniards, at the very moment he, had happily been seated on the tbtow of his ancestors. The Spanish lion was then reused, and a slarelmaeoes and g I cry of vengeance, encouraged the vigorous efforts of the children of Pelagius, ard whilst our brave warriors present their hardy breasts to the enemy, and drive the tyrant's legions from our virtuous land. the fathers of their country, who had been called to gether by the general voice of the provinces, re-establish the 4.* , nstitetion of the Spanish Monarchy, which, by solemnly vit-Aoring the person of the King to be sacred and inv ioloble. better seburvs the Crown oa the head of your Majesty, guards you against the a irked attempts of designing up start., and enables your Majesty more freely to labour for C.- rehire of your people, and the promotion of public yoiTiness. " These worthy Spaniards then thought they could not br!trr' correspond wits the confidence reposed in them by t.te prosiness, nor render to their King a more agreeable d*:t; thee to give firmness to his tottering throne, by resting is sn the basis of the fandamental laws, bequeathed to us by ear enceators. and which. enacted with *shalom. justice, and the general voice. closet! the doors against flattery and us aggression, insured the administration of justice, este idisl.ed an equitable system in the public revenue, and sanc tioned due respect, obedience. and veneration to the laws, as veil as to the Roy al authority. Such were the impressions of the national Representatives in Cadiz. 1 then saw them, Sire, sigh to Heaven, when they remembered the bard cap tivity of their King ; 1 beheld tbese, as bereft children, shed tears of grief and bitterness, anti, humbled before the GA alters of the Lamb of God, beseech him to restore a tender father to the arms of his disconsolate family ; I be belil them. frrmic with joy and gladness, unburden their %pressed hearts when they learnt that Heaven had been pleased to hear their fervent prayers, end that the tutelar Argot of Spain had descended to break amender the chains of tprinny. Such were their generous sentiments, when sordid interest, ambition, atrocious calumny, and cruel vets geence, alter plotting the most detestable machinations in the dark mansion of crime, dared to adviusee even to the Tlrore, and sacrilegiously profane the sanctuary of Ma jesty. Hat, Sire, let us draw a veil over those sad testimo nies of Lumen wealiineas. •• Tbe hrppy day has at length arrived. when a bright star beans in the Spanish horizon, and comes to dissipate the thick elovods which intrigue and wickedness had spread over It, and truth will show herself pith all that brilliancy which ezcites admiration in scow. respect in others. confusion in Miry. and conviction in all. Happily Spain again sees her fortes assembled. the same as those which rendered the reigns of the Alphonsos and Ferdinands glorious; and the most air flow; of nations forgets the outrages, pardons the injuries, and only occupies itsed In the re-establishment of a Consti boast Cloternment. and in the preservation of its religion. and in giving proofs of its gratitude and veneration to its King. already mated on his august Throne in the National omgress, after tailing a solemn oath:Ty% ilkla he has ren dered himself greater than the son of Phillip by Ids con quests in the East. Oh, magnanimous King!. The noble and loyal Spaniards seknotlerige the innumerable evils from h you have bared them by this generous act. by destroy ,itsg the resins of evil which was about to cast the torch of dilsord among us. We all hope that Its venomous germ will soots be ..3mpletely annihilated, and that peace and con. cord will r•ion in its stead, Let dread and distrust, which criminal souls haze sought to inspire into the heart of the Lest of Kings, diseppeer, and let all unite around the Throne with that fraternal alliance which insures order, produces abundance, maintains justice and peace. And may 1, the organ of this Congress, and of the great nation It repre seats, be allowed, Sire, to present to you the due homage of its loyalty, and the noble sentiments by which it Is ani mated. " That same Spain which at all times has given usequi vncal proofs of loyalty and love to her Kings, solemnly wiedget yo you that, if the distinguished shires of our an cestors were always the firmest support of the Throne and the Monarch, their children, who have jest given, dar ing the late bloody war, examples of fidelity almostanknown to past generations, art spa reedy to make sacrifices worthT of Spanish heroes, and the admiration of future mgrs. His Majesty answered in die following words rT.- " I think pen Inc the expression and sentiments of love as& loyalty Odell the cones manifest to we aweigh the ergot of their Tooshiest, end by their compilation I soon hope to see the sedge l have Übe glory to govern, free and 66 1/11. Ilanshars of this House The day has at kerb come, the Alma of my anima selsbea, whoa I behold myself tar, ratsadad by dos Raorsamsatims of the heroic sad irmaroas Stash& sada ; and a memo nib has jest idesdiSed gt 7 islands, sad these of my family, with thole Key re* Whoa dm exams of mils gave rim to this clear ma el fratatiaa al tie general wishes- of the melon, pee tiwasly obsessed by lanseatable circumstances. 'lack • tap be MOW M. oar siensories. I tamantly rt. • THE STATESNI solved to embrace the wished-for storm, and swear to, - IMPERIAL PARLIA3IENT. the political Cow.titution of the Jlouarchv. sanctioned HOUSE OF LORDS. Forest. Jt Le 21. by the General and Extraordinary tortes in 1 Then the crown as well as the nation recovered t h e i r This day their Lordships met at the usual h our. The Sinai) Debts Recovery Bill went through legitimate rights, and toe resolution was so iamb the more free and spontaneous, as it was confarnialele to Committee of their Lordships, and was reported to the my interests and those of the Srairisli people, whose I Mime, after a few words from Lord 11E11E1 , 1).41.K. felicity never ceased to be the object of net intemions. In this manner, my heart indissoluble ships rent into a Committee on this Bill united with the love of me snblects u who are M the I The LORD CHANCELLoR said, he should propose a same time my children, the future presents to me no clause in another stage of the proceedings, for con other than agreeable images of confidence, lute and lining only to cases of nun-payment of money between property. the patties at issue, all the relief which the Bill pro " Iluw great has been my satisfaction in contem- vided in instances of contempt of Court. It did not plating the grand and unparalleled spectacle of a wag- appear to him that site), relief ought to extend, ac nanineems nation that has known to pass from one pit- cording to the principle of the bill, to cases where litical state to another without destruction or violence., Ow agents or when brought actions for the recovery confining its enthusiasm within the bonuds of reason, de"- in circumstances which have covered other less fortn- • The Bill was then reported to their Lordships. nate countries with mourning and tears. The eyes of The Barrack Agreement Bill Was read a third time Europe are now flied on the operations of the Congress re - an" passed.—Ad jou rn ed. presenting this singular nation. From it are expected in dulgence for the past, firmness for the future; sod that at the same time its measures secure the happiness of the present and future generations, they may efface the remembrance of Tate errors ; from it are expected examples of justice. !mai- Scene', and generosity—virtues alwris congenial to Spa niards, and which the Constitution itself recommends, and which hawing been religiously observed during the efferves cence of the people. ought to be still more so iit the Congress of its Representatises, invested with the circumspect and tranquil character of Legislators. " It Is high time to undertake a review of the state of the nation, and •these Indispensable labours necessary to And out remedies for evils produced by old causes, and increased by the foreign Invasion the Peninsula experienced. and the defective system subsequently pursued. _ '• The exposition which will he presented by the Secretary of State on the public revenue will explain to you its decline and arrears, and call forth the :eel of the Fortes in seeking out the most suitable resources aiming those the nation still possesses to meet the obligations and charges of the State. The examination of this point will more strongly prose the essential and urgent necessity of establishing the public cre dit on the immutable basis of jusciee, good faith, and the scrupulous observance ■nd compliance with engagements, on which depend the tranquillity and welfare of creditors. the confidence of our own as well as foreign capitalists, and the convenience of the treasury ; and I fulfil one of the moat sacred ditties Imposed upon me by the ro)al dignity and the lose of any people, by efficaciously recommending this im portant affair to the Cortes. " The administration of justice. It out which no political society can exist, has hitherto almost entirely rested on the honour and probity of its Minister.; but being now subject to known and fixed principles, it offers to the citi zens new and stronger ntotkes of security. and still pro mises further amendments when o u r rod,- has been care fully revised, and shall hare acquired the simplicity and perfection it n.: y receive from the acquirements of the age in which we Ike. m TIIE EDITOR OF THE SIATES.V.I.V. St R—Minugh an enemy to ,00ptdor efebnope, parti cularly on a subject so momentous as that now pending in regard to the Queen of these realms, on which the feelings of the nation cannot he kept too much aloof from party influence, I still ain't that the attempts to attribute every movement of her Majesty's friends to suet a motive, and which have been tOo tobv* ly used by Ministers and their adherents as a parlianientary Attic, cannot Le too much deprecated. Feeling, in common with my fellow-subjeets,a lively interest in the great question of the Queen, I trust I may be allowed (through the mediums of your independent Paper) to offer a few remarks on the fate which the motion of Dr. Lushington met in the House of Com mons on 3londay evening; and from the opportunities my habits of life afford me of ascertaining public opi- Mon, I think I way fairly state, that nsy own send , went% accord with those which appear universal on this occasion. "The army anti navy more particslatly call forms atten tion sad care, and it will he one of try first duties to pro mote their organization in the best manner fur the nation. combining, as Finch as possible, the ads antages of two so valuable departments with the indispensable economy, and rely leg on the patriotism art good is la of the people, anti tat the wisdom of their represmilatisre, on whom I gall with full confidence. " It is to be hoped thnt the estehlishment of the ('onstitu tional system. and the flattering pro•tplet this event presents. by removing the pretext of which the evil-minded might at nil themselves in the ultra-marine provinces, will open the road to the pacification of those still in a state of agitation and difference, and do away with or remote the use of any other means; to which also licontribuX. tie ex- mpies of mode ration and love of order evlneed by Pettiligeler Spain, as well as the meritorious pride of kelonging to so worthy and ge nerous a nation, and the wisi laws which will be prowl gated conformably to the Constitution. in order that past e‘ils being forgotten. all Spaniards may unite round my Throne, sacrificing to the common lore of their conntr) all those remembrances which might break or loosen the frater nal bonds which ought to smite them. " la our relation with foreign nationt., the most perfect harmony generally reigns, with the exception of some dif ferences, which, if they had not disturbed the existing peace, have given rise to disputes which cannot be terminated without the meeting and intervention of the (tortes. Such are those now pending with the United States of Ame rica, respecting the ulterior state of the two Floridss, sod the determination of the Louisiana limits. Disputes also exist on account of the occupation of Montevideo and other Spanish possessions on the left hank of the River Plate; but although the complication of various circum stances has not hitherto allowed the settlement of these differences, I hope that the justice and moderation of the principles which direct our dipiomatic operations will pro duce results honourable to the nation, and conformable to the pacific sv stem, the preservation of which is at present the general and decided political maxim of Europe. The Re gency of Algiers has evinced signs of a desire to renew their former pursuits of restlessness and aggression. In order to avoid the consequences which might arise out of this neat of enspect to esigting conventions, the defensive treaty I enter ed into in itilt3, with the King of the Netherlands. stipulated the assembling of respectable maritime forces of both powers' In the Mediterranean, destined to maintain and secure the freedom of navigation and commerce. It is certainly clear (notwithstanding the nntnanly taunts thrown out by Lord Castlereagh and Mr. S. diertley) that Dr. Lusbiugton would not, in the con , *fictitious discharge of MN duty, have submitted such a *lion if her Majesty the Qenza ha,: not kit folly convinced of her undoubted right to the plate in Ties ' lieu ,'td it is equally clear, that her Majesty would ' cot have allowed that rid Al, or supposed right, to le pressed on the attention of Parliament, had not the indispensable comfort and dignity of her illustrious rank rendered it imperative. We might, therefore, have reasonably looked to my Lord Ca-tlereagli (after having had three days 'o pre pare himself), at least for a more temperate and de reht reply. Was it temperate or decent to insinuate that the Queen must have known she had no right to the plate applied for ; and that she had literally town detected in endeavouring to remove it from this e-untry six years ago? If this was not the Noble laird's meaning, then, I must say, he was unintel ligible. Was it temperate or decent to censure her Majesty in these words : " If, on the Queen's arrival iu this country, she had connoted herself' with that ji•rlin.g which became her rank and sex, there was no per}on who would not bare wished her to receive every thing that could conduce to her comfort and eonve nienee ?" Does the Noble Lord mean to say then, that these comforts and conveniences are withheld, because her Majesty's conduct clues not please him or his colleagues ?—or does he know something since her Majesty's arrival that nobody else knows ?—lf not, what respect has he and his colleagues shown to her rank anti sex ? Perhaps the Noble Lord could have her to answer for his windows being broken in St. James'ysquare, by a few deluded persons, whom nobody can suppose her Majesty allows any thing of, or lie would not have pointed to the circumstance so fi.,./ingl and repeatedly in the course of his speech, and hate applied the thirst fur popular clamour in the way lie did. If the Noble Lord means that the Queen's accommodation should be meastre I out with his and his colleagues' opinion of her conduct--at Least the opinion they dare avow--theu God help her Majesty ! has not her Majesty brim in this country near two months, and has any thing yet been done either fur her " rouifort or conveuieitre?" Nay, will it ever he done so long as these humane Ministers can withhold the means ? They were not quite so sem pions in providing are, ttttt nodatiou for the soldiers in the Regent's Park ; they could there confessedly step beyond the authority of Parliament, though they feel so lilllited in doing any thing fur their Queen. But, forsooth, inv. Lord Castlereagh accuses her Majesty of not having first "c.r/tartsted terry other means" of ob taining this plate (which all the while lays useless) be fore she applied to Parliament.--What petty quibbling ! Is her Majesty to be found, or some one for her, cap in band, continually, like a pauper begging for alms at the door of Lord Liverpool, who was repre sented to have said, that A. had no objection to pro viding a suitable residence for her Majesty ; and that _when this was fixed, the question of plate might Shea • br considered ? So till then ((sod knows asht.4!) her Majesty must shift fur herself in the best way she van. ties royalty come to this; and as Burke once emphatically said, " in a nation of gallant men"— " but the age of chivalry is gone; that of economists, sophists, and calculators, has succeeded." Surely the Sovereign himself, from his well-known gallantry,. will not staffer this degradation to royalty, so closely connected with his own, to be continued, by men who are hitt the panders to it, when it is surrounded with patronage and power. I should hare thought, in the present trying pitiable situation of his wife and eevsio, who bus nothing but her integrity to support her, be would rather have seen " ten thousand swords leap from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult." If Ministers, in the sa. creel sass of the action, are to conduct proceedings so deprecated and anomalous against the first subject in the realm, let them at least do it decorously, and not outrage the feelin,o of the whole country by gulb ' King about her necessary accoutmodation. The Neble . Lised, ea this occasion, has showik but little of his general apparent midair, or rather Obis ram suphlstry ; the nation will appreciate the Meow slots, and give to these tallest, loyal. rearmainsetm. and fhir-dealiag blimisters the credit they deserve. I,sis, Sir, gone okeitjett servant, 441, legs " In like manner as it belongs to the fortes of the king dom to consolidate the common (elicit), by means of wise and just tans, and by them protect religion, and the rights of the crown and people, so does it regard nt) dignity to watch over the execution and fulfilment of the laws, and particu larly of the fundamental ones of the Monarchy, the centre of the good wishes of Spaniare.s, and the support of all our hopes. This will be the most pleasing and constant of WI my occupations. To the establishment and preservation. satire aid inviolable. of the Constitution. I will consecrate the powers which the Countnation Omen confides to the Royal authority, and on this will I build my power. happiness, mod glory. In order to falai and carry through this greed sod mandato enterprise, after humbly imploriag the aid of the Author of all beings. I require the iedva and effeseloes eo operatics' of the Cortes, ots whose seal, talons. patriotism. end lose to my Royal person, I rely. treating tit y will ma w, by every mesas is their 1101110 f. to the reelisailest of mesh isepostast poimiese, thus werinepoimiag with the coo* dme of die berets Dation. that has Awed thew" '#'ie "freakiest refereed a, short severer. and the Wog ro• treed to Om Peters Midst the loud sod reiterated seamier * Ni s of the pa*, Os the Mottos if Coast Taw. Comisditce was formed Se wall en the WOE with the farthe► 'whim& of the Qeslge. In dames to the speed with rkisi be hid jot hoovered ~. _ ._~ • nallift..... _~ Fit ICE OFSTOCIaI THIN Hank *tote.% per Cent. Red. ffll , l - I per Ct. Cone. 89 tk• 4 l OR 3$ per Cent. 771 $ per Cent.. s7ll 3 pr Ct. Nam. Io3le Long Ann. IS 1 I-10 Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann. „up U4' AT oNk; oCl.ork dio lltqck Ditto ROMIG 114. Old Annuitir. Es. Allis id. 3.. tom . ?z. Dion 1 um. 12%. pm. Osmium nu. Con. for .iec. I,oit. Tiekes TO OUR READERS. The firat Letter of one Correspondent "1. K. ff. Prince Leopold haring ereilril so nosed aitentt".,: No assay persons haring been disapp o i n t e d in sot tr,i. able to obtain a ropy of the No. of Tam :s r ;twi n-kirk contained it, nor of THE Coxartru rtg.‘. fa 0 or rrr /ilk arde appeared, it in o intention to " le i: it. together with a serene Letter. from the sane pe a .", addressed to the same Perrone*. in Tut: Co Arlen pi : , of Ta-aeorresr. We hope. by this wtaaa , to pie ult mar nr inquirers after it and. et tar swot no t , sheer that sre are &treys mad,/ to comply with *ph i ; oj our rriends. Spiattchnati-7 .6 FTATVESIA\" IS INC 0 1111 . 0114TE1 wn i STATISSIIAS." LONDON: SAMDAT LVENING, JL'I.V 33 , 1.27. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLorg. The Funds4he whole of this week ku, iaa markahly steady. Last Tuesday ma( the or t „,, t Consols for plibUr transfer, and al , o pettliapia2 Account was not a heavy one, and was settled • any defaulters being declared. Money still e,,m, t very plentiful. The continuation is about 1 Nit not quite 5 per cent. The opinion is rather is faht of a rise. Very little busines, has been done, ces s p it tively speaking, this last week. Consols for .1 gust, 6911. We hare received this tnorning P;rit Parrs Tuesday sad Wednesday. ludeitcatleat of the ceedings is the first sitting of the Spanish Cat (which are detailed in them Paper s , and which, be found is our columns, as we had prerioash ceived them through a different channel), o.:ey cos, not a single article to which we can attach the I. importance. In the Chatnher of Peers on Monday, the ?mitt t lative to the budget of 1/520 was adopted; aCA ruissio■ was named to examine into the prefrt elsei to the execution of an arrangement concluded bets' France and the Dey of Algiers, for the payuatutci snot of money due to the latter. Also the pr +i specting a new territorial division of the depansi of Corsica, was discussed, afterwards put to thcal and rejected. FRENCH FVXDP.—Fire per Cento. jb 1. 73 Bank Actions, 1371 f. 50 c. The great work of Spanish regenerstios plated. The doubts thrown by the friends of de air vs the sincerity of PII.OINAND VII. bye gloriously refuted by the awakened ,ease sed triotism of that Monarch, whose promise ts SIP the Constitution of 1812 has been faithfully asl lemaly fulfilled in the first sitting of the Cormsai 9th inst. Weak as FIRDINAN a had proved IMO the first part of his reign--unjust, tingratefil, rannical as he appeared in the years which ately followed his restoration, he has now rein. faults in a manner which will render Linos beloved, and his name immortal. Lately theist spiced and abhorred Sovereign in Europe, lanai present, in character and real dignity, far 'hang 3lottarchs of our times. From one rice, the lei vice of other, Kings, even in his worst of days been entirely free—hypocrisy. He has never dem his people. When be was a despot he frankly I them that he would be arbitrary, and that he expo them to obey. Ile did nut make false promise( order to be allowed to establisb and tyranny under the mask of constitutiosal hs I k openly pulled down the Constitution naafi isl absence, and restored the former monarchy wit ill exclusive privileges and powers. Deeply as the so lamented his blindness and reprobated his irllissl injustice, still there MAI a candour is lie al l 4 which showed that it was founded on principle/Milli no doubt, but arising from the prejudices it liebbl had been educated, and a natural attar-10W le A of tiovernment, which had hitherto bees Wilk his House. , it is to this candour, the mis WI virtue in his years of error and of gailt, the I li gao l the preservation of his dynasty and the big§ I which he now occupies at the bead of all 1 1l 1 reigns of the earth. It left Aim *pm to fl4l, Even in the midst of flatterers and evil 1 0 made him to listen to the voice of truth, st darkness to light, from evil to lig danger to security. It also gave' to his however inconsistent in appearance frog &anew of the change, an authority will i tion 'lkhich it would nut otherwise have I llt created confidence at once. 110 1 0 that their Monarch stns not playing the P 1 bad abjured ali former errors, sad beam& wet stitotiosal. Hews no jealoasy was srpe 6lo4 no effort mode to priest hior free *hare is, tiro ostablislowest of national ford He was frosted. loved, and bewared, now proved bissself w.trthy of the % maw 'deo* repined is bis sincerity.. Hod he Ile — attains a his Ilialelsre, sad data i s ) * l 'IOW to the wishes of his yr•Fl peashirra tiro dociritte dog Pirfwee • titan aJter- teas. to &web whd -3e. _ • 1,...,1, LI A 1' :,. r I L