The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-01-31 00:00:00

. . . . . . ...... - . . t laws. Besides these, the tribune of the Ambassadors, which I hare already described, and that of the military officers, which is opposite to it, presented double rows cf spectators, all intensely anxious to hear the debate which was coming on. Sir William A'llourt was not' present, but Messrs. Ward, Elliot. Jackson, O'Gorman, contacted with the embassy, General Sir Phillip Roche, Mr. Cock, Mr. Tapper, and I other English Gen tian**. appeared in the tribune, and as on Thursday, I freguatly observed that it was a principal object of • , atteoffon with the deputies. . 1 At length, after the oval preliminary of reading and appeovfng thi Aet of the previous Session, Senor Ga- Baud entered the rostrum en the left baud of this chair, and reed the Message, at the conclusion of which the epecsators in the, galleries showed their approbation, by • clapping their 'hands. I confess that this Interference of the Onpulation offended my ideas of legislative de • 'coma, whew I re fl ected 'little undo it. If they are al • lowed to signify approval, I apprehend- they will not hesitate, when the occasion arise. to express 'dissent also, arid, in this cue, What 'becomes of the freedom of debate? Bat I mutt also observe, that it formed no unpleasing sight to see leech a number of respectable 'people as filled the galleries, rising raw above row, and •Sketeding, perhaps, the number of, five or six thousand `persist, all Waal to the highest tone of enthusiasm, aid :anintaitid by 'twain(' on this solemn occasion. There was wham after all, a tittle of theatrical show in this •tithibitiop 7 -at least, to an Englishman it appeared so ; 'but there eras no man, from whatever country pe came, 'who could batik upon this Hall of Deputies and crowd of pilopidaee, without being affected with sublime seam tions. Senor Galiano l when he entered the rostrum, median effort to give his attitude and manner as much dignity as possible. Ile is short of sUture, but he seemed as if he would willingly elevate it to suit the majesty of his office. ft was, indeed, an enviable situation, thus to be made the organ of the sentiments of the Chiles to the ging on such an important matter. He reed the Message in a pompous manner, but it was not a manner 'assumed at tills moment—it it his usual character istic. • ' TO debate, as you know, was commenced by Senor fiaatteira. 'this-is the you wet deputy in - the Cortes, 'and he hedilthertp . flistingnished himself rather as a poet thesis:l:4oW** Such of his minor poems ea I bare trail, appear hie Ulm the offspring of a warm heart and a feeble imitgiiiation. But it must else lie said of •Linfthat upon this occasion he spoke with very consider able emery, if not with eloquence, Who that had a • soul to feet and ups to give utterance to thought, would 'not lie eloquent when he saw his country attacked by swot) scandalous antes as those of the northern despots? Conga, who 'followed Saavedra, is a man pretty far advaneedi a Years, but the winter of age. that has partly silvered his hair, his not yet penetrated to • his mind. The flow of his ideas, the rapidity of his Unsure, and the animation of his gesture ire smiling. Fluency, - however, is not always eloquence; nor vivacity emphasis. Ifis Speech made i moderate figure. compared with those which followed, especially that of his cousin AocuoinArgueiles. But It was nice or twice applaud ed by the galleries, end was a degree above that of Se nor pen Joaqiiio-Foiser.; This gentleman spoke with energy, but from an unfolinnate peculiarity of manner, he appeared to tie eitherhalf asleep, or, as an Irishman would say, "half was dyer," when he spoke. This solely arose front the nasal sound of his voice, and a die rsltioo to eliplsis words. Wiests Aunt* Argerlies rose, Ms back was turned to the Authaseador's tribune, and in consequence it' ettickwir, whtlieut seeing his fare, that he must be like Kr. Brougham. His figure is very mach like that of the Learned Gentleman, and when he turned his face to the Chair. I observed the likeness strengthened, with the exception that he has not that particular feature which dietinguisbes the member for Winchelsea. But the genetal countenance it like, though not the voice of oftener. Arguelks is deemed the most eloquent speaker in the Cortes. • His oratory is full of strong reasoning and croo fled with facts ; it is convincing, and scisetimfa irresistible. from the sudden diversion which he makes from pOwerfal logic to the seat of those feel ings which govern the resolutions of men. He seemed to hold a sceptre over the minds of his auditors, and to swam in them such sentiments as lie wished to inspire. While lie-spoke, every one of the Deputies seemed en tranced by his eloquence, and when be concluded there less a general look up to the English tribune, to see'what effect it produced there. He spoke for an hour and ten Animates, and when lie first rose, during his speech, and after he sat down, be was cheered by the populace, and even by the Deputies, in the most lively and affectionate manner. • ' Hitherto Arguelles and Galiano have been rivals, but on this occasion, to prove that a foreign invasion quells all dohaestio quarrels, ' one followed the other in the debate. Ostia - no spoke from the second bench, from a Place equivalent to that of Grey Bennet in the House of - ftennous. We had therefore a good view of him from the tribunal. He is a young man, and, as I have already, observed. a little affected and pompous in his delivery.— Hewas the editor of a provincial journal at the time of the det Isratlon of tbe army of the Isla in favour of the Constitittion. His style of speaking is more poetical than that of Arguelles, and calculated more to %vie the ear than to convince the understanding.' He is fond of leap periods and sounding expressions, and very fee. quently pours nut sentences io continuation, at each of which the audieece Is inclined to exclaim " beantifol 1" His gesture is also particularly forcible, picturesque, and taried, and altogether he is such a man as a public assembly would put forward to make a bolvday speech. fie acquitted himself with grace, and the English gentlemen near me seemed enchanted with his manner. Several other Deputies bad demanded the • right of spealtin,,-, but the majority wisely. I think, determined That the question was sufficiently discussed, and it was disposed of. When the Cortes rose, the' crowd In the galleries rushed down to the Deputies' door, and waited until Gallen* and Arguelles came oat ; when they seised on them by main force and carried them off in triumpiron their slum Mere. They weae obliged to exert all their rimiest@ to pet permission to descend again, and they catered Senor Oliver's (the President) carriage. The popidace followed the carriage to the' Presider is house, singing all the way patriotic songs, and shorting Vice la etinetftwtion. In the teeming binds of music paraded rise streets by torch light, and the night passed away in *feet tranquillity. Monday, Jan. 12. • Nobody was surprised by the formal demand made oa Friday by the Ministers of Russia,• Prussia, and Austria for their passports. It was a thing naturally to be expected from the tenor of their Notes, hut people here - were not alto tether prepared for the peculiar In solence shown io the Note in which the Russian Minis ter requires passports for himself and the officers of the legation. You must have observed tbat in this Note, De Bulgari (the Russian Minister) uses no distinction when he speaks of San Miguel. He pointed ly calls him " et Senor San Aligned," whenever he has occasion to mention the name, and never adds, as the ether Ministers sk, " Secretario del Deseocho," lac. this is an ungentlemanlike mode To Say the least ofi t, Of disputing; and taking the style of his note and its inflammatory contents into. teosideration, I see some Destlicatioa for the anger of those who complain that islgari was not arrested. The document is, in fall, an of treason against the Constitution. San Miguel's i t • antler, on the other hand, Is equally vulgar. I know Aire are those who think that a vulgar attack must be repelled by vulgar weapons. A noble mind, however, 4 THE ST, would not stab iloslf by descending to such piety war fare. Sae Miguel shenid have left the Russian in his ignorance Without taunting him with ir, and both be and his haughty master would have been effectually pu nished by a dignified reply. By the way, in speaking yesterday of the orators of the Cortes, I omitted to observe that Arguelles, when ever he had to speak of Alexander, made use of the term*. El Ruse. It is impossible to convey to you a de scription of the utter contempt which •he infused into these two words. He seemed to feel himself as belong ing to a great, a learned, and a long enlightentd nation, and to allude to the Ittllitiffie as if to the chieftain of a tribe of Tartars, who had just emerged from the sa vage woods and fastnesses of the North of Asia. This ideal was taken up by the' Deputies and the populace, and every time El RCSO came out, the:e was a general burst of laughter. The proud gad false Alexander, would have felt himself humbled to his proper rank, if be bad been in the gallery of the Cortes petit day. De Bulgari was to have left Madrid this evening, and I understand the other two Ministers set off to morrow. I bate not beard of any insults being offered to them by the populace, but I should not be surprised that they were,convineed in one way or °thee of the , infidelity with *hick they must have represenabcl many transactions that occurred in Madrid to their..restseitiss. masters. As yet, however (II o'clock at rikght)tiery thtog.i3 tranquil. • Amidst all this agitation, every body asks what is to be done by the French Minister, Count de Lewd'? —as it was well pat by Senor Arguelles yesterday.— France, which is really the principal, seems to be an accessary. And though it is the power which is the most concerned in the events of the Spattleb Revolu tion, and the Government which more than all the others has taken energetic measures to counteract it, 'yet we see the Ministers of its allies take their depar ture from Madrid, and its own Minister stay behind them. This political pestle seems to be the result, however, of imperative necessity. If France with drew ter Minister, she could scarcely avoid following up that measure by a declaration of war. The fa mily connexiou also between the two thrones, offers some explaoatien of ibis strange circumstance, as it is understood, that Count de Lagarde's future duties here will be as much as possible limited to watching over the King's personal safety. For the refit, though the effervescence of the (last three days, has sot yet subsided, and the people go on with their occupations and amusements self there was no such thing as a French army on their frontiers.— This bas been a bright sunny cheering day, though very cold, and is consequeace an immease crowd at tended is the atipltitlisatro to see the bull fight. It commenced at three o'clock in the afternoon, and was not over till half put five. Bat I must reserve a description of this sadism"! amusement for anuther oc casion. COMMON COUNCIL. — +e-- A Court of Common Council was held yesterday for the dispaich of General Business, the Blention of two Common Pleaders, and • Printer and Uituled City, which was very sumenesly attonsW. The' Court requested the Rev. Mr. 008111;13hp. lain to the Lord Mayor, to print the Setnson prelieb• ed Ny him at St. Lawrence Church, on the Itch ult. and to send a espy to each Member. The Court took into consideration a Report from the Sword Bearer's Committee fur effecting en ar, rangement with the several Officers of the Lord Mayor's house, ter the purchase of their respective right of alienation of their places, and for securing amounts to them in lieu thereof; which they agreed to, and empowered the Committee to carry the same into execution accordingly. _ _ The following Ofizen were re-elected ;--.-Clerk of the City's Works, Clerk Comptroller of the Bridge House, Bailiff of the Borough of Southwark, Princi- pal Land Coal Meter, Sword Bearer, Clerk of the Coal Market, Marshals, Attorneys of the Shears Court, Clerk of the Court of Requests, Assistant Beadle of that Court, Collector of the Markets, Marehalmen, and Assistants to the Hall•keeper. At two o'clock the Court proceeded to receive tie applications for the situation of Common Pleaders, Printer, and Cinder, when the Petitions of the INN veral - Candidates were delivered in and read. Tl/ Ballet shortly after commenced, Scrutineers being appointed as usual. At the close of it, the ambers appeared as follow CON TWO CONIIION 44444 The Hon. C. E. Lew. 14Y Arthur Wilton, Esq, 103 ' John Allrehouse, Esq. 144 I Arthur Ryland. Esq. ei Whereupon the Lord Mayer declared the Hon. C. E. Lai► and J. Mirehouse, Esq. duly sleeted. Mr. A. Taylor was elected to the situation of City Printer, and Mr. T. H. Fenmum as Glazier. The Lord Mayor *Wed the following °faces vacant City Carpenter, Attorney of the Merle''' Court, Assistant Beadle of the Court of Requests, and Beadle of the Coal Market; and the next Court was fixecrfor filling up the same. 114 Court SECONDARIES OFFICI Mr. (nook., presented a Petition to the from Wm. Crowther, of Islington, one of the sons of the late well .known Comptroller and Secondary, P. W. Crotilfili. 'l'he Petition stated that the late Comptroller, in addition to that office, purchased the place of Secondary of the Poultry Comptor, with power to &lineal e it; but, in 1803, he diet) suddenly, and was thus prevented from alienating It for the benefit of his numerous family, which he intended to have done, as soon as one of his sons should attain the age oftli, or become capable of holding the office. The executors of the deceased petitioned the Court that they would allow tie office to be held in trust for the use of the numerous family of the deceased. The Court, although the office had Who to therootecoded to the Petition, and allowed J. Peals, Nog. to hold theofilee in trust for the family. • lie held it twin 1808, when Philip William Crowther contracted for the oho solute sale of the office for 10,2001. and was admitted. The Petition represented this sale to be against the interests of the other branches of the family, for whose general benefit the office was held, as a much larger sum might have been procured for it. No accounts of the profits of the °Seconder the trust had been rendered, the Petition alleged, sod the benevolent intention of the Court in assigning it for the be nefit of the whole family and not for any particular part of it, had been avoided. The Petition prayed that the Court would examine the circumstances of this case, and take such steps as they considered proper, for the redress of the other members of the family' After some conversation, it was agreed unanimously that the Petition should be referred to the Committee of General Purposes of Inquiry. LONDON BILIDDI. A Petition from William Wheeler was presented to the Court. It stated that his barge had been lost on the 19th, under one of the arches of London bridge, in consequence of an obstruction which bad been made under the bridge, whilst some repairs were made. The petition prayed hat remuneration might be given fur the loss from the Brides House funds. ti I Meusbers objected to the prayer of the peti- tion, as the Court were not the parties who should be looked to for relief. . Mr. Hick strongly supported & the petition, as tle iTESMAN.. case was one. of great hardship ; the poor ease who had lost his barge, had no other quarter to apply to, and had a strong claim upon the charity at least of the Court. Mr. Dixon opposed th e petition. What a door would it throw open to the admission of petitions for relief from all those who met with any accident or loss in going wilier the bridge, if this petition were admitted, or the idea on which it was brought that the sufferer had a claim for remuneration upon the Court in any de gree countenanced. lie was willing to subscribe his three or four or five sovereign towards the relief of the unfortunate man, but he should oppose the grant of a shilling•from the Court. After seine hanker conversation, the petition was withdrawn. Mr. OLDUAL seeing the Chairman of the Bridge house Committee, said he wished to know pods him whether any decision had taken place upon tho# plans submitted to the Committee, and with respectto w hich so much public anxiety prevailed ? it was extremely important that some determination should be made early upon the subject, and some plan laid before the Court, in order that they might be prepared when the subject come before Parliament, to say what or whether any share would he taken in the erection of a new bridge by the Corporation. Surely the Committee bad lead .adlcient opportunity, with the aid which they had received from men of science, to have made an election. Mr. Oldham expressed his fears that if great-care was not taken, the whole might degenerate into a job. The Outing/or said, that as far as the Committee was concerned, he could answer for it that no job need be apprehended. They had been engaged diligently in the examination of plans, bat the thief difficulty they bad met with was in deciding upon the nature of the ap proaches, and there were besides great difference in the estimates as to the expense of the approaches, which the Court muss he aware formed the chief obstacle (hear, hear !). However there were but three questions which had been referred to the men of science whose aid had been obtained, and when they were answered, the Com mittee would determine. Undoubtedly, they would be able to bring in their report on the sitting of the next Court, (hear, heart) On a former Court day the butchers and tattle dealers frequeoting Smithfield Market, had petitioned the Court to allow chains to be extended across the different ave. noes of the market doriog market hones to prevent the interruption of their busimess by the carte, coaches, and other of-Weirs, which greatly disturbed and deranged the market. A counter Petition was ynterday presented from a number of wholesale traders residing in the vici nity of the market, stating that the most serious appre hension would be given to their business, if the measure prayed for in the former petition were adopted. The Petttioners prayed that if any alteration were made, it should be to rail off a thoroughfare through the market, so that carts might in future pass with less interruption from the cattle. The Petition was referred to the Committee of General Purposes. MAILS. ARR. DOR. ♦RR. I Dublin . 0 0 Holland - d Waterford I 0 Hambro' • G. & Jersey • I 0 Friona O Lisbon 0 I Flanders - O Gottanborn - 4 0 .llnisil DWI. - - o PRICE OF STOCKS 741$ 3 per Rank Ct. Red s . 37 ......4 3 per Ct. Con- 7 31 per Ct. I per Cents...., We 3 New Fours 93f S b per Ct. 1737 Long Aso 20 13 Imp. 3 per Ct... . .. ... ... Irish 6 per Cents Vitt *tattsintan. LONDON: FRIDAY MINING, JANVART 31, 1823. --ow-- BOURBON WAR. We were quite prepared to bear the government paper* studding and equivocating as to the intended conduct of the Ministers with regard to this war. We were pre pared to hear the creatures making use of double mean ings and sentences out of which no man can pick sense. We were prepared to hear the advocates of an humbled ministry and an humbled system make use of all sort of ,expedients for disguising their own degraded state and the shame they have brought upon the country. We rare prepared to hear the hirelings of the press say that they were determined to remain neutral, while Fraoce was marching to take possession of the Spanish fleet and of Gibraltar ; or, at least, whilst she was marching with that hope evidently in her mind. We were prepared for 411 this: but we were not prepared for hearing one of the impudent hirelings say, as the Courier of last night says, that he was the only one that foretold that war would be the result of the negotiations at Verona. This is said by tailor Stewart and barber Mudford, in their paper, the COUR= of last night. These two tradesmen say, " while all. our contemporaries were either Jeclu ing that pone& mould be preserved. or were changing. "their opinions with every variation of intelligence that arrived, WE 'steadily contended that there was no frmiddle course left." They say that this was their tone om the day when they announced the return of the ,Duke de Montmorency from Verona. -Hereupon the tailor and barber say that this circumstance "justifies " them in recalling with feelings of satisfaction the 1 61 course that they have pursued."—The tailor and bar ber choose to forget, that the STATESII 4 N did not wait for the return of the Duke de Montmorency from Ve rona ; but proved, long before that, that the chances were in favour of war ; proved that the Holy Brother hood wished for war ; proved that nothing could restrain them Indus our Ministers had money to give them; proved that the French Bourbons must neccessarily desire to go to war ; proved that it was impossible that the holy fellows should be disposed to prevent this, unless we hail money to give to the holy fel lows ; proved that we had no money to give to the holy fellows; proved that the holy fellows would urge the French on rather than pull them back ; proved that it was nonsense to suppose that the Frenc soldiers would have any objection to a war against freedom ; proved that it was nothing to them whether they run their bayonet into the body of a priest or that of a philosopher, provided that they had a prospect of plunder ; proved that, us to the wishes of the people of France, they would like any war that should tend to the injury or huinßiation of England ; proved that the French peopled would join their government mast cor• dually in any enterprise, promising them to effect such DAY AT eNgIYCLOCK. India 5t0ck...... gtos Ditto Bonds .. s.. South Sea Stook South Sea Old Aoa . Ez.Bill.2d. 10001. spa. 1 1. $ pm. Con.for int 74U Lottery Tickets Ad, • 1 ', . %).4014.1i. humiliation and injury ; proved that to invade Sp a i n was the likeliest of all possible things to annoy England, to obtain revenge for the acts of 1815 ; proved, in short, that there was every motive for war on the past of the French and their holy brethren ; and proved, above all Wogs, that neither France nor the holy brotherhood cared one straw about the wishes of England as to this war, knowing, as they all must, that we never can again lire a cannon without blowing up the debt. This was the tone which WE pursued, from the beginning to the end. At one time we nere told that the French would not dare set our power at defiance. Our answer was : ss , ! have no power! At another time we were told, that the Duke of Wellington had pleaded the cause of freedom successfully at the Congress. And then we iseghe.:! At another time we we were told that the Duke had get to Paris, and had convinced the King of France that is would be injurious to him to go to wee with Spain. We told our readers this was an impudent humbug. At ar other time we were told, that Mr. Cesium* had rh hi: shield over the Peninsula,and we were regaled a ith a description of the unbounded joy and gratitude of tie stock jobber,.. Still we said, " it is allfselsal It is a/1 " deception is is all downright folly or downright "fraud." Others had, or pretended to have, porilii, information upon the subject. We ha I none, and pre. : tended to have none.lkt we had a lane v ledge of the state and condition of the separate countries. Wohad a pretty rod knowledge of their respective resotrees ; we u nder. stood pretty well the state of their means for carryinz on war. We were pretty good judges of the interests and the passions which were at work in the several states. The facts that came to light from time to time gave us the means of judging of intentions. The result has proved that we judged correctly; and strictly correcA we were from the very beginning to the end. This alliance of the two pair of sheers ; those of tailor Stewart and barber hludford, never spoke from itself.-- It was bellowsed from the offices at Whitehall. Tinoegh the means of the Tailor and Barber, we discovered clearly enough that the pretty gentlemen themselves did not know very well what was going to take place .! the Reader trill look back into the columns of the Cos. +-ler, he will find that paper chopping about like a vessel that is land locked and amidst varying ninth. We watched it; and it was one of our guides. From it we saw, that our own honks at Whitehall did not know what was going to take place ; and that was, to us, oce of the surest signs of war; because, the French would naturally keep our pretty fellows in the dark, as long as they could, if their intentions were war-like. It now comes out, that our pretty gentlemen bare been offering their mediation three times ; and that they Lave been three times refused ; a thing that has oot happened to England before for Four Hundred years. Well e tbei„ though the whole of these nearly three months of slit cession, we have been invariably right. Those who read the SCITKGMAN, awe hollowed what ahoy read. mast all along have expected to ems take place what Las now taken place. Early in November we said, that th. French troops would enter Spain in the month of North ; and is that mouth they will enter Spain. How many families would have been preserved from rain, Woo newspaper but the STATZSMAY had existed in London Not that we care a straw about the matter; for, awl_ jobbers ought to be rained; and especially atm k jab'. r s that persevere in reading the bloody ald beastly 01::: Times and such like publications.—We know many persons oarselves, who sold oat their Spanish bonds in consequence of what they read in the STATESMAN.— We do not pique ourselves much upon any services that we are able for ender to the stock jobbing tribe; bet upon an occasion like this, bare justice to ourselves calls as to show that we have been right while all the res t were wrong.—Now, as to the result of the War that is about to be begun, we want a little more information. (and that we shall soon hair) before we speak with any great degree of confidence. Our wishes are. decidedly destruction to the Bourbon Army: but wishes are very different from opinions. We are not so confides: is these latter as we are in our wishes. We have no Wes that the French will prevail, if the Spaniards be united; but we have great fears that they are not; though, we mast say, that we have no good grounds for supposing that they are disunited to any great extent.—We think that the appointment of the Doug D'Atroocnewe is a very favourable circumstance for the Spaniards; and is indeed, no weak symptom of the existence of that Mad' nest which some of our contemporaries assert to be pre. relent amongst the old fusty noblesse of Francc.—We have nu great expectation of desertion from the French armies, as long as they are well paid and well crammed with plunder. Nevertheless, such a spirit may exist and it it should, it may be preidnetive of the hippies conseqwenors.—At any retools)* war• can leaffety fail to give a blow to Uatton and Old Sarum ; and how it stilt give that blow our readers will see, if the war tontine", many months. Oct of this war our pretty gentlemen will find it very diffiCtilt to keep: sod, *yet, into it they cannot get; into it heartily they stannot ger, without the blowing op of that system which preserved Gattcn sad Old Sarum.—We shall now see what a `figure the man of the two red lions will cut. If his predecessor bad not been such a fool as he was, one might have sot. posed that Le saw what ass coming. Let us hope that the present hero will stand his ground, at any rate! His puns and antitheses will not, indeed, be of mach u-e to him ; but here we have hint fairly tied to the stake; and, before next June, we shall see what he is made of. THIS STATESMAN A IVIZZARD! On the 22nd in.tant we noticed the habit of our friend, the chronicle, in dealing in "Secret Intclligence always turned out to be false. These remarks were extorted from us by a piece of intelligence, published by the Chronicle a few days before the 22nd, to the fol. lowing effect: that the government had resolved to make a change in the standard of the currency of the country; to make sil eer the standard instead of gold; and that the proposition was to be brought forward ty Mr. Huskiuson —Upon this we said, in our parr of the g2nd. this intelligence we are sure is fobs, though we do not impute the falsehood to our f flea!, hut to his informant."—Now we beg our readers to hear the Chronicle qf yesterday, "W e stated souse time ago, • • un •' its •• aro !, We •• mg, •• rnitte Lave folio leis is thi Lberi • Cot " tak •fi Us " 310 •. dii .• coo 66 66 C i l 66 see " Yee " 41141 4 - seta 66 dm _ '• al 1 •' an( If case, inusl the 941 r 1 rest 'Sr ver, it av by b Peal