The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-01 00:00:00

A. ,-, ...., .111.1.1.... THE STATESMAN. 11111. £ll. •' , DUN. 1....EMM1n U I 0....1411aad vi 1....Waterf0rd.....0 • o....V o t e bi:. 1 i.... 0 & Jersey....o 0.... 0 . 0.... Lisbon 0I 0 ...Irkteders......•l o....Gottenberg 0 0....1.161ta ...... ....• Mtg. PRICE OF STOCKS TR'S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Banklitoek fadla Stock .. 8 per Ct. Red Bl3 'B9 ] Ditto Bonds 34 33 Sp. Ct. Cone... • .814 814 Ex.11111.2d4t _ 2626 , n ,. 3i per Cent - 10001. S 4 per Cents New Foy re............100M —s--.8ma11...28 29s pm. Long Ann , 91 !Angry Tlekets.... 141. 14s. imp. 3 per Ct. Bl Con. for Aect Abtattontan. FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST 1, 1823. STOCK EXCHANGE, 12 o'cLocu.---Consols opened thi morning at 811. and went op to ft. The expresses from Paris this morning have brought the French Rentes a t 91. There is a rumour of another sortie from Cadiz, in which it is said a great number of men have been lost on both sides. A private letter from Paris states that the French, on the 22d inst. entirely disappeared from the environs of Coruna'. Foartox Maaxay.—There is very little doing in the above Market, Spanish Bonds opened at 321—Freneh Scrip to premium—Russia 831—Prussia 841-.-Co lambia 611—Danisb, nothing doing. By the Flanders Mail, which has arrived this fore noon, we have accounts to a recent date of the affairs of Greece. The Puha of Scutari was expected at Bitoglia on the let of last month, with 12,000 men. He was to join at Larissa the Seraskier Mahomet Paths, and to march against the Morea. The Greeks however do not seem to be much afraid of the consequences of this ex pedition. The news of the insurrection of the Greeks in !he South of Thessaly is confirmed. The Turks have been beaten at Tiriola. Letters from Corfu of June the 30th, says that Misers Brioai and Jassas Pacha, who lately arrived at Prevesa from Patras, are disputing about the command. An Earthquake bas totally destroyed what remained of the fortifications of Suli. Contrary winds had kept away vessels from the Archipelago; bet the mail from Ancona bad arrived, with letters of the 4th, which state that a division of the Turkish fleet, consisting of 53 sail, entered the harbour of Patras, on the 20th June. The other division, it was said, bad Itnded in Negropont ; which was very probable, as the Pachs of Scutari may be supposed to begin his opera lions at the same plate. Letters from Corfs, of the 16th Jose, say that it has been determined, in concert with the English, that the blockade of the coasts of Greece extends only to the dis tance of 10 miles from the shore, and this rule will serve as the basis of the decisions of the prize courts of Hydra and Ipsari. The Frankfort and Brussels papers are occupied with speculations on the state of the Pope's health. All the Italian journal., except the Genoa Gazette, are silent re specting the effects of the accident that had befallen his Holiness. On the other band, the Universal Gazette of Lyons, in an article from Rome, dated the 9th, says, that though his Holiness was rather better on the Bth, 1 the evening, his life cannot be long preserv 0. The latest news we have is in a letter from Rome of the 12th, received at Paris, which sap, " His Holiness was rather better, and people are so eager for his recovery, that they begin to believe it. But a fall and a fracture at his ave, the season of the year, and the necessity for keeping his bed for some months, when exercise is so necessary to him, all this together, gives but too much ground for alarm." The Brussels paper adds—Already there are vague reports of interest makiug at Rome for the election o I a new Pope. The fol'owing is an extract from a Frankfort paper :— Fas%xvoaT, JULY 24.—The retirement of M. Le Wan geubeim, Minister of Wurtemberg. at the German Diet. has excited great sensation in the diplomatic circles. It 1. a sacrifice made to the desires of the Plenipotentiaries of the neregns of the Holy Alliance. Tne King of Wurtem berg, IR waver, has testified his satisfaction with the services of Barn Wangenheint, by giving a pension of above 12,000 fraucs. There is hot one of oar Morning Papers so lost to al 1 sense of political honesty, and so dead to the best in terests of the country, as to advocate the unprincipled conduct of the Bourbons towards Spain :—and in the present cloudy aspect of the despotic cause. it is Truly whimsical to find this journal floundering like a whale it. aft Mow water, in the vain endeavour to gloss over the French reverses. The affair before Corunna is as unpa- I stable to him as Don Quixote's attack upon the windmills. IVben the first accounts came away, and left the French army thundering at its gates, of course nothing short of its immediate surrender could he anticipated. The French had only to " knock, and theyshould be opened" the keys were on the wrong side; and the traitor porter Morillo, had no power to admit his friends. " Never mind,', sid our sanguine Ultra, " a day or two and all will be accomplished." The days and the nights passed. The French remained like the hungry Wolf at the wise Kid's door:—the French &rip fell—the hopes of the French party were bumbled—and Corunna remains en taken, if not impregnable. We were, however, very much alarmed this morning to read that this ready ad vocate of any unjust cause had " received the complete " official bulletin, which is peculiarly interesting as " containing the first authentic and detailed account of " the operations against Coronae." But we were pre sently comforted4o find that nothing was detailed that we bad not learnt before; that this official bulletin was a tissue of falsehoods so destitute of coverixe, that no intellect could be deceived for them:—and that this complete bolktin brings the account only down to the fifeeteds of the last month; when we have iotelli genes down to the P:)A. This is a new specimen* of him not to lon sight of this. He is In a far better coodi. don to rain loans upon Church property than tin rebel urgency; for the Cortes having abolished the Tithes forth' comple(enese, which the political world will not fail to admire. If Napoleon had lent off a bulletin from the field of Waterloo, at four o'clock in the afternoon, be 'might with truth 'have called the conqueror; hut a few hours made a sad reverse in his fate. To sheer the accuracy of the details of this complete, official piece of rhodomontade, the French loss is given at sixty, killed and wounded, during the operations of three days, iu climbing " the most steep rocks," carrying positions at the point of the bayonet, and in vesting a fortified town in spite of the constant fire of the artillery on the ramparts !!! The F tench writer is as much of a Munchansen, as our Ultra. He " lies by the rood" in ordinary ; and, on extraordinary occasions. would not hesitate to take his work by the acre. To our comfort, lies will not in this instance take towns ; or Corunna would be in a desperate predi cament. Our rare " Pistol" hath yet another comfort. Instead of the French before Cadiz retiring behind the Ebro, he tells us that Prince Hilt (having quite recovered from his fright in the chapel, we suppose,) is going to set out from Madrid to Seville ; to "take up a more military position," as the French papers add. Of course, the Cortes will be sadly scared at the approach of this Bourbon, who knows as much about military positions as his boots!— But why Seville should be said to be more of a military position than Madrid, we cannot see. It is not so far from Cadiz; but being In the possession of the French, and a much stronger place than Madrid, One is less danger at Seville than at his present residence ; and we rather think Mat is the motive which tempts the French Achilles to remove. The Empecinado is too near Ma drid. The populace there are now sick of their deliver ers. They soon find out, in such cases, that it is no difference to them who robs and oppresses them. The monks have been long out of favour in the Spanish capital ; and the next attempt to frighten Prince 11:It to death, by putting a lighted torch near his nose, may hap. pen to succeed. It was therefore high time to remove ; and in the citadel of Seville, surrounded by a French force, he may escape being the principal acter - 1n a French edition of our farce of " Frightened to Death." —lf the French retire behind the Ebro, they must take their hero with them ; and he bas wisely saved them the trouble of fetching,—or waiting for him, by going to them. But what then becomes of this new regency ? Is not his departure from Madrid, a proof of his intention to leave them to them selves ? What will they do without their master ? To leave them at Madrid, and to expect them to effect any thing in the way of establishing a government in Spain, would be as ridiculous as for a raree-showman to leave his puppets, and expect they would dance without his polling of the wires ! Meantime, the French bulletin are as amusing as ever. One of them says, the Priocede Carignan, (who displayed prodigies of valour against the sortie from Cadiz) was "nearly killed;" as a " can non ball fell but a few feet from him." Of course, he must have been " nearly killed" with the "fright ;" for, as far as any bodily butt was concerned. he was as safe as if it had fallen fifty miles from him! The Etoile very gravely announces, that "news of the greatest importance bad arrived from Cadiz ;" only they "did not know what it was !" Bat the following para graph from the Quotidienne, relative to the combat be fore Cadiz, surpasses every thing in the Bobadil-style, we have read for many years : " Our oldest officers say that the French soldiery never shewed more courage and more ardour than on the 16th.— aa 1 soldiers threw themselves into the sea, and endea voured to hold with their hands the boats in which the rem- nants of the rebel army sought to escape : many of them did not let go their grasps until their hands were cut off; some had jumped into the boats, and were even removed to Cadiz." Are these idle boasters, these palpable fabricators of baseless delusions, of the same race which, under the Eagles of Napoleon, over•ran the Continent of Europe / We feel more pity for their degeneracy, than even con. r tempt for their vanity. It would appear that our Ministry is not to be imposed upon by the pretence of the French blockade of certain ports, where they have scarcely a cruising vessel to watch the entrance, into a tame submission to the injury of the English commerce with Spain. A report prevails, that we are about to dispatch some frigates to ascertain the nature of these blockades. This is evidently the duty of our Government, since the French Government has been guilty of the contemptible trick of proclaiming blockades which do not exist. At Cadiz there is a pre tence of blockade ; though two line of battle ships, three (agates, and a cruiser or two, not half-manned, can only form a pretense for such a measure. Corunna is not even pretended to be blockaded, in fact, though it is so notified ; and English vexed, may be captured under the pretence of violating, not the blockade, but the notifica tion, if a French cruiser should happen to be near the port, and be strong enough to dare to hoist her colours. Neither Santona nor St. Sebastian are colourably block aded. A French vessel or two may occasion ally cruise off the ports; but we repeat, that nothing resembling a blockade exists any where but at Cadiz; and, even there, it is nothing but a resemblance of what does not in reality exists. Three or four English frigates, sent out with orders to observe the known laws of nations on this subject, and to do impartial justice, would soo n pat an end to these farces of blockades. ♦Ve remember what English blockades were:—and we are satisfied that to know what the French call blockades Is to know that they are no inch things, This is the age of loans, u well as of cant. (if the loan ing system may nut be classed as a part of the canting system.) We are not therefore surprised to bear that the Royal rebel Regency of Madrid is said to have negotiated a loan of 200 millions of seals. But when we look at the alledged seenrities, they do startle us a little; for we learn that the loyal and religions Regency, have absolutely pissed to 711/C the TYTHU or me cLaasv, for the imentype of the prhseipal and interest of the loan. This Is a good hint to oar Cbaticellor of the Exchequer whoa he may sent want soapy. A loan from disloyal clergy could not but be very popular In England :—and we requesL • -~- -- ~- most part, we .do not know that it will be a very easy matt e to collect them in future. It is not selling the bear's skin before he is caught, but it is selling the bear after the lion has eaten him. The reversion of the meal is not worth much. Yesterday, Baron Rothschild gave a grand dinner at his seat Stamford Hill; among the nunterouli party . in. vited, the following were present Highness Prince Esterhazy, Prince Polignac, Count Lieven, Baron de Werthir, Count de Front, Baron Just, Earl of Liver pool, &c. The Honourable Frederick Calthorpe, M. P. brother to Lord Calthorpe, will shortly lead to the altar Lady Charlotte Somerset, eldest daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. Some idea may be formed of the richness of the inte rior of Northumberland House, at Charing Cross, from the fact of upwards of twenty carvers and gilders having been constantly employed for nearly the last three years in ornamental gilding and regilding the picture frames. It is in contemplation to add to the extensive improve• meats at the west end of the town, by throwing open the Oreen Park, to terminate the view from Pali Mall, by . * removal of the buildings at the bottom of Cleveland I now. The handsome and ornamental Mausoleum erected in Cobham Park, agreeably to the will of the late Earl Darnley, is still without his remains being .deposited within it, in consequence of some misunderstanding re specting its consecration, and the mortal part of the once Noble Peer continues in the vault at Cobham church, for which the present Earl pays 1001. per annum. A periodical writer, whose papers- appeared about the middle of the last century, tells of a Lord Mayor's ball that was thrown into great confusion by a dispute for precedesce between a "Watch-spring-maker's lady, and the wife of a Watch•case-joint flauher." At the assizes lately holden for the county of Essex, a parish clerk was called to prove a rate, who could cot read ! This fact was mentioned by Mr. Sergeant On slow on the bench at Lewes, last Tnesday.—(Brightos Gazette.) The following inscription, in ancient Celtic choreic ten, is graven upon a stone on the summit of 'kola- Wert : " Caldh mar ghelbh ; ITheibh mar cheitheas ? Caolo—ach co dha I Colmhnich 'in bas." Which may be translated thus-- •, Spend what you find ; You will fine what to spend; Spare—but for whom I Mind death is thy doom." There is no date upon the stone, bat the inscription is evi dently of remote antiquity; and it is somewhat strange that it has hitherto camped the prying eves of the curi ous in ancient inscriptions.—(ltteerneseJournal.) - - The augmentation about to be made to our naval force in the Atediterraneao, has caused some speculation. The ;additional force will consist of five or six frigates, which will cruise off. the blockaded ports. On the one hand, it is said, the formal notification which the French Government has made of the blockade of the ports of Cadiz, Barcelona, Santons, and St. Sebastian, has made this measure necessary for the protection of our com merce, and the prevention of any misunderstanding which might otherwise arise from the Captains of our merchant ships arriving from distant ports being ignor ant of the fact of the blockade, and perhaps of the ex tent to which the principle of blockade reaches. On the other hand, it Is asserted, that this measure has for object the giving additional effect to their blockade, and is the result of a friendly arrangement between the two Governments.—Ministers are afraid that British vessels might dare to carry warlike stores to the Spaniards, not. withstanding the blockade, and being afraid also that British pride might take the alarm if the French subjected onr seamen to any indignities, they have determined to take as much of the odious part of this police duty on themselves as they possibly can. A letter was received yesterday from an officer of the French blockading army at Port St. Mary's, before Ca diz, dated the 17th ult. His regiment bad received orders to march immediately for Cordova, in order to reinforce the division under the command of General ' , Bonrmont, in consequence of intelligence received by Bordesoult, of the advance on that place by Ballasteros, with a force of 15,000 men. Letters of Tuesday's date from Paris, received yester day by express, mention that according to the latest in. telligcnce from the army of Catalonia, it was expected tha4 a decisive action would take place on or about the 28th ult. Milan, Llobera, and Manso had united their forces at Igualada to the number of 9,000 men, and Mar shal Moncry had set out on the 24th from Martorell with General Tumelin's brigade and 500 cavalry, to attack them in front, while Baron d'Eroles. with his di vision, had lett Illanresa to take them in the rear. A strong corps was to be employed, during these move ments, to keep the garrison of Barcelona in check. A private letter from the neigbourhood of Seville, dated the 19th ult., has been received by a Gentleman who was in a high capacity in Spain during the Penin-1 sular war, which represents the opposition preparing by the Spaniards in Andalusia against the French as most formidable. The country swarms with Guerillas, or ra ther troops acting as such, which cut off all detachments' from the divisions under Generals Boudesoulle and Boar mont, intercept their communications and supplies of money, stores, &c., and, in short, harass them so vigor ously and incessant, and those Generals have b. en obliged to contentrate each his respective division. A more sys• tematic plan, on a large scale, is arranging for attacking the French in Andalusia, where their situation is di eiurd so perilous, that their destruction or capitulation is con fidently anticipated. _ _ The King of Spain has issned a Decree, dated at Cadiz, June 30, which regulates the Spanish Tariff for aperiod of six months, ending on the 31st of Decriuber in this year. During this period the export trade shall be regu lated as follows :—Artictes which, according to the usual scale of duties, pay two per cent. shall be entirely free.— Those which are rated higher than two p..r cent. shall pay merely the half of their duty in the scale. The duty of 2 per cent. of administration on the • transport by sea, from province to province in the Penin sula and the adjacent islands, is suppressed, being solely maintained on remittances beyond seas, and on articles which are marked at a higher rate than two per cent. SUERIFFS SUBSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND,-I . ls. Sheriff substitutes of Scotland lately made an applicaton to Government for an increase to their salaries, and at a meeting which took place between the Hight Honourable Mr. !'eel, principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Lord Advocate for Scotland, Mr. Her ries, one of the Secretaries of the Treagiiry, and the Honourable Keith Douglas, Al, P. for the Dninfries district of burghs, Mr. Peel admitted that the Sheriff substitute, considering the extensive magisterial and ministerial duties which they had to perform , were inad equately paid. and stated his intention of entering into an immediate and decisive investigalion of their ease, with a view to placing the establishment on a more re spectable footing. CANTER Bow, JULY 28.—The gloomy, foggy, and (what is eammonly accounted) blighting weather watch bas pre vailed of late, has rot improved the Hops In this part— there Is Mier ea lama than a decrease of vermin, sod yet oeserads osodauo to iihow well, particularly the middliag eel. bat the very strong ones are getting Thom is amo iipparaitee of mould, bat It is not lows/ • CAPTAIN PARRY. The Quarterly Review, just published, contains the following remarks upariWtain Parry's expedition of discovery:— " Two summers have now passed over, and it is pretty clear that they have not carried him into the Pacific; me lees, indeed, which is merely in the chances, he may have taken the route of China and the Cape of Good Mope. which, from his ample supply of provisions remaining, is not quite improbable. Had he ran for Kamtskyka, or along the coast of America in the Pacific, we should, be. fore this time, have beard of him. We know he calcu lated upon three summers, and only wished that, if not heard of in the beginning of 1824, a vessel with sions might be sent into Bebring's Straits in the autumn of that year. He was last seen near the Upper Savage Islands, on the 22d of July, 1821, steering with a fair wind and through an open sea, direct for Repulse Bay; and as Captain Franklin left Cape Turnagain on the 25th of August in the same year, the latter was on his return before Captain Parry could possibly hare reached that point" In the event, however, of his having dore so in the course of that season, it is dot improbable that he would enter that deep gulf, of which the Cape forms the eastern and northern extremity; the less so, from its being situated in the mune longi tode nearly as the Copper mine River is laidilown on Arrowamith's Chart; a point which he would u ndoubtedly deem i t expedient to visit; and if so, he would meet with the fiag-staff and letter Isft by Car. Franklin, and, probably, pass the winter in one of the many snag harbours which tbeArctic Gulph affords. The second season, would, with ease. bring luso to that point of the coast which is terminated by the Rocky Nouns tans a little beyond Mackenzie's River. the only spot where we can conceive any difficulty to occur ; here Cap tain Parry would, probably, pus the second winter ; and if so. the third summer would, without difficulty, carry him through Bebring's Straits. And when we consider the character of the Commander, is ho would leave no thing behind him unexamined (and, from the indented nature of the coast,th eee is much to examine) we are not in the least surprised at his taking 3 seasons, whicb.iodred, he always calculated upon to accoroplish his task, and which, if not impossible, hems)? therefore beespected to do in the course of the present summer. With regard to risk, we apprehend none beyond that to which all navigation in the icy seas is liable, and which the long•frequented whale fishery, conducted in vessels not half so strong nor half so well manned, has proved to be little more than common era risk. Indeed, with ships as strong as wood and iron can make them—stored with provisions and fuel for nearly four years; with a Commander excelled by none in the various duties of his profession, endued with intellectual faculties of the highest order, and full of zeal and energy, tempered with due prudence and dis cretion; with experienced officers and crews of picked seamen; we cannot persuade ourselves that any reg. sonableground of alarm for their safety need be enter tamed." • '• Among the number of idle conjectures which appears from time to time, In the public prints (and which are pro duetive of no other effect than awakening the anxiety of the friends of those employed on the expedition), one writer is surprised that Captain Franklin met with no traces of Cap tain Parry, though it was impossible; a Frenchman has dis covered him on the coast of Siberia; and an English Journalist announces :he two ships to have been seen off Icy Cape by some fishing boats of the Aleutian Islands, which is just the same as if the pilchard fishermen of the coast of Corowall had discovered thaw off the North Cade of Norway, the distance in such cue being about the acme. SHIPPING l&i'Er1:10 ENCE. DEAL, July 31.—Wind S. W.—Came down from the river and remain, the Barbsdoes, Lee. from Pictou ; Utrica. Alboon, for St. Übes; Ceres, Dunn, for St. John's; Esther, Owen, for Alogadore, and King George Packer, for Naples ;—and, passed through, theltequest, from Rerkebucto. PORTSMOUTH, July 31.—Wind S. W.—Passed by for London, the Litwin's, 6ardner ' from St. Vincent's; and Commerce, Ysbrand. from Rio Janeiro, for A msterdam en the 21st, from off Cape do Vert!, spoke, the Colom bian schooner, with a Spanish brig, which she had cap tured 5 days before, richly laden. FALMOUTH, July 30.—Wind N. N. W.—Tbe Lady Wellington Packet, from this port, arrived at New York 30th ult. PourssiouTu, Jnly3l.—Sailed, the Bud; egharushir., Glasspoole, for China; Nile, Storey, for Quebec, and An dromeda, Blair, for Petersburg. French letters from Seville, tell us that " the ram " parts (of Cadiz) are in bad condition. without arid 4" lery, without aininnnition;" that " conft,lon reigns " in the interior I and that the population is discontent " ed." What, then, keeps the French out? Why do they not march over the destitute ramparts and liberate the King? Are they such despicable cowards as to fear the clenched hands dr the Members of the tortes would drive them over the ramparts 1n•o the waves ? BULLS.—The Dukin Evening Post, in announcing the death of Mr. Hutchinson, says he " died on Isis passage to the East Indies alonA• with the ship:—and every soul on board." This is the first time we have heard of the death of either ships or soub. The fears which the French entertain ofthe result of the campaign in the Peninsula may be seen by the eagerness with which they retail the meat paltry occurrences that seem to mend their chance. The Journal des Debais, says—" a letter from Urenada assures us that day, (the 9th inst.) 11411.:steros bad been reported wounded at Santa Fr. SILK Wearees.—We see that the Spitslfields Weavers are indulging themselves with mutual congratulation's on the respite that has been obtained for the Spitalfirlds Acts. We would not wish to mar their enjoyment; but we have to tell them that the battle is not pet won. Mr. Huskisson is pled; ere to return to take the field against then, He refused to take the amended bill from the Lords, because he thought his duty compelled hint to have all that his till required. Master Manufar. torero, who are against the present regulations, know that the House of Com:nons is in their favour ; and they know besides what operated upon the minds of the Chancellor, Lord Harrowby. and the other Minis'ori.l friends of the weavers upon this occasion; and they w:li renew their applications, upon the assurance that toe House of Commons is with them, And that the Heuse of Lords is well disnosed enough to recognise the /i6erdpeim eiplesoffree trade,if it could be done without dangt Ito the peace of the metropolis. We dill our duty to the wwc:•., 1 and to the public, uo the discussion ; and we have recent to know that (me arguments had their weight. It is now an equal ditty to warn the weavers against any in difference to their own interests in fntare, and against any difference among themselves ; fur if they ar e MI( AS Alert anti tin4niutous as they have been, they will hint they have rejJiet d without reason. New Bern BiLL.—Mr. Chapman, of Bagnigge iVelle Brewery, has handed to us a gatemen', by which it ap pears the only advantage which the public will derive front the New Beer Bill, will be to pay upon every (lose ter of malt so consumed an extra do' of 14s. O lin' statement is, that •• table beer at present pays a duty of 13s. us 6i barrels brewed from the tlitarter; o lisle the new beer, brewing b& barrels front the winter, is to pay a duty of Zio. per barrel, or g7ll. 64. u, on the quarter of malt. This is an odd sort of a boon to the people; hut it is an mach like all the rest of the Treat:arty bleseivs, that we Are not surprised at it. It was very kind to wish the people to have better beer; be% the oh ,fret of the Chandelier nds evidently to 'rot more its tax ation than was paid by the of table herr, 11 isiR.O.44OlP , . !,.