The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

" 1 " CE'R/OUS COMPARRON. (rime A FRENCH PAPER.) N irlV OF THE CENsolitHilp OF THE EREsS. stma IOE IMPILOIAL GO- t NOP-11 TIII. cONSTITtTIoNAL &sot tetNIII.:.r. i. No seeurit) required. 1. Security required of ten uk,ul frmic4. 2. Nu citations before the 2. l'itntiuTllitifore the Tri- Triin.nnt s ;no ituprisousst ..• tr•nals ; 64 a tine. )' ti'i;l 14 one month to three; hoe In the solo of 1411) tr. to I , l l lllr_ %I:ll4,tit preventing tiltet 3. Su 'pension fur *six months, i. r. total suppreA- Binh. 3 Suspen•iota for one d”, at !molt ; lt , rll.ree, at most. 4. PAsntination by a ('..ro- MA before publication (or toe n• as awl political rtrti cies : never of the sittings and scientille hr literary mat trrel. under psi.% of suspen si• o rm. the period of one day to tbrer . & A possibility of arrow plisittueol roc ...ding to toe terms prescribed by absolute power. 4. Previous examination of the manuscript before the publication of each sheet, mil der pain of a eo►reetkanl 'te flon. imprisonment for a ix. riod of from one month to three, and a lior in tbe sum of 2110 fr. to lgoo Ir. S. impossiiiiiiiv of arcom• pikitlUClll (it the account of the sittings be submitted to the Camtorshipi under the representati re 4; ermine'''. O. Despotism. hi revolt to the Censorship. intolerable under a constitutional (10. t eminent. 7. Artotrwm ponerterribitt otwo mutettoiird law. S. The Charter ilmOrtred It% Lew s of Ev•eption. 6. Devotion., in regard to t,r Ceow.r4htv. tulergble un der ■ militer) linveroment. 7. .trbhrerc puwrr rant/ Y ider 'Pip ♦w'nril. S. Hy dript.tistis llonaparte STATE (►F' RELIGION IN SPAIN. All error is evil; and thee . rrtir which stiltstinites the PNlernitl forms of worship, for its internal inlinenee on the heart. is a colossal evil. Here we have a religion, if such it may be called, that is purely ceremonial. Its duties are not tliseliergell in the daily walk of life, not by the cultivation of pure and pintas Am) benevolent af fections, bid by attending 111.111Sr‘, by reciting Pater Rosters and Aye 3laries, by pecuniary offerings for souls in purgatory, and by a tlonissend childish oliservances, whit+ affect remotely, if they .slice. at all, the conduct andv, the cliaraeter. The Spaniard attends his p•rish- I !ourela to hear a service in an tusks n tongue ;he bends his knees and heats his bosom at certain glinteds familiar to his ear, but not to his settee; he confesses and com municates with undeviating regularity; and s 1111 l mimes, perhaps, he listens to a sermon in the elo q uent style and beeutiftil language of his country. soot, indeed, instruct ing Idles in the moral claims of his religion, but cele brating the virtues ant) recounting the mirecles of sonic slint or tnartt r tgi n I the slay is deilirated. lie reads his religious duties, not in A Bible, lust an .%Intasiark ; and his Almanac). in but a sort of Christian mythology. His saints are more loom-rims than the deities of Our Pantheon ; and, to say the truth, there are many of them little better than these. He is told, however, that his country exhibits the pr oldest triumphs of orthodox Christianity. Schism and heresy have been scattesetl, or at least silences) ; and it in Spain the eye is constantly attracted, and the heart distressed, by objects of unalleviated human y ;—if the hospitals are either a holly unprotected or abandoned to the care of the venal anti the rile—if the prisons are crowded with a p 'fa nous mass of inn°. s ence att I `'silt. in all its shades and shapes of enor- Lsity—what does it matter ? Spain, Catholic Spain, has her faith unadulterated and am-banged and rer priests assure as that an error in creed is far more : Angereoi (or, to use their own mild I inguage), far • i.. ire damnable than a multitude of errors in conduct. .i deprave.' heart may be forgiven, but not an erring I cad. This is, in fact, the fatal principle whose poison fc.;: - eads through this strongly-cemented system. 'ln tf.is we may an ninttr its absurdities, its errors, its crimes. Th:s has reale I Ifonsinicks and Toroluensatlas. In a word, intolerance, in its widest and worst extent, is the fosifol divot On which the whole sof rhe Spanish Astics! edifice rests. It has been called the florin ,::'as' of the Constitution , and is so inwrolight with the habits atad prejudices of the nation, that the Corte, nick all their general siberality, dared nut allow the profession gif any other religion than this' " Catolica Apostolic:* unica Vertladera. - The cry of icv.textinn there., as elsewhere, became a dreadful • *teapot' in the hands of those who profess to believe tl.at errors become sanctified by age. Toss true it is, t . ..at if long usage can sanction wrong, persecution :night tin.) its jlt•ti l ication in every page of Spanish fcstory, froin the time alien Revered°, the gothic Mo narch, abandoned his Aria.; principle (with the almost -s o litere exception of the intermit and ill-treateil Witisa). rsg. hefore the Inquisition had erected its fright ful pretrn.ions into a system, or armed itself with its bloody sword, ifs spirit was broad and active. Thou. sands and tens of tl ands of Jews and Moors had been its I -it-tints, and its founders did no snore that utataiti is regal sir a papal licence, for the murders which wsteltl otherwise have been probably rot/omitted by a leerharuns and frenzies' b, excited by incendiary • monks anti friars. The 111 l has, 11l lIOUISt, been greatly humanised by the progress of tins.; as, 41 order to maintain its in fluence in these snore "'defied and in q uiring days, it has availed itself of smut of superior talent ; these 11... e softened the asperity, or controuletl the malignity and petty tyranny of its inferior agents. Its vigilant... and its persecutions are, indeed, rontinnally at work, yet believe its will never again be lighted. Its greatest zee] is now directed against freemasons, of ts si immense notioshersovenpy its prisons and s l icsK essirs, I bare conversed with many who have been incarcerated by Cie Ingnisirinn, and they agree in stating that tO: ILI *e is no longer administered. Hut its intlit ence on literature is perhaps greater than ever ; fur tilting). Spain possesses at the present moment a great number of adisiirahle writers, the press was tarter so in active. 'floe di sponsin exercised over authors and pith fishers is !.0) I 111 l !entitle. that few have courage Volls 11. tafilv to %Wind! to it. I lften, after anthorizing the poi!, lica•ion of a work, !key girder it to be suppressed, and every copy NO be burnt, and never think f r reparation to those who are so cruelly injured. Their presumption in contlefunine - wl. stecer they cannot understand, their do micil:arc visits, their arbitrary decrees. against which then' i; no security and no appeal, make them fearf u l enemies and faithless friends. 1 7 riday eyeteinz List, at nine o'clock, as a •ohlier of the Beard• w.t. rr••ssing the Cleautp-tlenilar4, on ises war In his quarters. he t i;l , 4 m e t by three pi•PlOil 4 , o•te of whom accostr•l hint by saying, •. Don't you belong. to to the !loyal tietarel ?" •' Yes," said the veteran, •' I tb.tt hemmer ; • at the same time he laid his on his sword ; but the strangers leaped upon him, 'wised his :erns, and, throning him on the ground, would parr hint try o,t " Viet• l'Emperetsr!" 'flee soldier hesitated. •• Cry out Vire l'Enapereur ! or you die." lint hr would only gear. •' Vise le Hot." Upon this, they struck him repeatedly• and rave biro many sabre wounds on the head and arms. ' they bad drstpred him Inwards the quay, in order to throw him into the river, het the al - pestsch of some person*, drawn by his cries, made them es. The wounded man has been taken to an hospital, with little hopes of his recoyct.—(Puris Parr ) SPAIN. M %MUD, M %Hell 20.—The l'ad:a mail has just ar ri‘ed• Ilse letlerA are of the I Irk and melancholy details they give its. The horrors committed then• are greater than we had any idea of. 'Else killed are ratesl from tour to five linitilred, and the wonniled 1,0611. Ihe have plundered several houses, and the streets, f the lUth, were Elio:illy oe-'rued. On the I itli, the Goverlior isauesl a Pluclaniation, orslerio4 the people to open their sloop,; bat, notaitlistatelin.r asauranres v‘ere also given that the l'ousti!tatiott would he Isom:111y proclaimed, so great was the horror excited by the recent event, that nobody left their houses. It is satd the country peopleround are arming; and if this hr the ease, I would not answer fo►r the escape oriole of the garrison. —lt is said Freyre has played a dotthle game ; for not bring able to restrain the Ite•ople of radix, he promised to conform► to their wishes, and then kept his promise in the way you have been informed. The dispatch whirl', limier slate of the 111th, I"rrvre writes to IEI/on nel, confirms 11111 1 , for in it he distinctly says, the gar rison of Cash; faithful to the prinripirs of ;Airs' to the august person of the King, has tits day, with a no ble ardour, destroyed the projert of proclaiming the Constitwion, whirls the people in a tumid; WM% manner yesterday rouspelled toe to offer to them, when I went lent to appease them." The lialirians have 60,000 men tinder arias, m Web they will not lay .b u rn till they see theCorles assembled. In Catalonia also they proclaimed the l'onstltuti )))) be fo►e they received the advice. of the king's determi litial's. M III.N. 'LB. I Alit. I Dublin I Waterford 0 Onertetey and Jersey .. I i U France U tinttritintrith U Ihmhstryli . -—— - 1 ssaAr.-11•41eleg dig all IN l'oblie tbt ybtatcOman. THE BRITISH STATIRSISA•s” IS I. KITS " THE STIITICsISAK." LO N N : TUESDAY EVENING. APRIIA, IS_►O. We have, this morning, received the Paris Pa pers of Friday and S3turday. The discussions in the Chamber of Deputies on the prqjet relative to the Liberty of the Press, were terminated on Timrsday. A division took place on every article. from the ith to the 10th, inclusive ; all the amendments that were proposed on each were severally r...jected, and the arttchs adopt( d. 7he Chamber then proceeded to the secret seratiny upon the wfmle of the law ; the result was to; follows: Si:tuber of Vuteri White i>xlk • • 136 Black Balls 109 . . . . . illajority in fJwour . 245 I The Chamber. nn Monday. intended to open the debates On M. B. CONSTANT'S it:»oporsition, Pespect : ing the in. %t method O . collecting the VoNa.—Ad• journed. the Ein, rereire.l the Doreen of the Cham ber of Petottim who presenteil to him the project of law upon the corism'Ship of the tires', adopted the preceding d ly by the Chmober. Flt 11.11%) -11%' per Cents. 71 f.. Mink .Iction4, 1160 t•. sl , .'l\. The events that have transpired in Spain offer a grand spectacle to the world, a useful lesson to those who ha' been entrusted with the govern ment of einFires. The sincere friends of liberty at all times lareent the occurrence of cirenmstatices which tr mble the repose of a State, and raise the sUljecN viiitist their Prince. But to whom ought we to attribute the commotion of the Peninsula There arbitrary power existid without limitation; truth without a %nice ; liberty without defencr. The partisans of cereme measure* triumphed ; they fancied that they had feund stability in des potism : rigour they called justice ; fear they called submission ; and because they had made victims, they flattered themselves that they had formed slaves. But men detiouncud by the Itiqrnsi lion, &spilled by its minions, imprisoned by its agents, ideally pre..erVed hope in' flair bo soms, and incessantly turned their thosglits and their wishes to obtaining a Constitution winch might protect their liberties, their property, and their persons. Spaniards needed not the example of other nations; it sufficed to call to dieir minds the e%ellis of their own history: to defile to be free, they had only to recollect what their ances tors had been ; and to possess strong add national institutions, they had only to retnediber those which their country formerly enjoyed. t (enivArc coguEspoNDENCE.) _ AI %rutin, Mani tt 31.—Iestertiay we haat a double fete at Court, to celebrate, at otter, the anniv rrrrr y of the birth of the qteett, and the e.,toelo of ill publication of the Colistittiti.m. Thellrandec., the Deputies oldie kingdom, the Minis• ters and Foreign Ambassadors, the Judicial Corps, the Prelate., Ilriterals. and 'other °therm both military and naval, had the hon o ur of complimenting their Majesties. The concourse of distinguished persons was psodigion.. Vollies of artillery announced the soletnnlty of the day, and in the evening; there was a general illumination iu ,the town. OFFICIAL ARTICLE. The King has roamed l'aptaiii-Ceneral (par iNterisa) of Andalusia, and of the army of that &airier, Lieut.- tletieral ritonojhu (lion Juan), Governor of Cadiz; the Lient.lien. Don Cayetano Valtlrs, 'Brigadier of the Armies, U. M. F. of 'I anreguy. Valdes will take the command till the arrival of trl.tonojhu, who is invested with full powers :o :wrest and bring to trial all persons &R I. ark. THE STATESMAN. implicated in the atrocities of Cadiz, and other excesses committed in Andalusia. MI the Pr, feet% named by the Cortes are re-esta hlished intheir offices. The office of Secretary is restored. His Bureau, his Seals, Papers, anti the oriicinal of the Constitutional Act, hays hren surrendered to bins. All persons whom he employed are recalled to their respective posts. The Duke del Parque will not accept of the embassy to Paris. His habitnal infirmities prevrist him. It if a great loss; be would have honourably represented his Prince and his nation. A Charge si'.ltfaires is to ilium-- (Gately occupy this important office. It is doubtful whether the Count de Torino will arrept of the office of Minister at the Conn of Berlin; the %irtim of a furl otts persecution, condemned to death, a wanderer in foreign countries, his estates. which were very consi derable, were confiscated, and now demand the presence of the right owner. M. de Toreno Isstill young. The news of a free anal entire adlierrnee na tae part of the provinces, cities, corporations, and antlicaities, civil, military, and religious, to the constitutional sr tem, arrives continually from all points of the Pe ninsula. Our Gazette, so long silent, culler!, anal pub lishes all those acts worthy of being preserved and transmitted 5.. posterity. _ _ It is not yet aseertainefl what was the real occasion of the disastrous events of %%Melt Cadiz has hern the theatre. It only appears certain that the Ex-Governor Valdes, and the General l'ampans, have been the ic tints of them ; but the people suffered severely before they proved vie!oritina. These misfortnnes might have been nvoi4k4l; they tend to augment the regrets of all moderate men. Letters from Bayonne give some farther details re specting ti troubles of Cadiz. Arcording to these letters, the authority of General Frryre was set at de fiance by the authors of the disorders, who obliged him to retire to Port St. 3larie. These letters farther men tion, that the n u mber of persons killed amoontetl to MI, and that of the wounded to 1,211 n, and add. that after the massacre the soldiers photo !steed many houses. Measores have Lien taken to pursote and punish the instigators to this violence. According to one of these letters, Mint was to be pro claimed Captain-General of Navarre. The Count of St. Romano, who, at the head of a handful of militia, op posed himself in (OaHid* to the whole of the nation, 11.0 been driven from that Fiorito..., and Isis troops entirely dispersed. This feeble resistance has hoc caused the death of Colonel Aceredo, a Commander very toomlo esteemed liv the um-mg. These events have increased the pulolie iuspatirnee i 'Madrid for the con vocation of the Cartes. 'llse troooldes experienced at Cadiz, and some parts or A tidalty-i.o, are warmly attri hooted to certain Chiefs, among who'll General Fret re has been mentioned. W. Sll4ll be sorry to find him im plicated. As to the brothers, O'Donnell, they have fur ever forfeited the public opinion. As to General O'Donoilou (thin Juan), it a ill require all the pledges which lois itosprisonment and torture have given, to pre vent his Irish origin Irons losing the esteem and affec tion of the Spaniards. He is an officer of extraordinary The l'onstitution was proclaimed at Murri• on the Itch, and at Carthagena on the lIWt. Alicant, which. from the beginning, has displayed the most anxious impatience, received on the 19111 the official authority. and will celebrate the restoration with the most lively expressions of joy. Well might the French Royali,ts prophecy that the Spanish revolution, though commenced in peace, would terminate in blood, if they knew the course which the King's adherent's intended to pursue. Neither is it impossible, or even impro bable, that they may have possessed such know ledge ; for it appears almost certain that the first concessions obtained from FERDINAND were only conceded with a view of temporising, until he knew the result of secret schemes, as un principled in their nature as they have !rimed atrocious in their execution. It is, therefore, more than likely, that when extraordinary con tiers poured in so fast upon the French capi bd with intelligence of the momentous events taking place at Madrid, they also conveyed a pri vate and ermaoling assurance, that Despotism was not in so desperate a state as appearances might justify its friend+ in apprehending : and that strong though secret renicZes had been applied, which could not fail to effect its recovery. Sech pleas ing information would of course be communicated to the Journals devoted to the support of arbitrary power, tiosmigh prwlenee woold not allow them to reflect it to the public, except in broken gleams and with oracular mysteriousness. Hence all the dark insinuations about desolation and death, when, to every uninitiated eye, Spain appeared like one vast family, rejoicing at the return of an erring father, and celebrating in concord and unani mit',, the restoration of its liberties. We have already seen that the attempted delusions were foiled at Madrid by the spirit of the people and the patriotism of the military, and that the king was compelled, in self-defence, to adopt the sincerity which he professed, and not only to accept the Constitation but to convoke the Cortes. Ignorant of his submisssion, or availing themselves of it as an additional means of deceit, in the hope of being able to effect a counter-revolution if they could de stroy the chief leaders of the Patriots, his ministers of infsniy and death, the FRF.YRIVII and the O'Dos nat.'s, have endeavoured to execute at Cadiz, and in the neigbourhood of Seville, those parts of the original plan entrusted to their care. We published yesterday an seeount of their treachery and of its failure ; fresh details are now continually r ec eiv e d, which reveal deeds of dishonour and atrocity unsur- -- ea puled iu the records uf human c:i!nes. But th e ,„. alas of Spain was awake unit i;1 :an:. The trai:.-, succeeded in shedding the bllod of nearly 1.4.) unatoed victims, of ::11 ago , end sexes. aimor,z4 the multitude shorn they had invit. d to mat et Proclamation of the Constitution: but time" 131. ported by a few inebriated solt;:ers, th e y wet, driven back by the fury of that people whom th ey lit•d on massacreing. Indignation will e d etreect . , and weapons, and the Cadiz heroes, red with t h t gore of women and children, were dr.ten to th e i r barracks, where their worthy Comnialid e r It tt floa t to t h e i r r i d e , anal secured his life by 1;* ne should hear that they had been all saer.la,lt ) t i,,, vengeance of a whole city, whose in them the assassins of their mother., tot e r ; , daughters, should w? think their do.)iu too severe t Yet, the French Ultras would te:l as, ti lt their prophecies hail been realist N a y, th e , would seek to itijiire the great cl:he ,;( Constituasnal freedom all over the •void, by pointing at the e.rcivexes of new-bort. I,„, tfty is Spain! But the world vrili know the oath. Ilia will know that Patriotism overt'lrew Ty ree „, without requiring a single victim but t h at who, attacked by traitors, in defiance td all prier:phs human honour ama divine justice. it klew ho w I , tarnish murder, without !thing its c'er ufizu deration and nuvianimity. It would be premature to hr.z.ir.l an opinion it present as to the probably iucreased or iiininiblibt influence of the Crown in the ensuing Parliament. It eau add nothing to its respectability that thy sentiments of its Members are in well ascertained, that their derision on all the great gnestions which mar come before them ran be confidently anicipated : to a;. serf saris a thing is to negative its character ass d e i,. b era ti re mosonoltiy ; it has a tesdert:) , to 'rearm tie confidence of the people, and to nentranse their at , . pemlance on their own House fur the purpose f ee ' ,co, it a •as established (as a constitutional cheek 'tube Ars. tiler ale and Executive brandies of the Carersono, and to increase in a tenfold degree the dit•otisficrit.n which already exists. Yet such is the iNtadod sf the reroury Prints, and th it servile an I throughout the country ; and they point rill milgoort tri ta mph at the result of the contest in the rituflasdr. lint what cause laavether for rejoicing 1. TheLiver T otit,• metropolis have rejected the claims el t .rs an, at a: sound constitutional principles as ever applied tor *or suffrages; who, when occasion reaptire,l ir, sapporcelti.e interests of their constituents with an enero and 64e. lily, associated with talents, that were rafer.latel ensure sorcery; and who, on questions involriag tLe interests of the nation and the liuerties of their, coinary, nobly withstood the eneronehments of throats, awl ~ i .l I y protested against the exte , ..i. an of dew wamalial lan% which should have been strictly tempo,/ sat; 1n1.31. To replace whom were these men eleriesl? Crime (lid they deseat ? Two as mere panders to the Herrn, anent as ever srranikled for a coatrart—paro who wetr never known to vote against the existing liaiinistr.t lion. The 3linisterial tools are congratnlitir: their swim un their increasing strength in the pelmet elestior 1 kr they fail hi enumerate the instances. Besid e s Om Laird' London, Soinersetskire has certainly !ern mtatiseni; hut this is a victory of which they dare Hut hunt: alit i, sufficiently counteracted in the noble triumph of prin. ciple at Bridgewater, and in the tidal elt.frat, i:2=l the most stre ttttttt is exertions ; of the Treassry • at Taunton. If they wish Lir further instaenn of tie triumph:int tie tratiiin of those "eller:ins f•viiiits at Constitutional Liberty which have I ziven the asiy ciserk that has been offered to the most at! itrare and (swim attacks on the Rights of the Stiliset, atel to a wasteful expenditure of the public money. tie lived only refer to Bedfordshire, to Nottingham, to Westminster, to ilid theses, to Durham, to I' Iwt boil, c o ol, though at per sent tonsuccesslil, to the gierions stritggle whirl! las ell ii , nuivoatest the foster it lepeniicsice of the county „t West land. With respeet to this It of roa m s :, re the influence of the parties oppo- •ti to e.: •h other, imi di t, : l OOP 'lilt. Ire• see displayed 1;:e domineering a nt d the Lord Idententint oria the liaii ; :li:e ari.tovr.:tirf of 01 Lowthers—backed Its . the Il!l•pArinaly-nsed idyl& of the Treasury—the irlisi?e of the 3laelstracy, tie Irr (*tern-, and all the hinter I't: :dodders, - whom disbud Lieutets ott has so mony wi.y% of Hu:list: t. , !iis istermi. On the iditer side is arringed the titans., integrity lel constitiithinal independence of a private but ancients's! respect:dile family of the comity, harked by no 40 116 influence than that afforded by those hereditary priori*. of liberty whirls have ever ,sniniarrif the virtue's r mann- of this district, awl placed them loyondllitr'' tronlof any other stimulant than that emorpdrier Ala they here so rinitiest:ly displayed in their recent sntri' for emancipation from that inglorious thraldom is 0 1 " they have been too Ions: subject : they have *patois s voice of tlintider which has appalled the MAI" Despot, and tirade him tremble or the very aidewr" that intiticlice whirl] he has io grossly alseued. W hates cr be the resttltof this election with ',spelt" the twrsions chosen, we hope Ministers will toter l ''' supported Iry a 11 1 .irliament so slinstielessly senile to themselves, nor so reifurilless of the liberties sOllgif country, and the privileges of their eonstittievis. ell I?' 14111. M awy rate. aspic afore ettrnivtrt lwrvrrywr iii4trsti 111 l of dor itvees.itv tb4l It-t..nrs shirt' 1. 14 ettilwrace a sApricatisig pa,4••••11 Accounts from the South of France. receisediefr day, state that aver} Orono. sg);ri t eNists in Bisce against the new Coustitiai..o. One reason tell for this, wns the great privileges en:ryed 'Vita° province, particularly as to trade. The Archduchess of Parma, late Empress d France, is rycrtted at Vienna in the course of beeper sent isoadi. The Persian Ambassador left town on 8131 0 . ,..J morning, on his rriurn ho.nr, hor;tig scrusnilliohe'l Hatitteation of aTreaty lietireen this country gad Poll De is to embark at (*alai.. On Saturdt.y fiwenooti, Prince andTriness hazy, accompanied by Prim! Philip of Llemit s _ig . bourg, Count and Countess Lie yen, Count Pte* and Mr. Nieman, set out from Citandos-blellk _I! three open landaus, on a ‘isit to the Dti Duchess of 11 . ellington, at tht-ir wet, Stratbillie , in Hampshire, and ,tot to Brighton, as stitlet By advises from Demerara to the tlth bruary, we learn that the lever, respeclinerl (t so much alarm Lad been spread , Lod oile 6 7., peered, and that the colony, itt consequeolle , getting perfectly healthy. There was effriT; pearance that there would be very PrOdlall crops of sugar and coffee this season. I F r F I