The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-07-29 00:00:00

SPAIN. • ; ! ...61111.••••• • Cadiz papers to the Bth inst., have arrived. 4er fol. lowing is an outline of their contents, of which the pros ceediegs of the Cortes form the most important part. !n the sitting of the 6th, the election of a new Presi dent took place. Senores Zulueta and Galimsoliad most votes on the first termination, but on the ha lia d litifthe ' • former was chosen by 68 votes out of $6. The subject for discussion was the reps & of a gam.- • niittee in the form of a decree consialag of nine articles. The first eight, relating to the sespeasion of several articles of the Constitution, and limiting that , suspension to particular cues; as well mto the districtg declared to be in a state of war, were after a short des bate agreed to. The ninth article I. ie the followin terms Finally the provision raridoby article 306 of the Constitution is suspended." In the committee Senor Castejom eme of its soothe s bad objected to this article. The first eight articles re late to the forms of proceeding infests of anat. The article 306, which is held to sanction their snepeadon, is the last in the chapter. It provides that in extra-, ordinary circumstances, should the sag of the State in all or any of its parts require the suspension deny of the forms prescribed in this chapter for the arrest of de. linqoptits, the Cortes have power to decree such siaspen— sion for a cerra's period." Article 306, to the suspension of which Senor Cas tejon objected, decleres " that no house belonging. to any Spaniard shall be forcibly entered, except Is cases wkiett the law may determine for the .good order and safety of the State. • Several deputies; and among others Arguelles, con torted in objecting to the article on account of the form in which it was expressed. . • The Secretary of State for Grace and Justice proposed a modification, to the effect that the houses of Spaniards might be entered in the alert, during the time, and in the districts referred to in the first and second of the pre ceding eight articles. In this shape the article was agreed to, and the whole report adppted. The Cortes next proceeded to the consideration of the report of a committee on the proposition of Senores Omer, Santos Sauces, and Valetta, for allowing neutrals to carry the produce of the Isle of Cuba the same as Spa nish ships, on paying a duty of 4 per cent, as a license for the gag. The committee recommended the adoption of the following draught of a decree :-- • " Art 1. During the present war, and until two months after the publication of peace In the respective ports, trading is permitted between the Peninsula and adjacent islands and the transmarine provinces, in foreivo vessels ander a friendly or neutral flag. "2. The cargoes which they mar carry shall pay the duties established for Spanish vends, with the addition of 4 per cent. fur qualifying the flag. " 3. Outward cargoes shall pay to the respective cus tom-houses the reguisr duties, note ithstandrng the pro visions of Art. 18 of the tariff regu'atiuns of the Milth December, 1821. " 4. The provisions of the preceding articles are to be understood without prejudice to anterior decrees of the Cortes of 31st of Januaryand the 25th of June of the present year." Arguelles said it would be with much regret if he ob. jected to this report in the present circumstances, but be Loped that meass would be found to counteract, insome measure, the injury which such an innovation was cal ciliated to inflict on the remains of Spanish commerce. The FinanCe - Waists observed, that the naval force which France herA "timed on the,coasts of the Penin sula rendered the Prof set' measure ,pot only useful, bat absolutely necessary. After several other Deputies had spoken, it was resolv ed that there was ground for voting on the whole of the Report ; but the question on its final adoption was defer red until a subsequent sitting. In the aurae of the debate Senor Adan asked whether the Government had knowledge of an order of the French Dlinister of Marine, intimating that hostilities were not to be directed against Spanish commerce? The Secretary of Finance said the Goveroment had as yet received no official notice of the order alluded to by hrnor Adan, but he could declare that he himself had aro quite the contrary conduct. lie had seen French cruisers make Spanish merchantmen put back from the port, and even disarm them, which was the same thing as ;it ing them up to the pirates. Even before the war commenced the reloa Mariana, i ship which was private property,.was captured. Finn, the shipping lists in the Cadiz papers, it appears Vat the French blockade is quite inefficient. Vessels of all n 4ions, French excr pled, daily enter. On the sth no less than 40 sail, chid) , loaded with provisions, &relied. Among them is mentioned " the English brig Leopold, from ltuayaquil, with cecna ;" and the an now./ ement of this arrival is accompaiiied by the follow ino note:—" As this brig was standing in, one of the French men of war hailed her in order to overhaul her, to which, however, she paid no attention, and the Frenchman gave chase and fired four guns at the brig antine, but found it impossible to come up with her. On entering the bay the brigantine neared the coasts of Pnerto, from the castle of which the French also fired some cannon, but still without doing the least injury • to the brigantine, which entered safe and sound, thus frustrating and covering with ridicule the . Frencq skill in the seamanship and artillery." A deert e of the Cortes, dated July 2, deprives such Spaniards as Still adhere to the enemy of the rights and guarantees to which they would be entitled by the • Constitution. The anniversary of the 7th ofJuly, the date on which' t insurrection of the guards was dsdyated,. was cele brated with great solemnity.' 'rho Espectador of the 2d cantatas the-followieg in formation on the state of Portugal toss " The passengers who arrived yesterday by the steam boat give a most melancholy picture of the state of Lis bon. The merchants are confounded and mortified. The army, which.soffered itself to be seduced to destroy the liberty of the country. is in a state of complete nsubor di n atcon, and every thing announces that the revolution in Portugal is now only about to begin. " At present three parties are distinguishable--namelv, IL.' Cokatitattioitaliste, the Absolatssts, and a middle party, which may be called that of the Paci, ficator*. lo appears that the Minister Palmella leads the last. The given - and the Infanta Don Miguel direct the second.— As for the King, he is a mere cipher, and his late conduct Las lost him the favour. of all parties. " Some of the deputies of the Cortes are thrown into prison; others have fled. The Colonels of most of the sec intents have been changed, but the soldiers refuse to recognize the new commanders, and insist on the restore- Von of their old ones. In fine, the indiscipline bag reached such a height, that the partisans of despotism publicly declare that they cannot depend on the troops, and it is necessary to callin•a foreign army. Such is the quiet and peace which the Portuguese have obtained from those who told them that there cauld be no tran quillity While the Constitution existed! - Such would be the picture aMO Spain would present were the 0,1- vernment to be dissolved, and our enemies to cur, their • intentions into effect !" II A ytiOUll quarrel has taken place between the Wes leyan preachers of Melton and the members of their so ciety, which originated is woe differences respecting the allowances to the former. The preachers on Sunday eek gave full demonstration of their power by expelling. the whole of the society, with the exception of , a few in• dividuals.—(Yorkshirt Gazette.) , riad .-- PRICE OF STOCKS 'PHIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank fltitek. .. I S i-por Ct. Red 944 Ditto Reads.. • /1" - ' 1 / 1 .X.1. Cons 4.3 R5.11111.2d. i • - ...a i ii.,,i_ ti per Cent... l . 3 10001. S" --4 ".7 . . 71 ,1 4 per Cents ..* New F0urt........1003 99 —Small-29e no Plik ILong Ann... 2O 13-1 Lottery Tickets—. 144 14s' • Imp. S per et Con. for Ace l . BlB 9l l4lBo * 0,0 In answer to the st sond epistle signed "Joseph Ady," we take occasion to inform the applicant that the Report of the proceedings at the Mansion House. on . " the complaint" concerning which he enquires, may las. found in the Morning Ihrald, of the 24th instant. 4 eke Atattontan.: 'I s being is quineao bidt a 80 . we J be. s' luracos state, that the t from Rio r .4 6 P 1 neonens hoe or Gombella, beasts 700 'ftee,lbldonglag to Morales. — Padilla bad taken alike ses•foreeof Morales in the Lsgoon,snd keeps him entirely surrounded—bas cut B, I off all his resources. Momlers cannot now escape. O Stocks fell yesterday; and an Ultra paper is this morning anxious to chew that there exists no reason why they should fall—" because Molitor is advancing from Grenada, to join Boarmont and Bourdesoult, and that, when they have effected this junction, there will be 24,000 French troops before Cattle, instead of having retired behind the Ebro." Yet they may, after all, I e compelled to retire. The assembling of no army is no proof thit it will be able to effect its purpose.; and there is some reason why the French funds should fall, which will not be removed even when Cadiz is taken. It is evi dent that France is too feeble for the task she has under taken. The portion of it which they hoped would be per formed by the Spaniards is left to their own execution. They are no where assisted in their efforts to restore thedespoti ems Those who are not with the Cortes, are not against them. The Freech find either hostility or indifference, as far as the mass of the people is concerned ;an they have extended their force so much as to leave it absolively powerless, where circumstances admit of any organized resistance. The first town invested by the French, on their entrance into Spain, still bids them defiance ; nor have they the most distant hope of its surrender. This speaks sufficiently the inadequacy of the French force to accomplish its object :—And every day developing this fact the more clearly, the parties who have been im posed upon by the pompous description of the irre sistible power of a French army of 100,000 men, find that It Is broken up into a number of small corps, barely strong enough to march from town to town, and ~o more formidable at the places they occupy, then they , were at the places they leave to take up new positions. There is no ptospect of any thing decisive warring : Our warfare against America is revived in this contest between France and Spain. The object is the senile in both cases;—to establish a depotism against the will of the people. We were, in the first instance, more trium phant in America than the French have been in the Peninsula.. Wherever our soldiers came, they were conquerors, for may years. The hope of victory scarcely entered into the mind of an American officer. AU that was expected, was to be able to itarrass, to weary, and to exhaust. America had few of the advantages for re silience, now possessed by Spain ; and yet she ulthave ly triumphed, because she was determined not to be sul-. deed. It was soon discovered that no military fort a could be large enough to occupy a nation. The conse quence of this discovery was, that the Britisliarmy only held the ground upon which it stood. When it moved, it left its past conquests to resume the attitude of hostile defiance. it could effect nothing, because it could **care nothing. This will also be the ease in Spain, if the Spaniards pews; Xiii.eitlcats resolution, and American perseverance. Mina has shewn himself already a worthy rival to the military fame of Washington :—ar d there is no indication of any intention on the part of Spain, to submit to the yoke of the invaders. We bear, it is true, of Spanish Royalists :—So we did of American Loyalists; and when there was soy Woo) be given swat',' they were found in swarms about the British camp : but in the field they were a sort of " Army of the Faith," far more troublesome to their friends, than formidable to their enemies. Thus in Spain there are a few scoundrels who, In the hope of making terms with tyranny them. selves, are ready to sacrifice the liberty of the nation and there are also some men credulous enough to follow such leaders, thanks to the bad soil in which the real n in. Powers have been left to wither. But the number of * both classes must be comparatively small. He Awn be l ' • leoorant, or fanatic, indeed , who would wish for the de graded condition of a slave. Few intellects can be reduced to such an ebb, and have the ridiculous appear ance of the Army of Faith !—the timbers of which are 'diminishing instead of Increasing. This is another gaol indication .of the state of public opinion in Spain.— The check before the walls of Corunna has been the parent of the panic which begins to seize the Ultra-fund holders—the speculators for a rise ! The affair itself was glorious; but the consequences are likely to be still more beneficial. It is curious to hear an Ultra Scribe lament the waste of life in these contests. He " fears " the only effeat of Sir Robert Wilson's efforts will la " to cause a great loss of life, without the prospect of " any ultimate benefit to the cause he has espoused.; What mean, what despicable hypocrisy is this! The scribe fears no such thing. He fears that the loss of life, prodnoed by tire resistance of the Spaniards, will either save the town, or compel the French to purchase it at a greater price than they will find it worth to them. His fears are, that the Holy Allies may be defeated is their infamous purposes. He begins to speak respect fully of Sir Robert Wilson, because the French havefels that be is opposed to them. The Spaniards, entrusted with the defeats sf Corunna, know that any weakening of the French army is'of incalculable advantage to them ; and, we trust that if Commis mast fall, many thousands of the French army will be destroyed before it, or buried in its ruins. We have no pity for them; because they have no business there. If it be said the" poor soldiers" are not to blame—that they cannot help it—we answer THU csw.—They can tell their officers they will not be led m the butchery of the innocent, and to the deso lation of an nnoffending country; and if their officer are the determined tools of tyranny, they can shoot them instead of the Spaniards; and thus put an end to the contest. The Freneh bulletins continue to be the most amnsinr things in the world. A melodramatist might pick out _ _ a good story from the alleged adventures of Mina ; who in spite of frozen feet, and mortal sickness, has set out again for the rear of the French army, and bids fair t• raise the blockade of Barcelona, by a diversion on the frontiers of France. The Drapean Blanc, a Frentb Ultra paper, as furious and as slavish as any of our own, is blaming Marshal Moncey for hating made three grand faults in hit pernsife of bItNA: One of them is, stAymAN aced as I ft a. .11 4 tap l dlim to be • 4 • met ers c rOM u • 1.:.. pm.... • u :,•.• • • •y r :r n 0r 0 .......trrjk.... L H a tt ie , cr a ve • -I:4•.e , e,tworri.• .0 • • ••• co 0 o , s I —Eandett • •••#4 l , pad bad there beati I....oOttenharg • • I u ''' • " ulna ' (enteral Padilla ba inial DAY EVENING. JULY 29, 1823. ied this STOCK EICCRANOI. 12 O'CLOCE.—OOIISOI3 opened morning at 81 to but soon lowered to 8031. Lots bast Men sold of 50,000 and 100,000, and the Market sppet Tay heavy. French Scrip continues to falL Wpm t l opeoing of the Market it was done at L. afterwards at Ipremlorn, and lowered again to ;I. It !mild have . been lower still bad not certain parties appeared in the Market, and purchased to keep it up. Various letters have been received this morning from Cadia, particularly one of the 9th inst., which describes that city as being in the highest spirits, - and with the most sanguine hopes of compelling the French to raise the blockade. Providons are there in abondance, and very cheap : three very large American ships, laden with flour, have, in defiance of the blockade, entered the port. The military force consists of 15 thousand regulars, be sides a numerous body of militia and volunteers,arnottat log in the whole to 25 thriu.and men ie arms. Anotber sortie was expected to take place. Deneial Lopes Banos is going to he tried by a Cann Martial, for having alma: dotted twenty pieces of artillery, which fell into the hands 'of the French, without being spiked. It is also stated 'that the Cortes are now ready to treat with the French but upon certain conditions,rhich will prove honourable to both parties. Private letters from Paris describe the French cavalry in Spain the most superb that France ever bad, bat the infantry quite the reverse, and becoming heartily sick of the mountainous warfare. The Foreign Market is very gloomy. Spanish Bonds, 331—Columbian, Cr 2. HALF-PIST Twsure.—French Scrip at par, to a quarter. The Ditch and Hamburg Mails which have arrived this morning, have brought us very little news of poli tical interest,.. The corps of General Baron Stutterheim, which had left the blot/dons of the Two Sicilia in the Spring, and had balled is Lombardy, has received orders I to march into Austria. The war, however, against the I German press, continues attire. An article, dated tuttgard, July 16, says, " Our portals contain en ad. vertisensent, in which the editors of the Centfirofioaa Journal state, they find reason to conclude, for the pre sent, the publication of that jour al, with the 12th Num ber, which bus just been issued to the subscribers. Accounts from St. Petersburg of the Bth iostant, an• nonnce that their 'Royal llighnemes the Prince and Princess of Orange, and the Primes, Catharine of War imbue', bride of his Imperial . Highness, Grand Doke Michael, are expected there by the 2d of August, the birth day of her Majesty the Empress Mari►a.—Another article from the same capital, under date of the 4th instant, communicates the following CO3ISIBROIAL INTELLIGICNCE:--• -------- The trade in Russia produce la In a state of unexpected stagnation, though this is the season whet' all the supplies have arrived (except flax which is expected in a week, and potashes which will be here in a fortnight) and when the most important stipments are usually made. The orders come in so sparingly that many ships seeking freight are idle; and freights to all parts, even to the Mediterranean, are very reasonable. The prices of our natioual produce are of course very unfaVourable. With respect to the imported articles we bad Battered ourselves with an Improvementond the more so meths losses sustained in the consignments made to this market last year, and the considerable stock remaining unsold, made as sap. pose that the importation would be inconsiderable, and the prices were higher lu almost all the poets of the Conti nent than here. Nevertheless we have • continued Importation of all kinds of goods, even such as never afford any profit here; and it is therefore no wonder if the buyers, both those re sident here and those who came from the interior to purchase for the fair et Novogorogi, will not credit the ! l ateral assns.- anies of losses sustained by the sellers, and allege * continued Importations se a proof of the contrary. Thite are therefore very cautious; purchase only at the lowest prices; and there lo still in the interior such en abendane• of import goods. that they expect • bad fair, apd do not venture to make a...y extensive purchases. Thus the two last months have passed,without the smallest demand for any one article. The goods last imported must therefore be added for the most pirt to those already in the warehouses especially as all purchases for the fair will close hi a week., i We shall be re laced to the demand for this city t and, as the retailers are already well supplied, we may expect a de cline rather than an Improvement In the prices tad de mand. The following is from s Hamburg paper : lisnnuna. July 22.—Ciptain J. P. Litsen, commending the Gerechtigkett, arrived on the 20th at Ginekstadt, from Greenland, with 1912 seals. She brings very good news (Which we shall communicate to-morrow) respecting the success of the other whale ships; the Bremen, Capt. A. Make, had taken 18 Ash. New York papers to the 27th June have arrived this' morning, by which we learn that papers from Havansah, to the Bth instant, had been received at Charlestown. containing news from Mexico, to the 10th ult., of which the following are extracts The sovereign (provisional) Congress was in session, and bad passed some laws relative to coinage. Commodore Daniels, whose arrival at Baltimore was announced last evening, came as a passenger. Commo dore D. bas not been exchanged, as was some time ago published. SPANISH Mete.--Caraccas papers, to the 24th of May bare been received, and,altho' the news that Padilla has forced the BitY of Maracaibo is confiraed, let Monks is •• ** ~y7~yy~/LL4 'not having tougtat ►u,t,ut, oi tae 9,000 French ; but the French Marshal, nuts% itlistsnii• I L og that j single troop of French sometime* effects such wonders, did riot choeie to run any such risk. The nest fault was not suffering lien. Donnedieu on one occasion to • cutoff Mina'sretrewt,'afaver which the French(len.% said to have solicited in vain of the FrenchNiarshal ; and at lino. ther time; thee Doensdien wanted to ;mete the enemy u sword in hand," lat was " prevented." Thus Mies escaped tbreetimes; but it seems very strange Ponnatlieu, who was at the head of a detached corps, should hart needed orders to perform these evidently necessary operations. He seems to us to be a sort of Captu;n Bobadil, who has always an excuse ready for want of bravery or talent. Nina, however, is now giving the Frenchman another opportunity of showing his %kill; and valour! The French papers say he is marching at the head of 9,000 men: for Upper Catalonia. He cam , not bide such a force under a bushel. Indeed the French seem •to know well enough where lie is —but neither Doaniulied, nor hioncey, seem to like the task of " b elling the cat." Some diepotes are likelyto arise Wee pretensionsof France • to blockade ports of Spain, before which she has no suit dent force to sustain the Interdiction of commerce. Ti.. Ordinary principle: of blockade are, that no sea-port can he considered in such a state, when tlwre is not a maritime force sufficient in open day to pre►ent an entry of the port. To station a cruiser is not to form a blockade; and not e‘ ea Cadiz can be considered as blockaded by sea ; the French ships of war being study Inadequate to Intercept the coni- Jonnication. •The stoppage of the Royal George, steam , packet, was therefore an insult to England, and not an in jury to Spsia. We have some idea that a war with England would be more popular in France, than a wsr ultu Spain. It has ever been said, that the attack upon Spuis was concerted to provoke England.; and if that were the case, and the'Lion is too bay to move when indirectly an noyed, the French Ministry may be driven to pull him et once by the beard, and compel him to look about him. The New Times of yesterday talked of "the bloody executions of those merciless Monsters,3lisa,and x, In Catalonia ; and of the massacres perpetrated by LOPES BANOS. at Seville ;" and say from these may be sera what might be expected, " if that faction had the means of fully glutting its vengeance." What detesthble e nese, what audacious violation of language is this Would nut ass unprejudiced reader imagined, when he talked of merciless monsters, and bloody executions, and massacre:, that be was alluding to the authors of the military Murders of Marshal Ney, and Labedoyere ? of the murderous exploits against the lives of Fortier and others, whose Only crime was that of thinking a Bourbon worthy of a Crown, and fighting fur a monster, who rewarded them with bloody executions, for restoring to him a Crown? Should we not think the term massacre more appropriately applied to the horrible and unprovoked slaughter at Cadiz and other place , , than to the suppression of the riots instigated by the French Faction at Seville, after the departure of the Cortes ? But that we know this scribbler would as readily call some other person a merciless Monster, and rail it Ibe bloody executions in other places. if he were engaged to do so, it might be yto say more upon this subject. Be cannot .ba the character of any man an injury by his censure. His praise, indeish is perfect poison ; nor will it be the least pride of the. Spanish patriots, that by their inxiocibl e devotion to Ibis rights of man, they have incurred the lasting hatred.of all the renegades who hare apostatised from the cause of freedom. The pensioned Berke died of grief at :601 triumph of the French revolution. We have many worse men who may soon have to moons as bitterly at the triumph of the more glorious Spanish revolution :—a revolution which would now have bees fixed beyond the power of foreign interferenee, or native treachery, if its authors had been the" merciless Mon sters" they are represented by abusive knaves. If they were so, why lives the King ? Why does the Royal Family survive? Why did not even one victim fall on the scaffold; Tkey had the power in their hands! they were masters of the fates of their enemies! And, though it was a glorious humanity to spare them, it was, perhaps, a want of policy to leave traitors the power of diltutb ing the repose of the country. The French papers announce, in two lines, thellock ade of Coronna, after a " lively engagement." They have little, therefore, to boast of, in their reception be fore the walls. Since they are so sparing of intel ligence, we may rest assured that they have suffered se verely ; and, however useless, or merciless, tile (Titres may think it to injure the French army, the Spaniards seem very much disposed to continue the practice, and are not likely to leave off, until the French retnove out if their way. A sortie has been made from the Isle do Leen. Of course the French tell us they were repulsed: —but this could not be done without loss. The French will therefore be weaker when another sortie is made; sod as Frenchmen do not spring up in Spain ready armed and equipped, after a dozen or two of sorties, that may be repulsed. one may be made that will he Ammo successful. The - The Barcelona papers give an account of various severe struggles between the garrison and the blockaders ; (for even Barcelona is not yet besieged) in which the French have sustlined great loss: and the Patriot Spaniards have greatly distinguished thenwelvti- The frozen foot of Mina has not suspended the opera- Bons of the Spaniards in that quarter. We must not, however, disguise the fact, that a move ment in favour of the projects of the Holy Alliance has Men made in Ceuta. It was attempted, very naturally, by the galley-eaves! and though it failed, and sent the eittgleaders to Oleic fate, it deserves to be recorded to their honour, that they proclaimed their wish to have en skotatte King! Poqr devils! one would have thought that the lash had been ttbsolate enough for them ! When the French get Ceuta, they will, no doubt, erect a monument to the me! mark of their lu:forty:We Allies! The outcast criminal, and the despotic oppressor, are sworn brothers. The French army is bat a sort of banditti. The cavalry are highwaymen, and the infantry footpads. Prince Hilt is but a Royal Captain Macheatb; nor has he an 'giver in his army half so respectable as the Scotch Rob 'toy, or the Yorkshire Tullio. Certai greater person ifies. are only Peachans and Lockets itt high life; and ve bi in of CI • ell a I PO La Pr of zn, be be wi rig be s.s4 , .....-' lid ' Pr r . , o ••- t _. . i .. ;,