The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-08-05 00:00:00

• 5 ' . FRENCH PAPERS OF SATURDAY. PARIS, Auc. 2. By a decree of the Cortes, the Connt de Carthagena has been declared a traitor to his country, and deprived of his rack, titles, and dignities. • [The Pilote gives a list of 125 vessels which entered Ca rliz in the six first days of July.] A letter iO'..the Moniteur from Valencia, of the 21st of . l oly. says, ""ltdivision of the French army passed through this city to-day. Yesterday, sixty tumbril:, of ammunition arrived here. The superior Junta is dissolved, and has been replaced by the authorities named by the Regency. The greatest tranquillity prevails here. A French division which has passed the night at Murriedro, is expected to morrow. A Royalist corps has forced the town and castle of Morella to surrender by capitulation." A telegraphic despatch from Brest has announced that the frigate Cyble, which takes M. Hyde de Neuville out of Lisbon, as Ambassador. sailed on the 31st of July, a.id that on the same day the frigate Nereitle, corvette . Egeria, the brig Cnrieux, and the lighter Bretonne, sailed to join the ships whit h are blockading Corunna and Cadiz. A journal (The Orillaninic,) published yesterday the fol lowing erws ** The report is screwed, and with an appearance of reality, that within a short time the Great Powers will pull adeclaration, in which they will fix a term for the Cortes to restore liberty to the King: beyond this term the members who compose it will he regarded as guilty of high treason, an I treated as such." We can confi tently assert that this ahanril report, pre stinted as having an appearance of reality, has no sort of 4 Yoondation.—(Journol des Debuts ) ' The Journal des Debuts announced yesterday that, ac cording to letters froin Madrid of the 26tli July, founded on advice. from Cadiz, of which it gives to slate. Romanillos, Tigodet, and three Deputies of the Cortes, constitute a l'ommittee to modify the Constitution, and that they pro pn,c to adopt for a model the Constitution of England.— know not if this news is thrown out at random by the `Journal des Debate, which collects pele-mete the most ri• eictilons reports. and which is likely soon to be entitled to ro more credit than l'Etoile; but we have heard people, ho attach importance to every thing inserted in that jour. nal, pretend that this news would not have appeared with out weighty reasons and that, notwithstanding the war like article in tie 'Midterm, it has for its object to prepare the public mind for an accommodation, reports of w hick have been for sonic days circulated about the Exchange and Treasory.—(Constitutionnel.) The Ftoile of this evening give a finishing rinse to the poor Courier of London, whom it reproaches for its article as almost amountir gto treason. It pret.inds that the chief editor (redacteur en chef) is absent, and that Isis labour " is entrusted to a clerk, who has an extremely weak head." It is true, that the principal editor of the Courier comes frequently to Paris: upon his return to London he will be doubtless more reasonablc.—(lbid) The Menioriale Bordelais announces, that it has been posted on the Exchange, that the vessel la Clementine, of Havre, which had left Brest to join the convoy destined lir Martinique, was captured by a Spanish privateer, 4 hours after her sailing from Brest. FRENCH FUNDS, Pails. Aug. 2.—Five per cents. opened at !'l 35.; closed at 91. 55 ; Bank Stork, 1,590 ; Neapo• Man 5 per cents. 7fii. Exchange on London, 1 mouth, 75.; 3 months, 25. 55.—(f0urs Auth entiquc.) MADRID, Jctor 27. His Royal ll;nhness Pets out to-morrow at two in the morning:. The Prince Generalissimo wishes to remove his Lead quarters to the very centre of military operations. A worthy descendant of Derry IV., is at the advanced posts that he wishes to be. On the 231 of August, accortline to the order of march,his Royal Wellness will he in person at Port St. Mary, under the walls of Cadiz. The love which the army bears to its august General-in• Chief cannot be imagined. The troops who escort the Prince arc divided into three columns, following each other at intervals of a day's Larch. The Duke of Angouleuie marches with the &Cond. _ _ The body -guards 'hold themselves in readiness to move on the first We learn that ao F.nelish frigate, ignorant that the port of Cadiz had been declared in a state of blockade, and that Sir W. •A'Court had ceased to reside near the King, pre sented itself before that city. It has jnst sailed fur. San Lncar on the intelligence that Sir W. A'Court was intend in gto pass to Gibraltar. It is thought that it mill take Sir W. Alintirt on board. I send you the order of the day puliisbed at Seville the 18th, as follows: " From the 19th of July, 1823, the navigation of the Gaadal9eiver shall be permitted, hut tie baths thit tra verse this river must punctually °banns the following form alities " Feely vessel, after having observed the orders of the Spanish anthoritics, utn•t also provide itself with a pass, which will be granted by Colonel Cotti.ss, Commandant of ti:e place. " It is expressly forbidden to all vessels to pass above Rota in the direction of Cadiz and the Isle of Leon; those which shall he found to infringe this order, or which shall keep np a correspondence with the besieged, will be taken and sunk or burned by the French squadron ; the cargo will be confiscated, and the crew, as well a• the passengers. will be made prisoners of war. Every infraction of these arrangements will be punished according to the rigour of military law. (Signed. &e.) " ISOURMONT. " Seville, 18th of July, 1823." [AILS. •ae. 01:t. 1. —Dublin ..... • • 0 1 —.Waterford.. • 0 1.... G &Jersey— 0 0....1i5b0n 0 o....Gottenburg 1 0....H011and o....Hambro I.... France 0 0 ...Flanders 0....Ma1ta 0 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock . 2244 S per Ct. Red ... 821 83 3 p. Ct. Cons.s.'.. B2l 31 per Cent...: 9blt 4 per Cents. • ... lOOl New Fours lOlll Low Ann. .91 -346 imp. 3 per Ct DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock. 23,5 t Ditto Bonds. 88 Otipm. Ex.Rill.2d. - 27 30s pm. 10001. 5e5a11.....28 101 pm. Lottery Tickets...... 141. 14s. Con. for Acct.... 82 I ate *tatetintan. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1b23. --omo— STOCK ETC/DINGS, 12 o'CLocx.—Consols opened this morning at 82 1 1, at which prise they remain steady. In the early part of the morning, there was a good deal of business done. No Commercial express has come from Paris today; but we understand a pri►ate one has arrived; though we do not bear it brings any information of consequenee from Spain. Poulos Foxos.—Spanish Bonds opened at 321, 33, at which price they have kept steady.—breech Scrip II — Colombia 63—Russia 84F—Danish nothing doing—Chili 681—Foysts 17. THE STATESMAN. Frankfort papers to the 31st of July, which have arrived this morning, have brought accounts of the proceedings of the Diets of Switzerland and Germany. In the Sixth Sitting of the Diet of Switzerland, the Committee appointed to exa mine the measures to be adopted relative to the Press and to Foreigners, presented a circumstantial report, which is to be immediately communicated to all the cantonal Go. vernments. The Committee has recommended that with respect to the abuses of the Press, the necessary, vigorous, and satisfactory measures be adopted by all the Slates ; to the end that in newspapers, journals, pamphlets, and all kinds of periodical publications, every thing may be avoided in treating of Foreign affairs, which may be contrary to the respect due to Foreign Powers, or give them just grounds for complaint, and that regard be had not only to the pe' nishment of such transgressions, but above all, to the pre vention of them. With regard to the police superintendence of Foreigners, it recommends, that measures be taken to prevent fugitives from entering or residing in Switzerland, who have left their country in consequence of their crimes, or interruption of the public tranquillity, and are pursued oa that account; and also of such persons as during a regularly authorised abode in Switzerland, shall abuse it, to carry on dangerous intrigues against the lawful Government of a friendly foreign power, or to trouble internal tranquility; that the entrance of foreigners shall depend on their possessing valid certificates from their recognised local authorities, under the cases of those whose Governments have Nlinivers accredited to the Confedera tion, the certificates to be recognised by those. Ministers, S.:c. This prouosal was unanimously approved, and the ' ..ery Deputies who resumed tho ratifications to their Gover• meta, expect to receive it without delay. In the 20th Sitting of the Ger:tunic Diet, the report of the Committee was read on the petition ofteveral Prelates and Members of the Equestrian Order in Holstein, upon which the Minister President made the following obser vations:— • "A small part of the Prelatesand of the Equestrian Order in Holstein has applied to the Diet, and represented how pain ful their situation is, since they could not either be under the ancient Constitution of Holste!tt, nor securely expect a new Constitution. The petitioners do not complain to the Diet, nor do they expect any decision from it, but they have taken the liberty to represent their situation, that the Diet, without prejudice to the rights of the petitioners, may intervene be tween them and their Prince, in order that, conformably to Art. 36. of the final Act, their ancient Constitution may be preserved, or as they are ,tlo !melees convinced, that it is net adapted to the present times, that they may have a new one, hi h;c:1 regal d shall be hat to their rights. The Committee of petitions has proposed to ask of the Danish Government a de claration on this subject. Ills Nldjesty has anticipated this proposal, by declaring, through his Minister, that the ancient Constitution of Ilolsteill, not being in force, the appeal of the petitioners to the .with Art., could not be valid; but that his Mejesty, to fulfil exactly the 13th Article of the Act of the Confederation, would give a Constitution to the Ducity of Hol stein, which conformably to Art. 33. of the final Act, shall have regard to ancient rights and be adapted to the actual state of things." The dlinis•er President then proceeds to assign his rea sons for inviting the petitioners to wait for this Constitn• tion, with the contiikice which the frank declaration of his 3lajesty ought to give to his faithful stihjects.assuring them at the same time that the User, confining itself within the sphere of its functions, will not fail to take care, according to the Act 34, of the final Act, that this engagement be fulfilled. " Such In this ease " says the President, " is the final vote of my Court. There is one point more on which I think it necessary to declare myself."—Count de Brust proposed that his Majesty the King of Deumnrk be required to grant a Con stitution to the States of llolstein within a certain fixed time, and M. de Wangenheim proposes to limit this time to a certain amber of mouths. ", Ills ',Majesty the Emperor %rill never think it fit that this assembly should fix a time to the sovereign Princes of the Confederation, to give Constitutions to their States. His Im perial Majesty has the most perfect confidence„not :only In the King of Denmark, but in ail the high Members of the Confe deration, that they will faithfully NW, the obligations which they have contracted as such ; and his Majesty appreciates the prudence and the paternal care with which their affairs have been prepared in the States of the Confederation." His Excellency, after a long tirade against the facility with which Constitutions are given, and the promptitude with which they disappear, concludes his speech in the • following terms : " The considerate German, having regard to the prudent manner in which his Sovereign naturally weighs every thing, will not distrust the purity of the views of his Government; end the faithful German, grateful for those fraternal cares which embrace all inteiests, will ►e still more attached to his Prince." The majority of the Members agreed with the Minister of Austria. who observed, however, that some of the Members wished for instructions before they acted, and as the matter was not urgent, it might be left till the first sitting after vaca tion, to come to a resolution. To this all the Members agreed. We are still without news from Corunna; although the French authorities, who knew oo the 20th ult. what had happened there on the kith, must on the 27th, (the date of the latest news from Madrid) have been aware of the trans actions before Corunna, up to the 23d ult. They do not, however, even mention the place. This must be considered favourable to the power, as well as to the disposition, of the parties entrusted with the defence of this fortress. The report that the French has raised the siege is not confirmed; but it is by no means improbable. The expectation of the French was to take the town by surprise. They were not in any condition to form a siege ; and if they remain there, they can only maintain a very loose sort of blockade. To besiege such a town would require at least 20.000 men, ade quately provided with bury artillery and the requisite as munition ; and it would requiTe some weeks, perhaps months, before these could be obtained. Panspelnna is not besieged yet; although the French hate been three months before it. In the absence of any thing more interesting, the French writers continue their chilf!ish adulation of the Doke d'Angouleme. They call this cat's-paw of the despotic inclinations of the Emperor of Russia, " a worthy descend " ant of Henry the Fourth ;" though no worse com parison could have been imagined, than one between a man who had healed the dissensions of France, and another who is employed in encreasing those of Spain. But why is he a worthy descendant of Henry Fourth? — Simply because be is going from Madrid to Seville, as" it " is at the advanced posts that he wishes to be." Why, then, was lie not there before? He was not in the van, on the march to Madrid. He was not even in the army which marched upon' Seville. Why was he not at Com na, if he is so fond of the advanced posts ? He wishes to remove bis head-quarters to the very centre of military operations. Then why does he go to Seville ? There are no military operations going forward there. Does he not seek the care of the French army for the safety it may confer? Does he not fear that it may be a palace, and not a church, that-will be burnt at Madrid? It matters, how ever, very little, where he is ; noPwould it be of any service to the Spanish cause to have him removed; for he might in such case make way fora better officer. Four small French vessels have sailed from Brest to re inforce the squadron blockading Cadiz. To shew what the nature of that blockade is, the Pilule, French paper, gives a list of 126 vessels, which entered Cadiz in the first six days of „ay. A report prevails of an English frigate having entered this port, in defiance, or rather in contempt of the blockading force. There is sufficient probability in the occurrence, to warrant a degree of credit to the state ment. The captain of an English frigate would at once perceive that there was no sufficient naval force present to constitute a blockade ; and would therefore pay no atten tion to the presumptuous notification, that the port was blockoded. We have before said that an English officer knows what a block:tile should be, and that the whole naval power of France, if concentrated in the bay of Cadiz, would be but barely sufficient for an effective blockade of the port. The miserable farce of a blockade that exists, could only excite his laughter : and lie would be very likely to sail in, to see bow the blockaders would act, in the endeavour to prevent him. Perhaps, too, he might have heard, that the French Admiral did not know the English flag a few days before; and he might wish to refresh his memory a little. There is so much folly in submitting to the injury done to the English commerce by these pretences of blockade, that it is high time our Government should interfere, otherwise, we shall have presently from Paris a declaration, that the whole coast of Spain is in a state of blockade ; and thus we shall be interdicted from any coin• monication with the country until the French have con quered it, either for Ferdinand or for themselves. Mr. Owen, it is said, is likely to raise a loan of 100,0001. for an additional experiment, to the one existing at Lan ark, on the principle of co-operation. That subseriptions sh ould be advanced upon such a speculation, is net a mat. ter of surprise ; when Poyais loans are in fashion; and mo ney is so plentiful in the hands of a certain class, that no host of cut throats in red coats can be required to move, but England hill furnish them with the means. In con trust with this base employment of accumulated wealth, it is quite delightful to cor.template the devotion of a portion, however small, to an attempt, if it should prove no more to better the condition of any portion of suffering human' ty. Tte employment of capital its productive channels is always uscful ; but the proposed expellee of the erections we are disposed to think exorbitant, and unnecessary, Ground landlords may thinkjotherwise, as the expenditure will improve the value of the ground; but to be as flourish ing as such communities ought to be, the ground, and the buildings, as well as the stock, should belong to the society. Now, there can be little hope that such societies would ever be able to purchase such expensive erections as. would cost 50,000/. in the first instance. The rent and taxes of such establishments would be great ; and the inhabitants might one day be found mere at the mercy of the landlords than they would like. It would not at present be the best of all possible speculations, ' to buy land with borrowed money, in the present condition ofaffairs ; and it is a matter that will be found deserving o f very serious attention, that these societies should not be burthened with thepsyment of interest money for borrowed advances. Otherwise, all the parties who enter them, un der the idea that they are labouring for themseltes, will' find they are only labouring for a new species of fund-holders, who is lending them money at Five per cent, • while he cats get no more than four in the ordinary fonds. We call attention to this matter, because we wish the experiment, if it is to be made, to have fair play; which it will not have, if the co ' partners start with ri debt instead of a capital.' T he loan ing system which destroys all established institutions, can not be a correct principle to start upon, in a new st stem. Mr. Owen, ne are aware, calculates upon so much profit, that he thinks these incumbrances will be easily paid off, but it is not every seed that is put into the ground that will bear grain; tied all these calculationsof success mus. he taken with great allowances for unavoidable drawbacks The American joint-stock communities obtained their ground for little. or nothing, and built their own houses, &c. gra dually, as they could spare time, and prepare materials.— They went on at a slower rate than might suit the ardor' , of M r . Owen; but they kept a surer footing; and when they reached maturity, they had no debts of their minorit, to discharge. It wou, Lees, thi pion of 0) land, N:tl ever, own Or •! audacious oppa• cents ha.? better not attack him, He says " „ma., fifty pounds, that should Capt. Rock pay him a visit, . )I'lll ls out 1 " more lead into his hinder part than Dr. D o yl e ,a, t.„ " bead;" and, as for his assistants, he declares he will "bag them as fast as he used to tumble cw.it-gro " on the 20th of Aug , a' r"—adding "I am always r,-ak. "receive visitors of his sort; a. ! I can hit abat flying w, "a single hall." These are excell , -ntequalific;,.ions f'r of the Church ; and we ate osly surprised that toe bora Lieutenant does not send Sir Harcourt into the disturbed districts, to follow Captain Rock into his haurts, and put an end to the disorders. We wonder whether Sir Harcourt collects his own tythes. If he had any charity in his com position towards his brethren, he wou'd Imd himself out as tythe-proctor to the whole Church ; seeing that he is ju , t the man who is wanted, if his own character of himself be not over-rated. WINDSOR, AUG. 4.—Yesterday' Divine Service was per formed before the Lord Ste.eatrd and his blajest's Household, at Cumberland Lodge, by the Rev. AIL Sumner. His Majesty was not present. We rejoice to state, that his Majettv's present snick of gout is so slight, as not to confine him to his apartments nor even to the house, when the weather will pens it his lajesty to take the air in an open carriaze, Sonday afternoon, soon after pre o'clock, the Duke of York left town for Brighton, where his Royal Highness is expected to remain about three reeks. Viscount Sidmonth left Richmond-park yesterday morn ing on his return to Berkshire. The Marquess of Lsnsdown, accompanied by Moore, the Poet, is now enjoying the romantic scenery of the beautif lake of Killarney. Yesterday the Marquess and Marchioness of liastimiee, their son, Earl Rawdon, and their two daughters, pa. s d through this town about three o'clock in the a"terno tn, on their way to Donington Park. It was but partially ku. wn, but, notwithstanding, a vast concourse of sp •ctators st ere present, and cheers rent the air the moment the Marquess aas recognized; his Lordship immediately go' o .t ot his carriage, and shook by the hands, intliscrimi na'ely, all Oro e that presented themselves, declaring his heart rehound x•i is joy at once more being amongst us. The Noble Mary ess ooks somewhat thinner, but we are happy to observe his health appears not in the least impaired by his ten vt ars' residence in India. We understand that great rejoi, ings will take place to day at Castle Donington and the neigt.- boarhood, in celebration of the first vi-it of the Martinets of Hastings to Donington Park since his return from In lia. On this occasion the Noh'e Marquess will be met on the road and escorted to his paternal mansion by his tenantry, the Yeomanry Cavalry, &c. Also, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a meeting of the inhabitants has been called, and the most ex tensive festivities are prepared to welcome his arrival on Monday morning next.—(Leieestcr Journal, Aug. I.) Our Representative, the Right lion. Sir John Newport, Bart. arrived here on Thursday from Milford. We are happy to state that his health is considerably improved.— (Irafetford Mirror.) Mr. Rothschild. of Paris, is about to marry his niece, the daughter of Mr. Solomon Rothschild, of Vienna, who brings him a fortune of one million of florins, about 100,0001. steel ing.—(Frankfort Paper.) On Tharaday, at °dry, MajorMeneral Sir Edward Barnes, B.C.'S. Governor of Ceylon, led to the Hymeneal altar, AI aria, the eldest (laughter of Walter Fawkes. Esq. of Fernley Hall, High Sheer of this county.—(Yorkskire paper.) fbe will of the late Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Car digan, was proved in the Prerogative Court in Doctors' Commons on the 26th ult. I.y the oaths of the Right lion- James George. Earl of Conrtown, and Robert Smith, Esq., the executors: the personal estate was sworn ty-der 100,000. There are eighteen co liens, containing specifi: remembrances, and among them WO/. is directed to be laid out in the purchase of some m •mento to be presented to the Queen Dowager of Wurtembe g, as a mark of the Cone tess's gratitude and attachment ; similar sums in like man ner for their Royal Highnesses the ranee,. Augusta, the Landgravine of Hesse Hombourg, D”chess of filooePstee, and Princess Sophia. The will is dated the 15:11 of Fe bruary, 1n:23. Some alterations and imleorements will he mede in the interior of Drury-lane Theatre before .he commencement of the ensuing season. Sir T. TTRwnITT will procee I shortly t.) Lisbon, for the purpose of solemnly installmg Lir Mod Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal a Knight of the Order of the Garter. His Majesty was admitted a Member of that distingnished Order at the saute time as the other Sovereigns of B trope, after the general peace; bet his residence at Brazil pre vented the ceremony of the installation, and since his return to his European dominions, the distracted state of Portugal did not permit of its being performed. KING FERDINAND Vll.—The following is one of the must remarkable proofs of the treachery uf t h is Monarch : —A new coinage of doubloons had been prepared, and as a compliment to the King, and before the whole was ready to ism, to the public, a quantity of them oar sent to his Majesty's Treasurer, as part of the kingly allowat .e grant ed to his Royal Master. So.rn after one of those b tnls of the Faith, armed for the purpose of destroying the Consti tution, even previous to the entry of the French, was taken by the Constitutionalists, and on the Ito -sons of the officers and troops were foand same of the v , ry Aembloons sent to the Palace from the alict, and which had cot yet been put into general circulation. Two Greek merchants were on 'Change yesterday, who escaped from Constantinople dur ing one of tticie proscrip tions of their unfortunate countrymen which oce:Aon..lle emanate from the Turkish Guyernintint, They lust, Of course, all their property ; but found an al rum for their persona at Odessa, fru ti whence they nave travelled on fort across the continent, enduring the. : I rratest prenti..re4 on the journey, fur the purpose of from Eng land to joist the Greeks ir. the More. 4, and mite their sup port to the grei' sten:Hite against the 'forks. They 11,re been three months and a half on the journey from Were* to this country. lONIAN UNIvERSITT.—This Establishment has h•en re moved from Ithaca, where it si as originally i•sstittinql, to Corfu. Lord Guildford, who has taken so deep an interest in its fortunes, and expended so large a snm of money is educating proper teachers, is appointed Director. Mr. Secretary Canning has rxpreswd a strong opinion in fav,.ur of this University, and the happiest results miy be expected from it. The crops aririnl ncesSarton anti look pretty well. The whet in paricnlar is excellent. arm loos% bl - than it has done for a number of years. It will he -eally for the pickle in about three weeks, if the weather be 'avowable. The oat. and hirlev nil! rot he rawly (or about six weeks, u they are fully • month 'a er tha they very lastyesir. t • • — immmismwommost Slit HAIWOCIVI LEEs. uld seem, from s; letter put lied by Sir Hari: let somebody haibeen ttiret, .. ~nia. this great era )ran, -;4; Lodge!, and Protest 5 ascendancy in l!e- -tit some dreadful punishmen r :houirhcelsr.saysK6fhohuis ,at this worthy meitiiier of t . •-naive qualifications be true, h „„„,. 71 111 t 1 • 1 the. bee Lev Ply Loi H+l Lig 40 Cus lost Go the c col tio ha CA ne wi fie me sal Ex Sp •w le