The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-04-28 00:00:00

r r F •- r 4 II ' 0 • - 4 ' :: delivered up within twenty-four bolus, the people . 01♦ send appeared well inclined to comply. Orden; were is sued by the Commanding Officers, that no patrol, or lei- Mary body. or person in military clothes, should spotlit on any road leading to Doneraile until ten o'clock at night, that the people should have an opportanitr of bringing in the arms without fear or interruption. In the course of Sunday, the 22d ult. many applications were „Made to Dr. O'Brien and to his Curates, to discover from them where the inns were to be left, at what hour to be brought in, &c. &c. ' Every thing now promised a happy issue to the too • long protracted evils of this unfortunate country. But So a few boors the scene was changed. Some incen diaries amongst the crowd resolved net to give up their arms, and tbreateled the lives of those who may be in duced by the Clergy to surrender them. Thus had all tope of saving the life of Hickey, or of restoring peace to the distracted neighbourhood of Donorslle, been blast ed by the interference of bad men, who on this occasion bartered the life of their leader and the peace of their •, country, for the precarious possession of the arms which They had plundered. It is too mush to expect that the exertions of the Cler • &nen will, notwithstanding this temporary disappoint . went, UP successful in rescuing their neighbourbood, and - by that means the County at large, from the evils and . , 'tenors 4Wch a deluded and rabble peasantry bare • 'brought on the country. Yours, Ste VtIITAS. LORE) HOLLAND'S PROTEST. • —:-teP.-- After the debate and dtvimon in the House of Lotds on iltnrsalay last, I Peers who had voted in the mi nority sill a diasentivet, and Lord Holland entered she followleg #4l protest to the rejection of Lord Ellen itorsirs's illation :-- . 1111 Because it appears that we have been balled in *.• all one endeavonrs, deceived by some and disregarded by !ether of our Allies, and t the influence of Great Bei. ' • -.• t • . 4aiis on the Continent ha fined to a degree inconsist- I. ent tort the vaunted, a y of our Councils at the 'revers' pacification of Enror, as well as hnmiliating to : T he feelings and injurious , c) the interests of the country. 2dly. Weenie the Ware of our endeavours to pre. , vent a contitrntal war, is to be traced to error in judg , wont and want of firnitiess iu the negotiation. Those k. objections to the 'designs of France, which a friendly anxiety for the independence of Portugal should have suggested, and which aloe regard for our own welfare iota even safety should have excited, were either stndi • oasly concealed or pusillanimously softened don n during • the whole discussion. Our negoliators were tender to tile aggressors, ilist4nt, cold, and even unjust w the ag. grieved, feeble in their remonstrances against the ini• (pity, earnest in their representations of the inexpedi . ksq and danger of the meditated war, as if the bonceir •'.' .A4,*.k We of Bourbon, and the prosperity of France, objects of an English Minister's soli. I power, the protection of Al -. ..• e Great Britain herself, were inconsistent with our professed derogatory to the cbarac unfriendly to Spain, to inttrnsl government, with or saving the honour of igestions, highly objection certain prospect of advan ippear that we were ever au b the adoption of the nto- France would desist from . the army on her frontiers: not prepared to enter into protection of Spain, if her con her Constitution so sagirested • to avert the hostility of bad been inclined to adopt improvements, in her Con e done so with honour after language and conduct of foreign Powers On that subject, yet it was notorioes that other and se rious obstacles stood in the way of any such adjustment. Her laws forbade act- proposal of innovation on the Con stituter' of 1812 for a period of time which has not yet elapsed ; and the members of her Government bad taken an oath to abide hr that injunction. Prudence, there fire, as well as religion and p rinci p le, deterred them from complying with our ill-timed and officious advice. A Government engaged in the great work of restoring and is rsolidating the ancient liberties of its people,' could not violate a recent and fundam.otat l a w with out staking the confidence of mankind i n t he stability of its inatitnii ans, and without furnishing, at a moment of much irritation and route civil distnrbances, new grounds for di.trost and suspicion, and fresh motives for division and disunion. fithly. Because a firm determination on the part of his Majtaty's °averment to resist all hostile aggression against Spain, and an early and manly avowal of such determination, would,in all probability, have counteract ed that odious defiance of public law which a great Northern Power is so forward to profess, and so anxious • to inculcate, and might have diverted the French King from those iniquitous and ambitions projects which the course pursued by our Ministers has not prevailed upon him to abanden. Gthly, and lastly. Because the neutrality of England during a contest between France and Spain must be ex tremely precarious. Should France prove successful, events would ensue which would either involve us in im mediate hostilities, or materially impair the sources of our posterity in peace. The revival of the family com pact ; the exclusion of our commerce from all the posses sions of toth the branches of the House of Bourbon ; the expesure of Portugal to menace, invasion, and subjuga tion ; the expedition of combined , armaments for the re covery of South America, and the military ascendancy of France, on those very coasts from which the most vulnerable puts of our empire are accessible. on the other fiend, should Spain. by the nature of the war, be provoked to commit acts of violence and outrage within her own territories, and to engage in a species of warfare fully sothorized by the law of self-preservation, hut peculiarly obnoxious at this moment to the other Powers of the continent—viz. the encoumgement of insurrections and YefOlillied in France—we are not so blind to the lessons of experience, as not to apprehend that compassion for indi viduals, and participation in the fears of other States, may ' again, lii spite of our intended neutrality, involve us (as it has done before) in an extensive war of opinion. alike re the principles of our constitutional Government ' if ancient English policy. ;ers be avoided, a protracted warfare e Powers. possessing such an extent of Spain, will expose our merchants to and Injuries, which in ell probability embroil us with one of the Benito- tembers, who intended to vote in fa- Russell's motion for Reform, on shut oat. most of them being in the the time of the division, and all bring • after the doors were closed :—Lord tzgerald, Colonel Johnstoo, M. A. ,s Taylor, Esq. James Macdonald, er, Esq. Spring Rice, Esq.—Noni. Shut out, B—Total 177. last, the 22d instant, at his House in Grenville, in the 80th rear of his age. to the Duke of BUckingham and only brother to Lord Glastonbury, to have succeeded after his Lordship's end in the list of Oseerels, and came '59. 204, 3 21, M. 22, T. . • • 23, IC •• • 24,Th 43, F. SA 42' 41 42 43 48 ao 48 43 69 49 66 43 67 46 64 40 67 60 45 40 29,33 ,a► ,7 7 ,37 ,72 ,73 Fair Cloudy Fair Showery Fair Cloudy Rain 26, 8 ... • . NATURALISTS' CALENDAR.—To enable OUT readers to judge of the season, we select from the caleadarsof the Rev. Mr. White of Selborne, and Mr. Markwick, of the neigh bourhood of Rattle, the dates of the following familiar oc currences, which have beep observed during a eourse of years, and which may usually be expected about the present period : (Where two dates are given, they denote the earliest and the latest times at which the occurrence was observed. The letters W. and M. are the initials of the names of the ob - Butter ) fly (Cabbage) appeared.—W. April 28, May PI — M. April 29, June 13. GlOtr•VOrni sp.--W. May 1, June 11.—M. June 19, Ber 1 tember 28. • Chaffer or May buy op.— W. May 2-20.—M. May 2, July 7. Ilemeyeuekle flowered.— W. May 3-30. Oak 2.—W. May 13-13.—M. April irj. June 4. Beeekl.—W. May 13-28.—M. April 23, May 28. Common maple fl.—W. May le.—M. April 24. May 27. Walnut begun to be in leat.—W. May 18.-31. April 10, June I. (To be continued.) MAI ARR. Due. I ARR. MIL I.... Dublin I 1....H011and. 0 I....Waterford I 1....Hatabr0.•...... 0 0....11 dr dersey• • 0 I 1....France............ 0 1....Ti5b00 0 I.—Flanders ........0 'hors I 0.... Malta o....Gottenl PR ICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stook . . ... 414; I India Stock 2431 per Ct.Red....7 . 81 .... 1 Ditto Bonds —s. 395. 40sput. 3 p.Ct.Cons 773 0 13 i I Ex 1 . 08081 111 . .2d. (-1 131 17s pm. S e per Cent 8 4 per Cents 951/ 1 1 --150(2. —llBl 17spm. New Fours ... ..srn 99 971 --Small —lss Ms pm. Long Ann • 19 Lottery Tickets ..... 27/. 191. Intp. 3 per Ct Con.forAect.. . . 174 Ott Sttateontan. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1923. BOURBON WAR. The French are getting on very fast in Spain, and seem to mast, as yet; with very little resistance. They have a large Beet in the %Vest Indies, and another in the Mediterranean; if any dispute arise between them and us relative to the possession of West India Islands, THE UNITED STATES WILL TAKE PART WITH THE FRENCH. We beg the Jenkinsons and the Ryders to remember that we say this. The Americans will man a part, at least;of the French ships. American commanders and assistants will be put on board all the ships ; and then we shall see what is the result of con quering France, and of deposing James Madison. The Americans suffered too much from our searching', our seizings, and our impressments, not to be resolved to prevent that Power from ever growing up again. In short, let the Lord Charleses only go on for anther five or six years; let them and the Lord Johns and the Lord Henrys only sit where they are now sitting for a few years longer, and the English nation, instead of being saucy and bullying, will be one of the best behaved little nations that ever has been known in the world ; a true shop-keeping nation ; " meek and much a liar."— Much a liar it already is, through the means of the stock. ] jobbing press. Meek it is already becoming. One com.., pares it to a person coming out of a tit of sickness; — another says it wants time to recruit its energies. At any rate, the majority agree that it cannot go to war, and we see that the French can. Lord Harrowby, thtl other night, went this dismal length. He said, if Eng land were to menace France, France, sure as she was of the co operation of the other great Powers of Europe, " a temptation would have been afforded to her, which " flesh and blood could scarcely be able to resist. " Every party in France, even that party which was " most opposed to the general views of Government, " world have wilted in the idea of a war against Eng " land—a war formidable to this country•, supported by " the Powers of the Continent. It was but natural that " every party in France, however they might differ " amongst themselves,would cordially joimin applauding a war against England. France had undergone f /se humiliation of seeing her capital occupied by the at " mice of the Powers of Europe, of whom England " was the chief France, after having been twice oils " deed by England in conjunction with the other Powers " of Europe, would certainly be exposed to a great " temptation to go to war—if she found herself at the " head of a powerful coalition, instead of being marked " at as the object of its vengeance." These are pretty confessions to make. They amount to neither more nor less than this, that we dare not, for our very lives, even talk of war with France. Here it is ac knowledged that the French bate us ; that all parties hate us on account of our conduct in 1814 and 1815. This shows, then, that we have yet to pay the double reckoning of that day : not only the reckoning in money ; but the reckoning on the score of vengeance due to us from the French. The sews from Spain the French make a great piece cf work about. We do not ask oar readers to rely upon any thing they read in the F re n c h papers, until it be proved by events. We did not believe, for instance, in the capture of the galloon ; but she is now arrived at Havre de Grace! So, when we find, by and by, that the French have actually arrived at Ma drid, we shall believe that they have beaten the Spaniards in the manner that they now describe-- 1u the meanwhile, our readers ails two that Nis Bo „ „ ~~ ys.'♦ i3i:,.. „ the **elusive objects of a • citude a and the balance din:nu Ns. and even the interests of ti br i t secondary considerations. 3clly. Because it was inconsit tl.dieiip_probation of interference, Ase df impartial mediators, and lama any alteratives in her in .6 view of idlayitig the fears France. ” Moreover, those sugg atble witicipre held out no CI It does not app Stestir ingire her, that on • 1 • ( Bi fi da Mt we recommended, F attrtiter demands, and disband I ith the other band, we were no any engattements for the protet eo **Abe alterations in her C % 1 " - •• 4.. - 41440 proved insufficient I • , Because if Spain ba meted modifications, as • bon, and could she have _ . e ' and to every Mliool of t . Even if those danger between two maritime f coast' of France and S innumerable vexations 1 ' • must SOOtiOr or later e oats. The following Mtn . P lo r ro l f t° Lo tb r e d P io nc h i n Ph o I That'l! last, were sl Noose of Lords at the l present immediately a I Nefton, toed Wm. Fit . , i 3 Taylor, Esq. Charlet % k F 4 Witliaill Goebel ber who voted, 169 ; tl , Died on Twigs)! li TI Hill-street, (Jamul li iie was first cousin Lord Grenville, and o whose title he would death. He ass seam Wl° tke stay io 1751 A. s, ...ate-4k11,..- THE ST A' laresitsaf Restarts or Wearhillt.—With kteeption, the wind last week was from the North, in.l East, and though urns pares of the day were clean the weather was cheerless and chilling. In the night be tween Thursday and Friday there was ice, of the thick sass of a shilling, of the pools in the neighbourhood of London. In the afternoon of the latter day, the wind turned to the Southward, and on Saturday there fell g good deal of cold rain from the North Els.. The ice on the Neva, at Petersburg, it appears, began to break rap on the Sib inst. This occurrence may account for the inclement weather we hare lately had ; and u the wea ther there had began to be mild; we may now begin to hope for a more genial season here. The quantity of rain fallen in the Strand last week amounted to 57 hun dredths of an inch. Strand, Aptil2B. RRRR MOVETRR. I 1 II o'clock. at night. liAsouress. April 8 e'elettk. _,.. ) ,A 1 )A bag Witiowis about to go to Spehrards.-- ' #n a letter tee the people of Southwitit, be flit them the he is going to share in the toils aid dingoes el Spain. It is curious enough to see him baud over the people of Southwark to the care of Mr. Lambton. If Sir Robert would think a little more about oar situation, and a little less about that of the Spaniards, we should like him better. It is a pretty commentary on his vote for Reform of Parliament; his handing the people of the populous borough of Southwark ; his banding this im mense population over to the care of Mr. Lanibton, while he himself goes away out of the kingdom, is a most de lightful commentary on his vote for. Parliamentary Reform. One word more to Sir Robert : and that is, that we would wish him to explain to us how it is likely that the situation of the Spaniards should be worse than that of the English and Irish now is, even supposing the French were to succeed to the ful! extent of their wishes ; if such success could not make the situation of the Spaniards worse than that of the English add Irish now is, might it not be as well for Sir Robert to remain at home, until clings are a lit tle altered here? PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY. We omitted, in our remarks on the debate on the Nor. folk Petition, to notice some rather queer expressions of Mr. Hume, who said, that the lithe. were -liven for the support of the Ch►istian Religion, and, that he did not think, that the Parsons in Ragland had too much, though he did not think the distribution quite right. Oh ! he likes the Titho.system, then, very well, 'bough he has so often boasted of the superior virtues of the Scotch, who have no such system. He must know, that the Church of England gets as much out of the nation as all the Churches of the rest of Europe put together got out of the people ; and yet, he does Not think that it gets too much! Mr. Hume's mu►t be a curious mind, if it be so constructed as to make him believe, that he will ever see any relief to the country without an end being put to this tithe-sys teu! it is one of the great features that distinguish, at this moment, our miserable state from the flourishing state of the people of France. To be sure, they are better off in all respects; but particularly in this respect; and this is one of the great matters. We can assure Mr. Hums, that, if he acquiesce in the existence of the tithe. system, we can very well dispense with the petite guerre that IN carries on, occasionally, with such fury. But, al- lowing his partiality for tithes to be just and sensible, what Lad his observations to do with the Norfolk Peti• Lion? Many other Petitions have, indeed, inewiLlted against tithes; bat that Petition says not a word against them. It only sugge►ts, that a part of the church-property should be applied to public use; and this is what Mr. Hume himself has flitsjiltlid.--Hooevet, it is nonsense to argue with any one who says that he wishes for national relief and to keep up this system too; such a man Most be pitiably weak, or, be mud be a • • • . what we do not choose to name. Mr. Hume was wary. He did not say what part of the Petition he disappraeed of; but talked about the three orforr last , 4 4 Three, or four ! This nas a very loose way of but, perhaps, it was the safest way. This No • • tion brought out a Lord Charles. Oh! pray, my Lord Charles!—He will not bear. He calls it revolutionary, and says it ought to be censored. Censured! By whom? Why, by the great big House, to which Ma. itasseh Lopes belongs; and the transactions and cha racter of which are as notorious as the Sun at noon day ! Oh, Con!! How shall one live under the weight of this censure ? Well, we must die, then, that is all.— What a curious thing, though; that a Lord Charles, a real Lord Charles, should call for censure on us! We have very often been at a loss to designate the THING; but, it will not do to call it a Lord Charles Government. That is a nice, soft, genteel name. And it - is so nice a Government, that it ought to have a nice name. Lord Jolts: RUSSELL'S motion about Reform had the most insignificant result of any thing that we have wit mess 11 for a long while. Nobody, on the side of the Ministers, spoke. Mr. RICARDO (sitting on the same side with the Lord John) said. and well said, that the Lord John's plan would give the Aristocracy more power than it now possessed. This was really all the opposition that the Lord John met with, except in the votes! Let us hope, that this piece will not be acted again, at any rate. The "speech " of Lord John was such as, certainly, we never read before. It contained all manner of things, except things to show, that the great big House was, by its own deeds, proved to be the sort of House that we ought not to have. There were none of these things ; and, therefore, the speech was treated, by the Ministers, with a silence that could be ascribed to but one motive. This was, from first to las►, a real Lord John's speech. IN Tag Loans, on the same night (Thursday last) there was a debate of a great deal of interest. LORD ELLENROROUGH moved an Address to the King for cer tain papers relative to the negotiation. This was an ad dress of censure on the Ministers. The speech of this Lord was, we dare say, " very fine," like the sermon 'that the old woman had heard ; for we could make nei ther top nor tail of it : it was for war, and it was not for war; " she wou'd and she wou'dn't." Lord Hseaowne (one of the R yders) observed, and very well, that their opponents did not srak out as to war or peace. He dared them to say distinctly. that we ought to have gone to war.—Lord HOLLAND, who followed, did not speak out clearly as to this point. The Duke of Wellington called upon the Opposition to say explicitly whether they wished for peace or war. At last, Lord Grey said, " our " meaning is this, that, when the lialance of power is " affected by the union of Spain with France, or, rather, " by the possible subjugation of Si ain to France, and " the interests of this country arc consequently endan_ " gered, it is our duty, first to endeavour to avert the " danger, by representations, in the hope of procuring " justice; and, in the failure of that hope, to support rue .. representations with the power which Cud has given " us." This may be construed to mean war ; but the Noble Lord did not say war ; and Lord Liverpool, before the debate oas over, observed that nicety-nine persons oat of every hundred would negative our going to war for Spain; and be is right enough, for, since the stock jobbing press discovered that if it were war it must also be assignats, it bee been for peace, though pur.lased at .` ..:. the expense of tinerdsey and Jerls • gailoons.—But, the cations part s speech of the Duke of Boekingbai . " could not concur with those, who • " their opponents, lacunae they eovi, " could not, while lie proclaimed the 1 4 . taming neutrality, invoke heaven ft, 1" success of one et the contending 1 readers will remetaber that Mr. CAPAHIik. he envied the feelings of those who were, to advocate war egaiast the French; ancr, distinctly said, that he prayed Ono that tie SIAM_ might succeed against the French.—This M&C . Buckingham said that ,we sere in the situation of ti: invalid recovering frosts a dangerous illneu. Laid liarrowby said that we wanted to get a little strength from peace. He said that she was labouring to recruit her energies, to regain in the time of peace and repose, that strength which she had Jost it; the tumult a n d exertions of war! This is pretty talk : pretty talk about repose, and fit of *lefties', and gaining strength : all these are pretty figures of rhetorick to be applied to the case of a nation who boasted but the othe r day of having conquered this same France. Shallow indeed, must those poor creatures be, who imagi that the French do not see the real cause of net our ne lity. Fit of sickness and all the rest of it,means aDe that effectually disables aster war. It is impossible to disguise this from any body, and particularly from tile French, who, while their army is on the high read Madrid, are taking Spanish galloons under our very he teriea in the West Indies.. - It is curious to observe hoe our base thing in the City works. It being now pie•tY well ascertained that we should make no attempt to do fend Spain, up go the Funds again! Always rising, ai the old Lord Chatham observed, in the exact proportiel that the spirit and honour of the country sinks. Tlati Opposition never ask what all this great army is kept up for here, if we are never to go to war again. , The truth is, bowever,that the Opposition know very well what ;Lai • army is for. Paris papers have arrived to the 26th instant. R the Moniteur and Journal des Debatt we have tteeirial du following official bulletin of Marshal Moncey; aonouns ing his entrance into Spain : " ARMY OF THE E tSTERN PYRENEES. " The fifth division of the fourth corps has enteral Spain, and advanced to the Juoquera without mettill. the enemy. A party, consisting of 100 infantry end soak cavalry, appeared yesterday in this commune. - Twit hours after it retired to Figueras. " The advanced guard took a position • M Pcroleds..! The rest of the division established itself near the Jun. qnera. A reconnoissance was pushed beam' ' the bridge of Catnani. That post was not Alla inhabitants of the neighbouring hamlets tedivestsho advanced guard with transports. a The conduct of the troops merits the highest praise. The inhabitants are trea•ed with respect. Every thing is paid for in ready money, " Our soldiers crossed the frontierivith cries of Yin is Roir Tbey burn with impatience to engage tbe enemy. ' " MONCEY, Marshal, Bake do Ciessoglanie. " Bouloo, April Hi." A bulletin from General Guilleadast, dated VittorM, April 19, has also beefi issued, but It contains no new fact of importance. The bead-quartets of the army were to continue at Vittoria some days. The second corps continues its movements towards Saragossa. The Prince of Holtenloe, with the third corps, forms the blockade of St. Sebastian and that of Pampeluna. By other aerosols it appears the advanced guard of the Western Army has entered Burgos. 1 he embargo laid on Spanish vessels is France has been taken off. This measure, it is said, took place for a few days only, and was dictated by regard to the interest of the French army, that its movements might not be known in Spain. " The tiovernment," says the Journal des Debuts," will adhere to the principle, that France is not at war with Spain, and that consequeutly it will take none but Spanish ships of tear, letting all merchantmen pass. The latter are even atilt come and trade in our ports, if they choose. If some vessels have beets taken in consequence of mistakes, or particular cir• . cumstances, they u ill be restored; only ammunition and arms will be seised." Witb a view, we suppose, to main tain this distinction between Spanish merchant vessels and ships of war, the Moniteur has stated the captor' of the Spanish vessel by the Jean Bart, as follows: " A letter from Havre of the 22d April, announces thearrival in that port of news from Martinique, bearing that oa the 12th March, the vessel Jean Bad entered Fort Royal with a gallon (letter of marque) which in the night had taken it for a merchant ship, had cannonaded it, and when day came, finding itself too near was core strained to bring to, after having too late recognised its error."—" By this version," says the Condo . Francon. " every thing changed face—we are no longer the ag gressors ; we on the contrary have a legitimate defence; it is not a merchant vessel we took but a pirate, which • we forced to surrender. It is true that the term lettered marque is not generally admitted as synonimoos en*, gallon, and that the mistake of a• ship's supposieg a man of war a merchant vessel, is rather rare; but witk that exception, the article in the ellonetntr explains io a satisfactory manner every thing strange in the accood of some other Journals, which impute to our Marine, acts which other nations have always blamed in the Ear. fish Navy." A letter from Limoux, dated Aprill7. quoted in the journal des Debuts, from the Anima of the Upper Clarrone,gives the following statement 5--* A conspiracy, planned by the Spanish !evolutionists, has bees discovered at Perpignan or at Limoux. A commisAosee bearing despatches from Mina has knit been arrested, and another individual of our town, accused of having dl e. tributed proclamations, has fled. A part of the depart. went was to be excited to insurrection by the conspire• tors; but the whole has completely failed, thanks to the authority of the pike of Perpignan and of M. de Maio. tenon, the King's Attorney in the Civil Tribunal of mom" In the French Chamber of Deputies, the nerd Parliamentary Regulations proposed by Mr. de F'r•oilly, were rejected by the Ultras ritemeolves. The pug ctd Law fur creating an Army of U. serve, tressed the Claw bee on Wedneadec, by a majority of 206 t•r 9. FILLNCII FUNDS, WXDNSSDAY, APRIL :13.--Fitt pot Cent. Consols (Jouissauce, 231 March, ltt23), opined as I • it 0 , i. : Z - ~~ :4 Lt..l • • • • . 4 { L ~ ..,', b f~i p . • - _ .