The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-14 00:00:00

COPY OF A MEMORIAL. ♦DDRL'NED TO ALL TIM SUMTER& Or Rum*, or TUB BJECT of THU AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. The Chevalier de Zee Bermudez has presented to the Imperial Cabinet the annesi o Note. rel.:t:ve to the events which have jest taken place in the Peninsula, and of which we were Of ady infornivd by the despatches that wete ign warded to 114 by oar , tzehts at foreio Courts. M. de Zea, in this document, confines himself In in forming us, that the Constitution promulgated b•' the Cortes hi the year I Sl2, has been accepted by the king, and signs sses a desire to know how the Emperor ha.. viewed this change of the Government. If the distance which separates us front Spain, and holm the Slates which ye beet enabled to weigh maturely the nature of the dis asters with which she is menaced, he considered, it will be acknowledged, that the petition of the Imperial Mi nistry, with regard to the Representative of the Spanish nation, was difficult and delicate. The revolution of the Peninsula fixes the attention of )he two hemispheres; the interests which it is about to decide, are the interests of the universe ; and if ever the Emperor wished . that the opinion of his Allies might con, dome to regulate his own, it certainly was at the moment when the note of the Chevalier de Zea imposed upon his Imperil Majesty the obligation of pronouncing upon an event which involves, perhaps, the future destinies of all civilised nations. This obligation, however, existed; for, in these days, every subject of doubt becomes an IU- Infoßicoll of niaiesoleuce. The necessity of replying to M. de Zeit was, therefore, evident; hut, in this important conjuncture, it appeared Na rural, that previou•l' to pronouncing au opinion, the Emperor should consider the object which the Allied Powers proposed to themselves in their relations with Role; that he should consult the virtu* %vitals they had expressed to that same Power, and that he should lake as a guide for his own, the principles of European policy. This is what his Imperial Majesty wasbosind to do; this is what lie bus done, Since the year 1812, more than one Diplomatic Docu ment attests the generous solicitude, which the several Courts at Europe have constantly manifested in behalf of Spain. They applauded the noble perseverance with which hir intrepid people resisted a foreign yoke. Thes Tendered homage to their niadoin, when they rallied, round a Constitutional Throne, the dearest interests of their eonntry, ;—the interests of her independence.— Finally, from the period when Providence restored Fer dinand VII. to his people, they never failed to arknost kdge that solid institutions could alone neut . e on its basis, I the ancient Spanish Monarchy. The Allied Sovereigns did move. In the eonrse of long conferences, relative to the differences with Rio de la Plata, and to the pacification of the Colonies, they let it he sintficientli understood, that these institutions would cease to bra means of peace and happiness, if, instead of being granted by kindness, as a voluntary concession, they Would be adopted by weakness as a last resource of sal- Nation. Let es investigate, on the other hand, the great trans actions which established the European Alliance. What is the object of the engagements that were re. Dewed on the (11d) lith of November,lBlB. The Allied Monarchs had just then obliterated the last traces of the Revolution in France; but that Revolution seemed ready to prodece new calamities. The obligation of the Monarchs was, therefore, and their design was, to prevent that, bursting front the same horison, the same storm should a third time desolate Em ope. Nevertbelese, as Vibe alarms which were then excited by thestate of France, and whirls it still excites, were not Binh- eieat—as if Goveruments and Nations eutertained but slight doubts with respect to its future condition, it was necessary that the genies of evil should select a new theatre. and that Spilt in her turn, should he ',Ferrel up as a fearful surrifice. Revolution has therefore changed its ground, but the duties of Monarchs cannot have changed their nature, and the power of the insurrection is neither less formidable, nor less dangerous than it would have been in France. In unison, therefore, with his Allies, his Majesty cannot desire but to see granted to the Peninsula, au to its trans nutria* Provinces, a Government which be comiders as the only one that can yet justify some hope in this age of milted ties. Bet in virtue of his engagements of the (Sd) lith of November, ISIS, his Majesty is bound to mark, with the iisost for. ibis reprobation, the revolutionary measures set in active to give new institutious to Spain. Such is the two. fold idea which is found developed in the annexed answer, which the Cabinet of has made to the Chevalier de Rea, by order of his Imperial Miljesty.o The Linticrur eldest not doubt, that his liii,;ust Allies will approve its con tests, read perhaps they have already addressed similar sees taming to the Court of Mi.drid. The same wishes may, in fact, have inspired tie same Isligunge,and,eonvinced like his Majesty, that crime must alma”, held pei nirious fruit : they love, doubtless, deplored as he bas, the outrage a hit b has madly tarnished tee &noels of Spain. We repeat it, this astray is deplorable. It is deplorable for the Peninsula ; it is deplorable for &mope t and the Spanish nation sioir ewes the example of ad expiatory deed to the people of the two hemispheres.— Till this bedew. the unb.sppy object of their disquietude. CMS wily sake these fear the contagion of her ettliSMito...— Nevirthelem, amidst all these elements of disaster, and when so & a ny motives combine to afil,et tree real friends. of the welfare of natione, may a better fm me still le looked for ? Is there any w ire rind redeeming measure, whose effect may he to neon' Ile Spam with !wad", us well as.tv oh the other mares Ur Elalupy We dare not ut:irm it : for eityriente has taught us to consider almost Me eI)3 as SU he hope in a !hippy treat. Rut if we useght trust elm calculations whlcb llar eoa.,l i n ter e st anted seem bound to Militate ; if it were per. untied hi pritialgli: that the Cortrs would consult the Utterer( of their own pre,ersatinii, it titigi.t be believed, that thty sough] hasteu to extirpate, by a solemn tll , 2a9life, ail that i, culpable its the circurnstmoti s whit!! aecons pained the change of tat administration ill ssiu, Tits interest, of the Cortes are here identified the inters:::s of Loewe. Tim misled soldiery who protected. may (0-fliarICAV road them ; and their first duly teamed% t heir Monarch,tow a rds their country, mud themstivie scents to be, to prove that they n ill never consent to realise 'flys. :ire ISO?. • whirl, would not appear to Le a foui.d,it:on. file • This refrrs to the " Note aildi.e..ect by 11P R . ..s4aH Gover:ment to thr Spanish Minilorr reside. ni at Ow Court or lleris, ea learning that thr King of 7peio atceptrd a,.d I.oro 19 maintata the Cinstitution," vetch we have olraady THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loiterer, hue ever, is far from chcribhing them ; hod if he admitted the possibility of a result so useful, he would maLe it depend upon the unanimity elk!) might niallirrbt ',Self in ti;lidl(111 Or the principal pow eis uf Europe, as to the ACT by as hull the represeuttativs•E of the Si•aei-h people ought to si.oiallae the opea. , lig atilt it 4:ebb-rations. This eitiaminits, always sit pan NMI %.% heti it tal:es the character of an irre vocishie dyed, will perhaps cures coavicistia to th e minds o f or toe moat eminent skimmer, of his Catholic Nl:lje"ts ; and ilie Crurts would seen to have all rass means of inipteedw teem their lattlertee sash an imposing itnifort&ty. Tie.ir !Minister: in France have hitherto treated, in their name; with a l'ientiputenttary of the Court of Madrid. Cato they not now present to him, in common, ohio rvai ions, the summary of which folluns, amid %kit+ would recut to the Spanish Government the embluet, as a ell as the politic:ll principles, of the Allied Monarch'? " The ;Monarchs," would say the five Ministers " have never ceased to entertain ss kites fur the prosperity of Spain. They will always entertain them. They have desired that, its Europe, as in America, institutions con. formable to the progress of civilization, and to the wants of die age, might prorate to all Spaniards long years of peace and happiness. '1 hey desire the came at this mo ment. They have wished that all these institutions should become ie real blessing, by the legal meaner in which they should be inti minced. They now wish the same. "'This last considetation will convey to the Ministers of his Catholic Majesty, with what sentiments of affliction and grief they base trained the es ents of the Silt of March and those which preceded it. Areuriliag to their opinion the salvation of ::palm, as well as the welfare of Europe, will rerpoime that this crime should be disavowed, this stain effaced, this bail example terminated. The honour of such a reiteration appears to depend upon the Cortes. Let them deplore, and forcibly reprobate, the means employed to establish a new mode of GOWIri 1111 l eau in their colintry, aud in consolidating an ad stration wisely coustittitional, let them adopt the must rigorous laws against sedition and revolt. " Then, and wily then, the Allied Cabinets will be able to maintain friendly and amicab!c relations with Spain.' These observations, urged in common by the Represen tatives of the five Courts, would, from thenceforth, de monstrate to the Spanish hlinistry the conduct which the Allied Governments would observe, in case the cense (incomes of the kith of March should perpetuate, in Spain, trouble and anarchy. If these salutary councils be listen ed to; if the Curies offer to their Xing, iu the name of the nation, a pledge of obedience, if they succeed iu establishing, upon durable basis, the tranquillity of Swett', and the pence of Southern America, the evolution will have been defeated, at the very moment when it thought to obtain a tri 1111 l ph. It; on the contrary, alarms, perhaps too reasonable, be realised, at least the five Courts will have discharged a sacred duty; at least a new occurrence will have deve loped the principles, indicated the object, and displayed the scope of the European alliance. The Emperor awaits the answer of the Cortes of Vienna, Loudon, Berlin, and Paris, to the coon 111111 l ications which his Ministers have addressed to him on this subjeci. He informs them, that the present Memorial is the instruction which be has caused to be despatched to all his ministers on the subject of the affairs of Spain. GERMAN PAPERS. SWITZERLAND, JULY 26.—The Papal Nuncio at Lucerne is said to have received information of the events at Naples by an express from his Court. The foreigners are reported to be very obnoxious to the people, especially the Austrian' and English, who are considered as enemies to the new order of things. The persons formerly arrested for their political opinions, but wko were susequently set at liberty here for some time past, committed various excesses in the capital, which were in a measure the prelude to the events which have since occurred. They are supposed to have been secretly in the pay of the Carbonari, and to have been set on by them. '1 he Governor of Rome, Pacco, nephew to the C"rdinal, and who lately fled from Rome, is reported to have been a leader of the Carbonari, and since he left Rome, to have lived secretly in the kingdom of Naples, to have directed the intrigues, and prepared every thing for the explosion. It is further stated, that Rome was to have been the central point of the revolution, but that a prie..t, who was arrested, dis closed to his confessor the secret plots of the gover nor, who, being informed of the discovery, hastened to take flight. Notwithstanding this, a f riaentation is said to have been observed in some towns in the Papal dominions—nay, even in Rome itself. CARLSRUHZ. JULY 2g.—As the navigation of the Mediterranean (and not long since even of the North Sea) becomes more and more dangerous to the Ger man merchantmen, on account of the Barbary pirates, and as the public papers now so frequently mention this subject, and allude to what are called Turkish passports, it wiU doubtless be agreeable to our read ers to have some information on this head. The crowns of Denmark and Sweden purchase the safety of their flags by paying an annual tribute to those pirates. The flags of the German states are not respected, and the German captains (that is. those of Prussia, Mecklenhurgh, Oldenburgh, and the three Hanseatic cities) mu►t therefore endeavour to obtain by underhand means the protection of Denmark or Sweden. The proceeding is as follows: —The owner of the sells (but on,y to appear ance) his vessel to the captain ; the latter then sails to Denmark or Sweden, where he purchases the rights of citizenship, which, together with the invi dental expenses to attain the &ailed end, costs about 70 rtx-dcllars, species Banco. The ship is then taken to the dock-yard, the carpenters make a show of working at 'it, and the owner of the vessel, now Swedish or Danish citizen, receives from some ship. wright residing on the spot the necessary mt.: ificate that the ship is built there. This costs 8 Groach, (Is. English) per last. Provided with these docu. ments, the captain goes to the Town hall at Stock. holm, where he receives two sealed signal letters, as they are callol, and a Turkish passport; which papers cost lifirwise several dollars. He is obliged to take as oath not to open those papers till he meets a pirate, and not to sell, give, or show them to any persan, in case he should not have occasion for them himself. If the captain meets a pirate, and pro. duces his Turkish passport in the hands of the pirate, of the same tcnour, and found correct, the captain is at liberty to proceed on his voyage. The Governments of Denmark and Sweden now require, that he who desires a Turkish passport shall really live there, or at least give security, by depositing a sum of money, that the vessel does not belong to any foreign owner. Advices from the coast of Barbary, of the 10th of July, contained in letters from Gibraltar of the 13th of the same month, state, that an insurrection of a very formidab:e nature had taken place in the army of the Emperor of Morocco. A regiment of the guards to the Emperor, being ordered to escort him from liebalt, one of his summer residences, to Morocco, refused compliance, and, disregarding all attempts to restrain them, suddenly marched off towards Fez, which they entered tumultuously, where they committed the greatest excesses, plan. dering and ill-treating all the inhabitants, but par. titularly the Jews. The next directed their march towards Tetuan ; but the inhabitants, aware of their approach, resisted their entrance, and compelled them to retire. The Emperor, with a portion of his guards that remained titithful, proceeded towards Morocco, but had taken no measures to bring back he rebellious troops to their duty. This state of things had spread great alarm through the country, and caused a complete interruption to the commerce by land. _ The rumour of a new commotion at Berlin is officially contradicted. The 3d of August was the day on which the King had at last promi,ed to fulfil his engagement to give his people a Constitution and there are, as yet, no arrivals from Berlin of a recent date. Madras Papers have arrived to the 11th March. They contain no decisive intelligence with respect to the operations of the expedition under Sir W. G. Keir, on the Persian Gulf. An article from Bombay mentions the arrival, at that Presidency, on the 18th of February, of the Nautilus cruizer, with dispatches from Sir W. Keir, and a copy of the Treaty which bad been concluded with the pirate Chiefi, who had accepted the terms dictated to them. It is added, " with the exception of the troops necessary to gar rison the stations that may be retained in the Gulf, and the shipping requisite fur their supplies of wa ter and provision, the whole of the expedition is expected to return to this port in the course of next month, or at latest in April. We may hope, there fore, that the rumour which was in circulation a week or ten (lays ago, respecting the severe loss said to have been sustained by the 47th and 64th regi wents, will prove to have been unfounded.—We learn from these Papers, that the cholera morbus, which had so lung afflicted the island of Mauritius, had almost entirely ceased its ravages. Her Majesty will positively take possession of tie house of Lady Francis, which is next to the man sion of Lord Castlereagh, in St. James's Square.— The house is lent to her Majesty gratuitously by Lady Francis, and is to be held only as a temporary dwelling during the approaching proceedings in Parliament. It is now painting, and getting ready for the Queen's reception. Her Majesty will sleep at Lady Francis's house, on Tuesday night, and will go from thence daily to the House of Loris. — The Queen made application to Ministers for several houses which she would have liked; but as oljee tions were made to her occuping them, Lady Francis offered the use of the above house us long as she might require it. /tare asmnst Tioc.—The match to run against encli other, ten miles. Mr Ice guineas aside, between Ca;tt. Pierrepoint and Mr. reliwiek, both celebrated for pe destrian feats, took place on Monday morning over a circle of two irides on the Southern part of Bag.hot Heath. It was a real sporting match, a,id tvcry inch was closely contested. The Captain took the lead, and until the .;xtli mile both kept together. The first mile was done in 5 minutes 2 seconds; second, 5 minutes; third, 5 minutes 3 seconds; fourth, 'h innies 6 i.e. conds ; fiGh and half the distance, 5 minutes 8 seconds, raa!,:ing half 411 hour and ii) seconds. Tile Cm( sin nude extraordinary play in t h e sixth mile, and he did it in 4 minutes 56 seconds, leaving his adversary nearly 50 yards behind. The seventh lie did in Iwo minote.s In seconds; eight, :s minutes 20 seconds; ninth, Fs nu. woes 30 seconds; .emis, 5 tin ttttt es 50 seconds. Capt. Pieireontit Itscrtilok bis aticyr.ary at the brginning of the tenth mile, Lim, and beat him I.:. 60 yar , Pa having performed the ten miles under sixty-one tnintitt S and a half, which is a most extraordinary performance, eon:kitting the heat of the weather. WO