The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-12-31 00:00:00

- 7411 ,< • :+ • itafili c a m • • .Lori .0111 ■ r ►nor, Don Mariano Calanja, is appointed, wail immediately with 400 men to garrison the place. The persons who hays ,speculated in real 'estates in and about Peosscols, we are fearful will' , be moth injured, If we are not mistaken, DO per son under the general law of Spain can legally hslel freehold, unless be in some manual becomes a Spa. /shish 'object. Some further files of American Papers ware re•. teived yepterday morning. it id 'Hurd. in the Nero Vark Gazette, that The i3aisk of Wasbiogton, Pennsylvaoia, has publiLly -loinounced the suspension of pr;yruebta in specie, an ti! the Legislature shall have bad time to take the . subject intotonsiderntion. •. The-American Govremeist lie. ordered a aeries of medals, lobe steed', in coannessl i oration of those per. sons who distinguished themselves in the naval ger . vice during the last war. They amount in number to • 15,, of which It ere - completed. comprising the names of Decatur, Bainbridge. Jones, fAwreoce, Bur. • rows. Perry, E&liou, M'Doneegh, M'Call, Cal- Hendley. The vesnaining names are Warring. • ton. Blakeley, Stewart, Biddle, which, when com pleted, will make ep the whole somber inteuded for • the navy. A letter from Milledgeville, dated Nov. 17, an. .• nounces, that more than four thousand Indians ate at present collected at Fort Hawkins to receive their annual stipend frpm the American Government.-- ..Many persons from different parts of the State have been attracted thitherto view this large assemblage of Aborigines. With some exceptions they are well clothed, neat, and • healthful, have plenty to eat, tend seem quite comfortable and contented. The en • tire population of the Creeks, j prior toothe civil war @moil them in 1815, was '20 1 06O; they *repo* re duced to half that number. . A Bill hes been brought before Congress, and has passed the Senate. to increase the salaries of certain officers of the Government; this Bill includes the Secretaries of State and the Treasury, and several other persons of high official rank, to each of whore . •ir increase of about one-fourth is proposed to be given. . intelligence his been received at Baltimore, in 1 3 :days from Cameos, that the Spanish Main is closely blockaded by Brion's squadron. STATE or SPAIN. Estrect of a Letter dated Madrid, December 10 : 'Crest and general has been our alarm within the last • weeks. They have, however, in some measure sub sided at the present moment, though the causes which gave rise to them still exist, and induce us to appre .beni some dreadfully disastrous event. It is now ,Irecy evident that the parties assembled in the coun• Ztey,.witetber they are called banditti, rebels, or goe . rillas, are in several parts, and very numerous ; that they possess military discipline. and are well pro vided with arms and ammunition. Further, they :have plans concerted with each other. Their force •eonsiderably increases by desertions from the army, more particularly from those corps destined to embark 'against South America. It is said that these parties are directed by military men of character and talent, t And that numbers in the regular service of the King, are enrolled to act as soon as an opportunity offers. It appear. that some days ago an attack was projected sau the capital, with a view to seize the person of the King and Royal Family, but the project was dis covered, but it is well understood that some of the Foreign Ministers were greatly churned. In conse .qaeoce of the discovery, report says, that the prin. cipal leader of the materialize, who still remains on known, caused the operation to be deferred till a better opportunity. Troops in the meantime have been called towards the capital, but there is scarcely a _,regiment iu the country that is not dissatisfied, nearly ell contain both Officers and men ready to join in any ,thing that may restore a new order of things, and AU are well aware that this can only be done in one . way—fur no amendments will take place which do . not emanate from compulsion. A general under. , standing and communication is organised through . out the country, by means of secret masks and signs ;similar to those used in Freemasonry, which have hitherto battled the utmost vigilance of the Govern ment and the Confessional. These armed bands have already laid some towns under contribution ; nay, at one time they w ere in umbers within ten leagues of the capital. The per sons belonging to the Court did every thing to con. teal their fears ; but that they were greatly alarmed was evident from the measures to which they resort . ed. One of the steps immediately taken was that of opening all the letters foetid in the Post-office, end the Inquisitor-General was set to work with . fresh instructions to his emissaries stationed thvorigh oot the country. The most rigorous measures have also been adopted to prevent the entry of all foreign prints and writings o but more particularly those corn. Jog from England. . When, bow, and where the storm will burst upon us, no body is *pared or even dares to fore. tell, but it has long been gathering, and cannot be ,avoided. A residence in Madrid is deemed ex tremely dangerous. The King is fully aware of the situation into which the kingdom is plunged, and by those who have access to Coert, he is said to be 'in a very melancholy state of mind. Ile feels that .be does not possess the smallest particle of popularity; this he sees every time he rides out in his carriage. .The trick of placing hired persons along the road-side to bellow out " Long Live the King," has been seen through. He can trust no one, and he feels that Monks and Friars have fastened upon him like the -night-mare, yet he has not courage to shake them off. This state of uneasiness is greatly increased by the schemes in agitation to restore his father to the Throne, who on the other hand, has become ex tremely popular, and, above all, he dreads the in trigues and abilities, nay, even the vengeance of the .Queen-Mother. lie is also aware, that the whole People of Europe have in some way or other pro nounced on the question between him and his father, and his Minister not bring admitted at the late Con. gross, and the little attention paid to his claims for inediativat, and other points urged in a very strong snanners have not tended to tranquillize iris mind. It appears that the greed plait which now occupies Um alteration of the bliuistry t but more particularly r;- : i /0 - """*•' 4'14 II r ~- ~: I L .~ - WillProwallinrwiiirwr - imer•lrww - vcr . , THE grATESIVE Al 4 - _ of the Marquis de IT+, is to strike a greet and ge neral blow in the whole of South America, in order to pqt an And to tote ter et (mac. order t 0 carry this project into ezetetiou, plans have been farmed, 'the result of which teems to be, that 10,000 welt *redeemed necessary for Ventevela and New Gra ' nada, 8000 for Mexico, 14,000 for Rows Ayres, and 8000 fbr Chili, in all 4Q,C100.... A new scheme, presented by the Marquis, it seems, has met with the approbation of his*,Majesty, and this is said to be, to deliver over to Russia the 13aleeric Islands, viz. Majorca, Mtnorca s , and Ivica ; to Holland the seven Canary Islands; to England the Island of Cuba; end to France Puerto Rico, the iipanish part of the Island of Santo Domingo, and the Philippine Islands. By this means, it is ',apposed, Minister bruit) expects to obtain the necessary tranppotbs, A sed other requisites to realize the expsiditiolc tbi total amoeni of which has been calculated- at thirty millions of dollars, though it was thought that the above transfers, if carried into effect, would produce con siderably more than that sum. Certainly if the met• sures could be made practicable, and the object in view could be realized, it would be the exchange of Islands of little or no utility to us, for an immense and rich Continent. Irejo, we understand, asserts, that by this means the re-conquest of America will no longer he delayed, which is necessary for the ad. mission and realization of the proposals laid before Ate Allied Powers. By mini this plan is considered as mere madness; bat though Irojo has a little body, his friends say he baa a great soot. This, howeree, may convey a pretty good idea of the shifts to whit: our Ministers are run, and the dilemma in which ibit Cabinet is placed. The deliberations on the still of South America absorb every other ettentiob, and nothing is thought of but the means at stopping the progress of the Revolution there. Yet nothing is determined upon finally, and what was thought conducive to the object in view one month is 'ban. doned the neat. Armies of Friars would long ago have been sent out, according to the recommends. lion of some very reverend characters, in order to preach 'against Atheism and Republican principles, but no volunteers of this class can now be found, as their companions, who have already landed on the other side of the Atlantic, have not Fared very well ; and it is understood that the Patriots no longer pay respect to the cowl or the tonsure, if found to be a bar to their emancipation. Chamber, recently called to the Departnnlitt. of , " . nasice l 7aolennwledges that this provisional seri' - most fa ther,a sing of tues 'way lead to great In,. . vitoiencee, and that it hat lasted too long.. /re s hopelset be will use all his ineeench to pet so • nd to it. The Minister engager to the Chamber to sub •mit a .legislative provision, which will have for its, object to abolish thee', provisional, grants ; -and lilt to be regretted, that to.dsy such an arrangement has I not been submitted to the deliberation of the Cham ber. It is to be hoped, that the Minister will forth with take the orders of his Majesty, and that he will submit a provision which will accomplish the object proposed, conformable with the constitutional prin ciple and anneal grant of taxes. The, proposal of 1 this law, and that of the Budget, is certainly among 1 the number of those which the Chanibei espectsl with the greatest impatience. In this hope the Coin-1 mission supports the measure of voting provisionally the half of the receipts, and 200,000,000 of credit for the expenditure. This is only done on the plea of necessity." The Commission, after several other obxervetions, proposed an amendment in the second Article of the Project of Law, which proposed that the indirect contributions should continue till the promulgation of the law of finances, substjtetlng the Ist of July for the former indefinite °period. This amendment was not discussed. The centre of the Chamber moved that the discussion should take place on Monday, but the Members on the left side insitted on a more•dis. tent day, while the right side took no part on the question. The Chamber at last adjourned till Tues day, when this Project of Law will be discussed. BULLETIN OF THE SECRET COMMITTEE. M. Dumeylet will, in the ileXt Sitting, dilate on a proposition relative to petitions. The object will be to oblige* the Ministers to give an account of the petitions which the Cchasober recommends to their attention. M. Leine de Villereque will on Tuesday make a proposition for filing more surely the basis of public credit, and for augmenting the quantity of specie in circulation. MADRID, Dcc. 1 s.—The greatest tranquillity reigns in this capital. The mast important news is the dangerous malady of our famous tragedian Meyg. nez (the Telma of Spain) : his disease is water in the chest. The King continues to visit the public 'sta. blishments of the sciences and the arts. Ili. Majes ty, on the 11th of the month, went to the academy for Short-hand Writer% where several exercises were peformed in his presence by the pupils ; on whom he lavished all sorts of encouragement. The laws of health are every where observed with the greatest rigour. At the end of November, there were in the Lazaret of Melton alone, no less than 42 vessels under quarantine. • Thu. regulation might be adapted with advantage in the Englhia Pathway'''. Pr, N . . - 1 .1 ! , FRENCH PAPERS. —•milleMlnew... Peels, DEC. cm—The King, after Mass yesterday, which he heard in hiv apartments, gave audience to the Ambassadors of Naples end Spain, the Ministers of State, several Marshals, Lieutenant-Generals, and a great number of Members of the two Chambers. This day the King transacted business with the Doke de Richelieu.—(Muniteur.) Yesterday at one o'clock the L lug transacted busi ness with M. de Richelieu and M. Leine conjointly ; to-day with M. de Richelieu.—(Journal des &- bats.) A Royal Ordinance, dated Dee. 17, declares the strong places on the northern and eastern frontier to he no longer in a state of siege. An Order, dated Dec. IG, from the Secretary to the Household, states, that the King will receive company on Thursday, the 31st of December / in stead of Monday, the '2Bth of December. The Marquis de Perignon, Peer and Marshal of France, arc. died on Christints-alary Or arapPlreitic attack ; he will be buried on Wednesday with the honours due to his rank. It is announced from Calais that the wind being contrary, the English Mail of Tuesday had nut arrived. The Countess De Saint-Didier gives this season, as before, two hundred portions of soup daily to the poor of Ratabouillet t till the time of field-work returns. •- —• French Funds.—Five per Cents. 63. Bank Stock ) 1 185. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Dec. 26. The Sitting opened at one o'clock. M. COURVOI ssen, Vice-President, occupied the Chair. Baron Pasquier, the Keeper of the Seals, M. Roy, Minister of Finance, and Baron Capone, Councillor of State, occupied the Bench of the Ministers. Count DUPONT, in the name of the eighth Bureau, proposed the admission of M. de la Hem Deputy of the Sarthe.—Adopted. The Order of the Day on the Report of the Cen. tral Commission on the Project of Law presented by the Minister of Finance in the last Sittiog, was called. Count BEUGNOT, the Reporter, said, 46 Gentle men, this is the fourth year that the Government proposes to you to grant provisionally a part of the direct and indirect contributions in waiting till the new law of finance be passed. 66 For 1819, in particular, the Government de. mands that the Chamber may vr:e the 6.l2ths of the personal contribution, of the contribution mobil& aire, and of the contribution on doors and windows and patents. The levying of these contributions shall be made according to the rates of 1818. The Minister requires likewise the levying of the ;mil. rect contributions till the new law of finance, and the opening of a provisional credit of 200,000,000 of francs, for the discharge of current espences.— The Government cannot give, and does not gr a any other reason for this than necessity."—The Reporter here referred to the reasons in support of the law when first introdoced. " The Administration of Finance, if well conduct ed, as it is believed to be, is always prepared to give a statement of the receipts and elpendit ore, and its account at the end of the year is nothing else than a methodical recapitulation of the daily state of both. The Commis . :.ion has remarked with regret, that the accounts are less advantageous this year than on the preceding year. If these accounts wore not entirely exempt from imperfection, it was at least more easy by thesis to avoid defects in future. Nothing of this kind has occurred in the present year. The change of the Minister affords uo excuse, because where there exists institutions, the change of men ought not to affect the march of affairs. Whatever change is made or contemplated in the persons of Ministers, the Chamber must always find a Ministry respori. Me for the GOTtintliellt. The Wm. Member of this JiitlCE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 0N1.4 O'CLOCK. HMI k Stock i 5 per Cent. Navy 3 per Cent. Refl. 77i .11adot Roads it; p 3 per Cent. Curds Lin t ; Ann. 9.0 1-16 36 per Cent. 87 F.Tcoeqtter Bill. li 17 p Lonmils for Are. 791 thaniuga 4 per Cent. 94k • . THI. STATESMAN. L ONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1818. The intelligence from France is as surprising as it is interesting shoes that the convulsive crisis is not over. It is a most instructive symptom of the permanency of that glory, with which the ne&o. dating Ministers of Aix.la.Chapolle fancied they had covered themselves, that the Ministry of the Duke D 2 RICHELIEU should, from its own weakness, have fallen into disorder and ruin, at the moment whet, it was expected to reach the height of popular favour. But this is the usual course and the end of delusion. It would seem from the intel ligence brought by an Express, which left Paris oti Monday last, that so far from the [Like of Rams - man having succeeded in forming a satisfactory Administration, he bad totally failed in his efforts to combine the adverse partite, and please the Conclave by [which he is ruled, and had himself been compelled to retire. The , statement now is, that he has been succeeded as Primer Minister by M. DE CAZE', who, if these rumours can be be lieved, is to unite in his own person the Mieistry 'of the Interior, and the general direction of the Po. lice. lb. hucount (Foreign Minister), ad inte rim, during the absence of Prince TA LLEYRAND, at Vienna, in 1814, is, according to this intelligence, to be Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Admi ral TatrouET to succeed to the Administration of the Marine; M. Row, lately nominated to the Fipance department, is to remove to the Ministry 4 . Jus tice ; Baron Louts assumes the management of the Finances; and Marshal Gocsinx Sr. CY& retorts to his office of Minister at War. ft Is not stated tba; the appointment of these several Functionaries has yet received the sanction of the King; but from the discretienery power with which M. DE CAM had been furnished, a confident opinion was entertained of his recommendations meeting with attentinst from his Majesty. Some of these names will not tend much to increase public confidence in the Government. The recal of DE CAZES appears an expedient In prevent greater disorder. But it is clear that France, in the present situation of her finances slid the public mind. *ill not rest long quietly under the operations of ' such a Government as is above.named. It is unable to cope with the conflict which is about to en. sue. The doctrines of the Ultre Royalist, it would appear, are still sweeter at Court, than the glorious sentiments of the age and of Nations. But the People will no longer surrender their rights t , • the contrast of such Despots. The KIN; bears his fa... OPP .' •J..,"! Celtics meekly, and if he acts as, k CO*OCe . 03 bi rr Valet ljuteli fatale Fraser-tine-I Nat 1 sigh for eons and Bastin's; w ve the k merles lroc er iknes ; a.nl asho4r. deli& restore 51 se Offiltertnir of 170. ) - .., lii the antime the vacates( gloprn , preic s Paris. T. Ge n tl emen arr i ved in town yesterds .who left that city on Sunday morning. They asa that great agi•ation prevailed in the public mind, s i that several English families, who had arranged I remain in France during the winter season, lad d t termined upon quitting it, and were disposing of th e i property, at a great loss, for that purpos e ; mail who had no lncumbrairce had already taken their de: parture, aua every thing wore the most discourse/4 appearance. Notwithstanding this unsettled state e i politics, every nerve had been strained to seam public confidence, cud, in some measure, with two cess, for an express was received yesterday in tow s that left l'aris on Monday, which has brought l a telligence that the Five per Cents. had on that dill risen Two per Cent. settersl bargains having h go done at 65 r. 1 1 7 it lf :silent as t a d * They are compl e t e l y and Sunday. Iye have r ec e iv e d t h e P ar i s P apers of Satunthyl recent resignation of the French Ministry, and tie difficufty of supplying their places. From h" r may be inferred, that the King and the Duke MCIIIII.IEI7 had not been aide to embody a me . phalanx of Administration. The Moniteur contain a Royal Ordinance, declaring, in form, the emus. firm of the frontier fortresses by the Allied forces; and the first article under the Paris head which Ns Papers contain is, that the King on Friday r ~ ceived, after Masai OM Ministers of State, Fermi Marshals of Fringe, and the Ambassadors of Split any Naples. At one o'clock the same day, his Mt. jesty transacted business with the Duke of Kum. taw sad M. Laina,• the Minister bf (he [metier. On Saturday the Kitikwas again closeted with th Duke of RICHIBLICU: but, as we have above stated, nothing was suffered to be published as to the resat of that conference, which, no doubt, had for itt object the defection of the other branches of the Mi. nistry, and the formation of a new one. The king is said to be perfectly recovered from his late indis. position. The accident which Wet the D u k e el Bouenow, is by go means so severe as was et lits suspected. in the Chamber of Deputies, on Satyr day, M. BenowoT reported from the Committee e the Provisional Law of Essence.. We have reporte the proceediogs of the Chamber tin this irnportan subject in another column. It evict be observed fro M. IltuoNoT's erposltion that: - the administration of the French Finances is inveiVedin great per plesity . • and that it will not be an easy task to carry thews posed system of ta mien tkose4ifinit. The Report set•out with , *toeing the.: IMbRUST eiri t eThutea namely, that siCisse t s of thoLised.Tat, &c. tt levying the indirect Imposts on the present footin and a provisional credit of two hundred millions (mica, should be voted until the intended new IA of Finance should be brought forward. Ti Law, he .observed, had not yet been presents to the Chamber; and, after It . should !vase bee adopted, it would requite a pOried• of sit month at least, to ,carry.. into .effeet the new teperri tion of the : direct contribetions by the Condit General of Districts. In urging the necessi'y of provisional measure on this *abject, he observed, Ihi the Administration•of the Financee, if well concise ed, ought to be loch as to be enabled every day I exhibit a statement of its receilpts sod wspenditure.- The'Caintnittee remarked, with regret, that in th respect-matters had retrogretlo44 compared with tl financial state of affairs fast year. The change of tl indiviciaalsin the Management of. the Financial Di *talent, Tap:nOt a Su ffirien teaCuse for this neglec for sit hattoweruisera t inet might be made in that respec the peillteas'athe public:ftairs ought to ezpariiuu no delay, and the Chamber ought at MI times to fit a Minister responsible to it on ike part of Goren meat. Tlie Honourable Member of that Chaosim (Baron Roy), . who had been recently appoiatv to the Department of Finance, had admitted ti peat inconvenience, and the ton long contioeste of a provisional system of taxation. It was be hoped, that he would •pproptiale to himself tt honour of putting big end 1011. Ho had, in fat pledged himself to submit to the Chamber forth wit under the orders of his Mojesty, a legislative disp Sitio') for, that purpose. The presentation of such accompanied by a regular Budget, were amtv those measures which the Chamber expected with t must lively impatience ; and it was to be hoped th the Minister would, without farther delay, take I 41,1jest)'s orders on the subject, and submits plan law tending to the complete attainment of the olt in view, and according with the conetitutional poi cip!e of an animal vote of the taxes. In this.* Peitation the Committee proposed to vote provision ally, for the Guilt!' time, hail the receipts , for then/1 ear, with the protium) credit of 200,000,00 U upon the express ground of the necessity Gish on the part of Government. The Corneae however, earnestly deprecated any future aliplic tiun of this kind, because. the Chamber te;,:!.l compelled, in its turn, to enquire from w • • the necessity lead originated. On these grourds proposed th Project of IA coinciding with the p i visions of the nos ol Ordinance, with the except;' ef the second Article, on which he proposed Amendment, to the effect that, instead of levyi !;:e indirect contributions until the promulgation the new Finance Law, they should lint, at the vt loche‘t, be extended beyond the Ist of July ne ibe President proposed that the Preject should • taken into consideration on Floods'. 31. CLIAVI ~~ ii r r ili ;i ._: le V ii .4 - :r:~: