The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-02-18 00:00:00

SPAIN. The following following interesting intelligence bat been re ceived by the Spanish papers, respeclog the receptibn in the Cortes, of the Projects of Law on the Liberty, of the Press, &c. MADRID, Fee. 3.—The Cortes have confirmed the discussion of the Penal Cod?, as far as Article titll. In ItliSitting of 2d, the President announced that the debate on the three projects of law, viz on the Liberty •of the Press, on the Right of Petition, and on the Patriotic Societies, was to be entered upon, and that' they were to be discussed in that order successively. 'Senors Torrents, Frail., Martinez Jr la Rosa, Martel .y Sanchez Salvador, desired to speak in favour of • .hern, and 20 members against them. Among the . laden were Srs. Gann, Calatrava, Romero, Alpaeate, 'Rulgblanch, GulfiJ, Plorcz, Eatrasa, &c. Sr. Calatrava 'obtained leave to speak first. Having adverted to the importance of the subject, he proceeded—" I believe, •ffeatiemee, we do a great service to the nation if we 'do not now enter on the discussion of this subject, and eal) , endeavour to apply to the public evils, not is.. sufficient remedies as the Committee proposes, but -.those efeeilltal and radical ones g high the NOWA Congress has recognised, and of which it has vat* . in the face of the nation and of all Eupe. .1' think that the Cortes, before they enter.orditte dl4. -cnesion a these three laws, and examine ilk' ressoo4 :alleged by the Committee for proposing tbrus,- ougil to recollect what they represented to hit Majesty-il l y the middle of December, and which, to the nstsfortime of his Majesty and of the nation, has nut hitherto pro armed any effect.'' . •'" . The Honourable Deputy then proceeded to quote and to comment upon I passages of the answer of • 'the Cortes to his Majesty's Message, especially calling tne attention of the Assembly to the clause which .itoncluiles with- t' the Cortes would think themselves t!cficient in tkilrperformance of their duty if they did not declare to your Majesty that they are firmly pet.- ..traded that the present Ministry dors not possess the moral energy that is necessary happily to conduct the Government of the nation, and to maintain, and cause to be respected, the dignity and prerogative of the throne." The orator read also the paragraph in which the Curtes vrumi,e to co-operate with his Majesty in every 'measure that may (cedare to the prosperity of time Monarchy. " The Government," said he, " has availed itself of this clause to propose the laws before us: lot slat use has it made of the principal part of the Message of the Cortes? Has it formed a vigorious administratior, widen inspiring great confidence by its wisdom and teal ; by its patriotism and adherence to the public liberty, may remove those evils which call for a speedy remedy? Has the Government, on its part done what w y to take the m which the situation of the state imperiously demands? What ma has it made of the message of the Cortes? It will sorbs nay fault if I have to dwell on these melon -elec.', truths: it will not be the fault of the Deputies if they hawses% to speak la the same manner that they spoke a short time since; bet it will be the fault of those -who pieced skew under the necessity of speaking so. Met stall the Government, under these circumstances, extort from as a repressive measure ? Let it seek the assistance of the Cortes. but when shall it do this ? When the Government persists in letting the evils Continue, and does not do what is required, slain the 'Cortes stiffer the whole burden to fall'on the National Congress? No! the Coagresa may resolve to do this, hat my voice shall constantly oppose it." The speaker asked whether the Corks, having declared the seven Ministers incompetent, it was imagined that, by re-- diking them to three, and making one do the duty of two, the Administration would have the moral energy which the Cortes had declared to be wanting; and he concluded by proposing, that before the Corks consi dered the opinion of the Committee, they should take into consideration the following proposition:— " The Ministry net laving been yet constituted with the moral force necessary happily to conduct the Govern ment of the nation, an to maintain and make respected th e prerogatives of t kne, notwithstanding what h fr •is imperiously demrmA by the situation of the State, anal what the Assembly presented to his Majesty on the lath of December last, the Corks, who, without this remedy, think every other insufficient to remedy the evil of which she Government speaks, and perhaps even prejniticial, consider that they are not In a proper situ ation to come to any useful determination on the pro jects of some repressive laws which have been laid before theist." The proposition being read, a debate arose whether the regul ,tions of the Assembly (particularly Art. 100) allowed the debate on a motion proposed by the Pre sident to be Lroke off, to debate the present motion of a Member. It was decided, by 96 votes to 71, that it was al lowed, and by the same number that the proposal of 91r. Calatrava should be discussed. Many Members desired to speak, both for and against the motion. St. Martinez de la floss made a long speech against it. Adverting to the expression, `• The Government has hut the moral energy necessary:Att." lie ob d that, without those laws, the Ministry mould not have the necessary energy—lt was impossible the abuses of liberty sho ild give it them; but the contrary must happen, as had ►een the cue before with the first Ministry, after the establishment of the Constitutional System, which was overthrow. by the public papers, and by some men who, concealing their ambitious de signs under the mask of liberty, propagated subversive ideas, and availed themselves of the right of petition, to discredit men who bad so many claims on tbe Na tional graiitsde. The liberty of the Press, the Pa triotic Societies, the right of Petition, were then abused to spread distrust of those Ministers, whose loss we, lament ; and the result proves the truth of what Sr. Cnesta has said, that the Government exist long, as there are Nt conservatory laws. be debate was costumed in tie Sitting of the 3d, in which it was fisally decided, by 90 votes to 114; that the proposal of Senor Calairava should nut be put to the vote —The debate on the three laws was' tiled for the following day (the 4th). PARIS, Pen. 14.—The Chamber of Aecisation of the Rgeal Court has, by a decision of to-day. agaio sent M. de Beranger before the Coart of Assines of Paris, on account of the publication of a psasphirit concerning his first trial. On the 28th instant, the Conrt of Assizes will try M. They, the ineekmiler, aremmed of being editor of 'pamphlet called Supple meat to the Soogs of 111.1 e Benner." ;tA . , THE DIARY FUR THE PHEsEitr. WaHlej WITS Till TIMES or Mali WATS* ar tokoonfia mod. Pair. 17, 31.-13nnove SVXDAT . ri High water—morn. 93 wafter 10; eve°. MI m. sfterlo. IS. M —Moran sets 40 was. alter 0 even. • Mg% maser—morn. 32 as. after 1I ;_ even. 19 o'clock ' 10, T.--Bnitors Ttlr.osv. COAL T. ma. a. RIO water—morn. sm. after 12; es en. 36 M. aft. IL 20, W.--Aaw WEDNIIDAY. Met water—worm. b a. after 1 : even. 32 in. aft. I. 21, Th.—New Moon AT 9 ArTrillOott. Mgt water—morn. t 9 IL after I ; oven. 23 as. otter 9. ft, F.—Day breaks is m. after 4. High water—mora. 43 m. after I: eves. 4 is. after 3. 23, I—Twilight ends 9w. after 7 even. water--morn. 91 m. after S; eves. 37 ns..after 3. PRICI OF STOCKS THIS DAR AT ONS O'CLOCK. Rink Stook 1 lodia Stock. S per Cent. Red 7914 I Ditto floods . . 74c. (WI. pm 3 pot CLCot. 78344 I SootbSes Stook se per Cent el)t i Soo& Soo Old Ara 4 per Cent, MI a Rx. 11111141,111001.8% 4s. hs.pm IS per Cts. Navy.... 1041 4 SI ..-------.0001.14.84. 74 pm S were,. Loop Ann , Con. for Acet ....,...78144 fop. S per Cent lndia for ditto Irish S roe Cent 1 Lott. Tickets... t ...19f. Ws - _ Itt btAticitttan. “memosimm,..t...- Is INColltellaTilli WM. " TOP SS 1 1 711111" U 1." _ L 01tArAtitz - • ‘,•* ------ .... p.- 84eNDAY 1111LNINII, IPS STOCK SXCHANGI: KL6kr&CISOCK. The Consols opened this morning at 78e; aid got up to 78e. and thee drept again to J. The Five per Cents. are 104 e,; and Long Annuities tie, and • great deal of business is doing in the above fonds. A number of persons from the country have sold out their 6 per Cent. Stock and have taken the money into the country with then., being disgusted with the plans' of the Ministers. The French Funds are 1101. 5c.; and It is expected they wi:l have a further rise owing to the French Treasury having 130,000.000 of Ganes to throw into the Market. There is a great deal of bu siness transacting in all foreign securities this morn ing. which are on the rise. Danish hoods have made, their appearance to day for the hint awe. and are from' S 2 to 83. The Dublin papers of Friday and Saturday last have arrived this morning. Accounts hem Cork confirm the accounts previously received of the Mara of the peasantry is the neighbourhood of Newmarket sad Macrame, to a state of good order and tranquillity. A great number of persons in the vicinity of the former place have come In daily to take the oath. of ella glance, and several have boa! it to skopote up their arms; and in the lallitt ilas areiles4l6ll. lowed this example. la the county of Limerick, Ite ars concerned to learn, the outrages coedits*. On the night of Saturday the *tie, the tilebalsonse et the Rev. B. thraglity. Rector of Kilisedy, wie atterai by a numerous armed party of insergeists, who. after re• galiag themselvel with the fare .1 the lardet aid . the cellar, set lire to the house,exulting with acelamatioes of triumph, ao4 then departed reeling drank, firing shots through the different parts they passed t when arriving at a farm-house on the lauds of Dor rery, the estate of Mr. Menotti, they Instantly set it on fire, sad both houses were med to ashes. The fire was seem at Newcastle, from whence a patty of the 44d regiment were ordered next morning. On their arrival they perceived a few persons near the rains, all of whom ran away, on which the party fired, and after a pursuit of some miles. repeatedly Aring, they got up the mountain ; a piece of the cape of a coat was shot off by a ronsket-bullet. When the army returned from the ruins, the peasantry collected from all directions to the house, which was still is flumes, and did not leave a single article of any description whatsoever. Another house, near hbanagoldeo, was burned by the insurgents the same night ; and many other houses are stated to have been attacked and plundered of arms. The neighbourhood of Cherie- Tulle is particnlarly lamed ; and during oar of these attacks there a Whiteboy was shot, but whether by the inmates who resisted the assault, or accidentally by the insargeuts themselves, is matter of doubt. The 13th Regiment of Foot are on a route from Dublin to Limerick. Mr. PLUNK ET r was expected at Cork, pre rirs to opening the Specie! Commission, which was appointed to take place on Saturday last % , 1 w c • ?EOM TEE NEW ENGLAND COVEES-lIINTIE. PEN. Is. THE NEW PROPOSED TARIFF IN AMERICA. Extract of Mr. Baldwin's resolutions, now Wore tie House of Representatives : Rssozvzo—That it is expedient to provide, by law, that from and after the 13th day of June next, the same rites of duties, which are, by the existing laws, now laid on goods, wares, and merchandise, composed of any specifi.d material, ur of which any specified ar tide is the material of chief value, shall be laid on all goods, wares, and merchandise, whereof any such ape. cified article shall be a component material :—That to the existing rates of duties upon goods, wares, and merchandize, (glass excepted) there shall be added, the amount of such bounty or bounties as on the im portation tbereotmay be given, paid, or allowed, in the place or county whams imported, produced, or ma nufactured: That there shall be paid and levied upon the follow ing articles imported into the United States, in ships or vessels of the United States, the several duties here under men►ioned, over and *bore the duties now pays. ble by law, viz.:—On iten, in bars or rolls per ewe 50 cents ; on Hemp, per cwt. one dollar ; on Lead and all manufactures thereof, per lb. 2 cents ; es Glass of I all Mira. six cans per lb.; on all articles paying a 'NI • half per reik y al e• all articles nol lite, I rr cent. of to. tier' rate of duly (raw silk raeeptfd), 5 per ant. all valorem :—On all otanafactares of si!li (raw ineopted) Ihrer cenvid valwresix ow Lines:no4 pY otter articles, of wide% Nat is a component in: te• tint, 10 per cent.. &drawee ; on Slate. and Tiles for buildings, not exceeding twelve inches square, 2 dollars per thousand over 12 inches square, and not exceeding 14 inches ; 3 (oilers per thous a nd over 14 and not ex.l eehding 16 inches square ; 4 dollars per dammed over 16 and not exceeding 18 do, do.; 5 dollars per Novo- 1 sand over.lB sail not exceeding 24 inches; 6 dollaril per thousand on bricks; 3 dollars per thousand . on all royal, supsr-royal. imperial. elephant, tnedistor crown, folio, quarto, post, cap. and pot paper, suitable for writing, or blank rules, and all drawing and cop-1 per plate paper ; 20 cents. per lb. on all the paper ; 2' cents. per lb. on screws of iron. called wood screws.' not exceeding 1 inch In length ; 8 cents. per grace over on inch and not exceeding two in length : 14 cent,. per groce over two Inches in length ; 20 cents. per greet ; on linseed oil, 25 cents. per gallon : Resolvid—That the COMUSittell 011 manufactures be instructed to report a Bill pursuant to are foregoing resolution. Paris papers to the Ifith lust. bring the reports of the proceedings in the Chamher of Deputies on the law against the Press. An amendment proposing that die Government should not have the power of refusing permission to establish a j turns). if the application for that purpose were supported by 50 Deputes, was re jected, after a violent debate. The second article was amended by the Committee, so as to require that the first sheet or number of any periodical writing or jour nal shall, at the very instant his piloted, be delivered and deposited at the nice of the Kieg's A:torney-6a areal, of the place where it is printed. The Committee also amended the third article, rendering a periodical publication or jonrnal liable to he suspended for a pe riod spilt:eroding one month for the first till*, three months for the second, god total suspension for the third, in cue its spirit, reselling from a succession of articles should be of a nature to injure the public peace, the respect due to the religion of the nation, or tither religions authorized in France, to the authority of the King, to thestabilityofconetitutlonal institutions, and to theinviolability of the national property and its tranquil posseesion. Accounts from Berlin state, that the great Laid-owners aid Deputies from the towns of Bran denbargh have been assembled at Berlin, to receive 'proposals from the Uovernmeet for the organization of Provincial Stater in the March of Brandenbargh. Thu last intelligence from St. Petersburg!' was of a woollim nature, while the wows from Vienna were pacific. The following pairagmph uproars in one of the Preach papers of Thursday :—" At a masked ball, which took place at Cassel on the 31st of Ja glary, the Prince Royal being permed by sevetal souls, and apprehensive of being nteogeleid. clausal masks with his valet-de.ebansbre. The latter was ac costed by the persons who had followed the Prince, and had the impredeoce to accept from them a glass of grog; be was immediately taken ill. and expired the next day. The letter of the 9th of February, which announces this t, states, that up to that day no trace had been discovered of the parties implicated in this crime." _ The Exchange and the Theatre were closed on the 14th, on account of the anni y of the death of the Doke of Berry. The emancipatioa of South America from Spain is at length completed. Vera Crus, the last strong hold of the Spaniards in Mexico, surrendered, as we have found since our last, to the Independent forces, on the 36th of October ; and Callao, which so long held out in Pero t was constrained. as we stated en Wednesday, to yield to General San Martin on the 19th of Sep. tember. These occurrences are too important io their hearings on the in t is of the Old World as well as the New, not to excite the gratulatioas of the friends of free dom, and to awaken lively hopes of the extension of the happiness of mankind. The resources of South America are incalculable, and when called forth by , the enterprise and vigour of a new, independent, and native Government, must be productive, among other nations, of effects as great as any that have taken place in any of the revolutions of modern times.— Though the last accounts from Brazil represent the Prince Regent as as amiable and popular character, which has led ;Ise mercantile people there to remen-. grate with his father against his focal, and though we much admire the good sense and moderation displayed by the Portuguese people in their trans-atlantic as well as European pose •ssioos, yet we appre. head their great American Colony will constitute a Member of the Southern Union, and form a State of that GPEAT Rercut.tc, which is shoat to he established open the ruins of S►axtsx CRUiLTY and JEBI/IfICAL COERCION. Still we do not dread any serious iscon venietwe will arise to the Portuguese who bold prope►ty is the Brazils, as we make no doubt that whatever change takes place in their form of Government, tbry will still retain such conaectios with the mother coun try, as not essentially to affect her interests. Antici pating this result, it will be well for the Portuguese as well as Spanish Government, to form an amicabla settlement with their trans-atlantic connections, so as. come what will, they may retain their accustomed commercial relations, sad promote their reciprocal ad vantages. Th., Ultra, is his paper of this morning, betrays a great deal of anger against Mr. BROVUUAII, for coo chiding his speech, on Friday last, by an " ea►nest ap. peal to the Corralry &warmest." Mr. !Imoeon Aat gave proofs of some pod sense, aid of great patriotism. by this eloqaeat appeal. Without the direct interim %% I. of Providence, awe is no power cap *aye ibis cowry _ . • • 1,7 I,.ann slavery and wretchedness but the coubtry men. There is a quarter, indeed, fr.nn which teller 'eight have come, and, from which it w as expnted but hope has sickened, and turns from tbst quarer with anguish. The Country Gentlemen st ill b are it in their potter to put an end to all the cala m i t i es which oppress. and all which threaten this n a ti on . Tie abuses which occasion our evils, are palp a bl e. Ti e country gentlemen can abolish all these abuses; wi t h a breath ; and who shall control their will? The other cl of society are not disposed to offer el l . 'traction to the meritorious labour, for they are usf. feting, also, under the misgovernment of our ignorant rulers. The country gentlemen can call for the r e . moval of all abuses, and they can withhold the saypti m till all abases are removed. Their course is plain, and easy; and every good man prays that they may par, sue it with Zeal and steadiness. Mr. Bnoeeaau it friend to the Coastitntion; and, therefore, he &ppm, to the Country Gentlemen, and Weenie them toss,, it. So desperate is the course. of Ministers, that de% potism must result, unless Revolution step in to sate; the Nation from the bands of Ministers. Mr. Ilnoucnnat, therefore, did the only thing %thigh sow avail when be made the appeal in question. aid „ most heartily do join him in "invoking the wisdoms( H to guide the persons to whom hi then &dawned himself." Shall we be asked. ifwe hay, not givta ap our hopes on this subject? Our hopes of the constr., gentlemen doing their duty in Parliament? We shall answer—No : not yet—and GOD forbid, we ever sheald, until our hopes and wishes are swallowed op in full fall tion of them, and until we live to see the lend purged of locusts who devour it. But the Ultra, feeling hew little reasonable hope of success he hacrin his argo• went with the Coustry Gentlemen, goes on to ur— But it is not only to- them that we address ear sent ob s ervations. The whole con Wry in intern:id in the question before Parliament; and on the irk le eyantry we call, to pass a fair judgement ote what Meters propose to do, what they are doing, and whit they have already done."—We, also, Fall on the whole country to pass their judgment ; and we only wish it wets left to them alone to decide ; that is, to eery man in the country, who is not fed by kliiiiivers, or who is not one of the mercenary troops on white they ultimately depend for support. What kind of mat s hi, of what class, who will defend them In what they have dune, or are doing; or who places Rimy Impels what they propose to do? We cannot cootelire whew the courage could be famed (we would use a forge word, but that we are ashamed of using mess wet every time the conduct of this writer calls for thee) which could make this appeal in ettneat to a ?stele bowed down with tbs weight of the oppressions these very Ministers have beeped spun them, mod wen ate now utterly at a lots to know which way toter, impeder to escape from the despair which threatens to everirlaelm them. It is even difficult to comprehend the pliswiiich Lord LONDONDZaIt.'a speech endeavoured M Daft on Friday last ; bet what is known of it, is gainful• ly held to be delusive, and utterly unfit to meet the evils it pretends to remedy. Bat we quit this melan choly and odious subject for the present ; and con clude by seying—:that we Jo still look for the cow try's eafety, to those Country Gentlemen to whom /Ir. BROUGlialle so eloquently appealed, aid whom the Ultra would confound by the audacity of likings. The Courier, on Saturday night, speaking of Lord Lospotroarinv's Remedy fur Aricabora! Dittos*. as proposed on Friday evening, soya—" No Wiwi man, no man who is not the basest tool of party. or the weakest slave of prejudice, tan read the speech of the Noble Marquess, and deny that great boon has been bestowed, and that As di • position exists to augment that boom from Coe to time, by every practicable relief which cit• contstances may allow."—We beg the Cuistier's pardon. with all the respect which it deserves) bst we see no greatness in the Minister's h. see ; not any disposition in his mind to attotent it by every prat. tical relief which circumstances may allow. Wes" a disposition wickedly the 'terra' of this. We we the !arid* expenditure antonrhed. not even mulched And what relief has Lord Los PON DER Pt Y offered& Agriculturists? He is to leml them snow is rise form of Pariah relief. If he does bring in a Bill le carry his scheme into effect, it may be called a Btu fur the wore effeetrally making the A_►ieultrristd sf this kingdom P • . There never was a men do basing contrivaore, if it could be rendered effected. Hat it is tidally ineffective for soy purpose which ir wanted by the farmer. Ile wants his whole odes reduced, so as to inert the resin , priers of agri•Alts tural produce, and give him a living profit. 111 nit' this to be accomplished by a redevion 4f hie mat aria his taxes. lle wants to rednec his u•llery and IA" LuNonsuetar (after the plannu.of his country) 11 1 the additional harshen gpon him of limiest for WWI lent. That might hove done in the Irish &dialers'. of which his Lordship was a sort of iirtisineet; bit we hope it will not pass for currency here. It is with great pleasure we refer to • paragraph from the foreign papers, stating, that the Sisimu 4 ' Corb • base passed • decree, which condemns to tea years' labour, on the public works, all Spaniards elo are convicted of carrying on the Shirr 7';ettle. Iraq thing were wanting, to prove the disadvantages of the revelation in Spain, which the IfoLy A wanes is la bouring to countervail, this dare , n mild be sufficient for the purpose. We need not me any •rgrnwat r.) rain the indignation of our readers against tie Shoe Trade. Happily fur Engla•d, she has learnt to both• it with utter abhorrence. But Sp a in, while blew , ' with the Hoc Foment of • Eing um:on:mold in si• ~':~: .may ..~ =. _~_ :~ 'Y~