The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-02-20 00:00:00

Pr f. 11 . t • t ~..1. y i 11 if '~' } .11 Si ~u~ )?! ►. SPAM . • • 121111lOODINART CORTEP, SITTIO• OP W. 5. 4 . The President ordered articles 75 aid 76 of the re , gutation to be read, and after they were read. spoke ate fellows:—" It is with mach pain that I see myself • wader the necessitusf recalling an article of your rr ialseTtiu loiliitiVartes and the public know how im possible it is to Ili Avg is the face of the events of leseerdry. - foe to undeesive ourselves—the belwatt' of the Conitilsolinis and . *fear Shorties is the Cortes. Theretannot be Ceres without discussion, and there cannot bee ilfietissien if the Deputies are not free to si 'rem their hoidens. What more could our enemies desire than dieoeders of this nature ?• Placed in this their for the third time, I shall die, bat I shall die beeriest winters to the whole world, that if years of .perseention for defending the liberties of my country, twos not made me encenosh, neither shall I succumb At the sight of greater risks. Usfortanate Spain, at .es time er hen the persons of its deputies are not fee trete& If they are thus attacked, what shall we kope for? Those are declared enemies of the Consti tution who do tot respect the national representatives. " In these critical circumstances the public ought to be informed, that at the first noise In the galleries 1 shall end this sitting; and I should likewise desire that some members of the Congress would excite its i 9.1 by a proposition on the insult offered yesterday to the national representatives, not only with a view to the preservation of their persons, which would be p a mall consequence, bout° preserve the national re ' siltation sod the Constitution." ' There ens read the following proposition of Senor 'Garcia Page :—" In considet scion of the events whit% happened yesterday, I request the Cortes to order that The Secretaries of State be called immediately tu Con 4ress to give liformation on the means taken by 'Go vernment to avoid the result of these events, and the 44autioos that hare been enforced to maintain the pubic trantsillity, and to agree to those which belong to the power (tithe Cortes." The proposition Was not admitted to discussion. There was then read the following propOiition of Senor Cepero—" That a despatch be sent to Wolves's, irequirint their Immediate attendance. to inform !he Cortis of hie oceartnices of yesterday on the rising of • the tilting, on the Units °Peed to various deputies, ind of the oleos Which had been taken to prevent their repetition. Its author then said, though the proposition of Senor Garda Page has not been admit . fed to distension, I 'shall Ise the freedom of speech ' • pllowed me by your regolatioa; and shall express the btotivei Osier Sive Induced me to make the proposi tion whlth bas'jast been read. Before this epoch, I elected been ected a deputy, add bad the misfortune to het eat fundamental law abolished. Then I saw not Air tni opinions despised. bat found myself throw* tato a dungeon ; but till this &dewy of the laws was shut, my persop was religiously respected. Dur ing the coarse of yesterday I was witness of a scene which exceeds all the horrors I have ever WO. and, In the midst of Mi a misforfones, which are well knows, ft @aperient d 'pain like that of yesterday. I law, in some saine.idy ciente) , threatened with slavery; for what coo be hiellid fur the preservation of free dom, when tbb witteddi representation, to which the Ouhlie have misted Heir rights and liberties, le tram pled upon. Let it be supposed that I blame the Spanish people, Of evee the people of Madrid. They are lot capable 9f ao outrage of this mature. The deputies who have received the powers of the nation have not contracted say greater obligation than to preserve the constitu tion ; and bow can they do so if they may be trampled Neon with impunity ? Those deputies who were yes terday insulted exposed their breasts to the daggers of • iss, out of love for their country; bat can all the members of Congress be supposed to po he same firmness of character ? As for me, I shall act freely, because dangers do not -larm me ; but are all the deputies actuated oy tbe same courage, some of them ft ride through age, sod others weak from physical conetitation ? Those who brought about the scanda lous scene of yesteday are declared enemies of their cotti•ry, and have inflicted a deeper wound on it than the rebels who lift their hands against it. I cannot but recall the iudignity committed in the house of the widow of Polier—of that hero who was sacrificed for Lis country, and whose.natue is written in this august place as a testimony .of national gratitude. That house was pulled down. because it sheltered Count T.tereno—the illustrious deputy—whose sacrifices and services need no praise of mine. The honourable de puty cunclo.led by proposing to adopt the resolutions stated above. Senor Sancho said that all the national tepresenta tion were insulted in t►e indignity offered to their colleagues yesterday. It is as much an insult to shout vices to a deputy for his opinions, as to cry " death" to hint; and therefore, satisfied with the approbation of my conscieuce. I eqsally despise both. If the de poles are not free to express their opinions, there is no Linger a constitution. But are the Cartes really without liberty? I am far from being of this opinion. Because a dozen or two of persons paid to commit this excess (for they were beard to say that they bad re cei►ed each and such sums), insulted the two deputies, the national represeatation ought to be considered as deprived of all freedom ; but at the same time I am of opinion, that the Corms cannot but take cognizance of title occurrence, since, although freedom still exists, it may be lost Kan attempt of this king is viewed with indiltrrenee. Congress ought also to consult its own dignity, as well as its freedom, and to exterminate a miserable faction, which is only of importance in pro portion as it excites disorders. lo the opinion of this deputy, the indiction of punishment was more neces sary than the calling of information from Government. He concluded with the follewing motion That a commissiod be appointed, which, after consulting with the Government and the component authorities. may propose to the Cortes such measures as it may think proper with respect to the occurrences of yesterday." Senor Quiroga strongly inveighed against the scan dalous disorders of the previous day. Viva, hail been shouted to the freedom of the press and to klieg° ; bet they had likewise heard vices to an absolute King, and cries of " Death for Kiego and Quiroga." He ascribed all this to the feebleness of Government, who bad taken no precantioss to prevent. on the previous day. scenes similar to those which bad occurred three days before. He declared his respect for the Coact de Torreao; ud said that as soon as he hoard of the in- I - • . - • ■ ,i F the laws. " Senor ( Vora testi . llaesmael moor to tin sma ll Perialferiloiniad in the attack on the two de oe-Illimelbewele- la Rosa said, that be would not have spokes so Ms swamies were It sot to testify for Ow zeal with which the authorities *challis extending their protection to him. So mneh were they disposed lo offtwd 'him all 'the defence I. their power, tliat he wistimself obliged to countermand the troops they were sending to peril his house. He did not, bow ever, think that the Cortes ought to eotertais the ques tion, unless submitted to them by Government. If they went into it as a legislative question, it would be attributed to the fear they entertained of their owe safety. The Cortes (he said) possessed fully the free dom of deliberation, and as the best proof they could afford of the fact, they ought immediately to enter oe the discussion of the project of law which formed the order of the day. The occurrences of the preceding day had sufficiently shown the weakness of the Mao.- ganizing factions, which had no other means than their audacity. They would disappear before firmeess and prudence. Conde de Terrenn.—My view of the subject is the game as that expressed by Senor Martinez de la Rosa. It is certain that our persons aloe* were inputted, bet le them an Insult was offered to the whole of the na tional representation. The horse of a citizen, of a deputy, which formed the alylum of the widow of a Porlier, has been forcibly entered. Some of my ser vants were maltreated and wounded. Perhaps those wise Committed this attack have been instigated by some of the persons who contributed to the tragic end Of Porlier, and by whom I was persecuted even is a foreign land. I might name sonic chiefs of assassins, whom I knew. Bet what can the Cortes Jo in tbie affair? On this point I think with Senor Martinez Is Rosa. but I do not cones, in his declaration, that be worth' present himself unarmed to the poniards of the ins. If they return to attack my house, they shall not enter it unless they take it as they w•-eld • a fortress. Let us then proceed tranquilly with the Abe cassloo of the law project. If there should be as doubt of certain abuses, in which the press has ad slight part, the events of yesterday must remove it.-.' I must add, that I have nothing to complain of say et the authorities, since they all did tbeibe duty. I kuriefk mat what was the intention of the mob; bit It is twit tale that tiny had purchased ropes to Iskpd me with.— The thing, however, being passed, I 4, oaf lei' that I have any persons' danger to has, 'The mall rifles have strut more troops to my boos dam are emery to repress any cisorder. Senor Sanclio.—l envy the virtue of Senor Maim de Is Rosa and the Conde de Therese. fur cute,* there is great Time in illedainhig popular fame, tied in that firmness of character which they exhibit. le' is not, however, a personal question with them, bra with the Cortes. Yesterday, the whole National Raz presentation, not single Deputies, was a?tacketi ; suit the Congress is bound to show the lutenist it taketris seeing the Constitution and the National Represeatatioe respected. I could wish to have my head organised in a different In and to see things under a diff est point of view from that In which I do see them, Is order thit I might vote to-day against what I defea4sd yesterday. In saying this, I think I 0611cl/fitly maul fest the contempt I entertain fur this faction. Mt, notwithstanding this contempt, I insist that the Certes cannot look on this affair with indiffereuce. It is said that the Cortes hare not failed is their duty ; but though that should be the fact, it is not the less ne emery to investigate the origin of the evil. I attri bute no weight to what has been said by Sawa Mar tinez de la Rosa and the Conde do Torreno against my proposition, because I perceive that their opposition arises from delicacy. The Cortes are bound, for the protection of their inviolability, and fur the sake of decorum, to investigate the matter. This they are even hound to do, that they may nut become responsible to future Cortes for a negligence which may be to them of serions importance. Senor Calatrava--The Cortes must not delay the adoption of energetic measures. I who consider it a disgrace to have maintained an opinion conformable to that which the authors of this outrage affect to enter tain, solicit and demand such measures as are absolute ly 'memory. There exists amongst us a liberticidal faction, which he views of foreigners, and fo liates in their pay to destroy the Constitution of Spain. This faction mist be extinguished; for if that be not door, great will be the hazard which the country will have to rue. When two illustrious deputies wbo have isise so much for the cause of liberty in Spain are in sulted—when the whole national representation is in sulted—what is not to be feared if such excesees be not repressed? Yet those men who yesterday committed so horrible as outrage have the audacity to call them selves Liberals! What, they Liberals! Infamous wretches. The Liberal man respects the laws, but they have openly violated them. What Liberal would break into the house Oa citizen, of • representative of the nation, in which a person so respectable as the widow of timers' Porlier resided? They Liberals! Be who they may, they are traitors; for such the law declares all th,.se to be who in any way attack the li berty of the Cortes ! What ingratitude does this out rage mar.ifeit. To attack the house of a deputy. who has a thousand times exposed his life for the cause of liberty, and in which the widow of him who died so boldly for the cause of liberty bad taken up her abode! I hope the motion will be approved; if not, I will propose another. Senor Zapata.—Those who, While they invoke li berty and the Constitution, eddsavour to destroy both, are the greatest of traitors. Those vile ins who yesterday insulted the Congress, and in particular two of its moat distinguished members, have been insti gated by some ambitious men, destitute of talents or virtue, for snob alone could engage in similar discos- , ders. They wisb, by disorders, to destroy the ',men!' Cortes. because they have the audacity to foiled the I most foolish hopes is the next Congress. Yesterday beard from the base months of some of them the cry— " Live the Next deputies!" I consider it to be the duty of the Cortes to take the most elicaitioas =n aives for repressing disorders so fatal to liberty. Here the discussion was closed, and the esodozof Senor Snack° approved. . bid/ the ly?" 1 - The president observes, that the turinWi belontred to Senor Calatravi: Senor Calatrava—Under the present efrenntatisees. I slioeM consider my d-lieacy compromised if I sipsitr on thil 'Object. I make this netlike with plemdm and I care very little what settee my ettaduct In Ms respect may excite. My prieciples and conduct are well known. 1 renounce the eight of speaking. Two more deputies declined to speak; after which the debate west on ih the usual manner. •MADSIIO, FL!. s.—We have several times promised to our readers, when we have *shorted them not to give credit to the reports respecting a foreita invasion, which were gradually propagated, probably with no very good intention, that we would announce to them, without disguise, any danger which sad& threaten our liberty and independence. In collisions* with this promise, we are bound to notice the mere lima suspicious conduct observed lay the French Bath°. Pities on the frontier, with respect to our fugitive re bels, and the instigators of disturbances amongst us . We have already stated that our Government has pre: seated most energetic remonstrances to the Fronds Goverantent, complaisine of a hostile connivaace. WI besides know, that our Consul at Bayonne has request ed-that the Spauish refugees should he sent into the in terior of France, as the French Gorerament bad or dered. Bat what effect with fo be expected from the application of the Consul to the authorities of Bayonne, when we Sod that the same Government which had ordermithe refugees to proceed to the interior bee giYdsl essp,orts to Quessda and others 'of his gang, to tumble thin to go end take up their residence in the last tows, as the Preach side?—(Uaieeresti.) WWII WAY= AT LORPOP.RIIIIMIS TO-1114111110W. Morning 38 re. alter t—Eveataelt 93 a. after 9. Atm WSONNlDAT.—flotiday at OW 01 Cbt OittlOnsan. 'us 1111111inill 1111 ritptflklPollallta WWII " TEIP Velnias." . , LONDONt - " wirDSISmAT rsitiolikr 20. STOCK laildNOK•Jkarlair O'CIOIiK •'•Thoagh this day 114 1 41hillaay at the Bask, the Steak-globule is . r •s, asol-ts great iota of busines 1 1444 Pju 5 4 , aaa For Coats. :1631 to 104.—We aadaratawd a gesso quantity If the 3 per Coo* 1101111Walp,)10ebased for the Aeneas day. • oiiy •• . Leiters from ParlitiOrdOVlitate, that the boos* of R. there. his purchased a &Hiss of Reates ; aad the same Attu, to Lpdoa. sold half of the above sum. Ms Spanish ant Naapaikaa Foods at Paris, were ruttier lower t1id6,16 LOOFA. The Dahlia parrs of Monday last. which have ar• rived this morning. areal* so to the state of the country. This silence is gifissot Dot only that in fresh acconots of outragit*li bees received is that city, but that the appreheriows of a general rising, which were propagated here last night, ea the alleged authority of private letters, could have so foandaties. The Special Commission was appointed to open at Cork, on Saturday last, brit no report of the proceed ings appears to have reached the capital, when the papers went to press. [CZTR•CT OF • LISTER FROM CLIARLESTOWN, JAN. 19.] By the Curlew, which arrived on the I Ith day from Port-au-Prince, we learn that the Spanish refugee pri vateers in the vicinity of Santa Martha, are captor iog all American vessels they fall in with, and! the United States frigate, Grampus has sailed in quest of them, and to protect the trade in that quarter. The examination of the Officers and crew of the Portu guese ship, named Flora, terminated yesterday.— Tbe people were clic:barged, upon the grind Ikea there existed no proof of their having attacked th► Alligator with a piratical Intention ; that they acted under mistake in supposing the Alligator to have been a patriot privateer ; and bred upon her with a view of frightening her, off. The ship will be libelled in behalf of the United States, as a prise to the Alligator. Charlestown bills on England hate got up lb per cent. at H b. Tut Tardier 1111.1..—it is ridiculous to see the Tariff Bill revived every Session, and the mercantile community yearly excited respecting its fate. It is certainly incumbent on the national legislature to eater into a solemn and serious onquiry respecting its pro- perty. To leave the mercantile interest of the United States in a situation that, the next meeting of Con gress, may probably frustrate all their views and de stroy their arrangements, is a thing not contemplated by the most staunch supporters and advocates of this annual bogb,•ar. Notwithstanding a Tariff MI bas been brought in by Mr. Baldwin, imposing a higher duty on many articles of the first ity, they are already so protected that any additional duty most be a tax on the whole community. Paris papers to the 18th I>•in: an account of the close of the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies, on the law respecting the Police of the Journals, After a variety of amendments to the classes bad been pro pined and rejected, the fourth and fifth articles were passed on Saturday, and the Chamber then proceeded to ballot upon the whole projet. Twenty-five mem bers of the Opposition refused to vote; and in casting ap the ballot, the numbers were—in favour of the law, 219—against it 137. The Ministers appear to have depended more on the number of rotes that would be . . • , ' • . mnfrivemilemmem.u....Ammme.mmlig. TITE 14TA TES WAY elati f t th: f Ce ll agress il e s da lses ." l4 lllll7: iL L ese a tly reet teibi lka ll: l 444 : 4: sbe ril - 18412.11441le n:CAnt il.11:1" : 11 : 1 " ."11 1 11:C ro" :11 ;i 7ari g igr ol i e r Zbge il:447- . 46•64,44111-SeTiielies. -use terwarevaiiieet 'Ow giseef• 4l .• law reject Muth.* .. ..- I .1 ;: EL- .0! patios. , ' to y s, Mum on the strength of the argues Is - admitted, in femme of the mum ; s a d therefore, as much as possible, avoided speak. Her the purpose of twilight( the proceediega, v3.:11 the greater speed, to the coosonnuation they visited. When they did venture to speak, they were, indeed, unfortunate, not only in ',tart let O E & ejalkerie, bat in getting some disgrace. Rui ng 1110Jdhemessiwo of the article oa the suppresekta el tfogifelby The Cerro Royale*, the inordinate mk s . dipanpaned in these tribal's', gave occasion fermi. miSseifiao. M. Corbiere, the Minister of the la te . rim, attempted to parry the attack, by saying that go arbitrary use could be made of this power by the tri. lennais, inasmuch as the Ministry had the pow er , f setting aside their decree. It is needless to ov m , s that this awkward consolation only expend his die offered it to ridicule. The article which allows, h certain case, the revival of the censorship, gale dim some pleasantry. General Fey declared that theCaueng, though no longer exercisiag their functions, were log yet " disbanded." " No," said asothet Nem% " they are merely reduced to half-pay." " plied the 0 I. "and in a very different duettis t from the reduced *Seers of the army—for they sp, likely soon to be restored to fan pay." Os thein tredectioa of the poise, the Reporter had said Oaf England and her lessons had been referred to, beck it had been forgotten that a long interval had tam place between the establishment of her Giereme nt and the licenoe of her journals. To this General Pry replied that it was not so, for that the liberty die press win established in England six months after* Reneludon, and by the expiration of the loyally Censorship. The 0 I tbes proceeded to state the history of the public press la England, Pet esaetlya it is, but as a friend of freedom might *appose it is le in a country that had been famed for the liberality at its lostitotioos " Since that period" (the epee) et the Reeolution,) to which be had effete* " the tio kw Corpus Act has been sometimes ',speeded, be never has the liberty of the press been either limited, or qualified, or restrained; eves in the most *rim, circumstances, this Ithertyllve remained full and es. tire. When the Hose* of liminerer came to the trees, by bow many writiberabil -rophlets was no the foreign Sovereign telt who came to sit ea de Thome of Magihnti I bet *bat did the Genesi meat? It einnisitid not a single libel; bat t enrolled other writers übder its banners; it undid its defeat:* to men of talent, in the ranks of 'tuft find the celebrated Adeline. Under Oeorgo ll.the Pretender disembarked is England ; his army ladle* veiled the kingdom; and is a situation so critical, at a uonsest when so many serious circumstances comidside the liberty of the joint/is woo sever saspeolki,—. • ••• Ose of the Members has spoken of Mitten/01; let it be allow...elm toe talk of toy excursioas. 1 Twig Loaders in 1917, at the time when the heeds eine Radicals paraded the environs. The terrified inhabit ,nts proposed to take their arms to the Tower. Tie factious crowds uttered deadly erle spinet th Ministers, and proceeded, in their fury, to knit the Royal Majesty itself. It was usderstood diet forty th I Radicals of Manchester were ea their march, to present a petition to the Prism fin gent. The times were certainly critical; and yet, If I a single person, either in the Royal Council, Of le me or other of the Houses of Parliament, had preeposed suspend the Liberty of the Press, he would lave been thought to be mad, nod been pent to pass some tine in Bedlam."—The chief occasion on which the Mi nisters were compelled to break their resolution of tr citurnity was, when M. Manuel openly intimated that the conies of French troops, on the Spanish frostier. was placed there, not with a view to keep away ...1 yellow fever, but with hostile intentions to the titter. ties of Spain. The Minister of Foreign Alfaires thee thought proper to speak, and vehemently denied that any such intentions existed. Our readers will perceive that we give the greater part of our attention to thre dulleatic concerns of the U..:sed Kingdom. Those are, indeed, of an impede' re greater, perhaps, than any which have centered is alit period of English history. On the events of tie present time, it will depend whether England shall he greater than ever she was (and she has ranked for most among the most distinznished nations), or stall be reda. ed to a state which even the slaves of : 0 ! Delman Despot may despise. Rat foreign mote, also, are connected with the canoe of memo. f"t which we always contend. We have kept our ll° upon SPAIN and upon Fa•Nce : the rest of Europe is. at present, hardly worth looking at. in Spain, go have seen every device resorted to. whirls asiOt frt. trate the efforts of the friends of freedom to give tie nation a constitational and limited Oorernment. The late accounts from Madrid anti from Paris chew, tlut these intrigues have been succersfill to a deglet to make it a matter of doubt whether a coaster rem littioa will not finally triumph in Spain. The Hots AL' Luxes prunes its parpoecs with great steadiness. Si wit► all the experiexce which can be acquired by practice in the orianinal Intrigues of DESPOTS. 1 111 recent outrages ofered by a mob, at Madrid, to the r Count Ds TORKIEND, And M 1./: TIN EL DE ROSS, (Me V ' . bens of the Cortes) were committed wider the peeve's of seal for the cause of freedom. The same policf which is another country a eertain Statesman emploP is his secret saaehlostiont, is the engine, also. et tt't Dispels abroad. They too hare their agents tell their spies, who mite ON people to acts of oulrefet --