The Sun. — London, England, 1825-11-03 00:00:00

SPANISH COLONIES. The Argos of the 16th, 20th, and 23d of July, composing a portion of the file of Buenos Ayres Papers, the arrival of which we announced yes terday, contains a note of Mr. Canning's, ad dressed to the Spanish Ambassador in March last. This note has found its way from the Ame rican Journal into a Belgic Paper, and thence it has again partly been " done into English." It might have heel' of some interesthad it been pub lished in England at the time when it was drawn ..up, but now, since the state of things in which it was written has eutirely changed, and the Spa nish Minister for whose information it was com municated has been displaced, that interest has been much diminished. The following, however, is a version of the note in question : COPY OFF A COMMUNICATION ADDRESSED BY MR. CAN SING TO SENOR DE LOS RIOS, AMBASSADOR FROM HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY TO THE COURT OF ENGLAND. " Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, March 25, 1825. " The undersigned Principal Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs to his Britannic Majesty has been charged by his So vereign.to transmit •to his Excellency the Chevalier de Los Rios, in order that he may communicate it to his Court, the following reply to the Official Note which M. Zea addressed, on the 21st of January, 1825, to his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Madrid:— " A great portion of the Official Note of M. Zea is founded upon a denial of the facts of which a report had been made to the British Government, relative to the state of 'the different countries of South America, and upon the anticipation of events which the Court of Sp a in ex p ec t s t o t a k e pl ace in those coun tries,-and which would triumphantly refute the reports received by the British Government. He therefore declares it advisable to await the issue of those events, rather than to oppose assump tions to assumptions, or to reason upon probabilities and con jectures. On that decisive event, as it appears to he, the under signed :can only say that it will be a great satisfaction to the I;ritish Government that it takes place before its intentions are announced respecting the other countries of Spanish America. These intentions, at least, can have no influence on the result o f the war in Peru. " The undersigned is charged to make onlythis single obser vation upon that part of M. Zen's note which refers to the sup posed inaccuracy of the facts which served as the basis of the resolution taken by the Britannic Government. " The questions which remain to be examined are, whether Great Britain, in negotiating with governments established de facto and secure from foreign invasion, is violating any principle of the.rights of nations, or any positive convention. " To commence with the latter of these points, as being the principal accusation against us, M. Zea reproaches us generally with an infraction of treaties; but as he cites only two, those of 1809 and 1814, it may fairly be assumed that he relies on those only as the especial support of his accusation. " First, then, as to that of 1809. " This treaty was concluded at the commencement of the struggle of Spain against France, and was entirely directed to meet existing circumstances; and in express terms it was a treatyof peace for the purpose of putting an end to the war which had subsisted between England anti Spain since 1804. .It is expressly designated, in the first article, as a treaty of al liance during the war, in which we were at that time implicated in common with Spain against France. All the stipulations of the treaty had evident reference to the declared resolution of the French ruler, that he would maintain a branch of his fa mily upon the throne of Spain, and of both the Indies, and we were bound indubitably not to lay do wn our arms untifhis pro jects against Spain had failed, and his pretensions in regard to America had been abandoned—obligations of which England, as no one can deny, has fully acquitted herself. This end once obtained, the conditions of the treaty were fulfilled, and the ob ligations which it imposed necessarily ceased with the object to - which they bore reference. " The war of the Peninsula having been happily brought to n conclusion, and his Catholic Majesty having been re-esta blished, with the assistance of England, on the throne of his ancestors, the treaty of 1814 was substituted for that of 1809. And what does this last treaty contain ? First, the expression of the most earnest desire, on the part of his Majesty, that Spanish America should be again united with the mother country ; and secondly, an engament to forbid English sub jects from furnishing munitions of war to the inhabitants of Spanish America. " This engagement was immediately fulfilled by a Cabinet .Order, issued in 1814 ; and to extend these objects beyond the limits of the obligation prescribed by this treaty, an Act was , passed in 1819, forbidding English subjects from serving in the _armies of the insurgent colonies. " The sincerity of the desire expressed in this treaty is i.droved, not only by the above measures, but by the reiterated offers on the part of England to become a mediator between Spain and her colonies. The proposal for this intervention was not alone founded, as avowed by 111. Zea, on the un derstanding that Spain should anticipate h er co l on i es . A number of years has elapsed since that time, and Spain has -disdained, upon different occasions which have presented them- Selves, to negociate upon more favourable conditions, before :that basis was laid down, as the only one upon which a nego tiation could be successfully established. " No mention was made of it in 1812, when our mediation -was offered to the Cortes. . "No mention was made of it in 1815, when Spain demanded our mediation, but refused to state the conditions to which she ,would be disposed to consent. " Nor was it touched upon in 1818, in the conferences at .Aix la Chapelle, when the question as to an agreement be tween Spain and her colonies was agit a ted for the first and last time among the great European Powers. " After the total silence which Spain has preserved relative to the opinion put forth by the Powers who were present at these -conferences, when this question was proposed to them, two points were clearly established :—lst. That Spain had not the serious intention of proposing to the Americans acceptable con ditions ; 2d. That the sending this question to be decided by a ,Congress could not be attended by any profitable or satisfactory results. " Since that time Great Britain has entirely abstained from touching on the point of a negotiation with the colonies, until the month of May, 1822, when Spain itself made a spontaneous declaration that she wished measures to be taken for the re-esta .blishment of peace in the two Americas, upon an entirely new basis, which however she did not explain. " In reply to these communications, Spain was requested to accelerate, as much as possible, its negotiations with the Colo nies, as the course of events was so rapid as not to allow of a further delay ; but no suggestion was made to adopt independ ence as its basis. " The first mention of this basis, which took place in the month of November, 1822, proceeded in fact from the Spanish Government itself, and at this period it was intimated to the re sident Minister of Great Britain at Madrid, that the tortes were occupied in bringing about negociations with the Colonies on basis of their independence—negociations which were in fact opened, and were attended with a happy result in respect to Buenos Ayres, though his Catholic Majesty has since rejected them. It was since this last communication from the Spanish Government, that England announced her opinion that nothing was to be hoped front negotiations founded upon any other basis titan that declared by the Spanish Government itself. " This opinion, communicated, as has been already stated, through confidential channels to Spain, was, near a year after wards, that is to say, in October, 1823, declared by the under signed to the Ambassador of France in London, in a confe rence, the tenour of which was communicated to Spain and the other Powers. It was repeated anti confirmed at a later period in the communications which the undersigned addressed in Ja /away, 1824, to Sir `I m. A'Court. " Thus nothing can be less correct than the assertion, accord ing to which England is made to lay down the basis of inde pendence as a condition sine qua non of her co-operation in the negociations with Spain and her Colonies. _ We now come to the second complaint brought against the English Government, of having violated the right of nations. Has it been ever regarded as an axiom, or has any Government ever considered it a practical maxim, that in no time or cir- cuinstances, a government de facto can acquire rights to recog nition, or authorize a third power to recognize it, that third power having a great interest in establishing and securing its relations with the government de facto. " Such a proceeding on the part of a third power certainly does not decide the question of right against the mother country. " The Netherlands separated themselves from Spain long before the end of the 16th century ; but Spain did not formally renounce its sovereignty over that state until the peace of West phalia, in 1648. In 1640 Portugal declared its independence of the Spanish monarchy ; but it was only in 1668 that Spain re cognized its independence by treaties. " The separation of the Spanish colonies from the mother country has neither been our work nor the object of our desires; it has been caused by events, in which the English Government took no part, but which, we think, might have been prevented if our advice had been listened to in time. " But this separation has produced a state of things to which the British Government must adapt its measures and its language, not precipitately, but with mature reflection and cir- .cutnspection. . " The continuing to call by the name of a Spanish possession ! a territory in which Spanish power and occupation have been extinguished, can be of no practical utility to the mother coun try, and may endanger the peace of the world. "All political communities are responsible to each other for their conduct—that is, they are all under an obligation to ful fil their established international duties, and to indemnify any violation of the rights of others committed by their citizens or subjects. Sow, since the mother country must continue to he responsible for acts over which it cannot exercise the shadow of authority, the inhabitants of those countries whose political independence has been established, but whose title has not been recognized, must be placed in a situation in which they are responsible for their actions, or must be punished like pirates placed beyond the pale of law, for those deeds which supply a 'ground of complaint to other ❑ations. In the first pact of this alternative the total irresponsibility of the states not recognized is too absurd to be maintained ; and in the last, the treatment of their inhabitants as pirates is too monstrous to be applied to a great portion of the habitable globe. "There remained no other resource to Great Britain, or to any other country which maintained a commercial intercourse with the Spanish American provinces, but to recognize in time their political existence and to consider them in the enjoyment of the rights and duties which civilized nations are obliged to respect among themselves, and entitled to claim from others. "The example of the last revolution of France, and of the happy re-establishment of Louis XVIII. upon his throne, is cited by M. Zea, in support of the principle of the imprescrip tible rights of a legitimate sovereign, and the obligation of all foreign powers to respect those rights; and in consequence this Minister invites England to act consistently, and in its conduct towards the new States of Spanish America to observe the same reserve as was exhibited, in a manner so honourable to her, towards revolutionary France. " But it is necessary to recal to the recollection of M. Zea, that all the powers of Europe, and particularly Spain, one of the first, not only acknowledged the different Governments de facto which deprived the Bourbons of the throne of France, and which afterwards kept that family at a distance from it for 25 years, but that Spain besides concluded strict alliances with them, and above all, with the one which M. Zea justly desig nates as a Government de facto in the strictest sense—that of Buonaparte, against whom his unrestained ambition, and not a principle of respect for the rights of legitimate monarchy, had armed all the powers of Europe. " It is useless to attempt to give another colour to facts which have already been displayed in the page of history ; and the undersigned is, in consequence, obliged to add, that Great Britain cannot, in justice to herself, accept the eulogium which M. Zea bestows upon her in this respect; nor can she pretend to except herself from the general accusation of having nego ciated with the chiefs of the French revolution. " It is true that in 1796, England abstained from treating with revolutionary France, long after the Powers of Europe had given it the example. But the causes of this reserve, alleged in Parliament and in different documents, was the subordinate state of the French Government, and it cannot be denied that Great Britain twice, viz. in 1796 and 1797, opened negociations for peace with the French Directory, which if they had succeed. ed, would have led to a recognition of that form of government. In 1801 peace was concluded with the Consulate, and if in 1806 peace was not actually concluded with Buonaparte, then Em peror of France, the negociation was only broken off by one condition ; and if in 1808 and 1814 England refused to listen to any overture on the part of France, she did it solely because Buonaparte refused to admit Spain as a contracting party in the negociation. Moreover it cannot be denied that even in 1814 Great Britain would have made peace with Buonaparte, if he had not been so immoderate in his pretensions ; and Spain can not be ignorant that even since the fall of Buonaparte it was a question among the Allies, whether it would he proper to place On the throne of France a Sovereign who was not a Bourbon. " The appeal, therefore, to the conduct of the Powers of Europe and to Great Britain, with respect to the French revo lution, only series to recal abundant examples of the recogni tion of government de facto by Great Britain, which in this respect was always more tardy than the other Powers of Europe, and especially Spain, which gave them the example. " In the note of M. Zea are two other points which demand particular remark. _ " DI. Zea says that the King of Spain will never recognize the new States of Spanish America, and that his Majesty will not cease to employ force of arms against his rebel subjects in that part of the world. " ‘ire have neither the pretension nor the desire to controul the conduct of his Catholic Majesty, but this declaration of Zea is a complete justification of our conduct, as it proves that we have seized the proper moment to put our relations with the new States upon a firm footing. A further delay on our part could not have satisfied Spain, or produced any bene fit, seeing that Spain has decidedly pronounced herself against all arrangement, under any circumstances, or at any time ; and that she is resolved upon interminable war with her an cient colonies. I " Zea concludes by declaring that his Catholic Majesty will protest in the most solemn manner against the means an -I...punced by the British Government, as a violation of existing treaties, and of the imprescribable rights of the throne of Spain. 4 Against what will his Catholic Majesty protest ? " It has been proved that we have violated no treaty, and we admit that our recognition of the new States of America does not decide the question of right. " But if the argument on which the declaration is founded were true, it is eternal; and having placed our commerce under the protection of treaties, we are guilty in the opinion of Spain of an offence, the character of which cannot be mitigated by time or circumstances. Having thus entered into an examina tion of the different points of the notes of M. Zea, the under signed is charged to declare in conclusion that his Government etaxiously hopes to be permitted to close here a discussion which now is without an object. " The undersigned is also charged to declare to the Ministers of Spain, that it was not a sentiment of ill-will, nor even of in difference towards the interests of his Catholic Majesty, which dictated the measures of the English Government,—that his Britannic Majesty- will not cease to entertain the most anxious wishes for the prosperity of Spain, and that his Majesty is still disposed to renew, and has commanded the undersigned to re new, to the Government of his Catholic Majesty, the offer of the good offices of his Majesty to bring to an issue any amicable arrangement which may be practicable between his Catholic Majesty and the countries of America which have separated from Spain. (Signed) " GEORGE CANNING." FLoaznA CANAL.—The Agricultural Society of East Florida have made a Report on the ex pediency and practicability of uniting the Atlan tic with the Gulf of Mexico, by a Canal across the Florida peninsula, commencing at St. Augus tine, and ending at Vacassay Bay, embracing a distance of 92 miles, which is estimated at 90,000 dollars, as the intersection of several rivers will reduce the actual canaling to about 18 miles.— This important Canal will save a distance of nearly 800 miles in doubling the dangerous Flo rida reef of shoals, and bring tile trade and com merce of New Orleans and Mexico closer to the Southern States. It is stated by the Editor of the New York Advocate, that the value of the public lands would be increased 500 per cent. by the opening of the Canal ; if such be the fact, the general Government of the United States is as deeply interested in making the contemplated Canal, as the State of Florida, and there cannot be a doubt that upon a proper representation to Congress, every facility will be afforded to accomplish the undertaking.—(Baltimore Ga zette,Oct.6.) The following Works have been lately pub lished by Mr. COLBURN, No. 8, New Burling ton-street, (removed from Conduit-street), viz.- 1. The Diary and Correspondenc e of Samuel Pepys, Esq. Secretary to the Admiralty in the time of Charles If. and James H., and the inti mate friend of Evelyn ; Lord Braybrooke, in 2 vols. 4t0.-2. The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. now first collected, in 1 vol. 4t0., uniformly with his Memoirs.-3. A new and revised edition of Tremaine ; or, the Alan of Refinement, 3 vols.-4. Absenteeism ; by Lady Morgan ; 1 vol. Post Bvo.-5. Matilda ; a Tale of the Day ; second Edition-6. Memoirs of the Court of France, extracted from the Diary kept for above Thirty Years by the Mar quis de Dangeau ; Editions in French and Eng lish ; 2 vols. Bvo. a 2(1 Edition of Doblado's Let ters from Spain, 1 vol. and the sth and Gth Vo lumes of the Memoirs of Madame de Geniis. DREADFUL ACCIDENT on the DOURO. OPORTO, OCT. W.—Yesterday afternoon, be tween the hours of four and five o'clock, a fatal accident occurred at Carvalinho, in the river Douro. There is at this place (Carvalinho), which is at the foot of the high and steep moun tain of Fontaiuhas, a most delightful stream or fountain, and near it stone benches, where num bers of persons are used to sit down to refresh themselves before it is a pond, in which the inhabitants wash their linen. Over this agree able spot was a large rock, projecting beyond the mountain, hut, as it was supposed, sufficiently fixed, and no fears were entertained that it could fall. Unhappily, however, when a great number of persons of both sexes were on the spot, some seated, some in conversation and walking, as well as some women washing linen, the rock fell, bringing with it a large portion of the mountain, and covered with its enormous weight all the per sons who were there : among them were four daughters of one family. Besides those buried under the rock, others were thrown into the Douro in their attempt to fly from this scene of horror. The noise of this tremendous fall of the rock was heard on both banks of the river, and the cries of some of the unhappy victims drew together an immense concourse of people, who were petrified with astonishment at the sight of so lamentable a catastrophe. Some had their heads only still free, some to the middle of the body, of others the legs and arms were visible. Every effort was made to save those who were seen in this state, hut in vain : none were got out alive. By seven o'clock, seven or eight bodies were got out; and as farther efforts to save any of the victims could be of no avail, the farther examination of the result of the disaster was de ferred till to-day. It was a most afflicting scene —women inquiring for their husbands, men for their wives, parents for their children, 301110 of whom lead to perform the melancholy duty of conveying home the corpses of those who were dear to them. It was not an earthquake, us some thought, but the natural gravity of the rock which caused the disaster. It is supposed that the rock and the part of the mountain which has followed would make make more than 1,000 waggon loads, each 50 arrobas (16 ew t.) There are other large masses► on the same mountain , which threaten a similar fate, but we are sure that the dreadful misfortune which has now occurred, will prove a sufficient warning. VIGO BA Y. In the year 1703 Sir George Rook attacked, in Vigo Bay, 17 French and Spanish line-of-bat tle ships, having under convoy eleven gal leons, from South America, laden with im mense treasure, of which fleet were captured six of the former and five of the latter, the remainder having been scuttled and sunk by their crews, to save them from the English. Smol lett states the galleons sunk to have had on board specie and rich merchandize to the value of 14 millions of pieces of eight ; which, reckoning the piece of eight at 11. 12s. 6d. gives the enormous value of twenty-two millions seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling.—The Spanish Government have always had their eyes on this submarine treasure, but it has been reserved for the poverty of Ferdinand the Seventh and the enterprize of the present age to attempt its recovery. Ferdinand having been under some obligations to a Capt. Dickinson, gave him a grant, under the sign manual, of the " sweepings of Vigo Bay," reserving to himself, however, one-half of the gross proceeds thereof, whatever they may be. In these " sweepings" are of course com prised the men of war and galleons above alluded to, and which, strange to say, are notwithstand ing the lapse of time still entire—indeed they are even visible at low water, being in only 10 fathoms water, on a clear rocky bottom.— Captain Dickinson having interested, in his grant from the King of Spain, eight of the most respectable and wealthy merchants in the city, has, with them, fitted out the ship Enterprize, with a complete diving apparatus and crew, for the express purpose of attempting the recovery of the treasure known to be on board the galleons. This vessel sailed a fortnight ago, and is supposed to he now at work in Vigo Bay. The anxiety of the Spanish Government for the success of the undertaking is great, but not undivided—our own having a strong feeling ; it being understood betwixt the two Govern ments that whatever may be the gain it shall go towards liquidating the British claims on Spain. With this view the protection of a line-of-battle ship and frigate in Vigo Bay has been promised to the contractors, so soon as the possession of a single piece of eight renders it necessary. These gentlemen, much to their credit, have attempted the speculation at their own risk, and not at that of the public, but we un derstand that Capt. Dickinson, who is not their equal in wealth, has disposed of a few of his shares at the enormous advancce of 1,000 per cent. — Indeed we have seen one of these shares, bearing the names of tl►e parties, but from motives of delicacy we forbear from giving them to the public, respecting, as we do, the quiet, unpretending, and upright manner in which they are carrying on their undertaking, and which, if successful, as we both hope and expect it will be, will direct the attention of the scientific world to the recovery of submarine treasures as earnestly as that of the mercantile has been given of late to those which are subterranean. At an early hour on Tuesday morning last, a daring burglary and robbery was committed by a set of thieves at the livery-stables of Messrs. Townshend, in Portland-street, New-road, and a number of saddles, bridles, &c., of considera ble value, belonging to different gentlemen whose horses stand at livery there, were carried off. It appears that the thieves forced open the stable-door, and • about six o'clock on that morning, as the watchman close by was going off duty, he ob served three men coining from the stables, loaded with saddles, &c., but they being dressed as stablemen generally are, and the bell on the premises having just before rang for the men in the service of Atessrs. Townshend to commence their day's work, the watchmen thought that these three men were belong ing to the stables, and therefore offered them no obstruction, so that they got clear off with their booty, and no trace what ever has been had of them. We have received files of Lisbon Papers from the 17th to the 20th October, and the Aus trian Observer to 21st October. Both sets of Papers are, however, destitute of interest. The following extracts are from the Austrian Obser ver., and contain a simple continuance of the journal of the siege of Missolonghi:— VIENNA, OCT. 21. The Austrian Observer contains extracts from Numbers 85 and 68 of the Greek Chronicle, giving the farther journal of the siege to 3d September. On the 31st August the Greeks sprung a mine, and making a sally immediately after, they blew up the works which the enemy had thrown up within the Franklin battery, and made themselves masters of the Union Dam. On the 2d September a Greek schooner brought a supply of provisions, &c. SEPT. 3.—The enemy is again entleavouring to fortify him self in the Union Dam, 40 toises from the Franklin. The enemy's fire is suspended : we fire at times from our battery at his tents and redoubts. We have but the short subjoined paragraphs to add to the extracts from the French Papers of Monday, which we gave in our yesterday's Paper. It would seem that Spain has not yet given up all hopes of a Loat, though perhaps no- thing more was wanting than the dismissal of M. 7 Bcamunez to remove the smallest degree of confidence that could be placed in the promises of the Spanish Government. This event has been effected by the intrigues of the fanatical party, and who have thus succeeded in their attempt to displace a Minister not sufficiently alive to their interests, and who hoped to promote the benefit of the nation by the establishment of the Consultative Junta. With such a King and such a party prevailing in the Cabinet, what has Spain to expect but a succession of disasters and humi liations the more galling, because all might have been avoided. This unfortunate country is thus exposed to the ef f ects of the furious passions of the different factions that reign not only in the kingdom but in thp very bosom of the Government. Every spark of patriotism is extinguished ) and t.VO/ ec * _== ~* Ifi r W _/" MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENGLAND. Monday, Nov. 7, LONDON. Nos. 5, 10, 27, 89, 163, 218, 240, 289. Coln. Boy's Sch. at 7. COUNTRY. Nos. 20, 64, 72, 102, 148, 191, 202, 219, 267, :ill, 368, 369, 372, 398, 423, 493, 502, 503, 509, 632, 638, 644. 8, LONDON. Nos. 12, 23, 62, 100, 128, 290, 300, 367, 421, 479. COUNTRY. Nos. 24, 67, 138, 145, 211, 263, 292, 427, 604, 626, 668, 714. Wednesday, -9, LONDON. Nos. 3, 11, 16, 19, 29, 4 7, 96, 237, 257, 334, 353, 435. COUNTRY. Nos. 159, 213, 215, 232, 314, 344, 440, 442, 447, 478, 647, 661. Thursday, 10, I.oxDorr. Nos. 6, 18. 25, 34, 79, 194 271, 299, 301, 326, 338, 499. COUNTRY. Nos. 110, 111, 153, 172, 178, 269, 278, 354, 397, 531, 540, 591. --- 11, LONDON. No. 275. COUNTRY. Nos. 53, 282, 283. 12, LONDON. a • a COUNTRY. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, * II • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Bank Strick 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 3.4 : per Cent .... . . 94ffi I)iito !tett. 4 4 per tent. New lO3 3 Bank Long :inn. 20 15-16 21 India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock PRICES or FOREIGN F Austrian Ms, 5 per cent Brazilian lids 1325 Scrip Buenos Ayres Bds Ilds t; per, cent — Uolonihian Bds, ti per et — Do. do. 1824 Danish, 5 per cent. Do. 3 per cent. Greek lids — Do. Scrip 1325 25 Guatimala Mexicali Bds 69 Do. do. 6 per cent. 9 dis. PRICES or SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per Skare. A nglo-Mexican Alining; Company Bolivar Mining Company 21 Castello and Espirito Santo Brazil Mining Company 6 1 ,J,- 74 Pasco Peruvian Mining Company Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Alining Association Royal Stannary and British Mining Association ... .. li Royal Waldeck Mining Company New United Mexican Mining Company Welch Iron and Coal Mining Company . 7 Continental Gas Company ... British Iron Company 17 British, Irish, and Colonial Silk Company Great Westminster Dairy Company Patent Bricks FOIttIGN MAILS. ARR I VED. DU R. Guernsey and Jersey Lisbon Gottenburgli Ilaniburgh France • .Mediterranean Brazil WU WA TER AT LON Mr , ' BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 45 minutes after 7. Eveping, 18 minutes after 8. THE SijN. SOLL.II QUIS DICERE FALSUM .4UDE4T LONDON, :THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1825. 984 Y AT ONE OCLOCK. Old Annuities New Ditto. Ex. Bills WOOL lid. 1 2 pm. Ditto ... 500/. ... 1 2 pm. Ditto Small lid - 3 5 pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Acct. India for Acct. Cons. for Acct. 87.31fi NDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. .31exican Scrip Neapolitan, 5 per cent. Neapolitan do. 1824 Peruvian Bonds Do. ' Scrip Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto New 92 Russian, New, 5 per ct. 92414 Spanish 1821, 5 per ct.... I7L 4 18 . 23 French Rentes, 5 p. c. —l. —c. Exchange ... —f. —c. 3 per cent. ... —f. —c. Exchange ... —f. —c. party spi r it, w ith it s i ntereste d policlt 81°3 : cc guides the measu re s, an d di c t a tes the °. f that should b e pursue d. I n this state 01 things wh a t h as t h e country t o rely u p on Au infatu a t e d l an d capr i c i ous king, s urr°3n oti t ed by men unabl e or unw illi ng to Po i° - (1 ) the proper course (not difficult to be f °Bll r that he should follow, and one whose charecte precludes all hope of a decisive and u niform P 0; licy. We greatly fear that Spain will nev er ari t s a from her dist rac t e d an d d egra d e d c ondition u° Xing FERDINAND shall "sleep with his fathe rs ' ( From the Journal de Puri: of Oct. 31.) o p, 111ADani, OCl'''fot The Consultative Junta has been employed for t ilege .,.,„ l days in regulating a plan of guarantees calculated to fac u ' a — ' s the negociation of a loan. The public has already le 3 r g , part of the plan of the Junta on this subject, which con s ists„ w o l obliging the clergy to f u r n i s h a p art o f those guaranteed, employing in the public serv i ce sums b or rowed to the sn'c'tintf 15 per cent. of their revenues. It is affirmed that the 3/ 31 : 01 0 d'Almenara is appointed to draw up a memorial whi ch t o accompany the plan of the Junta, and which is intended he prove that those are only th e possess i ons of the clergy, ana.t.o religious orders can offer to foreign bankers sufficient seal° to T h e new Ambassador from France to our Court is OP') with great impatience a t th e E scur i a l ; it seems • that the re 611: tion of some question of grea t i m p or t an ce is retarded til l he riva Al great number of that M of public functionaries of the firs t ogle-1. inister. been just denounced to th e p o li ce as belonging . 13 ,: to the seelo of Freemasons and Communeros. d i va The King's health is entirely restored. His !IWO"' yesterday at the country se a t o f L a Moeloa, near this ati'ffi This improvement in his Majesty's health will delay the re tu of the Court to Madrid. F per "c REN Cif - UNDS.—PARIS, OCT• 31.--Five r -r l 'e e r• 59f. 85c.—Three per Cents. 71f. 45c.—Rentes NaPieg tificates Falconnet), 86f. 30c.—Royal Spanish Loan,lB2l/1 ° 1 —Exchange on L on d on , one mont h, 25f. 10c.; three ' 24. 90.—(Cours Authentique.) has b ee : We have b een i n f orme d th a t a plan submitted t o M r . P EEL , un d er the sanction nftibe Surrey Ma g ist ra t es , f or th e abolition of t b i t Licensing System, an d con fining the dutie s of t to Justice of Peace, w ith re f ere nce to Alehoses, the enforc emen t o f t h e l aws f or the good con°et of those places of public resort. the Long used, as the country has been, to d Licensing System it has become ultimately mix f up with the laws regarding Alehouses, and it 113 °0 always be en th oug ht t o f orm a good check tll/I,c the too rapid increase of these houses of Pu b , ala entertainment, and to open facilities which w ° er secure the observance of good conduct and P e decorum of b e h av i our b o th on the part o f the b and his customers. It cannot be d en i e d but that some god does s is temp e in this man ner resu lt f rom th e Licensing but at the same time the evils it introduces 3 die far greater th an th e go od can compeniale I G . simple f ac t, th a t, un d er the preseot P r° is tice, the p ro p er ty o f th e alehouse-keePeroot placed entirely at the disposal of I t by O, of Magistrates, liable to be swayed litics, and not a little moved by loca l intere : the Licel;:g the The benefits, too, resulting from System may be secured in another waf 011 t o ri checks interposed by the high duty P' e r e vis the Excise License, and the Excise ..)3 deter garding it, will be then equally efficient t° sae disreputable men from attempting to keep an of house as they now are, when the Justice the Peace interferes in the first instance I° ol termine whether or no the applicant i s a fit Pe I some retained tm i a However, he on licensed. ieyvd eilvo; e trb:lui(t: :: g t here may exist a difference of opinion—there lu g/ be 1 ot s ee 3 reason vicg t ei i e o nw t ts li'n l i ) ; e 'r svV t : n hes o et ed:i cann ot 'ti e ° d ill iiII : 411111tt t 0 0 111)91 C 1 a reu' dared more consistent with natural jus tice the security of the publican's property. ,sf st9o Our objection is not so much t o tb:i " d tbs altogether, or to the laws that re to t the publican liable to the loss of his keno, as -ci d ste arbitrary manner in which they may b e /111 0 be as s m considered ueh i n t a e s r e s p t r property, t i • t n y , t i i i t e i executed. A licence once obtained shell 10 ! A t the ho' -e „pi , ness was carried on. Whilst, howev er / 011 ell' cence might be permitted to be subject to 0 the nual renewal, it should be obligatory uP e ai e house w l'ich d cs g Justices to issue it, unless, upon Roo roo f b shewn, when, in.. the first instance, th e y dig allowed to grant it conditionally. If, ° ll s : the the case to a Jury, it should be found t bs . of , e leo Publican had been guilty of an offence, or ° — li r o ith offences, which it might be proper to Pau is a ; be t, so much severity, let the licence be refus e co ol if not, let the Quarter Sessions direct° from his of for the current year. .000 4/ License The glory of this country is the °- of pro' trade by property. t to b e But where does that g ewchileriretiliv a is r b i Pelejill° pert) , exist if a publican is liable of 10 the witholdiag OOl assign ed, it without any cause . 0 , without the slightest previous in" g roa l w oo id ce is clear what a check this circurasten 00ce le ' iarg form to commercial speculations 00 it