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PARIS PAPERS.

PARIS. APRII. 8.

We have received intelligence from Madrid of I
the :11-t of March. A Journal, the Deapertador
Constilucional, contains • very remarkable Mem.
fest° from the Count de l'Aliisbal, who seems de-
sirous of ab.olutely playing the part of a Caireirie.
Ile is now in Madrid, and has joined the Club
established at the Coffee-honer Lorenzini, in the
square of the Sun.--(Gazette de France.)
The Count de l'Abisbill ha. arrived in Madrid.
He has published a sort of Manifesto, in which he
ezf►resses his discontent that the King has not ac-
cepted his services. lie has denounced to the Pa-
triotic Club a coa►uter-rettoluliorsary conspfracy,
and reviired the command of the national m►litia.
—(Moaitrn►.J
His Majesty has dispatched commissions of Ma.
rechirls-de-Camp to the Chiefs of the Insurrection
iu the Isla de Leon, Colonels Quiroga, Arco.
Agnero, and Riego.
The Alinister of War has addressed to all the
Military Authorities a Royal Decree, declaring that
IC all persons comprised in the proceedings ir►sti-
tuted against Marechals.de-Camp Hors Francis
E•poz y Mina, lion Joan Diaz Porker, General
Lacy, Commissary Richard, sod Marechal-de-
Camp Mail:din Renovates; in those instituted at
Vslencia in 1817 and 1819, in that instituted on
the events winch tank place on the Bth of July,
1819, in the expeditionary army, and all others or
the same nature, should return to the enjoyment of
all their honours, and to the exercise of their re-
spective employments."
The King ham also homed a decree, dissolving the
army of Gallicia, which was formed under the
orders of the Count de San-Romano, and com-
manding all the provincial militia who took up
arms in conjunction with that army to return to
their respective homes.

'll-1 VRESS,

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, APlttl. 12, 1820.

The intelligence received from Glasgow respect-
ing the state of that town and its skinny to Saar-
day last is highly satisfactory. The unceasing
activity of tire Magistrates and the military has, at
least for the present, restored tranquillity and confi-
dence to that part of the country. The deluded
people whom the treasonable address of the Ist of
April drew from their work, have experienced the
Lily of their credulity, mid returned to their instal
employment. Three men, George Washington,
David Graham, and William GraArm, who are
represented to be the principal leaders of the Radi-
cals, have been arrested, with some papers of a poli-
tical character, and hopes are entertained that a full
discovery will by this means be effected of the
secret designs of the discontented. So many days,
each severally pointed out for the general insart•
rection, have now pasted over us in safety, that
the public alarm begins to subside, and pro-
bably " the prophets of ill" will at length desist
from their calling. Large bodies of troops are
moving in every direction towards the point of pre- I
sent interest, and as the Radicals have in no
instance appeared in a large body with arms, it is
to be hoped that the formidable force arrayed against
them will prevent them from disturbing the public
peace.
The Magistrates and the military fleeing effec-
tually done their part in guarding the general tran-
quillity from immediate violence, a higher and
snore serious duty now imperiously demands the ,
attention of the Government stud the Legislature.
Some years have now elapsed since the distresses
endured by the manufacturing classes of sue
people became sufficiently obviods to draw the
undivided attention of the public, end not only 1
was , the subject discussed in both Houses of
1 Parliament, but public meetings were held for
the avowed purpose of detain and adminis-
tering the want of reliefs sod the pillihe prtsir'

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teemed with patrtpbkt► JO essays, rapid. itnd
Obit!. determining the causes or the calamity, and
suggesting the means ur removing it. At one limo-
nit..nt it *as difficult to meet a roan who was not

prepared with rode peculiar system of political
economy, rod ready to offer his infallible nostriens
fur restoring the body 'politic to wound health.
Doubtless many of the wriiiugs 'published upon
Ibis interesting subject were animated and enlight-
ened by the spirit of wisdom, but the far greater
portion of them were the wretched offspting of
ignorance and vanity. Amidst this confusion of
sentiments, Parliament alone, in its collective co-

pucity, seemed to regard the subject es unworthy

of attention. While erroneous snaternenis, exagge-

!Alegi er►atinm, slid false festooning, ugitsit(l

disturbed the country, the Ministers, reposing in
happy and contented ignorance alike of the causes
and consequences of this alarming state of distress,
impeded the natural and healthful march of the

Legislative Bodies, closed up the channels of correct
information. and prevented the Great Councils of
the nation from investigating the actual condition
of the people, and performing their first duty at
administering some consolation, if not • remedy., to
their sufferings. Session after Session was repeated the
solemn and silly assurance that these sufferings vole
but temporary, and Session after Session the groans
of the people falsified the promise of improvement.
For this obstinate perseverance in error, it would
be difficult to account, were it not known that. in
p.itlirmentary usage, a motion for an inquiry into
the state of the nation is too generally considered as a
hid of strength between the contending parties;
■ad what chance of success could the real interests
of the nation have, when placed in competition
with the delight of displaying the force of party,
avid proving the srcority of place? If the Mi-
nisters, however, were desirous of submitting the
state of the nation to • fair and impartial inquiry
before the proper and only efficient tribunal, with
what cue might they not hare either anticipated their
opponents in proposing a Committee, or have accom-
panied an acquiescence in the proposition of their
adversaries with such explanations as would have
prevented the possibility of its being regarded by the
public in the light of • defeat ? Had the Mini-
sters acted iu this manner some three or four
years since, while yet distress had not tainted the
minds of the sufferers with sedition or anti-social
principles, the prospect of public affairs had been
essentially different from what we behold at pre•
sent. Poverty and wart might indeed still prevail,
but the sufferers would have had no cause to com-
plain of any indifference on the part of their rulers ;
they would have felt some alleviation of their sor-
rows in the sympathy manifested by the Legisla-
ture, and convinced, after every exertion had been
fruitlessly made, that no means of lighteuiug their
sorrows remained, they would either exert their
energies to remove the burden, or bear it with re-
signation and tranquillity ; their minds not being
corroded with the idea, no matter how unjustly en-
tertained, that their distresses had excited no feel-
ing of pity, would preserve the original rsurity of
their political and religious principles, and spurn
at the doctrines of agitators and atheists.
The time, however, has at length► arrived when
Parliament can no longer refuse to entertain the
subject with all the attention its importance merits.
Blood has beet. shed in the country, and as the
Ministers and their agents anxiously, we had al-
most said exultingly assure us, there are tens of
thousands of the people leigued.together for dis-
turbing the existing frame of society. To trace
this dreadful state of affairs no farther back then
to the seditious harangues and blasphemous writings
of some profligate men, is to practise upon our-
selves an absurd and mischievous delusion. While
our manufactures and commerce flourished, and
our labouring classes were enabled by their in-
dustry and care to support themselves and their
families in ease and comfort, the principle of
Radical Reform as a remedy for all evils
was confined to a few persons; and it is not very
long since Major CARTWRIGHT, having returned
from • tour through different parts of the country,
for the purpose of lecturing on political rights, de.,
dared at • public meeting in Palace-yard, that he
found the people io genetil deplorably insensible
to their grievances, and indifferent to the great ques-
tion of Parliamentary Reform. The honest trades-
people of the north, satisfied that their industry
was sufficient for their support, desired no change;
and not even the Major's eloquence and learning
could persuade them to believe themselves un-
I happ), when their appetites were satisfied and their
families cheerful. It was well and justly remarked
by Lord Gexueit.r.e, during the discussions in
Parliament upon the late restrictive measures, that
it was only in times of national distress that the
question of Parliamentary Reform was anxiously
agitated in this country, and this assertion the
Noble Lord exemplified by referring to the close
of the American war, and some other periods
of public distress; it was therefore with sur-
prise that we heard his Lordship subsequently
trace the present discontents to the insidious
principles lasted into this country from France
at the commencement of the French Revolu-
tion. The Noble Lord did not explain where
Dud how these dangerous principles had so long
lain dormant—how they had remained wholly in-
notions during the wildest flight of BONAPARTE'S
success; when has support and encouragement
might be stipposed to give them force slid maim-
tiott—or why they should now; independent of the
public dietressiepries firth in all their native rank,-

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netts, when their great champion is removed from
the scene of active life, and Great Britain at
peace with foreign powers, it happily enabled
to tarn her undivided energy to crush the rep.
tiles in the first moment of their regeneration.
Unhappily in the fair consideration of our pre•
sent difficulties, there is on occasion to look
abroad for their origiu; 14 the matter of sedition,"
of which Lord BAC6II speaks, is within the bosom
of the country, and is to be found in the distresses
and pOverty of the people, whose minds are imbii.
tiered at once by the pressure of the existing evil,
the remembrance of their past prosperity. and the
grievous reflection that those whose duty should
lead them to investigate their calamities, cod if pos.
Ode devise relief, have hitherto seemed indifferent
to their sufferings, and made lint even an inquiry
into the possibility of discovering a remedy.

Dutch and fliniburgh Mails have arrived, with
Papers to the Bth instant. Mr. D. CASSAMAJOR,
Secretary to the British Embassy, died at St. Po.
tersburgh on the 15th last after a short illness,.
The I have remove) the interdict prohibiting
American vessels from entering the harbour of
Prdang, ou the western coast of Sumatra. On
the Ist instant a Spanish Cabinet messenger arrived
at Hamburg!), bringing to the Chevalier PEREZ DR
CASTRO, the Spanish Ambassador in that city,
his nonmiation to the office of Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, in the place of the Duke de SAN
FERNAND°, who goes to Vienna as Ambassador
Extraordinary to succeed DM P. DE CEVALLOS.

We have received Paris Papers of Satu►day last.
Nut only are the principles of the Revolution tri-
umphant in every !tart of Spain. but the chief
leaders of it are daily receiving some additional

testimony of royal favour. Colonels QUIROGA,
MECO, and ARCo.AGugRo, have been promoted
to the rank of Marcellals-de-Camp, and it is added
that Qvi ROG • his been nominated Captain-General
of the provinces of Biscay, Alays, and Guiposcoa;
but it is doubtful whether he will accept of an
employment which must separate him from his
gallant flinprietions in arms. By a Royal Decree
all proceedings instituted against individuals for
their political opiuions, and all judgments pro-
nounced in consequence of them, at any period
since the KING'S return from captivity, are declared
void, and all persons affected thereby are restored
to their rank and honours. The people of Madrid
seen► to take a lively interest in the political events
now iu progress. and the principal squares of the
capital present every evening the imposing spectacle
of large popular assemblies, occupied in discussiug
political topics.
O'Donort., the Count de Pifshisbal. complains
publicly of neglect. He has apprised the principal
political club of Madrid, that ■ conspiracy has
been formed for effecting a counter-revolution.
He requires the command of the national militia.
for the purpose of counteracting the partisans of
arbitrary government. Possibly the events of the
10th of March at Cadiz might induce the Kula to
believe that liis power was greeter than lie thought
it was. and cause him to regret the facility with
which he was induced to adopt the Constitution of
the Cortes.

In the sitting of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties of Friday last, a petition was presented from
the relatives of 21 individuals who were condemned
to death in consequence of the diiturbances which
occurred at Grenoble in the month of May 1816.
The petitioners complained of a denial of justice
in the case of the condemned, and that they
had been tried by a military court instead
of an ordinary civil tribunal, os was requir-
ed by the Charte►. In this accusation General
DOWN ADIEU was implicated, as having exceeded
his authority, and shewn too great a readiness to
sport with the lives of the people. General Dor-

NADIEU, aware of the intention of the petitioners
to complain of his conduct, also presented a pe-
tition to the Chamber, praying that a solemn
inquiry might be made into the transaction.
He stated, that when he was appointed to the
government of the Isere the people were in a state
of actual insurrection, while the agent, of the
police strenuously represented to the Government
that all fears were groundless, and that they per-
sisted in announcing that every thing was tranquil
at Grenoble at the very moment when the insur-
gents were marching upon the town. la answer to
the charge of precipitation, the General stated that
lie was deterous of saving some of the prisoners lives,
conceiving that there arre iu their cases some site-
smiting circumstances, and he accordingly dispatch-
ed an express to Paris. to pray the royal mercy
i►► their favour ; but to his request the only answer he
received was a telegraphic dispatch,comulandisig him
to put then to death instantly; It was not, there•
fore, as the General fairly remarked, against him,
who had endeavoured to save the, prisoners' live..
that the petitioners ought to urge the charge
cruelty. His defence for having caused the insur-
gents to be tried before a mil►tary tribituel was.
that the town was then in a state of siege, and
that in such cases the military• supersede the civ►l
tribunals. The prayers of the several petitions
were acceded to, and the Chamber ordered the cue
to be referred to the Minister of Justice.

Stock,

Five per Ceuts. 73 1. 95 c.—liank
1,445 r.

The Earl of Fines Lt.. a Nobleman whose duo.
racier gives additional dignity to his mission. is, we
ttuderstand, about to proceed to London, with the
A'ddrewi of the Catholics of Ireland to tbe Kiva.—
Dubai Eresing Pest./

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