The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-09 00:00:00

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tranquillity. The Allied Sovereigns must have
known this would be the case, but they are anxious,
no doubt, to involve this country in war, with the
hope of ruining our finances, and destroying all
our influence on the Continent. Portugal is now
embarked in the just cause with Spain against fo-
reign aggression. This is the natural consequence
of the present odious policy of France, and we are
therefore surprised, that as the fact must have been
anticipated, a representation to the effect had not
been made by our Government to the Congress at
Verona, and a remonstrance in favour of our ancient
ally, to that meddling and uncalled-tbr Assembly.

THE FUNDS,. YESTERDAY.

HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK:.

There appears a total stagnation in the market—
scarcely any thing having been done up to this time
Consols opened at 7.3 i fi, at which they have re..
mained steady the whole of the morning,
This moment a report prevails that two expresses
have arrived from Paris, stating that the Duke of
Augoulema had left that capital for the army—
but we cannot trace the news to any authentic
sous:.
In the earliest part of the mornino, the foreign
market seemed to be on the rise—Spanish Bonds
opened at 30k —but afterwards declined. to 29i—
'little doing.
It is gratifying to have learnt that one of the
Cruntlemen—H. on.a..recent occasion de-
clitted submitting his books to the committee—hay.
inehonourably settled all his differences in fill—
is reanstatzd in his privileges as a member of the

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The following letter from Madrid, which appears
in the Axonal de Paris of Monday, contains some
curious particulars of the events of the 20th and
and 41st ult.:—
" MADRID, Fee. 21.—0 n the 18th, the Minis-
ters began to make preparations for rtmoving, in ,
pursuance of the authority of the Cortes. This pre-
mature measure greatly displeased the inhabitants of
Mail& On the 19th, in the morning, the Minis-
ters waited on the King, and informed him that it
was ntkeessary his Majesty should make preparations
for his 'departure. The King replied-that he would
pot lease the capital, except in the case of the enetay
approaching it. The Ministers replied, that his
Majesty would. be• compelled to go to the place on•
which the Cur es should determine. The King, be •
ing irritated, drove them from his presence, and
immediately signed the decree for their dismissal.
All the lodges were instantly in motion ; there was
hastily organized a kind of image of a revolution, in
which about .200 persons,. at must, took• part. The
authorities!, who are sold. to the present Ministry,
remained passive. The riotous populace surrounded
the Palace, and set up dreadful cries against the
King. However, the company of national militia,
all Cimmundros, which was on guard, dispersed the
mob, and saved the King's life. One of the dismissed
Ministers, who had remained in the Palace, repaired
to the King's chamber, and,.giving to the facts that
colour which suited him, extorted from his Majesty
u decree by which ne replaced the Ministers ad Aide.
rim. All this passed at ten in the evening, without
the great majority of the inhabitants of Madrid hav-
ing the leastaknowledge of the transaction.
" Next day every thing was tranquil. Never-
theless, t e words ad interim.distressed the ministe-
t)l
trial par y very much. It was necessary to show
off something new, but it was wished to give to this
affair a more solemn character. Two worm-eaten
tables were laid out in the Plaza Mayor, and three
or four venerables. of the lodges invited all who
pasted by to sign a representation, in which the Cor-
tes were called upon to appoint a .Regency. This
intrigue was soon defeated by the but-ends of the
militia muskets. We now. enjoy the most profound
tranquillity—the Ministers see that their triumph
can only be ephemeral. The Council of State and
the permanent Deputation are constantly assembled.
The respectable citizens who were alarmed at the'
late crisis now blush at having yielded to a few mi-
serable wretches, and are shaking off their lethargy.
Finally, it is believed that the. commencement of
next month will act the epoch of an active and effi-
cacious co-operation between the Legislative Body
and a new Ministry, which the friends of the coun-
try call for, and which the preservation of liberty
requires.
" Meanwhile public spirit is displayed with new
vigour in the provinces. All the provincial depute-
tions show a rivalship of seal in arming the batta-
lions of active militia. These corps, which have
always formed the bulwark of our independence,
will soon be ready to act en a great scale, and to
occupy the posts which circumstances may render it
necessary to assign to them."
L. Note by the editor of the Journal de Paris; "We

owe it to our impartiality to date, that these events,
which will be presented under more than one point
of view, are here related by a person opposed to the
present Spanish Ministry."

The Journal du Commerce mentions an "I..74i-
malum" reported to have been submitted by France
to the Spanish Government, according to which
there is only demanded, to secure ut once the true.-
quality of the Veninsula, and the perfection of the
constitutional' system, that certiin qualification of
property shall be required of the electors, and that
the existing Council of State shall assume a form and
functions, which, under whatever title, may give it
a more positive and authentic legislative rank, and
constitute it an upper Chamber.