The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-31 00:00:00

MADRID.

SPEECH OF THE QUEEN REGENT.
The Speech of the Queen-Regent on opening the Session
of the Cortes, on Tuesday, the 22d inst., has just reached

us. It is as follows :
SPEECH DELIVERED BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN-REGENT
AT THE SOLEMN OPENING OF THE GENERAL CORTES OF
THE KINGDOM, MARCH 22, 1836.
" Illustrious Proceres and Senores Procuradores of
the Kingdom,
" With the same satisfaction as ever, I see you assem-
bled to surround the Throne of my august daughter, dis-
posed, as the principal object of your convocation, to make
manifest to me the national wish on one of the principal
constituent bases of the State.
" My Government will immediately present for your de-
liberations the project of electoral law, which I hope you
will examine with.the attention which its importance de-
mands and with the promptitude which necessity prescribes.
" This is the legal means of revising our fundamental in-
stitutions, in order to secure at once to this magnanimous
nation the goods to which, by her loyalty; sacrifices, and
constancy, she is entitled. But although this law is the
principal and chief object of your task, others also very im-
portant will be presented for your examination. Amongst
those which call particularly for your attention, are the ne-
gociations which have been begun with the States of Spa-
nish America. It is now time that two people whom Na-
ture made brothers, should be for ever friends, and that the
disunited links of subordination and dependence should be
succeeded by the sweeter and more durable ones of equality
and concord, founded on reciprocal and common ad-
vantage.
" It will cause you equal satisfaction with myself to know
that the august Monarchs united to the interests of Isabel
11. by the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance, offer every day
new testimonials of their constant friendship, and of their
sincere desire for the triumph of our legitimate cause, and
for the restoration of peace in the Peninsula.
" France and England lend us whatever aid we demand,
and take the most efficacious measure, that neither by sea nor
land our enemy may receive the same.
" Finally, the division of Portuguese troops which, in
virtue of the Convention of September last, entered into
Castile, is now united to our army, in order to co-operate
with it against the common enemy.
" No alteration 'has taken place in the relations of the
Government of my august daughter with the other Govern-
ments of Europe, the Emperor of Brazil, and the United
States of America.; all continue on the same footing of re-
ciprocal amity and good intelligence with me. No eulogy,
however magnificent it might be, is sufficient to express
adequately the merit acquired by our valiant troops by sea
and land.
" A winter unusually severe and excessively long, has
been no obstacle in the way of their exploits. Their fide-
lity, endurance, and activity, increased with the discom-
forts and rigours of a season so inclement ; and, multiply-
ing their numbers by continual and painful marches,
erever danger appeared they showed themselves, and
wherever an enemy moved, there they met him, prepared
t o check and defeat hisn.
" Their heroic example has awakened the fir• of valour
and duty in the vallies of Navarre, whose inhabitants have
raised their voice and lifted their banners for my august
daughter ; and the 70,000 men raised by the last recruiting,
which, clothed, armed, and sufficiently organised, are about
to incorporate themselves with the ranks of our brave vete-
rans, will rival them in glory and virtue. It is to be hoped
that their united exertions will put an end to the civil war. The
nation will admire with me the laurels whiCh they are about
to gather—laurels which would be infinitely dearer to me if
they did not spring from the blood of unfortunate men, who,
although rebels an unnatural, are still sons of Spain.
" The constant object of my solicitude is the National
Guard, as the conservative institution of liberty and order.
In order to increase its strength and improve its organisa-
tion, I have ordered to be laid before you the project of law,
already approved by the Estamento of the Procuradores in
the former Session ; and, with the intention of completing
its armament, I have already in the stores a numerous in-
crease of muskets which will be distributed in proportion to
the necessity and urgency of the demand.
" I trust that, when raised to the perfection of which it
is capable, the National Guard will correspond to the
salutary end of its institution.
" Eminent services have certainly been performed on re-
cent occasions, and public tranquility has therefore been
preserved in all parts, with the exception of some slight
disturbances, as promptly extiresuished as they were ex-
cited. My Government has taken the measures which I
have thought the most proper to prevent their repetition,
and I hope that you will assist me with your co-operation
and counsels in order to render them completely efficacious.
" The former Cortes granted, with perfect frankness,
the vote of confidence which was requested by my Govern-
ment, which, in asking it, sought thereby to strengthen
public opinion by so manifest a union between the powers
of the State, and to make more easy the arduous and pain-
ful duty which it had to discharge, and it reckons also on
not having to take advantage of this great confidence, but
under the observation, with the support and by the inspi-
ration of the Cortes. This powerful support soon failed it,
and it had to resolve not to make use of its extraordinary
faculties without the greatest circumspection and reserve.
The promise of bettering the fate of the creditors of the State
was hailed by the public with enthusiasm, and my Govern-
ment looked upon its accomplishment as one of the most
sacred of its duties. Such has been the origin of the decrees
issued from the middle of February until the beginning of
the present month. All march on to this important end,
and some of them, to the advantage of augmenting guaran-
tees for the public debt, add that of satisfying the national
wish. There is no doubt that the monastic institutions have
rendered in former times important services to the Church
and to the State ; but not being in harmony with the pro-
gress of civilization, nor with the necessities of the age,
public opinion requires their suppression, and it is neither
just nor proper to resist it.
" The nation has made no sacrifice ; no new burden has
been imposed upon it in consequence of your vote of con-
fidence ; and although, from its difficult circumstances,
it is rather in arrear, it has managed to meet the public
expenditure with the resources which my Government had
at its disposal.
" The reforms, improvements, and plans of economy,
which are required in the different branches of finance, are
being prepared with the deliberate reflection and study
which are absolutely necessary in such matters, seeing that
nothing is more subject to sudden and unforeseen changes.
My Government, which does not propose to substitute rash
theories instead of positive benefits, occupies itself in the
important regulation of this branch, to establish a system,
complete and well matured in all its parts. In the mean
time, the public revenue must partake of the vicissitudes
of the circumstances in which the kingdom may find
itself ; at the return of peace, which cannot be far distant,
the revenue will be more plentiful and less troublesome in
its collection.
" If the people need peace, it is not less required by
justice, on the right administration of which depends the
correct formation of codes which emanate from her ; and I
have on this point the satisfaction to announce to you that
the civil code has undergone a last revision—that those for
the regulation of penal and criminal proceedings are already
finished, as would be that of commerce, if it were not for
the necessity of marching in accordance with the civil code
in all matters that are common to both.
" It is also very agreeable to me to have to inform you
that the provincial deputations and the Ayuntamientos,
have corresponded worthily to the hopes I had conceived
from the.new form which has been given them by the late
decrees. Composed of citizens the most distinguished for
their probity, their knowledge, and their zeal, they have
fulfilled in the most laudable manner the object of their in-
stitution, and I must give them this public testimony of ap-
probation and applause, not only for their desire to promote
the respective interests of the country, but especially for the
efficacious aid that they have lent to my Government, by
the great and extraordinary augmentation which they have
latterly given to the army.
i‘ A great undertaking, to finish all the roads begun in
the kingdom, and to open new ones, would be at any pe-
riod an object worthy of the meditations of the Govern-
ment, on account of the movement and vigour which it
would communicate to every branch of industry ; but in
our actual circumstances, it must be considered as the most
powerful instrument in extirpating, even to the last germ,
the civil war. For this reason, my Government will not
cease to occupy itself with the means to produce this effect,
and the day is not far distant, when our victorious arms
having destroyed the mad hopes of the rebels, and the con-
fidence of native and foreign capitalists being restored, this
great and beneficent project shall yield honest and peaceful
labour and subsistence to so many unhappy persons, whom
want have forced to enlist under the banners of the usurpa-
tion, and bear arms against their country.
" In calling your attention to these great measures of
general utility, it is not my wish, illustrious Proceres and
Senores Procuradores, to distract your attention for a mo-
ment from the object for which this and the last Cortes
have been convoked. That object ought to be, without
doubt, the principal, as it is the most urgent and necessary,
to complete our political reform. But I could not resist
the desire to remind you of, and propose to you, the im-
provement that the different branches of the public service,
especially of war and finance, which are the elements of
our existence, and in which we ought to employ, giving
them every preference, our united endeavours and solicitude.
Already is your meeting the anchor of security for the
felicity of the people, a powerful support for my Govern-
ment, a fatal presage for the enemies of order and of the
laws, and a signal of ruin to the bands of rebellion.
me, it is, at the same time, an inexhaustible source of con,
solation. Governess of this renowned nation, my love to

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FRANKFORT, MAIt.PH 26.—Sir Robert Adair has -r rited
here from Berlin. .1 n I till
FRANKFORT EXCHANGES, MARCH 26. --On Lormo, 1
. -.....
TwO Months, 150 i On Pafis, 79$ ; Two Months, 7 8t•
Frankfort Paper, March 27. d, ered
VIENNA, MARCH 20.—Several individuals -who w ere or
that
to quit Cracow have obtained permission to retu."o t? I e
city, having satisfactorily proved that they had no shag.° 't the
intrigues that took place there. Cracow novr enkle
greatest tranquillity ; and as soon as the necessary prec you
t",,0,
are taken to prevent the return of the late disorders, the Irdvevrat
will evacuate it. The necessary the are tri e:. cat
Trieste for the conveyance of the fogitives, all of who wa to
be embarked for America, as it is atilrmed that no Et 0103;et0
State is inclined to receive them, or eYen to allow t be
pass throughout its territory. • L arabPthies
The English Ambassador to this Court, Sir F.
expected its a few days, and all is ready for 105 receptio 3 at
Hotel of the Legation. Four Pei
VIENNA, MARCH 12.—Five per Cents., 1t.131 ; ,..7
Cents., 991 ; Three per Cents., 751 ; Bank Sh.aree 1/ i° .--
Allgemeine Zeitung, March 26. ~ the ac.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 28.—We have already seen, L ' tbatthe
counts from Holland, that the Government has staled
has no communication to make to the States General °rl
political situation of the country. rieus
The Arnheim Journal affirmed lately that the most 5,0 of
difficulties which still delays the solution of the quc '5 ti ssess
Belgium and Holland, is whether King William shall rd of
that part of Limburg, which is ceded to hint in! dead
Luxemburg, as King of the Netherlands, or as Gran a v
of Luxemburg.
The German Confederation says, the Arnheirn Jou• rnalbsTi:
gists on his possessing it in the latter capacity. T le,° en
nacy of our King, continues the journalist, in not g '-", is of
tire satisfaction on this point is generally blamed ; for i,t 400,
little importance by what title we possess Maestricht, lePated
Ruremond, some rich coal-mines, the town of Vaels eel ebr
the
for its manufactories, &c. Belgium alone pine bY alto
status quo: it possesses what ought to belong tO I 'd
even were Venloo and Ruremonde never to be deli void,
us, yet as soon as our former fellow-countrymen were ; se e -610
we should receive annually 8,400,000 florins, of which' '''
the
°
not now touch a penny ; and if the Belgians refuse to
1?a11Ys is
arrears, our delay will have already cost us 38 la J-11l
five years. t 80
The Senate yesterday passed the municipal law witto olll
alterations, and with only one dissentient voice. It
. 13a5 and
to discuss the budgets of the Ministers of the Inte t'rdose
ci
Finance, and the provincial law ; and as all cannot be and
before Easter, we learn that it will only vote the hudcets,
then adjourn for a fortnight or three weeks.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, MARCH 28
Actual Debt, 2;6 per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent - 5
Loan of City, 1832 Four per Cent 99% -
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent l2
11: Ws 3
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent
Papers, Mach 29. AP'
THE HAGUE—Brussels,
MARCH 28r.— Baron Mortier, the I°v'cli 01
pointed Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of the l'''tc"
this Court, arrived here yesterday. ii 010
It is thought the King and the Royal Family wi•' ''
Amsterdam soon after Easter. nee,'
We have received Java Papers of the 2d and sth of vi oe'
ber, which bring no political news. The official jottr a?„ co
tains the amended projects of the financial laws laid I tt ''°'-
States-
The Coure Genral. Ac
t is going into mourning for a month, 011 4-
of the death of the Queen of Naples.
DUTCH FUNDS--AMSTERDAM, MARCH IS
Money. BO P;
'l/
Act.] Debt, 2!> per Cent. 56 1
102
54 '
Loan (MO) 5 per cent.
~I,
A mort Z3Vlldie, 4 Y.l, per cent 97,4 vi.
Ditto, ditto, 3;6 er cent. B2 691 4
Cominercial ComPanpy, 4 per cent 1431 14t' ,4
.
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
—Dutch Papers, March 29
PRUSSIAN FUIWS.—BeaciN, MARCH 24. ~,,,,
Bills. Pro 114
St. SCllllld. Sch., 4 per cent 1017i% 10 I
Pru,sian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 101% 6
*
Exchange on London, three months 627
—Prussian State Gazette. March 25.

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY•

(FROM LLOYD'S.) a.; '
DEAL, MARCH 30.—Wind W. S. W , strong-Al •
.„-lo
Favourite, Todd, from the South Sea's ; Afriz'c tat, 1-1 e""do
from the Mauritius ; Isabella, Stephens, from peair'l,lt-e VA
Alexander, Nicholls, from Waterford and Alert ,NI "as' el
Belfast. Arrived from the River and remain wit' i the °- $
bound, the Toronto, Collinson, for Montreal. il4 vb, '
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.—Wind S. W. to ``• .0.
heavy gale.—Arrived the Aurora, Roberts, from_ Jarrie'rrildol
~..4
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Wind o. W.----A
S.W.. et"
. P.
Tweed, Silcomb, from Sierra Leone ; Minx, porr
416
Terceira; and Perlin, Nielson, from St. Übes . fresh 17
FALMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind W. N. W. to 14., -
and squally. , Willie°
g 051'
MARGATE, MARCH 30.—Arrived off port the 1
tonp,OSOLtrra,chmanA,,,,Cfrumorn3Aoß.VwailAp3aorr.ra—iviseoAd.
DARTMOUTH
Tucker, from Oporto. rCriloerndheiliyl,
pFolrotrethi toceii-1;11.911..,
from Barbados. Oilport the C dl' fr oln '
bite,
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 29.—Arriced the Auctiot leerywiten•
shore near
The London Packet, from Liverpoo.l to Antwerp,. dwr'aslvt°,ed,
wrecked_ near Speneer'l Gut Brcvy 29th inst.--crew• cii
erring the 29th instant--erew saved. _ beco
neAacrtisveh, Johnson, from Wisbeach to bond 01 'o'3s
towed into Dartmouth dismasted. vire'
The Alexander, Cargill, from Lisbon to London,- )le-'
i,ea
The Ann, Wilson, from Memel to Liverpool, was
105 al'
on Saturday the 14th instant—crew saved.
The Argus, Dunning, from Liverpool to Newe.astleo i ,trucit
rived at Tobermory with loss of main-mast, having bees
,or
by a sea. 1; 11'
The Valiant, Kernaux, from Rouen to Toulon, °I
(reel'
the Isle de Bahz, the 23d instant.
Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's this ntortLinf'.'ol `)9:i
the Captain of the Castle Huntley, dated Torbay, Iny 1:1 tforolc,
—" When writing to you on the 27th, it had, as I,' i,t, Pe.:
you, suddenly fallen light, and I thought that it 13 e cfe,:i;
haps, change for the better. It breezed up again ill ta, c et%
ing at S. S. W., blew hard, and we gave the ship sod '',,'
length. At about ten o'clock it drove round W %,erg
e";;
creased N., still veered round to S. S. E., bincving gle. Sir•
dously at the latter and most furious part of the g' Ito 0
veered again to S. E., then hauled to N., and so veereig fro'
again ; I never in all my life svent so anxious
.in,a til.llo 'iato, •
ten o'clock till five o'clock On Monday morning. "Pa
thick of it, blowing a hurricane, they sea flew over °- 510,41
and lighting at the cuddy doors, we tried to make thevece, 500
snug as possible. A French brig drove into our habil,,.
we were clear of him, when the Charles Grant, wipe, Or ely
our starboard bows, flew past us, swamping a
carried away the yard of another, and I thought she° ye let
FretteDB4 sof let
lost as ever ship was, and that my turn was corning„„fl l.oht.
gwooher second anchor abreast of us, parted gal are P-1111
dip.
two anchors secured a very good berth. Aire er:rer 'e„ tbe
bless the smith who made our starboard be 54"
During the worst of the gale the sympesometer -8 00.
~ s 0 sies°'
barometer 28 40. The barometer is now 29 80, the
meter, ditto."