The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-23 00:00:00

NEWS FROM SPAIN.

MADRID, JUNE 17.—The King of Spain wacconveyed on
the 12th of June from Seville to. Cadiz.

[EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.
" GinnaLTan, MAY 22—Andalusia, and all le adjoining
provinces, have been declared by the Cortes in a state of siege.
The object of this measure is to levy military contributions on
that unhappy country, though all the land-owners have already
paid 47 for 100 of their revenue. It is further affirmed, that
the Cortes have just decreed the penalty of death against all
those who shall publish unfavourable news, and that the liberty
of the press is abolished."
MADRID, JuitE 14..—The Regency of the kingdom during
the King's captivity, firmly persuaded that the heroic Spanish
people desire to see the rules established which may ensure its
repose, and cause the fatal spirit of discord to disappear,—in-
structed also by the lessons of experience and history,--judoes
it indispensably necessary to create an authority under the title
of " General Superintendence of Public Surveillance," in order
to act immediately for the prevention and avoiding of all ex-
cesses ; and to tins end it decrees as follows :
" 1. A Superintendent General of Public Surveillance for
the whole kingdom is created, under whose orders shall be
placed all the Functionaries intrusted with the same object.
"3. Ills principal duty is to watch over the conduct of those
who have rendered, or who may render themselves suspected,
on account of their having opinions and principles adverse to
religion and the throne.
3. As soon as he shall have acquired sufficient proofs to
proceed against an individual, he shall cause him to be con-
fined, and shall deliver to the competent Judge the documents
and information necessary to commence proceedings, according
to the laws. _ _ _ _

" 4. When, in the opinion of the Superintendent, the Judges
shall not proceed with the requisite celerity and legality, he
shall inform the Government by means of the Secretary of State
of the Interior, stating what he shall judge to be the most suit-
able to the service of the King and of the public.
" 5. lie shall be charged to deliver transports, and he shall
propose as soon as possible a plan and the rules to be observed
in this respect.
" 6. In the same manner, ias every individual travelling with- ,
out a pas.sport is considered as suspicious; the Authorities who
shall detain travellers, without just cause, shall be answerable
for the injury they have caused, and be punished according to
the laws.
"7. The Superintendent shall propose, without delay, a
general plan of public surveillance."
By another Decree, De Benito de Arias Prada, Minister of
the Royal Council, is named Superintendent-General : he is
an ancient Magistrate, who suffered various prosecutions under
the regime of the Cortex.
(Front the auutitutionnel of' Friday.)
Mennen, JUNE 12.—(Front the lifiulrid Journals.)—The
Provisional Junta of Spain and the Indies having already de-
clared in its proclamation of the 6th inst., that it would not
recognise, and that it would regard us never having existed, all
the public and administrative acts, and all the decrees of the
Government established by the rebellion ; has decreed, that
proceedings shall be immediately commenced to remove per-
sons or officers, anti to replace them according to the following
rules :
" 1. Every person in office not appointed by the King our
• Master, beferc the crimes of March 7, 1820, shall be from this
moment dismissed. _ _ .

----...... -........_
" 2. Every person in office who, being appointed by the
King before March 7, 1820, has been discharged because he
would not adhere to the Constitutional system, and because he
had expressed his good opinion, shall be immediately restored.
" 3. Those officers named by the King before March 7,
1820, who have continued to exercise their functions, shall re.
tain their places, provided it results from the inquiries that will
be made that dim conduct is without reproach, and provided
they are recognised to be worthy of the King's confidence;
otherwise they will be discharged without salary or pension.
" 4. All ancient officers who, having retained their offices,
and have been advanced, and have experienced some change
during the revolutionary system, shall return (on the same con-
dition as prescribed in the preceding article) to fill the smile
places which they held before the 7th March, 1820, till the
Government, beinp; informed of the reasons of their promotion,
' of the injury which may have arisen from it to a third person,
and of the particular case of each individual, shall order what
it may judge to he proper."
INTENDANCY OF MADRID.
" The Regency of the Kingdom, during the captivity of the
King our Master, orders, that the Intendants of the
shall immediately suspend the sale of the property attached to
the public credit, or any thing else belonging to the Treasury.
' That these Intendants, as well as those who have their
' confidence, in their respective districts, cause all the books to
be brought back to them, which have been kept by the Func-
tionaries charged with the employthent of the public money,
.&c.,
" And lastly, that theholders of public money deliver, with-
out delay, to the said Intendants, an exact account of the mort-
gages, estates, effects, &e. of the Treasury, since March 7,
1820 ; carefully pointing out each, their origin, situation and
value, according to the estimate made, 'the revenue they pro-
duced before their alienation, the quantity and quality of the
land, &c. ‘e'd) (signßy order of his Royal Highness,
" JUAN Di, ERRO."

'HE CORONATION.

RIGHT OF BEARING THE IMPERIAL CROWN
OF SCOTLAND IN ROYAL PROCESSIONS.

IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL, JuNE 21.

The arguments in This case were resumed to-day. Before the
Duke of Hamilton's Counsel commenced,
Mr. BRoUGITAM begged to inform their Lordships, that in
consequence of a doubt which had been suggested on the last
day, as to the pfivileges claimed by` ord Douglas being denomi-
nated " honoures" in the charter, and not macro or officio, which
would signify offices, they (Lord Douglas's Counsel) had direc-
ted their attention to that point. Their Lordships would find,
that where these privileges were referred to in the charter
of 1631, they were called " heritable offices." They were
similarly designated in the procuratory of resignation in 1699;
and also in the charter by which the Dukedom was created in
1703. With respect to the objection raised by one of their
Lordships of their being now no such thing in the eye of the
law as a Crown of Scotland, it was distinctly admitted by un-
questionable authority, that there was a Crown of Scotland ;
for it was provided by the 24th Section of the Act of Union,
that the Regalia, consisting of the Crown, the Sceptre, the
Sword, &c., and the Records of Scotland, should be kept
in that kingdon. The Crown of Scotland was, therefore,
a recognized subject of legislation ; and, as it seemed
to him, the King might be crowned with that, or any of the
Imperial Crowns, or with all three together. But, at all
events, if there were a Royal procession to take place in Scot-
land, there was no reason why the Crown should not form a
parcel of that procession.
Lord REDESDALE.—RecoIIect the words are " in Parlia-
ments."

Mr. BROUGHAM.—We have endeavoured to show that co-
ronations and other processions were meant as well as the
ridings of Parliament..
Mr. ADAM, on behalf of the Duke of Hamilton, then pro-
ceeded to answer the arguments advanced on the other side.
Ilia Learned Friends, he said, were not contending for the one
object; for Mr. Warren claimed the right of carrying the
Crown in all Royal procesaions,.of which he enumerated seve-
ral kinds ; while Mr. Brotigham stated that all he contended
for was the right of having borne it on the late occasion in Scot.
land. Now he (Mr. Adam) insisted, that if Mr. Broligham's
statement of hAt Noble Client's claim was the true one, it
was impossible that he could ever succeed to establishing it;
for by the words of the King's grant, the right was only given
to carry the Crown in Parliament. The main question, how-
ever, between the parties was, whether the privilege claim.
ed belonged to the territorial Earldom of Angus, or to the in-
dividual personally to whom the earldom appertained as a title
of honour? It must be the object of both parties to establish
the existence of the right claimed ; but it was for their Lordships
to say to whom that right belonged. The Learned Gentleman
then proceeded to combat those arguments by which the Gen-
tlemen opposed to him endeavoured to prove that the right was
territorial and not personal. In the earliest instance cited, name-
ly', the coronation of Charles 1., the Privy Council decided that
the honours should be carried by the same persons at the Coron.
ation who were to carry the same at the Parliament, to wit, the
eldest in creation ; accordingly the King granted his warrant to
the Earl of Angus to carry the Crown at the Coronation. But
this decision was not made In consequence of his infeftment,
whicisihe produced to the Council, but in consequence of his
being the "eldest in creation." Mr. Adam then examined
all the other proofs referred to by Lord Douglas in support of
his claim, and argued that from none of them could it be
inferred that this was a feudalized office in gross, or an of.
lice incorporated with the lands. It had been very truly,
stated by Mr. Warren, that seizin of offices generally took
place by different symbols from those used to pass land ; as
the delivery of a key, a rod, a sword, &c., the symbols of
land being usually earth and stone. But in no instance hail
he shown that the Earls of Angus hail ever received posses-
sion of their property by any other symbols than earth and
stone. In he case of, the hereditary office of Justice-Gene-
rid, that was clearly a feodal grant, for it contained a tenendam
clause, and a rnidendon ; and seizin of it was passed by the
delivery of a rod to the Marquis of Argyll at the castle of Inve-
vary. It was true, that with regard to the office of Keeper of
Holyrood-house, possessed by the Duke of Hamilton, seizin
was passed to his (;race by the symbol of earth and stone ;
but the Keeper had the care of the palace, the gardens, the
bowling green, and its other appurtenances; and it had not
been shown that earth and stone were not, therefore, the
proper symbols of the Keeper's office. Possession of the
hereditary sheriffdom of Renfrew was passed by the delivery
of a sword; and other offices were passed in like manner; but
in the absence of all such signs of reodalisin in the case before
their Lordships, lie contended that this was not a feodalized
office. The Learned Gentleman next went on to shoW, from
authorities, that it was only heritable offices incorporated with
land and feodalized, that were alienable. The privilege in
question was not an office, but an honour; anti was unlike the
i great offices of England. hich were held in grand sergeancy;
such, for instance, as the championship. As to the claim of
Lord Douglas to the title of Earl of Angus, which Mr.
Brougham stated was still pending before the House of Lords,
it certainly was so ; but so had it been for the last sixty-twoyears, during. all which period his Lordship lied abstained
from prosecuting his claim : while in the mean time he
had sat in Parliament as a commoner ; and although he
was objected to as being Earl of Angus, he nevertheless
continued to hold his seat. Anti when he was created
g
Lord Douglas, he took his title as Archibald Dou lass Esq.
The Duke of Hamilton, on the other hand, had done every
thing to assert his claim to the title. His Grace assumed the
title of Marquis of Douglas, and his son that of Earl of Angus.
It was true that the bare assumption of a title was no proof of
right to it, but still it was a challenge to Lord Douglas to as-
sert his claim if he had any.
Sir W. GRANT—But the Duke of Hamilton also presented
a petition to the House of Lords in 1762, which he never pro-
secuted.
Mr. ADAM said, he certainly did ; but being in possession,
as Duke of Hamilton, of all the privileges which the title could
give him, he did not consider it necessary to prosecute his
claim. He (Mr. Adam), however, was not there to show that
his Grace was Earl of Angus; it was sufficient for him to prove
that Lord Douglas had
no right to the privilege in question.
,
By prescription, his Lordship had certainly no title ; for the
right had never been exercised since the female succession.—
With respect to the protest made by the Duke of Hamilton, in
1707, that was merely made against Lord Douglas's having
the first vote in Parliament on the ground that he was the first
Peer; that, therefore, had no reference to any of the consi-
derations (brought before their Lordships. lie (the Learned
Counsel) did not mean to contend that the office in question
could not be held by females. The office of constable had
descended to ladies, by whom a deputy was appointed until
they were married, and then Lord Coke decided that the
husband of the eldest should exercise the office. But it was
afterward* determined, in the cast of the Great Chamberlain-
ship, which had descended from the Duke of' Manchester
to his daughters, that they should appoint a deputy between
them. But then it afforded a construction for the intention
of' the original granter, who could .not have contemplated
that the offices with which this was associated, namely,
those of giving the flat vote in Parliament, and leading
the vanguard of the army, should descend to females. After
some further argument, the Learned Counsel concluded by in-
sisting, that even supposing the offices to be incorporated, still
their Lordships were .not the tribunal to decide the question ;
for if they were inheritable property, Lord Douglas ought to
have applied to a court ef law. The Scotch Privy Council hav-
ing been abolisliedin'the reign of Queen Anne, their Lordships
could not be said to represent the Privy Council of Scotland
and by the act which abolished the Star Chamber in Charles's
reign, the English Privy Council were precluded from taking
cognizance of questions of property. He therefore trusted that
their Lordships would advise the King that this question ought
to be left to the decision of a Court of Law, and that his Ma-
jesty ought to refuse the prayer of Lord Douglas'i petition.
Mr. A Brucitouny followed on the same aide; and
Mr. WARREN replied.
Counsel were then ordered to withdraw ; and after remaining
a short time in the ante-room, a message from their Lordships
announced that they would not pronounce a decision to-day.

31.
32.
33.
34.
3b.

CAUTION TO PARENTS.--TWO fellows have
been lately observed lurking about the neighbourhood of
Bloomsbury, for the purpose of enticing children from their
homes, and stealing their clothes. Kenrick, the beadle of
St. Giles's, while going his rounds on Thursday last, ob.
served one of these fellows in Plumtree-street, lurking
about under very suspicious circumstances, and endeavouring
to entice some children, who were playing together near the
residences of their parents, to follow him. The officer deter-
mined on watching him, and it was not long before one of the
children, a little girl about four years of age, was induced
to follow him as far Broad.street on which he imme-
diately seized her in his arms and 'hastened towards Ox-
ford-street. Kenrick followed the wretch, and overtook him
with the child, which 'he instantly delivered up, and en.
devoured to make his escapes but he was secured and
taken to Blarlborotigh-street Office while the little inno.
cent Was restored to its parents. 'The prisoner possesses
the lowest appearance of vagrancy, and on being asked for his
defence he pleaded intoxication, and begged for mercy. Ile
was ordered to find good bail, in default of which he was com-
mitted to the House of Correction.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

NOTICES of, MOTIONS, and' ORDERS of the DAY,
_ which now stand in the OnnEu-Boox for the Present
Week. _ _ -

Monday, Junc 23.
011DERS OP TILE DAY.

1. Febo de Se Bill—Second Reading.
2. Labour of Convicts Bill—Report.
1. Larcenies (Benefit of Clergy) Bill—Report.
4. Capital Punishments Repeal Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
B. Felonies (Benefit of Clergy) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
6. Sentence of Death Bill—Report.
7. East India Trade Bill—Further tconsideratien of Report •
8. Hides and Skins Bill—Committee.
9. Land Tax Commissioners Name Bill—Committee.
10. Beer Retail Trade Bill--Second Reading.
11. Tests Regulation Bill—Committee.
12. Customs Duties Bill—Further consideration of Report.
13. Customs Duties (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
14. Insurrectioris (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading.
15. East India Mutiny Bill—Further consideration of Report.
16. Prize Money Distribution Bill—Third Reading.
17. Law Merchant Bill—Second Reading.
10. Prisons Bill—Lords' amendments to be considered.
19. Settlement of the Poor Bill—Committee.
20. Capital Crimes Defence Bill—Second Reading.
21. Conduct of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer (Ireland)—

Committee thereupon.
22. Unlawful Oaths (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
23. Church Rates (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
24. Occasional Freeholders Bill—Further consideration of Re-
port.
Usury Laws Repeal Bill—Report.
Holyhead and Howth Harbours Bill—Report. '
Juries (Scotland) Bill—Committee.
Supply—Comm i nee.
Reciprocity of Duties Bill—Second Reading.
Supply—Postponed Resolutions of 30th April to be consi-
dered.
Ways and Means—Committee.
Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading.
Blaine Duties Bill—Third Reading.
Passage Vessels Regulation Bill—Report.
East India Postage on Sailors' and Soldiers' Letters Acts—
Report thereupon.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

Sir Henry Parnell—To move, as an Amendment on the Se-
cond Reading of Insurrections (Ireland) Bill, for ap-
pointment of a Secret Committee, to inquire into the ex-
tent and object of the Disturbances existing in Ireland.
2. Sir Francis Ommanney—Return of Pirate Vessels destroy-
ed by Ships of War on the Jamaica Station, from January
1821 to 31st March last, and of the officers and men

wounded in that service.
3. Mr. Lushington—Printing, Stationery, and other Miscella-
neous Estimates. (In Committee of Supply).
4. Lord Viscount Palmerston—Vote Disembodied Militia. (In

Committee of Supply.)
5. Mr. Goulburn—Rematning Irish Estimates. (In Commit-
tee of Supply.)
6. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Lottery Resolution ;
and Vote Exchequer Bills. (In Committee of Ways and
Means.)
7. Mr. Croker—An Account of the Expence incurred in
Building the Statuary Gallery of the British 31useurn,
and the Plan according to which it was built.
Tuesday, June 24.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.

1. Mr. Powell Buxton—Select Committee on Papers relating
to the ship liequin.
2. Sir Henry Parnell—Rotw Catholic Endowments of Schools
and other Charities.
3. Air. Grattan—Copy of all Correspondence between his Ma-
jesty's Government in Ireland and the Parishioners of the
Parish of Ballihay, in the County of Monaghan, respect-
ing proceedings at certain Vestry Meetings held in that
parish last year.
4. Air. Goulburn—Union of the Parishes of Kiltiernan and
Kilgobbin, In the County of Dublin.
OrillEnti OF THE DAY.
1. Cunliffe's Divorce Bill—Committee; Counsel, and Wit-
_

• news.
2. Combination of Workmen Bill—Second Reading.
3. Commissaries (Scotland) Bill—Third Reading.
4. Slave Trade Consolidation Bill—Committee.
5. Insolvent Act Amendment Bill—Committee.
Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Bill —Third Reading.
7. Post Horse Duties Bill—Committee.
Wednesday, June 25.

ricrricus of NOTIONS.
1. Mr. Alderman Wood—Motion relative • to CrOwn Lease of

Llanllechid Slate Quarries to Mr. Dawkins Pennant.
-—•—• • • -

2. M 2. flume--Propriety of discontinuing the OfficesoT Lord
Lieutenant, Chief Secretary, and other Offices, in Ireland.
3. Mr. Brougham—Motion on Petition from Roman Catholics
of Ireland, on abuses in the administration of Justice in

Ireland.
4. Sir John Newport—The Accounts of Diocesan and Parish
Schools in Ireland, and the Reports of the Commissioners
of Education there, with a view of more detailed inquiry
at the commencement of the ensuing Session into the means
of irnparting most efficaciously to the whole body of the
people, without religious distinction, its essential benefits,
and rendering the funds available which are destined to
that great national object.
011DEIRS OF THE DAY.

1. Lancaster County Court Bill--Further Consideration of
Report.
2. Distilleries Bill—Further consideration of Report.
3. 111-treatment of Cattle Amendment Bill—Second Reading.
4. Quakers Affirmations Bill—Second Reading.
6. East India Half Pay Bill—Committee.
6. Oster Fisheries Protection Bill—Committee.
7. Tithes Composition (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration
of Report.
8. Commutation of Tithes (Ireland) Bill—CoMmittec.
Thursday, June 26.
NOTICES Or MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Brougham—To refer Petition from Roman Catholics
of Ireland, on abuses in the administration of Justice in
Ireland, to Grand Committee on Courts of Justice.
2. Mr. Grattan—Motion respecting Pipe Water and Metal
Main Accounts in the City of Dublin.
Friday, June 27.
ORDERS Os' TUE DAY.

. .
1. New South Wales Jurisdiction BlB—Second Reading.
2. Poor Laws Amendment Bill—Committee.

PRICE O.
THIS DAY AT

F STOCKS
ONE O'CLOCK
India Stock
India Bonds
South Sea Stock .
Old Annuities.—
Ex. Bills l6 13 pr.
Ditto Small
Bank for Act. —
India for Con. Acct.
Cons. for Acct.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 1104114
3 per Cent. Cons. sliut
3i per Cent
4 per Cent. Old 971 98
New shut
5 per Cents. 1797
Bank Long An. 20; 7.l6ths
Imp. 3 per Cents.

. Nis. 393.

PRICE OF FOIIIiIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, JUNE 4.1/3,
AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Five per Cents. 88g.
Six per Cents. 00.
Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
Ditto New 80.
•
Neapolitan 1 Five per Cent. Bonds, 76i.
1 Scrip, 00.
Austrian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
Five per Cent. Bonds, 00.
Spanish New Ditto, 31i.
{
Scrip, 00 disc.
j Five per Cent. Bonds, 00.
Prussian 1, Ditto IVew, 84
Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 90.
Chili 00:
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 60.
Peruvian New Loan, 00.
Bank Shares £2l 6s.
Six per Cent. 90-98.
American Five per Cent. 95i-97.
Three per Cent. 70.

Vrenah