Star.
London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

. If, in the moment when the cause of diseussiop
between the tro Ministers was Wit well knovi.44,
tteerewaiiroitetilatett, it is easy to believe that it-atust
for severckl days have injure-1 the Spaaish credit.
BUt the tilscuseionvis now old : it kiiteen terminated.
more then twelve days, ainieably tetteihated, and to'
the mutual satisfaction of the parties. Let the fanitle
journals again produce their suspicions, and 'seek to
fortify them—nothing more simple; but then the
good sense if the public will not be Mkt doped. •
n- We may affirm, that there has never been stronger
r •
hition between England and Spain, and that the
commercial ditßculties raised were by no means et.
tended to a great political question, on which
Portugal, and England, are altogether agreed.
FROM THE DRAPEALI,AII.4I4ie. •
%%e have seen with disgust, biewttliont surprise,
the Liberal journals flatter the English 6overninent,
basely endeavour to conciliate that whom they for-
merly called cowardly and perfidious islanders, and
•prostitute the pure ardour of their patriotism, so tar
as to praise the old enemies of France and Earoio as
arbiters of the destinies of the warld. These same
worthrrepresentatives of the French nation, par ex.
cellence, dared; in 1815, to hawk about the Crown
of France, and offer it to whomsoever would accept
it, provided he was not a Bourbon.
This unworthy traffic of adulation, exchanged for
hopes, continued only as long as the Liberals be-
lieved, what they alone were sufficiently simple to
believe, that the English Cabinet would become the
gratuitous friends and disinterested allies of the revo-
lutionary Government of Spain. The tone was altered
when the Cabinet of London recovered its memory
at the same moment with the Dey of Algiers, • and
made a claim of 200 millions against the Spanish
Government, in lieu of which sum it obligingly con-
sented to accept of the Isle of Cuba, at the same time
addressing to the Spaniards that passage so celebrated
in their history—" All that we do is for your benefit."
• The Liberal Journals now direct reproaches against
lEngland, the complicated expression of which may be
'said to amount to this-6, Fie! it does not look well
to be so interested, and.not to have the generosity to
elio wrong for nothing."
• The Pilots, thesopinions of. which are known, an:
flounces that M. de Chateatibriand was yesterday to
give a diplomatic dinner,' o,which the Ambassador
of the Cortes, the Duke of Lorenzo, and the Portu-
.guesOMinister, are invited. If this,news should be
confirmed,, it may.be supposedthat this rtmatkable
invitation has had-for its object to console the two I.t
gations of the Revolutionary Peninsula, for their ea•:.
clasion from the last diplomatic gala given by the
Russian Ambassador.
It was on the 2d of January that the Ambassadors,
:tithe three great Northern Power's delivereclthe-Notes,
groin Verona to. the Spanish Minister, with :a'slecht;'
ration that if, within ten days, the King was not
itstebliahed in: his power, and the Cortes, dissolved;
they would
•leave, Madrid.
• It is added, that Count: Lagar& has received
orders, by a dispatch posterior to M. de Villeles Note;
to leave Spain in a few days after-the other Ministers;
but this last report requires confirmation. • .

SPAIN.

MADRID, JANUARY 6.
In the Sitting of the Cortes of this day, no pro
seeding of interest took place except the appoint•
ment of a Committee on the Petition which Moreno
Guerra, a Deputy is a former Ccortes, presented yes-
terday. He complains that he had been made to
appear' before a Constitutional Alcalde for expres-
sions spoken in his character of Deputy in the Cortes
for 1820.
The Cortes, in a Secret Sitting, have takeis into
consideration the complaints made by the English
Government in the name of several merthants of that
nation whose vessels have been captured by Spanish
cruizers on the coast of Terra Firma. The report
made by the Diplomatic Committee on this subject
shews that the negotiation had been indiscreetly ma-
naged by the Secretary of State, San Miguel. The
Committee recommended that justice should be done
to the claims, and that after they are verified by a
mixed commission' English and Spanish, the amount
should be made good by the Treasurer. The Cortesl
approved of the Report.
The greatest activity prevails in enrolling and
equipping troops for the army. lit another secret
sitting, the Minister of the War Department assured
the Coites that in less than two months an army of
forty thousand men would be assembled at the foot
Of the Pyrenees.
Yesterday evening, Morena Guerra appeared in the
Landabutian Society. He spoke for two hours, and
entered into a detailed commentary on M. deVillele's
Note, which, has been published in all our Journals.
His speech was received with great applause.
The Report of a Committee of the Cortes on a
proposition of the Government, for augmenting the
militia, was discussed in the Sitting of the 29th of
December. According to articles 6 and 7of the
orsanic law, respecting the militia, the active national
militia is to be completely renewed in six years, by
new drawings for a sixth part each year. TheGo-
vernmeat had proposed an alteration in these articles
to accelerate the recruiting. The Committee weal
further titan the Government desired, and recon:-.
mended that two-thirds of the force ultimately re-'
quired by the law should be immediately raised.
The Committee afterwards presented the detailed
plan. of a decree for coming this measure into effect.
The articles were successively discussed in the Sittings
of the 2d and 3d, and approved.
The most remarkable trait occurred towards the
end of the debate. Arguelles wishing to support
t.be opinion be had given, put the following question :
•••=r4t I wish to be informed as to a fact u hick can in
no way coMpromise the :Government, and which it is
in the power of the Secretary of War to satisfy—ls
the materiel of the 'French Army Of Obs.ertittion on
our frontiers, greater than the proportion required
for its force ? According to my pritareinformationt.
it greatly exceeds that proportion."
The Secretary at War.—The materiel of the-french.
Army of Observation does not correspond with its
force." •
Arguelles.—" Is it, greater or lesi?'
The better.ary.--4,1t is greater."
Arguelles.—“ Theo thersecaii be only' two objects
in view—either to assik tie faciioui, or to &dirt
war against us."
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