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London, England, 1823-11-19 00:00:00

IdIGUEL DEL RIEGO,
Canon of Oviedo.

London, Oct. 12.
Ptince de Pollgnac, Arnbainflor of trance.

NO. JI.
The Pridce de Polignie has 'received a letter from
Monsieur the Canon Miguel del Rego, Who has done
himself the honour to write to him,'to demand an au-
dience. Being under the necessity of going to-morrow
morning' very early into the country, for several days, •
the Prince de Polignac regrets the impossibility of
ac-
ceding to the interview desired by Monsieur the Canon
Miguel del Rieko; besides; his brother being a prisoner
of the Spaniards and not of the French, it would be
losing time, perhaps precious, to treat with the French
Ambassador in. London, relative to as affair in which,
unhappily, he can be of no service.
Portlasd-place, October 12.

No. 111.
MoNsetcNrarn—The Canon D. Miguel del Riego,
brother of Don Raphael, exceedingly regrets that cir-
cumstances prevented him from having the auctiente
with M. le Prince de Polignac, which. he" presumed to
Iletnand, the more so as the kindness of his reply gives
Mm reason to hope that a happy: result Would hike ton-
sued. Without exatpinik whether Drill Raphael ought
to be•eorriidereci a prisoner of the Sianiards or.of the
French, it is clear that his fate is in the hands of the
French Government, who can, by in all-powerful inter-
vention with the existing Government of Spain., shelter
him from the evils which threaten him; and assuredly
his tiocot Chi istian Majesty will never disdain to under-
take the delightful task of mediator, so conformable to
the holy religion which be professes, so analogous to the
sentiments of nobleborn

• ..It is on this account that the young and suffering
spouse of Don Raphael, and the Canon his brother, dare
to turn, their eyes towards the throne of St. Louis, And
to send to yoU the inclosed petition, for the purpose -
(should it meet your approbation) of placing it • before
the eyes of your merciful Icing.
They also take the liberty to beg of the Prince Po-
lignac, to allow them to send, through the medium of
his embassy and government, an open letter for the 'un-
happy captive, which will only contain their irppotent
but sincere prayers. T:.e Prince Polignac woold fill
the hearts of this unhappy family with gratitude, if he
would graut them his powerful protection, and if he
would deign to add some words to testify the interest
which, doubtless, their misfortunes and• his charitable
and generous disposition inspire him with.
These has been in our age so maoy political Convul-
sions that there is, hardly a public, or• evert, a. private
man, who has not met, either in. himself or in those
who are dear to Mini, tite bitterpess• of those afflictions
to,prhich man is exposed io consequence. of difference i 4 '
opinions. Happy those whom Yeovil:rime, in restoring
to poWer and influence, grants the opportunity of ex-
tending their compassion even' to them whose opinions
they dislike, but whose afil,ctions they can pityand relieve!
The wife of Don Raphael del Riego joins her signa-
ture with that of her brother-in-law, uncle, tutor, and
guardian, as he is also of her seven young orphan sisters
and brothers—on this unhappy day, the anniversary of
her birth, and that also on which she, two years ago, was -
married to her unfortunate uncle 4*, begging the Prince
Poliguac to grant her his powerful protection.
Accept, Monseigneur,, the profound consideration
with which we, the Imam:signed; remain, wishing you ••
perfect happiness,
MARIA TERESA DEL RIEGO Y RIEGO.
hi tG U EL" DEL It !EGO, Canon of Oviedo.
27, Alfred-place, Goiwell-street-road, Oct. 15, 1823.
No. IV. •
Sutz—The wife and -brother of on Raphael del
Riegii,overwlielmed with grief, and apprehensive that
a fatal destinreill.befal him unless an all-powerfuland
Merciful hand ihoUld into:redo; come to implore.yoar
august protection,coniinced that the accents of affliction
wilrnot penetrate in vain to the heart of your Most
Christian MAkesty.
Deign, Sire, to-receive a prayer dictated by mature—.
deignaotast the look of mercy on the tears Of theloung
phase' anti--niece of. the unhappy Riego, •far- removed
from her husband by the events of war, and deprived, in
consequence, of. an ,bpmesselve, and painful illness, of
the consolation and anions... of soothing _lsis, misfor-
tunes. Deign to look. Mitlibenevolepte•on the pivot
of a brother united to him from:infaAerby -the most'
lively.and tender attachment:- it 4,11.:t0. ;4U alone; Sire,
. that they. can 'address thetneelVelitlnAeir.profopnd af-
fliction. It is from you alone they. ean hope to find re-
liefin their agisforttines.•,-The King.of Spain will not
tense to lots the life Hof' a man ; and Ott will be the li-
• In Spain it is custovnarifor uncles to "MTh with the permis-
sion c.t the March, thelenkcei.

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berator, the saviour, the fattier of a distressed and sore
row fut family.
Whatever fatality mar have caused him to take part
in public affairs; whatever may be the errors, the
crimes, which his adversaries impute to him, he has
never shewn himself sanguinary or ambitious.
The gratitude of all his family to the august author of
his happiness would have hio limits, were the powerful
intervention of your Most Christian Majesty to procure
to him the opportunity of retiring to the peaceful career
of a private and obscuie life.
_ _ .

• The brother, Dan Miguel del Riego, during twenty
years a Canon of the Cathedral of Oviedo, has gained
nothing by the political events of which Spain has been
the theatre; he is neither a statesman. nor a politician,
'he only speaks to your Majesty as a brother and a Chi is••
tian. It is humanity—it is the all-powerful ties of blood
—it is the sentiments which nature inspires, and which
religion approves, th,•tt engage him in this undertaking,
encouraged by internal conviction that your Majesty
will freely yield to the voice of hunianiry and religion.
Sire, we remain,
Your 34jesty's most bumble and obedient Servants,
MARIA TERI•;SA DEL RIEGO Y RIEGO.
MIGUEL DEL RIEGO, Canon of Oviedo.
London, Oct. 15, 1323.

No. V. •
The Prince de Polignac has received, with the letter
30116 tl,•r Canon Don Miguel del Riego has done him
the honour to address to him, the two inclosed letters;
he will hasten to transmit by this evening's post, to his
Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs to his Most
Christian Majesty, the letter wliich is to be presented to
his Majesty; and will solicit his Excellency to forward,
as soon as possible, to Don Raphael del Riego that which
is addressed ta.him.
London, October 17, 1823.
The Canon Don Miguel del Riego not receiving any
answer to the Petition addressed to the King of -France,
thought proper to forward the following letter, through
the medium of Mr. Canning, to the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs, the Viscount Chateaubriand.
No. VI.

S►n—With hearts mar in the depths of affliction, the
wife and brother of General Riego, now pining in the
diingeon 3 of Machid, solicit you (and they feel they shall
not solicit you in vain), as a Chief Minister of this great
Empire, to use your influence in endeavouring to avert
the destiny which now awaits the beloved objectof their
most ardent affection. They flatter themselves that
the slightest interference on the part of England would
save the life of General Riego. In,the name of a just
and merciful GOD, they pray you to use your influence
with your humane and benignant Sovereign. To his
heart their tale of sorrow could not fail to make an'
effective appeal.
They need not urge to you, Sir—who with eloquence
as forcible as it was just, denounced in the British Par-
liament the interference of France in the affairs of Spain
—the injustice, and, indeed, gross impolicy of the pro-
ceedings against Riego. You are aware, Sir, that the
act for which he was condemned was performed under
the authority of a system of Government acknowledged
by every European Power.
The inclosed letter addressed to his Excellency the
Viscount de Chateaubriand you will, perhaps, do them
the honoUr of reading, as well as of forwarding it, as
soon as possible, to that Minister.—l have the honour
to be, with gicat r.sspect, your very obedient and very
humble servant,
NIGUEL DEL RIEGO, Canon de Oviedo.
London, Nov. 14, 1323.
To the Right Hon. George Cavilling.
No. VII. •

itlosT EXCELLENT SlR—The irresistible voice of na-
ture strikes the oppressed bosom of a young wife, sick,
abandoned, far from the land of her birth and separated
from her beloved liu,band, united to him by all the ties
of blood, whcm the chances of war and the vicissitudes
of the political revolution which still agitates his coun-
try have thrown into the obscurity of a dungeon, where
her imagination, lull of grief and horror, presents him
to her at every instant surrounded with dangers and af-
flictions. Not a single letter—nut a single word from
her unfortunate husband—from a man more admired

for his virtues and humanity than even for the bravery
of hip actions—has conic to tranquilize her ill-fated ex-
istence, two months having elapsed since he became a
prisoner to the French arms. Her uncle and brother-
in-law, the only brother of Don Raphael del Riego,
whose habits, whose literary life, whose ecclesiastical
character, appeared to insure to him an obscure, tran-
quil existence within the precincts of the temple, finds
himself hurled amidst the agitations of the political
world, banished from his country and repulsed from the
altar as an unworthy Minister of Religion.
In this situation, truly tragical and lamentable, ag-
gravated by their total ignorance of the fate of three
younger Inothers, the eldest scarcely twenty-one years
of age, and three infant sisters, all dispersed over the
face of the Peninsula, without a father, without a mo-
ther, and without the shelter and support of their guar-
dian and uncle—who, giving vent to the tender senti-
ments of father, brother, legal protector, and natural
fiiend, exclaims, on seeing the dreadful storm which
threatens completely to destroy his whole family, direct-
ing himself to your Excellency—for what crime com-
mitted against heaven or earth is this unhappy brother
so cruelly persecuted ? Is it an unpardonable crime in
the eyes of civilized France, for the young soldier, who,
• during the period of five years spent in her bosom, im-
bibed the truths of morality, of philosophy, and of the
rights which all nations possess to endeavour to establish
a system of political happiness—to have wished to assert
the same principle, which he had seen displayed among
the moral maxims and enchanting images of the au-
thor of the hllurtyr•s and of the Genius of Christianity?"
Is it a crime that a valiant youth, in whose hands shone
the arms of his country—that country which he had
traversed from Cape Finisterre to the Columns of
Hercules, horn the I3idassoa to the Tagus, hearing the
cries of discontent, and seeing the misery, disorder, and,
degradation into which the immorality and the insatiable,
avarice of the evil counsellors of Ferdinand had unhap-
pily sunk her—is it an inexpiable crime, I say, that he
should have raised his voice en the banks of the Guada-
lete, and exclaimed to his compatriots " Ferdinand is
your King! Ferdinand is not.a tyrant! Fear not to re-
peat the echo of Lis Cabezas: ►et that sound reach his
ears and Spain will be happy, and Ferdinand behold
himself surrounded by his children!" Oh! shall deeds
of val Our, of humanity, of suffering, of constancy, and
tie sacrifice of health and of life, offered up on the altars
of his country to ameliorate the condition of his fellow-
citizens- actions which caustiture the prominent featuie
of heroism, be blotted out from among the names of the
r•ct imes?
and
people

sia, and resounded on the banks of the Ebro and the
Minho, afterwards repeated with approbation on those
of the. Seine, the Thames, the Danube;and the Mo—
ttle patriot soldier, who thrice refused to be girded with
the sash of the General, with which it pleased his Mo-
narch to remunerate him, as well as to nominate him
his Aide-de-C./amp—the head which was decorated with
the civic crowns of ,the olive and the ruse, presented to
him by an enraptured people, filled kith the enthusiasm
of the purest pleasure; will this sword, I ask, be con-
verted (as now so madly and audaciously some pretend),
in the pages of severe history, into the bimsly dagger
of a man-destroying rebel? Will these patriotic hymns
be changed into the bitter sarcasms of ironical songs ;
and will the serene forehead of a virtuous man, who de-
served of his King and country the title of their best ser-
vant, be traduced as vile and treacherous ?
Let, Sir, his destiny be whatever HEAVEN may please
—let it be such that may draw upon his devoted bead
all the unbridled passions of a pernicious policy—of
bloodthirsty vengeance, and of the insatiable hatred of
fanaticism—yet never shall the virtues of Riego be con-
verted into crimes, and never will the Government of
France be able to wash away the stain, which shall for
ever cover it, should they allow a General; whom the
French arms bad defeated in that field in which he
fought under the orders of his King, denying to him
the rights of a prisoner of war, to fall a sacrifice to ma-
niac passions—passions which, if not repressed, will
terminate in shaking, even to their foundations, the legi-
timate thrones of all existing dynasties.
The pen of the Canon Riego, not accustomed to write
upon matters of state, delineates upon paper the senti-
ments which 'animate his bosom in favour of a brother,
without fearing to displease a Minister, whom he cannot
look upon in any other light than as a man of sense, an
enlightened philosopher, and a profound writer. Were
he, however, allowed, in advocating a cause which he is
so much interested in pleading,- to mix some political
considerations, how many could he not present to the
superior understanding of the sagacious Minister, cal-
culated to prevail upon him to exert all his influence
in the Cabinet of his Most Christian Majesty to save
the French Government from such enormous disgrace,
and to acquire to himself the glory of an action as
just as it is humane.
What greater punishment—what more cruel suffer-
ings can be inflicted on Rieg• than the spirit-destroying
reflections which must now agitate his bosom, at seeing
the conduct of those very men upon whose virtues, ex!.
' perienee, knowledge, and political foresight, he had
founded the hope of seeing the throne of his King esta-.
blished and respected, and the prosperity of his fellow-
citizens secured and promoted ? And how have his
companions in arms, who on so many occasions mixed
the sacred names of religion, country, liberty, and King,
with his own celebrated one, behaved? How have they
defended (if I may be allowed the expression) the work
of Riego? Then what greater punishment—what more
cruel sufferings Where then is the political rea-
son for considering the existence of Riego as terrible ?
But if so many powerful reasons should not be suffi-
cient to move your Excellency to the performance of the
action of saving Riego (an action as noble as it is glori-
ous), let the bitter tears of his distracted, exiled, heart-
sunken wife, fading away in the flower of her a e with
a consumptive disease, excite in your heart the eelings
of compassion, and urge you to a deed for wh h your
name shall be blessed by generations yet unborn. Ohl
why was she ever separated fi om her mother's womb!
—Why did the light of heaven ever shine upon her pale
cheek! Surely not that she might live so cruelly—so
barbarously tormented !
Eight and twenty days have elapsed since a wife,
drowned in tears, and a brother agitated with a thousand
inquietudes, threw themselves on the compassion of the
Most Christian King, through the medium of Prince de
Polignac, who assured them that their ardent prayers,
by means of your Excellency, would reach his august
ears; but even tne small consolation of knowing that
such has been the case, has never arrived to sooth their
anxiety, or their griefs.—Louis ought to save France—
Louis ought to save Spain. An afflicted wife and a
disconsolate brother place their trust in Chateaubriand
fur the salvation of the life of Riego.
MARIA TERESA DEL RIEGO Y RIEGO.
111 IG DIM DEL RIEGO, Canon of Oviedo.
27. Alfred-place, London. Nov. 14, 11125.
His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
to his Most Christian Majesty.
No. VIII.

• New Burlington-street, Sitnday Morning, Nov. 18, 1523.
Snt—Having received the letter which you addressed
to Mr. Secretary Canning, on the 14th instant, I did
not Joie a moment in forwarding it to him, though I
knew that he was already on his return to London.
This morning I received instructions from Mr.• Ca-
nning to send off your letter to the Viscount de Chateau-
briand by an especial messenser ; which instructions I
was on the point of executing, when the arrival of in-
telligence . from Paris prevented me from doing so.
With what intelligence you are probably too well ac-
quainted.—l have the honour to. be, Sir, &c.
JOSEffil PLANTA. Jan.
To the Canon Miguel del Riego. •

Letters from klavannah, dated the 22d of September,
state, that LABORDE, the Spanish Commodore, arrived
there on the 20th from Puerto Cavell*, with his squa-
dron of five sail of vessels; viz. the frigate Constitution,•
the corvettes, Ceres, Carabobo, and Maria Francisca
and the schooner Aiafa, having on board 2+S emi-
grants, and 20 Royalist families, who, from their active
conduct in opposition to the independent cause, have'
been compelled to abandon thnctown. Puerto Cavello
was the only place in VetiezuelOccupied by thelloyalist
troops, against which. the whole of the Colombian force
was directed; and as k had been left, by the sailing of
'LABORDE'S squadron, without any.naval protection, or
the means of obtaining supplies, it was incapable of a
protracted defence. The reasons for LABonz.z's aban-
donment of his station were not known, but he was
supposed to have taken that step in consequence of the
great number of officers and men lost on the lake of
Maracaibo, where he had sent them to assist MORALES in
his attack on the Colombian fleet. •

Letters received from Leghorn, contradict the re-
ports circulated a few days ago, of Mmfaocortparo
having
_been torn in pieces by the Hydriots. It
appears that MAVROCORDATO, so far from being forced
to take refuge in Hydria, merely went there to superin-1,
tend the sailing of the fleet, and has since returned to,
his duties of Secretary-General to the Government.
It is mentioned in a Paper of yesterday, that Minis-
ters intend to send an Admiral to command on the
South AmMcan station, and that one of the Lords of
the Admiralty will hoist his flag on that station. The
fact is, Rear-Admiral Sir Gaonct Eytti, was appointed
ikJime last, and actually sailed in the SPARTIATE, 74,
'about a month since.

THE EVENING sfrAtt.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1825.
THE FUNDS..

STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning, at 84, 4, and got up to 4, with a
good Market.
The Expresses from Paris have brought the Rentes at 89f. 9.5 e.
and Spanish at 274 to 28.—The monied men at Paris, as well as
in this Country, are determined nor to have anything to do with
the New Spanish Loan, until the King of Seam has sanctioned
the Old one. We also understand that the Franck KING, at present,
is not in imminent danger.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Owing to the rise at Paria of Spanish Bonds, the Market opened
this morning at 264, went down to 4, and got up again to 4,4,
Current Prices : New Spanish 19; Old 264, Colombian 584 is
59, Old Poyais 4,4, New 5 to 4, Chilian 664.

PR ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2221/2 223 222%
3 per Cent. Reduced 82% 83 8278
3 per Cent. Cons. 831/2 % s/8-3 1/2 per Cents. 96 %8
4 per Cents. Old 100 9978
4 per Cents. New 104 1/8 103%
Bank Long Anns. 21 20%8
Imperial 3 per Cents. 81%--Inclia Bonds 775.
Exchequer Bills (01,000) 445. 465. 444.
Consols lot Acct. 831/2 %.313.

At a Privy Council held at Windsor yesterday, a
Proclamation was agreed to be issued for the assem-
bling of Parliament on the 3d of February next. The
Proclamation, which appeared in the Gazette last night,
states, that- it is 6, for Me dispatch of divers urgent and
important offitirs" that Parliament is summoned ; so
that we may take it for granted that no farther post-
ponement will take

We have received to-day the following advices from
.Bayonne of the 11th inst. The account which they
contain of the last moments of the unfortunate RIEGO
will be read with painful interest. There is something
alike inhuman and impolitic in the exultation expressed
at Madrid on his execution. Treatment like this affects
not the memory of the victim in the judgment of man-
kind; but places him, on the contrary, more in the light
of a martyr than he might otherwise have been re-
garded. Some of the French Journals take credit for
the fact that 'no French soldiers were present at the
horrible scene ; but it will be seen from our present
accounts that it was by French soldiers that order was
kept, while the Spanish rabble were hurraing the exit of
a man who but a few short months ago was the object
of their idolatry.

social virtues and placed in die black catalogue ofcrim•
The sword which became a national trophy, a
which was solemnly decreed to belong to the peo,
alone--the hymns which were heard by joyful Anda
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