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London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

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'THE EVENING STA It.

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MON DA Y. SEPTEMBER SO, 18212.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Scarcely a bargain has been dose in the market this morning,
and the funds remain stationary. Commis for the Account 81;1,
and for Money al} I.

Fonmou Funns.—Tbis being pay-day in Chilian and settling-
day for all esker foreign securities, a great bustle prevails among
the Brokers on 'Change. Some business has been done, but to
no great amount. An securities are rising.—Chilian Stock paid
np 81% New Spanish 854, Old In 4, New Prussian as% 1,
Old 903 91, Russian 87%. Danish 89i, Neapolitan 771, Colom-
bian 861, Scrip 863.
Up to this hour we do not hear of any defaulters in the foreign
market—Cbillan unpaid is 85%.

PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
2 per Ct. Cons. 813/8 14-4 per Ct. Nevi 10054 %
India Bonds 48s.—E,.chequer Bills (£1,000) 3s. 4s.
Exchequer 13111 s, small, ss. 6s.
Consols tor Account, 8154.

The report that Lord 111mnt..i.s is to be the new
Governor-General of India, is again revived with
greater confiJence. Indeed, it is said this important
office has been actually offered to him. if so, his
Lordship is too well-bred a man to refuse it, par-
ticularly when the advantages to his interest are so
obvious ! Lord MELVILLE'S successor at the Atirni-
laity has not yet been named.

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday have
':reaclied us. They contain an Official Ordonnance of
Louts XVIII. which, after declaring " that the sani-
tary measures taken on the frontiers of Spain are
henceloi th without any object," decrees as follows:
" Art. I.—The measures taken to preserve health on the fron-
tiers of Spain, by virtue of our Ordonnance of September 27,
1821, with respect to the passage by laud, are to cease ft= the
Ist of October next.

" 2.—The troops employed as a Cordon Sot:unite shall he main-
tained as a Corps d'Obsenratioo,in the pobitions they now occupy."
Tltia Royal Ordonnance is very differently viewed
by the French Editors ; some of them contending that
it leaves no pretext for war between Fraime and Spain,
while others regard it as the signal of au approaching
contest. Be this as it may, it is a singular document ;
to all the complaints made against die menacing posi-
tion of the French troops on the frontiers of Spain, it
was answered that it became necessary on account of
the plague in Spain. It is true that every person of
common sense knew that it was the Constitutional
malady, and not the fever at Barcelona, that excited
the fears of the French Government; and this fact,
so loag denied, is now openly confessed by the Royal
Decree,which continues the insult when it is acknow-
ledged that the avowed cause no longer exists. •
Another proof of the feelings of the French Govern-
ment towards Sp:tin, and of thecountfnance given
to the insurgents of the Pyrennees, is afforded iu the
Address of the Chamber of Commerce at Bayonne to
the French Minister of Finance, M.VILLELE, on the in-
terruption of the Spanish mails. This Address states,
that " the ordinary couriers hem France to Spain, and
from Spain to France, have already been several times
.stopped, and on different points the dispatches have
disappeared. All these interruptions have been occa-
sioned by detachments of the Army of the Faith,
which act under the direction of Generals stationed
in different points of Spain, and even, it must be
avowed, in several of our frontier towns. Some re-
side in Bayonne in that quality. This fact is of public
notoriety; and so many circumstances concur to
prove it, that it is impossible to have any doubt on
the subject. We can then say, with some certainty,
that we have amongst us foreign Chiefs, who contri-
bute directly or indirectly to the seizure of our cor-
respondence with the Peninsula; or if these seizures
are not made in consequence of their orders, they at
least tolerate them. It is even said, and we believe
that in this instance authority cannot contradict public
opinion, that the intercepted dispatches have been sent
to General Eguia."

It is worthy of remark, that it is not the Constitu•
tioaal Government of Spain, however aggrieved, nor
Spanish Merchants, however injured, that make this
remonstrance, but a constituted body of the French
nation—the Chamber of Commerce at Bayonne.
And to what a length must that grievance have pro-
ceeded, which provokes such remonstrance. The',
French nation itself is insulted, and its commerce in-
jured, by the rapacity with which the Spanish Mails],
are seized, for the mere purpose of conveying intel-
ligence to the rebel Generals in the Peninsula. It
is very clear that the French Government cannot,
without sacrificing its cm n honour and the interests of
its subjects, hesitate one moment in repressing so
atrocious a practice. if such were the fatal preposses-
sions of the present French Ministry, that it were de-
termined to make war upon the Spaniards for their
attempt to improve their Constitution, this course Of
proceeding, though unwise, would be open ; but that a
Sovereign should suffer foreign agents or Generals—
some of them even residing in his own dominions—
to intercept at will the correspondence of his subjects
with those of a State .with which he is apparently-at
peace, for any purpose whatsoever, and still more for
the purpose of nursing a rebellion in that State, seems
to be almost incredible. The French Government
would id this instance be allowing the Spanish rebels
net only to assail their own Constitution, but to make
war upon the subjects of France, or upon all thole