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London, England, 1823-08-19 00:00:00

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SPANISH ROVAMSTS.

The following very remarkable Address was printed
as a Supplement to the Restaurador of the Ist inst.
I: is directed to the Regency.
" Most Serene Lord—The Ayuntamiento of Cor-
dova, the faithful organ of the sentiment's of a town
which yields to' no other in adherence and fidelity.
to the King, has' learned with surprise and regret that
a facti, at, well known in that istifi4atinate.epoicli which_
has caused so many tears •to flow., is still operating,
under the shade of a false, and dark policy, against ,
the rights of the Sovereign, v..hich an infamous Con-
s!itution had subverted, and against the opinions and
v.isliet of the people of Spain, who have so decidedly
and so freely expressed themselves in all parts of the
Peninsula.
" The Ayuntamiento would be wanting is its du-
ties if, in such a trying moment, it had not had re-
course to your Serene Highness as the defender of
the throne, in order to call attention to the new dan-
gers with which the sovereignty of our King and the
peace of the nation ate threatened. At the same
time it takes this opportunity of expressing the most.
solemn wishes of the Cordovan people against a sys-
tem which, if it might be admired as a preferable
,g vil in the blindest and most violent period of our
Revolution, would nevertheless be -as impolitic as it
would he horrible in an epoch when the nation being
fortunately rescued from the yoke of Constitutional
tyranny, and restored to the enjoyment of its best
liberties, faithful Spaniards can speak their- senti-
ments, and give to the whole political woad proofs
of their abhorrence for everything which is in con-
tradiction to their ancient laws, and of their desire to
have a free and an absolute King, who would pro-
mote the happiness of his people without the aid of
institutions which are unknown in the annals of their
history, and which are as formidable and as ominous,
under existing circumstances, as they are opposite to
the ideas and customs of the nation.
" Such is, in truth, most Serene Lord, the system
of the two Chambers, which, by imposing restraints
on the authority of the King never intended by the
fundamental laws of Castile, and by essentially vary-
ing the established fact without the will of the King,
would contain the same radical vice as the Constitu-
tion itself; and every negociation or adjustment which
is undertaken upon these grounds for the liberation of
the captive King, will always be vain, and will com-
promise the peace and tranquillity of the nation.
" If the legitimacy of Monarchs cannot be rendered
compatible with the pride of their people, Nehen these
wish to give themselves laws which those have not
dictated, still less compatible would it be with an in-
stitution which his Majesty has so clearly and so
openly abhorred, and which surptise and moral vio-
lence alone would induce him to accept. The King'
does not wish, and with justice, to forfeit tights and
privileges to which the nation swore so freely and so
spontaneously, and which have been exercised for so
many ages by his ancestors; and every' innovation
upon this point, in proportion as it would clash with
the political dogma of his legitimacy, would open .a
wide door to discord, which would be fomented by
the warmth of disputes and opinions to the fatal
length of a civil war like that which has already de-
s.ilated the greatest part of the Peninsula.
" In fine, if the Spanish people, or an immense ma-
jority of it wet e anxious for the system of Chambers,
this injustice against the rights of the King would not
produce results altogether so disagreeable, and the
goodness of the Sovereign would know how to accom-
modate itself to the desires and wishes of his people.
But any one who has even slightly examined the cha-
racter of the present feeling for the cause of the King,
would soon be convinced that the wish of Spaniards
is never to% lessen in the slightest degree the sove-
reignty of their beloved Monarch, nor to accept sys-
tems or institutions which are opposed to the antient
and fundamental laws of the nation.

" The Ayuntamiento has fully witnessed the opi-
nions entertained by the people of Cordova, which
were so nobly and so decidedly expressed on the 10th
of June last, and which are notoriously so conform-
able to those which the other provinces expressed, as
soon as they were rescued from the yoke of oppres-
sion. 4 The absolute and free King' have been the
greatest echoes of their emotion, and they do not yet
tease to resound in their hymns and acclamations.,
This is the most energetic and animated, and at the
same time the most simple, and indeed expressive of
the will of the people, who, being excited 'naturally
by their enthusiasm and their wishes, did not stand
in need of base stimulants of subornation and intrigue,
which at every period have marked the black perfidy
and the violent machinations of innovators and Re-
volutionists. It will be sufficient to take a rapid view
of some details of the system of Chambers, in order
to know that if they have been, and always will be
dangerous to the minds of the coldest temperature,
a;td long accnstomed.to tranquillity, they would be,
beyond all doubt, incalculably prejudicial to a na-
tion which is heated, agitated, and still disturbed by
the violence of innovations.
" The liberty of the press, which is truly impolitic,
and chiefly tie origin of all our dissensions, and, the
traitorous weapon that is most abused ; the popular
character of elections, which has always provoked the
nussions, the intrigues, and the ambition of parties;
t public tribune, which is more fit to flatter vanity,
to exalt the passions, and to agitate the people, than
to illustrate any matter in dispute; and that generic
liberty, so ominous as it is badly understood, which
is the inseparable character of every liberal Govern.
rnent, are all so many institutions which the system
of the Chambers would perpetuate for us, and which
would reader those political oscillations intermina-
ble, which have occasioned us so many misfortunes
and losses."

Letters front the North of Spain, mention that
LOPEZ BA Nos was advancing by the line of the Tagus,
with a force that was daily increasing, and it was '
thought he would push on towards Aladtia, Ly the
way of Talavera de la Iteyna, to form a junction
with EL Estrectswoo, who was already in the neigh-
bourhood of the capital, and had established commu-
nications with the Constitutionalists left there. He
daily received advices of the movements of the Re-
gency and the French gall ison, through the medium
of his confidants. In Estremaslura, all the towns
through which the French passed, it is said, had risen
up and restored the tablet of the Constitution. Several
mew guerilla parties were forming, as fast as they
could obtain arms.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 19:1823.

TUE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE.. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Tlgkrpotning Consols opened at 82i, and got up to ; and ;,
at-which price. they xelgaikiteady—but little bushiest. is tiing.

In the absence of intelligence from Spain, there are various
rumours on 'Change : the 'most prominent is, that a vessel, which
, ' left Barcelona on the 2d instant, and proceeded to Genoa, an-
nounced most positively that the Constitutionalists had gained a
signal victory over Marshal Moncey, in Catalonia, where the
French lost, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, upwards of three
thousand men.

Another report, which is, or anteors to be, credited by no in-
considerably number of persons, is, that a Convention has been
signed for the suspension of hostilities between the French and
Spanish forces in Andalusia.

It is said a private Express has been received from Paris,
bringing accounts that Spanish Bonds were done in the coffee-
houses there, on Sunday, at 49.
Private letters have been received from Amsterdam this
morning, stating that all Foreign Securities have risen there,
money being plentiful, and bills discounted at 3 per cent.