Star.
London, England, 1823-11-22 00:00:00

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poorer is delegated, all dillienities on this point will ul•
tianaely be removed. The greatest impediment arises
fro, the poverty of peens in many of our villages,
who watt means to pay the instructors of their ails'
siren: but as mote pmeperoas circumstances may rea-
son bly be anticipated in proportion to our internal sere-
ray, this inconvenience will disappear in time.
A very serious obstruction also occurs to the advance-
• ment of ouraehools, in the want of masters and school-
books-, -This - arises - from 4bn-ignorance- sin -which the
pfuplejhavetinea sone ander the colonial system.
By the 15th article of the said law of the 2d of Au-
gust; thi Executive was empowered to establish in the
• principal cities of Colombia, experimental schools of
mune instruction. The Government has the satisfac-
tion tts announce to Congress, that this excellent me-
thod, so conducive to advancement in the rudiments of
education; has been established in the capital of the
Republic, and has thence extended to the provinces.
Since the month of January, 1822, the Executive es-
tablished a well organised system for the• purkose cf
extending the benefit of these schools to the capitals of
the provinces, the cantons, and parishes. The people
have received this new institution with pleasure, and the
Government thinks it will extend itself at no distant date
even to the obscurest hamlets. Thus the people begin
to experience the enormous difference there is between
•an internal Government and that of a nation 2,000
leagues distant from us. The Spanish Government did
. .not endow one school in the course of 300 years, and
that of the Republic employs itself in advancing public
- instruction, and in disseminating general intelligence,
even in the midst of war, and the roar of its cannon.
LIBERTY OF TUE PRESS AND ITS JuDGEs.—The law
establishing the liberty of the press has been strictly
complied with. In those provinces and cities in which
printing establishments are to be found, all subjects are
published freely, the measures of Government are ani-
madverted on, and the great political interests of the
nation discussed.
Some excesses have resulted from the liberty of the,
press, and such are inevitable ; but their authors have
been brought to trial, and restrained within the limits
prescribed by law. The same law has introduced among
us trial by jury. The 48th article has proved defective
in practice, since it is extremely difficult to obtain even
a just condemnation, when two concurring votes can
absolve any writing, and six are necessary to condemn
it. As yet, all authors who have been tried have been
acquitted, with the exception of one; and it is probable
the same will happen in future.
The Report then goes on to state, that some altera-
tion in the law on the liberty of the press is necessary.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1823.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHaNCK TW KT, V E'O'CLOCK.
Consols opencd this morning at 831, 1, and for next Account
$4, with little business doing.

• FOREIGN FUNDS.
_ Nothing doing in tie Market except in Spanish Bonds, and that
to no great e*tent.

Current Prices : Old Spanish 26i il, New lei, Colombian 391
to 6Q, Russian /35i, New Poyais 4, Citilian 66i to 67.
TRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 223%4'223-3 per Ct. Reduced 83 83t/8
3 pet Cent. Cons. 83 A Yi-4 per Cts. Old 99% 100
4 per Cts. New 103%8 1041A-13k. I,g. Ans. '2l 1.16
India Stock 26714 A—lndia Bonds 78s.
Encl:equer (C 1,000) 465. 495. pre.
Consols !or Acct. 83.

The " news horn Spain" contained in the latest Paris
Papers seems to harbinger sc•mething important. '
The king of SPAIN, the Journal des Debats informs
us, " was at Aranjuez on the 12th instant," and in that
place, and on that very day, " was to issue the important
Decrees which Spain expected from him." To this it isl
added, by the Etoile, " that the Ministry was to be de-
finitively constituted, and that Don VICTOR SAEZ would
cease to Ge Minister, in consequence of his being the
KING'S Confessor:

. The Qatotidienne goes larder, and affirms that FEE.'
DINAND had actually '4 issued the several anxiously ex-
pected Decrees, whicrli would be published the day of
hi'. public entry into Madrid, which was expected to
take. place on the 19th.
Now what can these important," these ',anxiously
' expected Decrees" concern ? What new turnvf affairs
is to be expected from the Monk SASE ceasing to be Mi-
'nister. Sazz,we know, was the grand adviser of those vio-
lent and unjust decrees, issued by the King of SPAIN at
Port St. Mary, revoking the general amnesty which his
MAJESTY had proclaimed before his departure from
Cadiz, and disclaiming all the acts of the Constitutional
Government. Has his MAJESTY, then, been at length
convinced of the stecessity of recalling these decrees,
and dismissing the pestilent adviser of them? We
think this by no means unlikely, and that the next ar-
rivals will, in all probability, bring us authentic intelli-
gence of such a-modification of FERDINAND'S obnoxious
decrees, as will testae his credit on 'Change at least.
The recognition by FERDINAND of the loans to the
Constitutional Governsnent, will, after all however, be
but a concession to his pecuniary necessities, and as it
does not apparently originate in a sense of justice,
may not be very highly estimated by the capitalists of
this or any other country.

This mort- king we received Lisbon Papers to the 9th
inst. The Lisbon Gazette contains a necessary correction
of one of its mistatements, relative to the entertain-
ment given by the British Admiral, Sir HARRY NEALE,
to the King of PonTWAL. The foreign Journals, like
some of our contemporaries at home, ate perpetually

insinuating that our Government rejoices at the turn
affairs havetaken in Spain and Portugal. At one time
we are told that Sr Wriuram A'Couar congratulated
the King of SPAIN on his liberation, whereas he only,
repaired to the Spanish Court to resew his diplonsacia.
functions, which had been suspended. liflike manner,,
the a' a British Admiral in prcertdlng ast.ebtsa•
tainment for the King of Poarunaiywhisi 44 4:0-

a wish to visit the vessel, Is tortured into a feast to telex
trite thetestaration of hii bfAineihr to the plenitude of
his rights, The . Lind,.. VegeNo however, has now,
acknowledged that the-,statemetives incorrect, hod'
that the entertainment bad *go' pelitleal object what.

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ever. The following
LISBON, NOVEMBER
The Gazette gives an account of an entertainment
given by Vice-Admiral Sir Harry Neale, on board the
Revenge, to the King of Portugal, which it states was,
intended to celebrate the restoration of his Majesty
the plenitude of his rights, as inherited by his miser
tors; but is a succeeding number it states, that the pro►
ceding article was incorrect, the entertainment having
no political object, but being given only in conseciate
Of his Majesty having expressed a wish to see the ship,
where the Vice-Admiral of course received him with
the honours alwaykpaid to such illustrious visitors.
Majesty was accompanied by the Infants and Infant
and was received on board by the diplomatic body, awl
a splendid company of Ladiet. and Gentlemen: there was
a ball, followed by a magnificent collation at three
o'clock, of which above 200 persons partook. The
health of the King and the Royal Family, of the Kings
of Great Britain and Spain, and of the Allied Sove-
reigns, were drank with enthusiasm, the ships of war in
the harbour (except the Revenge) firing Royal salutes.
The dancing was then resumed, a profusion of refresh-
ments were presented, and his Majesty %skit his com-
pany left the ship at six o'clock.
The vessels in the harbour were handsomely adorned
with the flags of all nations, and the Revenge was-finely
illuminated.