Star.
London, England, 1823-11-12 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR,.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY., NOVEMBER 12, 1:
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE. Twure.o.
Consols opened this morning at 831, and went up
with little doing.

The Exprts.ses from Paris this Morning bring the
at 89f. loc. and Spanish '2B.
The private letters by the Express state, that some
hews had arrived froth Spain, but the particulars bathe
The Spanish South American Expedition is now tl
of conversation in the City.
FOREIGN FENDS.

Spanish Bonds opened at 2.71, and went up to 2R, b
they declined to 27i, owinz to important information
Current Prices:—New Sparish 20, Old 271, C
New Poyais 5.

In all other Foreign Sectitisies titereds nothing
Or.wrocKsi AT ONE
3 per Cent. Reduced 8234 Vs •
3 per Cent. Cans. 831,4 Y 4 th per Cts. DO
4 per Cts. Old )9% .1/414.
per Cents. New 105% 104.
Bank Long Anr•. 29 15-1 E
Imperial S per Cents.Bl tl,
India Bonds 81s. 82s.—Seth Sea Slieck
ELLl3equer (11,000) s(is 48s.
Consols for Acct. Bfs-'4 1/2 1/4.

We think it map not be amiss, at the reesen
to recall to public recollection the Pi oclama
the KING of Spain issued in 1914, pledging
' establish, on the firm basis of law, the rig:
Throne, and "tke equally irmio!able r:',ghts of:
Now is the time for the Spanish Mos/tarn
that pledge.—Altliough we have never apps
late Constituti,mal scheme of Government, c
it one of the most crude, absurd, and
that was ever devised, yet there can be no qu
the right of the Spanish People to a red, a
free Constitution, founded on.their ancient lii
adapted to their pre,ent and future happi
Proclamation of ISI4 not only promises tbis,
out the mode, the only mode by which it ca
attained ; namely, by the Kistes deliberatini
portant. a subject with the Representatives
'tiOil legitimately assembled in Cortes.

. - -
Tne ancient Cortesnf Spain and Portugal,
General of France, and the Parliament of Eu
only so many diversified modes of Natior:;!
tation—so many Great Councils of the Realm
advice, and v ith whose assent, the KING, th
chief of the State, leas bound to act, in the d
his high let,idative functions. They repro
nation truly, by reptesentinp; the great nai
rests: and this was a far better safeguard
than if they had been chosen on the most c
sive system of Universal Stufrage ever devil
ingenuity or conceived by the foil; of our
'tart' Reformers, 1t has happened to us ev
outstrip our European competitors in the in.
of Representative Government, and we nor
Parliament, which answers its legislative put
fully, fairly, and effectually, than any simil4
does or can do in any other nation.

It is riot to be expected that the Cortes of
approximate in fitness and capacity to a bo
English representation, which has been so I
closely interwoven with the institutions, the
the interests of all classes in the State. Th
a difficulty in finding materials fur the fi
such a machine in Spain, and still greater
making the machine Work well, when once
Nevertheless, the trial must be made: the K
must be redeemed ; unless it be meant to tea,
that there is no seeurity in a Royal word--i
do not re,t on faith, or justice. or honour.

In our Yesterday's Paper we mnltioned ai
port which prevails, that Spain is fitting o
meat fUr the recovery of her South Aver
sions I The idea is so superlatively extra,
reader any serious contradiction unnecessar:

FERDINAND, who has not fends enoug
tain the state of a Sovereign, and to pay
of his Household, is, no doubt, eminent
to fit out an expedition of 20S:00 men
Journal, which furnished yesterday this
readers, under the imposing name, too, of
derived fiom the highest source of informs
consider the time and expense that would b
in getting such an armament ready for sea
believe, that all the shipping in Spain would
to the conveyance of so large a force, with
every kind requisite for so remote a des
will be recollected too, that one of the c;
late Revolution, was the repugnance of the
skipped efffo'r South America.

It will be remembered, that on the 23d
the French, without the previous intituatic
such occasions, commenced the bombardme
during which the residence of the KING
family was as much exposed to the shells
,other individual. On the following day, GI
LEMINOT addressed the subjoined letter
VALDES, Governor of the town, which was
'till the 26th:

" Port 9t. Mar
" Ilis Royal MiSiusesa the Prince Generalissimo
me to intimate to your Eseelleney, that hu makis al
ties o: Cadiz answerable for the life of the King
sully, as well a, for any attempt to convey bins avn
(pence wher. of, if any such crime should be com
he lleputies of the Cortes, the Ministers, the
State, the Generals, and all the public functionaries
Meat, token in Cadiz, shall WI put to the sword. Ire