Star.
London, England, 1825-11-14 00:00:00

WYKE TIOUSE, IMENTFORD END.

Capital LIVE and DEA D FARMING STOCK, the Fittings
up of a BRE:WM/USE, DAIRY uTENsti.s, handsome
PONY C/IA ISE, Excellent IRON PARK ROLLER,
Old Iron, and oilier Effects.
TO B 1 SOLD BY AUCTION,
By 11Ir. ROBINS,
(Of Warwick house' Regent-street), • •
At the Mansion, Wyke House, Sion-lane, Breinford End,
Oa Wen's/sitar, the 16th November, I if2s, at Eleven o'Ciocl.
By Ord.,. of EDWAIID ELLICE, Esq. M.P.
1111 E LIVE and DEAD FARMING STOCK ;
comeinneo,
Five Excellent Cows, about Fourteen Load of Capital Meadow
Hay, Two Stacks of Faggots, Iron Park Roller, excellent choir-
hedied Town Cart, and (lay Cart, Thal, and TI Act. Harness,
handsome railed-body Pony Chaise, the Fittings up of a Br. w-
house, consisting a Cimilers, Mash and 'rum 'rubs, the Brick and
Iran work erection of Boiler, Copper, and Iron Pumps, a large
Iron Water Tank', old Ranges and Stoves railed !ton hates and
Doors, Dairy Utensils, a Patent Box Mangle, and one other, and
I.varioes other at ticks. _ _ _ • _

May be viewed on Monday and Tue,day preceding the Sale;
yd Catalogs eshad at the Manaion ; at the Star and airier, Kew
Bridge; Coach and ilnrwi. &entitled ; White I 'art, Soathail ;
at liatraway's; and of Mt• Itobnit, 179, liesent-Dtte,t.

FILONI tiATURDA Y NIGH IS GAZETTE
CARLTON HOUSE, Novo mim a 11,1225.
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This day, Mr. Rufus King. Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States of Ann rice, and Serie'.
Hurtado, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary fmm
the Republic of Colombia, had audiencei of his Majesty to deliver
their credentials; to which they were respectively introduce.i
by the Right I lonourable George Canning, his Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by S.r
Robert Chester, Knight, Master of the Ceremonies.
BANKRUPTS. •
Joseph West and Rubert Doren, Golden square, tailors, to sur-
render November 19, 26, and December 24, at twelve, at the
Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basingliall-street. At-
. tornies, Messrs. Bo:Anson and Hine,' Charter-house-square.
William Illizard, Petersham, Sorrey, butcher, November 06,29,
and December 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of
Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attotnies, Messrs. Hume and
Smith, Great James-street, Bedford-row; or Messrs. Smith
and Son, Richmond.
Thomas Mundey, late of Great Marlborough-street, cheesemon-
gctoe,rbru:retNy:omf:c;.bmisnmell
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Samuel Finery, Harleedun Green, Harrow Road, bricklayer, No-
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Moon-street,
lailbilt-cescrttasresdee,intie: Athe
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and
24, at elev n, at the Office of Mr. Woodburn, Preston. Attor-
nree, Mr. Norris, John-street, Bedford-row; or Mee Woodburn,
Pe eston.
John EA le, Liverpool, corn-dealer. November 29, 30, and De-
cemb.-r 24, at cue, at the York Hotel, Liverpool. Attorters,
Mr. Edward Chester, Staple Inn; or Messrs. Morecroft and
Fowl. r, Church-vice:, Liverpool. •
Samuel Orton, late of Atherstotie, Warwickshire, woolstapler,
November 22, 2%, and December 24, at eleven, at the Red
Lion Inn, Pinwell, Leicestershire. Atiortnes, Messrs. Fleming
alid Baxter, Gray's Inn-glace ; or Mei ars. Smith' and Baxter,
A therstone, Warwickshire.
Elizaheth Button and William Sparrow, Margaret-street, Caren-
dish-squire, upholsterers, a:iiveinber 19, at twelve, 26, and
December 24, et ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank-
rupts, 113.1%iiszball-street. Attuntey, Mr. Parker, Dyer's-build-
ings, I lolleirn.
Thomas Goodyear, Aldersi;ate-street,strawshat-manufacturer,No-
vember 15, at eleven, 26, at two, and December 24, at one, at
the Court.of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Liasinghallistreet.-
Attornies, Messrs. Birkett, Tayair, and Cos, Cloak-lane.
George Townley Watt, Ohl-street, St. Luke's, linen-draper, No-
vember 19, 26, and December 24, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basiughallistreet. Attorney, Mr.
William Jame, Welhrook.
Edmund Jupp, Camden Town, builder, remember 26, December
3 and 1:4, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank-
rupts, liasingliall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Saunders and Bai-
ley, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. r.
Alfred Vincent Fulljemes, Judd-street, Bruner/1e -square, linen-.
draper, November 19, at ten, 26, at eleven, 'December 24,
at ten, at the Court of Commissioner of Hanle Basinghill-
street. Attorney, Mr. Farris, Surrey-street, S.rand.
William Williams and \Villiers Scott, Broad-court, Long Acre,.
wine.merchants, November 19, at one, DeceMber 5 and 24, at
ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankruyts, Basinghall-
street. Attornies, Messrs. Jay and Ryles, Gray's Inn-place.
James isle:wards, Thames Bank, near Vauxhall Bridge, irtmfoun.
der, November 15, at one, eti, at two, and Decentber 24, at
one, at the Court of Cummissimers of Bankrupts, Baeinghall-
street. Aturney, Mr. Chuter, Water-lane, 1.11-cetri.ts.
William Giles, Heston, Middlesex, dealt r, Novemb,r 15, at eleven,
26, and December 24, at twelve, at the Court of Commiseloners
of Bankrupts, liasinghall-street. Attorney, 111.. Jaynes Relay,
Clement's kn.
:tiller, Fresh IVhatf, Lower Thanietteereet, warehouse.-
man and agent. November 19, at eleven, eti, and December £4,
at ten, at the Court of Commissiievers of Bankrupts, Basing.,
hail-street. Attornies, Messrs. J. end S Pearce, St. Swithin S-
lane, Lombard-street.
Charles Buchanan, Woolwich, shoe-maker, November 19, 26, and
December 24, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Henke
rupts, street. Attorney, Mr. George Score, Token-
house yerd.
DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. •
Left at the Bank ropt Odic?, under Act G Geo. IV. cap. 16, sec. 6.
'Moines and Juha Dees., Castle street, Holbont, stationers and
printers, are in insolvent eircum.rances, at.d unable to meet
their ertgagemeets with their cre:e;iturs.-Fe!ed, Nov. 9. ,
Prunus Milligan, Ilenwey-sneer, Oxford-street, haberdasher, is
in insolvent circumstances, and tin.ible to meet his engagements
with his cretinous.- Filed, Nov. 11.
Henry Stratton, Lt.: of Cnapel Piece, Stratford, wine-merchant,
is in insolvent circumatacc s, and unable to meet his engagements
with hie creditors.-Itiled Nov. 11.
DIVIDEN to he t01..1e 111 liASI NGI-lAI. 1.-ST E.I?.T.
Dec. 5, Gerardus A lbertus Ten Bruggenkate and Thomas Henry
Payne, Fencleurch.buildinge, Fenchurch street, merchants, at one.
Dec. 3, John Edwertle, late of Bund-street, merchaet, at ten.-
Dec. 5, John Foulkes, Cheltenham, haberdasher, at ten. Dee.
go, Peter and Sentuel Peter liougletoo„Skinner street, Scow-itill,
Issithei-sellers, at twelve. Dec. in, Thomas Ruben Gregg and
William Pliene, jun. Woling.strett, confectioners. at clime/1.--
Francis Powell, Forest's Wharf. Ead.strect, Blackfriars, con,-
factor, at ten. Der- 3, George Henry Gibbons, Finch-lane, Corn-
' MR, merchant, at one. We. 5, George Thomas Wright, Piccadilly,
b omitortger, at eleven. Dec. 5, John Tomlinson, Bedfordbury, wool.
len-draper, at eleven. Dec. 6, Jou.sthaa Feuturn, Stratei,skopkeeper,
at twelve. Dec. 3, Ilenjansin Skelton, Greenwich, shopkeeper, at
eleven. Dec. 5, James Sparkes and Aaron Cul. a, Portland street,
Mary-la.boine,cu chmakers,at twelve. Dec. 3. William Haylett,
tithe Windsor Castle, Hammersmith, victualler, at twelve.
at the
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dice of Mr. Thomas We.teZe Mewelsley, Soliceor, Doran's-lane,
Dec. 7, trieliVwai tpdEßuriNll)tsbeteo,
Liverpool. Dec. 6, Thomas l farmland, Manchester, victualler, at
ten, at the Star Lae, Manchester. Dec. 6, Henry Lambert, Barn.
oldswick, Yorkshire, cotton manufacturer, at one, at the Star Inn,
Manche eer. Dec .10, Henry Back houee, Lee Is, druggist, at eleven,
Ilt the Sessions House, Leeds. Dee. 2, Joseph Wreaks, Sheffield,
SIM manufacturer, at twelve, at the. Commercial Inn, Sheffield.
CERT I FICAT ES -Due S.
George Grunshaw, Blackburn, Lancashire, grocer. Mark Henry
Steward, Long lane, Bermondsey pump and engine maker. Samuel
Ferry. High-street, Shoreditch, tripeman. Benjamin Haigh and Eli
Whiteley, Leeds, dyers. Willi. to Hugh Jones, Croydon, coal-
merchant. Matthew Lough, alinories, chyraiet. John Diatom; •
Fish-street hill, wholesale haberdasher. John Grimwuud, Horton,
carpenter.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIPS.
John Gilbert and John Gilbert, jun. Northiani, Sussex. grocers.
Wiliiant Page and Jane Page, Farnham, victuallers. Robert Sd.
Ashby and Ikmanain Shaw, Lombard-street, engravers. Ralph
Foster and Samuel Ailed, Church street, Shoreditch, boot and shoe
makers. Richard Wader and James Lovegrove, Cheltenham, cabi.
net-makers. Mark Holmes and William Jordan, Lards, builders.
Thomas Handley and Thomas Wing, Gray's In-square, anoraks.
Pet.er Knowles and Thomas Williamson, Ferrule*, Derbyshire,
gunpowder-manufacturers. Henry Etlythorp Robson and Geotge
Harrison, Liverpool, cotton brokers. William Columns and John
Couzens, Bruton, Somersetshire, butchers. Hannah Farces and
Abraham Ferrer, Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstaplers. Henry Fase,
Benjamin Wed, and James Fauns, Hanway-street, Oxford-street,
tailors (so far as regards Henry Ease). George Kitchen and
Thomas Hill, Brambam, Yorkshire, blacksmiths. Jahn Adams
owl Joseph Morton, Manchester, accountants. Thomas Thwaita,
sen. and Thomas Thwarts, jun. King's !lead-court, Gutter-lanr,
✓iband-waterers. Frames Roves and Model Rogers, Hotwells,
Clifton, Gloucestershire, carpenters. Thomas Whiney and WI.
lam g glar d. Bii.gley, Yorkshi e, corn-ru .Lars.
General Weekly Average of the Price of British Corn, "ALA
governs Importation, made up to the sth of N. ember
Wilco 655. 3d. I Oats 265. :9d. Beans 46.5. id.
Barley 415. lid. Rye 415. sel. I Peas 554.
The A veragy Price ot Brown or Muscuvaeo Ste ar
(rims •the Item ns mole in'the Week ending the 9th
vember, 1'125, is 41s. 101 d. per cwt 'es luerve of the dui
teems pawnor pay.ble distr.:oll WI the import.tion

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LONDON.

*MONDAY, NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 14, 1823.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock 223
31.er Cent. Ited. 85 % 14
3 per Cent. Cons. 861/2 34 14 'A
3k per Cent. 9374
31 per Cent. Red. 9314 1/4
4 per Cent. New 10278 103 102% 103
Long Ann. 20% 54
India Bonds 10
11,000 Excheq. Bills 1 2 prem.
4.:500 ditto 1 3
4.:I(X) and 1:200 ditto 4 6
Cons. for Acct. 861/2 3/s 54 14
EXCHANGE:4.

. MA DE. PAID.
Anglo Mexican sprn. , 100 30 SS
Bolance 400 25 SO
Hayden lo 100 5 21
kyalStannaryBc/kit.Min.Au. 5 1
lrsyal Waldeck 100 1 11/
South Wales 100 2 i t
Tywarnhale 25 3 1
rnited Alexican

40 20

Ditto New 40 10 2.1 20 21
Marine Alliance 100 5 6 4
British Iron Company - 100 25 174 i 17 4
lkitials !lock & Patent Salt: 10 6 9
•:.........

The Consol Market opened at 881 1 for the Account, and for
next time 861 /, with very little business transacting; the Market
appears heavy.
The Foreign Market Is very slack, and but kw Buyers either in
Foreign Securities or Shares.
Current Prices: Austrian 941 95, Brazil Scrip 10 93 disc.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 80 83, Colombian Bonds 701 701, Danish
Bonds 641 3, Greek Bonds 2.31 24, Mexican Scrip 103 j, Russian
911, Spanish 113 3, Guatemala 53 1 discount.
rt:lcit OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.

Ilausuacn, Nov. 8.-On London, 35. 7. 2 Us. 35. 4.
Sr. l'zzangsuaan, OCT. 25.-On London, 10 j.
Lziestc, Nov. 4.-On London, 3 M. 4. I3j.
%zits, Nov. 5.-On London, 3 M. 6. 244.
CARISTIANA, Ocr. 22.-On London, 3 M. 4. Sp. Dell. 96 Sch.
FRENCH FUNDS, Pasts, NOVIDISER. 11.
Five per Cents. . . . 981. 60c.
Three per Cents. . . . 66f. 60c.
Bank Stock . . . 21101.
Writes de Naples Certif. Falconnet 841. 35c.
Royal Spanish Loan, 1823 . . 494.
Haitian Loan . . . 835 f.
Exchange on London, One Month 251.
Three Months . . . 24f. 110 c.
FOREIGN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK.
Austrian Rds 5 p Ct. Ilex.S.crip,lll2s, 101 j 1 111 dis.
Brazilian Bond, Ditto Acct. 101 Ilj 4 4 dis.
1)o. Sctip,spC.lll2s, 101 j dis, Neapolitan Bonds.
Ditto Acct. 10 91 101 dis. Ferny: Bonds, 6 pC.
Buenos Ayres Bonds DAtoScrip,lB2s, 6 pC.
Milian Bonds. 6 p Ct. Poituguese Bonds
Colombian litli,GpC. Prom. Ws. 5p C.
Ditto Acct. 1)0. Bonds, 1822,
Do. Bonds 1824, 701 5 i 70 691 Ru55.11d5,1822,5 pC.
Ditto Acc. 701 j j 70 691 Ditto Acct. !i4
Danish Bonds, S p Ct. Span. 5 p C. Cons. 1111
Du. Dierks Banco Ditto for Ace.
Ditto Bonds. 1825, Ditto 510
Greek lin& Span.s p. Cr. C. 1823,
Dit.8d5,1325 Spe. 231 24 French Renter, 5pC. 991.25 c.
Ditto Acct. 23i 24 Frenchßentes„ip C.
hlex. Bonds, 66 651 Exchange. 251. sc. 10c.
Ditto Acct. 66 63‘ 66 Guatemala Scrip, 51 165 dis.
Dalkools,lB2s, 9 p Ct. 7S 74/ Ditto Acct. 51 1 dis.
Duo Acct. 711 74 Russian Inscript. 8 p Ct.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARF.S, TWO O'CLOCK.

his universally believed, by the best informed in
Paris, and by many in this country, that Mr. Huesca-
SON, while in that capital, had assiduously exerted his
utmost endeavours to dispose the French Government
to relax the prohibitory laws, which now prevent the
free importation of British productions into the French
markets, in the same manner as England, of late years,
has voluntarily come firward to facilitate the commer-
cial intercourse of the two countries, by freely admitting
the manufactuies and native productions of France.
We are sincerely concerned, but not much surprised, to
find that these exertions have been wholly unavailing.
But when it is considered, that the light of commercial
knowledge, and the benign influence of the arts of peace.
ate as yet only dawning upon the French horizon, we
must be content to wait until better councils, founded
on a sense of the real interests of Francs, shall compel
lite Government and people of that country to lay aside
their prejudices.
We are well aware that no hopes had hitherto been
entertained of any Commercial Treaty. The over.
whelming superiority of our hardware and cotton ma.
nufactures, had already sufficiently alarmed the French
workmen ; through their influence the ancient prejudices
of that unthinking people were so excited, that an
insurrection, in all probability, would have been the
consequence of so relaxing the prohibitory laws.
All this was perfectly well known to our Government
when the laws were passed for admitting French laces,
silks, and cambric:, into the English markets, and when,
the duties on French wines were so materially reduced.
It is not to be supposed, therefore, that the
willing or unwilling refusal of the Cabinet of
CHARLES the Tenth, to adopt reciprocal measures
for facilitating the fair competition of English produc-
tions in France, will induce our Government to depart
from the liberal policy. they have commenced. Nelens
Tolens, the French Cabinet will, as we humbly conceive,
be compelled, in a short time, to follow the very same
course which• they now refuse to- pursue. French
commodities cannot for any period, or to any amount,
be received into this country, without British goods to
an equal amount in value finding their way into
France. If the laws of that country prohibit their
direct and open importation, they will only be the
subject of a more enlarged contraband trade? And
when the wants of a whole nation are attempted to be
controuled by fiscal regulations, we have seen, by the
example of BONAPARTE, that no army, however
owerful, is capable of enforcing them: Supposing
that all the French goods consumed in England
are to be paid for in gold, this gold must have
been procured in exchange for British manufac-
tures, and when bartered for French goods, it remains
not in France, but is immediately exchanged for other
commodities, and will return to England as surely as,

maw

the currents of the ocean pursue their career, whenever
the price of, gold risei in the markets of this country.
When it so returns, the value which attracts it must be
the productions of British industry.
Thus the circuitous trade with France by means of
the precious metals is only detrimental to the French
merchant, whose commodities would have found a
readier and more profitable return in a direct trade.
This circumstance will necessarily compel him to
resort to the contraband importation. And, indeed,
at this moment, in despite of all the efforts of the
French Douane, there is not a point on the coast of
France at which British goods may not be landed
for a very trifling premium, which, after all, is paid by
the French consumer. We, therefore, have only to per-
severe in the policy we have commenced. Not a French
cargo can ever be sold in Britain, but its equivalent in
British manufactures, must of necessity, either directly
or circuitously, leave these shores ; for how else is the
French seller to be remunerated, seeing that we have
here no mines of gold or silver? Obvious as these
truths are to the meanest, capacity, it is not the less
certain that they have no effect on the prejudices of a
French Minister, as we happen to be able to illustra.e
by a remarkable fact.

About seven or eight years age, a Company of
British Capitalists offered to supply the city of Paris
with water, in the same manner as the Water Compa-
nies in London, on very reasonable terms. Their agent
and engineer was the ingenious and celebra•ed Mr.
Batten., himself a Frenchman, but well known and
justly esteemed in this country, for his admirable inven-
tion of the block machinery at Portsmouth, and the
sawing mills at Chatham, and for his projecting and
carrying on the Tunnel now in progress below London
Bridge. Mr. BRUNEL was received with all respect
and cordiality by the French Government. They ad-
mitted most fully the great importance and obvious
utility of the proposed water works, but candidly in-
formed him that ne Minister in France could sanction
the undertaking, if the iron pipes were to be imported
from England. It was urged that the iron-masters of
France could scarcely supply the smaller distributing
pipet ; but that, unless the main iron work came from
England, the execution of the plan was impossible. This
reason, however, was of no avail, and the proposal fell
to the ground.

The French Papers of Friday, and the Wolk of Sa-
turday,have reached us. They contain some news from
Spain, which we have inserted in another column. An
article from Marseilles states, that the plague has been
extinguished in the Lazaretto; no new case had occur-
red, and the two infected persons were completely cured.
The crews of various ships which were mentioned as
having had cases of plague while at Alexandria, had
been in a very satisfactory state of health since their
arrival. Several of these ships had been already ad-
'mined into the port, and Te Dettns had been celebrated
in the chapel of the Lazaretto.
The Journal des Debate of the former day contains a
most enlightened address, presented to the King of the
NITHERLANDS by the Catholic Clergy of the Grand
Duchy of Luxemburg, in recommendation of those
institutions for public instruction which his Majesty
has just erected, and which the Archbishop of MICH LIN,
at the head of the ullrainontane portion of the Belgic
Church, had so publicly denounced and condemned.
" The decree of the 14th of June," says this address,
" has fulfilled the hopes of those Catholic Priests who
are sincerely attached to the doctrines of their 1-1,4
Religion. Those of the Grand Duchy who present
their respectful homage, see in it a new cause of pros-
perity to the Catholic Church. In all civilized States,"
it adds, " instruction spreads with astonishing rapidity.
Letters, sciences, and the arts, become accessible to all
classes; and shall that which by its essence is called to
diffuse the knowledge most necessary to the human
race remain behind ? Such an order of things is
evidently subversive of the spiritual and temporal
welfare of man." The whole of the address is written
in the same spirit of submission to the Government
and respect for public instruction.

This forenoon we received Hamburgh Papers to the
10th inst. but they contain no intelligence of much po-
litical interest. It appears, by an article from Stockholm,
that the King of SWEDEN is in some measure imitating
the commercial policy of the British Government ; and
it is stated that the new T.itiff of Customs will be more
liberal than that now in force.

In Denmark there has been lately much discussion on
the pecuniary situation of the Clergy, who have found
an advocate in Count HOLSTEIN, who is said to have
demonstrated that, in similar circumstances," the clergy-
man is much mole burdened with taxes than the far-
mer, and that it is, therefore, highly desirable that some
relief should be afforded the servants of religion. The
first opportunity (he says) now offers for such a benefit,
since, next year, the 10th centenary of the introduction
of Christianity in Denmatk is to be celebrated ; for
it was in 826 that King HAROLD BLANZAHN, in his
journey to the Emperor LEWIS, was the first Dane who
was baptised at Ingelheim, and brought back with him
ANGSARIUS, the Apostle of the Danes." The Count
observes, that it would be a most suitable act of justice
to take this opportunity of relieving the clergy from
the oppressive burden of worldly cares.

The policy of the Spanish Government is quite para-
doxical, and frequent as the change of Ministers is, yet
there is no essential change in the system, owing, no
doubt, to there being a power which, either sectetly or
openly, thwarts or directs the measures of the Minister
for the time being. M. ZCA was, we doubt nor, inclined
to as much moderation,' as any Minister in Spain.
At present will dare to do; titid we have a proof of this

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in the vigour he displayed in putting down the revolt of •
Bess' ertss. It is further stated, in an article from Madrid,
which will be found in another column, that the same
Minister diJ not arrest 14 other persons, though orderej
by thelClNca,oir the pretext that modes ation was necessary.
111 L ZEA, however, not having sufficient personal or
family influence, and having the Apostolic part; against
him, could not carry into effect the measures he con•
templated, and he has been dismissed, though not as is
usual on such occasions, being banished or disgraced.
On the contrary, he retired with the approbation of the
Kiso, and the confidence of his successor, the Duc
DE L'INPANTADO, who is said to have had a long con-
ference with M. ZEA on the subject of BESSIBRES' con-
spiracy, and to have been fully satisfied with the expla-
nations he gave.
There is another act of the new Spanish Minister
which tends to prove, that at least so far as =late' to
foreign affairs, his views and those of his predecessor
are not much at variance. This is the publication by
the Duc DE CINPANTADO, of a. Royal Decree, dated
during the administration of M. ZEA, confirming the
amnesty granted by the Cortes in October, 1820, to the
rebels of South America," as they are called. It is
true the amnesty is not worth the paper on which it was
written, but it is certainly curious to see it promulgated
under such circumstances.

It is still more extraordinary to see a Minister of the
party to which the Duc de LIISFANTADO is known to
belong, reviving the memory and confirming the mea-
sures of the Constitutional Government of Spain. We
wish we could state that this gave grounds to hope
that Spain, having thus absolved her late subjects from
revolt, will follow up the measure by recognizing what
she can never prevent, their independence. Of this,
however, at present there is no prospect; an expedi-
tion, small it is true for the object, has recently sailed
from Ferrol for the Havannah, and there seems little
doubt that General Cauz, who commanded in Mexico
for ten or twelve years, is about to proceed to rake the
command of them.

It is well known that, during the first years of the
insurrection in South America, it was marked by acts
of cruelty scarcely less atrocious and revolting than
those attributed to PIZARRO and ALMAGRO in the con-
quest of Peru. General Cans was not behind either
any ancient or modern warrior, civilised or savage, in
the severity of his measures. He held a command in
the province of Guadalajara as early as 1811, and his
Proclamation, dated February 23, in that year, " im-
poses the punishment of death on all persons, of what-
soever class or condition they may be, who, within 24
hours, do not deliver up all arms, even including axes
and knives."

Another article in this sanguinary edict, orders that
a tenth of all the inhabitants shall be shot, of every
town supplying the insurgents with provisions, or hold-
ing any intercourse with them, even though it be
between father and son.

The General was not slow in enforcing the decree,
but it is necessary to add, that cruelties at this period
of the war, were not confined to the Royalists, but
marked the conduct of some of the insurgent Chiefs;
it may, however, be observed, that the recollection of
the cruelties of General Cssuz is not likely to diminish
the determined spirit with which he will be encoun-
tered, should he land in Mexico, which is said to be
his destination.

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