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pointing to a laige bundle of papers, said he had
those documents ready for their inspection, relative
to the piracies in the western seas; and he was still
willing to chew them, or to any merchant of the city
who would wish to see them.

A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
who, in returning thanks, expressed himself gratified
that the proceedings of the Committee had met with
the approbation of the Meeting, and declared that all
future communications with the Admiralty should be
made in writing—The Meeting then adjourned.

TnE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1822.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Very little business has been done in the market up to this
hour. Consols are 82i for the Account, and for Money 821 1.
70/1.1.10N KAMM.
This being settling-day for all foreign securities, most of the
Brokers are busy in settling their accounts; and although the
fluctuations have been great, particularly in Colombian Bonds,
las well as other foreign Stocks, we do not hear, up to this hour,
of any defaulter. All foreign Funds appear steady this morning.
Current Prices :—Chilian 85, New Spanish 521, Old 84,
New Prussian 89, Old 89, Russian 881 to 89, Danish 911 to 92,
Neapolitan 821, Scrip 811, Colombian 88} 89, Scrip 89, Peru-
vian 861, New Spanish Scrip 4k.
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Little business doing, and the market remains as before, 821
for Money, and 824 for the Account.
roavax O'CLOCK.
Within the last hour, New Spanish has got up 1 per cent. and
there appear Bears of Spanish and Columbian, and both Stocks
are looking up. Spanish 1821, 73/.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2501 251
S per Cent. Reduced 81% Va
2 per Cent. Consols 82% 5/s
31/2 per Cents. 933/4-4 per Cents. 9914 3/8
4 per Cent. New 103% ith 1/4
Bank Long Annuities 20 13-16
India Bonds 50s. 52s.—South Sea Stock 931/Q
Exchequer Bills (U,000) 6s. ss. 7s.
Ditto small, 7s. 9s.—lndia for Acct. 257
Consols for Acct. 823 .

Madrid Papers to the 17th inst. have been received.
They are principally filled with the proceedings of
the Cortes, which are of considerable interest. In the
sitting of the 12th inst. the Minister of the Interior
presented an Expose of the State of the Nation, in
which he took a review, first of the causes which have
produced the present state of the nation, and next of
the remedies which, in the opinion of the Goveinment,
would be sufficient to lessen the evil. With respect
to the first object, he began by saying, that though
in all political changes some shocks are inevitable,
they are only momentary, and, as the wise provisions
of the Cortes had removed many of the obstacles
which were opposed to the public felicity, that con-
sequently other causes, more remote, must have in-1
fluenced the state of the nation. Among these may
be reckoned the ignorance and wretchedness of a
great part of the Spanish population—the excessive
influence of the Clergy in many parts—the indiffer-
ence with which some of the Magistrates and Autho-
rities, Civil and Municipal, have regarded the public
cause—the bad example of some of the Chiefs of the
Royal Guard—and the machinations of some foreign
agents. Ignorance is one of the greatest evils which
afflict the Spanish nation ; but in this particular the
Cortes have furnished a remedy by the dispositions
adopted in the general plan ; but, as the progress of
instruction is so slow, the good effects of their provi-
sions cannot be felt so :soon as might be wished.
The Minister next alluded to the disasters of the
war of independence, the devouring rapacity of the
Government of six years, the insurrection of the pro-
vinces beyond the seas, to the great ruin of trade and
industry, and the scarcity experienced in several pro-
vinces, as having occasioned the misery of many citi-
zens, which those wretches who sought to recover
the importance which the old abuses gave them, and
which they lost by the dominion of the law, have
taken advantage of, by misleading many unhappy
creatures who have been forced by necessity to enlist
themselves in the ranks of treason, in order to obtain,
at their own hazard, nourishment for their families.
The indifference and apathy of the Magistrates and
the Civil and Municipal Authorities, the mutiny of
the Royal Guard on the 7th of July, and the influence
of foreigners, were next noticed. The latter, he said,
have never ceased to sew disunion and promote dis-
cord even among the lovers of liberty themselves.
He next stated, that the Government, before pro-
ceeding to indicate the measures it would propose in
order to remedy the evils, insisted on the necessity of
granting the supplies of troops and money for which
it had applied in its previous memoirs. He after-
wards presented to the Cones various propositions,
Which may be reduced to the following :
That the Cortes occupy themselves In fixing the destiny of
the Clergy.

That the salaries of those Ecclesiastics who are deprived of
their appointments for disaffection to the system, remain at the
disposal of the Government, except what is absolutely necessary
for their subsistence.

That the Government be authorised to remove from their
situations to others, those Ecclesiastics mentioned in the law of
the 99th of June ; and to remove to other points the unemployed
and the superannuated, who shall not have the power to excuse
themselves by renouncing the salary.
That every person who may receive a salary from the Govern-
ment, who does not present himself against the rebels, when the
town in which he resides is occupied in defending itself against
them, shall forfeit two.thirds of the same.
Thu those towns which neglect to defbnd themselves when

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the rebel troops by whirls they are attacked amount a*
third pert of their population, shall provide subsistenee foe the
troops destined to occupy dins.
That the Government be enabled to smispatd the Authorities
whose movements have been tardy, and to replace them by the
former Officers who may deserve confidence.
That, as it is not just that the conspirators against the system
should enjoy its advantages, the Cortes should declare, that the
case foreseen by the article SOS of the Constitution, on the arrest
of the insurgents, has occurred.
That the losses sustained by.the friends of the system, in con-
sequence of the acts of the insurgents, be indemnified at the ex-
pense of the latter, by means of pecuniary fines.
That the Government.be authorised to remove the Military
Chiefs.
That the proposals respecting the Magistracy, made by the
Council of State, be cumin,.
That persons appointed by the Government to any office be
obliged to accept it, under pain of being disqualified for the ob-
taining of any other, of being deprived of their commissions if
they are military persons.

That the establishment of Patriotic Societies be encouraged,
and that they be regulated for the prevention of abuses.
That those representations be provided in the Theatres which
are calculated to excite a love of morality and of liberty.
That a public testimony of national gratitude be presented to
the Magistracy and National Militia of this heroic city, to its
gallant Garrison, and to the Generals and the rest of the Pa-
triots who defended the liberties of their country on the 7th of
July, extending the same to all the Corps of the Army, and of
the active and local Militia, which have given proofs of their
attachment to the national cause.

After a brief discussion, the Report was ordered to
be printed, and referred to the consideration of a
Special Committee. _

In the Sitting of the following day after a Depu-
tation of the Cortes had congratulated the KING on
his birth-day, the Report of the Committee on War
on the Memorial of the Secretary was then read.
The Committee (says the Report) conceive that it
would be offending the wisdom of the Cortes to pro-
ceed to specify the facts which prove that the re-
sources for fomenting the insurrection issue from the
French frontier. The conversion of the sanatory
cordon into an Army •f Observation must likewise
convince the Cortes that the period has arrived
when the Spanish nation must assume an imposing
attitude, since the means hitherto adopted have been
insufficient, as is abundantly proved by the Memorial
of the Secretary at War. Finally, the Committee
proposed, that the Cortes availing themselves of the
powers conceded to them by the Constitution, should
grant to the Government for the permanent army an
augmentation of 29,769 men, and a remount of 7983
horse, which was agreed to.