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London, England, 1823-07-22 00:00:00

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TUESDAY. JULY, 22. 1625.
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STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 8.3 i to for Account, and
for Money $3, at which prices they remain steady up to this hoer.

FOREIGN FUNDS. -
Spanish Bonds opened this morning at 321, 1, at which price
they may be quoted up to the above hour, with a slack Market.
French Scrip 2k, with little doing in the said Stock.
Current Prices: New Spanish 52i 1, 'New Prussian 85} 1,
Russian 85} 1, Danish 88, Colombian 60 to 61, Neapolitan 70.
VIZTINA, July 7.—Metalliques 801—Bk. Sb. 925 3-sth.
B.—Metalliques 801--Bk. Sh. 9221.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2261/2-3 per (;t. Red. 83% 5/8 YB/3
3 per Cent. Cons. 82% 831A3 83
31/2 per Cts. 96 961/8-4. per Cts. Old 1001/z 5/8
4 per Cts. New 1015/8 3/4—Bank Lg. Ans. 211A31/4
India Stock 258 257--India Bonds 565. 58s.
Exclieq. (C 1,000) 295. 31s.—Small 295. 335.
Consols for Account 83 831 A 1/i.

The success or failure of the Spanish war has within
the last few days become wonderfully narrowed.—
The freedom of the Peninsula no longer rests on Spa-
nish valour, or attachment to the Constitution ; nor
is it to be expected from bad generalship, or disaffec-
tion on the part of the French. The great, the impor-
tant question, depends on—the exertions of the Morn-
ing Chronicle. On the Editor of that Journal it remains,
not oaly whether the Peninsula shall be freed from the
invaders, but what is of infinitely more importance,
whether Sir ROBERT WILSON shall be promoted from
the ranks of the Vigo militia to the station of a Lieu-
tenant-General of Spain. It is known that Sir ROBERT
entered into an engagement to furnish 10,000 men
to Spain. Now the Lieutenant-Generalship of Sir
ROBERT depends on his getting one-fourth of this
number; and the only recruiting officer is the Editor
of the Morning Chronicle, who communicates these
facts and his own responsibility, through the me-
dium of a letter addressed to himself, and dated
Corunna, July 13:

" Lc is now settled that Sir Robert is not to leave this town
duririg the expected siege.
" Sir R. has the rank of Lieutenant-General as soon as Me
fourth pout of the number the Legion proposed to contain is collected ;
therefore I hope we shall get 2,500 men from England—they
would save this country. The enemy are expected to be before
the town to-morrow. There is no fear—everything will go on
well, notwithstanding 'Morino is a rogue.
" For Gon's sake say whatever you can to get men sent to us
—recollect what depends now on 2,500 men. I would forfeit
my life if the country is not saved by it."
What a serious responsibility has•the Editor of the
Morning Chronicle thus incurred ; and with what
face can he ever talk of oppression, if he consigns a
dozen millions of people to all the evils of subjugation,
when he has the power to ens urc for them the blessings
of that supreme good, the Spanish Constitution !

One of the Morning Papers, in its usual way of
appropriating and adopting the intelligence, and even
the leading articles of the STAR, without"acknow-
ledgement, has inserted General VILLACAMPA'S Re-
port to the Minister at War at Cadiz, on the defec-
tion of his troops, which we gave exclusively last
evening, and insinuates some doubts of its authenticity.
To this we pledge ourselves; and, were we not assured
of its being genuine, we certainly should not enter-
tain any doubts on the subject from the argument of
our contemporary.
But we are particularly at a loss to know what the
Editor means when he tells us that " the measure
which VILLACAMPA called for and considered capa-
ble of putting an end to defection, was adopted at
the very time that this application was made." Now
ViLLACAMPA calls for no measure, unless, indeed,
that the Government of the Cortes should dissolve it-
self; and this is certainly not the measure which
the Morning Post allows as having been " adopted:'
VILLACAMPA speaks honestly—he finds his soldiers,
who have ample rations, no fatigue, no severe disci-
pline, deserting him ; and he comes boldly for-
ward and represents the alarming circumstances
in which he is placed. " The evil," says he, 44 in-
creases, and hope diminishes; and as every honour-
able man invested with authority cught to express his
sentiments with frankness, so I deem it to be my duty
never to cease impressing on the Government the
necessity of convincing the Cortes, that events shew
every day more and more, that the conduct they
pursue is in direct opposition to the manifest opi-
nions of the country."
He goes further, and declares that, " A large portion
of the people are convinced that it is the cause of a
faction which we defend, rather than the cause of the
liberal principles on which the Constitution is founded;
so much the more, as it is now openly observed, that
those who were most tenacious in their refusal of
coming to terms, and who, having been prevented
from forming a conspiracy, hastened the tempest
which is sinking the vessel of the State, have been the
first to place themselves individually in security

againg it.
If such is really the case in Spain, and there is
strong reason to believe that the Report of General
VILLACAMPA is not an exaggerated picture, it be-
of every true Spaniard to represent
comes the duty
to the Government, that the real cause of Spain not

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