Star.
London, England, 1820-12-08 00:00:00

SPAIN.

•
MADRID, NOVEMBER 22.
Their Majesties entered the capital this 'afternoon,
at four o'clock, on their return from their visit to-the
Escurial. They entered by the gate of St. Vin tent.;
the Garrison and the Natibnal Militia were drawn up
to receive. them s- the concourse of people was im-
mense, the evening being extremely
,fine. The air
resoidded with the cries of die Constitution for ever:

The new Minister of War, 'lion CayetanO Valdes,
has likewise arrived here.

• AVILA, NOVEMBER 18.

The judicial inquiry into the intended reaction. of
this Province is going on .with activity. The.zeal.of
our Intendant, the Political Chief, ad interim, iiinde-
fatigable. Besides the sersons arrested, of whom ari
account was given before, several others, to the num-
ber of tWeiity-siz, have been taken up, and among
them a Canon of Caraceas, who kept up a suspicious
correspondence, which has been discovered and an-
other person,
,who
.arrived to-day from Madrid, and
.was an Officer of the sup'pressed Chamber of Castile.
virixiitt A; NOVEMBER 18.
• The Political Chief has published a Proclamation,
in which he says, a•lialidful of factious persons •had
formed the criminal project of rebelling against our
.beloved King, and, against- the country in which they
had the happiness to be born. At the head of it were
,Guerque,.lis-Cornmandant of the Reserve of Canta-
bria, and Garmirra, Keeper of the Salt Magazine.
They began their horrible. purpose by stopping the
post at . the entrance of Avinez, in the night-of the
11th, and carrying otr almost all the correspondence.
As soon as this atrocious crime was kneswn, all the
inhabitants of this city testified their indignation, in--
chiding the old soldiers who resided in it, and eagerly
offered their faithful services. Their patriotism, and
the good. conduct of the Militia of this city,. have dis-
concerted the chimerical plans of these infatuated.
men, and in three days have taken ten of them, cilia
of whom- is The peFfidiousilatnarra,wha had .the,
boldness to stylehim.self Commander of tbe "%UM;
teers of Alava. . .
• The traitor Opetque, abando:lett by the Guards
whom he had stitteeded is .seducing by...deceitfttl
promises,. is *ink- -in tenor,. secompsWed by the
fanatic Priest of ForPnda and his servant, but they

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In the actual communication of the nation, it is
very necessary for the Public to be on their guard
against the suggestions of foolish partizans, which ,
may lead us to a precipice. What happened op the
14th is a proof Of it, thOulh, happily, no Misfertnne
resulted from it ; and it rather serred to spew more
clearly the good character of the Nation. befrom
us that system of requisition, signe:i by partizans, who
pretend to figure the voice cf the Nation. The poi..
tuguese nation is not comprised in 400, 600, 1,000,
or 10,000 persons, who at Lisbon, or any other place,
sign- that which they are persuaded (if they IchoW
what they signed) will be useful io the *hole Nation.
,(Thit mode of p,etitioninsz can take place only in who

concerns the particular interest of a Corporation, or
class, and can scarcely serve to point away to an ob-
ject, which seems useful or necessary, applying to'
the Government or to the National Congress, when
linked, that it may with mature deliberation and itn-
paraality take the most just resolution. The Govern-
ment has convoked the Cortes it has allowed that
the, election of the Deputies shall be made in the same
manner as practised in Spain, and which the Con-;
strt,:tron prescribes t the "OA belonging to the Cortes.'
The whole Nation has sworn to obey the Constitu-,
ti :,n which our Cortes shall make, and -not any fO-1
reign Constitution. By acting thus it acted with dig-
nity ; and is there a Portuguese, sing judgment
to.d honour, who would nut bf:lsietso have foreign
1- Akio; say, that, desiring to form a Constitution, we
tad not think that we possessed ability, or men of
talent capable of making a National Constitution,
and therefore adopted that of a foreign country?
We, 'wis with prudent .patriotism, desire to avail
ourselves of the productions of our manufactures
so I cur country—shall we be su inconsistent in the
tn pit essential point in the government of a nation,
,
ri
its Constitution, as to beg a foreign work ?
Let us take advantage of the good which we fixed in
o.l.ras, but not deprive ourselves of tl+e.g)ory
Laving a truly National Constitution. .Alxale re:
- fectlon will shew, that to adopt the Spznish Consti-
totion woeld 'be concurring in a perjury, and tying
tl.e hands of our Deputies, who art to discuss every
thing freely in the Cortes. If any one doubts of
what we say, let Wish remember the solemn oath
taken by the Nobility, the Clergy, the Tribunals; the
Army, in short, by all the orders of the State, to
" obey the Constitution which the Cortes should
snake, maintaining our holy religion, and the dignity
of the House of Braganzaa" Shall the Nation re-
tract such an oath so solemnly taken? The Portu-
guese Nation is not capable of such perjury. If
there was illusion or inconsideration in the act of the
11th, what we all saw was, that nobody approved
bat was proclaimed on that day ; and on the 17th,
if there were among the crowd, any who in-
cited some individuals to cry, " The Spanish Consti-
talon lor ever !" the Government did not answer
this expression, and the public indignation sheaved
itself sufficiently to restrain the enemies of the na-
tional honour. The basis of the Spanish Constitu-
tion may be admired for being liberal, but there are
others no less liberal, and this point is to be the ob-
ject of mature discussion by our enlightened Depu-
tics in the Cortes. Those writers who endeavour to
seduce the incautious and the ignorant into another
course, deserve no other name than that of incen-
diaries and enemies to the Portuguese Nation.

THE EVENINO STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1820.
TILE FUNDS.

The rise we anticipated has taken place, Consols I
being done this morning for the Opening at 71%,
bt:it,g a rise of one per cent. This advance is attri-
buted to 'Nations causes, but more particularly to an
arranenent emoted into between Government and
the Aselndia Con paily,--Three failures took place
yesterday, and ono this morning, of a Wtselndia
amount they have stopped for is immense.
• PRICKS TIM DAY AT ONE 0.4:L0CK.: •
tank Stock 223 A
3 pet (;eat. Reduced 701/4 3/4 70 701/4
3 per Cent. C9DS. shut. .
3i per Cent. 791/s 79-4 per Cast. 88% 88 -
5 per Cent. Navy shut.
Long Anns. 181/8 1-16—India Bonds 245. pr.
Exchequer Bills 3s. Is. 2t. dis.
Ditto sin tii 4s. pre.
Omniuni 17/8 2 1% pre.
Cons. for Opening 711/4 1/2 I/8.

It is impossible to speak decisively respecting the
determination of the Great Powers at Troppau, the
accounts are so directly contradictory. The King
of Pausal,. was to set out from thence on the 20th
ult: for Berlin. A letter from Heidelberg f.f the
25th ult. says, that Russia and Prussia have decided
to remain neuter with regard to the affairs at Naples.
In-the same letters, as well as from other quarters,
the expectation is still kept up, that an amicable ar-
raugemer.t will ultimately take place between Austria'
and Naples. Of the same complexion are letters of
the sth from Antwerp, received by mercantile houses'
in the City : one of these letters runs as follows—" We
should have been aide to fulfil your order for Prussian
Bonds at the price you mention, had it arrived on
tridayi instead of Saturday. But on that day we
got more pacific accounts from Troppau, and heard'
that the KING had left it to return to Berlin, and
therefore the Stocks advanced, and Prussia Bonds
were done at 81% to 81%; yesterday they went on
as high as 82, bat to-day they were again a shade
lower." Several private letters from Vienna bear also
a pacific aspect, and state that the Austrian Stock is
improving in value:
On the other hand, as we mentioned yesterday,
there nee letters in the City from Genoa, of the 25th
ultimo, at which time it was believed there that the
Austrian troops bad crossed the Po on the 20th, but
If this were true we think the fact would have been
confirmed by other accounts before this time. if we
may credit the Ultra-Royalist French Journals, the
Troppau Sovereigns have is iced the King of NAPLES
to appoint a place where their Majesties may confer
with him; but it is added, if the Kiwo declines the
,loasesiag, he will be considered by these Great Per-
sonages as under ~Rersonal restraint," and, they will
set-accordingly, or, in other words, make war upon
his States. We should not be surprised, singular as
this aay appear, to find that this star-AAA is not

entirely void of with. It would be just as convenient
for the 'Holy Allies, having"the person of the 41:40
in their possession, to make use of his name in Pro_
clamations against the Neapolitans as rebels and trade
tors, as it is for the new Government of Naples, or
those of Spain or Portugal, to use the names oftheir
respective Monarchs in publishing their new Edicts ;
but in defence of the latter, it is to be
-said, that the
old Governments invariably follow the same practice,
and, wore the new ones to follOw a different practice,
they might indeed be cal;ed innovators beyond all
endurance. We are the more inclined to believe that
what the Quolidienne calls an " invitation !" has ac-
tually been given to the King of NAPLES, to spend-a
few days in their good company, from the fact of a
British squadron being constantly kept in the Bay
of Naples—which might prove a very convenient
auxiliary in helping his MAJESI Y to take a little trip
from his capital, should he be so inclined, and allowed,
to take the opportunity. It was reported some time
ago, as our Readers may recollect, that this squa-
dron was desired to receive his MAJESTY and family
on beard, should he wish to enjoy an aquatic excur-
There may be no truth in either of these state-
nsentS;'hut let ft be recollected that, by giving such
invitations, none of the Great Powers would stand in
any way committed, should they, after all, find it
advisable not to attack the new Government, while
at the same time the possession of the Kt xo's person
—for whose safety and dignity they care as much as
la good housewife for an old scrubbing-brush—would
afford them some facilities, of which they would not
I fail to avail themselves—for their own ends.
In the scale of probabilities for a war, should also
be thrown a letter from Troppau, received yesterday,
via Paris, which says:-
- " Much manauvre and many reports have been prevalent for
days past with respect to the proceedings at this place; and yes-
terday I bad it from Lord S. that the conferences had terminated
with an understanding (espru), en the part of the five Great
Powers, to camel the restitution of the old order of things."
Lord STEWART is said to have presented another
important Note at Tr oppau, respecting the affairs of
the Two Sicilies, but the precise particulars of this
communication have not transpired.

We have given, in another part, sane' important
documents received from Lisbon. They throw a
more sober and considerate fight upon the events of
the 1 lth ult. than they bore when first communicated
to the Public. It appears, by what we can collect
from a State Paper published by the Supreme Go-
vernment, that TEXEIRA repents of his military in-
terference on that occasion, and renounces. on his
own part, and on tbat of the army, all right of con-
uoul over the measures of the Constitutional Go-
vetnment. Savteaw, late President of the Oporto
Junta, having resigned his seat in the Supreme Conn-
cil, has been escorted out of Lisbon, -add ordered not
to leave his estate without permission. The present
course, of which the Junta has intimated its adop-
&fp, is.tei have the Members of the Cortes chosen on,
the principles of the Spanish Constitution, and to
refer to the determinations of that body, when assem-
bled, every other point connected with the framing
of the National Government, and with the security
of public freedom.

We have received Papers direct from Naples to
the 18th ult. One portion of that division of the
army destined for the Abruzzi'had marched, and a
review of troops, amounting to 30,000 men, was
appointed for the 20th ; the whole of whom, it was
supposed, would immediately proceed also to occupy
a station on the frontiers. The messenger dispatched
to Madrid, to announce the opening of the Neapo-
litan Parliament, and the oath taken by the Kixo to
the new Constitution, returned on the 12th ; and, on
the following day, the Spanish Ambassador de-
manded a special audience of the KING, in which he
offered his congratulation on the happy event, which
had bound the two, nations with indissoluble ties.

We are sorry to perceive a statement in the De-
troit Gazette, of the 20th October, that hostilities
are still carried on between the Hudson's Bay and
North-West Companies.