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London, England, 1820-11-23 00:00:00

LONDON•

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1820.

THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOOKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 219%
3 per Cent. Reduced 6378 5,18
3 per Cent. Cons. 695/8 3/8
31 per Cent. 77 %a %
5 per Cent. Navy 1055/4
Long Annuities 177/8 13-16
India Bonds '26s. 275. pre.
Exchequer Bills 2s, Is. 3s. prem.
Omnium 1/4 dis.
Cons. for Acct. 69% 3A, Vs %.

All is conjecture as to what may take place in
Parliament this day ; and it is possible we may not
be able to learn the result in time for our publics•
tion, as the hour of meeting will, it is thought, be
late. The general opinion is, that the Com Mons will
be prevented from entering into any discussion on the
business which so long occupied the attention of the
House of Lords, by the intervention' of the Black Rod:
Whether any, or what effect will be produced on the
Meeting, by a step which has just been taken by liet
MAJESTY'S Attorney-General, Mr. BROUGHAM, a few
hours will disclose. Thar Gentleman has given regular
notice to the LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord CASTLE-
REACH, that the QUEEN means to send down a Mes-
sage to both Houses of Parliament this day. Some
persons are inclined to think that, after such an inti-
mation, Ministers will hardly venture to evade the
discussion of the Message, by reading the Commis-
sion to Prorogue; but the Prorogation having been
determined on, for the very purpose of preventing,
at this time, any discussion relative to the late pro-
ceedings, we are rather inclined to think that the
• Commons will be instantly summoned to attend in
the other House the reading of the Commission.

Extract of a letter from an Officer just arrived at
Portsmouth, from St. Helena, dated Portsmouth,
Nov. 22, 1820.
" I vtas at the house now tastefully fitting up .at
Longwood for 130NAPA RTE, and I certainly tt,:olt k
highly creditable to those who may have the diree:
tion of it. The centre, or receiving room, is 36 by
24 feet: there is a room at each end of it 24 feet
s inare; the apartments open into each other by doors
opposite, so as to form a promenade from one end
to the other. Every convenience, indeed I may say
luxury, has been consulted, as far as it can be at St.
Helena. I enclose you a Racing Paper • of the
Island, which you will perhaps think worthy of in-
sertion in your Paper. Races at St. Helena will ap-
pear to the Public, -or at any rate to those who are
aware of the hideous deformity of that barren rock,
rather a novelty.
"The cholera had greatly subsided on the Coro-
mandel coast—but now and then a case occurred ;
it had certainly of late assumed a milder character,
and was seldom fatal." _ .

• The Racing List shall have a place in our Sporting Intel-
ligence of to-morrow.

By the Harriet, arrived in the Clyde from Jamaica,
we have the following intelligence from Carthagena,
of the 4th of September:
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44 I have to inform you that Bolivar has arrived
at Turbaco, indicating pacific sentiments, which he
promulgated in dispatches sent by flags of truce to
our Governor. The answers were dictated in terms
of urbanity ; but he soon evinced by his invectives
against the Spanish nation, that he was acting with
the greatest duplicity towards every Royalist. He
challenged our garrison, which sallied forth at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon of the Ist instant, and almost
annihilated his Independents, only a few of whom
were enabled to effect their escape. Many of the
British troops who remained with the Independents
at the evacuation Of Rio de la Hache have fallen in
the conflict."

Madrid Letters and Papers have been received,
by express, to the 12th inst. together with the KING'S
Speech, read at the close of the Cortes, on the 9th,
of which we subjoin a translation. An official ar-
ticle announces that a general meeting of the. Share.
holders of the Philippine Company is to be held at
their Chambers in Madrid, on the ensuing 16th of

December, at which the Enlace Minister, CANGA.
is to assist, to take into consideratiOn
the Decree issued by the Cortes, on the 19th October
tilt. Accounts from Cadiz, of the 28th ult. mention
that the brig Diligent, with cochineal, cocoas and
specie, had arrived from Vera Cruz. The Constitu-
tion had been enthusiastically proclaimed in almost
every part of Mexico. In Cuba the elections for
Deputies to the Cortes were going on. A corps of
16,000 volunteers had been there organised and equip-

ped, at their own expense.
The 9th instant presented to the people the solemn
and interesting spectacle of the Prorogation of the
Cortes, the period for the recess having arrived. On
the meeting of the House two dispatches from the
Secretary of State were read, one notifying that the

KING was unwell with a bad cold and hoarseness;

and the other, that he had instructed his Ministers to

hand over to the President of the Cones the Speech
which, in conformity to the 123 d Article of the Con-
stitution, was to be read at the time of closing the
Cortes. Those articles relating to the formalities
with which the Sittings are to be opened and closed
were then read, which being ended, the Minister of
the Interior spoke as follows:—" The Congress has
heard the dispatch announcing that the Secretaries
of Government have received orders to place in the
hands of the President the Speech which his DIAt
JESTY. addresses to the Cortes. This is the Speech,

and I have the honour to present it."

The Speech was then read, and immediately after-
wards the President announced, " that, in conformity

to the regulations of the Constitution, the Cortes close
their Sittings this 9th day of November, 1520."
" A sudden and continued cry," adds the Gazette,
" restrained by prudent decorum, whilst the Sitting
lasted, and mixed with the most natural demonstra-
tions of the emotion which interiorly agitated the im-
' mense number of spectators, put an end to an act so
full of interest and tenderness in the eyes of all Spa-
niards; and the Public, who, from the 9th of July,
had not ceased to give the greatest proofs of a laud-
able moderation, could not then refrain from evin-

cing sentiments of acknowledgment and admiration
towards the Cortes, by breaking forth in loud and
reiterated applause."

When the Deputies entered the streets, they were
received with every token of regard and esteem, and
in the evening the City was brilliantly illuminated.
The Deputies were preparing to return, covered with
the benedictions of the Capital, to their respective
Provinces, where the heartfelt thanks of their con-
stituents equally awaited them. Thus terminated
the first sitting of the Cortes, which had commenced
under the most awful circumstances, but by dint of
firmness and perseverance, had overcome all op-
posing obstacles. The immense advantages gained
by their unceasing labours, it would be useless now
to recapitulate, but certainly their task bas been as
gigantic as ever fell to the lot of any body of as-
sembled Representatives.
-The Speech of the KING, of itself skews the false-
hood and folly of the rumours to studiously circu-
lated in the French Pints by the enemies of the Con-
stitutional order in Spain. It breathes a sincere frank-
ness that cannot be mistaken, and a firm determina-
tion to pursuenibe system which has been so happily
commenced, which, as a Constitutional Monarch,
must endear the Ewa . still more to his regenerated
subjects. .
SPEECH OF WS MAJISTF, RIAD DT THE BITTING OF 9TH NOVEMBER,

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-BY VIZ 111,131 DINT or Tin CORTES.

" Gxxxxestxx Dierrits—l have the satisfaction to manifest to
the Cortes the pleasure I derive from the result of the first pe-
rind of • their Sittings. During their continuance, I have fre-
quently experienced sentiments of regard, inspired by the zeal
and wisdom with which the Congress has laboured to consoli-
date the public felicity, and the lustre of the Throne, which is
inseparable from that of the Nation. I myself have promoted the
prorogation of the Sittings, as prescribed by our fundamental
laws, sensible ►hat the establishment of our political system, at
the beginning, requires more time and greater labours, and also
well convinced of the advantages of this prorogation, as regards
the progress of the important business of the anterior months. I
feel thankful for the generosity with which the Cones have pro-
vided for the wants and decorum of my house and those of the
Royal Family, and I cannot but applaud the frankness and jus-
tice with which, in solemnly acknowledging the obligations and
charges of the State, they have approved the indispensable means
of discharging them ; thus hying the foundation of our national
credit and future felicity.
* These wise measures, with others intended suitably to orga-
nize the land And sea forces, to facilitate the circulation of our
territorial riches, to remove all opposing obstacles, to establish a
plan of finance, such as may reconcile the interests of the State
with those of the People, have been objects of the incessant ap-
plication and continued exertions of the Congress, and rendered
them deserving of the universal estimation of Europe, and the
just gratitude of the kingdom. At the same time, I cannot but
assure you, that nay heart has been filled with gladness, en be-
holding the measures of prudent generosity and indulgence with
which the Cortes have endeavoured to heal the wounds.of the
nation, and efface the remembrance of the evils by which it had
been rent, opening the door of reconciliation to error and obsti.
nacy, and at the same time still leaving alive the sweet hope that
you will henceforward -continue animated by the same noble
sentiments, in order to cement the constitutional system on the
bases of fraternity and reciprocal love of all Spaniards.
* By this means the solid power of the nation' and of the
monarchical authority by which it is directed, go on increas-
ing; and at the same time that improvements in our inter-
nal situation are preparing, we acquire more founded rights to
the consideration of foreign Governments, all of which continue
to give me proofs of their friendly dispositions. Every day I
congratulate myself more and more on governing a People so
worthy and generous. I have co-operated in the glorious enter-
prise of their regeneration, and in the laudable efforts of the
'Cortes, through the proper means of the Royal prerogative. I
bsve dictated the measures suitable for the execution of the
laws, and I do not doubt time will give great force and vigour
to war institutions, and that those advantages which already be-

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