Star.
London, England, 1821-05-21 00:00:00

SITTING OF THE 6TH OF MAY.

The Committee brought up the outline of the An-
swer to the king. It is in substance as follows:
" The Cortes have learned with much grief the crime which
has just taken place; but the Government is invested with the
power and the means necessary to provide for good order.
" The Cones are confined by inviolable limits to the facul-
ties of a Legislative Body, and can only set the example of re-
spect to the laws.
" The diplomatic relations which your Majesty maintains
with other Powers, allow us to believe that a single fact will
not suffice to give them an unfavourable opinion of our new
Institutions."

General QUIROGA asked why so much bustle was
made about the murder of a priest, when the indivi-
duals who assassinated two constitutional soldiers of
the regiment of Seville, so far from being punished,
have not even been discovered. M. Quiroga declared
that the King is surrounded by perfidious Counsellors,
who conceal the truth from him.

Count TOR R ENO remarked several important omis-
sions in the Answer proposed, which, for instance,
passes over in profound silence the scenes of disorder
which have filled all the great cities of the Peninsula
with terror.

M. GOLFIN made a vehement sortie against the
Ministei s. He accused them of having counselled
the King not to shew himself to the People, and with
having suggested to him the antipatriotic idea of
haranguing the troops, to animate them to defend his
person. The Honourable Member then moved,

" That a new Committee be appointed to draw up another Ad_
dress, which may make the King acquainted with the real causes
of the event in question, and of all the evils whichaffect the &ate.'
The new Committee was named.

We have received the Madrid Paper called El
Unimrsel, which, in addition to the above intelligence,
contains the correspondence of General Morillo, on his
being appointed Captain-General of New Castile. A
letter from the General to the Minister at War, dated
the 4th instant, states, that he had on the preceding
night, at twelve o'clock, received the King's order to,
take upon himself the command of the Army and
Province of New Castile. He earnestly begs that he
may be permitted to decline this high office, for the
duties of which he considers himself unfit. Among
other reasons, he urges the necessity of the Captain-
General being acquainted with the country and the
people in which his command is established, and ob-
serves, that besides having come from abroad, he had
never before resided in Madrid. The Minister re-
plies, on the following day, that he had communi-
cated his letter to the King, but that his Majesty
would not admit the validity of his reasons for re-
fusing the command, and insisted on his immediately
accepting it. General Morillo wrote again to the
Minister, stating that ile would go and take the com-
mand of the troops, that the service might not suffer
by delay, but begging he might be allowed to resign.
Having received no reply to this last letter, he went
to the Palace, and obtained an audience of the King,
to whom he repeated his reasons for wishing to de-
cline the employment, but his Majesty would not ac-
cept his resignation. He then published the following

ADDRESS:
" THZ CATTAIN-OKNERAL, TO THE IBRAVIC GARR/SOX OT MADRID.
" SOLDIERS'—After having fulfilled my duty, and supported,
as my honour required, the glory of our arms, I returned to my
country, expecting to find it tranquil, and enjoying the benefits
which the Constitution that has been sworn to holds out; but,
unfortunately, some persons are endeavouring to embitter this
happiness to us.
" There can be no greater misfortune than that enemies of
the Constitutional System should present themselves and render
their destruction unavoidable. The Constitution, and a Con.
stitutioral King, form the only Government suited to the Spa-
nish Nation. On these bases rest your felicity, that of your
dearest relatives and the prosperity of the whole Spanish Na-
tion.--I hoped for repose after my past fatigues; but, contrary
to my wish, and notwithstanding my urgent refusal, I am under
the necessity of placing myself at your head. The honour of
commanding you could alone alleviate so weighty a charge.
" Soldiess! lam one of you—put trust in me. I love you,
because I have suffered with you. I will constantly direct you
io the path of glory, towards the happiness of our beloved coun-
try. Let our device be the Law and the King (Ley y Rey), and
let our rallying cry be ' Long live the Constitution! long live
our Constitutional King" (Signed)
" Iladrid, May o. " PAULO MORILI.O."

LONDON.

MONDAY, MAY 21, IS2I.
THE rUXDS.

The Market opened this morning at 75, which is
a rise since Saturday of 1/2 per cent. Various arc ►he
opinions on the above advance : some anticipate that
the Budget will be favourable to the Public. There
is also a continuation of a great scarcity of stock
(money) in the Market, and money being plentiful,
the Capitalists now employ it in the Funds. It is
expected a further rise will take place before settling
day, which is next Thursday.

CURRENT PRICES THIS DAY AT ONE O'er nem :
Bank Stock 228 228 ih —3 per Ct. Redu. 74% 1/2
3 per Cent Cons. 71.7/8 75% 75 751

4 per Ct. 92 IA 7A3 -K-5 per Ct. Navy 11014 11014
Long Anns. 19 19 1-16—Imp. 3 per Cent. 731/4
India Bonds 444.455. pr.—Exchequer Bills par 3s. pr
Cons. for Acct. 74 7/8 751/4 75 75%.

We have received, since our last, a considerable
mass of interesting intelligence from abroad, re_
lacing particularly to the state of affairs in Spain
and Turkey.

It would give us unfeigned pleasure to discover, in
the progress of events in Spain, something to allay
the apprehensions which we have before expressed
as to the crisis to which the machinations of a hand-
ful of factious men are driving that unhappy coun-
try ; but every arrival only brings the tidings of some
new accession to the element s of disunion and anarchy.
Our Readers will see, by the extracts which we have
given from the ?Madrid Papers, that the story in the
French journals of the assassination of the ('anon
YANUESA having been followed up by a demand,
on the part of the rabble, for the proscription of a
number of distinguished individuals, is but too true.
Nay, the Municipality of Madrid actually received
the list of proscription with the greatest respect, as a
thing not at all objectionable in principle, and only
irregular in point of form, being in a dirty condition
and full of erasures and interlineations! We may be
told that there was prudence in thus turning aside
the wrath of an enfuriated populace; but to what a
state of weakness does it not shew the Executive
to be reduced when it is obliged to listen in any
shape to a proposition which sets all law, order,
and justice, at defiance ? The enemies of the Con-
stitutional system must, in this event, see at last
the consummation of their wicked projects. They
have contrived by their plots, their fabricated ru-
mours, their petty insurrections, to produce such
an alarm in the minds of the people, as has driven
them to excesses for the preservation of their Con-
stitutional system, which can have no other effect
than to endanger most seriously its continuance.
—What does the KING himself say to the Cortes in
relation to these events ?—" If repeated, it will be
impossible to establish the Constitutional system.—
Foreign Powers will form a very unfavourable idea
of the situation of Spain, and of the Political Insti-
tutions it has adopted. Expresses have been sent to
other cities of Spain, to prevent tranquillity from
being interrupted there?" What else does all this
mean, than that if things go on as they are doing,
foreign Powers will take upon themselves to put all
to rights, and that after the old fashion of restoring
them to the state in which they were before, under an
absolute King, and a still more absolute Priesthood?
We ought ever to recollect, in judging of the real
source of this growing state of anarchy under the
new system in Spain, the extraordinary moderation
and good temper which distinguished the first steps
of the Revolutionary leaders. It is not, we may rest
assured, either with them or with the people gene-
rally, or with anything necessarily involved in the
constitutional system that the evil principle lies, but
with a set of men of sinister designs, who are labour.
ing, and, we fear, with too fatal success, to furnish a
lukewarm Sovereign with a pretext for calling in the
aid of a foreign force, or foreign Potentates with an
apology for forcing this piece of kindness upon him.
The accounts from Turkey are full of the alarm
entertained by the Turkish Government with respect
to the progress of the Greek insurrection. Were it
not for this alarm, the affair would cease to have any
importance in our estimation, as there is nothing, in
point of fact, to make us think the power of Yesr-
LANTI more formidable than we some days ago de-
scribed it; but the Turks, it must be confessed, ought
to know best what cause they have for fear.

The following are extracts from the Paris Papers
of Thursday, which arrived yesterday ; the substance
of the other foreign arrivals will be found under se-
parate heads: