The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY FXENING. DECEMBER 25, 1823.
Cm, TWILLIrt O'CLOCK.—We do not bear of any arrivals
from Patio Ibis morning. being known in that
Capital.that ou Christmas day our stock Exchange is Anti;
it would be useless to send an express unless it conveyed
intelligence of the utmost importance.

Philadelphia Papers to the 231 of November have arrived
this morning.
Lina.—Aceoants from Callao of the beginning of Septem-
ber, state as follows :—That the Royal army in its retreat from
Llata suffered severely from the attacks of the Patriot Cavalry,
wh'eh succeeded in taking a number of prisoners and a quantity
of baggage, most part of the latter being the property pillaged
from the people of ,Lima by the Royalists troops oo their era•
cuation of the place. Patriot troops are embarking daily for
the purpose of reinforcing the expedition destined to the wind•
ward, which would enable the Patriotsito take po ion of
several towns, nearly equal in population and resources to
that of Lima.

Peon Sumavaa.—Weilearn by accounts from the hiand
of Sumatra, of the 21st Ang. that the natives have been
►ery troublesome in the interior of Padang, and tare
destroyed a number of troops io 1 ski misfits. Win•
firemen% however, are coming from Bat+►ia, and it was
expected that the Dutch aathoritiev, would soon be in a
condition to act on the defensive.

The only article of interesting intelligence in the
French papers received since our last, relathe to Frolics is
an intimation that the Ordinance for the dissolution of the,
Clambers, and the list of the Presidents of the Elet total
Colleges. are expected this day. The news in these
Journals from Spain Is far from being favourable to the
present regime. A letter from Madrid, dated so late u the
12th inst. complains that small armed corps of Constitu•
tionalists scoured the environs of Xeres de la Frontera, and
did much injury to the Royalists. Twenty prisoners having
been taken by the latter wire immedistely shot, and "such
was thei r hilarious," says the letter."thst they all died crying
"long live the Constitution!' " According to the same scurce
intelligence a great number of Prelates of all ranks, headed
by the Eirtirand Inquisitor, went in a body to the King.
and sopplicsted him to yield to the general will of the
nation, which demanded that the inquisition should be
restored. To this the subtle Ferdinand is said to have
replied 4' that be was forced by Foreign Powers, and even
by the Pope himself, to deny their request." The Duke
of San Fernando has been b..nislied to a distant fortress for
having refused an Embassy. The expedition from Cs••
.din to Lima was not to sail till the 15th instant. The
Journal des Debate contains en article from Semlin, dated
Dec. tat, which announces that one of the greatest persecutors
of thu:Dieelis, Abatable, Paeha of Salonics, who had caused
' See thousand Christian/ante/se to be massacred in cold blood
last sear In the neighbourhood of that city, had been put to
death by order of the Sultan, who longed for the Immense
wealth which he had accumulated. Aware of his master's de
signs he had long frustrated them by remaining within the
walls of Salon'ca, ded by a numerous and faithful

guard. He was not proof, however, against the temptations of
ambition, and fell Into the with which the Porte in ne-
times entraps the meat cautious /le was appointed Seraskier
of the army assembled at Larissa, in additioo I* his title of
Pacha of Remelts. After some nelsgititigs he ventured out of
his strong hold, but was not two days' journey from its walls,
when the Gepidgi Basch' appeared with the fatal Order. The
guards inclined themselves ►efore the handwriting of the Cr nd
Signor, and the Pac.a was quietly strangled. The artier
justly observes, " that the revolution in the East has caused
the heads of all the persecutors of the unfortunate Greeks to
fall one after the other, and that It reveals the hand of Dis int
Justice.".

However multifarious may be the political intelligence of
the foreign Journal., or from whatever parts of Europe
these Journals may proceed, it is observable, that one
anifortn tenoar pervades the whale of them with resp►ct to
what is called, in modern phraseology, the Legitiniate
principle—they all evince' the thorough predominance of
that principle throughout Europe; and even those' papers,
which are known to be of liberal politics, afford onqure•
tionable evidence, that their columns are composed in sub-
ordination to this prevailing dogma of the age. The
mighty genius of Bonaparte had so coppletely set this
principle it nought, and his brilliant CVO; Lae at least so