The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-06 00:00:00

STATESMAN.

pie ayentoaeliett, how is it passible that his means sboeld
ever be equal to the conquest of the whole country ! In
this dilemma the &trembling of a Russian army in the
•vicinity of Warsaw is, as the Courier says, once more men-
tioned: It is more easy, however, to make such a state-
men

it on paper, than to bring such a force into the field
for though the Autocrat have sufficient good-will to-
wards the undertaking, as the Notice, stated in another
column, of the Petersburg Custom-house evinces, and
may likewise have plenty of men on foot, he happily
Las not sufficient means to enable them to march. There
area few articles in the French papers from Madrid. In
one dated April 24th, it is stated that every body is gone,
or on the wingl. and that if the French come there they
will find no person of consequence of any class
or opinion. This, it is observed, is a charac-
teristic circumstance, and one which will prove
no slight •obstacle to the organization of any Go-
vernment under French influence. In all• the towns
the Constitutionalists, and even many other persons of
opposite opinions, retire on the approach of the French.
When Count Abishal shall judge proper to withdraw, it
is stated that he will carry with him the troops which
arrive,from Burgos, and which with those he already has,
will form about 20,000 men. According to some, be will
take the road to Andalusia—according to others, that
to Bstremsditra.

FRENCH FUNDS, Friday, ➢lay 2.—Five per Cent. Con.
sole opened at 85. 85.; rose to 86. 20. ; closed at 136. 15.;
Bank stock, 1,535. Rentes of Naples, 5 per cents. 74g. ;
Rentes of Spain, 361.

STOCK EKeIiaNOE,TwELVe o'CLoCK.—Conrols opened
this morning at 79&1, but declined to 7871. The Paris
papers of Sunday having arrived yesterday afternoon,
we cannot expect Monday's papers till late in the day.—
The marching of thirty thousand fresh troops front
France to Spain has had some effect on the Funds, parti-
cularly on Spanish Bonds. It is snpposci,however, the
decline in the Funds this morning is owing to a re-ac-
tion by c stain parties, who think they hare realised
sufficient on the rise of yesterday. The Ilebrew party
sold largely then, and contented themselves with the
first profit. We do not hear of any Express having as
yet arrived from Paris, and the market which was
heavy at the earlier part of the morning seems to bare
recoiered.

FOREIGN MARKET. Fatly minute there -.vas a ROM-
'don in the above market this morning in Spanish
Bonds. They opened at 381 went down to 3711, 36k,
went up again to 37i with a heavy market.

Chill, 701 to 71—New Spanish. Vl—New Prussian. Si
—Russian, 79I—Danish, SO—Neapolitan 74—Colombian,
691.

The rrgntient urged by Lora Binning, in opposition
to the petition presented last night in the House of Com-
mons from Edinburgh, praying for a Reform in the re-
presentation of that City, appears to cut so contrary to
his purpose.that, if we did not know his Lordship came
free the North of the Tweed, we should have supposed
he had come from the other side of the channel. " If
once," his Lordship is reported to have said, " the
House began to change the representation, it would be
impossible to say where they would stoe. The ease of
Glasgow was stronger than that of Edinburgh, for
the population of Glasgow was larger than that of
any place in the Island but London, and yet Glas-
gow was only one of five boroughs having collectively
a single representative." According to this mode of
reasoning, it is preposterous for any one to complain, or
seek to amend his health or circumstances, as long as
there is another faring nurse than himself. It is but
sorry consolation to " the Rude town of Edinburgh,"
where there are only 33 electors, (19 of whorn name their
successors), in a population of 100,000, thlt its neigh-
bouring city, Glasgow, has still greater reason to desire
Reform. If we are not mistakeoi the case of Bath is
much the same as that of Edinburgh. The Members of
the self-elected Corporation of that health-giving City,
amount, we believe, to only 31, and the kpbabitants to
nearly 40,000. That Corporation, however, it may be
supposed, does not require Reform, as the majority of
the fdeinhers ; it is understood, are Members also of the
Medical Faculty. and, of course, attentive to the welfare
of the Coned/a:ion !

'ester&

day his Majesty received visits from the Duke
of York and the Duke of Clarence.

It is stated that on Saturday night his Majesty expe-
rienced a fresh attack of goat in his right hand, and it is
now considered as positive that his physicians will dis-
suade him from his in►ention of boning the drawing.
room on Thursday next, as was previmisli determined
on bad his hiajesty's health continued unimpaired.
•On Sunday night, about ten o'clock, Mr. Hamilton ar-
rived in a chaise and four, in Downing-street, with de-
spatches, said to be from Spain, and much importance
was attached to them. _

It is reported that Lord 3lount Charles succeeds Lord
William tiordoe in the Deputy Rangership of the Green
Park, with the provision that Lady Wm. Gordon is to
occupy the lodge during her bre.
Letters of Saturday were received yesterday from Paris
by express, which mention the arrival of intelligence
from Seville of the nomination of a new administration
by Ferdinand, and that their first step on taking office
would be to send a negociator to the hesdinarters of
the Duke d'Angouletne to treat fur an accommodation.
Though this event is very improbable, it has gained so
general a belief as to induce very large purchases of
stock, and a rise in every species of Government security.
Extract of a letter received from St. Petersburg,
dated March 30, O. S.—" The differences whicb hi-
therto subsisted between our Court and the Porte have
been amicably adjusted; and M. de Tatistheffi• mention-
ed as the Mioister destined to proceed to Constantinople.
Letters from Peterkurg. dated the II th ult state that
on the preceding day a Government official notice was
affixed on the Exchange, warning the inerchatas not to
carry on any commercial transactions with Spain and
Portngal, and particularly not to send any vessel thither.
The same letters mention a curious instance of disaffection
to the Russian Autocrat among the peasantry of tha go-
vernment of IWitepsk, wilco, though recently released
from bondage, and actually vested with a right to the
I produce of their own labour, have had the ingratitude to
answer this benefit by a refusal to pay their taxes. They
have even gone so far as to insult an imperial agent sent
thither to remonstrate with them, and have had the an-
dacity to address a letter to the Empress DoWager, in
which they accuse the 'Emperor himself of injustice !
It has been found necessary to dispatch troops to the pro-
vince to pot down the rising disaffection. We may no.
tote, by the way, that this appears to be the only authen-
tic account yet received of any movements of Russian
troops.
The Weather at St. Petersburg had been very cold since
the river opened—from 7 to tidegreen of frost by Resumes
thermometer dating the nights; and the floating ice bad
chocked op the passage by the ferry in the lower part of the
city. The bridge of boats was put op again on the 4th of
April, in an open part where it generally stands. There
had likewise been a fall of snow.

STATE OP IRELAND.

(nom TILL DUBLIN POST, MAT 3)

We hinted some time ago the possibility of having re-
course to Martial Law, for the purpose of putting down
the disturbances. Some rumour of tins kind tuts gotten into
circu:ation, and we should not be surprised if the ultimo
ratio regni were tried at last. Most certainly some other
plan must he devised, for as yet the Insurrection Act has
most signally failed. The accounts from the South, yes-
terday and so-day, are of a nature far surpassing in atro.
city any thing that has yet occurred. On the 27th ul-
timo, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, a
party of m•st cut down an extensive furze-Erake' belong-
ing to the Duhallow Hunt, near Buttevant. On an ef-
fort being made to prevent it, they attacked the neigh-
bouring gentlemen with clubs and stones, and drove
them from the ground. They were dispersed by the mi-
litary at length ; some prisoners taken, but not being
identified, subsequently liberated. Two were afteisraas
arrested at a Fair in the neighbourhood, and committed
under the Insurrection Act.
In the neighboerhood of Garrycloyne, three houses
were burnt about the seine time. The account adds,

" An uncommon disregard of their Landlords, a careless-
ness of behaviour, and a general insolence is plainly to be
perceived among the Peasantry of this neighbourhood."
This, certainly, is a new featare in the character of the
Irish Peasantry. At Duhallow, on Tuesday night, the hag-
gard of p Gentleman, containing one hundred and fifty tons
of hay, was consumed, together with A vast quantity of bar-
ley. " The stock," says our account, " was seized under
execution, and the greater part sold by auction, on the pre-
vious day, but the purchasers had not time to remove it, the
Infernvl Rock system interfered, and the whole became a
prey to the nightly incendiaries."
The most dreadful outrage, however, remains to be told,
The account. which is mentioned in The Cork Advertiser
is manifestly coloured is highly as it will bear; but, if there
be aoy truth at all in it, it deserves the serious consider-
ation of Government. We abridge the detail from the paper
in question:—
" On Tuesilly night last an attack was made ahont 9
o'clock, by an immense party of Insurgents, on the Pala-
tine Village of Glanasheen, where four Policemen were
stationed. S 1 houses were laid in ashes. Two of
the Police, with two of the Palatines, were on guard,
who heard the Rebels approaching, and instantly chal-
lenged them, en which the Rebels fired a volley, fortu-
nately without effect Another party set fire to soon
of the Palatine houses, which, with the ferniture, &r.
were totally consumed. Lieutenant Lightbody, of the
71st Regiment, was on patrol about two miles distant,
who saw the' flames and heard the shots and arrived in
sufficient time to fire a volley oo the Rebels, who fled :
and in the pursuit they found one man dead, and took
two prisoners —A hall passed under the arm of one of the
Police, without doing much ir.;ury, and no further jujus,
was sustained by the Police or the Army. A Palatine
Schoolmaster, whose house was on fire, al tempted to get
out through the roof on heating the Rebels declare that
he was a Protestant Devil, and that not one should be
spared. He bad a miraculous escape, having been fired
at repeatedly."
We have omitted a great deal of what may be call. d
thefillins staff of this paragraph being manifestly, if
our opinion, exaggeration. Hut if 7'he Cork Advertitet
tells the truth, this we regard as a very serious affair.

In Clare there have been also some outrages commit
ted, and houses burnt. Mr. BLACKBURN, the King',
Counsel, will preside at a Session to be held at Six-mile-
bridge, in this County, on Monday next. Notwith.
standing the extent of the outrages, there are but fen
prisoners for trial.
Captain Rock has certainly made a movement to
wards the North. We have already mentioned a fee
instances of his ferocity in the Counties of Down on,
Antrim. Hy the ArmagL Paper which arrived this tta.
we learn, that the house of a Farmer near Tanilrager.
who is also a Yeomanry Serjeant, together with all hi-
out-offices and property, together with a horse and
cow, were burned.

Geoeral Rohe h appointed Ranger of Windsor Littl.
Park, vacant by the decease of Uen. Grenville.

_
Conn:, Manes 3.—We have received from Candi* flu
following news :
• The Pacha of Egypt had put to sea an Immense convoy
of warlike stores and provisions for the Ottoman fleet.
" Tuis convoy was attacked on the ?*d of March, and the
whole captured by the Greek squadron.—The convoy con-
sisted of a frigate, which has been sunk, and two brigs,
which remain in the hands of the Greeks."
We mentioned, on Saturday, that the Duke d'Angnu
leme bad found some unexpected difficulties in hi
march upon Madrid. The nature of these difficultie
will be best understood by the following fact, which we
communicate upon good authority—viz. that 30,000 ad-
ditional troops are ordered to march to the Pyrenees,
from the northern parts of France. We believe the last
despatches from the bead-quarters of the French Arms
strongly urged the importance of immediate r.•iuforce-
ments. In fact, the necessity of masking, or reducing,
the along fortresses of San Sebastian, Pompeian', an•t
Figueras, and the impossibility. of doing either with the
force actually employed, explain sufficiently the grounds
of ibis new levy. This is the cause,!and not on acco ut of
negotiations being commenced, that there has been a
pause in the advance of the French army. We have also
another piece of intelligence to announce, respecting
which strong rumours have prevailed fur some time. It
is, Mat a Russian army is undoubtedly assembling in
Me Duchy of Warsaw ; whether to be used for the pur-
pose of overawing France in the absence of her own s.d-
diers, or as a body of troops to join the French in Spain,
we cannot pretend to say. When, however, we unite this
circumstance with the news last received from Vienna,
stating, that the communications between that Court and
St. Petersburg had become very active, and with the in-
telligence from Lausanne, that the Austrian troops,
were about to evacuate Italy, ha I unexpectedly baked
upon the frontiers of Lombardy, we think it requires no
extraordinary sagacity to presage the coming events.—
(Cot der.)
At the Brighton Catch and Glee Club, C. lncledon,
the founder of that well organised institution, who bad
been labouring under an indisposition that had threaten-
ed to terminate hat with Its life, was pronounced by•the
President. Mr. J. Grenville, front indisputable authority,
as out of danger, last week.—lt gives us wnteigned
pleasure to add, that the health of Mr. Incleslon is now
improving, and his ultimate recovery regarded as cer-
tain.

The information received at Lloyd'', repeats the great
exertions which the French are making to. obtain an as-
cendancv on the ocean. Letters from Brest of the 2,lst
ult. state that the Eurydice was to procerd to Guade-
loupe in a few days; that the Thames and Constance had
sailrd that morning to cruise off St. Sebastian's, and
that the Centaur, of 9U guns, would sail in a few d4ys for
Corunna and Toulon. Several line of-battle ships were
likewise in the outer roads ready for tuya, but their desti-
nation was not made public.
Oen. Morino (4ays the Seville Gazette) as soon aq he
heard the invasion had really taken place, adopted the
most expedient measures to make war (these are his own
words) •• against the enemies of our country and Ii•
hefty." He has chosen Benevento, Tor the hem, of his
•operations, where he has arranged that one Zifember of
each of • the Provincial Deputations of the third and
fourth districts, shall meet him,