The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

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ig#ii,kbe von'alsered, is a thing tkak lie i will be pep..
isitteat‘O be done. 1 might bia spared etym., Ibe
Amiable of writing and you the. tronble of reading, all,
thoosela4ters en the an bjere-nf yortertiti cm -; for slot err
etiolqiiwclitik lissiyet beep offervl it,/ the shape of argo-
mini; atilt/it ally part of the petition. The London
pyrnitrivrltation- of Mrsorra:- Mans and KINOVIt•
llasOgi kalritifid 'you as well as me with abuse ; lint,
while.* sh 'be reAdy to meet 31 . Boum and KiN-
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otasieoz Ipqr their own dunghill, we will leave the
whiflo ef'Nfele ei lninnistors, to receive tbeliinewer from
the iilliTrelpnties of the kingdOM. who, 1 am very sure,
will Inuit heirtity second vonr pilltion.
_ I ato, UentleMen.
Your sincere friend, Raj post obedient servant,
, : Wst. Conner!:

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STOCK EXCRANGC, Its xt-rar IF•—This morning proves
very barren of intelligence ; in Consequence of which the
above market remains, steady, at Foii, the price Consols
opened at ; with very little business doing. Two expresses
have arrived this morning from Paris. bringing the French
printed price at 87. 60. hat there is also another price,
quoted by private letters 87. 7& arid Spanish iiite to 51—
Neapolitan 73g. We do not hear say news of importance
by the Math papert.• Lovd F. Somerset sailed from Dover
yeiLkerliy; for.the Freiseli fatitßal., from whence he proceeds
4•E! Kg *4O al:4 sol•ol4l‘ii!tilig. no doubt, an interview
with the French Ministry. A saisenpr has arrived OM
Italy, who landed at Dover. Mowry is plentiful in thexnar•
ket. A report prevails, said to 'have been received by pri-
vate letters; from France, that a defection of 7000 troops of
the French Army of Ob ties has taken place ; bet we
cannot give credlig to the rumour, until we receive further
accounts en the sulejeet.
Foaelps blAnxix.—Spanish Roods have rather improved
this morning, and opened at 341—Columbian is not qnite
so high as it left of yesterday. Little business is doing in
the above market this morning.
Chili, 74—New Spanish, 341-01 d, 6(t--New Prussian,
1111831—Old, 831 —Russian,Bll—Danish, tift Ex. dlv.—Nea-
politan Scrip, 70;1—Peruvian 77—Colombian, 611—Spa-
nish Scrip 13 dis.

We have this morning received Paris papers to the
7th inst. but they make nu mention of the Spanish Mi-
nister's rejection of the French pretensions, as stated in
the accounts which reached us yesterday from Bayonne.
This statement is believed to be premature; for as the
Quolidienste observes, " The couriers who have carried
to the Spaniels Cortes the notes from Verona cannot
have reached Madrid before the lst inst. The Cortes
therefore eau only now, at most, be engaged in discuss-
ing what line of conduct they shall pursne tinder pet•
sent circumstances, and the result can hardly be known
beforethe 12th or 15th of this month." An extraordi-
nary courier who left Madrid on the evening of the
29th ult. reached Paris on the 4th inst. At the tims,of
slepaiture from the Spanish capital, neither the
French, nor the Prussian, Austrian, or Rassian comma-

We/diens had been received. The Ministers and the
Council of State, he stated, were Dot entirely agreed re•.
%feting the Treaty of Alliance with Portugal. The
late* was understood to oppose its ratification. In the
sitting of the 27th ult. the Cortes adopted the various
articles of the project of law relative to the government
of the provinces, sod in that of the next day those whicb
wooed new military regulations. The Ustirernal of the
28 thmontai n ed the following artid e, which is given by the
Quotedienne as a specimen cf the spirit which animated
all Spaniards. „The rumours of war which have lately
spread from the capital to the provinces have produced
the same effect on the inhabitants 'of Seville as on all
good Spaniards. Let as die rather than yield to Op-
pression, was the general cry." Accerding to intelli-
go4tof the 31st nit. from Bayonne, Torrijos emulated
Itliptin skill and activity. He had p d O'Donnel so
closely, that the latter considering that all was lost on.
less be should retrieve his affairs by a bold movement,
endeavoured to cross the Ebro at different points and
to throw himself into Arragon. Torrijos, however, had
anticipated this ma/louvre and foiled every attempt
by the ability of his dispositions and the rapidity of
his marches ; so that unless it should succeed
in regaining the French territory, this last
fragment of the troops of the Faith was expected to meet
with a still more deplorable fate than the " army"
to which it belonged, and of which it nes considered as
forming the right wing. All the places which it
had occupied had been retaken. On the 29th ult. the
Constitutional Colonel Asura had carried Honest,
after having destroyed between 300 or 400 insur-
gents who had been left by O'Dunnel to defend that
position. Only thirty are said to hive effected their es-
cape to St. Jean•Pied-de•Port, and that in a most wretch-
ed condition. The same Constitutional Officer had also
regained possession of Barbastro, where he had foetid
large magazines of provisions, ammunition, and arms,
the loss of which, at this time of the year, would alone
be sufficient to compel the Insurgents to evacuate the
country, even hail their military reverses been less com-
plete and disastrous than it is evider,t they have proved.
In France, however, the spirit of the Spanish Hoplists
still meets with encouragement. At an entertainment
elven thenther evening by the new Minister of Foreign
Affairs, M. de Chateaubriand, which was attended by a
great number of persons sf distinction in tile various tic-
parttnents of the State, lienz,ral Quesa.la was presented
to his Excellency by General Dannadieu. The Ultra
spirit seems manifesting itself more than ever of late, in
different shapes in Paris. As one proof of it, we give in
another column an extract from the Quolidienne, con•
t■ining a string of dogmas on Ultra politics and a war
with Spain, from the pen of a M. de Boland, supposed
to be Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Faascit FUNDS, JAN. 6.—Fire per Cent, Consols
openod at 87f. 7k.; closed at eV'. 611e.—Bink Stock,
15r/ff.—Neapolitan Five per Cents. 731. Excbaner on
London, one month, 25f. 3tle. ; three mouths' tnf. 2k.

Prince Leopold of Sass Cuburr tank a family dinner
with the King of Prance at the Palace o:the Thuilleties
on Saturday last.
We are heppy to hear that his Royal flightless the
Duke of Sussex is recovered from his late indisposition.
Leunonm, Dec. 29.—LetteN from Corfu infortn us
that the late increases of the Greeks by sea have in-
flamed the courage of the inhabitants of the Hands so
much, that they are disposed to try their fortune again.
Numerous armaments are prep:lol4r in their ports. and
it is believed that the castle* of the Dardanelte*. and
all the Musselmen artillery will not prevent these hardy
and hold sailors from passing the Strait this sinter,
and making th,e flag of the Cros.s fiat in the sea of
larutcrs, and Cyro at the entrance of Consta-tinople.

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DOGMAS UN lithleA PA! l'iCs AND A W
WITH .SPAIN.

(FROM 'rug QUOTIDIIENNI.)
There are no e:iernples in history that war Las ever
been avoided ley postponing-it, and there are a thousand
sin the contrary, in which it his been prosecuted with
riccess„h.y -MA slarErias( it.
An wars which justice and honour :ammo& are
always equally indispensthle on the gilaundioeptittletice
and reason. -
France has se long sbewn us the abuse of force, can
shr Rot skew the employment of it? •
There are inconvettieoces to sustain in making war,
but there are dangers in not making it. It is the rim-
' rarteriatic of waist of foresight and of weakness, to be.
more iinprrssed with present i 043 A VeDifilCCll than iu:--
penelin•_:- dangers.
If France now hesitate to make war against an op.•
press:ve government, with the alinuat unanimaus sup-
port of the oppressed natioo, which every where. i•
.
rising to break her chains, I ask with sincerity against
what ran she ever make it ?
Will war be declared to the Cortes ? rsele.s .4.littstier.
Will war be made against thr Cortes? This is What
mast be inquired.
If the revoletiortof Spain triumph, it n ill remind us
of what we seem to have forgotten It is, that we have
declared war against it, as it is declared against a power-
ful enemy, every time that it is shown; and it the revo-
lution be cone' .1 reed, it will be disastrous to Franz. .Mat
to have co taboted to its overihriaw.
In this time , f 4elluclioa, the French soldier ought
ot.ly to he ene•-..:peal in the enemy's country. $
Nothiug is more dangerous than to keep in garrisons
an or ny %%dile!' is expected to march against the ennui.,
Oh! What wise policy is thst wbiciewould impound
a revolution, and plunge I greet nation into' barbarity,
to preserve civilization in Europe.
facitus relates, that a revolution having broken on:
amongst the Suevi, Vannius, their Ki nr, an ally of the
Humans, was precipitated from the Throne, and hi.
State subjected to all the horrors of civil war; the Ex.-
peror Claudius was earnestly intreated to collie to the
relief of this people and their King ; but ha couteotel
himself with generonsly promoting the King of the
Sued an Sayler's, in his dominions, if they drove him out
of his own, and he wrote at the same tittle to !het:overt:-
or of Pannonia, recommending to establish a cordon of
troops on the right hank of the Danube, in order to aid
the vanqnisheil, and to repel the victors, if, inlistorel
with their success, they should dare to fellow up the-
war within the limits oldie Empire. This ludic) ever -
uallv succeeded very ill, and appeared contemptible to
the Romans, and hence it cannot he that of Prance.
In the presence of Revolution there are no happy
Sabine..
'f he French soldier is born for attack, and it is more
than Wipe (ideate to let him continue ioactrve under the
artillery of Liberalism.
To dissolve the Army of Ob tion would be a de-
feat;—to maintain it, an imprudence ;—to indulge the
idea that war may be avoided, a chimera; —to await it,a
dishonour;—to expect that revolution will reform it-
self, an allusion. What resourse remains?
If France be ignorant how a dynasty is sustained on
the Throne, with the support of Kurope, let her ask the
shade of that great King who placed him there—in spite
df Europe.
!dust she wait to decide until the spprobinm and dan-
ger of Ferdinand have been measured with mathemati-
tea precision, similar to that which took place is the
State tihich Mostesquieu mentions, where they mea-
sured the outrages committed against a woman like a
figure in geometry. And has France forgotten that- a:
captive King has already one foot upon the scaffold ?
What was the cause that Louis XVI. last his head—
wall it an invasion I' No ;it was a retreat • • 6-
(S•g•ed) Ramat Ds Boitoi.o..
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STA.TESMAN.

" War-Offire, Dee. SI; ISPF.
" 1 wish the antiquated Oa!Seism -Aceompfr to he left
of is the orthography of the Office, and the English word—
• Account' to be substituted for it.
" PALMERSTON."
Tete above carious document has recently been issued by
the Secretary at War, and although I am lay no means dis-
posed to cvarrel with his Lordship for his commendable zeal
to reatdce the purity of his native language, yet ll must tale
leave to ohserve, that if the business of the War-Ogee be In
such a state as to admit of such peurile triffing,—and that it
i 4. may be fairly inferiell from the many truly ridiculous re-
gulations which he has lately introduced is that departmeat
—his Lordship cannot surety require the assistance of a De-
puty Secretary at Wee, at t.50t11 ; a Superinlendait of At-
counts, at LOW/. ; a First Clerk, at 1,4001.; and Principal
Clet It. at 1.20 W. per annum. The two former say be still
necessary, but 1 do not hesitate to assert that the two latter
appointments migra be discontinued, without the slightest
inconvenience to the public service.
1 am, Sir, your ebelleat servant,
SAVE-ALL.

It appears that the Alltsusian Creed was sot read or sang
in bis Majesty's presence in the Palace Chapel on Cbrist-
mas•day. It must he imaritted that the omission was is-
tentlowal, and if so as the King is the head of the Church,
we hope it limy be regarded as a prelude to the expulsion o:
that, to use the mildest term, uncl.aritab:e Creed front our
Church service.—(Drigittoa Chronicle.)

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BRIGHTON, JAN. 6.—The weather to day hat been
rather hazy. at intervals damp, but mild for the season.
The King Was walking on the Palace lawn this morn-
ing: the Duchess of Clarence took a carriage airing in
the afternoon, attended by Lady Westmeath. Though
there was invited neither dinner nor evening party at
the Palace yesterday, the Grand Concert-room, in com-
pliment to the Duchess of Clarence, was illuminated at
night. and where a selection of sacred music, from the
divine compositions of Handel and nowt, bad a most
delich'ine and impressive performance. In the evening
a " elith N;glit's" entertainment was given to tl
juveniles of nobility, by their Sovereign. The grand
saloon was the scene of festi vitv, and in which the merry
dance was included. The `• Twelfth Cake" eliaractem
were in dispurtive ea' iety, and " Laughter bolding both
his sides," at times, pres:ded with the young folks. Tho
King contemplated the bliss of the cheerful throng, aril
evidintly &rived pleasure front the coniemplatioa.--e
(Brighton Chronicle )
'The following notice has been published at Exeter:
" PARLIAZIENTART REPORII.-.-At a Meeting of the
Committee, held in the ei'y of Exeter, the &l day of
January.lS23, it erne remeloed, That from the numb• r,
weight, and respectability of the individuals uho hate
signed the Requisition, it is highly expedient that it be
presented to the high Sheriff. That this Committer do
inset again on Friday; the 21st day of February nes ,
to fix the time of it- presentation; and that the Chair-
man do aunt:mule:oe iniffm meantime with the Pali
mensary Reform Committee at York, for tle purproe
a rrrr taming from them when the Meeting of that
County is likely to tithe pin; c.
"'That these Resolutiorq be pi:bibbed,
" 17.211:2eGT.W. Mat."

The ¢eniletnen nbo nietafr;;;. ;inc.; iu F.seter.
On the a% übjeet of ParliatuentAry Reform. had another
dleet!tig on eritlay. and rerole.4 to In tke weir ii•gai
arrinirrinest. for pro 4.ntine a Itequi-ition In the olorn
Shor,ll, on the 21.4 of Mehemet., :of et •Itere4iit of .110
Reform Meeting at Yerlt Owll be brown. —VAerboare
Mercury.)
The Frost has returned and teas rather abarp 11:4,
'rnorring. At eight o'clorit, the tt,,•ri..try is nweriegil I
th-rnsoweter in the S:1.12:1, W3S at l divi;rees.

SitiffirtiniTlMAKlßKll.l
and
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DIA L.,..1111‘. B.—Tlgent and lihreefprdshlm ?theatre .
ttlitiVit'Andlssl..6" . eirria 014 , Diets early this, 1
4taraillt.wlibit fitkplad.-10:16inlimen the Boivir I
Ails day; As OeurerKt,. dirge, [Or basal and i
WI). tk OM I niKil 7 mad China t the 1
Siiitahe•' Patereirriv7alS‘. Helepsh,,Beneoolea,- &hi 4
China ; the Favourite, Ford, for the Booth Seas ; and I
the,Mary. Beasley; for Bar badoel.-41sWpast 6 o'clock, 1
the lediatnen are lying too and will proceed on tittle
'yoyitge this dir (sex have got a supply of provisiens on 1
loard:tl4.ltitfil Bquite fair, and Hue weather.— Wind
.m.a.
• Pnitillictili'llrlfax. B.—Arrived the Usk, Wiley.
sola Demerara; Regent Packet, Collins, and Sir Henry
Staitltope, trout Messina; the Weasel, Wright, from
Leghorn ; the Highland lad, from Lisbon ,• the Hat-
Way, Uriffiths, from New South Wales; the Maria,
ApPittest. from Quebec, with loss of sails. boat*, bul-
-1 weeks. and other damage, having experienced very
bad ireather.—Wfind, N.B.
rifleman, Jan. B.—Arrived the Charlotte, Wolff,',
fremißordeanx. for Hambro ; the Amelia, Bully, from
India; the. Martha, Strachan, from Messina, in 63 days ;
iAtertscisOlvley, from Buenos Ayres ; and the Regent,
Hill, from Seville.—Wind, E.
FaLmoure, Jan. J.—Arrived the Lady Arabella
Packet, from Lisbon ; the Good Hope, Kelly, from
Zoatloit I Vie Maurice. Dewed'. from Gibraltar. in 20
' • Offthe..Nrt, the Nymph, Hope, from Newfound-
ii 30 'dip; —Mud, E.
• be Poithemise, from Jamaica. hat(ilifkoed at Beer-
ifhban teftbsepoisaiderable damage. •
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Yesterday, re Court of Directors wit held at The East
Jodi* Itoose, whoa the following ships were timed, vic. :
:Volt Cstima.—The Charles Grant to. be afloat 27th inst.
r*to Gravesend Ilth February, stay there 30 days, and
I Ike Downs the 19th March. . .
ne ships flombey. Warren Hast)43, jipdtowther Cas-
tle, to be afloat the Itith of February pall to Gr nd
12th March, stay there 30 days, and be lir the Downs 17th
April.
The following Captains were Sworn into the command of
their respective ships. VII.
Captain George Prsbyn, Minerva, for Bengal; and Cap-
tsin William Hay, Charles Grant, for China.
UsiitSBl.l. J Ax. S. —Agreeably to the-Decree of Oc-
tober 26. last yeer. a beginniog was made to day. i a the
owl of the Flemish language in tho Pablic Aduunistra
tionenil ip the Tribunals. The Court of Assizes set the
first example, to judge from the effect which was pro-
darted on the Assembly by the Advocate. and the sub-
stasis who made use of this language; it would sever
have been supposed that any important affair was in
question—the unfortunate female. however, whose fate
was decitivd in a provincial dialect, which she did not
comprehend, was condemned to five years seclusion.—
This change of language in the pleatiings bad brought
together a great number of people. who were much de-
Bested. Pleadings wmwataa conducted in Flemish, at
Os. Coati of Appeal, osisl at the Tribunal of Commerce.
and it was remarked• with grief how much this inom
'ratio* compromised the digest/of the Magistrates.
Advice, from Bahia to the 18th of October were ne.
ceived yesterday by way of Pernambuco. The sham
tion of Madrien. the Governor, was becoming every day
anoesucritical. Ilemill occupied the fort. with the Por-
tuguese troops under his command, and had made ar-
rangements for its defence to the last extremity. The
actual number of regular troops with him did not, it
was believed. exceed 1,600 men. He bad been cam-
pelted, therefore, to intrust the protection of the lower
town to the mikes—the crews of the Pere/agues* gam
drug, who acted as marines stodge the soperiatendenee
of their own retisalve.esed contrary to the expectatiou of
the inheldeamte. Odeon ewastelttllsjr air alfrdell-
-Arne had been liberally distributed to the militia, who
formed a very numerous and tolerable efficient force.
and they were employed In defeasee of the out-posts.
The attachment of many of them, howev..r to the Pot-
tugnese Government, was extremely doubtful. Mean.
while the army of General Labatt. advancing from the
interior to the attack of St. Salvador, tad reached Ler.
grippe el Rey.iaisd, it was supposed, vegeta soon strike
some derisive blow. Previously to the 12th, the birth-
•day of the Prince Regent (sow Emperor) of Brazil. a
serious alarm was produced in the town by the belief
that the Brazilian army would devote that day to a
general attack; and several English merchants resident
;there sent their plate, books, and other valuable and
moveable property, on board the Creole frigate, then
. lying in the hat hour, for safety. The 12th passed over
widow any attempt bring mail.. General Madeira,
had levied a contribution on the shopkeepers, bat it
,low not appear that the property of foreigners had been
- subjected to any similar proceeding, or exposed to any
mil danger.
',Extract of 'leiter from the agent to Lloyd's at Ha-
vanna, dated Nov. 9, 1822 :--.• The Spanish brig of war
Jacinto,' having departed from a eonvo.v from Vigo with
troops for this place, being off Port Tarquine, on this
Island, gave chase to and captured the Colombian
schooner Ouienno Libre,mounting one 18-ponnder and
60 men, which she brought in hereon the 18th ult. and
she has been condrmned His Majesty's ship Hyperion,
being on a cruise, gave chase to a schooner under Co•
loinbian colours, a hick was in pursuit of a Hambro'
ship, and on going on board, not finding hie papers cor-
rect, she was ordered by the commander of the Hype.
non to Jamaica, as well as a coasting schooner belong-
ing to this place, which had been tal-rn by the schooner.
1t being reported that a privateer was off Matanza, and
that &be bad taken four vessels. one of which was said
to be English, his Majesty's ship Hyperion imuiediately
made sail after her, and is not yet returned."
The number of vessels which have strived at Quebec
from sea the present season, including those from Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland, is 585 of 145,942 tons, anti
bringing 7119 emigrants, being 151 more vessels, sad
$,6 - • 2040 fewer emigrants than came last year.; One vessel
only arrived from a foreign port under the Lite Act of
Parliament, permitting intercourse with Europe and
1, South America, which went into operation June 24.-

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Two vessels sailed for Brest, in France, loaded with
masts, lumber. deals, and staves. The Provincial !aegis-
lature of Lower Canada is to meet in the second week in
Jan.—(Dogon Deily Ade.)
WATERFORD. Jam. s.—Yesterday, the Flora, from
Quebec for Liverpool, with timber, staves, &c., went on
shore under Broom Hill, at theWexford sideof our river.
Crew saved ; vessel in the greatest danger. The Presi-
dent Aladdison. Stuart, from Sr. Michael's for Liverpool,
was dismastril off Tramorrlon the morning of the 3J ;
was afterwards towed by boats from the shore and from
the prrveative service, to about two miles south of
Brownstone Head, the eastern point of Trainor* Bay.
—The crew and the boats all left the wreck on the
evening of the 4th, letting go both .anchnrs. Capt.
Stuart mud his crew went into Dunmore, East. This
tuorring Capt. Hunt, pilot-master, sent a party with
4:apt. Stuart and his crew, in search of the wreck, and it
was expected that their search would be effectual.
We were overtaken on ithe road by a begibled
courier. in a harry, who informed us, with a face of
hate important,. that Ise preceded the Alinistre d'Aßgle-
terre, a grand milord. I expected to see Lord London.-
'terry drive up, who at that time— carrier, contained
no other that our worthy Vice Chancellor. The courier,
it seems, had lost his way, and he approached Sir Joint,
at a small rown we stopped at, to make his excuses.
The side his free next the carriage was the most obse-
galena and repentant imaginable, while with the other
ale contrives to set the whole village a laughing.—(Let-
ters front Mily—Bleckwood's Iferasiac.)