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

em:noit longems *objected to tbe basest indignities;
geAtc6)el by the mockery of trial: and murdered in the
3,* wanton, deliberate. acid igeowdaiods abide ; with
wigs troops itetruentiiag the scaffold ; and a wretch
• wham they bad spared,_ giving the sigcal for their de-
_pit:aloe. •
If this parallel will bold, the Courier is welcome to its
'Wiwi/dun ; but if it start with horroe from this parallel—
off' it contend that the English victims fell by there. own ,
guilt and impriulence alone, how dares it draw such a cow
parisoneoith Riego ? We are DO' about to load the memory
of Tbistlewood with obloquy. lie was, perhaps, as much
against, at sinning; and the distress of his com.
tides easy plead much in behalf of the errur which induced
•Iltib to think they were capable of reforming a State!

The chase of the Ministry io Spain occasioned a
rise in the Spanish Bonds ; although we do not perceive
jrc rrbsoo for the greater confidence in the new Ministry
• .than the old ope. while the greater plague of Spain,
llterdiaaad bitnnslf,k!Uskins at the head of the Government.
We may believe theta wiser ministry than the last, might
ideise the King the recognition ; but Spain
'ender a despotism, has no ol•tins of rendering the reeogni-
tiun available to the bond•hulders. That sink of .absirtlity
-sod subterfuge, the NEw Times, endeavoors to draw 'a
',distinction Murree those who lent their money to Spain
between March 1820, and July 1822, and those
~sylio
:leat it after the latter• period, when , .the 'King
was detected in a conspiracy to destroy the con-
stitution. But Ferdjuand settles this point himself.
by 4eclaring:tliat he was as much a prisoner from 1820 to
• I,e, as from 1822 to 1823. He proclaims all the mea•
sites of the Cortes null and void ; and this is consistent at
'east with himself; while the balderdash reasoning of
.the Engli.h pander to his appetite for blood and robbery,
I as ridiculous as dishonest.

The motion made in the Common Council yesterday.

fur permission to erect a monument to the memory of
:Riego, in ripsbiry Circus, was lost by a small msjority.
We 'wet this ; and regret it the more becalm the op-
pessliJn did not assign one reason against the in:miore, cod
.heemase we think it proceeded from a timidity little short of

cowardice ; and a disposition to quail berm the terrors of
the Iloty Alliance. The business was opened by Mr.
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Side, in a very excellent and appropriate speech, and the
!potion was seconded by Mr. Pavel!. Sir Claudius Hunter
Wei its first opponent; and his principal point was, that
this was" a time when nothing should be heard, but the
•' voice of triumph for oar happy and prosperous state as a
Ration when contrasted with others!" (ieoerous Men!
What, no sympathy for the misfortunes of others ? No !
Ire are happy. What have we to do with others! Let
ethers take care of themselves! But are not our own safety
sad happiness in some slight hazard ? The ministers ■re
adding to the army; and the " mighty masses" of Mr.
.Canning, are beginning to " swell with life," and to
48 bristle with terror." The monitor of busy preparation is
"-tan the breeze ; but what of that ? Sir C. Hunter will have

F. •soibing but songs of triumph for our p proverous
4 AMINMinn. Sir Claudius cannot see beyond his nose i and
' lle may w.-II wonder how any body should wisli to extend

their viaion. bfr.S. Dixon was the tail of this comet, and
seconded the previous question ; very wisely agreeing that
s• there were mussy Ines in that hall. more deserving of a
statue!" This was teaching a delicate chord; and we
were almost afraid the worthy member was about to pro-
pose a monument for hineseY ! Mr. James was afraid the
City should be too mach improved. There was enough
doing, hr said, a noble Bridge was—in contemplatioa. Bat
he shrewdly suspected, that if Biog. bad died is the field
Alley Mould never have been troubled with the motion.
Clever fellow.! It is true ; bad lUego fillet, in the geld,
instead of being murdered by the Holy Allies, there
Weald have been no occasion for the motion. It was
vaiewd, very shrewd, of Mr. James, to find out this. It is
not every common councilman who would have. been so
ttagicieus. Mr. Alderman C. Smith made another very
important discovery—namely, that " all they knew of
*Ririe was, that be had been opposed to the legitimate
"Government of his, Constry." Now, this is more than
w knew; but then Mr. Alderman C. Smith is a very wise
massed may know more about legitimacy than we do
Mt. Viggios objected to the motion as premature; no suh-
seription having been opened, no plan being propoied, and
DO inscription ready to be put 'upon the marble;
bet it appears to us, that it would have been
beginniog at the4wrong end,to have obtained all these things
before the seite of the monument had been determined
.pelt; as the place; must, in some measure, regulate the
&alga. W. Irmo, ek•e else of inct will not be lost eight of,
althosgb the motion was lost in the Common Council.—
What the Corporation declines to do, may be done by lb*
cation. The Morning- Poet of to-day has a well-timed
o Oisnation, that the Common Connell should take an op-
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partway of expressing the opinion it most entertain of the
.eventein the Peninsula, lest its silence should be construed
.istospprobation of them.

Ye are 11%1 to perceive that even the New Times is ashamed
opts false accusation of General Rlego. with regard to shoot-
Id the moneyed Spaniards ; though It has set the candour, to
run the slander. To•day, instead of reiterating the false
ti!ar.ge of murder, it merely accuses hint of having " plundered
.sad Imprisoned " British mevdmnts at Malaga. We have en•
Wild late this matter also ; and And the whole story a rebel'
and we challenge the Editor of the New Times to
mememse English merchant who was imprismised.—Thst
4,1101100 as were levied Is probably true; and this may be,
Me pleader: —but even this is not proved, as affecting Bd.
lielt Merchants.

4 Madrid paper, is reply to lb. agguntanu against tin
ristasintst of tbs colonise, asks if Rolland would allow
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lastie-to proclaims itself inependiat. Ceitainli not, it

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