The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-01 00:00:00

ONDON:
r IrAY EVFNING, JI:NE I, 1321.

STOCK EXCILINGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
The Funds opened this morning much the same as
they left id yesterday, viz. Consols at 74 for the Ac-
count, but owing to some very heavy sales, they have
'ince been (lone at 77t, which it now about the price.
'I he fear of something taking place in the (louse to-
night, (when the budget (unes out,) to affect the Navy
;a per Cents. is attributed as the cause. The Market is
in a very feverish state at present.

Letters ef the 211th April, received from St. Tho-
loy the Leeward Isl.md Mail, state, that hosti-
lities were expected to recommence immediately on the
'Spanish main.

Paris papers to the 30th have arrived. On the pre-
ceding day the re,etes closed at 95f. 15c., and Neapo-
litan Stork at 72. Prom them we learn that the pro-
cess instituted in the Netherlands against 111.1. We
Goals and Martens, Vicars---esseral of latent, and
M.
Boussen, Secretary to the Bishop of Ghent, has excited
the most lively interest throughout Belgium. They
were accused of having published, with the intention
of slistnrbing public order, a pastoral letter from N.
de Broglie, Bishop of Olsent, in which that prelate
was deeme4l to have instigated disobedience to the Oo-
vernment. On the 25th the Sovereign Court of Brus-
sel+ pronounced a verdict of acqnittal. The Presidctlyent,
before delive:ing the jsulgusent of the Court, stri
forbade any expression of approbation or disappro-
bation from those present ; but they were not to be
restrained, and broke out into loud expressions of sa-
tisfaction. The Government of the Netherlands is ne-
gotiating a limn with NI !MITS. Rothschild. The Pre-
sident of the lieranassic Dirt has communicated to that
body the declaration of the Allied Sovereigns at Lay-
bach. On this occasion the Diet voted unanimously
the homage of their respectful acknowledgement to
the Emperors of Russia and Austria for their cumie
tapednnd
's-
•nication, and the assurance that they re
a of on
in revering in all its parts " the beautiful monument
of that equity and love of order which those Sovereigns
have erected fur the permanent consolation of well-in-

ttntioned own."
From Berlin we hear that the Polish army received
orders to march, as it is supposed. to the froatiers of
Moldavia.
In as article in these Joss fromVissoura, asda
da/61
May it is intimated that the Mirror of

will lake fat I sheet stay at Pest, wisen he purposes
to pay a visit to the Archduke Palatine,
and thence
continue his route tar Petersburglt, when be will ar-
rive about the 2d of June. By letters from Constan-
tinople through the same channel, we an informed
that the state of affairs is that capital continues most
deplorable. The revolt of the Mores and the islands
of the Archipelago bare carried the fanaticism and ex-
asperation of the Turks to its height; and this people,
greedy of blood, hare abandoned themselves to the
greatest excesses against the defenceless Christians.—
The Porte acts like the multitude, with an inexorable
cruelty, of which the annals of Islamism have not for
ages offered an example. At the moment when the ,
Greek patriarch and the other bishops were arrested '1
by order of the Grand Seignor, the Greeks who were
collected in the temples, struck with terror, took refuge
in the houses of the neigbouring ecclesiastics ; but
they were pursued and massacred in great numbers by
the furious populace.
The Brussels papers which have reached us give
a similar description of these horrors. Many hun-
dred Christians are stated to have been murdered by
the Mussulmen ; and it is added that the streets of
Pers. where the Foreign Ministers reside, have bees
burnt, and all the inhabitants, without distinction of
age or sex, sacrificed to the fury of the Turks. Many
perished under the sabres of the barbarians, and others
in the flames. All the Christian ambassadors had
barricadoed their hotels. The diplomatic body, ac-
cording to these accounts, were in the utmost alarm,
dreading every moment the rage of these sanguinary
men. Lady Strangford, the wife of the British Am-
bassador, was wounded in the head, as she was going
to take refute in a neighbouring house.
Almost the whole of the Morea, accordiog to advice,
from Trieste, has been already emancipated from the
Turkish yoke; and it was even reported that Michael
Ypsilanti, brother to the Greek Chief, had defeated
and dispersed the Turkish army which had so long
besieged the Castle of Ali Pacha.
The Spanish papers mention an extraordinary degree
of fermentation to have taken place at Corunna on the
arrival there of the persons who had been arrested is
different parts of that province. This state of things
continued from the 3d of May till the 9th. When the
arrested parties were embarkeil for the Canaries. Bot an
agitation of a different kind, it appears, has taken place
in Madrid; the agitation of a question which involves a
negotiation between the mother-country and the
colonies. A plan has been proposed by which the
whole of New Spain will constitute a separate State,
having a Constitution different from that of the
mother-country, continuing nevertheless in a degree
of dependence, which would be particularly evinced
by the annual payment of a certain number of millions
of piastres. One of the principal articles of this plan
will he to put at the head of the new tioverntnent an
infant of Spain, brother of the King.
The following is an extract of a letter which was
Yesterday received on this subject from Madrid, written
i)r one of the Deputies to the Spanish Cortes (ram
Mexico, and which contains the most correct as well
as thrmost recent information RAI has bees hitherto
received of the progress made in the negotiation Count
Slaoato, Mar I 7.----On the motion of
Torer), a special commission has been named, to pro-
pose the means of terminating the Jifferesces between
Spain and America. In this commission l hare ofet
pleasure of beariog a part, and MN not without hope
seeing its objects fulfilled. There have been several
private meetings of the American )epoties and all
agree in the necessity of according distinct legislatures
to the trans-A tlautic dominions, reserving the exe-
cutive power to the King, and rendering tbe adminis-
tration of juArice independent. We bare a strong
party among the Deputies for the Home Protrisees who
give us their support ; but they require that the I
the
n-
fantas of Spain should assume the Regency of
countries in question. A similar idea is entertained by
the Mexican Deputies. It is not going too far also to say
that the King and the Ministers in some degree espouse
our cause. Last night the commission assembled for the
first time. The Ministers were present; and so important
was the affair considered, that nearly half the members
of the Cortes attended. although a sitting of that as-
sembly was then being held. After much debate, we
voted unanimously, as the first basis, that there should
be legislative bodies in America. To-night the sous-
mission will continue its sittings for the discussion of
the other basis, in which we trust to experience a fa-
vourable result, though we shall certainly have diffi-
culties to encounter."
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rends of *.gland. Bat the Muse it appears was
t contrary opinion; and Mr. BiiNSZT'S motion was
rejected by a majority of ye to bit.
In the Bill for the Mitigation of the Punishment
of Forgery, Sir J. MACICINTOSN proposed some mate-
rial alterations, which in Parliamentary language, are
sailed amendments. The most important alteration
le the making the forging of Country Bank Notes,
one of the exceptions, and consequently fearing
open to be punished capitally. The facility with
which the Honourable and Learned Member has
in one point after another, given up his own
opinion to the inclination of others, is to us a subject
of regret. Since capital punishments had been found
ineffectual fur preventing the offence of forgery, and a
secondary punishment was proposed. which was
thought, at least, to be worth a trial, why not let
the experiment be made in those cases which
have hitherto most frequently occurred, in which tu
the commission of the crime was facilitated by dm \
want of precantion in the parties who were most inter.l
cited in its prevention, and by which the feelings of
the public bad been so often outraged and urged to
remonstrance ? In its present stage the features of the
measure are so essentially changed from their o-iginal
character, that' we are not surprised its worthy author,
among his other amendments, proposed to alter the pre-
aniVe of the only other subject we have
root to mention is the notice of a motion be
Mr. Srt:Awr Wownar on the Declaration which the
Holy Allies issued upon the dissolution of the Con-
gress at Laybach. It certainly it a document which
requires animadversion from every English StAtesman
who is sensible of the value of the Constitution he
derives from the Revolution ; and we are glad it is
takes up by the gentleman by whom the notice is given.

TT OF KING'S BENCII.—(Ton Dir).

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