The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

I mum Nov. 21.—The preparatoty.Junta for tbe Or-
dinary Cortes of 18.3, assembled at nine o'clock on thl
15th, and the sitting was opened with a short speech by
Senor H. J. Braameamp do Sobbal, in whit* be ob-
d that the approaching Cortes would beentediffer-
ent duty from the preceding, bet equally learklerf. wiz
to consolidate the 'agitations which their prielemmeliel
had founded.
The Report of the Permanent Deputation, reed by its
Secretary, stated that it had examined the denatisents
relative to the election of the new Depnties; that those
from the Azores and Madeira bad not yet arrived; that
all those from Brazil and other transmariee provinces
were wanting, anti therefore the Deputies who repre-
sented them in the last Assembly were .o coattail(' their
functions, according to the law of July 11th, this year,l
art. 57.
T..e second Preparatory Junta was held on the 18th,
in which the names of the Deputies whose elections
were found to have been made in due form were read,
and other forms were gone through.
The third preparatory Junta assembled on the 21st to
choose the President, Vie", President, and Secretaries of
the Cortes ; bet, before proceeding to this business, the I
Secretary announced the afflicting news of the death of
the illitsmous patriot Menoel Fernandes Thwems the
preceding night, at ten o'clock. He was oar Of the
fouetlers of the Portuguese liberty, Deputy from the
Province of Burs to the late Cortes, and re-elected to the
new Coegrese by many places..
A eimanful silence pretailed In. the asseathly at tibia.
sad. news. as well as is the ranee:es, and the eyes
of
many persons were suffused with tears.
Senor Jose Joaquin' Tereira de Motu& was afterwards
chosen President.
The Secretaries were then chosen, and the Presides*
and Mini hen proceeded to the Cathedral to take
the oath.
At five p. m. the Deputies of the Cortes assembled;
the President announced that the Cones were Installed ,
a Deputation was appointed to inform his Majesty; and
Snndav, the Ist of December, was fixed for the opening
of the tortes.
The death of S. Thomas has Wooed great affliction in
the inhabitants of this city. A subscription is alteady
opened for his widow and children.—(Lisboa Paper* to
22d Nov inclusive.) .

Sorocittdo3lcancu.—A shocking murder took place
oa Saturday night lag, in consequence of a dispute be-
tween-two pitmen, of the names of Robert Hill and
Stanwick Newton, and a labouring tuan of the same of
Spraggon, belonging to Durham. ISpraggon, it ap-
peared., was returning front lietton-le-Hole, and called
at a public-bonze near to that place, where the above pit-
men were sitting drinking. A dispnte arose between
the parties, which ended in a fight, in which Spraggon
bad the advantage. lie shortly after left the boase to
return hone when Ise was billowed by dim mew to a
abort distance mod a scofile again ensued, is which Hie
unfortnnate man, Spraggon received a deep sub in his
head by.a knife, which in a few hoer. ceased his death.
The men were shortly afterwards takes into custody.
and e Coroner's inquest ems held no the lady on MOO.
day, when a verdict of !Vitra! Murder was returned
against hall sod Newton, who were, is cessepaeace,
committed to take their trials at the seat Darkam
Wises.

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LONDON:
MONDAY avarnso, InCSAISIK 2, 1822.
STOCK EXCHANGE, 12 O'CLOCK.—Consols opened this
morning at S 0 to 81; but soon after it was known that
an express had arrived from Paris, bringing the Preach
Funds 87-30, and Speeds,' 511, a general sonsatios wad
produced in the Stock Exchange, and many reports of
a warlike nature were set afloat. The meeting of the
Cabled Council oar Saturday, and thofittiog out ease
of oar men of war. bad their effect is makiag the do.;
pression. We are credibly informed, however, that the'
tlepression of the French Funds is entirely whet to a
e. false and mischievous report in the Freed' papers ar-
rived this morniag, that respectable and first rate bes.
ker in the Stock Eschaage, of the name of It—, lead
foiled, besides soother of great eeriest; and that tiro
others were sent to gaol, sod that oar Stock Exchange
was shut up. Saturday being settling day at Parities
the Foreign Securities, the above naasouvre was no
armlet played off on the English party is that caplet'.
easastels up to this hour are 80j for the Account, and rot
Mosey 8011.
Fonsicx Maataw.—This Market, by the arrival of
the express from Paris, has also experienced a depres-
sion, and all Foreign Funds are rather lower and look
doll. New Spanish Beads opened at 58, and afterwards
fell to 571. The above Market has not yet recovered
from the severe shock it felt on Saturday last, owing to
the immense failures which took place. On the settling
day at die Stock Exchange however, as we nederatand,
there was not see defaulter of an" consequence.
Chill, 86—New Spanish, 6711-01 d, 'welsh's dose—New
rfllllllllll, 860-01 d, OSi-ritual , fiSe—Dasish. One
petits*, 74--estesiblan, 701—Now Spanish Scrip, Site
SW.

The Paris papers which have arrived to the 29th alt.
prove the Spanish insurgents to have been beaten out
of the lield I. every direction. Nina who, according
to all accounts hadtaken 5. of the Seo
gel had, it is said, given up the. to Ilre and sword;
and whilst the Baron d'Erelee had fallen back to the val-
ley of Paine*, Mina, at the head of 16,000 men, after hay-
ing passed through ripry difficult roads and the worst
country in Spain, bad got within a days starch of the town
from which the Rama bed,retreated. Psycerds wan in his
possessioo, and the Kersey, which ►ad reseeded eliat
it had removed to it from Urge!, because that OW* he t
sot ruSeient aceossmodation fur the assemblage Ilia
locked to ill has Dow ram away from Payeerda to Wei&
• small lowa or village enrreuaded ea three sides by
the French territory. Whilst !Lisa is the crates of
the line of operations was than proceeding. Mi-
lano at the extremity of the right, having been joined:
by Costa with two thottisateampt five Barcelona, was
entering Spanish Cerdaqune,antl driving all biters him;
and at the extreme left, the gallant Tortijos, so oftea
Lilted by the rebels in their reports, had advanced from
Vittoria to Pampeluna, and was marching to chaos back.
into France the few adventurers whom O'Doosel was
endeavouring to collect at lead. In addition to these
et-coasts, the statements of commercial letters describe
the situation of the Royalists as still more desperate.
Miss, they assert, had gained a decisive victory over the
remains of the Army of the Faith, many of whom bad
gone over to the Constitutionalists during the battle,
whilst all 'those who had not been taken prison-
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era, and had continued faithful to the Regency,
had followed it in its flight to Llivis. More than
half the Baron's troops, it is said, bad joined
Mina, who bad also captured large stores of anus
and ammunition provided by the Regency. Tl.ree' is
nothing new in the Frenelo papers from Verona, and but
little of importance relative to France. It will be recol-
lected that one of the numbers of the Cc:uhu:l44nel
esf the month of October was seised, on account of the
insertion of an article ,of M. de Pratt, entitled Mee
Congress. The Charge was founded on a pretended
instigation to the disobedience of the laws which pro-
hibit secret societies. This cense came Lame the Tai-,
banal of Correctional Police, and after deliberating a
quarter of an hour, the Tribilnal declared that from
*sifts the Article emephlifirtiof, it did not appear that
IlVde Pradt and M. Guise.bad stimulated people to form
secret societies; in consequence it decided against the
somplaint, and commanded the suppression to be done
away.
FIRISNCM FUNDS ON TOURSDAY.—'Fite per C eats, 881„
80c. ; Bank Shares, 1,6201. ; Neapolitan Stoock, 76i.
Exchange on London, one month, 23.30 ; three months,
25, 15.