The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-07-30 00:00:00

FRI —ii-41; le RS.

l'Anss, Jove 26.—The Chamber of Deputies•did
suit meet yesterday. We are assured that the debates
on the proposition relative to the liberty of the press
have terminated in the Central Committee, and that
the report will be made towards the end of the week.
The two Journals which have constituted themselves
the adversaries of the liberty of the press keep up
their petty skirmishes ; put they have not spade any
impression. The question is perfectly clear ; every
one now admits that a censorship is not only incom-
patible with the right guaranteed to the French by
the Constitution, of publishing their opinions, sub.
ject to putisliment if they abuse that liberty ; but it
is even avowed, that the system of the most rigorous
censure wisuld not prevent a single offence. Our
Legistatorti•wOUld, therefore, put themselves in a si-
tuation of guest responsibility,—that of making nts-
kater'y laws, incompatible with the principles of the
Constitution. We have observed, that the arguments
;laud 1.1 support of the censorship are precisely the
same with those that were urged for its establishment
tinder the late Government. The' advocates for it
strenuously maintain that the French, unenlightened
by long experience, are incapable of enjoying the
rights which are secured to them by the will of the
'King ; but few Frenchmen will be of this opinion.
The censure of works, previous to publication, can
be beneficial only to a very small number of indi-
Viduals; that is to say, to the censors themselves.

This 'Chorelier, Gomez Labrador, Councillor of
State of his CattiOlic Majesty, and his Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in France, and
• to the Congress at Vienna, to the Editors of the
Journal de Paris:—
44
~.GINTLI4
EEN,-11) your Paper of yesterday you
inserted an article, dated Munich, 16th inst., repre-
sewing 'that the harangues' of the Spanish Clergy
titad occasioned the greatest disorders in the cities of
Leon and Compostelht. You will readily bellettlj
*tat I. have at Paris intelligence of a much more re:-1
Cent date, and above all more authentic than the
Altrarian new S-writer who 'has furnished you with
*he article in question. Allow me, therefore, to tell
lou, that the disorders at Leon and Compostella
tve,no more reality than the alarm occasioned by
lhe-conduct and sentiments of General Mina, and
II seditious proceedings announced for some time
illestkdijferent parts .of Spain ; whilst, on the con-
• ..,siry,•Gent Mina is not less estimable for his loyalty
• Wold-fashietterl frankness, than • worthy of admi-
-4111111111 fee hit military achievements ; and in spite of
thit fibricatiiefeY false news, thews Is pat a more
filet .country iu Ear* than Spain. Yes, Gentle.
•
erten, the most perfect tranquillity prevails in my na-
-: Ave land; the people there enjoy even a happiness
epperior to that which any nation ever'experienced;
for none ever succeeded in recovering its independ.
thee and its Soverei;tl by such extraordinary effort;
of courage, fidelity, and constancy. Convinced of
this happy situation of my country, I have hitherto
been silent respecting tboso reports of discontents
which idle or evil-disposed persons take delight in
propagating; and I should have done the same in
re-
gard to your brother journalist at Munich, if, ,after
having announced false intelligence, he bad not added
en atrocious calumny against my august Sovereign,
and ugaitist his Royal Highness the Infant boa
Antonio.
" I flattered myself, Gentlemen, that the times
in which Journalists insulted nations and Sovereigns
with imptinity, were long past, and what more ag- •
gravated iosull can there be, than to attribute to the
uncle of the ..King of Spain, a declaration which
tkonld be on act of rebellion, and to ascribe to his
Majesty a disease which would incapacitate him from
feigning ? Oh • What • foundation has this miserable
Yournaltst raised his imposture? And you, Gentle-
'SON how could you think of inserting such an im-
putation in your Paper? The singularity of adopt.
ing Spanish news from a Getinan Journal ought to
have deterred you, had you even not reflected on the
tnischievous consequences which your levity was
likely to produce. All true Frenchmen have de-
Vlored the war of perfidy and atrocity which their
tyrant carried on for Okla.'s; they have deplored
that war, not only as unjust, but as a medium which
could not fail to mite to the highest pitch the animo-
shy and hared of two neighbouring nations, whose
mutual interest it is-to maintain a good understanding
ieith one wither. ". All that can tend to perpetuate
this dispositioni•ought to be carefully avoided ; and
nothing, in ity•Opinien, will contribute more to ex-
asperate my countrymen than the continuation of
the system, which' most of the Journalists and other
writers of •your nation have long and invariably pur-
sued. Every piece of false intelligence relative to
Spain, every invective is a disservice rendered to jour
own countrymen.
46 I hope that yoawill be pleased to pnblfsh this
contradiction in your Paper.
" P. GOMEZ LABRADOR.
t 4 Paris Jett 1;?, 1814."

114,toatn, JULY 14.—The re-establishment of the
Supreme Council of the Indies has given us one
Council more, and does not restore to us our colo-
nies. The insurrection of these remote countries
has taken so serious a character, that we must hesi-*
tate upon the name to give to their condnct. The
province or kingdoms of Venezuela, Buenos Ayres,
find several others of equal importance, have solemn-
ly proclaimed their separation from the Mother
Country, and published a Constitution which secure
?their independence. This example cannot fail to
extend to Lima, and even to Mexico, which we still
retain. Such are the melancholy.results of our
dissections, and that affected energy which all
parties begin to make a mutual reproach. The pre-
sent Government has,not deemed it advisable to wee
• with the opinions which have acquired consistency
duiipg 'these late years. • •