The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-15 00:00:00

ALARMING STATE OF SPAIN.

Paris papers which have arrived to the 13th inst.,
bring intelligence from Madrid to the 6th. At that
time the insurrection from of the six battalions of
guards, continued ; four of them had quitted their
quarters and encamped outside the walls, sad
the two others occupied the palace, where the
King and the Royal Family still resided. Negocia-
Cons had been carried on with the mutineers, and al-
though they had massacred I of their own of-
ken and soldiers whom they suspected of being Con-
stitutionalists, a general amnesty had aeleffered them.
The negotiation, however, had failed, as they pretend.
ed to dictate, instead of receiving terms. They de-
manded the abolition of the Deeret directing that the
Royal Guard 'should receive a new organization. and
the expelsion of all the " Tragalitis," or Ultra-Con•
stitntionelists, from the Madrid National Guard. As
it was thought that the King's presence is the police
encouraged the Guards in their insubordination.-" the
Municipality of the Capital mudded' es the drh int.,
and came to a determination to iseite his Majeat)%
to repair to the Town Homan Itiflrlllt-111Wgew.
The Coaacil of State met is Op eveue4-4011
sat till a late hour to examine that proposition widen
had been submitted by the Kies to its coasideratios.
It resolved at last that it was ptfiper to invite the
King to separate himself from his mutinous Guards ;
and a deputation was seat to communicate that deter-
mination to his Majesty. The King answered, "My
Guard* are not mutinous ; let me put myself at their
head, and you will see whether they do not obey me."
This reply filled the Counsellors with mtoulakissent :
they made fresh representations to thedlEing respect.
ing the state of the capital, and his Majesty announced
" that he would attend in person the deliberations of a
new Council, which was to he held it the night of
the sth instant." It appears that the result of this last
Council had not transpired in the forenoon s.f the 6,1 t
iostent, for a letter of that date only says:—" At fire
o'clock this morning affairs continued to wear SO Gal
eeraln aspect. It Is feared in the Capital that tip
two battailions of Guards, who still occepy the Pal+,
may attempt a sortie to force their way out of town to
the Pt ado, where the other four benefices bare takes
a position. If the Guards carried away the King is
their ranks, the consequences cannot be easily foreseen.
Every thing a ould depend on the impression which
such a spectacle would produce on the Regiment
of AIMI111." This regiment, which, as well as
the Cavalry, the Artillery, the Militia, and the
national Guards remained faithful to the • Consti-
tutional Government, occupied one of Oill gates
of the city, called the !rots Hate, and oh d the
four battalions of Guards in the Prado, with whom, on
the morning of the sth inst. i had some skirmishing.
The two battalions who stay o the Palace with the
King, were surrounded ou a sides by a chain of,
posts. consisting of troops of all arms, and as the ar-
tillery was wholly in the hands of the Constitution-
alists, and the military force at their command was in-
finitely superior in numbers to the whole of the mu-
tineers, no doubt was entertained of their being easily
reduced if extreme tueasures were adopted. As in
such a case, however, it would be impossible to answer
for the safety of the Royal Family, evill" mesa was
attempted to restore subordination and ankh witboat
drawing the sword and shedding blood. lieetral
Morillo, who had been appointed by the Kieg on the
2d instant Colonel by iistei ins of his two regiment*, of
Foot Guards (the mutineers) had in vale presented
himself to the Prado, and even to she Palace, to take
their command. They refused to obey him sinless be
entered into their views. and after remonstrating with
them courageowsly on their rebellioi, he dreamed his
ordinary post In thffcapital. It is said that itiego re-
turned to Madrid on the 21, and Wished for as imams•
diate attack os the Guards ; but that his object woo
suspended, if not defeated, by the prudence of Ge-
neral Morillo, who resolved to try the effect of his per-
sonal interference before having recourse to open heir
tilities.
Accafling to the Ultra papers of Paris, the intelli-
gence from the Provinces is not more favourable than
that from the capital.—The Political Chief of Snake, it
is said, announced on the 28th of June that the Royal
carabinrers, whose auppeession had been decreed by the,
Cortes, were in a state of rebellion at Castro del Rio.
and that several corps had Imen sent against them. Re
ports had since been receivid that a regiment of the
Provincial Militia of Coidova, which bad been marched;
against them, hail joined them, and that they had won"
ed the National Gaeta in an engagement, A Wes

MAN,

force, however, Wag assembling older the command of
General O'Daly, to reduce them to subjection, aid it
was reported at Madrid on the Stit, says the Conslitti-
Kowa!, that the insurgent carabieeers had accepted the
amnesty offered to them ; others pretend that they bad
been reduced by the regiment of Akantara. It was af-
firmed also, the same day, that the Government had re-
jected the propositions and the sonditions of the batta-
lions of the guards, revolted in the Predo. la other
respects every thing was quite tranquil in Madrid ; the
troops of the garrison occupied the same posts. Their
sentiments, as well as those of the inhabitants, were al-
ways of the same degree of patriotic excitement, and
there were heard every instant on different points the
cries of " Liberty and the Coostitution."
The Previsional Greek Government has drawn op
an address to the Beropeas Governments, explaaatory
of the motives which isclueed the Greeks to rise, and
expressing • firm determination to ecuscpter or perish
is the struggle. liked, as they welt observe, they
have no option, as there is so alternative but victory
or ezternsinatios. They end, to show that they
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oily rose against the Take. wires the iron yoke of
those men became altogether issuffersb;e; and
tell the Holy Alliance that it is only injuring the
cause of legitimacy to consider the Turkish govern.
meet a legitimate one.,
The Paris papers contain nothing of interest re-
•pecting the interior of Fraoee. The new law on Ca
nets passed the Chamber of ()rimless on Thursday
by a majority of 200 so 137.
nano' FUNDS. JOLT 12.—Fies per Cents. opened
at 91E; lowest at 90f. 80e.; closed, 91f.—Bank
Stock, 1595 E—Exchange on London, one month, 25f.
50c.; three months. 25f. 30c.

On Friday last (the 12th of July, the Anniver-
sary of the Battle of the Boyne, which was fought
on the Ist July, 1690,) notwithstanding the die tress
in the South West of Ireland continues to he of the
most appalls( description, and the Friends of Conci-
liation had met and urged the expediency of avoiding
the annual exhibitions which irritate the majority of
Ithe peeplm we learn by the Dublin papers received
Ithis morning that the Statue on College Green, Dub-
lin, was dressed. Towards evening the trappings of
the Statue were beginning to be script, when the
Orange party mustering strong, rushed down among
the populace, and having dispersed them, carried on
daring the reamisier if the evening an offensive war-
time, is which many outrages were as usual com-
mitted, and many serieus accidents took place. At
Bandon a similar provocation was offered on the Ist
inst., and a poor woman was shot while sitting quietly
at her own door.—The reputed• real Captain Rock is
stated by the Limerick CAronicle, to have surrendered
himself on Friday sennight, to Gerald Bleasteriluset,

Many of the principal Underwriters at Lloyd's hays
refused to underwrite a ship now about to proceed
from the Thames, with warlike stores, direct to Torkey,
sad have thereby strongly marked their abhorrence of
the cause of the Barbarians.
The papers by the Liebe* Mail are principally filled
with discussions bathe Cortes, on the additional articles
to the Constitution of Brazil. Thu Commlitoo. to
'whom the object bad Wen 'offered. declare in their
Report, that an absolute thion betweee the two king-
doms was impossible, sad restenumeuded that there
should be two Assemblies of Cortes, one in each king-
dom. Some censure was elm upon the conduct of the
Prince Royal. After two days discussion, the farther
consideratioa of the subject was adjourned.
. . _

According to advices-from Saot; Fe do Bogota, of
the lith April, the Colombian Coogress had passed a
decree for coetinaing a iiierina the paymseat of tythes.
A negociatiou was to be opened with the Holy See for
a coocordate as to ecclesiastiCal matters. A friendly
interview was appointed to take place between Generals
Si, Martin and Bolivar, at Guayaquil, to establish a
•utual understanding on various points involving the
general interests of South America. San Martin had
sonsmoned a Constitutional Assembly to meet at Lima
tie the let of May. He reserved to himself the right
of appointieg supplementary deputies for the three
&striae which were still in the hands of the Royal•
iits. He had established to Order of knighthood,
denominated the Order et the Soo, upon the model
of the French Legioi of Honour.
It bag ►best discovered that the Preach Geotletnan
sigiselalkd Memel( M. Graves, and was lost in the
tired Albion Packet, off Kinsale, in Ireland, was the
celebrated Count Lefebre Desoouettes.

Private advises from Madrid, dated the evening of
the 6th, hat no cenression had then been made
by the mutinous troops, nor bad any thing occurred to
loapire koppaof bringing the artily to, ,on Immediate
amicable accommodation. Frequent interviews are
said to have taken place between the King and his Mi•
sisters, in which the latter sirongly urged his Majesty
to sanction with his name the promulgation of some
official document, declaring his disapprobation at the
conduct of the Royal Hoards, and designaling them by
the title of rebels to their eouatry. It is added, that
with this proposition Ferdimanil has firmly refined
compliance, declaring that his Hoards were his friends
and should never be stigmatised or brought into peril
by any act of his. An apprehension, to which the
vacillating conduct of the King gave some-cause, ap-
pears to have been entertained by the Ministers, that
Ferdinand might suddenly adopt the resolotioo of
placing himself under the protection of the refractory
troops; and they urged him, therefore, to repair to
some place of safety, where his person, should the
troops be incited to so daring an attempt, might be se-
cure from seizure. To this proposition also the Kieg
returned a decided negative, with the remark, that his
guards were faithful, and that he had nothing to fear
from thesis. In this situation affairs at Madrid were
left on the 6th iost., the conduct of time King inspiring
dm roost serious alarm among that portion of
the people who are well affected to the constitution.
Tug LATE " Reacom."—On Wednesday last, in
the Jury Court, on a motion being made for expenses
in the cause Lord A. Hamilton v. Stevenson, their
Lordships unanimously declared that full expenses
were _duo to the pot , and appointed an account
thereof to he given into Court to he taxed.

At a sale last week of the property of a bankrupt,
en extensive and commodious freehold house and gar-
den. within fire miles of Plymouth, and which ocas•
pies upwards of half an acre of grounds, was bought
in by the estate for four hundred pounds, no person
hawing bid higher than three hundred and ten,--en.l
this too, for a house, for which, in the year 1614,
fourteen bsndred pounds were offered and refused.

•
TO LORD MILTON.
ON TILE DEBATE ON MR. WESTERN'S RES 1.

LUTIONS.

demi:titan, July 14, 1522

Mr Loan—The debate on the resolutions prop° .1
by Mr. WESTII/4, oa Wednesday last in the Mous .
Commons, contained mitten which I think wo
of some particilar remarks; and as your
to .k a very conspicuous part in this debate, I thi .c
proper to address those remarks to you, not mi.
standing your " llooottrable and Learned F,1,,
the Member for Wincbelshea," has thought I.
right to denounce the doing of precisely •uci. .
thing as this, as a breath of the privilege Lf
hotly to which you both at present belong,
Mr. WatTEPIN brought forward resolutions, in tur..
der eighteen, and in length, quite surprising. 71,•.
were by no means anal, as, in my opiaiou,
suited to the intended purpose; some of the faae
in them are not true ; several of these facts, even
true, lied to confusion and error, ea iag to as emu
selection, and an obscure sort of statement ; sat
upon the whole, formed a motion against which
shoed certainly have voted if I had been in tao
House. A simple declaration of the fact of the is
crease of the value 'of money. in consequence
legislative measures, aid the conseseent enriclaint
tax-eaters at the expense of all the rest of the cis.
osanity, would have been sufficient. If ally Oda;
had been added, it ought to have bee. a distil.:
declaration of the justice and necessity of speedi:.
reducing the receipts of the tax-eaters, the fen.
holders included. Instead of this Mr. WILMS tee
yelled into comparisans about gold ■nd gloat, and
Goat knows what besides; sad he concluded with.
resolution, not clearly pointing oat any thing t•,
done; but hinting, broadly enough, at a briogin;
back of the infamous paper-money, or at an alive
don of some sort or other in the raise of the au.
ney of the conotry.
The motion was lost without a division ; but that
is nothing as to the question; that is nothing is
do in deciding the opinions of the public. It u
not the result of the dames, but certain thins
that are said by the speakers, that I tbiuk wort !
of attention. Mr. %STULL in his descriptive of
the state of the country, as produced by the cash
payment measures, mild nothing that was not pr..
pared to bin bands even before t►e panieg of PERL.I
Bill. He asserted that thole measures had violstal
all existing contracts, and said, that they cos:4
Lave proceeded only from igaOIIIIACC. & thing whicil
have said about ten thousand times.

ag
an •sICAIDa mime next ; for the Ministers /Om k
have taken no part in the discussion, exempt as fir a
related to Mr. Peat, who made a single remark, a
which I shall ob bye-and-bye. Mr. RICARDO.
who is so well known to have bee. the priseipal
dimity on which Peat's Bill was founded, did lice
montane repeat those alwarditiel which have been D
often published under bit name, and es often expel
by me. Be denied that Pszz's Btu, bed bees WA
ellen of the distress; sad asked, whetkerfamarre eat
a ootorions fact that, is before Met Billow p.asd,
" pAces had eat gristly fallen." It le yet fir
to Call this disloyal:mis or to givi an •
ranter whatever; but, though this fret is astoriii
it is sot mere notorious thaa the fact that it bee met
been cleated ; bat always mated ; sad that it Is se
more setoriotts than the fact, that the fall in ••
has
the whole series of measures, beginning with the BLI
that provided for Cash Payments is six menthe afar
the Peace, and ending with Piet's Bill. Hr. RICA&
usiitiet„ therefore, have saved himself the trouble or
Gettiag to this species of argument. The fallacy he
long Imes exposed; and if it still has the power of dr
eeixiag la the boaourable House. be may be absent
that it has that power in no other place.
This gentleman is abundant in absurdities ; ani Ea
has now bond oat that the distress may be tratri
to the greet Wen of Gold into Mit country; to 61
limprooements lea egrieeltere; and to .Mee pion
which he did not mention ; and bevies said this, ho,
with all the self complacency immeglanbk, matt
" how, then, could the distress of agriculture be in.
" pelted to the alteration is the value of agricaltarer
Just as if his assertions about the Influx of fell
and the improvements of agriculture, bad bees, *P"
his barely making them, taken and sofversally to
knowledged as medesialtie troths t whim. I pledgee)!
life, that there is not use siagle man in England, pct
of Bedlam, besides himself, that regards them in OW
light.

_The speech of this gentleman wu s tissue of se
meaoing phrases that I should hare thought it who
unworthy of notice, had it not Ivrea for the two Ginn•
rations upon which I ant now *boot to retnark. TO

fitst of these was, that, if, as Mr. WSITIIIIOI had
mud, the rents bad been wholly taken away by tia
Lion, it would be better for the laadlords to comets
his plan of paying off the debt, by giant, alp part
their Lomas! Having proved, in my letter to Lid
LIVIRPOOI. of 1620, that .this plan would take awat
the whole of tAr Lai de, I shall not waste the time
yutir Lordsaip, and of say readirs, by going over Co
proof again here ; and shall only farther remarii,
this part of the speech, that the perfect ease aid can
tentless, with which Mr. iticattoo talked of the ma'
ter; of its being better for the landlords to have Jct.:
property, than no property at all ; and of his rep*
ing their rents as be did every oiler article in tb
market; 1 shall only ob that this carelessmo•
' this as the French would call it, -amicite/a,re,
which this gentleman talked of the property, of tt.
estates, of the Landlords ;,ibis cho:ness, this sort •
gibing. with which be tallied of its being better t
leave them something than nothing : 1 have only
remark, that tlosi, *his wisdisut and justice,
provided a 'lore suitable pm:lien:tent for those *lwo'
up the *Very vete:false, the base, the hypocriti. al os
en', against the Riot. Siteteacarts in Ih17; And iti
applauded tneir bring shot up in prison on a Idly:,
of High Treaaos, because ilav, in their reveries ; •
their abstract nonsense, talked of a y
land •

The Spenceans called the land the people.; I:,
They mixed np their political mummy with Oef.
said were the ptintlples of the Christian religiv•
But, be their absurdities what they might. did at
go/err/ice titan to take the land from the lan.:1.00
Was mere a man in England. who believed that flat
was real danger from the rojeoes of the Speuta‘t'