The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-01 00:00:00

hen-'t government, conntry mizt: in.nre a star.•
of plenty, of freedom, of universal i,•Ma•nre and hapui•
each es no intim) of the earth has hitherto ex
t cAraced.

• FRENCH PA PEitS OF :110NDA Y.
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Pi ara, Dec. 29.—Tbe Duke de San Carlos had yesterday
a pritate audience with the King, when he (1-I:veted
to his Majesty the tfecoralions which the hi r' of
Spin has conferre,d upon the General Officers of the French
.

• Rome, Dee. 16 —Don Emmannel Perez de la Vega, the
. lettrneal and intrepid Spanish traveller, has just arrived
hire. He has traveracil Asia, America, and Africa, ;col
mad• rustle eery enrlons observations. lie has been ter,
wan absent fermi his country, aid only knows firm,
reports the recent evils of that kingdom, which he is about
toenrich with the tribute of his talents, and the fruit of his
t 9 is.
51alame Reeamirr arrived here to.day from Florence,
NJ not D, Dee. 20.—Yesterilav there was a Council of
Sure, at which his Majesty presided. ro day it assembles
limier the presidency of his .Royal Highness the Iniant
ion Carlos. Tomorrow it will inert under the presidency
e.• the Infant Don Francis Paolo. The object of these re-
. ?...st•rl ineetinrs is the anmesty, which is on the point of
b.'iog set•led It will appear, it is said, on the :lfitli. No.
C.ir.e. has been neglected to obtain precedents which may
solighton the council in this important affair. The archives
hare been consoled tc ascertain exactly wh.,t took place in
tine reign of the Etnperor Chilies V., regard to the
Cornninneros, and under that of Philip V. with regard to
t!.t Spaniards who were implicated in the party of the
rehilnke of Anstria: sfmie valnable docoments, relating to
Fail, those periods, hare been obtaired from tile Areliives
or Seraneas, /That em',:rrasses the conncil in rieciding
nTp ti e eases of eel-thin persona compromised in the
vottair of the revolution, are the ,capitnlations granted by
the Chief of the Prench army tar the soldiers of the
COrtrs. However, all difliettlties are surmounted, and
• it* than siiortly know W 11.1( :lAS ken definitively determined 1
'Von.
YR RNCII FUNDS, DEC. 29.—Five per Cents. 921. ; Bank
Stork, Isitl7C se. ; Neapolitan 3 per Cents. 77i ; ar.nte
si.F.spaine Pit ; Exchange on London, one mast's, 25f.
; three moi•ths, 251 40c.
BAYONNE INTELf.;I'..ENCE.
Bsvossc, Dec 23. —We 4.-taive no mail from Spain to-
dray, but a mirearoile trim: Ater has brotulit some letters.—
('re of these says, tko. on Friday, the 19th, an °filet r of
ittalion in Rate son at Estella, desiring to go to Pampe.
lona on private business, and not baying hero able to ob-
-I;.in permission,'cut off his mustachios, intending to go in
disgnise. Being questioned by his cornrail.s, lie toll
them atottliule a'! r: hut they informed against him, and
Wised him to lie arrested ; h• was triid by a Court Martial,
and sro.tenced to receive 300 lashes, which sentence was
carried into eteco'ion. Several soldiers having expressed
ti—ir horror at this punishment, were arrested, but the.;
whole battalion declared in their (avant., arid were preereds
irq to set them at liberty. The ...Ts then interfere"),
but ;hey were not attended to, :in•l eight were killed. The
Ivt.ole battalion tl.en marched our of the town, with drams
beating, and afterwards divided into three co unr:s ; it
was rot known wt at direction they had taken. Santos
tadron having learned this melancholy news, I,.ft painpe.,
:ions and repaired to the pot, but it was not ktlown what I
.has had been able to effect.

" We !e'en from Putopelona that they *re beginning{ to,
AY t enure persona at lib..rty, but making them pay a fit)" of
from -2,000 to 6,000 ("rare..

An extranrslin.ry courier, slid to Isztve been :nrwardesl
by tie Director General of the Post of tb'e ArnaT, is gorse I.
tYlre his request that the post msy he(eft on the ehme foot.
irg as at preseat —that is to say, the.t it linty come three
times a week, which does not seem to he too mod,. This
murier is reported to have 4 it there was I orpshierahle
agitation at Madrid, from an eapeet.etion that the Minis-
try wools' soon be chsnicif, and that Victor Sitz wouhl
soon be restored to °Hien, whose I,,;sh is to rewstanlish tho
e;d system in all its purity. •
"-The 7th and 9th re.iti ...Abr. of Drs&w•ns arrived here
yesterday and to Jai; te,ey ,err in very isel.fferent condition,
act! much reduced r losoe'ners"