The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-19 00:00:00

THE LEADER OF THE BLIND.

Under this title, Mr. COBBETT means, in his next
Register, to state, once more, the proofs of the in.-
evitably fatal consequences, unless there he, and
speedily too, an Adjustment of Contracts, publie and
private. This essay will be addressed to Mr. CAN-
NING, who has, in his place in parliament, confesses,
that the Ministers do not see their way clearly to any
measure for giving direct relief to the land. if they
cannot themselves see their way, it is proper that they
should be led.

STOCK EXCHANGE, MALI PAST TWIRL'S O'CLOCK.-

The opinions of the people here a ill remain dkide.',
in regard to the petition of peace or ear, between France
and Z;pain. The tnaority are led to believe by the gra-
dual rise of the French Funds and their procrastination
in crossing of the Pyrenees, that some accommodation
will )et take place ; but others affirm that the prices of
the French Funds are the mancenvres of the French
Ministry, until they have obtained their new Loan. The
Expresses from Paris this morning, brought the Funt:s
from Paris at 79. 25., and Span;sh 38;. Consols
oFened this morning at 73w, at which price they are
eta ionary.
A house in the City of some magnitude in foreign a m•
mere,e, failed yesterday,it is said to a considerable arson t.
A Hebrew house at Frankfort, else, of great note in the
diamond line, which has been apeculating largely in the
Funds, to the amount of a million of florins, has stopped
payment.

- There is but little doing in Consols this morn'uz, as
most of the parties are puzzled how to act at this cr:-
tient juncture; speculations in the funds bring nsw
a very despera'e game.
FOREIGN Ferius.—The Spanish Bonds have rather
improved this morning. In the earlier part they wire
Ilene at 321, but afterwards improved to owing it
is supposed, to their cowing higher from Paris. The
accounts from Paris still continue of a very warlike de-

acription.
Chili, 70—New Spanish, —New Prussia.
744—01 d, N—Russia, 7l—Danish, 7Sh to 79—Colombian.
491 to 60—New Spanish Scrip, SSA.

Paris papers of Sunday have been received. It is
stated, in an extract from a Marseilles Journal, that a
strong French squadron has arrived off Minaret., to
collect and convoy the merchantmen destined for the
Mediterranean. The Pope's Nuncio, who hid been sent
away from Madrid, in consequence of the refusal of his
Holiness, to receive the new Spanish Minister who had
been accredited to Rome,arrived at Bayonne on the 7th,
but not without experiencing some molestation on his
journey. The Secretary of the Austrian Legation that
was at Madrid, as Charge d'Affaires of the Anseatic
towns has been recalled. The only principal Ministers-re-
maining at Madrid are those of England, Portugal, and
the United States. The assertion that a Meeting of the
Russian, Prussian, and Austrian Ambassadors bad taken
place at M. de Chateaubriand's, with Comte Lagarde,has
been contradicted by several journals, with an carers.-
ness which indicates the importance they attach to the
circumstance. The Journal des Debais, however, ad-
mita that on Friday, Count Pozzo di Borgo had a lung
conference with the Count de Lagarde; and on thnsday
despatched an extraordinary courier to Petersburg. In
the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday there were two
discussions of some warmth and length, but of Wink
else than local interest. The one was on the establish-
ment of Schools of Medicine, and the other on the aC.i
mission of M. de Marchangy. M. de Marchangy had,
by his zeal as paltilic accuser in the late prosecution',
gained favour on this one side and odium on the other,
and therefore his case excited much bickering and soma
coarseness, as are usual no such occasions in this asset-,
lily. He bad been returned by two Departments: beg
it appeared he bad not paid,for either,direet taxes to the,,
requisite amount, and was on that ground declared it..
admissible.

By Bermuda papers to the sth of January, we have re-
ceived an account from the Martinique Gazette of II
result of the trial, at St. Pierre, of sixtrfonr slaves taken
in the late revolt on that isla-4, in which five white and
two coluured persons were killed, and many robberies
cammitted, six.: S to have their right hands cut oft
beltea4ed, and their bodies thrown away; 14 hanged, and
their bodies exposed, and thrown away ; 10 Dogged,
branded, and transported for life to Frane.!; 8 whipped,
£9 lashes, and 9 to assist in the execution ; 14 sevitiels