The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-20 00:00:00

StAtESMAN.

big' conquered Puatiee. • Were we Fronehmett, We/Mow ',
tinow we should rejoice at -the present moment ; and we
ow well that the Preach people rejoice accordingly.
lest night there took place in the Loacia.a little•con-
lepisation . between lord .Lansdowne end Lord Liverpool.
The latter said that the hopes of an amicable adjustment
rem France aid Spain were abated, bat were not at
and, as it appeared to bare ben uedent,ioa from
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at had palmed eliewhere. We understood very well
reastsaid eliewhoPe. It was toile esloogli for ttef
t tibia • the Ftentlli-woehl Invade Spain, ordeal the
' :liftild as theNexpOlitant had dune before': tfiiit
, clines 'obi:nigh. fire an.:.2-lang's libral. nl-till:
chancellor was asked, whether the King had a 'rtifi „tit
Illey thinlibtify;-:—The Lord Chanmillise Ale it?
Id take till Fildaysto answer the %needed; bat Lord'.
Liverpool immediately paid that the hiriebad the:eight.
Vai.piey expressed his surprisi, at this misunderstand-
ing aisongst Rho Ministers. The Lor4Nitaagellot de--
Idea that there was aoy misunderstaoding amongst tire.
Ministers. Lord Grey said that he was read to belle ye
them to be the most united, compact and consistent body
of men that ever existed; nay, he was ready to believe, l
that there never 'had been any difference between the
Lord Chancellor and Mr. Canning. The Chancellor
remarked that he had no doibt that the Nobte Earl
would be very glad if there were a misunderstaed•
in; amongst them ; but that he could enure him
that be would have no opportunity of rejoicing on
that aceount.-*Thus, then, we are all pretty well again ;
and, our readers may be assured, that those men will have
no misunderstanding amongst them, and that they or
others appointed by them; that, in short, the same set of
people will carry on this system instil the buereet of the
National Debt be reduced. That is the bond of union;
they were ntade for the debt, aid the debt fur them. 'The
gentlemen opposite support the debt, too 1 the Scotch
Lawyers lend their aid in another *ay when occasion re-
quires it ; and not even the end of one of the emits of the •
whlga, long and sharp as those ROB'S are, keen as the"
are, will Aver get into even the, anti-chambers pf While*,
Hall, as long as that Debt can be carried on ; and, rather
than not carry it on, we are quite satisfied that the Jew.
and Jobbers would see the French in possession of Were-.
soy and Jersey. They, indeed, would seem in possession
of England itself, but before that were accomplished, the
vulgar herd might interfere.

in the ilittuilioiCossasows the Army extraordinaries
and other sums to an enormous amount were voted,
without Mr. flume being able to get off ono single six•
pence. Fifty thousand pounds was voted for secret
service money. Sixteen thousand pound to European
emigrants; and all went off without a farthing,of deduc-
tioe. Indeeti,:there appears to be no opposing* to any
grants of money whatever. This we like well .eriostili:'
Little paltry reductions could only do harm. It is be.t
to let Mr. Canning's goad Parliament go on. It Will
bring things to that termination which alone can afford
any relief to the country.—The Slave Trade. In the
midst of all the h aaaaa sing,all the poverty and misery, all
the granite, assembled in gravel-pits and by the aa) side
with bits of old sacks tied about their shoulders and
*bpi of straw twisted round their legs; amidst all this
horrible misery feigning in England, comes Mr. Wilber-
fort!' with a sighing petition from the " Society of
Feetids commonly called Quakers," and, in the name
of justice and humanity, prays for an abolition of the
Black Slave Trade. Mr. Wilberforce acted his part upon
this occasion in his usual way ; and what way that is
one readers know very well. We wish, however, that
this gentleman would turn his attention a little to the
poor, shivering, half-starved agricultural labourers of
-England. He seems to overlook them quite: •He
seems to forget that their victuals and clothes are
taken away to be given to the fund-holders. But,
thus must the system go on. It will have its course ;
and, let it have its course. Every thing says that
a mighty crash must come; and, to produce that crash,
the Quakers have done as much as any other descrip:ion
of persons that we know of. They have constantly np- '
held, as far as they have been able, all those who have
brswght the nation to its present state. —Mr. Weston'
'eta Lord Folkestone's motions. In consequence of a
request made by Mr. Bennet, Lord Folkestone postponed
his motion from! the 23d of April to the 14th of May,
and the motion of Mr. Weston's was postponed from the
10th to the 23rd of April.—The money will all have
been voted away before these motions will be made; but
before either 'of them will come on, the country will
-know something, at least, of what it has to expect, as
to peace or war. There will be discussion; and that is
what is very much wanted upon these subjects. The both-
ering press has been going on with them long enough.
It is high time that we heard a little of what men will
stand up in their places in Parliament anti say upon the
sohje.ct. The corn-hninbug still have been blown'to air
before the 14th of May, and the landlords will are a
little more of the pit into which they are finally to tena-
ble.

,to whisk each is limited 1s IQ teatimes, about an En.
glish Penny. In conseqeence of a lever 115,i0.1 ap-
pared in one of tine Jourvais, ascribed to the sob offi-
cers and chasseurs of a battalion of the National
Guard of that city, the Colonel list thought It
right to remind them that the Royal Ordonnance of
July 17, 1816, forbids the dittbrent corps of the Na-
tional Guard to correspond with one another upon any
pretext whatever. A letter in :tbese papers front Ba-
yonne, dated March 6, Hates that It sppesrs that the
COnstitutionalists are de•ermined not to oppose any
sistance to the advance of the army to the. Ebro. 'for-
rijos, with his troops, it adds, . has quitted Nature,
directing his march towards Madrid. as we learn Ly te-
ports from that provider.
A Hoimbarg Mail has arrived this • Morning, from.
• which weextract the following :
PITIRSOORG, MARCH 1.—.41is Imperial Highness
tette Grand Duke Constantine arrived hereon the night of
rrh. 26, front Wareaw.
'the course of Exchange hasbeen falling for some time
!past,. Nit we hope it will soon improve. The
• gold bars proceeding from Rothschild's loan have arrived
louland. 'frado continues very dull.
rErocknomo. NOV. 4,—The official report of the Ceat
ost.sionert of the revision of the National Debt is now
published, from which it appears that on the let of Jan.
1423, the amount of the Debt was 9,491,608 Rix Dollars
Banco. Deduct 3,628,146 Rix Dollars for claims and
outstanding debts; remain 6,163,4 e.
Three Houses at Hamburg, have brought from Do-
vertuucut all
.the copper that it kid to sell.

ST4L EicnlSiser, Twins' o'CLocc—l n consequence
4:of,Liord LiverpisOl's Speech last night, stating that the
Negoeistion was not entirely broken off. Consols im-
proved Ibis morning. They opened at 74fil, at which
price they remain steady, although it is asserted that an
express has arrived. from Paris, and the price of the
French funds ions yet kept a secret.
By private Accounts from Madrid of the 9th inst., we
are tafernsed that the Ministers have azainat the wishes
of the Corte*, laid' violent' bands on the Ceteea de Public°
Credit*, (n 'kind of Sinking Fund) and there was no-
thing' left in the Treasary. This occurrence has cause I a
considerable insulation et Madrid. Fears are also enter-
tained, that should the King inv. Madrid for Sevi le, be
mill be rescued by his paitizatsi. •
There is still i prevailing opinion with the public
that before the French Cross the Ebro. A negociatieu
will take place between the parties. A good deal of
business was doing in the early part of the morning.
Foie:tart Fusos..—fipsmish bonds are on the rise this
morning; they opessed.st 231 if
Halm-PAST Twsure.—Consols are just done at 741
Yesterday* courier arrived from Madrid, bringiog. pa-
pers and lours from that capital to the 10th instant. The
papers of the 9th contain the proceedings of the Cortes to
the previous day, end despatches from the Generals in pur-
seit'of Brosieres upon the 7th. The soarer to the speech
from the Throne, adopted in the sitting of the sth, will be
read with es much interest as the speech itself; and the sc-
coun's from his officers, especially that from Gaudalaxara of
the 7th, cannot .fail to be cheering to all the friends of Spa-
nish independenee. The triclinia chief, Bessierea, it would
appear, has been entirelymverthrown, and his bands dis-
persed. A private letter. from Madrid states that Coma d'
Ahisbal was about to enter that city it the head of 2,300
men, and that with thie force he was to accompany the King
to Sevi le. It is stated as a certain fact in private letters,
'that Mequlneoza has been taken. We were prepared for
that event by what is toyed in the joornais. Baliasteros had
arrived at Saragossa, and was every where on his way, and
in the capital of Arregon, received with the greatest euthu-
slam. Nothing could exceed the determination of the Spa-
niards of all classes at Madrid and in the provinces, to sup-
port their constitution. and defend their country against
foreign invasion. ,The King, Court, and Cortes were to de-
part trout Madrid between the 1%4 and 15th. The King of
Spain's gout, it appears, moves ad libitum from the toe to
the heel, and back again. The affair of Portugal would ap-
pear by the Madrid papers to have been of little consequer.ce.

THE EXECUTION
or xwiraLLE AND ►ITZGIBBON ►oR TUE MURDER OE ERZ
LATR WOE 001tiO.

(An P.rtraortlinary Scene.)
Ltmenice, MARCH 13.—Iletween one and two o'clock
yesterday, these men were conducted from the cell in which
they had been confined since their conviction, to the place of
execution at the new county gaol. Neville was first led oat
by two Roman Catholic Clergymen; he was dressed in a
flannel jacket and trowsers. Fitzgibbon appeared in some
few Minutes after, and was also attended by two Divines of
the same religioir; he wore a large grey, frize coat. Ne-
vile carried a bead, and seemed to be absorbed in devotion..
Fitigibbon repeated the prayers which were read by the
Rev. Oentlemen who accompanied him, and had rather a
smiling aspect whilst proceeding through the yards, Re. of
the prison. Having ascended the summit of the buildieg
where the gallows stands, the convicts kuelt and spent some
minutes in prayer. Neville we: calm and contrite; he at-
tentively listen** to his Spiritual comforters, and evinced
all the plaeldity.of a resigned penitent. Although Fitz-
gibbon engaged in prayer, • yet he assumed somewhat of
the mock-heroic; and notwithstanding that his manner
was more careless than Neville's, still he wanted the stea-
dy and moral courage with which the latter seemed to
be sustained. Neville went upon the pia' f irm first, and
stepping up the ladder took long strides ; Fitzgibbon in-
stant,' followed. Upan presenting themselves to the
vast eon muse of people who had assembled without the
prison beneath, Fitzgibbon addressed them thus—" Welt,
boys, men and women as you ore below there, God bless
you all—take warning by our fate; you have seen the in-
nocent is well as the gui!ty sutler, therefore take care
and avoid bad company who may seduce you to break
the laws-1 forgive you all." Neville spoke similarly.
After he had ceased, Sheriff Cuthbert made some obser-
vations to one of the Clergym. n who was attending him;
upon which Fitzgibbon, who was at the other end of the
platform, interposed, and asked Mr. C. " what do you
wish to know, ;Sir ?"—Mr. C. then, in a solemn and
pathetic tone of voice, replied—" I wish to ask
you, Fitzgibbon, now you are about to die, if
you are guilty of the crime for whirls you are going
,o,suffer ?' To which Fitzgibbon quickly and fluently
answered, "If you'll call to
.me• about this time tee
morrow, tell you." The levity with which this was
uttered caused a thrill of horror to. pierce the breast of
every body present; and produced a mingled sensation of'
dismay and disgust at such obduracy of nature 'and au
Is-
city of demeanour.—Fitzgibbon again addressed the peo-
ple in the same phrase in which lie had before spoken ;
and the Reverend Mr. O'Regan having desired him to
tell the, people to give up whatever fire arms they
possessed, he refus'd to do so. • The platform
having been removed, both the criminals dropt
Neville died in a very short time ; but his unhappy and
ill fated companion in shame, suffered the most afflictive
agony fur a considerable time, owing to the awkward
manner in which the rope was adjusted. These met'
had eeither slept nor eaten fur the last two days and two
nights, with the exception of having taken a few spoons-
full of gruel—all that time was occupied in prayer or
penance ; they, however, appeared quite strong and not
in the least degree exhausted. It would have been a
great satisfaction to the public mind, as well as to the
laws and justice of the country, if these men had made
a public deearation of the parts they had acted in the
atrocious murder for which they suffered. The language
and conduct of Fitzgibbon left neither-pity far his fat
nor doubt of his criminality.
We are informed that on Thursday night, N,eving,,
acknowledged to a friend of his from Rathkeale4ho
vi-
sited the unfortunate wretch in his cell, that:; O way
guilty of the murder of Major tioing.—(Ligigride
Chronicle.)