The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

TIIE STATERMAN.

thanked the comparsy cordially fur the houoar they had
dune oat only Lvrt.irtkiug h.* health with eseis tesH
tinionies ut le Tee: a• id I. Madness, but also by assembliug
in vest it a respectable and numerous a boJyas be had the
honour to address. It was now firs y, lace holiest
entered into !Ise sereire of Ilse city tit I ardent in the cape-
Lily of one of their Magistrates,ami flout thence he rose :u
des dignity of one ui tucir Itepresentativ Vs in Parliameut.
SUMP ;11:c.iwit of his conduct, pet hap, would not prove
11:;.,:eept:sis'iP, .s it would not be ottiseasonahle upon such
Cl' occusioes. In the year 1490 hr began his political
career in Parliament, shark utter the French revulti-
tion broke out, the progress of u hick produced such
disastrous consequences, not only to Preface, bat to the
%odd at large. In the extremity to which the country
had been reduced, it was naturafetiough that he sitoula
Imsk out for some guide—stone pular star to direct his
opinions ; and where could lie have found a more cum
potent director than in the person of the most illustrious
statesman that this country ever saw.—(Applause.)—
lie lima bees. accused of adhering to Minieters from un-
worthy twitives, but to this he would answer, that if
there ever was an independent man in the House of
Couisuotss, lie was that man. They would ail recollect
how be hail .hrru reproach, tor his principles. He
knew, that in ever) state, there must he men to find
fault with their guvernors; but he *runts'd that the ex-
tent of disaffection which was apparent in the present
time would have the effect of uniting all worthy nice,
band and heart. to orpose those principles which
were eaten:l:dell to sap the foundations of the Con-
stitution. The result of the late election suffici-
ently proved that tlie Liverymen looked
to the cause, and nut to ihe man, in giving their
public support to nay candidate far the repre-
sentation of their great city. 'I lie failure of his efferts
in kits had been to bins a suhject of pride, and t ever
would be ferget the Liminess of ninny of the titixeus of
London who niet and drew up resolutions upon that oc-
casion. lie held in his haul a box—it was gold, solid
gold; but it we.. dross centspiercii inch what was in it.—
(applause.)—That, which apparently was lint a trilling
piece of parchment, contained the liamys of those ho-
nourable turn to whom he had just ensiled t and this
circumstance rendered that utheruise trilling thing more
valuable than pearls. The sentiments which those gen-
tlemen were pleased to express had given him an rialto-
tiou in his own estei in, and a Oahu to the consideration of
his fellow-eitixetis whirls he bad hardly ventured to hope
for, even in the most sanguine moments of expectation. Ile
appreciated tully the rrg arils of the gent:i men around Mtn.
He thanked them for the indulgent hearing they bad
granted him ; and though hr di.l not incur the reproach
which might have been urged against some of his op-
ponents, of speaking for two limas, still he believed, that
for the time lie hue. the honour to addri sa them, very
few could have been better attended to. I:e felt proud
of that day—rend of the Fist and of the present. It
was with the utmost pleasure that he drank all their
health% and wished that the eteat and Independent Li-
erector!' of London might live for ever.—(Applause.)
the !widths of Mr..llmtsuisii. Mr. Whitniure, Mr. Hall,
Sir Joseph Yorke, Sir It. Preston, and Mr. Dixon, were
then drank.

Dir. T. Currts tLen proposed the " Trial by Jury,"
*toast 'shirts, though burrowed from the enemy's ramp,
merited every rxinrssiun of rrvert from the euinpauy.—
Drank with three times, and loud applause.
The health of Er. bison was drank, and that gen-
tleman rrturne.l thanks.
The following toasts wen• then drank:-
4°llm Stewards, and the Literyrnett res:dlng at 'lie.
tant places, who tarred to route up and Vote, if u anted:
Several excellent sung were sun', and the roisq
after an evening. of the most harmonious vont hiality,
separated shortly alter eleven o'riurk.

sworn to die Collltitinion in Xeres, and the second divi-
sion of infantry in Chictaus, nor could any human power
hMI made them outdo what. they heat done. daliano
Arm, Agueru. and others, who had conic un from La Isla,
escaped miraculously. by taking refuge in the house of
Don Jose Morel, whence, it is said. they were taken to a
castle. Thy numbers killed on the 10th were 42G, and
about 900 wounded, of whom some bare, since died.
During the whole of the llth great fermentation was
observed among the troops, and the authorities too
much alarmed to act, but on that day no remarkable oc-
currence took place, unless a mutiny among the dra-
goons del Reg. who, abandoning their minters, marched
from their quarters, and killed an ensign olio endea-
voured to stop them.
On the 12th the Royal Decree of the 7th arrived, in
which the King procliinis his acceptance of the Consti-
tution. This partly united and tranquillised the troops,
bnt not entirely, for seeing the former orders and coun-
ter-orders, they wavered, and the people were also filled
with distrust, when they saw this and remembered the
recent butohery. The 13th and 14th ladle continued
the victim of a military tyranny, or rather of a brutal
soldiery. The people, shut op in their Imams, deplored
the loss of friends, anal vowed vengeance.
Maine 23.—Fortunately the garrison of Cadiz has at
length berm got out of the town. and ou doubt die pub-
lic will soon learn who have been the promoters and ac-
complices of this horrid carnage. The inhabitants will
bare justice dune them.
It appears th.J. some time previously to the fatal 10th
of March, the Itiliabitatits of Cadiz liad been called on
to deliver up what sabres and fire-arms they had is their
possession, and were forbidden to appear in public with
the lung knife usually worn by the lower orders, which
is readereil in their bands, by peculiar dexterity in its
are, a most formidable and cancerous weapon. Depri-
ved of this defence.they fell an easy prey to the fury and
brutality of the soldiery. They had subsequently, how-
ever, again equipped themselves with those and other
means of Mean, and hail accumulated in their houses
quantities of bricks and stones, so that there was reason
fur supposing, had the troops vault...steel any disposi-
tion to renew thr,attack, that a !crucial massacre sal the
inili:ary would have taken place. This spirit had al-
ready discovered itself in individual acts of revenge,
partienlarly by the gypsies, who. in Cadiz. exercise the
more laborious description of train, and who are said
to have destroyed seventy men of the reeituent of tinia,
the leaders in the tragical deeds of the 10th. They
would have dispatched more of them, hail not these
troops been removed by night, and carried across the
hay to Pori St. Marrs. A considerable portion of the
garrison. it is said; hare been removed in a similar
manner. Notice was Kiveo that the Constitution would
be proclaimed on the 16th, but the civil authorities were
determined nut to attend any soleinuity of that nature
till the whole of the troops wee removed (ruin the
city.

The following passage in one of the letters, if correct,
would fix a large share of guilt upuo Campasta, w ho was
' early named as one of the authors:—"'fu crown the in-
' famy of General Campaita, he gave thanks to his &bond-
nabfecurunanions and friends in arms, as he calls them,
for their conduct oil the loth —a day of oler:LI Illassarre;
sad yet this monster is still at the livid of 'Maks l"
According, to letters f Madrid, Cl•itutiojo, the Go-
vernor of Seville, had hero appointed to the Captain-ge-
neralship of Andalusia, nil it was supposed world pre-
side over an investigation into the unhappy affair of
Cadiz. These letters contain no mention of Frerre;
sad, what is still more rescarkaisie, are as silent concern-
lag Qtdruga, and the troops in the Isle of Leon, as if
they hail never existed. 'l he tittitibor of persons killed
on the 111th is now stated to hr as follows: ni men, 29
women, and :_tri children. No names have hitherto been
published, but they are supposed to have been chiefly of
the lower rank.